Happy Porcupine 🖥🏴‍☠️☢️🔌

I like MacOS and Linux, CPU arch, Finance Systems, Macro Econ, Energy Tech, Support Individual Liberty for every 1. Binary is for Computers, humans are nuanced.

[Happy Porcupine 🖥🏴‍☠️☢️🔌 @xpaulso]

@RealSKeshel In general I have a disdain for credentialism. But governance is supposed to be of the people in this country. So it annoys me even more. I’d much rather have a creative, intuitive leader take a shot at governance, than a creature of a political machine.

[Happy Porcupine 🖥🏴‍☠️☢️🔌 @xpaulso]

@TheOrbitingAI @pmarca Power yes, water 💦 no. The water claim is propaganda. Power can also be easily obtained. It’s the govt red tape around nuclear that is the limiting factor. In many ways DC provide the perfect base load customer to finance nuclear plants.

[Happy Porcupine 🖥🏴‍☠️☢️🔌 @xpaulso]

@pmarca As someone who’s been working in DC for over 25 years now. This one really took me by surprise. At first I naively thought it was a reference to evaporated cooling, I had seen to “reduce power consumption”. Nope it was CCP propaganda, that many Americans were happy to embrace.

[Happy Porcupine 🖥🏴‍☠️☢️🔌 @xpaulso]

@growing_daniel @LauraPowellEsq I realize the issue is mail-in-ballots that may have been postmarked up to a week ago. But why not just limit the mail by date a week before election night. That would resolve this “issue”

[Happy Porcupine 🖥🏴‍☠️☢️🔌 @xpaulso]

@everluvenusa @walterkirn And it’s only gotte. Worse for the last 2+ decades

[i/o @avidseries]

Black people are a far more lethal public health threat in the US than "white supremacy," murdering more people each year than all the other racial groups combined — and hundreds of times more than white supremacists.

[Happy Porcupine 🖥🏴‍☠️☢️🔌 @xpaulso]

@nope__nope__ugh @Alt_Azn Interesting she did seems very entitled. She was so surprised an election might be “difficult”. I definitely got the impression she was used to just showing up.

[Happy Porcupine 🖥🏴‍☠️☢️🔌 @xpaulso]

@Alt_Azn Hero’s often come from the most surprising places.

[AltAzn @Alt_Azn]

Let me explain the universe where Pratt doesn’t enter the race.

-Raman makes the runoff.
-Ro Khanna breaks with the party and endorses her.
-Mamdani, AOC and the squad follow.
-The “media” rallies around Raman as the LA Mamdani and we get nothing but fluff pieces.

Raman wins in November and LA becomes an even bigger shithole.

Pratt already saved us from all of that.

[Happy Porcupine 🖥🏴‍☠️☢️🔌 @xpaulso]

@ChristianHeiens This is mostly because the progressive instinct is never satisfied. It only gains momentum. This is why the slippery slope sounds ridiculous to a moderate or conservative ear. But always plays out.

[Flesh Simulator @fleshsimulator]

Jesus fucking christ the SPLC organized the Charlottesville rally and paid $300K to transport people there hahahahaha

[Happy Porcupine 🖥🏴‍☠️☢️🔌 @xpaulso]

@S25Aaron @avidseries Why is it important for others to dislike someone.? That seems entirely a personal need.

[Happy Porcupine 🖥🏴‍☠️☢️🔌 @xpaulso]

@avidseries This is why I can usually find something to admire in most humans. Different quirks regardless of motivation are useful for accomplishing something important.

[TE Hrdbl @TE_Hrdbl]

@BrandiKruse @CarrieMyHart @CBSNews 5-decade retired broadcaster here. I've worked with a lot of egos (including my own).

Pelley always struck me as an 11 on a scale of 1-10.

[Happy Porcupine 🖥🏴‍☠️☢️🔌 @xpaulso]

@LisaBritton This double standard has always existed. But there were other double standards that evened it out. It’s the natural order to protect woman & expect men to prove themselves. The issue today is pretending the protected class has proven themselves better than men.

[Happy Porcupine 🖥🏴‍☠️☢️🔌 @xpaulso]

@infantrydort Can you give some examples of his in-normal accomplishments ?

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him.

His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang.

Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on.

That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was.

Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose.

And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot.

So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out.

Then he simply outlived everyone.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake.

He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him.

The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway.

We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's.

Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

CBS has fired “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley, and rightly so. He betrayed journalistic principles in platforming debunked science, in being closed-minded and dogmatic, and in behaving like a pompous ass. Good riddance.

[MJ @Real_Politik101]

Regardless of how Pratt does tonight, his campaign should be the gold standard for how Republicans campaign in blue states. Crime, drugs, cleanliness, weed, open borders, and woke politics. Address only those issues. Don’t drag in anything else. Also run independents whenever possible.

[Happy Porcupine 🖥🏴‍☠️☢️🔌 @xpaulso]

@snowst0rk @Real_Politik101 You have to win before you can do any of that. Campaigning & winning is completely different that governing.