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The well-meaning but soft-minded central planners still don’t understand the unavoidable reality of *The Hamburger Principle.*
I created this as a simple way to help my children understand why they must increase their own value through skill and service, and why waiting for the government to increase their wages always fails. It leads to a short boost with diminishing returns while also devaluing any money they have saved in that same government’s currency.
The Hamburger Principle: In a functioning modern economy, a unit of unskilled labor will always equalize across time to roughly the same number of hamburgers. Thus, if you arbitrarily raise the cost of unskilled labor, that increased cost will equally increase the cost of producing a hamburger. Therefore, the cost of the hamburger must rise until it has again reached the unavoidable parity between the cost of basic labor and the cost of basic sustenance.
Since the relationship between the value of basic labor and basic sustenance cannot be broken, the only variable that can be changed is the value of the currency used to exchange these values.
For a senior citizen who has saved for a lifetime, lowering the value of the currency is a negative. But for a government that is trillions of dollars in debt, it is favorable. So it costs politicians nothing to promise higher wages for basic labor, while it costs those who placed their face in the currency everything.
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I am so glad to hear that someone is finally responding to the violent murder of Christians in Nigeria. The cries of the thousands attacked, murdered, or burned out of thier homes and churches there have gone unanswered for far too long.
I’m glad to have helped bring attention to this major breakthrough by Nigerian law enforcement — made possible through support and sustained pressure from the U.S. government, with @RepRileyMoore playing a significant role. I had hoped to meet with him during his visit to Nigeria last December, but I had another very important meeting with officials at the State Department at the same time.
I personally want to express my gratitude to @POTUS, @SecRubio, @RepRileyMoore, Senator @tedcruz, and all those who have supported efforts to protect Christians and other persecuted groups in Nigeria.
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This was a whole series of miracles. Anyone who doesn’t see this is denying reality. So amazing that this plane full of people lived to tell us the story. If they had not survived, would we ever have known what really happened in that cockpit?
The official verdict is absolute Crap!
I'm a Commercial pilot (Complex piston singles) and I have followed this story from the beginning. The official story is pathetic. This will go down in history as one best examples of aviation bravery.
For this story to have the happy ending that it did, 3 things had to happen perfectly:
First, Cpt. Smit who while on the floor (being attacked with an axe!!!) thought "these are my last moments, but I cant let these people die" and somehow opened the cockpit door. Without his bravery and determination, Everybody dies no question.
Second the passengers Yaniv and Yitzhack rushed the cockpit the minute they heard screams. Dont minimize this. Most people in a situation like this would freeze in their seats. Not to mention getting the the front of the plane in a zero G nose over. I'm assuming IDF training (mandatory for all Israelis) but even then excellent reactions under pressure. By rushing to the front immediately, they were on the other side of the door the second that Cpt Smit opened it. The IDF training also probably had a hand in their ability to rapidly neutralize the co-pilot.
Yaniv taking the stick and pulling out of the dive is critical simply because there was no time otherwise. At the rate of decent by that point there is maybe 30s to impact if they keep diving (and they were already past Vne)
However, contrary to popular male ego, a non pilot successfully recovering the plane has odds near zero. Commercial aircraft are huge and have massive momentum. Even in a small plane, if you are too heavy on the controls nothing happens for ten seconds, then next thing you know you are upside down. The most likely outcome after a non-pilot pulling out of a dive would be overcontrolling and triggering a stall. Fortunately (according to Yaniv's interview) the relief pilot took over just as he leveled the plane.
The relief pilots being on board was fortunate, the relief pilot managing to take over the controls before Yaniv could trigger a stall was perfect timing. The pilots were not just random pilots or random airline pilots, they were the relief crew which meant they had hundreds if not thousands of hours in that exact model. Why is this important? Because the co-pilot had smashed the instruments (once again from Yaniv's interview) and the rudder was damaged from exceeding Vne. The relief pilots could handle this as a routine emergency, for a pilot unfamiliar with that airplane and instruments smashed it would be a insurmountable challenge.
Finally the Pilot who thought he was going to die was in luck because on board was a dentist. A dental surgeon no less. Not quite the same an ER doc, but enough to stop major arterial bleeding from multiple wounds.
