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@cybertruck Impressive. Several years late. What special equipment and modifications were made. Was the shock towers stock or reinforced? So many questions. Congratulations!!!$!

Lockers make Hell’s Gate an easy stroll, even on stock all seasons

@Tesla Can you provide us with the status of Senior Model 2 and were can we see it and, if available, drive it. We are very interested.

That nothing. I went into the Verizon store on Airport Road in Fletcher NC. My wife wanted a new phone and we wanted a iPhone Max with maximum memory. Of course the did not have it. I prepaid $1500 for it. We were told to come back in a few day. Yep it has not there. This went on for month. Finally I had enough and demanded my money back. Then the said I must bring all the documentation including my AE statement. By this time my temperature is very hot. Next time in they said the order had been lost. Stream was rising. I ask to see the manager. They were saying he was not there. Finally after waiting someone showed up and after checking my exhausted list of documents and calls to about everyone under the son at Verizon he agrees to credit my AE account but it will not appear til next billing cycle. I finally got my money back. My opinion of what game was being played shall remain my own. The short and long of it is …Verison is to be avoided.

Today my husband went into @Verizon to upgrade his phone. He was able to do it through the app, but he thought it would be simpler to do it in store. Went in, employee cut him off and said “nope can’t do it.” Husband asked him why, as it was letting him do it in the app, and the employee kept cutting him off and telling him no, and then told him to get out of his store. He then called customer service to find out why and they were able to do the upgrade for him over the phone 😑

@unseen1_unseen Congress better get its act together. You cannot run forever debt if ther is no buyers

Makes it easier for Germany next time.

@elonmusk I have been using Grok to assist in freeCAD when I need help with a command but it is unable to do actual design work. When will that be available? Claude is reported to be able to do it.

Grok is constantly being updated, so there is a good chance that what didn’t work for you even a few days ago might work now

@FreeCADNews I install the new release and I am having this issue. I have a DXF file that I imported into Draft Workbench. It includes certain lines and their expenstion beyond the intended drawing. In prior version, I would simply right click to highlight the extended line and then delete it. Then I would trim any remainder. The line would then correctly interface into the drawing. In the new version this does not work. If I highlight the extended line and try to delete the surplus it deletes the entire line. If I try to trim it deletes the entire line. If I break the line it still deletes the line. I am relatively new to FreeCAD. Can someone provide the correct procedure in to new release. In the interim I went back to the old release.

Please learn the consumer is always right. I see this in small business all the time. First, tell why you do not believe th silicone treatment is not needed or may actually not work. Understand why he believe it necessary. This is for your professional reputation. Next quote both ways. You will get more jobs.

Got a call from a homeowner and I still cannot wrap my head around how oblivious people can be. He wanted to silicone coat a concrete tile roof, pressure clean it, and replace broken tiles. First thing I did was tell him the truth. People do not silicone coat tile roofs like that. It is not common practice. It is basically burning money. I thought he understood. So I quoted him ethically. Pressure cleaning, tile repairs, the real work. I left out the unnecessary coating because I did not want to sell him something pointless. Next thing I know, he texts me. Thanks, I am going with another guy because he will silicone my roof. Sometimes honesty is not profitable. But collecting money to do something dumb just because the customer asked for it feels empty as hell. I do not need money like that.

@airmainengineer $$$$$

Can you guess what happened here? ( Only funny answers )

@nickimoraa I would not recommend it. You would never see a cent and would be a constant source of conflict. Tell him his brother got himself into the problem so he needs to find a better solution than borrowing from his brother. You know in your heart you will never see the monies again.

My husband wants me to sell a small house my mother left me so he can help a brother pay off a debt & then he'll pay me back what should I do 😞

@airmainengineer Center of gravity for weight and balance

Do you know what this means?✈️

@A_K_Mandhan All flights are within 15 minutes of scheduled time.

🚨BREAKING: ALL AIRPORTS IN WASHINGTON DC ON temporary LOCKDOWN TRUMP will....see more

Talk about delusional. Kharg Island no is nothing more than a dep water oil loading port. Oil is delivered by undersea pipelinemu. If you look at Qeshm Island you see a much more strategic piece of land. It has yet to be hit, as far as I know, and it is a major military and industrial base. It holds one of the largest desalination plants and Iran is in drought. Maximum leverage with population.

