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🤯 When tight tolerances are critical this Wire EDM cutting is definitely a game changer, this process has zero residual waste compared to CNC machines and lathe cutting. ⏺️ A very thin brass (or coated) wire — roughly the thickness of a human hair — acts as an electrode. ⏺️ It never physically touches the metal workpiece. Instead, it maintains a tiny gap while high-frequency electrical sparks (discharges) rapidly erode tiny bits of metal. ⏺️ Dielectric fluid (usually deionized water or oil) flushes away the debris, keeps everything cool, and prevents short circuits. ⏺️ Result: Extremely precise cuts with zero mechanical pressure, no burrs, no distortion, and excellent surface finish — even on hardened steel, tungsten, or exotic alloys. ⏺️ The video highlights this on a bolt/thread example and mentions how engineers spent millions developing it for complex paths (spirals, etc.). An entry-level machine starts at $5 K all the way up to $500 K for the more sophisticated models.

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Elon Musk: Our squabbles on Earth are very minor when you consider the grandness of the universe. “It's awe-inspiring to consider just how tiny we are in the grand scheme of things. And yet we often get sort of caught up in the sort of these sort of squabbles on Earth that are really very sort of minor things when you consider the grandness of the universe. And so I think it is important actually to consider the grandness of the universe and what we can do that is much greater than what we've done before, as opposed to worry about sort of small squabbles on Earth. There's not much point in that. We want to be a civilization that expands to the galaxy with spaceships that anyone can go anywhere they want and at any time that would be epic. And have a city on the moon, cities on Mars, populate the solar system and send spaceships to other star systems. That sounds like the best possible future.” From: Terafab announcement, March 21, 2026
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Elon Musk: Our squabbles on Earth are very minor when you consider the grandness of the universe. “It's awe-inspiring to consider just how tiny we are in the grand scheme of things. And yet we often get sort of caught up in the sort of these sort of squabbles on Earth that are really very sort of minor things when you consider the grandness of the universe. And so I think it is important actually to consider the grandness of the universe and what we can do that is much greater than what we've done before, as opposed to worry about sort of small squabbles on Earth. There's not much point in that. We want to be a civilization that expands to the galaxy with spaceships that anyone can go anywhere they want and at any time that would be epic. And have a city on the moon, cities on Mars, populate the solar system and send spaceships to other star systems. That sounds like the best possible future.” From: Terafab announcement, March 21, 2026

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19,230 views • 3 months ago

Kamala Harris calls out Trump for dragging the US into war "From the beginning I have been unequivocally opposed to this war of choice that Trump has entered..this president is the first president of the US since WW2 who does not believe in the alliances we have w friendly nations..and the importance that relationship bears on our standing around the world..not to mention our national security" "First president of the US post WW2 who has not considered the USA to have a responsibility to be a standard bearer around international rules & norms such as sovereignty & territorial integrity..America's strength in the context of the world relies..yes on the fact that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world, our military..and it relies on..soft power..holding up international rules & norms”
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Kamala Harris calls out Trump for dragging the US into war "From the beginning I have been unequivocally opposed to this war of choice that Trump has entered..this president is the first president of the US since WW2 who does not believe in the alliances we have w friendly nations..and the importance that relationship bears on our standing around the world..not to mention our national security" "First president of the US post WW2 who has not considered the USA to have a responsibility to be a standard bearer around international rules & norms such as sovereignty & territorial integrity..America's strength in the context of the world relies..yes on the fact that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world, our military..and it relies on..soft power..holding up international rules & norms”

