Nostr notes by Sinistra delenda est.

"Can" is doing too much heavy lifting in your claim. As ...

2026-10-24T18:36:56Z

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"Can" is doing too much heavy lifting in your claim.

As best I can determine WWI "escalated" _because countries started mobilizing for total war,_ which is an entirely different thing.

Russia started it, which resulted in a chain reaction or thereabouts. There's debate over whether France started before Germany, _then_ they were thirsting for revenge after the humiliation and territorial losses from 1870, and worried declining birth rates put them on a timetable.

:cirnolaughing: Indeed; no matter how much the usual suspects ...

2026-10-23T00:52:13Z

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:cirnolaughing:

Indeed; no matter how much the usual suspects hold him in disdain, _somehow_ he and only he has cracked the (partly) reusable rocket problem, and first test of fully should be next month. If you did not feel a thrill when you saw the simultaneous landings of the two side boosters for the Falcon Heavy test flight, your soul is dead, black, and/or sold to the prince of this world.

Meanwhile, the headline is not inaccurate compared to the text:

"Elon Musk says money will be 'irrelevant' if his vision of a multiplanetary future comes true in generations"

Anyone who's paid real attention to Musk knows he's big on aspirational goals. And on achieving them, albeit not always in the desired time. ___He inspires people___ which is great for most of us, and unforgivable for others (you thought _Atlas Shrugged_ was too fantastic?).

There's massive, massive wealth out there, energy, all the elements, etc. etc. He's including "AI" and robots in this vision, BTW.

This is very much like the misquoted _aspiration_ of the guy who wanted to eventually see from nuclear power plants "energy too cheap to meter." Metering is a cost, after all.

But it ignores too much of human nature like the envy or worse driving Chad McCullough (npub1ded…kves), the future could for example take a bad turn like in First Gundam for the desire to control and/or kill other humans is wired into us, see the Protestant Work Ethic concept, etc. etc.

It's thou shalt not _murder._ The King James of the famous, ...

2026-10-21T16:12:57Z

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It's thou shalt not _murder._

The King James of the famous, often great prose but iffy in _accuracy_ bible he sponsored was the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and was under great threat in England, like the Gunpowder Plot (Guy Fawkes and company, a Catholic plot), the struggle between Protestants and Catholics was vicious in his day. From Wikipedia is this chilling note:

"He was strongly committed to a peace policy and tried to avoid involvement in religious wars, especially the Thirty Years' War that devastated much of Central Europe."

As in, many Germans think it was worse than the results of losing WWII, and I can totally see that. And his son King Charles I was executed, which then put Cromwell in power.

*Vengeance* is a dangerous path, and in a state with a functioning legal system is to be avoided, so you avoid things like blood feuds (see my previous postings on this). Killing lethal enemies before they kill you is another thing altogether, which I won't get into here.

Lawfare is not exactly new in the US: "Nixon Was Framed – ...

2026-10-15T20:28:55Z

Lawfare is not exactly new in the US:

"Nixon Was Framed – It Was a Coup"

From the NYT! An admission against interest written by a long time scholar of Watergate, who was also targeted as a normal reporter by Obama, with more details of the general framework that has been known since at least the 1991 publication of _Silent Coup._

"But what about all the president’s men? Did they get a raw deal? According to a raft of scholarly work, the answer, unequivocally, is yes. By fabricating witness testimony, suppressing exculpatory evidence and colluding with the presiding judge, the Watergate prosecutors railroaded the former attorney general John Mitchell, the former White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman and the former domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman…

All household names back in the day....

"On Feb. 6, 1974, a task force staff lawyer, Peter Rient, sent a colleague a three-page memo titled 'Material Discrepancies Between the Senate Select Committee Testimony of John Dean and
the Tapes of Dean’s Meetings With the President.' Mr. Nixon was then six months away from resigning… [having the truth here may have saved Nixon his Presidency]"

TL;DR from the book, accurately per Wikipedia (I read it a long time ago, after having followed the whole thing in real time):

"Colodny and Gettlin contend that former White House counsel John Dean orchestrated the 1972 Watergate burglary. Dean’s motive was argued to have been to protect his future wife Maureen Biner by removing information linking her to a call-girl ring that worked for the DNC."

