John Ʌ Konrad V
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CEO @gCaptain | US Merchant Marine Ship Captain | Author: Fire on the Horizon | Shipbuilder | Blacklisted by Wikipedia | K5HIP 🇺🇸
Great Barrington, MA
Joined May 2007
Does it go any faster than the old one?. Will it be more reasonably priced?. Will it be subject to fewer delays?. Yes I’m being sarcastic because Acela is a joke.
And that marks the first ever Boston → D.C. journey on @Amtrak’s NextGen Acela and a new era of passenger rail in the U.S.!
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What an unbelievable waste of time.
A Chinese man has built an entire town for his cats, says it’s worth it because it makes his son happy. YouTuber Xing Zhilei has built an entire town for his cats which includes a supermarket, a theater, a spa, a parking garage, a Cybertruck and a working subway system. Wild.
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RT @Offendingsquid: @johnkonrad I found the healthiest Canadian Navy member. Oddly it's the submarine corps.
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From a US Merchant Marine family!. ENDORSED.
Lindsey Graham lacks a personal stake in America's future, which explains his relentless advocacy for more military conflicts and more debt, ultimately making the American dream less affordable for future generations.
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The technical term is poop deck (if it overhangs the stern) 🤣.
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Nothing to see here, just a crazy lady who wants to attack ships, move along.
🎯 Aisha Nizar: “Maersk Is a Target”. At the People’s Conference for Palestine, Aisha Nizar of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) laid out a militant strategy: don’t just attack weapons manufacturers like Elbit Systems, but target the logistics companies that move U.S. weapons
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This is the same on ships. Easy to make the call now but back when I started satellite phone calls were $6 a minute so it was a race against the clock to fix anything with the manufacturer technicians on the phone.
When you get to the end of all the checklists and you still don’t know what to do you call the people who designed the airplane.
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RT @zerohedge: Trump Closes De Minimis Loophole As Dark Chapter In Trade Ends
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"The de minimis exemption has been abused, with shippers sending..."
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Nothing to see here, move along.
U.S. Treasury Warns Of $312 Billion Chinese Laundering Dark-Money Network For Mexican Cartels
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RT @johnkonrad: Heard some great news about U.S. shipbuilding today. I can’t share details yet, but big announcements should be coming from….
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RT @R_P_one: Given its similarity to the rather useless USN VLS crane from the ‘89s, this is unlikely to be very effective in anything othe….
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Benedict Arnold 2.0 👇.
Just found out: we won the tariffs case. President Trump’s tariffs are illegal. More to come.
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You should see how much the size of their navy has shrunk: worse than George Costanza doing an ice plunge.
Meanwhile over in the 51st state. *CANADA ECONOMY SHRINKS 1.6% ANNUALIZED IN 2Q, MISSES -0.7% EST.
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RT @Geiger_Capital: Tariffs will remain in effect until the Supreme Court rules on them in 2026. If the Trump administration loses there,….
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I met a satan worshipper once. A real card carrying member of a satanic temple. We had a long lunch together. Nice guy. Very high IQ. Batshit crazy. He asked for a follow up meeting. I said, only if I can bring an exorcist. He laughed but I was dead serious.
🚨🚨🚨. BREAKING: Minnesota trans killer of Catholic schoolchildren inspired by ‘secret Satanic network’: report.
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This is a win.
For the first time since 2022, wages of private workers (5.1%) are rising faster than wages of government workers( 4.8%)
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