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Nothing brings two men together right before certain death quite like honest, unsolicited dick compliments. Showdown in Little Tokyo (1991) | Mark L. Lester

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Off again to Tokyo, this is becoming my second home ✈️ On long flights like this, we normally plan great circle routings, the shortest distance between two points on the globe (think of stretching a string across a globe rather than a flat map). But current airspace restrictions mean our routes aren’t quite as direct as we’d like, adding some extra planning challenges (and a little more flying time). Oh and weird routing squiggles. The real fun, though, comes at the other end. Tokyo Haneda’s Runway 22 LDA approach is the showstopper here. An LDA (Localizer Directional Aid) approach is a precision-like procedure that guides you towards a point offset from the runway. In this case, the final track is about 55° off the runway centreline. Why? To keep aircraft over Tokyo Bay as long as possible before turning final, reducing noise pollution for the millions of people who call Tokyo home. It’s a 2D or non-precision instrument approach leading you to a point near the runway, but not aligned with it meaning the final segment is flown visually. The pilots also control the rate of descent (not an electronic glide path). Think of it as Tokyo’s answer to Hong Kong Kai Tak’s legendary checkerboard approach, except here you swap the skyscrapers for water, and the turn onto final is a little less dramatic! And the go-around? That’s the unusual part. Instead of powering straight ahead like most airports, you swing into a 180° turn and head back the way you came, not your everyday missed approach procedure. Tokyo Haneda itself is a gem, one of the busiest airports in the world, located just 15 km from central Tokyo. For passengers it means quick access to the city, and for us pilots it means some of the most interesting flying anywhere in the world. Flying into Tokyo never gets old — it’s challenging, rewarding, and absolutely beautiful on a clear day. 🌅 #A350 #TokyoHaneda #PilotLife #AviationDaily #GreatCircle #AvGeek #FlyingHigh #Airbus #LongHaulPilot #FlightDeckViews #AviationPhotography #AvGeekery #PilotsofInstagram #CockpitViews #Approach #JapanAviation #TravelJapan #HanedaAirport #AirlinePilot

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How many more children before we admit the experiment failed? This time it’s two Iraqi brothers, 18 and 20, on trial in Essen, Germany, for allegedly raping a 7 year old girl on two separate occasions. She was the friend of their younger sister who lived right next door. Another horror story in a continent-wide pattern. Across Europe, men from certain immigrant backgrounds, especially Middle East, North Africa, and parts of Africa, are wildly overrepresented in rape and child sexual abuse statistics. In Germany, foreigners are 15% of the population but 38% of rape suspects. In Sweden, immigrant men dominate rape convictions in long term studies, even after adjusting for age and socioeconomic factors. Those arriving as teens or adults bring the highest risk. In the UK, foreign citizens are 3.5x more likely to be arrested for sexual offences. The Pakistani muslim grooming gang scandal is still unraveling. Europe didn’t have an epidemic of 7 year olds being raped by their neighbors’ older brothers before the mass low-skilled migration experiment. It imported the problem along with the people. Cultures that treat non-muslim girls as fair game, or that normalize early sexualization and weak boundaries around children, don’t magically become Swedish, German, or British just because they cross a border. This is what happens when you prioritize volume over compatibility and then gaslight the public about the results. The trial continues. The pattern continues. The denial continues.

Rothmus 🏴

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#JoongDunk #จุงดัง — ⋆˙⟡♡ อันโดรเมด้า ชุน dunknatachai finding a man like Dunk Natachai feels like finding peace in human form. he’s gentle in a way the world rarely teaches men to be. soft-spoken but sure, caring without needing to be loud about it. there’s something about the way he carries himself, so grounded and warm like no matter how chaotic life gets he’d hold you steady. he listens, like really listens and you can feel it in how he responds, how his eyes stay on you like you’re the only person in the room. and the smile? god the smile could undo you. it’s kind, it’s bright, and it makes you feel like maybe everything’s going to be okay. to be loved by someone like him would mean being cherished in the quietest, most beautiful ways and then there’s Joong Archen. he’s the type of man who’d set your soul on fire in the best way. passionate, fearless, and just a little bit chaotic in the most lovable way. he’s expressive, loud when he’s happy, honest when he cares, and he makes you feel like life should be lived big and with heart. he’s a protector, a teaser, a dreamer. there’s this spark in him that pulls people in like his kindness, his confidence, his goofiness. he’s the type who’d hold your hand in public and defend your name like it’s his own. loving someone like him would feel like constant reassurance. you’d never doubt his love because he’d make sure you feel it every damn day but the most beautiful thing? they found each other. two people with hearts so different but so perfectly matched. dunkdunk, with his calm that softens joong’s fire. and joongjoong, with his spark that lights up dunk’s quiet world. they hold each other like home. you see them together and it makes you believe in true friendship, in soulmates, in timing, in love. so yeah finding a man like them would be a miracle and a dream. but for them to find each other? that’s a love story I’ll never get tired of watching 🥺💛🌻

