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Scifi Author, Engineer, Sharpshooter, part-time Dæmon Prince of Tzeentch. Not a cat.

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1Apr 2, '24The Japanese love to pretend that they were just sitting around on the beach braiding flowers into each other's hair when the evil round-eyed devils suddenly targeted them for a we273×14M75k10k21k
2Aug 13, '25"First, the engineers need to dig a giant pit 300 meters deep in the city center —" Okay, I'm gonna go ahead and stop you right there.197×10.1M151k4.9k8k
3Mar 9, '24What you are seeing here is female intrasexual competition in its most raw and naked form. "Do not mate with a pretty American country girl who can help you build a home to live in90×4.6M26k2.2k5.4k
4Oct 13, '24This is what will matter 1000 years from now. Not your politics. Not your stupid tantrums about who platformed who on some website. Not your incomprehensible desire to send NASA's 67×3.4M46k7.1k5.2k
5Dec 6, '24Ahf mgull wuff, whummh gruh mahmf. Whiffl mifh, bunguh wah snuggah. Blor mnah mrah muffah? Mmhrm, mmhrmm. "Uhff gugnah bluh muh," wugged Blorg, hufflm agh smugg. "Whaff knoff uh pl63.3×3.3M85k3.3k3.8k
6Apr 10, '25I'm going to call it right now. A lot of stuff is going to break on this mission. By design. As part of the plan. Don't get upset. I'm not saying SpaceX plans to fail. I'm pointing57.8×3M8.3k1.3k2.8k
7Jul 18, '25I didn't go to college until I was 30. This gave me a chance to see it with the perspective of an adult. One lecture in Industrial Psychology, in particular, I will never forget. T51.7×2.7M32k4.6k16k
8Dec 31, '24Yes. I am not old enough to have lived in this world, but I am old enough to have seen it. Here's how it worked. Everyone, man and woman alike, walked around with the baseline idea46.6×2.4M28k3.2k7.6k
9Nov 3, '251. Have capitalism. Life is good for 90%. 2. Find the 10% who can't thrive even in ideal conditions. 3. Tell them socialism would fix their problems. Use their support to implement46×2.4M21k1.8k3.4k
10Mar 19, '24It's astonishing how few people understood Dune. It's as if they cannot reconcile the concepts of a good man and a bad outcome existing together. This is the whole point of Dune. I46×2.4M12k1.5k4.6k
11Mar 10, '24That's because this dude doesn't know what education is. He speaks of growing wheat, herding sheep, riding a horse, and so on, but in the era of these skills, this was the kind of 44.6×2.3M11k2.2k9.4k
12Oct 11, '25The large explosion that immediately follows it.41.6×2.1M68k3.8k1.2k
13Nov 9, '25Buyers: "How much will this house cost me?" Sellers: "What's your budget?" Buyers: "Well, it was 500K, but with these new fifty year mortgages, I think it could stretch to million.37.1×1.9M12k9471.6k
14Jun 5, '25These guys don't understand each other. Elon Musk is too guileless. He says exactly what he thinks is true with little regard for how others will react. He alienates allies by airi35.8×1.8M16k2.2k6.2k
15Dec 27, '23Emmett, Emmett, Emmett. I'm not "accusing you of socialism". I'm pointing out that you just articulated the single most Bolshevik idea ever suggested since an unemployed German int35×1.8M6k6891.6k
16Sep 5, '24Here's what Song of Ice and Fire actually wants to be, and why George can't finish it. The Song of Ice and Fire isn't actually supposed to be dark, Machiavellian, hopeless, or a su28.5×1.5M13k2.2k5k
17Jul 27, '24This, and Disney Star Wars, and all of modern Hollywood, and all of Manhattan tradpub, can be explained with one simple idea. And no, it isn't "Satan". No religious suppositions ar26.6×1.4M12k2.3k4.8k
18Oct 14, '24I'll tell you this one right now. Most companies are breathtakingly inefficient. Because no one gets fired for doing what "we have always done". Because boomer middle managers hate25.3×1.3M7.2k1.1k4.3k
19Oct 26, '25Gentlemen, if you wish to understand women, you must watch what they do, and ignore what they say. For example, if a woman films herself ranting obsessively about you while lying i24.8×1.3M13k4001.8k
