Stephanie Stern

[Stephanie Stern @NumberOneParent]

@xxyllinn Preach

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@AmazingNature00 They're beautiful!

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@SqSehrish 8

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Great anchor. One of the "new faces" from the 80s. A good guy.

WABC Anchor Bill Ritter steps away from the anchor desk; reveals Alzheimer's diagnosis - ABC7 New York https://t.co/JiSsVHYDrI

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@FeelYouHappy G*d bless you both

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@elia_mafhh Hi

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@elonmusk He'll kneel for Floyd, but won't protect the Jewish people in his own f'd up country. He's a shameful stain on humanity.

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@BhattiLaib9960 Cuticle

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@Gosleepriya Two

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Best computer? Human mind.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour.
He had been up there for over a day.
Then the warnings started.
First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home.
Without it, reentry was nearly impossible.
Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead.
Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing.
Cooper didn't panic.
He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch.
Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer.
At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole.
Then the parachutes opened.
Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program.
The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had.
We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does.
But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next.
The final backup was never the software.
It was him.

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@MbarkCherguia Both

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@MrPitbull07 Stickers can come off with hot soapy water. The ability for a child to express themselves, and their folks loving their artistry only comes around once in a lifetime.

The furniture will be there. The toddler years will not. #kidsloveyouforlovingthem

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We all know this at one point or another. She is a blessing...

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

She ate lunch alone for 730 days straight. What this 16-year-old built from that pain now protects millions of kids worldwide.

Seventh grade. Natalie Hampton carried her tray through a packed cafeteria and felt it — that specific, suffocating dread of not knowing where to go.

She'd already learned what happened when you approached the wrong table. The silence. The turned backs. The whispered laughter that followed you all the way to the empty table by the wall.

The one everyone could see.

The one that said: nobody wants her.

For two full years — 730 consecutive lunches — that table was hers. Alone.

The bullying went further than whispers. She was shoved into lockers. Four physical attacks in two weeks. She came home with scratches and bruises. When she finally reported it, school administrators sent her to counseling — to find out what she was doing wrong.

The isolation grew so heavy she was hospitalized for anxiety.

Then ninth grade came. A new school. And almost overnight — everything changed. Students welcomed her. She made friends within weeks. She finally knew what safe felt like.

But she couldn't stop thinking about the kids still sitting at the wall table. Right now. Today.

She remembered what she'd needed most during all those lunches. Not a teacher. Not a pamphlet. Just one person saying: "You can sit with us."

So at 16 — with zero coding experience and "a lot of enthusiasm," as she put it — Natalie built exactly that.

She called it Sit With Us.

The idea was simple and genius: students sign up as "ambassadors," keeping their table open. Other kids privately browse available tables on their phones before ever walking into the cafeteria — and show up knowing they're already welcome.

No public rejection. No moment of judgment. Just a guaranteed seat.

Within 7 days of launching: 10,000 downloads.

Then the world found her. NPR. The Washington Post. CBS News. Messages from Morocco, Australia, the Philippines, France — kids who'd been eating alone for years, finally finding a place to belong.

Sit With Us now operates in 30 countries.

"Even if it helps one person," Natalie said quietly, "it was worth building."

She turned 730 lunches of loneliness into a lifeline for millions.

That's not just survival. That's transformation.

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@elonmusk Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh!! Who are these people??!! It's a monstrous crime. Period.

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@lippyent Clara

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@TonyLaneNV How about no long sleeves and white clothing/hats? What are they doing out in the sun absorbing heat?? #changetolightermateriaks

[David Willis @ThePrimalDino]

A lot of talk about the Artemis II crew is happening, but I think we should also give some special recognition to the backup crew, Andre Douglas and Jenni Gibbons.

They’ve been training along side the primary crew, and In the event that one of the primary crew can’t make it, they’ll step in to fly Artemis II.

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@Rhiachnash For trucks (or anyone) that can't brake going down the mountain pass...

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@haniya_445 Roper

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@wonder my Middletown Fred's meat dinner stunk. Bad tasting meat, gf bun that feel apart from being old, HORRIBLE pickles.

Fries... Meh at best