"i am a peoples who wants to make money from binary foxes"

This is pure comedy gold. //

That Ken is giving "Grant" the FBI's phone number to call is almost as funny as the FBI having reviews on Yelp.

Neither House Speaker Mike Johnson nor soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader John Thune had the power to call a recess and force through a nomination. While they both indicated they would allow that to happen, that was never the question because it wasn't up to them.

Instead, it would have taken a full vote by both chambers to recess. In the House, that can happen with a simple majority. In the Senate, a recess vote can be filibustered, making 60 votes the threshold. What that means is that Democrats and the Republicans who opposed Gaetz could easily block any attempt at a recess appointment.

But what about the theory that Trump could force a recess with executive power? That would have also been precarious because the Constitutional language specifically applies to a disagreement between the chambers on when to recess. To trigger that, you would first need both chambers to vote to recess on different days. That wasn't going to happen. It's also worth noting that three of the five conservative justices on the Supreme Court have already made it clear they believe recess appointments are unconstitutional, which means any challenge would have likely succeeded given the makeup of the court.

On one level, I don't blame the Dynamic Duo for not wanting to show up. The trial of Laken Riley's murderer just wound up (Laken Riley's Family and Friends Give Heartbreaking Impact Statements; Judge Sentences Jose Ibarra), and I can understand why they don't want to talk about immigration. I can also understand that both of these guys know they are leaving office in the next couple of months, and they don't see any use in taking the public beating this hearing would entail.

Paradoxically, this move could boost Trump's upcoming showdown with the Department of Justice, DHS, and the FBI. They are showing themselves to be a pampered, privileged group that doesn't think they have to answer to even a senior senator in the ruling party. I predict this will not work out well when the hammer falls, and they come running to guys like Peters to make the pain go away.

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A Soros DA dropped charges, that's what this case was about. Jussie Smollett is innocent as a matter of law, guilty as a matter of fact.
Jason Meisner
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JUST IN: The Illinois Supreme Court has undone Jussie Smollett's conviction for orchestrating and reporting a phony hate crime.
Background:
https://chicagotribune.com/2021/12/09/jussie-smolletts-conviction-for-orchestrating-and-reporting-a-phony-hate-crime-punctuates-actors-sudden-downfall/
11:28 AM · Nov 21, 2024

The ruling does not mean that the court is saying Smollett is innocent of the crime; they’re saying that Kim Foxx’s original deal with him should have protected him from being charged a second time. //

Watt
12 minutes ago
The rule in the opinion (text at link at the end of the second block quote in this post) appears to be that, although a unilateral nolle prosqui by the State allows the state to re-bring the charges, that is not the case when the State and defendant (as here) enter a bilateral agreement to nolle pros that by its terms indicates that the parties intend to bring finality to the case. Oh well...

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Democrats get emotional over the criminal illegal aliens.

Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan gets emotional over their victims (and their families) of their crimes.

That's how you know the right man for the job is coming.

6:15 AM · Nov 21, 2024

“You know, Laura, a lot of people ask me why I get so emotional when I do Fox News and why I scream at members of Congress. Because I have seen so much tragedy," elucidated Homan. "I have talked to hundreds of angel moms and dads who bury their children because they’re killed by illegal aliens. This is the latest."

"I have talked to little girls as young as 9 years old that were raped multiple times by members of the cartel," he said, eyes looking off to the side to fight off tears. "When you look in their eyes, and everything innocent and pure has been ripped from their soul, and their life will never be the same, I’m just — I’m tired of it." //

Homan told Ingraham that the "government failed" the family of Laken Riley, adding her death "could have been prevented."

He suggested Democrat politicians listen to the tapes to understand the pain of the victim and her family.

"This young lady is dead," he condemned. "And I want every mayor, every governor of a sanctuary jurisdiction to listen to that tape, listen to this young girl fight for her life, fight for her breath, trying to survive, terrified. I want you to understand what she went through."

He just awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Cecile Richards.

Richards, of course, is the staunch pro-abort who was the longtime president of Planned Parenthood. //

Joe Biden, a supposed devout Catholic, chose Cecile Richards, who is as anti-Catholic as it gets, to receive one of our nation's highest honors. //

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Today, I had the honor of awarding Cecile Richards the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

With absolute courage, she fearlessly leads us forward to be the America we say we are – a nation of freedom.

Through her work to lift up the dignity of workers, defend and advance women’s… Show more
5:16 PM · Nov 20, 2024. //

The wonderful Lila Rose, as always, put things in perspective: Supposed Catholic Joe Biden just awarded a "freedom" medal to a woman whose life's mission was to make sure that nearly four million future Americans were denied the freedom of being born.

