Chauncey Gardner
5 hours ago
Ward, they didn't just ignore the law. Remember that all employers in the US are required to fill out an I-9 for every employee. Both the employer and employee are required to attest (under penalty of perjury) that the employee is in the country legally. That is an additional overt, illegal act. If you don't like the law, get it changed but you can be assured that if the media found out Trump was hiring illegals and lying about it on the I-9, they would be screaming for him to be charged. //

PubliusCryptus
4 hours ago edited

HSI says the owners, who are both lawful permanent residents in the US,
So they weren't Americans? If so, let's make that clear; These were foreigners hiding foreign invaders. It appears that these somebodies were lawful, but not law abiding, residents; they should no longer be "lawful residents". All their property should be seized and they should be deported immediately after they serve their jail sentences. That's called deterrence.

The funny part is, the fearmongering aspect is definitely meant to send an emotional argument to other women, but it's also a thrilling idea for themselves.

In the same way people will go to haunted house productions you see pop up during Halloween, these women can safely flirt with danger, comfy pajama pants on and rose in hand, without ever actually being in any real danger at all. It's effectively fear-porn, and "The Handmaid's Tale" allows for a voyeuristic dread of losing their agency, but one you can pause or turn off and walk away from.

These same women will watch the show, agree with each other that they're totally under this threat, then go vote, drive a car, buy things with their own credit cards, and celebrate another day as a single, childless, career woman with girl-power.

Not that there isn't a form of very real anxiety there to fuel this kind of thinking. These women have bought into the feminist lie that happiness only comes through selfishness, and what these women really, truly fear is obligation to something other than themselves. They've been told all their lives that motherhood is slavery, that being a wife is slavery, that having to keep a home is slavery, and feminism has told them that this is what traditionalists want to bring women back to. //

But the grave hypocrisy in all of this is that many of these women still want to have the husband, the children, and the comfortable lifestyle, and they have these things without ever truly being ready to fully commit themselves to it all. They still go to work, and here's the kicker, they outsource their childcare to lower-class women, often immigrants.

And they see no irony in this. //

And here's where you can truly understand the performative nature of these protesters in red. These women watch the show then protest against a scenario that will never come here in America, then totally ignore that actual "Handmaid's Tale" happening in places where Sharia is the law of the land. For women concerned about keeping the patriarchy at bay for themselves and their sisters, they seem to have no interest in traveling into Islamic countries to don their robes and protest there?

Why? Because that actually would be dangerous. There, they very well could be snatched up, reduced to chattel, and used as breeding tools... and not even by the elite. They'd just be giving birth to more cannon fodder for terrorist organizations.

You won't even see them doing these kinds of demonstrations outside mosques here in America, because that would imply they're intolerant or racist, and nothing would horrify a leftist white woman more than being accused of that! //

eburke
4 hours ago edited
You hit this out of the park, Mr. Morse.

It's been said before but it can never be said too often but the greatest threat to America is Affluent, White, Female, Urban Liberals. They live a life few in this world, or even in America, could dream of. They have no real problems so they have to make up "danger" in their lives so they can feel validated.

If we're lucky, they won't find anyone who will lower themselves to procreate with them and their narcissistic sanctimony will just disappear.

Niall Ferguson @nfergus
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Well, thank God also for free and open debate.
Having visited Ukraine every year but one since 2011, I think I have an informed and realistic view.
I repeatedly criticized the Biden administration for its failure to deter Putin in 2021 and failure to end the war while Ukraine…
3:20 PM · Feb 21, 2025

JD Vance @JDVance
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In this thread I'll respond to some of what I've seen out there. Let's start with Niall:

1) On the general background, yes, you have been more right than wrong on a lot of the details of the conflict. Which is why I'm surprised to hear you call the administration's posture "appeasement." We are negotiating to end the conflict. It is "appeasement" only if you think the Ukrainians have a credible pathway to victory. They don't, so it's not.

