@davequick

Photo geek, tech geek.

 Atlanta, GA
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Joined April 2008
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You know you've peaked as a species when real life seems like SciFi @elonmusk @PPathole Source: Sentium
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Sometime from the darkness, a hero emerges. #wildfires
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Bobby Goodlatte
@rsg26 Jul 2020
If mom & pop businesses had an index, we'd all be much more alarmed about the economy
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Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
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I was bored.
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At over $138 billion, has Tesla passed the following companies in market cap from its gains TODAY alone... Costco Eli Lilly PayPal NextEra Energy Accenture United Technologies Philip Morris Amgen IBM Thermo Fisher Scientific Union Pacific Honeywell Broadcom Lockheed Martin AbbVie
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Ben Howe
@BenHowe19 Jul 2019
The Cats movie will never top the Amazing Alexander. I saw him perform and I loved it. It was much better than 'Cats.' I'm going to see it again and again.
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This is Toffi. She tried her best and that’s all we can ask for. 12/10 and the couch is cancelled
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aviation boner
Tom Cruise
@TomCruise18 Dec 2019
Warning: Real flying. Real g-forces. May make you puke. #TopGun
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Former President Obama to young people: “This idea of purity and you're never compromised and you're politically woke, and all that stuff — you should get over that quickly” Obama goes on to slam people who engage in cancel culture and who look to create constant online outrage
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This is Sebastian. He knows sky water tastes the best. Not sure why he’s the only one taking advantage of this. 14/10 hydrated as h*ck
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I’ve been to war twice... as a bomb (EOD) tech, I’m a dad and I regularly navigate the streets of NYC with robot legs... I have no idea what “visceral anxiety” feels like. – at Tunnel Hill, GA
Tom Elliott
@tomselliott20 Sep 2019
Replying to @tomselliott
Another student: “I feel visceral anxiety every day” about climate change
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NYC losing power the same day it did 45 years ago? #Blackout
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KUDOS TO THE NYC RESIDENT DIRECTING TRAFFIC DURING THE NYC BLACKOUT WHILE THE COPS ARE TOO BUSY DEALING WITH EMERGENCIES!
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Inspired by @3blue1brown’s fantastic recent videos on Fourier series, here’s a live recreation of Fourier’s portrait. observablehq.com/@mbostock/f…

Fourier Series - Zoom

An Observable notebook by Mike Bostock

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Netflix
@netflix3 Jul 2019
Stranger Things Season 3 premieres... 12:01 a.m. PDT 3:01 a.m. EDT 4:01 a.m. BRT 7:01 a.m. UTC 8:01 a.m. BST 12:31 p.m. IST 3:01 p.m. CST 4:01 p.m. KST plan accordingly!
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I always wondered who flies on airplanes but needs to have the airline explain how to use a seatbelt. The train here takes it up a notch.
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Germany’s renewables experiment is over. By 2025 it will have spent $580B to make electricity nearly 2x more expensive & 10x more carbon-intensive than France’s. The reason renewables can’t power modern civilization is because they were never meant to. forbes.com/sites/michaelshel…

The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization Is Because They Were Never Meant To

Germans believed that the billions they spent on renewables would redeem them. Many of them will insist that the renewables effort was merely “botched,” but it wasn't. The Energiewende was doomed to...

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Somali pirates gave me toothpaste & soap.
NowThis Impact
@nowthisimpact21 Jun 2019
A Trump official tried to argue that detained children don’t need soap, toothbrushes, or beds to be ‘safe and sanitary’ while in Border Patrol custody

Justice Dept. Lawyer Says Detained Kids Don’t Need Soap or Beds

A Trump official tried to argue that detained children don’t need soap, toothbrushes, or beds to be ‘safe and sanitary’ while in Border Patrol custody

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here is a thread of animations I made for anyone who could use some deep breaths
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