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I'm so afraid.
Afraid people won't vote figuring it's a lost cause or they don't have to because someone else voted or because they're afraid Elon will rig it.
I'm so afraid to get my hopes up. This is so important. I don't know who follows me, but please....
VOTE!!!!!!
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And it was. Whoopi said that she had felt none of her roles had left an impact during an interview and an autistic man in the audience spoke up to tell her how much this role meant to/helped him.
Patrick Stewart had a special surprise for Whoopi Goldberg! 🖖
He personally invited her to reprise her iconic role as Guinan in Season 2 of Star Trek: Picard.
Whoopi was visibly touched, calling her time on Star Trek one of the greatest experiences of her career.
After 18 years, Captain Picard was back and now Guinan was joining him again. ❤️
Ladies and gentlemen, Florida representative Randy Fine showing us exactly what kind man and representative he is.
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BREAKING: Trump’s speech in Mississippi is interrupted by a protester who tells Trump to “SHOVE THAT BALLROOM UP YOUR FAT ASS!!”
A new legend is born.
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June 6, 1944. An American paratrooper jumps into Normandy in the dark and lands on the roof of a church.
By the end of the war he had been declared dead, held a funeral he didn't attend, escaped the Nazis, and fought his way toward Berlin in a Soviet tank unit.
His name was Joseph Beyrle. He's believed to be the only American soldier to serve in both the US Army and the Red Army during World War Two.
Beyrle was from Muskegon, Michigan. He joined the 101st Airborne, the Screaming Eagles. His buddies called him Jumpin' Joe.
On D-Day night his plane was hit by flak and he jumped early. He came down on a church roof, slid off, and lost his unit in the chaos. For a few days he fought on his own, blowing up a power station and cutting German communications.
Then he was captured.
Here's where it gets strange. A German soldier ended up wearing Beyrle's uniform and dog tags. That German was killed. When the body was found, the Americans identified it as Joseph Beyrle.
The army told his parents their son was dead. His hometown held a funeral mass for him. His obituary ran in the local paper.
Meanwhile, he was very much alive, being moved from one German prison camp to another.
He escaped more than once. One time he and two other prisoners jumped off a train heading east. They thought they were heading for Russia and freedom. They got lost and ended up in Berlin, where they were caught by the Gestapo, beaten, and tortured.
In January 1945, from a camp in eastern Germany, he finally made a clean escape. He went east, toward the gunfire. Toward the Soviets.
When he found a Soviet tank unit, he walked out with his hands up, holding a pack of Lucky Strike cigarettes, and shouted the only Russian he knew. American comrade.
It worked.
He asked to join them. And they said yes.
For about a month, an American paratrooper rode with Soviet tank crews as they pushed toward Germany. He used his demolition training. He fought. He was reportedly welcomed by a Soviet officer who was one of the rare women commanding a tank battalion.
Then a German dive bomber attacked. Beyrle was badly wounded.
He was evacuated to a Soviet hospital. Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov reportedly visited, heard his story, and gave him papers to get to the American embassy in Moscow.
When he showed up, the embassy didn't believe him. As far as the US was concerned, Joseph Beyrle was dead. They held him under guard until his fingerprints proved who he was.
He made it home to Michigan in April 1945.
In 1946 he got married. In the same church where they'd held his funeral.
Decades later, in 1994, he was honored at the White House by President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin for serving both countries.
And the last twist. His son, Joseph Beyrle II, grew up to become the United States Ambassador to Russia.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Joseph Robert “Joe” Beyrle had two sons. The elder son, Joe Beyrle II, served during the Vietnam War, but wasn’t a US Ambassador. That was the other son, John Beyrle.
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I believe this will be considered one of the most important videos in US history from this time.
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Now would be a good time to remind everyone of these Trump facts, because apparently some people still need the refresher.
Please meet the President of the United States:
Flew on Epstein’s plane at least seven times. Just friends, I guess.
Pleaded the Fifth more than 400 times in a single deposition. Nothing says “innocent” like refusing to answer a single question about your own business.
34 felony convictions. A record most people would call disqualifying. And 91 criminal charges.
Accused of sexual misconduct or assault by at least 26 women. But sure, tell me again how he’s a great guy.
6 corporate bankruptcies. The self proclaimed greatest businessman alive somehow keeps running out of money.
5 draft deferments. Funny how the toughest guy in the room never actually showed up for duty.
4 criminal indictments. Not two. Not three. Four.
2 impeachments. A club of exactly one president.
2 of his own companies convicted of criminal tax fraud. Convicted. Not accused. Convicted.
1 fake university shut down. 1 fake charity shut down.
Even his charity was a grift.
