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AJC sends a formal email to Seattle Indian consulate hailing Smit Machchar as hero saving 170 worlds!

Jesus, I've never seen an interview like this! 🤯 Watch the whole thing or at least read my notes: 1. Yaniv was sitting in Row 11, not Business Class. He heard a woman up front yelling “Stabbings!" (She didn't say who.) Yaniv immediately stands up to see what's going on. 2. Wife & daughters are sitting around him. Then the plane starts shaking. Plane rolls very sharply leftward and back to horizontal in a terrifying way. 3. It hits him that the commotion isn't a fight in Business Class, it's happening in the cockpit. 4. He yells “Buckle up!” and runs toward the cockpit. He's 6 feet away from the cockpit when the plane suddenly nosedives. 5. It felt like it nosedived for an eternity. (In reality about 30 seconds at 30,000ft/min, reaching speeds of about Mach 0.96. Those 30 seconds of nosediving cut the plane's altitude in half.) 6. “I was flying.” He was blown around upward, sideways, he was pressed against the floor extremely hard. (A 180lb man would effectively have 540lb of downward force on their body as the first nosedive leveled out.) 7. “I kept trying my hardest to get up off the ground. At some point, I was finally able to, when the plane leveled off a little.” He speculates that a system kicked in to automatically stabilize the plane. 8. He goes to the cockpit door and there's a crew member in a white shirt, who looks like he's also a pilot. He's grabbing the cockpit door with both hands, with his body leaning down. I didn't know if he was trying to open the door, or trying to hold the door closed! 9. “I get to him, I move him away, he doesn't resist. I open the cockpit door — it was a little difficult because the pilot was lying down on the floor behind it, the one who was attacked.” 10. “I went in. The terrorist was crouching with his knees on the instruments between the two pilots' seats. There was no one in the pilots' seats. He was hitting the instrument panel, trying to break the equipment.” 11. Yaniv yells “Come help!” to any other Israelis who are also in the aisle. He doesn't know how many there are because his back is to them. 12. Yaniv immediately grabs the terrorist by the throat and starts moving him away from the controls. The terrorist resisted, but Yaniv's struggle to get him out of the cockpit only took a few seconds. 13. A handful of men who'd already gotten up from their seats together with Yaniv were already standing in the aisle dividing up responsibilities among themselves. They take over subduing the terrorist. 14. Yaniv turns back to the cockpit controls. At this point, the plane isn't nosediving, but it's still angled downward. He looks out the windshield and sees ground in the distance. 14. He leans over the pilot's seat, grabs the yoke and pulls it upward. He feels the nose of the plane come up. 15. A few seconds later, a pilot (not an Israeli) comes up behind him and says “Release the controls, I'll take it.” 16. Yaniv wasn't sure whether the other pilot was trustworthy, but he said “ok” and let him sit down at the controls. He intended to supervise the new pilot. 17. Yaniv turns around and briefly helps the men who are dealing the terrorist blows to subdue him, since apparently the terrorist is still resisting. Eventually the terrorist stops resisting, he possibly gets knocked unconscious, and the men tie him up with headphone cables. 18. Yaniv also helps the men remove the wounded Indian pilot from the cockpit. Then he goes to close the cockpit door with himself and the replacement pilot inside. 19. At this point, a member of the flight crew arrives at the cockpit door and wants to come in. Yaniv asks the replacement pilot whether to let the crew member in. He says yes, he's with us. 20. The flight crew member comes in. He has a tablet with a map. Yaniv closes the cockpit door with the three of them inside. He latches it. 21. Now Yaniv is focused on checking that the replacement pilot and the crew member are acting properly to land the plane. He sees that the pilot is talking on the radio to ground control. It sounds good to Yaniv, even though he doesn't speak much English. Yaniv can tell he's reporting that there are injured people, that we're heading in a certain direction, and that he's requesting help. 22. Some of the other Israelis were assigned to guard the rest of the flight crew. At this point, they feared that the whole crew could be conspiring. This is why the entirety of the stressful incident was about 40 minutes long. They couldn't relax until they landed and the flight crew got off the plane. 23. When they landed, one of the Israelis on the plane bought eSIM cards with a data package for everyone. As soon as they get reception, he gets a bunch of messages with pictures of himself on international news. 24. The landing was an incredible celebration. Singing, what fun we were having. 25. Let's rewind. You wake up in the morning before getting on this flight. Did something prepare you for this engagement? Something in the army? Some instinct? “Well, in the army, I was working the closest to the fire in the kitchen. (I wasn't a cook, I'd, you know, get the food and divide it up.)” 26. Yaniv personally didn't feel scared to board the second FlyDubai flight they sent. What are the odds lightning would strike twice? “Even being in this situation once was like winning the lottery.” 27. Did FlyDubai offer some kind of compensation for the incident? Did they contact you at all? “Nothing.” 28. Will you fly again? “Fly again? Sure.” 29. When are you going back to work? “I want to on Sunday.” What an interview. Makes me proud to be Israeli.

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Evil copilot used praying as an excuse to go back and attack the Indian pilot from the back!

