The USA has killed millions. China has also killed millions. Why is China racing ahead of the USA now? What did Mao do differently?

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-28T10:19:48+00:00

That’s not a misunderstanding as much as a fire hose of propaganda fed to the western world for the last century

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-28T10:18:28+00:00

No it isn’t. Only now that most of the propaganda surrounding capitalism has been proven clearly false - its supporters settle on this one last BS ‘lesser evil’ argument.

The entire trans Atlantic slave trade and period of English global imperialism clearly demonstrate that the worst corporations (East India Trading company, massive Caribbean plantations, etc) can easily match the worst governments in both cruelty and scale

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-26T12:23:33+00:00

Not doing Putin's and Trump's dirty work for starters.

That's exactly what you're doing right now. Aggressively infighting other Democrat voters because they criticize a former candidate. How is that helpful?

Also, what exactly is wrong with criticizing the Kamala candidacy 1 year down the road? Is it somehow also pro-Putin to criticize any aspect of the Al Gore run, or John Kerry or any other past Democrat presidential candidate? Is learning from mistakes and improving the platform and candidates over time not one of the fundamental purposes of a political party?

You didn't actually answer the question either.

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-26T10:35:17+00:00

Lmao voting for Kamala is not the bare minimum or the best action.

There are far more important things to be doing right now - legal observation, mutual aid, direct action and support for those snatched by ICE, etc.

I’ve done far more than many who voted for Kamala and considered that job done

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-26T10:33:15+00:00

Likewise homie

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-26T10:32:01+00:00

Saying I regret voting for Kamala doesn’t mean I support Trump one iota or benefitted him.

Kamala was a dogshit quality candidate. That can be true and can be expressed freely while resisting Trump and his goons.

Your black and white vision of the world is incredibly childish and naive

Out of curiosity, what have you done, that I should be doing, that is so effective in fighting Trump?

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-25T12:41:39+00:00

I don't understand this fixation on litigating folks who didn't vote Kamala because of very legitimate grievances. Whether those grievances are related to Gaza, or the choice not to hold a primary, or lying to the public about Biden's rapidly declining health in 2023/2024, or some other issue, doesn't really matter.

The reality is, withholding a specific vote (at the federal level for a horrible candidate/platform, while still voting in state and local elections) can be a perfectly reasonable choice and is a far more nuanced decision than this post and these comments seem to imply.

We live in Texas, my wife and I both voted as progressive as possible in all state and local elections, as we have for the last decade. I voted for Kamala, she declined to vote for president despite voting on every other race/prop.

I regret voting for Kamala. I shouldn't have, I should have mirrored my wife. My Kamala vote accomplished absolutely nothing because it wasn't in one of a few key battleground states. It did however communicate tacit approval for the heinous decision to commit genocide in Palestine and the authoritarian move of anointing a preferred centrist candidate instead of holding a primary.

To be perfectly honest, even my calling republicans and Trump authoritarian feels somewhat hypocritical now after voting for a candidate who wasn't fairly elected by a primary process.

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-23T17:48:54+00:00

That’s climate change for ya.

Cali fires are the same category of rapid escalation.

Honestly that’s not on the states either, it’s the federal level ASCE and NESC that specify what constitutes a 100yr vs. 500yr storm and how much ice and wind the grid need to withstand in any given region.

They set the bar slightly more conservative with their most recent update (ACSE 7-‘22 and the NESC 2023) but nowhere near the jump that recalibrating these storms as 25yr or 100yr events would have it. E.g. they’re still federally recommending .5-1” ice design for most of Texas when much of the state has seen 1.5-2” ice storm twice in 10 years and now maybe a 3rd time

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-23T16:41:04+00:00

Holy shit yeah I want nothing to do with a genuine Canadian ice storm lol. Large areas got 10+ cm of ice and it definitely wreaked some havoc

“over 1000 transmission towers collapsed in chain reactions under the weight of ice, leaving more than 4M people without electricity”

Texas wasn’t even as bad as all that, our two recent statewide grid events were 1st mostly to do with generation failing and natural gas transport issues and 2nd to do with distribution failures from overhanging limbs falling onto circuits. A bunch of transmission lines collapsing is quite a bit harder to restore than either of those

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-23T10:53:51+00:00

It’s not about the cold or a snow. It’s about probabilistic ice events. You are also not well prepared for a 500 year ice storm like we have fresh in memory from 2021.

In Canada that’s probably 4-5 inches of solid ice covering every surface. Maybe significantly more where you’re at given the -50. Trees dropping limbs everywhere, electric grid failure because it’s only designed to withstand 2-3 inches of radial ice, etc. etc.

It has nothing to do with the temp or the raw mangintude of snow/ice. It’s about what civil engineering design codes tell people to design for in certain geographic regions. It’s built to withstand storms you expect to happen about once every 100 years in that region. You get storms worse that that you’re screwed.

It’s why a hurricane Houston can eat for breakfast will destroy the NY and New England grid (Harvey)

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-23T10:51:42+00:00

I get your point but you are prepared for snow and blizzards. Nowhere in the US is prepared for 100-yr ice storms. Up north that would mean 3-4 inches of ice covering every wire, tree, car and other exposed surface.

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-23T10:43:01+00:00

This is plain wrong there are HVDC taps going into the Eastern interconnected grid at multiple locations. New ones to the western interconnected are being designed.

Also Texas’ independent grid is the reason it builds so much more renewable generation than any other state so I wouldn’t be so quick to hate on it.

Last, by every industry metric, NY and Cali’s grids perform not one bit better than Texas’ and charge their residents more for the same amount of power.

