Drew

CEO of Drewmerica Industries

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Stateside, a gas station. I drank a frozen blue beverage too quickly, and was struck down by a punishment this entire nation knows, and accepts, and has named.

The drink is called a slush. Ice, sweetness, and a blue that does not occur in nature. The day was hot. I was thirsty. I drank like a soldier at a river.

The pain arrived in my skull like a war horn.

Behind the eyes. Above everything. Total. I gripped the roof of my car. I may have made a sound.

"Brain freeze," said the cashier through the door, with no urgency whatsoever.

It has a NAME. The affliction is so common it has a household name, like a cousin.

"Tongue on the roof of your mouth," called a man at the pumps. He did not look over. He prescribed the remedy mid-pump, casually, the way one mentions weather.

I pressed my tongue to the roof of my mouth. The war horn faded. The healer nodded at his pump, finished, and was gone in a Chevrolet.

In my land, punishment follows crime by way of courts and seasons. Here, the sentence is instant. Drink with greed, and the ice strikes the mind directly. No trial. No appeal. Perfectly fair.

And here is what moves me. EVERYONE has felt it. The cashier. The healer. Children. Elders. An entire nation united by the same small lightning, all taught the same cure, all passing it on to strangers at gas stations, free of charge.

You cannot fully distrust a country once you know it shares one pain.

The freeze does not punish thirst. It punishes haste.

I finished the slush slowly, like a scholar. Blue tongue. Clear mind.

Then at the door I forgot everything, drank deeply, and was struck down again.

"Tongue, hon," said the cashier, without looking up.

Discipline is a journey.

[Warren Sharp @SharpFootball]

I never knew about a "Bears Tax"

until yesterday

today, you'll learn about it too

[Alex Schultz @BeNice2MeProd]

Doing costume research for Extreme Peace season 2 & came across this episode of PowerRangers where Lord Zedd marries Rita Repulsa. There's some interesting music playing at their wedding reception😂Keep in mind Zedd is the Emperor of Evil. The most evil being in the universe lol

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

This is such an autism moment. It's beautiful lmao. Tyson just says factually what he feels and the kid is like "Umm...thank you." LMAO 😂😂😂

[FirstArgonaut @FirstArgonaut]

@RedPandaKoala Even the machine elves have ICE 💀

[Moongazer @joeybeastmarket]

My biggest conspiracy theory is after this concert every sovereign nation on the planet simultaneously recognized how easily they could be overthrown so they made everything gay and retarded and full of third worlders

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Jeffrey Epstein is like pedophile Forrest Gump who’s interwoven into every major global event of the last 50 years. This is insane 😮

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

This isn’t the first time the United States used force to seize oil.

[Phil Collins @PhilCollinsFeed]

PSA: If you hit play on “In The Air Tonight” by Phil Collins at 11:56:20PM this New Year’s Eve, the drum fill will welcome you into 2026. Start the year the right way.

📸 Terry O’Neill

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

It’s unfortunate that this once beautiful area became a hotbed of terrorist and counter-terrorist activity.

[Emerald Robinson ✝️ @EmeraldRobinson]

Folks, the FBI/CIA cannot allow Trump to release the Epstein files because those files would show: the FBI/CIA allowed American children to be raped for decades by an agent for Israel in order to collect blackmail on American elites.

And those elites are still in power today.

[bumbadum @bumbadum14]

BECAUSE
A
BEATER
CAR
IS
10,000
DOLLARS
YOU
BOOMER

[National Conservative @NatCon2022]

Australian “animal rights” activist and Onlyfans girl Tash Peterson film’s herself harassing a teenage boy.

Gets totally wrecked.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

Asymmetric Fear Threshold

I realized something today about our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Something I’ve always known, but only now can fully articulate.

We encountered what I’d call an asymmetric fear threshold.

In the West, killing one or two induces shock and compliance. But in tribal societies hardened by generational violence, it barely registers. The same action yields wildly different reactions.

We assumed force alone would deter. It didn’t.

And then this hit me: When the U.S. military wields its morality alongside its firepower, it becomes something righteous, decisive, and unstoppable.

But when we’re ordered to hold fire in the face of evil, something inside us withers.

Holding a rifle without wielding values is like a compass with no North. It’s capable, but it’s lost.

We must never separate the two again.
Because when we do, we don’t just lose wars, we lose our soul.

I guess what I’m trying to say is this. If you put the U.S. military in a ground war, they need to be able to kill enough of the enemy to reach that fear threshold. In GWOT, we didn’t.

[Midnight Maniac Sri @sridatta]

'water is transparent only within a very narrow band of the electromagnetic spectrum,

so living organisms evolved sensitivity to that band, and that's what we now call "visible light". '

(found via HN)

[Dave @GamewithDave]

Are you old enough to remember when GTA looked like this?

[Clown World ™ 🤡 @ClownWorld]

😭😭🤣

[Hard Pass @HardPass4]

GM. Best country in the world.

[Mikita 👨‍💻 @mikitaposts]

It’s 1991. The Cold War is over. Finally, peace at last. A bright future lays ahead. The Russians? They’re our friends now.

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

“Iran is weeks away from having a nuke!” is Global Warming for neocons.

Source: the timelines.
Both are doomsday cults.

Climate Change Nuclear Iran