Paid 25 million dollars to settle the Trump University fraud lawsuit because scamming people who believed in you costs money eventually.
Ordered to pay 5 million dollars in the first E Jean Carroll sexual abuse verdict, then hit with 83.3 million more in the second.
A jury said it twice so nobody could pretend it was a fluke.
Ordered to pay 2 million dollars for looting his own so called charity.
Stealing from a charity with his own name on it.
Found liable for business fraud and originally slapped with a penalty topping 450 million dollars, later thrown out on appeal while the fraud finding itself stuck to him anyway.
First president in modern history to increase the deficit every single year of a full term. Fiscal responsibility, apparently, was always just a talking point.
Kept the debt to GDP ratio above 100 percent for his entire first term.
Presided over the largest single day point drop in Dow Jones history at the time. So much for the guy who claimed to be a genius with money.
Set the record for the longest government shutdown in US history in his first term at 35 days, then couldn’t resist beating his own miserable record in his second term with a 43 day shutdown, followed by yet another shutdown just months later. Encore nobody asked for.
Added roughly 2.25 trillion dollars to the national debt in his first year back in office alone, pushing the debt past 39 trillion dollars.
Somebody remind me who the party of fiscal discipline is again.
Pushed through the largest defense budget increase since World War Two while the debt kept climbing anyway.
Purged more than 300,000 federal employees in his first year back.
Efficient, if your goal is chaos.
Pardoned nearly 1,600 January 6 Capitol rioters.
At least 40 of those pardoned rioters have already been rearrested, charged, or sentenced for new crimes since walking free. Shocking absolutely nobody.
His family’s crypto ventures, including a meme coin and World Liberty Financial, pulled in more than 1.4 billion dollars in disclosed earnings while he sat in the Oval Office.
Draining the swamp was apparently code for filling his own pockets.
Sent the National Guard into American cities at a cost of nearly 500 million taxpayer dollars in 2025 alone.
His own tariffs are projected to cost the average American household more than 2,500 dollars this year.
You’re paying for this. Not China. You.
No more foreign wars. Peace deal with Russia and Ukraine on Day One.
None of this is a conspiracy theory, a rumor, or something you saw in a group chat.
It is the actual, documented record, sitting in plain sight for anyone willing to look.
So the next time someone tells you to relax and give him a chance, ask them how many more indictments, judgments, and shutdown records he needs to rack up before that chance runs out.
Credit: Charles Curtis Rone
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Что будет, если вылить на Солнце миллиарды тонн воды — оно погаснет?
Короткий ответ: нет. Получится почти противоположный эффект.
Солнце — это не костёр. Там не идёт химическое горение, которое можно потушить водой. Это гигантский шар плазмы, где в ядре при температуре около 15 миллионов градусов и огромном давлении идёт термоядерный синтез: водород превращается в гелий. Именно эта реакция даёт энергию, которой светит наше светило. Классический способ «залить водой» здесь не работает.
Что произойдёт с водой? На поверхности Солнца около 5500 °C. Вода мгновенно превратится в пар, молекулы H₂O разорвутся на атомы водорода и кислорода. Водород — это топливо Солнца, так что вместо тушения мы подбрасываем ему горючее. Кислород тоже не мешает: в более массивных звёздах часть синтеза идёт по CNO-циклу. Плюс любая добавленная масса усиливает гравитацию, давление в ядре растёт, реакции ускоряются. Солнце становится горячее и ярче.
«Миллиарды тонн» для Солнца — пыль. Его масса — примерно 2 × 10²⁷ тонн. Даже десять миллиардов тонн — исчезающе малая доля. Чтобы эффект стал заметен, нужно добавлять массы уровня планет. Если Солнце потяжелеет примерно в 1,3–1,7 раза, оно перейдёт на более горячий режим горения и станет ярче в несколько раз. Земля в таком случае получит гораздо больше тепла и ультрафиолета.
В каком-то смысле Солнце уже сейчас — это огромная, постоянно работающая термоядерная бомба. Каждую секунду в его ядре превращается в энергию около 4 миллионов тонн вещества. Но оно не взрывается, потому что гравитация держит всё в равновесии.
Если в него накидать достаточно массы, картина меняется. Чтобы Солнце эволюционировало в звезду, которая в конце жизни взорвётся как сверхновая, нужно добавить массу до примерно 8–10 солнечных и выше. Тогда светило станет гораздо горячее, будет сжигать топливо намного быстрее и проживёт не миллиарды, а миллионы или десятки миллионов лет. В конце жизни ядро схлопнется под собственной тяжестью, внешние слои сбросятся взрывом сверхновой.
