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Both are full of awful border overreach provisions. But it will be the MAGA GOP Congress-critters who will kill this iteration (and it doesn’t even matter why).
And the House bill will never garner 51 votes in the Senate. So I don’t intend to discuss the provisions of either one here. [Hinderaker’s whining notwithstanding.]
Mr. Biden will be re-elected, and if the stars align, a much fairer bill will result. One Mr. Biden might even sign.
Otherwise… none of this will become law.
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The three latest posts there… confirm it:
One — (making light of serious issues, while feeling sorry for oneself)…
Two (angst over Taylor Swift’s popularity at NFL games?!)…
And… Three (Steve is sad that Nikki Haley was on SNL).
These guys… can’t accept help — even when offered magnanimously… to what are obviously… the ultimate losers.
Hilarious.
Out.
Again Paul offers a defense of the indefensible.
He ignores that the US rules of civil and criminal procedure do not favor the making false accusations, or false denials, outside the courtroom. We don’t try cases in the press.
But if Tangerine decides to try his cases in the press… well, so be it.
He must live with serially-increasing damage awards, for libel.
What an idiot old Paulie is here.
There is not even a shred of any legitimate argument — for the idea that I can say “it was long ago… I forget whether I did it…” to escape liability.
[And in any event, he actually forcefully denied raping her — by saying “she wasn’t his type”.]
And… under oath, he identified a photo of one Marla Maples, his first wife… as E. Jean Carroll. [Musta’ been “his type“, no — Paul?!]
Anyhoo — Mirengoff is ignoring the first rule of holes, here.
Out.
The feckless cluelessness these GOP governors display… is jaw slacking. Many of the people living in South Dakota have been on that land for nearly a thousand years prior to the arrival of the “illegals” — the whyte men and women, from across the ocean.
Yet here in 2024, it is [whyte] Noem trying to prevent the distant brothers and sisters of the Oglala, the rightful owners of all this land, from entering the place upon which Noem and her ancestors are… lawless squatters.
Damnation. I applaud this very well phrased response from “Frank Star Comes Out”.
Here’s the story, in full — and a bit:
…A South Dakota tribe has banned Republican Gov. Kristi Noem from the Pine Ridge Reservation after she spoke this week about wanting to send razor wire and security personnel to Texas to help deter immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border and also said cartels are infiltrating the state’s reservations. . . .
“[To preserve] the safety of the Oyate, effective immediately, you are hereby Banished from the homelands of the Oglala Sioux Tribe!” Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said in a Friday statement addressed to Noem. “Oyate” is a word for people or nation.
Star Comes Out accused Noem of trying to use the border issue to help get former U.S. President Donald Trump re-elected and boost her chances of becoming his running mate….
Of course, the Sioux teach that we belong TO the land, not the other way around. And of course, they open their arms to all who come in peace. They are, in a word, far “better” — as humans, than the small-minded, embittered Noem (or Abbott or DeSantis) will ever be.
[Since Elon Musk has also uttered some deeply ignorant, hateful things about the border… this is cross posted here. Musk, too ought to consider himself banned, here.]
Yes — this nonsense must… end. These rogue “governors” need to accept that their people (in the Dakotas, especially!) will literally starve, without the… rest of us, supporting them (and her). Soon enough, Tangerine’s whole schtick will be in the review mirror.
Onward, grinning just the same.
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I have been doing some deeper reflecting — and I think (regardless of how one views what Bitcoin has become)… Satoshi flat-out misjudged human nature, in formulating his white paper.
The miners (at least the ones which trade on US stock exchanges, as ’34 Act companies) are run by… sociopaths.
Inexplicably, he did not foresee that probability, despite having watched the “banksters” in the 2008 meltdown (and openly commented upon them in his writings).
So — for @Tatech at SA — big picture?
Miners. Never. Become. Consistently. GAAP Profitable. To wit:
Satoshi designed it all into the system — his white paper posited it… that way.
