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I haven’t come across a video like this in a very long time
this lady gives a rational breakdown of the current situation in India.
It’s truly an eye-opener for the skeptics.
Hats off to her for such a beautiful presentation.
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There are a handful of great engineers still stuck at GE, Pratt, etc who yearn to move fast and reinvent how engines are made.
Proud to be offering them refuge at Boom—and the opportunity to do the best work of their careers. One more accepted just this morning!
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Today I returned to the backwaters for the first time since 2000.
This is a magical part of Kerala and something I wanted to show my wife as we celebrate 22 years together.
cc. @KeralaTourism
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Abdul El-Sayed and his wife.
He wears jeans and tight shirts, while she has to dress like a Bedouin from the 7th century.
This is what women’s oppression looks like.
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True
After DOGE, Elon came to a conclusion most people missed.
He tried to reform the state from the inside. He failed. And he said it plainly: the government can't fix its own deficit. Nobody in power actually wants to cut. The machine protects itself.
So he drew the only logical conclusion. If the state can't be reformed, there are only two ways this ends.
Either global bankruptcy. Debt keeps compounding, interest payments eat the budget, and the system collapses under its own weight.
Or robots. AI and robotics grow the economy so fast that the debt becomes manageable, and abundance makes the old fights over scarcity irrelevant.
Here's the part almost nobody sees.
For two centuries, capitalism has had a marketing problem. Its gains are real but slow and invisible. 2% growth a year doesn't feel like anything. Your life gets better over 30 years and you never connect it to the system that did it. Meanwhile, the left's promises feel immediate and concrete: a check, a subsidy, a benefit. That's why the left wins on promises even when it can't deliver them. Capitalism produces the wealth, socialism takes the credit.
Robots break that asymmetry.
When productivity doubles in a few years instead of a few decades, people will see it. Things get cheaper, services get better, opportunities appear, in real time. For the first time in history, people will connect capitalism and their rising standard of living directly, almost instantly. The causal chain becomes visible.
And that changes everything politically.
So there are two scenarios.
Scenario one: we stay in the current inertia. No breakthrough, or a breakthrough we regulate to death. The debt wins. Living standards stagnate, then fall. A frustrated electorate turns to whoever promises the most, and that pushes toward a hard collectivist left. But collectivism fails, as it always does. And when it fails, the most organized, most disciplined collectivist force left standing isn't the old left. It's radical Islamism. Bankruptcy, then communism, then something worse.
Scenario two: robots win. Abundance arrives, and it arrives visibly. The link between free enterprise and prosperity becomes obvious to everyone. And this is the key point: it becomes obvious to everyone, including the minorities the left was counting on. Because their long-term incentive is the same as everyone else's. A kid in the suburbs gains infinitely more from a booming, abundant West than from a bankrupt state handing out promises it can't keep. Abundance is the most powerful integration machine ever built.
That's the Western renaissance.
The West doesn't need to win the culture war by arguing. It needs to win it by delivering. And for the first time, it has the technology to deliver fast enough for people to notice.
The race isn't left vs right anymore. It's robots vs bankruptcy.
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Indians seriously don’t understand the concept of personal space and basic etiquette 👇
• Keep your phone’s ringtone volume low. People can hear it from another city.
• Stop standing six inches behind people in queues. The queue won’t move faster.
• Don’t speak loudly on the phone in public spaces. People don’t need to hear your conversation from 200 metres away.
• At traffic lights, stop squeezing into every small gap. You won’t get there any faster.
• Don’t honk in traffic. Honking won’t make the traffic move faster.
• If someone rejects your call, calling again after 10 seconds won't suddenly make them free.
• Don’t watch reels or videos on speaker in public. Public space is shared space, behave accordingly.
• Ring the doorbell once and wait. Pressing it 10 times won’t make someone reach the door faster.
• Being able to reach someone doesn’t mean they are available to you 24/7.
Last - Don’t ask someone how much they earn, how much their house costs or why they aren’t married within 5 minutes of meeting them.
Please, basic civic sense is really not that complicated.
