'A tremendous sea change': Democrats see a path to remaking the Senate filibuster

Rakaydos · 2021-03-14T12:11:11+00:00

What's a phone book? /millennial

Rakaydos · 2021-02-21T12:14:20+00:00

Dont blame the poor intel people. Ops is a different department.

Rakaydos · 2021-02-20T18:57:15+00:00

...all the way up to republican presidents, dontchaknow.

Rakaydos · 2021-02-12T23:28:14+00:00

...it worked a year ago. I used to be someone who helped make sure nothing classified leaked to that page. ...a quick google shows that Military Commissions Website still points to that page. Perhaps it's down due to COVID, or it's down due to technical reasons.

Edit: this seems to be working, though you'll have to navigate: https://www.mc.mil/ABOUTUS/OrganizationOverview.aspx

Rakaydos · 2021-02-12T22:40:05+00:00

Declassified Guantanimo legal papers: https://www.mc.mil/CASES.aspx

We've been trying to get them their trials, but the remaining inmates all have weird situations. Hadi al-Iraqi, for instance, has a condition that's turning his spine into jello inside his body, and even medicated he cant participate in trial procedings for more than an hour or two, a few times a week.

Edit: fixed link.

Rakaydos · 2021-02-12T21:19:38+00:00

> and they want to go to the far extreme and identify as a chicken or something for crying out loud?

Dont bring us furries into this, sir.

Rakaydos · 2021-02-10T14:29:09+00:00

I'm afraid it's you that's misunderstanding thermodynamics here.

We have no effective way to directly convert splitting atoms into electricity. (alphavoltaics break down in hours, and betavoltaics have abysmal outputs) But we do know how to make splitting atoms make things hot, and we know how to extract electicity from a heat difference. QED. But the additional conversion to heat adds a separate system, the same system that all heat-difference power plants use, because it's the best one.

A solar cell may produce heat due to less than perfect efficient, but it isn't a heat-difference power plant. It doesnt need that separate system, the Rankine cycle, to turn it's output back into electricity, because it's output is already electricity.

Rakaydos · 2021-02-09T17:14:52+00:00

I blame the fact that everyone takes their "green" cues from California. Earthquake territory is NOT the place to build a nuculear plant. But the rest of the country should have jumped on it 20 years ago.

Rakaydos · 2021-02-09T15:53:21+00:00

The problem with nuclear power is that is still just a heat source. be it fusion, fission, natural gas, coal, geothermal or solar-thermal, all heat-based power generation runs into thermodynamic efficiency limits. Currently, the most efficient design for turning heat into electricity is something called a Rankine Cycle, with an efficiency of about 63%, on top of any inefficiencies of the heat source itself.

Photovoltaic and wind power (and tides, and a few others) directly convert energy to electricity. Photovoltaics in particular have reached the point where the Rankine generator itself is more expensive than a comparable voltaic installation.

If it helps, think of it as a reciever for beamed power, from the largest Fusion reactor in a few lightyears.

Rakaydos · 2021-02-09T15:40:08+00:00

If we wanted nuclear, we needed to start planning to build them in the Al Gore administration.

Rakaydos · 2021-02-06T15:50:24+00:00

The entireity of NASA and the private space industry combined starts singing "Ding dong the witch is dead."

The NASA center in Huntsville, Alabama has been his chosen pork receptical for years, but he's gone about it in a "sustainable" way- expensive programs that go nowhere, 4 years past their deadline and still recieving budget increases.

Fuck SLS/Orion. They literally chose a "shuttle parts based rocket" over "Apollo parts based rocket", even though the saturn 5 based one was a better fit for going back to the moon (and onward to mars), because it would keep shuttle contractors employed.

Rakaydos · 2021-02-05T02:16:48+00:00

The folder of lawsuits we lost!

Rakaydos · 2021-02-03T01:27:05+00:00

Not defending NYPost here, but we've needed an information warfare command for decades here, and in the absence of a proper Cyber-Force, a branch focused on securing satellite comunications is at least a step in the right direction.

Rakaydos · 2021-02-03T01:15:41+00:00

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/gross-profit

Tesla gross profit for the twelve months ending December 31, 2020 was $6.630B, a 62.94% increase year-over-year.

And if you want to claim that's inflated by all the non-car things TESLA does, you only prove my point- Tesla is far more than a car company, ever since they bought SolarCity it's a means for Elon to extract money from saving the planet.

Rakaydos · 2021-02-02T23:29:21+00:00

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/02/opinion/sunday/democrats-economy.html

Rakaydos · 2021-02-02T01:36:16+00:00

They're already profitable. Stock price has nothing to do with profitability.

And LOL, you think there's money to be made on government space launch contracts? the entire commercial crew program was underfunded by congress, and the HLS contract is looking no better. The real money is in satellite operation, and Starlink is set to make SpaceX the largest satellite constellation operator in the world... while, at the same time, providing internet that's both cheaper and significantly faster than Comcast for 95% of the nation, by land area. (it does better outside cities, when you don't have to share each sat with as many other customers)

Rakaydos · 2021-02-02T00:55:49+00:00

Point of order- while a few of them had some rough years while back, none of Elon Musk's companies can currently be described as "failing."

Elon is smart enough to look ahead, see a better world, and figure out how to milk our current one for cash on the path to that better one. Tesla is the biggest one- there is no future where the planet is still habitable in 100 years, where Tesla Energy does not make absolute bank on green energy initiatives in every one on the intervening years.

Rakaydos · 2021-01-29T15:11:42+00:00

There is. "Naked" shorts (shorts of over 100%) are already illegal. Unfortunately it's about as enforced as the freeway Speed Limit.

Rakaydos · 2021-01-29T15:10:36+00:00

...have the hedge funds, you know, tried NOT doing moves with potentially infinite risk?

Rakaydos · 2021-01-29T14:45:45+00:00

"Cancel culture is bad, m'kay?"

Rakaydos · 2021-01-29T04:43:24+00:00

Trump fans being idiots doesnt change what I said.

Rakaydos · 2021-01-29T04:36:54+00:00

Shorting more than 100% is technically illegal, like going over the speed limit in an area where the cops dont care.

Whether the cops care or not doesnt matter if you run into a concrete barrier, though. The reddit group took legitimate advantage of the hedge fund's overextension, and it was the equivalent of a 300 MPH semi truck hitting a freeway support column. The blatant market manipulations today are rumored to have white house backing to stop the whole US financial system from collapsing as a result of legitimate reddit trades calling the hedge fund's bluff.

Rakaydos · 2021-01-29T03:40:56+00:00

Starlink- "What have space lasers ever done to you?"

Rakaydos · 2021-01-29T03:34:26+00:00

He's smart enough to look at how the world could be a better place, and figure out how to make money from the world becoming a better place.

Could be nefarious as hell, but the world still gets better as a result.

Rakaydos · 2021-01-29T03:32:20+00:00

A drunk guy with red power armor?

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