2) As far as I can tell, accusations of "appeasement" hinge on a few arguments (not all of them from Niall, to be clear). The first is a criticism that we're even talking to the Russians. Well, the President believes to conduct diplomacy, you actually have to speak to people. This used to be called statesmanship. Second, the idea--based often on fake media reports--that we've "given the Russians everything they want." Third, that if we just passed another aid package, Ukraine would roll all the way to Moscow, raise Navalny from the dead, and install a democratic and free leader to Russia (I exaggerate, but only a little). All of these arguments are provably, demonstrably false.

Many people who have gotten everything wrong about Russia say they know what Russia wants. Many people who know the media reports fake garbage take anonymously sourced reports on a complex negotiation as gospel truth.

3) On the specifics of the negotiation, I"m not confirming details publicly for obvious reasons, but much of what I've seen leaked ranges from entirely bogus to missing critical info. The president has set goals for the negotiation, and I am biased, but I think he's awfully good at this. But we're not going to telegraph our negotiating posture to make people feel better. The president is trying to achieve a lasting piece, not massage the egos or anxieties of people waving Ukraine flags.
The idea that the President of the United States has to start the negotiation by saying "maybe we'll let Ukraine into NATO" defies all common sense. Again, it's not appeasement to acknowledge the realities on the ground--realities President Trump has pointed to for years in some cases.
4) Many of the subjective criticisms amount to pearl clutching that don't ultimately matter. I'm happy to defend POTUS's criticisms of the Ukrainian leadership (not that it matters, because he's the president, but I agree with him). You're welcome to disagree. But these critiques of POTUS don't bear on the war or on his negotiation to end it. //

OrneryCoot
3 hours ago
The fact that the VP of the United States is willing (and extremely capable) of having detailed policy discussions with a British historian concerning an extremely volatile, sensitive, and relevant situation on X/Twitter is absolutely fantastic. They are bypassing entirely the legacy media and putting it all out there for everyone to see. We see everything unvarnished and without the filter and bias of the legacy media "journalists", and can comment on it in real time. THIS is what healthy, productive, free societies have yearned for since probably Athenian democratic debates over 2,000 years ago. Regardless of what side you are on, we should be in the balconies or right at the front of the stage cheering this on for all we're worth. The only losers here are those who want to restrict or alter the flow of information for their own selfish ends, like corrupt bureaucrats, politicians, freaking coup leaders, and the legacy media. It is a great time to be alive! //

Fight On
2 hours ago edited
To all the GOP neocons:
1) define “victory”
2) describe the path to “victory”
3) what’s your plan? be specific, accountable, realistic. time bound
4) math. Math wins in a war of attrition: Ukraine troops < Russian troops. It’s a numbers game, reality.
5) the GDP of Europe is huge compared to Russia. Europe can afford to fund and defend Europe, Ukraine from Russia. Without US.
6) Russia’s military has proven to be third rate -.not the threat you make it out to be
7) Europe is mooching off the American taxpayer for their defense. THIS MUST STOP!
8) NATO has consistently broken their promises to limit the advance of NATO eastward.
9) Biden/Harris regime threatened to add Ukraine to NATO - Russia’s red line
10) Neocon rhetoric constantly provokes Russia with regime change.
11) USA IS BROKE! EVERY DOLLAR SPENT ON UKRAINE IS BORROWED ON A CREDIT CARD!! AMERICA FIRST!!!!!

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Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger
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The New York Times says “Musk Asserts Without Proof That Bureaucracy Is Rife With Fraud.” Seriously? The GAO — under Biden — estimated last year that we are losing $233-$521 billion per year to fraud. Guys, it’s right there. Why do you continue with this… fraud? SMH
4:47 AM · Feb 12, 2025. //

After just over a month, Musk has found billions of dollars in waste and fraud, including a $2 billion kiss for Georgia's favorite salad-dodging election loser, Stacey Abrams.

So Trump is dismantling the false god of transgenderism, and Musk is rooting out fraud like a truffle pig on Red Bull. Here comes JD Vance.