Это и есть тот самый «ядерный удар в солнечных масштабах». Энергия сверхновой колоссальна — она может превышать энергию, которую Солнце излучает за всю свою жизнь, и выделяется за секунды–дни. Такая вспышка способна полностью уничтожить планеты вблизи, стерилизовать всю систему и разнести вещество звезды в космос. Для Земли даже на текущем расстоянии последствия были бы катастрофическими: ударная волна, радиация и потеря светила.
Важный нюанс: просто «накидать массу» не означает, что Солнце сразу взорвётся. Звезда должна сначала прожить свою жизнь и дойти до стадии коллапса ядра. Чем массивнее она станет, тем быстрее это произойдёт. Если массы будет ещё больше, вместо сверхновой может получиться прямое коллапсирование в чёрную дыру.
Как в теории можно погасить или уничтожить Солнце?
1. Чтобы остановить синтез, нужно сильно снизить давление в ядре. Для этого придётся преодолеть гравитационную энергию связи Солнца — порядка 10⁴¹ джоулей. Теоретически — разогнать огромную массу и рассеять вещество так, чтобы оно уже не смогло снова схлопнуться. Практически это за пределами любых реальных возможностей.
2. Как описано выше — превратить Солнце в гораздо более массивную звезду, которая в итоге взорвётся как сверхновая или станет чёрной дырой. Это не «погасить», а уничтожить с очень ярким и разрушительным финалом.
3. Естественный путь. Через примерно 5 миллиардов лет Солнце выжжет водород в ядре, раздуется в красный гигант и в итоге станет белым карликом. Без взрыва сверхновой — для этого у него сейчас недостаточно массы.
Наше Солнце — это жёлтый карлик спектрального класса G2V. Это типичная звезда главной последовательности средней массы: она спокойно сжигает водород в ядре и находится примерно в середине своего жизненного цикла.
По современным моделям звёздной эволюции, основанным на наблюдениях тысяч похожих звёзд, гелиосейсмологии (изучении колебаний Солнца) и данных о его возрасте, Солнцу около 4,6 миллиарда лет. Общая продолжительность жизни на главной последовательности у звёзд такого типа составляет примерно 10 миллиардов лет. То есть у него осталось ещё около 5 миллиардов лет относительно стабильного свечения.
После этого водород в ядре закончится, Солнце раздуется в красный гигант, поглотит или сильно нагреет внутренние планеты, сбросит внешние оболочки и превратится в белый карлик. Всё это хорошо изучено по наблюдениям других звёзд того же класса и подтверждается расчётами.
Солнце нельзя потушить водой, как костёр — вода его только подкармливает. Накидать в него достаточно массы — и оно может закончить жизнь сверхновой, разнеся всё вокруг в звёздных масштабах. Но в реальности оно относится к спокойному типу жёлтых карликов и будет ещё миллиарды лет светить почти так же, как сейчас. Самый надёжный способ дождаться его «выключения» — просто жить достаточно долго.
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In Ben-Hur, there is a moment of extraordinary simplicity and grace. Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), exhausted and broken in the desert, is silently offered water by Jesus. We never see Christ’s face; only his figure and presence are revealed.
Not a word is spoken, yet Judah’s expression moves almost imperceptibly from despair to hope. William Wyler’s masterful cinematography gives the encounter an unmistakable sense of the sacred, suggesting that something far greater than an act of human kindness has taken place.
It is a brief gesture, a cup of water offered to a suffering man, yet it becomes the seed of Judah’s long journey towards mercy, reconciliation and forgiveness. In its restraint, silence and humanity, it remains one of the most moving scenes in the history of cinema.
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LOTR might genuinely be one of the greatest things humans have ever put on a screen and I’m not even exaggerating. You can watch it as a kid and think it’s about hobbits and swords and this terrifying ring. Then you watch it as an adult and realize it’s basically about everything that actually matters.
Power corrupts people and evil usually starts really small..Good people can be tempted and courage isn’t about being fearless. Friendship can literally carry you when you can’t carry yourself anymore. The smallest person in the room can change the course of history. You do the right thing not because you know you’re going to win, but because it’s the right thing to do.
Honestly… I think it should be mandatory viewing for kids at some point. Not just “watch the movie” but actually dissect it. Why does Boromir fail? Why can Sam resist what other people can’t? Why does Frodo show Gollum mercy? Why is Aragorn a good leader when he spends half the story reluctant to have power? What happens when someone becomes consumed by resentment, fear, or the desire to control other people? Then make kids apply those questions to their own lives. Friendship, temptation, loyalty, courage, responsibility, choosing who you want to be when nobody is forcing you to choose correctly. There are probably more useful lessons about becoming a decent human being buried in those movies than in half the stuff we make kids memorize in school…and those are learnings and lessons that would stick and could carry you through all of life.
