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My wife and I did the Kaibab down and back, was a rough 13 hrs. She’s an ER nurse, so she was pretty sure we were gonna be prepared. I knew we could water up at Phantom Ranch, but made sure we had enough water on our own for down and back…I carried 5gal and Jodi carried 3. It was only about 100deg at the bottom, but we still drank a lot.
Jodi’s secret weapon was to bring a bunch of those plastic wrapped dill pickles and brine - which under normal circumstances are SALTY! But we drank so much and dry sweat so much, when we took our packs off, I was stunned the inside of the packs were completely white with our salt. I drank that brine like it was pure water, the salt tasted SO good. In retrospect, Jodi saved us from some unhealthy consequences. We also had plenty of Clif Bars and electrolyte packets.
We still had plenty of water for the hike back up, but we still filled up at the bottom, plus it was much cooler - by the time we reached the top, we were guided by a full moon - also because of Jodi’s planning.
What was mind blowing was how il prepared so many people were. One guy stumbling on his way back up was delirious with heatstroke and dehydration - no food, and one 12oz bottled water bottle. We sat with him for an hour, getting him to shade, watered up, etc. and left him w a gallon of water. He was in the worst shape but we ran into several others that needed more water.
The best, or worst, depending on your perspective, was running into a boyscout troop of 12 and two counselors who got ‘lost’ when their hike got extended 3 or 4 days…apparently, they intended to hike from the east somewhere, to the park at the South Rim by following the river. But they neglected to account for all the canyons that bisected the ‘edge’ which they had to walk around - this added the extra days.
The boys were reasonably healthy, but ravenous and thirsty. They ate most of our power bars, drank a ton of water, then took off to get help. The two counselors were in rough shape - overweight, out of shape, dehydrated and hungry. Same routine - gave them some food, left them some water, made sure they were in the shade.
Glad we over prepared. And it was a good thing Phantom Ranch had water. Also to note, forget about cell phones, they don’t work down in the canyon, are spotty at best on the North Rim, and nobody wants to see cell towers frakking up the view. Maybe walkie talkies are a better idea?? Also, stay the f on the trail. If you’re in trouble, hikers and Rangers will help, and the Rangers are trained to save you and manage your rescue. If they can see/find you.
Next time, we’ll bring the same, but maybe a little less water. Instead, we’re bringing some IV bags with salts and electrolytes and more appropriate first aid supplies, as we ran into some sprained ankles and the like - prolly within the realm of possibility to run into head traumas and shock.
Moral of the story? Don’t fuck with Arizona heat. It’s no joke.
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I got divorced in 2019. I think I’ve been pushing it off, but I haven’t ever processed it nor discussed it even w my therapist. I’ve had a few relationships, which have been a distraction, but we remained friends; eventually she was probably my best friend. There’s still a bond, but a friendship one. We had separated a few times prior but (obviously) got back together. This time I moved from WI to AZ and we went through the divorce.
It stung when I learned she was getting married, sold ‘our’ house, and was going to move in with him. Apparently it imploded because she left him, and the guests, standing at the altar. I chuckled, because I never, ever would have pegged her doing that. I was glad.
I moved back to WI, and she invited me to stay, which I did for six months. We played with our dogs often, fell asleep together, bc of the dogs, on her gigantic couch, but never had romantic inclinations or mentioned getting back together. I think we may have tried, by holding hands a few times walking our dogs. It felt natural and familiar, but at a friendship level. Maybe we just made better friends than lovers.
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Pretty good, I like your style and subjects, and after watching a few of your stories, subscribed. When topics are balanced across other channels' I'm pretty satisfied with your consistency, accuracy, and truthfulness. I always enjoy different perspectives of the same or similar subject, so please, continue. After digesting your very good content a while, I'll patreon as usual - good, authentic, and objective content can be difficult to find and trust. Thank you.
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Same with me when I worked at IBM, and later in the ‘private’ sector as an IBM customer. IBM would basically forfeit a contract or any sale if there were any irregularities, no matter how far up it led. The training and repeat training was serious enough that it was no joke. Contrast this to EMC in even the early 2000s when girls and parties and booze were still used as a marketing tool.
Later, while working as a sysadmin for a hospital, we could not receive gifts, trinkets, lunches, etc, from ANY vendor. I once had one of those digital picture frames on my desk with a company’s logo on it - I either had to cover the logo over w tape or remove it from the premises.
It just wasn’t worth it, and happily, business was and is better, now that the rules are explicit and easily enforced.
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Right on. I not only do not find this ‘new’ type of female hero to be unattractive, mostly it’s downright repulsive. It’s just not believable, it’s not in anyone’s realm of experience, it’s too contrived, and worse, it’s being thrust upon the typical male audience against their viewing tastes. Fine, call me insecure or whatever, the reason I don’t like a strong female lead that supposedly can do anything physically a man can but better, is because it’s just not true in reality. And most of the time, the technical things these superwomen are somehow expert in also aren’t in the real world. Certain industries are male dominated because men are more interested in them and better at them - most women could care less. It’s just so forced, so contrived, and what I find illogical is that if these superwomen hate men so much, why they’re trying so hard to compete with men. Who wants to watch that?
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As a right leaning centrist moderate, registered Independent, I absolutely would consider voting for Mr. Kennedy, even if Trump’s on the ticket. If Gov. DeSantis wins the nomination, voting for Mr. Kennedy might be a more difficult endeavor. If DeSantis decides to wait til 2028, I may vote for Mr. Kennedy based on his moderate centricity, even knowing the positive effect Trump will have on our economy. The con of another Trump administration, in my view, will be the continuation of the divisiveness started by Obama; no doubt the extreme left will hunker down hard, letting their feral hatred of Trump fester and grow. I’m so tired of the wasted energy this hatred consumes, by the extreme left AND right.
I could have a conversation with Mr. Kennedy, and be the smarter for it - I think he’s a principled man. I’m just not sure how the left extremists will react, if they will strive for common ground (cannot see that happening), or if society will finally reject both right and left extremism and they’ll both fade away, should Mr. Kennedy win the nomination and the presidency. Regardless, I’ll be engaged, hoping the Democrat Party does the right thing by nominating him.
I just hope I live long enough to see Democrats and Republicans talk to each other respectfully, move our country forward together, have some BBQ parties, and get back to getting the nation’s work done and back to making the nation the priority that our great nation needs them to.
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I stopped drinking 1 year ago. I was a binge drinker, and could never understand why I would keep doing it because of the excruciating pain I would go through sobering up and detoxing. Usually for days. Agony.
Months would go by. Some traumatic event; some buildup of stress and pressure; depression; happiness; boredom; Tuesday, and I would let myself have a drink and days later, bottles everywhere. Weeks; months; years could go by, them seemingly for no reason: bottles everywhere. It didn’t matter how long I had stopped, if I had one drink, bottles everywhere, followed by days of agony.
I thought there was something intrinsic about being an alcoholic that made me turn off the memory of the agony, shame, destruction, despair of recovering again, and satisfying my impulsive obsession to having just one drink.
Maybe I should discuss ‘simple’ behavioral psychology with my therapist. I resonated with the idea I’m rewarding <circumstance here> with that first drink, and separately my alcoholism takes over and bottles everywhere.
Abstinence is my only hope. Eventually, the (wrong) combination of events happen, like a key into a lock. My go-to strategy is to numb it with alcohol - rewarding a behavior, so to speak. I need to intercept the impulse well in advance before it overcomes me.
I’ll see what my therapist thinks; we meet tomorrow. Sorry, thinking out loud here, but I have to write it down anyway. May as well be here.
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EMP resistance, if true, would have been a side effect and not a desired design goal. They had to use tubes becoming they were in a semiconductor stone age, although they did develop vacuum tube electronics to a high degree.
I met Bejenko at the AcieDeucies Bar in Wisconsin during the Oshkosh Air Show, man, a long time ago - 30years? Laf, I almost got imto a fight with him. We’re all gettin pretty pie eyed, and he was cocking off about living the high life on the US Govt, which I must have gotten irritated about. I told him I was glad we got to inspect his MiG, the USSR was a farce of a government, but that he was a traitor. The last part didn’t go over well. In the end, we drank more, hugged, and pretty soon he forgot all about me. I guess he actually is (or was?) an alright guy…sober. Aren’t we all.
I thought I heard or read Viktor was from Ukraine.
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Don't ask me, I'd keep everything! If one doesn't already exist, I'd recommend a department in, say, the Smithsonian be created for this task, although there's that risk they would lean towards my personal preference, as realistically untenable it is. It's awfully difficult to determine what future generations will consider historically significant, and it is for them we're preserving history for.
There are so many examples of aircraft being demolished at Davis-Monthan that we wished were saved, as well as so many private industry's prototypes that were scrapped that a lot of us mourn over for not being preserved.
Clearly, we're doing much better at preserving historically significant artifacts, the YF-23s being excellent examples. I completely understand the quandary NASA has with respect to the MLPS: where do we put them, who's going to fund the preservation, who is going to manage the upkeep and display?
This is well outside of NASA's original charter and ought to be the purview of a department chartered for this task. Maybe the best decision would be to scrap much of this equipment, and perhaps a thorough 3D digital rendering placed in an online archive is sufficient. Maybe there is a process whereby the public can decide, or at least have an input (probably more realistic).
As well as we as a nation are doing at preserving our past, it's dramatically obvious what a particular ideology is doing to either revision or erase America's history and legacy. A depressing example is of a third grader being asked to name a single president, and the only answer was George Washington; when asked what Washington is known for, the only response was that he was a slave owner. This example was from Elon Musk, asking a friend's child attending a public school. This is so wrong and so dangerous for this nation's future.
Preserving artifacts is, no doubt, extremely important. Educating the young and old alike about the greatness, the not-so-great, and the abject failures of America is vital. The grand truth and the ugly truth must not be erased (or cancelled, the trendy far left term so popular today) or revised, or even swept under the rug, and the falsification of what happened should well be criminalized.
This is important stuff. Kudos to Curious Droid for making a conversation about it.
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I don't own an EV, but I live in an apartment so I really don't know if it's practical or even possible to keep it charged. However, I do know Phoenix has a ton of EVs from multiple vendors and I've seen charging stations in a lot of multi story parking lots and at places like the airport - I've no idea, tho, if cars from every mfg can plug into them, and granted I'm not looking, but I've not seen anything like a gas station where one could just fill up with electrons. Anyway, Ive my daily driver Ford Escape dog truck along with a very very clean Buick Lucerne Super (decidedly NOT green) but it has a random noise that comes and goes, and when it comes it drives me absolutely crazy. I would be less than satisfied if my new $50k (or whatever) purchase had squeaks, fit and trim issues, and things like door handles breaking right off the 'lot.' I do know Tesla's continually improving their manufacturing methods to improve the final fit and finish, but if it takes so long to service existing customers' older models...mmm, I don't know about that, that doesn't seem like it would inspire loyalty.
I appreciate videos like this. This one really is helpful to me in order to have realistic expectations when I do consider an EV, although until housing prices come back to earth I'd likely go with a hybrid. I did catch a ride in one tho - it did blow me away and I'd have bought one right then and there:). So, I'm glad for awareness on the entire Tesla experience.
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@Rubeless Maybe she did. But she’s changed her mind on that, her party affiliation, perhaps some other issues. She HAS changed her mind on a number of issues, but her core beliefs and principles have not - she was feared as an independent thinker while a Democrat. She did toe the line on a number of things, but she was independent enough where she probably would have been ejected from the party anyway.
As she became completely Constitutional, and recognized the danger of the far left socialist marxists, she understands the importance of the Second Amendment. No one can argue she has gone ALL IN on her stance on core, traditional, American values and beliefs. And sure, she’ll likely use her platform and visibility for a key position in the next administration - God knows I HOPE she does! I don’t watch or listen to every episode she makes, but I have listened to her channel often, and have seen her be interviewed on several of the channels I’m subscribed to. She is, as far as I can tell, completely consistent with her messages and completely open about her core values and beliefs. And also so far as I can tell, they align with The Constitution and its Amendments - especially The Bill of Rights - as well as the spirit and intent of Our Founding Fathers.
But remember, she struck out on her own completely against this current system and culture of corruption and incompetence and totalitarianism. She has been canceled severely and threatened seriously, along with her family. I don’t think I would have her courage. But I definitely would follow her leadership, even in battle if it came to that.
I’ve chosen to believe her. And in her.
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That’s really doubtful - we certainly have done alright heading off global wars, but except for the oldest among us, global warfare is completely out of our realm of experience.
I’m assuming (forgive me if I’m incorrect presuming here) you’re referring to regional conflicts, but the little I know of history seems to suggest America’s worldwide involvement has reduced conflict. If we’re involved in 95% of worldwide conflict, it’s because we’re involved in 100% of, well, everything, so it’s not really fair to assign blame.
Stay with me here a second…. Per capita, the world has never known as much peace as it has right now, even if millions more now than any other time in history are suffering. Population has dramatically increased in large part due to positive American (and European) factors, and capitalism and energy has raised more people out of the worst abject poverty than ever.
Given the history of human violence in history, when populations were a mere fraction of what they were AND in the absence of a world superpower, it stands to reason that in the absence of the United States’ stabilizing force but with today’s extreme population, regional and global warfare and violence would surge to unprecedented levels.
At least, that’s what we good American, democratic, capitalists are taught to believe. I don’t know, maybe you’re right, and we’re making things worse, or have made things worse by ‘meddling.’ But when I look to regions where the United States, democracy , and capitalism have less influence, such as China, parts of Asia, Africa, Russia, Muslim Middle East, and parts of Europe, it seems like violence, misery, extreme poverty, and lack of personal freedom are the rule.
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I think I understand how it may seem that way (or you may have a dark witticism I can relate to), with 1,415 sailors of the Hood gone in three minutes. I wrote an OP on this episode about relating to their terror, with humility, in a very small way.
But not all ships sunk had close to that number of crew. Plus, even ships that sunk tended to have large numbers of survivors, picked up even by the enemy - with gruesome exceptions, though few in number. The attrition of airmen was, as you point out, enormous; but not infinite. Even though an infantryman in the trenches of WWI had a slightly better chance at survival than a crewman in the RAF Bomber Command, 55,000 airmen were killed - again, an enormous number, but not infinite. German attacks against the UK resulted in around 70,000 civilians killed - not a low number, certainly - but perhaps lower than expected when compared to the civilian casualties of the Axis, Russia, China…
I’m not versed in ground warfare statistics, so I won’t embarrass myself…hopefully not further.
Liberty ships had a lot of losses until the u-boat threat was nullified. The design type numbered 2,710 constructed, with around 300 sunk; but they had small crews, totaling between 10 and 15. Some were troop carriers, holding up to 550 soldiers - I don’t know how many of these, if any, were sunk. A lot of men died in these convoys, to be sure, but many were rescued because of said convoys.
Total RAF Bomber Command casualty numbers were around 75,000, with over 55,000 killed. Bomber Command lost 8,325 aircraft of all types, on strike missions.
USAAF (that is, ALL aircraft) suffered around 90,000 casualty deaths, with the entire US Army (Army and Army Air Force) suffering 936,000 casualties, around 295,000 dead. Around 44,000 aircraft of all types were lost overseas - interestingly, around 22,000 aircraft were lost within the continental United States; hopefully the casualty count was low.
We and the UK had a lot of casualties, to be sure, and sure, there are some coverups that crop up, but in general, the US and UK statistics are considered reliable, primary sources. Since the stat’s most important and immediate use was for determining tactical and strategic factors, it’s considered almost silly to imagine they’ve been intentionally falsified.
Our losses pale in comparison to Russia, Germany, Italy, China, and Japan, yes, but those numbers are out of scope for this comment - but mentioned out of respect for the dead. Sorry, this got long and convoluted, but this was a good casualty refresher as I went back and forth between this reply and source material - and a reminder to be thankful for those who made the greatest sacrifice.
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Back in the day, our hospital moved to a new data center, and when we were 100% operational, we lost a chiller followed by the backup (a rag stuck somewhere?? and evidently failover wasn’t tested? Anyway…). It got really hot, and really humid, really quick. It was at the end of the day, so fortunately a lot of us sysadminsmwere still there, shutting down hundreds of vms, the hardware, disk storage…etc, all in an effort to keep our AIX Epic EMR servers/storage up. The AIX was a giant p690 and the storage was a full rack of spinning disk - with two of them for redundancy (in the same freakin’ room!! We lost that battle, but got them geographically dispersed later.). When the air temp hit 120deg, I was cleared to shut them down but then the chiller came back online.
The point: we were losing disk all over the place, often at the start but gradually back to normal after over a year.
Oh, yeah, this happened in Wisconsin in the late fall. Not like we had windows to prop up some box fans, but still ironic a bit.
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I’d say we achieved parity w the Soviets in the early 60s, when our rockets stopped blowing up seemingly every other launch. But we left the Soviets in the dust in 66, the year Korolev died; the USSR then had problems after problems, culminating in the series of N1 failures, including the horrific N1 explosion on the launch pad that killed under three hundred people. The Soviets could never regain their momentum following the loss of Korolev, whereas the US was finding its stride, and everything started coming together - with, of course, the Apollo 1 tragedy, that could have knocked us off the rails.
Because NASA was wide open to the American public, and the Soviets were generally secretive about everything except for their successful missions, keeping American morale up during NASA’s rough patches was tough. This was further exacerbated by the American public only hearing of the USSR’s triumphs. But after Yeltsin and Gorbachev, we learned the Soviets had more than their share of problems, although this doesn’t diminish the significance of their successes and big wins - no matter what, the Soviets will always and forever have that coveted ‘first to space’ record.
I think it says a lot about the spirit and drive of the Americans of that generation to persevere under the failure circumstances of NASA’s early Space Race history, as well as persevere in the face and fear of the perceived notion that the Soviets were unstoppable. We could have just folded, given up, acknowledging space flight as too dangerous, difficult, and expensive. We didn’t. That generation had intense belief in the excellence of American technology, and a hard fought for pride in our nation, our democracy, and our way of life.
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@XxMuSiCaLPrOdIgYxX I respectfully disagree, Christianity was foundational to the origin of our nation and it's principles helped guide America through its early growth and expansion. Our Founding Fathers depended upon their belief in God to justify separation from England and write the Declaration of Independence, and architect our system of government and legal framework, and create the Constitution and our Bill of Rights. Christian principles guided our country's pursuit of life, liberty and justice, along with the unique concept of freedom and choice for all men. They wisely prohibited the State from imposing a state religion, unimaginable then, and provided the freedom to choose any religion a person wished - including choosing to not believe in a higher power. I'm not pretending they or anyone else elected to a stewardship responsibility, or myself for that matter, were perfect Christians, but they were good enough.
Whether you believe in God or not, belief in God was instrumental to the rise of our current nation. Any atheist or agnostic who objectively looks back to our history must conclude Christianity is very much part of the heritage of America. To declare otherwise would be deeply revisionist.
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Was it a wear strip or a shim that departed the DC-10? I’m guessing the wear strip. And what was it about the strip that wasn’t done in accordance with the manufacture’s guidelines? Type of alloy? Type and number of fasteners? Drilled 37 times?!?! That’s a lot of holes spaced way too close together, making for a severely weakened strap. However, the piece that eventually impacted the Concorde looks like the spacing and number of fasteners was proper - does anyone think it was the underlying metal the strip was riveted to? In addition to far too many drilled holes, perhaps the holes were too large to secure the bucked side of the rivets, allowing it to fall off eventually. The strip to the left looks like structural blind rivets, maybe Cherries?, were also used - I could see where the holes would be too large for the rivet’s expansion on the blind side. Maybe their landing was hard, the shock being enough to escape from the barely sufficient fasteners…. If 32:30 is of the actual DC-10, it may have been time to remove and replace that piece of angled structure, the piece of rounded channel the strap was fastened to, instead of just the strap. I’m still puzzled as to how the strip fell off; perhaps countersunk screws in addition to rivets might have led to something more airworthy, and a better outcome.
And then there are the wear strips adjacent to the missing strip; Petter mentions one (the ‘lower’ in the photograph?) being too long, but it looks like the ‘upper’ is as well. I’m not sure either would’ve been a contributor, especially if the airline simply cut an appropriately sized piece of sheet metal and made their own strip. Maybe they did actually use a part numbered strip from McDonnell Douglas, but surely a technician would have filed the ends to fit. I’m just not seeing how the lengths would have contributed unless there was something seriously incorrect with the fasteners. It would be interesting to read the litigation papers and associated maintenance paperwork, along with the investigation report. Does anyone know if France makes their results public like the NTSB does?
Edit: I learned from a different video it was a titanium strip (I now recall MentourPilot mentioned this) from the thrust reverser area. Whilst I’m not certain of the exact location or its function, I originally thought it was somewhere in the engine cowling region and was a piece of aluminum. Upon learning it was related to the thrust reverser and may be a wear strip for moving metal-on-metal contact, not replacing the piece with the 37 (rather than 12) holes seems to me to be poor inspection and maintenance practices were in place. The fact the strip was replaced a second time without addressing the part beneath points to a disappointing lack of attention to proper maintenance and safety.
Interestingly, this video interviewed a former English Concorde pilot who cited 32 “reliable witnesses” who testified the smoke and/or fire started well before the tire struck the piece of titanium…
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Maybe I wish I had encountered Mr. Sowell much earlier in life, and maybe I had to be in my 50s living with the spectre of this far left cancer to appreciate this man. This man's truth corresponds to what I remember learning as a child and young man, and resonates with me like few others, namely Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Elon Musk, Victor Davis Hanson, Michael Knowles, Megyn Kelly, C.S. Lewis, Augustine...ok, maybe more than a few others.
I'm still not exactly sure why or how I became enthralled with Thomas Sowell, but his authenticity certainly is a factor. I'm looking forward to reading his books, either during or after the time I digest thse video presentations. For myself, he's another example of 'when one is ready to learn, one will find a teacher.'
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I’m 54, but was, I’d consider, an advanced novice in scuba, climbing, ww kayaking, skiing, etc, in my 20s & 30s.
Generally, I played it safe and smart. But the one and only time I panicked was during a dive, and came within 5sec or so of drowning. I made a lucky move in my panic.
What wakes me up upset is how quickly a mistake could be fatal. That experience changed me, and the things I used to thrive on hold little interest for me. Just like that, fun no longer.
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Slavery wasn't requisite to anything, it was part of civilization. It was even more fundamental an institution than that, since it existed long before civilization; in tribes, small communities, families, and probably individuals.
It was, of course, horrific, such as the Aztecs ripping the hearts out of tens of thousands of living beings, but likely wasn't even considered particularly evil. The value of human life, much less human rights, was negligible; for example, a large domesticated oxen no doubt had more intrinsic value to its owner than any slave.
It wasn't until Christianity and its concepts laid the foundation for humanity to realize all humans were created in the image of God. Even so, it still took over 2000 years before 'civilization' was prepared for slavery's abolishment.
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I’m a right of center moderate…also known as a classical conservative. I love classical liberals; my best friends are classical liberals - well, over half are - the remainder are classical conservatives, independents, and even a fair number of libertarians. America was built, managed, and protected by both classical conservatives and liberals, independents, and libertarians. Of course, those on the spectrum further right and left definitely had and have their roles as well, but were still guided by their more fundamental perspectives of the Constitution and Democracy.
The Republican Party’s a bit of a mess, but it seems to be coming together in a way that will matter in 2024. We need work, for sure, but that’s not the topic at the moment.
The Democrat Part, though, has been successfully, and even brilliantly (to give grudging respect to the hijackers’ strategy) hijacked by the far left extremist socialist stalinists. And the poor left of center moderates don’t know where they belong and who to vote for. Because the current administration, which is thoroughly controlled by a corrupt and socialist machine, no longer represents and respects their values, beliefs, and democratic principles.
They almost can’t vote Republican because they probably would vomit to associate with the far right - heck, I feel the same, sometimes - and they probably are also hesitant to associate with MAGA Republicans. Can’t really blame them. But they’re also jammed up with voting Democrat this election, because this Democrat Party is no longer THEIR Democrat Party. It’s gone, STOLEN. So what do they do? How are they supposed to vote?
Like a man without a country, they’re about half the population of America without a party!
What’s going to happen? Do they split the party, and become “The Reformed Democrat Party?” Do they initiate a party COUP to take control of the Democrat Party, and KICK OUT the socialists? Will the socialists break from the party on their own and create a new Socialist Party? (I cringe at capitalizing ‘socialist party’)
Can and will all the Classical Democrats, that other half the entire population, protest against the radical socialists and break with the current Democrat Party, and vote Republican, just for this election? Then work to rebuild their party, cutting out the cancer that’s literally killing our democracy?
(Disclaimer: I don’t consider MAGA only the far right or the extreme right. At the moment, I feel it includes all Trump supporters, those favoring his Populist sentiment, and us right-of-center moderates. I hope it can and will include centrists, independents, libertarians, and especially the classical liberals. So if it will get Trump elected, sure, call me MAGA. Whatever; just win the frakking election.)
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I love her and her. To say I’d be so happy with Tulsi as VP is a massive understatement. She is one of the most capable people I have ever known, and is more than qualified to be VP, and if need be, President. I personally would be at ease with her in either position, feel secure, and once again have pride in, and respect for, my national leadership. To me, she is a giant among thought leaders - in league with Jordan Peterson, Thomas Sowell,
I have decided to go all in by believing in her leadership, capabilities, integrity, and her vision of Democracy, peace, and prosperity. I know there are many on the right who distrust her for abandoning the democrat party. I do not. It was such a massive decision to switch, and I believe she is being completely authentic, genuine, transparent, honest, and forthright. And while she may have changed party affiliation to Independent, her core principles have not.
Laura is such
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Almost drowned scuba diving. I’d used almost all my air, but still some pressure left. My wife was in our boat, buoyed over the wreck, and dropped her weight belt about 30’ under. I sank down to fetch it, and tied a rope around it not realizing the other end had coiled around my tanks, holding me down as I tried kicking up. No prob, I’ll just inflate my vest, but ran completely out of air and was sucking a vacuum. I totally panicked, trying to muscle-swim my way up, and my vision began to ‘vignette’ or get smaller. I could feel the tingling effects of passing out when my eyes chanced seeing the buoy’s anchor chain. I grabbed it, pulled myself up - so fast and stupidly, I almost slammed my head into the sharp bottom fin of our outboard motor - thankfully it had only ripped my mask off and gashed my face. AIR!
Stupid, stupid, stupidity. I was young, in shape, healthy, cocky, impatient, should have just taken my time and planned this and either got another tank or just stripped and did a free dive.
But the worst was that I panicked and completely forgot my training. All I would have had to do was release the velcro on my vest, release the claspon my weight belt, let everything fall away from me and rise up with my buoyant wet suit.
I fucking practiced those motions a dozen times under water, hundreds of times in my head, a dozen times on dry ground.
Drowning didn’t almost kill me. Stupidity almost did.
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Omg, her interview post debate...she was really wishing the abc moderator models were back.
See, this is the genuine kamalala we should have seen during the debate. The one who isn't coddled and protected by the fascist media/propaganda agencies.
I'm still puzzled why Trump prepped so badly; there's no way he took cues from Ms. Gabbard, for instance. He should have started the debate the way he ended it. The two moderators were terrible - as in, 'unethical' terrible - no question. But Trump should have dominated over all three, easily. Clearly, he wasn't in the mood. Perhaps he simply wasn't prepared, maybe he's just worn ragged from dealing with the fake charges, election interference, campaigning, rallying - even feral Trump haters have to admit the guy's busy.
I don't think he underestimated harris, but he did underestimate how seriously her handlers and abc took the debate prep.
I do think he walked into this thinking, God knows why, this would be a reasonably fair debate and he could just wing it because it's just harris. Well, it wasn't only harris. He got knocked off balance right away, took some really obvious bait, and wasn't taking charge until the closer.
The guy just couldn't hit his stride. All harris had to do was show up sober, and unless she either got crushed, or crashed, she won.
Substantively, yeah, he won. But to the voters who vote their emotions and crave drama...yeah, he lost. Too bad debates aren't about actual issues...
Or are they?
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My reply to a comment; also to those who may vote for Trump, despite Gov. DeSantis being the superior candidate:
Well put. If Trump really cared for our country instead of himself, letting his ego drive him to get even w Biden, plus getting his pathological need for attention satiated, he would step down and get out of the way of Gov. DeSantis. The best thing for the country would be for Trump to step down and throw all his support, and supporters, into Gov. DeSantis' campaign.
Governor DeSantis is so far beyond Trump in so many ways, and Trump is so far out of the league of the Governor, it would be an absolute travesty were he not elected our next president. But Trump being for himself first, and always, he'll continue to run, steal votes from Gov. DeSantis' campaign, thereby gift wrapping the election to President Biden; four more years handed to the left, four more years to drag our country into the gutter.
Governor DeSantis is a patriot in the truest sense of the word, and I believe he'll always do what's best for America, get things done, be fiscally responsible, and make sure our government gets back to work running this country instead of Congress just going round and round with this stupid, childlike display of political infighting.
Also, Gov. DeSantis has something Trump will never have: integrity. I'm so disgusted having to vote for the least worst candidate; I detest Trump as a person and was embarrassed he was elected our leader, and I literally felt dirty and sickened voting for him just to keep Hillary and then President Biden out. I will gladly vote for Gov. DeSantis because he is the best candidate we could ever hope for, maybe the best since President Reagan. He is a good man, and when I cast my ballot it will be for an American hero.
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OP, you are so right. I just edited my comment ~same time as this, stating the same thing. This will be an incredibly close race, and he needs to appeal to a very small number of independents and left leaning moderates. If these people either throw up their hands and don’t vote period, or vote left, we’re done. He has to leave the negative comments alone, speak to his policies, sound rational, be presidential. harris needs only to do a few things: not cackle, not speak, don’t interview, and not be Trump.
Cwm, believe me, I’d love for this to be a landslide, but it won’t be - it’s numerically impossible. Thinking we have this election sewn up is, unfortunately, delusional, and if we think will win easily, we surely will not. About half the country will vote Trump, about half hate Trump, and that tiny left over slice HAS to vote Trump.
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True, and I’ve caught myself doing the same, from time to time. I’ve even caught myself randomly hearing the truth and absentmindedly dismissing it because it didn’t mesh with what I was taught originally. This was done on a purely subconscious level, and not realizing I was even doing it. Plus the examples were benign, like airplane or history trivia, or maybe some physics or electronics concepts. When my beliefs, understanding, or memories are upended and I’m certain this new source is accurate and authentic, I consider it my responsibility to change the former idea to one consistent with the truth.
I know what JT means when he declares we all now have access to the truth, but when a false narrative is repeated often enough, truth can become lost in the noise. Also, speaking for myself, I tend to read and listen to sources that share my disposition. While I always take in different perspectives before drawing conclusions, I usually don’t source perspectives from the other side, not so much due lack of trying but more so because of the discomfort how a different side presents itself.
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Wonder what it’d be like for a couple of average lay parents, like my wife and me, to have a kid like Witten. We don’t have children, so I’ve not a clue, but it’s got to be hard to recognize, nurture, foster the kids’ gifts, get him or her the proper education, shelter and protect them, etc.
I also wonder how many protégés are or have been out there who weren’t encouraged or directed to utilize their talents and gifts effectively.
I dunno, just a random thought.
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I do have a V8 Buick Lucerne, but I drive sparingly: a 15gal fill-up can easily last a month. I work from home. I live alone with my pup. I’m naturally frugal, don’t waste, turn the lights out and the heat low. Me and my pup walk or run most places we need, and our biggest entertainment expense is the one mile drive to the dog park. We live in an apartment, so an EV isn’t practical - although I don’t think they’re a solution to reducing pollution - they’re just kicking the can to our coal power plants, albeit probably more efficiently. If we had a nuclear grid, a charging infrastructure greater than 7 stations per $18 billion, then absolutely - who wouldn’t want one? Quiet, clean, low maintenance? They’ll have their day, EV-entually. :)
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It’s amazing to me Israel is being criticized for being such an effective fighting force because it needs to be, to counter warlike Islamic extremists. Israel’s also being criticized for not providing a nation that considers Israel its sworn enemy, power, food, and water. How is it Israels responsibility to provide Palestinians basic services? This is the Palestinian government’s responsibility.
Hamas is solely responsible for every death, every discomfort, every medical need not being satisfied. Palestine is solely responsible for this when they voted hamas to power. This woman who is wailing at the injustice…why is she not crying for what her government is doing to her and her family. I have sympathy for her plight, as does Israel. The next time Israel sues for peace, she and every other Palestinian might want to take it seriously, and force their leaders to take it seriously.
But when your democratically elected government makes it their sole purpose to erase Israel and murder all Jews, you reap what you so. Hamas is Palestine and Palestine is hamas.
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Tax breaks, geologically stable, lots of electricity (nuclear plant), a HUGE pool of tech talent - although not much needed for a remote dc, admittedly, and I think recycled water is a thing, as we’ve a boatload of golf courses and a bazillion backyard swimming pools. Plus, AZ has a surprising amount of farming. I was stunned to see an enormous orange grove on the way to Saguaro Lake, east of Tempe/Phoenix, to go tubing, of all things.
Water management is a major (and touchy) issue here. This is only my opinion (as in, I have NO idea), but even though we want as many tech companies to come here, I’d be pretty stunned any politicians would ruin their careers if a data center just dumped its waste water down a dry creek bed.
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Ancient fish species further south or east of the glaciers, then swam upstream during melting periods? From the Atlantic, up the St. Lawrence, before Niagara Falls were a thing, maybe salt water fish adapted to freshwater? The Michigan DNR?
As far as Canada not being covered w great lakes, Canada seems to have an awful lot of sediments…maybe those sediments had accumulated from prior ice ages. And perhaps while the last ice age ended, there was more glacial movement around the Great Lakes region, but elsewhere in Canada the glaciers generally melted in place? , so less‘scraping’ occurred? Spitballing here.
Another thought I had was that actually most of all Canada’s bedrock was gouged out like the Great Lakes region, but when the ice age ended and the glaciers melted, for some reason the Lakes’ regions’ melt water was able to escape in a torrential flood, removing any accumulated sediments. Whereas in the rest of Canada, the glaciers melted more or less in place, the melt water drained away slowly being unable to carry away the sediments. Therefore, those sediments remained, burying what could otherwise be ‘many, many great lakes.’
I also seem to recall learning (a LONG time ago) there was some intrinsic weakness or fault which let the Great Lakes basins get more easily cut.
See my response to jameslong9921 (about three hrs ago), where I was thinking out loud to his similar question.
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My heart truly aches for those men and boys on the Hood, trapped within the superstructure and doomed to a horrific, inescapable drowning - I pray they were overcome quickly.
I very nearly drowned in a scuba diving incident; the terror of the memory still haunts me to this day. Thinking of those souls who succumbed must be akin to being trapped under ice, knowing that within the next few moments, within the desperate cloud of panic from the will to survive, they were going to inescapably, seemingly pointlessly, die.
Watching the last seconds of one’s own life, within one’s own perspective, tick by is…I guess it’s something I ended up not fully experiencing, lucky me. Perhaps it was better to have been those near the magazine, who were killed instantly.
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Well, it happened to Spain and parts of France, so imagining a super strong muslim country in Europe isn’t hard - one simply has to open a history book. As far as forcefully taking land and homes from Palestine, it cuts both ways. Israel was driven from the Holy Land, their homeland, and given the historical significance of the land and the Jews, I respect their claim to it as the most valid. Finally, the UN assigned the land to Israel, which was barren wasteland the Israeli’s cultivated and made bountiful. What little was occupied was done so my squatters without any legal deed to it; essentially nomads pitching a tent in the middle of nowhere, nationless and stateless, little more than random tribes with no legal standing of even a city state. From anyone’s point of view, the patch of wasteland they picked to sleep on is no different than any other - with the exception that the land they’ve been given could be fertile if only they would choose to make it so. But their priority isn’t to elevate their culture into something better than subsistence farming or requiring handouts and food, water and construction materials to be shipped in; their priority is death.
As far as conquering civilizations go, Israel was one of the most accommodating. The rule is to eradicate the original inhabitants, or at best, enslaving them. Israel did neither, and goes so far as to extend citizenship to any Palestinian that wishes to move to Israel, in addition to providing significant areas of Israeli territory as sovereign Palestinian territory. And while Israel has, simce 1948, been attacked and had overcome the various muslim invaders, from Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran, not to mention terror strikes and rocket attacks on its civilian population, and Iran-funded terrorist organizations operating within Israel’s borders - at this point in time, Hamas and Hezbollah, Israel still honored her pledge to provide territories to the Palestinians. The same Palestinians who train and indoctrinate their children, at home and at school, that their responsibility and duty as muslim is to drive Israel into the sea, killing every Jew.
But when Palestine’s stated and reiterated goal is revealed, both by word and action, as existing only to bring the destruction of Israel and death to every Jew, don’t get upset when Israel has to make frequent raids to either defend herself, or do so preemptively. The Palestinians are given every opportunity, by Israel as well as America, to forge a self sufficient, productive, legitimate, and respectable government and nation, yet they squander this away, instead building ‘terror tunnels’ and hoarding vast amounts of weaponry. Money given to them by the international community to be used for food, medicine, infrastructure (NOT tunnels - those are weaponized constructs with no practical purpose except to kill), hospitals, shelters, desalination facilities, schools, homes, and education in order to learn to become a self sufficient, productive, and prosperous people - the money is instead diverted from these quality of life projects into funding their regime of hate and death.
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I’m a right of center moderate…also known as a classical conservative. I love classical liberals; my best friends are classical liberals - well, over half are - the remainder are classical conservatives, independents, and even a fair number of libertarians. America was built, managed, and protected by both classical conservatives and liberals, independents, and libertarians. Of course, those on the spectrum further right and left definitely had and have their roles as well, but were still guided by their more fundamental perspectives of the Constitution and Democracy.
The Republican Party’s a bit of a mess, but it seems to be coming together in a way that will matter in 2024. We need work, for sure, but that’s not the topic at the moment.
The Democrat Part, though, has been successfully, and even brilliantly (to give grudging respect to the hijackers’ strategy) hijacked by the far left extremist socialist stalinists. And the poor left of center moderates don’t know where they belong and who to vote for. Because the current administration, which is thoroughly controlled by a corrupt and socialist machine, no longer represents and respects their values, beliefs, and democratic principles.
They almost can’t vote Republican because they probably would vomit to associate with the far right - heck, I feel the same, sometimes - and they probably are also hesitant to associate with MAGA Republicans. Can’t really blame them. But they’re also jammed up with voting Democrat this election, because this Democrat Party is no longer THEIR Democrat Party. It’s gone, STOLEN. So what do they do? How are they supposed to vote?
Like a man without a country, they’re about half the population of America without a party!
What’s going to happen? Do they split the party, and become “The Reformed Democrat Party?” Do they initiate a party COUP to take control of the Democrat Party, and KICK OUT the socialists? Will the socialists break from the party on their own and create a new Socialist Party? (I cringe at capitalizing ‘socialist party’)
Can and will all the Classical Democrats, that other half the entire population, protest against the radical socialists and break with the current Democrat Party, and vote Republican, just for this election? Then work to rebuild their party, cutting out the cancer that’s literally killing our democracy?
(Disclaimer: I don’t consider MAGA only the far right or the extreme right. At the moment, I feel it includes all Trump supporters, those favoring his Populist sentiment, and us right-of-center moderates. I hope it can and will include centrists, independents, libertarians, and especially the classical liberals. So if it will get Trump elected, sure, call me MAGA. Whatever; just win the frakking election.)
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Are you picturing a downwardly aimed cannon that could swivel around? Like the one in the B-57G that Ed did a video on? I've often thought of modernizing a WWII aircraft like you described, although I'd prolly pick the P-61 - even if it would be terrible, I'd still pick it just because I think it is a gorgeous killing machine. A B-25 would really be something with turboprops, updated machine guns and/or rotary cannons, some other type of cannon to replace the 75mm one, modern radar and avionics, Mavericks, Hellfires or JAGMs on the wing rocket pylons, and 3,000 lbs (likely more w the turboprops) of dumb, laser-guided, or JDAM bombs in the bomb bay. I can't believe how heavily armed the Mitchell could be, with that amazing 75mm ship killing cannon, up to 18(!) 50 cals, and the bomb load - yeah, the B-25 might do alright. :). Take a peek on Wikipedia at what the Embraer Tucano can do; seems like an updated B-25 would be at least as effective, likely more.
Ha, this was a fun exercise - I think I'll upgrade my P-61 next!
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That’s not unusual , the vast majority of aircraft of that era and prior were assembled with hand wrenches, especially when there’s no room for other tools. We torqued large bolts that had large assemblies together - the fuselage to wings, tail section to fuselage, landing gear components, the prop, the usual engine assemblies (ie, cylinders, heads, connecting rods, etc). But most of the AN3 and AN4 bolts were just done simply by feel. Certain small (3/16, 1/4”) high strength, structural bolts and fasteners would be torqued to spec, (which could be different depending on the type of bolt and type of joint), but those were exceptions.
Tighter than snug, not so tight that any more will deform a bolt - over tightening is better than tight enough, but “you’re not holding down the world,” to quote Charlie Whitney, one of my A&P instructors.
However, a qualifier - I’ve worked exclusively on WWII and postwar military propeller planes. Maybe you’re absolutely correct, and ANY- and EVERYthing related to turbines must be accurately torqued.
Plus, they could be just snugly tightening ALL of the bolts of an assembly, before the final tightening. Kinda like when you have something with a few bolt holes, you insert a single bolt and tighten it, and now the other two bolt holes don’t line up.
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Holy shit, dude. I haven't been on your channel in some time, and when Imscrolled down your video list - yikes, wtf! It's like all the titles of your videos contain either 'layoffs' or 'firings.' I took a few years off from a 20+ year IT career, thinking I'd hop back in whenever. Apparently not!
I'm back in WI; I used to work at IBM and then a couple of hospitals in the Milwaukee area, and am intimately (well, was) familiar with Epic. I'm stunned they're shedding so many jobs. Epic's no joke and a major player in hospital IT with their EMR, and an economic powerhouse in the Madison area. Your episodes are pretty scary - I had no idea the IT employment landscape looked so bleak.
Anyway, keep it up, you're doing some nice work. And wow, you have 5,900 videos?? That's amazing.
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Well that sucks. I lost my job at IBM when our jobs got shifted to China.
That was actually the second time I worked there. I left the first time to be an AIX & IBM storage engineer for the medical field, but LOVED the company. The second time, around 2017, not so much; IBM’s culture changed so much it’s a different company, and not in a good way. They were shedding so much of their server and storage technology, and Ginni was trying to go all in with their Watson AI and Cloud.
At the time, Watson was…not great, and definitely not a revenue generator, and their cloud footprint barely registers in the market and was being implemented poorly. IBM bought SoftLayer for their cloud platform, and it was difficult to use - unlike Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. IBM was still operating from cash assets and mainframe business; maybe it’s changed now, especially after their huge split, shedding a large portion of Global Services.
Such a shame. When I was an IBMer before and after Y2K, EVERYONE on the PLANET knew who IBM was, it was practically a household name…like Sears. It was prestigious to be an IBMer, and I was very proud to be working there; my second time there was due to an acquisition, and I felt like I was returning ‘home’ and just thrilled to get my old Employee Serial# back!
Now it really is like Sears…end of an era. Shoot, most kids out of college haven’t even heard of IBM. They’re just no longer relevant.
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I’m so glad for you, brother.
