Flying low. John I’m only dancing. author:of my own demise podcast:bot tag.insert edgy homesy qualities here , but is it art ?! Well you posted first !
🚨 TODD BEAMER, UNITED 93 PHONE CALL: "LET'S ROLL" 🇺🇸
Todd: Hello… Operator… listen to me. I can’t speak very loud. This is an emergency. I’m a passenger on a United flight to San Francisco. Our plane has been hijacked.
Lisa: I understand. Can they see you?
Todd: No. There are three that we know of. They have knives — razor knives, like box cutters. Someone announced from the cockpit there was a bomb. It sounded fake.
Lisa: Your name?
Todd: Todd Beamer. United Flight 93.
Todd: They killed one passenger in first class. They forced most of us back. Fourteen of us here. Five flight attendants. The guy with the bomb ordered us to sit on the floor.
Lisa: Are you okay?
Todd: We’re going down… wait. No. We’re leveling off. We changed directions. We’re flying east again.
Todd: A guy named Jeremy called his wife. She told him two planes hit the World Trade Center. Lisa, is that true?
Lisa: I have to tell you the truth. It’s very bad. Both towers are gone. A third plane hit the Pentagon. Our country is under attack. I’m afraid your plane may be part of their plan.
Todd: Oh God. Lisa, will you do something for me? Call my wife and my kids. Promise me you’ll call.
Lisa: I promise.
Todd: Our home number is… You have the same name as my wife. Lisa. We’ve been married ten years. She’s pregnant with our third child. Tell her I love her. I’ll always love her. We have two boys — David, he’s 3, and Andrew, he’s 1. Tell them their daddy loves them and he is so proud of them. The baby is due January 12th. I saw an ultrasound. We still don’t know if it’s a girl or a boy.
Lisa: I’ll tell them. I promise, Todd.(Lisa patches in the FBI.)
Agent: Todd, your plane is on a course for Washington. Best guess is the White House or the Capitol.
Todd: I understand. I’ll be back.
Todd: Everyone knows this isn’t a normal hijacking. We have decided we will not be pawns in their plot.
Lisa: What are you going to do?
Todd: Four of us are going to rush the one with the bomb. Then the cockpit. A stewardess is getting boiling water. We’ll take them out.
Todd: Would you pray with me? [They pray the Lord’s Prayer.] Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.
Todd: God help me. Jesus help me. Are you guys ready? Let’s Roll.
SOURCE: @SterlingMSnow
I lost my Dad on 9/11. I don’t get a lot of reach on here. But I just wanted to share a picture. He was 39. I thought he was old. I’m now in my mid 30s and I still feel like a kid.
He was a great trader. He loved markets. He loved to find a stock no one was talking about.
The first trade I ever placed was on his work computer, where he let me click the button to buy AMAT. I loved going to the office with him. It was electric.
He was the best dad. We spent hours out in the street after dinner where he’d throw “pop flys” for me to catch. Eye on the ball.
He loved watching Sponge Bob and eating cereal, wrestling with us in the living room. He just loved being around his kids so much, and we knew it. I’m so grateful I got a dad like that.
Love you, Pops.
Cant sign into my account on Amazon as phone changed, so I click the option of failed 2-step verification and it takes me to a link and asks me to login !!!£@£ wtf. no number to call etc help me please obiwan @AmazonHelp. .
@AmazonHelp That opens a french page and its my uk account and i cant call the number as im on holiday in spain. Is there a uk phone number for overseas?
@ArkaSerezh@FennellJW Heart breaking. Admiralty Arch is an amazing, iconic and historic part of British history and heritage. It should have remained a national asset, in the hands of the nation, not sold for an incredibly small and short term gain as a commercial money spinner.
I really wish Apple had shown up with something different. And I don't mean product.
John Ternus didn't take the opportunity to introduce himself to the world.
John may be a very different CEO than Tim, but today he didn't show that. He stayed in the lane Tim built. And it left us wondering...
I urge John to bring back live events. I urge a less-scripted, less-curated Apple.
I'm tired of the fashion consultants dressing up the presenters. Some ripped jeans, a T-shirt and a pair of Vans would be refreshing.
Apple feels like a Better Homes & Gardens house where everything is just too perfectly in place.
We need some mess.
We need a presentation to fail. An unexpected moment. Maybe even something funny. Something that reminds us there are humans inside this company.
It all feels wrapped up in a COVID-style mask in an era where we are so over that.
@johnternus, breath freely again.
@Becare4ok@Tesla@Tesla_AI@elonmusk There are 2 problems here. If this is standard it should know what to do and the other is WTF who designed this ? In the future road signage will need to improve whether one ghinks it’s necessary or not,
THIS WEBSITE LETS YOU SIT IN THE WINDOW SEAT OF ANY PLANE FLYING OVER YOUR HOUSE RIGHT NOW.
no download. no app. no account.
you open the tab and you are in the sky.
it's called Stowaway. https://t.co/WFCxwmTfQi.
it finds your location. pulls every plane and satellite passing over you right now. click one. hit "Stow away" and you are in the window seat. real terrain. real weather. real light for this exact minute.
the guy who made it, jheising, said on Hacker News he built it because as a kid he would watch planes cross the evening sky and try to imagine what the world looked like from up there. Stowaway is that, without the airport.
441 points on Hacker News. people are not bookmarking it. they are flying in it.
just a website that lets a normal person see Earth from a stranger's window seat for a few minutes.
we built the internet and somehow one of the best things on it right now is still:
open tab.
sit in a stranger's plane.
watch the sunset from 35,000 feet.
@roisinmurphy@ShanePearce Oddly i actually like this but i know what you’re trying to say and what is the point now really if this is your literal ‘audience” sigh
@afneil This is truly dreadful to read, heartbreaking no matter how he came to this position, that ghis should be his only way to”out” is a collective failure no matter how he got there.
@wholemars Im so pleased you said this trip has been eye opening and hope that you take a broader vision home to constructively criticise and celebrate our respective cultures.