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Cecile Richards presided over the abortions of 3.9 million babies as president of Planned Parenthood.

She belongs in jail.

Not in the White House receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom. //

St. Joseph, Terror of Demons David Raineri
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David, I must respectfully disagree.

The Catholic Church excommunicates people to make them aware of how grave their sin is and that they are destined to go to hell unless they repent of that sin.

Not saying anything publicly to Biden or any other politicians involved with grave sin leads them to believe that their actions are acceptable. That isn’t charitable as the greatest act of charity is to get people into Heaven. //

Kieran1974 St. Joseph, Terror of Demons
an hour ago
Precisely. The purpose of church discipline is restorative, not punitive. If lesser methods fail to get the attention of the stubborn wayward soul, an ecclesiastical two-by-four upside the head is necessary. Excommunication is not permanent unless there is no repetance.

As for analyzing the traffic, here’s a useful oneliner that works on Rocky Linux 9. Other operating systems / versions may vary. Adjust the “10000” packet count limit as you see fit.

tcpdump -n -c 10000 inbound and ip and udp and dst port 123 | cut -d" " -f3 | cut -d. -f1-4 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head

The Liberty ship Robert E. Peary was built in four days, 15 hours, and 29 minutes — entire ship built in under a week. If government wanted to get things "done" in North Carolina, things would get done. Government in western North Carolina isn’t solving problems; it is doing what it does best: It’s putting up roadblocks. Literal roadblocks. //

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We had the same game going on 321 in East TN (Poga and Elk Mills area) with TDOT and the Tennessee Highway Patrol putting up barricades then gates then concrete blocks to try to stop us from accessing our own road 4 weeks after storm. The game went on for 2 weeks of them putting… Show more
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Is government helping to house people who lost everything?

While federal employees are mostly working from home, people in western North Carolina don’t have homes. FEMA people are cutting videos and claiming they are doing their best. Are they? //

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🚨#BREAKING: Officials at FEMA have just posted a new video touring brand housing units they say are available to #WNC.

What they fail to mention in the video is that in the 2 months since in the hurricane... only FOUR UNITS have been delivered.

You read that right.

Four. Show more

5:40 PM · Nov 20, 2024 //

Random US Citizen
7 minutes ago
Every tiny slice of power you give to the federal government is an opportunity for them to abuse it. Which is why the Founders attempted to restrain it. It’s human nature to reward friends and punish opponents, and that’s exactly what FEMA is doing.

Emergency relief is not among the federal governments enumerated powers.

To paraphrase some guy: if ye love convenience better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the federal hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.

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I’m still boggled by the contrast of approaches to engineering. How long have the Orion team been wringing hands over heat shield tiles after some anomalous but not disastrous effects? SpaceX - “let’s rip off a couple thousand tiles and see how the steel holds up, next year we want to try some new hardware somewhere around there” //

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Super3DPC said:
3 things that surprise me on this flight:

1. How routine it feels. I no longer hurry to catch the launch live. I wait until the whole thing is over and skip the video forward a few times. 6 launches this and it's almost boring already. I'm just too spoiled.
2. After re-entry we can see parts of Starship stainless steel change color to have rainbow tint. Can those skin be reuse without changing them? Rainbow tint on stainless means excessive oxidation IIRC.
3. I thought they'd use RCS to reorient Starship before engine relight. I mean the whole point of relight test is to make sure Starship can re-enter the atmosphere right? Can't do re-enter atmosphere without RCS reorienting Starship before re-entry burn right?

Rainbow discoloration on stainless just means a (thin) oxidation film has happened (and the color can be a nice indicator of what temperature was reached (for the dark purple to dark blue observed on the ship it would be between 450 to 600 degrees centigrade respectively, with bright blue being reached around 540) If it didn't deform I see no reason why it would have to be replaced, unless excessive tempering would occur in the likely cold-rolled skin material and ultimate strength was impacted.

Edit to add: heat range given is accurate for AISI304, since Starship uses (iirc) AISI 301 it might be slightly off. Source: https://bssa.org.uk/bssa_articles/heat-tint-temper-colours-on-stainless-steel-surface-heated-in-air/. //

Endymio Smack-Fu Master, in training
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jeremyp66 said:
Reusable spacecraft have been done before.

None anywhere near this size and scale.

jeremyp66 said:
for perspective, the sixth launch of Saturn V put two men on the Moon.

At a cost of several percent of the nation's total GDP: roughly $290 billion in 2024 dollars. Musk is doing it for a little over 1% of this.

jeremyp66 said:
OK so let's stop pretending that SpaceX is doing this "privately". Starship is substantially funded by the US tax payers. Starship is part of Artemis.

No, more precisely, the preexisting Starship concept is being used in Artemis, among many other things. That's how Musk was able to underbid the competition. His original Artemis bid was ~$2.8B: competitors ranged from $4B to $10B, for proposals which were less competent and flexible as well. All the Artemis funds are only about a third of Starship's R&D costs alone, not even counting the operational costs of the moon mission itself. //

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Another very small step forward, almost matching the achievements of 1962.

Saturn V put 2 men on the moon -- by throwing away the vast majority of the hardware used to get there. Starship will place 100 on the moon, plus cargo, at a cost of ~1% of Saturn V ... and keep all that pricey hardware to boot.

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That definitely is an acid test...and Elon is clearly on acid to think he's pulling that off in his lifetime.

Interesting. I recall the exact thing said about Tesla's ability to compete against entrenched automakers, or their ability to manufacture their own batteries at scale, or SpaceX's ability to manufacture reusable rockets or launch a 6000+ satellite constellation.

the FAA indicated that it will grant SpaceX permission to increase the number of Starship launches in South Texas to 25 per year from the current limit of five. Additionally, the company will likely be allowed to continue increasing the size and power of the Super Heavy booster stage and Starship upper stage. //

For example, the number of large trucks that deliver water, liquid oxygen, methane, and other commodities will increase substantially. According to the FAA document, the vehicle presence will grow from an estimated 6,000 trucks a year to 23,771 trucks annually. This number could be reduced by running a water line along State Highway 4 to supply the launch site's water deluge system. //

During recent public meetings, SpaceX's general manager of Starbase, Kathy Lueders, has said the company aims to launch Starship 25 times next year from Texas. The new regulations would permit this.

Additionally, SpaceX founder Elon Musk has said the company intends to move to a larger and more powerful version of the Starship and Super Heavy rocket about a year from now. This version, dubbed Starship 3, would double the thrust of the upper stage and increase the thrust of the booster stage from about 74 meganewtons to about 100 meganewtons. If that number seems a little abstract, another way to think about it is that Starship would have a thrust at liftoff three times as powerful as NASA's Saturn V rocket that launched humans to the Moon decades ago. The draft environmental assessment permits this as well.

Finally, the document also grants SpaceX permission to land all 25 of the first and second stages back at the Starbase facility.

Romance du concerto pour piano et orchestre en la mineur op. 17
Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Under House rules, the Speaker has “general control” of facilities in the chamber, giving him the authority to issue the policy surrounding bathrooms.

“All single-sex facilities in the Capitol and House Office Buildings — such as restrooms, changing rooms, and locker rooms — are reserved for individuals of that biological sex,” Johnson said. “It is important to note that each Member office has its own private restroom, and unisex restrooms are available throughout the Capitol.”

“Women deserve women’s only spaces,” he added. //

Johnson’s ruling, which occurred on the “Transgender Day of Remembrance,” is sure to make liberals’ heads explode. But he is the Speaker, and the Speaker has spoken. //

etba_ss
40 minutes ago
This is good for Johnson. I'm glad to see him step up to the plate and actually lead, using the power he has been given.

The second part is what happens when it is violated. That has to be known and ready to act on it. The left will violate it to see if Johnson is serious or if he is just blowing smoke to keep his spot as Speaker. He better have a plan for action.

The punishment should be the same as what would happen to me if I did it. These men should be treated like any other men who invade these spaces.

Stewart's comment about "institutional thinking" is spot-on. Hicks is looking at the audit as an annoyance that she can ignore. In reality, failing multiple audits in a row should mean that dozens of careers come to an abrupt halt.

This video should put Pete Hegseth on notice that when he is confirmed, he will lead a morally broken Department of Defense that believes it is allowed to play by its own rules. He needs to take office in a way that makes Genghis Khan look like the Tooth Fairy. He needs to use the results of the last two audits to remove or reassign senior bureaucrats who can't be bothered to care what happens to the national wealth with which they are entrusted. //

Dan Hodges
2 hours ago
In order to solve a problem you first have to admit there is a problem. If you don't admit there is a problem than there is not a problem. This is how the brain of a bureaucrat works. Remember Catch-22. //

flyovercountry
2 hours ago
I would say the four star idiot, currently SECDEF, who left over a billion dollars of US military hardware in Afghanistan to the Taliban, is guilty of FWA.

