Tin Man walking
@tinmanbs
Reluctant socialist. Committed pessimist. Worships Woke Jesus. Refugee from Social Media Formerly Known As Twitter since Nov'24. Born estimated 311 ppm. Everything that isn't about our slide into an authoritarian abyss is a distraction.
Hypothesis: A species that evolved by focusing on short-term threats is doomed to ignore a long-term threat until it is too late. ...A test of this hypothesis is ongoing but results won't be known for some time yet. #TippingPointOfNoReturn
Tuesday it hit 35.1 °C(95.2 °F) at London’s Kew Gardens, breaking the 34.8 °C (94.6 °F) record set just a day earlier. The readings smashed the long-standing record of 32.8 °C (91.4 °F) set in 1922 and matched in 1944. #SummerIsComing Records are made to broken. Not smashed.
"…Oh, I'm just gettin' warmed up." — Mother Nature, with a menacing glare
Dr Copper is just now waking up to the prospect of a prolonged Iran conflict.
F*ck every #MiracleEar voter and an equal number of non-voters who also didn't listen, believe, or care.
Sorry. Message lost...no connection. Face it, he's got literally no scruples and he's not gonna stop until he's nuked somebody. But all that had been obvious to America before they RE-elected the deranged narcissist.
How much is Just Too Much? A long term investigation of this concept is underway. Preliminary results are not particularly encouraging.
Ruggedized version of a toy. Why would anyone bother? Deployment and Applications The X10D has been selected for military applications, including the U.S. Army's Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) Tranche 2 program.
Trade Act of '74- Tariff Suckers&Losers Edition (per Krugman) Section 122 calls for a flat-rate tariff on everyone. This means that nations Trump tried to punish received a big break whereas nations that groveled to Trump, like the UK, have just learned that they humiliated themselves for nothing:
MAGAnoids are the perfect Orwellian sheeple. MAGA identified Republicans, who were the ones who supposedly were most against new wars and international involvement, moved massively in favor immediately after Trump announced the bombing.
It's the least popular decision for war in modern US history. We now have a number of polls which discuss how the attack is perceived, and there has been no rally around the flag effect at all. Support averages out at around 40%, a shockingly small figure.
as the dulcet strains of "This Could Be the Start of Something Big" play in the background...
F***ed regardless. TEXAS: They don't call it 'The One Star State' for nothing