Cornell/CMU/Bell Labs/Bellcore/Qualcomm alumnus; radio ham (KA9Q); Past President, Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC)

San Diego, CA
Joined April 2009
I’ve launched off the front of aircraft carriers hundreds of times, have a Master’s degree in aeronautical engineering, and am a test pilot and even I wouldn’t suggest to the Navy how to engineer specific systems on its ships. Donald Trump should stick to what he knows best — ballrooms, bankruptcy, and bullshit.
SCOOP: Trump has directed the Navy to tear out a complex system for launching fighter jets from its aircraft carriers and instead go back to using steam catapults, a move Navy officials have fought for years and will likely cost billions in extra dollars. U.S. officials say Trump signed a national security memorandum today directing the change, which would involve removing the electromagnetic catapult system used by the ships in the Gerald R. Ford class of carriers wsj.com/us-news/trump-orders… @MarcusReports
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The full memo states that the Secretary of War shall provide the President with a PLAN to revert ONE future carrier, CVN-81, to steam catapults. It does not order equipment removed from any existing aircraft carriers. whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…
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When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain. A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.” That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love. I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.
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Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it. This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect. "Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again. And you're calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. 'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess. So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth." - Tony Locke
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Replying to @MaryLTrump
Well cut these up, too.
BREAKING — Effort launches to remove Trump’s name from ALL federal property, monuments, and currency. UndoTrump.org
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Replying to @MaryLTrump
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I hate this parasitic piece of shit more with every passing day
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Replying to @mjfree
I could live with that!
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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YES DONALD, PLEASE DO A SERIOUS REVIEW OF THIS. I HEAR DEAD PEOPLE VOTED AFTER BEING REVIVED WITH A COVID VACCINE. THEIR BALLOTS WERE THEN BLOWN BY WINDMILLS INTO THE HANDS OF MEXICAN ANTIFA WHO PASSED THEM TO A TEAM OF TRANS PIGEONS WHO FLEW THEM TO THE BALLOT BOX. TRUE STORY.
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Applying for a job at I.C.E.? Here are some tips to help nail your interview!
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Someday there will be Nuremberg trials for the Trump administration. Trump himself will escape through the actuarial tables but Stephen Miller is still young enough.
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Replying to @patriottakes
The fuck he would, These fucking Ppl think Jesus was a white man,
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Our democracy is not self-executing. It depends on us all as citizens, regardless of our political affiliations, to stand up and fight for the core values that have made this country the envy of the world.
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What's wrong with this picture?
💥Do Not Try This at Home💥
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Replying to @engineers_feed
Me: Hey Bartender, what's he Wifi Password? Bartender: Give me a tip first. Me: Okay, here's five bucks. What's the password? Bartender: "give me a tip first", all lowercase.
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I’m sure Pete Hegseth REALLY doesn’t want the world to remember when he suggested Hillary Clinton should be “fired on the spot” and criminally prosecuted for mishandling info — so please don’t repost this right this very minute.
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I heard @realDonaldTrump hates this image. Please don't use it to tag him, his staffers, or his media allies. That would be wrong.
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