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Matt Baur

@lowflier84.bsky.social

Retired Marine, War Gamer, Sci Fi fan

created October 27, 2024

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"For Ur-Fascism there is no struggle for life but, rather, life is lived for struggle."

18/9/2025, 3:11:52 AM | 12 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Fox News didn't exist when the Fairness Doctrine was repealed.

18/9/2025, 2:55:38 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There aren't really characters. That's part of the satire. All the Helldivers are nameless and faceless.

12/9/2025, 5:46:54 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's just one of many "stratagems" that you use in the game. Some are air/orbital attacks, while others are support weapons, resupply, special equipment, etc. When you call down a stratagem, you get a "stratagem ball" that you throw where you want the stratagem to land.

12/9/2025, 5:39:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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There was a second spitter on the grassy knoll #Eagles #Cowboys

5/9/2025, 3:37:19 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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29/8/2025, 4:08:53 PM | 24 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They're professional opinion-havers mad that they're getting a negative reaction to their bad opinions.

29/8/2025, 4:03:40 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's a total misread of my position based on a very narrow reading of the word "stunt". It is a stunt. It's also dangerous.

28/8/2025, 11:56:27 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Yes. They are not the same. That is a good thing. It's clear that you see them as equivalent.

28/8/2025, 11:39:20 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It is a stunt. Trained law enforcement doing law enforcement within an area where they have actual jurisdiction is not the same as a wannabe dictator sending troops into a place they have no business being.

28/8/2025, 11:09:50 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Try to keep up. OP implied that CHP, badged and trained law enforcement officers, doing law enforcement was as bad as the National Guard going into DC as a stunt.

28/8/2025, 10:49:12 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Does that list look like what the National Guard is doing?

28/8/2025, 9:25:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's never seen the Navy march.

28/8/2025, 6:54:11 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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State law enforcement is not the same as the National Guard.

28/8/2025, 6:53:08 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"It would appear that we have a vicious cycle on our hands"

26/8/2025, 4:01:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Then Simon Peter, who had a lightsaber, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, cutting off his right ear. (The servant’s name was Malchus.) John 18:10

24/8/2025, 5:39:25 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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24/8/2025, 3:10:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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A podcast!? Oh no!

22/8/2025, 9:00:13 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's Charles Munger Jr., the billionaire son of Charles Munger Sr., the billionaire friend of Warren Buffet.

21/8/2025, 11:18:51 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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17/8/2025, 3:22:35 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He's a coward

16/8/2025, 1:33:27 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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16/8/2025, 1:32:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Conspiracy theories are dumb. There isn't much to say after that.

16/8/2025, 1:24:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is how cowards behave.

16/8/2025, 1:24:03 AM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's dumb.

16/8/2025, 1:06:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"So, back in 2014, a guy named Eron was mad at his ex-girlfriend and decided to blog about it..."

15/8/2025, 9:32:07 PM | 22 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This belongs in a museum.

15/8/2025, 5:22:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Road design (or lack thereof) dictates speed far more than any sign.

14/8/2025, 10:22:23 PM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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14/8/2025, 6:04:07 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What if wood screamed when we chopped it?

13/8/2025, 10:54:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's because of the way it tokenizes the word.

7/8/2025, 10:33:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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How does he go to the bathroom with all this shit on?

7/8/2025, 4:34:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Legislative district" encompasses all of them.

6/8/2025, 9:59:11 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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That's what Congress is, the Legislative Branch.

6/8/2025, 9:46:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/8/2025, 4:27:22 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Dogs can't play basketball!" you cry as a dog dunks a basketball on you.

6/8/2025, 12:59:49 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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3/8/2025, 9:18:47 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Star Trek was originally pitched as "Wagon Train to the stars". In that spirit, DS9 is "Gunsmoke in space".

1/8/2025, 3:48:20 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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He kept his underwear on.

1/8/2025, 3:36:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Faster, funnier

24/7/2025, 11:23:49 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The entire campaign strategy in a nutshell

21/7/2025, 9:20:04 PM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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19/7/2025, 1:08:00 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Also, the fight in "Dark Knight" had a foundation in the characters differing views. BvS was essentially just two mooks goaded into a bar fight.

11/7/2025, 9:34:57 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Amateurs talk tactics, professionals talk logistics. Except talking logistics is tedious and boring and it rarely ends satisfactorily.

6/7/2025, 4:49:30 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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6/7/2025, 3:36:09 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The war ended 80 years ago.

6/7/2025, 3:29:43 AM | 6 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's my fault for learning how to read.

1/5/2025, 3:24:56 AM | 10 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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20/4/2025, 10:33:47 PM | 16 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"ESCONDIDO, California — Curtis Morrison, a longtime immigration lawyer and political activist, launched his campaign last Saturday to challenge Republican Rep. Darrell Issa in California’s 48th congressional district." migrantinsider.com/p/meet-the-i...

