Chris Parkhurst

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[Chris Parkhurst @cpark29]

Fact

[Andrew Fox @Mr_Andrew_Fox]

Sam Harris has written the best thing you’ll read today.

https://t.co/gI0wZZNH4m

[Chris Parkhurst @cpark29]

Good stuff...

[LV MFG @cynicpolitic]

Think about that Harley

Then realize your dad loves you 100x more than that thing

Want to do something cool? Go conquer life so hard you can buy him his dream bike

[Chris Parkhurst @cpark29]

@PremintG @Dirtdog It's on the dbag coach for trying to embarass a 7th grader.

[Chris Parkhurst @cpark29]

@runningman12001 @Super70sSports There is a time and a place. Running backs run out of bounds vs taking hits, quarterbacks slide.

Teoscsr Hernandez tried to leg out a single last week and will be out for weeks.

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

84 years ago today, four Japanese aircraft carriers were burning in the Pacific because of a man who went to work in a smoking jacket and slippers.

Washington took his job, buried his name, and blocked his medal for 44 years.

This is the story of Joseph Rochefort, the codebreaker who saved Midway.

December 7, 1941. Pearl Harbor burns. Rochefort, head of a Navy codebreaking unit on Oahu, takes it personally. He tells a colleague that an intelligence officer has exactly one job: to tell his commander today what the enemy will do tomorrow. On December 7, he believes he failed at it.

He decides he will never fail at it again.

His unit is Station HYPO, hidden in a windowless basement at Pearl Harbor that his men call "the Dungeon." It is cold, damp, and lit like a morgue. Rochefort wears a smoking jacket over his uniform to fight the chill and slippers because the concrete floor wrecks his feet. He works 20 hour days, sleeps on a cot in the basement, and lives on coffee.

His team is just as strange. Brilliant misfit cryptanalysts like Joe Finnegan and Ham Wright, plus the surviving bandsmen of the battleship USS California, sunk on December 7. The musicians turn out to be naturals at running the IBM punch card machines. Sailors who played trombones in November are reconstructing an enemy cipher by March.

Their target: JN-25, the Imperial Japanese Navy's operational code. Tens of thousands of code groups, layered with additives, changed regularly. On a good day HYPO can read maybe 10 to 15 percent of any message. They rebuild the rest from fragments, traffic patterns, callsigns, and Rochefort's freakish memory. He had spent three years in Japan learning the language. He could hold months of intercepts in his head at once.

By May 1942, processing up to 140 decrypts a day, HYPO sees something enormous taking shape. Admiral Yamamoto, the architect of Pearl Harbor, is massing nearly 200 ships for one decisive battle. The target appears in the intercepts as two letters: AF.

Rochefort is certain AF is Midway Atoll.

Washington is certain he is wrong. The Navy's own codebreaking office, OP-20-G, argues for the South Pacific. Others fear Hawaii again, or even the West Coast. The Army wants planes held back to defend San Francisco. If Nimitz bets his last carriers on Midway and Rochefort is wrong, the Pacific is lost.

So HYPO sets one of the great traps in the history of intelligence.

The idea comes from staffer Jasper Holmes. The order goes to Midway by undersea cable, which the Japanese cannot tap: broadcast by radio, in plain language, that your water distillation plant has broken down.

Midway sends the fake distress call.

Two days later, HYPO decrypts a Japanese intelligence report to fleet commanders: AF is short of fresh water.

Two letters, confirmed. The argument is over.

Now Nimitz goes all in. The carrier Yorktown, mauled in the Coral Sea and given 90 days of repairs, is patched up in 72 hours and sent back out. Three American carriers slip northeast of Midway and wait at a spot on the map they name Point Luck.

On May 27, HYPO cracks the Japanese date and time cipher, the final piece. Nimitz's intelligence officer Edwin Layton, Rochefort's closest friend and partner, gives Nimitz a prediction of nearly insane precision: the Japanese carriers will be spotted on bearing 325 degrees, 175 miles from Midway, around 0600 on June 4.

On the morning of June 4, 1942, a PBY scout plane radios in the sighting. Nimitz turns to Layton and says: well, you were only five minutes, five degrees, and five miles out.

