A Mind is a Terrible Thing

@kmixbye If you have a Kindle, use Libby to get library books.

I just learned that books in an E-reader are as expensive as physical books. then what is the freaking point?

@kmixbye Portability. I can have 100 books on my Kindle that I take everywhere in the world with me. I can also borrow ebooks from the library from the comforts of home. I was a skeptic until I got the Kindle Paperwhite.

@ryanscottborman @hpierrejacques TSA is no better or worse than private security. It's all security theater.

@dp270 @hpierrejacques It was a poor choice. Private security is more competent and more accountable

Wow found out today that SFO has its own private security after one of my founders in SF said "What security issues? It took me 20 minutes today." SF is truly different lol

@ryanscottborman @hpierrejacques Yes, something called 9/11 caused the way it is now.

@hpierrejacques The feds try to screw airports that do this so it’s rarer than it should be.

@_ROB_29 Had to? I still have all my records, cassettes, and CD.

If people want to know why Gen X is always mad, it's because we had to replace our record collections with a tape collection and then replace that with a CD collection that we slowly replaced with an MP3 collection and now need a subscription to listen to music.

IT GETS WORSE 🚨 New Epstein files show Trump was DIRECTLY INVOLVED in human trafficking. RT this and let’s make the viral.

@MeachamDr @gtconway3d Guy wins the internet today.

Admiral Yamamoto, seen here realizing he’d totally forgot to tell Trump he was going to attack Pearl Harbor.

@hpierrejacques Basically pre 9/11 airport security.

“Taiwan wants to build “Lite Carriers” with no Towers, no escorts, a Vulcan gun, and a top speed of 48 knots. Seeks American expertise”

🚨🚨BOMBSHELL: "Jane Doe #4 alleged to the FBI that Epstein abused her when she was 14, and that trump abused her when she was 15. Kahn, Epstein's accountant, testified that the Epstein estate settled with Jane Doe #4 for BOTH Epstein and trump." HOLY SHIT.🤬

@ThrillaRilla369 Yup. Drove one for 40+ years.

Be honest... could you jump into a stick-shift car and drive it without a problem right now? 🚘

@RonFilipkowski It tracks. The administration is only staffed by pathological liars.

Im shocked that Hegseth would lie about this. nbcnews.com/politics/donal…

@bigseb31213 I can imagine all the intel collection assets and personnel they have there. Getting to collect real signatures and data they can't get in peacetime.

the Chinese are going to get absolutely incredible amounts of sensor data from Iran stupidest, worst planned, most incompetent war in american history

@osintPk COBRA BALL deploys there whenever the North Koreans are ready to launch something. It's very normal.

🚨 Something very interesting is happening in East Asia... A USAF RC-135S Cobra Ball flew along the Korean Peninsula. This aircraft is not normal, it is used to track ballistic missiles and monitor launches in real time. When Cobra Ball is active, it usually means someone is watching for missile activity. The timing right now makes this even more serious.

@JohnCulver689 @ewong CIA certainly spent a lot of money and effort to shore up that belief.

@ewong There were quite a few senior US military who asserted for most of the past five years that China intended to go to war by 2027, if not sooner, and some others who thought it useful as framing for their agendas.

There were a few mid-level US officials who asserted publicly years ago that Xi had set a hard deadline of 2027 for a PLA invasion of Taiwan, but most serious analysts saw no evidence of that, nor did the US intelligence community ever have a consensus assessment saying that.

@ewong It was always a guestimate based on "gut feeling" to align with what the politicians wanted to hear. DoD had to justify spending all its time and effort to update OPLAN 5077, and the IC had to justify all the fancy analytic efforts they were doing on the topic.

@jorfolle I'm reading Fire On The Lake, and the description of the differences between the NLF cadres and South Vietnames officials pretty much were on the mark about this.

late war ARVN was a truly incredible institution

Whoahhhh ANNNDDDD her approval rating just slipped by a couple of points again…

@SR_Planespotter @haylen630 There are systems like the British Starstreak which are basically flachettes guided via SACLOS that have no exhaust and plume. But they are more low altitude SAMs.

@haylen630 I'm not sure how on earth you can shoot a missile without a trail or heat signature.

F-35s DAS can detect all sorts of missile launches, from even 800 miles away, I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't have gotten a warning and made no defensive maneuvers?