LexCrazed, Boltzmann Brain Surgeon

Blocked by billionaires everywhere. Tolerant of gluten and people, intolerant of people made of gluten. Proudly ████████, NAFO conspirator, occasional wit.

[LexCrazed, Boltzmann Brain Surgeon @LexCrazed]

Holy shit, this is real. And it was part of a pivotal war that included fighters from 20 other nations. Insane, but they left an important and strange side story out. This is a tale of foreign trade, bigotry, bizarre economic turmoil, and modern agriculture, from 1588. /1

[Varangian Chronicler @Varangian_Tagma]

Mind-blowing. I just learned that Samurai, Conquistadors, Ottomans, and Aztecs fought one another.

[LexCrazed, Boltzmann Brain Surgeon @LexCrazed]

@NatureUnedited I punch fish too 💜

[LexCrazed, Boltzmann Brain Surgeon @LexCrazed]

@zeta_globin My body and brain yearn for this

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Senate Republicans vote to stop all investigations into ICE civil rights abuses.

[Ashley Reese @offbeatorbit]

okay I'm giving everyone a week to wrap this round up lol

[Chi Ossé @OsseChi]

Dolphins under the Verrazano seen from @NYCferry

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Colombia has drawn a hard line: Bullfighting will be banned nationwide by 2027. Cockfighting by 2028. These public arenas will be turned into spaces for music, sports, and culture. We can move past animal cruelty as a tradition.

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

A simply superb paragraph by Sam Harris.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

The media ridiculed Biden's five decades of foreign policy experience while Trump's is comprised of calling preferred reporters and effectively yelling STOP IT like he's a four-year-old in a slap fight in the sand box to precisely ZERO criticism

[LexCrazed, Boltzmann Brain Surgeon @LexCrazed]

@zeta_globin Mutual aid for people on disability

[LexCrazed, Boltzmann Brain Surgeon @LexCrazed]

@snuppydogg @zeta_globin You can deduct yourself as “farm equipment” if you’re creative

[LexCrazed, Boltzmann Brain Surgeon @LexCrazed]

@jasonc_nc @BlackIntifada The household income there is $100K, and these people want to shut the place down with overwhelming shoplifting as a measure of economic justice. They would combust if confronted with the European left.

[LexCrazed, Boltzmann Brain Surgeon @LexCrazed]

70% of the $223 million approved for spending towards a racial profiling settlement with the Maricopa, AZ sheriff’s department was stolen and misspent.

[ProPublica @propublica]

An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations.

Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department.
https://t.co/Aq1yx9AAU9

[Keeks 🦋 @DietCoke_Esq]

Your request presumes an obligation that does not exist. Absent authority compelling such action, it is declined

[LexCrazed, Boltzmann Brain Surgeon @LexCrazed]

@ridhima_z Putting the data in dat ass

[Gracie MacNcheese @AtwinGracie2002]

let's forget for a moment about the usual nonsense tantrum he's throwing for a second.

he looks BAD. maybe worse than I've ever seen him. shame on his doctors for giving him a clean bill of health. this man is unwell.

[Basil🧡 @LinkofSunshine]

I know we’ve all seen the crime meme 100 times but it’s crazy how dumb most of these answers were in reality

[M. Nolan Gray 🥑 @mnolangray]

Remember when Spencer Pratt spent weeks spewing complete and and total nonsense trying and failing to kill SB 79? I remember.

[LexCrazed, Boltzmann Brain Surgeon @LexCrazed]

@BestMrPresident @hankgreen Less torturous to deal with them

[LexCrazed, Boltzmann Brain Surgeon @LexCrazed]

I don’t eat meat, but if the swarming tick population in NYC denies me the cheese on my pizza and the milk in my coffee, I will be deeply upset. Kill the ticks.

[Ben Podgursky @bpodgursky]

alpha gal confirmed. kill all ticks.

[LexCrazed, Boltzmann Brain Surgeon @LexCrazed]

Our generals had abandoned this ethos by the Vietnam War, and we’re poorer for it.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

With Afghanistan still fresh in the nation’s memory and D-Day upon us again, I’ve been thinking about a piece of paper that weighs more than most leadership books ever written.

On this day in 1944, the night before the largest amphibious invasion in human history, Eisenhower sat staring into uncertainty. The weather was bad. His intelligence was incomplete. Thousands of ships were moving. Tens of thousands of men were preparing to climb down cargo nets into a black and angry sea. If the invasion failed, history itself would have bent in a different direction.

So Eisenhower wrote a little known note. Not because he expected failure, but because he understood command.

In a few short lines he accepted responsibility for a catastrophe that had not yet happened. No caveats or qualifiers. No carefully crafted language designed to spread blame across a dozen desks.

If the operation failed, it was his fault.

That was it. That was the entire note.

What strikes me is not the courage required to launch D-Day. Everybody understands that part. What strikes me is how completely alien that level of accountability feels today.

Somewhere along the way we built a culture where authority became a right and responsibility became optional. Everybody wants the title, the influence, the prestige. The moment things go wrong, however, the hunt begins for circumstances, systems, misunderstandings, subordinates, budgets, politics, weather, timing, or anyone else willing to stand still long enough to absorb the impact.

Eisenhower understood that command is not a reward, but a burden. The rank exists because somebody must stand at the end of the line and say, “This belongs to me.”

That little note may be one of the most important leadership documents ever written because it captured a truth that every generation eventually has to relearn: the higher you climb, the fewer excuses you are allowed to make.

The men who landed on those beaches carried rifles.

Eisenhower carried all of them.