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She was already in the sky when Pearl Harbor was attacked and most people have never heard her name. Cornelia Fort was 22 years old on the morning of December 7, 1941. She was a civilian flight instructor in Hawaii, guiding a student through routine maneuvers in a small training plane. The sky was clear. The lesson was going well. Then a military aircraft screamed past them, so close she could see the pilot's face. She looked directly at him. He looked back. It was not a drill. It was a Japanese pilot. And below them, Pearl Harbor was under attack. Fort immediately took control of the plane. The sky around her filled with smoke, gunfire, and chaos. She navigated through it all and landed safely at a nearby airfield while the world erupted into war beneath her wings. "There's no way I'm staying on the sidelines," she told her parents. In 1942, Fort joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots-the WASP. These women ferried military aircraft across the country, tested planes fresh off the assembly line, and towed targets for live ammunition training so male pilots could deploy to combat. They wore uniforms. They followed orders. They faced real danger every time they took off. On March 21, 1943, Cornelia Fort was ferrying a BT-13 trainer aircraft over Texas when her plane collided mid air with another aircraft in formation. She died on impact. She was 24 years old. She became the first woman pilot in American history to die while serving on active duty. God bless this American hero. 🫡🇺🇸

Masataka Taketsuru arrived in Scotland in 1918, studying organic chemistry and immersing himself in the art of whisky-making. It was there he met Rita Taketsuru, a Scottish woman who would later follow him to Japan, despite strong opposition from both families. Their partnership would quietly shape an entire industry. In 1934, Taketsuru founded the Yoichi distillery in Hokkaido, carefully choosing the location because its climate closely resembled Scotland, the birthplace of whisky. But building a whisky empire wasn’t instant. Whisky takes years to mature, and money doesn’t wait. To survive those early years, the company he founded, originally focused on fruit products, began producing apple juice and other apple-based goods just to keep operations running. What began as a temporary solution became a crucial bridge that kept the dream alive. Without those humble apple products, there might never have been a Japanese whisky industry as we know it today. Taketsuru’s patience paid off, and his work would later earn him the title “Father of Japanese whisky,” proving that sometimes the path to success is held together by the smallest, most unexpected decisions. #archaeohistories

Been with @Spacex 13 years and still haven’t see engineers “debasing themselves” It’s a pure myth and perception problem. We have the smartest most passionate engineers in the world who are free to innovate at levels no other company matches - not even close, that’s how we do what we do.

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Please stop with, 'Social Security was not meant to be your retirement income, it was meant to be a supplement.' It's insulting to tens of millions of people who worked hard and honest their entire lives and rely on Social Security AS their retirement income. So get off your high horse and understand that taxing Social Security when it was ALREADY taxed is HURTING the people it claims to be helping. And, even more plain and more simple, for those of us who like to boil things down, Social Security is a cesspool of fraud. To those who claim it's crazy to want a lump sum payment in the form of a REFUND for every dollar we put into this, take a look at how government protected our 'investment' in ourselves, and then talk to me about CRAZY. Government TOOK our money and misappropriated the funds. SOMETIMES intentionally. ALWAYS without threat of punishment. This is CRIMINAL, period.

Let me help rephrase for you Bernie. Need a loan for college so you can party for a semester and drop out? Taxpayers will loan you money for it. Need an SBA loan for your business ? Taxpayers will guarantee it. For a house ? Taxpayers will guarantee it. And local gov will give you money for your first down payment ! Get sick or are in an accident and you can’t afford your deductible, insurance company denied prescribed care or are uninsured ? You are on your own 😤 Let me add Bernie, the one debt not a single one of us will ever pay off till the day we die ? Our health insurance premiums And before you go in and on about single payer, ask @claudeai to take a look at your proposed Single Payer legislation. You want the Sec of HHS to run it. You can’t have a political appointee run an apolitical position And you expect every provider and doctor to accept whatever rate is set by Medicare. Big hospitals don’t know their costs. They couldn’t do a BOM for any procedure. They have negligible transparency. If they don’t know their costs, and you don’t know their costs, how is it possible for taxpayers, caregivers and patients to get a fair deal ? And the concept of “every other country does it “ ignores the fact that they all converted decades and decades ago, long before you and your peers allowed the extreme vertical integration we face now. Which leads to the question. @BernieSanders , why have you not advocated for the Break Up Big Medicine Bill ?