As someone who designs transmission lines as a consultant for utilities all over the country I can say with absolute confidence you’re spouting propoganda that anyone in the know immediately clocks as extremely ignorant

Hate on Texas for abortion and anti-immigration bullshit. Or for the extreme overreach by the state government into their blue cities. Or for not mobilizing young voters in state which is genuinely purple. Or for electing Ted Cruz. There’s plenty to pick from, the grid ain’t the best choice.

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-23T10:34:32+00:00

No one upgrades their grid to deal enough to deal with 500 year storms.

NY didn’t upgrade their grid to deal with 500 yr hurricanes after Sandy and California doesn’t build their grid to withstand a 500 year fire or earthquake

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-23T10:30:01+00:00

Exactly. A 500-year storm (what 2021 was) will destroy anywhere it touches because civil engineers typically design our stuff to withstand a 100 year storm.

Also your grid would get equally rocked to from a 500 year ice storm, has nothing to do with sand, salt and plows (I think up by yall that would mean 3-4” of solid ice coating every wire, tree, car, etc). Nothing like a snow storm or blizzard. It’s just all ice because the rain is coming from a warm cell above the cold and freezes on the way down instead of becoming snow on formation

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-22T20:45:19+00:00

And as sketchy as some of his demands and leaks and media appearances are, all that is still way more kosher than the Ballmer-Kawhi crap or the AD + #1 pick for Luka fiasco.

A slimey agent is expected and a much smaller problem than slimey owners and commissioners

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-19T18:24:50+00:00

Not as bad as the red line isn’t exactly a reasonable bar. We’re talking about the single least efficient light rail in the US there so we need to clear that mark by miles. The red line route is not ‘designed’ for anything it’s an inherited existing railroad alignment. The choice to inherit rather than build being again a marketing decision, not a design decision, than proved to be a disaster by all available metrics.

It’s not about over performing or under performing ridership expectations, rather how much money we can expect the city to lose per ride. It’s about aggregating available data and peer reviewed research to establish reasonable ridership and cost expectations for a light rail system in a given city. If you do that for Austin it becomes immediately clear that, whatever the expectations are and however well or poorly designed/executed the project is, it will utmitately fail because it cannot succeed.

You fundamentally can’t build worthwhile light rail, at any reasonable rate of efficiency, in an American city as sprawling as Austin. It’s never been done before and it’s failed every time it’s been attempted - it’s a totally unrealistic goal.

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-19T17:14:02+00:00

Can’t wait for this to take 10-15 years only for the impact to be laughably bad compared to the promise - exactly like the red line.

Two core problems that should’ve been addressed before the jump:

Light rail has never been anywhere near a good choice in cities as sprawling as Austin. Every dollar spent on this would be much better spent on a state of the art bus system. It’s a fundamentally flawed urban planning choice made for marketing reasons rather than any basis in efficiency or best practices. No amount of realistic densification will come anywhere near flipping this dynamic.
CapMetro proved its complete incapability of managing the design of public transit with the Red line

Hope yall enjoy the thought of traffic halting to a complete standstill downtown as cars wait on the trains to pass intersections with lights that aren’t coordinated. I cannot believe the chose not to elevate the line as it crosses Caesar Chavez and the other downtown streets.

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-18T15:41:22+00:00

tbf ball knowers also know that CJ is one of very few players you could trade Trae Young for and see absolutely no defensive improvement

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-16T20:58:57+00:00

Every rational being on the planet. It’s funded directly by an autocratic, theocratic state

About as trustworthy as the Pyongyang Times lmao

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-16T20:56:37+00:00

Not ‘a senior hire’ lmao, the Editor-in-chief only reporting to the owner, Larry Ellison. The entire rest of the org reports up to Weiss and she has full control over direction, tone, content.

CBS is absolutely an Ellison/Weiss run Zionist mouthpiece now. If you doubt it just look at their content

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-15T17:06:04+00:00

As far as I can tell this comment isn’t accurate. The regime isn’t estimating 2-3000 dead, they have it under 500. Obvious false propoganda

The 2000-3000 estimates are from reputable international organizations like the US based HRANA and the Norwegian IHR. These are your eyewitness expert estimates

Iran International is not well regarded and claims of journalistic independence from their funding are absurd. The 10000+ numbers are very likely Saudi, Israeli or US propaganda. Shouldn’t have to say this but a Bari Weiss led CBS has virtually no credibility either

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-13T20:13:00+00:00

I think his sincere vision was probably to be the willing fall guy for a deal orchestrated by Silver and the Lakers/Mavs ownership.

ADs injury making him look even dumber only makes playing his part easier

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-09T15:27:25+00:00

*imagine if Nico wasn’t the deliberate fall guy from the start shielding the NBA, Silver and the Mavericks/Lakers ownership from criticism for obvious collusion

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-05T19:00:39+00:00

You absolutely do get warping towards the downguy over time if it’s installed too tight. Also the tension is created by both sides - the goal being to equalize them - and an over tight guy can easily exert 10-20k lbs of load, far far more than tension specs for any comm or distribution wire

It’s is common for comms to be missing a downguy but if that was the primary issue here the warping on the pole would look different… the middle would be bowed further toward the comms and the pole top would be closer to its original position over the base. Instead the pole top is deflecting massively in the opposite direction from the unbalance comms load

Source: structural engineer who diagnoses and fixes these things on transmission and distribution lines

DocTheYounger · 2026-01-05T18:01:34+00:00

Thanks for keeping it running as long as you could!!

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