ZC

Mostly a LOTR and political shitposting account

[Mr. S.T.A.R. @favelaoverlord]

literally nothing more annoying on the fucking planet than when websites don’t have the US at the top of a country selection list. No, I am not going to select fucking “Afghanistan” boutique clothing brand based in Nashville. Fuck off.

[Department of State @StateDept]

Ideological conditioning and two-tiered policing are glaring symptoms of civilizational decline. They must be rejected across the West.

The United States sends our condolences to the family of Henry Nowak and the people of the United Kingdom at this troubling time.

[AntisepticMoose @AntisepticMoose]

Today we remember Marvin Heemeyer 🫡 killdozer day

[PoIiMath @politicalmath]

The simple fact of this case is that the police thought Henry Nowak was a racist and that meant that they did not feel obligated to extend to him any form of human decency

They killed him because someone accused him of racism

[🐺 @LeighWolf]

We sacrificed 360,000 souls to end slavery and another 250,000 souls to defeat fascism.

Any moral debts were paid in blood many decades ago.

[War Doll @thewardoll]

I don't care what horrors beyond comprehension exist, or if these abominations are walking down main street in my own home town.

If it bleeds, it can be killed.

If it doesn't bleed, the name of Jesus the Christ will rebuke it.

All other information is irrelevant.

[AlphaOwlTrading @AlphaOwlTrading]

Watching $MU go +800% and $DELL go +170% in a year while I still hold $NVDA

[mithrandir 🦬 @___mithrandir_]

Leftism is a secular religion with a very strong concept of sin and penance but no concept of forgiveness, grace or redemption. They appeal to a nebulous morality grounded on absolutely nothing, allowing it to shift at any time and leave you damned.

[Stink Eye @thestinkeye]

At the Boat School, I had a Ukrainian Rocket Propulsion professor who was hilarious.

"Rrrocket Engineering is easy: If you do rrright, you get rrrocket; if you do wrrrrong, you get bomb."

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Today, we remember a legend.

On this day in history, Harambe would have celebrated another birthday. An icon that became part of internet history, American culture, and an entire generation’s timeline.

Tomorrow marks 10 years since we lost him. Ten years since the moment the world stopped scrolling and collectively mourned something bigger than a meme.

He became a symbol of loyalty, strength, chaos, unity, and the strange beauty of the internet bringing millions of people together for one cause: never forgetting Harambe.

Everyone remembers where they were when they heard the news. And somehow, a decade later, his legacy still lives on.

Gone, but never forgotten.
Rest easy to a true patriot. 🕊️🇺🇸

May 27, 1999 — May 28, 2016
Forever in our hearts.

[David Keyes @DavidMKeyes]

🚨🚨 Iran deal NEARLY finalized. Last sticking points are Iran's insistence on destroying West, killing all infidels and imposing Islam on the world. Fingers crossed!

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

So today I had a retired US Navy three-star admiral accuse me of being a bot and having never served in the US military.

I posted a rebuttal, which basically caused this Democrat admiral to get swarmed by a social media army of veterans (and patriotic non-veterans too).

I truly appreciate the outpouring of support, but I am also quite interested in what this says about the mindset of America’s veteran community in 2026, writ large.

Most of us? We served in the GWOT and are still angry about it. We are angry that we were sent to do impossible missions of building liberal institutions in 8th Century tribal societies. We’re angry about ridiculously restrictive ROE that got our friends killed. We are angry that for much of the wars we were inadequately resourced, driving soft-skinned HMMWVs down IED Alley. We are angry that we spent all those years to have, in the end, accomplished very little. We are angry at how the VA treated us when we got out. Most of all, we are angry about watching our friends get killed or maimed (or kill themselves when they got home), seemingly all for naught.

And guess what? We are REALLY angry at the senior generals and admirals who led us down this path and never had the cajones to tell the civilian elected leadership what the real deal was. (We’re not angry at Pete Hegseth’s team—we’re angry at the generals and admirals who caused the problems he and his team are trying to fix.)

That admiral who came at me today? He was one of those GWOT senior leaders.

What you saw today was much less an outpouring of support for me and much more an outpouring of righteous anger at a righteous target.

Just wanted to share my thoughts on this, it’s an interesting phenomenon.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Need the Pope to release an encyclical against Teams calls

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

This may be one of the greatest X things I've ever witnessed. No joke.

[ZC @zc_216]

@Daily_MailUS Hell yeah

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[ZC @zc_216]

@TheDemocrats Fuck off, unbelievable

[Comfortably Smug @ComfortablySmug]

We are incredibly fortunate to live in the greatest country on earth, which exists only because we have brave Americans willing to die to defend it. Take time today to remember their sacrifice.

[Catholic Sat @CatholicSat]

The Vatican has produced a video to accompany the publication of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Letter Magnifica humanitas, on safeguarding the human person in the age of Artificial Intelligence

[Courtney Mares @catholicourtney]

In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV quotes J.R.R. Tolkien's "Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.”

“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

(Photo: Vatican Media)