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Correct.
Using Starlink, a civilian commercial service, for offensive drone strikes to kill people has never been allowed, nor should it be.
Starshield, a different system, is controlled by the US government. What they decide to do is up to them.
Ukraine military violated Starlink terms of service and used it for offensive drone strikes to kill people. That loophole was closed last week.
Starlink remains critical to the defense of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. Were Starlink to be turned off, the Ukrainian front line would collapse immediately. This is NOT a threat, it is simply a statement of fact.
Starlink was also crucial to preventing Russia from overrunning Ukraine in the early days of the war, as all other means of communication were destroyed or jammed by Russia.
SpaceX has done more to defend Ukraine than any private company on Earth BY FAR.
That said, I have nothing but UTTER CONTEMPT for the virtue-signaling evil warmongers who push for endless slaughter and offer no realistic solution to the conflict. May you burn in hell.
End of story.
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Kids making fun of influencers just restored my faith in humanity. Nature is healing🤣
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Donald Trump just dropped one of the best videos he’s EVER posted. Giving me CHILLS listening
“Remember nothing worth doing is ever easy”
NEVER GIVE UP 💯
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NASA's first job, before it put a man in space, was to find the meal that leaves the least behind. The answer was steak and eggs, and it has been the launch breakfast for 65 years.
The problem was the suit. A Mercury astronaut was sealed into a pressure suit, bolted into a capsule the size of a phone box, and left on top of a rocket for hours. He could not take anything off. There was no toilet, and no plan for one.
So in July 1960 the Air Force handed the question to a nutritionist called Beatrice Finkelstein. She had to feed the man so he stayed strong, clear-headed and full, for as long as it took, on the least possible waste.
She wrote a menu for the last 3 to 4 days before flight. High protein, low residue. Meat, eggs, very little else. Residue is the polite word for whatever the body cannot use and has to send back out. On her figures, beef and eggs produced almost none. The body took nearly all of it.
On the morning of 5 May 1961, Alan Shepard sat down to steak and eggs, went out to the pad, and became the first American in space.
It worked so well that nobody dared change it. John Glenn ate it. The crew of Apollo 11 ate it on the morning they left for the Moon. Shuttle crews ate it. Astronauts are superstitious, and this is the one ritual with a medical file behind it.
Look at what that file says. The best funded engineers on earth needed a food that was nearly all nutrition and next to no waste, to fuel a man through the most demanding day of his life, and they did not pick porridge.
Down here the same breakfast comes with a warning, and we are advised to swap it for the bran.
NASA ran the test in 1960. The bran is the residue.
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Remember when you would have to line up at a the
carnival to see a fat lady with a beard, now they are everywhere…
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When they built the new children's hospital in Iowa City, they put a window on the 12th floor.
It looks directly into Kinnick Stadium.
So a fan named Krista Young had an idea and posted it on a Facebook page called Hawkeye Heaven. What if, at the end of the first quarter, everybody turned around and waved at the kids.
That was 2017. They have done it at every home game since.
Here is what it actually looks like.
The first quarter ends. The scoreboard tells people it is time. And then roughly 70,000 people in that stadium turn their backs to the field, face the hospital, and wave.
Not just the fans. The Iowa Hawkeyes players wave. The coaches wave. The officials wave. The people working concessions wave.
And so does the other team. Opposing players, opposing coaches, opposing fans who drove in from another state to root against Iowa, all of them turn around and wave at a building full of sick children.
Up on the 12th floor, the kids and their families are at the glass waving back. Some of them are in wheelchairs. Some of them are holding signs. Some of them are too sick to be down there and this is the closest they will get to a game.
The University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital treats kids with cancer, with heart conditions, with things that keep a family living in a hospital room for months at a time. Families come in from all over the state and end up staying far longer than anybody told them they would.
For those families, Saturday in the fall means 70,000 strangers stop what they are doing and look at your kid.
