Beatnik

I am beat. #beat Enjoy my slip into the poetic bizarre corners of the rooms of this unexplored world...

[BuccoCapital Bloke @buccocapital]

Everyone always talking about “talent density” in Silicon Valley when we really should be talking about how 80% of pretzels in America come from a small region of Pennsylvania

[Slate Auto @slateauto]

Everything is moving with one goal in mind: to put your Slate in your driveway. Check out the full video here https://t.co/JGbpGhnMo9

[Beatnik @RDeihm]

@AgroNationalism Someone good with Ai please make a mission impossible theme that sounds like this.

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Paul Rudd and Adam Scott recreated the BOSOM BUDDIES sitcom intro just for fun and the attention to detail is insane 😂

[VanRaalte, Agro-Nationalist @AgroNationalism]

"E15 is one of those rare issues where everyone wins."

Corn and ethanol is the final boss of boomer delusions. The boomer clings to corn as the one irrefutable good thing their generation figured out.

Sure the boomer was wrong on race. They destroyed our healthcare and education systems. They bankrupted the country, sold their descendants into debt slavery, then printed money to make the debt worthless. But at least they figured out the keystone of agriculture crops: corn.

Corn yields per acre have increased 5.5 times since 1945. We are told by monocultists that this is great and has no downsides.

They're wrong. Corn+E15 is as stupid and fake as everything else boomers love.

Ethanol is utterly deranged. It's the worst possible use of the land. We burn it in our cars as a direct subsidy to agribusiness scammers. It makes farmland stupid expensive because corn is a taxpayer guaranteed market. That means farmers go bankrupt and leave for the suburbs. It means kids in the suburbs cant afford to go out and buy land to farm.

Rural depopulation isn't an accident. Small towns did not die: they were murdered.

What need is there for a community of people in an ocean of corn? None. All the monocultists need is their equipment and some Hispanic slaves. So the people packed up and left. Who wants to live around that? Ugly, inhuman, unnatural landscape compared to what it could be.

Corn is such a depressing crop. It's as lifeless and sterile as lawn grass. Worse actually because it's drenched in poison that gives people cancer.

We have a cost of living crisis. Tons of affordable housing in the country but no healthy culture to plug into. Jobs out there suck. Nobody wants to work at Dollar general and live in a town full of crackheads and alcoholics. If someone is gonna move out to the small town they are gonna want to farm or work in town processing farm goods.

We could employ millions of young Americans farming if we got rid of E15. That would create a positive feedback loop where they would get paid to actually make real products, which would lower the cost of living for everyone else, which would incentivize the employment of more farmers, who create more goods.

It's the only way we fix the Great Great Depression we are in.

[B.Roll.Benny @brollbenny]

When I worked at Three Mile Island we had a truck catch on fire in the north laydown area. That truck caught two other trucks on fire.

Most half decent training scenarios start with a diversion and I'm pretty sure we *all* thought we were about to be attacked.

I was a relief officer during the event, so I didn't have an assigned position to protect, so I grabbed some body armor and used it to cradle my rifle, got myself out an extra mag.

A plant employee walks past me nonchalantly and quips "seems like a weird time to drill" (it was 2am) and I said "It's not a drill, go take cover" and I watched as I'm pretty sure he shit his pants.

Funny side quest story here: I was the officer that searched in the fire trucks. There are tons of rumors about TMI, one of which is that our rifles have empty mags in them. One of the firemen said "I heard those aren't even loaded" so I dropped my mag and showed him. For *reasons* we had one silver round at the top of the mag, and he asks "why is there a silver one?"

Without missing a beat, I looked him dead in the eyes and just said "Werewolves"

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Tucker Carlson is back at the Weekend Update desk

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

Going to McDonald's after school in Missouri in 1988

[Phlydaily @PhlyDaily]

Sickest video on the internet

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

1903 Duryea Three-Wheel Phaeton

Ten years before Henry Ford's Model T, Charles Duryea was already producing gasoline automobiles at a rate of roughly one per week from his Reading, Pennsylvania factory.

