Stealth founder. Troubled by masked police, rising costs vs flat wages, and home prices outpacing CPI. Into governance design, population economics, and tech.
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The Fed is now great at preventing financial collapse, but that may be WHY the affordability crisis lingers instead of resetting. It can stabilize banks and asset prices, but can't build homes or raise real incomes. The system is adapting, perhaps too well, AROUND the sickness.
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The FAA has awarded JetZero $5.3 million to study airflow through its top-mounted engines in flight.
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Recap: Spaceship Apeiron's first day in the sky. From sendoff in Mesa to touchdown in New Mexico.
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My Army Special Ops brother called dad last night & told him he loved him and to tell us he loves us too… and dad asked if everything was okay, bc he has never called just to say those words—it was a quick call. Now we are feeling uneasy. We don’t know where he is, what he is doing… or what he knows that we don’t— but God does, and so we pray for our military, America and my brother who is obviously feeling some kind of way.
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BREAKING: Air France suspends all flights to Riyadh until December 12 and to Dubai until November 7, citing the evolving security situation and potential escalation.
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BREAKING: The US Army is now training soldiers to dig mass battlefield graves for American troops for the first time since the Korean War, practicing the burial of 2,400 bodies in under 24 hours in open pits, per a US Army release.
Engineers, preventive medicine teams, chaplains and fatality management specialists excavated and filled burial trenches without damaging mock remains, so forensic teams could unearth and repatriate them after a conflict, simulating how to handle mass casualties as Trump's Iran war continues.
The Army said that for more than twenty years in Iraq and Afghanistan, US air superiority allowed remains to be flown home quickly, and that future conflicts may not have the same capabilities.
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BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance has just cancelled his trip to St. Cloud, Minnesota scheduled for Friday at the last minute, per the Attorney's Office in Minnesota.
Trump has cancelled all rallies this weekend, including his Saturday rally in Kansas and his Sunday rally in Iowa hours earlier.
Delcy confirms Rubio’s new National Electoral Council.
🇻🇪 Interim president Delcy Rodriguez gave important announcements to the country today:
✅ NO ONE CAN'T BE DETAINED WITHOUT AN ARREST WARRANT, and the right to peaceful protest shall be guaranteed.
✅ The cases of all individuals who are deprived of their liberty or facing legal proceedings under the “hate law” must be reviewed, with the aim of terminating the criminal proceedings against them.
✅ Non-essential state-owned enterprises will be offered to the private sector or returned to their former owners, from whom they were taken through expropriation.
✅ All elections mandated by the Constitution will be held, overseen by a new National Electoral Council (CNE) and with guarantees for all political actors.
✅ Anyone wishing to return to Venezuela may do so with full guarantees and their documentation; they will be welcomed back with open arms.
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Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
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Alaska Airlines to commence 4 new routes from Anchorage (ANC):
• ANC to Austin (AUS)
• ANC to Dallas (DFW)
• ANC to Nashville (BNA)
• ANC to Tokyo (NRT)
Lol. Some “corner cases” are pretty funny. Like: your self driving vehicle went past the railroad crossing gates and there’s a bunch of planes on a train heading straight to you.
FSD: “Oh let’s get closer!”
I'm guessing the passenger of this cyber cab would be shitting his pants to see the car inching forward as an oncoming train approachs, like it wants to play chicken with the train.
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This Cybercab is an engineering test vehicle and is NOT operating autonomously. The OP says this is in Seattle and Tesla does not operate autonomously there.
robotaxireport.com/cities/seattle/
tesla.com/support/robota…
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Alaska is going to fly a 737 from Anchorage to Tokyo. It's one of the most surprising route moves I've seen in years.
The route just showed up on Alaska's website: Anchorage to Tokyo Narita, daily in summer, on a 737 MAX 8. Anchorage is offering about $500,000 in fee breaks to get it.
Anchorage used to be the stop on the way to Tokyo. During the Cold War, flights between Europe and Japan refueled there because they couldn't cross the Soviet Union. Northwest flew Anchorage-Tokyo in the 1990s too. Once Russia opened its airspace and planes could fly farther, nobody needed the stop.
So why now? In Tokyo you can connect to Japan Airlines, Alaska's partner, for the rest of Japan and Asia. And Anchorage doesn't have to fill the plane by itself. Alaska flew nonstop to Anchorage from 16 cities this summer, from Boston to Honolulu. I'd expect more of those, timed to connect to Tokyo.
On paper it's 3,425 miles. Alaska's longest MAX 8 flight today is Seattle to Reykjavik at 3,611. But the shortest path runs right past Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands, and U.S. airlines can't fly over Russia. Swing around that and you're past 3,750 miles. The diversion airports on the way are places like Cold Bay and Adak.
I also wanted to see what else a MAX 8 could reach from Anchorage. Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, and Nagoya are all closer than Seattle-Reykjavik. Osaka, Seoul, and Beijing only fit inside Boeing's 4,028-mile maximum, which is a best case. Shanghai and Taipei are out.
If Tokyo works, Sapporo is the next one. It's 420 miles closer.
ALT Map of Alaska Airlines' nonstops into Anchorage from 16 U.S. cities, the new Anchorage-Tokyo Narita 737 MAX 8 route, and dotted lines from Anchorage to other Asian airports, with two range lines: 3,611 miles (Alaska's longest MAX 8 flight, Seattle-Reykjavik) and 4,028 miles (Boeing's maximum). Sapporo, Sendai, Tokyo, and Nagoya fall inside the shorter line; Osaka, Seoul, Fukuoka, and Beijing only inside Boeing's maximum; Shanghai and Taipei are out of reach.
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This is how ethnic cleansing always starts. You have to delegitimize the ethnic minority's claims to equal rights.
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BlueChip. Built in America.
America made the first electronic computer to win a war.
Now we depend on our greatest adversaries to build the computers that run our economy and defend our nation.
Today, we bring it home.
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"Carpet bomb them all".
Speaking to The Guardian at an event ahead of Israel’s elections, a young Israeli woman called for Palestinians to be forcibly displaced from the Gaza Strip, saying they should be killed if they cannot be removed.