What Satoshi didn’t count on was… the insatiable greed of public company officers and directors. They are essentially looting the miners, as a group — by taking out ~$360 million a year in compensation. [All while never generating a penny of GAAP operating profit — in seven long years. And more than a few have gone bankrupt, due to the greed of the control groups.]
He knew about “too big to fail” yet did not foresee that these same sociopaths would get control of the miners — as a group.
That is where his model… falls apart. Watch and see. He was very smart — and (I think) benevolent, and meant to improve things.
He just didn’t fully grasp that every year a new batch of narcissists are spit out of the MBA programs nationwide.
And the raptors found the weakest spot in his perimeter fence: the miners.
Out.
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The commercial version of this tech may be flown overhead, by drone, and dropped in on a burning, or already collapsed, building — or into an unstable mountain’s ice crevasse, to look for suspected survivors. It was originally designed to aid in searching for landing spots on Mars, or exploring inside steep craters on Mars (inaccessible by chopper — or rover). But clearly, they will be useful here on Earth, as well.
They fold essentially flat — for storage, making them easily deliverable to almost any emergency site. Here’s that story — and a bit:
…Dr. Alice Agogino was researching spherical, skeletal robots that might one day be dropped onto Mars or the Moon to collect information and conduct science experiments, when she realized her NASA-funded technology could have terrestrial benefits as well.
Reading a report on the dangers and high death toll of disaster response, Agogino recognized that her robots, fitted with the right sensors, could gather data at the scenes of fires, crashes, explosions, and other disasters to help first responders assess situational dangers like toxic gas leaks and plan their approach.
“We thought, wow, if we can do this on the Moon, we should be able to do it on planet Earth and save some lives,” said Agogino, director of the Berkeley Emergent Space Tensegrities Lab at the University of California at Berkeley.
She went on to cofound Berkeley, California-based Squishy Robotics Inc. The company makes impact-resistant, customizable robots for public safety, military, and industrial uses….
NASA also researched Earth science applications for tensegrity robots, which might be used to monitor, for instance, a glacier that’s about to break off into the ocean.
“That’s the kind of place you just would not want to, or could not, send a person to because it’s very risky,” Fong said. “The whole surface could collapse. With a structure that could survive a drop but still be mobile afterwards, you would have basically a super instrument positioning system….”
It is an… amazing time — in the history of science. How fortunate we all are, to have federal government programs that deliver real, practical and tangible benefits — for all of humanity. Now you know. Onward, into the cool sunshine.
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Whelp. The Supremes had previously made it plain in the obiter dicta of the UNC and Harvard cases of last summer, that the US military service academies were not bound by the same rules as a regular college might be.
That differing, more widespread egalitarian forces are at work when selecting schooling / programs for future officers in the armed forces. [The reason: officers of the US military should be broadly reflective of the backgrounds of the troops serving under them. Makes sense –forma national security / patriotism point of view.]
So the US S.Ct. just told Scott’s and John’s concocted plaintiff group… to pound sand, No TRO / No Injunction / No stays.
The minute order, just entered, then:
23A696 STUDENTS FOR FAIR ADMISSIONS V. USMA AT WEST POINT, ET AL.
…The application for writ of injunction pending appeal presented to Justice Sotomayor and by her referred to the Court is denied. The record before this Court is underdeveloped….
Not a great day, for the boys.
Updated… Late Friday Night: Paul Mirengoff burps and belly aches for 15 paragraphs only to finally agree in his last paragraph: none of this slows the election case in Georgia against Tangerine. None of it suggests the case is, or was, not meritorious.
A stupid kerfuffle it is, indeed, per Paul. End update.
And we now have the contra-evidence, son. Suck it.
The affidavits unsealed and filed today, in Georgia… put the lie to Scott’s scandal trafficking nonsense.
There is zero prohibition (post employment / retention) with two prosecutors being in a consensual adult relationship. ZERO.
Both are financially independent. No favor was returned, financially or otherwise, in the man’s appointment. There was no relationship at or prior to the appointment.
