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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 5h

One of my favorite comic book movies. We need more weird shit like this

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

watching the warren beatty DICK TRACEY movie and it is insane? legitimately wild to me that it was a hit?

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 9h

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 11h

I have iron sights on my rifle because someone else wanted to get rid of theirs and I got them free

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 11h

Me at 20 on a 300m range: Irons are life. If you can't shoot with irons, you can't shoot

Me at 40 on a 25m range:

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 12h

Wait until this guy learns about the Ferengis

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 12h

I'm glad none of these freaks watched Attack on Titan

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 12h

No one goes broke playing to rich people's egos

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 15h

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 13h

The thing crypto was made for happened yet again

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 14h

Also the regular kind

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 16h

The value on one bitcoin will always be one bitcoin

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 16h

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

Even after death Marines get Gate guard duty

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

If I'm gonna die, let it be to Shadrach

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

Skeleton Major riding your ass to stay off the Commandant grass

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

The dead don't sleep, they only ruck

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

Imagine dying and someone being like "Yeah that sucks, get your bony ass into the phalanx"

𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓𝖑𝖚𝖘𝖙.˚⊹.🎃₊˚𖦹⋆ @dungeonlust.com · 1d

Art by • Adrian Smith

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

Reading Fight club as fast as I can for a recording with @inthesedeserts.bsky.social on Tuesday. I get why people like the author but christ it's up it's own ass

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

I'm sure in my early 20s I'd be in awe of all the napalm recipes but after twenty years of IEDs and EFPs I just want him to up his game

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

I can't talk shit, I read a lot of Hunter S Thompson when I was Chuck Palahniuk reading age

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 1d

Reading Fight club as fast as I can for a recording with @inthesedeserts.bsky.social on Tuesday. I get why people like the author but christ it's up it's own ass

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 2d

Oceans, they are now battlefields

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 2d

Saw @effinbirds.com and Cyanide and Happiness at Galaxycon today. Better make some money so I can spend some money

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 2d

a man is screaming with the words " unlimited power " behind him

ALT: a man is screaming with the words " unlimited power " behind him

media.tenor.com

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Technical appreciator @whatahellofawaytodad.com · 2d

Trying to gather up the nerve to tell John Reyse Davies how much I loved the show Sliders

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