Devin Atwood

Created by drunk unprotected sex.

[Devin Atwood @Wood409]

@LiveSCS Touché

[Jake @JakeCan72]

Pepsi couldn’t compete with Coca-Cola.

So they bought Taco Bell, KFC, and Pizza Hut to sell more Pepsi. Then spent decades lobbying to keep the federal minimum wage at $7.25 — unchanged since 2009.

The savings from consolidating locations funded the lobbying. The lobbying kept wages flat. The flat wages kept lobbies closed.

The guy in the video below just wanted a Mexican pizza. $7.25 an hour. Nobody wants the job. Lobby’s dark. He ate it in his car — and completely came apart about it.

This didn’t happen by accident.

That is the direct result of a corporate consolidation strategy that started because Pepsi couldn’t beat Coca-Cola.

Pepsi spun the brands off as Yum! Brands in 1997. One company now controls KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. Same consolidation.

Same lobbying. Same wages.

Trump is pursuing antitrust action against Google, Live Nation, and Big Ag for exactly this pattern — consolidation that kills competition, suppresses wages, and extracts the difference for shareholders.

Yum! Brands fits the pattern perfectly.
The trust-busters have a list. It should be longer.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The missile is reading the Earth like a blind person reading braille. Running its fingers across the surface and matching what it feels against what it memorized.

Before GPS, engineers had a problem. You’ve got a cruise missile flying 500 mph at treetop level toward a target 1,500 miles away. No pilot. No satellite link. How does it know where it is?

Their solution: give the missile a topographic map and let it read the ground.

TERCOM (terrain contour matching) works like this. Before launch, you load the missile with a series of altitude profiles of the terrain along its flight path. Think of it as a cross-section of every hill, valley, and plateau between point A and point B, sliced into strips.

During flight, a radar altimeter on the belly of the missile pings the ground constantly. It measures the exact altitude of the terrain below and builds a real-time profile. Then the onboard computer slides that real-time profile across the stored map, looking for the best match. When it finds the match, it knows exactly where it is, and corrects course.

The wild part: this worked over enormous distances in the 1970s. The Tomahawk cruise missile could fly 1,000+ miles through a pre-programmed corridor of terrain strips, checking its position every few minutes, and arrive within meters of a target. No GPS. No external signal. Just ground texture.

Then it got crazier. Engineers added DSMAC, digital scene-matching area correlation. Same concept, but with a camera instead of a radar altimeter. In the terminal phase, the missile takes a photograph of the ground below, digitizes it, and compares it to a stored satellite image of the target area. Pixel by pixel matching. In the 1980s.

The engineering constraint that made all of this necessary is the interesting part. Inertial navigation systems drift over time. Gyroscopes accumulate tiny errors with each passing minute. Over a 2-hour flight, those tiny errors compound into hundreds of meters of deviation. TERCOM exists because engineers needed periodic “reality checks” to reset the drift. Every time the missile matches a terrain strip, it zeroes out the accumulated error and starts fresh.

So the real architecture is: INS runs continuously as the baseline. TERCOM corrects the INS every few minutes by reading the ground. DSMAC does the final precision targeting by matching a camera image. Three totally independent systems layered on top of each other, each one compensating for the weakness of the others.

GPS eventually simplified this stack, but militaries still keep TERCOM because GPS can be jammed. Terrain can’t be jammed. The ground is always there.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

So they don’t “know.” They use the ground to calculate.

[Dongy @DongyJammin]

reading about salvia and people saying they tripped for 30 minutes but it felt like they spent 20 years living as a ceiling fan and i desperately need someone to tell me that they're making that shit up

[Devin Atwood @Wood409]

@JzxGibbs Ain’t much different then 2019s game in your defense

[Devin Atwood @Wood409]

@spotrac Unlikely scenario here, but what happens if the dodgers go bankrupt in the middle of these contracts? Do the players just hope that doesn’t happen when they sign these contracts? Lol

[James Roy @JamesRoyNFL]

So THIS is what JJ Watt was in town working on.

[NFL Memes @NFLMemes]

Rashee Rice finally understand what it feels like to get unexpectedly hit at a high rate of speed and have the man responsible leave the scene

[Devin Atwood @Wood409]

@McDonalds Yo make it where I can add Mac sauce to my burgers on the app. Sheesh

[Devin Atwood @Wood409]

@PowerGPU Hey hook me up! I don’t even have one currently 🤷‍♂️

[Ari Alexander @AriA1exander]

Worth watching - Springer’s full AB - just the stadium audio

[Underdog @Underdog]

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[Devin Atwood @Wood409]

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Oh, and you might want to peek at the replies…

[Devin Atwood @Wood409]

@Battlefield Am I brave enough?? 👀

[Devin Atwood @Wood409]

Yo @elonmusk @grok hook me up with a free year membership please!

[Devin Atwood @Wood409]

Remember when Framber was an Ace?

[Portland Pickles @picklesbaseball]

Nvm I figured it out