Vance said what no evil straight, white man could say a mere 365 days ago; he told Europe that mass migration is killing their nations and the U.S. as well. //

Ian Jaeger @IanJaeger29
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BREAKING: Rep. Tim Burchett says he thinks there’s a “paper trail” of money that was sent overseas that ended up back in the pockets of lawmakers in Washington D.C.

He said there will soon be a lot of retirements.
4:18 PM · Feb 17, 2025

bk
29 minutes ago
Ah, the old "There are those who say that" journalism returns.

20th Century Ltd bk
14 minutes ago
Canada's Pierre Poilievre has a great technique for dealing with that: He replies, "Well, could you identify some of those folks who say that?"

Reporter: "Umm"

Poilievre: "Because when you use the framing of 'some people say' - you're really just saying what you the reporter believe.". //

Facts Matter
an hour ago
Its just amazing how these morons are defending waste. $71 billion in fraudulent payments. Yah, but it happened over a number of years. And somehow that makes it ok. Are you kidding me!!!

Reminds me of an interview JD did right around election time where he mentioned a Mexican gang taking over apartment buildings in Colorado. The commentator pointed though, that it was only one or two! So, i guess that makes ok too.

I'd suggest that if you are locked in a crapper from the inside, you are probably able, with enough coaching, to figure out how to unlock the door. If not, I'm sure a quick call to 911 will save you before you are reduced to drinking from the toilet. If one guy has the keys to the federal courthouse and all the gun safes, firing him might be a useful lesson in organizational resilience.

I appreciate National Parks as much as the next guy, and I'd be one of the last to gloat over some working-class guy losing his job, but nothing in these two articles makes a case for the continued existence of these lost jobs. Taking reservations for historic homes at Gettysburg sounds like the quintessential contractor operation, likewise, with clearing hiking trails through a National Forest.

The fact is that we are spending too much and getting too little for it. Another point is that if you are unwilling to cut five percent of an agency's workforce in a time of trillion-dollar deficits, you are a monumentally unserious person who should be ignored. //

polyjunkie
an hour ago edited
This is a classic passive resistance Strategy: “Let’s get rid of the people most important to the customer, and those a$$holes will HAVE to let us rehire them and keep things the way yhey were.”

The correct solution by the employer is to creatively redeploy employees so that the critical jobs get done first, and customers are served properly. Oh, and fire the manager(s) who couldn’t figure it out.

Fixed it!

A president is elected by the whole American people. He's the only official in the entire government that is elected by the entire nation, right? Judges are appointed, members of Congress are elected in the district or state level. [It’s just] one man, and the Constitution article two has the clause known as the vesting clause, and it says the executive power shall be vested in A president—singular. The whole will of democracy is imbued into the elected president. That president then appoints staff to then impose that democratic will on to the government.

The threat to democracy, indeed the existential threat to democracy is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one, who believe they can do whatever they want without consequence, who believe they can set their own agenda, no matter what Americans vote for. //

He described how they were shutting down Biden’s open border, ditching the divisive DEI policies that have been infecting the federal government, ending “radical gender ideology” in our federal institutions, ending the participation of men in women’s sports, and refocusing the military on “readiness, preparedness, and lethality” instead of social justice issues. He also praised Elon Musk and the DOGE for the incredible amount of fraud and waste they’ve discovered, saying, “He has undertaken a cost-cutting effort, launching the first-ever Department of Government Efficiency [DOGE], uncovering corruption on a scale that we never thought imaginable.”

I think the second thing, frankly, is that I was very upset because we had a conversation with Zelensky, the vice president and I, the three of us, and we discussed this issue about the mineral rights, and we explained to them, look, we want to be a joint venture with you, not because we're trying to steal from your country but because we think that is actually a security guarantee. If we're your partner in an important economic endeavor, we get to get paid back some of the money that taxpayers have given, close to $200 billion, and now, we have a vested interest in the security of Ukraine. And he said, sure we want to do this deal, the only thing is, I need to run it through my legislative process.