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This fact absolutely shatters evolution. ...And makes the intelligent design in Life certain. All the systems in Life that make things function - like everything that enables birds to fly - require a whole set of complex interconnected parts. Nothing works in isolation. Something evolutionists overlook is how the nature of all these systems are intricately interconnected. Every part relies on something else to make it work. You need the whole system, down to the DNA itself, or the function fails. This coordinattion between so many systems makes step-by-step evolution all but impossible. For instance... A wing isn’t just bones and feathers (or membrane). A wing requires a certain type of hollow bones, which the alleged ancestors of birds didn't have. And wings by themselves are useless - what reproductive benefit would wings have without the accompanying systems that lead to actual flight (the simultaneous requirements for bone pneumatization, muscle attachment sites, feather or membrane development, and the regulatory changes that control all of them)? Wings without these features would be harmful. Hollow bones without flight would be detrimental. The step-by-step path leading from non-bird to flying birds is filled with easily killed, unselectable intermediates. This is where evolutionists constantly fail - they look at modification in isolation, without considering that these systems are large, interconnected networks of functional parts all working together. And it all starts at the genetic level, from the DNA itself. DNA genes code for proteins. Regulatory information organizes when these proteins are built and how much should be made. Further regulatory systems coordinate where these proteins go after they’re built. And yet more informational networks place the proteins into the final system in coordination with other proteins. Then these protein systems are fit together to make entire organs, tissues, bones, etc. All of these systems and processes are coordinated from the DNA - which means major modification like turning a fish fin into a bird wing requires many coordinated DNA changes across the entire network. One change at a time simply cannot lead to the coordination of an entire multi-part coordinated system like this. A mutation that changes one protein would need another coordinated mutation to fit that mutated protein into the right place, which would require other proteins to be mutated to fit together into that system, which would also require yet more regulatory mutations to keep everything coordinated... Nothing works in isolation. It's all connected. Which is why it can't evolve one step at a time. One step at a time does nothing. Life requires all or nothing systems. Only intelligence can engineer all or nothing systems.

Divinely Designed

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Jeff Bezos never has to work another day in his life. He works like he needs the job. Ninety five percent of his time goes to AI. Meetings from 9 to 7. Technical papers after. His reason is one sentence. Bezos: “The world is so interesting right now. We’re in multiple golden ages at once.” Not one. Several. Running at the same time. For ten thousand years, humanity got one breakthrough per era. Fire. The wheel. The printing press. Electricity. A single leap. Then centuries of silence. That rhythm just broke. Artificial intelligence. Space. Gene editing. Robotics. Energy. All of it arriving inside the same ten years. Nothing in recorded history looks like this. So why does it feel like an ending instead of a beginning. Because the mind evolved to flinch at danger, not to measure it. Collapse feels loud. Progress feels like it belongs to someone else. Step back far enough and the truth turns almost violent. Every person who came before you lived and died in the world they were born into. Nothing moved. Nothing shifted. The map they were handed was the map they returned. You were dropped into the one decade where the whole thing changes at once. Everyone before you knew only the old world. Everyone after you will know only the new one. You are the only ones who will ever see both. Bezos: “There’s never been a more extraordinary moment to be alive.” That was not optimism. It was arithmetic. You were not born too late. You were born on the seam between two worlds. Almost no one alive will realize they are standing on it.

Dustin

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The sun was fading fast that evening as I sped past a small cemetery in rural North Carolina. I was losing light, but something about the stones caught my eye, so I turned around to see what I could capture before the day slipped away. This marker stood out right away because of its shape and symbols. But it wasn’t until I got home and looked closer that I realized it was actually a double gravemarker, something you don’t see very often. Curious, I started digging into the lives of the two people buried here, John and Catherine McNair. Here is what I found: John McNair came to America in 1770 after the death of his first wife, crossing the ocean with his two small children. Part of a wave of Highland Scots who settled throughout the Cape Fear region of North Carolina, he purchased a plantation in Anson County before later moving to an area along Drowning Creek. John was also a Patriot during the Revolutionary War and received payment for the aid he provided in 1783. One story I found described his early life in Scotland. He was born in 1735 in a small village in the Parish of Kilkenny, the youngest son of Neill MacNair. After losing his first wife, Jennet Smylie, in 1769, he emigrated to North Carolina the following year. In 1772, he married his second wife, Catherine Buie McFarland, the daughter of Scottish immigrant Donald Buie. Together they built a family until Catherine’s death in 1787. Standing there at their shared gravemarker, two names side by side, I felt the weight of their story: loss, resilience, migration, the building of a new life on unfamiliar soil, and how it tied into the bigger story unfolding in this region at the time. It is amazing what you can learn when a single stone makes you turn around.

The Forgotten South

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Charlie Kirk’s death has been celebrated like nothing I’ve ever seen. I’ve always been moderate, and I’ve criticized Charlie Kirk openly in the past. But this isn’t about whether you agreed with him politically. It’s about the sickness in our culture that now treats a horrific tragedy as entertainment. Younger people especially seem disturbingly unempathetic. The sheer volume of videos and posts celebrating his death—with hundreds of thousands of likes—shows how far things have slipped. The left has fostered a culture where open violence isn’t just tolerated, it’s cheered. Ask yourself this: if Obama or Kamala were gunned down, does anyone really believe the right would react the same way? People were celebrating Charlie’s Death in the streets across the country the literal day he died. Republicans aren’t spotless, I realize this. When two Minnesota politicians were executed, there were a handful who celebrated—but they were condemned across the board. That’s the difference. On the left, this kind of behavior is brushed aside, amplified, even mainstreamed. As someone younger, I’ve watched my generation lose its grip on empathy. Older people say, “It’s like they don’t even care about his family or his children.” And they’re right. Universities and our wider culture have taught kids to disregard faith, family, and any higher sense of responsibility. The result is a generation of detached, selfish people who treat death like a meme. I don’t mean to paint with a broad brush, I know young, left-leaning people who are compassionate. But this moment has stripped away the illusion that the problem isn’t real. The cultural rot is staring us in the face. Charlie was a divisive figure and he certainly could be tribal. But he never celebrated violence against those he disagreed with. He never called for blood. There’s no hopeful ending here. I fear for what this country has become, and for the generation of extremists it’s raising.

End Tribalism in Politics

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