By 1902, after overcoming a factory space shortage and a devastating Schuylkill River flood, the Duryea Power Company was turning out three-wheel cars on a regular production basis (an operation with few peers in America at the time).

The three-wheel layout was a deliberate design choice. A single steered front wheel allowed the body to sit lower to the ground than the elevated platform-body runabouts typical of the period, making entry and exit easier.

Charles's tiller went further than most (it consolidated steering and throttle control into a single hand-operated unit, with additional controls integrated nearby). The horizontal three-cylinder engine sat under the seat, driving the rear wheels by chain, with kerosene lamps for lighting and pneumatic tires on wood-spoke wheels.

Charles Duryea reportedly used the steep, winding road up Mount Penn as a durability test for cars leaving his factory (vehicles that failed to complete the climb were returned for adjustment). It was an unambiguous standard for a pioneer still defining what a practical automobile should be.

© Amazing Classic Cars

#drthehistories

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[NASA @NASA]

Good morning, world! 🌎

We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon.

[Beatnik @RDeihm]

@WadingSmith I love concept cars. Once they get green lit, its final form is always an SUV that looks like every other SUV.

Because "that's proven to sell". Since it's all they sell.

[Wendy’s @Wendys]

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[ithaca rising 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 @ithacarising]

We were promised a whole ocean of sequels drawn from Patrick O’Brian's twenty-book treasury, yet we were left with only this one magnificent voyage.

The disappointment is almost domestic in its sadness: the picture came out just after everyone had stuffed themselves on Pirates of the Caribbean’s rum-soaked capers. And although it was critically adored and pulled in respectable money worldwide, it didn't quite deliver the obscene domestic blockbuster numbers the studios now insist on before they’ll green-light another expensive wooden ship full of extras getting wet and cold for months on end.

So the Surprise sits at anchor in our heads, her powder magazines untouched, while we quietly grieve the French frigates we never chased, the dinners in the great cabin we never attended. We wonder how the Hollywood bean-counters - who never once smelled salt spray or heard a broadside - managed to convince themselves this particular adventure wasn't worth continuing.

Alas, Master and Commander is one of those quiet sorrows that all film buffs will continue to carry like an old wound from a duel they never quite fought.

[Xoxo @chicfryrice]

Boomers paid less in taxes over their lifetime than they are projected to take out of the system.

They are being subsidized by the young and have the highest wealth out of any generation before.

There should not be dedicated tax breaks for them. And why would a bill called “Working Families Tax Cut” not help working families?

[CatGirl Kulak 😻😿 (Anarchonomicon) @FromKulak]

Chemistry Youtube is weird because half of it is Americans pyromaniacs are like "Buy these two ingredients at the hardware store, they don't even ask for ID, then buy this basically ready made detonator at the gunstore... The whole thing should take half an hour including driving time and cost you $10 and reliably take out a hardened government building if you shape the charge with these mixed size baking bowls".

Whereas then you get to like genuine chemistry and hobbyists youtube in like Canada or the UK... And its like "So we need this to do [perfectly normal thing], but that's illegal because it can be used in explosives, so we need this instead as a precursor to make it ourselves, but that's illegal for the same reason, which usually we'd create it with this third precusor, but that's also illegal.... So today I'm going to be showing you how to use forced air electrolysis to generate pure nitric-acid, and how to derive raw ammonium from common bleach by using a series of centrifuges made from old ceiling fans, all without detonating your house or killing yourself with clorine gas.... just like the 1880s German Chemist Hans Von DiesHorriblyStein, who was posthumously awarded the then new Nobel-Prize. And this is the simplest way I've found to fertilize my greenhouse reliably enough to grow blueberries year-round."

[Madi Hilly @MadiHilly]

I wasn’t about to be subtle in letting Santa know what’s at the top of my list this year 🎄✨

[💥LoLo💥 @ZOrtiz9919]

Best H.O.A. response gets a special treat.

[Beatnik @RDeihm]

@AgroNationalism This is exactly what I need.