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Feb 26
This has been a point the Electronic Warfare community has been making to the US fighter pilots union for going on 45 years...

...and been roundly ignored for...

...and is now being blamed by the 3rd generation of silk scarf crowd for not warning them.
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The real draw down of USAF EW capability began in around 1982 when the F-117 was fielded at Nellis AFB -- single-seat "fighter" capability that "...didn't need no dang confounded gadgetry and pencil-neck geek four-eyed EWOs" (Chuck Yeager accent added).

It is the doom of men that they forget.
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Feb 26
Should the United States launch offensive operations against Iran?

A brief munitions analysis.

The purpose of this thread is to provide context that I find currently lacking in the discourse on this question. I'm not going to address legality or broader strategy.

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Over the last 2 and a half years, considerable numbers of munitions have been expended by CENTCOM against Iran & its proxies. This has included both missile defense interceptors, air to air missiles and strike weapons, including standoff missiles like Tomahawk.

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Operation Midnight Hammer saw 14 GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrators employed, which was a significant portion of a limited inventory. While this was a major setback to Iran's nuclear program, they retain considerable conventionally armed missile capabilities.

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Feb 26
1/ We found a connection between @WheresBroox and the #1 Polymarket trader who made $400k betting on a ZachXBT's investigation 🧵 Image
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2/ Wallet 0x054e bet $212k on "Yes" for Axiom at $0.33

This wallet:

> Became this market's top holder
> Won $421k on this trade

Note: This wallet also bought "No" shares, which is common amongst insiders to ward off detection

polymarket.com/@0x054eC2F0cCf…Image
3/ Tracing the origins of 0x054e led us back to wallet 0xb96e

0xb96e is connected onchain back to FarpaW (Broox's address revealed in Zach's investigation) with 2 distinct paths Image
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Feb 26
🚨🚨🚨Hearing on contempt re prison's supposed retaliation against men in women's prison. Image
3/ Correction: Judge said NOT deciding contempt today only whether to have a hearing on contempt later.
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Feb 26
🧵Another @airwars "airstrike analysis" that concluded the IDF killed ONLY civilians in an Oct 10, 2023 attack has now been proven to have killed senior PIJ commander Ashraf al-Qara (ID 413317470, Age 53). This is the 3rd case found recently. Airwars will you update the data? 1/ Image
Airwars' assessment for the strike assumed civilian status for everyone, although in this case they had clues 53 year old Al-Qara was a commander. But they still counted him as a civilian. Now you know @Airwars @Emily_4319 @Anna_Zahn1 @desilva_rowena 2/
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Here is the second case of an Airwars analysis that assumed only civilians were killed: in fact it also killed confirmed PIJ commander Ayman Hassan Yassin (ID: 901319533). 3/
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Feb 26
Hodges: I was on a train in the Netherlands this summer. The top of my train exploded. That happened in 5 places between Schiphol and The Hague and Utrecht the same day.

Those are not teenagers. Somebody orchestrated attacks on the rail system. This is from the Russians. 1/
Hodges: Our leaders have to stop treating these things as maybe it was criminal, there was no Russian flag. Or even if 50% of it's from the Russians, 50% of 300 attacks.

We need to stop treating these like a crime scene. Start putting consequences on the Russians. 2/
Hodges: Let them complain, but they will keep doing it until we stop.

Our leaders have to talk to populations as if they are adults. Say, this is what's going on. This is what we have to do. This is the cost. But here's the cost of not acting also. 3X
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Feb 26
It seems like some of you need remedial discourse on why the n word is unacceptable for non Black folks to say under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES (I will not engage how Blk folks use it here that’s a different thread for a diff time) the word itself is VIOLENCE (read that again)
2) That word was used to justify slavery (rape torture & ownership of Blk bodies & no consequences no matter what was done) the word was used to justify Jim Crow & unequal treatment under the law (Plessy vs Ferguson) the word was the last one people heard before they were lynched
3) when you INVOKE THAT WORD, you are aligning yourself with THIS HISTORY OF VIOLENCE and bringing it to the present day and the present situation. You are letting the Blk people in the orbit KNOW YOU ARE NOT A SAFE PERSON you are in fact A THREAT! Nothing you say…
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Feb 26
When we talk about COVID in children, we often hear - mild disease.
The real question we rarely ask is this - what if some children leave the infection with a silent, measurable cardiovascular footprint - and we simply don’t have long enough follow-up yet to see what it leads to?🧵
About a quarter of children.
In a new study, 16 out of 67 kids (24%) had subclinical cardiac contractility changes three months after mild or asymptomatic COVID - despite having no persistent symptoms.
The abnormalities were detected only with speckle-tracking strain imaging, a sensitive method that can reveal very subtle myocardial dysfunction.
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Feb 26
Here's an interesting video by The Skeptical Agnostic making several arguments I've been making for years now. Apologists like the insufferable William Lane Craig and more conservative scholars like N.T. Wright try to argue Jesus' resurrection doesn't ...

... fit the Jewish eschatological expectations of the time and so this must mean it really happened. They claim there was no expectation of a person rising from the dead before the expected general resurrection at the End Days, so the resurrection appearances of Jesus can't be...
... explained by reference to this kind of expectation, driven by the cognitive dissonance of his unexpected death and visions of him in the shock afterwards.
As the video above notes, and as I've argued for over two decades now, this is flatly contradicted by a lot of clear ...
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Feb 26
‘When Russia fails on the battlefield, it starts talking about nuclear weapons in Ukraine. We have none. Playing with nuclear rhetoric is dangerous.’

Zelenskyy on Moscow’s threats.

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‘We struck targets 1,400 km away with Flamingo missiles. That’s a real success for our industry. Production was delayed by Russian attacks, but it will grow — it depends on funding and components.’

Zelenskyy on Ukraine’s missile capabilities.

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Feb 26
Thread No : 77 - Nayanthara x SreeLeela (Part - 1)

Characters :
House Owner - (Paralysis Patient)
Nayanthara - House Owners Wife
SreeLeela - House Owners Daughter
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Paralysis ochina mogudi modda ki kashtapadi nonstop gaa Blow job chesi, adhi lechaaka modda paiki ekki kurchundham ne time ki calling bell moogindhi. Anthe Husband modda padipoindhi.
Nayan : Chee... waste ra nuvvu entha kasta padi lepina seconds lo padipotundhi.ainaa ninnu- Image
- ninnu pelli cheskunnanu choodu naa karma, nee kante Carrot 🥕 Cucumber 🥒 eyy nayam thuu 💦
(Ani kopanga velli door open chesindhi, Baita oka 24 year old young boy unnaadu, vaadi body chaala fit gaa undhi, choodagaane Nayan ki mood ochelaa) Image
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Feb 26
The 369th Infantry Regiment, The Harlem Hellfighters.

Though they spent more time in battle than any other regiment and were one of the most decorated, they never got the recognition they deserved.

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Even as one of the most successful military regiments in WWI, they were denied their going away parade because they were a black regiment.

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They fought so hard & with such tenacity that they were dubbed "The Harlem Hellfighters" by the German troops they faced.

It became the first American unit to be cited with the French Croix de Guerre. One medal of honor & many Distinguished Service Crosses.
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