Jan-Olov Blix

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@owenil Enligt den oskrivna lagen om att allt som missbrukas skall tas bort så kanske om….

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@miradreaamy 25

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@majesusmacan @josedavidmillan Det var en riktig skitstövel.

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@AndrzejZmiasta Jeff ”Skunk” Baxter

[𝟑 𝐞̀𝐦𝐞 𝐎𝐞𝐢𝐥 @_3emeOeil]

Elle se met à chanter dans une église et l'acoustique est absolument incroyable…

Chaque note résonne pendant plusieurs secondes dans tout le bâtiment, au point qu’on a presque l’impression qu’une chorale entière chante avec elle 😍

[Living The Dream @BrainLogicOnly]

The math is terrifying: a $20k drone vs. a $3M interceptor. 📉 Even with the best tech in the world, you can’t win a war of attrition when the cost ratio is 150-to-1. The Pentagon’s "not a good cost equation" is the understatement of the century. We are watching traditional air superiority vanish in real-time. 🛰️💥 #MilitaryTech #Pentagon #Drones

[Alexander Stubb @alexstubb]

Today I spoke about European cooperation at Chatham House, also known as The Royal Institute of International Affairs. I would like to see more cooperation between the European Union and the UK.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

🇺🇦 ♠️♥️♣️♦️ The Country With No Cards Just Became America’s Most Valuable Ally

Ukraine had no leverage in the Middle East. No bases, no bilateral agreements, no historic ties to the Gulf states. By Washington’s own repeated verdict, Kyiv held no cards at all.
And yet, within hours of Iran’s response to the US-Israeli strikes, Ukraine was the country Washington came crawling to.

The Trump administration launched its Middle East adventure without a plan for the weapon that would define it. In a closed-door Capitol Hill briefing, Defense Secretary Hegseth acknowledged that Iran’s cheap Shahed drones had proven a bigger problem than anticipated, saturating air defenses that cost millions per shot to operate. The US burned through 800 Patriot interceptor missiles in days, compared to the 600 delivered to Ukraine across four years of war. Each Patriot costs four million dollars. Each Shahed costs thirty thousand. Iran has thousands. This is not a temporary setback. The US will be managing this mismatch for a decade.

Ukraine understood it before anyone in Washington did, because Ukraine had been living it. Forced to innovate or be destroyed, Ukrainian engineers built interceptor drones at $1,000 to $2,000 each and deployed them at scale against the same weapons now overwhelming American defenses. Ukraine sent those interceptors and personnel to Jordan at Washington’s direct request.

On the same day, Trump told Politico that Zelenskyy was “stalling” and had “even less cards” than before.
The contempt and the phone call came in the same week. Ukraine answered anyway. That is what a serious country with real values looks like, sharing lessons paid for in Ukrainian blood with partners who have offered humiliation in return.

Trump does not deserve this help. He has earned none of it. But Ukraine gave it, because that is the difference between a leader who understands what is at stake and one who thinks statecraft is a real estate negotiation.
You do not get to tell someone they hold no cards, and then ask them to deal. Ukraine dealt anyway. Remember that.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Jan-Olov Blix @JOAtcom]

@Amelia558rs 1965

[Cultura Literal @culturaliteral1]

¿Te hubieras parado a ayudar?

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Riskkapitalister som försöker förvandla veterinärkliniker till sedelpressar har misstagit sig. Djurägare har inte obegränsat med pengar utan tvingas avliva sina högt älskade husdjur när pengarna inte räcker till.

[Virginie Sigonney 🇫🇷 @GinieSigonney]

In 1940, British pilots were dying without ever being hit by the enemy.

The cause was purely technical.

They were flying the Spitfire—already an exceptional aircraft in terms of aerodynamics and maneuverability—but one critical flaw remained: engine fuel supply under strong negative acceleration.

During a steep dive to escape a Messerschmitt, negative G-forces caused fuel to surge into the carburetor.

The mixture instantly became too rich.

The engine lost combustion, spluttered, then cut out completely.

A few seconds were enough to turn an agile fighter into a stationary target.

German aircraft, equipped with direct fuel injection, retained full power in dives and pull-outs.

The tactical advantage was real, measurable, and deadly.

RAF engineers were well aware of the problem.

But the “ideal” solution required a complete redesign of the Merlin engine—unrealistic in the midst of the Battle of Britain.

That is where Beatrice “Tilly” Shilling came in, an aeronautical engineer and recognized specialist in high-performance mechanics.

Accustomed to pushing engines to their limits in motorcycle racing, she approached systems not as abstract theory, but under real extreme conditions.

Rather than redesigning the engine, she carefully analyzed the fluid dynamics of the fuel delivery system.

Her diagnosis was simple and rigorous: the issue was not combustion, but an instantaneous excess of fuel flow.

She calculated a critical threshold.

The engine had to receive enough fuel to maintain maximum power, but never enough to flood the carburetor under negative G.

Her solution was brutally effective.

A simple brass flow restrictor, drilled with millimetric precision, installed upstream of the carburetor.

A passive component, with no moving parts, no failure risk, dimensioned exactly to the Merlin’s requirements.

She personally validated the device, then traveled from airbase to airbase to have it installed.

No committees, no delays—tests, measurements, results.

Once in place, the engine remained fueled during dives.

Spitfires could maintain power, follow the enemy through vertical maneuvers, and finally exploit their full aerodynamic potential.

Officially, the device became known as the “R.A.E. restrictor.”

On the airfields, pilots simply called it “Miss Shilling’s orifice.”

It was not an elegant solution in the academic sense.

It was a performant, robust, immediately operational solution.

Exactly what war demanded.

Without flying an aircraft or firing a single shot, Beatrice Shilling turned a critical disadvantage into a measurable tactical gain.

A striking example of what engineering can achieve when guided by technical mastery, sound calculation, and the courage to act quickly.

©️ Eric Fdl / Imperial War Museum / National Geographic
History
📷©️Wikipedia

[Johan Britz @britz_johan]

Sverige behöver mer kvalificerad arbetskraftsinvandring.

[Lars Isacsson @IsacssonLars]

Det är faktiskt orimligt, efter att läst detta skickade jag in en interpellation till Justitieministern.

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Jag tycker inte att det känns bra att en riksdagspolitiker som på goda grunder uteslutits av sitt parti får sitta kvar i riksdagen som sk politisk vilde.

[𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗰 ✨🎵 @Hoang_HQ]

When music was actually .....music.👏👏👍👌

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@honeymoon250 Hjalmar

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@MbarkCherguia Stupid

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@us_connie Bottom

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@oelma__ Itś a center for a singles record intended to be played in a juke box