I read two days later that Zelensky is out there saying, "I rejected the deal, I told them no way, that we're not doing that." Well, that's not what happened in that meeting. So you start to get upset at somebody, we're trying to help these guys. One of the points the president made in his messaging is not that we don't care about Ukraine, but Ukraine is on another continent. It doesn't directly impact the daily lives of Americans. We care about because it has implications for our allies and ultimately for the world, but there needs to be some level of gratitude about this, and when you don't see and you see him out there accusing the president of living in a world of disinformation, that's highly, very counterproductive, and I don't need to explain it to you or anybody else Donald Trump, President Trump is not the kind of person who is going to sit there and take that.

Unfortunately, it seems like Zelensky got very used to being able to play the press during the Biden years, to essentially receive blank checks with no real mechanism to ensure Americans are paid back. Believing he could carry over that strategy to the Trump administration was a huge mistake. Donald Trump does not care about pressure from the mainstream media or Europe. He certainly doesn't have any qualms about having a war of words with Zelensky if the Ukrainian president chooses to make unfortunate comments to the press in an attempt to "hustle" the United States, as Rubio described it. //

Bruce
4 hours ago
Marco Rubio is really knocking it out of the park.

The President has built a team around him that are all rising to have their finest hour at this critical time in our history. And making your team perform beyond their previous best is a hallmark of a great leader.

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Niall Ferguson @nfergus
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"This will not stand. This will not stand, this aggression against Kuwait."--George H.W. Bush on August 5, 1990. Full quote from Jon Meacham's biography. Future history students will be asked why this stopped being the reaction of a Republican president to the invasion of a… Show more
7:43 AM · Feb 20, 2025

JD Vance @JDVance
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This is moralistic garbage, which is unfortunately the rhetorical currency of the globalists because they have nothing else to say.

For three years, President Trump and I have made two simple arguments: first, the war wouldn't have started if President Trump was in office; second, that neither Europe, nor the Biden administration, nor the Ukrainians had any pathway to victory. This was true three years ago, it was true two years ago, it was true last year, and it is true today.

And for three years, the concerns of people who were obviously right were ignored. What is Niall's actual plan for Ukraine? Another aid package? Is he aware of the reality on the ground, of the numerical advantage of the Russians, of the depleted stock of the Europeans or their even more depleted industrial base?

Instead, he quotes from a book about George HW Bush from a different historical period and a different conflict. That's another currency of these people: reliance on irrelevant history.

President Trump is dealing with reality, which means dealing with facts.

And here are some facts:

Number one, while our Western European allies' security has benefitted greatly from the generosity of the United States, they pursue domestic policies (on migration and censorship) that offend the sensibilities of most Americans and defense policies that assume continued over-reliance.

Number two, Russians have a massive numerical advantage in manpower and weapons in Ukraine, and that advantage will persist regardless of further Western aid packages. Again, the aid is currently flowing.

Number three, the United States retains substantial leverage over both parties to the conflict.

Number four, ending the conflict requires talking to the people involved in starting it and maintaining it.

Number five, the conflict has placed--and continues to place--stress on tools of American statecraft, from military stockpiles to sanctions (and so much else). We believe the continued conflict is bad for Russia, bad for Ukraine, and bad for Europe. But most importantly, it is bad for the United States.

Given the above facts, we must pursue peace, and we must pursue it now. President Trump ran on this, he won on this, and he is right about this. It is lazy, ahistorical nonsense to attack as "appeasement" every acknowledgment that America's interest must account for the realities of the conflict.

That interest--not moralisms or historical illiteracy--will guide President Trump's policy in the weeks to come.

And thank God for that.
1:39 PM · Feb 20, 2025//

People cheered Vance's statement.

David Limbaugh called it "one for the ages."

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said:

Amen. Thank goodness we have a President and Vice President who put America first and acknowledged what has always been the reality in Ukraine. We should pursue a peaceful and realistic outcome, not death, debt, and war.

White House reporter Charlie Spiering said Ferguson "laments the loss of Republican neocons like George H.W. Bush." //

What Ferguson said he took issue with was he thought they were conceding too much off the bat, based on what he was reading, including taking NATO membership off the table, conceding territory, as well as a peacekeeping force that could include China.

