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@Stephen1426397 @gbrew24 1) it's the strait, not the gulf. 2) by the time it opens, there is nothing left to load.

@gbrew24 So even if the gulf opens, it is probably something like a month before those ships are able to load again.

Approx 70 or so, when last I checked. They would normally be moving product and crude out of the Gulf. Now they have nothing to do. There's your demand destruction right there.

@JayinKyiv Withdrawal symptoms.

Russians are slowly losing their minds after the Czar cut off their internet, now flooding their last channels of communication with angry rants against life itself.

@joshiamitabhevo 1) because of the range they needed. 2) to insert a small fighting force to defend the extraction site.

Something about this F15 crew rescue doesn't add up. Why would one need C130s (carry 60-70 troops) for rescuing one or two aircrew and maybe a few troops whose helicopter got shot down during the rescue. It looks more like spl forces were in a temporary base with C130s etc. 1/3

@BernadetteinNL @nafoviking Unfortunately, NL can't use the US nukes without permission. But if NL and Ukraine work together in building their own, they would have them in no time.

@nafoviking Every is in place but the Dutch needs to should it

So… trump rushed to hospital many sources say. He is in a bad state… now we need to deal with JD Vance🤦

@nexta_tv This is very unhealthy. But hey, MAGA! You know where they also did shit like this to children? The DDR...

😱 9-year-old American girl Lucy deadlifted 82 kg Lucy Milgrim weighs around 27 kg. At the Arnold Sports Festival in Ohio, she confidently lifted 82 kg — three times her body weight. At the same event, she set a personal best and her third USA Powerlifting national record in her first year in the sport. She also set records in the squat (~59 kg) and bench press (~33.5 kg). The girl trains five times a week, has been wrestling for three years, and her father is her coach.

@Microinteracti1 The Nokia 3310 is killing me!

Iran actually knows how to read a low-IQ president.

@Microinteracti1 You do it again, writing on clear fake AI. This is strike two. I also notice that you don't post corrections.

This video captures a massive explosion and smoke plume from an Iranian ballistic missile strike near Tel Aviv, with impacts also reported in Bnei Brak. It was filmed during Iran’s overnight barrage on April 2, 2026, as the US-Iran-Israel conflict escalates. Multiple outlets including Al Jazeera and Times of Israel confirmed the strike. Injuries from falling debris have been reported. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@simonmaechling Nice example. When wearing lead shoes, a 2 meter high column of the stuff you are holding, while natural, can kill you in a couple of minutes!

I’ve decided to double down on my advocacy for chemistry. It’s clear to me - despite the tireless efforts of anonymous X users armed with viral videos and podcasts - that chemicals are not “inherently toxic,” and that blanket fear is not a substitute for understanding. After all, “natural” is not a synonym for safe, and synthesizing something in a lab does not magically make it harmful. And the mere presence of a substance - without regard for dose, exposure, or context - does not preclude safety. It simply precludes thinking. I’m a human with a PhD trying to talk about science. My goal is simple, make people smarter, not angrier. Science, explained clearly. I apologise for nothing, except perhaps not being louder sooner.

@CodeThorpeX @MakerIO I still adore these displays!

@MakerIO Interesting question… 🤔 Red LED alpha-numeric displays…

What tech from childhood that you absolutely adored is completely obsolete now?

4. The Fear Baseline Situation: Your team is terrified of the CEO or the engineering manager, so they hide critical bugs and pretend everything is fine. They mask the burning servers until the entire platform crashes in production. System: Drive out fear completely. Make it psychologically safe for the absolute lowest-level junior developer to point out a massive architectural flaw without any threat of retaliation. Why it works: Fear creates fake data. If your team is afraid of you, they will lie to you to protect their jobs. Psychological safety is not a soft HR concept, it is a hardcore risk management strategy.