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19,120 views • 3 months ago

At the end of the day, as I discussed with Jordan Peterson, there are just two games to be played, one real, one Woke. The real game is called civilization. The false game is called power. A long post/🧵: The real divide between Woke and not Woke is in power. The Woke game is the power game, and it is a parasite on the real game, which is civilization. Here's roughly how Jordan described the foundation of this idea. There are various rules, norms, etc., in the game society ultimately plays, and these create a hierarchy that is based upon competence, mostly organically, obviously imperfectly. If the rules of the game are good enough, the imperfections (natural corruptions) are minor and society thrives. If they are not, you'll have problems. This is the real game of building society, and it ultimately has to favor competence. This game must be called "civilization" because that's not just its goal but it is also what it does. It civilizes us beyond our base instincts and impulses so we can work together productively in a healthy manner that generates prosperity. As Jordan put it, this game is also a reservoir of value, and reservoirs of value create parasites. What are these civilizational parasites? They’re parallel games organized by and around malignant psychopathological modes like Dark Tetrad traits, psychopathy, and Cluster-B disorders: histrionic, borderline, antisocial, and narcissistic. These malignant pathologies render people incompetent except at manipulation, so they cannot rise far in a healthy civilizational hierarchy. What do they do, then, to gain power and status in life in a game they cannot actually play? They define a parasitic parallel game and rope people into playing it. It is parasitic in that it draws off the real game (civilization) and mimics its form so that the hosts (people in society) are less likely to realize it’s there, but it doesn’t build or create of its own. It siphons and tears down. What drives this game is failing to see what makes the civilizational game and the hierarchy it produces legitimate in the first place. This is characteristic of the psychopathologies at its heart. The narcissist imagines the world should be serving himself at the top, but it isn’t. The problem can’t be himself, so it must be that the game is illegitimate. Otherwise, he’d be at the top, but he isn’t. Therefore, the game is corrupt. His histrionic nature makes him a victim of the real game, preying upon emotions like empathy and righteous indignation to recruit followers. Because of his Dark Tetrad alignment, his game is not only illegitimate but toxic. It’s inherently sadistic, cruel to its recruits in the way typical of all cults—alternating punishment and leniency or even love-bombing. It’s dishonest. It’s psychologically broken from reality. It’s also a Machiavellian game, which means it has no interest in moral or ethical behavior but only in power. Thus, this rival game to the game of civilization is the game of power. The parasitic game—that is, the power game—is based on a fundamental failure to understand the legitimacy of the civilizational game or the approximately legitimate hierarchy it produces. This is a result of its narcissism, mostly. The game cannot be legitimate because the psychopath isn’t on top of it, where he sees himself constantly as a projection from his frail ego. It sees power in the real hierarchy, though, which it can perceive and understand, and for which it blames most of its troubles. What this means is that the (Woke) power game develops a critical theory of the existing legitimate civilization game. That’s why Woke means “using critical theory (and activism).” A critical theory exists not to articulate a vision—at least not beyond a Utopia after the cult power game holds power to enforce its power game long enough—but to “criticize those aspects of the existing society we wish to change,” as Max Horkheimer, creator of the Critical Theory, put it. The critical theory of the power game exists to recruit by delegitimizing the civilization game in the minds of some of its players, usually ones who aren’t succeeding as well. It picks at “contradictions,” failures, and imperfections while casting the whole civilization game as corrupt and unjust. It offers itself as the only alternative to civilization game while pulling at the threads of the civilization game that allow people to believe in it. It all proceeds from the Woke failure to understand the legitimacy of the hierarchy of the civilization game as it proceeds from its set of rules. Misunderstanding legitimacy leads it to conclude that all hierarchies are actually based in power, and all power is fundamentally arbitrary. That is, they do not believe all power is illegitimate. They believe power is the only legitimate thing in any hierarchy, but they also believe that power is located in persons like themselves through their narcissism and projection. Think of Voldemort as an icon of this mode of thinking: “there is no good or evil, only power and those too weak to seek it.” Of course, that quintessential Dark Tetrad perspective is what ensures the psychopathological power game will be rigged to make sure the psychopaths are attracted to it and rise to its top. This belief is what we call Woke. The Woke game is the power game, and it is a parasitic competitor to the civilization game. There is no overlap between these two games. To adopt the power game is to abandon the civilization game entirely and, in fact, to become its enemy. But James, you might ask, isn’t there power in civilization? Yes, there is, and necessarily, but it isn’t what defines the civilization game. It’s a byproduct of the game, not the game itself. The civilization game is fundamentally the building out of an organic and dynamic hierarchy based on a set of rules, or what some people call “muh principles,” that will succeed or fail for that civilization in direct proportion to three things. 1) How aligned with the truth are the rules of the civilization game? 2) How aligned with justice are the rules of the civilization game? 3) How willing are the participants of the civilization game to defend their principles and their game, including against socio-parasitical perversion? The more aligned with truth and justice a civilization game is, the more successful it will be, and the more legitimate its hierarchy. The power that results as a byproduct is extremely legitimate in a highly aligned civilization where people haven’t forgotten their charge to defend the game itself, which is what we call responsibility. A civilization game strongly aligned with truth and justice filled with a preponderance of responsible people will produce a thriving, prosperous society. It only works this way every time. Not everyone is responsible, though. Some are also incompetent because of various pathologies (not talking about for other reasons). Those pathological players may, under certain circumstances, create a parasitic side game with themselves on top through a variety of strategies that mimic the values and principles of the real game while distorting them into power plays because their game is power, as discussed above. They will recruit into that game primarily from those who are resentful of the real game for any variety of reasons, and getting recruited into the power game from the civilization game is called “going Woke.”
