Sean Mead

OK I'm kind of stunned how AI can make anything sound like a song. I loaded my pinned post and this spit out. Excuse me please if I'm like a kid with a new toy for just a little bit. ".....sooooooooyyy latte...."🤣

Your first ride in a C-130, where did you go?

Depuis tout à l'heure je me renseigne sur les idées de Karl Marx sincèrement je n'arrive pas à comprendre comment on peut être pour le capitalisme et même plus généralement être de droite

For $128,000 you can buy a Jetson ONE, take off from your backyard, and never need a pilot's license. Every spec on it is reverse-engineered from a single FAA regulation. Part 103 caps ultralight empty weight at 254 pounds. Jetson built theirs at 189. Part 103 caps level flight at 55 knots. Jetson tops out at 63 mph, exactly that. Part 103 allows one occupant. Jetson built one seat. Stay inside those lines and the FAA does not classify what you are flying as an aircraft. No pilot's license. No medical certificate. No registration. No regulatory oversight of the design. No regulatory oversight of operator competency. That is the entire business model. The $128K buys you exemption from being a pilot. You can see it in the rest of the spec sheet. 13.5 kWh battery for 17 minutes of flight. Open cockpit, helmet required. Daylight only, uncongested areas, away from airports. Every line is a Part 103 rule rendered as hardware. Build it any other way and it stops being an ultralight, which means type certification, which means five years and nine figures before you ship a single unit. Joby has been at it since 2009. Archer since 2018. Combined they have raised over $4 billion building certified eVTOLs. Neither has carried a paying passenger. Jetson started shipping in 2024. Sold out through 2026. Deliveries pushed to 2027. Palmer Luckey took the first production unit. MrBeast flew one down the California coast. The whole point of buying a Jetson is the permission slip that comes with it. Everything else is just hardware.

I want you to look at the world, and specifically the war in Iran, from a strategic military planner’s perspective… because once you do that, a lot of things become very clear. Once you view it from 30,000 feet, you can start to see that Iran was less an isolated regional war and more of a move by the US centered on controlling the flow of global energy. In the simplest terms, modern power is not just about territory, it is also about controlling critical systems, and few systems are more important than the movement of oil and liquified natural gas. The Strait of Hormuz is one of the most vital choke points in the world, with a significant portion of global energy supply passing through it daily. By establishing naval dominance at the strait and restricting Iranian ports, effectively deciding which vessels can transit the strait, the US has positioned itself as a gatekeeper rather than just a participant. This shifts the dynamic from fighting an adversary to controlling a global economic lever, one that significantly affects China as much as anyone else. When viewed in sequence, the strategic approach becomes a clear pattern. It started by securing or stabilizing energy access closer to home, such as our efforts involving Venezuela, and reduced vulnerability and ensured our baseline supply. With that foundation, attention could then shift outward to key global chokepoints. In the case of Hormuz, the objective was to control the input value of the world’s energy system, where a large share of oil exits the Middle East. Once control was established or contested there, the ripple effects were immediate: prices spiked, shipping routes became uncertain, and nations dependent on that flow were forced to react. That disruption was not merely a byproduct of conflict; it became a tool of influence (again, think bigger, think Asia and China). From here you can see the broader strategic logic and how it suggests that controlling energy flow creates leverage over both allies and adversaries. Countries that rely heavenly on Middle Eastern oil, particularly those in Asia, became more sensitive to disruptions and more dependent on stable alternatives. That opens up the door for increased US oil and LNG exports, effectively tuning domestic production to a strategic asset rather than just an economic one. Hence the ramp up in domestic production and sales in the US. If extended further, such as through influence over additional chokepoints such as the Strait of Malacca (which serves as a primary route for energy shipments to Asia), the US could theoretically influence not just supply, but the entire distribution chain from origin to destination. In practical terms, that would mean having a say in who gets energy, when they get energy, and what it costs. That’s what we are seeing unfold. Trump is pushing America to dominate the energy supply for the entire world. This is chess, not checkers. And this is the way you should be looking at the world, and if you are not, you will always be the one left behind, falling for the grift from gay idiotic podcasters who know nothing about the world and just eat to profit off of you being uninformed.