It won a national award the first year they did it, which is nice but is not the point.
The point is the detail nobody planned. From 2017 to 2022 the same song played during the wave. Then they changed it, and now the music is chosen by that game's Kid Captain, a patient the program honors each week.
So the song the stadium hears is picked by a child in that hospital.
Think about what a 9 year old picks when somebody tells them 70,000 people are going to hear their song.
Iowa does not win every game. Kinnick can be a miserable place to watch football on a cold November afternoon, and Iowa fans will tell you that themselves, at length.
But for about 60 seconds at the end of the first quarter, the entire building agrees on something.
It cost nothing. Nobody had to donate anything. A fan posted an idea on Facebook, a hospital happened to have a window in the right place, and now it is the best minute in college football.
Every stadium in America has a hospital somewhere near it.
Iowa just decided to look.
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I feel like picking spent practice round shell casings out of my hair at the FBI range was one of the peak random life experiences of 2026. I’m grateful!
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Korea was one people until 1945. Today the men of the South stand up to three inches taller than the men of the North.
Same ancestry, same language, the same height at the start. The border is 160 miles long and 2.5 miles wide.
In the North, food comes through the state ration. Rice when there is rice, maize when there is not, and meat on a few holidays a year. In 2012 the army cut its minimum height for a recruit to 4ft 8in, because too few 17 year olds could reach the old one.
In the South, meat consumption rose about tenfold in 50 years. Beef, pork, eggs and milk went from luxuries to every day.
South Korean women gained 8 inches in height over the 20th century. It is the largest increase recorded for any population on earth.
Children who escape from the North are visibly smaller than Southern children of the same age. Fed in the South, the young ones catch up. The older ones are too late.
Nobody designed the experiment. But it has 75 million subjects, a genetic control and a hard border, and it has run for 80 years.
One side of the wire was fed grain by a government, and the other side ate meat.
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He was up working before sunrise in DC.
Got on the plane to New York at 6am.
Addressed the world at the U.N.
Singed America’s deal with Greenland.
Negotiated for 3 hours with the Iranians.
Hosted 10 Gulf countries for a peace summit.
Met with Zelenskyy to end Ukraine war.
Met with Venesuela’s President to ink largest oil and minerals deal in world history.
Hosted Shield of the Americas meeting with 20 other nations.
Dinner at the U.N. with 17 separate pull aside meetings.
Fly back to DC at 1AM.
Back at work today before sunrise.
All this man does is work for America.
I don’t care what the media or polls say — I’m proud Trump is my President 🇺🇸
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Carnivore is where the rabbit hole starts.
You start by questioning carbohydrates.
That leads you to glucose and insulin. Then metabolic health. Then cholesterol.
And cholesterol is where the rabbit hole gets considerably deeper.
You start reading about statins, pharmaceutical trials, relative versus absolute risk, who funds the research and why so much of modern healthcare revolves around managing individual markers.
Then you start questioning the food industry. Why we eat all day. Why food needs 30 ingredients. Why animal fat became something to fear while industrially manufactured food became completely normal.
Eventually you’re questioning far more than food.
Artificial light at night. Barely seeing daylight. Sitting all day. Constant eating. Poor sleep. Then another product, prescription or gadget to deal with the consequences.
You thought carnivore was about changing your food and eating meat.
But you end up changing the way you look at modern life.
That’s why I call it Live Ancestral.
Who else has gone from that rabbit hole?
Union Pacific is planning a new bridge to replace the 114 year old Chicago & Northwestern Clinton, IA - Fulton, IL bridge. I hope it looks as good as this one!
We're ready for another 100+ years of serving our customers in North Dakota and beyond! The first BNSF Railway trains traveled across our new bridge over the Missouri River on Sept. 16 at Bismarck-Mandan, North Dakota. A westbound train traversed the bridge at 6:51 a.m., followed by an eastbound train at 8:25 a.m.
Shout out to all who worked to make this massive project happen!
