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Ben Hirsch retweeted
Replying to @JoseCanseco
Maybe if your credit score was higher than your batting average
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Ben is a massive asshole. Do not engage as you would a normal person.
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Ben is a massive asshole. Do not engage as you would a normal person.
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Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend
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Ben Hirsch retweeted
Replying to @bowtiedgerman
Like 90% of the food they’re ordering is reheated Sysco slop.
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Does @NJTRANSIT stand to make a killing on the $150 World Cup transit ticket? We inquired about the costs and the math. On a normal day NJT recovers 25 cents for every $1 it costs to operate the system; at $12.90 they would have recovered just 8 cents. northjersey.com/story/news/t…
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Ben Hirsch retweeted
The story behind the New York Times’ 1903 claim that human flight was between one and ten million years away is even worse than it looks. Once you understand the backstory, you realize that the New York Times story is not really about flight at all but about how elites and credentialed “experts” mistake their own failures for the boundaries of possibility. The New York Times did not dismiss the possibility of powered flight at random. There was a very specific reason behind it. At the time, America’s most prominent scientific authority, Smithsonian Secretary Samuel Langley, had been showered with large amounts of taxpayer funding to build an aircraft, the Langley Aerodrome. Despite all the money, institutional backing, and elite prestige, Langley and his team could not get it to fly, culminating in a series of very public failures, the last on December 8, 1903. So when the New York Times declared that flight was millions of years away, what it was really saying was that if the most credentialed and well-funded “experts” cannot do it, then it cannot be done. A mere nine days later, the elites’ proclamation of impossibility lay in ruins. Two totally unknown bicycle mechanics from Ohio achieved the first powered flight using improvised parts, a few hundred dollars of their own money, and sheer persistence. The story of flight is, at its core, a story of the triumph of American individualism over elite credentialism. The fact that it was the New York Times that inadvertently delivered the proof is the most fitting conclusion imaginable.
"Man won't fly for a million years" – NYT 1903
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Ben Hirsch retweeted
So now that this dumb crap is over, can all of the auto manufacturers create an option where dealers can flash the PCM and disable it permanently? Sincerely, Everyone @Jeep @Ford @chevrolet @GM @Honda @Toyota @MazdaUSA @Kia @Chrysler @NissanUSA @Dodge @Stellantis
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Ben Hirsch retweeted
31 Dec 2025
Dan Orlovsky (@danorlovsky7) is represented by CAA. He found ways to justify voting for fellow CAA clients like Nick Sirianni, Josh Allen, and Matthew Stafford, changing criteria when necessary. How many voters are represented by @CAA_Football? What % vote for other CAA clients?
2024: Dan Orlovsky said he voted for Josh Allen because he “did more with less.” Highlighting that: • Allen didn’t have an 1,000 yard WR • James Cook barely had 1,000 yards • Bills had an average defense So let me pose the question: why is this relevant in 2024 but not 2025?
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Ben Hirsch retweeted
Replying to @EdMarkey
Stuff gets “cut off” during gender affirming care? Is the cut off stuff important?
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19 Aug 2025
Protection.
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Protection of Russians in Ukraine and Alaska summit results: Lavrov’s remarks. The minister emphasized that Moscow has never sought to seize territories, stating the protection of the Russian-speaking population as its main task: vk.cc/cOISb2
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Ben Hirsch retweeted
12 Aug 2025
Prime Gronk was being covered by your best corner safety and edge rusher and people have the audacity to tell me Kelce is better.
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"Hello everyone else, please invade a nuclear armed and battle hardened Middle Eastern country. My own island doesn't have an airforce so we won't lift a finger. But we REALLY need that 23rd failed Arab ethnostate, okay?" Is Ireland even a real place
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7 Jul 2025
Replying to @lelemSLP
1. Yes, it was two-way: ~700k Palestinians displaced in 1948 vs. ~850k Jews expelled from Arab countries (1948-1972), per UN and historical estimates. 2. Yes, UN (via UNRWA) uniquely recognizes Palestinian refugees with hereditary status; Jewish refugees were resettled without equivalent UN framework. 3. Yes, many Palestinians cite Nakba to justify ongoing resistance/violence; Jews integrated and moved on without similar claims.
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“I’m not f-ckin dying for Israel” Bro, you’re 46 years old and haven’t been to the gym in 792 days. America is not fighting this war and the IDF is not going to recruit you. Now go get out of your gaming chair and touch some grass.
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From Gaza to Barcelona — occupation is occupation, right?
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