What follows are the most consequential ten minutes of the Pacific war. American dive bombers catch the Japanese carriers with fueled planes and stacked ordnance on their decks. By nightfall, Akagi, Kaga, Soryu, and Hiryu, four of the six carriers that hit Pearl Harbor, are gone, along with thousands of men and the irreplaceable core of Japan's elite naval aviators. Six months after Pearl Harbor, Japan's advance across the Pacific is broken. It never recovers.

A basement full of misfits had handed the US Navy the greatest ambush in its history.

Then came the knives.

The same Washington officers who had called Midway wrong now claimed the credit. They whispered that Rochefort was difficult, an ex-enlisted man without the right pedigree. Nimitz recommended him for the Distinguished Service Medal. Washington killed it. Nimitz tried again. Killed again.

In October 1942, four months after the victory he made possible, Rochefort was pulled from HYPO. The man who outwitted Yamamoto spent much of the rest of the war commanding a floating dry dock in San Francisco Bay.

He never lobbied for himself, never wrote a self-serving memoir, and rarely spoke of it. He said his real reward came at Midway itself. He died in 1976, unknown to the public, medal denied.

His old shipmates refused to let it go. Layton and others fought the Navy bureaucracy for years with the declassified record. In 1985 the Navy relented, and on May 30, 1986, President Reagan presented the Distinguished Service Medal to Rochefort's children in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.

44 years late.

One man in slippers, in a basement, out-thought an empire and was punished for being right.

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

@CollinRugg Down Syndrome children deserve life. Pass it on.

[Chris Parkhurst @cpark29]

@mattpauli Treetops?

[Lance Corporate @lance_corporate]

The number of men I know who have to spend a week in the doghouse every time they go on a MANDATORY WORK TRIP is so baffling to me.

Bro already feels bad enough that he has to leave, and then his wife does the “ok” text thing the whole time and just casts a dark shadow on his entire day/week. Brutal.

Many of these wives love the lifestyle afforded by the salary that comes with the corporate title and role, the vacations and SUVs and girls trips and private schools, and then pout and mope around the house when Chad actually has to do his job.

These dudes look absolutely deflated on the last day of travel knowing they have to go home and basically tiptoe around moody woman doing the silent treatment routine for the next three days.

Conversely, the guys with grateful, supportive, joyful wives cannot wait to get home.

An excellent, godly wife is an infinite force multiplier, in every area of life.

[Chris Parkhurst @cpark29]

@MidwestGolfJake 😂

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@heesinator @anymanfitness

[Chris Parkhurst @cpark29]

I used to be fully on team send it. But starting to realize that being able to adjust spin on command is graduate level stuff that requires practice. My stock lob from 100 or gap wedge from 120 is very reliable. Maybe need a wedge in between🤔.

While I am hitting it further than ever, those intermediate wedges are very difficult to dial in, especially from the rough, when pin is tucked, over a bunker etc. And the more I push up long approaches, the more likely my dispersion puts me in deeper rough or a bunker.

[Chris Parkhurst @cpark29]

@DeanTTraining Amazing for sure.

[Chris Parkhurst @cpark29]

@Aphron1 @anymanfitness 🤣

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@MMGOLFSTUDIOS @Hanes @Feetures 🤣🤣

They are very good. I legitimately sent back 5 pairs with holes in them after a couple years and they credited me for new ones.

[Chris Parkhurst @cpark29]

I get the too good to be true crowd, but.....

GLP-1 receptor agonists have been used for over 20 years. They were first approved by the FDA in 2005 to treat Type 2 diabetes.

Recent oncology studies highlight the potential of GLP-1 receptor agonists (like semaglutide and tirzepatide) to significantly reduce cancer risk and slow disease progression.

Other Positive Health Effects:

Weight Management: As much as 30% weight loss, equivalent to gastric bypass surgery.

Blood Sugar Control.

Heart Protection: Lowers the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events.

Neurological & Behavioral Benefits: Emerging research links GLP-1s to reduced risks of addiction/substance use, seizures, and neurocognitive disorders like Alzheimer's and dementia.

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

I really hope all these peptides and GLPs don’t have long term side effects or we’re in big trouble.

[Chris Parkhurst @cpark29]

@MMGOLFSTUDIOS Yea. With a qualified coach, learning to hit up on the ball with driver is not that difficult. IMO, most of the work is done in setup.

[Chris Parkhurst @cpark29]

@baywes @MyGolfSpy Nobody has true SB/ST... Impossible geometric fact.