Binge drinking is hard. For me, sometimes it just came out of nowhere, and now that my alcoholism has progressed so far, once started I simply cannot stop. I finally surrendered and believe in my powerlessness. I thought I had done this dozens of times before, but I didn’t believe it. I thought I’d eventually be cured after a long stint of abstinence, and could stop going to meetings and stop thinking about it. Something different happened during and after my last binge of self destructive behavior…this time my bingeing went outside its normal boundaries and was exposed to other people who otherwise assumed I was ‘normal.’ This affected me differently, and profoundly.
I will never be cured, and the only way to stop the ‘out of nowhere,’ unpredictable starting is to counter the spontaneity with meetings, like minded friends, therapy, and turning my mess of a mind, and my sins, and my addiction to alcohol, over to God. The last part, turning my sins over to God, still is difficult for me. I rationally know I must do this, but I haven’t internalized this into my psychology yet - but with prayer, meditation, therapy, study, and practice, I do know I will get there.
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@paulanderson7796 well, yeah and no, but you’re mostly (99%) correct. For example, gloves, etc, used by hospital staff doing PET scans or administering oncology treatments - LLW or VeryLLW, but accounts for the majority of the volume. Intermediate and High Level Waste is handled appropriately per policy, and is a very low percentage by volume. Hospitals generate a LOT of waste of all types.
Keep in mind these radioactive scans and radionuclides were done on, or administered, to a human. And they didn’t mutate a third arm.
This wasn’t critical of your post, Paul; I’m in agreement. The gap between perceptions and reality is large.
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A problem I see with Vivek’s advice about staying on policy is that Kammy’s going to parrot the same thing as if it’s her idea, the far left media outlets are going to report that it’s actually her policies, and the left leaning moderates and centrists who watch ONLY msnbc, cnn, et al, are going to believe it and vote for her.
The far left media outlets obviously don’t care one iota about printing lies to their audiences. It’s not Trump vs kamala, it’s Trump vs the far left media machine and their overlord elites.
This entire circus is frustrating, because we’re fighting for around 100-200,000 undecided independents and left leaning centrists. Almost half the country is voting for Trump, the other half is voting for whomever they’re told to, and we’re fighting over the scraps in the middle. Very important scraps, that is.
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Tax breaks, geologically stable, lots of electricity (nuclear plant), a HUGE pool of tech talent - although not much needed for a remote dc, admittedly, and I think recycled water is a thing, as we’ve a boatload of golf courses and a bazillion backyard swimming pools. Plus, AZ has a surprising amount of farming. I was stunned to see an enormous orange grove on the way to Saguaro Lake, east of Tempe/Phoenix, to go tubing, of all things. Another advantage is the climate is fairly consistent throughout the year, and humidity is really low. Data center specialists may prefer the consistency there vs, say, Wisconsin, with large temperature fluctuations from summer to winter and really high humidity - although the Great Lakes might be an asset.
Water management is a major (and touchy) issue here. This is only my opinion (as in, I have NO idea), but even though we want as many tech companies to come here, I’d be pretty stunned any politicians would ruin their careers if a data center just dumped its waste water down a dry creek bed.
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Yeah, it was a Swedish sub, either the Gotland or of the Gotland class. There are some pretty good, balanced videos regarding the exercise.
Evidently, there were some ‘adjustments’ made by the US Navy that enabled the sub to do as well as it did. It seemed to me the consensus was that a similar strike during wartime wouldn’t be successful.
That said, and to the Navy’s credit, they contracted the sub from Sweden for up to two years, in order for the USN to refine its defensive capabilities against quiet subs.
Also of note, this class of sub is intended for littoral use in Sweden’s waters. As such, it is comparatively small with too low of endurance to pick off carriers in the open ocean - so, if they export it to unfriendlies, our carriers will still be…influential.
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@catherinekeane1901 did you say ‘a brilliant politician?’ Sure, if you think of a politician being a liar, corrupt, will spin anything to his political benefit - such as lying about how his wife and family were killed, or lying about how his son died - lying about his education, his class ranking, nonexistent sports accomplishments, his plagiarism in his academic and political career, his devastatingly horrible domestic and foreign policies, his terrible administrative abilities… you must have blinded yourself from the realities of his incompetence, and limited your information seeking to CNN and MSNBC - two of several news organizations who have been lying to people about joe’s true shortcomings and whipping up people like you to ignore joe’s failures and concentrate solely on hating Trump. It’s awful that he, and people like you who voted for him, put US in our position.
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It’s not really fair to say we’ve had more transportation problems like this in history. America has by far the safest airline industry. We’ve gone through decades of safe travel. During the ‘golden age’ of air travel, aircraft crashes were not only not uncommon, they generally ended with all souls lost. Things got better with jet aircraft, but fatal crashes still occurred - not frequently, but also not unheard of.
Thanks to the efforts of companies like Boeing, McDonnel-Douglas, Convair, and the airlines, along with our FAA, the National Weather Service, and a myriad of other companies that make engines, airframes, avionics, and other components, we have a safe airline industry with a record that is the envy of the world. Add to that the training and professionalism of people that fly, maintain, manufacture, manage, control, and administer our civilian aviation infrastructure, and we have a service where an incident like this is big news.
Does Boeing, Alaska Airlines, and now United, get a free pass? No, of course not. I sincerely hope these incidents are taken to heart and that safety measures are again paramount - before they are forcibly reinstituted due to spilled blood.
No one would deny any facet of the industry their right to operate at a profit, but if maximizing profits at the expense of safety is occurring, then we have a serious problem with the people we elevate into management authority.
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New subscriber here, I’ve run across a couple of your presentations and thought I’d pull the trigger and join up, so thank you for your effort, it’s really good work. You’re very thorough and most importantly, very accurate, and you’ve a really good voice for this; clear, concise, not too fast or slow, and authoritative. If I may ask, what do you use for the animations, how’d you get started, what kind of education or are you self-taught, etc? Aerospace animation has always interested me and I think it’d make for an excellent hobby, but getting started has been a bit overwhelming. If you’ve already answered this in a prior comment, please just send a link to the video, and thank you in advance. And again, excellent work, your efforts are very much appreciated.
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@janfilby7086 I don’t disagree, especially when viewing documentaries of the Soviet Space Program after so much Soviet information was made publicly accessible. I find it remarkable when authors can remind me of the humanity of Soviet engineers, that Soviet citizens lived with a fear of the West (along with a fear of their State), that Soviets took great pride in their achievements. The Soviet Empire was much more than just an evil machine that cranked out weaponry, bent on our destruction, which is what I had been indoctrinated into believing since I was a teenager in the 80s. Although to be fair, just because it was propaganda and indoctrination didn’t mean a lot of it wasn’t true. As the poet Billy Joel wrote, “The Russians love their children, too.” Ok, sorry, this got a little more dramatic than it needed to be.
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@jamesreynolds4487 I was disappointed, too, that she wasn’t selected - as a right-leaning centrist and a moderate, I find her very appealing. But after viewing a LOT of comments from brothers and sisters who align further to the right, there seems (just my opinion) to be a lot of mistrust of her - specifically her previous views on the 2A, and that she rejected the democrat party - at great political, professional, and especially personal, cost, I think.
I’m guessing there’s a fear she’ll change her stance on the Second Amendment, or won’t be loyal to the Republican party. I’VE chosen to believe her, and accept her ‘enlightenment,’ but if she’s controversial to a large percentage of Trump’s base, it might be foolish to nominate her.
Personally, I don’t think Trump would lose any votes from his base - they would all still align. But perhaps crucially, she could have swung a lot of women voters, as well as undecided conservatives and independents. He’d probably even gain a lot of ‘classical’ liberals - left-of-center moderates - who used to vote democrat but now feel their party abandoned them. Which it did.
The democrat party has become so extremely far to the left, those people are technically Conservatives! They can’t really stand with the current administration, but still, they’ve been indoctrinated to hate Trump. They may find voting for him…somewhat distasteful…but having Tulsi Gabbard as his running mate may have made that acceptable in this unique situation they find our nation in.
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Yes. I’m 54 and I feel similarly. I’ve been working with a couple kids in their late teens/early twenties…I’m optimistic.
Keep working, keep going to Church, live within your means, make friends a priority, make family THE priority (after God, of course), have gratitude for our almost infinite blessings, consider the infinitesimal chance and the many ‘coincidences’ that had to occur in order to assemble the brilliant minds of our Founding Fathers, and acknowledge that men and women have provided the opportunity to have the privilege of freedom that was paid for in time, effort, talent, commitment, courage, and even blood.
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Mmmm, I’m 54 now, but when I was a kid, I seem to recall hearing of Superior being down 7-8 feet? I do remember hearing about low lake levels, but I never remember seeing evidence of it at the shorelines, and I played up there often enough. Seasonal fluctuations??
Edit - yeah, now I recall some more. I’m from Northern WI, and about then our water table was down around 20’ low…I wanna say it may have spanned a couple summers because I remember going to all these lakes and seeing people’s piers completely out of the water. Some of these docks extended out 50-100’, and the lakeshore was actually out in FRONT of the piers another 20-50 feet! It was bizarre walking to the end of a dock and looking down to a dry lakeshore. I was prolly 15, 16, 17, so….mid 80s?
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Rob, or Robby, you’re trying too hard to take the high road and meeting in the middle. Cbs is a far left media outlet bought and paid for by the last administration and its puppet masters. You know this. I know this. Everyone knows this. Your stance would make sense if cbs was a real news organization - but it’s not. It’s mandate is to promote and edit everything to favor the left, and to demonize Trump - same as the other ‘Club Left’ msm’s.
Cbs has lost ALL credibility; I don’t even trust them to report the weather because they even spin that to support the climate narrative. Be careful who you associate your sympathies too, because your credibility will suffer from that association.
This is the second time I’ve observed this from you. It would be one thing if cbs was totally above board and was being wrongly criticised, but they’re not. Please be careful. I suspect this may have been in response to you leaning pretty far right prior to the election and were directed to ‘even it out’ a little - which is fine. We don’t need another biased outlet, even one biased to the right. But in this case, you’re backing the wrong horse. Cbs airbrushed harris’ incompetence, it’s wrong, and we’re sick of the msm fawning all over people who, frankly, hate this country.
Maybe take some cues from Victor Davis Hanson; eventually he’ll need someone to pass the torch to. I could see that being you…a long time in the future, but sure. You could do it. But, not like this.
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After the OpenAI news of Feb2023 and your excellent and timely episodes, Dagodo, a re-watch of your previous AI essays is a good rehash to look at these earlier perspectives with the benefit of hindsight. Good then, good now; you do good work, and I'll always choose your research over an AI's spin. I think when the excitement fades, AI will prove to be a major force for knowledge , good, and enterprise, (I especially can't wait to use it to learn programming Python!) but I think people will trust its accuracy the same way we do as with, for example, search results and Wikipedia. Those two examples have been immensely helpful to me, but the more important the situation, the more I fact check Wikipedia and chase down cited sources - as the originators intended; and w search results, reading into the several hits gives me confidence in the conclusion I draw from my initial query. I can reasonably assume this is what OpenAI is striving for as well, I'm looking forward to interacting with it and discovering how trustworthy I find it; one major thing for me is learning how the training data is selected, and how is it verifiable the AI is learning from true information; another is learning what safeguards are in place that will prevent bad actors from supplying fraudulent information to skew AI output. At any rate, it's certainly bound to be a great starting point for a lot of my research.
I'd be curious as to how it 'scrapes' data from sites that require a username/password (from a human, presumably:)), or accesses factual and/or proprietary information from sites that require a paid subscription. From experience, these more restricted sources are extremely desirable for authentic, trustworthy and non repudiated information on various subjects - sources I would absolutely want an AI to be trained with. Perhaps these would be profitable niches for entrepreneurs to generate revenue from the AI paradigm??
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Well put. If Trump really cared for our country instead of himself, letting his ego drive him to get even w Biden, plus getting his pathological need for attention satiated, he would step down and get out of the way of Gov. DeSantis. The best thing for the country would be for Trump to step down and throw all his support, and supporters, into Gov. DeSantis' campaign.
Governor DeSantis is so far beyond Trump in so many ways, and Trump is so far out of the league of the Governor, it would be an absolute travesty were he not elected our next president. But Trump being for himself first, and always, he'll continue to run, steal votes from Gov. DeSantis' campaign, thereby gift wrapping the election to President Biden; four more years handed to the left, four more years to drag our country into the gutter.
Governor DeSantis is a patriot in the truest sense of the word, and I believe he'll always do what's best for America, get things done, be fiscally responsible, and make sure our government gets back to work running this country instead of Congress just going round and round with this stupid, childlike display of political infighting.
Also, Gov. DeSantis has something Trump will never have: integrity. I'm so disgusted having to vote for the least worst candidate; I detest Trump as a person and was embarrassed he was elected our leader, and I literally felt dirty and sickened voting for him just to keep Hillary and then President Biden out. I will gladly vote for Gov. DeSantis because he is the best candidate we could ever hope for, maybe the best since President Reagan. He is a good man, and when I cast my ballot it will be for an American hero.
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I’m not sure if I’m remembering this properly, but back in the day, say, in the 20s and 30s (I’m basing this on the age of my house - 1936 - and some of the original stained, leaded glass windows) I thought I remember window glass was first molded into large, hollow cylinders somehow, the glass being the thickness of the window pane, then scored, heated and unfolded flat. It was interesting in that it had some swirls or imperfections on its surface, but was obviously clear enough to not notice them in daylight.
When I had to fix some broken panes with today’s perfect flat glass, it just didn’t have that antique look that was so desirable in keeping that craftsman-like look that went so well with the rest of the house’s hardwood floors and trim, plaster work, and so on. Laf, they also leaked like crazy, not optimal during Wisconsin winters. We ended up replacing the windows with today’s perfectly constructed windows, but for some windows, I was able to move the original glass ‘inside’ the original wood windows, placing the modern units on the outside. Those couldn’t open of course, but at least from the inside I was able to maintain a few of those beautiful windows. But what a difference - no more draftiness, major improvement in noise isolation, easy to wash, etc.
If anyone can correct me on my cylinder recollection, please correct me. A wonderful documentary, thank you.
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Did I infer correctly he suffered heart palpitations due to a fall or near fall? I wouldn’t have seen it as I simply can no longer watch our two Executive Branch leaders. I do have to admit that was the most reasonable statement ever uttered by Mrs. Clinton, though, as contemptible as I find her. Like her or hate her, she’s mastered the politics game. Unlike President Carter…approached next.
I do have to question and look into the polling caricature of President Carter. He was hamstrung by the disastrous optics of the Iranian hostage rescue, along w the unpopular cancellation of the B-1 bomber where he instead approved the top-secret funding of the B-2 stealth bomber, to be sure, and suffered in silence over it. In large part, however, I believe he was an unpopular President because he administered according to his Evangelical Christianity Faith - something intolerable in swamp politics. As a Christian Catholic, I’m at odds with some of his church’s doctrines and beliefs, but in my mind his public proclamation of loving Jesus Christ makes him a personal hero. I wish I had but a fraction of this great man’s great Faith.
As quoted from the RNS (Religion News Service), “Jimmy Carter’s religious values were never far from his presidency or his policy.” I believe this is why people ignore his many social accomplishments and consider him a poor President, perhaps to a mistaken interpretation of the Establishment Clause in the First Amendment, perhaps to Godless critics, or a society reminded how far from The Founding Fathers we have drifted. To me, this puts the citizenry, the media, academia, and political partys in a bad light, but as these groups write the historical narrative, President Carter’s credibility during his presidency, suffered. Watching this man actively demonstrate his deep personal commitment to human rights, both during his term and after, is so humbling, and he deserves the recognition and respect given to the Saints.
His legacy should not be measured by these polls so favored because they can be selected and manipulated to suit any opinion, but instead be measured by his living and leading, unwavering, by his beliefs and character.
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Having a degree has lost much, if not all, of its relevance and credibility since academia went full on woke.
If you really think this is misinformation, then you probably think JP is serious. He is not. This is an art form called satire.
I can't believe there are really people like yourself who are this gullable. If you think this is true, if you REALLY believe this is a serious composition, if you REALLY don't understand this is a comedic piece...well, then I can comprehend how people can believe the lies and actual misinformation that biden and his administration (KJP, Blinken, Kirby, Austin) spew. It's odd, and curious, to actually interact with someone like yourself. Learning about how you process information, determine what is true, form an opinion, and make decisions, would really be invaluable in order for anyone Conservative to communicate with you and influence your decision making. I'm not necessarily calling you gullible, just close minded. You seem to have a deeply held preconception, and are willing to latch on to anything that triggers an agreement response, without any regard for truth, logical consistency, or rationality, and are also completely swayed by an emotional connection. It's really very interesting.
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I’m sorry. It’s rough. I’m a moderate conservative, I had a relationship with a girl who was an HR head that championed DEI. The relationship was killing me, and 4-5 years later, I’m still affected by the breakup - shoot, I haven’t even held hands with, or even gone out socially with, another woman, and not sure where I even stand with that situation. But…
She was so devoted to her cause, yet so aggressive and downright mean to anyone who had a differing opinion, after we broke up I began to get interested in her social paradigm, then eventually politics. I still thought the Left and Right could coexist if I just learned more about hers and their side. I went into this because of my past friendships, most of whom were what are now termed classical Liberals, but also right of center Conservatives (which I identify with), moderates, Independents, and even some Libertarians.
But I learned the Democrat Party had been hijacked by socialists, and the more I learned, the more I realized there was no middle ground where these people and me, with my beliefs, would ever be able to meet. I learned that an extremely powerful minority had taken over so many of our institutions, and they were seeking nothing short of a form of socialist stalinism, for lack of a better term.
They hate capitalism, they hate Democracy, they shit on the Constitution, they hate and despise us members of the middle class, they actively conduct censorship on a frighteningly massive scale because they both control and collude with the legacy media and social media because they’ve weaponized the DOJ and FBI, and above all, they hate our 2nd Amendment and are doing everything they can to litigate against legal gun owners, create more legislation and regulations to further restrict gun ownership and use, and seek to eliminate gun purchases and ownership and ultimately confiscate our firearms. A group of elites seek to overthrow our constitutional government and replace it with socialism, and that certainly can’t happen with an armed electorate. History paints a clear, but grim, picture on exactly how this takes place. This same elite entity has made us a borderless nation and welcomed over 10million immigrants with housing, food, cell phones, work permits, and transportation, and are seeking to enable them to vote - in some cases in California, immigrants CAN vote in local elections. The result of this will be the addition, so far, of 10million registered Democrat voters, a spike in crime, and the potential for an untold number of terrorist attacks, as not all of these illegal immigrants are from Latin America.
K, maybe you skipped the prior paragraph - that’s OK. Your situation is not unique, but you must do something, maybe just this one time, but you still must. You need to vote for the Republican presidential candidate, knowing that your vote does not mean you support Trump or that you’ve even changed parties and have become Republican. You’re voting for the Republican presidential candidate so that you can vote OUT these socialist elites that have hijacked the Democrat Party, and have programmed and brainwashed your friend and tens of millions people just like your friend. These people must be voted out and stripped of their power and influence.
Remember, when you vote for the Republican presidential candidate in 2024, it does NOT mean you support Trump. And it need not indicate you’ve become a Conservative.
Please read something I’ve written below, and let me know your thoughts. I also posted them, but also, they are here.
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My opinion….we need a way, a message, a pathway, for classical Liberals to vote on the Republican ticket, that is palatable to them. I think the first thing we need to stop saying is “support Trump.”
Classical Liberals need to know that, for this election (hopefully ALL elections for a while), they can vote the Republican candidate while simultaneously NOT supporting Trump.
It is not an easy decision to make such a dramatic change, and we’ll go a long way by respecting this difficulty. What they’re considering is complicated. Classical Liberals are absolutely NOT changing their beliefs, values, and principles while they mull over the decision to change political parties. It is very important we’re clear that if they change parties and vote Republican, they’re doing so because the Democrat Party no longer represents their values, beliefs, and principles.
They absolutely are NOT turning into Republicans, and they absolutely are NOT voting for Trump. What they’re doing is NOT voting for the current socialist Democrat Party. They want their party back, and right now their only recourse to get it back is to vote Republican.
I hope to God this gets picked up all the Conservative channels I’m subscribed to. I so believe the only way to get these formerly left of center moderates and liberals is for us to respect the extraordinarily difficult position they are in. I think the only way we will get their vote is to invite them to vote for the Republican presidential candidate in order to have the chance to rebuild THEIR Democrat Party. I think it’s incredibly important we, that is, the entire Conservative news and editorial ecosystem, invite them with respect, and assure them we understand they need not become Republicans just because they voted for the Republican candidate.
I pray Fox News, Sky News Australia, Dave Rubin, Megyn Kelly, Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, Michael Knowles, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Russell Brand, Ann Coulter, Konstantin Kisn, Jonathan Cahn, Tucker Carlson, Matt Walsh, Bill O’Reilley, JP Sears, Dave Chappelle, Dana Loesch, Piers Morgan, Tulsi Gabbard, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Tim Pool…shoot, why not CNN, MSNBC, WAPO, NYT, NPR, The Guardian, The Atlantic….oh, and of course, Joe Rogan….everyone! will take this message to all those on the fence, who want to vote their conscience. These people are our friends, our brothers and sisters, fellow Americans, HALF THE POPULATION OF AMERICA, and they too want their nation back.
It could mean millions of votes for us to begin taking our Democracy back.
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There’s really evidence that this is the case? Is it many factors, from energy spent cultivating land, feed, running the large cattle farms (does that really require that much energy?), transporting the livestock, methane, butchering and the massive amount of refrigeration, delivery to retail, shopping, all the way to the energy required for cooking? Did I miss anything?
Is it ALL of these factors, or is it primarily one or two? Methane? I agree methane is a long lived (12 years) pollutant. But you both seem to agree eating beef is greatly affecting human caused climate change. I live in Wisconsin and Arizona - I’ve not heard this as truly being causal. Maybe due to lobbying?
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@BocchiSensei re military and latest - a lot of their electronics are pretty old, with 'larger' chip sizes that can be sourced easier. Plus, the military needs reliable hardware vs latest, and are expected in some cases to last years and decades. The F-35 changes this a lot, with more frequent upgrades built into its design. But in the retired F-15As, for example, its electronics were from the 60s and 70s, and if I remember were based on an IBM 360 mainframe system (the central computer was the CP-1075, from the IBM AP-1, descended from the 360). Similar CC's were used in the B-1B, Space Shuttle, the E-3, etc. A version was still used on the 1992 F-15E, and the Shuttle's first iteration used magnetic core memory,although subsequent Shuttles used semiconductor memory - all shuttles continued to use the AP-101 (an offshoot of the AP-1) until retiring. I think the F-15Cs still use the AP-1.
Anyway, moral of the story, the military uses fairly advanced, but not new, technology during the prototype and initial operational phase, and generally stays with it for most of the asser's service life. If it works and accomplishes its mission, why not?
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Repost: True statements all. Tlacui will have a difficult time rationalizing how his party fought the Civil War in order to keep their slaves. Before his very eyes, obama and biden have successfully divided our nation, reintroduced the concept of racism to a greater degree than the first half of the 20th century, in a socialist bid to separate us according to their arbitrary lines based on race, ethnicity, and gender. In their highly successful attempt at removing Christianity from our society, they have replaced God with their version and vision - their god of a socialist society where we are all willfully dependent upon the state.
He's blinded almost as sure as the North Korean people, a successfully transformed useful idiot, projecting on to Conservatives the very thing his socialist ideology actually is - he just can't step outside his new self and view the chaos of this new order from the outside looking in.
That the Conservatives are now the most rational, most Constitutional, least racist, and most accepting of actual individuality and differences in values, opinions, and beliefs, is completely lost on him. Are their racist Conservatives? Sure. Are there homophobic Conservatives? Sure. But when rational scholars and intellectuals can point out these far left socialist marxist stalinists are following, almost to the letter, how socialist movements take hold, any objective analysis will demonstrate what is happening to our society, to our detriment.
It is no joke, no coincidence, not unintentional - this movement seeks to undermine our societal and cultural stability, erode our traditional American values and morals, undermine our freedoms of speech, expression, and religion, destroy the freedom of the press by precisely adhering to the very definition of fascism by subjugating the legacy media outlets, infiltrating and taking over our institutions of academia, our financial systems, the social media along with the technology giants, corporations, the military industrial complex, and recently the military. There is no consistency on the enforcement of the law, they're aggressively pursuing disarming legally armed citizens and eliminating the 2nd Amendment, turning our cities into dystopian centers of rioting and lawlessness, allowing wide open borders in a concerted and highly successful effort to increase their voting base, generally dismantling the Constitution insofar as it impedes THEM, brazenly interfering with elections by inundating candidates with frivolous lawsuits with zero or little basis and removing opposing candidates from ballots, lying about nearly ALL aspects of the pandemic to shut down our economy to make us more dependent on the government, destroying countless small and large businesses and using it as a method to further weaken and destroy the middle class, burden us with dramatic restrictions and regulations on quarantines and lockdowns where NONE of restrictions were necessary or based upon scientific evidence and data, wrecking generations of young people with subpar or no education while in lockdown, and untold devastation for millions of families regarding mental health issues due to isolation, depression, anxiety, and addiction...where does one stop when describing the deliberate agenda that has been, and is being, forwarded by the obama and biden administrations and the elites even OUTSIDE America, pulling the strings to advance their ideology.
The other scandal which has a firm grip on the world is the climate change scandal, which is just as devastating to the world economies as Covid. It has scandalized the scientific community, done drastic damage to worldwide energy policies, supplies, and security...the list is too long for now; hopefully tlacui has read this and at least something has penetrated his cloud of ignorance, not of his doing.
And it's important to realize this isn't just a national movement: the UK and Australia are experiencing the EXACT same phenomena, just with a cooler accent - it is uncanny when tuning in to their independent media channels. And of course, the infection has taken hold within the entire EU and every other democratic nation. It's a worldwide 'pandemic' in its own right, being manufactured and manipulated by elites at a worldwide level and scale. One need only view publicly available information that the EIB, the WHO, the IMF, e ITU, the World Bank, the WTO, the UN, UNESCO, and others, present to understand how their principles, policies, and practices, are generally unaligned with yours and my freedoms, priorities, security, etc., and much more aligned with a conspiracy-sounding world order.
So go ahead, keep your head down, and don't vote Conservative. Maybe Esperanza can become a reality after all.
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Another next is who’s to be held accountable for literally trashing our economy, the permanent closure of thousands of businesses, and the laying off of hundreds of thousands? Faucci acknowledges the masks were ineffective, and he went completely against CDC guidelines by shutting down the country and sending everyone home. This is in opposition to the CDC’s guidelines for a pandemic, which is to keep everyone out and working and going to school and quarantining only the sick.
Somewhere, somehow, someone exploited this and stirred up a mass hysteria, politicized the entire situation, seemingly in an effort to make us sheep more dependent on the government. And still, even yesterday, I saw a numner of people still wearing masks, and routinely see people in masks while in cars, driving alone!
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As I see it, the reason the far left can and does get away with it is that the Notsy (censorship sic.) government had slick uniforms, was the establishment, appeared conservative by returning to Germanic values, was ferally nationalist, and looked wickedly single-minded and efficient. When I was a kid interested in military machinery, I remember being mesmerized by the Third Reich weaponry and just assumed it was an aggressive, militant conservative, highly polished and consistent, to the right government. Really, the only reason I assumed it was right-wing was because my ignorance of the political spectrum told me that anything to the left was generally a disorganized, disheveled mess.
I remember being viscerally stunned when I learned that the YT-censorable word stood for ‘National Socialism.’ This was an actual turning point in my life that the real world was much different than the WWII picture books, and that there were complex political realities underneath those peels of the onion.
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Not really fair. My 88 year old parents have a horrible marriage, but for them divorce just wasn’t an option. The stigma of divorce apparently overrode their relationship happiness. Granted, they were textbook for marriage counseling, but that wasn’t an option for them either.
I’m not implying that if a marriage has perpetual rough patches, the couple should just bail. Rather, the pendulum has just swung to the other extreme - or so it seems.
Wtf do I know, though. My marriage failed too, and now I’m 55 learning to be alone. Fortunately, I’ve figured out that I need to fix my own character defects before I unload my flaws on another woman. And I just don’t have the energy to force a relationship that isn’t meant to be. Maybe it’s naive or corny, but I’m just surrendering and putting myself in God’s hands - not in some dating app.
Laf, I’ve been in IT for around 30 years, so I’m not ‘afraid’ of tech. But (I guess with the exception of YT comments), I’ve never been on social media. Placing my trust in a phone app to find a mate still just feels creepy to me.
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Yep, my wife and I were faced with a similar situation, although we owned a home and both had/have good jobs/decent pay. Not aware at all of these shenanigans, we dipped our toe into looking at a huge house w 11 acres, a pond, garages, and dog kennels - being dog lovers, it was a dream home.
When we got more serious, we ended up not trusting the banks and the realtors when they started pushing ARMs and such. We decided we’d be living right at the margin of our means, and if one or both of us lost our jobs, we’d likely lose the house in short order. We felt we’d way overextend ourselves. Still we were tempted mightily, but decided to walk away from it and be happy with the (actually fantastic) home we had, and continue to run our pups in the wooded parks. When I found we wouldn’t have been able to subdivide the 11acres due to zoning restrictions - something that may have provided some financial security in case of the worst - we put it out of our minds.
The crash happened and we breathed a huge sigh of relief. A bigger sigh of relief came when we saw the hundreds of foreclosures posted at city hall, and this was in a small midwest city of about 40,000.
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I wonder how much draw, little that it had, the movie had because Samuel Jackson played a role. I mean, I wouldn’t actually watch the movie, but if I did, I might have gone knowing he was in it…sort of an endorsement.
I certainly wouldn’t go see it because of the actress who plays Cap. Marvel, I have no idea who she even is or what else she’s had a role in. I definitely won’t see it now due to the reviews, it’s predictability, and the progressive narrative the movie narrative is adhering to.
I used to watch a Marvel movie simply because it was a Marvel movie…and it was fun seeing Stan Lee. But now, with being bought by the sinking ship of Disney, I had seen my last Marvel movie a couple or few years back.
And don’t get me started with Disney. The garbage they’re foisting on children is manipulative, dangerous, and a form of abuse. I can’t believe how it once was such a cultural and historical icon within our nation’s history, but now is infiltrated and used by the radical progressives advocating for their marxist, anti-American agenda.
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Welllll, the Moon is a bit devoid of color, to begin with.
Generally, spacecraft cameras ARE black and white. If they used RGB cameras, you cut the resolution down by a third. To take a color image, three separate pictures are taken, each through a red, the green, then blue filter, then digitally combined back on Earth. This produces an image with the full resolution the entire image sensor is capable of. That’s been pretty routine since the Voyager days, and before.
Your DSLR camera that shoots in color runs into the same resolution compromise, meaning that your, for example, 3MP camera resolution really has three, separate, 1MP image sensors in R, G, and B. The camera combines the colors into a single 1MP image. There are black n white DSLRs that take advantage of the full resolution of the imaging chip, but to get color, you need to shoot three pictures, each with a different color filter, unwieldy for astrophotography. Also, there are DSLRs built specifically for Astrophotographry, but they still shoot in color. But they have either a built in filter to pass the hydrogen-alpha line, or an imaging sensor specifically optimized to record this. They create stunning images that pass on the red hues of emission bodies, hues that are usually blocked by normal day use cameras to better replicate what our eyes actually see.
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Liked, no LOVED, and subscribed. This was so well done. I’m a moderate centrist, registered Independent, that leans right, and have always been ‘uncomfortable’ with the far Right and Left. My best friends are left leaning classical liberals. But the Left and the term ‘liberal’ have been hijacked by radicalized socialists and stalinists and seems to have left classical Liberals without their traditional party, but without the choice but to vote for the Democrat party nonetheless.
My opinion is that Bari’s essays should be palatable to classical Liberals and moderate Democrats, and are hopefully able to be listened to from start to finish without feeling threatened. I just don’t know how they can vote to embrace Bari’s opinions, other than to seek out and vote for moderate Democrat candidates brave enough to stand up to the virtual monopoly the radical Left has on the Democrat party.
I just don’t know if left leaning moderates can, in their own good conscience, vote Republican in the presidential election, but perhaps they’ll consider doing so in state, local, and congressional races.
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Love it, Russia invades a country and everyone’s pissed, until Russia says ‘hey, look at all the Russian passports we have over there!’ and the world’s like ‘Ohhh, ok. Yeah sure, invade away, Vlad!’
Putin and his regime have such an f-ed mindset when they make such an effort to justify their actions and policies…it’s so pointless, contradictory, and inconsistent, yet it’s so important to them.
Just now, Russia is whining to the Security Council about American aggression with Iran’s proxies, and causing instability within the region. Uhhh, what?? How does anyone even take them seriously?
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Come on, man. The lady got robbed - yeah, that really sucks, but it’s not the fault of the currency. She got taken advantage of by a criminal who took advantage of her kindess, willingness to help, fear, whatever, and exploited her ignorance of Bitcoin. Would it have been better if the criminal directed her to use a cash ATM and mail him the money, or told her to go buy cash cards and give the criminal the redemption codes - because YOU’RE familiar with those technologies?
In other words, you’d consider it HER fault if she used the cash ATM or gift cards, but since she used a Bitcoin ATM, it’s Crypto’s fault?
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I never knew the path to genocide was broken down into stages 03:17, although of course, why wouldn't it be. It's mind blowing to think we're 60% through the list! Granted, I'm biased, but I can identify each stage being ticked off by the obama and biden administrations, and the parallels are extraordinarily chilling. I'd like to correspond these stages with the rise of nazism and communism, and then compare and contrast the administrations of obama, biden, hitler, and stalin.
In respect for Classical Liberals, I tried associating any of the stages with the Trump administration, but other than radicalized elements within the bureaucratic machine, I couldn't - at least not directly with Trump's policies, actions, bombastic rhetoric, disposition, or personality. Clearly, with obama and biden, there is a socialist agenda unfolding; right in front of our eyes, taking us off guard and over much like the slowly boiling pot of water analogy.
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@serval_ssbm That assumption seems valid. Had we voted harris in democratically (and by republic mechanisms), half the country believes that would have taken us a major step towards socialism and then marxism, immediately threatening our First and Second Amendments. So the far left’s democratic victory would have come at the expense of the moderate, centrist left and right’s Constitutional freedoms.
Had the far left won, do you really believe they’d have felt they were preserving everyone else’s rights and freedoms? Given their feral approach to shoving their ideology down our throats because we have different views and opinions and values, zero sum describes the situation quite clearly - had they won. As it stands, THEIR First Amendment rights seem quite intact, even though they were doing everything possible to give them away.
And if you argue that the far left narrative WAS what they were trying to protect, what happens when that narrative becomes more and more marxist until even the far left voters begin to feel disenfranchised and then persecuted?
I think democracy and freedom are compatible only when there is intention to keep them so. There’s nothing inherent in either that automatically implies the other.
And then there’s the other perspective. The far left probably DOES feel persecuted, but to me it seems because the narrative is demanding they feel that way. Perhaps the far left is wary (I certainly am) of, for example, the evangelical right gaining a foothold again, and setting back social liberalism.
I think the far left has disproportionate influence and isn’t representative of the majority, moderate left. If true, President Trump seems to be about the best option our entire nation could have. He’s socially liberal and fiscally conservative, with warts and positive attributes both sides can reasonably live with. His Administration is also counter revolutionary, in that it’s trying to bring us back to a center.
If I was the classical left, I’d embrace his social liberalism and try and work with it, and not let the radical progressives continue pushing and/or pulling the democrat party further to the left - we (collectively) don’t want that. The way I see it, if the left continues to try and commit unalive-icide, the further right is going to sit back and gain strength, take over the government after President Trump leaves office, and we’re going to start the far left reactionary movement all over again.
The extremes are killing us.
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6:25 if anyone thinks this sounds easy, why’s it so hard?…needs to be slapped. Great analysis, Dr. Miles, I always appreciate your objectivity and level headedness. To your 2035 post, I’m hoping fission will be widespread by then - supplying the power to jumpstart a fusion reactor, along with 80-90% of our energy needs. Fission can provide us with thousands of years of climate friendly power, plenty of time to perfect fusion. And it’s ready now.
And, if the laser animation is close to accurate, wow - that alone is amazing! All that infrastructure to concentrate all 192 laser beams at a single point, simultaneously, is some serious engineering. Are there other technologies in the works, or in operation, that could benefit from that laser tech?
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Mmmm, yes and no. Look, I’m a right leaning centrist moderate. Most of my best friends are similar but lean left, and fancy themselves liberal. And they are; I refer to them as ‘classical liberals.’ My theory is that the radical far left socialist marxist elites have HIJACKED the democrat party - a very subtle transition and a smooth, strategic move. And this put my ‘classical democrat’ friends in a tough spot…because who are they gonna vote for? Either the (far left socialist puppet) democrat nominee or the Independent…but most democrats aren’t libertarian, and it’s highly unlikely they’d vote Republican - and voting for Trump is probably unthinkable. The irony, of course, is the far left has moved the new center SO far to the left, my ‘classical liberal democrat’ friends are now WAY right of center, into [gasp!] Conservatism!
Democrats didn’t kill their own party…their party left them. Remember this - before obama, democrats and republicans had, at their core, MUCH more in common than not. Obviously, we had different views, beliefs, opinions, attributes, faults, strengths - but we both were AMERICANS, we loved our nation, cherished The Constitution and our Democracy and our Republic, would fight for our freedom and for the freedoms of nations and their people, were proud of our heritage and history, honored our Founding Fathers, believed in American exceptionalism and nationalism, were proud of our great nation, respected - at times, grudgingly - our elected leaders whether we voted for them or opposed, and when things got tough, we put the UNITED in the United States. We were brothers.
What we’re careening towards presently is what our Founding Fathers warned us about, and what every soldier and leader has sworn to protect us from - enemies both foreign AND domestic. Our Constitution has built within it many, MANY safeguards to defend ourselves from these threats, specifically the looming domestic perils we are experiencing now and which have gained significant traction and alarming momentum.
Bulwarks against this nascent tyranny
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Yeah it’s 120 in Phoenix, kinda why I moved there. I mountain bike regularly in 120 heat - granted I go through a gallon of water, but it’s manageable if you prep for it. And temps greater than 125 happen often enough, but no one cares - people just continue to do what they do in the summer - use clean, zero emissions nuclear power to run our air conditioners the same regardless whether its 75 or 127.
The vast vast majority just adapt by flipping from house to car to work to grocery store to house, in air conditioned comfort. AZ has the added bonus you don’t sweat, so you don’t ruin your clothes between stops, like in Miami.
It’s not that big of a deal, you just stay indoors just like everyone who has moved there from Wisconsin, Maine, etc, stayed inside all winter. And it’s as normal as snow in northern Wisconsin - making a fuss about a 1 or 2 deg bump is silly when you take in all that is involved with taking a temp.
Also, Phoenix is generally warmer because of the urban landscape - all the surrounding towns have long merged together to make one, big, Phoenix, and all that concrete, asphalt and steel absorb and re-radiate a LOT of heat. It’s normal for the temperature on the 202 freeway to be anywhere from 10-20 deg warmer than the stated temperature, due to the asphalt and the cars metal and engines - especially during the rush hours. The whole citywide heat bubble, and that we happen to live in a giant valley, kinda messes with our weather - I do wish we got more monsoons, but they generally miss us.
Anyway, 120s heat - we call that peak summer in a desert. Stop califnoria-ing my Arizona by misusing what’s normal in an effort to advance your master’s agenda, you useful idiots. Who leaves out a detail like a plane’s AC went out in 108deg heat, unless you’re manipulating the story? And really, even at 70-75 deg on a sunny day in an airplane w broken air conditioning will become sweltering in short order.
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Good job, Rep. Greene, you are our patriot. Tlaib is not just a traitor but is an enemy of the state.
I fear for the Republican Party, though, for its inability to unite and present a cohesive front to preserve our democracy. In 2024 more than ever, America needs the Party to set aside any differences in order to take back the Executive and Legislative branches from the radical left progressive socialists. Our Constitution is in jeopardy the longer these communists maintain their grip on so many of our institutions, including our Federal Government, the media, and academia.
Censuring tlaib ought to be low hanging fruit for any Republican; for that matter, any American! That we can’t even rally around this censure doesn’t leave me with a sense of security we will also unite for 2024.
Republicans, why is this? Why are you not giving Rep. Greene the required support to censure this disgusting representative? As if it’s not enough holding her accountable for her traitorous incitement, she is a reflection of our House of Representatives. Those of you not doing your duty, and of not bringing back respectability to the House, should remember that in certain circumstances, silence is equivalent to tacit approval.
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My opinion….we need a way, a message, a pathway, for classical Liberals to vote on the Republican ticket, that is palatable to them. I think the first thing we need to stop saying is “support Trump.”
Classical Liberals need to know that, for this election (hopefully ALL elections for a while), they can vote the Republican candidate while simultaneously NOT supporting Trump.
It is not an easy decision to make such a dramatic change, and we’ll go a long way by respecting this difficulty. What they’re considering is complicated. Classical Liberals are absolutely NOT changing their beliefs, values, and principles while they mull over the decision to change political parties. It is very important we’re clear that if they change parties and vote Republican, they’re doing so because the Democrat Party no longer represents their values, beliefs, and principles.
They absolutely are NOT turning into Republicans, and they absolutely are NOT voting for Trump. What they’re doing is NOT voting for the current socialist Democrat Party. They want their party back, and right now their only recourse to get it back is to vote Republican.
I hope to God this gets picked up all the Conservative channels I’m subscribed to. I so believe the only way to get these formerly left of center moderates and liberals is for us to respect the extraordinarily difficult position they are in. I think the only way we will get their vote is to invite them to vote for the Republican presidential candidate in order to have the chance to rebuild THEIR Democrat Party. I think it’s incredibly important we, that is, the entire Conservative news and editorial ecosystem, invite them with respect, and assure them we understand they need not become Republicans just because they voted for the Republican candidate.
I pray Fox News, Sky News Australia, Dave Rubin, Megyn Kelly, Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, Michael Knowles, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Russell Brand, Ann Coulter, Konstantin Kisn, Jonathan Cahn, Tucker Carlson, Matt Walsh, Bill O’Reilley, JP Sears, Dave Chappelle, Dana Loesch, Piers Morgan, Tulsi Gabbard, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Tim Pool…shoot, why not CNN, MSNBC, WAPO, NYT, NPR, The Guardian, The Atlantic….oh, and of course, Joe Rogan….everyone! will take this message to all those on the fence, who want to vote their conscience. These people are our friends, our brothers and sisters, fellow Americans, HALF THE POPULATION OF AMERICA, and they too want their nation back.
It could mean millions of votes for us to begin taking our Democracy back.
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I’m a right of center moderate…also known as a classical conservative. I love classical liberals; my best friends are classical liberals - well, over half are - the remainder are classical conservatives, independents, and even a fair number of libertarians. America was built, managed, and protected by both classical conservatives and liberals, independents, and libertarians. Of course, those on the spectrum further right and left definitely had and have their roles as well, but were still guided by their more fundamental perspectives of the Constitution and Democracy.
The Republican Party’s a bit of a mess, but it seems to be coming together in a way that will matter in 2024. We need work, for sure, but that’s not the topic at the moment.
The Democrat Part, though, has been successfully, and even brilliantly (to give grudging respect to the hijackers’ strategy) hijacked by the far left extremist socialist stalinists. And the poor left of center moderates don’t know where they belong and who to vote for. Because the current administration, which is thoroughly controlled by a corrupt and socialist machine, no longer represents and respects their values, beliefs, and democratic principles.
