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During a visit to Captain Smit Machchhar… the flydubai pilot who embodied the highest degrees of courage, responsibility, and care for human life.
From us, and from the leadership of the nation, he has our full appreciation and praise.
We are proud that he is part of our team… part of the story of our nation… and part of what the UAE stands for… a nation of compassion… a nation of peace… and a nation of life.
He excels himself every week. #idiot
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In every way, he is the model of what I am teaching my son not to be: vile, small, cruel, ignorant, petty, corrupt. And he models it daily. Today’s example:
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If anybody wants to know why Gen X is always mad, it's because they had to replace their record collections with a tape collection that they had to replace with a CD collection that they had to replace with an MP3 collection, and now they need a subscription to listen to music
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I think that is close to sackable from Tuchel. A coach appointed at great expense for his tactical acumen and "ability to get over the line" needlessly forces England miles from it.
All that money... for that?
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The fact that we just spent maybe close to $200 billion on an utterly stupid and pointless war and a certain species of American still finds the idea of the govt subsidizing youth soccer unthinkable is basically the insoluble problem here
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Bless you. The World Cup has been the most watched event on earth since before Auburn had floodlights, and six billion people did not suddenly fall for football because Alabama poured a lot of concrete. The rest of us have loved this game for a century and politely declined your hand egg the whole time. You have wandered into a party that was already roaring and concluded you must be the reason it started.
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MAGA: Obama giving Iran $1.7 billion unfrozen assets is TREASON.
NYT: Trump’s Iran Deal to include $300 BILLION reconstruction fund for Iran.
MAGA:
Experienced it and it was phenomenal. Seamless to connect and super fast speeds.
Emirates executive Patrick Brannelly in new interview on why they adopted @Starlink:
"The legacy systems weren’t working. No matter how much money we threw at them, passengers still complained, and it was impossible technically for everybody that wanted to connect to connect. Then Starlink came along saying, ‘We guarantee it, it will work.’ With a very pragmatic technical viewpoint, insisting on XWAPs, to connect 100%, and to install more than one antenna to handle demand and for redundancy. It was like for the first time, talking to people that actually understood how the internet works in a highly dense environment on an aircraft.
It seemed our legacy connectivity industry didn’t really understand the core technologies needed to deliver customer connectivity happiness. But Starlink absolutely understood it.
Now, in addition, the big fundamental shift from the first generation of Starlink was the evolution of satellite-to-satellite laser connectivity. So, if you’re a middle of the ocean, where you’ve got nowhere to ground the traffic, Starlink could just pass the traffic through adjacent satellites until there’s one over a ground station. That worked much better than I think anybody had imagined."
Emirates has already started to install Starlink on its entire fleet of ~232 aircraft, with full completion expected by mid-2027. Customers onboard with Starlink are already seeing 10-20X internet speed improvements.
(full SatelliteToday interview linked below)
No issues flying into DXB from CMB yesterday. Yes, I appreciate not all are so lucky but nice to be home in Dubai again.
The house took a battering from the rain but held up. Back to work. Life goes on.
Oh yeah. The flight there and back was full.
A full flight of normal Dubai residents coming home and visitors coming to stay.
#bouncebackability
BREAKING: Emirates is introducing @Starlink WiFi across all in-service aircraft, with the first installation already completed and on display at @DubaiAirshow 2025. emirat.es/lbvj2c
This looks brilliant.
If it means less exhausted taxi drivers it can only be a good thing.