And it came down to his vs. Nixon's word. Of course they'd choose Dean to get Nixon, who'd been ___hated___ by the Left since his 1948 instrumental role as "the smartest" member of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in bringing down Soviet agent Alger Hiss.

Nixon was a lawyer by trade, how he finished his WWII era service since a _lot_ of contracts had to be canceled or modified after Japan surrendered.

https://joehoft.com/nixon-was-framed-it-was-coup/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rosen

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312051565/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Coup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss

"Irish immigration essentially spurred our Civil War" ...

2026-10-05T15:27:00Z

In reply to nevent1q…mrv6
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"Irish immigration essentially spurred our Civil War"

Nit, I think it mostly contributed city folk who couldn't shoot well cannon fodder (the NRA was explicitly established because of poor Union marksmanship). But quantity has its own quality, and Grant won in part because he realized that.

They weren't part of the New English Moralists who played one of the biggest roles in triggering it, nor I'm pretty sure were harmed like Lincoln's family by competition from slaves, and how much political power did they have back then?

(Of course, see the 1965 Hart–(((Celler))) Act AKA Immigration ...

2026-10-05T14:12:38Z

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(Of course, see the 1965 Hart–(((Celler))) Act AKA Immigration and Nationality Act, Hart being Irish, and Teddy Kennedy also in the Senate was said to have been a major help in getting it passed. That's the start of the Great Replacement in the US.)

I would have said that back then, starting pretty much any time prior to the War Between the States when lots started to come over. But I get the impression they eventually did assimilate sometime post-JFK. But could easily be wrong, having left Massachusetts after Route 128 died.

Note, the first major US population group from outside the Hajnal Line. The WASPs could not believe how pathological they were, and they did manage to keep Boston small by not letting it annex the nearby cities and towns a lot of them escaped to. But deportation wasn't in the cards by then.

See the Curly Effect for one well documented example of how bad they could be, but also much more recently the Corrupt Midget William Bulger and his gangster brother, "Whitey." The latter gets us right into Robert Mueller _lethal_ corruption before he transformed the FBI after W put him in charge of it.

And I could well be wrong, see for example the last link, which starts with:

"When you consider that three of the last five Speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives resigned from office and were found guilty of criminal charges or copped a plea, you might think you've landed in a lost episode of The Sopranos."

Except two of the three were Irish, the last until 2004. A friend from New York state noted how both corrupt and _incompetent_ at that the Massachusetts political machine was, comparing it on the latter to NY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_pattern

https://search.brave.com/search?q=curley+effect

https://wbsm.com/corruption-a-way-of-life-in-massachusetts-according-to-report/

How much credibility does Team Trump 2.0 have left? Here we see a ...

2026-09-24T15:29:19Z

How much credibility does Team Trump 2.0 have left? Here we see a totally H-1B focused program when there are so many others like the ones that deny whites kids summer jobs, and absolutely nothing about the OPT program.

Which at last count was surging at 54% per year, with 418,000 that year. ___It's not a law but was created by regulations,___ and workers and employers don't pay FICA taxes in the first five years (Trump is in theory indirectly limiting that to four years).

_We're literally giving out tax breaks for our replacements!_ Meanwhile there's no worst administration figure to make this claim, even before you consider JD Vance has no real power except as the top dog in the Senate for tie votes and a few other things.

JD Vance
@JDVance

Our message to corporate America is simple: We’re not going to let you lay off American workers so you can replace them with cheap foreign labor.

https://x.com/JDVance/status/2103119477240168589

From a different discussion thread, a plausible relevant claim: ...

2026-09-21T14:53:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…7p4r
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From a different discussion thread, a plausible relevant claim:

Raptor
@Raptor4you

But who records video in such situations, Chinese fishing vessels are notorious, many go in front of large vessel deliberately, to get insurance

Singapore TSS is busiest among all, These boats should not be allowed in high traffic density zone of TSS

3:21 AM · Sep 21, 2026

https://x.com/Raptor4you/status/2101949858214969406

Brave AI Search came up with a plausible countering point: these vessels don't tend to carry enough insurance.

Here's Sal on the incident: Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) ...

