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@mldiffley Find me a guy from Turkey visiting Ohio. This has been my running joke with my family for months now and hoping X can close the chapter on this issue.

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@BowTiedBroke 777 feet

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@TheSloppyFatBoy @jeremykauffman @LPNH Oh no, Giga Chads, and Based math PHDs…. My lobster is too buttery, my steak is too juicy.

[John Ʌ Konrad V @johnkonrad]

Ryan is correct. I'm just a retired ship captain. Nobody important outside a maritime niche.

Yet this post smells like stolen valor. Let me explain…

Stoicism without the battlefield, the sea & real pain is hollow.

The Stoics talked constantly about battles, ships, storms & warriors, because they understood reality is not a TED stage.

"Be like the promontory against which the waves continually break, but it stands firm and tames the fury of the water around it."
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Aurelius wrote that on campaign. He was an emperor commanding legions on the Danube frontier. Seneca opened his veins on Nero's order. Epictetus was sold in chains. Cato killed himself rather than submit to Caesar.

The greatest Stoics earned their philosophy in command, in chains, in war.

Ryan flies private and hangs with Tim Ferriss, Matthew McConaughey & NYTimes “influencers”.

He knows his words are hallow without military experience. But he was unwilling to pay the price himself, so he stole the prestige.

He has posted hundreds of times across his channels about the lectures he gives at the United States Naval Academy.

Ask the obvious question: who benefited more from that relationship?

The future destroyer captains, Marines, & fighter pilots he lectured? Or Ryan?

"I don't think about you at all" is the tell.

He didn't go to Annapolis to teach the midshipmen. He went to use them.

The military gravitas his philosophy needs in order to mean anything: he doesn't have it. He's never served. He's never gone to sea. He's never carried the weight of command.

So he went to Annapolis to be photographed near people who will.

Today’s battlefields are the oceans and there are fewer than ten people in the world covering American seapower, sealift, and naval logistics for a large audience. The stuff that actually decides wars.

Ryan was personally friends with one of them. Me. Sailed on my boat. Helped sketch his pivot to the Stoics. Never once called with a question about ships, the Navy, or the sea.

The wider circle of maritime and military scholars I talk to weekly? Same story. None of them think about him at all.

That's not absent-mindedness. That's design.

Twenty years ago that might have been forgivable, because the seas were calm. Today the chokepoints are battlefields. The Red Sea. The Taiwan Strait. The Persian Gulf.

The midshipmen Ryan lectured are now on the front lines of a world spinning out of control. Their lives depend on the United States understanding seapower again. Ryan contributed nothing to their understanding. He took the photo and left.

He didn't want our knowledge. He wanted the credential. The Naval Academy was the prop.

He used them to convince NYTimes book reviewers that he has military and nautical cred.

Some will say maybe he was trying to help, just didn’t know how.

If so he would have asked to see the actual front lines. A USO show on a carrier. A lecture in Djibouti. A passage on a US Merchant Marine ship running the Strait of Hormuz.

I could have arranged any of it. But he "doesn't think about me at all."

He would rather trade quotes with podcast bros, Hollywood stars, and the New York Times writer who traded Jesus for Ted Lasso.

He doesn't care to see a real battlefield or a real storm at sea. His brand of Stoicism isn't built for that.

His brand is this: intellectual weed. A way for readers to rationalize tuning out. He and his progressive self-help peers are the opioid of the managerial class.

That's not Stoicism. The Stoics ran the Roman Empire and died for their principles. Ryan sells "Memento Mori" to give millennials an excuse to stop stressing about life and travel to safe places.

Thinking about real navalists would have meant doing the actual work. The work was never the point.

The point was selling Stoicism off a uniform he never wore.

He used the United States military to move merch. "I don't think about you at all" is the receipt.

It’s either cosplay or stolen valor.

[Aristo @aristomarinetti]

People become more right wing as they get older

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

There’s whole books on theology that don't get anywhere near these thoughts from Napoleon on Jesus

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@DeanTTraining Costco online. Comes out to about $160 for the Creami Deluxe, plus the great Costco warranty.

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@DeanTTraining Thanks @DeanTTraining for the recommendation. Looking forward to trying some of these recipes.

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@BowTiedBroke Entering 🫡

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@casebradford @nicnacusa Looks great, I will be buying soon.

[BowTiedPhys @BowTiedPhys]

You can just spam friends w/ based posts.

Then one day they start sending posts from your mutuals.

Only for you to realize you’ve slowly (& successfully) molded their information diet into yours.

You can just program people with the truth. They’ll be better off because of it.

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@CaseyBHead If this is available, I would like to pick it up. Let me know how I can get a better contact with you.

[Elisha Long @ElishaDLong]

"I was waiting for
something extraordinary to
happen

but as the years wasted on
nothing ever did unless I
caused it."

Charles Bukowski

Nothing moves if nothing moves

Retardmaxx

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@pnwguerrilla Connecticut.

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Saturday morning walk and mushroom picking.

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@legen_eth Companies that are critical to each sector. Those bottleneck companies that have a monopoly on one certain item.

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@legen_eth yes, I will be the first to use it.

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@BowTiedBroke Go to Kauai. I was just there and can send a list of recommendations for food and activities. Absolutely zero traffic on this island which apparently is a huge deal compared to the others. My Hawaiian friend said this island is the “back country” compared to the other islands.

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@AJA_Cortes Definitely true, but you already know who is actually mad. Most of us are happy this is the easiest way to think out the worst performers.

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Absolutely cinema