John Ʌ Konrad V ✓
@johnkonrad · Great Barrington, MA · joined 09 May 2007
CEO @gCaptain | US Merchant Marine | Ship Captain | Pentagon Press | Author: Fire on the Horizon | Shipbuilder | Blacklisted by Wikipedia | K5HIP 🇺🇸
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Father Gabriel Okafor’s homily this morning was about truth and love. He said neither one works alone.
He told a story from Nigeria. A young man joined a cartel and became a hitman. His father threw him out and told him he was going to hell. His mother kept letting him back in.
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The US Navy has gotten REALLY good at vessel disposal.
Some are even really nice… https://t.co/YFDRb2qln9
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Good morning California!
Make coastal smokestacks great again!! https://t.co/eZQa8aAOzC
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I'm sorry. I went too far. My fight is with the Canadian government and the current state of our joint naval readiness, not with Canadians, and not with that soldier. I love Canada, my Canadian nephews, and I love the way you all came together to defend one of your own soldiers.
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It’s hilarious but only in the darkest black-comedy way.
Now go visit Sharrell’s profile and SUBSCRIBE. She’s working her tail off to get Gold Star families reimbursed for travel to visit their fallen loved ones.
I honestly can’t think of a better cause to support. 🇺🇸
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@johnkonrad “Stolen dependa valor” might be the dumbest fucking phrase I’ve read on this app all week, and that is an incredibly competitive category. Girl, get a grip. 😂
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@johnkonrad She’d kick your fucking ass. You are a male pussy, coward.
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@johnkonrad Diamond ring and a hand tattoo https://t.co/aERifR5rIA
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@johnkonrad How does it feel to suck on the admin so hard and yet not getting a job from them? It must be killing you, you pathetic little man.
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@johnkonrad Fascinating how many MAGA types who have never said a bad word about Canada in their lives, all of a sudden work themselves up into a “yeah Canada SUCKS!” frenzy, because Trump tells them to, like a bunch of obedient performing seals.
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@johnkonrad Canadian here.
You aren't wrong.
Canada is a mess thanks to 11+ years of Woke Liberal DEI, land acknowledgements against the horrid white colonizers, the Alphabet City Trans+++ pronoun indoctrination, green climate net zero grift, mass unvetted invasion of the bottom
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We had a good thing, Canada.
A quiet arrangement.
You kept watch up north, didn’t make noise, didn’t screw around.
We covered the heavy lifting.
You backed us up, built a few ships, some icebreakers, flew the flag at NATO, pretended to be a country that gave a damn. We http
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Les droits de douane injustifiés et non provoqués imposés par les États-Unis mettent de la pression sur les travailleurs et les industries du Canada. Nous les soutenons, grâce à une aide supplémentaire de 7,5 milliards de dollars.
Aujourd’hui, j’ai rencontré des dirigeants http
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@johnkonrad When we first built the Kidd class DD's for the Shah of Iran, all four were designed with goat pens below deck. Then when the Shah was deposed, the goat pens were removed and they became the Kidd class DDG's.
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@MSCSealift @gCaptain For more on military logistics be sure to follow the excellent maritime/navy news site @gCaptain
Podcasts like @cdrsalamander’s Midrats and @CavasShips
And THE number one navy logistics scholar in the world, Dr Sal @mercoglianos, via his WGOWS channel on
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@johnkonrad So, let's talk about the issue raised by @AaronParnas.
1️⃣The @USNavy and @US5thFleet are operating a fleet of about 20 ships in the northern Arabian Sea centered around two carrier strike groups - Lincoln and Bush - and an amphibious ready group - Boxer.
2️⃣The loss
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@MSCSealift Finally, this isn’t the USS Abraham Lincoln’s first rodeo in the hot, difficult to supply, Middle East.
As @gCaptain reported, the carrier also had an extended deployment back when the Houthis were targeting Navy supply ships and logistics facilities:
https://t.co/0
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@MSCSealift And here’s a solid documentary on the massive warehouse and refrigeration systems aboard a modern supply ship:
https://t.co/vRkis3xqmX
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And my guess is the latter because replenishment at sea is something US Merchant Marine crews aboard @MSCSealift supply ships have been doing for a long long time
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So when a sailor aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln says he hasn’t had milk in 3 months…
It’s either a historic F’up of colossal, historic, proportion OR one sailor doing what sailors have done since the time of goats aboard ship: spinning yarns to complain to their wives https://t.
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And during the Vietnam War the Navy got another option… UHT milk.
Heat milk to 284°F for just seconds and it becomes shelf-stable for months without refrigeration.
By the 1970s it was going mainstream finally allowing ships to carry real liquid milk across oceans without cows,
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Every sailor enjoys lifting the heavy bar to dispense cold milk but only the galley crew knows the secret Navy redundancy inside.
The Silver King accepts bags of fresh milk or you can mix can milk with water or blend up powdered milk in containers you place inside. https://t.co/
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His invention has been installed on almost all US navy, USCG and US Merchant Marine ships since:
The mighty Norris Milk Dispenser which was rebranded “The Silver King” in 1955.
The Silver King V1 held two five-gallon cans, maintained the milk at a refreshing 37°F, and offered
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But WW2 also created every Navy sailor’s favorite appliance.
While some were working on bomb sights and radars inventor Lannie F. Norris was working on commercial milk dispensers for Navy ships.
His 1944 patent application, granted in 1945 as U.S. Patent 2,377,261, describes
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At the end of WW2 fresh, condensed, evaporated and powdered milk production and subsidies for the Navy and soldiers overseas had produced such an overwhelming supply of milk the entire industry would collapse at the end of the war.
So the government started buying it in huge htt
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During WWII, the U.S. Navy built floating ice-cream factories—refrigerated concrete barges that could make thousands of gallons a day.
An official U.S. Army Transportation Corps history says the three 265-foot concrete refrigerated barges cost approximately $1.12 million each. h
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So at the outbreak of WW2 we had a massive dairy supply and an appetite for milk and ice cream refrigeration.
During WWII, the U.S. Navy built floating ice-cream factories—refrigerated concrete barges that could make thousands of gallons a day.
They had no engines and no guns.
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Then the Great Depression hit and the milk subsidy program was expanded to other parts of the farm economy under former Navy Assistant Secretary FDR’s New Deal
1935, the government had established mechanisms specifically intended to increase domestic consumption of surplus https
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The Navy was a test and five years 18th Amendment was ratified starting Prohibition.
But there was a major economic problem? What to do with all the bars and saloons??
So the government subsidized dairy and bars across the nation turned into ice cream parlors.
ice-cream https:
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In return for killing alcohol the Navy promised milk but if they ran out of milk there could be a mutiny.
And the Navy doesn’t do anything without redundancy.
Now milk is mostly water and Marco Polo described Mongol forces carrying a dried skim-milk product way back in the
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Against accounts of the same size
46 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 100K–1M follower range. shown far beyond its own audience, and the audience reacts.
Median views7 286this account4 827median for 100K–1M
Reach, %4.60%this account1.74%median for 100K–1M
Engagement, %2.91%this account1.27%median for 100K–1M
| Metric | This account | Median for 100K–1M | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 7 286 | 4 827 | 1.51× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 4.60% | 1.74% | 2.65× |
| Engagement rate | 2.91% | 1.27% | 2.28× |
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
2.18%13 Aug
0.36%2 Sep
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3.33%6 Sep
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 100K–1M accounts is 1.27%.
What the audience does
Likes73.5%31 159 in total
Reposts12.3%5 216 in total
Replies7.6%3 225 in total
Quotes1.3%567 in total
Bookmarks5.2%2 217 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
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