They almost can’t vote Republican because they probably would vomit to associate with the far right - heck, I feel the same, sometimes - and they probably are also hesitant to associate with MAGA Republicans. Can’t really blame them. But they’re also jammed up with voting Democrat this election, because this Democrat Party is no longer THEIR Democrat Party. It’s gone, STOLEN. So what do they do? How are they supposed to vote?
Like a man without a country, they’re about half the population of America without a party!
What’s going to happen? Do they split the party, and become “The Reformed Democrat Party?” Do they initiate a party COUP to take control of the Democrat Party, and KICK OUT the socialists? Will the socialists break from the party on their own and create a new Socialist Party? (I cringe at capitalizing ‘socialist party’)
Can and will all the Classical Democrats, that other half the entire population, protest against the radical socialists and break with the current Democrat Party, and vote Republican, just for this election? Then work to rebuild their party, cutting out the cancer that’s literally killing our democracy?
(Disclaimer: I don’t consider MAGA only the far right or the extreme right. At the moment, I feel it includes all Trump supporters, those favoring his Populist sentiment, and us right-of-center moderates. I hope it can and will include centrists, independents, libertarians, and especially the classical liberals. So if it will get Trump elected, sure, call me MAGA. Whatever; just win the frakking election.)
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Australia's Sky News is this American's news media outlet I turn to, in addition to Fox, to get indepth coverage on American news, due to the failure of American (so called) news organizations to report the more obscure news that CNN, MSNBC, CBS, USA Today, The New Yorker, Vox, the Guardian (geez, they multiply like rats) deem too dangerous to their facsist leader. Ps, sorry, forgot to add the BBC to the list of liberal opinion outlets.
I used to think it was sad I had to get news from a different country, but no longer, as Aus Sky News is mainstream...for me, for sure. Thank you! It's almost too bad you people are so nice, because I kinda thought Australia would be a great place to deport all of America's far left socialist stalinists to. You know, bc of your colonial history the liberals seem happy blaming whites like my (American, but that won't stop them) self. But you seem so nice, so I start a movement here.
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Omg, her interview post debate...she was really wishing the abc moderator models were back.
See, this is the genuine kamalala we should have seen during the debate. The one who isn't coddled and protected by the fascist media/propaganda agencies.
I'm still puzzled why Trump prepped so badly; there's no way he took cues from Ms. Gabbard, for instance. He should have started the debate the way he ended it. The two moderators were terrible - as in, 'unethical' terrible - no question. But Trump should have dominated over all three, easily. Clearly, he wasn't in the mood. Perhaps he simply wasn't prepared, maybe he's just worn ragged from dealing with the fake charges, election interference, campaigning, rallying - even feral Trump haters have to admit the guy's busy.
I don't think he underestimated harris, but he did underestimate how seriously her handlers and abc took the debate prep.
I do think he walked into this thinking, God knows why, this would be a reasonably fair debate and he could just wing it because it's just harris. Well, it wasn't only harris. He got knocked off balance right away, took some really obvious bait, and wasn't taking charge until the closer.
The guy just couldn't hit his stride. All harris had to do was show up sober, and unless she either got crushed, or crashed, she won.
Substantively, yeah, he won. But to the voters who vote their emotions and crave drama...yeah, he lost. Too bad debates aren't about actual issues...
Or are they?
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I wish legacy propaganda outlets like cnn and msnbc had a program partnership w Sky News Australia, where the US outlets would redirect to Sky News on a regular basis. You know, “and what’s Australia saying about such n such in our country? What does Australia think about our president stopping Iran in its tracks, with ‘DON’T’?”
Just to get this in front of those viewers’ eyes, since there’s no way they’re going to watch Fox or Forbes; why would they? From their perspective, this administration is doing great - keep repeating anything you want!
In fairness to those viewers, I truly tried watching the left stations. It was so diametrically opposed to how I think, so emotion based and not logical or rational - I just had a hard time keeping it on. Besides, it made my anxiety go through the roof!!
I’m sure it’s the same for them. Trouble is, someone’s lying! :). Either that, or ‘our’ outlets are talking about different countries. :)
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Nice work, it’s difficult to find photos of this should-have-been. I’d have loved to see a flight line with dozens of XB-70s on one side, and dozens more of the XF-108s on the other. Imagine a world with the XF-108, TSR.2, and the Arrow all in it.
I wish we had more photos of the mockup, different angles, outside, in the workspace it was put together, and so on. I can’t recall which flight sim, but some admirer created a really nice model project of it. I also wish there was more documentation available, and that some engineers would have collaborated on a book about the design process. At least the Hughes radar and fire control made its way into the Tomcat, and the Falcons into the YF-12. So sad we didn’t at least get a prototype or two, I suppose North American had their hands full with their Valkyries. Great work, this is definitely going into my ‘XF-108; Arrow; TSR.2’ folder for future viewing! Thank you!
Here’s some specs and whatnot about the Falcon: https://designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-47.html
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Reminds me of an exgirlfriend, who was a Chief People Officer heavy into diversity and inclusion. We were watching a movie and I made a comment on how the oriental woman was one of my favorite actors, but I couldn’t recall her name at the moment. Like 5 or 10 minutes later, I sensed I had deeply offended her somehow when she proceeded to correct me by saying the proper term now is ‘asian.’ Even better was when she used me as an unenlightened white male example during her next day’s conference call about D&I. I felt it was time to move on when she criticized the all white male board for being all white and male, AND proceeded to say’our’ time has passed.
It was crazy when I realized how much I had changed my behavior around her, and how trapped I felt being unable to express myself or my opinions because it wasn’t worth the humiliation of being constantly corrected. I guess I had to experience it like that to fully grasp how incipient her progressive and socialistic beliefs are towards any meaningful discourse that are contrary to that narrative. Too bad in a way, as she was raking in about $220k, more than twice my salary at the time - wouldn’t have been able to think or speak, but hey…we’d have been well off!
Interestingly, she was for any religion that was essentially not Christian and not mainstream, basically making some rude ‘jokes’ about my Lord and Savior, and how her people of yore had Christ executed. I let it roll as I assumed she was kidding and that maybe she was letting me in on some bad Jewish humor, but I don’t know now. I’d never actually say anything like this, but I often wondered how she’d have taken it if I criticized another’s faith, as an experiment to point put her hypocrisy. But I simply wouldn’t, couldn’t, use religion this way - and I’m far and away not the best Christain example there is; I’m hopefully at least a ‘good enough’ Catholic that respects differences and enjoys talking about those differences, usually finding we have more in common than not.
Oh, and meaningful discourse isn’t me disrespecting anyone or finding some token examples of affirmative actions on my part to justify my whiteness - but when I learned I had eaten a sandwich too quickly such that she was worried about the negative impression I may leave with her friends or colleagues, having any intellectual dialogue was pretty much impossible. Boy, that honeymoon ship sailed away quickly. In fairness, she did warn me that she wasn’t for everybody - right she was.
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@benjaminfranklin329 makes sense. So, to use your penny stock example, I bought a bunch at $00.50, the price went up to 5x to $2.50, but no one bought it. Then it went back to $00.50, and stayed there a day or so. Does that mean I can give it back to the exchange I originally bought it from, or am I stuck with it until an investor, broker, exchange, or whatev' chooses to buy it from me?
And then what happens when it goes to less than $00.01, or $00.00? I'm forever stuck with some shares that have no value?
I don't understand what it means when you wrote: "...you can't exit the position until the price...down." Does 'exit the position' refer to being able to give the shares, and get my money, back? Or does it mean I exit with a bunch of valueless stock certs? Or I'm overthinking it?
I'm one of those beginners ChatGPT was chatting about, when asked to review The Plain Bagel.
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Nikki Haley is not wrong about chaos following Trump. It obviously means nothing to us with respect to the primaries and caucuses, where Trump is likely to win all, but she could be correct if the general is close again. Then it boils down to the left and right moderates, independents, and the undecided, where a candidate other than Trump may do better against either biden, dingbat, or Michelle.
Personally knowing many people who ARE on the fence about not only which candidate to vote for, but which PARTY, I could easily see where Haley might be more favorable to them than Trump, if she's played against any one of the three democrat goofballs.
Doesn't matter, though, since Trump will win the primaries and caucuses - probably all of them. Unless she's a de facto Republican candidate due to Trump either dying or being in jail, there's simply no way the majority of Republicans will vote for her. And it's debatable that Trump's base still wouldn't vote for him in the general even if he were behind bars, which would be an election catastrophe since it will split the Republican votes across two candidates. Because, unless every Republican voter is on board with some mythical, unifying strategy, millions of moderate Conservatives are NOT going to vote for a candidate in the klink.
Frustratingly, but realistically, given there are probably an equal number of voters who will vote either only for Trump (assuming he lives and is free) or only for a democrat, the entire race is probably down to the less than a million or so swing voters - who knows, maybe only a few hundred thousand!
A conclusion to draw, however, might be that it's very important that Nikki Haley stay in the race, just in case the worst happens to Trump - if for no other reason than to just keep her in the minds of voters. And instead of every Conservative and MAGA Republican voter, media outlet (yes, you, Fox), and independent journalist channels criticising and ridiculing Governor-Ambassador Nikki Haley's campaign, we should be encouraging it. Or at least tolerating it! Clearly, she's no threat to President Trump in the Primaries, and if and when Trump becomes Candidate President Trump, it's not like there will be this groundswell of write-in votes for her. BUT, she could be the critical and necessary fail safe if the absolute worst happens that makes it impossible for Trump to be the Republican presidential candidate.
So be nice to Nikki. Just sayin'.
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Then ask yourself what was so successful about past immigration versus current. I think it has everything to do with a willingness of immigrants to assimilate, and adopt the values of the host country. It was unheard of for European immigrants to not learn to speak English and to consider themselves, and their new families, as Americans. Contrast that with now, where there are distinct, isolated subcultures that have decidedly NOT assimilated, don’t speak the language, and have maintained their values, many of which may be unAmerican or otherwise dangerous to America. Why would you leave your home country? Why would you expect that America need not benefit from the immigration?
If immigrants do not assimilate, if our American values are not adopted, if America does not benefit, if immigrants can’t shed what is unAmerican, criminal, and dangerous of their home country’s values, then they shouldn’t be allowed in or ought to be deported.
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@caty863 Other than using the term ‘stupid,’ I agree. I think a day will come where transportation, heating, and citywide electrification will be handled by fission, wind and solar and that oil will be used as a raw material in manufacturing processes. I imagine the military will need oil, (hopefully our leaders are positioning America to run out last for this reason), along w civil aviation unless there are ground-based alternatives (hyperloops?). Ships that move goods? They’re pretty big, I can’t see wind or solar moving those giants, so nuclear again? Maybe thorium will be the answer, seems like the waste is a lot more manageable thn U235.
Just imagine if all the funds being spent on oil extraction could be directed towards nuclear fission reactor construction and nuclear fusion research.
I just listened to Thoughty2’s video on nuclear, which had an interesting spin on why uranium was chosen over thorium. I guess since we were spending so much money researching how to use uranium in weapons, thorium got dropped by the wayside. Seems like a thorium reactor was built at ONRL that produced electricity for years in the late 60s, but crickets. He also made an interesting point about being able to use the uranium from dismantling the weapons stockpile.
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Herah, I couldn't agree more. It seems like BVR combat is practically an advertised doctrine, but it also seems like air combat devolves into visual identification. I'd assume China would have a strategy that concentrates heavily on targeting IFF and intelligence assets like the E-3, P-8, and EC-135, forcing closer contact fighting. Not having our fleet of 750 Raptors seems a huge detriment; I have (possibly over optimistic) a lot of confidence in the F-35s dog fighting capability, but as another commenter pointed out, a significant number of aircraft may be destroyed on the ground in a coordinated missile attack on air bases in Japan, Guam, and elsewhere - including aircraft carriers - and of course, along w the aforementioned intelligence assets, China will be aggressively targeting tanker aircraft. I recently read an article about scenario simulations run regarding a Chinese invasion of Taiwan (I'll post later); happily, China was eventually defeated but at the cost of one, even two, carriers along w destruction of many assets at surrounding air bases. I believe the simulations were run several times; nineteen separate simulations seems to come to mind.
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Of course he did. This is so common I don’t understand why a Republican task force hasn’t been created to root this out. From hiring paid for actors to show up at protests (pro hamas riots almost everywhere) and campaign events (every harris rally), to using people and agents to stir up trouble at protests (think Jan6), to creating the conditions for race riots (George Floyd), to situations described in this episode, the left and far left are liars and are unrelenting with their manipulation of their political base. They simply will not stop and unless they are held severely to account, their cowardly, totally corrupt behavior will continue. Lying, misrepresenting, and breaking the law aren’t just commonplace, they’re explicit policy, because they have no integrity or shame.
The reason for this behavior is they believe their ideology should be thrust upon We The People to usher in socialism, splitting our Nation into the dual class system of elites and the poor. And they will continue, by any means necessary, to forward this ideology. They have no hesitation towards breaking the Law because they despise The Constitution, which gives them license to break ‘our’ laws as they believe they do not apply to them. But they are masters at hiding behind the laws they despise, because they know we are foolish enough to follow them and operate within our legal system.
We think they are disgraceful, have no honor or respect, traitorous. But they may have convinced themselves they’re serving their higher cause, and may even view themselves as patriots. There can be no middle ground with these marxists - they despise us.
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I’d ideally like us to be prepared for world-wide oil shortages by having a strategic reserve MUCH greater than what we have now (along with making it illegal for a president to tap into it to lower gas prices during an election year, or to tank oil production because of some bullshit Green propaganda without raising gas prices TOO much to pacify his voters).
With a massive reserve ‘on reserve,’ then we import most of our petroleum from wherever, to use up all of their oil first. And if any exporters try to jack us over by hikimg oil prices, we just say “frak you,” and immediately collapse their export market by stopping oil imports and dipping into our massive reserves.
Easy peasy. Whatever; as long as we end up with all or most of the oil left in the planet within our borders when the rest of the world runs out. We’ll still need a lot of gas for our military, industry, and economy (and our SUVs and pickups, and heat and hot water) to ensure our security when everyone else gets desperate. We can use that remaining oil to (finally) transition to nuclear; also solar and wind - perhaps the technology will be mature enough by then to actually use them to generate and store electricity. You know, use solar and wind when it makes economic and practical and technological sense to do so, rather than having politicians and corrupted scientists and ignorant activists forcimg an energy policy because they need votes, and to sleep blissfully not realizing that forcing immature technologies down our throats is actually causing far more environmental harm, damage, and destruction than oil is.
Ps: I’m not some pro-petroleum nut, nor a pro-nuclear nut, nor am I an anti-wind and anti-solar nut - frankly, I could give a shit where my energy comes from. I’m also not a pro- or anti-climate nut - sure, I care about the environment and pollution. Who doesn’t. If it’s definitively proven either that humans are impacting the climate or we’re just experiencing normal climate activity, I really don’t worry about it much. I think it would be a good idea to try and reduce certain gas emissions (in fact, those super nasty gases were reduced by more natural gas usage, and reduced far more than solar or wind ever have done - a clear indication that using fossil fuels isn’t’bad’). I also think we need to keep awareness of the environment in mind and regulated, which I think we already do a pretty good job at. Good Lord, we don’t meed MORE regulations; please just use the ones we already have (in triplicate, probably).
But for the love of Christ, please use intelligence when preparing for an energy transition, and have a PLAN! Energy policy is HUGE for the US, at least as, if not more, important than national security policy. It will take decades to get this infrastructure built up and working; please try to understand we’re going to need to use fossil energy during this entire time…and that doing so isn’t a bad thing. I’m absolutely not saying we should base policy decisions solely on the market, but the market needs to be an overwhelmingly significant factor - a helluva bigger influence than some ex-barista-turned-crazy anti-everything-American activist.
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In fairness, blame the media outlets. The moderate, centrist Democrats who are our American brothers and sisters, would be horrified knowing what a jackwagon diden is, how corrupt the dnc is, and the socialist direction our nation is headed - but they’ve traditionally received their news from cnn, msnbc, etc. As long as those propaganda outlets keep repeating the same lies and keep the story consistent, they’re not really going to know what’s truly happening. And they’re just like the rest of us - they don’t particularly care about, or enjoy, politics because, like the rest of us, they’re too busy working, raising kids, having a life…
We’re not much different. And we’re probably being misled as well - although the evidence is pretty clear this hijacked democrat party and the elite puppet masters are dangerous to America.
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I've a red/green deficiency and I fail the Ishihara number tests; I have to compensate for day-to-day but I've learned to compensate. When I need to or want to (for example, watch an astronomy doc that's heavy on cgi colors) experience and differentiate colors, even reds and greens, I wear a contact lens in my non-dominant eye that is colored red in the center. While wearing it, I usually pass the number/color tests with 100%. It's absolutely fascinating to see colors, especially reds, just pop for me. I live in the desert, which of course has a lot of washed out colors that aren't always so exciting to look at, but I use it often when I go hiking during the spring and summer blooms when the flowers add brilliant color to an otherwise drab landscape.
For those interested, the contact lense is a gas permeable contact lens with a colored (I thought the term used was 'smoked') red dot in the center, somewhat larger than the pupil. I found out about it from an ophthalmologist while getting a simple vision test for glasses; I mentioned being colorblind and it happened he had an interest in the condition. He let me borrow a pair of non-prescription glasses where the left lens was colored dark red, it was actually amazingly life changing. He pointed me to an ophthalmology grad school (Eye Institute of Milwaukee) who contacted a couple manufacturers to see if they had any. One still made them (sorry, can't remember) and they shipped a sample, it worked great, and I ordered up a couple. 30 some years ago, they were only $150 apiece. Surprisingly (for me) I still have them; in fact I've not ever used the 'spare' yet. I don't use it often, but I have used it when I need to view color-coded performance graphs, charts, wires, etc. works well. [chuckle] I do use it when viewing the Flight Data Recorder outputs during Mentour's accident investigation videos. Hope this helps.
There do seem to be glasses available nowadays that are supposed to do something similar to my GP lenses, which have been available since the late 70s. I do want to explore them but I haven't gotten around to yet, and there seem to be some available for under $30 online, but knowing nothing about the technology I'm hesitant regarding their legitimacy. They do claim to be most effective for red-green, and as I recall, use Ishihara tests to indicate if they're likely to work or not.
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I’m 54. When I was around 15-16, we were in English class and Ms. Hamberg was having a discussion with the girls in class about what they wore and why. I don’t know why I remembered this, but she said, “girls don’t dress like they do for guys, they do it because of other girls.” Her implication was clearly girl competition - first; guys, a distant second. So, I was what - a freshman or sophomore, 1984 or 85?
Giess that’s why the mean girls cliches wore what they wore, hooked up with who they did, etc. They’d have LOVED social media way back in those pre interweb/cell phones/tablets/PCs & laptops/facebook/instagram/tiktok days, with our monochrome Apple IIEs.
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This is my SIC leader, a heartbeat away from the Presidency of the mightiest nation the world has ever known. I am so proud. I feel so safe, so secure. I’m so happy America can be so confident to be a beacon of Democracy to the world.
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Wait, what? She went from binoculars to 50m away to the James Webb Space Telescope? Brilliant display of knowing her audience. You’d expect her to be escorted by the highest ranking soldiers, but these fellas had to have been the three who drew short straws. Or given the option of cleaning the latrines or escorting this…sigh, elected official. Well, ok, not truly elected, selected…by an even worse example of an American citizen.
Just when one thought her embrace of North Korea was the worst that could have happened, she just kept sinking lower and lower.
But, wait - perhaps she’s afraid to fly and popped some benzoes that hadn’t half lifed out of her system. Maybe our President’s lack of mental acuity was more than what her immune system was able to fight off. Or, maybe she’s just incompetent and not capable of political office. How…how!…did this happen? Is it really that easy to infiltrate the highest levels of our government with treasonous individuals bent on gutting our Constitution?
I’m embarrassed of my nation’s Executive Branch, and am so disgusted, disappointed, frustrated, and fearful of the extreme far left liberal progressive’s grasp on our country’s Federal and State branches of government and the destructive direction they’ve plunged the United States to.
Thank you, Australia, for calling us out. I am so ashamed as to what we’ve become.
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To Brittany and Sam, under Jasper118's post: I respectfully disagree, Sam, Christianity WAS instrumental and foundational to the origin of our nation and it's principles helped guide America through its early growth and expansion. Our Founding Fathers depended upon their belief in God to justify separation from England and write the Declaration of Independence, and architect our system of government and legal framework, and create the Constitution and our Bill of Rights. Christian principles guided our country's pursuit of life, liberty and justice, along with the unique concept of freedom and choice for its citizens - eventually all citizens. They wisely prohibited the State from imposing a state religion, unimaginable then, and provided the freedom to choose any religion a person wished - including choosing to not believe one. I'm not pretending they or anyone else elected to a stewardship responsibility, or myself for that matter, were perfect Christians, but they were good enough to allow an idea and a young nation a chance to survive, then thrive. As the video points out, geography, resources, and climate didn't hurt.
Whether you believe in God or not, belief in God was instrumental to the rise of our current nation. Any atheist or agnostic who objectively looks back to our history must conclude Christianity is very much part of the heritage of America. To declare otherwise would be deeply revisionist. Perhaps the combination of geography, resources and climate would have always led to a single government possessing such a world dominating empire within the same borders, and a belief in God wasn't necessary. But, that's not how it happened.
I happen to believe in God and am a Catholic Christian - not a very good one, but one nonetheless. I don't know if any of "it" is true, but it's what I choose to believe and I hope what I perceive as evidence of God is actual evidence. But even if it's false, even if it could be PROVEN that belief in God is false, one still has to conclude that that belief was central to the creation of our system of government and subsequent way of life. Treating your neighbor as you'd like to be treated isn't a bad guideline to live by, irrespective of whether or not the Sermon on the Mount actually happened.
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I’m white, was my class valedictorian, didn’t have to work very hard for my HS grades, had good parents, good upbringing, took food and shelter for granted, and I never questioned I was going to college.
I went, and by the 2nd year was so overwhelmingly unprepared for my engineering curriculum I dropped out. No one caught that I had zero ability to comprehend advanced topics because I was never taught how to apply what I was learning to anything tangible.
A technical college or learning a trade probably would have been a better fit for me at the time, which after years of foundering I eventually did…twice. After working on aircraft restorations after school, I took an engineering course at university and it was like the scales had been removed from my eyes, and I did well as I could relate my airframe experience to this particular class.
University isn’t for everyone, especially for the unprepared. It may be later in life, after more experience and maturity, but blindly placing anyone there expecting positive outcomes and prosperity just because, is probably going to fail badly more often than not.
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If Russia conquers Ukraine, of course they’ll be more of a threat. Since the war’s over, sanctions will prolly be dropped even though Russia’s the aggressor. Trade will happen, Ukraine will feed Russia and sell grain everywhere else, and much the same will happen with manufacturing.
Zelenskyy didn’t mean Russia will literally threaten us on our shores, across the ocean. He’s implying they’ll have the resources to build and maintain ICBMs and SLBMs, with their submarine fleet laying in wait off our shores (so in a sense, that’s literal). He’s not wrong about a stronger Russia if Ukraine falls.
Zelenskyy’s also not wrong that the US and Europe don’t have a choice but to support Ukraine, unless we want a powerful Russia who becomes a threat on par with China. That’s the hand he’s been playing up to now, and it’s the box he was expecting to put President Trump.
But he played his hand like a chump. Which wouldn’t matter, because President Trump has a better hand since he’s trying to make a business deal about the immediate situation Ukraine is in. The Russian threat, while real, is too far down the road to use to dictate terms to President Trump.
Zelenskyy will be back because he has no choice. And once he acknowledges his place in the world pecking order, he will gratefully accept the business deal and terms set by President Trump.
The dancer-turned-dictator needed to be punished in public, embarrass himself with his tantrum in front of the entire world, quickly
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She sees a popular platform that a lot of people use, so she’s using it as an activist platform to promote a socialist agenda. She doesn’t give a shit about what’s true or not, or about citing sources - her and people like her would rather sources weren’t cited, unless those sources are pushing the woke narrative. She also doesn’t care about races being equally represented - they already are! Like you said, all they need to do is write and/contribute. What she’s wanting to do is RE-WRITE what white men have written, such that it diminishes or invalidates those writers and rewritten in a way that forwards their ideologies.
Look at the Jan6 article, and how it has been so overwhelmingly slanted towards a far left perspective. Now think of the same article from a far right perspective. Finally, from an unbiased perspective.
It should be easy to imagine how almost ANY article can be written or rewritten to subtly advance the woke narrative. It would be one thing if this was to correct any biases to begin with, but this has already been done, in principle. It’s either a strict, ethical and professional requirement, or a work in progress to ‘neutralize’ and ‘factualize’ existing content. In her case, however, she wants everything to be presented in a way that forwards a radical far left, socialist agenda, while actively discriminating against what she considers a threat to that ideology.
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I’m genuinely impressed at how relateable, and humble! Trump is, and how consistent his behavior is. Every time I see him, he’s Presidential…well, mostly. :)
It’s such a refreshing contrast from 2016 Trump. Now, he keeps his ego in check. I’m fully convinced he’s changed, and that his expressing of his concern for Americans and Our Country is authentic truth. I want him as my President. He’s a leader.
And I can’t believe the energy he must have. I’m 54, athletic, eat well, etc, and there’s just no way I’d keep up with him. He’s EVERYWHERE. I can’t imagine how he’s able to survive his lawfare, and he is, plus campaigning, interviewing, organizing Hurricane relief, spending so much time with us working class voters…I just don’t get it. I mean, dang - he’s cramming in 48hrs into 24hr…EVERY DAY.
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I’m a right of center moderate…also known as a classical conservative. I love classical liberals; my best friends are classical liberals - well, over half are - the remainder are classical conservatives, independents, and even a fair number of libertarians. America was built, managed, and protected by both classical conservatives and liberals, independents, and libertarians. Of course, those on the spectrum further right and left definitely had and have their roles as well, but were still guided by their more fundamental perspectives of the Constitution and Democracy.
The Republican Party’s a bit of a mess, but it seems to be coming together in a way that will matter in 2024. We need work, for sure, but that’s not the topic at the moment.
The Democrat Part, though, has been successfully, and even brilliantly (to give grudging respect to the hijackers’ strategy) hijacked by the far left extremist socialist stalinists. And the poor left of center moderates don’t know where they belong and who to vote for. Because the current administration, which is thoroughly controlled by a corrupt and socialist machine, no longer represents and respects their values, beliefs, and democratic principles.
They almost can’t vote Republican because they probably would vomit to associate with the far right - heck, I feel the same, sometimes - and they probably are also hesitant to associate with MAGA Republicans. Can’t really blame them. But they’re also jammed up with voting Democrat this election, because this Democrat Party is no longer THEIR Democrat Party. It’s gone, STOLEN. So what do they do? How are they supposed to vote?
Like a man without a country, they’re about half the population of America without a party!
What’s going to happen? Do they split the party, and become “The Reformed Democrat Party?” Do they initiate a party COUP to take control of the Democrat Party, and KICK OUT the socialists? Will the socialists break from the party on their own and create a new Socialist Party? (I cringe at capitalizing ‘socialist party’)
Can and will all the Classical Democrats, that other half the entire population, protest against the radical socialists and break with the current Democrat Party, and vote Republican, just for this election? Then work to rebuild their party, cutting out the cancer that’s literally killing our democracy?
(Disclaimer: I don’t consider MAGA only the far right or the extreme right. At the moment, I feel it includes all Trump supporters, those favoring his Populist sentiment, and us right-of-center moderates. I hope it can and will include centrists, independents, libertarians, and especially the classical liberals. So if it will get Trump elected, sure, call me MAGA. Whatever; just win the frakking election.)
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My opinion….we need a way, a message, a pathway, for classical Liberals to vote on the Republican ticket, that is palatable to them. I think the first thing we need to stop saying is “support Trump.”
Classical Liberals need to know that, for this election (hopefully ALL elections for a while), they can vote the Republican candidate while simultaneously NOT supporting Trump.
It is not an easy decision to make such a dramatic change, and we’ll go a long way by respecting this difficulty. What they’re considering is complicated. Classical Liberals are absolutely NOT changing their beliefs, values, and principles while they mull over the decision to change political parties. It is very important we’re clear that if they change parties and vote Republican, they’re doing so because the Democrat Party no longer represents their values, beliefs, and principles.
They absolutely are NOT turning into Republicans, and they absolutely are NOT voting for Trump. What they’re doing is NOT voting for the current socialist Democrat Party. They want their party back, and right now their only recourse to get it back is to vote Republican.
I hope to God this gets picked up all the Conservative channels I’m subscribed to. I so believe the only way to get these formerly left of center moderates and liberals is for us to respect the extraordinarily difficult position they are in. I think the only way we will get their vote is to invite them to vote for the Republican presidential candidate in order to have the chance to rebuild THEIR Democrat Party. I think it’s incredibly important we, that is, the entire Conservative news and editorial ecosystem, invite them with respect, and assure them we understand they need not become Republicans just because they voted for the Republican candidate.
I pray Fox News, Sky News Australia, Dave Rubin, Megyn Kelly, Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, Michael Knowles, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Russell Brand, Ann Coulter, Konstantin Kisn, Jonathan Cahn, Tucker Carlson, Matt Walsh, Bill O’Reilley, JP Sears, Dave Chappelle, Dana Loesch, Piers Morgan, Tulsi Gabbard, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Tim Pool…shoot, why not CNN, MSNBC, WAPO, NYT, NPR, The Guardian, The Atlantic….oh, and of course, Joe Rogan….everyone! will take this message to all those on the fence, who want to vote their conscience. These people are our friends, our brothers and sisters, fellow Americans, HALF THE POPULATION OF AMERICA, and they too want their nation back.
It could mean millions of votes for us to begin taking our Democracy back.
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My opinion….we need a way, a message, a pathway, for classical Liberals to vote on the Republican ticket, that is palatable to them. I think the first thing we need to stop saying is “support Trump.”
Classical Liberals need to know that, for this election (hopefully ALL elections for a while), they can vote the Republican candidate while simultaneously NOT supporting Trump.
It is not an easy decision to make such a dramatic change, and we’ll go a long way by respecting this difficulty. What they’re considering is complicated. Classical Liberals are absolutely NOT changing their beliefs, values, and principles while they mull over the decision to change political parties. It is very important we’re clear that if they change parties and vote Republican, they’re doing so because the Democrat Party no longer represents their values, beliefs, and principles.
They absolutely are NOT turning into Republicans, and they absolutely are NOT voting for Trump. What they’re doing is NOT voting for the current socialist Democrat Party. They want their party back, and right now their only recourse to get it back is to vote Republican.
I hope to God this gets picked up all the Conservative channels I’m subscribed to. I so believe the only way to get these formerly left of center moderates and liberals is for us to respect the extraordinarily difficult position they are in. I think the only way we will get their vote is to invite them to vote for the Republican presidential candidate in order to have the chance to rebuild THEIR Democrat Party. I think it’s incredibly important we, that is, the entire Conservative news and editorial ecosystem, invite them with respect, and assure them we understand they need not become Republicans just because they voted for the Republican candidate.
I pray Fox News, Sky News Australia, Dave Rubin, Megyn Kelly, Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, Michael Knowles, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Russell Brand, Ann Coulter, Konstantin Kisn, Jonathan Cahn, Tucker Carlson, Matt Walsh, Bill O’Reilley, JP Sears, Dave Chappelle, Dana Loesch, Piers Morgan, Tulsi Gabbard, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Tim Pool…shoot, why not CNN, MSNBC, WAPO, NYT, NPR, The Guardian, The Atlantic….oh, and of course, Joe Rogan….everyone! will take this message to all those on the fence, who want to vote their conscience. These people are our friends, our brothers and sisters, fellow Americans, HALF THE POPULATION OF AMERICA, and they too want their nation back.
It could mean millions of votes for us to begin taking our Democracy back.
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Agree. Why we haven’t restarted the production line (or the F-23) is beyond me, especially given the money this administration has wasted on…well, I’ll leave it alone. But the amount of money needed to retool and restart production is starting to become a rounding error to what has been printed out of thin air.
And there’s no way - none - that the serial production of operational gen6 aircraft will be done before 2040, and soon to be 2045. At the earliest. There’s no reason to believe it won’t take at least 20 years of development to field a new fighter, given political realities and changing military priorities - one notable being replenishment of our weapons stockpiles.
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Lockheed Martin is building Javelins at a rate of around 2,000/year, and hopes to increase this to 4,000/year in less than two years. The max production rate is 6,840/year in a year or more, although I’ve not been able to substantiate this, nor find anything to support such a specific number - especially given the fluidity and shortages in the supply chain. This info is from a few 2nd quarter 2022 articles; in Sep 2022, the DoD awarded LM and Raytheon a contract for around 1,800 missiles.
Again from a 2022 article, we’ve supplied 7,000 to Ukraine, there were over 37,000 built since 1994, and it’s estimated we have 20-25,000 remaining in inventory; closer to 20,000 by now.
THE POINT:
This is just one example, there are of course many more that are similar. Lockheed Martin is supposedly investing their dollars to ramp up production (I highly doubt this), knowing they’ll be paid up because they know they’ll get the contract. Regardless, they’re going to have a lot of projects that will detract from a lower priority gen6 project - especially if they’re using their own R&D funds (again, doubtful) for the gen6. Other companies will be affected the same.
Of course, nothing is getting produced unless budgets are approved. There are a lot of expensive priorities and the current administration isn’t going to let the military get funding unless it’s advantageous to do for an election cycle. Inflation isn’t going away, and neither are higher prices for fuel, metals, composites, electronics, etc - both will continue rising, possibly for another four years.
The last thing on Congress’ list of expensive priorities, including our commercial infrastructure, massive social spending, the Navy’s new carriers and submarines and surface vessels, the Air Force’s new ICBMs, continental missile defenses, the F-35 program, the B-21, and on and on…the last thing Congress is going to fund is some future gen6 magic weapon system they’re going to have a hard time believing we need.
If we were shortsighted enough to cut our promised fleet of 750 Raptors to far fewer than 200 (assuming around 150 combat capable, probably half that number operational at any point in time, from the actual 186 produced) simply because there was no ‘immediate’ need, we’ll be just as shortsighted about a gen6 project we can kick the can down the calendar. Gates and the Obama administration would not account for military needs of the future, eliminating a very real deterrence element the Raptor would have provided. Why would “Obama’s third administration” treat the gen6 fighter any differently?
Politics will push the gen6 out to 2045 or beyond. Politicians of today, from both sides, are inherently shortsighted. The furthest ahead they will think to is their next election. Their long term thinking does not extend past their own reelection, unless that future something benefits them and increases their reelection chances.
So just restart the F-22 and/or the F-23 production line(s), with the expectation of adding the obvious engineering upgrades - primarily the electronics and communications and making them modular and more easily upgraded, and of course increasing fuel capacity. Say, perhaps even the cranked arrow Raptor, the longer range ground attack design proposed by LM - a version positively perfect for the Pacific theater.
Sorry, didn’t mean to ramble, although doubt anyone will make it this far. I tend to think ‘out loud’ by writing. Sometimes commenting becomes journaling. :)
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Ok. And?
When you say ‘spiritual,’ are you thinking I should head up to Sedona, go sit on a rock, and wait for the vortexes to align with my soul? Play with crystals? Join a cult?
I feel strong in my Faith, and at my worst I know, and even take a measure of comfort in, that through Christ I have salvation. I’m active with my Church, attend morning Mass before work, and participate in Adult Formation classes and Bible studies, and of course, attend Mass for Sunday worship. And I also go to the AA meeting, also located in our Church building. And before you tell me “but that’s religion, not spiritual,” you don’t know me.
After about thirty years of dealing and accepting with whatever it is I have, I have a 100% failure rate when I stop taking my medications. The last two episodes resulted in me losing everything. Everything.
When I take them, everything falls back into place - my Faith, Spirituality, work, another house, relationships with male and female friends, and a relationship with a woman. When I don’t these medications, the house of cards falls down. And when it does, I’m not the only one who gets hurt.
Be careful what you say about things you may not be afflicted with. You might even think you’re being helpful, but you’re not.
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6:12 “pockets that are really virulent and violent and racist…”. What?? Where? In her mind? COME ON! No one talks like that, there’s no sexism and no one is homophobic, not on the scale you’re implying. You’re making this up to masquerade YOUR sexism and racism, your problems with white males.
You’re going to tell me that forcing a woman to take on maleness traits isn’t sexist? You’re going to invent all sorts of sins committed by your white male audience and pretend WE’RE the sexists, the racists, the homophobic, the misogynistic? Just stop.
You’re just an entertainer, stop pretending to be an activist and try to make something entertaining. Picture us gathered around, tossing you peanuts, saying ‘Dance, monkey!’ If you can’t dance, you don’t get the peanuts.
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I remember watching 60 Minutes as a kid & teenager, and it had as much credibility as The World Book Encyclopedia - which is to say A LOT. The facts and reporting within their stories were absolute. And absolutely true.
People like Leslie made certain 60 Minutes failed in lockstep with cnn, msnbc, cbs, abc, pbs, npr….oh, oops, sorry - pbs and npr are non-partisan, tax supported, unbiased outlets.
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Especially given the scientific evidence that states healthy people need not have to take the shot or worry about as much as worrying about the flu. Even so, if the Military announced a command to be vaccinated, based on the most authoritative evidence at the time. It is not oppressive for a military to have a universal requirement all soldiers are expected to obey and carry out. When the proper information was eventually made available, the Military, along with every other organization who were not idiots, changed their stance to taking the vaccine optional and, eventually, private. Orders are orders. I imagine there are battlefield situations whereby someone is ordered to do something that will result in that person getting killed, so having unknown, probably not serious or long term, health risks (although I did get seriously sick after a booster, so it happens) wouldn't be enough to exempt you from obeying the order.
However we've discovered that evidence is mostly false, and an authority is probably criminally issuing restrictions and guidelines that are unnecessary. These unnecessary and ineffective regulations have resulted in several impacts at local, state, and federal levels, and ALL the impacts have been hugely devastating at a national scope.
The following impacts include some, but not all, of the following: obviously, detrimental effects to the number and quality of military personnel due to concerns over the vaccine; pretty much bringing our economy to a standstill for two years, wreaking havoc the nation is still recovering from; and untold number of small and medium businesses that were forced to close and cease operations, generally permanently; a huge, untold number of layoffs from companies of all sizes due to the destroyed economy; setting an entire generation of students behind by two years of classroom education and socialization due to the inadequacies of teaching children, youth, and secondary education students remotely; massive increases in mentally related problems like depression, anxiety, addiction, domestic violence, boredom and nihilism. There seems to be no end of negatives which are the result of, and also the responsibility of, individuals and institutions the entire nation trusted. And evidence is piling up that said individuals and institutions knew from the start that all of their most impactful guidelines and regulations were ineffective and unnecessary.
There are individuals and institutions that need to be held accountable, probably prosecuted and punished, for a most significant set of economic, social, medical, cultural, and military effects, effects that probably have been the worst our society has seen or will see, in our lives.
The unnecessary and ineffective actions we took, based upon the words of supposed professionals expert in the handling of Covid, and a pandemic in general, were criminal; criminal of the highest level, and of such widespread and devastating effects, even treasonous.
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What do you propose? The research has to be done, so putting it off 100 years or so just means it’ll take 200 years - it’s not going to magically get easier if we stop now. Who knows, if/when we get fusion down, we can turn lead into gold and solve our debt burden! Joke aside, obtaining fusion energy, even if it’s not quite free (someone’s going to have to pay for the infrastructure…may as well be the consumer), will completely change the current economic situation, which revolves around oil. If there is to be unlimited energy available to everyone, everywhere, it could take energy out of the economy equation - the notion of national debt could be completely redefined.
Or, I don’t know, maybe it’ll make things worse. Still, I don’t think funding fusion research isn’t going to be what could break our economy. Greed, corruption and lack of restraint are more of a danger but our nation seems able to cope - much better than Russia or China, anyway. I’m hopeful of our future. I certainly wouldn’t do as well if I was king.
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How would NORAD be expected to stop 911? The aircraft all had FAA flight plans, so while they'd have been tracked there's no way anyone would have suspected some of the passengers were terrorists. When the airliners became 'weapons' and deviated from their flight plans, there simply wasn't the time to intercept and prevent the plot - indeed, they had no reason to think the deviations were terrorist activity - why and how would they? Even if they did happen to make an interception, then what? Shoot the airliners full of American citizens down?
Minutes (mere MINUTES) later, after the terrorists crashed into the Pentagon and the Towers, NORAD, the USAF, the FAA, the Navy and who knows what other US Govt entities, shut down everything and ordered all aviation (thousands of flights!) grounded, immediately intercepting aircraft not complying or otherwise deemed suspicious.
What exactly do you think NORAD or any entity could or should have done differently? They responded appropriately with the information they had, and actively asserted control even before the entire situation was made clear. For all anyone knows, the immediate response may have foiled other terrorist operations in motion.
So frustrating that people who owe their security to our dedicated military institutions take every opportunity to criticize, as if they could do better.
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Always thought the 994/A and the TRS-80 (especially with the Radio Shack comic) were really modern and sleek looking. I was in awe with these silver colored, high tech mysterious machines and wanted one as a ten or twelve year old kid.
And if these sleek machines were mysterious, the IBM PC was this magical high end supercomputer for some ethereal business reason. And IBM was this giant of a company even my parents had some odd, big company reverence for - probably their body language alone made me perceive a PC would be forever out of my reach.
But I didn’t actually think that much about because I was focused on the TRS-80 and its myriad of sleek peripherals, but also thought the TI99 looked cool too. And I thought the ‘Texas Instruments’ name sounded high tech. I had several TI calculators, and was dazzled by all the weird mathematical keys. I subconsciously believed TI made the best and most accurate calculators to the odd point where if I had addd two numbers together on some ‘off brand’ calculator, I’d have to do the maths on a TI just to make sure it was correct! Silly, but hey; I was twelve.
Soooo I knew my parents got me a computer for Christmas, because there was this big heavy box wrapped in newspaper under the tree. Come Christmas Eve with Mom, Dad, and two older sisters, it’s finally my turn to open a “big” present!!” I tear open the box to find 😮 …
A log. What a buzz kill letdown. Who does that to a kid. Christmas sucked. I tried to keep an appreciative attitude, but that pretty much ruined it for me. The next day - Christmas Day - I did get a computer, but I wasn’t excited about it now. It was a Commodore 64, which I thought was pretty cool bc of all the ads I saw about it showing it off connected to a bunch of peripherals, but the stubby, dark brown keyboard computer looked out of proportion to me, and it didn’t have that silver high tech, modern sleekness that caught my heart. Kinda like wanting to go to prom with hot Mary Jane, but getting stuck with an ugly betty. Later when the 128 came out, that really was eye catching but still forever out of my reach. So I was meh about C64. Plus the log trauma was there - laf, apparently still is.
So I never got into the Commodore because it was an ugly betty. Same with the Apple products like the Apple II. I didn’t like the color and didn’t think it looked very high tech - not like the shiny TI99 and TRS-80. I did think word processing with Script64 was cool, but I couldn’t get interested in programming on it. I think I must have thought it wasn’t a “real” computer, since it wasn’t large and didn’t have all those big electronic things on it that a computer needed to be a real computer. And inwardly didn’t trust or feel like the cryptic stuff on the display and in the programming books could be what I thought was real programming. So learning how to program just didn’t ignite.