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Haitian gangs kidnap El Salvador techies.
El Salvador says bring them back or we shoot you.
Gangs laugh. They get shot.
4 days later, gangs want the UN to mediate.
Complete victory for the greatest president of the 21st century.
LÍDER DE PANDILLA HAITIANA EXPRESA PREOCUPACIÓN POR AVANCE SALVADOREÑO Y BUSCA DIÁLOGO CON LA ONU
El líder de la organización criminal haitiana 400 Mawozo, Wilson Joseph, conocido como «Lanmò San Jou», aparece como remitente de una supuesta carta dirigida al secretario general de Naciones Unidas, António Guterres, en la que solicita la intervención de una delegación internacional para facilitar un proceso de diálogo y mediación en Haití. El documento, fechado el 1 de noviembre de 2026 en Croix-des-Bouquets, refleja preocupación por el desarrollo de las operaciones de seguridad.
En la comunicación, Joseph hace referencia a los recientes acontecimientos relacionados con los cuatro militares salvadoreños desaparecidos. También expresa temor de que las declaraciones del presidente @nayibbukele. Por ello, solicita que Naciones Unidas facilite conversaciones entre las partes involucradas y manifiesta su disposición a participar en un proceso de diálogo.
El documento circula entre políticos y periodístas locales y ha sido atribuido al dirigente de 400 Mawozo, cuya identidad y vínculo con esa organización están documentados por Naciones Unidas; sin embargo, no se ha confirmado oficialmente la autenticidad de la carta ni que haya sido recibida por la Secretaría General de la ONU.
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If you built a time machine and went back just one minute, you'd die in outer space.
Earth wouldn't be there anymore. It would be about 22,000 km away, almost two whole planets down the road, because the ground under your feet is flying through the universe at around 830,000 mph and your time machine didn't come with a steering wheel.
And we actually know that speed pretty precisely, which still kind of blows my mind. The Big Bang left behind a faint glow of microwave light that fills every corner of the sky. It reads 2.725 degrees above absolute zero, almost exactly the same everywhere you look. The patch of sky we're heading toward runs about a tenth of a percent warmer, and the patch behind us runs cooler by the same amount. Same reason your windshield gets hit with more rain than your back window when you're driving through a storm.
Back in 1977, a Berkeley team led by George Smoot bolted a microwave detector into a U-2 spy plane, flew it 20 km up, and measured that warm side well enough to clock our speed. NASA's COBE satellite nailed it down later. Relative to that glow, the Sun is doing about 370 km every second.
This is where time travel gets really messy.
Galileo figured out back in 1632 that you can't feel steady motion. Below deck on a smooth ship, a dropped ball falls straight down whether you're docked or sailing. Einstein built relativity on top of that idea, so "where you were a minute ago" only means something once you decide what you're measuring from.
Measure from the Sun and Earth moves about 1,800 km a minute, so a one-minute jump puts you somewhere between 1,800 km up in space and 1,800 km underground, depending on which side of the planet you started on. Measure from the center of the galaxy, which is what the counter in this animation tracks at 21,200 AU in 455 years, and you're about 13,000 km off. Measure from the Big Bang's glow and you're at 22,000.
Every time travel movie skips this. Doc Brown's DeLorean shows up on the same street in Hill Valley because the movie quietly decided Earth is the one thing in the universe standing still.
If you want the most honest answer to "where was I," that ancient glow is the best one anyone's got, since it's the only thing spread evenly across the entire universe. Nothing about using it breaks Einstein, either. Physics works the same at any steady speed.
And 370 is us going slow. The whole Milky Way drifts through that glow at about 550 km/s, and right now the Sun's lap around the galaxy points mostly the opposite way, so it cancels out a big chunk of it. In about 115 million years, halfway around the lap, the two line up and our speed roughly doubles to somewhere near 780 km/s.
So get your time machine's math wrong by 34 seconds and you'd be floating directly in Earth's path, with the whole planet coming at you at 830,000 mph.
We were taught that Earth orbits the Sun in a closed circle. In reality, Earth has never returned to the same point in space once in 4.5 billion years.
