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So check out the blog for more information on that.

One other short personal point I'll add, I flew the Lufthansa A380 this week from, uh, Munich to Boston, and everything I had read, I think, about that, that flight, the new seats on Lufthansa's A380, focuses on the fact that they're not the new Allegris seats that they've installed on other aircraft.

For a variety of reasons, they, they had to go with a different type of seat on the A380, and I feel like that drew all the attention away.

[lips smack] But my goodness, like, that seat is so much nicer than the old business class on other Lufthansa planes that, like, I would seek out the A380 right now.

That's fine.

Uh, but, like, for example, when they go to, uh, Munich or Berlin, like, uh, man, these Germans, they love them some football.

This is...

Wow.

Solzhenitsyn wrote, The timid, civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of bare-faced barbarity other than concessions and smiles.

The spirit of Munich is a sickness of the will of successful people.

It is the daily condition of those who have given themselves up to the thirst after prosperity at any price.

to material well-being as the chief goal of earthly existence, such people, and there are many in today's world, elect passivity and retreat just so as their accustomed life might drag on a bit longer, just so as to not step over the threshold of hardship today.

So

coming back from Munich.

Yeah.

We get to customs, and I walk up.

In quick Hackaday news, the first spacecraft launched to orbit from Europe went up and put a bunch of little satellites into space.

This is actually the second launch from Hometown Heroes, Munich's own Isar Aerospace.

They are not quite on par with the lift from like a Falcon 9 but they're closer than any of the other new space competitors which I think is really cool as always apparently with early launches there's some large chance that the whole thing is going to explode and so they don't put the most valuable payloads on there what I thought was really cool here is that the DLR the German equivalent of NASA ran a competition for you, yes you, to put your satellite on this mission.

And so, you know, you get a free ride to space, you take the good with the bad, if the thing blows up, and there's some chance of it blowing up, you get to keep all the pieces.

And so six winners, which I think almost all, maybe one was not a university project.

All the rest were university satellite projects, are now floating around in space.

And there is much cheering in Ottobrunn, I imagine, which is like the southern suburb of Munich where they actually have their headquarters.

I totally need to see if I can get a tour.

He was an old fighter.

He'd been at Munich in 1923.

He'd come up through Rom's Free Corps.

So his credentials spoke for themselves in terms of his willingness to sacrifice for the party, but that was it.

It is October 1929.

In a studio in Munich, a photographer greets his number one client, a politician who has become a household name across Germany.

For nearly a decade, the photographer has been a close associate of the man.

Having joined his political party in 1920, standing by him, through thick and thin.

From 1907 onwards, it was introduced widely across the European and American market.

Hoffman liked England and stayed there for several years before returning to his native Bavaria after additional trips to France and Switzerland.

Conflicting accounts suggest he was back home in Bavaria and opened his own studio in Munich to produce photo portraits either as early as 1909 or as late as 1911.

To supplement his portrait work, he also widened his contacts in Munich and began producing photographs on a freelance basis for several Bavarian newspapers.

Okay.

So the first one is Munich.

Okay.

Second one is New York.

So that's how we're going to say it all night.

They might say Melbourne in Melbourne because that's, you know, you know, the Australian dialect.

But all those, you know, cities that I just had you read right there, like Munich.

OK, to the English speaking world, it's Munich to anyone who lives in Germany.

This also happened against Israeli, Israeli athletes.

If you remember back in the Olympics, the beautiful Olympic Park there in Munich, Germany, and how there is termed Black September, where we had Palestinian terrorist organizations seize and later murder unarmed Israeli citizens.

Why do I keep saying topics about how American civilians in Tehran, American Marines on a peacekeeping mission in Beirut, American civilians in the embassy in Beirut? Because they were civilians.

But this right now is something, it's a trend, and it's happened to me personally in combat fighting, that's right, Islamists.