Dread Blockrat Roberts

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

Anybody who spends a few minutes with a random selection of homeschooled kids of any age immediately sees this is true. The social skills of homeschooled kids are dramatically better than those of schooled kids, public or private. #homeschooling

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

New study. This is the exact opposite of what we have been told.

The researchers conclude that in their study, “… homeschoolers exhibited higher achievements on social competency indices than their counterparts attending traditional schools”

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@DadBodWorx @Alain1311369025 That was a bot

[Jared Isaacman @rookisaacman]

Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor woman’s final radio calls.

That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.

I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraft’s maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.

Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@Doc_Red_ There are a few ways to calculate HRV, and the measurement device matters, so which metric and which device are we talking about?

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What a complete asshole

[Tim Heaton 👁 @timtheaton]

A pilot should not:

🔘become hysterical
🔘speak too quickly to be intelligible
🔘say, "We're going to crash into the ground!"
🔘scream like a little girl
🔘hyperventilate
🔘scream like a little girl again

A pilot needs a certain disposition. This is not it. That's the reality.

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@LeadingReport Wonder how they knew. Or maybe they're doing it

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@doubleJ200 My coach recommended an EpiPen, so I got a couple

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@BarryRoland19 I got my VO2 Max to 50.3 at the age of 49 with 3-5 hours of zone 2 over two years. It works for some

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@bio_available_ Hexarelin is worth discussing

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1952, an English teacher named Cecil Dormand secretly paid for a dirt-poor 11-year-old to take a drama course.

He never told him and the boy didn’t find out until decades later.

By then, he was a knight, that little boy’s name was Patrick Stewart.

He was born into a poor family in Mirfield, a small mill town in Yorkshire and his father came home from World War II a violent man, and he was violent toward Patrick’s mother.

Young Patrick learned exactly when to step between his father’s fist and his mother.

An English teacher put a copy of Shakespeare in his hand and told him to get up and perform.

He never stopped and left school at 15.

By 19 he was completely bald... most agencies told him he'd never make it because of that.

In 1987, the LA Times called him an “unknown British Shakespearean actor” when he was cast as Captain Picard.

Then he became one of the most famous faces on Earth.

You’ve probably heard that part.

Here’s the part you haven’t:

He spent decades as a patron of Refuge, sheltering women and children from domestic violence.

But he never stopped trying to understand his father.

He dug up a 1940 newspaper clipping that said his dad had come home with severe shell shock.

He went to France and walked the ground where his father’s unit was pinned down under bombing for hours.

He learned his father had PTSD, and nobody ever helped him.

So Patrick became an ambassador for Combat Stress, a charity that helps veterans.

In 2013, a young woman at a Texas convention told him she was a survivor of domestic violence.

He asked, “My dear, are you okay?”

Then he hopped off the stage, held her, and told her: “You never have to go through that again, you’re safe now.”

At Dragon Con, a Make-A-Wish girl dressed as Spock came to meet him.

2,000 people were waiting for him to speak... he sat down and talked with her for 15 minutes, making all of them wait.

He told her that since they were friends now, whenever she saw him on screen she could wave and say, “Hello Patrick.”

After 9/11, he felt helpless, so he brought his one-man A Christmas Carol back to Broadway for a full week of charity shows.

He played every character himself and donated every cent.

In 2019 he did it again, and every dollar went to feeding hungry New Yorkers.

In 2017, he fostered a pit bull named Ginger, who had been rescued from a dogfighting ring.

She was his first dog in more than 50 years.

He couldn’t bring her home to England, so he found her a family.

Then he kept fostering more.

When he said he was done with Star Trek so many people told him the show had gotten them through the hardest times of their lives.

So he wanted to see if Picard could do it one more time.

Rest in Peace, Sir Patrick 🖖

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@Stanleysobest Left is Japan

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@7jnpink What kind of silly question is that? Of course not.

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@iWomansplainer Your friend needs to be fired

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@2ndPartyPodcast I would like to live in a gym with a huge rack of GPUs

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@BowTiedPep @ElevateBiohack This is not an absolute as it varies by person and dose. You'll benefit from 50mg taken upon waking, but it will wear off by mid afternoon. 100mg is not 2x stronger subjectively & I can tolerate it daily with no change in my sleep metrics on dardiorexant. 150+ causes me issues

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@hokkori_buzz My FJ Cruiser is only at 294K miles. I finally had to replace the lower control arms. Engine is fine.

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@michaeljburry He is admitting he's broke, folks. He got lucky one time. Why are you paying the perma-bear? This is the new Jim Cramer.

[Samurai Shiba @SamuraiShibaJP]

I've lived in the same apartment building in Tokyo for 11 years.

I know zero names.

That's normal here. We nod in the elevator. We do not speak.

Then Mike moved in on the third floor.

Ohio. Six-foot-four. Laughs like a truck starting up.

Day 1: He knocked on every door with a plate of cookies.
(In Japan, when you move in, you give your neighbors a small towel. Then you leave. Mike gave cookies. Then he stayed and talked.)

Week 1: He knew everyone's name. Including the dog's.

Then there was Mrs. Sato on the first floor.

She's 84. Her husband passed away ten years ago. She lives alone.

In 11 years, I had never heard her voice.

Every Tuesday, Mike carried her groceries up the steps. She didn't speak English. He didn't speak Japanese.

They talked anyway. Mostly about the photo of her husband by the door.

Then one morning, her curtains stayed closed.

Mike noticed.

Nobody else did. I didn't.

He knocked. No answer. He called the building manager.

She had fallen the night before. She'd been on the floor all night.

She's okay now.

But the building isn't the same.

People say good morning. The elevator has conversations.

Last month, we had our first rooftop potluck. Nobody knew what a potluck was. Mike explained it twice.

Mrs. Sato brought 40 rice balls.

And then she laughed at something Mike said.

That was the first time I ever heard her voice.

Mike moved back to Ohio this week.

On his last morning, the whole building came down to the lobby. Kids. Grandparents. The dog.

Mrs. Sato handed him a box.

Inside: one thousand paper cranes.

In Japan, you fold a thousand cranes for someone you want to protect. Her hands shake. She had been folding them since the day he found her.

Then she said the English sentence she had practiced every day for a week.

"Please... come back."

Mike was crying too hard to answer in English.

So he answered in the Japanese he had been secretly practicing.

"Kanarazu kaette kimasu."

In Japanese, that doesn't mean "I'll visit."

It's what you say when you're coming home.

[Dread Blockrat Roberts @DreadBlockrat]

@AndrewDudum And how will you determine dosing? Symptoms? Total T target based on less accurate immunoassay,not LC/MS, or maybe a calculated free T? You know that many men don't get symptom relief on exogenous T until levels are ~1500. Be specific, not "tailored for the patient" non-answer

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@japan_nobunaga Do people really do this? We rode the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kyoto and back and didn't see anyone eating or even bringing food onto the train.

[Viva Frei @thevivafrei]

@factpostnews At least play the entire answer. It might not change your assessment, but it would at least be fair.