2024-10-31

child ownership, quantum snake oil, that sat blowed up good, SuperMicro tanks, FL banned banks, GenZ lies about politics, garbage Trumpism, Dimon says WW3 is on, Spain floods, EPA nixes DCPA


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Horseshit


TechSuck / Geek Bait

Space / Boomy Zoomers / UFO

  • NASA Finds Root Cause of Orion Heat Shield Charring

  • ExoAnalytic observes 500 pieces of debris from Intelsat 33e breakup.

    Intelsat is still investigating what caused the in-orbit breakup of Intelsat 33e, the second in a series of four EpicNG (next-generation) high throughput satellites Boeing built for the operator The first in this series, Intelsat-29e, was declared a total loss in 2019 after three years in orbit. An investigation into the Intelsat-29e anomaly pinned the failure on either a meteoroid impact or a wiring flaw, which led to an electrostatic discharge following heightened solar weather activity.

Economicon / Business / Finance

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

Trump / Right / Jan6

  • Project 2025, and Why It's Bad

  • Election Fraud Conspiracy Theories Are Already Thriving Online | WIRED

    In the weeks before the 2020 vote, Trump and his allies had already begun to spread claims that the election would be stolen, but those allegations were vague and unorganized. Over the past four years, however, a well-funded network of election denial groups across the US have worked tirelessly to marshal their supporters and drum up conspiracy theories about voting machines flipping votes in the middle of the night, votes being shredded by the bagful, and “mules” stuffing drop boxes with ballots. These conspiracy theories are being shared by right-wing election denial networks, the Trump campaign, and Russian propaganda groups. With a week left to go before the historic vote, fully formed conspiracy theories about threats to voting are being pushed to audiences that have been primed to believe everything they hear. Many of these narratives are spreading virtually unchecked on social media platforms like X, Instagram, and Facebook, where those in charge have all but abdicated their responsibility to fact-check information around one of the most critical votes in US history—and have also made it harder for everyone else to see what is going on.

  • A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles - The Verge

    Like any large open-source project, American democracy is kind of messy, requires a lot of volunteer effort, and often uses way too much memory. But it enables everyone to submit requests for changes so that we might better direct the power of our communities at every level toward solving our problems, and the democratic process provides an essential stability which allows people to keep buying into our country as the platform on which to build their own big ideas. Trump doesn’t give a shit about any of this because he only cares about himself. He generally does not care to solve problems unless it benefits him personally, and the intellectual foundation of the MAGA movement that’s built up around him is the complete denial that collective action problems exist at all. The MAGA worldview is now so batshit that it requires its proponents to look at obvious failures of collective action and declare them immutable features of modern life — or, in an even stupider twist — announce them to be good things. Trump is not rational, and Trumpism cannot abide the idea of a collective action problem. You might think that Trump’s brain is mush, but JD Vance’s weasel-like mind is constantly, actively finding ways to sanitize the chaos, and the philosophical demands of MAGA required him to look America directly in the eye at a recent rally and say that school shootings are “a fact of life.”

  • They Are Actually Serious - by Francis Turner

  • Companies ready price hikes to offset Trump's global tariff plans

  • White House, Trump campaign clash over whether Biden called Trump supporters ‘garbage’ - The Washington Post

    A single apostrophe — or lack thereof — caused an uproar in the presidential race Tuesday night after President Joe Biden criticized former president Donald Trump during a virtual event and later denied he was referring to Trump’s supporters as “garbage.”

    “They’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American,” Biden said, according to an audio recording from a Washington Post reporter who listened in on the call. Asked for comment, a White House spokesperson, Andrew Bates, said in a statement, “The President referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as garbage.”

  • Trump's Truth Social valued at more than Musk's X after extraordinary rally

  • Brigadier General Buzz Aldrin Endorses Donald J. Trump for President of the United States

  • Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and the Billions of Ways to Influence an Election - The New York Times

    The world’s richest men have their own rocket fleets, their own media and their own schemes to succeed with Donald J. Trump.

  • Donald Trump Asks Reporters How They Like His New Garbage Truck – Twitchy

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

  • Iran Is Still Trying To Assassinate Mike Pompeo, State Department Discloses to Congress in Non-Public Memo.

  • World War III Has Already Begun, JP Morgan Boss Says

    "World War III has already begun. You already have battles on the ground being coordinated in multiple countries," Dimon said. Dimon went on to say that the United States needed to avoid being naive and allowing larger global events to play out without any intervention. "What we should be thinking about is we can't take the chance this will resolve itself. We have to make sure that we are involved in doing the right things to get it resolved properly," he added. Still, the banking leader said there was a chance the threat of WWIII could diminish over time, but the implications could be dire if things continue as they are. "I talk about the risk to us if those things go south," Dimon said. "We run scenarios that would shock you. I don't even want to mention them." Russia's threat as a nuclear power was one of Dimon's top concerns.

Pox / COVID / BioTerror AgitProp

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda