Artist in Simsbury, Connecticut. I design and build illuminated sculptures for home decor. A New Art Medium. virtualens.art

Connecticut, USA
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🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: AAG Harmeet Dhillon says 300 attorneys within her division QUIT the DOJ because she's trying to purge voter rolls of ineligible voters, and end DEI GOOD RIDDANCE! They SELF DEPORTED! 👋🏻 Dhillon is REFUSING to back down on getting rid of illegal aliens, noncitizens and ineligibles off the state voter rolls. This is EXISTENTIAL for America's elections No state should be allowed to cheat. @AAGDhillon is also rooting out discrimination and DEI that was allowed to fester under Biden. I voted for every minute of this! Anyone who quits DOJ because America first is being prioritized WON'T BE MISSED
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CORRECT. ELON MUSK IS RIGHT 🎯
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Let's help her spread her name!
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This is pretty cool. I did not know this. I can’t imagine having to stay locked down for months at a time. Wanted to share with y’all. The Rare Sunlight of a Submarine Patrol, A U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarine breaks the surface, and for a few hours her crew trades the fluorescent glow of the control room for something they rarely see on patrol: direct sunlight. Towels line the long, flat missile deck from the sail almost to the stern. Submariners can go weeks, sometimes months, without stepping into daylight. When the mission allows, the captain calls the crew topside for what the fleet informally calls a "steel beach" break. It is less a party than a physiological reset. Navy medical researchers have actually studied this. Data from the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory found submarine crews consistently come back from patrol vitamin D deficient, and that just a handful of days of sun exposure can offset weeks spent without it. The image is not just downtime. It is closer to a prescribed dose of sunlight. The Navy has run dry ships for over a century, but there is one narrow exception. After 45 or more continuous days at sea, a commanding officer can authorize a single "beer day," often timed to coincide with a break like this one. Rare, brief, and earned. The Rare Sunlight of a Submarine Patrol, A U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarine breaks the surface, and for a few hours her crew trades the fluorescent glow of the control room for something they rarely see on patrol: direct sunlight. Towels line the long, flat missile deck from the sail almost to the stern. Submariners can go weeks, sometimes months, without stepping into daylight. When the mission allows, the captain calls the crew topside for what the fleet informally calls a "steel beach" break. It is less a party than a physiological reset. Navy medical researchers have actually studied this. Data from the Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory found submarine crews consistently come back from patrol vitamin D deficient, and that just a handful of days of sun exposure can offset weeks spent without it. The image is not just downtime. It is closer to a prescribed dose of sunlight. The Navy has run dry ships for over a century, but there is one narrow exception. After 45 or more continuous days at sea, a commanding officer can authorize a single "beer day," often timed to coincide with a break like this one. Rare, brief, and earned. PC on fb to: World warships.
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💯 Democrats gaslight / lie at every turn. Why ? To stay in power
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Replying to @John_F_kJr
@GovPritzker get ready to see the federal government follow federal law - States have zero say about immigration matters #Illinois #chicago grift is up
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Replying to @DC_Draino
At this point, everyone in the Pentagon should have to reapply for their job. Removing these people one at a time is moving far too slowly, and our national security is at risk.
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Replying to @DarioAmodei
This sort of regulatory capture will prevent homebrew companies like Slop Cannon from ever being allowed to exist. You think there will be third party AI evaluators available in Florida? in rural America? You think they'll be able to afford to red team their models to whatever standard Dario deems adequate? No. All AI startups will only be allowed to use the vetted models from the big companies that can afford to vet them. And those models will be more expensive due to the vetting. The reason America wins is because of those founders starting in their garage. Apple started in a garage. The spirit of American capitalism is in your garage. And Dario wants to make sure that's illegal. That your opportunity is taken from you. That you are a custie, a customer, unable to partake in progress, paying extra for it, trapped. He doesn't want intelligence to be a commodity, he wants YOU to be a commodity. He wants YOU regulated. He wants YOU stopped. He wants open source out of YOUR hands and he knows what it will take to ensure it. That's what this is about. Stopping YOU. Stopping ME. Banning us from the fruits of civilizations progress that he pillaged from us. That he stole. Fuck you, Dario. Sincerely, Bone
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Earth is not the wettest place in the solar system. It is not even close. And the actual record holder is not even a planet. The ocean planet is not the ocean champion Earth holds about 1.4 billion cubic kilometers of water. That sounds enormous until you look at Jupiter's moon Europa. A moon a quarter our size beats us at our own game Europa is about a quarter of Earth's diameter, smaller than our own Moon. Underneath a shell of ice roughly 15 to 25 kilometers thick sits an ocean estimated at 2.87 to 3 billion cubic kilometers. That is close to double everything Earth has, hidden completely out of sight. And Europa is not even the biggest one Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon, may be hiding something even more extreme. JPL scientist Steven Vance estimated its subsurface ocean at around 35 billion cubic kilometers, roughly 25 times what Earth holds. Some models suggest the water there is sandwiched between layers of exotic high pressure ice, not sitting on a normal rocky seafloor at all. A smaller moon is leaking its ocean into space Saturn's moon Enceladus has a noticeably smaller ocean than Europa, but it does something neither Earth nor Europa does. Cassini watched geysers erupt from cracks near its south pole, spraying water vapor and ice hundreds of kilometers into space. Some of that material even feeds Saturn's faint E ring. Why any of this actually matters Hidden oceans that deep, sealed under ice for potentially billions of years, next to a rocky core generating heat, check most of the boxes astrobiologists look for. Earth's own deep sea vents run entire ecosystems without a single ray of sunlight. Europa Clipper and the JUICE probe are already on their way to find out if something similar could be happening under all that ice. The part that gets me We call Earth the water world because oceans cover most of what we can see from space. Meanwhile a moon we can barely make out with the naked eye might be holding more liquid water than every ocean on this planet combined, and has been the whole time. Would knowing there is definitely life down there change how urgently you want us to go look, or does the mystery work better left alone for now?
