I challenge you to read this one word at a time and predict absolutely anything coming later in the tweet
@jonty I like the pigs-in-space thing he has going on here.
@jonty "I became an astronaut so I could become a congressional member" said literally no one ever 🤣
@brandonscript @jonty Senators John Glenn and Harrison Schmitt say hello.
@rst to be clear I'm not saying there aren't astronauts that become politicians. I'm saying that I find it hard to believe anyone becomes an astronaut *purely so they can become a politician*. @jonty
@brandonscript @rst @jonty
Why not? I'm guessing it beats military service
@brandonscript @rst @jonty I was going to point that out. It took me a second to parse what you said too, and then I groked.
@jonty - I remember reading somewhere: Remember that your typical Republican Congressman is the third smartest car dealer in his District. I guess that goes for McDonald’s franchisees too.
@jonty Proof that AI will never reproduce human creativity.
@jonty I thought I was going to get Rick-Rolled.
@jonty @anildash proof ChatGPT can’t replace humans right here :D
@jonty sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do, such as hog farming
@jonty This goofus is my representative. This is the least embarrassing thing I have seen from him.
@jonty some major Mad Lib energy here
@jonty See,THIS is the kind of random strung together phrases with no predictable structure or topic sentence that ChatGPT could never, ever do.

@jonty it's a beauty.

Mildly curious about what else he "had to do" apart from hog farming.

@OrpheusandEurydice @jonty he's a Republican, what do you think ?
@jonty I work at NASA and what the fuck?
@absolutspacegrl @jonty entirely ego; dude thinks he could’ve been an astronaut šŸ˜†
@jonty @anildash I’m still stuck on the first sentence. Why did Challenger end his dreams of being an astronaut? Was he on it?
@nazgul @jonty @anildash he decided hog farming was safer?

@jonty Wait, so he gave up on being an astronaut?

The Space Shuttle programme resumed two and a half years after Challenger and since then there have been about 400 astronauts in space who didn't give up, including these 10 right now https://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/

How Many People Are In Space Right Now?

How many people are in space right now?

@hugovk @jonty he is trying to tell you that he is a quitter that ended up flipping burgers at MickeyD
@jonty - ChatGPT strikes again.
@jonty I want to see this in a ā€œDespicable Me planā€ meme: (scheming) ā€œExplode Challenger.ā€ (Shrewdly) ā€œFarm Hogs.ā€ (Deviously) ā€œBuy McDonaldsā€ (shocked and sad) ā€œRepresent OK01 in Congress?ā€

@jonty alt text: screencap of a tweet

Text: "After the Challenger tragically exploded, my dreams of being an astronaut were cut short.

But I did what I had to do – including hog farming – to purchase my first McDonalds in 1997.

Today, I am honored to represent #OK01 in the U.S. Congress.

Never EVER give up."

Picture: him smiling and resting an arm on an office counter, with the McDonalds Golden Arches behind it, with a metallic sheen

Tweet from Rep. Kevin Hern, repkevinhern on Twitter: https://twitter.com/repkevinhern/status/1631785840316674050

Rep. Kevin Hern on Twitter

ā€œAfter the Challenger tragically exploded, my dreams of being an astronaut were cut short. But I did what I had to do – including hog farming – to purchase my first McDonalds in 1997. Today, I am honored to represent #OK01 in the U.S. Congress. Never EVER give up.ā€

Twitter
@jonty I ... got nuthin' correct.

@jonty "Never EVER give up" he says, right after saying he gave up on being an astronaut. Nevermind the lives of the astronauts lost or their families, the real tragedy was that a -is this right?- *24 year old* gave up on his dream of being an astronaut.

Nobody tell him about Mark Kelly.

@jonty https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Hern
interestingly it seems to check out, for the most part; though how the much the challenger disaster effected his astronaut career chances - ." in 1986 before working at Rockwell International while pursuing a PhD in astronautical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology..."
Kevin Hern - Wikipedia

@jonty
He used the Mad Libs for Twitter app
@jonty
ChatGPT is running for Congress?

@jonty
Nevermind, my mind finally recovered from what I had read lol. He meant a franchise and he's already in Congress I thought this was a McDonald's ad written by AI for a hot second.

Bada ba ba I'm loving it

@jonty that’s some pivot!
@jonty Ah yes, the popular "pig farmer to fast food franchisee to congressman" pipeline.

@jonty

Wow. Reading that was an emotional rollercoaster.

I think he should sell a few hogs and hire a publicist.

Yesterday.

@jonty After highlighting just a few of the many careers he has started and abandoned, the moral of his life story is … never, ever give up?
@jonty So, what about his dream of being an astronaut? Does he own McDonald's on the moon? Or did he do hog farming in Mars? Or is Oklahoma in Jupiter?
@jonty this is the perfect LinkedIn post.
@jonty @mmasnick I tried it on ChatGPT and this is what I got:
@jonty After Lucille Ball tragically died, my dreams of being a circus magician were cut short. But I did what I had to do—including ferret breeding—to purchase my first cactus bakery. Today I’m proud to to represent the state of East Dakota at the UN.
@jonty Image description:
Tweet by Rep. Kevin Hern @repkevinhern:
After the Challenger tragically exploded, my dreams of being an astronaut were cut short.
But I did what I had to do - including hog farming - to purchase my first
McDonalds in 1997.
Today, I am honored to represent #OK01 in the U.S. Congress.
Never EVER give up.
Photo of white man in front of McDonald’s logo.
Tweeted Mar 3, 2023
@jonty Never EVER give up (like I did on being an astronaut)