David Germack

I do science. it involves a disturbing number of meetings. He/His. I stand with Ukraine.

[Blake Aerni @BlakeAerni]

The University of Kansas band learned the Algerian National Anthem to welcome the team before training. 🇩🇿

Absolutely incredible…

[Horn Takes Podcast @HornTakes]

Lost in the Sorsby NCAA infractions are the fact that he broke the law. Multiple times.

[David Germack @DrLothar]

@TexasTech Y’all do understand that Sports betting is illegal in Texas? Where is your moral compass? Or your ethics? You just torched your credibility and honor for an arrogant kid with a 5 cent head. For what? Some temporary football glory?

[Trey Wallace @TreyWallace]

Texas Tech Pres. Lawrence Schovanec, on NCAA gambling rules (Brendan Sorsby)

“I think we have to recognize the rules in place now we’re made long before there were millions of young people walking around with a legal gambling apparatus in their pocket”

Sorsby bet on Indiana football, basketball and Cincinnati hoops…

[Pete Thamel @PeteThamel]

NEWS: The Oklahoma Attorney General's office issued a rebuttal letter to the Texas AG's office's letter to the Big 12. Oklahoma AG Gentner Drummond says that the idea that Big 12 may not sanction its members is “facially absurd” and says Texas Tech’s actions have “constituted a shameful chapter in the story of college football.” Per me and @max_olson.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus.

You want to know what insults Jesus?

Kicking the sick off their healthcare.
Bombing schoolchildren in Iran.
Deporting moms and babies.
Covering up the Epstein files.

[𝕭𝖆𝖒 𝕾𝖚𝖑𝖑𝖎𝖛𝖆𝖓 @BamSullivan]

Can't raise minimum wage because it will kill jobs.

Can't raise taxes on the bourgeoisie class because it will kill jobs.

Can't ditch oil because it will kill jobs.

But when these companies replace 50% of their workforce with AI, it's "sorry, that's just the way it goes."

[Clifton Duncan @cliftonaduncan]

Sometimes a sentence cuts right to the heart of the human experience in a profound way.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Absolutely fantastic piece about why beef prices are so high. Contrary to what many people may surmise, it's not the meatpackers getting margin right now. It's the actual ranchers, who are benefitting from an overall scarcity of calves https://t.co/kCJ8qf30ZE

[Mo @atmoio]

Zuck is officially the most evil man in AI

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

This is a good reminder that John Roberts is exactly who John Lewis told us he was.

[mighty-lizard-king @mightylzrdking]

The solid waste fee doesn’t appear to actually go toward solid waste, but gets deposited into the general fund. So it’s a new tax for an existing service to pay for the 60% of the expenses which have grown out of control: police and fire

[Basil M. Gravanis @PaleoPhotoPro]

@allenanalysis You know what they say…

[SGM Mike Vining @ Blasting Through Official @BlastingThrough]

A Great Example of Mentoring
In June 1970, I was an SP4. I had been doing EOD in Vietnam for less than 100 days when I was confronted with my first 500-pound bomb to defuse.
First Cav was setting up a fire support base they were calling FSB Camelot. While they were putting in M102 105 mm howitzer gun positions, they ran across dud bombs.
So, SFC Fearnow and I were called in to get rid of the bombs.
Two of the bombs had a red window, meaning they were armed.
So, immediately we evacuated the FSB by having everybody move 300 meters away.
Even if they both had shown green windows, we would treat them as armed, but when red was showing, there was no doubt.
One of the bombs was only about twenty feet from a 105 mm gun position. If it went off, it would take the gun and the crew with it. It would destroy a significant part of the FSB.
My mouth went dry as I took one bomb and Fearnow took the other one. He said that we’ll deal with the two bombs at the same time.
This was my first big bomb to render safe.
I used my bare hands to turn the fuze counterclockwise to unscrew the fuze from the bomb.  Luckily, the fuze was not on it too tight.
I started turning.
The threads were smooth. The fuze rotated. I could feel every rotation through my hands, through my whole body. It's like I became connected to the bomb, like we were one thing, and if it decided to detonate, we would become nothing together.
Turn. Turn. Turn.
As I unscrewed the fuze, I wondered what would happen if it detonated. Would I see the bomb swell and a bright flash? Would I still have consciousness without a body?
The fuze came free.
I stood up and looked over at Fearnow. He was grinning.
"Not bad, Vining."
"Yeah," I said. My voice sounded strange. "Not bad."
Since my childhood, I had always wondered what it would feel like to disarm a large bomb when I saw a British bomb disposal officer do it in a movie. It was a large German bomb in a catacomb under London, England.
We walked fifty meters into the jungle, placed both fuzes in a small crater, rigged them with C-4, and a priming system. The explosion was sharp and clean. Two red windows were gone.
We pulled it together, no drama, no red windows. Just another piece of ordnance rendered safe.
By 1600 hours, we were done. The bombs would be sling-loaded out by helicopter.
I describe this incident with a lot more detail in “Blasting Through.”
But for today, I wanted to use this story as an example of mentoring.
At FSB Camelot, I recognized a great mentor in SFC Fearnow. He allowed me to defuse my first big bomb while he defused his bomb. We worked side by side. Close enough that he could help if I needed it, but far enough away that I had to do it myself.
Mentoring doesn’t have to be complicated. It should be a natural extension of your leadership. It’s not so much about teaching or supervising. Fearnow was just there to assure me that I could do it but that if I ran into trouble, he was there.
This was one of the first times I noted to myself how important mentoring is.
I decided to catalog in my mind each time I saw a great example of mentoring like I had witnessed with Fearnow that day in June 1970.
I figured that if I lived long enough, I would be the one on the ground with the most experience. And then I could pull out those filed away memories of good mentoring and help others practice the skill and build their confidence at the same time.

[David Germack @DrLothar]

@NoahMF Nice! Welcome back to downtown. And great shot of my office (I’m in the TC Energy building).

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: And my word of warning to my own political party is that we would make a terrible mistake if we thought that our job was to just take power somehow and then put everything back the way it was. That’s not what we’re here to do.

We’re not out to go around and just find all the little bits and pieces of everything that they smashed and tape it together and say, “Here you go, I give you the world as it looked in 2023.” That’s not going to work. It’s not what we need.

So much has changed, and the truth is they are destroying things right and left. They’re destroying a lot of good, important things. They’re destroying some useless things too, because they’re destroying everything. So now we get a chance to put things together on different terms.

[Deb GREER @DebGREER5]

@Strandjunker

[thunderf00t @thunderf00t]

..... spacex misses LITERALLY every goal from getting to orbit to landing on the moon. Spacex fan..... 'Spacex hasnt failed to meet any Artimis contract obligations yet' 🙄🙄🙄

[BigRose @Roseisbig]

@WatcherGuru He won’t do it , it another game for more money
He has always be like that

[Vince Mpls @vincempls]

He has sent swarms of Officers to harass our people
He has kept among us Standing Armies without Consent of our legislatures
Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us
Protecting them from punishment for Murders which they commit on the Inhabitants
- Thomas Jefferson, 1776