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Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

~~Looks like we can have an image, a link, and a title in the test build? Sssssssmokin'!~~

The image overwrites the URL once you hit post, so no we can't.

Fucking lol.

https://twitter.com/leonidvolkov/status/1678027417800126468

It's disturbing how bloodthirsty and batshit insane libs can get. Literally none of them in the replies can even fucking grasp that making fun of random people dying just because of their nationality, is not just unhinged, but also makes you look like the bad guy. All they need is a little push, and libs become almost indistinguishable from the fashies they claim to oppose. Hmm.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/us-soldier-defects-to-north-korea-report

“To our right, we hear a loud HA-HA-HA and one guy from OUR GROUP that has been with us all day- runs in between two of the buildings and over to the other side!!” Mikaela Johansson of Sweden wrote. “It took everybody a second to react and grasp what had actually happened, then we were ordered into and through Freedom House and running back to our military bus.”

She reportedly added that visitors at the JSA had been asked by authorities not to share images of the incident.

I can pull a quarter out of your ear then shoot it in the air at a hundred paces with my six-gun, m'am 🤠

On July 6, a woman in the French town of Alsace was chatting with a friend on her terrace when she was struck by a small object. On further inspection, the black-and-gray concretion appeared to be a meteorite.

The news was first reported by Les Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace. According to The Weather Channel, the object struck the woman in the ribs with enough force to leave a bruise.

If confirmed, it will be one of the exceedingly rare instances of a meteorite striking a person—at least, one of the instances in which the person lived to confirm it happened. The most famous instance was in 1954, when a woman in Alabama was struck by a meteorite that fell through the roof of her home, leaving a massive bruise on her torso.

A quick breakdown of the vocabulary: meteorites are fallen bits of space rock and metal that have landed on Earth. Meteors are the falling bits of rock and metal. Asteroids are large chunks of rock and metal in space, which are often the source of Earth’s meteors.

It’s not rare that such material falls from space. In fact, last year a team of researchers estimated that over 5,000 tons of asteroid and comet dust falls to Earth every year. What’s relatively uncommon is that the material actually survives the fall; most larger masses disintegrate as they heat up in Earth’s atmosphere.

Earlier this year, a suspected meteorite crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home. In 2021, a rare meteorite landed on a driveway in the Cotswolds, in England. And in 2013—ten years ago already!—a meteorite fell in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk, shattering windows and injuring hundreds, though no one was killed. The Chelyabinsk meteorite was the largest to fall to Earth this century.

Fallen meteorites can be billions of years old—i.e., they date to the formation of the solar system—and as such can be of scientific value, besides the extrinsic value they have when they’re occasionally auctioned.

What’s even rarer is that of all the places on Earth a meteor can land, it strikes a person. In 2020, researchers poring over archives of Ottoman Kurdistan found documentation suggesting a falling meteorite paralyzed one person and killed another in 1888.

As reported by Atlas Obscura at the time, those events “precede the famously massive Tunguska explosion of 1908, which may have killed two people, and are more evidence-based than a 1677 manuscript from Italy—which even NASA cites—in which an Italian monk was killed by a stone ‘projected from the clouds.’”

Everything has to go perfectly wrong for you to get hit with a rock from space. But counterpoint: this woman in Alsace now has a bragging right no one else on Earth has (pending confirmation that the object is a meteorite and not something mundane.)

If I knew it would just cost a bruise, I’d get hit by a meteorite any day.

If Stalin didn’t stop at Berlin America would have eaten shit for like a year until they built more nukes which they had a monopoly on at the time.

They would have used them.

I don’t see a path to victory there unless it’s acceptable to be losing like two entire cities a year (I honestly have no idea how many nukes could be built a year at that time, I say two because that’s how many were built for Japan) to a nuclear and bloodthirsty empire in its prime.

I know it’s a meme. But I see it said enough I wanted to hear what people actually thought on the matter memes aside.

Edit: lots of good takes and I’ve learned some stuff, thanks for all the responses.

this summer is probably the coldest summer I'll experience for the rest of my life

it's almost certainly way colder than every future summer I'll have for sure

One last note, right before the allegations caught up to Adam be started platforming a lot of right wing assets. Oh wow how did you manage to book Kanye’s handler? Young rappers need to avoid these guys like the plague. /end 🧵

yes haha yes

https://archive.li/lPwUr

Giving a prison sentence 8 times longer than there has been written language.

My large adult son is old

https://twitter.com/EerikaSchulz/status/1670387536353435648

archive.today • Opinion | A Look Back at Our Coming War With China - The New York Times

https://nitter.net/abbydphillip/status/1681247117602332673

Literally WHO CARES about [checks notes] Asa Hutchinson? (who?) Mike Pence gets called a satanist in Iowa because he didn't steal the election for Trump. Trump has a literal cult around him and millions pouring in. No one outside of "respectable" civility fetishist libs and chuds want Meatball Ron.

But hey, thanks for all the millions you poured into my campaign that fizzled out and failed three weeks in. No refunds!