Leftists are forcing the reinvention of protection rackets from first principles.
You can hire a guy with a sword to come try to kick squatters out of your house in Oakland, if you don't want to wait months for the sheriff to (potentially) do it.
You should try to be patient with teenagers, in a better world they would have been allowed to go to sea at 12.
The $230 Billion Company Youve Never Heard Of
Linde is the worldโs largest industrial-gas company, and their products are the simplest elements on the periodic table,
Hydrogen
Oxygen
Nitrogen
Carbon Dioxide
Helium
How they are so big? Why are these elements so important?
Lets use Hydrogen as the example. Its the most abundant element in the universe, but most of it is attached to another molecule.
Hydrogen by itself is just one proton + one electron
It was first was first isolated in 1766, and called "inflammable air". Because its so small its extremely challenging to store and leaks through almost anything.
But its a cornerstone of modern industrialization
Globally the world uses about 100 million tonnes annually. Its used in oil refining, ammonia, methanol, and steel production
So the demand is ginormous. The gas is worth billions on billions
Making it is challenging, it uses a process called steam-methane reforming. You react natural gas with hot steam over a catalyst, this reaction produces hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide
Then that has to be purified and the hydrogen separated out.
This requires a chemical plant.
Which brings us to Linde. They specialize in these basic elements, they do over $30B in sales a year
Their next competitor is Air Liquide, and "only" worth $120B
Theres other competitors as well, you can look them up, theyre all formidable companies
They will never go out of business. They will never see lower demand. Their gasses are essential for advanced technology and human civilization itself to operate.
Chemicals are the foundation which all other industries are built on. And also the most overlooked in the "hard tech" sector.
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The National debt is an index of evil
One NGO made $115,000,000 to traffic children across the United States.
This is how it worked:
- Kids trafficked by cartel
- Sent to an NGO
- NGO receives millions of your tax dollars from the government
- Then sends kid to โsponsor,โ no biometrics, no DNA testing
- Never see or hear from the child again
These NGOs are more secure than the border, with high spiked gates, cameras, and no access to the front desk. Ask a question and they will call the police. This is why it's important to vote.
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I've had a few questions about this article along the lines of, "why is Valar not allowing public comment?" This Trib article is wildly misleading. They have made sure to maintain *technical truth* but are purposefully not showing the whole picture.
We attended a city council meeting and shared some of our future plans as one of several agenda items. That council meeting was open to public viewing but did not have public Q&A. Nothing to with us; that's just the format for these meetings. We did this ahead of filing for an actual CUP just to give people an idea of what we would be filing for. The actual CUP will have public Q&A as part of the city council's process.
We are happy to answer questions. In fact, a couple weeks before, we had held our own town hall and answered questions for a few hours! We also answered questions in the lobby for a couple hours after the city counsel meeting as well, but we don't control the procedures for the main meeting.
The trib knows this of course (we submitted corrections to them). But notice how in the screenshot they have the word "official", carefully threading the line of truth, without mentioning that we advertised our own unofficial townhall several weeks before this which was attended by hundreds of people!
We loved answering the community's questions and have received so many amazing messages from people that are excited to see their community thrive with new industry.
Spending time with the people of Utah as we build the future of energy there is one the very best parts of my job. The people of Carbon County and Emery County are cut from the toughest cloth. Through the coal mines and plants in that area, they've have been powering the mountain west for decades. We're proud to be part of continuing that legacy for more decades to come!
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โWhere are you going?โ
โTo find my mother.โ
โYour motherโs dead son. She was killed by a Tusken Raider with 38 prior arrests, who was let out on cashless bail, by a woke district attorney.โ
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Over the past 10 days, I became the digital Nick Shirley.
Using public & private records my AI agent swarm found ~$787 million in government billing that made absolutely no sense.
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Was this an accident? Sabotage? Cyber attack? We may never know. But it could have been.
Welcome to โthe infinite front.โ
I left the National Security Council Staff in January 2021 with an urgent mission: protect the worldโs most sensitive industrial facilities against malicious cyber actors. Itโs why we started
@GalvanickCo.
Five years later the world is seeing why.
And itโs only going to get worse.
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The power grid right in the heart of Washington, DC just took a direct, sudden hit.
An underground equipment blast in Foggy Bottom triggered a massive blackout across the core institutional district.
Manholes exploded right outside the World Bank headquarters, sending smoke pouring into the streets and triggering emergency sirens.
Power was instantly wiped out across George Washington University, multilateral financial offices, and federal facilities.
The State Department had to scramble as facilities suffered unscheduled electrical loss.