I think things would have been much different had I gotten a TI99 or the TRS-80.
Ok, thanks for listening. Carry on.
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I love the fact I can accept the impossibility of faster than light travel, transforming into energetic molecules and being transported anywhere, aliens, multiple dimensions, etc, when it comes to my watching a decent action flick. But the moment an actress has a role written to act like a man, I’m like, “sigh, so fake, so not believable, so forced, so…bad. Next.” It’s not even so much that I’m just sick of silly girl power activism, which I soooo am, it’s that it just kills the movie because it’s so contrary to the natural order and human nature.
Hey, good for you if you want to buck human nature and the natural order of things. Just be prepared for the same viewership as the women’s soccer league.
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It’s the civilians that are starving, and the US simply wouldn’t do something that horrific to a population that doesn’t even know for certain if their next meal is coming. Obviously, N Korean leadership would (is), and would no doubt sacrifice its civilian population with barely a thought.
But what good would it do? N Korea is already the most sanctioned nation on earth, except for maybe Russia), so they couldn’t be any more starved anyway.
I’m thinking there are plenty of supplies to keep its massive army fed, although, again, no doubt the vast majority of the 8million-person military are intended to be sacrificed, allowing the remaining to continue eating.
Some time during all this sacrifice, however, N Korea will go nuclear. Who knows who gets sacrificed at this stage.
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I agree with the discounting premise as well. Not to raise a touchy subject, but insurance companies HAVE to do the same. Whether or not it’s done meaningfully or ethically is an entirely new episode with a lot of research before we can realistically have an opinion.
Sure, it’s cold and calculated, especially if you or your loved is being quantified. So, give an alternative. Our Capitalist means of exchange is the USD, and the formula wisely disregards the highly subjective value of the person. My wife to me is worth my life. Nancy likely was the same to Ron, and Mrs. Thompson and their two kids were probably valued by Brian Thompson with HIS life.
But what value do I place on a stranger, or a group of strangers? Would I risk my life for others, like Daniel Penny? If there’s a young woman with her child, and an elderly man, all strangers to me, and I can only save one or the other, what kind of value judgment do you think I’ll make?
Other than with high level, and yes - arbitrary, economic factors, how else would you propose these calculations happen? In Milwaukee, three men were killed buildings a baseball stadium. Does that mean we cease building baseball stadiums because their lives were precious, therefore ALL lives are too precious to risk? How would you propose to come to a settlement with the families?
At the other extreme, because no dollar amount can ever be used to quantify a human, what if we just set the value to zero? Does that mean we just send miners into a Kimberlite hole so we get our diamonds, and if they perish, oh well? Their families get no compensation? Heck, if there’s no dollar amount attached to a miner, why have safety equipment - it’s too expensive! Why bother with company employment insurance, if their lives and deaths don’t cost anything?
Obviously the proper answer lies within those extremes. If you can do better, let’s talk about your proposed solution. Otherwise you’re just criticizing, not unlike the old bats on the view.
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Not excusing her incompetence, but the VP job isn't really well known for accomplishing much of anything, and it seems like a good place to park someone to get them out of the way while garnering support for some characteristic they have. I'm pretty sure obama parked biden there because he'd always do what he's told, important if/when he'd assume presidency should something have happened to obama, and even more important when he was made president in 2020.
Obviously, kamalala was picked because of gender, race, and skin color identity, as well as also doing exactly what she's told.
Regardless, it's unrealistic to fault her for not accomplishing anything, as anyone can see she's not capable. But we'll take it.
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14,000 comments? Must be good! Is that Horshoe Bend in Page, AZ at 3:40? That's a great picture of it, very unique (to those of us who crash drones, anyway). I'm from northern Wisconsin, how did I not know there were falls by the Twin Cities, on the Mississippi River?
I didn't know we have so many fossil fuel resources, nor in what relation to the rest of the world, and also how much of it we use domestically nor how much LNG we export. But I knew we had a lot, and I always wondered why we didn't import more until the Middle East and Venezuela was bled dry while keeping ours as a strategic reserve. I've a feeling we're doing exactly that, but I did think we'd be importing more.
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Ugh, a year! A whole year? They only accept applications annually? You will get time because you literally HAVE to- as in it’s a fact you will. The science and exploration your team is doing, not to mention the caliber of your team, essentially demand time on the Webb. The JWST is the only instrument that can meet your requirements, and darnit, I want to see an exomoon.
Is anyone aware of a citizen feedback procedure where we can express our wishes, dissatisfactions, and of course congratulations about what we want studied on OUR telescope?
David, I’m sorry and I know you guys are disappointed and down. It’s gotta be tough being so open, willing to share, and obviously team oriented only to be reminded that competition is such a big part within your game.
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I see homeless encampments every day when I walk/run my pups at Papago park by the 202. I started by calling these in so Tempe could (and did - thoroughly, God bless them) get them help, food, and shelter, and then carting out garbage bags of trash out (not necessarily their fault, since by their nature, homeless need to hoard resources.). Now I bring food and suggest they keep their 'area' clean - and am working with the city to get these humans redirected towards help or mental health assistance.
Unfortunately, after these people are resettled, an entirely new wave of homelessness occupies the park, and the cycle begins again. It doesn't seem to stop. I feel like I'm just spinning my wheels, yet these are people - economically, not too far removed from myself. Which is sobering. Will I be next? Really, could I find myself in their situation? I'm a pretty smart, compassionate, empathetic person - couldn't these people be the same? What do I do? What do we do?
And it's not so simple as homelessness - pretty much all are dealing with addiction, mostly meth. What can we do?
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U know, it hasn't been that long since I really got interested in politics and tried to learn what was happening. I'm a right leaning moderate but I thought I should learn more about what my fellow Americans believe, and like JP at 0:52 I just assumed the left leaning citizens were rational, compassionate, willing to compromise to accommodate minority and majority points of view, patriotic, have pride in our country, were WAY beyond differentiating people according to their race and gender and skin color, respected other people regardless of their party affiliation, and had more in common with my friends and me than not.
Wow, I was so ignorant and foolish.
I still believe that Classical Liberals are still American, love this country, and respect law and especially the Constitution. But the far left radical socialist marxist stalinists have gone completely off the rails, have hijacked the Democrat Party, and with obama and biden, have hijacked this country for 12 dangerous years.
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This was a good1, great jokes, funny.
Has Fox, the Five, Gutfeld…has anyone thought of a late night comedy show, like on a Saturday, at night maybe…and it could be live, in front of a studio audience…? It wouldn’t be a stretch, you could model it after…I don’t know…Carson! Sure, model it after Carson!
Good times, great show.
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I'd fly in it, absolutely I would. It doesn't have any bearing on whether or not I'd fly in it, but my thought is that it will be the safest airplane on the planet for awhile! Despite the fact I work on aircraft, I don't particularly care what I fly in as long as it's a reputable airline, western technology, and well fed pilots so I think Petter is correct; I'd go a step further and say most people won't even think about it. I am surprised Boeing hasn't rebranded the MAX, and still continue to call the system 'MCAS.' I get the game Boeing was forced to play in order to compete w AirBus, but it turned around and bit them in the face. Of course it's horrible, the death toll, I hope that weighs heavily on the minds of the corporate decision makers.
I hope the deaths won't be in vain and that Boeing finds its way back home from this, figuratively and literally. Boeing was - and is - an industry darling, an American icon. Inventing, engineering and manufacturing the greatest and the most innovative air- and spacecraft in the world, loved by its employees, respected as a giant in the industry, trusted by the American public...its history parallels our nation's history, and our nation's survival and our rise to post-WWII greatness, our national security, indeed our way of life! is due in no small part to Boeing. I hope this tragedy is the demarcation where Boeing decides to go back to its roots, and revives itself to again becoming an engineering focused and engineer-led company with a culture of safety and excellence, answerable to its employees and accountable to the public, and relocated back to Seattle so management (re-staffed by business oriented engineers, or at least engineering focused business administrators) and engineering are again enabled to get and stay on the same page and solve problems together. If Boeing succeeds at becoming Boeing again, it may be a way to honor and memorialize those who perished.
This may be the appropriate time to cut out the cancer that is the former McDonnell-Douglas corporate structure and remove them from the company. The merger changed Boeing; I've learned there's a joke that McDonnell-Douglas bought Boeing with Boeing's money. The McDonnell-Douglas management team brought a business mentality that prioritizes short term profits and cost reductions, at the expense of R&D, long term planning, employee satisfaction and employment, product quality, safety and perhaps worst of all, Boeing's reputation. A financial bureaucracy runs the company, displacing engineers from leadership, a bureaucracy that went as far as moving the corporate headquarters to Chicago. This physical separation of engineering and management reinforces the cultural shift from building airplanes to creating wealth for shareholders.
Before the merger of the two companies, this same team of executives with such a short term mindset managed to nearly destroy McDonnell-Douglas, one of the greatest, most successful, and most important aerospace companies in the world. Only the merger with Boeing saved them from collapse, becoming another historical footnote. Their failure of leadership is catching up with Boeing; how could they have been given another chance to bring another giant of a company to ruin?
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@unapologeticanti-feminist3205 I’m not implying you’re wrong, and I appreciate what you’ve revealed. But if most women really do think that they bring beauty and access to sex to the table (I’m inferring ‘primarily’), that makes me a little confused , uncomfortable, and feel these women are disengenuous during courtship and the beginning of a relationship.
Beauty’s understandable, everyone wants to put their best foot forward. But for me, it needs to be expressed naturally, with and without makeup, where makeup is used primarily to enhance natural beauty. Beauty also extends to her mind and body: I’d like someone who takes care of themselves by keeping fit, staying healthy, eating properly, has a positive attitude, self esteem and confidence and respect. When we’re in our 40s, 50s, 60s… I want my wife to be fit and attractive. Women and men tend to let themselves go the older they get, but I reject a lifestyle that leads to that.
I’ve also never met a woman who wasn’t 10 become more beautiful after I got to know her admirable personality traits, such as honesty, humility, kindness, genuineness, etc.
The ‘access to sex’ part concerns me.
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It absolutely did use afterburners continuously, the entire trip, from takeoff through cruise. It used a lot of fuel, being practically a flying gas tank underneath some passenger seats. Edit: I should have done a little reading before shooting my mouth off, sorry Me. Looks like afterburners for takeoff and again from transonic to Mach 1.7. Haven’t found what pushes it from 1.7 to 2.0, though. When I tripped on an article that states the Concorde is capable of supercruise (I think from an article about the F-22 or F-23), I was like, ohhhhh crap. Maybe I should have observed how slippery the fuselage is, along with the thrust output w no reheat, instead of being prejudiced that supercruise was the exclusive domain of my country. Thanks Philip; apologies again, Me.
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It’s not really fair to say we’ve had more transportation problems like this in history. America has by far the safest airline industry. We’ve gone through decades of safe travel. During the ‘golden age’ of air travel, aircraft crashes were not only not uncommon, they generally ended with all souls lost. Things got better with jet aircraft, but fatal crashes still occurred - not frequently, but also not unheard of.
Thanks to the efforts of companies like Boeing, McDonnel-Douglas, Convair, and the airlines, along with our FAA, the National Weather Service, and a myriad of other companies that make engines, airframes, avionics, and other components, we have a safe airline industry with a record that is the envy of the world. Add to that the training and professionalism of people that fly, maintain, manufacture, manage, control, and administer our civilian aviation infrastructure, and we have a service where an incident like this is big news.
Does Boeing, Alaska Airlines, and now United, get a free pass? No, of course not. I sincerely hope these incidents are taken to heart and that safety measures are again paramount - before they are forcibly reinstituted due to spilled blood.
No one would deny any facet of the industry their right to operate at a profit, but if maximizing profits at the expense of safety is occurring, then we have a serious problem with the people we elevate into management authority.
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So, in the High Field Compression Section, after the plasmas collide, and after the magnetic field increases in strength to drive the temp up to fusion temperatures….how long does this FRC(?) ‘blob’ stay in existence? Is there a single fusion event that pushes against the field (like a piston), and then the whole cycle starts again? Or does the ‘blob’ fuse repeatedly for, say, seconds until it runs out of fuel, and then the cycle restarts at the Formation Section?
I guess what I’m really asking is how often does the magnetic field, which is pushed outward by fusion, oscillate so that it cuts across the conductors making an EMF? And what causes the field to contract so that it can expand, again and again?
Or do I have it completely wrong?
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ITRI seems like it accomplished exactly what governments should do for their citizens and society.
It also seems like here in the US, half the nation WANTS our government to do for them as well, but only in the form of handouts so they simply don’t have to work.
When the US government passed the Chips Act, I was hoping it would operate like ITRI, but it just blindly handed $billions to firms to build more fabs (which is great), and then that was it - the government turned away and looked for the next thing to throw taxpayer money at.
Did any of that Chips money go towards gearing up tech schools to educate Americans how to build chips, competitively on the world market? Last I heard, TSMC in Arizona was getting so frustrated with just the construction costs of building the fabs, they were trying to bring in their own construction personnel to bring the costs down. Also, not even our construction workers had the education necessary to finish building the fab and outfitting it with it with the technology necessary to bring it online.
Whereas ITRI “acted like project managers” to deal with gearing up the infrastructure all the way through to bringing the infrastructure online to make chips, the US just writes a check and walks away. Corruption also finds a way in (thinking First Solar), and ultimately, nothing gets accomplished, other than politicians using it as a way to advance their careers or standing. Meanwhile, we just continue getting chips from SK, Taiwan….and AZ fabs are idle.
Maybe we should have given Taiwan the $52billion as a subcontractor to do what the USG can’t.
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EMP resistance, if true, would have been a side effect and not a desired design goal. They had to use tubes becoming the Soviets were in a semiconductor stone age, although I understand they did develop vacuum tube electronics to a high degree.
I met Belenko at the AceyDeucies Bar in Wisconsin during the Oshkosh Air Show, man, a long time ago - 30years? Laf, I almost got into a fight with him. We’re all gettin pretty pie eyed, and he was cocking off about living the high life on the US Govts dime, which I must have gotten irritated about. I told him I was glad we got to inspect his MiG, the USSR was a farce of a government, but that he was a traitor, regardless. The last part didn’t go over well. In the end, we drank more, hugged, and pretty soon he forgot all about me. I guess he actually is (or was?) an alright guy…sober. Aren’t we all.
I thought I heard or read Viktor was from Ukraine.
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I don’t know…maybe not working on his image so hard, and trying to get his face on the news. With a House almost evenly split (which, take note, is the ideal situation the Founders wanted), the next Speaker is fast going to realize moving legislation is going to require cooperation, collaboration, communication , and compromise. As intended, and often, perhaps, to our frustration, the process will be slow.
Conversely, the rapidity with how this gang of eight was able to upend the House and remove Rep. McCarthy is extremely troubling. That Rep. Gaetz identified and exploited the loophole that was not intended to be used this way…that only 4% of republican representatives were able to sack a Speaker…this is a serious violation of decorum, tradition, and the spirit and intent of the accepted means of removing a sitting Speaker.
Rep. Gaetz and his cohorts acted without integrity, and behaved in too radical of a fashion. This is a maneuver I would expect from the radical progressive left, and is not behavior I want to see within a party that needs to present as unified, now more than ever.
What I do think Americans are justifiably upset about is when politicians take advantage of the system in order to hold legislation hostage in the name of party politics. I do not think that was the case with Rep. McCarthy, I believe he has always acted in good faith, realistically aware he needs to respect the democrat representatives that account for the other half of this country’s population.
Having a majority, however slight or great, does not give that party carte blanche, and certainly does not mean that party may act without consideration of the minority.
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“We acknowledge there are many different truths. …I’m certain the truth exists for you; and probably for the person next to you. But this truth may not be the SAME truth.”
“This is…when we merge facts about the world with our BELIEFS about the world. So we all have DIFFERENT TRUTHS.”
This is the radical far left in action. Redefining what is true, and forcing their version of it upon those who believe in the actual truth.
See how she conflated truth with beliefs, and redefined ‘truth’ as ‘belief,’ BUT subtly gives the word ‘belief’ the same meaning, the same emphasis, the same authority, and the same DEFINITION as the word ‘truth?’
She is ultimately giving everyone (in this case her and the radical, socialist left) the freedom to redefine ANY word into meaning whatsoever they choose. This also gives them the power to discriminate against anyone who believes in an absolute truth and force them into believing however the left chooses for us to think.
This is what happens when someone hates our Constitution, refuses to acknowledge truth, and seeks to our inalienable rights.
This is what happens when someone hates God and/or refuses to believe in an absolute truth. She is attempting to remove a moral basis we all can agree upon into a free for all whereby the dominant party can impose its tyrannical will.
This is what happens when a society lets the truth be redefined as whatever a society likes. What this eventually leads to is a government free to decide what the truth is, and force this decision upon its citizens. Since the citizenry chooses to believe in no absolute truth, the ruling party has been given the freedom to define truth as whatever suits them the most. We will have relinquished our rights to be governed by objective truth.
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I have chosen to believe we are alone in the galaxy, and therefore, the universe, from cells through intelligent life. I don’t have any religious inhibitions regarding alien life, nor do I subscribe to any anthropic tendencies that restrict life, including humans, to Earth. So many things had to have happened to allow life to end up with us in 2024 that it seems to me unlikely to have happened. And of course, there’s no evidence.
I was watching a Moon origins documentary a few hours ago, and it was suggested that had Theia not smacked the Earth, we wouldn’t be here. Had hundreds or thousands of events happened, or not happened, life may not have had the opportunity to start. However, if evidence shows up I will absolutely be blown away with excitement, regardless if it’s a bacteria or a sentient alien. It will be the greatest discovery ever and HFY, I’ll be onboard.
I’m just not interested in a dedicated search for it. I’m excited by the prospect of discovery, and settlement, expansion, and the exploitation of our solar system, leading to who knows where and how. And if we find some life on the way, great!
Sometimes I get annoyed by scientists who are so certain, but their enthusiasm engages the public, leading to funding, getting us closer to settling other moons and planets. Plus, they’re genuinely excited and passionate about finding life, so by all means - search for it! They are busy helping our space industry move forward, and that’s good enough for me.
And if it inspires people to learn and strive for space related careers, good for you; keep on believing.
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@ReeCooks14579 I think Ree’s correct, folks; I was watching some episode where she was worth $30 million, which is ridiculous. I sourced Reuters, which indicates she has less than $60,000 in assets.
I don’t care for aoc any more than the next Conservative, but exaggerating her wealth, or outright lying about it just makes you out to be a bunch of chumps. We rail on the far left for corruption, lying, things out of context, stealing, and you don’t see the contradiction with your behavior?
She’s capable of screwing things up all on her own, we don’t have to embellish it. And every lie you tell that she refutes only makes her constituents more motivated to keep re-electing her. Your ignorance is making her out as a hero. Quit it.
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Simplifying the political and cultural crisis we find our nation to demographics and using Jan6 as proof of white male insecurities over their loss of status reeks of another elitist narrative using another sleight of hand, shifting all fault away from the radical left to the radical right. Ms. Walter says the poor do not start civil wars, and basically erases the BLM riots from this dialogue. Could it be the media’s use of the words ‘insurrection’ and ‘protest’ to describe the two situations and gloss over the reality of which is more indicative of our current and future crises?
I don’t give a damn about one’s skin color, religion, or ethnicity and America was doing just fine at making racism generationally obsolete and integration and assimilation the social and cultural norm - that is until Obama upended all the progress we made at interracial harmony, and creating the most divisive American society since before 1964.
What I care about is the cultural and moral erosion of America’s traditional institutional values by the radical far left progressives seeking to upend and undermine our nation’s democracy. I care about the insidious perversion of Constitutional principles by the ruling elites intent on destroying our desired form of governance in favor of marxism, socialism, and/or communism.
It’s these far left radicals I’m willing to bear arms against to protect and defend the America I love and believe in. My Black, Muslim, and Mexican neighbors and friends are prepared to do the same. This progressive extremism must be sought out and destroyed, and if civil war is necessary to purge this cancer, this enemy within, so be it. I’ve sworn to protect my country and the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic.
I’m glad Ms. Walter was brave enough to touch on this topic that is inevitable unless progressivism can be eliminated peacefully. Obviously I have some disagreements with her reasoning and what feels like trying to deflect who would bear the historical responsibility of a civil war. I’m afraid she’s another useful idiot being used as a tool by the far left; perhaps she doesn’t realize it. She’ll find she’ll be judged to be on the wrong side if she is naive enough to think the Jan6 participants and their brethren will be the catalyst for America’s next civil war. That fault will reside with the radical left progressives in government, bureaucratic, media, and corporate leadership as they continue to erode away and destroy American Democracy. There will come a time when the removal of the progressive cancer can no longer be done peacefully; when true, patriotic, American citizens have been pushed too far, and are forced to rise up against these elitist marxists with arms if necessary.
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Funny, on my Apple and PC devices, first thing I do is make DDG my default SE, and make sure all Google 'viruses' are, and stay off, my network. There's no way I'd ever trust Google w my banking info, documents, cloud drives, or search. Great for me, but I really wanted to trust Apple but now not so sure. I think I'll stick w 'traditional' electronic banking with my bank (so I have to insert a card instead of waving my iPhone - so primitive and Luddite) and distribute my info across multiple cloud drives, encrypted, with my passkeys stored on my network and safe deposit box. Somehow I still get emails related to my Safari history, or very fast 'intelligent' search results (on DuckDuckGo). Somebody, somewhere, is still watching me. And I do not appreciate it.
And no, I've nothing to hide, but that's not the point. The point is I have nothing I want to share.
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Sure. On a Star Trek episode. I personally don’t have enough property to satisfy all my energy requirements, plus I still need a patch to let my dogs out. Not sure I want to purchase, install, maintain, and upgrade my ‘strategically durable’ solar contraption when I can just flip a switch and use power from a grid that has been 99.999999% reliable and available.
Sorry for being cynical, but these pie in the sky ideas spewed with little awareness of regional, state, and national scope realities, along with financial ramifications, actual economic benefits, what additional bureaucracies will the DOE create to manage this distributed nightmare, and of who or what is going to pay for ANOTHER redundant power grid? I’m not certain how it makes sense to fund and build a brand new supplement to something that mainly works well? Why not invest in buttressing the grid we have? Why not look at instead investing the $tens of billions into something practical, proven, better, and ultimately required when the anti nuke activists die off, hostile bureaucrats from regulatory agencies retire (and/or die off), and a pro nuclear political and social will take over because eventually fossil fuels will become too expensive and solar and wind still won’t make economic or technical sense as a primary energy source?
Whatever, sorry - now I’m just rambling.
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So you’re equating some amateur athletes getting together every four years to compete in games with global conflict, wars, and economies, wondering why we can’t just eliminate our militaries.
Can you point to a single instance in history, just once, when this ever happened? Maybe it did here and there on a regional scale but the reason we haven’t heard about it is because the de-militarized society was immediately taken over.
Peace is not a normal concept for humanity - if a nation wants or needs something another nation needs or wants, they’re going to go to war over it. The only antidote, ever, is peace through strength - among other things, it allows for the exchange of wants and needs by allowing commerce and its enforcement.
Population growth is so much greater now than at any other time, it’s easy to dismiss this, but the world has been at peace now to a much greater extent than ever before. Yes, millions are suffering and dying due to conflict, but billions aren’t. And those circumstances that have allowed for the population explosion, as well as lifting billions out of poverty, are due in large part because of strong militaries.
Exactly how peaceful do you think billions of people would be if there were no militaries? And as far as what George Carlin says, George said whatever he needed to say to draw crowds and make money. He said a lot of things, most of which I found repulsive. I never put much stock in anything that people have to say when how they rake in the cash depends upon what they have to say - there’s that conflict of interest thing going on there.
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5:20 nailed it. Speaking solely of myself, I spent most of my life being a fraud, thinking my sense of self was flawed and couldn’t possibly be attractive. This manifested, after several decades, into self loathing and all that entails. I had an average or below-average number of girlfriends, a 20-25 year marriage, and two post-marriage relationships that were disasters. Those last two relationships were instrumental in beginning to accept myself. I’ve been alone 4-5 years and have learned that I’m actually being ok with being me. Although it’s lonely at time, sure, I’ve grown accustomed to being alone. If interactions with woman don’t seem to be what I’m looking for, I’ve no interest in being a chameleon for the sake of companionship.
I want a long term relationship; I actually liked being married. But I won’t compromise needing to find someone compatible. I’d rather be alone than be miserable with myself for having to be someone I’m not. What works for me in the courtship process is a willingness to be alone if I don’t see it working out. Besides, it’s also not fair to the woman.
Fast forward, I’ve found someone I mesh perfectly with, and am falling in love with. Unfortunately, we’re 2,000 miles apart at the moment, which is hard so we’ll see. I consider her sooo far out of my league, physically - she is jaw dropping beautiful. I’m not the Elephant Man, but on a male attractiveness scale, I’d give myself a 5 out of 10. However, she seems to find me attractive, especially on an emotional and spiritual level, and I’m coming around to believing her. I hope it works, because I was starting to think what I wanted didn’t exist. But if it doesn’t, well, it doesn’t. I would rather be alone than to sacrifice being me.
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Can’t speak about the Ukraine 🇺🇦, but I’m too lazy to look it up. But I agree with a lot that you’re saying. I’m glad about the general retiring, but given this administration, he’s likely to have his slot filled with someone at least as bad, if not worse, for yours, mine, and every other citizen’s, military. Maybe the military needs to make some changes to its culture, I don’t know, but it seems the pendulum may have swung too far.
Regarding woke, what I’m worried about most is the hijacking of our military by the radical progressives that hate our Constitution, government, and country. I’m worried they’re going to infiltrate, infect, and take it over like they have our government bureaucracy, academia, our children’s education, and the media. Boy o boy, cloud I ever go on with THIS thread! :)
I still feel the money spent on gutting Russia is worth every penny, but, as Tulsi Gabbard points out, our leaders are acting awful flippant about potentially driving Russia to go nuclear. Since a particular agenda is underway, the American people are not being made aware of just how dangerous the Russia-Ukraine war really is. They’re really gambling with our lives that Putin will keep the conflict conventional. We are not being informed by the Biden administration exactly how serious Russia is about winning, because they view this conflict as vital to their national security.
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@utah_koidragon7117 I was going to comment something similar. To say the public should vote away the problem isn’t realistic. At best, they can MAYBE vote out some people responsible for the initial problem, but chances are the newly elected will just fall in line and keep the status quo. Or be outvoted.
You’d need to vote in a bunch of people in who campaigned on this, but it’s a single issue. People might agree insurance sucks, but they like a different issue the opposing candidate has, and vote him instead - for example.
The people who are getting crushed the most are probably a demographic that doesn’t much vote. That’s sad, and yeah, shame on them, but it doesn’t change the reality there needs to be reform.
I have NO idea how to solve this, or even make a dent. It has to be something that will cost them, where it’s cheaper to cover medical costs than it is to deny them. The only thing I can think of is yet MORE regulation, but how will that pass?
We’ve a populist President; this is likely the best, and maybe the only time the grass roots have a chance to create a groundswell their elected leader will listen to. Regardless of Trump’s support of corporations, he’d probably do something radically creative to make changes or start over. I don’t think he’d ignore his constituents, but we’d have to be organized, large, span the country, and loud.
Otherwise, UHC, et al, will lobby as usual and keep the status quo. Neither the insurance companies nor the US Government are gonna do it just because.
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Not quite true. After the Concorde started landing in America, Kennedy had a fit and created a huge moon shot initiative to create an American SST, only, of course, much, much larger and Mach 3. North American, Lockheed and Boeing submitted their proposals, Boeing’s was selected. A HUGE (read, momey pit) amount of Boeing and taxpayer funding was dumped into the project, leading to the 2707 SST. The amount of money was truly staggering. It never made it past the mockup stage. America and its aviation industry absolutely believed the future was supersonic, and after Concorde was ferrying passengers successfully and became the darling of the press, America had everything to prove.
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I get the appeal of sticking it to the view, I really do. Buuuut, like at 7:50, whoever that particular skeevy woman is (joy; joyce?), can you not keep their images up so long? And especially, for the love of God, Sister Clarence.
That gaggle is so repulsive, so repugnant, so rude, so, so…anti-feminine, I can barely stomach any episode they show up on.
That is, when Fox, Knowles, Shapiro, or Rubin feature them for their latest attempt at degrading moderate and centrist democrats, classical liberal democrats, woman, and of course, we conservatives, often times I can’t watch their episodes since that panel of journalistic perversion elicits such a nausea response I’m afraid I’ll vomit on my tablet.
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Response to faresmohammed5741: I disagree with your last sentence. Instability seems intrinsically tied to Islam. There could be a scenario where every Middle Eastern country and every citizen was prosperous and at peace, solving the energy needs of the world. But there’s so much hate, totalitarianism, and militant export of Muslim ideology, that seems tied to this culture (or these cultures), stability would be an impossible pipe dream.
Does anyone really think that without oil, and the associated need for that oil by the West, Islam would suddenly become a religion of peace? The ONLY reason the West cares about the Middle East is because its oil runs our economies. When it’s gone, we’ll leave, and won’t write. And you’ll still be killing yourselves and breeding terrorists. Culturally, the world can’t run out of oil fast enough.
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Guaranteed millions haven’t batted an eye about diden being ousted and harris stepping in. Whatever the far left media says, for them it’s just another day, it’s all true, and they’ll never, ever, EVER read this, nor watch Fox, Megyn, O’Reilley, Shapiro, Hanson, Peterson, Knowles…
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I remember first using my 4-1/2” and being excited at how bright it was. Laf, then I got a used Meade 10” LXD75 reflector, which practically burned my eyeball when I spun it up :). The Moon was simply too bright to view directly, but seeing the details of the limbs (why are they called ‘limbs?’ Just because they’re on the sides??) was so amazing.
As much light gathering ability my scope has, and as cool as it looks and is to use, I’m not certain if I’d recommend one. I found it on eBay for $600, which I felt was a steal (it was) and I was obsessed with owning it. Don’t get me wrong, it’s an awesome instrument, and any hard core viewer will love one, but it’s big. And heavy. And time consuming to set up and align. I didn’t care at first and used it often, but when I audited an astronomy class at our local UW Extension and used one of their excellent Celestron 8” Schmidt-Cassegrain scopes, I got a bit deflated over mine - although the price was still a big plus. The college’s scope and mount was reasonably easy to carry several hundred yards outside, simple to set up, and with it’s auto alignment, we were viewing our assigned targets in about 20min.
Still, I have my 10” Meade, chuckle, which my Mom once thought was a water heater when the tube was standing upright. I’ll likely keep it til I replace it with the largest S-C I can find and afford, hopefully another 10”.
Thanks, nissanzenkiboy. Brought back some memories, brother.
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I wish legacy propaganda outlets like cnn and msnbc had a program partnership w Sky News Australia, where the US outlets would redirect to Sky News on a regular basis. You know, “and what’s Australia saying about such n such in our country? What does Australia think about our president stopping Iran in its tracks, with ‘DON’T’?”
Just to get this in front of those viewers’ eyes, since there’s no way they’re going to watch Fox or Forbes; why would they? From their perspective, this administration is doing great - keep repeating anything you want!
In fairness to those viewers, I truly tried watching the left stations. It was so diametrically opposed to how I think, so emotion based and not logical or rational - I just had a hard time keeping it on. Besides, it made my anxiety go through the roof!!
I’m sure it’s the same for them. Trouble is, someone’s lying! :). Either that, or ‘our’ outlets are talking about different countries. :)
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I’ve heard and read worse, but I agree - Bomber Harris is a hero of Britain. Love him or hate him, he’s exactly what Britain needed at that time and was one of the very few with the fortitude to accomplish what he did. After the London Blitz, he had full support of the population, War Cabinet, Parliament and, perhaps reluctantly, Churchill, to carry out area bombing - the war could have been very different without him. Britain must always hold his memory in the highest regard, future generations need to learn and relearn what the man did to spare the world from Nazism, and not be misdirected by the revisionists who find him such an easy target to villify.
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Frankly, yeah, NASA is loaded with talkers, no where near enough thinkers, and given the sad state of failed and canceled initiatives along with a severe lack of accomplishments, is severely lacking doers. If you’re insulted, you’re probably in the first group.
The difference between internal communication and talking, insofar as Artemis is concerned, is talking is related to not getting anything done and making excuses why nothing is getting done and further delaying the mission.
Regarding the Bible verse, this ‘supporter’ doesn’t take issue with criticism, as long as it’s given in a courteous way with the intention of increasing understanding. I’m not sure I understand your point of the Bible not having updates…of course it won’t, as it is a fixed source of truth! But I sense you have a dislike for religion such that it’s mere mention instantly puts you in a state where you must condemn and ridicule what other people may believe but you find unacceptable. You’re definitely in the first group…I hope you can get past yourself to work with others who are different from you and think differently than you.
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@kelly4187 yeah, but how?? I’ve no clue whatsoever how long, for example, it took her to produce this…a few days? A week? An hour? She obviously has some overhead, had to learn how to do content creation, topic research, learn public speaking (she’s quite a good narrator), build her ‘brand’ and get thousands or tens of thousands eyes on her channel, be large enough to attract sponsors…
This takes money, ya? If she works full time and is dedicated enough doing this as a hobby, is independently wealthy, or has other financial support, well sure; don’t have ads. But if this is her livelihood, are you willing to toss a few coins her way so she can make a living?
And give her a break about her sponsorship choice. Would she have the same credibility if she enlisted advertising support from, say, and online dating service? I mean, they probably pay better!
How do you propose she, or any independent content creator, fund her effort? What do you think you would do?
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Annnd to CBS Texas: This was poor…storytelling. I was about to use the word ‘journalism’ but this episode has way too much bias. You’re framing the facts in such a way that takes advantage of people’s unfamiliarity with crypto to demonize the technology in order to generate click-profit. You’re smart; you KNOW where the problem lies (in case you don’t, it’s with the criminal), but instead of educating your audience to REDUCE their fear, you’re trying to capitalize on it. Shame on you.
And I get it how satisfying it must seem that this cowboy sheriff seized the fraud money. But breaking the law to shift the blame to the ATM operator is not just illegal, it’s unethical. The criminal is the unknown, ethereal scammer, who’s probably on the other side of the planet, untouchable. But the ATM is something tangible, in the Sherrif’s jurisdiction, so I get the temptation to steal from the operator, and feel justified. All you’ve accomplished is manipulate your audience into thinking the entire crypto industry is a giant, illegal scam.
Tell me, how would you report a card skimmer who stole credit card numbers when a customer buys gas at the pump? Are you going to hold the credit card industry to the same standard? Of course not - because everyone is familiar with credit cards.
Your job is to educate your audience about crypto so they acquire the same familiarity.
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Wait wait, the pic at 2:26 is misleading, as this waste is secondary waste; higher volume, radically lower toxicity with half lifes measured in hundreds of years that contains low level radiation 2:27 items such as gloves, suits, containers, and so on - similar, if not identical to, the low level radiation detritus from imaging devices used within hospitals.
The high level radiation stuff is the burnt fuel residuals, currently stored on site at the nuclear power facilities - the volume of ALL high level radioactive waste created by ALL the nuclear reactors in ALL the world could fit inside a room in a house - bedroom, bathroom, living room, I'm not sure. Also, current generation reactors are only able to use 10% of the fissile matter, leaving a lot of that small amount of volume that fits into a room, with potential to be reused. And a lot, if not most, of 4th gen reactors are to use the current waste as fuel, and to burn nearly all, if not 100%, of that waste as fuel, creating a small amount of waste with half lifes of around 300 years.
That picture is is pretty misleading - at the very least, some context of the volume of the low level waste portrayed in the photograph should be explained. There's a pretty significant story behind it, and it is not unfavorable to nuclear. Even if we didn't reuse the high level waste, there will be so little of it especially when compared to the waste from burning petroleum, I do not believe it's an insurmountable problem - certainly not one to stopmusing nuclear over. The comparison of waste amounts isn't laughable, of course, but it is surreal.
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Sigh, every elected official, with the exception of the president, is elected y popular vote. That the Executive Branch is voted electorally, yes, does indeed make us a Republic, but in this day and age, it's largely semantic and everyone knows what is what. That said, yes he could use a history lesson, and yes, it would have been helpful if he'd have read our founding documents, including the Constitution, he is an idiot.
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So frustrating - for those challenging generally held statistics, especially regarding casualties….
Again, SOURCES PLEASE! Why do all the stats haters neglect to mention their sources in order to back up their criticisms and claims? RLL, like other channels who report similar statistics, use similar sources. If you can’t, or will not, provide your sources, you just sound like another crackpot.
Look, most of us don’t have skin in this, so the true death toll has virtually no impact on most of us. But, we do want be confident that the statistics we are given are true. So, spill! Where are you getting your data so that we can independently investigate its reliability?
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I’m a right of center moderate…also known as a classical conservative. I love classical liberals; my best friends are classical liberals - well, over half are - the remainder are classical conservatives, independents, and even a fair number of libertarians. America was built, managed, and protected by both classical conservatives and liberals, independents, and libertarians. Of course, those on the spectrum further right and left definitely had and have their roles as well, but were still guided by their more fundamental perspectives of the Constitution and Democracy.
The Republican Party’s a bit of a mess, but it seems to be coming together in a way that will matter in 2024. We need work, for sure, but that’s not the topic at the moment.
The Democrat Part, though, has been successfully, and even brilliantly (to give grudging respect to the hijackers’ strategy) hijacked by the far left extremist socialist stalinists. And the poor left of center moderates don’t know where they belong and who to vote for. Because the current administration, which is thoroughly controlled by a corrupt and socialist machine, no longer represents and respects their values, beliefs, and democratic principles.
They almost can’t vote Republican because they probably would vomit to associate with the far right - heck, I feel the same, sometimes - and they probably are also hesitant to associate with MAGA Republicans. Can’t really blame them. But they’re also jammed up with voting Democrat this election, because this Democrat Party is no longer THEIR Democrat Party. It’s gone, STOLEN. So what do they do? How are they supposed to vote?
Like a man without a country, they’re about half the population of America without a party!
What’s going to happen? Do they split the party, and become “The Reformed Democrat Party?” Do they initiate a party COUP to take control of the Democrat Party, and KICK OUT the socialists? Will the socialists break from the party on their own and create a new Socialist Party? (I cringe at capitalizing ‘socialist party’)
Can and will all the Classical Democrats, that other half the entire population, protest against the radical socialists and break with the current Democrat Party, and vote Republican, just for this election? Then work to rebuild their party, cutting out the cancer that’s literally killing our democracy?
(Disclaimer: I don’t consider MAGA only the far right or the extreme right. At the moment, I feel it includes all Trump supporters, those favoring his Populist sentiment, and us right-of-center moderates. I hope it can and will include centrists, independents, libertarians, and especially the classical liberals. So if it will get Trump elected, sure, call me MAGA. Whatever; just win the frakking election.)
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Australia's Sky News is this American's news media outlet I turn to, in addition to Fox, to get indepth coverage on American news, due to the failure of American (so called) news organizations to report the more obscure news that CNN, MSNBC, CBS, USA Today, The New Yorker, Vox, the Guardian (geez, they multiply like rats) deem too dangerous to their facsist leader. Ps, sorry, forgot to add the BBC to the list of liberal opinion outlets.
I used to think it was sad I had to get news from a different country, but no longer, as Aus Sky News is mainstream...for me, for sure. Thank you! It's almost too bad you people are so nice, because I kinda thought Australia would be a great place to deport all of America's far left socialist stalinists to. You know, bc of your colonial history the liberals seem happy blaming whites like my (American, but that won't stop them) self. But you seem so nice, so I start a movement here.
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What do you propose as an alternative? And why would you think you would do anything differently?
There will ALWAYS be the poor, there will always be people struggling.
There will ALWAYS be the rich, there will always be the super rich.
There wasn’t EVER a middle class in ALL of history until fairly recently.
Most of the country is middle class, and banks and government regulation makes it possible. Maybe it’s not the only way, but it’s what we have. Like it or hate it, we value banks and hyper qualified individuals.
Do I wonder about these crazy high c-level salaries? Shoot, I can’t even wrap my head around the numbers. But I’m not about to believe the current ‘equity’ BS will suddenly make poor people not be poor. And I certainly don’t want anyone who can’t pay their bills in charge of my money, retirement accounts, and mortgage.
And yeah, I’m struggling right now. I had it, and due to bad decisions and personal issues, either lost it all or walked away from it. I’ve lost jobs through accounting restructuring, and no fault of my own. Now I’m back to where I started - with almost nothing.
But I’m not going to wail that ‘these types’ should give me a chunk of their outrageous income. I’m not going to waste time dreaming I’m owed a job just because I’ve been at one for so long.
Life’s a risk. It’s hard. Deal with it, or be prepared to be poor.
Life’s also pretty awesome. It depends on your attitude and how you choose to live it. And yeah, I’m still working on this last part.
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You nailed it. I was reading comments, half listening to her, thinking “didn’t I just hear her say…..wait!…she said it again??
It’s lethal if we would actually do what we say we’re going to do, given particular limits and conditions that, if exceeded or violated.
It’s lethal if we would take a firm stance, show strength, exude decisiveness, and be crystal clear about what exactly will happen if America’s ultimatums are ignored.
Deterrence.
Right now, Israel, Iran, China, Russia, Syria, Hamas and Hezbollah, the entirety of the Middle East, and NATO just think two carriers got together off the Gaza coast to do some competitive fishing.
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Response to a comment - Same. This article proves Apple is a good negotiator, but I'm not seeing the monopolistic connection (if I'm missing something, PLEASE interject and enlighten me). As long as Apple provides me assurances my iPhone-related (and Mac & iPad) activities are encrypted and secure, AND provides a superior service/product at a competitive price, and heir assurances are indeed validated, I'll remain an applelyte. But if they even hint at being untrustworthy, I'll stop using their products immediately, even if I have to forego the convenience of a celly. Google may as well be dead to me as a consumer, I just hope I never need to rely upon them as a small business. They've a racket going there, I would definitely seek alternatives. Hopefully, when the time comes, there ARE alternatives.
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I’ll try.
Could be. But while they don’t burn up, they could generate enough heat upon impact to melt the surface and the impactor. And maybe even crack the shell and cause magma to upwell - although that would be a massive object, and I think the Moon is geologically dormant though not completely ‘frozen.’
Could have, given the number of craters all over the lunar surface. But unless the impactor is ginormous (over, what? A hundred meters?), they’d burn up in our atmosphere. But the Moon has such a small gravitational field and is so close to the Earth, and massive bodies have such an insanely high velocity relative to the Earth, I’d guess at best it could nudge a potential impactor heading to NY to instead smack LA.
On the Moon? I don’t believe so, but only because I think we’d have heard about it as pretty significant space news. On Earth, maybe the Chelyabinsk might qualify for someone, but no photographs of the actual impacts of the fragments seem to exist from the time of the actual events occurred. Some fragments were found later, though.
A lunar colony would be in danger, certainly. Radiation, though, is probably the greater danger. Perhaps this is why a lot of plans for settlements place them underground, which could also provide protection from small meteoroids.
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The criticism leveled at the short term corporate focus is not untrue, but it’s not only the executives who are at fault. It seems like that’s how the entire structure is built, with relatively short, short term gains having such a disproportionate incentive over longer term (and riskier) promises of return.