24/3/2025, 7:11:37 PM | 23 8 | View on Bluesky | view

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Pettiford is unconscious.

29/3/2025, 3:57:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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It's called "Green Laternism". There are no trade-offs, no contradictions, no differences of opinion. It's simply a lack of will.

2/3/2025, 12:48:46 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Eagles have their excuse now.

9/2/2025, 11:50:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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An exercise in futility.

6/2/2025, 4:14:11 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"If CBS had released all of this material last October, maybe the network wouldn’t be in this bind now." No, they would have just said that CBS was lying. None of this is about facts anymore. It's about getting a sound bite on TV that then gets repeated in print.

6/2/2025, 4:02:43 AM | 11 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Bills get a favorable penalty and wind up losing points.

27/1/2025, 1:15:40 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Chiefs Derangement Syndrome in full effect.

27/1/2025, 12:58:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They're going to make you dumpster dive for the MRE TP.

26/1/2025, 5:50:14 PM | 15 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Lions boutta lose.

19/1/2025, 3:53:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Every "Christian" film is like this. They're terrified you're not going to get the message, so they punch you in the face with it. Repeatedly.

29/12/2024, 5:29:29 PM | 9 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, you're cool with murder, you just don't like it when rich people get murdered.

13/12/2024, 7:12:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Matt Baur (@lowflier84.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm going to stick around here. Why don't you go back and wank with your bluecheck buddies over there.

13/12/2024, 5:58:12 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I left because of people like you.

13/12/2024, 5:55:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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No, but you do need to show that you're capable of having an original thought. And you've yet to manage that.

13/12/2024, 2:49:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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I have been wondering that about you.

13/12/2024, 2:47:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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What's George Floyd got to do with insurance claim denials? Was he secretly the CEO of UHC?

13/12/2024, 2:32:08 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Neither have you, but you're out here riding his meat like it's your job.

13/12/2024, 2:28:57 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The value of your life is a rounding error to people like him.

13/12/2024, 2:23:53 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is no time for negative self-talk.

13/12/2024, 2:22:30 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Of course I want them to bilk me for lower quality service!" Do you even hear yourself?

13/12/2024, 5:35:43 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"I'm sure you'd complain if they cut services to further increase profits". Do these things sound smart when you say them in your head?

12/12/2024, 10:43:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The plural of anecdote isn't data. UHC leads the industry in denied claims. Just because it didn't happen to you (yet) is irrelevant.

12/12/2024, 7:10:28 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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So, unless a thing has happened to you, it hasn't really happened?

12/12/2024, 6:09:43 AM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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49ers are cooked.

2/12/2024, 2:28:46 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Happy Thanksgiving

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28/11/2024, 10:45:47 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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27/11/2024, 4:28:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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American voters are unhappy with the current state of the country while simultaneously incensed that people are trying to change things.

22/11/2024, 10:07:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Episodes like this are what we've lost on the way to 8 episode seasons.

20/11/2024, 7:19:06 AM | 17 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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19/11/2024, 2:23:38 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Check out Wheat Boy planting wheat!

19/11/2024, 2:28:31 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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This is just straight up lazy.

19/11/2024, 2:21:05 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"At least the trains ran on time"

19/11/2024, 12:17:58 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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"Rub some dirt on it" - HHS nominee RFK Jr.

18/11/2024, 3:42:42 PM | 16 2 | View on Bluesky | view

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Imagine this game comes down to 1 point. Wide. Right. #Chiefs #Bills

17/11/2024, 9:39:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Don't feed the trolls

17/11/2024, 8:12:15 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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First round ballot HOF butthurt.

17/11/2024, 7:19:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why are there two Woodys and two Buzz Lightyears in this Toy Story window display at Disneyland?

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17/11/2024, 3:12:12 AM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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I refuse to join Bluesky - I don't want to become part of a Techno chamber

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16/11/2024, 8:53:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Why does the Prime Thursday Night Football stream always look like crap?

15/11/2024, 4:11:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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They can't do anything without him, and they're all going to be fighting each other for his very limited attention.

12/11/2024, 12:47:37 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Delicious

11/11/2024, 4:20:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Democrats have devolved into the party of competent technocrats. They're really good managers who get excited about hitting their growth targets.

8/11/2024, 5:44:52 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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2020 was not a repudiation of Trump. People were just mad about Covid.

7/11/2024, 9:24:47 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Technocratic competence in the defense of a flawed status quo is not a winning platform.

7/11/2024, 9:23:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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At this point, even Donald Trump is tired of the Donald Trump show.

5/11/2024, 7:14:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Did CBS just change their clock graphic mid-game?

27/10/2024, 7:29:10 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view