20May 3, '25Every species has mating rituals. If those mating rituals cannot be performed, they will not breed. That's why we say of some animals that they "won't breed in captivity". It isn't24.6×1.3M15k1.7k8.4k
21Aug 13, '25Dear young, single men — I'm going to save you a lot of future anguish by explaining something. Men evolved language to hunt dangerous game in teams Women evolved language so they 24.5×1.3M15k1.1k8.8k
22Dec 26, '23How is this man being selected as the CEO of OpenAI, however briefly, when he is still groping in the dark, struggling to understand even the most basic of concepts behind his own 23.8×1.2M6.3k7922.8k
23Dec 31, '23This is a fair question, so I'm not going to give you the Emmett treatment, but the answer is "no". See, most people think that the problem with communism is that people aren't per23×1.2M5.1k9322.1k
24Sep 2, '25I don't understand. We made a show where they're the bad guys. Why aren't they giving up?22.5×1.2M31k8821.1k
25Mar 30, '24What. The. Actual. Fuck. Are you actually sitting there telling me that, in 2024, a significant open source project is using fucking Autotools instead of something like Cmake? See,22.4×1.2M6.6k8432.4k
27Aug 26, '25Dear Brits: Do you understand what the Second Amendment to our Constitution is for, now? Do you understand why we added it? Because we were smarter and wiser than you along. You ma21.3×1.1M22k3.5k1.6k
28Jul 22, '25Modern bookstores are 90% full of books for women. I promise you they are not stories about sheepish teenage boys cooking meals.20×1M19k4522.6k
29Dec 28, '23Are you a Silicon Valley super-magnate with a billion-dollar fortune, or appreciable fraction thereof? Were you born into the investor class, with red-carpet access to Ivy League u20×1M5k8461.7k
30Apr 7, '24It's been kind of amusing, from a distance, to watch @jk_rowling melt down over men in dresses invading women's private spaces. She still doesn't get it. She doesn't understand tha19.8×1M6.6k1.1k3.3k
31Dec 26, '23Smart people disagree ON societal design. Wise people disagree WITH societal design. Below, Crow defends Shear's idea by saying that he is a "smart, thoughtful dude". If you defend18.2×937k4.8k8552.1k
32Jun 14, '24Some of you may be wondering why the entire bureaucratic caste of the USA is completely obsessed with weird sex stuff. Sure, we can all have good fun ranting about how insane this 18×923k8.3k1.5k3.5k
33May 18, '24Women inhabit a different social universe. This is why, when they enter male spaces, they assume they are being targeted for their sex. They simply are unable to grasp what the sta17.3×889k5.1k8733.1k
34Feb 21, '25I never really understood women until I realized just how much they hate unattractive men. For a man, an unattractive woman is relatively simple to deal with. You just don't look a17.1×878k11k1k4.8k
35Apr 12, '25View post on X15.5×797k18k1.1k1.6k
36Oct 17, '25When Hernán Cortés laid siege to Tenochtitlan, he had 1,300 Spanish soldiers, and over 100,000 native allies. So, yes, it was Indigenous Peoples' Resistance Day. Just not in the wa14.6×748k28k2k1.4k
37Oct 19, '25This dot is not tiny. This dot is 6,000 square miles, which falls short of the usual figure of 10,000 square miles of solar panels to power the US. 10,000 square miles is two Great14×720k11k1.3k1.1k
38Sep 29, '25Actually, you can just kill violent psycho murderers. There's no downside. Things just immediately get better for everyone except the violent psycho murderers. The left refuses to 12.9×660k26k2k1.1k
40Oct 7, '25Most of our current political strife is happening precisely so that boomers can avoid admitting to themselves that hippies were the villains all along.12.1×620k9.3k771422
42Dec 22, '24"Why won't young men vote for us? We've tried scolding them, lecturing them, insulting them, discriminating against them, character assassinating them, destroying their families, s11.2×574k13k9191.1k
43Feb 7, '25Don't imagine Trump as a 4D chess player. That's the wrong metaphor. Imagine him instead as a fencer. He has a sword, which is a very simple tool, with a very simple purpose: point11×564k8.2k9573.1k
