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The video is seductive. A fighter jet, twin engines blazing, taking fuel at 30,000 feet. It looks like power. It looks like the future. It is neither. The manned fighter jet is one of the most expensive objects a democracy can operate. Training a single combat-ready pilot costs between seven and eight million dollars and takes the better part of three years. The aircraft itself burns through roughly $27,000 every hour it is airborne, before anything goes wrong and something always goes wrong. Then consider what happens on a typical mission. The aircraft launches, flies for five to seven hours, burning through $135,000 to $190,000 in operating costs before a single weapon leaves the wing. It carries perhaps six to nine missiles, each costing anywhere from $300,000 to over a million dollars depending on type. That is the full arsenal. Six to nine shots. After that, the most expensive flying machine in history turns around and goes home. For decades, that cost was justified by what those missiles could do. Nothing in the sky could survive them. The logic was sound. Then someone in a warehouse glued an engine to a set of wings, added a cheap GPS chip, and sent ten thousand of them toward their enemies for less than the cost of a single intercept. In the first week of Operation Epic Fury, Iran fired over 500 ballistic missiles and nearly 2,000 drones at U.S. bases and Israeli cities, burning through over 800 Patriot interceptor missiles in three days.  Lockheed Martin produced roughly 600 Patriot interceptors in all of 2025. Iran consumed more than that in 72 hours. A Shahed drone costs around $30,000. A single Patriot interceptor costs millions.  The asymmetry is structural. Ukraine’s “Spider’s Web” operation used 117 drones hidden in cargo trucks to inflict an estimated $7 billion in damage on Russian strategic bombers at a total cost of roughly $234,000. For every dollar spent attacking, defenders lost $30,000 in assets.  A manned fighter carrying nine missiles cannot survive this arithmetic. It launches, burns $150,000 getting to the fight, expends its rack against a swarm of cheap drones, and returns empty while the next wave is already inbound. Ukraine built interceptor drones for between $1,000 and $2,500 each and moved them from prototype to mass production within months.  The Pentagon spent decades perfecting the opposite approach. The manned fighter is obsolete because the threat it was designed to defeat has been replaced by one it cannot economically engage. Capability without sustainability is just an expensive way to lose slowly. The video is beautiful. The paradigm it represents is finished. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@DrTeslaFSD It’s the only way humans will get off this rock

The future is SpaceX. Ad astra.

$949K a year for a CEO, then SolarZero went under! 😳 Seriously, how is this allowed?

⚡️Starship is the most important machine on Earth because it is the only serious bridge between a trapped species and a spacefaring one. That is the real truth. Everything else is downstream of lift cost. Moon bases, Mars cities, orbital industry, space solar, off world mining, deep space telescopes, mass drivers, lunar factories, all of it stays trapped in PowerPoint until you can move huge amounts of mass off Earth cheaply, repeatedly, and at industrial cadence. Starship is the attempt to break that lock. If it works, the future stops being metaphor and starts becoming logistics. That is why people respond to it like a symbol. They can feel that it carries more than hardware. Modern civilization has become psychologically small. It worships management, caution, compliance, and local optimization. Starship says scale again. Build again. Risk again. Leave again. In a world trained to think inside ceilings, that feels almost religious. The deeper reason it matters is power. A civilization that stays bound to one planet stays bound to one set of bottlenecks. One gravity well. One biosphere. One grid. One political surface. One set of supply chains. One cluster of elites deciding what is possible. A civilization that can industrialize beyond Earth changes the structure of power itself. More energy. More room. More redundancy. More survival. More strategic depth. More future. That is why Starship is so much bigger than SpaceX. It is the opening bid for off world industry. Once heavy lift becomes cheap and routine, the moon becomes operational. Once the moon becomes operational, infrastructure begins. Once infrastructure begins, throughput replaces spectacle. Then the human story stops being purely terrestrial. The real view is brutal and simple. If Starship succeeds, the ceiling over the species cracks. If Starship fails, humanity remains psychologically and physically trapped longer than people understand. Bottom line: People love Starship because they can feel that it is carrying more than cargo. It is carrying the claim that humanity does not have to accept a smaller destiny.

Lmaoooooo I’m crying

@eevblog Sweet

They weren't sure if I was 18 or not.

@BrianRoemmele Reminds me of that black mirror episode

Fawn an AI robot friend.

@GauciReports @RTCORGUK Stick an AirTag to the inflatable boat, track it, and get the locations of everyone involved.

🚨RAMSGATE PORTS: NGO TAXI SERVICE EXPOSED‼️ Ryan from Raise the Colours just filmed @RTCORGUK - NGOs supplying packed lunches including sandwiches, fresh fruit & fizzy drinks. - Mountains of men’s clothing: coats, trainers, jeans, watches, phone chargers, air pumps…someone even left luxury aftershave ffs! - Numerous engines & deflated dinghies - cleaned, repacked, labelled and ready to be shipped straight back to the French to be reused! This is an orchestrated, taxpayer funded conveyor belt! Rinse and repeat!

@TheReal_BCM Wow, he’s pretty tough! My dog won’t even go out when it’s just raining a bit.

My Rottweiler even said “Nope, not today bruh!”

Soulmates. Watch until the end.

