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44y alpha geek (CS/IT, aviation, geopolitics, weather, space), geology major, graphic designer, too much autism for one guy, PC gamer of 30+ years.

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The lone penguin that abandons the colony to branch off is, I think, intended to be a metaphor for the US disregarding the histrionics of the globalists to instead do what it thinks is right, even as everyone else thinks it's stupid and suicidal. And the notion that "Americans have always known why?" We're a settler society comprised mainly of the descendants of outcasts and loners who all either made that choice (or had it made for themselves by others) to branch off toward something new.

If no penguins leave the colony and no penguins from other colonies join the colony, then that colony is doomed. They'll be slowly picked apart by predators and will only reproduce via inbreeding, with each new generation being weaker than the last.

I liken it to how about 20% of bees don't obey the "wiggle dance" that bees use to communicate known sources of nectar, insofar that if all bees obeyed the wiggle dance, the hive would get trapped in a local maximum and inevitably starve to death, harvesting only known sources of nectar as said sources inevitably disappear and new sources aren't found.

In a geopolitical sense, both of these are metaphors for globalism. Globalism is tapped out. It over-optimized itself for maximizing returns on exports, but the world's demographics are in a slow collapse, and the globalists don't have a long-term solution.

The US is the lone penguin, choosing to forge its own destiny, as it did when it came into being, with no guarantee of success. "Americans have always known why."

And the idiots who don't get it are nattering over "there are no penguins in Greenland."

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

Americans have always known “why”

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@libsoftiktok And when they're done with prison, they need to be stripped of their citizenship and exiled for this.

Ideally to Pakistan. Let 'em sleep in the bed they made.

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@CynicalPublius Sure wish they'd go back to cooking their fries in lard.

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@Grummz @redphx Only a matter of time before that plan gets shitcanned and they instead let you put digital games on layaway. 😂

[Grummz @Grummz]

Bluesky and Xbox shills are moaning over the loss of these four studios.

Two of them actually worked with consultants like Anita Sarkeesean and Sweet Baby Inc.

None of them produced even Indie numbers of gamers.

What you have is people who wanted games to be art, to employ their art friends, and to be completely subsidized by governments, corporations etc to carry forward their personal values and messages.

Gamers said nope, we want games, not art, not messages, and this is what happens.

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@elonmusk I'd go further. Bring back exile, strip them of their citizenship, and send them to Pakistan. They made their bed, let 'em sleep in it.

[ShreddedNerd @o_sneedy]

Arabic is written right to left so it accidentally made this joke 1000x funnier

[Sam @DigitalSamIAm]

Can we debunk this nonsense?

Elon Musk was awarded (note: not given) cost-per-result contracts to perform a service for the US government. The total of those for SpaceX specifically is ~$22B, which includes repaid loans, state tax incentives, etc.

The deal was simple: put stuff into LEO at or below a set cost. If SpaceX does it below the set cost, SpaceX keeps the difference. If it doesn’t, the company is responsible for the overrun.

End result? SpaceX & Elon lowered the cost of getting 1 kg into LEO by 95-97% vs what NASA was paying previously.

And for the record, every other company around at the time was offered the same opportunity to bid on the contract - Musk/SpaceX just took it.

The handout narrative implies the taxpayer is the patron and SpaceX the dependent. The cost data shows the opposite: before SpaceX, NASA paid Russia’s Soyuz $80-86M per seat; SpaceX delivered at ~$55 million. SpaceX saved the US taxpayer $300M-$465M each year on that alone (the US sends 12-15 astronauts to space each year)

On the lunar lander, NASA estimated SpaceX’s fixed-price bid saved $20B-$30B vs the Boeing-preferred cost-plus approach.

So: SpaceX saved the US taxpayer more than the total value of contracts it earned on a single project, PLUS provided the US government with the requested services (put stuff in LEO) at the best possible price.

[The Fat Electrician @Fat_Electrician]

Hypothetically, a crazy person offers you $1 million for 1/1,000th of the equity in your house.

You still get to live there. They just own a tiny piece and hope it goes up in value.

You take the deal.

Congratulations, your house now has an implied valuation of $1 billion.

you’re a “billionaire”

Do you have a billion dollars? No.

If the government wanted to tax you on your unrealized gain is there a money dollars to take? No.

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@TheBrancaShow

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You assume that parole is automatically granted. Maybe if he were convicted of *looks at Texas BPP offense severity class list* "night dredging of oysters?" 🤨 he might be low risk enough to get paroled at his first eligibility date.

Not for murder. That's an automatic 10 points (at least) to his risk assessment score.

Assume he's going to start out by acting out, acting tough, disobeying orders, because he's still a stupid teenager, racking up early disciplinary infractions. These all work against him, raising his risk assessment factors. Assume if he doesn't get shanked by the gang that he claimed membership of by throwing signs that he eventually gets recruited into a gang. That also raises his risk factors. The nature of his crime is a static risk factor acting against him. Anything that raises the security level he has to be held at raises his risk factors, even historical security levels. It all compounds.

He ain't getting out in 17.

https://t.co/JgcDniP3EQ

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@QueenAnticommie About 20,000 volts.

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@GizmoMemes Yup, because they already spent the previous night stashing all the inventory into a box truck knowing the place would be trashed the following day.

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@Underrated_Dom @WescottAmerica Yep. They claimed indigency after all that spectacle of spending his defense fund money, and he got a public defender.

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@WescottAmerica Eagerly awaiting the civil trial against the Anthonys for unjust enrichment.

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@MikeBales I still find use in those coffee cans full of screws. Took 'em with on the move to Idaho.

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@TheBrancaShow Eagerly awaiting the civil trial against the Anthonys for unjust enrichment.

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@libsoftiktok Cue the legal case for unjust enrichment and bankrupt the parents.

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@MattWalshBlog Wait for the inevitable civil trial where the Metcalfs' attorneys make a case for unjust enrichment.