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The old MS ClipArt gallery lives in my head forever

[Nic Munoz @nic_munoz]

How Elon became a rocket engineer:

"I started going to the Palo Alto public library to read about rocket engineering and started calling experts, asking to borrow their old engine manuals. Most people self-limit their ability to learn. It's pretty straight forward-just read books and talk to people."

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@SecWar This isn’t complicated: Get a warrant if you want to pilfer through Americans’ data. That’s what we ask, and what the Constitution demands.

[Java @Java_Sun_]

@acrdwight @QuoteJung The original wokester

[Java @Java_Sun_]

@apollorusso_ @ReformedStoic @QuoteJung Thanks for this

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Marc Andreessen just explained how the United States assassinated its own future.

In the 1970s, the Nixon administration launched something called Project Independence.

The mandate was absolute.

Andreessen: “Build a thousand new civilian nuclear power plants in the US by the year 2000.”

One thousand reactors. Unlimited, carbon-free baseload power. Enough electricity to move the entire country to electric vehicles four decades ahead of everyone else.

But it went further than energy.

Andreessen: “It’s called Project Independence because it means the US won’t have to be involved in the Middle East anymore, because we won’t need the oil.”

No oil dependence. No Gulf Wars. No generations of soldiers stationed in deserts protecting supply chains that never needed to exist.

A complete strategic withdrawal from the Middle East. Permanent.

And none of this was hypothetical.

Andreessen: “France ran for a long time almost entirely on nuclear power. Japan ran for a long time almost entirely on nuclear power.”

Other nations proved it worked at scale. America had more capital, more engineers, and more ambition than all of them.

Andreessen: “How many nuclear power plants were built out of the thousand? Rounds to zero.”

Zero.

Not because the physics failed. Not because something superior replaced it.

Because the same administration that drafted the blueprint for unlimited energy also created the institution that killed it.

Andreessen: “They never got built because the Nixon administration also created the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which made it its purpose in life is to stop nuclear power plants from getting built.”

Same government. Same decade. Same pen.

One directive launching the most ambitious energy program in American history.

Another creating the bureaucracy that would quietly dismantle it from the inside.

Andreessen: “The Nuclear Regulatory Commission did not approve a new nuclear plant design for 40 years.”

Forty years of zero approved designs. Not because no one submitted them. Because the institution built to regulate nuclear energy became the institution built to prevent it.

That’s not oversight.

That’s abolition dressed as due diligence.

We spent the next fifty years fighting wars in the desert for a resource we never needed.

Choked the atmosphere with carbon we didn’t have to burn.

Terrified an entire generation with the illusion of scarcity.

And the entire time, the physics already worked.

The government didn’t fail to navigate the energy crisis.

They took the densest source of energy in the universe and drowned it in paperwork.

Every war fought for oil. Every carbon debate. Every geopolitical crisis of the last half century.

All of it was a policy choice.

We didn’t lack the technology to power the future.

We let a committee outlaw the math.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Silence can help us most to recognize the voice of God, since it fosters attention and recollection. Freed from the noise of a thousand voices, we come to recognize that some voices deceive our desires, others buy us without nourishing us, and still others speak out of self-interest. In silence, we understand that ideologies pass away, while truth remains. https://t.co/lbaMqHx1cJ

[Java @Java_Sun_]

@FuentesUpdates We already knew you weren’t spanked buddy

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Helpful tool for improvement. It’s just physics thinking in the limit.

[Java @Java_Sun_]

@ccxv00 @RealEmirHan I hope one day you learn to use your brain

[Java @Java_Sun_]

@bigdawg1858 @hippojuicefilm “Mind your business or we’ll get violent” we know buddy

[Java @Java_Sun_]

@TheChiefNerd Not a crazy thing. Live in any big city long enough you’ll see someone that big. They usually have issues with mobility but not all.

[Java @Java_Sun_]

@thirdmetax This guy has mush for a brain folks

[Java @Java_Sun_]

@Notwokenow 18 yes and 17 no. A number isn't arbitrary in the eyes of the law and there shouldn't be a special case for murder. Children can make horrific mistakes and should be the first people to consider for reformation. Justice is not an eye for an eye.

[Mitt Romney @MittRomney]

Our highest and most urgent national priority should be AI safeguards. The risks of AI weapons, pathogens, mass unemployment, surveillance, and even extinction must not continue to be largely ignored.

[matrixbot @thematrixb0t]

American citizens who criticize Jews or Israel will now be monitored by the FBI.

"We will monitor social media and check your bank accounts. I have 40 analysts working 24/7, 7 days a week"

[Kaizen D. Asiedu @thatsKAIZEN]

Mamdani, Rahman, and socialists are winning because they are good at marketing socialism without calling it socialism.

Insulting people who vote for them isn’t going to change their vote.

Better marketing and better capitalism will.

[Ryan @ohryansbelt]

The new floorplan for the Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower in NYC is a perfect example of how far architectural design has fallen since the mid-20th century. So much of New York’s beauty still comes from its older buildings while the newer ones feel soulless.

[Java @Java_Sun_]

@ccxv00 @RealEmirHan Let’s be clear about what I said. It was more words describing the film than your last reply detailing my description and arguing for its nebulousness. You asked what the fuss was and I articulated the fuss. If you saw it and don’t like it it’s primarily your taste in question.

[Java @Java_Sun_]

@ccxv00 @RealEmirHan It wasn’t nebulous, I was very articulate with my first reply.

[Kevin Bass @kevinnbass]

Imagine spending your whole life becoming an academic expert. Then a random guy online tells you that you are wrong about your own field. And he's right. But you can never admit that. Because it would mean admitting that your life was a lie. That is the dilemma of many academics.