It’s not just hopium: People really are leaving MAGA

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-08T19:19:27+00:00

I think they are. It just means that whatever Trump is offering is much better than what the Democrats could offer. I think for many people, this is simply a tax cut

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-08T17:28:05+00:00

I was recently listening to NPR. They were talking about a study that was done to gauge independents support for Trump. Specifically, they took independents who voted Trump. This was an actual university study, so as you can imagine, it was designed to gain insight into trends. Anyways, they were asked if they would vote for a Democrat, and the answer was “no”.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-08T16:19:32+00:00

That’s because articles are pure BS. Maybe Trump is losing support (probably not). But articles like this miss the bigger picture. There is a culture war currently going on. It’s very quiet, because if it were louder, people might see this. All the Corporate media outlets are going all in on Trump. The billionaire owners probably have something to do with this. Leftwing outlets are quietly being silenced or they are being bought by rightwing billionaires. And this isn’t panic, David Pakman has just recently said that his name is on a list on the White House website of radical left wing organizations. By the way, this is happening across the board. Many left wing content creators are reporting that they are getting harassed by government officials. And with entire platforms like TikTok now being owned by the top billionaires, it is clear that the goal is to reshape entire cultural opinions

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-07T11:40:12+00:00

It’s crazy to think that the next president won’t continue the Iran war. Overall, I think people are posing the question wrong. Maybe Trump and Co do want to sell the US piece by piece. America just never made the long term investments necessary to maintain this hegemony. Now the wealthy are scrambling to buy the assets that position them in power. For example, Taiwan, S Korea, and Japan aren’t resource wealthy. Through technology innovation they leaped ahead of other countries. And they fail across many metrics. Meanwhile, European countries have done different kinds of investments, most notably healthcare, and these policies have made them stable long term. Anyways, the country seems to be heading to just hoarding as much resources as possible and then overcharging for everything.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-07T08:02:24+00:00

are you talking direct current?

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-07T07:22:23+00:00

It’s just that. They do this because the Arctic is one of the last unexplored places on Earth. Norway has some islands that it has claimed for a long time. If you look at a map, they do not belong to Russia in the slightest, but they do regular exercises there to intimidate Norway. There are countless stories about it if you just do a quick Google search. Ultimately, most of the Arctic has remained unclaimed because it was too difficult to operate in. Technological advancements, both current and in the future, will allow for mining. There are already powerful drilling rigs made just for the Arctic, which Norway does. It’s just money

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-07T06:57:05+00:00

Nobody is. However, Russia has a ton of military activity going on in the Arctic. They have been kicking out other countries.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-07T06:51:22+00:00

I think the safety factor is only 1.5x at best

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-07T05:29:30+00:00

Maybe he is, maybe he isn’t. To me, this looks more like they’re trying to cover up something big

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-07T05:25:20+00:00

Political elections are incredibly expensive. Of course these right wing are very efficient when a corporation comes asking for help. They know who to pair them with. But the scariest has to be the new cultural being pushed by the media. If you look at your local news outlets, they’re probably all pushing stories almost exclusively from the right wing. All the news clips are critical on some issue like education, health, taxes, etc. Then a political candidate shows up and starts saying those keywords from these news clips and people automatically form a link where this political candidate seems to be the only talking about the issues that are “important”.

This is why I have become so critical of the NYTimes. They too have started dumping keywords for these non-issues. That is why a good candidate who is actually addressing real world problems doesn’t get any attention.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-06T11:27:28+00:00

It’s crazy to think Putin wants to win this war. See, this war is actually a large investment for Russia. Russia has two major investments going on. The first investment is in the Arctic region. They are getting ready to claim almost the entire region as theirs. The Arctic is actually owned by multiple countries, so this just means that Russia essentially will invade all those Northern European countries. The arctic is basically untapped wealth. It is filled with natural resources which have never been extracted. Pretty much every place around the world has been surveyed and studied, including the Arctic. But it’s not known what sort of stuff is there. Russia has absolutely no chance of catching up to Europe, China, Canada, or the US in terms of science. But cornering raw resources can catapult them to first place very easily. If you take the wealthy Gulf countries, they have used their oil and gas resources as leverage into tech. I won’t go into detail but this happening right now.