I don’t know a thing about why this Intel CEO made the decision he did, but it’s not outside the realm of possibility he acted upon the information he had at the time. And if I were to be rewarded, both at the corporate level and the personal, with a large stash of cash in a so-called short term, I’d have done the same thing…who wouldn’t??
Also, what’s considered a safer, short term perspective might not have seemed ‘short’ at the time…at least not from our hindsight view now. Maybe he did fk up, but this seems like a common theme amongst all kinds of American industries and companies. To me, this points more to a major flaw in the regulation of our capitalist market system. I just have no idea what the solution could be, much less even know exactly what the flaw is.
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Come on, you two. Congress had the opportunity to deal with this corruption for the last forty years or more. They failed.
The far left is patient. The reason they infected our nation is because the government has gotten so gridlocked and paralyzed. They're unable to accomplish anything to clean out the rot because of all the bureaucratic nonsense that prevents affecting positive change. Need an example? LA residents who lost their homes can't even clean their property without a permit.
The only thing'discussing' anything does is to keep positive chamge tied up in never ending discussions. Corruption has had free rein for decades.
We, the voters, want the cancer cut out IMMEDIATELY, and the Executive Orders made law. The democrats have failed us so badly, we're willing to risk EO's being overturned because we want a long string of Conservatives in the Executive Branch, like Ms. Gabbard, Gov. DeSantis, JD Vance, et al.
Trump and Musk aren't doing anything radical, except trying to rapidly move our Nation back to the Center. Had harris won, we'd begin the downhill plummet into socialism, and ultimately to civil war.
Frankly, I'm disappointed in both of you.
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A reply to Sendeth, a few comments below:
In Catholicism, there is an avenue whereby Jews (especially Messianic Jews, obviously) will enter into heaven. This isn’t to say they’re granted heavenly dispensation because the Church says so; rather it’s a way for Christians to understand this, in a way that’s consistent with Christian, Catholic Doctrine.
Islam is a farcical religion; saying Gabriel said something is, at best, an opinion, but more likely explained as wishful thinking to legitimize a false religion. For example, I could lay forth a belief structure and attribute it to an Angel, but this doesn’t make it so. And why pick an angel anyway? An angel isn’t authoritative, and certainly not to humanity - the Bible considers them Holy, but simply messengers. The Koran, to be a holy book, would need to come from God or his Begotten Son, not a mere messenger. This alone is enough to realize Islam is a farce.
That said, the Catholic Church maintains a dialogue with Muslims, and an awareness that Muslims view Islam as sacred. It’s not, of course, but there can be no conversion to the Truth without dialogue.
Paganism is easy; it’s satanic. And the political bs that is the left, and, as you yourself believe, a metaphysical interpretation of worshipping the self is, practically speaking, the definition of satanism.
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Pathetic. In some insane way, she thinks she’s supporting him? Does she really like her position that much as head of the ladies tea party? What an elitist monster - she fits right in with the rest of the socialist marxists. I bet even hillary grudgingly respects jill for putting her own interests ahead of all else.
If he wasn’t such a miserable human being, I might have sympathy for him. But he was, he is, and I don’t. Too bad our entire nation is the world’s laughing stock, and even worse is how he disgraced the Office of the President and Vice President during his career. Worse still is how badly the radical far left elitist socialist marxist stalinists has disgraced the very same office - along with The Constitution, the law, our form of government, our scientific, academic, historical, technological, business, and press institutions. Since obama, our American way of life has been eviscerated in his and the elites ambition to implement socialism.
But, America is beginning to put together that obama and joe are the #1 & #2 worst presidents in history. And as their legacies fade, and America guts this socialist cancer and destroys it, future historians will agree over how terrible those two men were to traditional American values. Fortunately, persecution makes Americans, that is, American in spirit, stronger and willing to fight for what we believe to be right. We will fight to take back our nation the Founding Fathers gave us, with their minds,their brilliance, their courage, and their blood.
Laf, so yeah, there you have it. Jill’s a power-loving she-monster. The French Revolution and the guillotine may offer some inspiration…such as Marie Antoinette on October 16, 1793.
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The PeninsulaSrs channel is, frankly, an amazing channel for aviation history and technology. I’ve watched in depth seminars on the Blackbird by pilots and engineers, the YF-23 by test pilots Paul Metz and Jim Sandberg, aircraft and Shuttle by Hoot Gibson, and a whole host of other aerospace subjects and presenters.
If any may be put off by the ‘seniors’ in the title, omg, don’t be. There’s an amazing amount of original content by people who were there! Many of whom have since passed, regrettably.
Thank you, Mr. Nash on the heads up on the one about the Tomcat, as I’ve not seen it yet.
https://youtu.be/SsUCixAeZ0A
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5:00 booker saying the employee search parameters are so small…? Like, be qualified? Nobody will disagree that hiring practices should be blind to most (read: reasonable) non-work related demographics, but the dems never gave a shit about the common worker. Everything was geared towards shoving their marxist, stalinist, socialist ideology down our throats to take out the middle class, destroy our Democracy, change our Nation to socialism, and marshall their power.
You asses blew it, took it too far, and revealed your true intentions. And we rejected you. The only thing we need to keep at the forefront is that we’re not done til they’re crushed and completely powerless, else they’ll just metastasize all over again. Cancerous tumors that manifest as democrats.
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Australia's Sky News is this American's news media outlet I turn to, in addition to Fox, to get indepth coverage on American news, due to the failure of American (so called) news organizations to report the more obscure news that CNN, MSNBC, CBS, USA Today, The New Yorker, Vox, the Guardian (geez, they multiply like rats) deem too dangerous to their facsist leader. Ps, sorry, forgot to add the BBC to the list of liberal opinion outlets.
I used to think it was sad I had to get news from a different country, but no longer, as Aus Sky News is mainstream...for me, for sure. Thank you! It's almost too bad you people are so nice, because I kinda thought Australia would be a great place to deport all of America's far left socialist stalinists to. You know, bc of your colonial history the liberals seem happy blaming whites like my (American, but that won't stop them) self. But you seem so nice, so I start a movement here.
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Then ask yourself what was so successful about past immigration versus current. I think it has everything to do with a willingness of immigrants to assimilate, and adopt the values of the host country. It was unheard of for European immigrants to not learn to speak English and to consider themselves, and their new families, as Americans. Contrast that with now, where there are distinct, isolated subcultures that have decidedly NOT assimilated, don’t speak the language, and have maintained their values, many of which may be unAmerican or otherwise dangerous to America. Why would you leave your home country? Why would you expect that America need not benefit from the immigration?
If immigrants do not assimilate, if our American values are not adopted, if America does not benefit, if immigrants can’t shed what is unAmerican, criminal, and dangerous of their home country’s values, then they shouldn’t be allowed in or ought to be deported.
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Regarding her ad choice:
yeah, but how?? I’ve no clue whatsoever how long, for example, it took her to produce this…a few days? A week? An hour? She obviously has some overhead, had to learn how to do content creation, topic research, learn public speaking (she’s quite a good narrator), build her ‘brand’ and get thousands or tens of thousands eyes on her channel, be large enough to attract sponsors…
This takes money, ya? If she works full time and is dedicated enough doing this as a hobby, is independently wealthy, or has other financial support, well sure; don’t have ads. But if this is her livelihood, are you willing to toss a few coins her way so she can make a living?
And give her a break about her sponsorship choice. Would she have the same credibility if she enlisted advertising support from, say, and online dating service? I mean, they probably pay better!
How do you propose she, or any independent content creator, fund her effort? What do you think you would do?
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Msnbc and cnn and the others are just unapologetically lying for her, her ads are factually false, and the outlets are parroting the same false information on their editorial shows (can’t call it news if they’re knowingly lying), knowing full well the statements are not true. It’s like everyone has gotten the same email on what everyone is allowed to say, to keep all the lies consistent and synchronized, so their audiences keep hearing the same thing no matter who they tune in to.
Ya, I know, campaign ads are all bs, truths are stretched, stuff’s taken out of context. But harris and the far left media outlets don’t even try to lipstick a pig; they’re just outright lying. To use some simple math as an example, harris is basically saying 2+2=57. And so is msnbc, cnn, abc, cbs.
And now she’s co-opting Trump’s policies, calling them her own? And the outlets are just reinforcing her wave of popularity. If there was ever any doubt our nation and press are being run by some elitist machine, just watch the harris campaign. She’s obviously being scripted, the far left media outlets are being told exactly what to say - and to keep repeating it until the next script has been sent out. Even harris is repeating - her campaign ‘speeches’ on two of them are almost identical!
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@turricanedtc3764 It’s refreshing to read of your skepticism regarding Hutchinson, to me he seems overly critical with the flight crew and AF and is focusing and advertising too much attention on details I’m not sure on regarding their relevance. I sense he has strong bias tendencies, one being he’s realized a degree of fame and fortune much greater than he ever had as a member of a very exclusive club, and is very motivated to maintain his notoriety. I’m also concerned about how people consider him an end all/be all authority on the accident because he’s a charmer w a good resume. I see a lot of examples where a topic now has to filter through John’s litmus test, whereas before, the filter was the French investigation. On the other hand, the final report along w the process to get to it…something feels off regarding its trustworthiness.
Much more to come, but I’m really just getting started with Flight 4590 research. I’m not sure why, as I’m not super interested in European affairs, and while of course it’s a beautiful airplane and an engineering masterpiece, I’ve never been that interested in it either. But thus far, hooked!
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@tdlong506 good eye. But the bits go opposite the direction of the read head. So after he gets to the last four (1, 1, 1, 0), the 0 is twixt the two north domains. The next would be a 1, as you pointed out, if it was doing a READ operation, BUT, he hadn’t gotten that far yet. Also, the previous example was a WRITE, so the 0 may not have been changed because, again, he hadn’t gotten that far yet. Also, If you follow the domains further left, you’ll notice others are 0 as well, even though the fields indicate a ‘READ’ should supply a 1.
Still, it was confusing; we were expecting the bit to be a 1, but the value was 0. I could use more WRITE examples, or more wheremthe polarities got flipped - because something doesn’t feel,quite right about my understanding; something’s off.
But I’m glad you observed this; it forced me to frak with it awhile.
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I’ve been in IT for around 25 years and have gotten thoroughly burnt out using this Linux OS here, this Android here, this off brand tablet here, and thinking it was so fun trying to get everything to work…never seamlessly. Now I just want my shit to work and for all my devices to work together. I bought a few used iPads, a used Mac, and an iPhone I keep for years. The amount of time and lack of aggravation and compatibility with the entire world makes a $thousand iPhone cheap. Not even mentioning my not being paranoid (as much) of my data security. But that’s just me.
Doesn’t mean I can be complacent or stupid with obvious security basics like passwords, phishing, not using only reputable apps, staying off questionable sites, etc, but I still have higher confidence of not seeing my identity elsewhere.
And sure, I know - security and convenience can be had doing it my old way, but I’m just not interested in doing so anymore.
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@Shblibble knock it off. You're making yourself seem the average hypocrite. When we boycott, we simply refuse to endorse a company with our dollars. When you cancel someone, you actively set out to destroy someone's reputation, career, financial security, social standing and so in, typically with lies and deception, underhanded influence, threats, misinformation, and misrepresentation and manipulation of facts. You have no issue canceling someone who is right, honest, and upright if they dare threaten the radical progressive narrative. Basically, if you can't have it your way or are otherwise challenged, you bully into submission anyone who exposes you and your ideology for the frauds you are.
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This masterpiece of pontication 🤔 was in response to a thread started by TheRedRaven, agreeing and expanding on a comment made by Steve Pemberton. These are my humble opinions 🙄 on drawing conclusions from YouTube generally; in advance, I apologize if I’ve offended anyone or what I wrote is too disagreeable, it isn’t my intention to create conflict. Petter, you’re doing great things with your channel and I strongly believe you to be a trustworthy source of information and insight, thank you for your work. As so many others have pointed out, your level of detail is amazing, and the way you strive to present as much context as possible is appreciated. Your focus on safety and learning from these accidents and incidents has had a huge impact on my attitude towards performance maintenance and repairs of aircraft.
@StevePemberton You make good points, and if there’s one flaw of these YouTube investigations (my opinion), and one thing that makes me uneasy, is that the only (maybe ‘primary’ is a better word) source is the investigation final report. I don’t have a suggestion to make things better and I’m not sure I’d do it any differently were I a YouTuber, but what concerns me is how a particular person’s style for their video essays can bias viewer’s opinions. For example, I’ve little doubt the majority of people believe John Taylor is responsible for causing this crash, but as you point out, it’s not so clear cut as that; drawing a conclusion from a single video and/or source always makes me a bit uncomfortable. Watching videos from multiple presenters is better, as they provide the obvious but important different perspectives and even biases and hopefully different or additional information; reading the investigation report, news reports and articles from investigative journalists, and related court proceedings in this case, is better yet. I believe MentourPilot, Airspace, Disaster Breakdown, Mini Aircraft Investigations, Green Dot, Long Haul, Mayday: Air Disasters, Smithsonian, On the Move, Wonder, and so many others, do the best they can to present facts in as unbiased and objective way as they can, but different perspectives are bound to influence different viewers, well, differently, and along the way, viewer’s own biases and predispositions are going to cause them to reach different conclusions. Some are quick to judge and seize on a particular reason for a particular disaster, sometimes rightfully so; some may question conclusions and look elsewhere, again sometimes rightfully; some are somewhere in the middle. For example, I don’t question the titanium metal strip on the runway was ultimately the cause of the accident, but I don’t believe it was the start of, and maybe not even the end of, the tragedy. I’m even less sure of conclusions drawn and drawing conclusions when it comes to investigating human factors.
My hesitation towards biases, perspectives, and conclusions drawn was really made manifest with Iran Air Flight 655 by watching videos from the authors above and more, reading through all the comments, and reading the US Navy Final Report. Depending on how the videos reported seemed to have a direct influence on how viewers responded; indeed, watching some videos had me initially concluding the US Navy really screwed up and murdered, even if unintentionally, the civilian passengers. Watching others led me to change my conclusion to accidental homicide. Still others, showing a point of view more favorable to the Navy, changed my conclusion to the US Navy acted appropriately and this was a terrible accident. Finally, after reading the US Navy Final Report and learning the Navy issued NOTAMs to other airlines and nations which agreed to constantly monitor the emergency frequency and respond with priority requests to identify, acknowledged the Navy was on a heightened state of alert following the Stark incident along with Iran attacking other nation’s civilian cargo ships, and alter their routes away from an active battle zone, I currently believe the Iranian government is solely responsible for the outcome, essentially murdering its citizens to create and take advantage of an international incident. My point? My conclusion kept shifting the more information and perspectives I accumulated. By the way, I’m open to changing my own conclusion if and when new information becomes available. I do wish changing actual outcomes was as easy as changing my mind and that, as in the case of Flight 655, all those people were still alive.
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This was a response to someone who asked about high speed aircraft. I had a couple of conjectures; one about the Blackbird/J58 family, and another about whether air is ducted away from the low-bypass turbofan section on fighters traveling at high supersonic speeds up to Mach 2.5+. Can anyone elaborate and clarify? Thank you.
Laf, there is that. A turbofan can generate a HUGE amount of thrust, but the acceleration and final velocity is efficient and effective for the transonic speeds of airliners and large transport planes.
For aircraft designed for speeds up to high Mach2 aircraft, the thrust is accomplished by accelerating the combusted air/fuel mixture to a high velocity within the jet engine core, driving the aircraft to high speeds.
For Mach3 aircraft like the Blackbird’s J58, an additional feature was added that bypssed a majority of the incoming air into the afterburner section, acting as a ramjet - the forward velocity of the aircraft was high enough, and the J58 was designed such, that the incoming air was compressed ‘naturally?’ by the velocity of the incoming air - and not by the compressor blades section. The compressor section still spun (and thus did the turbine section) but the majority of the incoming air was bypassed to the afterburner section.
What has been said about the Blackbird/J58 family, is that at its top speed, the majority of the thrust was a result of the compressor section ‘pulling’ the aircraft, but I don’t fully grasp this phenomena.
What I DO know about the Blackbird family, is that it flies most efficiently at its Mach3.2 speeds - that is, it covers more ground per pound of fuel at top speed than it does after takeoff and during refueling operations. But don’t let that ‘efficiently’ word fool you into thinking the Blackbird is somehow ‘economical’ traveling at Mach3+ - it’s not. The airframe is primarily one big gas tank, and it uses a GINORMOUS amount of JP7 to blast through its 2 hours at speed, before it needs to find its tanker aircraft, like, RIGHT NOW.
Current Mach2+ fighters use a low bypass turbofan, which is a compromise that gives the aircraft a more fuel efficient sub- and transonic envelope, and a more efficient supersonic envelope where most of the incoming air is accelerated through the ‘turbojet’ core.
I don’t know for certain, but I suspect for supersonic travel, the incoming air is ducted somehow away from the low-bypass fan section. But I never looked into this, so like I mentioned, I’m only theorizing here. If I’m guessing correctly, I don’t know if the airframe has diverter ducts, or if somehow the engine can shut off the airflow to the fans - thinking out loud here. For all I humbly know, nothing is ducted and the air always still flows through both the turbofan bypass and the core turbojet sections, regardless of the high Mach2 aircraft speeds.
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There's no way he's humiliated. He's far, far too in love with himself. Besides, he's also completely isolated from the rest of the world. Both his minions and puppet masters let him see windows to the rest of the world that are narrative-approved...with the possible exception of msnbc and cnn! :). For example, there's no way he'll ever be shown this episode, and there's a good chance he won't even be able to see Mr. Musk's brilliant response. I wouldn't even be surprised if he'd never even heard of The Rubin Report.
In a way, Newsom's not much different than the 36% who seem to always support diden - other than those people CHOOSE to view ONLY far left propaganda, whilst newsom is FED only that same content. He's the poor fool: easily controlled, does whatever he's told, is not paid to think.
In a sense, he's diden, but with a slightly hipper rap..."Meet the new boss! Same as the old boss!"
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1. I think she was - Murdoch gave the order for the helm to go hard to starboard to turn the ship left to miss the iceberg. If they just rammed her head on, everyone could have survived because it’s been estimated that only 2 or 3 compartments might have flooded, thus keeping Titanic afloat. Well, everyone could have survived except those crushed at the bow. As it happened, of course, the veer to port ground the starboard hull against the ice, tearing a long gash below the waterline that crossed four or five of the compartments. Dooming her.
2. Crossed his fingers. Plus, everyone was on high alert. With binoculars.
3. At speed, turning a ship of that size fully in any direction would be painfully slow. These machines do not like to change course anything resembling quickly. At lower speeds, it would turn even slower because of less hydrodynamic forces on the rudder; however, since its forward speed is less, it may be able to clear an obstacle in its direct path even with a lower turn rate. As it happened, she was going full speed, 21.5 knots, the order to take the helm hard to starboard was made, and the ship was slowly turning left as fast as she could.
Offhand, I’d estimate it would take the Titanic, at 21 knots, around five minutes, maybe less, to turn completely around, with a turn radius of between a half-miles to a mile. Maneuverable, the Titanic was not. Nor was any ship of that size, even today.
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Ok, you nailed it. Let's go full on socialism because the only alternative will bring us closer to a totalitarian state - which, as JP points out, is what's best for all of us. If only we had JFK, a loyal husband true to his wife, or LBJ, who only had the utmost respect for Blacks, especially in private, or Nixon, who never tried censoring anyone ever, or Ronald Reagan, who never fooled around when he was an actor and always made the entire planet take Sunday off, or Bill Clinton, the model of fidelity - even moreso than JFK, or Jimmy Carter...wait, he actually was a Godly man - just rated one of the worst presidencies after obama and biden.
Within the limits the American have been desensitized to, no one cares. In fact, his most loyal supporters likely APPROVE most of which you bothered to list, and during and after the biden disaster only highlights the positive effects the Trump administration had, and in most cases which haven't been blindly dismantled by joe and his puppet masters, still has. The border, the economy, world peace, the respect and fear and awe our enemies have shown us, the humanitarian aid we have distributed, the most positive impacts to minorities and a further disintegration of racism, a strong military that was used quickly, decisively, and successfully to maintain global stability and security, one that you should appreciate - further protections surrounding the freedom of religion, specifically Christianity as this has had a profound impact on the formation of our nation's national, political, cultural, and legal framework - a point called out by Trump, regardless of what he personally believes, strengthening freedoms of expression and speech, paradoxically also freedom of the press...can I stop now? Do you get the point?
As Bill Clinton famously said, "It's the economy, stupid."
Pick your battles. Regardless who or what you're voting for, from the president of your property association, to the city mayor, to captain of the local softball team, to the president of the local astronomy club, to the president of the USA, it will always be more likely there are the least bad candidates instead of the the perfect ones.
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Biden’s latest campaign ads are preposterous lies, as he outlines what he’s done/doing/going to do to relieve our suffering at the pump, grocery store, and while we’re trying to pay our bills. He conveniently neglected to mention he caused every one of our pain points.
The progressive ideology and movement are masters of deceit, lying to Americans while somehow telling the loyal, stupid, ignorant, and uninformed what they want to hear and believe. Credit where it’s due, they’re succeeding at invading America from within, bringing their narrative into reality.
As horrifying, destructive, and unacceptable this is to we Constitutional Americans, from the perspective of the radical progressive left these are intentional, deliberate, and successful initiatives.
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Why would the administration sack KJP? Love her, hate her, but she’s a loyal servant, famous for stonewalling , redirecting, and outright lying.
You know darn well every democrat watches press releases at some time or another. So if she’s able to keep repeating the ‘obama administration daily talking points’ script by not directly answering questions criticizing her master, reiterating that Trump’s a dictator responsible for everything wrong in the world today, and lying about joe’s incompetence, those loyal democrats think KJP must be telling the truth. They’re also likely to believe she’s being persecuted by The Right, instead of admitting they are simply being manipulated.
Maybe they see that she’s cracking under the pressure at knowing the entire planet realizes she’s a lying puppet. It has to be causing her a huge amount of mental distress and anxiety to be hated on a national and global scale. How long can anyone be expected to lie on a daily basis to protect someone else?
BUT - if she IS about to be sacked, just watch how fast the regime she’s protecting turns on her.
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1 - Yes, very much.
2 - Been burned 4x after my divorce, two were her, two were me. Interestingly, my ex-wife and I remain good friends. Likely, during my self imposed exile and isolation, she’s prolly my best friend at the moment. Anyway, I very much want a loving, trusting relationship again.
3 - Yes.
4 - Yes. I don’t think it’s a trick or trap, but I’m afraid of misinterpreting ‘signals’ or coming on too hard.
5 - Yes. I don’t hate myself, but I feel unworthy and unlovable.
6 - Yes. If things feel like it’s a potentially serious relationship, I fall in love way too fast and want to be with this woman every waking moment, essentially smothering her. Fortunately, there isn’t a control component - I strongly dislike any person who is controlling and manipulative.
7 - Yes. I feel like my attractiveness has dramatically decreased, mainly due to my age. I mask it with a polite outward approach and avoidance.
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The noise was a big deal. A huge deal even. Back in the day, turbojet airliners were loud, much moreso than today’s turbofans, and being outside in the Chicago suburbs during the day was really noisy. Not deafening, of course, but a takeoff passing overhead was enough to pause a conversation. And O’Hare, well, it was O’Hare - loud noise all day, every day. And when the military did a supersonic noise test over Oklahoma City, the citizens were in an uproar and the phone complaints completely overwhelmed the operators. If we allowed aircraft to break the sound barrier, the public’s (those people that vote) anger would be off the charts. So yes, it was the noise.
But if it also quashed foreign interference into our airline and aviation industries, that’s a pretty decent side effect. I hope there’s no conspiracy to keep that part quiet because protectionism can be a good thing.
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Regarding working in heat extremes - I live in Tempe (120deg in summer), came from Wisconsin (-30, sometimes - could suck). I happen to really like mountain biking when it’s 100-110degF, but I HAVE to have around a gallon of water for a 45min-1 1/2 ride. And this is going from an air conditioned apartment to an intense bike ride to a jump in the pool when I’m done. Working in the heat is no joke, and a 10deg difference, ESPECIALLY when the sun’s out is no joke. Moral of the story, I didn’t think working in the heat was that big a deal, coming from Wisconsin, but my experience has been it is much easier to work in extreme cold than even less-than-extreme heat. It can get deadly quick.
There’s a big reason why most of the white people that live in Arizona have bone white skin - air conditioned homes & cars & offices. It is not easy to live in the heat, much less work in it. Thank God it’s a dry heat, because if there were the humidity as like in Wisconsin, it would be literally unbearable to go outside.
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Soooo, even though Jan6 was at worst a riot by some morons (maybe incited by the fbi on pelosi’s behalf), IF (and it’s a big ‘if’ since it never happened) President Trump said some ‘words,’ how come that wouldn’t be protected speech? Because he’s an American? Because he’s white? Because he’s a man? Because of the rabid far left’s feral hatred of the man?
They’re hypocrites, they know they’re hypocrites, they have no trouble with contra behavior as long as it advances their agenda, they know the media will bury their hypocrisy, and worst of all, they’re smug about knowing they’ll always get away with it. And without fail, when they’re occasionally confronted with their hypocrisy, they just look at you with that arrogant, entitled attitude, knowing in two minutes the news cycle will continue on.
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Laf, up popped an ad with Biden speaking, using the phrase, “Look, I’ll cut the malarkey…” Malarkey? People say ‘malarkey?’ Anyway, thought it was a spoof but I think it was a real campaign ad. I’ll never know, because I can’t stop fast enough actually listening to him - spoof, gaffe, or otherwise.
I did hope Ms. Gabbard was to be “Ms. Vice President,” but alas. I will respect President Trump’s decision, of course, confident Ms. Gabbard will continue her service and leadership as she fights for American values and freedoms, and The Constitution.
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Well…not necessarily. The flow of ice depends upon force, generally gravity - as long as there’s a slope steep enough for ice to flow (think alpine glaciers), it will flow like the plastic solid it is. Continental glaciers also flow due to slope, but also due to the weight (force) of the ice upstream of the flow, pushing against the downstream ice.
The northern, upstream ice accumulates due to snowfall, but it can’t keep accumulating forever, especially if there is a downward slope. Eventually it’s going to have to start flowing, even if it takes as long as the entire ice age to carve out the lakes. An ice sheet 7 miles thick moving slowly is going to have both the pressure of its weight bearing against the rock, and the force to push the ice ahead of it to grind that rock.
I don’t think it’s necessarily helpful to consider the portion of the glacial sheet the carved the Great Lakes as ‘fast ice’ because even the slowest ice will cut just as long as it’s moving. It may be that all of Canada (OK, probably not all, but run with this thought) has had its bedrock scoured, similar to the Lakes but:
A - maybe there’s some intrinsic weakness in the region where the Lakes basins were cut deeper, but not necessarily faster (this actually rings a bell)
B - perhaps the slope in the basin region AND the precipitation to the north of the basin was greater, such that more glacial flow occurred here as opposed to Canada to the west
C - when the ice age ended, somehow the glacial melt water had a faster exit, or simply AN exit, from the Great Lakes region than the sheet over western Canada; therefore, while the sediments that fell out of the glacier and on to the Lakes’ basins were washed away by the violent flooding from the meltwater. But, in western Canada, where similar scouring of the underlying bedrock had taken place, the glacial melt could not, for whatever reasons, exit quickly. Perhaps that section of the ice sheet more or less melted in place, the drainage did not move fast enough to carry away the sediments the glacier was transporting, and the sediments simply remained where they were deposited at the end of the ice age - burying the just-as-deep depressions.
C part2 - to summarize my part C word salad, ALL of Canada was ground down to the bedrock. However, when the glaciers began to melt at the end of the ice age, over most of Canada (except for the Great Lakes basin), the melt waters did not flow fast enough to carry away the majority of sediments. The sediments therefore remained in place, burying all the other potential great lakes.
C part3 - within the Great Lakes basins, after the ice age, melt waters WERE able to flow fast enough to wash away all the sediments covering the carved out basins - probably eastward towards the Atlantic, as the narrator suggests.
What about the huge rock erratics; where’d they go? Glad you asked. Some probably stayed in place and are at the bottom of the lakes. But, in rivers in the UP (Upper Peninsula of Michigan) during the Spring thaws, I’ve watched, and listened to, fairly large boulders 2 feet in diameter get bowled downstream simply by the river’s current. Pretty cool. Anyway, I can’t even comprehend an ice sheet 7 MILES thick, but the raging floods that must have occurred while those giants melted must have been Biblical.
D - finally, components from all of the above. And probably more. All this to say than thinner ice sheets won’t necessarily run faster nor necessarily gouge deeper than thicker ice sheets, and I’d even go so far as to say they generally don’t.
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First off, wow, what a great report! I really enjoyed listening to your perspective. The UN, to me, was an important institution that is involved in important issues, but I really never took the time to learn much about it.
I’m a fan of the UN in glossy principle, but yes - it seems its model seems outdated, and doesn’t look to have been developed to be flexibly modified. Maybe it should be scrapped and replaced, but would anything new be any different than what we have? Perhaps a new United Democracies…
Major reforms seem unlikely to happen what with Security Council members being considered enemies of each other. Maybe just get rid of the Security Council? Or change the permanent member criteria to ‘need to be a democratic society, with a capitalist economy, and place a high value on human rights?
It would seem difficult to squeeze China out as a permanent member, but in my opinion, Russia forfeited itself after the Soviet Union collapsed. Germany looks to be more appropriate than Russia, and Japan more than China.
Regardless of what critics of the United States might think (even American critics), if the US pulled out of the UN, the UN would cease; any reform or replacement would require permanent American involvement.
Maybe we have what we have, and the multinational General Assembly for dialogue, advocacy, and advisement is the best the UN can ever be, along with Economic and Social Council and the International Court of Justice.
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18:20 Nailed it. Right on the head, one blow. The Right knows all about climate change, and when it fits the agenda, suddenly nuclear/solar/wind becomes important. This is frustrating, sure - but reason for optimism. If oil companies fail to get these guys re-elected, hey - we’re renewable! They’ll be no loyalty there.
Relax, let the market rule. Yeah, a lot of damage and corruption will occur, but if the political winds favor solar? Well, seeya, bigOil. No loyalty there. The Right will glom on to renewables like the Prodigal Son.
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He is so divisive, so blinded by his self righteousness, and so polarizing, and he has no idea that he, and his entire administration, is. He single handedly made it impossible for anyone in the center, but slightly facing right, to break from the Conservative pack and vote for him.
Why anyone would vote for him is another matter, but hypothetically, if he was even a partially effective leader, some may have drifted over to him. He squarely squandered more than half of the population of the United States.
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I use my iphone (ipad, Mac) almost exclusively as a PC, for finances and whatnot, and as a TV, mainly for YouTube, which I enjoy commenting/journaling on for certain channels.
I message just to update friends and work, really try to avoid talking (ironically, talking is probably the one function I don't use on my phone), and prefer moving everything to texts instead. I abhor voicemail and rarely bother checking. I also abhor email and use it only when necessary. My block and spam lists are huge.
I have never been on any social media platform, ever, mainly bc I never trusted the potential and upcoming (way back then when MySpace was a thing) data mining. Except for You Tube, I don't use anything google. Ever since I found they were reading/data mining my gmail email, that was that. Maybe it's naive or just false hope, but I decided to trust Apple's promise to encrypt everything and to not view/use any data.
I know not having social media is not normal, but I've just never been interested in it - although I can see where it's very useful and fun to keep families and old friends connected. Maybe some day. Right now, even though I'm sociable and enjoying engaging with people, I'm more of a loner fighting against tendencies towards isolating.
Ok, this got long. See? Where I use comments as my form of journaling, learning about myself and the world with writing and thinking? I have the occasional conversation, but I never expect anyone to actually read these - and I also don't think of it as some digital legacy. It's just that a lot of channels really engage my brain, inspiring me to write. Writing to me is a slower and more deliberate approach toward thinking - writing is just about as fast as I can think intentionally about a subject.
Goodness, I feel like I'm creating a profile for a dating service - again, a social media platform genre I've never tried.
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@deemey95 Not untrue, but it’s not only the executives who are at fault. It seems like that’s how the entire structure is built, with relatively short, short term gains having such a disproportionate incentive over longer term (and riskier) promises of return.
I don’t know a thing about why this Intel CEO made the decision he did, but it’s not outside the realm of possibility he acted upon the information he had at the time. And if I were to be rewarded, both at the corporate level and the personal, with a large stash of cash in a so-called short term, I’d have done the same thing…who wouldn’t??
Also, what’s considered a safer, short term perspective might not have seemed ‘short’ at the time…at least not from our hindsight view now. Maybe he did fk up, but this seems like a common theme amongst all kinds of American industries and companies. To me, this points more to a major flaw in the regulation of our capitalist market system. I just have no idea what the solution could be, much less even know exactly what the flaw is.
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I don’t mean to take away from the awesomeness of Docker and containers, but yeah, you’re right - a lot of these concepts have been around a long time. AIX has a facility called Workload Partitions that behave similarly and, geez, they’ve been a thing for ~20 years now. But, the world wasn’t ready for them and the Workload Partitions serviced a niche commercial need on an already (sadly; lotsa love for AIX) niche - as in crazy industrial strength - operating environment, where AIX, Solaris, & HP-UX played.
A use case for AIX that I recall was if you had an app that ran on AIX 5.1 (and possibly 4.3.3, but I can’t remember) but the supported versions may have been AIX 5.3 and 6.1. The older app on the unsuppported OS would be contained in a Workload Partition within the supported version of AIX, which itself would be a partition (virtual machine) amongst many on a physical server, using VIO and PowerVM - or whatever they’re called nowadays.
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@bigfellamike1913 True statements all. Tlacui will have a difficult time rationalizing how his party fought the Civil War in order to keep their slaves. Before his very eyes, obama and biden have successfully divided our nation, reintroduced the concept of slavery to a greater degree than the first half of the 20th century, in a socialist bid to separate us according to their arbitrary lines based on race, ethnicity, and gender. In their highly successful attempt at removing Christianity from our society, they have replaced God with their version and vision - their god of a socialist society where we are all willfully dependent upon the state.
He's blinded almost as sure as the North Korean people, a successfully transformed useful idiot, projecting on to Conservatives the very thing his socialist ideology actually is - he just can't step outside his new self and view the chaos of this new order from the outside looking in.
That the Conservatives are now the most rational, most Constitutional, least racist, and most accepting of actual individuality and differences in values, opinions, and beliefs, is completely lost on him. Are their racist Conservatives? Sure. Are there homophobic Conservatives? Sure. But when rational scholars and intellectuals can point out these far left socialist marxist stalinists are following, almost to the letter, how socialist movements take hold, any objective analysis will demonstrate what is happening to our society, to our detriment.
It is no joke, no coincidence, not unintentional - this movement seeks to undermine our societal and cultural stability, erode our traditional American values and morals, undermine our freedoms of speech, expression, and religion, destroy the freedom of the press by precisely adhering to the very definition of fascism by subjugating the legacy media outlets, infiltrating and taking over our institutions of academia, our financial systems, the social media along with the technology giants, corporations, the military industrial complex, and recently the military. There is no consistency on the enforcement of the law, they're aggressively pursuing disarming legally armed citizens and eliminating the 2nd Amendment, turning our cities into dystopian centers of rioting and lawlessness, allowing wide open borders in a concerted and highly successful effort to increase their voting base, generally dismantling the Constitution insofar as it impedes THEM, brazenly interfering with elections by inundating candidates with frivolous lawsuits with zero or little basis and removing opposing candidates from ballots, lying about nearly ALL aspects of the pandemic to shut down our economy to make us more dependent on the government, destroying countless small and large businesses and using it as a method to further weaken and destroy the middle class, burden us with dramatic restrictions and regulations on quarantines and lockdowns where NONE of restrictions were necessary or based upon scientific evidence and data, wrecking generations of young people with subpar or no education while in lockdown, and untold devastation for millions of families regarding mental health issues due to isolation, depression, anxiety, and addiction...where does one stop when describing the deliberate agenda that has been, and is being, forwarded by the obama and biden administrations and the elites even OUTSIDE America, pulling the strings to advance their ideology.
The other scandal which has a firm grip on the world is the climate change scandal, which is just as devastating to the world economies as Covid. It has scandalized the scientific community, done drastic damage to worldwide energy policies, supplies, and security...the list is too long for now; hopefully tlacui has read this and at least something has penetrated his cloud of ignorance, not of his doing.
And it's important to realize this isn't just a national movement: the UK and Australia are experiencing the EXACT same phenomena, just with a cooler accent - it is uncanny when tuning in to their independent media channels. And of course, the infection has taken hold within the entire EU and every other democratic nation. It's a worldwide 'pandemic' in its own right, being manufactured and manipulated by elites at a worldwide level and scale. One need only view publicly available information that the EIB, the WHO, the IMF, e ITU, the World Bank, the WTO, the UN, UNESCO, and others, present to understand how their principles, policies, and practices, are generally unaligned with yours and my freedoms, priorities, security, etc., and much more aligned with a conspiracy-sounding world order.
So go ahead, keep your head down, and don't vote Conservative. Maybe Esperanza can become a reality after all.
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@xaviercockerton6989 I'm really not sure where you're going with this. Are you prejudiced towards peasants? Would you feel better if they were elites, scholars, intellectuals, thought leaders, corporate executives...?
And what are your thoughts regarding the manipulation of events by non-participants, as being uncovered and revealed by newly released and discovered evidence?
And you're really proposing censorship of a comedic satire? Are you an actual socialist favoring totalitarianism? And by declaring 'biden doesn't go far enough,' is this a tacit admission this administration DOES censor free speech? Who are you? Are you a disgusted socialist working for the administration, scouring the internet for anything critical of the socialist agenda?
It is very interesting what you're writing and deciphering what sort of an American you are. I don't fully understand where you're going with 'a new Roman Empire...' Are you equating biden (or obama) or a socialist/totalitarian government with the Roman Empire?
I think you are possibly the most subversive anti-American I've come across. I'm not sure if you just got frustrated and blew your cover, but I guess I had no idea agents such as yourself exist!
And finally, since you consider this episode as 'views [which] are harmful,' do you really believe this channel is meant to be taken literally? Are you unaware this is an art form known as satire? I would have thought it impossible for anyone to take this seriously, and not take it as comedy, but in perusing the comments, you're not the first who seems to have taken this entirely incorrectly.
This is a curious phenomenon indeed.
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Because conservatives protest too, albeit peacefully? Blm can riot, murder, and destroy, and get a check from the government, how is this fair? And what was so sacrilegious about Jan6? Was it because it happened at the capitol, or because some guy propped his feet up on Pelosi’s desk, and that torqued you off?
There isn’t anything different about this protest and anything the radical left puts out, except that perhaps less people died. The police officer with heart problems dying of a heart attack the next day doesn’t count. An insurrection, please…another leftist perversion of word definition. And like everything else, this has massive undertones of leftist incitement, this time by the corrupt fbi, not to mention overdoing it on prosecution. Gramma gets hauled out of her home, yet Hunter leaves cocaine in the White House and gets away with it because of a lack of evidence…please. The inconsistency.
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For 25-30 years, I would, seemingly randomly and for no reason whatsoever (especially given reasonable success, great upper middle class jobs and salaries and savings and retirement, home, albeit not a great marriage) would binge. Evidently, pretty hard. Years, months and months, then months of not even thinking of alcohol(ism), and then - bam! Another binge, out of the blue, the left me shaking my head saying ‘wtf, why?’
You answered my penchant for self destruction.
Long periods of numb neutrality, punctuated with anger and frustration. But I seem to be non-confrontational and yielding, and tend not to blame circumstances nor other people for my unhappiness. I wonder if my anger and frustration manifests as self-destructive behavior, which I express with what I know to relieve, or distract me from, the unsatisfying numbness - alcoholic bingeing.
It’s the best explanation I’ve heard, and it fits. Deep inside, I’ve known there’s a causal relationship, but this is the first time my behavior has been named. Now that I know it’s a psychological ‘thing,’ maybe I can fix it; something to talk to my therapist about, tomorrow.
Although I’ve started and stopped my entire life (so we’ll see), four days ago marks my 1 year sobriety date.
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Regarding unemployment stats for AZ being low at the moment, and suggesting it’s in any way related to biden econ policies…
Arizona is a bit of an anomaly right now. Our state has been Red for a long time, and has had a VERY favorable and friendly environment for business, specifically high tech. Very energy intensive tech, satisfied by plentiful cheap power provided by nuclear power - two words that are basically swear words to the far left socialists who would rip that out at their earliest opportunity. AZ also is geologically stable, predictable climate - if a bit warm, plenty of available land, and free from weather-related natural disasters - all excellent checkboxes for massive data centers, chip fabs, national defense companies, aircraft manufacturing, finance & insurance headquarters, and so on. NONE of this is a result of democrat policies.
In fact, just the opposite - failed democrat policies in California have resulted in a MASSIVE exodus of Californians to the Phoenix area, most, if not all, able to work remotely. Due to this and the aforementioned qualities, the unemployment rate is pushed artificially low, but this will change. Due to the failure of democrat fiscal policy AND the influx of people from California, rents are now sky high and home prices are even higher, more than DOUBLING since I moved to Tempe around five years ago. Perhaps you have seen the t-shirts stating “Don’t California my Arizona.”
Middle class folks simply cannot continue to afford rent, and certainly can’t afford a home, and the same holds true for younger couples and families just starting out, as salaries have stagnated. Salaries have not even kept pace with inflation, never mind not being even close to keeping up with the dramatic increases in rent and home prices.
I moved to Tempe in 2018-2019, and although I rented then, I looked at an average three-bedroom ranch, no basement, two-car garage, average suburban yard, right across the street, for $210,000. In 2022, it went for $560,000 and was on the market less than two weeks. And if this was like every other home buying story I heard, aggressive buyer pressure likely bid the asking price up another $20-$30,000.
This is not sustainable. Something is going to crack. So don’t be so glib about AZ’s present economic bubble being the result of any magical democrat economic policy, because it surely was not. Don’t forget that not very long ago - around fifteen years ago when we started vacationing to Arizona, that same $560,000 ranch was likely on the market for $50,000 or less, and couldn’t even have been given away.
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I have severe restless legs that are so horrible at night I’ll kick and spin for HOURS and will generally get about 15min of sleep for several nights until I get so exhausted I’ll start sleeping standing up or sitting up with my legs down.
During the day, my restless legs can be bad enough where I find it difficult to sit still, forcing me to stand up and keep trying to stretch out my calves. It also affects my forearms to where I find it almost impossible to do any fine motor work with my hands and fingers - like even simply writing. I feel like I’m going to jump right out of my skin. I can also feel quite claustrophobic, I can’t where clothes that are too snug - if my socks are too tight, I feel like my feet and legs are ‘trapped’ and I’ll have to either take them off or only wear short socks up to my ankles.
I’m currently taking prescription meds to help: gabapetin - 600mg morning, 600mg noon, 1200mg night; ropinerole - 1mg night; iron supplement (ferrous sulfate) - 325mg twice daily. This seems to be helping, but I can still experience severe episodes both at night and day.
While I just recently started using prescription meds a couple months ago, prior to those, I had been using kratom for about 3-4 years. Just randomly, I noticed taking kratom made my RLS stop. When my legs begin to cramp, I’ll take 1-2 tablespoons and my legs and arms are completely normal within 20-30min. It works 100% of the time and is utterly reliable.
My concern, and why I am trying gabapetin, ropinerole, and iron, is that I’m wondering if the intense RLS is actually a kratom withdrawal symptom. I’ve had RLS for about 25 years ago, but they were not anywhere near as intense as they were when I started the prescription regimen, about two months ago. However, after those two months, they remained intense and I caved and resumed taking kratom to eliminate them.