2026-09-20T22:19:22Z

In reply to nevent1q…ujp5
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Here's Sal on the incident:

Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️
@mercoglianos

One of the problems of ship collision videos is you only get one persepctive.

Singapore is one of the most complicated and busy traffic areas on the planet.

First Margaux was in the correct traffic seperation scheme lane. She had a concern with Gas Iris entering the lane to starboard.

First Margaux could have maneuvered to port and have taken the fishing vessel between her and Gas Iris.

The Chinese fishing boat was also entering the lane and this placed First Margaux as the overtaking vessel. A slight turn to port could have avoided this situation but there was a turn to starboard coming up to enter Singapore.

https://x.com/mercoglianos/status/2101697187373568473

Not really if you dig a little bit. Biggest issue is that Eilat ...

2026-09-18T01:06:53Z

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Not really if you dig a little bit.

Biggest issue is that Eilat is very far from the Israeli centers of population, and I didn't know the nearest rail access is 100 km/60 miles away! Which rather puts a damper on activity. It was kept alive by government action for a long time, it's certainly still a naval base to the extent it was for subs I would think, and it might return in a new location in the city.

But mostly it's just stranded, since it's so very, _very_ cheap to ship stuff by ... ship, and thus the extra distance to get to the Med ports in Israel will almost certainly cost less than unloading in small volumes then putting containers on trucks.

I right now can't think of an American equivalent.

Just because it's "natural" doesn't mean it's ...

2026-09-17T16:14:08Z

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Just because it's "natural" doesn't mean it's safe. Pink salt, I don't like the mix of stuff in it, again especially the iron, plus you're getting it from pajeets. Sea salt should be absolutely fine as long as it's done by people who don't contaminate it.

And now it's game over for Missouri in 2026 as I read the ...

2026-09-10T17:46:30Z

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And now it's game over for Missouri in 2026 as I read the likely outcome of the latest from the Supreme Court's eternal effort to destroy their legitimacy:

"Christian Heiens 🏛
@ChristianHeiens

"A Republican Supreme Court intervening to side with Democrats suing to win back a free congressional seat in a state that voted for Trump by 18 points.

"Imagine where we’d be today if we didn’t constantly sabotage ourselves in the name of abstract legal procedures that the other side doesn’t give a damn about."

As in, the Missouri Federal Chief Justice's TRO, a thing which is _not_ supposed to be appealable, is stayed by the Supreme Court. So, to repeat about two different maps being used for the primary already held and the election to come:

"[...] people had their votes nullified, candidates spent money on convincing people who then couldn't vote for them, 'irreparable harm.'"

Never forget that the counterintelligence function is perhaps the most vital of all jobs in a movement, allow traitors it..." Should also note I don't think there's ever been in modern times a Democratic Supreme Court pick who "grew in office" by moving to the right.

:saddest:

https://x.com/ChristianHeiens/status/2098089405781008420

Below illustration in response to: "SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire ...

2026-09-08T22:58:11Z

Below illustration in response to:

"SCOTUS Wire
@scotus_wire

"🚨 A federal judge has restored Missouri’s 2025 congressional map for the November election, just minutes after Justice Kavanaugh separately denied the state’s bid to revive it."

This is a historically unique situation where the state supreme court ordered a reversion of a year old Congressional electoral map _between_ the primary and the general election.

That is, people had their votes nullified, candidates spent money on convincing people who then couldn't vote for them, "irreparable harm."

And I suppose a _good_ example of inferior court supremacy?? A setup, or a justified lack of trust in Kavanaugh?

Thirteen page decision by the chief Federal district judge, so it was queued up, although use of "Augwust" on page two for last month suggests a degree of haste, or overuse of summer interns/clerks/whatever. :cirno_shrug:

OK, had to be queued up because state law says the deadline for fixing ballots is 5 pm today.

What a mess.

https://x.com/ChristianHeiens/status/2097450618197508214

https://x.com/scotus_wire/status/2097445750913245264

It missed a few important details or nits: America makes the ...

2026-09-08T04:15:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…yrhj
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It missed a few important details or nits:

America makes the lasers that zap the tin droplets that make the EUV light, 1-2 low energy pulses to optimally shape them, then a big one to ionize the tin atoms. Base system fires 50,000 a second, the laser system hits about 70-80% of them.