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BREAKING: Zelensky just landed in the UAE and signed a defence cooperation agreement with President MBZ. The deal on the table changes everything about this war. Ukraine is offering Gulf states 1,000 drone interceptors per day. Each Sting interceptor costs $2,100. Each Patriot missile it replaces costs $3.9 million. In exchange, Ukraine wants the Patriot missiles the Gulf states are burning through, because Kyiv cannot get enough of them to stop Russian missiles. Read that again. The country America refused to arm fast enough is now arming America’s allies with a weapon that costs 1,857 times less than the one America cannot produce fast enough. The National reported on March 27 that Zelensky told reporters: “We’d like to quietly receive the Patriot missiles we have a deficit of, and give them a corresponding number of interceptors.” AFP confirmed the UAE agreement on March 28. Eleven countries have formally requested Ukraine’s drone defence expertise per Zelensky’s own count. Over 200 Ukrainian military specialists are already deployed across the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Jordan. Here is the arithmetic that should terrify every Pentagon procurement officer on earth. The United States fired 943 Patriot interceptors in the first four days of the Iran war per a US Congressional study cited by the Jerusalem Post. That is eighteen months of Lockheed Martin’s annual production consumed in 96 hours. Each of those 943 shots cost $3.9 million. Total expenditure: $3.68 billion in four days on defensive interceptions alone. Iran produces 10,000 Shahed drones per month per Reuters. Each drone costs $20,000 to $50,000. The cost exchange ratio is 114 to 1 in Iran’s favour per Military Times. Ukraine’s Sting interceptor inverts this arithmetic entirely. At $2,100, the cost ratio flips from 114-to-1 against America to roughly 10-to-1 against Iran. Ukraine can supply 1,000 per day. That is 30,000 per month against Iran’s 10,000 Shaheds per month. For the first time in this war, the defender’s production rate exceeds the attacker’s production rate at a fraction of the cost. And the country that built this weapon is the same country that Trump publicly rejected. “No, they are not helping. We do not need their help. We know more about drones than anyone else” per Fox News. He doubled down: “The last person we need help from is Zelensky.” Meanwhile the Pentagon notified Congress of plans to redirect $750 million in Ukraine-bound Patriot missiles to Gulf states per House of Saud reporting. America is simultaneously refusing Ukraine’s cheap solution and cannibalising Ukraine’s expensive one. Zelensky framed this explicitly. He told The National: “No matter how many Patriots, THAADs, or other air-defence systems are in the Middle East, that alone is not enough for fully effective air defence.” He told the UK Parliament: “When it comes to shooting down massive Shahed attacks, only Ukrainian experience can really help with this today.” The Pentagon is spending $3.9 million per interception, raiding Swiss fighter jet accounts to cover shortfalls, and diverting Ukraine’s own Patriot supply to the Gulf. Zelensky is offering the same result for $2,100 and producing 1,000 units per day. The market has a word for this kind of disruption. The $2,100 drone is the most important weapon in this war. And the country that built it is the one America said it did not need. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

The most powerful shift is subtle: when you stop trying to control how everything unfolds… and start focusing on who you are becoming through it. Life responds to that version of you. Happy Saturday beautiful souls 🌺♥️♥️

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Anonymous A nurse huffs and rolls her eyes because you asked for the correct size blood pressure cuff instead of letting her crush your arm. Nurse strapping it on, velcro screaming: Hold still, this is going to pinch. You: That cuff is too small. It's going to hurt and give a falsely high reading. Can you get the large adult size? Nurse: We keep those in the back. It’ll only take a second, just deal with it. I don't have time to go hunting. You: It's not special equipment, it's the correct equipment for my body. Nurse: Look, your BP is probably high anyway because of your weight. You: My weight doesn't dictate your standard of care. Go get the correct cuff, or we can have the charge nurse explain to you why using the wrong medical equipment is a liability. Aftermath: She marched down the hall, brought the right cuff, and the reading was normal. Insight: Your body is never the problem. Their refusal to accommodate it is.