Any subsequent meals or trips they took, together, were all well-after his appointment… and are genuinely incidental — at the level of lifestyle each of them independently supports, for themselves. This was, and is all hard right BS.
So — congrats, Scott — your Mike Roman sourced oppo research effort turns out to be… and remains… a churlish dud.
There is a less than one-in-one-hundred chance that this changes anything — despite what old Tangerine burps on and on about [and what silly Scott tries to imply].
There is… no there, there… you lying sack of dung.
Mike Roman is a dirt bag — and you knew it, from four years of his NOT finding negative things (or at least not disclosing them!) about Trump appointees — they (including Scaramucci!) were… just fine, with you jokers.
Out.
You know full well, we won’t be able to resist listening in, and if my other time commitments permit, i’ll live blog it.
I expect Colorado to have the upper hand on the actual law’s clear mandate — and on what the Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment’s framers… at the time, plainly intended.
But Alito / Thomas are the wild cards: will they pull a political (non-legal) rabbit out of the hat, by swaying any/all of Gorsuch / Barrett or Kavanaugh? We shall see — here’s the morning’s SCOTUS minute order:
…23-719 TRUMP, DONALD J. V. ANDERSON, NORMA, ET AL.
…The motion of respondent Griswold for divided argument and for enlargement of time for oral argument is granted in part, a total of 80 minutes is allotted, and the time is divided as follows:
40 minutes for petitioner, 30 minutes for respondents Anderson, et al., and 10 minutes for respondent Griswold….
Onward, grinning — ever, grinning.
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We have long known that both Tang®, and what were called “Space Food Sticks“TM were… a perhaps-apocryphal by-product of supposed NASA space science and exploration.
But we have also long known that many many modern innovations — useful in all our lives — are dividends of NASA science programs. So it is, that a project to reduce the mass/weight — in lunar, and Martian rover wheels… has led to much more efficient — and eco-friendly automobile braking systems. Read all of it here, and here’s a bit:
…The spinning fins and the centrifugal force of the wheel push air into the depressions, causing a turbulent airflow that draws away heat. “When the air flings out, it goes across the brake caliper and cools it – no conventional rotor is capable of doing something crazy like that. It’s huge,” said Lee.
These trenches in the braking surfaces also increase the available surface for air cooling by more than 30% and further reduce the weight of the disc. And they increase friction in the same way that scoring concrete makes steps safer to walk on – the brake pads are less likely to slip, which makes braking more reliable.
The troughs draw away more than just heat, too. Water and road debris getting between the pad and rotor are equally problematic, so the trenches provide a place for the air vortex to push any substance out of the way. A small hole machined at the end of each one creates an opening through which unwanted material can escape. “And it also just looks cool,” said Lee.
A second periodic wave is cut along the outer edge of the disc. By replacing the conventional circular design with an undulating pattern, the new rotor has still more surface area that will come into contact with the cool air flowing over it. This additional heat dissipation will occur no matter which periodic wave pattern is used, making it possible to create funky designs and add personality to what is usually a boring car part.
Finally, a thin layer of black coating applied to surfaces that don’t come into contact with the brake pads, like the inside of the troughs, can help the rotor to radiate additional heat. This unique three-part cooling system – convection powered by airflow, conduction of heat across the metal rotor, and radiation from dark-coated surfaces – has never been implemented effectively on any conventional disc brake rotor before, Lee said….
“When brake pads exceed a certain critical temperature, depending on their materials, they can emit a 10,000-fold increase in toxic nanoparticulates,” said Marcus Hays, co-CEO of Orbis Brakes. Because the toxic dust hovers right at street height, the impact on human health is more harmful than exhaust emissions, according to an Oxford University study. So the company is currently testing its EcoWave brake design to ensure it will not create that kind of emission, according to Hays.
In the meantime, Orbis is offering the NextWave rotor as an after-market disc brake for high-performance cars like the Ford Mustang and some Tesla models….
Now you know — onward, grinning. Great day in the city ahead — museums, Art Institute… etc., with my eldest girl, before she hops onward, to London, later tonight. Be excellent to one another!
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