In the vacuum this all has to all be in, where does that tin go? Hydrogen atoms wafting through do a lot of it, but the first mirror in the system has to be replaced every year. Which the PRC isn't getting.

Before this, and still, ASML started making the world's best DUV steppers, I read they integrate better with the rest of your factory than Canon or Nikon's, which you'd expect from the Japanese. One of which didn't even master immersion lithography, putting water between the mask and the silicon wafer ("193i").

We could still make plenty of really good chips without EUV lithography, though. It's just cheaper and for mobile with its battery limits best to use it, if your name is TSMC. They're also starting to be used for DRAM.

Forget about the surface US Navy, we don't have the logistics to fight the PRC over Taiwan, per Konrad we don't even have the fuel to evacuate all our people in East Asia (the Hawaii depot was closed without replacement, of course). Dealing with our attack subs wouldn't be fun, though.

We have some very specific enemies: Covfefe Anon @CovfefeAnon ...

2026-09-07T15:59:10Z

We have some very specific enemies:

Covfefe Anon
@CovfefeAnon

People say Camp of the Saints is the vision of the future that we are currently living in but that's not exactly the case

It's actually *hard* to trek across thousands of miles and even harder to trek across open ocean

Spontaneously moving yourself and tens of thousands of others, keeping everyone fed and watered on the journey - arranging for transport over bodies of water - this is the literal task of logistical support for an army and for most of human history this was the most complex undertaking man could accomplish

Men who could lead such undertakings were called "generals" and had support staffs who all had complex jobs

To think that some group could spontaneously organize like this is to not think too deeply about how it happens - every step of the way every "migrant caravan" is overseen and organized by a *massive* effort - it simply has to be - even if that effort his "hidden" by no one looking for it or reporting on it

The second you look at all, you uncover exactly that - a massive logistical effort to move people

Camp of the Saints *undersold* the problem - not only are the "migrants" supported by traitors once they arrive, they're supported the entire way

WraithWyvern
@WraithWyvern

Crossing the Darien Gap without the aid of extensive logistics & infrastructure is effectively suicide. It's not the Oregon Trail.

More money has probably been spent on the logistics there than on the logistical arms of entire European militaries.

Catullus
@Catullus_Vincit

Crossing the Darien Gap requires logistics. Mayorkas was there, on the ground.

https://x.com/CovfefeAnon/status/2096950120608575805

https://search.brave.com/search?q=Mayorkas+visit+panama+Darien+Gap

Note Michael Yon is a _completely_ untrustworthy source for things south of the border :saddest:

Wood55515 @wud55515 Breaking: @amazon, In an act of declaration ...

2026-09-07T00:01:18Z

Wood55515
@wud55515

Breaking:

@amazon, In an act of declaration of war for control of the robotic techno-hellscape, strike @Tesla barracks in Miami with a company of cyber cabs narrowly evading impact.

https://x.com/wud55515/status/2096719248559104026

Not really funny, five dead, five wounded last time I checked, a 767 freighter overshot the runway then hit a lot of stuff.

:cirnoForReals: "After discovering the work of American ...

2026-09-05T17:09:03Z

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:cirnoForReals: "After discovering the work of American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, she decided to pursue photography professionally." :cirnoForReals:

But this is _only_ claimed on Wikipedia per Brave Search and AI. Is there some cultural appropriation going on?

Probably before your time, but an infamous gay photographer not without skill, but also did the sort of photos the government shouldn't be paying for. Thus a huge controversy in the late 1980s or so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juufuutei_Raden

Vs. for example https://virtualyoutuber.fandom.com/wiki/Juufuutei_Raden

Just looked up the relevant speeds jerks: a _Nimitz class_ ...

2026-09-05T16:10:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…8yed
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Just looked up the relevant ~~speeds~~ jerks: a _Nimitz class_ carrier can go from a full stop or thereabouts to flank speed in about ten minutes (carrier captains like to show off on occasion, and it's a good drill to occasionally do). Nuclear reactors have a lag, in that a _lot_ of their power is generated from chains of decay reactions that have various delays after the U-235 atoms are first split.

