Kate Bèlîle

I'm a <color> <gender> of <ethnic> origin working in <random tech field> ... please judge me on the first three because <wtf>? Or choose to NOT judge me on superficial characteristics and only on my body of work or accomplishments? Better yet, don't judge. Engage. Cooperate.

In 1986 an old shopping center in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, was redeveloped as a walkable New England town with over 100 businesses and 77 homes called Mashpee Commons. Today it is a tourist attraction. Obviously this can be done again, and even better, with tens of thousands of shopping centers all over the U.S.

All I want for @America250 is an “American Made Products” filter on Amazon dot com

Costa Rica to copy El Salvador's "mano dura" that took murder from one of the worst in the world to lower than Vermont. Ecuador and Honduras are already copying El Salvador. Guatemala, Peru, and Argentina are all considering it. California -- and Europe -- should be taking notes.

Elon claims building new power plants is a slow process that will hinder the growth of AI What if I told you the this problem is directly related to our failure to build ships? I attended @MaritiCollege and have friends working at large power plants across the nation. It turns out learning how to operate ship engineering systems is among the world’s best training for building and operating power plants at scale. Nuclear too. The school once had a nuclear training reactor and was a premier pipeline into the nuclear power industry. But as the number of 🇺🇸 ships declined the number of American marine engineers fell off a cliff. And it’s not just power plants that suffer. Large numbers of hospital facility engineers once came from the maritime academies. Same for many other heavy industries like oil and gas. Build ships and you have the opportunity to reinvigorate heavy industry labor pools across the nation. x.com/GeniusGTX/stat…

I’m a big fan of Marco Rubio now—this is easily the best Catholic political speech I’ve heard from someone video: CIT

What’s crazy about Democrats considering this plan to force retire the entire Virginia Supreme Court is that the court majority are left wing politically. They just didn’t go along with an unconstitutional map process. Now "democracy" virtue signalers want to fire them all. 🤔

We are told by the Democrats that asylum seekers come here for a better life. What they leave out is that they have turned American citizen's lives into a living hell

🚨 JUST IN: Reality star Spencer Pratt goes FULL BUKele on Los Angeles Drops a BRUTAL 3-week “grace period” plan, signs everywhere warning NO MORE public nakedness, open drug use, robbing people, or abusing dogs on the streets. After that? Full enforcement. He’s also calling in the CDC to fight the medieval-level diseases exploding from the mountains of feces, needles, and filth turning LA into a literal sewer. “People are just living in feces and drug use… We need these streets cleaned.” About damn time someone with a spine said it out loud. @theallinpod

My wife has worked for JP Morgan Chase for 27 years. All I will say is Jaime needs to first tend his own garden as unqualified Indian visa holders are overrunning his Developer, IT & Data Quality departments.

In 1954, Brown v. Board of Education ended "separate but equal" in American public schools. In 2026, Louisiana v. Callais ended "separate but equal" in American legislative districts. Black voters will no longer be ghettoized into artificial, concentrated districts so that their concerns can be ignored in the rest of a state. Louisiana v. Callais ended voting apartheid and restored full voting power to black Americans. It's one of the greatest anti-racist decisions in SCOTUS history.

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@WallStreetMav @AvrilKD In particular it broke up family units in both urban and rural areas.

Dark forces will try and tear this country apart as sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. This nation is a fluke in history. It must be protected. But to do so, one must understand the enemy while simultaneously remembering who and what we are:

Aren’t we told that we need immigration to fix the birth rate problem in Europe? Well, men don’t get pregnant that often. How exactly does this fix the births issue? BTW, the spike just below 18 years is statistically not explainable.

🇬🇧 Most British schoolchildren are taught about Magna Carta. They are taught it was sealed in twelve fifteen at Runnymede. They are taught it is the foundation of English liberty. They are taught it is one of the most important documents in human history. They are not taught what came next. They are not taught about the eighty years between twelve fifteen and twelve ninety-five when ordinary Englishmen forced three successive kings to write down, for the first time in any kingdom in medieval Europe, what English law was, what English liberty was, and how an English king must govern. They are not taught about the Charter of the Forest, which restored the right to graze, gather firewood, and live on common land, and which remained in force for seven hundred and fifty-four years. They are not taught about the Provisions of Oxford in twelve fifty-eight, often called England's first written constitution, which placed the king under a council of fifteen and required Parliament to meet three times a year. They are not taught about the Provisions of Westminster in twelve fifty-nine, which subjected the barons themselves to the same law they had forced upon the king. They are not taught about Simon de Montfort, an earl born in France who died for England, who summoned the first Parliament in English history to include ordinary commoners alongside the great lords. They are not taught about the Statute of Marlborough in twelve sixty-seven, which is the oldest piece of statute law in the United Kingdom still in force today. ⚖️ Seven hundred and fifty-nine years old. If you've ever taken a debt to court in England, you've used it. 🏠 If you've ever rented a home, you've been protected by it. 👑 If a creditor can't lawfully drag your possessions into the street to settle what you owe, that's because of a law signed seven hundred and fifty-nine years ago. They are not taught about the Model Parliament of twelve ninety-five, summoned by Edward the First, which became the shape of every English Parliament since. Eighty years. Three successive kings. The first written constitution in any kingdom in medieval Europe. It was not given to them. It was not handed down from God or king or Pope. ✍️ It was written. By Englishmen. For England. 🇬🇧 The British write their own history. They always have. This one needed more than a thread. The full story is in our video, watch it below 👇 Help us remember who we are. Help us remember every British achievement. 👇🙏 👉 proudofus.co.uk/support 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

“I have to have my information so fact-based and be bulletproof to beat this machine." @spencerpratt describes how he’s been honed for debate because he's constantly fighting the media — unlike his Democrat opponents: “Thankfully people argue with me all day long in every single media hit that I've done for months because they don't want me to get into the machine." “Every interview I do, unlike these politicians, it's opposition. It's arguing, arguing, arguing. When Karen Bass or Councilwoman Raman talk to the media, they can just lie. And then the media people go, oh, thank you, thank you, Mayor Bass." “I have to have my information so fact based and be bulletproof to beat this machine. All I do is debate people all day long."

Correct, socialism is childish and socialists' understanding of economics is at the level of young children.

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Your take on this subject surprises me. Weren't you a KC-135 Aircraft Commander? We stopped flying with parachutes around 1994 at Loring AFB, and there were other Active Duty units that did the same. It wasn't until 2008 that it was finally written into the command-wide regulations. I don't recall ever hearing any crewmember lamenting the fact that we didn't have parachutes anymore. Matter of fact, as the person responsible for checking to see that the parachutes were in good order during preflight, I don't recall any other crew positions ever even looking at the parachutes. The parachutes, as I'm sure you know, were stored at the rear of the aircraft, on the right-hand side, just above the boom pod—roughly 100 feet away from where the pilot, copilot, and navigator sit in the cockpit during flight. The process to put one on and then properly tighten it took a minimum of two or three minutes. Helmets would be required at high altitude, and that would add a bit more time. In the event that the aircraft departed controlled flight, the chance of walking down the cargo bay to retrieve your parachute is zero. And I can tell you that as someone who walked in the cargo compartment in severe turbulence, although never during uncontrolled flight. If the aircraft was still flying but severely crippled, my chances as a boom operator would be better—but what pilot would vacate their seat for several minutes to put on a parachute when the airplane is barely controllable? How much time do you have before "crippled" turns into "departed from controlled flight"? In the event of running out of fuel, it's pretty much the same: plenty of time in theory, so the boom operator might get theirs on and even bail out. One pilot might risk getting out of their seat to don a chute, but the other? How much time do you have before low fuel becomes no fuel? I flew 324 sorties for 1,353 hours in the KC-135A and R models over four years. I did the airbridge at the Azores in Aug '90 and Desert Shield. I rotated home on a fluke and missed the war, only to go right back afterward for multiple deployments. I saw near misses during rendezvous, I saw unauthorized formation flying, I saw more than a couple of breakaways, we had an F-15 do a barrel roll around our jet, and I saw more than a couple of in-flight emergencies. I've also seen both 2 gees and -0.5 gees in the aircraft. I've seen initial buffet demonstrations. Now, I realize that there were a whole lot of other tanker crewmembers out there who had more years, more hours, and more experience, but I have never talked to anyone who had ever considered jumping out of the aircraft. And I never considered it myself as even a possibility. The only time I ever heard of bailouts being discussed in a serious manner was during EWO mission discussions, where the possibility of giving our receiver all of our gas arose because they needed it to get to the target. In that case, our plan was to fly the jet clear of the receiver until it was close to running out of fuel and then bail out. That's it. That is the only serious discussion I ever heard. Of course, pulling alert had ended about 10-15 years before you started flying the KC-135. Now, as I recall, there were several arguments for removing them. The primary was the workload associated with their upkeep. We had about 30 aircraft on base. Each aircraft had 8 parachutes. That's around 240 parachutes. By the way, these parachutes run between $5,000–$10,000 each. So we're talking an inventory value of somewhere between $1.2–$2.4 million. Maybe large contracts bring that price down, or maybe not. Each parachute had to be inspected roughly every 180 days. At 180 days, it had to be pulled from the aircraft, inspected, and then repacked. That takes roughly three hours. Extrapolate this out, and it would take on average 23 hours a week for one Life Support person. That's a fair amount of work. But this doesn't include the effort required to go out and inspect the parachutes in the aircraft or keeping track of them as aircraft deploy and return. Of course, there are other items on the jet that Life Support also has to inspect, so these tasks would be combined. Point is: We are not talking about a trivial amount of work or money to purchase, install, and maintain these parachutes. Scale it up to the fleet: roughly 376 jets, 3,008 parachutes... carry the two... yeah... got it... that's $15 to $30 million. And the likelihood of them being used? Well, let's see now, the fleet has been flying for 69 years, since 1957. A halfway decent estimate as to how many flight hours have been flown: 22 million flight hours. Maybe sortie counts would be a better metric in this case, though. So, if we guesstimate an average sortie is 6.5 hours, that would work out to 3.38 million sorties. And how many bailouts or attempted bailouts am I aware of? THREE. Maybe I don't know about all of them. Maybe there were a few more. Maybe there were some where the crew didn't tell anyone because they'd get in trouble. You're 74 times more likely to be struck by lightning once in your lifetime than to need a bailout on a single KC-135 sortie. You're about twice as likely to become a billionaire than to need a bailout on a single KC-135 sortie. You're about twice as likely to win an Olympic medal than to need a bailout on a single KC-135 sortie. I asked Grok to crunch some numbers about my flight time, and it says "This means you had about a 0.02875% chance (or roughly 1 in 3,478 odds) of encountering at least one bailout scenario over your 324 flights." While I may be doing napkin math with some of these numbers, the overall concept is pretty solid. Do you think this rises to the level of an 'insane decision' and 'unforgivable'?' Cause I don't.