absurd detail to notice here but these are stock graffiti fonts (all the double letters are the exact same). they didn’t even get someone to actually draw any of this.

If the long 19th century was 1789-1914: When did “the long twentieth century” end?

dude cut my LOTO off without contacting me or our boss. He just got told to not do it again. i may be over reacting but seriously he should have been reprimanded

Can I say something without everyone getting mad? We 💯 need Navy SWOs to meet combat standards too. Let me explain. I don’t work out much anymore, but once upon a time, I had 8 varsity letters and roomed with future Navy SEALs. I’ve hiked hundreds of miles in the mud and rain and swam in storms. Not anymore, but once upon a time, I did. Want to know the workout that kicked my ass more than any of them? Emergencies aboard ship! You can be overweight or not up to male physical standards 99.9% of the time on ships, but when a fire breaks out or a pipe bursts in the Engine Room? It takes massive amounts of strength over hours to close watertight doors, haul gear, haul casualties, move cargo, climb ladders, turn massive wrenches, swim out of flooding compartments… Most intensive workouts I’ve ever had aboard ship, and the major emergencies I faced were mostly in calm weather. Fighting a fire at sea in a storm I can’t even imagine. Give me 40 Hercules, and I’m sure I’d push them all past exhaustion. And the dark secret is these emergencies can last for hours. WHICH means you have to rotate out the guys doing the hardest work, WHICH means every single person aboard from dishwasher to XO will be pushed to exhaustion. Those people— regardless of whether it’s due to their eating habits or gender— who can’t meet strength requirements equivalent to a front-line army grunt in the front lines are worse than dead weight. They are a liability to the entire ship during a massive emergency. And one liability that sinks a single ship in a carrier formation puts the entire formation and the carrier’s 5,000 crew and air wings at risk. And the loss of ONE carrier puts the entire region of the globe in peril and every soldier and marine operating there. Surface Warfare Sailors MUST meet Combat standards too… even if they tell you “I’ve served aboard warships for 25 years and never got pushed to exhaustion.” Great. That’s true in peace. Surface warfare is easy in peace. But in war? Saving a ship on fire and sinking requires Special Forces-level strength. That’s just a fact. And we better start putting real tests of strength and stress and risk back into regular emergency drills at sea. At sea you fight like you practice and right now only the most hard charging Chiefs push their SC teams to exhaustion while most of crew goes nowhere near the simulated fire. Most Navy officers haven’t seen emergencies like I have because their ships are in much better condition than US Merchant Marine ships… but I have. I remember my first big battery room fire, my best trained guys showed up and I made the little guys switch out for lesser trained BIG guys. That’s nothing I was ever taught. It surprised the heck out of me during the debriefing because I didn’t even remember giving the order. I did it because some things you can’t be taught. BIG STRONG guys on point in a ship fire is just something that’s obvious to everyone who has been there. P.S. don’t take my word for it… all of this - the need to train EVERYONE aboard a combat ship to exhaustion - is in the after action reports from the USS Forrestal fire in 1967. The 1990 Navy combat standards included all the above in it.

Douglas Hofstadter wrote about his experience of running up against an “abstraction ceiling” in his own brain while pursuing a PhD in mathematics. As Hofstadter describes, the abstraction ceiling is not a “hard” threshold, a level at which one is suddenly incapable of learning math, but rather a “soft” threshold, a level at which the amount of time and effort required to learn math begins to skyrocket until learning more advanced math is effectively no longer a productive use of one’s time. That level is different for everyone. For Hofstadter, it was graduate-level math; for another randomly selected person, it might be earlier or later (but almost certainly earlier).

A strange man has gifted me what appears to be a 3d printed JD Vance Labubu and I am so incredibly concerned

Hey. Commercial fisherman here! 👋 That boat was not being used to fish and you can tell by the fact that it was running full tilt, with four high performance motors at night. Hope this clears up any confusion you lubbers have over that narco drug boat!

I would love for President Trump to clean up cities like Chicago. He proved in DC that enforcing the law actually WORKS. But Chicago isn't a federal district. Trump must find a 100% CONSTITUTIONAL way to do it, or else he would open the doors for real tyrants down the line. Or, even better, how about the Democrats controlling these cities put their constituents above politics, learn from Trump’s success, and enforce their own laws!

Google publishes a paper showing that its AI models only use 0.26 mL of water in data centers per prompt. After, this article gets published: "Google says a typical AI prompt only uses 5 drops of water - experts say that's misleading." The reason the expert says this is misleading? They didn't include the water used in the nearby power plant to generate electricity. The expert, Shaolei Ren says: “They’re just hiding the critical information. This really spreads the wrong message to the world.” Each prompt uses about 0.3 Wh in the data center. To generate that much electricity, power plants need (at most) 2.50 mL of water. That raises the total water cost per prompt to 2.76 mL. 2.76 mL is 0.0001% of the average American lifestyle's daily consumptive use of fresh water and groundwater. It's nothing. Would you know this from the headline, or the quote? Why do so many reporters on this topic do this?

GM Curtis LeMay Did Nothing Wrong. Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter.