Matt Gardan

@WUTangKids Imagine going to a STATE dinner in a country that has total zero tolerance for drugs.... and thinking "I'll go high. ohhh this edible looks fun"

Bro is flying

@MCCCANM Also very important: pilots regularly train this emergency* in their SIMs so they’re generally very well equipped for these types of scenarios *engine failure on takeoff. No one ever trains for that type of suicidal moment.

An honest question I got a few times on this post was along the lines of: “What if they hit the person & lost the engine after they couldn’t stop on the runway anymore? Could they still fly?” The answer is a reassuring YES. To be certified by the FAA (& Europe), a jet must demonstrate that it can lose an engine right at or after the speed it can no longer stop on the runway. We call this speed “V1”, or sometimes “Decision Speed”. Once past V1, the option to abort (also called reject) the takeoff – and stop on the remaining runway – is gone. You might still choose to abort, but only for drastic reasons. Like, say, a wing falls off & there is zero chance it will fly. If you do, you are going off the end of the runway on what’s called a “Runway Excursion”, which is a fun way of saying we’re going into the dirt at high speed. That’s a very bad thing for airplanes. It’s safer to take the jet into the air on the remaining engine in this scenario. The jets must have the performance to be able to do so. You can’t start a takeoff with just one engine…it will run out of runway before it has enough speed to fly. In theory, I suppose you could do that on a really, really long runway though. But you can lose an engine at an already high speed & still takeoff. We make calculations for this on every single flight, to ensure it can be done. In fact, in the summer months we sometimes have to delay or even cancel flights because the heat makes the air thinner at the surface, reducing the single engine performance to the point that we can’t guarantee the jet will clear terrain on a single engine. It could do it on both engines, but we don’t gamble & must assume the worst when planning for every takeoff. Yes, every single one. This is the situation we spend the most time briefing as we get ready to push back from the gate. In some circumstances, a special route must be flown. The normal departure route works fine on two engines, but with just one you would hit terrain. This route is built by a company the airline contracts with; it can be relatively simple, like “at 2 miles from the runway, turn left to heading 340°”, or it can be very complex & require a lot of precise navigation. We build this route into the computer so we’re ready to fly it if the worst happens. Not all airports have one…places like Kansas City don’t really need it, you’ll be fine just flying runway heading, there is no terrain. But places like DEN, LAS & PHX definitely need it. Losing an engine after V1 is obviously not fun. The thrust becomes asymmetric, trying to push the nose away from the running engine. You have to use the rudder to counteract this. The climb rate becomes painfully slow, but it will still climb (not in every weather condition…as I said, if we run the numbers & find it won’t climb enough, we’ll delay or cancel the flight). Keeping the nose pointed at just the right angle becomes pretty labor intensive…deviate just a bit & airspeed bleeds off, which is bad because we’re demanding maximum performance near stall speeds. Or the airspeed increases, which means you aren’t climbing anymore & may not clear terrain. Some very precise flying is required. Still, that needle can be threaded, and this scenario is something we practice every time we go back for simulator training (varies, but about every 9 months). As I said, it’s also something we brief & set the computers up for, on every single flight. Religiously. The autopilot can eventually be engaged to help alleviate the workload, but not until you get the jet on a good path. Once stable & away from danger, we’ll probably drone around for a bit to get checklists done. There’s a lot of them & it takes time. Then we’ll come back & land. That part isn’t actually very difficult… …unless you have to go around. Then it’s kind of the same thing all over again, but this time you are starting before the runway even begins & you have extra speed & altitude. I’m out of space. Hope that helps!

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🧵Airline captain. 15-20 years somewhere.. Age 50. Senior. Life is good.. mortgage.. boat.. kids in college…. Making legit good coin finally! the early days was making minimum wage flying Saab 340s. 15 years till mandatory retirement. 💨Poof… Company ceases. Now what?

