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[Larus B @b_larusb]

@TheMaineWonk yeah but look at that stock market man! ;)

[Larus B @b_larusb]

@Camp4 Great post!

[Mukul Dekhane @dekhane_mukul]

This photo was taken in 1946.
The guy is Ken Shimizu. He is 35 years old with two children.
Shimizu never runs, sleeps late, eats whatever he wants, even drink beer instead of water. He eats dinner with many kinds of food every night.
What does Shimizu do to get such a body? Shimizu doesn't have any secrets.

Shimizu is the person sitting in the bottom left corner of the photo.

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As for the man standing in the middle, I'm not sure who that is.....

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[🍀Louie Kerr 🇮🇪💚 @LouieKerr8]

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[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: You do not fire your Army Chief of Staff in the middle of a war for no reason. You fire him because of what comes next.

Pete Hegseth called General Randy George on April 2 and told him to retire immediately. The Pentagon confirmed it within hours. No reason was given. Not publicly. Not privately. A senior Army official told Fox News that Hegseth offered George nothing: no misconduct, no operational failure, no policy disagreement on the record. Just a phone call and a career ending in the middle of the most significant American combat operation in two decades.

George is the 24th general or admiral Hegseth has removed. But he is not the 24th. He is the one that matters. The Army Chief of Staff. The man whose signature sits between a president’s intent and the order that sends soldiers across a beach or into a tunnel complex. The 82nd Airborne is deploying right now. Marines from the 31st MEU are staged on the USS Tripoli. JSOC operators are at forward bases in Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kharg Island, 90 percent of Iranian oil exports, sits 16 kilometres off a coast that someone will have to decide whether to approach. And the four-star general whose job it was to advise whether that approach should happen was removed 48 hours after Trump told the nation the war would continue for two to three more weeks.

The replacement is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve. He was Hegseth’s senior military aide before this appointment. The man who carried the Secretary’s briefcase now commands the Army the Secretary is reshaping. The chain of command did not break. It shortened. The distance between a television studio and a combat order just collapsed to zero intermediaries who were not personally selected by the man giving the order.

No reason was given. That is the tell. When someone is removed without explanation during a crisis, the explanation is the crisis itself. George either objected to something or was about to. The ground option. The power plant strikes. The Kharg raid. The escalation that turned a highway bridge in Karaj into rubble on the same day he was told to leave. Something in the next two weeks requires a chief who will not push back, and the Pentagon solved that problem by installing one trained as Hegseth’s aide.

A former Fox News weekend host just fired a four-star general with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, replaced him with his own former assistant, and did it during a live war in which the next decision could put American soldiers on Iranian soil for the first time in history. No hearing was held. No misconduct cited. The Army woke up on April 3 with a new chief it did not choose, in a war it did not start, preparing for a phase the previous chief apparently could not be trusted to execute.

The question is not why George was fired. Every general in the building knows why. The question is what order is coming in the next fourteen days that required removing the one man in the chain of command who might have said no.

The war has no perimeter. The chain of command has no objectors. And the next phase has no one left to stop it.

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Larus B @b_larusb]

@HQNewsNow This must be AI video? It can't be real that people are actually suffering all over the world because of actions taken by this person

[Larus B @b_larusb]

@ruth_capital @Acyn I can't believe ordinary people all over the world are actually suffering because of these two idiots

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Trump is delusional! He just spent almost 10 minutes of his cabinet meeting talking about how he saves a little money by buying cheaper pens. Meanwhile he just spent over $30 billion on a war in Iran.

Can someone just put him in a nursing home already?

[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

One of my contrarian takes:

Society peaked in the 80s, and it’s been in slow decline ever since.

It was the last era of widespread optimism. You can feel it in the music and movies.

“Excess meets innocence.”

The 80s also mark the end of the analog world—local economies, in-person everything, and a certain forced simplicity.

Malls, movie theaters, magazines, and BMX.

Then, beginning in the 90s, came the tidal wave of tech:

Mobile phones
The internet
Social media
AI

All incredible innovations, with lots of positives. But on the whole I think they’re *net negatives* for society.

We replaced a finite, real-world experience with an infinite, digital one.

Infinite information. Infinite comparison. Infinite distraction.

Human’s aren’t wired for that, and you can see the consequences all around us.

[Larus B @b_larusb]

@LestaLefty @orlaminihane So you're saying it's ok to rob your kids if you're rich. Got it.

[Larus B @b_larusb]

@joeroganhq Funny to read all the response here. Have dreamed of driving a Ferrari for 30 years to feel the power, but now you can feel it even more driving a Tesla, even a Model 3. Sure the Ferrari looks and sounds great but you're not buying it for the thrill of acceleration.

[Larus B @b_larusb]

@hispanicnomad If you're high IQ it can feel like that and be frustrating to deal with some people. Also think just a simple respect and courtesy is lacking these days, don't know why.

[Larus B @b_larusb]

@hispanicnomad Do you think that one could have a decent life on a $2500 monthly dividend income in Paraguay?

[Barchart @Barchart]

The World reached highest level of uncertainty in history this year, surpassing Covid, the Global Financial Crisis, and the Dot Com Bubble 👻👀

[Larus B @b_larusb]

@TOTKHQ That was just a piss poor clearance from Ali, can't blame it on Jones

[Larus B @b_larusb]

@anfieldforge can agree with this all except I think MacAllister has been decent and done some good job

[Anfield Agenda @AnfieldAgenda]

If Klopp was heavy metal, Slot is elevator music

[Julia McCoy @JuliaEMcCoy]

We are sending our kids to school to memorize facts that AI can retrieve in 0.3 seconds.

We're grading them on essays that AI writes better than their teachers.

We're preparing them for jobs that won't exist by the time they graduate.

The entire education system is training humans to compete with machines at what machines do best.

That's not education. That's sabotage.

The schools that survive will teach thinking, not memorizing. Creating, not repeating. Discerning, not obeying.

Every other school is a museum that doesn't know it yet.

[Larus B @b_larusb]

@Cobratate But you're not in Dubai so...

[Clark Moody @clarkmoody]

Normal people: Can we stop changing our clocks twice a year?

Government: Best I can do is war.