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@adamscochran Did you actually read the article?

Wow! Leaks to the NYT claiming Trump didn’t cancel the strikes due to UAE and Qatari requests but due to the Pentagon! Claiming Iran is becoming effective at tracking US air operations and using air defences. Hugely embarrassing and likely means aggression won’t bring them to the table!

@MeanMrGene @SpaceX They have not attempted this yet due to safety considerations. It will be Flight Test 14 at the earliest that they will make an attempt.

@SpaceX Zero successful land landings of the Starship upper stage …. But ok. 👌🏻

Starship’s twelfth flight test will debut the next generation Starship and Super Heavy vehicles, powered by the next evolution of the Raptor engine and launching from a newly designed pad at Starbase. The launch is targeted as early as Tuesday, May 19 → spacex.com/launches/stars…

@StarshipGazer @MarcusHouse

I have created an emergency car repair fundraiser. I have been unable to drive for the past 5 days and still cannot drive or work until I can get my car repaired. Thank you so so much to anyone who can donate: gofundme.com/f/s2auq-starsh…

@alldrunkdads @sharghzadeh What are some examples of this?

Tiktok's censorship is absurd. What a joke that app has become. X remains the only platform without a censorship regime.

@42irrationalist @akarlin ... The map is from the US State Department for native English speakers that they are training.

@peranten1 @akarlin ok so why is he posting an inaccurate map then

Map of FSI's language difficulty levels. When considering whether learn a language, it's best to not just consider its use case but to also divide that by how much time you would expect to spend on it.

@42irrationalist @akarlin Considering that he's a native Russian speaker... yes.

@peranten1 @akarlin idk, i bet Anatoly also had an easier time learning Russian

@42irrationalist @akarlin This is for native English speakers.

@akarlin the map is all wrong, learning Russian was easy for me, learning English was hard tho

@FreightAlley Jay Leno did a good episode on it recently: youtube.com/watch?v=BCXSq1…

I’ve been critical of the Semi in the past, but I’m becoming more optimistic looking at Musk’s track record of eventually getting it right. The Semi timeline pushed out 7 years late, but I’m confident they wouldn’t ramp production without addressing the major issues that concerned fleet buyers.

@yarbatman It's to pressure Iran indirectly through countries who rely on oil and LNG coming through the Strait, namely the PRC and India.

The only explanation I can come up with for Trump's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is that he desperately wants the US to be cut in on the future "toll" revenue. A few things to consider: -By definition, a blockade does not reopen the strait. -Iran had already blockaded itself by closing the strait to most vessels in the first place. -The oil exports Iran was sustaining do not create significant revenues because of US sanctions. -If revenues were the issue, Trump would have cancelled General License U ahead of the April 16 deadline and issued new sanctions targeting Iran's Chinese customers. Arguably, the blockade announcement puts more pressure on the Gulf states than it does on Iran. No Gulf country had called for a blockade and I suspect the announcement came as a complete surprise. The terms that Trump will insist upon to end his blockade and the terms that Iran will insist upon to reopen the strait may be similar. Now two countries are trying to demonstrate their control over the strait, leaving the GCC and Iraq in a compromised position.

@yarbatman en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_th…

Iranian leaders have achieved operational success in externalizing the costs of this war. But their *strategy* still failed because they did not anticipate three things. First, that U.S. allies, including the Gulf states that have so lavishly fetted Trump, would have essentially no influence over the decisions he makes. Second, that neither the U.S. president nor his cabinet would care about unprecedented disruptions in the global economy and would make it known publicly that they don’t care. Third, that the U.S. president could express glee about the prospect of endless escalation and the commission of war crimes and not a single part of the famous American system of checks and balances would block him from intensifying this idiotic, ruinous war. In the face of Israeli and American aggression, Iran chose a perfectly rational, if risky, strategy. They managed to make it work operationally. But Trump’s pursuit of this war is fundamentally irrational. He is a mad king. Rex interregnum.

@CSI_Starbase @AmericanHodl3r Were you concerned about their missle capability reaching a level which gave them escalatory dominance similar to North Korea's artillery capability (in range of Seoul). When this umbrella was established they then moved towards a nuclear weapon.

@AmericanHodl3r They have never built a nuclear weapon and the Trump administration has confirmed they were not doing so.

