(((RichardGCombs)))

Neolibertarian retired technical writer. After 38 years in Denver, I moved back to East TN in '21. My pronouns are thou, thee, thine.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

Tennessee❤️

When people told us at the beginning of our road trip that people in the South are different, we didn’t really know what they meant. But after spending several weeks here, we finally understand.

The hospitality here is just something else. Everyone knows everyone, and it feels like people are living one big shared life. Someone is always stopping by, doors are always open, and everyone is welcome.

One guy told us he hasn’t locked his house in 23 years. When we were out on the lake, we met some people who immediately invited us to their lake house to hang out. They offered us drinks, chicken wings, and made us feel completely at home. It’s a kind of hospitality I’ve never experienced before.

When we got back to the dock late that night, one of the guys on the boat said something that really stuck with me:

“You don’t have to live in some big, exciting city. What matters is the people who live there. That’s what makes you happy. I’ve lived in many places around the world, but nothing comes close to Ocoee, Tennessee. And you know the best part about living here? We’re going to do the exact same thing again tomorrow.”

We will be back.

[Jason Miyares @JasonMiyaresVA]

Reminder: the year Fidel Castro took power, Cuba had the same GDP as Greece. The year he died, Cuba had the same GDP as Sudan. In other words: Socialism. Fails. Every. Time.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

It's remarkable how this looks like an inverted rents vs. permits chart

Places that permit many apartments have lower rents. Places that permit lots of power generation have lower electricity prices

Places that fail to permit things have higher both!

It's not the data centers!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The crime they see: 15,415 litres of water to produce one kilogram of beef. Every campaign, every documentary, every leaflet through the door since about 2012.

The crime they do: not reading the paper.

The figure is real. It comes from Mekonnen and Hoekstra at the University of Twente, and it is careful, peer-reviewed work. What the campaigns strip out is that the same authors split that number into three parts, because the three parts are not the same thing at all.

Green water is rain. It falls on the grass. The cow eats the grass. For beef, green water is about 94 per cent of that headline.

Blue water is the stuff that matters. Rivers, lakes, aquifers. The stuff that gets pumped, metered, fought over in court, and does not come back.

So here is the blue water, in litres per kilogram, from the same authors, same method, same units.

- Pistachios: 7,602
- Almonds: 3,816
- Walnuts: 2,451
- Dates: 1,250
- Cashews: 921
- Beef: 550

Read that last line again, then go and look at what is in your granola.

The 15,415 counts rain that fell on a Welsh hillside as a cost, against an animal that was standing in it, on land where nothing else grows, in a country where rain is the one thing we have never once been short of.

The pistachio is drinking fourteen times more of the water that actually runs out.

She is outside in the rain right now, getting blamed for it.

[Modern Engineer @Modernengineer]

@FreddyLA7 "Yes, Germany? Freddy's discovered guns and explosives. He's never coming home."

[Jared Marsh @Real_JaredMarsh]

@FreddyLA7 😂

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT FREEEEEDOMMMM!!!!🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Mass Deportation Coalition @Phase2Deport]

Mass deportation is the moderate option and can save America.

[Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav]

Brandon Gill is so good at this.

Rep. Presley talked about passing an amendment about “equal rights” for men and women. She went SILENT when Rep. Gill simply asked her if the amendment makes clear what a woman even is. 😂😂😂

[RBe @RBPundit]

Democrats: "ICE IS GOING AROUND SHOOTING PEOPLE!!!!"

*idiots who listen to Democrats freak out when they see ICE and do stupid shit, some get shot*

Democrats: "WHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING??"

You, motherfuckers, YOU are why this keeps happening.

[Mark Pellegrino @MarkRPellegrino]

Mercantilism is not capitalism. The main slave traders were far from capitalists. In Europe they were the Portuguese. The Arabs and Africans were the biggest slave traders in the world and pre date any European commercial slaving… hardly capitalistic. The American south was explicitly anti capitalistic. And ALL peoples were engaged in constant war. Violence was the de facto setting of earlier cultures. That includes native Americans. It was capitalism that ushered in the least violent age in civilized history.

Commies are the worst most creepy people in the world.

[Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist @DeAngelisCorey]

43% of Anthropic responses shared only the left-leaning position.

0% showed only the right-leaning position.

Analysis by Washington Post.

[(((RichardGCombs))) @rgcombs]

Craziest people on the face of the earth.
"If, in pursuit of a messianic religious ideology, Hamas’s leader was willing to sacrifice Gaza in order to destroy Israel … then the same could be true of other fanatical actors in the region, including Iran."
https://t.co/3ullOIN7LD

[(((RichardGCombs))) @rgcombs]

England and Argentina are squaring off in one of the World Cup semifinals. Let's make it really interesting and award the Falkland Islands to the winner.

The other semifinal is France vs. Spain. I suppose the winner should get Andorra.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

Do you hear anyone else speaking this manner? Buddhists? Jains? Seventh-Day Adventists? Protestants? Catholics? Jews? Hindus? No. There is only one religion that openly speaks in this supremacist manner and yet we tolerate it under the guise of "freedom of religion." Are we truly willing to commit Civilizational Seppuku via Suicidal Empathy?

[Zombyboy @zombyboy]

Being this kind of horrible is always a choice. You don't /have/ to be this kind of person. You /can/ choose to be better.

[(((RichardGCombs))) @rgcombs]

Am I the only one who thinks the Allied Injury Group ad is the best ad of all time? "I implore you, I beseech you" That guy is awesome!