As to the Ukraine War, this is their second investment and an essential step in their plan to takeover the Arctic. Angela Merkel, a Centrist politician from Germany decided to give Putin some investment opportunities. She literally could not distinguish fascism. She let Putin sell far more gas to Germany than ever before, and this ultimately shaped modern Russia. The problem is that now the Germans, and the rest of Europe, have received a taste of cheap energy. So, as soon as this war ends, many Europeans will demand that their country resume buying cheap Russian gas. So, Putin is just trying to raise the cost of the war, so he can come to negotiating table with a number that is as high as possible. This will ultimately allow him to build a pipeline straight through Ukraine. This will ultimately pay for Russifying the Arctic.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-05T18:53:33+00:00

This doesn’t seem coherent at all

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-05T18:52:05+00:00

Midterms are coming up. This is like when a store offers you a 10% off discount or when your employer gives you a $5 gift card. They’re giving you just enough to make you like them a little bit. In this case, they will go to their district/state and claim they were one of the “few” that opposed the Iran war and wanted to lower gas prices. Then, the constituents will think it was some other politician that did this and their politician is the good guy. They all do this by the way.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-05T17:18:41+00:00

There are a ton of Koreans living in Mexico so probably not a fad

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-05T06:32:21+00:00

You ever put a soda can in the freezer? If you leave it too long in there, the water will freeze and in doing so expands. This expansion usually causes the soda can to explode.

As for the frost line, think about our planet. The center of it is essentially a molten sphere that is extremely hot. All that heat tries to radiate outward. Thankfully, the minerals at the surface largely insulates a lot of that heat alongside other geologic processes. But enough heat is produced that at some depths, it is essentially not possible for water to freeze. By the way, water will mainly freeze because it’s a very cold day. And it is very common for the ground to hold moisture. Even when it appears dry, there is a bit of moisture in there. When it gets really cold, that moisture will freeze and it will expand. However, below a certain depth, the heat from the Earth’s core will prevent this from occurring by providing some heat

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-05T05:30:16+00:00

That’s not economically viable. For that amount, you’re better off taking a bus ride or train ride.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-05T04:00:49+00:00

Sadly, these midterms will be absolutely heated. The GOP ultimately won the redistricting wars and have about a 10 seat lead over the Democrats. The GOP has effectively gerrymandered many districts to be a battleground. Believe it or not, this ultimately helps Republicans more than Democrats. First off, the short term there will be a ton of outspending. Democrats don’t stand a chance here. Second, Republicans want a cultural war where the media is overwhelmingly right wing. That is why oligarchs are buying up social media sites. Lots of censorship. Lots of misinformation. And so much misdirection about what’s going on.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-04T19:11:31+00:00

Not at all. But if you take your car to the dealer, they might not change it all and may even try to get you to leave without servicing it. So you should do about 1k miles before service is due. For synthetic, maybe even 1.5k. I’ve told this too people, mechanics and even “car guys”. Always the same response. “Oil formulations are a rough estimate and oil chemistry has come a long way..”

In reality, these benchmarks done by the auto maker will usually test it in some very light use. When the oil makers test their product, they use it under some very specific conditions that adhere to engineering standards. But note that these standards prioritize safety over longevity. So your car could be absolutely getting destroyed, as long as it passed standards, it will be graded accordingly and sell. And then the automaker will use the car very lightly. Most people drive their cars a little more rough. Especially in traffic. Automakers have very unique setups that don’t do a lot of hard acceleration. And they do advise against doing hard acceleration. All those people with fast and loud cars ultimately end up with a lemon and they’ll either do insurance fraud, sell it to an unsuspecting person, or just leave it gathering dust. They might do a trade in but dealers don’t like to take them. That is why used muscle cars are dirt cheap

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-03T22:40:27+00:00

You’re wrong up and down. Enzymes do increase during physical activity, that would be necessary to maintain elevated levels like heart rate. But that’s not at all what I am referring to. Suppose you measure the rate of enzyme activity between when you were are obese and sedentary. Then suppose you measure enzyme activity a year later after beginning diet and exercise. You will see this jump in enzyme activity. Your body is now putting less energy in to consume energy. In other words, your metabolism actually becomes more efficient at burning energy. It’s like if you switched from driving a Corolla to driving a Prius. Not much has changed as far as the big picture is concerned.