My favorite part is that the heroes aren’t these invincible characters either. They’re tired, scared, tempted, and completely outmatched. Half the time they have no idea what they’re doing but they just keep going….
Then somehow Peter Jackson took ALL of THAT and made three epic movies at the same time, filled them with real sets, real landscapes, thousands of extras, incredible music,… and made something that still looks better than movies being made with $200M budgets 25 years later.
I really don’t think we’ll ever get another thing like it.
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Estaswood on YouTube released another great one!
Flying DeLorean Through 100 Years of History | Back to the Future
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Alan Alda explored themes of empathy throughout the run of “M*A*S*H,” but especially in the series’ final episode, in which Alda included a nod to stories he’d heard from World War II and the Korean War.
Alda told @DrLaPook about his continued focus on empathy as a tool, including in a conversation he had with “The Pitt” star Noah Wyle.
Watch more of their conversation Sunday.
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How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects?
Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner?
CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS.
Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song.
Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been.
Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on.
Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about.
There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable.
There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.”
Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable.
A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE??
And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself?
Your body started as ONE CELL.
ONE.
And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to?
The iron in our blood was made inside a star??
We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?
We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?
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Nine months after September 11, a village in Kenya with no electricity, no running water, and no roads gave America the most valuable thing it had.
Fourteen cows.
This is not a joke. It is one of the most serious gifts this country has ever received.
Kimeli Naiyomah grew up in Enoosaen, a Maasai village near the Tanzanian border. His family was so poor they owned no cattle. Among the Maasai, that is the bottom. A family without cows is barely counted as a family.
At fourteen he ran away to a school where the lessons were held under a tree. He walked. He had no shoes, no books, no money. He asked to be let in anyway.
Years later he was a student at Stanford, in California, studying to be a doctor.
On September 11, 2001, he happened to be in New York City.
He watched the towers fall.
He was a Maasai warrior. Warriors are trained from childhood to run toward danger. He wanted to run to the pile. He could not help there. He did not know what to do with what he had seen.
Months later he went home to Enoosaen.
The elders had heard something on the radio. Vaguely. A place called New York. Buildings. Some of them had not heard at all. Nobody in the village had ever seen a skyscraper. Nobody had been on an airplane. The idea of a building a hundred stories tall, full of thousands of people, falling down, was not something the language had words for.
Kimeli sat with them and explained. Slowly. What a tower was. How many people. What it looked like when it came down. He told them what he had seen with his own eyes.
The elders listened. When he finished, one of them asked a question.
"What can we do for these poor people?"
Kimeli had already decided. He had saved money in America. He wanted to buy a cow, the first cow his family had ever owned, and he wanted to give it to the United States.
To the Maasai, a cow is not livestock. A cow is life. It is wealth, food, standing, survival. An elder explained it to a reporter in one sentence. A cow is the handkerchief we Maasai use to wipe away tears.
Kimeli asked the elders for their blessing to give his one cow to America.
Then, one by one, the elders stood up.
They wanted to give too.
In the end, fourteen families pledged fourteen cows. In a community of about ten thousand people who owned almost nothing else.
On June 3, 2002, the United States chargé d'affaires in Kenya, William Brencick, traveled to Enoosaen. A flight, then more than half a day by road across terrain that barely counts as road. When he arrived, hundreds of Maasai in red robes were waiting. Some held hand-lettered banners.
"To the people of America, we give these cows to help you."
The elders presented the fourteen cows. Brencick accepted them on behalf of the United States. He called it the highest expression of regard and sympathy.
Then there was a practical problem. How do you ship fourteen sacred cows to New York?
The answer the two sides arrived at was better than shipping them.
The cows would stay in Kenya. They would belong to the United States of America. The Maasai would care for them, forever, as America's herd.
They are still there.
The original fourteen have multiplied into dozens. Each one carries a mark carved into its ear, the outline of two towers. Their offspring fund scholarships for the children of the village. The U.S. embassy built a school there, and a water project.
When the story reached America, forty thousand people wrote letters to the village. A painting of the fourteen cows hangs in the 9/11 Memorial Museum. A children's book about them became a national bestseller.
Kimeli's own explanation was the shortest.
To heal a sorrowing heart, give something that is dear to your own.
A village that had never seen a skyscraper, that could not have found New York on a map, that owned almost nothing, gave America the one thing it valued most.
Somewhere in Kenya tonight, there are cows with towers carved into their ears.
They are ours.
They were given to wipe our tears. 🇺🇸🇰🇪