Traffic lights died from Pennsylvania Avenue to Constitution Avenue, gridlocking major intersections blocks away from the White House.
Office towers were abruptly dumped onto whining backup generators or left completely dark, with workers told to evacuate.
Pepco and DC Fire crews flooded the scene around 18th Street and H Street as subterranean equipment failures took down key feeders.
The fragile backbone of the capital's power grid cannot even keep the lights on for the World Bank and the State Department on a regular Monday morning.
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Writing this in my personal capacity, but I have been flying these types of aircraft for more than 20 years, with over 8,000 hours, and have reasonable familiarity with how the charter world operates. I feel compelled to post after seeing commentary about the Lear 60 crash, from missile strikes to DEI to critiquing this poor womanโs final radio calls.
That last part is what I find most troubling. She was the second-in-command (SIC), and while she was empowered to point out mistakes as part of good crew resource management, she was doing her job, communicating with ATC right to the end in a terrifying situation. She likely knew before many of those calls that she was going to die. I have heard final calls from friends, from military pilots with thousands of hours in fighter aircraft, and they are just as heartbreaking because they know the end is approaching.
I understand the public interest given the footage and audio. But you do not know the aircraftโs maintenance history, whether there was a structural failure, if any failure was induced by turbulence, overspeed, or overcontrol, or everything happening in that cockpit. I am sure weather will be part of the investigation, but beyond that, it is speculation. The charter industry routinely hires commercial pilots very early in their careers to gain experience alongside an ATP-qualified captain before they move up to the airlines. She would still have the appropriate training, qualifications, and checkouts by an FAA examiner or designee.
Let people investigate, learn, and share the facts. Be respectful to those who perished and the families who carry their memories. God bless them and their loved ones.
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Who could have predicted this
NEW: Power outages in downtown DC are affecting stop lights and even some agencies, including the State Department. A State Department official confirms to
@realDailyWire that multiple State Department facilities "are experiencing an unscheduled loss of electrical power" and the department is "investigating with PEPCO."
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For those of you who either (1) didnโt live through 9/11 or (2) donโt understand how people could become โtruthers,โ you can see the psychosis re-emerging in real time with this tragedy in Florida.
Exhibit A:
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no polycules in the Gundo
I hate SF Halloween, what do you mean you're the sankey diagram from Aella's birthday gangbang
God bless you
@BrendanCarrFCC - so many years in the making.
The United States plans to bar Chinese telecommunications companies from direct access to American phone numbers on national security grounds, a move aimed at curbing scam-related robocalls.
The Federal Communications Commission announced it will vote on Nov. 19 on a proposal to block China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, and other IP-enabled service providers from obtaining direct access.
Direct number access serves as a cost-effective channel for Voice over Internet Protocol providers, allowing them to route digital voice data over broadband networks while deploying advanced calling features.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr stated that the decision will reinforce the agency's frontline defenses against fraudulent operators and malicious callers.
China's foreign ministry firmly condemned the impending restrictions, accusing Washington of overstretching the concept of national security and misusing state authority to suppress Chinese firms.
Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun warned that Beijing will take necessary countermeasures to resolutely protect its legitimate commercial rights and interests.
The FCC also intends to bar IP-enabled service providers that incorporate hardware from blacklisted suppliers deemed security risks, including Huawei and ZTE.
The agency separately plans to ban all Chinese laboratories from testing U.S. electronics beginning in December 2028, while weighing the revocation of existing number authorizations for Chinese companies flagged as risks.
The proposal follows prior regulatory crackdowns in which the FCC revoked the operating licenses of China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom to provide international telecommunications services in the United States.
Regulators are considering further sanctions, including barring Chinese carriers from connecting to domestic networks and prohibiting them from operating data centers on U.S. soil.
Espionage concerns have intensified following revelations in late 2024 that the Chinese state-sponsored cyber espionage group Salt Typhoon breached U.S. telecommunications infrastructure and exfiltrated consumer call data.
The FBI warned earlier this year that threats stemming from the Salt Typhoon campaign remain active and ongoing.
In July, the FCC added California-based Digitalsystem Technology to its national security risk list, citing its ownership by a Chinese national and direct ties to Chinese telecommunications firms.
China has consistently denied any wrongdoing or involvement in state-directed cyber operations.
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Good morning we are going to win
no polycules in the Gundo
I hate SF Halloween, what do you mean you're the sankey diagram from Aella's birthday gangbang
For those of you who either (1) didnโt live through 9/11 or (2) donโt understand how people could become โtruthers,โ you can see the psychosis re-emerging in real time with this tragedy in Florida.
Exhibit A:
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Request for [law enforcement investigation]
You have no idea how big this is.