I’m not exactly sure what my next steps will be. I would like to stop taking kratom for at least six months, to give me confidence I’m not addictively dependent on it, and I’m still taking the prescription meds in case the drugs need to build up in my system - ropinerole can take up to two months to build up. Additionally, I just recently doubled my gabapetin doses. I guess I’ll just have to begin not taking kratom and see how it goes.
One positive outcome of the intense RLS was that I was exercising more, in hopes of tiring myself more naturally. I also take meds to help with sleep, although there aren’t any I’ve taken that have proven effective or don’t have negative side effects that tended to keep me awake.
Benzodiazepines also work reliably for RLS as well as for sleep, but they’re not effective long term because of tolerance buildup. Besides, they are addictive, a schedule 2 (I think), and no doc will prescribe them for long term anyway.
I suppose I’ll have to check online for user/support groups for kratom, to see other people’s thoughts and experiences. I hope this may have helped, especially anyone suffering and struggling with Restless Legs Syndrome. It’s no joke.
I originally started using kratom for the feeling of ‘wellbeing’ it provided. I never really associated the feeling with opioids - I’ve only used prescription pain medication - but I can see where the comparison is probably similar. But I never took it consistently; often I would forget about it for weeks or months, so I never really thought much about it being addictive. I also noticed some pain relief in my neck (I’ve had a couple spinal fusions) and especially for a pinched nerve that would run down the back of my leg and up into my back - the sciatic nerve? It may have helped after drinking too much alcohol - a hangover, I guess - but nothing significant. Certainly not better than simply not drinking :)
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This guy got really lucky - I think; bear with me. He and the Belgian coach (or competitor, whatever) got hammered, the wrong people noticed, and he was brought in front of a board of people, and HUMILIATED…by people he knew and people he didn’t, by people he respected and people he didn’t. He was subjected to a very, very powerful, external force of having this mental and physical disease EXPOSED. That is about as uncomfortable a position to be in, and in his case, was stronger than his desire to keep drinking.
He didn’t simply decide one day to quit; he didn’t simply exercise will power to quit. He was fortunate enough that an external event happened that perfectly coincided with, and shamed him into, stopping drinking. We alcoholics DREAM of a miracle like this, that makes us instantly able to stop.
God blessed this guy differently than the majority of us. Most of us need to go through the hell of loss, followed by God blessing us into accepting and embracing our powerlessness and surrendering our alcoholism to Him. We’re lucky enough to have a program of recovery that helps keep us abstinent - mine happens to be therapy and AA and God; others have been gifted with other means of help, some with a higher power and some with something entirely different, if a god or a higher power isn’t your thing.
Every one of us would LOVE to be magically, instantaneously, cured of alcoholism - who wouldn’t? Why God gifted this guy as he did isn’t ours to understand; God blessed us differently, with a program of recovery, and I am grateful I at least have this. Most alcoholics, or at least a lot of alcoholics, don’t ever find freedom from the slavery of addiction.
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Wait, the pilot had to actually be ordered to eject? Man, ground control really is in charge of their pilots, even to the extent of thinking. Then again, he rode it into the ground on his initiative, killing his crewmate. Too bad about it’s actual performance and capabilities; I remember reading my Soviet Airpower book by Gunston when I was a kid, and thought it looked wickedly warlike and loved its looks.
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I wouldn’t worry about the backlash over your joke, it’s clearly not racist as it’s based on something that’s happening, nor is it sexist as the women interviewed are choosing to have this done to accentuate their beauty. Personally I didn’t catch the joke, but for people to knee jerk straight into racism and sexism seems…well, unfortunately typical in our stupidly PC world we’re trapped in.
From the Guardian:
Iran has the highest rate of nose surgery in the world. According to a report in the conservative Etemad newspaper, as many as 200,000 Iranians, mostly women, go to cosmetic surgeons each year to reduce the size of their nose and make the tip point upwards.
For many, surgery is a reaction to the restrictive rules of compulsory hijab. "They won't let us display our beauty," one woman said.
"It's human nature to want to seek out attention with a beautiful figure, hair, skin … but hijab doesn't let you do that. So we have to satisfy that instinct by displaying our 'art' on our faces."
Others see it simply as taking advantage of the benefits of modernity.
"Science and technology have progressed, and people can look more beautiful," said one. "Why shouldn't we?"
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I’m betting Iranian women are strong enough to take a joke, and need not be defended by our gallant protectors of some unknowable attempt of homogeneity of humanity.
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I would be completely baffled if neither left and right moderates, or RINO's voted for Trump...who the heck would they vote for? Biden?
I would almost expect classical liberals to vote for Trump, because they're rational, logical, and thoughtful - but I'm not sure if they're in a bad enough place to detach from the party like that. I miss a world where the majority of folks were classical and moderate liberals AND centrist and moderate conservatives. I don't align with our extreme right wingers, but they're still a minority and haven't damaged our nation like the radicalized far left has. It was sinister, but not only did they pull their movement off after insinuating their acolytes in our academic, financial, scientific, technological, and other, institutions, as well as the state and especially federal bureaucracies, they expanded exponentially and have hijacked the democrat party.
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I agree that President Trump needs to focus on what we elected him for. Absolutely.
I voted for him to destroy the radical far left. To destroy the msm that's been the fascist propaganda arm of this administration and obama, so that a genuine free press worthy of The First Amendment can replace it - that gets its funding through ads and NOT corporate sponsorship nor media monopolies.
The media has done as much, if not more, than the far left radicals who've infested our scholastic and university institutions.
Oh, and I want all our our institutions back, too. AND, as a moderate centrist Conservative, registered Independent, with a lot of Libertarian ideals, I want our Democrat Party back, populated with Classical Liberal Democrats, who love their country, The Constitution, Traditional American Values, Democracy, EQUALITY, and for the love of God, our CHILDREN. Loving God would be nice, too.
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Mmm, right back at you. Both are considered infrastructure, and both enable our economy to function and thrive. Both most certainly create jobs, and in both cases the money absolutely flows directly back into the economy. And it’s not mystical accounting busywork; it is actually the basis of what drives our economy.
If you believe we do not need a military (which seems possible, especially by your unnecessary use of the tired ‘green’ adjective), there’s likely little hope you are open minded enough to see that, in fact, an aircraft carrier asset churns our economy the same as freeways, dams, nuclear and petroleum based power plants, solar and wind farms, water treatment plants, canals, automobiles, and homes.
At any rate, you clearly are not seeing what we actually get from our military, and what we get back from it.
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@StevePemberton2 You make good points, and if there’s one flaw of these YouTube investigations (my opinion), and one thing that makes me uneasy, is that the only (maybe ‘primary’ is a better word) source is the investigation final report. I don’t have a suggestion to make things better and I’m not sure I’d do it any differently were I a YouTuber, but what concerns me is how a particular person’s style for their video essays can bias viewer’s opinions. For example, I’ve little doubt the majority of people believe John Taylor is responsible for causing this crash, but as you point out, it’s not so clear cut as that; drawing a conclusion from a single video and/or source always makes me a bit uncomfortable. Watching videos from multiple presenters is better, as they provide the obvious but important different perspectives and even biases and hopefully different or additional information; reading the investigation report, news reports and articles from investigative journalists, and related court proceedings in this case, is better yet. I believe MentourPilot, Airspace, Disaster Breakdown, Mini Aircraft Investigations, Green Dot, Long Haul, Mayday: Air Disasters, Smithsonian, On the Move, Wonder, and so many others, do the best they can to present facts in as unbiased and objective way as they can, but different perspectives are bound to influence different viewers, well, differently, and along the way, viewer’s own biases and predispositions are going to cause them to reach different conclusions. Some are quick to judge and seize on a particular reason for a particular disaster, sometimes rightfully so; some may question conclusions and look elsewhere, again sometimes rightfully; some are somewhere in the middle. For example, I don’t question the titanium metal strip on the runway was ultimately the cause of the accident, but I don’t believe it was the start of, and maybe not even the end of, the tragedy, and I’m even less sure when it comes to human factors.
My hesitation towards biases, perspectives, and conclusions drawn was really made manifest with Iran Air Flight 655, and watching videos from the authors above and more, reading through all the comments, and reading the US Navy Final Report. Depending on how the videos reported seemed to have a direct influence on how viewers responded; indeed, watching some videos had me initially concluding the US Navy really screwed up and murdered, even if unintentionally, the civilian passengers. Watching others led me to change my conclusion to accidental homicide. Still others, showing a point of view more favorable to the Navy, changed my conclusion to the US Navy acted appropriately and this was a terrible accident. Finally, after reading the US Navy Final Report and learning the Navy issued NOTAMs to other airlines and nations which agreed to constantly monitor the emergency frequency and respond with priority requests to identify, acknowledged the Navy was on a heightened state of alert following the Stark and Iran attacking other nation’s civilian carto ships, and alter their routes away from an active battle zone, I currently believe the Iranian government is solely responsible for the outcome. My point? My conclusion kept shifting the more information and perspectives I accumulated
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A reply to a comment below:
As a right leaning centrist moderate, registered Independent, I absolutely would consider voting for Mr. Kennedy, even if Trump’s on the ticket. If Gov. DeSantis wins the nomination, voting for Mr. Kennedy might be a more difficult endeavor. If DeSantis decides to wait til 2028, I may vote for Mr. Kennedy based on his moderate centricity, even knowing the positive effect Trump will have on our economy. The con of another Trump administration, in my view, will be the continuation of the divisiveness started by Obama; no doubt the extreme left will hunker down hard, letting their feral hatred of Trump fester and grow. I’m so tired of the wasted energy this hatred consumes, by the extreme left AND right.
I could have a conversation with Mr. Kennedy, and be the smarter for it - I think he’s a principled man. I’m just not sure how the left extremists will react, if they will strive for common ground (cannot see that happening), or if society will finally reject both right and left extremism and they’ll both fade away, should Mr. Kennedy win the nomination and the presidency. Regardless, I’ll be engaged, hoping the Democrat Party does the right thing by nominating him.
I just hope I live long enough to see Democrats and Republicans talk to each other respectfully, move our country forward together, have some BBQ parties, and get back to getting the nation’s work done and back to making the nation the priority that our great nation needs them to.
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Response to: Kevin did not keep his promises, what else was Matt to do?
I don’t know…maybe not working on his image so hard, and trying to get his face on the news for his future ambitions? Sarcasm aside, Rep. Gaetz does not speak for me, he certainly didn’t act in accordance with his constituency (no time for that nonsense to have happened), and absolutely did not speak for his Republican colleagues. He acted unilaterally, his personal politics dictated his actions in this case, and the swiftness he and his seven associates were able to remove a sitting Speaker should be very disconcerting, if not terrifying, to we Constitutionalists.
With a House almost evenly split (which, take note, is the ideal situation the Founders wanted), the next Speaker is fast going to realize moving legislation is going to require cooperation, collaboration, communication , and compromise. As intended, and often, perhaps, to our frustration, the process will be slow.
Conversely, the rapidity with how this gang of eight was able to upend the House and remove Rep. McCarthy is extremely troubling. That Rep. Gaetz identified and exploited the loophole that was not intended to be used this way…that only 4% of republican representatives were able to sack a Speaker…this is a serious violation of decorum, tradition, and the spirit and intent of the accepted means of removing a sitting Speaker.
Rep. Gaetz and his cohorts acted without integrity, and behaved in too radical of a fashion. This is a maneuver I would expect from the radical progressive left, and is not behavior I want to see within a party that needs to present as unified, now more than ever.
What I do think Americans are justifiably upset about is when politicians take advantage of the system in order to hold legislation hostage in the name of party politics. I do not think that was the case with Rep. McCarthy, I believe he has always acted in good faith, realistically aware he needs to respect the democrat representatives that account for the other half of this country’s population.
Having a majority, however slight or great, does not give that party carte blanche, and certainly does not mean that party may act without consideration of the minority.
The next Speaker will likely fast find out McCarthy was an effective Speaker. Hopefully, he or she won’t experience Rep. Gaetz disapproval and wrath, and suffer former Speaker McCarthy’s indignity.
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Ok, chances are this is a maintenance, not a Boeing, issue.
And there are about 100,000 flights per day, about half of which are Boeing, about half of which are Airbus, and a smidgeon of Russian, Chinese, corporate, and general aviation aircraft.
Still, Boeing just cannot catch a media break. I’m not sure I even want to DRIVE near an airport.
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I’m a right of center moderate…also known as a classical conservative. I love classical liberals; my best friends are classical liberals - well, over half are - the remainder are classical conservatives, independents, and even a fair number of libertarians. America was built, managed, and protected by both classical conservatives and liberals, independents, and libertarians. Of course, those on the spectrum further right and left definitely had and have their roles as well, but were still guided by their more fundamental perspectives of the Constitution and Democracy.
The Republican Party’s a bit of a mess, but it seems to be coming together in a way that will matter in 2024. We need work, for sure, but that’s not the topic at the moment.
The Democrat Part, though, has been successfully, and even brilliantly (to give grudging respect to the hijackers’ strategy) hijacked by the far left extremist socialist stalinists. And the poor left of center moderates don’t know where they belong and who to vote for. Because the current administration, which is thoroughly controlled by a corrupt and socialist machine, no longer represents and respects their values, beliefs, and democratic principles.
They almost can’t vote Republican because they probably would vomit to associate with the far right - heck, I feel the same, sometimes - and they probably are also hesitant to associate with MAGA Republicans. Can’t really blame them. But they’re also jammed up with voting Democrat this election, because this Democrat Party is no longer THEIR Democrat Party. It’s gone, STOLEN. So what do they do? How are they supposed to vote?
Like a man without a country, they’re about half the population of America without a party!
What’s going to happen? Do they split the party, and become “The Reformed Democrat Party?” Do they initiate a party COUP to take control of the Democrat Party, and KICK OUT the socialists? Will the socialists break from the party on their own and create a new Socialist Party? (I cringe at capitalizing ‘socialist party’)
Can and will all the Classical Democrats, that other half the entire population, protest against the radical socialists and break with the current Democrat Party, and vote Republican, just for this election? Then work to rebuild their party, cutting out the cancer that’s literally killing our democracy?
(Disclaimer: I don’t consider MAGA only the far right or the extreme right. At the moment, I feel it includes all Trump supporters, those favoring his Populist sentiment, and us right-of-center moderates. I hope it can and will include centrists, independents, libertarians, and especially the classical liberals. So if it will get Trump elected, sure, call me MAGA. Whatever; just win the frakking election.)
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750,000 Palestinians forced out of their homes? Don’t you means tents, squatters setting up an area that wasn’t theirs, with no deeds or legal claim to residency? Land that Israel has counted as theirs through history? The UN provided a war torn, nearly decimated, and wholly traumatized, nation and people land that was originally Israeli.
Given the effort Israel has made to coexist peacefully with a people and culture that seeks Israel’s destruction to an extent only rivaled by the Nazis, Israel is the oppressed civilization.
This barren land was practically uninhabitable and completely unproductive until it was given back to Israel. Palestine certainly did not cultivate it. Just like Palestine is doing nothing to make Gaza productive, instead choosing to live on humanitarian handouts, pretending like they’ve suddenly become stewards of their own homeland. Palestine, with its focus on hate and death, doesn’t deserve what it has been given - it has lost all claims it makes just by virtue of being such an evil state, proven time again by the rejection of Palestinian refugees into other Muslim host nations after which they were kicked out and sent back due to their inability to assimilate and not cause a marked increase in crime.
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She wasn't wrong about the Chips Act, although having all our chips eggs in Taiwan, South Korea, and even China, prolly is bad for the supply chain and natl security. It's important that TSMC and Intel can eventually make chips in, say, Arizona, but now there's a chip glut, the AZ factories aren't close to being online, and biden's knee jerk $60 billion subsidy to make chips here is...doing what, exactly? That dope panicked, thinking market forces would never catch up to the shortage. Forcing chips to be made here, more expensively, needed more thought up front...not panic.
She's also not wrong about India. India wants to play nice w America, but has the highest population on the planet and needs CHEAP oil and NG NOW. And they're getting it from Russia at half price! She's also right in that all of our Asian allies and BRIC are looking more to working with China because under biden, America looks weak and China looks strong.
But these are arguments to run against biden. Trump will correct these problems almost by default. Haley probably would too, but she won't have the chance, unless she throws in with Trump and picks off another position of authority like her UN ambassadorship during Trump's presidency, where she was a superstar.
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I used to listen to NPR a lot, and as a right leaning moderate, I found it quite acceptable. I acknowledged it was liberal, but still fairly close to the center - like a classical liberal, so to speak, like most of my good friends. Anyway, I moved from WI to AZ for about five years, I didn’t drive much so I stopped listening to the radio, and by default, NPR.
When I moved back to WI and tuned into 89.7 fm, I was like, wtf happened to NPR?? Did CNN or MSNBC buy NPR or something? Can’t believe how ‘far left radical socialist marxist’ it had become, full woke and all! Geez, what a waste. And our federal government funds this? A government sponsored, or directed, ideology outlet for certain.
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Again, SOURCES PLEASE! Why do all the stats haters neglect to mention their sources in order to back up their criticisms and claims? RLL, like other channels who report similar statistics, use similar sources. If you can’t, or will not, provide your sources, you just sound like another crackpot.
Look, most of us don’t have skin in this, so the true death toll has virtually no impact on most of us. But, we do want be confident that the statistics we are given are true. So, spill! Where are you getting your data so that we can independently investigate its reliability?
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@TheArtofKelso Arizona is a bit of an anomaly right now. Our state has been Red for a long time, and has had a VERY favorable and friendly environment for business, specifically high tech. Very energy intensive tech, satisfied by plentiful cheap power provided by nuclear power - two words that are basically swear words to the far left socialists who would rip that out at their earliest opportunity. AZ also is geologically stable, predictable climate - if a bit warm, plenty of available land, and free from weather-related natural disasters - all excellent checkboxes for massive data centers, chip fabs, national defense companies, aircraft manufacturing, finance & insurance headquarters, and so on. NONE of this is a result of democrat policies.
In fact, just the opposite - failed democrat policies in California have resulted in a MASSIVE exodus of Californians to the Phoenix area, most, if not all, able to work remotely. Due to this and the aforementioned qualities, the unemployment rate is pushed artificially low, but this will change. Due to the failure of democrat fiscal policy AND the influx of people from California, rents are now sky high and home prices are even higher, more than DOUBLING since I moved to Tempe around five years ago. Perhaps you have seen the t-shirts stating “Don’t California my Arizona.”
Middle class folks simply cannot continue to afford rent, and certainly can’t afford a home, and the same holds true for younger couples and families just starting out, as salaries have stagnated. Salaries have not even kept pace with inflation, never mind not being even close to keeping up with the dramatic increases in rent and home prices.
I moved to Tempe in 2018-2019, and although I rented then, I looked at an average three-bedroom ranch, no basement, two-car garage, average suburban yard, right across the street, for $210,000. In 2022, it went for $560,000 and was on the market less than two weeks. And if this was like every other home buying story I heard, aggressive buyer pressure likely bid the asking price up another $20-$30,000.
This is not sustainable. Something is going to crack. So don’t be so glib about AZ’s present economic bubble being the result of any magical democrat economic policy, because it surely was not. Don’t forget that not very long ago - around fifteen years ago when we started vacationing to Arizona, that same $560,000 ranch was likely on the market for $50,000 or less, and couldn’t even have been given away.
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@TheArtofKelso Ya, there’s that. But perhaps we took that too far for fear of being called righteous in front of? Don’t misunderstand me, I’m not saying we should impose our Catholicity on anyone, or start a metaphorical Crusade to force others to believe as we do - God gave us a free will after all. Besides, I never said I was a ‘good’ Catholic; just hopefully a ‘good enough’ one :). And I’d be a hypocrite if I were to say everyone else must follow the Ten Commandments, especially since I’ve broken all of them.
I guess it’s just always been a bit tough to be a Catholic, and getting harder - just like it is for our other Christian brothers and sisters. If we’re not going to live our Faith outside of Mass on Sundays, we’re going to have a tough time carving out a slice of American society we want to thrive within. Or, in the case of myself, try to.
I’m sorry how my words could have been heard. If someone wants to be Catholic, Baptist, nondenominational, agnostic, atheist, or just doesn’t care - I’d fight for their right as an American to choose. But more and more often, we are being targeted for persecution by what I perceive as a socialist, marxist threat to our American way of life. It’s one thing for the Catholic population to vote, but just voting is no longer enough. The list of our American institutions that have been hijacked the far left socialist activists, INCLUDING the Democrat Party, is getting alarmingly long.
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The advice Chris gives about leaning in to what you ARE is, at 54, where I finally settled into. Seems obvious, but I think I was conditioned to be something I wasn’t because I was so motivated to be in relationships. And, I was insecure with myself and never learned to be alone. Finally, I collapsed under the weight of being a fraud to myself. It’s been liberating being myself, and a weird sense of empowerment choosing to be alone, going on 4 or 5 years now. Although it can be lonely at times. If a particular woman showed interest and initiated a conversation, I’d respond, but none seemed like it would result in the relationship I’m now looking for.
Until one did. I really hated the term ‘soulmate’ until I found mine. Right now it’s very difficult because it’s a long distance relationship. The alternative is I’ll remain alone, since that hurts less than being a fraud to myself. I don’t deserve that.
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The democrats keeping President Biden in office, and those (including the First Lady) manipulating him to run again, are guilty of elder abuse.
A man doesn’t go this far against his convictions, or reverse this many of his previous policies and political views, unless he’s being coerced and his diminished mental acuity being exploited. This is beyond shameful, absolutely disgusting, politically and humanly unacceptable, and disgraceful. I sincerely think he believes himself a patriot and is doing what he views as necessary, and these admirable qualities President Biden has are being severely taken advantage of, right along w his diminished mental faculties. This man should be home playing with his grandchildren and spending his remaining years in retirement surrounded by his family and friends. This is beyond criminal, so beyond.
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The B-1 HAS been updated. Like, a LOT. But like Love said, the 52’s cheaper to operate and they both pretty much have the same mission capabilities. Yeah, the B-1’s faster on paper but it probably hasn’t gone supersonic since the B-1B was in the prototype phase; certainly never in an operational sortie.*
In a near-peer fight, neither the B-1 nor the B-52 would even be able to commence a bombing run before being blown out of the sky; the best they’d be able to do would be as platforms launching standoff cruise missiles and hypersonics - which is exactly their current strategic use. The only possible way they’d be able to drop gravity bombs would be if air superiority and destruction of SAM sites were achieved, such as over Afghanistan or Kosovo.
But the B-1 is tired out. It was used extensively in Afghanistan; it’s huge bombloads (50,000lbs on wing hard points, 75,000lbs in bomb bay, more than the B-52s 70,000lb max) coupled with low level flights have just worn it out. It’s really not able to be upgraded anymore, it would need to be completely rebuilt - as in down to the stringers, bulkheads, and formers for the fuselage, ribs, stringers, and spars for the wings, and reskinned with new sheet metal. Importantly, the swing wing pivot mechanism, a HUGE piece of massive titanium (I believe) would likely need replacing. This would be a new, 0-hour airframe - the expense would be enormous, Congress would never approve it, and it would be career suicide to even propose it.
The current plan makes sense. The B-52 is a strong airframe, reasonable to maintain, and apparently easy to upgrade, such as the fleet being re-engined, new avionics and displays, and weapons capability. It’s also legal by treaty to carry nuclear weapons, along with the B-2 and now the B-21; the B-1 had its nuclear capabilities removed per SALT or START - can’t remember offhand. Also, the funds that would be required for the B-1 are better spent on the B-21. The B-52 will almost certainly even outlast the B-2 as the B-2 is expensive to maintain and operate and is already 30-some years old - it’s strategic stealth capabilities will simply be, if not already, outmatched by Russian and Chinese SAM tech, and we don’t need another stand-off platform, especially one as expensive to operate as the Spirit.
*Regarding supersonic flight during operational sorties, I listened to a report by an analyst on YouTube (I really wish I had saved the link) who did a study on how many times the speed of sound was exceeded during the entire VietNam war - it was zero. I found that completely unexpected, until one considers how fast the fuel load is spent on full afterburner. Still, I was really surprised the answer was ‘not once.’
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@marcelo55869 You make the exploitation of resources and an African consumer market sound like a bad thing, but aren’t those capitalist prerequisites needed to begin investing in commerce? Capitalism has a pretty decent track record of elevating societies out of poverty and into prosperity. ‘People,’ ‘collaboration,’ and ‘development’ go hand in hand with prosperity and capitalism, and the goal of democracy can be achieved. If capitalist investments are to be realized, the proper investors will WANT to have the population elevated and prosperous so they can BECOME a consumer market, to everyone’s benefit.
Will this happen with China and Russia? Well, look at China’s and Russia’s internals, which aren’t great. China and Russia seem to be all about China and Russia. For example, the infrastructure China is building in Africa - how many Africans are being employed to build it, how many Africans are being trained to manage and improve it, who is benefiting from the resource extraction that can take place because of the infrastructure expansion?
But then, maybe China WOULD be motivated to uplift the common African into prosperity, to become a market for Chinese goods. Maybe I’m dead wrong, but that longer term capitalist thinking doesn’t seem to be any part of Chinese investment goals up to now.
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@Ceasariscoming1776 I get that you’re frustrated and sickened that most people have to worry about getting sick from their next drink of water, and I don’t disagree we need to implement nuclear fission on a global scale, but I don’t understand other comments. Are you saying we in the West are actively working to keep Africa impoverished? And we’re intentionally keeping the continent from becoming westernized? As far as the contributions they could contribute if we took our heel off their throats, these areas are living the same as they have for thousands of years. They’re sitting on resources that could propel them into the 21st century, but they’re not - no nihilism or racism on our part required. What is your plan that they be self sufficient and modernized?
I’m not sure blaming America and Europe for keeping these societies down. America has a pretty good track record at assisting nations and governments to get back in the game, post-WWII reconstruction comes to mind. Thousands of Westerners might also disagree we’re not concerned with providing health care, food, schools, housing and even investment. Maybe look at China? They’re investing heavily into Africa, but I don’t think it’s because they’re altruistic. China’s doing it for China, on the backs of the local population, and it appears these investments are not benefiting that population. Perhaps your racism charge should be directed elsewhere.
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Ughhh, I got pissed/disgusted/horrified when you showed alive, but dying, and dead birds, dolphins, and seals. We’re supposed to be stewards of animals that can’t protect themselves from our fuckups. I hunt, I’m all for drilling, I have a V8, but come on. We place a lot of trust in people who, when they fuck things up, there can be massive consequences - WAY beyond there small radius of operation.
Seems like government, post-spill, got their shit together with how they reacted with regulation, etc, and the public got their eyes on it in a hurry.
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Sometimes the passion just pulls you in. It is so otherworldly and so beautiful, and that urge to explore something so unknown and extreme is hardwired into our biology. Some of us may have more wires than others, and act upon those instincts.
Further, 'we will not go to the Moon because it is easy, we go to the Moon because it is hard.' Some have devoted their entire lives to developing revolutionary new technologies to descend so deeply for much longer periods of time, and have sacrificed much for this need of theirs...family even, and lives. What keeps divers alive is the confidence one has in their equipment, abilities, planning and execution, and their comrades - similar to other passions of people, such as rock climbing, skiing to the North and South Poles, being an astronaut or a test pilot, walking a tightrope or slacklining.
A competent diver never gambles, though, and thinking we're an exception because we somehow won something really isn't how we think. The vast majority of cave dives are successful and great care and planning go into every project or expedition with great emphasis placed on safety. It only takes a few seconds to drown so mistakes can be deadly really fast.
What is really difficult and disturbing to cope with is a death of a human so far removed from the surface, floating in the blackest of darkness, alone. It reaches to visceral fears that are within everyone's psyche, a terror deeply embedded in our genes, a primal instinct. Reading or viewing something about a person dying in an underwater cavern is indeed scary stuff; you may forget the details, but never the impact it has on your mind.
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Biden’s latest campaign ads are preposterous lies, as he outlines what he’s done/doing/going to do to relieve our suffering at the pump, grocery store, and while we’re trying to pay our bills. He conveniently neglected to mention he caused every one of our pain points.
The progressive ideology and movement are masters of deceit, lying to Americans while somehow telling the loyal, stupid, ignorant, and uninformed what they want to hear and believe. Credit where it’s due, they’re succeeding at invading America from within, bringing their narrative into reality.
As horrifying, destructive, and unacceptable this is to we Constitutional Americans, from the perspective of the radical progressive left these are intentional, deliberate, and successful initiatives.
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Oh, and a comment regarding CELESTIAL NAVIGATION…. It turns out the famous SR-71 Blackbird spy plane used a star tracker, called the Astro-NAV System or ANS, to provide guidance and correction to the aircraft’s inertial navigation system, or INS. The Blackbird would ‘calibrate’ the ANS, nicknamed R2-D2 by the crews, by fixing the location of several stars while on the taxiway prior to a mission - and the ANS was sensitive enough to see stars during daytime.
During flight, the inertial navigation system was used for the autopilot, and the INS was continuously monitored and updated by the ANS to ensure the SR-71 was on its proper course with an accuracy of less than 2000 feet fore or aft, and no more than 300 feet off the centerline of the flight path - pretty good for an aircraft cruising aroumd 2100mph, or Mach 3…in the mid-1960s. At altitudes around 85,000 feet, clouds weren’t a problem :). Mission times from takeoff to landing took between 4-6 hours or longer, with a couple hours over the target after inflight refueling. The Blackbird used fuel like crazy, and super accurate navigation was crucial in meeting up with the highly specialized tanker aircraft dispersed along the planned route or routes.
While keeping the Blackbird on course during the duration of the flight, the ANS picked at least two pre-programmed stars, and with the use of a chronometer (yes, just like THAT chronometer) could determine precisely the SR-71’s position. This was particularly important when skirting as close as possible to the USSR’s borders without crossing - which was expressly forbidden by express orders from the President. Navigating the aircraft, which had a turning radius of,90 miles and covered over 3,000 feet per SECOND, on a varying course was challenging, to say the very least. The backseat RSOs, the Reconnaissance Systems Operators, joked that “you can’t jam the stars!”
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Again, SOURCES PLEASE! Why do all the stats haters neglect to mention their sources in order to back up their criticisms and claims? RLL, like other channels who report similar statistics, use similar sources. If you can’t, or will not, provide your sources, you just sound like another crackpot.
Look, most of us don’t have skin in this, so the true death toll has virtually no impact on most of us. But, we do want be confident that the statistics we are given are true. So, spill! Where are you getting your data so that we can independently investigate its reliability?
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Reply to plaintext384
Mmm, right back at you. Both are considered infrastructure, and both enable our economy to function and thrive. Both most certainly create jobs, and in both cases the money absolutely flows directly back into the economy. And it’s not mystical accounting busywork; it is actually the basis of what drives our economy.
If you believe we do not need a military (which seems possible, especially by your unnecessary use of the tired ‘green’ adjective), there’s likely little hope you are open minded enough to see that, in fact, an aircraft carrier asset churns our economy the same as freeways, dams, nuclear and petroleum based power plants, solar and wind farms, water treatment plants, canals, automobiles, and homes.
At any rate, you clearly are not seeing what we actually get from our military, and what we get back from it.
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Oh brother. And I was gonna audit courses at ASU. In fairness, I do regret not taking the time to learn Spanish since living in Arizona, but now have to move to Northern Wisconsin. But still might, as I plan on coming back. Anyway….
This guy is not unreasonable in a one on one conversation, and this seemed a reasonable discussion. But wow, the differences in what I think vs he is incredibly…different. Maybe this really does make sense to someone who doesn’t know much Standardized American English as opposed to my point of view as a white guy who speqks only English.
I truly don’t understand the racist slant as not learning English puts anyone living in America at a disadvantage. Plus, as another commenter pointed out, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, India, and so many other countries put an emphasis at speaking English because of the opportunities it opens up. Additional, any country with air personnel within an airline must speak English to be allowed entry into the EU and US for obvious safety reasons. Even Russia and former USSR countries had or were in process of transitioning to English for the same reasons, although Russia has likely relaxed that effort since most countries have disallowed them airport privileges.
Also, English is the language adopted for the worldwide financial industry. There’s nothing about this and airlines needing to use English that’s intended to be racist; it’s simply, overwhelmingly, beneficial to use a common language for these two examples. Given the advantages, maybe someone could make an argument that it’s racist to not require a citizen, or someone on a work- or student-visa speak English; at the very least, it’s cruel to educate someone in America (or the EU, SE Asia, etc, for that matter) and not require them to speak the native language because it severely restricts their opportunities and income potential.
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Nikki Haley is not wrong about chaos following Trump. It obviously means nothing to us with respect to the primaries and caucuses, where Trump is likely to win all, but she could be correct if the general is close again. Then it boils down to the left and right moderates, independents, and the undecided, where a candidate other than Trump may do better against either biden, dingbat, or Michelle.
Personally knowing many people who ARE on the fence about not only which candidate to vote for, but which PARTY, I could easily see where Haley might be more favorable to them than Trump, if she's played against any one of the three democrat goofballs.
Doesn't matter, though, since Trump will win the primaries and caucuses - probably all of them. Unless she's a de facto Republican candidate due to Trump either dying or being in jail, there's simply no way the majority of Republicans will vote for her. And it's debatable that Trump's base still wouldn't vote for him in the general even if he were behind bars, which would be an election catastrophe since it will split the Republican votes across two candidates. Because, unless every Republican voter is on board with some mythical, unifying strategy, millions of moderate Conservatives are NOT going to vote for a candidate in the klink.
Frustratingly, but realistically, given there are probably an equal number of voters who will vote either only for Trump (assuming he lives and is free) or only for a democrat, the entire race is probably down to the less than a million or so swing voters - who knows, maybe only a few hundred thousand!
A conclusion to draw, however, might be that it's very important that Nikki Haley stay in the race, just in case the worst happens to Trump - if for no other reason than to just keep her in the minds of voters. And instead of every Conservative and MAGA Republican voter, media outlet (yes, you, Fox), and independent journalist channels criticising and ridiculing Governor-Ambassador Nikki Haley's campaign, we should be encouraging it. Or at least tolerating it! Clearly, she's no threat to President Trump in the Primaries, and if and when Trump becomes Candidate President Trump, it's not like there will be this groundswell of write-in votes for her. BUT, she could be the critical and necessary fail safe if the absolute worst happens that makes it impossible for Trump to be the Republican presidential candidate.
So be nice to Nikki. Just sayin'.
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Msnbc and cnn and the others are just unapologetically lying for her, her ads are factually false, and the outlets are parroting the same false information on their editorial shows (can’t call it news if they’re knowingly lying), knowing full well the statements are not true. It’s like everyone has gotten the same email on what everyone is allowed to say, to keep all the lies consistent and synchronized, so their audiences keep hearing the same thing no matter who they tune in to.
Ya, I know, campaign ads are all bs, truths are stretched, stuff’s taken out of context. But harris and the far left media outlets don’t even try to lipstick a pig; they’re just outright lying. To use some simple math as an example, harris is basically saying 2+2=57. And so is msnbc, cnn, abc, cbs.
And now she’s co-opting Trump’s policies, calling them her own? And the outlets are just reinforcing her wave of popularity. If there was ever any doubt our nation and press are being run by some elitist machine, just watch the harris campaign. She’s obviously being scripted, the far left media outlets are being told exactly what to say - and to keep repeating it until the next script has been sent out. Even harris is repeating - her campaign ‘speeches’ on two of them are almost identical!
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This is a great question! G3’s most likely correct; with the heat from radioactive decay and the heat from the collisions of asteroid and meteor impacts, the two bodies were indeed molten. And if they weren’t completely molten blobs, the resultant post-collision Earth almost certainly would be.
I suppose parts of the cores may have be partially solid, and perhaps the combined core might be a little kattawompus, but even that is unlikely as neither planet was fully differentiated at this point. That is, the heavier iron and cobalt were still working their way down through the magma ocean to create a core that eventually solidified. There weren’t distinct layers like the mantle and crust as we know them today, it would have been one giant, deep magma ocean, perhaps surrounding the start of a core, even before the collision.
It wasn’t until the Great Bombardment stopped, well after the collision, that the earth had pretty much all the mass it was going to get. Being relatively quiet, but still molten, the heavier compounds sunk, the lighter ones rose, and the planet differentiated to what we have now. With the heat from impacts gone, and the heavier radioactive elements sunk, the crust could ‘freeze’ and the magma cooled within the mantle into a thick, hot taffy with pockets of magma that, to this day, spew up through the crust as volcanoes.
By now, the inner core is solid due to the massive pressure of the weight of material on ‘top’ of it, or rather, surrounding it. The radioactive decay is still extremely hot, and this keeps the outer core a hot, molten layer, along with the heat generated by the heavier iron compounds and allows that are still sinking, converting their potential energy into kinetic, in turn being converted to more heat. Relative to each other, the solid inner core can rotate within the liquid outer core, or the outer core spins and fluctuates around the inner core…or both. The outer core’s mixing motion is mostly driven by the convection currents that are created from the heat flow from the inner to the outer core. The relative motion of the outer core is significantly large.
The theory indicates the core behaves similarly to a dynamo, which is a device that generates an electrical current, which in turn creates a magnetic field. The relative motion between the core layers somehow generates large, strong, and varying electric currents within the electrically conductive fluids in the outer core. The fluctuating electric currents in turn generate the huge magnetic field surrounding the earth. Eventually it will cease when the outer core solidifies.
Sorry for the tangent, but I wanted to impart how much mixing and differentiation has occurred, and how much motion is happening to this day. The mantle’s mixing motion occurs the same way as the outer core’s, but much, much slower because of its taffy-like consistency, and at a huge scale. The mantle will continue to differentiate as long as the core releases huge amounts of heat into it. The heat drives the formation, continuation, and circulation of stupendously large fluid convection currents. The motion of these enormous convective cells in the mantle are what drive the motion of the crustal plates, termed plate tectonics.
All of this seeks to explain why there are no remnants of the planetary collision that created the Moon. The planet is mostly differentiated, and the convective motion of the Earth’s inner layers is still happening, thoroughly mixing and combining the compounds from the two planetary bodies.
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I worked at Merge Healthcare, they make image archives for rad systems. I guess most hospitals had an on prem archive, with a bkup copy (millions of images) in the cloud. IBM bought Merge with the express purpose of training their Watson bullshitnAI with these images. Apparently all the hospitals signed off on Merge and IBM proprietary access to everything (de-identified and anonymized) that resides on an IBM cloud archive.
There are hundreds of hospitals with billions of images getting dumped into the Watson AI data lake to train it to diagnose. BILLIONS. Their army of lawyer suits said ‘too fucking bad’ but nobody gave a shit anyway.
That was the largest software acquisition by anyone, anywhere. At least up to that point. Prolly only 5-8 years ago. More than what IBM paid for RH. That was the sole reason for acquisition. Ballsy. Laf, Ginny’s balls.
I couldn’t believe it, Oh, and everything is turnkey and ‘self repaired’ by Merge/IBM. We could turn on encryption on any of the archives, but I think they used LUKS (good stuff), but whatever. The hospitals couldn’t pick their own encryption, and guess who had complete control of all these encryption keys.
Not a bad deal. I wonder how good Watson is now. Evidently, it was horrible, and it got drummed out of hospital radiology department everywhere. But, in fairness, this was a long time ago, and watson was probably it. Ginny really went balls deep with watson, so maybe? Regardless, with billions of images to train the…LLMS?? (Would they still be called Language Models if they were CTs, Xrays, US, whatever?? Shoot, was ‘LLM’ even in the AI dictionary yet, 8-10 years ago??
No idea. But your chapter on Adobe rang the bell. Maybe someone will find this interesting. Our office is in Hartland, but those Watson teams were all over the world. So, if you’re interested, winters suck in WI, but I doubt any AI folk had to relocate there.
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Huh, Epic Healthcare is in Madison, and that’s a monster, nationwide EHR/EMR (health/medical record). They have a lab/pathology module, called Epic Beaker (images) and radiology (epic radiant). Epic’s locked down tight - they’ll actually drop a client if they deviate from Epic’s policies. No question they have AI, and every epic hospital is linked. Especially Radiology. In MKE, I can view my images from hospital A while at competing hospitalB. Laf, I even got my images from AZ while at my WI doctor. It’s not even thought of, now.
Anyway, millions and billions if epic radiant images, definitely accessible from Epic.
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McKesson is another rad system/archive - same deal. Hmmph, they’re in WI, too.
SimonImaging, a third party radio franchise, in AZ…same story.
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Oh yeah, and Abbot Labs and Baxter? Just across the IL state line, they’re both giants. I thought they were huge, research and mfg, but they used our image archive —- i dunno, maybe they’re making a radiology image archive AI R&D.
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Fuck me, maybe I SHOULD get back into healthcare!
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She’s (well, was) somewhat pretty for the lowest value woman I’ve ever heard about. As in, she was pretty low value for advertising she was wanting to do this, and shot right down to the lowest, mmmmmaybe when the cameraman gagged when entering the room. That her eyes burned from when these losers unloaded on her face (her choice) really screamed, “Mom? Dad? I’d like you to meet my girlfriend…”
Man, growing up, I remember thinking Madonna was the skankiest skank, ever. This…damaged girl… she set the bar SO low, just you wait until there are hundreds of girls in a race to the bottom, desperate to normalize this behavior.
I hope her staff videoed the interviews and recorded the names of all 100 deviant women abusers, and posts those on YT, FB, X, Rumble, et al. At least give girls who may interact with any of them a chance to bail; and save future employers from sexual harassment suits by not hiring them. I’m not sure who’s more gross, but those 100 reflect poorly on the concept of being a man.
I know who are more gross: the corrupted radical far left progressive feminist movement whose train this girl hooked her car onto. They’ll likely congratulate her for expressing herself so freely, giving the male cohorts a pass for helping this girl break her patriarchal chains. Meanwhile, Daniel Penny…
The Better Bachelor had a good closing statement on this, though long winded.
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Wasn’t everyone making or taking bribes and contributions then? That was just the way it was done, and naturally everyone’s going to get as close to the line of what’s acceptable and not acceptable. 20 some years ago in the IT industry, we were ‘bribed’ by vendors all the time, the more $ the more commensurate the handouts. It’s also not really fair to judge a company’s sales practices with today’s ethical standards; if every manufacturer is doing the same thing, is it really a manufacturer’s fault for trying to equalize their competitive landscape? Ask Grumman, I guess, but you can bet they learned fast - either know whom to make contacts w, or stay out of the export market. There isn’t a company out there that wouldn’t push their sales strategy to the absolute limit of what they could get away with.
A pet project of mine is to delve into the various tenders that ended up making the F-104 the de facto NATO fighter of the time, and I’m trying to find the various aircraft and manufacturers the F-104 was competing with. It’s a little difficult bc each country then, like now, managed their own bidding process, so the potential contender list was different. My goal is to provide evidence that what’s called bribery now was sales strategy then, and most everyone did it, and also to prove that amongst the various designs submitted, the F-104 was either generally the highest performing (against the Fiat G91, for example) or comparable enough in performance (MirageIII) to its competition. So if anyone would like to help or collaborate, please let me know! The insights Ed provided in this episode were amazing, especially learning of what the pilots thought of the 11 vs 104.