If somebody doesnt make a great movie out of this it would be a crime. This is aviation history being made.
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Vaughn Thurman retweeted
Weeks ago we learned Fauci and the biomedical state knew the COVID jabs were dangerous but hid it from us.
While that investigation continues, today we sued Pfizer for deceptively marketing the products as safe—making billions—while pregnant women were miscarrying their babies and teenagers were having heart attacks.
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American-led Open Source AI projects will define the future.
getting acquired by @nvidia = hugging face can now hire people we couldn't as a small startup and give them a decade to make open-source AI win!
if you're one of them, my dms are open
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Vaughn Thurman retweeted
This is fake news at its finest.
First off, we’re not ‘banning’ any program. The federal government doesn’t set curriculum or programs.
Here’s the truth: we are holding colleges accountable for leaving students worse off than if they never enrolled. Too many graduates report delaying major life milestones like buying a home or starting a family. Why? Because low return-on-investment programs saddled them with unmanageable debt that was never going to translate into a real-world job.
Federal student loans are not a welfare program for failing college programs. American students deserve education and training pathways that prepare them for the workforce – and transparency about programs that will never pay off.
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/NmmAzhf
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The evidence keeps growing
Show this video to every critic who says “Ivermectin doesn’t work.”
Attorney Ralph Lorigo sued hospitals where COVID patients were begging for ivermectin. Out of the 72 cases he won, 69 survived after receiving ivermectin. A 95.8% success rate.
Out of the 140 cases where the drug was never given, whether he lost, ran out of time, or the hospital defied the court order, not a single person survived. 0% success rate.
Same disease. Similar hospitals. Every patient in both groups was already hospitalized with COVID when Lorigo was called. The only difference was one group got ivermectin, and one didn’t. It’s about as apples-to-apples as it gets.
SEN. RON JOHNSON: “So it’s not a random controlled trial, but that’s some pretty powerful evidence that I wish our federal regulators would have taken a look at.”
RALPH LORIGO: “Those numbers certainly tell a story, Senator.”
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Vaughn Thurman retweeted
had a machine tool company include some wise words from henry ford on their sales quote
pretty hard tbh
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Wanna talk some trash!?
Our world is changing faster than ever. They’ve unlocked the path to turn used polyethylene into gas, diesel, and few other useable byproducts.
Can you imagine getting paid for your trash? It may not be as far out as it sounds anymore.
Polyethylene contains approximately 46 megajoules of chemical energy per kilogram (about ten times the energy content of TNT by mass) stored stably in its carbon-hydrogen bonds rather than as explosive potential.
The Oak Ridge molten-salt process announced this week is essentially an engineered way to release that energy as liquid fuel rather than letting it sit in a landfill.
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Well, well, well! Without the NBCs of the world… what ever would we do with all that rotten food? Now I am starting to wonder if turning the lights off when you leave the house could cut the electric bill? Maybe they can look into this?
Keeping your fridge and freezer closed is the best way to keep food fresh for as long as possible. - @nbcselected nbcnews.com/select/shopping/…
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The funny thing is that I know Pastor Jorge Pina, and he is a former athlete and bouncer (his pre Christ days). He could have easily “handled” this himself. But instead, he is praying for this young man. How about that!? Jesus makes all things new… and better. Pray for him.
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Vaughn Thurman retweeted
🔴I had TDS for 7 years before waking up to the media lies.
Found 2 major sources that really helped.
@AmericanDebunk website that showed all the media hoaxes and edits + Joomi Kim's documentary.
If you're still suffering from this affliction, consider giving these a watch. America really dodged a bullet.
x.com/JoomiKim1/status/18505…
I’ve been dreading telling my friends and family that I’ll be voting for Trump in this coming election.
There was no way for me to explain it to them without them being horrified.
So I made this video, which tries to explain how liberals like me have ended up here:
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Vaughn Thurman retweeted
This is why I can't hate the news media enough. Both these images were on my computer this morning from Microsoft. Both have very misleading headlines:
Yes, 315K Obamacare health plans were cancelled because they were FRAUDULENT which this headline fails to mention.
And, yes, Trump did say he had to make a choice between annihilation if they did not comply (which this headline fails to mention) and re-building Iran.
Do they teach MSM journalists how to do this or does it just come naturally?
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