FortCourage flyovercountry
2 hours ago
It was $80 BILLION left behind in Afghanistan……

It is becoming obvious that China is engaged in a hybrid conflict with the EU, either on its own behalf or in support of Russian adventurism. Every instance of Chinese attacks on critical infrastructure that goes unanswered will simply embolden and encourage the Chinese. Allowing this ship to go on its way is a sure ticket to another more significant attack. //

Bob Smalser
10 hours ago
You never know. A derelict WWII mine might break loose and do in that vessel.

Had this sort of attack been allowed since the early days of the war, there is a good chance the conflict would have concluded by now. The insanity of allowing Russia to use weapons made from US components to strike deep inside Ukraine while forbidding Ukraine to use American-made weapons to strike military targets supporting Russia's invasion did nothing to prevent escalation and simply ran up the body count on both sides. Even as late as it has started, it increases the chances of President Trump bringing this war to a close in a way that does not resemble the Afghanistan fiasco and further damage US credibility. //

DaleS anon-isiz
6 hours ago
Tell us how the life of Americans was affected by Italy's conquest of Abyssinia in 1935. It wasn't, really, was it. If the outraged nations had stuck together and forced an ignominious withdrawal, it would've cost some money, perhaps even some blood -- not from us of course, as we limited ourselves to mere words. But as it was, all it was some remote Ethiopians losing their lives and their freedom. Hardly worth worrying about for a freedom-loving patriot, don't you think?

But it didn't end there -- not because Italy started WW2, but because every other aggressive nation on the planet saw clearly that the West was weak, and victories could be won cheaply and with little interference. It is in the interest of the United States, and every other non-expansionist country in the world, for wars of conquest to fail, and the quicker they fail, the better. Millions died worldwide, and hundreds of thousands of our own soldiers were killed. All in a war that never should have happened.

If the West turns away and Russia prevails, aggressor nations will be doing the risk/reward calculations for their own shopping list.

It's also worth remembering that Ukraine is only in this mess because our President convinced them good relations with the US was more important than keeping a nuclear deterrent. If Britain and the United States had been willing to guarantee Ukraine's boundaries back then, there would be no war in Ukraine. //

Carey J anon-isiz
11 hours ago
Today, it's give me Kyiv or I nuke the world. Tomorrow it's give me Warsaw, or I nuke the world, Next week, it's give me Berlin or I nuke the world. You don't stop aggression by throwing its victims under the bus. You stop aggression by making it clear that the aggressor will die, if he persists. In this case, you make it clear that Vlad, personally will die, in the first hour, that the Russian-majority regions of Russia will be devastated, and that Kadyrov's Chechen Orcs will rape their way through the radioactive ruins of Moscow and St. Petersburg, if he goes nuclear. Mutual Assured Destruction kept the nukes in the silos, in the First Cold War. I see no reason it won't work, in this one.

We supported MUCH worse bästards than Zelenskyy, during the Cold War. Syngman Rhee, Ngo Dinh Diem (before we assassinated him), Augusto Pinochet, Saddam Hussein (before we deposed him) Shah Reza Pahlavi (before we dumped him, and ended up with Khomeini). The enemy of my enemy is my friend (or at least my ally). "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." - Edmund Burke. //

Carey J Froge
7 hours ago
I'm not prepared to bet NYC that they don't. But I don't think Vlad the Defenestrator is willing to bet Moscow and St. Petersburg that they do.

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There’s nothing in the world that would help the morale of the men than to see a flag officer face real punishment the same way the guys on the ground have.

You officers have no idea how much resentment your little club has created in the troops.
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Trump plans to recall retired officers to active duty to court martial them for Afghan withdrawal will be a disaster for military morale and a political bomb for him. The Uniform Code of Military Justice is a codified Congressional statute and operates under Federal law…. not…
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You're dang right it's politically-motivated. The general class is infested with left-wing partisans who put politics above the rank-and-file, sometimes with deadly consequences. The purge is coming, and no amount of crybagging from the press is going to stop it. Buckle up.

