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@Brad_Setser It's amazing how so many people reading the story comment "Omg, China is going to overtake the whole world!!" and not "China is putting itself in an incredibly dangerous and unsustainable position"

My work on this earth may be nearly over -- or at least my work of the last 4ys could be in its final chapter. The FT's Big Read is on the China sock 2.0 (one of my favorite phrases) and the pink paper endorsed the concept of "shadow reserves"! 1/

@Caligirl_613 @_shiopan We had an opportunity with COVID but for some reason everyone wanted to spend billions saving them.

@_shiopan she voted for Brexit and now is excited abt getting an Irish passport....these ppl are such fucking morons who deserve to suffer the worst fate

my mum bragging to me about how her husband cashing in on his Irish heritage and getting an Irish passport means now they can travel, live and work around Europe easily after SHE voted to take that right away from me and my future children is so fucking sick I need a moment🙂

@PierreD6466 @TheGriftReport Oh, bless your heart. She sleeps soundly in the knowledge that she was doing the right thing by calling out a potential racist. There's no higher moral action.

RE: "A children’s mental health worker shut her down with the racism claim, which “effectively silenced” her concerns." *** MESSAGE To the Mental Health Worker *** We hope you are suffering on a daily basis from guilt and anxiety. What we really want to know is how have you made amends over your cock up ? ie: HAVE YOU LEARNED YOUR LESSON AND GOT TO GRIPS WITH COMMON SENSE & ABANDONED THE DANGEROUS POLITICAL CORRECTNESS LOOKING GLASS INFUSED W. WOKE & DEI LEFTIST IDEOLOGY ? Let this be a lesson to all you leftists out there judging any matter on the bollox basis of the accuser's & accused epidermis pigmentation...

@NicoleGrajewski You just have to read the report into his conduct as speaker to realise what an unpleasant, dishonest little turd the man is.

Say what you will about the monarchy—I’ve said plenty myself—but few things are more pathetic than watching a former British MP bankrolled by the MeK insert themselves into this debate and posture as if they occupy the moral high ground.

@C_S_Skeptic @aakashgupta It's not like the nitrogen goes anywhere. Scrub the CO2, add O2 and it's fine. Much like nuclear submarines do now.

@aakashgupta Why do people continuously confuse "oxygen" with "breathable air"? Take a chemistry lesson for once in your life!

Lunar soil is 45% oxygen by mass. Almost half the ground astronauts walk on is breathable air, locked inside chemical bonds with iron, titanium, and aluminum. Blue Origin's Blue Alchemist reactor heats crushed Moon rock to 1,600°C, turning it into a molten conductor. Then it runs an electric current through the melt. Oxygen ions migrate to one electrode and bubble off as gas. Iron, silicon, and aluminum collect at the other. The economics are where this gets wild. Delivering one kilogram of anything to the lunar surface costs roughly $1.2 million. A single astronaut breathes about 0.84 kg of oxygen per day. That's over $300 million per year per person just to keep breathing, shipped from Earth. This reactor doesn't just solve the breathing problem. The metals that come out of the same process are construction-grade iron and aluminum. The silicon gets refined into radiation-resistant solar cells. The glass covers those solar cells to protect them for 10+ years on the surface. One machine, running on solar power, producing air, building materials, electronics, and rocket fuel from dirt. Blue Origin estimates this could cut lunar landing costs by 60% and reduce fuel cell mass by 70%. Their facility in LA already spans 60,000 square feet of lab space with 65 researchers. They're running an autonomous demo in simulated lunar conditions this year. The real constraint on a permanent Moon base was never getting there. It was staying there without a $1.2 million-per-kilogram supply chain from Earth. This reactor breaks that constraint at the molecular level.

@ApoStructura Twitter uses will look at you with a straight face and tell you that they know more about airliners than the CEO of the most successful airline in Europe.