Here’s some important food for thought for every human being on this planet. Is it moral to collectively punish an entire civilian population for decisions made by a ruling class that represents less than 0.5 % of their country? The answer matters. Because the precedent we set today becomes the rules of engagement tomorrow. We are actively rewriting the script that could one day be used against our own families, our own cities, our own children. In other words: would dropping 2,000 lb bombs in the middle of New York, Los Angeles, London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Seoul, Sydney, Moscow, Beijing, Tehran, Damascus, Cairo, or any other city on Earth be an acceptable way to force a government to capitulate? The question isn’t about any one conflict. It’s about the standard we are willing to live and die by when the tables inevitably turn.

@NASAAdmin It would good to have a countdown to launch on NASA's site or at least on the Artemis page. This could help build interest and viewership.

Tomorrow, we launch. At sunset tonight, Artemis II waits on the pad, ready to carry astronauts potentially farther than any humans have traveled in more than half a century. The next era of exploration begins.

@autumn_hues @KhoDysseus @sharghzadeh The WASP cultural and intellectual "soup" that these converts came from brought unique insight in their interaction with Islam.

@peranten1 @KhoDysseus @sharghzadeh So what is the point?

Orientalist WASPs are God’s most treasured creatures

@AirPowerNEW1 As you mention, these three objectives were stated in Trump's February 28 speech announcing the operation. pbs.org/newshour/world…

I don't claim to have the deep expertise of Jakub but unless one just woke up from a coma, the primary military objectives of Epic Fury have been clearly laid out by those executing the campaign. Several times. They were laid out in the Feb. 28 address from POTUS and highlighted by Admiral Cooper a few days ago as well. That is what the sorties and combat power is being devoted to accomplish.

@KhoDysseus @sharghzadeh You may be missing the point.

@sharghzadeh Jonathan Brown is Muslim lol.

@sharghzadeh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation…

We are returning to history. The post war liberal era is over.

@areyouawitchor2 Index funds are a good starting point. Passive income without the risk.

I feel it’s almost impossible to explain stocks and investing to someone who doesn’t really do it. Firstly, the idea that you can accumulate such massive sums of income passively is mind boggling. Second, the realization it serves as a sort of gambling addiction for a good portion of the ppl who do it means it has a very insane culture attached

@_dshap GLNK is also on NYSE Arca.

Interesting • ICE (Parent company of NYSE)-Chainlink partnership (Aug 2025) for market data • Pilots w/ BNY & Citi using CCIP for cross-chain settlements • Bitwise Chainlink ETF on NYSE Arca (Jan 14, 2026) • CME Chainlink futures (Feb 2026) • DTCC pilots w/ Chainlink for on-chain data

@J1MMYJAMJAM @RALee85 See the preceding paragraph in the screenshot...

I have a real hard time believing the "instead of supply tanks" part, seeing as the majority of aftermath sats have shown the strikes were on storage tanks. Storage tanks, tank cars and pumping stations. Which to believe? Words or verifiable evidence? I don't doubt the helping hand part. Limited hangout vibes.

"C.I.A. director, Mr. Ratcliffe, had consistently protected his own officers’ efforts for Ukraine. He kept the agency’s presence in the country at full strength; funding for its programs there even increased... But a parallel weapon had remained in place —permission for C.I.A. and military officers to share targeting intelligence and provide other assistance for Ukrainian drone strikes against crucial components of the Russian defense industrial base. These included factories manufacturing “energetics” — chemicals used in explosives — as well as petroleum-industry facilities. In June, beleaguered U.S. military officers met with their C.I.A. counterparts to help craft a more concerted Ukrainian campaign. It would focus exclusively on oil refineries and, instead of supply tanks, would target the refineries’ Achilles’ heel: A C.I.A. expert had identified a type of coupler that was so hard to replace or repair that a refinery would remain offline for weeks. (To avoid backlash, they would not supply weapons and other equipment that Mr. Vance’s allies wanted for other priorities.) As the campaign began to show results, Mr. Ratcliffe discussed it with Mr. Trump. The president seemed to listen to him; they had a frequent Sunday tee time. According to U.S. officials, Mr. Trump praised America’s surreptitious role in these blows to Russia’s energy industry. They gave him deniability and leverage, he told Mr. Ratcliffe, as the Russian president continued to “jerk him off.”... The C.I.A. would also be authorized to assist with Ukrainian drone strikes on “shadow fleet” vessels in the Black Sea and the Mediterranean." nytimes.com/interactive/20…

@codedgems @ChrisBarrett Where is it stated that ComposerX uses Chainlink?

@peranten1 @ChrisBarrett Does not need it as DTCC already published info regarding the dtcc composer x and canton the same posted info about chainlink ccip its allready known canton.network/canton-network…

Very exciting developments within the Chainlink ecosystem.