SwiftOnSecurityDec 28, 2022
Europeans when they realize this is how America transports nuclear weapons between our 6,000 military bases: 🤯🤯
Show threadRobert McNees

@SwiftOnSecurity True story: One of the Army Counterintelligence officers who transported sensitive materials between Oak Ridge and Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project was Thomas Forkner, who later co-founded Waffle House.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/business/thomas-forkner-dead-waffle-house.html

Thomas Forkner, Waffle House Co-Founder, Dies at 98

Mr. Forkner met his future business partner, Joseph W. Rogers, by selling him a house. They went on to build a chain of restaurants on all-night service and filling fare.

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Show threadAnthony WatkinsDec 28, 2022

@mcnees @SwiftOnSecurity

and now Waffle House makes great hashbrowns but is racist, hateful and generally mistreats their employees

Show threadadamdoesitDec 29, 2022
@mcnees @SwiftOnSecurity This accounts for so much: the unity of 24/7/365 work efforts between the Manhattan Project and Waffle House; the link between Waffle House and national disaster, via FEMA's famed Waffle House Index; and my unshakeable fear/desire that just the wrong/right hash brown order might achieve criticality.