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Kinda crazy how generally just unpleasant @Starbucks has been lately. Downtown Ann Arbor location has two employees working. They’re doing all they can. Super long wait. Online orders rolling in superseding people ordering in person. Pay your people more.

@PilatusAircraft They should replace the Snowbirds rigs with these.

The first Pilatus PC‑21 (CT‑157 Siskin II) has officially passed Factory Acceptance in Stans. That means one thing: Canada’s next-generation trainer is real and ready!

@MichaelGuimarin @Dylan_Morri Because there is huge demand for these airplane engines to be used on airplanes?

And why can’t whomever owns the rolls Royce engines sell them to someone who will convert them into data center turbines? Why does the fact that spirit leased them have anything to do with this? Everyone keeps saying leasing like it’s something i overlooked. Well they’re leased. Yes correct and those leases are now broken. Why can’t the ultimate asset owners (who had credit control in the spirit negotiations) re-allocate their assets elsewhere?

Why did spirit airlines not take the bailout/gov deal? The engines can be converted to natgas turbines for data centers. Spirit has about 6.5GW worth of engines once converted. The conversion takes about 30-45 days once the factory is ramped which takes about a year. And then the cost is roughly $1000-$1250/kw v $2250/kw for new turbines. With turbine lead times being 9+ years and a cost nearly double. This could be a major win. Spirit had 131 or so planes each with 2 engines, each engine does 25mw. Give or take 6.5GW as said above. The conversion cost is about $3 bn and takes 18-24 months. Vs. 108 months and $15 bn for new natgas turbines. Someone is going to make a killing. FYI if you’re about it, I recommend @MatthewChang to build the conversion factory.

@jonkay Leafs didn’t make the playoffs so it makes sense.

this is the second time in the space of 16 days that canada's tallest building has spread colour-tagged awareness about irritable bowel syndrome

@jjreeves Guy really loves trains I guess

Dude what

@loyalmoses I’d argue the more that repeat your message the better! Bad laws can be rescinded, lot of states left to fight in.

Finally… the old 3D printing YouTubers are trying to resurrect their dead channels by copying me. A little late now to save 3D printing from bad legislation, but it is good to see that after months of silence, they’re finally showing up for the views in the lane I created. Remember just a month ago when I said 3D printing was small enough that one voice could change it? 😁 My advice: don’t just copy me. Be original. Go build something different. There’s a whole YouTube out there. 😊

@FreedomTaliban @LibertyLockPod I think this government is beyond listening to protest or public opinion. Approval ratings at an all time low, nearly every measurable indicator heading in the wrong direction, but Trump is insulated from reality by his staff and himself. What would protest do?

@LibertyLockPod We are cooked then. The world is fucked up. Only you can stop this madness, only a giant anti-war American movement can stop this. It’s up to you guys.

Too early to say this with certainty but I believe this is likely how we got here: 12/29/25: Netanyahu visits Trump for the 7th time in a year where they decided to proceed with funneling weapons to the protestors via the Kurds First week of January: Kurds don't deliver the weapons but as Pompeo said there were Mossad operatives on the ground. They decide to proceed with limited weaponry, still turning peaceful protests into violent ones. IRGC cracks down hard. Israel now has what it needs: a sales pitch to the West. "We have to liberate them!" February 28th, 2026: Trump, surrounded by sycophants and Israeli operatives, becomes convinced that he can strike the leadership of Iran and they will NOT shut down the Strait of Hormuz. Despite everyone on earth knowing that will be the immediate response by Iran, he is totally blind sided. Now it's too late. Israel has him locked in. To re-open the Strait will require a major ground invasion. Not just to re-open but to keep it open, a ground invasion will be mandatory. Trump spirals. Threatens allies. Demands that China or the EU or anyone else do it. No one will. Obviously. Just as Israeli intel knew. Either Trump accepts defeat and looks weak or he destroys his legacy and launches a major ground war in Iran. Which is what they've been driving us towards for 30+ years. Knowing his personality type they bank on him going with the suicidal ground invasion option. Trump tries option 3: let's just threaten massive war crimes on Easter and hope they will cave. Bridges, power plants, etc. If he proceeds with this option Iran will wipe out, at minimum, major oil infrastructure in the GCC. Ensuring a global depression which will also destroy his legacy. So he has three options. All severely damaging. Tomorrow, we find out which decision he makes. The smart one: accept defeat. Look weak. Spin it as a victory and just come home. The crazy one: bomb their utilities and send oil to $200+ for the next couple years via the Iranian counter-attack. The insane one: ground invasion. Implement a draft. Go all in. (Or drop a nuke and become a pariah state) I'm not going to pretend I know which option he will choose. But it'll require an ego maniac to show humility for us to avoid the worst outcomes. So...yeah That's how we got here and why this is all so fucked. And this is why Tucker Csrlson went ballistic on him in his episode tonight. He, give or take, sees the same thing I do. Because Trump got rolled by Israel. Because he's dumb as shit. Or totally compromised.

@isabelleboemeke @AaloAtomics @valaratomics @xenergynuclear @oklo @AntaresNuclear Would love to see a segment about how safe and relatively cheap long-term storage of used material is. Feels like there is a huge misconception about how much space spent fuel takes up and how difficult it is to store.

Here are some of the companies that are a part of The Last Renaissance: - @AaloAtomics - @valaratomics - @xenergynuclear - @oklo - @AntaresNuclear We can only feature a limited number of companies so we can tell everyone’s story. Any other ones we should feature?

@MassieforKY Does it come with anti-depressants as well? I think this may just bum me out...

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@isabelleboemeke Looks like a great watch! Hopefully not the final renaissance for humanity, seems like we'll need one every couple centuries at least.

