4th Class Officer
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Just a guy on Twitter. RTs ain't endorsements. Former Naval Officer, Christian, reading buff, boxing fan, last known owner of a flip phone.
This is just amazing. nytimes.com/2026/04/04/bus…
Does the @nytimes know what NATO stands for?
The Artemis Moon base project is legally dubious theverge.com/science/905406…
At one point, California had more people applying for unemployment than there were adults in the entire state. $32.6 billion. Gone. Prisoners collected. Dead people collected. I warned them. I begged them not to let the money go out like that. They suspended every rule anyway. The tools to stop this exist. So why are the doors still open? 30 years tracking fraud. This is the biggest in American history. It didn't have to happen. And it doesn't have to continue.nypost.com/2026/04/01/opi…
🚨 NAVY SLEEP CONDITIONS JUST WENT VIRAL — SAILOR SAYS “I CAN’T EVEN BREATHE IN IT” A Navy sailor records the moment it hits her. This is where she’s supposed to sleep. • Barely enough room to turn • Inches from the wall • Fully enclosed, stacked compartments • No real airflow, no space Then she says: “I can’t even breathe in it… I feel claustrophobic.” Some are defending it: “It’s the military, that’s how it is” Others aren’t buying it: “This looks inhumane” “No way people actually live like this” Thousands of sailors… sleeping like this every night. Does this build toughness or break people down?
Sam Peltzman shows there's been a "happiness crash", especially among the least educated, lowest earners and unmarried. I suspect that these trends are related, and then feed into grievances on social media, and wider frustrations. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
China’s started using anti fatigue laser lights on some highways to keep drivers alert at night. The idea is to stop drivers getting drowsy on long, boring night drives.
Being here in Korea, listening to everyone talk about it as the canary in the coalmine of declining global birthrates, and the end of a culture, I'm willing to bet that sometime within next twenty years this place will turn on a dime and there will be a baby boom. Not having kids is a current fad, and like all fads, it will fade and be replaced by a counter-fad. And nobody does fads with such intensity, and volatility, as the Koreans.
🔴 تعمیق ضربه به صنایع نظامی ادامه دارد: ارتش اسرائیل در جریان شب به یکی از دو سایت منحصربهفرد در ایران که در آنها اجزای حیاتی برای مونتاژ و عملیاتیسازی موشکها توسعه مییافت، حمله کرد در چارچوب تلاش برای تعمیق ضربه به صنایع نظامی رژیم، ارتش اسرائیل یک سایت مرکزی را هدف قرار داد که توسط وزارت دفاع ایران برای تولید قطعات مهم موشکهای بالستیک مورد استفاده قرار میگرفت. این سایت یکی از تنها دو سایت منحصربهفرد در ایران است که در آنها رژیم، اجزای حیاتی برای مونتاژ و عملیاتیسازی موشکهای بالستیکی که برای شلیک بهسوی اسرائیل طراحی شدهاند، توسعه میدهد. حمله به این سایت بهطور مستقیم توانمندی رژیم و بهویژه وزارت دفاع ایران را برای توسعه قطعات مورد نیاز جهت عملیاتیسازی این موشکها تضعیف کرد. همچنین، ارتش اسرائیل دهها سایت دیگر تولید تسلیحات را هدف قرار داد که از جمله آنها میتوان به موارد زیر اشاره کرد: ❌ سایتهای تولید موتور برای موشکهای بالستیک وابسته به وزارت دفاع ایران. ❌ یک سایت تولید و انبارش تسلیحات. ❌ یک سایت تولید موتور برای پهپادها. ❌ یک سایت مرکزی که توسط ارتش ایران برای توسعه سامانههای پدافند هوایی و برای تولید و انبارش موشکهایی که با هدف آسیب رساندن به هواگردها طراحی شدهاند، مورد استفاده قرار میگرفت. ❗️ارتش اسرائیل به تعمیق ضربه به صنایع نظامی رژیم ادامه میدهد تا توانمندیهای تولیدیای را که این رژیم طی سالها ایجاد کرده است، از آن سلب کند.
"Allowing virtually every citizen to vote has been a catastrophic disaster for the United States. We have allowed illiterate, uneducated citizens to hold hostage the world’s largest economy, most powerful military, and a robust intellectual culture. It has decimated the concept of civitas and allowed powerful actors with bad intentions to influence those who cannot think for themselves. To restore the United States, we must seriously consider ending universal suffrage." Read more below.