I explored an alternate timeline where France defeated Britain at Trafalgar, and North America east of the Mississippi became permanent French territory. Over time, the continent evolved into a French-speaking world. Enjoy:

205 years ago today, Napoleon Bonaparte died on a tiny British prison island in the middle of the South Atlantic. He was 51. He had ruled most of Europe. And he changed the world so thoroughly that you are still living inside the systems he built. Start with the obvious one. The Napoleonic Code. He commissioned it in 1800, sat in on the drafting sessions personally, argued with the lawyers, and pushed it through in four years. Equality before the law. Property rights. Religious freedom. The end of feudal privilege. It is still the basis of civil law in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, most of Latin America, Quebec, Louisiana, and chunks of the Middle East and Africa. About a third of the planet writes contracts using rules a Corsican artillery officer wrote between battles. He sold Louisiana to Thomas Jefferson in 1803 for 15 million dollars. Roughly four cents an acre. It doubled the size of the United States overnight. Without that deal there is no St. Louis, no New Orleans as an American city, no Lewis and Clark, no Manifest Destiny. The American century starts with Napoleon needing cash for a war. He invaded Egypt in 1798 with an army and, weirdly, 167 scientists, mathematicians, and artists. They found the Rosetta Stone. That single slab is the reason we can read hieroglyphs at all. Egyptology as a field exists because Napoleon brought scholars to a war. He built the Bank of France, which still runs French monetary policy. He created the lycée system that still educates French teenagers. He shoved the metric system across Europe at sword-point until it stuck. He emancipated the Jews of every territory he conquered, tearing down ghetto walls in Rome, Venice, Frankfurt. He abolished serfdom in Poland. He standardized road networks, civil registries, and tax codes that European governments still operate from. And then there's the soldiering. He fought around 60 major battles and won most of them. Austerlitz, in 1805, against the combined Russian and Austrian empires, is still taught at West Point as one of the closest things to a tactically perfect battle ever fought. He was outnumbered, baited the enemy onto ground he had pre-selected, and broke them in a single afternoon. Three emperors took the field that morning. Only one walked off it on his own terms. He slept four hours a night. He read constantly, dictated letters to four secretaries at the same time, and personally signed off on everything from cavalry boot specs to the seating chart at the Comédie-Française. Wellington, the man who finally beat him at Waterloo, was asked decades later who the greatest general in history was. He answered without hesitating. "In this age, in past ages, in any age, Napoleon." He lost, in the end, because he could not stop. Russia in 1812 swallowed his army whole. Six hundred thousand men marched in. Maybe a tenth came back. He abdicated in 1814, escaped from Elba, ruled France again for 100 days, and lost it all for good in a wheat field in Belgium in June 1815. The British shipped him to St. Helena, a volcanic dot 1,200 miles off the African coast, and waited. He spent six years there dictating his memoirs, gardening, complaining about the dampness, and quietly rewriting his own legend so effectively that Europe spent the next century arguing about him. He died on May 5, 1821, during a storm so violent it ripped up the willow tree he liked to read under. His last words trailed off into fever. France. The army. Joséphine. Nineteen years later France brought him home. Two million people stood in the snow to watch the coffin go by. He was a tyrant. He was a reformer. He started wars that killed somewhere between three and six million people. He also wrote the rulebook that a third of humanity still lives under. Most people who try to conquer the world are forgotten inside a generation. Napoleon has been dead for 205 years and we are still arguing about him because we are still using his furniture.

The way the United States closed the Strait of Hormuz.

@TheArsenalTom Bro. I wouldn’t put too much faith in an LLMs opinion. ESP not perplexity

Rice has been outstanding, but being above Harry Kane this season is mad 😂

@HamaChinhoi @AnythingArs_ This. And injuries. And not wanting to blood the boy and damage his confidence. Yesterday was perfect because it’s given him huge confidence that he’s can build on for next season

Fulham also didn’t show up yesterday. They played into Arsenal’s hands, showed no control nor intent. MLS hasn’t been tested fully with quality opposition like Atletico or Man City. No doubt he is a top player and can excel a lot in that midfield. It’s too early to give him much praise. He still has a lot of work to be done. He will come good eventually.

