Who won WWII?

Truth_Teller20 comments on Oct 3, 2020:

The Jews won.

jaymaron replies on Jan 19, 2021:

@Truth_Teller20 Good point. Imagine if they had instead chosen a Pacific island for their country.

DOOM and GLOOM!!!! This will be the beginning of MY tirade: I will deal with OIL first!!! Are you...

jaymaron comments on Jan 18, 2021:

The Trump energy miracle! Oil and natural gas expanded 25% under Trump, and they held their ground through the plague. Oil and natural gas decreased under Obama. Most of the hydrocarbon energy is in red states. They should secede, and also build nuclear reactors. The Daisy Cousens video ...

jaymaron replies on Jan 18, 2021:

@Serg97 Good point. It's like a game of Go. We have to have to get to the Pacific, carving a swath through South Washington and North Oregon. We also need to get to Hudson Bay. I see a bigass freeway starting at Hudson Bay. If we don't secede, the only place to put a free speech platform is in a foreign country. Democrats will stop this by putting an internet wall around America. Frack baby frack! Fracking trumped the models.

Daisey's speculation on the possible "Darkest Timeline". Interesting and scary. [youtu.be]

Snailbait comments on Jan 18, 2021:

Well put Daisy . . . And New Zealand could be heading for a Civil War too

jaymaron replies on Jan 18, 2021:

What's the story in New Zealand?

Rumble — On January 11th, 2021, Rumble filed a lawsuit against Google for antitrust violations.

jaymaron comments on Jan 16, 2021:

I hypothesize that Google is willing to lose lawsuits and lose money, just to kill competition. They have infinite money.

jaymaron replies on Jan 17, 2021:

Google is also gaining power by salting the Earth. They worked hard with their biased search engine to create the impression in society that "If Republican, therefore Nazi", and by extension, all republican-leaning chat boards are Nazi. Makes it easier to ban people and kill platforms, hence, it expands Google's power and diminishes the power of its foes. Every act of social media banning is all about expanding the oligarchy's power to ban with impunity. Earlier on IDW, someone posted a great D'Souza video where he analyzes history from the perspective of power. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_jcl6b5E5Q&t=330s

Have Capital Hill Protestors Shown Us the Way?

ZuzecaSape comments on Jan 16, 2021:

Two things to bear in mind: 1. **[Political Violence is a Game the Right Can't Win](https://jacobitemag.com/2017/06/14/political-violence-is-a-game-the-right-cant-win/)** (for now) 2. Violence and lawlessness are always the **LAST** resorts. There are plenty of things we can do, working within...

jaymaron replies on Jan 16, 2021:

I love historical re-enactments. Liberty Kids is great. Does anyone have more suggestions?

Is free speech dead?

ZuzecaSape comments on Jan 16, 2021:

Those who value the 1st Amendment have viable alternatives to Big Tech, they just need to use them. You can't complain about being censored when you continue using the platform censoring you instead of alternatives.

jaymaron replies on Jan 16, 2021:

Yes, let's compile a list of sanctuary platforms. Paypal delisted BitChute and Voat. Voat was crippled by denial of service attacks and is now dead. Voat was formed from refugees of reddit censorship.

Is free speech dead?

jaymaron comments on Jan 12, 2021:

How can we channel the spirit of the 2nd amendment for communications? Free speech platforms are under attack and it seems we have to shift to having a private web page. Manage your social media connections yourself. Build your own friends list with links to other private web pages. Conduct your...

jaymaron replies on Jan 16, 2021:

@ZuzecaSape Great idea. There's lots of great posts on IDW about platforms, and the posts make great ammunition for an article. Science journals feature review articles, which consolidate the state of the art. The IDW Magazine has this spirit. I welcome anyone to message me with content. I will post a review article in the Culture War group. What additional topics do people want to see review articles about?

Remember in 20 when tens of thousands of Democrats surged on the Wisconsin Capitol building in ...

Alysandir comments on Jan 15, 2021:

Everything you say here is true except one thing: the people who stormed the Capitol building are responsible for their actions. We cannot allow ourselves to say, "well THEY did it without any repercussions, so why can't WE?" because that's a narrative we know in our hearts to be false. The rhetoric...

jaymaron replies on Jan 15, 2021:

The standard rebuttal is to cite crybulling: using a level 1 offense committed against you to justify committing a level 10 offense in return. It's escallation. The left crybullied. They used the Capitol Tea Party as justification offenses far greater in magnitude. Every time anyone attacks the Capitol Tea Party, cite their crybullying relatiations, such as the destruction of free speech. Also quote the fine material that Weltansicht posted about democrats inciting violence, and violent democrat mobs. The left's attack on the Capitol Tea party is only valid if they possess the moral high ground. Point out that they don't.

