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@petra The national debt is the easy fix - simply default. That saves you a trillion+ annually in interest. Treasuries are only a component of most people's portfolio, so their haircut will be mild.

Oh, take a hint, don't put too much money into government debt. Not US fedgov, not US states, not Eurozone. Everybody is going broke.

@judgedread Most zoomers have the reaction of, Get fucked boomers, when social security is ever brought up. It's not to improve.

If debt continues to rise uncontrollably the next generation won't pay the price, they'll do what every previous generation saddled with impossible debt did: Default.

@admin That's why the key question is whether it's one and done or an ongoing problem? If the latter then it could destabilize the regime.

Especially when someone figures out that facial recognition and highly specific targeting is the secret sauce.

If the Ukraine drone strike on Russia is one and done it's nothing. Certainly not a game changer.

Precision drone attacks on key personnel... that's a game changer.

@judgedread The bigger problem for Russia is the internal issue of either local sympathizers or deep-cover Western agents or both, who were able to carry out that operation so deep in Russian territory.

Booster 16 getting lifted onto OLM-1.

#Space #Astrodon #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #IFT10

This is by Elon Musk's favorite science fiction writer:

To survive in space, ships/habitats must be self-sufficient, or very nearly so; the hold of the state (or the corporation) over them therefore becomes tenuous if the desires of the inhabitants conflict significantly with the requirements of the controlling body. On a planet, enclaves can be surrounded, besieged, attacked; the superior forces of a state or corporation - hereafter referred to as hegemonies - will tend to prevail. In space, a break-away movement will be far more difficult to control, especially if significant parts of it are based on ships or mobile habitats. The hostile nature of the vacuum and the technological complexity of life support mechanisms will make such systems vulnerable to outright attack, but that, of course, would risk the total destruction of the ship/habitat, so denying its future economic contribution to whatever entity was attempting to control it.

Outright destruction of rebellious ships or habitats - pour encouragez les autres - of course remains an option for the controlling power, but all the usual rules of uprising realpolitik still apply, especially that concerning the peculiar dialectic of dissent which - simply stated - dictates that in all but the most dedicatedly repressive hegemonies, if in a sizable population there are one hundred rebels, all of whom are then rounded up and killed, the number of rebels present at the end of the day is not zero, and not even one hundred, but two hundred or three hundred or more; an equation based on human nature which seems often to baffle the military and political mind. Rebellion, then (once space-going and space-living become commonplace), becomes easier than it might be on the surface of a planet.

Elon's SpaceX Starship:

Booster 16 engine section. Booster 16 is scheduled for the upcoming IFT-10 orbital velocity test flight. IFT-10 might be ready in a few weeks, pending IFT-9 test data.

#Space #SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #IFT10

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If someone is so consumed with podcast defeatism that they can't see that GOP leaning states have a culture that is less hostile to racists than leftist states there is nothing to discuss. They will focus on DeSantis sucking up to Israel or some such irrelevancy, ignoring that the more SJWs live in your area the more enemy hunters with cameras are rooting out thought criminals. If you're in Oregon or Washington you are a prize catch, and the local DA would love to indict you for it.

@vonzeppelin @judgedread @thefinn "Islam is right about women and the Kzinti are right about females."

@judgedread @thefinn heartiste talked about this

> society is demonstrably and persistently wrong about women
> what else is society lying about

@thefinn Sex realism leads directly to race realism because feminism and anti-racism share a meme malware toolkit. Clean one out and the other loses its grip.

@Obfuskation The suppression of the Gor books after Donald Wollheim died was my first hint that 'the free market' had nothing to do with what was sold in bookstores. Gor books were 10X more popular than most sword and sorcery and scifi adventure novels, but no one would keep them in print because women.

Ship 40 nosecone in the Starfactory.

#SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk #IFT14

When the New Horizons spacecraft flew past Pluto, it revealed features on its surface for the first time. But it also directly measured the atmosphere of Pluto and detected particles like nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide. New observations from Webb have revealed how these hazy particles control the energy balance of Pluto's atmosphere, rising and falling as they're heated and cooled. This phenomenon makes it very different from other worlds.

https://news.ucsc.edu/2025/06/pluto-cooling-haze/

Elon's SpaceX Falcon 9 & Starlink:

Falcon 9 booster B1077's 21st landing, after launching Starlink group 12-19.

#Space #SpaceX #Falcon9 #Starlink #Starship #ElonMusk

Falcon 9 booster B1077 21st landing - Starlink gp 12-19 03JUN2025.mp4

The past, present, and future.

#SpaceX #Starship #ElonMusk

Celebrate Pride 🏳️‍🌈 :trannycide6:

The final bridge jump image... if it was posted by a real woman.

#Pride #PrideMonth #PrideMonth2025