I earnestly hope that the Trump administration can negotiate an end to this war. But if we end up with a peace that dooms Ukraine first to partition and then to some future invasion, it will be a sorry outcome. To repeat, I agreed with most of your criticisms of Europe at Munich. I would add that the Europeans have talked for “strategic autonomy” for too long without making a serious attempt to achieve it.

But you and President Trump campaigned last year with a slogan that dates back even further than George H.W. Bush’s words that I quoted. That phrase was “peace through strength.”

I would note a few things. Ferguson is assessing things based in part on what he is reading. He's not aware of what's going on in the private discussions.

Further, I think Trump has already made his "peace through strength" clear.

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NEW TERROR ATTACK ON ISRAEL

At least 5 explosives detonated on buses in the Tel Aviv area.

Thankfully Hamas terrorists are the result of inbreeding. So bombs that were meant to go off at 9am — during rush hour — went off at 9pm.

Netanyahu has convened an emergency meeting. Show more

8:48 PM · Feb 20, 2025

Delphi is still very much with us, but the FOSS world also has its own, largely compatible, GUI-based Object Pascal environment – and it's worth a look.

Valentine's Day 2025 marked the 30th anniversary of the release of Borland's Delphi, which fused Borland's version of Object Pascal, along with a GUI designer and database access, into a powerful whole. Appearing so early in 1995 meant that Delphi itself predated Windows 95 by just over six months: it started out as a 16-bit tool for Windows 3.1. (32-bit Windows was already a thing – the second release of Windows NT, version 3.5, appeared in late 1994, but it was still a bit niche.) The codename, which after much internal debate became the product name, reflected that it was intended as a local rapid-application-delevelopment tool that helped you to talk to Oracle. //

The Reg joined in when Delphi turned 25, setting it in its historical context. One detail from back then does merit clarification, though: "Object Pascal was Borland's own language." Well, it was – Delphi's compiler was inherited from Borland's Turbo Pascal. As The Reg noted when Turbo Pascal turned 40, TP went OOPS with version 5.5, back in 1989. Borland didn't invent Object Pascal, though.

An Apple report [PDF] from almost exactly a decade before the release of Delphi, by the late great Larry Tesler, explains:

Object Pascal is a revision of Lisa Clascal designed by Apple Computer's Macintosh Software Group with the help of Niklaus Wirth.

Clascal was an older language designed for software development on Apple's first GUI computer, the Lisa. Its reference manual [PDF] from 1983 dates it as older than the Macintosh itself. In 1986, BYTE Magazine explained:

The syntax for Object Pascal was jointly designed by Apple's Clascal team and Niklaus Wirth. the designer of Pascal, who was invited to Apple's Cupertino headquarters specifically for this project. In addition to implementing Object Pascal on the Mac, Apple has put the Object Pascal specification in the public domain and encouraged others to implement compilers and interpreters for it.

Even if Delphi's 30 years puts fancy type-safe newbie Rust's mere 13 years into perspective, Object Pascal itself can thus legitimately claim 40 years. //

https://www.freepascal.org/

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi/starter

In her opening statement and in some of her responses, Chavez-DeRemer reinforced that she was committed to putting workers first. Frankly, there was too much talk about the American "worker" and not enough discussion about the American entrepreneur, solopreneur, and business owner who are pivotal to the workforce of America and who supply opportunities for other Americans to work. "Workforce development" should incorporate that freedom to create one's own work, not just how to aid and facilitate the employer-employee relationship. That is the essence of the technological revolution that has changed the nature of work, but too little discussion is given to the fact that at least half of America's workforce chooses to work for themselves and wants it to stay that way: they do not want an employer. They do not need an employer. This hearing also bypassed the fact that at least 62 percent of Americans, if given the opportunity, would prefer to work for themselves.

this is not a guide about creating an extremely stripped-down, telemetry-free version of Windows; we stick to the things that Microsoft officially supports turning off and removing. There are plenty of experimental hacks that take it a few steps farther—NTDev's Tiny11 project is one—but removing built-in Windows components can cause unexpected compatibility and security problems, and Tiny11 has historically had issues with basic table-stakes stuff like "installing security updates." //

During Windows 11 Setup, after selecting a language and keyboard layout but before connecting to a network, hit Shift+F10 to open the command prompt (depending on your keyboard, you may also need to hit the Fn key before pressing F10). Type OOBE\BYPASSNRO, hit Enter, and wait for the PC to reboot.

