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Aloha Aku, Aloha Mai

[ѕєνєи тαкαѕυ @StevenTakasu]

Finally caught my "White Whale": Less than 1.0g landing with Conf3 on a A320.

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

I’ve legit watched this synth battle 13 times on repeat.

[Financial Dystopia @financedystop]

2016 had it all

[Aviation Wire @Aviation_Wire]

2014年から1年間運行していたハッピーライナーの写真を追加しました。

[Emma @2024_0406]

ピーチ航空8月19日から大改革😱😱😱😱

ピーチ都合の遅延とか欠航で宿泊費&交通費（国内線最大1万、国際線最大2万）の補償をスタートするのだと😱
スマホの領収書アップロードだけで約3週間で振り込まれる神仕様

LCC悩んだらピーチにしとこうかな
他のLCCも続いてくれ〜〜

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

Wang Xiao was twenty-four years old when doctors told her she had about one year left to live. She suffered from uremia, a severe condition where the kidneys stop filtering waste from the blood.

Her family members took tests to see if they could donate a kidney, but no one was a match. All standard medical options had completely run out.

Instead of giving up, Wang decided to do something almost no one in her position would ever dare to try. In 2013, she posted a message in an online support group. Her words were direct and honest.

She wrote, "I just want to live."

She was looking for a terminally ill man with her same blood type who would be willing to marry her and donate his kidney after his death. In return, she promised to take care of him with everything she had for whatever time he had left.

Most people scrolled past the post, but a twenty-seven-year-old man named Yu Jianping saw it. Yu was a former manager dealing with myeloma, a serious blood cancer. He had already gone through a bone marrow transplant, but the cancer returned.

His father had to sell their family home to pay for treatments, and his girlfriend had left him after his diagnosis. Yu felt exhausted and ready to stop fighting.

However, when he saw Wang’s message, he realized their blood types matched. He sent her a short message: "I can marry you."

When they met for the first time in a park, something unexpected happened. They genuinely liked each other. During one of their online chats later on, Wang had to step away for her treatment.

She sent him a video from the dialysis machine, smiling despite the tubes and blood around her. She joked, "I am in dialysis now. My arm is stuck. Here is a one-handed monster."

Yu laughed out loud. He later admitted it was the first time he had laughed in a very long time.

On July 16, 2013, they officially registered their marriage. On paper, it was purely a practical contract. They agreed not to live together, not to combine their finances, and not to tell their families about the arrangement. If Yu passed away and his kidney matched, Wang would receive it.

In return, Wang promised to care for Yu's elderly father for the rest of his life.

Yet, daily life quickly changed their plan. Wang began accompanying Yu to his hospital visits. Yu cooked warm soup for her after her exhausting dialysis sessions.

They walked down hospital hallways together and joked about their situations. Slowly, the cold business contract transformed into genuine love.

When Yu urgently needed another expensive bone marrow transplant that his family could not afford, Wang refused to let him give up.

She set up a small street stall to sell flowers.

Next to the bouquets, she placed a handwritten note telling their story: two sick people trying to save each other, one day at a time.

Passersby stopped to read, bought flowers, and shared the story with others. Kindness spread quickly. Wang eventually raised about 500,000 yuan, which was over 90,000 dollars, covering the full cost of Yu’s operation.

Then, the unthinkable happened. Yu’s condition stabilized after his second transplant.

Around the same time, Wang’s medical team noticed her health improving, and her dialysis sessions were reduced. Eventually, doctors told her she might not even need a kidney transplant anymore.

In February 2015, they held a real wedding ceremony surrounded by friends and family.

Today, they run a flower shop called "Yongsheng Flower" in Xi'an, grown from the very same street stall that saved Yu’s life. Their story was even adapted into a major Chinese movie in 2024.

Wang and Yu showed the world that even in the darkest moments, love and human connection can heal what medicine alone cannot.

[タンタンパパ @tintinpapa1]

え〜〜っ！

東京だったのぉ〜😫

中野区、杉並区あたりは
標高が高いから比較的安心だけど😰

[Cruella_Seville @Cruella_Seville]

You laugh and you’re all coming with me 💀

[GaboAir @GaboAir]

Humor aeronáutico...