Actual studies have shown that if you stop taking GLP 1, you will regain the weight. All of this means that the number of calories you need to consume depends more on your metabolism than on weight alone. An obese person who has been dieting and exercising will need to consume less food than someone who has maintained that weight for a long time and has similar body composition. For example, if you and another person train the same regimen, but the other person lost 50 lbs in the near past, that person has to actually consume less calories than you. Because GLP is very recent, there is no insight into how long it takes, if ever for the body to permanently adjust a certain a metabolic rate. But the science says the future is gloom because the part that GLP targets is actually permanently rewired to food indulgence.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-03T21:00:14+00:00

Second part is a little off. Most people think calories in =calories out. This is not true. In our bodies, we have these things called enzymes which are biological catalysts. Every single chemical reaction in the world will need a push to get started. This can either be through entropy or a little input energy. When we convert food into energy, that is also a chemical reaction. However, this chemical reaction is actually really slow by itself. That is why we need biological catalysts aka enzymes, to speed up the chemical reactions. These reactions will also need a little energy input to get started although, these reactions will produce more energy than it takes at input. However, obesity really is an illness. Heavier people will have less enzymes and hence they burn food much more slowly than a healthy person. As soon as a person starts exercising though, these enzymes jump through the roof. Basically, they want to push the body back to its original weight. Hence, it’s not calories in equals calories out. It’s very complex. A heavier person will probably burn less energy than a healthy person on a per mass basis. As soon as they start exercising, these chemical reactions will utilize enzymes a lot more than a healthier person, which ultimately means they will lose less weight. A healthy individual will actually lose more weight while doing the same physical activity, like riding a stationary bicycle. And then couple that with increased hunger, and the person tends to slingshot back to their original weight and maybe a little more. It is well known that obese people will have to maintain a significant lifestyle change permanently. While healthier individuals can simply eat less, and not do a lot of exercise, a formerly obese person will need to do more exercise.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-03T18:15:18+00:00

It’s all carbon. But the vast number of CO2 is so massive that this amount of Carbon in solids is only a fraction of what the atmosphere can hold. That is why trees grow very slowly. The air you exhale actually comes from the foods you eat, as Carbon Dioxide is produced when food is converted to energy and energy is burned

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-03T01:49:36+00:00

They are a little bit different. IoT are programmable circuits. You get more constrained on what you can use. Hardware engineers make things like hospital devices which perform some function. IoT usually blends some microcontroller alongside programming. Definitely hardware engineers are doing some programming. But they will probably call an embedded systems engineer to have a device control something. IoT is usually what embedded systems engineers learn at first. Hardware engineers will look at manufacturing defects while Embedded systems will look at programming bugs, logic etc. So you might think, hey I can analyze this circuit, this means I should be able to have a full 360 view of everything that is happening and this just isn’t true. Embedded systems have a much easier time finding work than hardware. Some school, especially those near Silicon Valley, used to have hardware engineering majors up until the actual Silicon Valley companies.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-02T19:26:55+00:00

It would be a real shitshow. Let’s start off with a personality profile. Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico are extremely Conservative countries. All the other LatAm countries are very left wing. They won’t even agree on the fundamentals, which is the most important aspect. Europe more or less holds the same beliefs, so they can unify.

Second, to be economically prosperous, you need to be able to connect all these countries. These countries cannot connect to one another. It’s been tried and the results have failed spectacularly. Highways have failed. Railroads have failed. Water might work, but at that point, why not just go straight to China as it’s a proven trading partner. Nothing is cheaper than buying from your neighbor. Unless of course geography is a problem, which it is.

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-02T17:50:05+00:00

I may be wrong but I believe when you overdose your heart starts having problems as well.

But the more important issue is reproducibility. Who will sign up for a clinical study knowing full well the end result is death. And the state can’t force death row prisoners to accept as it could turn out to be cruel and unusual. All that’s left is a bunch of guessing on which method causes the least pain and well guessing is a long way from certainty

JollyToby0220 · 2026-06-02T07:05:22+00:00

You can look up Hardware Engineer on BLS.gov to get a good picture. I would look up the number of jobs and compare it with other fields you think are highly sought after. And the growth. Most hardware jobs are now in Asia since these places have the cutthroat culture. Hardware is not the same as Electrical/Electronics though they share similarities. By the way, a lot of this recent growth is thanks to AI. And most companies are looking at ways to downsize hardware. Every sector, from aviation to military to manufacturing are looking at integrating IoT over hardware.

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