Imagine if a documentary crew had been embedded with Oppenheimer, Fermi, and other scientists in the 1940s, watching history unfold in real time. Capturing the awe, the hope, the breakthroughs, and the world-changing decisions as they happened. We can’t travel back to the first Atomic Age. But we can be there for the second one. Right now, a new nuclear renaissance is quietly coming into existence. The technology, the visionaries, the political will, and the existential stakes are all colliding at once… and almost no one is telling the full story. Until now. I’m beyond thrilled to announce that I’m co-creating a multi-year epic documentary series called The Last Renaissance, together with award-winning director @TysonCulver. We’re gaining unprecedented, real-time access to the brilliant founders, new reactor designs, daring entrepreneurs, and the key players inside government who are rewriting humanity’s energy future. This is a civilization-level turning point that could reshape climate, geopolitics, prosperity, and even space exploration for the next century. This is the kind of story that only comes around once in a generation. I feel profoundly lucky to be in the room where it’s happening. And if you feel the call, if you’re as electrified by this moment as we are, we want you with us. Whether you’re an investor, a scientist, an engineer, a policymaker, or simply someone who believes this renaissance deserves to be witnessed by the world… Join us. The Atomic Age 2.0 is already underway. Let’s make sure the world doesn’t miss it.

@WarMonitors Lots of worries for them, just taking the risk to save their brothers.

How did they damage an F-35, shoot down an F-15, but Black Hawks and AC-130s are just cruising with 0 worries?

@StDoritos @genericmainer @Truthful_ast I think it's their unbelievable bravery and professionalism that makes it a true human drama. Does the movie play it up a bit? Sure, but I also wouldn't say I see the acting there as being overwrought or panicky, just seeking to convey the danger and risk.

@OJTien @genericmainer @Truthful_ast And it was all handed without any drama or panicking or question of the plan. Listen to the Data tapes.

I think now is the best time to post the best scene from a space movie.

@F1Clapped @TOSportsAdam Love the Leafs, absolutely have to agree with this take.

@TOSportsAdam In the last decade, the panthers have won 2 cups, bolts have won 2 cups, penguins have won 2 cups Not sure how a bunch of first round collapses and a couple 2nd round embarrassments are making up for that

10 years straight of playoffs. Hate them or love them, everyone can agree the Leafs have been the most successful franchise in the last decade.

@StDoritos @genericmainer @Truthful_ast Feels two men approaching the surface of the moon, getting repeated alarms, then seeing they were coming down in a boulder field and needing to land long, all while getting down to less than a minute of fuel, is drama incarnate.

Bud they arnt even close, like there was no drama in the Lm. No Neil smashing buttons, no Buzz questioning if he should follow Neil's commands, none of that. Its Hollywood drama. I complain because if you want to teach the younger generation , then dont interject imagination , it alone should stand on its own. Hell there is a long standing well made sim that you can fly every single mission in using proper physics and using the real software the computers ran in the spacecraft.

@bigheadhcky Did not expect to see Matthews struggle. Hopefully he’s healthy and back to himself next season

Every 1st overall pick's point production this season: 2025: Matthew Schaefer | 57 points 2024: Macklin Celebrini | 105 points 2023: Connor Bedard | 68 points 2022: Juraj Slafkovsky | 66 points 2021: Owen Power | 26 points 2020: Alexis Lafreniere | 52 points 2019: Jack Hughes | 63 points 2018: Rasmus Dahlin | 67 points 2017: Nico Hischier | 59 points 2016: Auston Matthews | 53 points 2015: Connor McDavid | 125 points 2014: Aaron Ekblad | 26 points 2013: Nathan Mackinnon | 121 points 2012: Nail Yakupov | 2011: Ryan Nugent-Hopkins | 53 points 2010: Taylor Hall | 40 points 2009: John Tavares | 64 points 2008: Steven Stamkos | 58 points 2007: Patrick Kane | 47 points 2006: Erik Johnson | 2005: Sidney Crosby | 67 points 2004: Alex Ovechkin | 59 points Biggest surprise?

@IPSecOSINT @yatharthmann The guy was literally in charge of an NASA astronaut class, being responsible for their training. Think he’s more than qualified.

It should have been based on experience, ability and qualifications. But the last 4 years of the program we saw a shift in what those were defined as, being Delta Echo India above all. NASA thankfully has scrubbed those ridiculous initiatives from the playbook and we are back to space.

Hot take but I don't think a Canadian should've gotten a seat on Artemis II.

@willchamberlain Yes, the famously important Danish straits where 20 percent of the worlds energy flowed through.

I'm trying to imagine the alternative history of WW2 if it looked like this war, and what the coverage might look like "It's January 11th, 1942, one month after Hitler declared war on the United States. Hitler, Goering, Bohrmann, and Himmler were all killed in an allied bombing attack on Hitler's headquarters, along with fifty other members of the German High Command. 95% of entire German navy is resting at the bottom of the North Sea. The Luftwaffe is no more. Allied aircraft achieved complete air superiority over Germany within 48 hours of the war's start. Still, many sophisticated commentators are saying that the Third Reich has the upper hand, because they have shut down travel through the Danish straits."

@_6signxxx Long story short, we de-regulated the airlines. Came with both benefits and some losses, like giant comfy seats.

Real question??? Why did we move away from having this much space to being packed like sardines??Is there a log!cal reason???

@applesclubs 0 percent chance this is under $100

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@AJamesMcCarthy His name was Herb Kelleher and they ruined his company shortly after he passed.

Every time I fly I feel like the airline industry could use a major shakeup. Like, where is the Steve Jobs or Elon Musk of aviation? It’s probably the one industry where the average user experience has gotten significantly worse over the last few decades.