It is my belief that in the United States of America, we should have a second constitution.

jaymaron comments on Jan 13, 2021:

The Roman Republic had a mechanism for balancing the tradeoff between government power and individual liberty. It had two modes: senate mode and dictator mode. It was usually in senate mode, and the constitution was rich in checks and balances. Most offices were elected, had a term of 1 year ...

jaymaron replies on Jan 14, 2021:

@Swuave Outcome of an American presidential term: Won reelection (22) Washington Jefferson Madison Monroe Jackson Lincoln Grant McKinley T Roosevelt Wilson Coolidge F Roosevelt(x3) Truman Eisenhower Johnson Nixon Reagan Clinton Bush II Obama Retired (11) Washington Jefferson Madison Monroe Jackson PolkBuchanan Grant Hayes T Roosevelt Coolidge Lost reelection (10) J Adams JQ Adams Van Buren Cleveland B Harrison Taft Hoover Ford Carter Bush I Lost in primary (9) Tyler Filmore Pierce Johnson Arthur Cleveland Wilson Truman L Johnson Term limited (5) Eisenhower Reagan Clinton Bush II Obama Died of natural causes (4) W Harrison Tayler Harding F Roosevelt Assassinated (4) Lincoln Garfield McKinley Kennedy Resigned (1) Nixon Won re-election but the election was stolen (1) Trump Total (67) Two presidents pledged to serve exactly 1 term and honored their pledge: Polk and Hayes. It's a powerful campaign pledge. Modern politicians should try it. American election history, including electoral maps for each election: jaymaron.com/america.html https://www.jaymaron.com/america.html

It is my belief that in the United States of America, we should have a second constitution.

jaymaron comments on Jan 13, 2021:

Fair competition and free market choice forces entities to deliver a good product. Let's have competition among constitutions. When has there been competition among constitutions? The Founding Fathers at the Constitutional Convention were obliged to produce a good constitution, to induce ...

jaymaron replies on Jan 13, 2021:

@Swuave Given that the Fed has fallen into a black hole, the only way to get anything done now is through states. Rooting for secession and bold governor moves.

It is my belief that in the United States of America, we should have a second constitution.

jaymaron comments on Jan 13, 2021:

The Roman Republic had a mechanism for balancing the tradeoff between government power and individual liberty. It had two modes: senate mode and dictator mode. It was usually in senate mode, and the constitution was rich in checks and balances. Most offices were elected, had a term of 1 year ...

jaymaron replies on Jan 13, 2021:

@Swuave It seems the Praetorian guard held significant power, given how many emperors were killed by the guard.

THE PURGE?

sqeptiq comments on Jan 11, 2021:

Expect open discrimination in college admissions and job hiring.

jaymaron replies on Jan 11, 2021:

First rate people hire first rate people. Second rate people hire third rate people. Third rate people hire fifth rate people. Rate matters, for things such as aircraft pilots, heart surgeons, bridge builders, and nuclear engineers. Should heart surgery be performed by first rate heart surgeons, or by social justice warriors?

PostMillennial: Amazon kicks Parler off its hosting servers.

Dmwils comments on Jan 10, 2021:

It may seem frightening to some but for many of us we do remember days of no internet and we survived.

jaymaron replies on Jan 10, 2021:

I can hear the Viking from the Capital One commercials saying: What's on Yeeeeeer shelf?

PostMillennial: Amazon kicks Parler off its hosting servers.

Dmwils comments on Jan 10, 2021:

It may seem frightening to some but for many of us we do remember days of no internet and we survived.

jaymaron replies on Jan 10, 2021:

@timon_phocas Seems stockpiling books is more important than stockpiling toilet paper. What are the books in your library? In the Niven+Pournelle book "Lucifer's Hammer", an asteroid destroyed civilization, but a wise man stockpiled books and he became the hero.

PostMillennial: Amazon kicks Parler off its hosting servers.

