Every day America is shredded a little more and will take far more to rebuild than to tear down…at some point the cancer will end any hope of a return to any form of functioning democracy. @Mulchavelli3 days agoDOGE did achieve their goals just not their stated goals. The goal was to steal all ofContinue reading “Comments On Frum”
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A Nuclear Free Earth
Space Review comment: A Nuclear Thermal Rocket, for fantastic expense, roughly doubles the Isp of chemical rockets…using a source of energy literally one million times more powerful. Stan Ulam, who is sometimes credited with being the real father of the hydrogen bomb, considered this problem and realized it is difficult just keeping a chemical rocketContinue reading “A Nuclear Free Earth”
Freedom is NOT Greed
“The only concrete proposal he provides is to get rid of billionaires—or, rather, their billions, suggesting that an individual’s net worth be capped at $500 million: “there’s no reason we as a society have to put up with the continued existence of billionaires,” who he argues help “fringe philosophies” thrive.” I have to absolutely andContinue reading “Freedom is NOT Greed”
Suckers and Losers
Trump Was Always Going to Betray Veterans By Sarah Jones, senior writer for Intelligencer who covers politics and labor In filmmaker Paul Verhoeven’s adaptation of Starship Troopers, military service guarantees citizenship in a futuristic — and fascist — regime. The policy is simple: Join the war on the alien bugs or suffer a second-class life. Verhoeven’s satire workedContinue reading “Suckers and Losers”
SpaceX
The shiny starship is certainly a cultural symbol of neoliberal ideology now. It reflects the idea that these John Galt/Howard Roark/Tony Stark entrepreneurs can make a better world. A world like a science fiction novel or comic book. Like the Saturn V showing the rest of humankind the power of American capitalism by defeating theContinue reading “SpaceX”
Us vs Them or Each Against All
More confused everyday. I thought “Woke” just meant to be aware of white supremacist policies and worldviews affecting society. Now Chris is telling me, no, it is bad. Some on the left seem to be defecting to the right (not Chris). I was all in for Harris and now….after listening to Thomas Frank I seemContinue reading “Us vs Them or Each Against All”
Solve The Right Problems
The naive theory of information: Most information is not truth, it is fictions and fantasies and delusions and errors and lies. Truth is a very rare and costly kind of information…a small subset. Flood the Earth with information and the truth sinks to the bottom. Fiction is very cheap, no research, fact-checking. Truth is complicatedContinue reading “Solve The Right Problems”
A Limitarian Political Party
The only question in a democracy is how much a person gets to keep, which depends on how much the rest of us are empowered to keep other people from keeping everything. Wealth concentrates upward slowly but surely and eventually a small group of people own everything and everyone. This has been going on forContinue reading “A Limitarian Political Party”
Do You Believe?
The Kamala Harris speech was rousing…and took me back to a significant event in my life some years ago. She concluded with, “Do we believe in the promise of America…and are we ready to fight for it? And when we fight, we win! God bless you and God bless the United States of America.” IContinue reading “Do You Believe?”
Another Space Review Comment?
We will see if this gets posted. My comment on the military in space has not gone up. The SLS is really the continuation of the Shuttle program and for want of money, like the Shuttle could have been turned into a reusable version, the SLS can also be transformed. It CAN be made toContinue reading “Another Space Review Comment?”
Ice on the Moon 