The F-104’s one of my favorites, and so is Lockheed Martin for that matter, and both will always be; that’s the motivation to care about looking into this task. But if it turns out bribery wasn’t a common sales strategy, or that the F-104 was always the inferior pick, well, I’d like to find that out too. Maybe I’ll be surprised.
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I’m not in any way saying I’m some spectacular judge of who or what makes a good all-around leader, BUT…I am gonna say America may have segregated into two distinct pools of ideologies. I’m intuitively drawn to leaders like Ms. Tulsi Gannard, Gov. DeSantis, JD Vance, the new and dramatically improved President Trump (who I believe is on his way to becoming one of the four greatest Presidents ever), SecDef Haggith, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramiswamey, et al - and happily, there are many more, and may we enjoy at least four or five terms of Conservative leadership.
But I’m instinctively repulsed by these far left radicals like aoc, omsr, the rest of those crazies, this hogg kid, the 46th president (I’m too ashamed of him to spell out his disgraceful name), harris, shiff or schiff (ugh, so bad), shoomer - oh wow, the list is so long. No doubt these radical socialists feel the same, but of course, in reverse.
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Again, SOURCES PLEASE! Why do all the stats haters neglect to mention their sources in order to back up their criticisms and claims? RLL, like other channels who report similar statistics, use similar sources. If you can’t, or will not, provide your sources, you just sound like another crackpot.
Look, most of us don’t have skin in this, so the true death toll has virtually no impact on most of us. But, we do want be confident that the statistics we are given are true. So, spill! Where are you getting your data so that we can independently investigate its reliability?
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I brought this up in a new relationship, and she understood its importance. I said I also require: being wide open and discussing lovemaking like we discuss the book we’re each reading; and that she tell me exactly what do to to please her, even - actually, especially - while we’re performing. And give me feedback on how it felt or feels. I told her how important it was in my relationship. Ultimately, we need to have conversations about it as freely and open as the emotional, spiritual, and mental aspects that we both need.
I didn’t do all of this at once, of course, but when I did it, I was explicit. Seemed to work. For me to enjoy sex, I need her engaged and present and fully aware that while I’m lusting over her body, I’m pouring my feelings of love, respect, and on, into as intensely mentally as I am physically.
Anyway, she’s aware that I, personally, have no desire for just sex. I enter into a relationship only with someone I see a long term connection possible. To me, sex is the ultimate physical expression of love, lusting is deeply intertwined with lovemaking, and it must be present to build and maintain our emotional, physical, mental, and spiritual bond. The woman must know, believe, and fully accept my loving, my connection, and commitment require a sexual relationship to help seal and maintain the bond. It’s just as important as respecting and loving her with my mind and soul and heart - take any one of those away, the relationship will die. Relationships are hard, cuz they have to be constantly maintained and fussed over - I guess that’s why they’re such a huge commitment.
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Too bad. I boycotted these channels due to all the inaccuracies, specifically the mismatch between the aircraft being talked about and the accompanying photographs; on his Spitfire doc, for example, the video introduces the classic prop plane with a photo of an early jet, the Supermarine Attacker! I have to unsubscribe, somewhat reluctantly since Dark Skies started out as a decent resource of technical and historical aircraft knowledge. Unfortunately, this and the other Dark channels are just too untrustworthy; I just don’t have the time to watch content I know is just wrong but I can ‘self-correct’ because I’m well versed in aviation topics. I can’t even watch the other channels; I don’t know much about ships, so I can’t watch Dark Seas because I can never be certain that what I’m listening to is accurate or even true, or if the pictures and video even correspond to the dialogue.
What is frustrating and incredibly irresponsible is him misguiding and misinforming an audience that may not be expert in the topics he covers - and that’s the point! He’s supposed to be the expert! These viewers are relying on his expertise, and he’s failing them. We’re trusting him that he’s found a compelling topic, done his research, compiled info from source material, and presents truth from a particular perspective. Apparently he must not consider himself a sort of journalist or investigative reporter, as at least they have professional standards they’re expected to adhere to. Think what you will about the media, they do censure writers that turn out flagrantly inaccurate, untrue and uncollaborated work. This guy is just whistling along fat, dumb and happy collecting his YT paycheck, and meanwhile , people are accumulating knowledge, basing decisions and forming opinions with false information.
If anyone knows of a YouTube policy or procedure in regards to filing a complaint, please post. If any think this is over the top, just imagine Dark Whatever editing something in Wikipedia that you assume, and need, to be true.
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I THINK I’m one of, or close to, the voters who might not vote for Trump (I will, btw). I’m a right leaning moderate, registered Independent, and Governor DeSantis would have been my pick. But with the groundswell of very-pro Trump supporters, it makes little sense to still cast my ballot for DeSantis - it would essentially be a vote for biden…or whoever will end up being the Democrat nominee.
The extreme far right frustrates me, even scares me a bit - especially after hearing Bill Maher call them out for their lunacy. :) And it disturbs me greatly if these Congressmen and Congresswomen are truly representative of their electorate; these would not be people my friends and I would gravitate towards at our city picnic.
So, despite my distaste for ‘our’ far right, I have concluded that the next four years are Trump’s time, meanwhile hoping the next eight are DeSantis’ as we bring the Republican party back towards the center and to normalcy. Perhaps at the same time, the Democrat party can reconstitute the party back to the classical liberals, many of whom are my best friends.
I believe the Democrat Party has been hijacked by this far, far left socialist marxist (even stalinist) movement, that views the classical liberals with disgust and disdain. Moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans must both take back their respective parties, and either push out or relegate their extremists back to the fringe.
Biden, or any puppet of obama and the socialist marxist movement, simply are not good for America, Democracy, or the Constitution, and I can’t vote for that. Trump, like I said, isn’t my favorite, but at least I can look at his four years of his presidency and conclude I’d rather have four more of that over the alternative.
For this election, being a Trump supporter does not mean I’m suddenly a right wing extremist, but I, and probably most like me (and even more than a few left of center, classical liberals), have little choice but to vote Trump.
RFK would have been a meaningful competitive candidate, and I honestly would have considered voting for him. But the socialist machine has made his candidacy impossible. Clearly it’s not his turn either, but perhaps it can be in 2028.
Now, on with the rest of this episode. And give me a little credit: I AM, after all, viewing a media outlet that swings left. I even try to watch CNN and MSNBC!
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@lizrichard3137 Holy cow, yes! My meds actually relax me, letting me focus, but invariably I’ll focus on things I find interesting and pleasant. But using that focus on essential tasks, like taxes, no way…I’ll put that off til April 14th. And even then, I’ll just file for a six month extension.
Vyvanse (or adderall) have done miracles for my focus, plus have given me hope I can have a normal life. I have also been taking 300mg of Wellbutrin to help with motivation, but I’ve not noticed this although I’ve just taken it for years. My therapist suggested increasing the dose to say, 450mg, and this I have noticed helps. I’ve also noticed more help with 600mg but want to look into the info on dosages so I don’t end up causing problems.
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Except the hard drive wouldn’t be able to figure out where along the track the head was, since there’s only one track on a record.
At any rate, MAYBE there was subconscious inspiration with a phonograph, but a platter is pretty self evident, especially when it comes to the for at. IBM looked at cylinders, too. The magnetic means was based on already using tape, and also core memory for RAM. But maybe - who knows, maybe the cylinder architecture was inspired by player pianos and music rolls - maybe the punch cards, too! Although those had been out a long time, even with Numerical Control machine tools - the progenitor of a CNC. Punch cards were also used on massive looms, too.
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Governor DeSantis is the type of leader we idealized in high school Civics class in the latter 80s, even while having a presidential icon in President Reagan. What is so amazing to me is that his words, platform, and goals he has for the federal government are not the typically hollow campaign promises our lackluster string of candidates we’ve had since President Bush, Sr., have made to we voters, only to be bogged down with partisan politics and feral party infighting. None have had the leadership abilities to assert authority over the Congressional disasters we’ve had for decades. The best a president has been able to do is undue the work of the previous presidency, and make deals to gain control of the House and/or Senate. Unfortunately, when this has finally been accomplished, his term is over, the opposition party assumes the presidency, and the same swamp cycle begins yet again.
The difference with Gov. DeSantis is that he can point to his overwhelmingly successful administration of Florida. We know he’ll do it because he’s done it. I think he’s exactly the leader we need to bring Congress to heel, and is moderate and centrist enough to encourage moderate centrists within both parties to work together to stop the right and left extremism, with the leadership to force this cooperation if he finds it necessary. I applaud the way he wants to reduce the size of government, make bureaucrats fireable (and fire them) gut or eliminate the various Departments, give back to the states what belongs to the states (education, for example), and force the acccountability of our elected public servants back to We the People.
He is the one who can do this and make our government get back to work running our country. We didn’t anticipate this infighting, gridlock, extreme partisan politics, and allowing our federal government to reign supreme over the states and citizenry back in my high school Civics class. I want this schoolyard behavior within all three branches, and the bureaucratic fourth branch, to stop; it is unacceptable to run our country this way. This is not what I signed up for when I cast my ballot, and this is not what our Founding Fathers intended this experiment in democracy to devolve to.
I really am awestruck this great man is only 44, and am glad he is as he will need every ounce of energy he has to make this future miracle happen. Plus, I’m so tired of being led by old men, fossils well past their prime that should have retired years ago. They have not had what it takes to manage the greatest nation, and continually fail at developing our economy into one ever more vibrant.
Perhaps God had his hand in this, nudging Gov. DeSantis into turning Florida around and upwards to excellence, and being inspired to become our next President. Perhaps this is God’s way of giving us a candidate who can reverse our plummet into evil, paganism, despair, and hopelessness. Perhaps Gov. DeSantis is our gift to get our nation back. It’s now up to us, and all we have to do is vote for him. That’s a pretty good deal.
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There are few people I detest more than Fauci…biden, certainly; obviously the low hanging fruit like hitler, stalin, etc.; obama, for sure. But how one man single handedly halted our economy for two years, and all the associated side effects due to the lies, the false information, the regulations and requirements that the entire populace were burdened with…this is the greatest scandal perpetrated by a single person in all of history. And the man walks around with complete freedom and impunity, without the barest hint of acknowledging any wrongdoing, nor any trace of assuming any responsibility or accountability.
If he was simply wrong, and acted as he did, and believed sincerely he was operating with what was the best information at the time, he would STILL be criminally responsible for mistakes that had such an historically devastating effect on America.
BUT, as the scandal unfolds that he absolutely knew then the facts that are coming into the light now, that he halted the economy by forcing everyone to stay quarantined at home, that the virus wasn’t any more deadly than the flu for healthy people, from children to older adults, that masks were ineffective, that there were and still are serious and legitimate concerns over the efficacy, the danger, and potentially serious side effects of the vaccine and boosters….that he knew ALL of this from the beginning, when the virus had first been released, yet still CHOSE to act as he did…there simply are no words to describe the monster that Fauci is. (Sorry, that’s a long sentence.)
The only thing that makes sense to me, the only reason this man has not been executed if he were working alone (still a distinct possibility given his insufferable ego), is that he was directed. With so many scandals surrounding this administration, with so many conspiracies once considered fringe or nuts from 2015 and on but which are accumulating evidence they indeed had occurred, and that the extreme far left has such a socialist, stalinist, and communist agenda, it is entirely plausible and reasonable that the powerful forces underpinning this current administration and bureaucracy ad seized on the ‘pandemic’ as an opportunity to weaken America, make the citizens dependent upon the state, and further advance socialism by weakening and destroying so much of our middle class.
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Good Lord, the X article at 9:15 reads exactly like activist climate change writing. It’s so pathetically obvious this was written to appeal to emotion, completely bypassing rational thought. And it’s so charged up with aggressive, negative rhetoric, it not only makes it difficult to have a conversation about the subject, it’s written to preemptively shout down any alternative point of view of the topic. And it’s written thusly by design.
This has been such a common theme all these years. It feels like someone at the top has a perspective, maybe even an agenda, how a grand vision needs to take place. And with stone cold rationality and intention, has commissioned these narratives that are so highly charged with words that appeal to emotional manipulation, they’re seized upon by activist tools that use them as weapons against anyone who dares dissent. And it doesn’t matter if the narrative is supported by facts or if it’s completely wrong, because that’s not its purpose. Its purpose is to advance the agenda of the puppet master.
Oops, sorry, I got on my soap box again, with not enough sleep. Sorry. Laf, all I originally intended to write was to compliment Sal on this episode. Once again, Sal validates why I like waiting for his analysis of current events.
I guess when he started using facts, experience, and common sense to explain the situation, it reveals the stark contrast between what we should have and what we actually have. I wrongly assumed government would be able to handle these contingencies by investing and preparing ahead of time, and getting the public educated they’re worthwhile investments we hope we never have to use. Instead, it just points out the short term vision and elimited, linear thinking our government has.
For instance, if someone observes we haven’t had to use the investments in infrastructure, designed to protect us and safeguard our homes, towns, and cities from unforeseen threats and extremes, last year or maybe even the year prior, we’re probably not going to need them. Ever. At least not in the short term.
Instead, they’ll kick that can (that can of ‘risk’) down to future politicians’ dilemmas, and use those responsible investments on shiny, new programs and projects that will get them reelected. Or advance some large-scale narrative or ideology. Or, more likely, both. Yeah, so a couple towns burn to the ground; a few dozen or hundred businesses are destroyed - after just getting un-destroyed by the genius moves during the pandemic; citizens - who count on the government’s foresight, preparedness, and leadership during crises and disasters - are wiped out financially, rendered homeless, even killed.
And it’s justified. Their unpreparedness for basic government services and responsibilities - in this case, as basic as fire protection - in order to instead ‘prepare’ to keep themselves in power, advance their political careers, and further their agendas, is at the expense of the citizens who hired them to manage a functional society. “Certainly,” they tell themselves; “Certainly it’s terrible what the people of California are going through. But if they only understood our vision and our plan for the future, they would absolutely see we ARE preparing for their common good. If the little people could only see the big picture, and comprehend our vision, of course they’d agree the misfortune of a few justify the continuation of our leadership.”
Just listen to John Kerry explain to bis cohorts how special people like him and they are. If it wasn’t so chilling to think about, and they didn’t believe it to be true, it would sound completely ridiculous.
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Man, and I thought being such a linear thinker was one of MY biggest shortcomings… These guys can’t see beyond one setback, and when things go off the rails and failures occur in two or three or four different directions, they just, well, burn.
It’s like they plan for maybe one failure scenario, and when things don’t ‘fail properly’ (I coined that phrase when designing fault tolerant computer systems), their entire system, which that depends on almost everything working perfectly, just collapses.
No water within a fire fighting infrastructure? That is such a failure of government leadership, I really don’t have any words.
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An average American’s perspective: Hamas is Palestine, Palestine is hamas. Palestinians elected hamas to serve as their government, knowing full well hamas’ mission is to end Israel and eradicate all Jews. Therefore, Palestine is complicit in the murder of Jews and attacks on Israel - they are not separate.
Hamas bears ALL responsibility for the deaths, discomfort, and lack of medical treatment of its citizens. Hamas bears all responsibility for not providing basic government services such as power, food, and water.
Israel bears responsibility for ensuring the security and safety of its citizens. Since hamas insists they will never stop killing Jews and attacking Israel, Israel has no choice but to kill all hamas. Since hamas is content using Palestinian women and children and the elderly as human shields, hamas is responsible for every Palestinian who happens to be innocent from the compulsion to kill all Jews.
By no means is all of Palestine innocent. Any so-called civilians, especially those who indoctrinate their own children to hate Israel, must either renounce hamas, surrender, and sue for peace, or be considered supporting of their hamas movement of death and hate.
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I've been on both sides of this scenario. Most of it's just life. I didn't criticize, and on the other side, I didn't expect help (which I always received). You're not proving anything other than people don't feel safe around out-of-bounds situations. I have no children, but I'd want them to identify either situation and act accordingly - and sloppy humans would be right up there with 'run.'
Shame on you for calling them out as unsympathetic to an individual's plight. I would also expect they help those in need, in controlled and secure environments. But when it comes to an individual's choice regarding to their own actual or perceived safety, I'd want my kids to stay in the light and err on the side of caution.
There are plenty of resources available for the homeless, and from my experience, they learn of those resources fast. To insinuate people should dissolve their inhibitions and blindly assist someone homeless is completely irresponsible, and shame again on you. I've personally never had an issue, but I'm genetically above average and fit (that is, average) - no one's going to go out of their way to vex me. But a female? Taking a jog thru the park? Nope. Interspersed among the meth needles, I've cleaned up plenty of used condoms and panties in cleaning up my parks.
A slob is inherently untrustworthy. Don't blame society no one wants to interact with you. That someone did, count it as a blessing. But don't you dare fault society.
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When I was just a pup, I was a hardware tech for IBM on the RS/6000, although it may have been rebranded as Power (after the Power processor family), or maybe it was pSeries…whatever. Anyway, it was around the year 2000, and I was sent to work on some new Power3 SMP servers - think it was the p660 H- and M-Series, which were up to 4-way and 6-way SMP. Back then, a 6-way SMP machine was a big deal.
I was really struttin’ my stuff with my colleagues when I got trained on the p680-S85, which was a giant of a standalone server. When it rolled out, it was the fastest standalone SMP server IBM had. Maxed out, it had four 6-way ‘books’ for up to 24 600MHz processors, with 16MB of L2 cache. Dizzying. For memory, it had up to 96GB of ECC SDRAM on either four or eight large cards (about the size of an oven cookie sheet), where the memory was soldered on. As far as I know, every server before and after used SIMMs or DIMMs, but those memory cards were a feature for reliability.
So, around 2001, the biggest, baddest, fastest standalone server in the world at that time was a 24-way, 600MHz, 96GB RAM, SMP server. It was contained within two, refrigerator-sized racks - one rack for the processors and memory, the other rack with four IO drawers with a maximum of 56 pci adapters. The rack could also hold SCSI and/or SSA drawers. If it was using SSA adapters, it could conceivably connect to hundreds and hundreds of SSA disk within dozens and dozens of tall racks of disk drawers. Amazing system. If it was clustered using HACMP, it could be one of 32 nodes, sharing those disk with every other node.
It was also unique as it could also act as a node in an SP2, Scalable Processor/Scalable PowerParallel cluster. The SP clusters were huge, parallel processing, shared disk, shared memory (using fast HPS switches) supercomputers with up to 512 nodes. The actual cluster nodes were in their own special racks, the latest nodes being 4-way, 450MHz, 16GB RAM SMP servers, so having a number of p680s as SP nodes could have been a big jump up for specific applications and jobs. The p680s would connect to the SP cluster’s HPS switch using special PCI adapters.
Some universities had 512-node SP supercomputers; I heard from other techs the NSA had a LOT of them. ASCI White was a famous, 512-node SP2 supercomputer that was ranked number one in the Top500, from Nov2000 to Nov2001. ASCI Blue Pacific was another supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore; Seaborg at Lawrence Berkley. Deep Blue was another SP supercomputer, an older, microchannel-node, SP1 cluster that was good at chess. All of these SP supercomputers ran AIX as their OS. I really miss AIX, it’ll always be the best OS, even today.
Wow! Sorry, this REALLY brought back memories. So, it’s around 2000, and I’m being trained in Austin. Austin was where, at that time, the Power hardware was designed and manufactured. AIX may have been as well, but I’m not sure. Anyway, we’re in the lunchroom, and it’s just buzzing with engineering excitement. Then a banner is put up: “Power4 breaks 1GHz!” Everyone goes crazy - almost SpaceX crazy.
The next year, the Power4, 32-way, 1.3GHz, 256GB RAM, p690 came out, and changed things into what we see today. It contained the first dual-core (today’s terminology) 4-way MCM (multi-chip module) processor complex. Four MCMs were (carefully) installed to make a 32-way SMP. A big deal. The thing was in a rack well over 6 feet tall. Same size as a mainframe, and internally, it could hold 96 disk drives, and 160 PCI-X adapters, connected to a near infinite amount of storage, as fibre channel had gone mainstream about the same time.
This is also when LPARs (logical partitions) (VMs/Virtual Machines, to use todays VMware terminology, went mainstream for the first time outside a mainframe environment. In fact the people who started VMware were LPAR engineers who left IBM. With this first iteration, the individual lpars could use any processor, and any memory, and any individual adapter - nothing was virtualized then. You could have a 32-way SMP server down to 32 single processor servers. Today, memory, cpu, and IO are all virtualized as you’d expect, and the core count has gotten significantly higher; also, as you’d expect.
I left IBM around this time, to become an AIX sysadmin. I was lucky enough to admin p660s, a p680 (!!!), and engineer the layout of the p690 (so fun), and also the p595 - a mainframe-sized Power6 machine, w up to 1TB RAM. Before that, I got big into IBMs processor/memory and VIO/PowerVM virtualization, and thoroughly into fibre channel director management. Replacing the beloved p690 with the p595 was pretty cool. Oh yeah, plus we used HACMP/PowerHA, clustering one p690 with another, and then one p595 with another, with cross-site, synchronized, fibre channel storage, in two locations about 8-10 miles apart. Man, that was a fun job.
What a world.
Time to boot up my 6-core, i5, 32GB PC.
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I’ve not ever witnessed an interview that needs to be distributed to every news and content outlet, every citizen of democracy, every leader, every protestor…she survived to tell the world, God is working through her. When God is with Israel, Israel with survive and thrive…and God is with Israel.
10:45 The best observation on the use of the First Amendment, ever. Americans, myself included, would do well to heed her words about HOW to use our Freedom of Thought, Speech, and Assembly properly, responsibly, and respectfully.
I pray our children, who are demonstrating for, perhaps, that believe what they are saying is right and correct, can open their hearts and minds and listen to Tal Hartuv’s words. I pray they may hear and accept the truth, that they open their hearts and minds to let her words change their minds, to express themselves correctly, with compassion and love.
God bless you, Tal Hartuv.
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He has retreated into his basement. But his Internet went down, and StarLink won't sell him a connection. Hmm, womder why.
OMG, picture this! He did go to his 'basement' but in reality is in a coma. However, the DNC pre-recorded all sorts of campaign stuff, and will be running Biden's election machine from this material. Furthermore, a generous amount of content was delivered to the fascist legacy news media outlets, which they'll be able to edit as they see fit to report on 'Joe's responses' to future current events. There's also talk that Alphabet has 'donated' an AI cluster to the DNC. The DNC would like to experiment with creating an AI version of Biden to simplify interfacing AI Joe to new events as they occur, rather than relying solely on the pre-recorded content.
And this just in, the DNC is seeking to trademark the 'AI Joe' name. There are already talks w an unknown toymaker to create an 'AI Joe' action figure along the lines of 'GI Joe,' and this includes an entire AI Joe ecosystem featuring Washington dems, the news media, certain financial institutions, liberal tech like MS, Google, Facebook, a whole army of elites, and segments of the military industrial complex.
In keeping with the GI Joe theme, anything that makes sense, is logical, traditional, and Constitutional will be portrayed by Cobra Commander's army.
Ok, sorry. I took my medication and may have gotten a little carried away.
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My humble answer to upgrading (rather, rebuilding) the B-1 and mothballing the B-52. Please correct and fill in a couple of my ‘can’t remembers.’
The B-1 HAS been updated. Like, a LOT. But like Love said, the 52’s cheaper to operate and they both pretty much have the same mission capabilities. Yeah, the B-1’s faster on paper but it probably hasn’t gone supersonic since the B-1B was in the prototype phase; certainly never in an operational sortie.*
In a near-peer fight, neither the B-1 nor the B-52 would even be able to commence a bombing run before being blown out of the sky; the best they’d be able to do would be as platforms launching standoff cruise missiles and hypersonics - which is exactly their current strategic use. The only possible way they’d be able to drop gravity bombs would be if air superiority and destruction of SAM sites were achieved, such as over Afghanistan or Kosovo.
But the B-1 is tired out. It was used extensively in Afghanistan; it’s huge bombloads (50,000lbs on wing hard points, 75,000lbs in bomb bay, more than the B-52s 70,000lb max) coupled with low level flights have just worn it out. It’s really not able to be upgraded anymore, it would need to be completely rebuilt - as in down to the stringers, bulkheads, and formers for the fuselage, ribs, stringers, and spars for the wings, and reskinned with new sheet metal. Importantly, the swing wing pivot mechanism, a HUGE piece of massive titanium (I believe) would likely need replacing. This would be a new, 0-hour airframe - the expense would be enormous, Congress would never approve it, and it would be career suicide to even propose it.
The current plan makes sense. The B-52 is a strong airframe, reasonable to maintain, and apparently easy to upgrade, such as the fleet being re-engined, new avionics and displays, and weapons capability. It’s also legal by treaty to carry nuclear weapons, along with the B-2 and now the B-21; the B-1 had its nuclear capabilities removed per SALT or START - can’t remember offhand. Also, the funds that would be required for the B-1 are better spent on the B-21. The B-52 will almost certainly even outlast the B-2 as the B-2 is expensive to maintain and operate and is already 30-some years old - it’s strategic stealth capabilities will simply be, if not already, outmatched by Russian and Chinese SAM tech, and we don’t need another stand-off platform, especially one as expensive to operate as the Spirit.
*Regarding supersonic flight during operational sorties, I listened to a report by an analyst on YouTube (I really wish I had saved the link) who did a study on how many times the speed of sound was exceeded during the entire VietNam war - it was zero. I found that completely unexpected, until one considers how fast the fuel load is spent on full afterburner. Still, I was really surprised the answer was ‘not once.’
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Oh sure, I remember hearing these same ten points on cnn, cbs, msdnc, abc, pbs, and npr, and, of course, Tide-funded wikipedia. Oh wait, no...I never did. Still haven't.
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Oh wow, this spokeswoman is up there with KJP at WH. Dodgy, and her answers - no, replies! - are the canned descriptors you can get off the Pentagon’s website. Irritating, because she’s being asked fairly direct questions, which aren’t even that sensitive in nature. There is no reason the press people representing this administration, in general, can’t be more informative and helpful, and motivated to assist reporters by WANTING to answer questions.
We want to be informed by our press corp, and we want answers to our questions, options about what alternatives are being considered, and the volunteering of information even if it hasn’t been asked for (yet).
We’re sick of an administration which programs their press agents to reveal the absolute minimum, if anything at all. This isn’t an open democracy. It’s the start of a fascist regime.
Is anyone actually smarter after listening to her?
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Excellent show as usual, Lex. I had difficulty starting this particular podcast, but now I’m intensely interested in Mr. Pakman’s conversation.
I still don’t know how to digest these terms in a general sense; however, this clip DID reinforce what I have been slowly realizing, especially at around 4:00. David mentions “…the problem with a lot of these terms, and they’re used very casually by people who call into my show, is that *unless we define them each time*…” and I agree their current usage tends to stifle a conversation.
I’m not sure if this ‘re-definition’ is intentionally subversive, or if there are just so many people bandying them about to argue (or shout) their particular opinion, but the terms no longer have a precise, consistent, and meaningful description.
And I’m guilty of perpetuating their misuse. Things are moving so quickly for me, I’m not properly using them to elucidate and make plain my opinion; rather, as a right leaning moderate/centrist, I have been using them as weapons to use against my perceived far left, socialist threat. It’s as if there’s no time left for meaningful discussion, and I have to instead redefine them myself, both to squash the ‘other side,’ and to feed into the narratives to the right of my own to find receptive ears.
I’m not being rational then. But the far left has been so effective at re-defining terms, it feels like being rational has been overwhelmed by irrationality. The far left isn’t interested in having a conversation, evidenced painfully, for example, by cancel culture and reputational destruction.
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I’ve asked myself this for years - in fact, I asked Charlie Sykes this years ago at dinner, and was a bit tickled when he brought it up on his radio show, way back when he was on the radio in Milwaukee.
Using my own sister as an example, growing up she was the family wild child. With her utter disdain for authority and any establishment, she married a wannabe anarchist and spent most of her young life battling the system. Fast forward, she’s a paralegal who LOVES her big brother legal tools to peer into others’ lives, lives in Madison and is a staunch left (not far left, but would have no problem with socialism) liberal democrat, who loves navigating the state bureaucracy to have the state take care of her family and clients. She is dying to get into the state government to take advantage of the state’s ast social benefits.
From anarchist to state control. And somehow, it never seemed contradictory. It’s a head scratcher.
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Laf, 6:30 , orrrr, alternatively, the alien scientists ship’s maintenance crew used RIDX in their alien toilet system to keep the pipes flowing, and emptied the latrines near the ocean shoreline. After the extreme tides sloshed everything together, etc, etc, made cyanobacterias, etc, etc, here we are! Derived from alien poop and RIDX!
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That makes little sense. Prime Minister Churchill, according to your revisionist logic, was supposed to surrender to Germany because of the potential death of civilians in London at the hands of the Luftwaffe? Britain was supposed to simply capitulate because of six letters or telegraphs? I'm certainly glad you're not in charge of our military defense.
Furthermore, Dresden wasn't revenge for London, it was because of the limitations of strategic and precision bombing where, in clear visibility, only 30% of bombs fell within 1,000 feet of the target, dropping to less than 10% in poor visibility, in 1944, by the AAF, and with the Norden bomb sight. All strategic targets, which included cities, were bombed by the greatest number of bombers possible and as often as necessary, to even have a chance at destroying the targets. Aided by the winds and weather conditions, the incendiary loads over Dresden kicked off an unusually intense firestorm, causing more deaths and destruction than usual.
I recognize Dresden was and is controversial, but until the third reich surrendered, the blood is solely on their hands, certainly not Churchill's nor even Harris', nor Spaatz and Doolittle. No Allied commander had even close to the overall view of Germany we have today, but they were certainly aware at how quickly the Nazi's could and did move their factories and production lines when given the chance. Non-strategic targets one day became strategic targets on another day.
If you want to drag Britain's and America's conduct and honor through the mud, over the lives of the enemy, that's on you. I prefer to be proud of the sacrifices so many Britons and Americans made to purge the world of the evil of the Nazi scum. Bomber Command lists almost 60,000 men killed out of 125,000, a nearly 50% death rate, a higher rate than the infantry, and a significant percentage of the total value of the 357,000 killed. The Eighth ACAF lists 26,000 dead out of a total of 200,000 people of all positions in the organization. The UK and US lost nearly 100,000 civilians, against Germany's 780,000.
These stats pale to the estimated 35,000,000 to 60,000,000 total lives lost to eradicating the Nazis and the Empire. That's a lot of death for you to have the freedom to adhere to your disgusting, disrespectful, ignorant, and hateful opinions.
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John, you’re making too much sense with your rational ideas. Best if you inject a little irrational, inflammatory passion to appeal to a wider demographic.
During the segment where Denmark’s Prime Minister debunked our incorrect perception of Scandinavian socialism, the crowd’s stunned silence was a bit deafening as the camera panned to them. Hopefully some thought of at least questioning socialism as a take away instead of tuning it out because the PM’s narrative was inconsistent with their preconceived notions.
It’s too bad some generations insist on (repeating) making their own mistakes, instead of thinking previous generations were at least as smart as them, and worthy of learning from. Rand Paul’s examples of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Venezuala, and more, seem to fall on deaf ears. Are people today so mistrustful of governments and institutions that they just shut out a politician who is trying to teach the folly of socialism, and refuse to listen?
Whom will they listen to? Whom would they trust? Is academia so jaded now that those who want to try an American socialist movement are guided by what they discovered at university? Or is there some other force that’s feeding these beliefs?
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To keep this simple for my brain, as space ‘expands,’ it’s not merely stretching but is actually ‘new space’ filling in the expansion? And because a volume of space actually has energy, as the volume of space grows, its energy content increases? And that increase in energy is termed ‘dark energy?’
AND, we don’t know where this additional space is coming from, but that’s not really the point at this stage in our understanding? It seems like the point is that as space expands, its energy continues to increase.
Am I at least on the right track? If so, cool. If not, well, I’ll just continue enjoying Astrum, et al.
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Disagree, these island acquisitions are right out of lessons learned from ramping up the capability of the B-29 to burn down the enemy’s homeland.
You are correct that it was American naval aviation which brought the fight to the Japanese navy, eventually (with a lot of blood, determination, death, luck and sacrifice - I don’t want this to sound like a sanitized analysis) and generally providing America with control of the seas. But this was done to get close enough to the mainland to accommodate the AAC bombing campaign and potential land invasion.
We seem to be, in my view, acting appropriately in order to get air assets as close as possible to China, to fight a conventional conflict, blockade the country, and to sink shipping if necessary. I can envision stealth aircraft missions to take out ground-based S2S and S2A missile systems to enable a degree of air superiority, using the island bases for first (and only) strikes to originate, and carrier forces for the same. Hopefully this allows bombing and cruise missile attacks from these same bases and carriers, but especially lets naval assets in close enough for major cruise missile attacks.
I believe this will repel an active Chinese invasion of nearby nations and territories, namely Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and other allies, and is what’s preventing one from happening.
An all out war with China probably will not start. We may do well with an initial, conventional attack from the air and sea using the same air- and sea-launched cruise missiles mentioned above. However, we’ll never be able to invade China, and they’re almost certainly going to use tactical nuclear weapons on our islands and carriers…immediately. And despite worldwide condemnation, in reality no one will blame them. We’d do the same if Chinese forces were based in Central America, Cuba, and /or Canada.
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Especially given the scientific evidence that states healthy people need not have to take the shot or worry about as much as worrying about the flu. Even so, if the Military announced a command to be vaccinated, based on the most authoritative evidence at the time.
However we've discovered that evidence is mostly false, and an authority that is probably criminally issuing restrictions and guidelines that are unnecessary. These unnecessary and ineffective regulations have resulted in several impacts at local, state, and federal levels, and ALL the impacts have been hugely devastating at a national scope.
The following impacts include some, but not all, of the following: obviously, detrimental effects to the number and quality of military personnel due to concerns over the vaccine; pretty much bringing our economy to a standstill for two years, wreaking havoc the nation is still recovering from; and untold number of small and medium businesses that were forced to close and cease operations, generally permanently; a huge, untold number of layoffs from companies of all sizes due to the destroyed economy; setting an entire generation of students behind by two years of classroom education and socialization due to the inadequacies of teaching children, youth, and secondary education students remotely; massive increases in mentally related problems like depression, anxiety, addiction, domestic violence, boredom and nihilism. There seems to be no end of negatives which are the result of, and also the responsibility of, individuals and institutions the entire nation trusted. And evidence is piling up that said individuals and institutions knew from the start that all of their most impactful guidelines and regulations were ineffective and unnecessary.
There are individuals and institutions that need to be held accountable, probably prosecuted and punished, for a most significant set of economic, social, medical, cultural, and military effects, effects that probably have been the worst our society has seen or will see, in our lives.
The unnecessary and ineffective actions we took, based upon the words of supposed professionals expert in the handling of Covid, and a pandemic in general, were criminal; criminal of the highest level, and of such widespread and devastating effects, even treasonous.
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He ignored what you term a fact, because it isn't a fact. Untold millions of slaves were traded and sold within Africa and to Arabia. Until colonization happened, Africa was unchanged for thousands of years, prehistoric in terms of civilization. Despite the flaws and sins of the colonizers, Africa ultimately benefited greatly from western technology, medicine, agricultural development, transportation, education, civic organization, the eradication of slavery, the list is endless; everything improved. And this benefited Africa much more than it benefited the colonial powers.
And he certainly avoids no impacts. The scope of this chapter is 'geography,' other misdeeds and more positive impacts are covered elsewhere. There's no conspiracy here. There is, however, severe discomfort among leftists reading something so different than the lies and propaganda perpetuated by your masters. Hopefully this truth opens your eyes to the false narrative you've been sold.
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I love flying and taking off and the only thing I dislike of landing is my relaxation and good napping (the engine noise and the aircraft's movements basically put me in a coma; I need to sleep w a fan) time is almost over. As soon as I hear the engines prep for descent and I sense that first tiny pitch down, my trance is over, very sad. I almost always enjoy the company of fellow passengers and I really enjoy the bustle of a clean, modern airport. It can be fun people watching everyone going this way and that, and it's easy to strike up conversations with other relaxed travelers whom I'll never see again. In fact, often I'll bring one of my pups to Sky Harbor just to walk my dog around the airport and let her provide some comfort to stressed out passengers and their kids (yeah, it's actually an organized volunteer thing); another plus is being able to walk my pooch in air conditioned comfort, a big deal in Phoenix during the summer months. Recently I had to drive to and fro to Milwaukee (too many dogs to fly), turning a pleasant 4-hr flight into a grueling 4-day, 2000 mile drive. Now I doubly love flying and everything that goes along with it. Like this channel, for instance!
We're so lucky to have what can be so easy to take for granted; we're so fortunate for the culture of safety our airlines, airmen & airwomen, ground control personnel and attendants have. Nice work, ladies and gentlemen - thank you for keeping us safe. Videos notwithstanding:)
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The military seldom uses chips as modern and sophisticated as, say, cellphones use. The F-15 (and the Space Shuttle, for that matter) uses a version of the S370 mainframe for its central computer, tech from the late 60s. The defense industry tends to use older, proven, tested and certified chips that are good enough, because reliability is their primary objective. Even our latest and greatest F-35 is using tech from the 80s and 90s, and even systems using newer technology is probably still around 30-50nm.
My point is that chips for national security situations can, and should, be built here. Hyper qualified engineers and technicians to run UV 4nm ASML fab machines, and the associated fab factory, aren’t required to satisfy our national security needs. And same w the auto industry, and realistically, likely most industries. It’s not like there’s much advantage having the fastest and lightest chip technology to run a car - it won’t overload the tires! Especially when a Raspberry Pi is all the processing power needed.
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I bought into the familial and societal requirement that I was to start out courtship with full on pedestalization, and then ‘easing’ down to a lifetime of adoring a woman. It was impossible to maintain this, because I see now that it’s not natural. Worse, when I quit the always-on adoration level, I felt like I was failing, there was something wrong with me, I fell out of love, or had fooled myself into thinking I was never in love. I consciously avoided taking the lead, or being too masculine, since I was trained that women were too fragile to be too exposed to this; I thought I needed to be very careful lest she felt I was too domineering and mean and aggressive.
So, teach me how to be the adored, and to be comfortable with it.
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That guy is a sociopath. But consider, that maybe he's right and he has no clue about the new crimes policies that exist letting shoplifters go - that would mean he's actually being fed the low crime rates and statistics (because no one is reporting crimes of $1000 or less, it seems like aggregate crime rates are falling), and believes 'his' state is a beacon of the innocent. Another, after the high crime drives out ALL of the retail segment, maybe crime DROPS DRAMATICALLY because there's nothing left to steal? And again, Newsom is fed this POST CRIME data, and things look great.
Could any governor be that clueless? So disconnected from the state of his state? There's no way he doesn't know - perhaps his narcissism is driving him to present CA in the best light, with the most favorable statistics. He just continued his charade that everything is perfect with his plans and policies, and went so far as to blame the shopkeeper for the theft he just witnessed! Since he is a narcissist, maybe he's sold himself on the lie that everything is good; he's repeated the false crime narrative so many times, he now believes it.
Or is he so pathologically narcissistic that, because he's the top man, everything around him MUST be the best within every category, out of every other state? Maybe his brain simply cannot conceive that any policy of his would result in the criminal behavior his eyes are are witnessing. He is, after all, a sociopath.
If he IS clueless, where is he getting his news and info that everything is going so well? No doubt he watches CNN and MSNBC - are they simply not featuring the rampant crime and lawlessness and the rapid decline of retail businesses in cities across the state? What and how are they editorializing the situation such that after Newsom listens to his media outlets, he can conclude his state has little or no crime?
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I can't tell where you're landing on this due to your grammar usage. My apologies if I'm misreading your comment, but if you're of an opinion that Ms. Kelly doesn't 'dig for the truth,' I disagree. I believe Megyn Kelly adheres to a very high standard of journalistic integrity. Obviously she has a Conservative bias - she says as much! This is hardly cause to pretend she's not a journalist.
Everything she reports on or editorializes is verifiable. Unless she's a master of manipulating her viewers, every time she's made a factual error or an inaccurate claim, Kelly has very publicly issued a retraction and apology, and corrected the oversight.
Furthermore, the very fact she discloses her biases proves her commitment to ethical journalism. This is especially apparent because so many of her competing peers have the nerve to publicly state their reporting is unbiased and non-partisan - which is wildly and laughably irresponsible and unethical.
If you are of the belief that an individual's journalistic integrity requires they not have an opinion, I believe you are mistaken. I think I understand what you mean when you refer to 'report on it as it is,' but I believe your scope is far too narrow or limited.
To use the weather as an example, my read on what you refer to as 'digging for the truth' would be that I woke up and see snow on the ground; I turn on the news and find that it measurably and verifiably snowed three inches. This is a pretty literal example of a journalist digging for the truth, although it's pretty dry reporting.
But journalism is more than just reporting scalar quantities like snow depth and other facts and figures. I might like a journalist from Tucson adding some flavor of incredulousness about 3" of snow in the desert, or one from Milwaukee expressing another typical day. Each example requires integrity to convey the fact it snowed.
Perhaps you're describing frustration at journalists who go out of bounds of reporting AND journalistic integrity by manipulating facts with opinions, colored by biases in order to advance a narrative and/or seek to tell you what or how to think?? Maybe?
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Annnnnd, as far as ‘our’ parents and grandparents having successful marriages based upon the longevity of their relationships:
Not really fair. My 88 year old parents have a horrible marriage, but for them divorce just wasn’t an option. The stigma of divorce apparently overrode their relationship happiness. Granted, they were textbook for marriage counseling, but that wasn’t an option for them either.
I’m not implying that if a marriage has perpetual rough patches, the couple should just bail. Rather, the pendulum has just swung to the other extreme - or so it seems.
Wtf do I know, though. My marriage failed too, and now I’m 55 learning to be alone. Fortunately, I’ve figured out that I need to fix my own character defects before I unload my flaws on another woman. And I just don’t have the energy to force a relationship that isn’t meant to be. Maybe it’s naive or corny, but I’m just surrendering and putting myself in God’s hands - not in some dating app.
Laf, I’ve been in IT for around 30 years, so I’m not ‘afraid’ of tech. But (I guess with the exception of YT comments), I’ve never been on social media. Placing my trust in a phone app to find a mate still just feels creepy to me.
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If only other navies could re-register their capital ships to the Ukraine…
Seriously, though, this video seems overly optimistic in favor of Ukraine. All the downstream strategies (ie, successful drone strikes on the Russian Navy, using US Army ATCMs to destroy Russian assets) have too many dependencies on previous operations working flawlessly. This is my first video from this channel, and while I did learn a lot, the steps to retake Crimea suggested appear to me too simplistic. I don’t know, maybe he’s 100% correct, but this video feels more like a wishlist rather than an assessment with recommendations by an analyst.
Edit - I did appreciate Caspian’s summary, where he brought up counterpoints to liberalization, like the Russians in Crimea, and international points of view. I subscribed, I’ll give the channel a chance. Hopefully it’ll be an objective source and not a cheerleader site.
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Yea, not really a Conservative hangup anymore. Ideally, we’ll see an increasingly socially liberal Conservative Party which will be acceptable to left of center moderates and centrists. Hopefully the far right won’t splinter off like the far left is doing, which should be possible because of belief in individualism.
If you’re opposed to gay marriage, well, don’t have one. If you’re opposed to abortion, don’t have one. But why impose that religiosity and ideology upon everyone? God gave us free will, so why can’t Right/Far Right accept that if God trusts us to exercise wisdom and discretion, they can as well, AND keep their conscience clear?
Besides, not like there aren’t plenty of other opportunities for the Right/Far Right to run counter to the Will of God - adultery comes to mind.