Dmwils comments on Jan 10, 2021:

It may seem frightening to some but for many of us we do remember days of no internet and we survived.

jaymaron replies on Jan 10, 2021:

My grandfather Earl Weisel fought in World War 2. He was the Morse Code Stud. Fastest code in the Pacific. And he had great ears, and you needed them because they were working with 1940s transceivers. It's analogous to the Caltech sonar stud from Red October, who trained his ears with Bach. It's analogous to fighter pilots needing great eyes. After World War 2 was the fine era of amateur radio. Long-distance calls were expensive but if you had an amateur radio rig you could talk long-distance for free. Amateur radio operators were important because in a natural disaster, the communications get wiped out, and the only way to communicate is by ham radio. Amateur radio operators conducted the rescue operations. When I was a kid, we all got amateur radio licenses (requires a test in electronics and morse code speed), and we carried around walkie talkies tuned to the amateur bands. We didn't need cell phones. The walkie talkies got it done. Many physicists got their start as kids building amateur radio sets. I'm one of them. In the TV show "Person of Interest", the government was spying on all communications, and so the good guys rigged a stealth communications network using the subway rails. There is a Star Trek episode featuring a Doomsday Machine, which roams the galaxy destroying planets. Democrats constructed a Doomsday Machine. In general, they will try to kill *any* free speech platform that dares to operate. A platform war is inevitable. They will come after IDW. We need to be ready. Question: What are the best free speech platforms? How can be win the free speech platform war?

WIKIPEDIA IS BEING USED AS A WEAPON: DR. VERNON COLEMAN [youtube.com]

jaymaron comments on Jan 9, 2021:

I edit Wikipedia pages and I use Wikipedia to write textbooks. I have seen egregious leftism on Wikipedia. There are well-funded teams with the mission of propagandizing Wikipedia. They will never stop. You have to work hard just to preserve the legit content. Wikipedia should be fissioned. ...

jaymaron replies on Jan 9, 2021:

Do the deer come to be comfortable around humans? I made a video out of animal tracking data from movebank.org. It has wolves, elks, and caribou. The eagle in West Virginia is named "Freedom". An eagle hookup occurs in Massachusetts. https://www.jaymaron.com/cobalt/usa3.gif Improving the habitat is a rich topic. Bird seed, fertilizer, biomass, and farming: https://www.jaymaron.com/ecology.html

WIKIPEDIA IS BEING USED AS A WEAPON: DR. VERNON COLEMAN [youtube.com]

jaymaron comments on Jan 9, 2021:

I edit Wikipedia pages and I use Wikipedia to write textbooks. I have seen egregious leftism on Wikipedia. There are well-funded teams with the mission of propagandizing Wikipedia. They will never stop. You have to work hard just to preserve the legit content. Wikipedia should be fissioned. ...

jaymaron replies on Jan 9, 2021:

@energymixer Cool! Please expand. Welcoming Montana news. I'm a cheesehead.

Seems Legit

JacksonNought comments on Jan 6, 2021:

Ooh, I can do it too!

jaymaron replies on Jan 8, 2021:

@2peros Knockout! I declare 2peros the victor! While we're at it, let's scan pictures of democrats for implants. Electronic implants. Because they don't have brains and they need a teleprompter.

What do you expect to be achieved by this week's pro-Trump DC rally?

saramarylop3z comments on Jan 4, 2021:

I really have no idea. Unlike the "not my president" protests of 2016, the majority of big tech, social media, and MSM are heavily biased to the left. Anything positive about the Trump presidency as well as any legitimate concerns over voter fraud have been omitted from a bulk of left media ...

jaymaron replies on Jan 8, 2021:

@Admin An asymmetry needs to be identified between the factions. Suppose both factions want to do the same project. Great! Do it. Suppose one faction wants to do a project and the other doesn't. A conservative says: Then don't do it. A leftist says: We MUST do projects! And everyone must participate. Conservatives would like nothing more than to be apart from leftists. We'll do our way and you do it your way. Conservatives see this as the moral stance. Leftists see it as amoral. Leftists demand that everyone has to do things the same way, and of course, they demand that it be unilaterally their way. They're not even trying to identify a balanced position.

this tells you all folks.

kipmax comments on Jan 8, 2021:

I think that may be photoshopped (?)

jaymaron replies on Jan 8, 2021:

How did you get idw to print monospace font?

So.

maxmaccc comments on Jan 7, 2021:

I think the specific location might have been a factor in the response.

jaymaron replies on Jan 7, 2021:

@iThink Let's go full Zapruder on this

Schumer and Pelosi just issued a demand that President Trump tell his supporters to leave the ...