When it comes back, click "I don't have Internet" on the network setup screen, and you'll have recovered the option to use "limited setup" (aka a local account) again, like older versions of Windows 10 and 11 offered. //

Rufus is a venerable open source app for creating bootable USB media for both Windows and Linux. If you find yourself doing a lot of Windows 11 installs and don't want to deal with Microsoft accounts, Rufus lets you tweak the install media itself so that the "limited setup" options always appear, no matter which edition of Windows you're using.

The math that makes refueling from the Moon appealing is pretty simple. "As a rule of thumb," write the authors of the new study on the topic, "rockets launched from Earth destined for [Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 1] must burn ~25 kg of propellant to transport one kg of payload, whereas rockets launched from the Moon to [Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 1] would burn only ~four kg of propellant to transport one kg of payload." Departing from the Earth-Moon Lagrange Point for locations deeper into the Solar System also requires less energy than leaving low-Earth orbit, meaning the fuel we get there is ultimately more useful, at least from an exploration perspective. //

the researchers decided to focus on isolating oxygen from a mineral called ilmenite, or FeTiO3. It's not the easiest way to get oxygen—iron oxides win out there—but it's well understood. Someone actually patented oxygen production from ilmenite back in the 1970s, and two hardware prototypes have been developed, one of which may be sent to the Moon on a future NASA mission.

The researchers propose a system that would harvest regolith, partly purify the ilmenite, then combine it with hydrogen at high temperatures, which would strip the oxygen out as water, leaving behind purified iron and titanium (both of which may be useful to have). The resulting water would then be split to feed the hydrogen back into the system, while the oxygen can be sent off for use in rockets.

(This wouldn't solve the issue of what that oxygen will ultimately oxidize to power a rocket. But oxygen is typically the heavier component of rocket fuel combinations—typically about 80 percent of the mass—and so, is the bigger challenge to get to a fuel depot.). //

The team found that almost all of the energy is consumed at three steps in the process: the high-temperature hydrogen reaction that produces water (55 percent), splitting the water afterward (38 percent), and converting the resulting oxygen to its liquid form (5 percent). The typical total usage, depending on factors like the concentration of ilmenite in the regolith, worked out to be about 24 kW-hr for each kilogram of liquid oxygen. //

Obviously, we can build larger arrays than that, but it boosts the amount of material that needs to be sent to the Moon from Earth. It may potentially make more sense to use nuclear power. While that would likely involve more infrastructure than solar arrays, it would allow the facilities to run around the clock, thus getting more production from everything else we've shipped from Earth.

Astronomers have detected over 5,800 confirmed exoplanets. One extreme class is ultra-hot Jupiters, of particular interest because they can provide a unique window into planetary atmospheric dynamics. According to a new paper published in the journal Nature, astronomers have mapped the 3D structure of the layered atmosphere of one such ultra-hot Jupiter-size exoplanet, revealing powerful winds that create intricate weather patterns across that atmosphere. A companion paper published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics reported on the unexpected identification of titanium in the exoplanet's atmosphere as well.

“Nauseatingly frightening”: Law firm condemns careless AI use in court. //

"As all lawyers know (or should know), it has been documented that AI sometimes invents case law, complete with fabricated citations, holdings, and even direct quotes," his letter said. "As we previously instructed you, if you use AI to identify cases for citation, every case must be independently verified."

The State Leadership Initiative is a coalition-building organization aimed at ensuring ‘red states’ operate in GOP voters’ best interests.

The Obergefell ruling rode rough-shod over religions and dozens of state constitutions on the bases of a moral — not legal — opinion.