44Oct 10, '25Right wing propaganda is increasingly unnecessary. It can be replaced by verbatim reposts of what a democrat just said.10.6×546k10k619668
45Aug 31, '25/taps the sign again10.5×540k22k1.1k1.3k
46Nov 11, '25If I ever run a store that sells physical objects of any kind, I will not hang up a sign that says, "How dare you like the products that we sell, you dork? Be ashamed of yourself."10.5×538k21k694671
47Apr 1, '25Gentlemen, if a girl makes a video about how much she hates you, and films it while lying in bed playing with her hair, you may not wish to interpret the words she says quite liter10.2×523k8.8k2031.2k
48Jul 11, '24Middle-class leftists don't really understand the difference between wealth and money. That's because what they have is a job as a retarded commie journalist, which pays them money9.8×503k5.5k9472.1k
49Jun 16, '24A comment I am now unable to locate pointed out that fake-working-class trustafarians can be identified by their subscription to a mythical idea of what poverty is. The sound of a 9.7×499k5.2k7672.4k
50May 24, '25These two maps are not drawn to the same scale. The United States has 160,000 miles of rail line. All European countries put together have 94,000. Americans have a limited understa9.6×493k9.1k616756
51Sep 1, '25So, in other words, if you import a German van into England, give it English registration papers and an English license plate, and then you paint a big English flag on the back... 9.5×488k23k1k585
52Feb 5, '25Here's what @elonmusk is doing with DOGE, and why he's doing it that way. First of all, he's fully aware that, for the past 20 years or so, a gang of thieves has replaced the US fe9.3×479k6k1.8k2.2k
53Oct 31, '25She isn't crying from guilt or shame or sympathy. She is crying from religious ecstasy. We are not dealing with a political philosophy here, but a faith, with gods, devils, saints,8.7×448k8.9k9451.4k
54May 14, '25Dear White dudes: We're sorry that the left was allowed to attack you with the full might and fury of the US government and every single institution of American society, and turn y8.7×448k11k9751.2k
55May 10, '25... she typed, one-handed, her breath soughing heavily though her moist and parted lips.8.6×443k11k297509
56May 24, '25Let me translate this comment from "IQ 165 autist" to "IQ 115 normie": My team of 10x geniuses and I worked our collective asses off to trim the federal budget to something sustain8.5×437k6.3k9081.7k
57Feb 10, '25Because straight white men built a lot of things. Which they now own. Because they built them. Other people, who didn't build that, want those things. So straight white men must be8.4×429k14k1.4k962
58Jul 17, '25Here's a scenario: You're a sociopath. You're trying to rob me because you don't have a moral compass. And you're simultaneously trying to appeal to mine, because you know I do, an8.2×423k9.4k756990
59Oct 23, '24If you are a woman living in or near NYC, or other large cities with significant dark-skinned populations, you need to realize that the city government has designated you to be hun8.1×418k6.4k8702k
61Aug 13, '24Donald Trump and Elon Musk are talking about how nuclear power is a good idea as part of a national energy solution. I disagree. Nuclear power is obviously bad because it contains 7.5×387k8.2k886614
62Oct 5, '24This is the socialist worldview in a nutshell. Socialists believe the following: 1. All progress is social. This means that all human problems are solved by rearranging collective 7.5×387k4.6k9612k
63Sep 8, '25Either good people hurt bad people, or bad people hurt good people. These are your two options. For 75 years, liberals have been crying out "I don't want anybody to hurt anybody!" 6.9×355k19k2.2k2.3k
64Jun 26, '24I have succeeded in distilling leftism into a single diagram.6.5×333k5.6k370931
65Aug 11, '24Dear Richard: First of all, how we run our own affairs is none of your business. You are not American. You are British. You have no skin in the game. However, I am going to answer 6.4×329k5.6k1.2k1.8k