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Harris didn’t “raise” anything. It wasn’t her fiscal talent that achieved this pile of money. Firstly, she inherited the biden campaign war chest, and lastly, the donors would have pooled the money even if Cookie the Clown was the democrat nominee.
And no one gave money to see her in office; they donated to the campaign to make sure they didn’t see Trump in Office.
But in fairness to harris, it’s not like it was solely her decision to run, and it’s not like anyone thinks she’s the head of the dnc just because she was crowned the nomination. Everyone, even her so-called supporters (well, except her incompetent supporters), knows she’s incompetent and was just a tool for obama, et al, to manipulate.
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My opinion….we need a way, a message, a pathway, for classical Liberals to vote on the Republican ticket, that is palatable to them. I think the first thing we need to stop saying is “support Trump.”
Classical Liberals need to know that, for this election (hopefully ALL elections for a while), they can vote the Republican candidate while simultaneously NOT supporting Trump.
It is not an easy decision to make such a dramatic change, and we’ll go a long way by respecting this difficulty. What they’re considering is complicated. Classical Liberals are absolutely NOT changing their beliefs, values, and principles while they mull over the decision to change political parties. It is very important we’re clear that if they change parties and vote Republican, they’re doing so because the Democrat Party no longer represents their values, beliefs, and principles.
They absolutely are NOT turning into Republicans, and they absolutely are NOT voting for Trump. What they’re doing is NOT voting for the current socialist Democrat Party. They want their party back, and right now their only recourse to get it back is to vote Republican.
I hope to God this gets picked up all the Conservative channels I’m subscribed to. I so believe the only way to get these formerly left of center moderates and liberals is for us to respect the extraordinarily difficult position they are in. I think the only way we will get their vote is to invite them to vote for the Republican presidential candidate in order to have the chance to rebuild THEIR Democrat Party. I think it’s incredibly important we, that is, the entire Conservative news and editorial ecosystem, invite them with respect, and assure them we understand they need not become Republicans just because they voted for the Republican candidate.
I pray Fox News, Sky News Australia, Dave Rubin, Megyn Kelly, Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, Michael Knowles, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Russell Brand, Ann Coulter, Konstantin Kisn, Jonathan Cahn, Tucker Carlson, Matt Walsh, Bill O’Reilley, JP Sears, Dave Chappelle, Dana Loesch, Piers Morgan, Tulsi Gabbard, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Tim Pool…shoot, why not CNN, MSNBC, WAPO, NYT, NPR, The Guardian, The Atlantic….oh, and of course, Joe Rogan….everyone! will take this message to all those on the fence, who want to vote their conscience. These people are our friends, our brothers and sisters, fellow Americans, HALF THE POPULATION OF AMERICA, and they too want their nation back.
It could mean millions of votes for us to begin taking our Democracy back.
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I’m a right of center moderate…also known as a classical conservative. I love classical liberals; my best friends are classical liberals - well, over half are - the remainder are classical conservatives, independents, and even a fair number of libertarians. America was built, managed, and protected by both classical conservatives and liberals, independents, and libertarians. Of course, those on the spectrum further right and left definitely had and have their roles as well, but were still guided by their more fundamental perspectives of the Constitution and Democracy.
The Republican Party’s a bit of a mess, but it seems to be coming together in a way that will matter in 2024. We need work, for sure, but that’s not the topic at the moment.
The Democrat Part, though, has been successfully, and even brilliantly (to give grudging respect to the hijackers’ strategy) hijacked by the far left extremist socialist stalinists. And the poor left of center moderates don’t know where they belong and who to vote for. Because the current administration, which is thoroughly controlled by a corrupt and socialist machine, no longer represents and respects their values, beliefs, and democratic principles.
They almost can’t vote Republican because they probably would vomit to associate with the far right - heck, I feel the same, sometimes - and they probably are also hesitant to associate with MAGA Republicans. Can’t really blame them. But they’re also jammed up with voting Democrat this election, because this Democrat Party is no longer THEIR Democrat Party. It’s gone, STOLEN. So what do they do? How are they supposed to vote?
Like a man without a country, they’re about half the population of America without a party!
What’s going to happen? Do they split the party, and become “The Reformed Democrat Party?” Do they initiate a party COUP to take control of the Democrat Party, and KICK OUT the socialists? Will the socialists break from the party on their own and create a new Socialist Party? (I cringe at capitalizing ‘socialist party’)
Can and will all the Classical Democrats, that other half the entire population, protest against the radical socialists and break with the current Democrat Party, and vote Republican, just for this election? Then work to rebuild their party, cutting out the cancer that’s literally killing our democracy?
(Disclaimer: I don’t consider MAGA only the far right or the extreme right. At the moment, I feel it includes all Trump supporters, those favoring his Populist sentiment, and us right-of-center moderates. I hope it can and will include centrists, independents, libertarians, and especially the classical liberals. So if it will get Trump elected, sure, call me MAGA. Whatever; just win the frakking election.)
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You make a fair comment, but, respectfully, I’d like to suggest you may be confusing Petter’s unwavering positive attitude with blind faith. After watching dozens of his videos, I believe his expressions and perspectives regarding MAX updates and explanations are consistent with his other accident investigations. The only real difference (and it’s a big one) is we’ve not had many, if any, step by steps updates of an ongoing investigation, so we Mentour viewers are getting a lot of content regarding the MAX in general, and Boeing in particular. Indeed, so is everyone else because of the media coverage, which can present in such a way as to enrage rather than inform. Petter’s style is focused on learning from accidents in order to prevent them from happening again, rather than taking a more punitive approach and condemning Boeing. For those biased against Boeing at the moment may find his positivity and optimism rather aggravating. He’s presenting facts and new information as they come in, and I believe he’s properly avoiding making subjective judgments and expressing opinions where the information is incomplete. Petter’s audience have come to appreciate his objectivity and positivity as well as his consistency. He’s no sap, he’s a believer in the system.
I’m a Lockheed fanboy myself, but I’ve always thought highly of Boeing and still do. I think the corporate structure has changed towards the negative after the McDonnell-Douglas merger, and that the same leadership that drove McDonnell-Douglas into the ground have badly affected Boeing’s previous culture of excellence and safety, but my trope on that has been posted into another video’s comments section:). But Boeing is a lot more than these fraudsters, hopefully the oversight of the company by the FAA, Congress, and the public will be enough to get it back on track. Boeing’s in the spotlight right now, even the smallest infraction is going to be under a microscope and magnified by the media, deservedly so, I suppose. But negativity breeds more negativity, and at some point it’s no longer informative, productive nor even trustworthy. Sure, Petter has a loyalty-to-Boeing component - he flies a 737 and knows his passengers will be safe in one. But I don’t think anyone would think he’d be any different if we were discussing an ongoing investigation of an A300. We all need his positive attitude during this, it makes his MAX and Boeing videos a trusted source.
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The two Fox guys clearly weren’t understanding Lieutenant-General (ret) Kellogg’s Civil War and WWII examples, or have a poor grasp of history. When Sherman’s Scorched Earth March to the Sea was finished, the Confederacy knew they were defeated since continuation would just result in more cities burned to the ground. Dresden, Nagasaki, and Hiroshima rammed home the fact that further resistance to the Allies was futile, as continuation would simply mean more cities bombed and burned out of existence. The enemies were DETERRED from continuing to make war. Maybe the scope was too large for these two media guys to wrap their heads around.
It also was disrespectful to challenge Kellogg using those two’s tone of voice and, especially, interrupting and talking over him. They both immediately assumed the Lieutenant-General’s examples either covered the entire war, or that the two examples were somehow escalatory to the chaos of the two wars. The Fox gentlemen were completely incorrect, but for some reason they chose to get very defensive and assume Kellogg didn’t know what he was talking about. Since he was an invited guest contributor, protocol and just plain manners dictates he’s going to be correct and that it is yourselves that weren’t understanding. You guys cut him off and eliminated his opportunity to explain his examples.
Bad form.
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I know (mainly because I’ve watched your videos) there are a handful of countries if the Middle East trying to shore up their economies to sustain their standard of living after the oil runs out, especially tourism. I know you abhor making predictions, but could you elaborate on the ‘why’ people would want to be a tourist here, as opposed to the traditional, say, Paris or Venice? It just doesn’t seem to be an attractive place to go visit, especially when the oil runs dry and there is no longer the oil dollars to shore up all the extravagance being developed now. Are they branching out into high tech, financial services, and tax shelters?
In fairness, Las Vegas, for example, is the last place I would go to on vacation - actually, not even the last; I would just do a staycation. So maybe the tourism thing will work for these countries, but it seems like they’re just planning on transitioning from an income based solely on petroleum to another based solely on tourism. Seems fragile.
Edit - Camels to Lamborghinis, pretty good juxtaposition.
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In fairness, blame the media outlets. The moderate, centrist Democrats who are our American brothers and sisters, would be horrified knowing what a jackwagon diden is, how corrupt the dnc is, and the socialist direction our nation is headed - but they’ve traditionally received their news from cnn, msnbc, etc. As long as those propaganda outlets keep repeating the same lies and keep the story consistent, they’re not really going to know what’s truly happening. And they’re just like the rest of us - they don’t particularly care about, or enjoy, politics because, like the rest of us, they’re too busy working, raising kids, having a life…
We’re not much different. And we’re probably being misled as well - although the evidence is pretty clear this hijacked democrat party and the elite puppet masters are dangerous to America.
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My opinion….we need a way, a message, a pathway, for classical Liberals to vote on the Republican ticket, that is palatable to them. I think the first thing we need to stop saying is “support Trump.”
Classical Liberals need to know that, for this election (hopefully ALL elections for a while), they can vote the Republican candidate while simultaneously NOT supporting Trump.
It is not an easy decision to make such a dramatic change, and we’ll go a long way by respecting this difficulty. What they’re considering is complicated. Classical Liberals are absolutely NOT changing their beliefs, values, and principles while they mull over the decision to change political parties. It is very important we’re clear that if they change parties and vote Republican, they’re doing so because the Democrat Party no longer represents their values, beliefs, and principles.
They absolutely are NOT turning into Republicans, and they absolutely are NOT voting for Trump. What they’re doing is NOT voting for the current socialist Democrat Party. They want their party back, and right now their only recourse to get it back is to vote Republican.
I hope to God this gets picked up all the Conservative channels I’m subscribed to. I so believe the only way to get these formerly left of center moderates and liberals is for us to respect the extraordinarily difficult position they are in. I think the only way we will get their vote is to invite them to vote for the Republican presidential candidate in order to have the chance to rebuild THEIR Democrat Party. I think it’s incredibly important we, that is, the entire Conservative news and editorial ecosystem, invite them with respect, and assure them we understand they need not become Republicans just because they voted for the Republican candidate.
I pray Fox News, Sky News Australia, Dave Rubin, Megyn Kelly, Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, Michael Knowles, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Russell Brand, Ann Coulter, Konstantin Kisn, Jonathan Cahn, Tucker Carlson, Matt Walsh, Bill O’Reilley, JP Sears, Dave Chappelle, Dana Loesch, Piers Morgan, Tulsi Gabbard, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Tim Pool…shoot, why not CNN, MSNBC, WAPO, NYT, NPR, The Guardian, The Atlantic….oh, and of course, Joe Rogan….everyone! will take this message to all those on the fence, who want to vote their conscience. These people are our friends, our brothers and sisters, fellow Americans, HALF THE POPULATION OF AMERICA, and they too want their nation back.
It could mean millions of votes for us to begin taking our Democracy back.
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I remember, as a little kid, stumbling on a TimeLife my parents had, with photographs of soldiers wounded in WWI - they were horrific, all the more so because the men were still alive. Men with half their faces blown off, missing their lower jaws; parts of their skulls blown away missing significant portions of their brain; missing limbs of course, but also missing pelvic bones - I'm not sure if or how they could even urinate; shoulders blown off along with the collarbone, all the way to the neck. I remember wishing they'd have just been mercifully killed and not having to have had to live life with that trauma.
They're seared into my memory since I was maybe 8, I'm 54 now. I'm personally pretty nonviolent and nonconfrontational, but I'm not a pacifist. But there's no doubt my seeing those photographs did something to my subconscious mind, and certainly took the fun out of 'playing soldier,' although I still did. I haven't really thought about it much, but I don't think it was a bad thing I saw them. But I'm glad such graphic images are censored because I wouldn't want anyone to become desensitized to their seriousness. I think they should be shown in such a way and amount to reinforce the sacred awfulness of the suffering they portray, and link them to exactly what it means to experience a war - for their sake, from afar.
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Response to tq's infantile 'blood on Churchill's hands' misrepresentation:
That makes little sense. Prime Minister Churchill, according to your revisionist logic, was supposed to surrender to Germany because of the potential death of civilians in London at the hands of the Luftwaffe? Britain was supposed to simply capitulate because of six letters or telegraphs? I'm certainly glad you're not in charge of our military defense.
Furthermore, Dresden wasn't revenge for London, it was because of the limitations of strategic and precision bombing where, in clear visibility, only 30% of bombs fell within 1,000 feet of the target, dropping to less than 10% in poor visibility, in 1944, by the AAF, and with the Norden bomb sight. All strategic targets, which included cities, were bombed by the greatest number of bombers possible and as often as necessary, to even have a chance at destroying the targets. Aided by the winds and weather conditions, the incendiary loads over Dresden kicked off an unusually intense firestorm, causing more deaths and destruction than usual.
I recognize Dresden was and is controversial, but until the third reich surrendered, the blood is solely on their hands, certainly not Churchill's nor even Harris', nor Spaatz and Doolittle. No Allied commander had even close to the overall view of Germany we have today, but they were certainly aware at how quickly the Nazi's could and did move their factories and production lines when given the chance. Non-strategic targets one day became strategic targets on another day.
If you want to drag Britain's and America's conduct and honor through the mud, over the lives of the enemy, that's on you. I prefer to be proud of the sacrifices so many Britons and Americans made to purge the world of the evil of the Nazi scum. Bomber Command lists almost 60,000 men killed out of 125,000, a nearly 50% death rate, a higher rate than the infantry, and a significant percentage of the total value of the 357,000 killed. The Eighth ACAF lists 26,000 dead out of a total of 200,000 people of all positions in the organization. The UK and US lost nearly 100,000 civilians, against Germany's 780,000.
These stats pale to the estimated 35,000,000 to 60,000,000 total lives lost to eradicating the Nazis and the Empire. That's a lot of death for you to have the freedom to adhere to your disgusting, disrespectful, ignorant, and hateful opinions.
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They’re transparent to the minimum amount required by law. Their $240 million endowment is managed by The Tides Foundation. Under Katherine Maher, Wikipedia has been transformed into a far left propaganda outlet, is extremely biased, and is untrustworthy if one is looking for neutral, factual, truthful, unbiased information.
Once the assets are in place, it takes very little effort to run a bunch of servers, serving up mostly static web pages, with content created by users, and edited and moderated by volunteers. At best, hundreds of thousands of dollars. Justifying the $100 million expenses by saying it has 7 billion hits/month is as misleading as any of its biased content.
This video SHOULD have been a hit piece discussing what a tool of the far left it has been steered into, intentionally. The agenda is that Wikipedia has become an outlet for far left progressive ideology.
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Just curious, I’m just not sure of the international protocol - and this is certainly no criticism of Patrick… But, as an American, if I’m giving a presentation, or even just having a conversation, when I speak of an entity like the French Bank Societe Generale, can I just use the Anglicanized or Americanized words? Can I just say ‘The French Bank, General Society?’
I understand I’m part French, but I don’t speak French. I don’t want to sound ignorant, but I also don’t want to sound clever. I don’t want to sound disrespectful of things French, and I also simply don’t want to mispronounce anything, nor otherwise be inappropriate. And yes, I have used online pronunciation guides, along with dictionary and encyclopedia articles - even for this particular French Bank. This is turning into a mole hill -> mountain, but I’ve always wondered what’s proper, especially the smaller the world becomes.
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Our smart spokeswoman was all over the ‘holds on promotions’ question at 8:00. A fairly complete answer that provided plenty of information, without speculating on the ‘what and when’ unknowns.
Now go back and apply this technique, of truthfully providing information, to the previous nonsense answers.
EDIT: Ok, her answer to the last question, regarding Iran’s involvement with the Oct7 massacre, was pretty good. Not great, still somewhat evasive, but a big improvement. If she really did ‘readjust’ her style on the fly, then that’s pretty impressive and she’ll probably be a decent spokeswoman. Let’s hope so, she’s obviously a talented public speaker - no one wants the reputation that press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has garnered for herself.
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My opinion….we need a way, a message, a pathway, for classical Liberals to vote on the Republican ticket, that is palatable to them. I think the first thing we need to stop saying is “support Trump.”
Classical Liberals need to know that, for this election (hopefully ALL elections for a while), they can vote the Republican candidate while simultaneously NOT supporting Trump.
It is not an easy decision to make such a dramatic change, and we’ll go a long way by respecting this difficulty. What they’re considering is complicated. Classical Liberals are absolutely NOT changing their beliefs, values, and principles while they mull over the decision to change political parties. It is very important we’re clear that if they change parties and vote Republican, they’re doing so because the Democrat Party no longer represents their values, beliefs, and principles.
They absolutely are NOT turning into Republicans, and they absolutely are NOT voting for Trump. What they’re doing is NOT voting for the current socialist Democrat Party. They want their party back, and right now their only recourse to get it back is to vote Republican.
I hope to God this gets picked up all the Conservative channels I’m subscribed to. I so believe the only way to get these formerly left of center moderates and liberals is for us to respect the extraordinarily difficult position they are in. I think the only way we will get their vote is to invite them to vote for the Republican presidential candidate in order to have the chance to rebuild THEIR Democrat Party. I think it’s incredibly important we, that is, the entire Conservative news and editorial ecosystem, invite them with respect, and assure them we understand they need not become Republicans just because they voted for the Republican candidate.
I pray Fox News, Sky News Australia, Dave Rubin, Megyn Kelly, Victor Davis Hanson, Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, Douglas Murray, Michael Knowles, Ben Shapiro, Candace Owens, Russell Brand, Ann Coulter, Konstantin Kisn, Jonathan Cahn, Tucker Carlson, Matt Walsh, Bill O’Reilley, JP Sears, Dave Chappelle, Dana Loesch, Piers Morgan, Tulsi Gabbard, Jon Stewart, Bill Maher, Tim Pool…shoot, why not CNN, MSNBC, WAPO, NYT, NPR, The Guardian, The Atlantic….oh, and of course, Joe Rogan….everyone! will take this message to all those on the fence, who want to vote their conscience. These people are our friends, our brothers and sisters, fellow Americans, HALF THE POPULATION OF AMERICA, and they too want their nation back.
It could mean millions of votes for us to begin taking our Democracy back.
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I’m a right of center moderate…also known as a classical conservative. I love classical liberals; my best friends are classical liberals - well, over half are - the remainder are classical conservatives, independents, and even a fair number of libertarians. America was built, managed, and protected by both classical conservatives and liberals, independents, and libertarians. Of course, those on the spectrum further right and left definitely had and have their roles as well, but were still guided by their more fundamental perspectives of the Constitution and Democracy.
The Republican Party’s a bit of a mess, but it seems to be coming together in a way that will matter in 2024. We need work, for sure, but that’s not the topic at the moment.
The Democrat Part, though, has been successfully, and even brilliantly (to give grudging respect to the hijackers’ strategy) hijacked by the far left extremist socialist stalinists. And the poor left of center moderates don’t know where they belong and who to vote for. Because the current administration, which is thoroughly controlled by a corrupt and socialist machine, no longer represents and respects their values, beliefs, and democratic principles.
They almost can’t vote Republican because they probably would vomit to associate with the far right - heck, I feel the same, sometimes - and they probably are also hesitant to associate with MAGA Republicans. Can’t really blame them. But they’re also jammed up with voting Democrat this election, because this Democrat Party is no longer THEIR Democrat Party. It’s gone, STOLEN. So what do they do? How are they supposed to vote?
Like a man without a country, they’re about half the population of America without a party!
What’s going to happen? Do they split the party, and become “The Reformed Democrat Party?” Do they initiate a party COUP to take control of the Democrat Party, and KICK OUT the socialists? Will the socialists break from the party on their own and create a new Socialist Party? (I cringe at capitalizing ‘socialist party’)
Can and will all the Classical Democrats, that other half the entire population, protest against the radical socialists and break with the current Democrat Party, and vote Republican, just for this election? Then work to rebuild their party, cutting out the cancer that’s literally killing our democracy?
(Disclaimer: I don’t consider MAGA only the far right or the extreme right. At the moment, I feel it includes all Trump supporters, those favoring his Populist sentiment, and us right-of-center moderates. I hope it can and will include centrists, independents, libertarians, and especially the classical liberals. So if it will get Trump elected, sure, call me MAGA. Whatever; just win the frakking election.)
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In all fairness, harris was on the West Coast and diden was on the East, so they prolly just didn’t know. Oh, yes, yeah, they’re the leaders of the Free World. Uh huh, yeah, the most technologically advanced nation. Oh, right, yeah, the Weather Channel.
But BESIDES all that, he was on the East Coast, and she…
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@marksmith-jn6qw That $1trillion mark is allocated from dev all the way up to the anticipated service life of the entire program. The F-35 is one of the least expensive fighter-attack aircraft ever, cheaper than the F-15, way cheaper than the F-14, and the A model is on par with an F-16 ($85 vs $70million).
Unless you’ve been on an island with no celly, why on earth would you think the F-47 will be overblown in cost, given, you know, this DOGE thing and all? If you think the President Trump Administration has kept its word with uncovering fraud and corruption in just 60 days, and we haven’t even gotten to Social Security, Medicare, and the full extent of government bloat, then you must believe the MI complex is literally shiiting their collective pants on the cuts they see coming.
SecDef Hagseth just eliminated a $half billion in contracts contrary to our Administration’s mandate. You honestly think he’s not going to bring the defense industry to heel? Hegseth is not rich, he lives in a modest home, he is not going to be bought off like our generals and JCs and former SecDefs.
Unless you just hate your President and are delusional with TDS (in which case, you’re not worth the effort of this comment), your comment is unwarranted and frankly tiring. Try using discretion and discernment and be part of the solution.
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Nikki Haley is not wrong about chaos following Trump. It obviously means nothing to us with respect to the primaries and caucuses, where Trump is likely to win all, but she could be correct if the general is close again. Then it boils down to the left and right moderates, independents, and the undecided, where a candidate other than Trump may do better against either biden, dingbat, or Michelle.
Personally knowing many people who ARE on the fence about not only which candidate to vote for, but which PARTY, I could easily see where Haley might be more favorable to them than Trump, if she's played against any one of the three democrat goofballs.
Doesn't matter, though, since Trump will win the primaries and caucuses - probably all of them. Unless she's a de facto Republican candidate due to Trump either dying or being in jail, there's simply no way the majority of Republicans will vote for her. And it's debatable that Trump's base still wouldn't vote for him in the general even if he were behind bars, which would be an election catastrophe since it will split the Republican votes across two candidates. Because, unless every Republican voter is on board with some mythical, unifying strategy, millions of moderate Conservatives are NOT going to vote for a candidate in the klink.
Frustratingly, but realistically, given there are probably an equal number of voters who will vote either only for Trump (assuming he lives and is free) or only for a democrat, the entire race is probably down to the less than a million or so swing voters - who knows, maybe only a few hundred thousand!
A conclusion to draw, however, might be that it's very important that Nikki Haley stay in the race, just in case the worst happens to Trump - if for no other reason than to just keep her in the minds of voters. And instead of every Conservative and MAGA Republican voter, media outlet (yes, you, Fox), and independent journalist channels criticising and ridiculing Governor-Ambassador Nikki Haley's campaign, we should be encouraging it. Or at least tolerating it! Clearly, she's no threat to President Trump in the Primaries, and if and when Trump becomes Candidate President Trump, it's not like there will be this groundswell of write-in votes for her. BUT, she could be the critical and necessary fail safe if the absolute worst happens that makes it impossible for Trump to be the Republican presidential candidate.
So be nice to Nikki. Just sayin'.
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Thanks to Katherine Maher, like NPR, Wikipedia has become an instrument of the progressive far left, immediately making it an extremely biased, and therefore unreliable, information source. It’s unfortunate, but another example of an institution being taken over by the left and turned into a propaganda outlet. Anything remotely related to so-called climate science, the trans movement, the electoral college, Jan6, George Floyd, socialism, marxism, leftist biographies…anything far left is biased favorably or has a false neutrality. Predictably, precisely the opposite is true for anything to the right of Maher’s progressivism - including left leaning moderate and left of centrist views.
Just as she’s done with the so-called unbiased NPR with its editorial staff of 87 registered democrats vs 0 registered Independents or Republicans, she has forced wikipedia to take a severely hard left turn. As far as fundraising and funding, Maher has also solicited The Tides Foundation to fund and manage a $240 million endowment. Please go to influence.org to see what Tides is about - it is decidedly NOT for unbiased repositories of information. Remember this endowment the next time you are hassled for a donation.
Also remember what you are tacitly supporting by continuing to use Wikipedia as a trustworthy, unbiased, fact based source of information.
If you’re curious still, make a change - ANY change - to obama’s bio, and keep track of the elapsed seconds til the change is reverted. Now do the same for President Trump, but make it interesting: edit or add something less than favorable and watch it stick.
Now go to J6, find an instance of the word ‘insurrection’ and change it to ‘riot.’
If you’re far left, congratulations - you’ve managed to corrupt another quasi institution. If you’re to the Right (even if you’re a registered ‘classical’ Democrat), I recommend going down the list of search results and picking anything other than wikipedia.
I actually blocked the site, but hey, that’s just me. I’m working towards learning how to remove them from my search engine’s results list. I plead others to do likewise.
Maher was objectively humiliated in front of Congress. However, she felt no humiliation; she exuded arrogance and elitism, and her contempt for Rep. Gill was palpable. She’s the archetype of the far left and is insidious in her mission to maintain control over the narrative she used at Wikipedia, and continues to use at NPR, as a cudgel against Democracy. Recall, this is the woman who argues (on a TEDTalk) that truth is an obstacle to consensus, there are many truths, not just one objective truth; and that The First Amendment is her number one challenge in censoring bad information, one week after suspending Uri Berliner, who subsequently resigned stating the platform had become an activist organization for far left progressive ideals.
“The number one challenge that we see here is, of course, the First Amendment in the United States,” Maher said at the panel hosted by the Atlantic Council's research lab. Of course it is, Katherine, when you are an elitist socialist marxist bent on fostering totalitarianism. Who’s the authoritarian, Katherine? Who’s the fascist, Katherine? Certainly no one I’ve voted for.
Would you really condone this woman’s views on Free Speech by using this platform? Can you trust the information within wikipedia is true? Can you trust the platform to replace the self governing original idea, replaced by moderator censorship?
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@cv990a4 that is true; if you were using AIX (my favorite, I so miss it), you could choose to install the Linux Toolbox, which provided a TON of linux utilities and software on Power. I worked at IBM then, but left to become an AIX admin. It did seem like an expensive way to run Linux, but it was a sign of what was to come: LOP, or Linux on Power.
Poor me, tho; while AIX is still around, and crazy awesome, the vast majority of today’s Power runs Linux flavors - read the huge clusters at ONRL: Summit, although since replaced by a Cray, I believe.
But IBM lost it’s way. It gutted its platforms except forr Mainframe and RedHat, and has even split into two companies…I lost interest in it after it lost its soul. Thanks to Sam and even more to Ginni and their kisses of death. I’m not bitter tho :)
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I left a sexless marriage after years of both of us being frustrated. I think our drives were about the same, but we could never ‘sync’ up something fundamental that we both had, but couldn’t share for whatever reason. When we did have sex, it was devoid of love; when we had moments of love, it was devoid of sex.
Next relationship, we were completely open about sex, and love and lust seemed in harmony. We were on the same page with most things, and I was to take care of her providing security and financial freedom - which seemed to work as she was a great sexual partner, a great companion, and we were best friends. Buuuuut, she got lazy, let herself go, and sex was suffering. When she went from a size 0 to outweighing my 220lbs, I ended it. Dodged a bullet, especially since we were engaged.
Next relationship was also highly sexual. We were both around 50, and I wanted the relationship to be permanent with the same love-lust combination, but she either wasn’t at the ‘love’ level or not interested in a love relationship. It was all about sex with her, and me performing whenever she wanted it. At a different stage in my life, this might have been awesome, but we also had personalities that didn’t mesh well. She was a corporate exec and had a need to control, which grated me. I don’t mind being in charge if the situation calls for it and the situation is acceptable to me, but I don’t need to control. However, I reject being controlled - not by a particular choice or because of pride, but because that’s simply my nature. We also were at opposite sides on the political spectrum, and she was into dei at work before I knew dei was a thing, which eventually I found repulsive.
Now, for 4-5 years I’ve been on my own, no dates, no hookups, not even holding hands - sexless by choice. I’m far happier because there’s no drama or conflict, although it’s lonely sometimes. I’m not opposed to a relationship; in fact, I very much want one. But my relationship standards are pretty specific, and if they can’t be met, I prefer to be alone. I’d rather be sexless on my own terms than on someone else’s yet still in a relationship.
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Yes. Once, a long time ago, after I picked up an inexpensive Meade 4-12” reflector and pointed it Saturn, seeing the rings was so unbelievable. It inspired me to get a 10” Meade LXD-75 reflector, my first target, of course, being the Moon. Which partially fried my eyeball :). Next was Saturn, and those darn rimgs were so….THERE! They were just there, big as life! So exciting. First I had to show my wife, who went and grabbed some neighbors and kids, and pretty soon we had our first impromptu Saturn party. That night is a particularly special memory.
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I’m one of those F-22 dreamers that wish we had the full complement of the promised 750 fighters, and unrealistically wish we’d restart the F-22 production line - heck, or start an F-23 line, as I always thought we should have had both. Anyway, bear with me here…
I know it’s apples and oranges, but we’re building new F-15s, right? The NGAD is no doubt gonna cost way more than $16billion, we prolly won’t get the promised 200, + wingmen (wingwomen? Not a bad ring…), and they’ll be too valuable to use and risk in every scenario. Although today’s new F-15s will likely work well in these alternate lower threat environments (shoot, or de-mothballed F-15/16As or the planned, ancient F-4I Super Phantom, really), even the vaunted F-15 EX may be too old (designwise) to produce.
Enter the Raptor or Black Widow designs as lower cost candidates to shore up the NGAD. New F-22 and/or F-23 production lines will still be on someone’s radar! "So You're Tellin' Me There's A Chance!" - Lloyd Christmas.
Carry on, Everyday.
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1 - omg, so me
2 - sometimes, but then I’ve exiled myself. We’ll see after I move in w Dad to take care of him in his 90s.
3 - mmm, maybe. I’ll have to monitor for this.
4 - kinda. I’ll put stuff in my checkout, but generally think on it for a long while. I do, however, often buy an item at a bad time (like when rent is due). Oddly, when the pkg arrives, I’ll often not open it for a long time bc I’m not yet in the mood to actually use it.
5 - Oh yeah, not as overtly as I used to, but it’s always there in the background. Sometimes I run away from it.
6 - Not so much. I mean, I think about life and death like I think a ‘normal’ person does. I can empathize the seduction of death, but my Faith and beliefs about it keep me healthy in that regard. And, oh man, if I’m messing around rock climbing and get close to a fall, my first instinct is life.
7 - Definitely not creative, at all. But maybe consumingYT documentaries, and engineering and physics videos, counts, as it distracts me from being depressed. Interesting, at least to me, is I never watch content such as Psych2Go while depressed. I can only process this type of content when I’m relatively well.
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@gordybishop2375 When you learn about the ACTUAL harm, lives lost, the lack of follow on cancer, and environmental impact of ALL accidents related to nuclear, it’s negligible, even accounting for Chernobyl. The Soviet Union and Russia have destroyed their country’s environment in so many ways, at so many locations, Chernobyl should have been a catastrophe - this is a country that couldn’t even decommission their nuclear submarine fleet and their nuclear weapons…America had to do it. Russia actually decommissioned and disposed of some ship reactors by literally pushing them overboard into surrounding seas in the North - and right off their coastlines. Those thugs had and have no business playing with atoms.
When Japan had their issue with the earthquake/tsunami, not one person was injured or killed by, or exposed to, fissile material or radiation. 100s were killed, some due to the earthquake, but mostly by panic, and relocating sick and elderly people from the area to ‘someplace safer.’
Ignorance, and misinformation and outright lies by activists, along with irrational social fears, and competing interests and hostile political agendas are the true problems nuclear must overcome. There are no unknown engineering problems…challenges, sure, but nothing insurmountable and nothing that hasn’t already been done or demonstrated before.
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Wait, no shitty new content for a while? Not that it matters, I dumped every single sub, consume documentaries and talk videos like Matt’s, and haven’t looked back.
A positive side effect is I can no longer recognize actors or actresses younger than, say, Matt Damon, other than to recognize they’re spoiled, talentless, entitled little brats that make fools of themselves when they try interacting in the real world - that is, to inform we little people they have an opinion worth listening to.
If Hollywood imploded, I wouldn’t care, other than to implode would sever a powerful puppet string for the radical left.
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We’re surprised, shocked even? Corruption is in their DNA, it’s part of their history and heritage. They can’t help themselves - or, rather, they’re historically conditioned to ‘help themselves!’ Mother Russia taught them well, and it’s part and parcel of being slavic.
Corruption is to the slavs much like fighting using human shields is to the arabs. It’s just who they are.
Still disappointed at seeing this staffer employed by The Hill, the same little girl who believes our House Speaker ought to be censured for relying upon, and quoting, the Bible. Just cut her loose - she’s going to leave anyway for CNN or MSNBC the first chance she gets. Please confine her to simply reading the news, she’s much too young, and too much a wannabe progressive, to have an opinion worthy of my time to listen to.
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It baffles me that the left propaganda outlets are still pushing Trump’s dictator joke as if it is his manifesto, even though everyone at msnbc, etc, knows it’s a joke and that of course he’s not going to be a dictator.
But they wind up their audience by straight face lying to their audience that he IS intending to be one, whipping these jackwagons into a frenzy, fully believing and terrified they’re telling the truth.
And it’s not that the left audience are any dumber than us on the right - EVERY far left media outlet is blasting out the same mantra, repeating it over and over and over. So yeah, what are they supposed to believe? If they have no idea they’re being lied to, and if everyone believes the outlets have integrity, well, what are they supposed to do?
The average person probably doesn’t really care all that much about politics, aren’t very sophisticated with respect to needing to fact check media outlets, and generally are too busy working, raising kids, cuttin’ the grass…to get that involved. The media outlets know this, are counting on it actually, and are happy with manipulating and lying to their viewers, accentuating positive stories about diden, burying any negative ones, and doing the exact opposite to Trump.
Still, when a schmuck does believe Trump will be a dictator, I still wanna slap him.
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Regarding the border, couldn't biden un-fuk it with existing laws and executive orders? Like, as in the opposite of how he screwed it up after day1 in office? Why do we need to lock Congress in a room and come up with some bipartisan border bill, and one that has to work with this jaw dropping disaster that is obviously just a ploy to make it seem like biden is for fixing the border and those wascally wepublicans are holding things up? No rational American concerned with truly securing our borders and deporting these millions of illegals would EVER approve this bill - it's TERRIBLE. And intentionally so, to guarantee Republicans wouldn't pass it.
Biden doesn't need a bill to resume building the wall, patrolling it, and enforcing border security. And we certainly don't need additional laws to apprehend illegal aliens and kick them out. And that party has the nerve to say Republicans are mucking things up.
Trouble is, the average citizen, especially the left and right moderates, and independents, doesn't care that much about politics because they're too busy working! And they'll choose their candidate based on television sound bites during these last months of campaigning, discover all these terrible problems, believe the democrat lies (because they're much better at this than we are) the Republicans are either to blame or are in the way of fixing the problem, and BOOM!! Just like last election, millions of on-the-fence voters will decide a close election by voting democrat.
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Why would the administration sack KJP? Love her, hate her, but she’s a loyal servant, famous for stonewalling , redirecting, and outright lying.
You know darn well every democrat watches press releases at some time or another. So if she’s able to keep repeating the ‘obama administration daily talking points’ script by not directly answering questions criticizing her master, reiterating that Trump’s a dictator responsible for everything wrong in the world today, and lying about joe’s incompetence, those loyal democrats think KJP must be telling the truth. They’re also likely to believe she’s being persecuted by The Right, instead of admitting they are simply being manipulated.
Maybe they see that she’s cracking under the pressure at knowing the entire planet realizes she’s a lying puppet. It has to be causing her a huge amount of mental distress and anxiety to be hated on a national and global scale. How long can anyone be expected to lie on a daily basis to protect someone else?
BUT - if she IS about to be sacked, just watch how fast the regime she’s protecting turns on her.
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Maybe not humiliation as experienced by the biden administration, but the military and the citizens (including me) are VERY humiliated by our administration's withdrawal. Biden left them to the wolves and he knew it. Yeah, we were fatigued, yeah it was expensive. But in his rush to get out, 13 Americans died needlessly, thousands of Afghans were likely immediately killed, untold thousands, if not tens of thousands, have their fates sealed. Women's rights are gone, children are being raised as terrorists, the government gutted, infrastructure....
20 years and $2.7 trillion gone and wasted...for what? So biden could announce he ended the war and brought our troops home, all so he could claim points for his upcoming reelection bs.
It's humiliating because how he did it was wrong, and I'm so very ashamed of our leadership. Of all the wrong ways to withdraw, our idiot president picked the very worst. Irritatingly, he's so self centered, he's already forgotten about the misery he's caused.
Don't get me wrong, Afghanistan should have done more to shore up their government and military; they had plenty of time and assistance, and they failed. But this culture does NOT seem conducive to democracy, and we tried forcing a concept upon them they have no experience or intuition for. They likely had adjusted to being 'ruled' by a military power, and in that regard they'll likely fall in line with the Taliban. Unfortunately, the taliban isn't much different than hamas, regardless of their attempts at giving the illusion of international legitimacy.
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The channel “Greg’s Airplanes and Automobiles” (who produces thoroughly researched technical content) uses NACA documents extensively, as do FlightDojo, Rex’s Hangar and Military Aviation History. All these channels prompted me to check out the freely available and accessible NACA reports, which are incredibly interesting from both a technical and historical perspective, very well written and authoritative, and have aged very well as the content is highly relevant. I’m no engineer, but I have to think the reports are a treasure trove of info for today’s aeronautical engineers, and hopefully are required reading. For those with a historical slant, there are a surprising number of reports done by NACA on non-American aircraft, like the ME-262, Spitfire, Bf-109, FW-190 and others, with very readable summaries throughout.
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In Catholicism, there is an avenue whereby Jews (especially Messianic Jews, obviously) will enter into heaven. This isn’t to say they’re granted heavenly dispensation because the Church says so; rather it’s a way for Christians to understand this, in a way that’s consistent with Christian, Catholic Doctrine.
Islam is a farcical religion; saying Gabriel said something is, at best, an opinion, but more likely explained as wishful thinking to legitimize a false religion. For example, I could lay forth a belief structure and attribute it to an Angel, but this doesn’t make it so. And why pick an angel anyway? An angel isn’t authoritative, and certainly not to humanity - the Bible considers them Holy, but simply messengers. The Koran, to be a holy book, would need to come from God or his Begotten Son, not a mere messenger. This alone is enough to realize Islam is a farce.
That said, the Catholic Church maintains a dialogue with Muslims, and an awareness that Muslims view Islam as sacred. It’s not, of course, but there can be no conversion to the Truth without dialogue.
Paganism is easy; it’s satanic. And the political bs that is the left, and, as you yourself believe, a metaphysical interpretation of worshipping the self is, practically speaking, the definition of satanism.
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@jorgeposadas1192 Come on, man. The lady got robbed - yeah, that really sucks, but it’s not the fault of the currency. She got taken advantage of by a criminal who took advantage of her kindess, willingness to help, fear, whatever, and exploited her ignorance of Bitcoin. Would it have been better if the criminal directed her to use a cash ATM and mail him the money, or told her to go buy cash cards and give the criminal the redemption codes - because YOU’RE familiar with those technologies?
In other words, you’d consider it HER fault if she used the cash ATM or gift cards, but since she used a Bitcoin ATM, it’s Crypto’s fault?
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I bet Google’s gazillion servers and bajillion data centers weren’t and aren’t manufactured using so-called renewables. Also, the conductor cables from the redundant grids to each data center are large, like two or more inches in diameter large; and HVAC chillers and those gazillion servers use a ton of always-on, 7x24x365 electricity. I bet Google’d need a solar farm the size of the Sahara Desert to keep that equipment running in every one of their data centers on the planet.
For some context, I installed some point of sale computers at a small McDonald’s inside a mall. The incoming power conductors to run the electric grills and deep fryers in this SINGLE location were over FOUR inches in diameter. That’s a boatload of continuous electricity for a 2000 square foot franchise. Solar power that, Google! Now interpolate that with a single 200,000 to 1,000,000 square foot data centers with over 125,000 servers EACH, with each building having anywhere from 20 to 150 HVAC chillers. Data centers each consume between 50 and 100 MegaWatts. In 2015, Google reported the entire organization used around 6 TeraWatt hours of power.
I’m thinking there’s some fine print in this lofty claim…something similar to the usual 20-page EULA tech companies are so famous for.
Not to be cynical, but this is the company that pretends to respect my privacy, yet somehow manages to deliver me mental health advertisements whenever my crazy ex-girlfriend sends me an email.
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The far left media outlets checked their souls at the door.
What should be scary to us is the conspiracy that has the power to direct all of them, in unison, exactly what to say and what they can’t say, and when they can or can’t say it. What other explanation can there be? During the confusion on how to spin diden’s dismal debate debacle, every outlet had the exact same story after it was decided he outlived his usefulness and became a liability. It’s like the memo went out to msnbc, cbs, abc, npr, cnn, bbc, et al, on what to say, because suddenly they were synchronized to say the exact same thing.
At least we know the great Wizard can make mistakes - obviously kamalala wasn’t expected to be placed in the position she is in, and let the media have their fun back when she was just a medicated, token vp, exploited for her victimized identities.
I still can’t shake the feeling that she’s but a distraction for someone else…that her utter unsuitability will be played out until it’s a crisis. When all seems lost, michelle or hillary will swoop in, energizing the left voters who were just gonna stay home, and steal the left leaning moderates and independents.
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She sees a popular platform that a lot of people use, so she’s using it as an activist platform to promote a socialist agenda. She doesn’t give a shit about what’s true or not, or about citing sources - her and people like her would rather sources weren’t cited, unless those sources are pushing the woke narrative. She also doesn’t care about races being equally represented - they already are! Like you said, all they need to do is write and/contribute. What she’s wanting to do is RE-WRITE what white men have written, such that it diminishes or invalidates those writers and rewritten in a way that forwards their ideologies.
Look at the Jan6 article, and how it has been so overwhelmingly slanted towards a far left perspective. Now think of the same article from a far right perspective. Finally, from an unbiased perspective.
It should be easy to imagine how almost ANY article can be written or rewritten to subtly advance the woke narrative. It would be one thing if this was to correct any biases to begin with, but this has already been done, in principle. It’s either a strict, ethical and professional requirement, or a work in progress to ‘neutralize’ and ‘factualize’ existing content. In her case, however, she wants everything to be presented in a way that forwards a radical far left, socialist agenda, while actively discriminating against what she considers a threat to that ideology.
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