we live in age of great moral panics about things that don’t matter and zero moral outrage over some of the most egregious societal sins we’ve ever seen
Hey Jasmine…
Black pilot here.
I think you missed the plot.
Then again, that’s becoming a pattern.
I graduated from West Point.
I went through Army flight school.
I learned to fly the AH-64 Apache.
I deployed to combat and flew 55 combat missions over Baghdad.
Nobody handed me a cockpit because of my skin color.
Nobody lowered the standards for me.
Nobody looked at me and said, “Let’s check a diversity box.”
That’s what people like you don’t seem to understand.
Suggesting that Black pilots, Black engineers, Black doctors, or Black leaders need special preferences to succeed is not empowering, it’s insulting.
I didn’t want a different standard.
I wanted the same standard.
And when you’re flying into combat, the American people don’t care what race the pilot is.
They care whether the pilot is qualified.
Merit isn’t racist.
Excellence isn’t discriminatory.
And reducing every achievement to skin color says far more about your worldview than it does about mine.
🚨🚨Just in case you missed it. Here is Benjamin Netanyahu in his own words, thanking Congress for implementing “his plan” to take over the US military and intelligence services..🚨🚨
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
@BenSwann_ The physics of that plane being able to hit the Pentagon feet off the ground are highly improbable. Why isn't there more footage? This guy's exposed himself here by agreeing with that narrative.
The top 2.5 metres of the world's oceans hold as much heat energy as the entire atmosphere above it.
The oceans are the world's thermal powerhouse and it takes a massive amount of energy to nudge its temperature even a fraction of a degree. It's vast heat capacity is the key.
Once oceans begin to warm or cool they don’t just slow down, they operate on timescales of centuries and millennia. The deep oceans are still responding to changes that happened hundreds of years ago.
It’s a slow-motion ballet that ignores all modern noise. The key lies in the Thermohaline Circulation - a global conveyor belt that takes a thousand years to complete a single return trip. It means that water currently resurfacing in some parts of the world hasn't seen the atmosphere since the Middle Ages.
The oceans hold 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere and any slight shift in oceanic outgassing or absorption dwarfs all human output. It’s the tail that wags the dog. Understanding this inertia is the ultimate antidote to climate panic.
We're living in a world dominated by water, with its massive, built-in buffer system that has stabilised life for eons.
@ChrisMartzWX Chris. You have a good bead on things. But, we do know why the glaciers grow so damn fuckin big in the north.. 👀 The heat belt shuts off. Bang we run the Sim again.