Ritesh K. Bhana

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[Dustin Farrell @Dustin_Farrell]

Starship Flight Test 13 filmed by me at 600fps. Hit me up if you also need your giant rocket filmed up close in slow motion 😉

[Ritesh K. Bhana @humanshield_1]

You really can’t make this shit up.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: NYC Mayor Mamdani reveals ID will be required at city-owned grocery stores to prevent non-residents from accessing discounted food.

[Oscar Piastri @OscarPiastri]

Thanks for all the anniversary messages

[Rory Sutherland @rorysutherland]

I'm hugely grateful to Cory Doctorow for explaining in his book "Enshitification" the bizarre and slightly sleazy IP-law related reason why companies are so eager for customers to interact via an app rather than via a web page, even when the latter would often afford a much better experience

[Ritesh K. Bhana @humanshield_1]

@Jonathan_Witt If South African politicians behavior over the years has taught us anything, she’ll double down

[Ritesh K. Bhana @humanshield_1]

Closest F1 got to something like this is Verstappen shoving Ocon in Brazil and Schumacher walking down the pit lane to have it out with DC. Oh Piquet and Salazar.

[NASCAR @NASCAR]

There was contact on and off the track. 😬

[Ritesh K. Bhana @humanshield_1]

Not bad

[Intern Pierre @internpierre]

Louis Vuitton is no longer a luxury brand illustrated $MC.PA $LVMH

[Andrew @dremnik]

continuing my war on paid software that should be free, today's victim is: granola.

quill gives you the same thing for free and completely private, just start recording and after you stop it, the entire audio gets transcribed into a default folder.

completely open source as always

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Landing burn and splashdown of Starship on Flight 13

[Ritesh K. Bhana @humanshield_1]

Unbelievable. Either being willfully ignorant or the managers below him are feeding him this.
It’s pretty obvious most passes are deployment passes, but knowing if your driver has a fighting chance makes it exciting

[Autosport @autosport]

Stefano Domenicali was asked about the lack of battery data on F1 broadcasts 🗣️🪫

[Roman Cabanac @RomanCabanac]

Only Boomers don’t judge books by their covers.

You shouldn’t ever read books like this.

[Ritesh K. Bhana @humanshield_1]

@Porschephile_1 Cosseh. No question.

[Phil McAlister @phil_mcalister]

A few very obvious points on Mamdani's grocery stores:

1. The supply of the discounted groceries will run out on day 1, and every day there is a new shipment. This is basic econ 101.

2. This means only the people who are lucky enough or fast enough will get these discounted groceries. Expect to see the city ration these groceries in some other way. By income, or neighborhood or some lottery system.

3. Grocery margins are notoriously low as it is (like 2-3%). These stores will lose a bunch of money selling 30% below market, or they'll sell so little it will be insignificant.

4. There is absolutely zero chance that government bureaucrats can source these products from global supply chains as efficiently as Walmart, or Meier, or Whole Foods, whose survival depends on it. Their costs will be far higher (unless they use government bludgeon to force distributors to sell to them at lower prices).

5. It's actually an incredible triumph of capitalism that you can get a pound of bananas that were shipped to your neighborhood from Equador for like 60 cents, or fresh grapes from Chile in the dead of Midwestern winter for 2 bucks a pound, and Norwegian salmon to cook in Italian olive oil for $15 -20 bucks or so. Truly stop and think about that for a minute. It's a miracle.

The median full time hourly wage is around $31 dollars. For ONE HOUR of work, the median working American can get all of the groceries listed below, which is about 22,000 calories. They can feed themselves for 10 days (or a family of 4 for around 2 and a half days), with an hour of labor.

This is the stupidest industry for socialists to go after.

[Airbus @Airbus]

The #A350-1000ULR is just back from its longest flight ever from Melbourne 🇦🇺 to Toulouse 🇫🇷! That’s a 12,460NM (23,075.92 km) hop 🦘 in 24 hours 24 minutes!

And for the crew, that meant flying from winter to summer, crossing 2 oceans, 3 continents, and seeing 2 sunrises + 2 sunsets... all in a single flight!

Watch some highlights in the video below and learn more about the full journey here: https://t.co/GLWOdtlaMg

[Flightradar24 @flightradar24]

Touchdown! ✈️

After 24 hours and 23 minutes in the air, the A350-1000ULR has completed the flight from Melbourne to Toulouse.

[Acclaimed Journalist @Jonathan_Witt]

It’s getting to a point where News24 is competing with the likes of the ANC and Open Society for the title of most nefarious and damaging organisation in the history of this country.

[Ritesh K. Bhana @humanshield_1]

@RomanCabanac 😂😂 done

[Ritesh K. Bhana @humanshield_1]

@Porschephile_1 😂

[Ritesh K. Bhana @humanshield_1]

Absolutely nothing worked for Ferrari this weekend. Nothing #HungarianGP

[Ritesh K. Bhana @humanshield_1]

@LuckyGordy Some damage limitation. But it was a bad one 😭