66Oct 16, '25Yes. Because I voted for it, and then I got it.6.4×327k22k689236
67Sep 16, '25This is true, but there's an even more important difference. There is no moral equivalence between aggression and retaliation. If you hit me with a stick, I might point out that it6.1×313k7.9k1.3k1.4k
68Mar 23, '25View post on X5.7×295k12k367251
69Sep 27, '25View post on X5.7×292k16k785618
70Aug 10, '25"Pulling an El Salvador" means fixing a problem that liberals created, and insist is too complicated to solve, simply by having the political will to ignore their bullshit and do t5.6×289k11k874430
71May 5, '25"I have a plan for GoodThing!" "Great, let's hear it." "First of all, everybody has to just —" "Okay, pump the brakes, there, smart guy. How do you plan to get people to just?" "We5.6×286k6.2k6741.5k
72Oct 30, '25You may be wondering why immigrants hate us so much. After all, they were allowed to come to America, and prosper greatly by doing so, and a large portion of the population bent ov5.5×283k7.4k1.1k2.1k
73Oct 27, '25For once, I have nothing to add.5.4×279k13k537543
74Feb 19, '25Republicans understand what democrats think. Democrats do not understand what republicans think. Why? Because almost all TV, movies, and network news are produced by democrats. Par5.4×278k6.3k649527
75Sep 28, '25If you really believed that, you would stay home. But you won't. You're going to go stand in front of a truck, placing your entire future in the hands of some anonymous stranger th5.3×274k12k1.2k659
77Sep 22, '25The sheer level of entitlement displayed by San Fransisco tech bros is breathtaking. Let's make this perfectly clear, @jarredsumner. You can hire whoever you want, because the comp4.9×250k9.2k1.3k1.1k
78Aug 15, '25This is your periodic reminder that boomers were both the first generation to have television as children, and the first generation to significantly outnumber the whole of the adul4.8×246k4.7k497609
79Aug 26, '25No, you not understand. That's what bravery IS. When you face combat, whether as an adult in war, or as a child who must fight because cowardly adults let the war be brought to you4.3×219k7.2k1.2k624
81Oct 12, '25They're not treading on me, Tom. They're treading on you. They're treading on you, and your smelly unemployed communist thug friends, and your rapey third world barbarian pets. I e4.0×205k7.2k960597
82Nov 10, '25Well, shucks n' tarnation, fix yer lookers on this, y'all. Us po' simple country folks out here in the Tennessee woods shure are a whole peck o' grateful we gots @kenburns to look 3.8×195k7.4k1.1k231
83Oct 19, '25This is the kind of ahistorical take you get from watching an old Horatio Hornblower miniseries on A&E, and then applying the modern political spectrum to the work of fiction you j3.3×168k4.6k580946
84Nov 28, '24"The problem is not that I'm an alcoholic. The problem is that you locked the liquor cabinet."3.2×164k6k656154
86Apr 7, '25Dear boomers: If your stock portfolio has suffered from tariffs and other steps taken by the Trump administration to onshore American industry, I have some advice for you. Some of 3.1×162k5.5k525483
87Aug 26, '25I understand your point as you intended it. And you are correct in what you meant to say. But her father, and her neighbors, and her entire tribe should not be proud right now. The2.9×147k4.7k487194
88Jul 19, '25Or, if you are an atheist, and want an explanation that doesn't rely on gods, then go hit a beehive with a stick. And you will quickly discover that the notion of property rights w2.8×144k5.8k451396
90Jul 20, '25Every leftist argument boils down to "We can't do this thing that's necessary for civilization because it might make a handful of people sad."2.3×121k6.3k268344
95Sep 1, '25"Somebody wrote a children's story about a talking bear from Peru once, therefore you must invite infinity barbarians into your home."1.5×78k5.4k337155
97Jul 29, '25I hereby challenge @AndrewYang to post a video of himself buying an automatic rifle to show us all how easy it is.1.4×74k5k31422

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