Right now, the Sun is carrying Earth and every planet around the center of the Milky Way at 230 km/s (828,000 km/h), more than 18,000 kilometers every 80 seconds.
Because the Solar System is tilted 60.2° to the galactic plane and bobs up and down through the galactic disc roughly every 30 million years, the planets trace open 3D corkscrew helices across deep space rather than flat loops.
The last time the Sun stood where it stands today, one Galactic Year (230 million years) ago, the very first dinosaurs were only beginning to appear on Earth. Since forming 4.6 billion years ago, our Sun has completed only 20 laps.
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Kerala is the only state in India that has actually eliminated poverty. You won't see anything remotely like this anywhere in Kerala.
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🇭🇹🇸🇻‼️ | Acorralado por la llegada de más de 2.000 soldados salvadoreños tras la desaparición de cuatro de sus efectivos, el líder de la banda terrorista 400 Mawozo, Wilson Joseph (alias 'Lanmò San Jou'), solicitó la mediación de la ONU para frenar las acciones militares. El criminal —por quien EE. UU. ofrece un millón de dólares— justificó su pedido ante la contundente postura del Presidente Nayib Bukele contra las pandillas.
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🚨 HAÏTI : LE CHEF DE GANGS SURNOMMÉ "GALAXY" A ÉTÉ TUÉ. 18 OTAGES ONT ÉTÉ LIBÉRÉS DONT 12 JEUNES FILLES
D'après plusieurs sources en ligne, les forces spéciales du Salvador ont lancé un vaste assaut terrestre et aérien jusque dans les forêts où se cachent les gangs.
🔸 Une vingtaine de gangsters, dont le chef « Galaxy », auraient été neutralisés.
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The Passport Officer in Kerala was shocked after seeing a person's passport which came for renewal🤣🤣
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🚨 ILHAN OMAR IS FINISHED USCIS & DHS just dropped the documents BOMB:
ZERO naturalization records for her father after a full federal search.
She swore she got citizenship at 17 THROUGH HIM — but the agencies say the paper trail DOESN’T EXIST
A sitting congresswoman’s lied to Americans, and commit multiple crimes and fraud.
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Across Kerala, women from often conservative backgrounds are embracing bodybuilding, finding community and overturning gender expectations in the process. ft.trib.al/37AqNGy
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For anyone curious why 90%+ of pilots are male despite the airlines and military pulling every trick in the book to get them to apply and qualify...
It mostly comes down to a specific kind of spatial processing and memory that flying demands. It's best thought of as the mental skill of tracking where things are in 3D space while everything is moving. This includes you and your aircraft.
It's not just remembering a map or rotating a static shape in your head, but continuously updating positions, directions, and movements in real time.
This might mean keeping a clear mental picture of your plane’s attitude, where the runway is relative to you, how fast things are changing and coordinating your hands (and feet) to match all that while the outside world is moving and your instruments change.
Military pilot selection has tested this kind of functional spatial tracking and coordination for decades and is probably the most extensive data-set available.
On their tests, on average men outperformed women by more than a full standard deviation. That means the average man is scoring much higher than the vast majority of women.
Typically you would have to be in the 90th percentile or higher of ability to qualify as an airline pilot. 95th or better for military; higher again for something like a fighter pilot.
Given the standard deviation gap above, that means out of 100 men and 100 women applying for civilian piloting, about 10 men might pass but less than one woman per 100.
You can’t fix this with diversity hiring, women-only shortlists, coaching / training or even lowering the bar. Most of the difference is attributable to hardwired sex and brain differences.
For example, prenatal testosterone is much higher in male babies while still in the womb and permanently changes the connectivity in certain parts of the brain (parietal lobe, hippocampus) to make it better at 3D rotation, navigation, and tracking.
Put simply, men evolved for long-range hunting and large-scale wayfinding, so much so that our brains are heavily specialised towards this even before we pop out into the world.
It isn't a question of fairness, it's a question of specialisation; you cannot be good at everything. Men evolved to be better at this than women overall.