The Real Mike D.

“And in the end. The love you take, is equal to the love...you make”. Pronouns:Sweet Potato/Yam

[Aviation @xAviation]

In the late 1980s, McDonnell Douglas tested the GE36 propfan on an MD-80. It combined the fuel efficiency of a turboprop with the speed of a jet and proved the concept could work. But with fuel prices dropping, noise concerns, and changing priorities, it never made it into airline service. Even so, the program helped shape many of the engine technologies used today.

[𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐜 - 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 - 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞⭐️❤️ @NgocThach74]

While recording at Village Recorder studio in Los Angeles, band member Rick Davies often took breaks playing the Mattel Electronic Football—a hugely popular toy at the time. Because the sound from the device was constant and echoed throughout the studio, saxophone player John Helliwell came up with the idea of ​​incorporating it directly into the song.
This meticulousness and unique sound experimentation helped the song win the prestigious Ivor Novello Award for "Best Song in Music and Lyrics." Even legendary Paul McCartney declared it his favorite song of 1979.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Kubrick explained the ending of 2001 exactly once: in 1980, over the phone, to a Japanese TV crew hunting ghosts on the set of The Shining. Then the tape vanished for 38 years.

Jun'ichi Yaoi flew to Elstree Studios to investigate paranormal rumors for a documentary that never aired. Kubrick refused to appear on camera, so a Warner exec "called" him for the crew. He was sitting in another office down the hall.

Asked what the ending means, Kubrick sighed: "I've tried to avoid doing this ever since the picture came out." Then he answered. Bowman is taken in by beings of pure energy and intelligence, and placed in a human zoo. The bedroom is a deliberately inaccurate replica of French architecture, their guess at something he might find pretty. His whole life passes in that room with no sense of time.

The ambiguity was manufactured, too. The original screenplay explained everything through voiceover narration. Kubrick deleted it without telling Clarke. When 241 people walked out of the premiere anyway, Rock Hudson among them asking "will someone tell me what the hell this is about," Kubrick's fix was to cut 19 more minutes in four days and make the film less explained, not more.

The documentary was never finished. The raw footage surfaced when someone sold a VHS of it on eBay in 2016, and it finally hit YouTube in 2018.

The most debated ending in film history had an author's answer the whole time. It spent four decades on an unwatched tape from an abandoned ghost documentary.

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @BarnabyHistory]

🇺🇸 How Badass was John Burns?

He was wounded in the arm, leg, and breast during his fighting that day.

He was then left behind during the Union retreat.

He crawled away from his rifle, buried his ammunition, and ditched anything military looking.

When Confederates found the wounded old man, he played the confused civilian card. He claimed he was just looking for help for his invalid wife and got caught in the crossfire.

They bought it.

Their surgeons even dressed his wounds.

He eventually made it back home.

His fame exploded after the famous photo of him.

On November 19, 1863, Lincoln specifically asked to meet him during the Gettysburg Address trip.

They walked together from the David Wills house to the Presbyterian Church on Baltimore Street for a rally.

Burns sat with the President.

Legend 🇺🇸

[Time Capsule Tales @timecaptales]

For the United States Bicentennial in 1976, the government funded one of the wildest short films ever made.

Created by animator Vincent Collins & produced by the United States Information Agency, the film goes on a kaleidoscopic journey through iconic
American symbols.

[Magnetic Norse @MagneticNorse]

One would think, when attending water slide design school, there would be a paragraph or two on why water slides shouldn’t go back up

[The Real Mike D. @mdr462]

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

A doughnut shop called Krispy Kreme. I was driving past when a red sign in the window lit up.

HOT NOW.

I have served three lords. None of them ever gave me an order that direct.

HOT NOW. Not "hot soon." Not "hot, when it is convenient for you." Hot now. A command. From the building. To me.

I pulled across two lanes of traffic. So did three other cars, which told me the building commands them as well, and that I had joined an army without learning its name.

Inside, a woman handed me a single warm doughnut. The glaze had not yet hardened. I had done nothing to earn it. I had simply obeyed the sign.

"First one's free when the light's on," she said.

So this is the wage. You obey the sign, you receive the warm thing. Discipline, rewarded instantly. No lord I ever served paid this fast.

I ate it standing up. I will tell you plainly: it was the softest thing I have put in my mouth on this continent. I understood, in that moment, why the army comes when the sign calls. I would come too. I have been coming ever since.

There are three Krispy Kremes within an hour of my home. I have learned the hours their signs light. The first at six. The second at six thirty. The third at seven. A man who leaves home at five fifty can obey all three before the workday begins.

My wife has asked why I smell of sugar at dawn. I told her I have taken an oath. She asked to whom. I could not answer, because the honest answer is "a sign," and a man does not like to say aloud that he has sworn his mornings to a sign.