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At the end of the day, as I discussed with Jordan Peterson, there are just two games to be played, one real, one Woke. The real game is called civilization. The false game is called power. A long post/🧵: The real divide between Woke and not Woke is in power. The Woke game is the power game, and it is a parasite on the real game, which is civilization. Here's roughly how Jordan described the foundation of this idea. There are various rules, norms, etc., in the game society ultimately plays, and these create a hierarchy that is based upon competence, mostly organically, obviously imperfectly. If the rules of the game are good enough, the imperfections (natural corruptions) are minor and society thrives. If they are not, you'll have problems. This is the real game of building society, and it ultimately has to favor competence. This game must be called "civilization" because that's not just its goal but it is also what it does. It civilizes us beyond our base instincts and impulses so we can work together productively in a healthy manner that generates prosperity. As Jordan put it, this game is also a reservoir of value, and reservoirs of value create parasites. What are these civilizational parasites? They’re parallel games organized by and around malignant psychopathological modes like Dark Tetrad traits, psychopathy, and Cluster-B disorders: histrionic, borderline, antisocial, and narcissistic. These malignant pathologies render people incompetent except at manipulation, so they cannot rise far in a healthy civilizational hierarchy. What do they do, then, to gain power and status in life in a game they cannot actually play? They define a parasitic parallel game and rope people into playing it. It is parasitic in that it draws off the real game (civilization) and mimics its form so that the hosts (people in society) are less likely to realize it’s there, but it doesn’t build or create of its own. It siphons and tears down. What drives this game is failing to see what makes the civilizational game and the hierarchy it produces legitimate in the first place. This is characteristic of the psychopathologies at its heart. The narcissist imagines the world should be serving himself at the top, but it isn’t. The problem can’t be himself, so it must be that the game is illegitimate. Otherwise, he’d be at the top, but he isn’t. Therefore, the game is corrupt. His histrionic nature makes him a victim of the real game, preying upon emotions like empathy and righteous indignation to recruit followers. Because of his Dark Tetrad alignment, his game is not only illegitimate but toxic. It’s inherently sadistic, cruel to its recruits in the way typical of all cults—alternating punishment and leniency or even love-bombing. It’s dishonest. It’s psychologically broken from reality. It’s also a Machiavellian game, which means it has no interest in moral or ethical behavior but only in power. Thus, this rival game to the game of civilization is the game of power. The parasitic game—that is, the power game—is based on a fundamental failure to understand the legitimacy of the civilizational game or the approximately legitimate hierarchy it produces. This is a result of its narcissism, mostly. The game cannot be legitimate because the psychopath isn’t on top of it, where he sees himself constantly as a projection from his frail ego. It sees power in the real hierarchy, though, which it can perceive and understand, and for which it blames most of its troubles. What this means is that the (Woke) power game develops a critical theory of the existing legitimate civilization game. That’s why Woke means “using critical theory (and activism).” A critical theory exists not to articulate a vision—at least not beyond a Utopia after the cult power game holds power to enforce its power game long enough—but to “criticize those aspects of the existing society we wish to change,” as Max Horkheimer, creator of the Critical Theory, put it. The critical theory of the power game exists to recruit by delegitimizing the civilization game in the minds of some of its players, usually ones who aren’t succeeding as well. It picks at “contradictions,” failures, and imperfections while casting the whole civilization game as corrupt and unjust. It offers itself as the only alternative to civilization game while pulling at the threads of the civilization game that allow people to believe in it. It all proceeds from the Woke failure to understand the legitimacy of the hierarchy of the civilization game as it proceeds from its set of rules. Misunderstanding legitimacy leads it to conclude that all hierarchies are actually based in power, and all power is fundamentally arbitrary. That is, they do not believe all power is illegitimate. They believe power is the only legitimate thing in any hierarchy, but they also believe that power is located in persons like themselves through their narcissism and projection. Think of Voldemort as an icon of this mode of thinking: “there is no good or evil, only power and those too weak to seek it.” Of course, that quintessential Dark Tetrad perspective is what ensures the psychopathological power game will be rigged to make sure the psychopaths are attracted to it and rise to its top. This belief is what we call Woke. The Woke game is the power game, and it is a parasitic competitor to the civilization game. There is no overlap between these two games. To adopt the power game is to abandon the civilization game entirely and, in fact, to become its enemy. But James, you might ask, isn’t there power in civilization? Yes, there is, and necessarily, but it isn’t what defines the civilization game. It’s a byproduct of the game, not the game itself. The civilization game is fundamentally the building out of an organic and dynamic hierarchy based on a set of rules, or what some people call “muh principles,” that will succeed or fail for that civilization in direct proportion to three things. 1) How aligned with the truth are the rules of the civilization game? 2) How aligned with justice are the rules of the civilization game? 3) How willing are the participants of the civilization game to defend their principles and their game, including against socio-parasitical perversion? The more aligned with truth and justice a civilization game is, the more successful it will be, and the more legitimate its hierarchy. The power that results as a byproduct is extremely legitimate in a highly aligned civilization where people haven’t forgotten their charge to defend the game itself, which is what we call responsibility. A civilization game strongly aligned with truth and justice filled with a preponderance of responsible people will produce a thriving, prosperous society. It only works this way every time. Not everyone is responsible, though. Some are also incompetent because of various pathologies (not talking about for other reasons). Those pathological players may, under certain circumstances, create a parasitic side game with themselves on top through a variety of strategies that mimic the values and principles of the real game while distorting them into power plays because their game is power, as discussed above. They will recruit into that game primarily from those who are resentful of the real game for any variety of reasons, and getting recruited into the power game from the civilization game is called “going Woke.”

