Somewhere In The Mid

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Mamdani Proposes Massive Estate Tax Exemption Cut From $7M To $750K, Among Other Tax Increases zerohedge.com/markets/mamdan…

The morning of September 11th, 2001, started like any other Tuesday at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. Lt. Heather Penney was running training drills in her F-16, perfecting maneuvers she'd practiced a thousand times before. Then everything changed. The radio crackled: all aircraft, return immediately. America was under attack. By the time she touched down, the Twin Towers had been struck. The Pentagon, just fifteen miles away, was burning. And intelligence reported another hijacked plane heading straight for Washington. Heather and her commanding officer got the order: suit up, get airborne, intercept that plane. But there was a problem. Their F-16s were loaded for training exercises, not combat. No live missiles. No ammunition capable of taking down a commercial airliner. Just practice rounds and fuel tanks. That's when the impossible order came through her headset: stop that aircraft by any means necessary. Heather understood immediately what those words meant. If she couldn't shoot down the hijacked Boeing 757, she would have to physically ram it with her fighter jet. A deliberate midair collision at hundreds of miles per hour. No ejection possible. No parachute. No survival. She was twenty-six years old. A fighter pilot for less than two years. The daughter of a United Airlines pilot who flew the same type of aircraft now being used as weapons. Her commanding officer's voice came through: I'II take the cockpit, you take the tail. They were dividing the target between them, ensuring the plane would go down even if one of them missed. Heather's response was two words: Roger that. She strapped in, fired up the engine, and rocketed into the sky over Washington, breaking the sound barrier above the capital, something normally forbidden. The sonic booms rattled windows across the city, a thunderous announcement that American fighters were responding. As she climbed toward intercept altitude, her mind raced through questions no training had prepared her for. What part of the fuselage should she aim for? What speed? What angle would guarantee the plane went down immediately? She scanned the skies, searching for United Flight 93. Searching for the target she would destroy with her own body. Accepting, with each passing second, that she was flying toward certain death. But she never found the plane. Because two hundred miles away, the passengers had already made their choice. They'd stormed the cockpit. Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field at 10:03am Heather flew patrol over Washington for hours afterward, protecting skies that had already been saved by ordinary Americans who refused to be weapons. When she finally landed, her crew chief had tears in his eyes. He hadn't expected to see her again. Neither had she. 🙏♥️🇺🇸

IYKYK, ... and why did I not do it proper justice in 2016? I guess I'll have to circle back in 2116😉 @engineers_feed @sciencegirl

This man literally tells Neuroscience trick to stop negative thought loops.