DELUSIONAL MORON. What is far more likely is that Trump will PERMANENTLY seize Kharg Island as US territory, Okinawa-style, and claim control of Iran’s oil resources as reparations for what America spent on this war. I have intelligence pointing to that as a very likely scenario.

@GnosisWolf Get a new contractor

Any construction advice for neighbor?

You are ill informed. Kharg Island is a shipping terminal. It takes oil from the mainland and pumps it onto ships. If you don’t control the oil fields then it is nearly worthless. Iran will find another shipping method. Kharg Island is a symbol. During Iran-Iraq war Iraq controlled it several times and yet Iranian oil was still shipped. You need for the Iranian people to uprise. That process has begun. A better option is to control the desalination plants. A better island to invade is Qeshm at the tip of the Strait of Hormuz. There is a desalination plant there that would control water distribution in the area plus give control of all tanker traffic.

Once the US takes Kharg Island, gas is going to drop to $30/barrell.

I wish people would understand that Kharg Island is a symbol only. The oil industry has many alternatives to fixed islands. It was attacked and controlled by Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. Iran still exported its oil. Here are pictures of one of them. Some are creative because economics did not allow for a more complex option. One of the more creative in my opinion was to buy an old supertanker cheap. Attach a floating pipe line. The Tanker then was both storage and loading point for other tankers.

The destruction of Kharg Island ends the payrolls of the Mullah regime’s various security forces and foreign mercenaries. Regime change is on the table.

Your thoughts are flawed. Kharg Island is a loading port. The oil industry uses all types of loading ports in less developed world. They very from large floating tire like structures to retired supertankers. Kharg island is a deep water port and receives its oil via pipe lines. All Iran needs to is redirect that oil to another loading medium. Cheep and easy to install and maintain. Kharg Island is a symbol and nothing more. To control Iran’s oil you need to control the oil fields. A better target is the desalination plants. Iran was mid drought and already short of water. Control desalination you control the masses. Iran’s finances are a mess so there is little post war reconstruction hope and if you destroy the water and electrical grids are the hard points

Look, yesterday I said there was maybe a 25% chance that this war could end with the use of tactical nuclear weapons to obliterate Iran’s 460 kg of highly enriched uranium, the amount that could theoretically produce about 11 nuclear warheads. That was the doomsday scenario. But today, after watching how things are unfolding, I think there is another path emerging, it has a 50% likelihood! What I would call the mother of all deals. Here is my thinking. If you want the Islamic Republic to give up its 460 kg of highly enriched uranium, you need leverage. Real leverage. Something the regime cannot live without. And that leverage has a name: Kharg Island. For those who don’t follow oil logistics, Kharg Island is not just another island in the Gulf. It is Iran’s economic jugular. Roughly 90% of Iran’s oil exports leave the country through that island terminal. Millions of barrels per day. It is, quite literally, the golden goose that lays the golden eggs for the regime. Now imagine the following scenario. The US military already this morning neutralised the island’s defences, the naval units guarding it, the missiles, the air defenses, the IRGC garrison. Now that umbrella is gone, Kharg becomes what strategists call a sitting duck in the Gulf waters, literally. 🦆 And then comes the strategic move: seize the island with all the oil facilities intact. Because the facilities are the bargaining chip. And once you have that island, the negotiation becomes very simple: “You want your island back? Fine. Hand over the 460 kg. Every gram. Not one kilogram missing. Then you get your oil terminal back.” It’s brutal leverage, but in strategic terms it’s actually kind of genius. Trump basically taking the Ayatollahs’ golden goose, pointing a literal gun at its head, and saying: “Give us the highly enriched stuff… Or I will blow up the stuff out of the goose.” Now of course the Ayatollahs could respond with bravado. They could say: “Fine. Keep the island. We’ll survive. We’ll continue to harass the Strait of Hormuz. We’ll endure.” .. in fact, they might start bombing the island themselves to target US forces there, but then they risk damaging the very thing they could very soon depend on for survival cash!💰 So what you get is a standoff. An island. A nuclear stockpile. A lot of very tense bargaining. Trump on one side. The Ayatollahs on the other. And everyone playing a very uncomfortable mind game of who blinks first. Honestly, the whole thing sounds less like traditional strategic geopolitics and more like a script from “Lost” 😅 except the scriptwriters themselves are lost.😵‍💫 But if you ask me (and this is just my opinion, my own calculation looking at the board right now) this scenario is no longer a mere possibility. If I were a betting man, I would say this is now the most likely outcome. 50% probability. The war turning into a very strange standoff over a small island in the Gulf - an island that happens to control 90% of Iran’s oil exports and might end up deciding the fate of 460 kilograms of uranium. I personally prefer this option. It’s less bloody and more predictable.