James Lindsay, anti-Communist

154,286 views • 1 year ago

WARFARE 101: The best plan on any battlefield gives you the most options up to the last possible minute. That is a principle every combat commander learns early, and it is one we should be applying to the situation in front of us right now. We have multiple wars unfolding at the same time, and the pace of decision-making has to match the complexity of the threat. Ukraine has nearly fallen out of the public conversation, yet thousands of people are being killed every day. That war has not paused. It has simply moved out of the headlines. The same is true of the conflict in Iran that we are currently engaged in. Every one of these fights deserves clear-eyed attention and a full set of options on the table. I believe there are solutions to the war in Ukraine and to the conflict we are navigating today against Iran. Solutions exist when leaders preserve flexibility, listen to honest counsel, and refuse to lock into a single course of action before the situation demands it. The moment a commander surrenders his options, he surrenders his initiative. The moment a nation surrenders its options, it surrenders its leverage. This is the discipline of sound strategy. Keep the options open. Keep the thinking sharp. Keep the door to peace within reach without ever sacrificing strength. That is how wars are ended on terms that hold, and that is how a great nation leads through a season of conflict. Pray for our troops, the innocent caught in these wars, and pray for the wisdom of our Commander in Chief, carrying the weight of these decisions. LindellTV Cara Castronuova ✅
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WARFARE 101: The best plan on any battlefield gives you the most options up to the last possible minute. That is a principle every combat commander learns early, and it is one we should be applying to the situation in front of us right now. We have multiple wars unfolding at the same time, and the pace of decision-making has to match the complexity of the threat. Ukraine has nearly fallen out of the public conversation, yet thousands of people are being killed every day. That war has not paused. It has simply moved out of the headlines. The same is true of the conflict in Iran that we are currently engaged in. Every one of these fights deserves clear-eyed attention and a full set of options on the table. I believe there are solutions to the war in Ukraine and to the conflict we are navigating today against Iran. Solutions exist when leaders preserve flexibility, listen to honest counsel, and refuse to lock into a single course of action before the situation demands it. The moment a commander surrenders his options, he surrenders his initiative. The moment a nation surrenders its options, it surrenders its leverage. This is the discipline of sound strategy. Keep the options open. Keep the thinking sharp. Keep the door to peace within reach without ever sacrificing strength. That is how wars are ended on terms that hold, and that is how a great nation leads through a season of conflict. Pray for our troops, the innocent caught in these wars, and pray for the wisdom of our Commander in Chief, carrying the weight of these decisions. LindellTV Cara Castronuova ✅

General Mike Flynn

41,395 views • 2 months ago

🚨 JUST IN: The greatest Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he has RESET foreign policy in favor of America First He said all of this perfectly. Marco is GREAT. "One of the assumptions was the loss of the notion of the NATIONAL INTEREST in our foreign policy. At the core, foreign policy needs to be the national interest of the United States." "Now, that doesn't mean that there aren't issues and things we care about in the world. But at its core, the core principle of the national interest, the core principle behind our foreign policy needs to be our national interest." "So you have to, first of all, define what is the national interest, and then you have to apply it. We defined it as we are in favor of foreign policies that make America safer, or stronger, or more prosperous. Hopefully all three, but at least one of those three." "And then it requires you to prioritize. Even the richest, most powerful, and influential country on Earth has limited resources, has limited time. And it has to be able to dedicate those resources and time through a process of prioritization." "We're very proud of that going into effect and continuing to work forward."
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🚨 JUST IN: The greatest Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he has RESET foreign policy in favor of America First He said all of this perfectly. Marco is GREAT. "One of the assumptions was the loss of the notion of the NATIONAL INTEREST in our foreign policy. At the core, foreign policy needs to be the national interest of the United States." "Now, that doesn't mean that there aren't issues and things we care about in the world. But at its core, the core principle of the national interest, the core principle behind our foreign policy needs to be our national interest." "So you have to, first of all, define what is the national interest, and then you have to apply it. We defined it as we are in favor of foreign policies that make America safer, or stronger, or more prosperous. Hopefully all three, but at least one of those three." "And then it requires you to prioritize. Even the richest, most powerful, and influential country on Earth has limited resources, has limited time. And it has to be able to dedicate those resources and time through a process of prioritization." "We're very proud of that going into effect and continuing to work forward."

Eric Daugherty

29,987 views • 7 months ago