There's a conversation to be had about Mikel Arteta after yesterday and I want to have it properly. Not the reactionary "he's not a good coach" version. That's too easy and frankly too lazy. The man has built one of the most tactically disciplined sides in world football. You don't do that by accident. But something happened against Fulham that we need to talk about honestly. The moment Lewis-Skelly was put in midfield, his actual natural position, everything just opened up. You could feel it almost immediately. The passes had more intent. The game had more tempo. There was less hesitation on the ball. Things just made sense in a way they hadn't for a few weeks. But here is the part that really told the story. Look at Declan Rice. Actually look at him. Because yesterday he looked FREE. Not doing too much. Not covering for everyone around him. Not carrying the midfield on his back. Just playing. Stepping forward. Choosing his moments. Getting on the ball with purpose. That version of Rice is terrifying for any opponent. And that didn't come from nowhere. It came because the player beside him actually belonged in that space. Lewis-Skelly covered ground, won duels, broke lines, carried the ball forward and did it all with the confidence of someone who has finally been told "just be yourself." 97% pass accuracy. 79 touches. 6 ground duels won. 6 ball recoveries. 4 passes into the final third. At 19 years old. In a must-win Premier League game. Ian Wright was excited just seeing his name in the lineup before kickoff. And the boy delivered everything and more. Now here's where the frustration comes in and it's legitimate frustration. We've known this. This is not new information. Lewis-Skelly has been playing left back, learning, adapting, doing the job without complaining. But you can always tell when a player is not in their natural position. Certain things don't come instinctively. Put him in midfield and suddenly he carries the ball, takes risks, plays forward, doesn't hide. The difference is not subtle. It's obvious. And it's not even the first time we've seen this pattern with Arteta. Remember Zinchenko? A midfielder by trade forced into left back. Yes there were moments it worked beautifully in build-up. But you could also see the defensive gaps, the physical toll, the injuries that kept coming. And every time you'd find yourself asking the same question. Why force it when the player already has a position that suits them better? You could also see Zubimendi slowing down in recent weeks. The midfield wasn't always flowing. Things looked forced. And then this one adjustment comes against Fulham and everything clicks and you're sitting there thinking… so we had this all along? That is where the annoyance is coming from. Not anger. Not panic. Just that quiet, nagging feeling that this could have happened earlier. That we may have left something on the table in certain games this season. Because when Arteta gets it right, like yesterday, this team doesn't just look good. It looks COMPLETE. Balanced, confident, dangerous without forcing it. Clinical without being chaotic. The issue was never tactics. Never structure. It's trust. Trusting players in their real positions. Letting their natural strengths breathe instead of trying to manufacture solutions that the squad is already providing. And here's the thing. There are three Premier League games left. There is a Champions League semi-final second leg on Tuesday against Atletico Madrid at the Emirates with everything absolutely on the line. This is not the time for experiments. This is the time to back what you saw yesterday with everything you have. MLS in midfield on Tuesday Mikel. We've seen enough now. The answer is right in front of you. Trust the boy. Trust the process you built. And let this team show Europe what it's actually capable of. 🔴⚪

The Arsenal

@WelBeast If he made over $7m in 5 years he don’t need a go fund me

If he sets up a GofundMe to raise the £2.35M I’ll gladly chip in and rally others to do so as well. No one should go to prison for making the game affordable and accessible to everyone. The only reason he’s going to jail is because he took profits off greedy broadcasters.

@TheRetroVay Grelish brace

Arsenal 3-0 Fulham Everton 2-1 Man City

@TheFalseNein @TheArsenalTom Just like the best Barolo’s you don’t get them every year. You have to wait about 4 vintages for the good ones

Calafiori only gives you one game a month, but that game? Absolute cinema.

@TheCartelDel China had this issue a Century ago when the UK flooded them with Opium. They have long memories…

China would have had this shit cleaned up and executed every dealer before lunchtime

@WhiteHouse What an embarrassment this account and that office has become to the rest of the world. What a time to be alive. Watching an empire collapse so vividly in 4 short years. #theChineseCentury

President Trump saying WINNING for 1 hour. 🔁 Can't stop, won't stop.

@SovereignAwaken @realjakemercer_ Time to overthrow the fat orange clad everyone has been worshipping

I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again: Modern society is really the result of Christian morals that have been untethered from God, resulting in moral sensitivities without metaphysical grounding to go alongside it. What’s left is ego, and a desire for the world without meaningful sacrifice. We pretend to follow the moral code of our Christian roots, but we’ve detached them from responsibility, turning adults into spoilt, petulant children. Truth is no longer an unshakeable feature of reality, but something that can be moulded by ideologues and false shepherds to suit their ends.

Gen-Z women on college campus: Eat the rich. Empathy for the poor. Make homes affordable. DEI for minorities. Compassion for all races, genders, and orientations. Gen-Z women on dating apps: Must be white. Must be 6’3”. Must be handsome. Must be rich. Must be a homeowner.

@realjakemercer_ It’s incredible how many times you’ve had to explain this quite simple and very valid point. Maybe you should have drawn a diagram for those at the back ??

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@rudekyoni999 Can you share the link to his podcast pls? super interesting

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