The KC-10 *could* isolate certain tanks to carry special fuels, but that’s wasn’t a mission it did after the SR-71 retired & it was then all the same fuel. Offloading to a large jet could mean transferring 100,000 lbs of fuel or more in around 10 minutes, which is a problem: the Center of Gravity (CG) would change during the transfer. So, the Flight Engineer had to continuously transfer fuel around to maintain CG within limits. Each fuel tank had transfer pumps & plumbing that could pump fuel around to keep the jet balanced & stable. The 737 doesn’t have transfer pumps, but it does have a “Crossfeed Valve”, allowing both engines to feed from the same wing tank (they usually feed from the wing they’re mounted on). Sometimes the fuel becomes unbalanced between the wings for various reasons; the limit is 1,000 lbs of imbalance. To fix it, open the crossfeed valve & turn off the fuel pumps on the side with less fuel…the engine on that side will begin feeding from the opposite wing. When the imbalance approaches 80 lbs, reverse the process. 80 lbs is about how long it will take to close off the plumbing, so you end up with as close to perfect as you can get. In cruise on a MAX, each engine is burning around 2,500 lbs an hour (it varies obviously based on thrust setting & altitude; the engines are more efficient the higher you climb). Not bad, considering the KC-10 burned about 6,000 lbs per hour…per engine. The 737 has a “Center” tank in the fuselage, too. It’s used only for fuel that won’t fit in the wings on longer flights. When the center pumps are on, fuel comes out of the center tank first (the center pumps use a higher pressure than the wing pumps), until it’s empty. Keeping the wing tanks full serves a structural purpose, so we don’t burn fuel from them until the center tank is empty. The fuel is filtered as it moves from the tank to the engine, but if the filter begins to clog a bypass valve automatically opens, allowing for a continuous fuel flow. Along the way, the fuel passes through a “Heat Exchanger”; the cold fuel from the wing is used to cool down the engine oil. The two fluids don’t come into contact, though. A digital engine control “meters” how much fuel is actually delivered to the engine, but that’s a whole other subject. That system counts how much fuel each engine has used; this way, you have a backup if the fuel quantity sensors in the tanks were to fail…you’ll just need to do a little math. If fuel becomes trapped…you can try the checklist, but we generally don’t reset circuit breakers on fuel systems. The tanks are supplied by a Nitrogen generation system that replaces air in the tanks as fuel is burned down, making the remaining vapor less combustible, but let’s not tempt fate by resetting circuit breakers. Once the fuel is trapped, it’s probably going to stay that way & you need a new place to land. Even if we lost all electrical power, though, shutting down the fuel pumps, the engines will still “gravity feed” from the wing. This may not be immediately possible at higher altitudes (small chance, it’s complicated), but the longer you’re in cruise the more likely it is that gravity feeding will work. Obviously, pressure feeding from the pumps is best. Finally, there is always some amount of fuel onboard that is considered “unusable”. It’s not bad, it just ends up in a part of the tank where the pumps can’t get it due to the design. This sounds weird, but all airplanes have this issue. It’s usually a very small amount, but must be accounted for in weight & balance calculations. The center tank has a “scavenge pump” that remains on to try & get as much of this fuel as possible after the main pumps have been turned off (they illuminate a light when the pump is no longer submerged & you turn off the pumps). Ok, there’s a lesson on fuel systems. That really escalated quickly! Hope it helps!

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• be Konosuke Matsushita • born into a wealthy Japanese family in 1894 • your father gambles the entire family fortune on the rice market and loses everything when you are 4 years old • forced to drop out of school at age 9 to sweep floors in a bicycle shop just to survive • you look around and realize electricity is the future, so you join the Osaka Electric Light Company and quickly become their youngest inspector • at 22, you invent an improved, highly efficient light socket in your spare time • you show it to your boss. He tells you it's useless and will never sell. • most people would accept the rejection and stay at the safe corporate job • you immediately quit, take your life savings of 100 yen, and start a company in your tiny dirt-floor apartment with your wife and teenage brother-in-law • you nearly starve. You literally have to pawn your wife’s kimono just to buy food. • finally, you get a hit with a two-way socket, but you notice a bigger problem: bicycle lamps in 1920s Japan use candles, which constantly blow out in the wind • you engineer a bullet-shaped, battery-powered bicycle lamp that lasts for 40 hours • you take it to the massive wholesalers. They laugh at you and refuse to stock it. • you execute the ultimate asymmetric marketing hack: you completely bypass the gatekeepers • you take the lamps directly to local bicycle shop owners, leave them in the stores for *free*, and tell them: "Turn it on. If it stays lit, pay me. If it dies, keep it." • the lamps work perfectly. The public goes crazy. You have successfully hacked the distribution network. • you formulate the "Water-Tap Philosophy": the stoic belief that an entrepreneur's duty is not just to make money, but to mass-produce goods until they are as cheap and abundant as tap water, eradicating poverty through sheer industrial scale • WWII happens. The Allies dismantle your massive company and order you to be fired and purged from the industry. • your own factory workers—who you treated with radical respect instead of viewing them as disposable cogs—literally protest the US military government • your union petitions General Douglas MacArthur himself, demanding you be reinstated as CEO • the US military is so confused by a labor union fighting *for* their corporate boss that they actually agree • you rebuild from the ashes to create **Panasonic** • live to 94, leaving behind a legacy built on the idea that business is a philosophical pursuit of human betterment "If you make an honest mistake, I will forgive you. But if you compromise on our core values, I will fire you."

"At about 3:00 this morning I was driving my 1 year old child to the hospital because he was having a hard time breathing. I ended up getting pulled over by 19th and Nebraska St. due to having a tail light and license plate light out. As the deputy was telling me why he pulled me over I explained to him where I was going. He opened up the back door to my vehicle and heard my sons labored breathing and told me to go ahead and get to the hospital. The officer that pulled me over was deputy Kyle Cleveringa. He followed me to the hospital, helped me carry my things into the ER, offered to hold my son while I filled out paper work, gave my son a stuffed toy truck, and was helping to comfort him by talking to him and giving him "hi-fives." My family and I are very thankful for deputy Cleveringa and everything he did for my son and I this morning. He went above and beyond and I cannot thank him enough. Could you please make sure he reads this and is made aware of how grateful we are that he pulled me over and helped me through that terrifying situation? Thank you so much Kyle! ...... P.S. My son is fine and I will fix those lights asap! Thank you again!!" Credit: Mindy Mathewson via Woodbury County Sheriff's Office