Per Brave AI, an _Arleigh Burke class_ destroyer can go from cruising speed to flank in 74 to 90 seconds, the newer flights are heavier and require a little more time.

In terms of avoiding _ballistic_ missile in the gulf region, being alert and at a respectable speed probably counts for more, unless you get early warning from some platform that sees the TELs' moving and setting up to launch. Also makes a difference that we have satellite systems that immediately report launches and can quickly predict the course of ballistic missiles, random ship maneuvers just might move you into the path of one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerk_(physics) is increasing acceleration. third derivative after speed and acceleration.

Not a good sign for the IRGC: just how fucking stupid do you have ...

2026-09-05T15:20:12Z

Not a good sign for the IRGC: just how fucking stupid do you have to be to shoot _ballistic,_ that is unguided misses at alert, moving targets.

Which have Official speeds in excess of 30 knots, and can spin up to their max pretty quickly (nuclear has a lag, turbines already running I think are near instant). And are probably normally not following straight lines.

All they have to do is not be where the missiles will land, ground targets or ships in Condition White are another matter.

So in response, the IRGC now has three ex-tankers, the video is quite impressive.

"CENTCOM Destroys 3 IRGC Oil Tankers After Iran Targets 2 U.S. Navy Warships"

https://x.com/CENTCOM/status/2096231596449767452

"I think California should lose statehood." It's ...

2026-07-10T02:01:21Z

In reply to nevent1q…jlsa
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"I think California should lose statehood."

It's _mandated_ in the Constitution; granted, in Article IV where the responsibility for doing so is not defined, in the last Section 4:

"The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government...."

As in, we're in theory a republic, not a democracy (which doesn't scale up much beyond a city-state like Athens of legend, and boy are their some horror stories from that period).

California's gone so far past even a fig leaf of honestly electing representatives of the people ... heck, I just read a Republican holdout polity has been ordered to move to ranked choice voting because At Large city rep systems are unfair to minorities. They've outlawed checking ID in elections, I can go on and on, but the taking up to a month to "count" ballots is really all you need to know, it's such a huge red flag.

So you're not considering remediating this current house, so ...

2026-07-08T03:04:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…nxqr
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So you're not considering remediating this current house, so for example the pipes don't freeze during the winter, as I think I recall you mentioning? (When I bought my old house, I made a point to get ___all___ the "middle" plumbing redone, from suitable gas and water supply lines to existing terminal sewer line.)

First simplification I can think of for your decision is they are two general options, inwards (better house), outwards (make more soap or plastic or metal artifacts).

First improves quality of living at the cost of money, second has the possibility of making more money, giving you more options if things get dicey that way. Ah, would your current employer get upset if you started doing your own CNC work for hire?

Not even the shooter, if he's the second suspect now reported ...

2025-09-11T00:38:17Z

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Not even the shooter, if he's the second suspect now reported to be released after questioning.

Look _really_ closely at the rifle especially near the end of the clip as it's being carried and you can see the underside. The scale is a bit off for a high power centerfire one, it looks to me like a barrel cocking air rifle. That especially based on my interpretation of the forward end of the stock, you cock the spring by pulling the barrel down thus what looks more like a mechanism than the smooth wood you'd expect there.

At the moment, and not knowing these sorts of details for real, ...

2024-08-25T15:29:26Z

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At the moment, and not knowing these sorts of details for real, I'm wildly guessing _Concord_ on Steam is going to gross well under $5K (after refunds, and I don't know how many discounted or free copies are represented in the player base).

What's Value's gross and net takes on those sorts of numbers? For former I'm guessing they pretty much only have to pay electricity to host the game ... well, Sony's so big they probably have at least a fraction of a sales/marketing type to manage that general relationship ... Valve will probably make ~~money~~ pocket change on this. Probably the same net after you count capitalization of software development (now required by the US government! Don't worry, it's primarily hurting our enemies), whatever for their server fleet (do they own that, or rent??), etc.

That said, Valve provides a marketplace with a _great_ deal of discovery capabilities, and refunds if you immediately don't like a game, so it's really up to consumers to decide if something is shovel ware or better. As the latter are demonstrating with it's low, low concurrent user numbers, which Valve also helpfully supplies so we know _Concord_ is a contender for ___the biggest media flop in all of history.___