José Manuel Conde

Work smarter, not harder

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@Mubarak615704 @UTDMael Carlos Vela, bitch

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@rodriisolanoo Amigo apostaste 5 USD 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@barstoolsports This is NOT Ciudad de Mexico, it’s Guadalajara

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@Fahadnaimb @skygoflycom Without a doubt

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@Fahadnaimb Prefer a stop

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@AdamSchefter 🤢🤢🤢🤢

[U2 @U2]

The thunder and rain crashed the generator for the film shoot, which meant a bewildered but welcoming neighbour let the U2ers crash their apartment at dinner time and out to their balcony.

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Éramos felices y no lo sabíamos 🥲

[Santi ✨ @Vahoousz]

Que verguísima estaba la rola que le ponían Acción a sus resúmenes

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Second best city in the world

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Guess the location??? 🤔

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This guy spent $3,140 on chocolate pudding and got 1.25 MILLION free airline miles

His name is David Phillips and in May 1999 he was a 35 year old civil engineer at UC Davis when he spotted a Healthy Choice promotion

It was offering 500 frequent flyer miles for every 10 product barcodes mailed in, doubled to 1,000 miles if you mailed them in by May 31

He did the math on the cheapest Healthy Choice product he could find

Individual chocolate pudding cups were on sale at his local Grocery Outlet for 25 cents each, meaning $2.50 of pudding could buy him 1,000 airline miles

The airlines themselves valued those miles at around $20

He drove a van from store to store across California with his mother in law, cleaned out 10 different Grocery Outlets around the Sacramento area and ended up with 12,150 pudding cups stacked from his garage to his living room

When suspicious cashiers asked what he was doing he told them he was "stocking up for Y2K"

The early bird deadline was 3 weeks away and there was no way he could peel that many barcodes alone, so he called the Salvation Army and proposed a trade

He would donate all 12,150 cups if their volunteers peeled the labels off first

This donation also got him an $815 federal tax write off on top of everything

He mailed the barcodes in by the deadline and then heard absolutely nothing back for 2 months

His friends told him corporations always get out of promotions like this and his kids even started asking him if he got scammed

Then a giant package showed up at his door with paper certificates worth 1,253,000 frequent flyer miles, which made him a lifetime AAdvantage Gold member at American Airlines and was worth around $150,000 in flights

The Wall Street Journal put him on the front page in January 2000 and the London Times wrote about him a week later

Over the next 5 years he flew his entire family to 43 countries, and in 2002 director Paul Thomas Anderson loosely based the movie Punch Drunk Love on him

Adam Sandler made a movie about him and he paid for the ticket with pudding

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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Four humans are about to fall into a 10,000°C wall of plasma at 25,000 mph with a heat shield NASA knows is flawed. Tomorrow evening. Off the coast of San Diego.

Orion hits the atmosphere at 36 times the speed of sound. The air can't move out of the way fast enough, so it compresses into a shockwave twice as hot as the surface of the Sun. The plasma ionizes the surrounding air and blocks all radio signals. For several minutes, the crew is falling faster than any humans have ever traveled inside a spacecraft, and nobody on the ground can talk to them.

The heat shield is 186 blocks of a material called Avcoat glued to a titanium skeleton. It works by charring, melting, and disintegrating on purpose. The destruction of the outer layer is the cooling mechanism. There is no backup system. No redundancy. The heat shield works or the crew doesn't come home.

The Artemis I heat shield came back with over 100 locations where chunks had ripped off. NASA spent two years figuring out why, concluded it was gas pressure building up inside the material during reentry, and decided not to replace the shield. They changed the flight path instead. Steeper angle, less time in the danger zone. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said publicly that this approach "is not the right way to do things long term."

The capsule will slow from 25,000 mph to 17 mph in thirteen minutes. Parachutes don't even deploy until the last four. Everything before that is managed by a curved piece of titanium and glue entering air twice as hot as the Sun.

Tomorrow at 5:07 PM Pacific, San Diego might hear a sonic boom. That sound is four people betting their lives on NASA's math being right.

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@JavierAlejoB @AlessandraRdlv Ponte a trabajar mi reina @AlessandraRdlv

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@Avgeek_Jan @Iberia 3 daily since forever

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[Peter King @peter_king]

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