The files are all exhibits to a motion filed in a defamation case in Florida related to the sex trafficking allegations levied against Gaetz - allegations the US Department of Justice investigated for 18 months before declining to pursue charges because, sources told the Washington Post, the two main witnesses weren't credible. Some of the exhibits, including deposition testimony from a woman who claims she had sex with Gaetz when she was 17, have been sealed by the judge presiding over that case. //

In reply to ABC's "story," Gaetz said:

"These allegations are invented and would constitute false testimony to Congress. This false smear following a three-year criminal investigation should be viewed with great skepticism.". //

As I wrote back then, after Gaetz blistered Wray over the FBI's harassment of COVID whistleblower and Chinese defector Dr. Yan Li-Meng during a congressional hearing:

Is it any wonder that the entire Democrat/Media Complex is trying to destroy Matt Gaetz? Think about when the questions into his supposedly improper relationships with females started flooding the airwaves and which government organization is “investigating” Gaetz. I’m sure it’s all just a big coincidence and not an attempt to silence or intimidate Gaetz.

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The Starship launch system is about to reach a tipping point, Gwynne Shotwell said, as it moves from an experimental rocket toward operational missions.

"We just passed 400 launches on Falcon, and I would not be surprised if we fly 400 Starship launches in the next four years," Shotwell said at the Baron Investment Conference in New York City. "We want to fly it a lot."

That lofty goal seems aspirational, not just because of the hardware challenges but also due to the ground systems (SpaceX currently has just one operational launch tower) as well as the difficulty of supplying that much liquid oxygen and methane for such a high flight rate. However, it's worth noting that SpaceX will launch Starship four times this year, twice the number of Falcon Heavy missions. An acceleration of Starship is highly likely. //

"Starship obsoletes Falcon 9 and the Dragon capsule," she said. "Now, we are not shutting down Dragon, and we are not shutting down Falcon. We'll be flying that for six to eight more years, but ultimately, people are going to want to fly on Starship. It's bigger. It's more comfortable. It will be less expensive. And we will have flown it so many more times.". //

As Starlink has come online, it has significantly increased the valuation of the privately held company. A decade ago, SpaceX was valued at about $12 billion, and this grew to $36 billion in 2020. Most recently, the company was valued at about $255 billion. //

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Can someone unpack this for me? I cannot understand how a massive rocket is a better choice than the Falcon 9 for medium-weight payloads. My only thought is that it delivers multiple satellites at once. I do it all the time in Kerbal Space Program, but is this a thing in real life, or an eventual likelihood?
It's simpler than that. Starship costs less to launch than F9.

Each F9 launch expends a second stage that costs roughly $20M to fabricate. They do recover the $40M booster and the $6M fairings, but they have to fabricate a new second stage for every launch. And that second stage consumes one Merlin engine, but that's only a relatively small fraction of the stage's cost, on account of SpaceX's spectacular efficiency at manufacturing rocket engines for <$1M, literally hundreds of times cheaper than, eg, the RS-25 engines NASA buys.

The cost to fuel a Starship is on the order of a few million, possibly in the $2M or $3M ballpark (this was estimated in a prior thread), probably more when including their current fueling logistics costs, possibly a bit less at scale when they are manufacturing their own LOX and can amortize various bits of fueling infra over a consistent level of demand.

Ground logistics add additional costs (control center staff, ground crew, amortized share of launch complex, etc), but these are hard to estimate. Dividing the entire Boca Chica facility cost over ~5 test launches would produce an unfavorable number, but that's silly. The ground facilities should amortize fairly well as the launch cadence increases. And this stuff is probably mostly comparable between the two platforms.

Sticking with relatively conservative numbers, I expect their all-up internal marginal cost per Starship launch to be well under $10M per flight, much less than the cost of fabricating a new F9 second stage.

Launching Starship is thus cheaper than launching F9.

Now that's an internal cost that we may never learn with precision, and SpaceX will make a business decision about what price to charge to their customers. They may create very attractive rates for rideshares. They will likely maintain high prices for "white glove" launch contracts that include significant payload preparation and other services, especially DoD and NASA, which already typically pay more per F9 launch contract than the sticker price on the website for "just a launch". //

Republicans should celebrate their wins, but they shouldn’t get too comfortable. The voters who flipped to the GOP in 2024 weren’t signing a lifelong contract; they were making a statement. If Republicans want to keep these gains, they’ll need to deliver. That means focusing on policies that help working families and avoiding the same trap Democrats fell into—listening to the loudest voices instead of the largest groups. //

ConservativeInMinnesota
19 minutes ago
Democrat’s policies drove minorities to finally challenge the narrative they had for decades. If Trump’s presidency improves their lives that narrative will be shattered.

If Republicans after Trump continue to show minorities their lives are better under Republicans they’ll know it isn’t just Trump. If we make that transition the Dems become the new Whigs.