There are three moves that end the conflict almost immediately. 1) Iran has always have had a water problem. Capture Qeshm Island and its desalination plant but not destroy it. Water can be used as a bargaining chip. It could also serve as a base to control the straits of Hormuz. Two important objectives. 2) Destroy the pipelines or well heads of the oil fields. This would require technical expertise and monetary resources to repair. This a a longer term strategic move and Iran is already in financial trouble. 3) Capture or destroy the Iranian Nuclear Power Plant at Bushehr and destroy related construction sites. Iran has a significant nuclear plants across the country dedicated to nuclear weapons construction which I assume will be destroyed if found. But the generation of electricity is limited. A population in an arid environment needs electricity. Remove the electricity and the population will force peace or revolution.

Every war in history ended the same way. Not when one side ran out of weapons. When one side ran out of MOVES. The US-Israel-Iran conflict has 3 possible endings. Game theory tells us exactly which one is most likely. And the answer will surprise you. 🧵

There are under seas pipe lines to Kharg island. Our firm was responsible for much of the construction. All you need to do is to tap the pipeline and redirect the oil somewhere else. The industry has all types of floating offshore terminals for lesser developed areas. In some areas a tanker is repurposed and they do ex-tanker to tanker transfer. Anyone who believes they control Iran with control of Kharg island is smoking those funny cigarettes. Iran has some of the most creative people on earth. What you really need to do is to control the oil fields and threaten to do what Iraq did to Kuwait but in a far more professional manor where the underground formation is damaged. A bunker buster in each well head or good oilfield personnel on the ground would end this matter.

KHARG IS NOT A HOSTAGE. IT IS A FINANCIAL CHOKE POINT. The strike on Kharg revealed the actual strategy. Every military defense on the island was destroyed while the oil infrastructure was deliberately preserved. That distinction matters. This is not about destruction. It is about control. Kharg handles roughly 90 percent of Iran’s crude exports. Whoever controls that island controls the regime’s primary revenue stream. Destroying the terminals would remove barrels from global markets and eliminate the leverage that infrastructure provides. Securing them does the opposite. It preserves the export system while cutting the regime off from the cash that funds the IRGC, the missile programs, and the regional proxy network. Control also prevents another strategic outcome that has been unfolding quietly for years: China’s access to heavily discounted Iranian oil. Beijing has been buying sanctioned Iranian crude outside the Western financial system at steep discounts. Those flows helped fuel China’s attempt to build parallel settlement systems and gradually weaken dollar dominance in global energy trade. If Kharg operates under coalition control, that channel disappears overnight. The regime loses its revenue stream and China loses subsidized sanction evasion oil that supported its alternative currency ambitions. More importantly, a secured Kharg Island opens the door to a long term stabilization framework. Instead of destroying Iran’s energy infrastructure, the facilities can operate under coalition or international supervision where revenue is escrowed rather than flowing directly to the regime. Those funds could compensate the United States, Israel, and allied nations for war damages while preserving Iran’s productive capacity for a future post regime government. In that framework the island becomes something very different from a hostage. It becomes a financial choke point and a stabilization mechanism. The regime loses the ability to fund aggression. China loses discounted sanction busting crude. The global oil system keeps functioning. And the infrastructure remains intact for the day Iran is reorganized into a normal state accountable to its own people. Destroying Kharg removes leverage. Controlling Kharg turns the regime’s own economic lifeline into the instrument that forces its end. x.com/omniaeronautic…