Ryanair’s CEO will look at you with a straight face and tell you that this increases fuel burn by 2%

@MatthewTorbitt Lewis Macleod is the absolute summit of Trump impressions youtube.com/shorts/3yXsNbL…

Is it just me or is Trump really hard to pull off? He provides satirists with plenty of lines and choice phrases but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone do a good impression of him ever!

@paulg It always surprised me that they took the gift at face value and never thought to x-ray it before putting it in the ambassador's office.

TIL the USSR concealed a bug in a hand-carved Great Seal given as a "gift" in 1945 to the US ambassador that was only discovered by accident in 1951. The bug was designed by Theremin (!) and had no power source or active electronic components. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing…

@erREKT69420 @DiscountedTr That's like asking which is worse: Ebola or Marburg?

@glyphkeeper @DiscountedTr Who do you think is more reviled by so many? The social-climber SPAC shill wanka of Sri Lanka Chamath Palihapitiya aka the Arriviste of Aman, the Parvenu of Piana, OR Jason Calacanis who rinds us he us a friend of Elon, that Jason.

> Balding finance bro cosplaying Steve Jobs in hoodies that cost more than most cars > Built Facebook's dopamine slot machines then acts shocked people got addicted > Launched six SPACs that crashed harder than his combover in a windstorm > Virgin Galactic down ninety percent while he cashed out at the top like clockwork > Clover Health under DOJ investigation for Medicare fraud while he played dumb > Said nobody gives a shit about Uyghur genocide then backtracked faster than his hairline > Left his wife for an Instagram thot while lecturing podcasters about family values > Fake tan makes him look like a melted Ken doll who discovered Bitcoin > Called himself the next Warren Buffett while running pump and dump schemes > Social Capital returned investor money after performance so bad it made Theranos look competent > This doughy fuck got rich destroying attention spans then complains about moral decay

@rachaelbereba @BrentSwancer 6'2" and same problem. I found pendulum squats helped but also belt squats because they don't put any pressure on your back.

@BrentSwancer You're brutally honest 😂

Gym Bros 💪🏽 What's that exercise(s) that gave you massive quads?

@InfraScaler @antoguerrera To be fair, I actually warmed up to JCJ a lot more after seeing him sozzled.

@glyphkeeper @antoguerrera Only drunkards and children can't lie.

Unforgettable

@virtuallymvp @FredLambert Of course they're different; the first picture is showing how it should have looked. Nobody would have taken a picture of the actual PCB prior to discovering the network card had been removed.

@FredLambert Nice try. Different pcb board. Mystery solved.

Insane Tesla story coming out of Norway today. You probably forgot about this weird Tesla crash from 2023 where a Model Y taxi had two bizarre 'sudden acceleration' crashes in just a few seconds. The driver claimed the car accelerated on its own and he was pressing the brake pedal. Tesla claimed its data shows he was pressing the accelerator. The driver was charged, but the charges were later dropped for lack of evidence, and there are indeed some serious problems with the evidence. While Tesla did share some telemetry data, the automaker claimed that the last 6 seconds were somehow missing. It turned out that someone went inside the vehicle, opened up the onboard computer, and removed the network card, which an expert believes would hold critical evidence. Everyone involved claims not to know where the card is.

@SQUlDGAMES Gets on the jet (a Tornado on the ground) and there's a Hawker Hunter in the background...

The funniest thing is being able to tell Project Hail Mary was filmed in the UK 😭😭

@DanNeidle The "cantankerous git" routine that both Farage and Yusef deploy in response to any challenging question is getting really tedious now.

Here’s the video.

I hope @Nigel_Farage retracts this false statement. I did not say Mr Tice paid the full amount. I said we don’t know what tax Mr Tice and his offshore trust paid. And the “little bit more” is an invention.

@IndyVoices @nakedvix Thank goodness she doesn't only eat beluga caviar. Just because parents give in to fussy children doesn't mean everybody else has to.

"My nine-year-old has to have the exact same lunch each day, and will only eat things that are beige…" Read @nakedvix on the problem with the government's crackdown on school dinners independent.co.uk/voices/school-…

@UndecidedValor @MCCCANM Isn't the picture of a Hawk/T-45 cockpit?