I'm not a bear porn enthusiast by any means but there are multiple, overwhelmingly glaring red flags across the board that if/when a crash happens it will all be obvious in hindsight

The $FICO blunder and a self-reflection 👇🏽 A filter to keep: I would rather own a business whose widening looks like more people choosing it than like a tollbooth testing how much it can charge. FICO emphasized that for me. I was bullish around $1,350 last year and turned bearish several weeks ago near $1,000. The exit dodged the latest break, after FHFA put VantageScore on the same mortgage pricing grid as Classic FICO. A moat can widen without more market share. By definition, FICO’s can. The score sits on decades of credit data, and that history gets deeper every year. Lenders, mortgage buyers, and models are built around it. That is a real superiority, and it can strengthen even if share never moves from roughly 90% to 95%. Buffett’s test was never the stock price. It was whether earnings improved, adjusted for industry conditions, and whether the moat — the superiority that makes life difficult for competitors — widened during the year. High share plus a deepening dataset is not the same bet as buying a business with 40% of its market and watching it expand. In the second case, widening is visible. Share, distribution, and habit are still being won. In the first, most of the commercial ground is already taken. What is left is durability, and the right to charge more for a position you already hold. Those are different investments. A large part of FICO’s earnings growth was aggressive price hikes, years after they had begun. The wholesale mortgage royalty had roughly doubled, to about $10 a score, while VantageScore is $0.99. That would have been a different purchase in 2019 or 2020, when the increases were still ahead of me. Buying well after the fact meant underwriting the response. A fee can be a small line in closing costs and still be large enough, once raised often and aggressively enough, to attract regulatory risk and a cheaper substitute. None of that means the shares cannot do well from here. Often the better time to acquire a business is when it is temporarily on the operating table. The franchise may still be fine, and a large part of what you are being paid for is the perception of risk after the valuation has already come down hard. The contrast I keep coming back to is something like Constellation Software. The culture is almost the opposite. It buys vertical software that people already run their businesses on, keeps the operators, and is generally loved and cherished by the customers who depend on it. Growth comes from being useful in more places, not from raising a fee many already resent. That is not a claim that one model always outperforms. It is the filter: I would rather own a business whose widening looks like more people choosing it than like a tollbooth testing how much it can charge. That is the distinction. Not that a dominant franchise cannot compound, and not that it cannot be bought well after a scare. That I paid up for one after the easy widening was behind it, and relied on price increases well after the fact. You never hit 100% in this work. The standard is whether you leave with a sharper filter than you arrived with and a constant thirst to improve. A drawdown is not the lesson, and a rebound is not either. I have been down more than -30% from purchase on names like Lam Research $LRCX in 2022 and and -20% on $ASML a couple years ago. Price told me I was early or wrong on timing. It did not tell me whether the business was strengthening, whether the moat was widening, or whether I had paid for a phase that was already behind me. Those are separate questions. The investors who get more refined are the ones who force that separation every time: what did the position teach, what rule changes because of it, and what will I refuse to underwrite the same way again.

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I can't remember the last time I was so deeply moved by someone’s words. Captain Smit ’s courage is extraordinary in itself that he found the presence of mind to unlock the cockpit door so that a catastrophe was averted and saved so many other passengers. But when watching him speak with PM Modi, what moved me much more deeply was something truly quiet and stirring. When he said that even in those terrifying moments when his own life was under the Jih@-di’s attack he was reciting the Hanuman Chalisa, I got literal goosebumps. And then he spoke about his life at home how every morning he performs his puja, puts his child on his lap and reads the Hanuman Chalisa with him. His reason was so simple, yet it pierced straight through my heart. “We may be far from the nation, but we should never be far from our Sanskriti.” That was the moment my tears simply welled over. Because this is what sanskār truly means. It is not something we merely speak about when life is comfortable. It is what remains within us when everything else falls away when there is fear, pain, uncertainty and no time to pretend to be anything other than who you truly are. It is those noble parents who instilled the Gīta’s values in him and the incredible bravery of a valiant wife who is carrying her husband’s well-being with her unshakeable faith - who deserve all our gratitude as well. In Captain Smit’s story, I see something profound that defines Hindus - courage without boastfulness, duty in the face of mortal danger, unshakeable faith in our gods in the darkest moment and the quiet determination to pass on one’s civilizational inheritance to our future generations. Thank you, Smit, for reminding us what it means to carry Dharma within ourselves. And for reminding us that our sanskārs are not just some relics of our past. They are the inspiration that give us the strength to stand up for truth even when the world around us is so frightening and full of the poison of fanaticism.

Very detailed interview with one of the brave ones who neutralized the co-pilot in FlyDubai!

Microsoft breathing a sigh of relief now that it has the second-worst Copilot

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I see literally 100s of posts from Jews praying for Captain Smit Machchhar and Indian lefties/congressis are conspicuously absent in wishing him the same!

The whole world is praising the bravery of Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar, but you will not find a single Indian leftist, Desi Liberal, Congress coolie, or Indian Muslim making even one post about him. The reason is that the pilot represents everything they hate: -Indian -Hindu -Gujarati -Brahmin -The terrorist he overpowered belonged to the “terrorism has no religion” category. This is 9/11 moment for them

My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery. Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster. He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals. I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery. He is a true hero.

With English subtitles:

🔥🚨 BREAKING — Hero Pilot IDENTIFIED as Indian National Smit Machchhar. After being STABBED, he OPENED the cockpit door so passengers could assist. After the Omani MUSLIM co-pilot put a knife in him, he was on the floor, bleeding, and he still clicked the cockpit open so the crew and passengers could get in and stop a crash. That is why 174 people are hugging families in Israel instead of being a crater. God bless this man. Pray he pulls through. Treat the attacker like the terrorist Israel already named. Investigate.

Apparently I’m now classified as a domestic luxury item. “WHO THE F*** WIRED THIS?!” is shouted at least once a month in the Konrad household. And I also restore luxury yachts. So, honestly, the classification checks out. 😜