BREAKING: President Trump just put a gun to the head of 90% of Iran’s oil revenue and pulled the trigger on everything around it. “Moments ago, at my direction, the United States Central Command executed one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East, and totally obliterated every MILITARY target in Iran’s crown jewel, Kharg Island.” That is the President’s exact language on Truth Social tonight. Every military target. Obliterated. The coastal missile batteries. The anti-ship missile installations. The radar sites. The short-range air defence systems. The IRGC garrison of 250 to 500 personnel. The fast attack craft support. The naval mines infrastructure. Everything that defended the island, destroyed. Everything that makes the island valuable, deliberately spared. The oil terminals are still standing. The loading jetties are intact. The storage tanks are full. Ninety percent of Iran’s crude exports flow through those terminals. Trump left them untouched and told Iran why: “for reasons of decency.” Then he added the threat that makes decency conditional: if Iran interferes with free and safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, the oil infrastructure goes next. This is the chequebook doctrine made operational. For fifteen days, this campaign has identified three layers governing the war: the nuclear programme is the existential minimum, the Strait is the clock, and the oil infrastructure is the chequebook. The chequebook was deliberately spared to control what gets rebuilt, by whom, and under what conditions. Tonight, Trump confirmed it. Kharg’s military defences are rubble. Kharg’s oil terminals are leverage. The island that handles Iran’s entire export economy now sits defenceless, its military guardians obliterated, its revenue infrastructure intact but held hostage to a single condition: open the Strait. The calculus Iran faces is unprecedented. The 31 autonomous IRGC commands that have been firing continuously for fifteen days just lost their forward defensive position in the northern Gulf. The coastal batteries that could threaten tanker escorts are destroyed. The radar that tracked shipping approaches is destroyed. The fast boats that laid mines operated from Kharg support facilities that are destroyed. The island that was Iran’s shield has been turned into America’s hostage. Iran’s oil cannot flow without Kharg. Iran’s military can no longer defend Kharg. And the man who ordered Kharg’s military annihilation has told Iran that the oil infrastructure joins it if the Strait does not open. The Supreme Leader who ordered the Strait permanently closed from a hospital bed just received the response: the terminals that fund his war are one presidential order from becoming the same rubble as the missile batteries that used to protect them. Brent will react within hours. The sparing of oil infrastructure should limit the immediate spike, but the threat converts every future Iranian provocation in Hormuz into a potential trigger for the destruction of 90% of Iran’s export revenue. The war premium is no longer about whether oil flows. It is about whether Trump decides to let it flow. The war began with an assassination. It escalated through mines, drones, and burning tankers. It crossed the nuclear threshold at Parchin. It crossed the alliance threshold at Incirlik. Tonight, it crossed the revenue threshold at Kharg. The existential minimum is the uranium in Pickaxe Mountain. The existential leverage is the oil terminal standing untouched on an island where everything else has been destroyed. Iran’s crown jewel just became America’s hostage. The ransom is the Strait of Hormuz. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Easy. Buy a container. Modify it . Bribe a shipowner or shipping agent to place on top stack of a container ship. Ukraine did this with shipping containers sent to Russia when the container reached a GPS location the roof came off and the drones flew to the desired targets. Cheep and easy way to damage targets too far away.

@MarioNawfal @Intelligencer41 Can a drone fly from Iran to USA? How will these drones reach USA and from where ?

🇺🇸 Top U.S. Army drone expert: Iran has the tech, reach, and motive to launch deadly drone attacks on California, or anywhere in the U.S., at any time. Brett Velicovich (former special ops intel who hunted ISIS leaders) drops a serious warning: America is "extremely vulnerable" and "not prepared" for this kind of threat. The FBI has already sent alerts to local police about it, so it's not just talk. When a guy who spent years using drones to take out terrorists says the US is not ready for this, it’s a major red flag. Source: NY Post

The answer is simple. Do Swiss men have balls to do what their ancestors would have done? Laws are used to establish social norms. When society is no longer representative of socal norms then the govern have the right to enforce the norms. We have done so though out our history with vigilante justice. Have a rapist loose the genitalia and let the word circulate and the problem ends.

A Syrian immigrant and his brother brutally raped Swedish woman Petra. Petra is no longer with us. She ended her own life. Before she died, Petra received only $330 in damages from the perpetrator because he had no more money. Meanwhile, he was awarded over $92,000 by the Swedish state for spending "too long" in jail. This amount is three times what Petra was supposed to receive from him for brutally raping her ($30,000), and the Swedish Enforcement Agency is not allowed to seize this money to pay Petra. After his release, he continued committing crimes and has still not been deported, despite being sentenced to deportation. The Swedish court system spares the wolf and sacrifices the sheep.