I refuse to participate in the modern narrative that James Cook was a villain. Cook was born in poverty in 1728. He was not an aristocrat. He was not handed power. He worked from a young age, taught himself mathematics and navigation, and rose through sheer competence to become one of the most capable captains in the Royal Navy. What he achieved with the technology of the 1700s is extraordinary. He sailed into oceans where most of the map was blank. He charted enormous parts of the Pacific. His survey of New Zealand was so accurate that his charts were used by sailors for more than a century. Many of his coastal measurements were only hundreds of metres off modern satellite positions, achieved with nothing more than sextants, chronometers, and careful observation. His voyages were not just about exploration. They advanced science. One of his first missions was to observe the transit of Venus to improve humanity’s understanding of the solar system. He enforced strict health rules on his ships and virtually eliminated scurvy, something that had killed countless sailors before him. By the standards of the eighteenth century he was known for discipline, order, and attempts to avoid unnecessary violence with indigenous populations. He was operating in a harsh and dangerous era where exploration meant risking your life and the lives of everyone under your command. Was he perfect. Of course not. No human being is. Judging people from centuries ago as if they lived in our modern world is intellectually lazy. What matters is what he actually did. A poor man who rose to the top through ability. A navigator who mapped huge parts of the Pacific. A leader who pushed science, navigation, and knowledge forward. Men like James Cook expanded the known world and helped build the foundations of the modern, prosperous societies we live in today. That is not the story of a villain. That is the story of a remarkable human being.

@daviddorg @superpower @ouraring I’d love to do this too. I was thinking of going back to an old-school Nokia so I don’t look at my screen as much.

Hi, my name is literally David And I’m going a year without screens in 22 days (down from 10h+ per day) While tracking: - Neuroimaging (fMRI + MRI) - Cognitive + motor tests (very comprehensive) - 131 blood-based biomarkers (@superpower) - Sleep and activity data (@ouraring) - Vision exam - Hearing exam - And more I’m excited to see what the data show We all deserve to know more about how our devices in their current form are affecting us

this is actually insane > be tech guy in australia > adopt cancer riddled rescue dog, months to live > not_going_to_give_you_up.mp4 > pay $3,000 to sequence her tumor DNA > feed it to ChatGPT and AlphaFold > zero background in biology > identify mutated proteins, match them to drug targets > design a custom mRNA cancer vaccine from scratch > genomics professor is “gobsmacked” that some puppy lover did this on his own > need ethics approval to administer it > red tape takes longer than designing the vaccine > 3 months, finally approved > drive 10 hours to get rosie her first injection > tumor halves > coat gets glossy again > dog is alive and happy > professor: “if we can do this for a dog, why aren’t we rolling this out to humans?” one man with a chatbot, and $3,000 just outperformed the entire pharmaceutical discovery pipeline. we are going to cure so many diseases. I dont think people realize how good things are going to get

Here we go again. A global crisis hits the headlines… and suddenly governments start talking about alert levels. Not for COVID this time. For petrol. Yes…NZ officials are already discussing fuel alert levels and emergency restrictions if supply gets tight. Does that sound familiar? We’ve heard this script before. First it’s “don’t panic.” Then it’s “temporary measures.” Then suddenly it’s limits, bans, and restrictions. Officials are already floating ideas like: ▪️ Limits on how much petrol you can buy ▪️ Petrol stations opening on alternate days ▪️ Restrictions on filling containers ▪️ Even limits on when you can drive your car And yes… even the possibility of car-less days if fuel gets tight. Here’s the Alert Level system from the National Fuel Plan (pictured). It’s COVID-style thinking applied to fuel. Deja vu? Australia’s Energy Minister is already saying Australia is in crisis. How long until NZ is too? And the real question is this: Why is New Zealand so vulnerable in the first place? Because we shut down our only oil refinery. Because we rely almost entirely on imported fuel. Because politicians crippled our energy security. Right now officials say we have around 50 days of fuel supply in the system. Fifty days. That’s the margin. Then it will be… More rules. More controls. More “alert levels” and “phases”. Kiwis are already suffering pain at the pump. Petrol near $3 a litre. Half of that price goes straight to the Government in taxes. Pain at the pump. Pain in the pantry. Pain across the whole economy. Here’s the truth. New Zealand doesn’t have a fuel crisis. We have a leadership crisis. And every time the world wobbles… they reach for the same tool... Control the people. #TruePatriots

Looks as though the model y L is coming to nz

@RawDoggedByGod @Jackson__Price Start a nonprofit charity, take a $5k loan, then you only need to make $45k and donate the $5k back to yourself after completing the challenge. 😅

@Jackson__Price I’ll give a follow on one condition: At 6 months if you’re a penny short of $50k you need to volunteer 80 hours at a local animal shelter. If you make $50k, I will donate $5k to a charity of your choice

I'm a 16 y/o giving myself 6 months to hit $50,000 in revenue. All I have: OpenClaw🦞, Claude Code, Six Months I'll post daily: wins, losses, and everything in between Tomorrow is day 1, Follow to keep up

@CarlBates @grok can you break down the main things the pandemic fund of 60b was spent on

And our children will be paying the interest on this for generations 😢

@MrLaalpotato 😬 Scary

The dramatic beauty of a road winding through towering mountains

@RobMayOfficial Probably get free delivery too

Just installed my new security system at home, picked it up on Amazon $AMZN with same day delivery! Was this a good purchase?

@Ancient_Geo Perfect for the busy times during the holiday season.

@RobMayOfficial The operational temperatures are out of this world!

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