3. The Inspection Myth Situation: You rely on a massive QA team to catch errors right before a product launches to the public. You think finding bugs at the end of the pipeline is proof of a strong safety net. System: Build quality directly into the code from day one. Cease dependence on mass inspection to achieve quality. Make every single developer responsible for automated testing before the merge. Why it works: Inspecting a product at the very end is like weighing a pig to make it heavier. It is too late. You must engineer the defect out of the process entirely. Prevention scales infinitely better than reaction.

2. The Quota Illusion Situation: You manage your engineering team by setting strict numerical KPIs, tracking tickets closed, and punishing anyone who falls short at the end of the quarter. System: Eliminate arbitrary numerical quotas entirely. Focus purely on improving the underlying process that generates the numbers. Optimize the workflow, not the raw output. Why it works: If you force an engineer to hit a metric at all costs, they will simply game the system. They will write bloated code and destroy your technical debt in the background just to meet the quota. You get the numbers, but you lose the product.

1. The Bad System Fallacy Situation: You have a highly intelligent engineer who constantly misses deadlines and ships buggy code. You immediately assume they are just lazy or lack the necessary skills to compete at this level. You start building a case to fire them. System: Stop blaming the individual. Assume that 94% of all failures belong to the system, not the person. Fix the broken deployment pipelines, the chaotic sprint planning, and the impossible communication silos first. Why it works: You stop firing good talent over terrible infrastructure. A bad system will beat a great person every single time. Re-architect the environment and watch the individual excel.

A brilliant statistician who spent 50 years studying why massive engineering projects fail realized one terrifying truth: Individual incompetence is almost never the actual problem. His name is W. Edwards Deming, the man who famously rebuilt Japan's post-war manufacturing empire from scratch. He argued that we obsess over individual performance and completely ignore the environment. Here are 4 operational frameworks he used to build elite, failure-proof organizations:

@rainstormblue That is because it used to be lower years of secondary school material. They skipped it because "too hard on the snowflakes", but Oxford didn't get the memo. I was disappointed in myself. I am getting older and couldn't solve it from the top of my head in less than 10 seconds.

i have a PhD in maths from the university of oxford and i can’t solve this

@badidol @rainstormblue Ah come on, ask for a refund, that can be done faster: p+d=300 & p-d=200; substract: 2d=100, so dog is 50cm

Oh come one. Ask for a refund then. dog = d pole = p p - d = 200 p + d = 300 Add both equations: 2p = 500 Solve for p: p = 250 Now that we know p, we can solve for d easily: p + d = 300 250 + d = 300 | substract the 250 to solve for d d = 300 - 250 = 50 d= 50cm And I knew how to do that without a PhD even...

@Arrogance_0024 Putin, Urban, Fico, Miles, Xi, ...

Is there a single foreign leader the President of the US 🇺🇸 has not insulted yet?

@tdsfixer @ImtiazMadmood @grok Attaching an AI-generated video lowers your credibility.

@ImtiazMadmood Is this true?@grok

Bloomberg: Despite the challenges, the UAE raised oil exports through the Fujairah port to 1.9 million barrels per day (a 57% increase). In just a few days, ADNOC resumed operations and restored flow with high efficiency outside the Strait of Hormuz. This is the resilience and speed of solutions that distinguish our infrastructure. - @saif_aldareei

@joni_askola It is, and it's outrageous. Too bad Ukraine didn't start supplying oil & gas to Europe before Russia attacked.

It’s deeply frustrating to see European forces intercept drones in the Middle East while not taking comparable action in Ukraine

@BigJKU316 @aravosis That is not the issue. The US government has actually seized the payments already made. So, no weapons, but payment was still made. It is not about the justification, it is about that countries won't be willing to buy weapons from the US. Ever...

@aravosis This is literally in the law for Foreign Military Sales. The DoD must certify that it doesn’t need the material and that transferring it has no adverse impact on US defense capabilities. Everyone knows this.

Trump has now single-hardly killed the entire United States arms industry. Every country now knows that if you buy weapons from the United States, Trump could simply decide not to send them to you. Who in their right mind would buy weapons from us going forward?