No entiendo por qué mis amigos que vuelan Airbus, no me llaman 🤣🤣🤣

[Eric Smith @Eric_Smith08]

A home theater installer has calibrated over 3,000 TVs in 12 years from $400 budget sets to $15,000 flagship OLEDs in custom media rooms.

He walks into people's homes, looks at their TV for 5 seconds, and can tell them exactly what's wrong.

He told me: "Almost every TV I see is running in the same mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent showroom lights. The motion smoothing is on. The sharpness is cranked. The eco dimmer is cutting brightness by 30–40%. And the TV is taking a screenshot of the screen every few seconds and selling the viewing data to advertisers. People are watching a $1,500 panel the same way it looked on the store shelf and that's the worst possible way to watch it."

He said a properly calibrated TV doesn't look "better." It looks like a completely different television.

He changed 9 settings on my TV in 15 minutes.

The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. Skin tones stopped looking plastic.

Dark scenes became visible. The TV stopped spying on me. And a movie finally looked like a movie instead of a daytime talk show.

"TV manufacturers ship every set optimized for a showroom, not a living room. Then they bury the settings that fix it inside 6 menus nobody opens."

Here are the 9 things he changed:

[δάσκαλος™ @Eimai_daskalos]

ASMR Build | SSN/SSK Attack Submarine.

[Aviation @xAviation]

One of aviation’s coolest features! After touchdown, the CFM LEAP-1A (or Pratt & Whitney PW1100G, depending on the aircraft) deploys its thrust reversers.

Instead of producing thrust only forward, the engine opens translating sleeves that redirect part of the fan airflow forward, creating reverse thrust to help slow the aircraft after landing.

📹: chorche_jr

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

I can’t stop watching this… 🤣🤣

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

"Prevent foreign nationals from coming to the US to foment hatred against our Jewish community," Rubio said.

They just spent millions to unseat Massie for daring to question AIPAC's grip on Congress. Now they want limit who even enters the country based on their opinions. A foreign government should never hold that kind of leverage.

[Yuto 🇯🇵 @yutokanzakireal]

日本銀行は身動きが取れず、

日本銀行は最悪のシナリオについて議論した。

ドルの暴落、あるいは基軸通貨としての地位の喪失は、世界恐慌をはるかに凌駕する事態を引き起こす可能性がある。

日本と米国は、現在の体制を何としても守ろうとするだろう。

これから新たな秩序が生まれるかもしれないが、その移行は苦痛を伴うものとなるだろう。

[Russell Brand @rustyrockets]

What was the biggest price you paid for not getting vaccinated?

Friends?
Family?
Your job?
Your business?
Your reputation?

[KHAMCHANH @KHAMCHANH]

In 1997 Thailand had the fastest growing economy (8% ) in the world. Just in one morning, the Thai economy collapsed and hundreds of thousands investors lost their money in the Thai stock market after a speculation attack by western billionaires on the Thai Baht. Koreans should see if there are similar culprits.

[Ricky Zaccaglino @RickyTheGuido]

Fuck the Democrat Party and fuck the Republican Party.

They’re both corrupt and neither represent the American people.

[Mel Gibson @_melgibson1_]

Heaven has walls, a gate, and strict entry.

Hell has open borders.

Think about it…

[fintechgirl 🇰🇷 @fintergirl]

many such existential crisis posts in Korea right now

Translation:

Huh? Honestly, isn't Korean society pretty bizarre and suffocating?
You spend your entire childhood building up your resume and studying like crazy just to barely land a job, only to pour your soul into working 8 hours a day—actually way more with overtime. To top it off, just to survive, you're expected to work on self-improvement and prep for promotions after work.
To stay healthy, you have to drag your exhausted body to the gym to post your daily workout selfie, and instead of ordering delivery, you're told to cook clean meals or salads from scratch. Your home is supposed to be kept spotless like a showroom, and amidst all this, you're somehow expected to get a solid 7 to 9 hours of deep sleep.

We have to be fillial and provide for the parents as well. Give me a break please