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@judgedread I've mentioned it before - I was part of the Tea Party when it was leaderless and cellular. Then, one day we had people we'd never heard of or even seen calling themselves "Tea Party Leadership". We didn't know who they were or where they came from, because they'd never been to any of our meetings or any meetings anyone else had been to. It didn't take long to figure out who was pulling their strings and making sure only their voices were heard while the rank and file people who started it were pushed to the side and even out of the pool. It was the phonies who ran for office and got elected as "Tea Party" candidates - Paul Ryan being one of the most notorious.

@ACL9000 They've gone so far beyond even the theoretical bounds of what's possible to pay down that it does not pass the laugh out loud test.

Default is not only inevitable, it is probable in the short run.

@judgedread The idea that a country has to play by anyone's rules and they can't just undebt themselves by decree is impossible for me to compute. Especially since in the end what you end up doing is the lawless thing, anyway.

That's what every country does and lenders just have to eat it up (they hem and haw for a while saying they'll never lend again but they always do), but American boomers for some reason (lol, of course we know the reason) have this notion that debt is like radioactive waste instead of being meaningless numbers someone made up and it's reflected on all American media (truly a wonder).

@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.

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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.

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