But the sign said HOT NOW. What was I supposed to do. Read it, and keep driving? I am not made of stone.

[Gianna 🇺🇸 IRS Free Since 1999 @LegalFockery]

I had some minor drama on a flight a few weeks ago.
So I went looking for my legal/lawful standing in the situation and here's what I found.

Thought it was interesting.
Your Rights When an Airline Mistreats You

Air travel is governed by federal regulation, and several specific duties attach the moment you buy a ticket and check a bag.

Know them, and you stop being a victim and start being a claimant.

The downgrade refund is a federal entitlement, not a courtesy. I went from biz class to comfort class and not voluntarily.🤣

If you pay for first class and the airline moves you to a lower cabin and you still fly, the airline must refund the fare difference.

This is the DOT refund rule at 14 CFR Part 260. It is not discretionary, and "we gave you a voucher" is not a refund.

The refund has a deadline.

Once you request it, the airline must pay within 7 business days for a credit card charge, or 20 calendar days for other payment.

Miss that window and the airline has committed a separate, reportable violation.

Unfair and deceptive practices are prohibited.

49 U.S.C. 41712 lets the Department of Transportation act against unfair or deceptive conduct.

Charging you for a class of service and then not delivering it, and not refunding, fits squarely.

Discrimination in air travel is unlawful.

49 U.S.C. 40127 prohibits discrimination in air transportation based on race, color, national origin, and ancestry. The proof is comparative.

Note who was greeted, who was serviced, who was removed, and how you were treated differently in the same setting at the same time.

The airline must answer your written complaint.

Under 14 CFR 259.7, a carrier must acknowledge a written complaint within 30 days and give a substantive response within 60.

Silence is itself a violation you can document.

Your checked bag is a bailment. (They refused to give me my bags despite having the claim tickets.)

When you check a bag, the airline takes custody of your property and owes you a duty to return it on demand. Refusing to hand over your own bags, after you present valid claim tags, is a breach of the contract of carriage and the civil tort of conversion.

Know the line between civil and criminal.

A temporary refusal to release your property is a civil wrong, not theft, because theft requires intent to permanently deprive you.

Now the method, because theory without execution is worthless.

Build your record before you argue. Pull your own proof first. Mileage activity, fare receipts, reservation history, confirmation numbers. You argue from documents, not from memory.

Preserve the evidence in writing. Surveillance video gets overwritten on a short cycle. A dated preservation demand, sent certified mail with return receipt, puts the airline on notice and sets up an adverse inference if the footage later disappears.

Use the right forum.

The refund is the airline's to pay.

The discrimination claim belongs at DOT, where there is an investigative process, not buried in the company's own comment box.

Document, do not accuse. State facts in sequence. Let the pattern speak. Conclusions without proof weaken you. Facts on the record do the work.

The takeaway.

Rights you cannot cite are rights you cannot enforce.

The regulation, the deadline, the forum, and the paper trail are the whole game.

Learn the duty, document the breach, and demand in sequence.

Stand up or be stomped on.

Follow me to freedom learning the Legal Fockery of the world.

[The Real Mike D. @mdr462]

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[PeachProof @PeachProof23]

HOA board members are probably having a collective panic attack watching this.

​But here’s the plot twist: he’s not ruining his lawn—he’s about to have the best yard in the neighborhood.

​If your HOA is stressing you out about bumpy grass or drainage issues, check out the breakdown on why this actually works wonders.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Jeff Dunham performed for 4,000 Muslims in Abu Dhabi. Two nights later, he performed for 4,000 Jewish people in Tel Aviv without changing a word of the show.

After hearing what happened, Bill Maher was so astonished he told him he should do a documentary on it.

DUNHAM: “Doing a show there for 4,000 Muslims, and all in the front rows were the guys in the white dishdashas and the women in the black… And I did the same show with Achmed, the dead terrorist, and that was their favorite character.”

MAHER: “It’s my favorite, too.”

DUNHAM: “Thanks! Well, two nights later, I’m in the middle of Tel Aviv, Israel, doing the exact same show for 4,000 Jewish people. Didn’t change a word of the show. And they all loved it equally the same. So my big thing is I truly feel this world is filled with good people that all want the same things… And it takes a handful of idiots to f*ck it up for everybody else.”

MAHER: “You know what you should do? … You should do that as a documentary special.”

DUNHAM: “Oh…”

MAHER: “The same show in both those cities. Put stuff in the middle. Little interviews here and there… But show the same material, from that character working in both those cities. I think that would be very powerful. A lot of people would watch that. I would definitely watch that.”

[FilmMatch @filmmatchapp]

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