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Who owns John Thune? Because he isn't actively destroying America for free.
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Replying to @MrWhiplash_
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Sounds about right!!
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Hmmm… interesting how that works
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BREAKING: The lone holdout juror who deadlocked the Lindsay Clancy murder trial now has a lawyer — and the people who doxxed and smeared him may be next. Attorney Edward Andrew Paltzik: “I am representing the courageous and heroic lone holdout juror. He is an American Hero and Champion of Justice.” “The evil people who have so viciously attacked this American Hero will be held accountable to the maximum extent of the law and beyond.” Paltzik says his client is safe in rural northern New England and remains unbroken thanks to his devout Catholic faith. Possible legal targets: • Defense lawyer Kevin Reddington — gender-doxxed him in court, called him a bigot, said he “stole seven weeks” from the other jurors • Juror Paula Devlin — went on national TV and identified him as a Black man in his mid-30s • Local NBC (Sue O’Connell / Ryan Kath) — published court records and personal details that made him identifiable • Aidan Kearney (Turtleboy) — posted his name and photo • Other jurors who called him arrogant and accused him of refusing to follow the law The juror now says he “didn’t have any doubts” and believed the evidence showed Clancy knew exactly what she was doing. Pray for him. Protect the juror who wouldn’t fold. #LindsayClancy #Massachusetts #JuryDuty #Justice #BreakingNews
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And that’s a fact! 👏🏼
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It's a good question...
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AMAZING footage flooding out of Iran RIGHT NOW, massive crowds of Iranians CHEERING, BLAZING their car horns, waving flags, and straight-up CELEBRATING like it’s liberation day as the Khamenei regime CRUMBLES at the hands of Trump
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Oh My Lord!! So True.
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INCREDIBLE: A police officer pulled over a young Black man near the university. His license had expired. "Why are you driving on an expired license?" the officer asked. The young man said softly, "I just lost my night job. What I have left is just enough for food, rent, and bills. I'm from out of state. I'm here alone for university. And I have a job interview this morning." The officer could have followed the book and impounded the car. He didn't. He parked his cruiser, helped the young man straighten his tie, got in the passenger seat, and drove him to the interview himself. They walked in together. The officer apologized for them being late and explained why. They took a selfie. Wished him luck. He got the job. And later, he got a temporary permit to drive until he could afford to renew his license. That's what humanity looks like.
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HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM: This is a well written and thought out article written by a 26 yr old college student by the name of Alyssa Ahlgren, who's in grad school for her MBA. What a GREAT perspecitve... My Generation Is Blind to the Prosperity Around Us! I'm sitting in a small coffee shop near Nokomis (Florida) trying to think of what to write about. I scroll through my newsfeed on my phone looking at the latest headlines of presidential candidates calling for policies to "fix" the so-called injustices of capitalism. I put my phone down and continue to look around. I see people talking freely, working on their MacBook's, ordering food they get in an instant, seeing cars go by outside, and it dawned on me. We live in the most privileged time in the most prosperous nation and we've become completely blind to it. Vehicles, food, technology, freedom to associate with whom we choose.These things are so ingrained in our American way of life we don't give them a second thought. We are so well off here in the United States that our poverty line begins 31 times above the global average. Thirty One Times!!! Virtually no one in the United States is considered poor by global standards. Yet, in a time where we can order a product off Amazon with one click and have it at our doorstep the next day, we are unappreciative, unsatisfied, and ungrateful. ?? Our unappreciation is evident as the popularity of socialist policies among my generation continues to grow. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently said to Newsweek talking about the millennial generation, "An entire generation, which is now becoming one of the largest electorates in America, came of age and never saw American prosperity." Never saw American prosperity! Let that sink in. When I first read that statement, I thought to myself, that was quite literally the most entitled and factually illiterate thing I've ever heard in my 26 years on this earth. Many young people agree with her, which is entirely misguided. My generation is being indoctrinated by a mainstream narrative to actually believe we have never seen prosperity. I know this first hand, I went to college, let's just say I didn't have the popular opinion, but I digress. Why then, with all of the overwhelming evidence around us, evidence that I can even see sitting at a coffee shop, do we not view this as prosperity? We have people who are dying to get into our country. People around the world destitute and truly impoverished. Yet, we have a young generation convinced they've never seen prosperity, and as a result, we elect some politicians who are dead set on taking steps towards abolishing capitalism. Why? The answer is this,?? my generation has only seen prosperity. We have no contrast. We didn't live in the great depression, or live through two world wars, the Korean War, The Vietnam War or we didn't see the rise and fall of socialism and communism. We don't know what it's like to live without the internet, without cars, without smartphones. We don't have a lack of prosperity problem. We have an entitlement problem, an ungratefulness problem, and it's spreading like a plague."
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