Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Colorado votes whether to unwind good tax policy. Look at the differences between a flat tax and a graduated tax. I'm in the flat tax camp.
- You can see why the danger of "space junk" has become a very real issue.
- Ukraine's Vivaldi - a needed update on the Ukraine-Russian war.
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- Nice profile of Calvin Coolidge and the budget.
- Kevin Kelly: Predicting the Present.
- Define "weapons," as in "weapons in space"... if you don't mind. Kinetic actions in space. An twice in one post the Boring Company in space gets mentioned.
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- Chairman Xi could pin a medal on Kathy Hochul. The suicide of NY continues apace.
- Jonathan Turley: Democrats dismiss our Constitutional traditions as 'nostalgia.'
- Honorable dealing with the enemy. Agree 100% but maybe hold out more hope this new phase will be successful.
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- Glenn Reynolds: The Commies Mount an Across the Board Push.
- If this new technology is real it could be a space travel game changer.
- From the archives: How John Steinbeck used his daily diary as a tool of discipline.
- G1 Unitree Robot review. Chinese company founded in 2016. Think general use roots are a ways off.
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- How to win a space war. Long but interesting read that boils down to - first have a SpaceX.
- The economic costs of the Iran war. Not sure how this changes with a potential decrease in prices at the pump.
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- Jonathan Turley: Post-Platner Democrats must ask "Are we the baddies?"
- Data Centers in Space are Going to Happen. Why the SpaceX IPO was so successful.
- How the UFC built an octagon on the White House lawn.
- You knew this was bound to happen. Edit: That video is actually from Iraq.
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- VDH: The graveyard of destructive ideas. Give an inch and they'll take a mile.
- Hillary testifies to Congress.
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- We are risking a Brave New World. He's not wrong.
- From the archives: Peter Attia on using James Clear's Atomic Habits to reach your health goals.
- Japan unveils a space to earth wireless solar power link. The amount of power generated is potentially tremendous.
- Jonathan Turley: the UK's healthcare disaster is a cautionary tale for America. Obamacare is a disaster.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- VDH: Can the Dark Ages return?
- The White House: Ensuring American Space Superiority.
- How the cannabis industry leveraged a big win from Trump. Feel the legal marijuana question should be handled at the state level.
- The USS Nimitz ends her watch. We should always have a USS Nimitz just like we should always have an Enterprise.
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- Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics. Think this is a job a simple calculator could do better - just publish the raw inputs.
- From the archives: Life advice from Peter Josef Safar.
- Turns out space is big business.
- Former NYT director: paper is "digging it's own grave." They have no shame.
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Glenn Reynolds: Using existing protocols and common sense to stop fraud.
- From the archives: Andrew Huberman's 10 step workout program
- Anduril takes over $22 billion Army contract. The backstory is fascinating.
- Space junk is a problem that's just going to get worse. Cleaning up junk in space is much more needed than cleaning up garbage in the ocean (though both are needed).
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- Is Chuck Schumer in trouble? With the USAID scandal you get the feeling he doth protest too much.
- Science says light sails could reach distant star systems.
- Good advice from Andrew Huberman.
- Ron Paul on USAID. He's not wrong.
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"Everything is theoretically impossible until it is done." - Robert Heinlein
"The world is a dangerous place to live not because pf the people are evil. But because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein
"Rationality is wasted if you don't know when to use it." - Shane Parrish
"Space the final frontier, meet me there." - Jeff Bezos
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- Behavior is a Miracle Drug for Our Health. Movement, real food, and plenty of sleep are the keys to good health.
- Science says that at one point their were only 1,280 breeding pairs of human left on the Earth. Now there are billions,
- VDH on Fake News. The media has nobody to blame but themselves that they frittered away all aspects of public trust.
- The Sounds of Space. Exactly what it sounds like.
Great view of the Moon and Earth taken from 1 million miles away. (Via) Headline stolen borrowed from Execupundit.
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- Laughed way too much at this. (Old joke too)
- HSBC downgrades Anheuser-Busch stock. But only to "hold" when it should be sell! sell! sell! They aren't recovering from this mistake.
- Cool - VAST announces the Haven-1 and VAST-1 missions. The first commercial space station is scheduled for August 2025 using SpaceX Falcoln-9 rockets.
- The wind and solar power myth has finally been exposed. Excellent primer on why wind and solar power could never work. "Wind and solar are, in fact, completely pointless." Nuclear power is the way - it is known.
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- Naval for Kids. Great lessons for children.
- Who knew? Jethro Tull was an actual historical figure not just the name of a rock group.
- Interesting - Saturn is losing its rings. They only have about 100 million years left before they're gone.
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- 50 ways the world is getting better. We live at the greatest time in history. We should remember that. (HT Steve Layman)
- This is Keanu Reeves. Be like Keanu.
- Hubble discovers a runaway black hole tearing through the universe.
