Brian
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@bd_03
Strive for perfection and if you fail settle for excellence
LIVE | The bureaucracy around BEE policy created 'fertile ground for corruption' - Saki Macozoma brnw.ch/21x0TBM
The F-35 was supposed to be unkillable. That was the whole point. Lockheed Martin spent thirty years and four hundred billion dollars, the most expensive weapons programme in human history, building an aircraft that the enemy simply could not see. Not on radar. Not on infrared. Not on anything. The F-35 was not just a fighter jet. It was a theological statement. America’s way of saying: we have moved beyond the reach of your missiles, your sensors, and your prayers. Iran apparently didn’t get the memo. Somewhere over Iranian airspace on March 19, 2026, an IRST system, infrared search and track, the kind of sensor your grandmother could probably explain, looked up, found the F-35, and locked on. Not because Iranian engineers are geniuses. Because the F-35, it turns out, is extremely hot. All that engine. All that thrust. All that carefully sculpted stealth geometry, and the bloody thing glows like a kettle. The heat signature data Iran now holds is not just embarrassing. It is a gift that keeps giving. To Moscow. To Beijing. To every procurement ministry on the planet that has been quietly wondering whether to spend the money on systems designed to kill this aircraft. The answer, as of this week, is yes. And here is the bit that should really worry the Pentagon. You can patch software. You can redesign coatings. You cannot reprogramme a pilot’s brain. Every F-35 driver who takes off from here on knows, actually knows, that someone down there might be able to see them. That changes everything about how they fly. Caution replaces aggression. Hesitation replaces instinct. Four hundred billion dollars. And in the end, it was done in by a heat sensor. Tremendous. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1
LIVE | 'I would like to see a country as obsessed with young children’s ability to read as with matric results.' - Gwarube brnw.ch/21x0Ss8
I’ll never forget when amaBeret launched in South Africa ka ‘09 and announced themselves by arriving at clubs and moering everybody 😭 Motheo Landane phoned me crying, asking that I phone my dad cause they spilled his drinks, klaaped him and said pepper spray for good measure 😭
The best adidas kits might not be at the World Cup.
What's the best trick for negotiating a good deal at a car dealership?
Why can't SADC countries come together and build an Oil Refinery Plant in Angola and build pipe lines that service all these countries instead of spending millions of dollars buying fuel in the Middle East What stops Africans from doing this?.
"Massive investment in AI contributed basically zero to US economic growth last year," per Goldman Sachs
Destroying each other’s oil infrastructure is self-defeating. The United States will barely feel it. It has its own oil. Israel is not dependent on Gulf energy either. But the countries of the Middle East will live with the consequences long after this war ends. If there was ever a time to set aside divisions, it is now. Fragmentation weakens the region. Unity and restraint protect its future.
