Rodney BM🤔🇧🇷🇮🇹
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Rodney BM🤔🇧🇷🇮🇹
@RBMonte
Be a normal human being driven by ethical principles.(lived in US/Ecuador/Hungary/Czech/Switzerland, but my hearth stayed in Prague)
Katılım Mayıs 2010
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Before dawn over Armenia, the sky starts to look almost alive.
This timelapse was captured westbound as we crossed one of the busiest, and most geopolitically sensitive pieces of airspace on Earth. To the south lies Iran. To the north, Russia. Between them, a narrow corridor through the Caucasus carrying hundreds of aircraft linking Europe, the Gulf, and Asia.
Every light you see here is another aircraft, another crew, another story moving through the night.
What makes it remarkable is the precision. At closing speeds approaching 1,000 mph, aircraft pass each other separated not by miles, but by carefully managed vertical layers of airspace. Invisible highways in the sky, built on GPS accuracy, disciplined procedures, satellite surveillance, and trust.
And yet these routes are never static.
Politics shapes them. Conflict bends them. Closed airspace redraws them almost overnight. What was once a straightforward great-circle route can quickly become a carefully threaded path between terrain, and diplomacy.
From the cockpit, though, there’s a strange beauty to it all.
Tiny lights crossing ancient landscapes.
Modern aircraft moving through corridors shaped by geography and history alike.
Controlled. Precise. Fleeting.
A reminder that aviation is never just about the aircraft. It’s about learning how to move safely through an increasingly complicated world.
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@MCCCANM @OnDisasters Once ,long ago, a pilot told me that by the landing , he could distinguish from which branch the pilot came from… still valid?
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@AquelaLara @Serafim_zx existe i flação de otarios na AL toda.... mais que capim
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@Serafim_zx Enquanto tiver otário acreditando e aplaudindo, ele vai continuar prometendo
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Só imagina se um homem famoso ameaça divulgar listinha revelando coisas sobre as mulheres com as quais já fez sexo...
Só imagina o tamanho do repúdio
Joaquin Teixeira@JoaquinTeixeira
O fundo do poço tem porão
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Sidney Williams, a WWII veteran, explains why he would never volunteer for war again, and why no one else should either:
When asked about his experiences, Sidney recalls a haunting encounter in no man's land.
"One Jerry who I laid out sniped him and he laid down out in no man's land. He was there for about over ten minutes, about 20 yards out."
Sidney dragged the wounded German soldier back to his lines, but the man was already dying.
"I laid him on the first day... it was all blue in the face. I said to him, 'You're a fool. You should have given yourself up and you'd have been taken prisoner. But he turned to run, so I shot him in the back of the head.'"
Another memory haunts him even more deeply. A young soldier had wandered into the wrong lines:
"I never forgot that fella. He was only a young fella, only about 15 or 16. He had a brand new uniform on and he must have got lost, coming from his own lines into our lines and just strayed. I felt sorry. He was only a kiddie. I'm sorry I did it to him."
When asked how many people he killed during the war, Sidney can't give a number:
"Oh God, couldn't say. I was in the Lewis guns, blazing by penny... I'm still here, still alive and kicking."
Beyond the killing, Sidney describes the relentless misery of daily survival in the trenches.
The impossibility of staying clean, the constant hunger, and the lice:
"Trying to keep clean, you're smothered in lice. You thought you got rid of them, you got more on you. They used to breed... it just simply comes up to you. Through a good night's rest and then... I've got the memories."
When finally asked the question that cuts to the heart of it all, was it all worth it?
Sidney's answer is unequivocal:
"No. Never ever. Never volunteer. You're old enough now, and they will get me again. The volunteer? Not me. Never."
His reasoning is simple and devastating:
"I've seen all this butchery. I know what I've been through. I'll never volunteer for anything else."
Sidney Williams' testimony is a reminder that behind every war statistic is a human being carrying memories that never fade.
The young German with the new uniform. The man shot in the back of the head. The lice. The hunger.
He survived.
But he carried it all with him for the rest of his life.
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@MCCCANM this "machine" is an old gadget...my mom had one....but the secret is in the dough...apparently you got it right, congrats..
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@MCCCANM intriguing combination...capers & sausage.....did it work?
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Another early morning ferry ride in Hong Kong… I am looking forward to a hike today but my poor Scottish skin isn’t. Forecast 29C and high humidity will make it a tough one. Home this evening after a planned, but shorter than normal, layover in what is my favourite destination at the moment.
If you could go anywhere, no barriers, where would you plan your next adventure to be?
Mine… would be space 🧑🚀

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@Combat_learjet I would have agreed with tou up to the day I was exposed to its lice and got a severe case of allergy and had to fumigate the whole house and staying out for 2 days…. These are flying rats
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@fly276 @scottiebateman Like the Karman Ghia… my first car, wished i had never sold it
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@drewcrawford_ first post of yours I mustn´t agree ...both are disgusting human beings
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Lula was born in 1945. Trump was born in 1946.
Both grew up in different worlds.
Lula's family of nine shared a single room behind a bar in São Paulo.
The bathroom was shared with the bar's customers.
Trump grew up in a 23 room mansion in Queens.
Both were convicted of felonies.
Lula spent 580 days in a prison cell.
Trump got 34 guilty counts and walked free.
Both were written off as finished.
Both came back and won the presidency.
Tomorrow they sit across from each other in the West Wing.
Two grandfathers, both turning 80 this year, deciding what the next decade of US Brazil relations looks like.
Same generation. Opposite worlds. One handshake away from rewriting the next decade.

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