@MagneticNorse @MarkRober

Suddenly my personal accomplishments feel woefully inadequate

@TheNolanGore Build a time machine to return to 2024

30 cheap things to do with young kids. I wrote this for myself bc I want to do more things like this in 2024. - Scavenger hunt. Get AI to create rhyming clues with things in your house/yard. (example clue that leads to trampoline - Bounce, jump, and play, where fun's on display, Find me where springs launch you high every day!) - Walk in neighborhood and write down every animal or bug you see. Try to get to 10 minimum. - Tag at the park - Throw the football. Get a light football so they aren’t scared it will hit them in the face. This made throwing far more enjoyable. - Walk around and identify trees and native plants. Seriously - we do this. - Stack rocks - Smash rocks with a hammer. (Safety glasses encouraged). Look for crystals. They are the most fun. - Hike and look for animal tracks. If you want to get really intense - use plaster of Paris to gather the tracks. - Obstacle course. Time it. Get better. Do it again. You need to participate as well. - Climb trees. When you are uncomfortable- that’s when they are getting the most value. - Clean a car. The hose will give solid entertainment value. - Picnic. - Go to a museum. Even adult focused museums. The people there are far more gracious than you’d expect and the kids will learn a lot. We went to the LBJ presidential library and were the youngest by far. It was awesome. - Sensory bin. Look it up. Cheap. Lots of time. Think rice in a bucket with some cups. - “Paint” using native materials. We recently had some masterpieces created using smashed grasses, berries, charcoal, and dirt. - Bubbles kick a**. So fun. - Backyard campout. Last time I did this, 2 of 3 peed the tent. Still worth it. - Fires. Let them help build the fire. Let them burn stuff. You can kill an afternoon with this one alone. Boys especially will burn stuff. Best to learn with supervision rather than unsupervised later in life. My 4 year old recently burned his finger (not too bad). He will be far safer going forward. - Backyard golf. Just use a tennis ball and one club. See how many strokes it takes to “hit that tree”. Give your kids a one stroke headstart. - Set up action figures / plastic cups and try to knock them over with rubber bands. - Nerf gun shooting range. Time it to see how long it takes to shoot the 5 consecutive targets. - Wrestle. Seriously. Need more wrestling. - Fort. Use the couch cushions, some chairs, sheets, a table, whatever. - Uno - undefeated card game. - Hot lava. Duh. Another classic. - Make swords out of a bunch of pieces of paper rolled up. Then fight. - Write a letter and send it to an aunt/uncle/veteran/cousin - Plan and perform a play. Extra points - film it and send it to grandparents. - Make up a secret handshake - Print coloring pages offline and do them while you listen to a book on tape. Can you give me some more ideas?

Katie Miller: “Who do you look up to the most?” Elon Musk: “The Creator.” Katie Miller: “What's your position on God?” Elon Musk: “God is the Creator. I believe this universe came from something.

@CinemaTweets1 Oh, lookie here: youtube.com/watch?v=_HxOw_…

@CinemaTweets1 But how do you know he is being sincere and not just a really good actor...

Leonardo DiCaprio’s #Oscar acceptance speech for Best Actor has 59 million views on Youtube for a reason: it sounded like Leo was waiting 25 years to give this speech. He is beyond eloquent. These are the sort of moments that make the Academy Awards special. What a moment.

WATCH🚨: Zohran Mamdani claims hiking taxes on the rich will stop NYC's exodus—by keeping working & middle-class folks from leaving. 'We already see an exodus of working and middle class New Yorkers. So I don't have a hesitation in asking those who make the most amount of money … to pay a little bit more so that everyone can actually stay in this city.' 🎥: @TheChiefNerd

@NatureUnedited white stripe... maybe that is just a juicy zebra... nope.

Moments after her release into a new area, Ushindi, a female black rhino originally from Ol Pejeta Conservancy, came face to face with a male lion

@PeterDiamandis 💯 (Though some brilliant ideas do come while writing proposals, there needs to be a better balance and more freedom to follow good ideas and the data)

The science funding system is BROKEN. PhDs and professors are spending their days writing grant proposals rather than conducting research that could transform millions of lives. And the worst part? The system REWARDS predictable, safe, incremental science. It PUNISHES radical ideas and moonshots.

@WomensHoops_USA Love to see her playing with the other league leaders. What a great team player, and what a nightmare to defend. True triple threat.

@FFT1776 watching it in slow mo, it seems the backboard glows red before ball leaves his hand. amazing shot though. I wonder if they let it count anyways.

🔥13 seconds left in the game! This is unbelievable! 🏀💀🥶

@jeweljk #soulcitycafe Hope you are doing well.

90’s really was a vibe

A concept design from 1969 of a nuclear-proof city below Manhattan.

“This sports BETTING trend has become an epidemic.” Eli Thompson warns many students are losing serious money. “I’ve seen friends lose $400 or $500 — not just their own money, but money set aside for college or a car. And it’s affecting school, sports, and their social lives.”

@iAnonPatriot Let's see it move drywall sheets down stairs into a basement without breaking any corners or scratching any walls. Then it might be useful. Til then, humans rule.

Boston Dynamics shows off their humanoid robot doing backflips.. We really are at the end of times. 😭😭

Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world and contains more fresh water than all 5 Great Lakes combined. What do you think is down there? brilliantmaps.com/lake-baikal-vs…