@MCCCANM You didn’t mention the T-45 but they also have the cords

The “wavy” lines in the canopy glass (plastic) are not antennas…they are explosive cords. In the movies, an ejection is preceded by the jet’s canopy being blown off. “Goose” got killed in Top Gun because it didn’t happen fast enough & the seat hit the canopy. Some jets took a different approach, though. Rather than jettison the canopy, which is complicated & can fail, why not just blow it up? Shatter it into a thousand pieces that won’t hurt the pilot. This can shorten the ejection sequence, too, as you don’t need to allow as much time for the canopy to clear the ejection path (we’re talking fractions of a second, but still…). Anyway, this is the design they came up with. It’s known as a “Canopy Fracturing System”. It’s automatically triggered when you pull the ejection handle, but can be manually triggered as well without ejecting. I suppose that might be useful if smoke is accumulating in the cockpit. Now, jets that blow the whole canopy off instead of blowing it up have a somewhat complicated system to accomplish this. The system has to release the hooks locking the canopy onto the jet; it often does this by pushing hot gas from an explosive through tubes that push the hooks back (there are several methods, though). Kind of like firing a gun. Both systems can fail, though the explosive cord is considered very reliable…they put it in the F-35 (and I had it on the T-6). As a backup, the top of the ejection seat has a little pointy end on it. In theory, this point should hit the canopy before your head does if the canopy is still there in an ejection, shattering it before the canopy shatters your spine. I’d guess that has happened before, but I can’t recall any examples. Older jets sometimes got around all of this by just ejecting you downward. A hole would open up in the floor & the seat departs that way. The disadvantage here is obvious…you’ll have a higher minimum safe ejection altitude. This system still exists in the B-52. The seats back then were not quite as sophisticated as they are now… Today’s seats detect your orientation. If you eject while inverted, the seat will fire just enough to get you out of the jet, then right itself to point upward & fire again. When the seat has done its job, it automatically cuts the belts & straps that held you in & departs. The seat itself contains the parachute…so when you strap in, you’re strapping on the parachute…obviously, the seat doesn’t cut that, it’s the parting gift. The parachute has a barometric sensor that automatically deploys it if below a set altitude. If flying over high terrain (higher than the standard set altitude), you can rig it to immediately deploy the parachute on seat separation. The parachute also has an emergency oxygen bottle. This is not automatic, but pulling a cord will start the short flow of oxygen (I think it’s like 4 or 5 minutes, can’t remember). The hose for your oxygen mask is connected to the jet but is designed to break-away from the jet at the connection in an ejection; a smaller hose connects to a point on the parachute harness that will provide the emergency oxygen. The seat also contains a small survival kit & may be fitted with an automatically inflating raft for water landings. These will dangle underneath you as you descend. Ok, that’s about all I can recall off the top of my head. The ejection sequence is very, very short…pull the handle & you’ll be gone before you know it. In two-seat jets, the back seat goes first to prevent them from being burned by the rocket on the front seat. There is a sequencing lever in the jet that allows pilots to select if both seats will fire if any ejection handle is pulled, though…so you can select that each seat must pull its own handle. Useful if doing orientation rides for non-pilots…you don’t want them ejecting you, too.

@portraitinflesh This is exactly why British voters get the politicians they deserve.

1. £200 per night for a family of four is hardly unheard-of extravagance; 2. This "Starmer putting his feet up while the world hangs in the balance" narrative is unadulterated bullshit. It's *2026*: if his attention is urgently demanded, he can be reached more or less instantly.

@MichaelRosenYes @wils97460 Repeating something that was wrong doesn't make it right, just because you want it to be.

@wils97460 Not what the people at the gate said. They said it was since Brexit.

Ha! I’ve just been refused entry onto a plane from Stansted to Bologna because my passport issue date is March 2016. The expiry date is August 2026 but the rule is 10 years from issue date. Another Brexit benefit. Apparently. Go home now.