Lightman comments on Jan 6, 2021:

Just heard Joe Biden's speech, whoever wrote it did a good job... hoewever... it was delivered by the world's biggest hypocrite. How he could say that with a straight face just proves he has dementia.

jaymaron replies on Jan 6, 2021:

@w0tn0t There is a hilarous clip of Governor Whitmer needing to read her own name off a teleprompter, and bungling it. Trump can speak extemporaneously and he is a badass standup comedian. When Reagan gave his speech justifying the bombing of Libya, watch his eyes. They're stable and locked on the camera. There's a speech on his desk but he's not looking at it. Watch Trump's eyes. They are stable. Watch Hillary's eyes. She's in a continuous epileptic seizure. Yes it would be hilarous to separate Democrats from their speachwriters and teleprompters. They won't do it, so let's write our own SNL-style skit.

Schumer and Pelosi just issued a demand that President Trump tell his supporters to leave the ...

GeeMac comments on Jan 6, 2021:

Schumer, with the self-satisfied scowl and the glasses 🤓 balanced on the end of his nose, facing real people in the real world??? I’d pay money to see that!!!

jaymaron replies on Jan 6, 2021:

We want a political super bowl! We want a fair fight between the champions of each conference, a clash of titans. Only this can settle things. Notice that Democrats evade this bowl. Lots of names come to mind for the Republican all-star team, such as Gingrich, Carlson, Gutfeld, Hannity, Watters, Perino, Coulter, Yiannopoulos, etc. Can anyone think of a worthy Democrat with game? The only one I can think of is Tulsi Gabbard. Carlson often invites Gabbard on his show and they have a rich dialogue. This is one of the few bowls going on. If you want to be champion you have to take on all competition. Trump daringly takes on the press in press conferences, and he does it often. Biden press conferences, on the rare occasion that they happen, are softball games, not hardball games. Hannity stationed a cameraman outside the Biden complex with a live feed to his show and he dared Biden to come out and answer questions. Biden never appeared. Democrats want you to think that the game has already been played and that they won, and that they are the moral superiority party. No. They are the moral inferiority party because they did not show up to the bowl. They lose by default. How can we create situations where Democrats are forced to tackle hard questions?

Schumer and Pelosi just issued a demand that President Trump tell his supporters to leave the ...

Lightman comments on Jan 6, 2021:

Just heard Joe Biden's speech, whoever wrote it did a good job... hoewever... it was delivered by the world's biggest hypocrite. How he could say that with a straight face just proves he has dementia.

jaymaron replies on Jan 6, 2021:

Yes, hypocrisy is the prime concept. You can defeat most Democrat arguments just by holding up the hypocrisy mirror. Shaolin Abbot to Bruce Lee: You must remember that the enemy has only images and illusions behind which he hides his true motives. Destroy the image and you will break the enemy. Putting aside the question of if the protests are legit or not, it doesn't even matter. What matters is, Democrats want to bluff and hold the illusion that they have moral superiority, but they wantonly encouraged violence against Trump supporters, and never condemned it. They rush to slander any Trump gathering of any kind, in support of the bluff.They want you to believe that they hold the moral superiority card. They do not possess this card. See their bluff and raise them back. Make them go down double.

Spectrum: Nuclear powered rockets get a second look for interplanetary travel.

jaymaron comments on Dec 25, 2020:

Fission thermal rockets are the way to go. Baffling that we don't already have them. The higher the temperature of the reactor, the faster the exhaust speed, and the article discusses the challenges of high-temperature engineering. High-temperature engineering is important for many other ...

jaymaron replies on Jan 6, 2021:

@CuriousFury Rocket fuel is abundant in the solar system. You can use electrolysis to convert ice to H2 and O2. The moon and Mars have abundant ice. The nearest asteroid to the sun that has ice is Ceres. Ceres has as much H2O as the Indian Ocean. We would use Martian ice to get back to the Earth.

CCP has already won WW3 Read the link below and then ask yourself these questions.

jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:

Great soundbite, that WW3 has already happened, and we already lost. Great proof! Those bullet points are specific! Leonard Cohen: Everybody knows the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows good guys lost Everybody knows ...

jaymaron replies on Jan 4, 2021:

@Boilingthefrog The chess titan Edward Lasker: While the Baroque rules of Chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go.

I’ve often pondered the possibility that not only are we heading towards civil war, we're already ...

1patriot comments on Dec 31, 2020:

i feel it's more like a revolution than a civil war as both side democrats and republican minded people must end the corruption and start with maybe a new way of electing a president.....

jaymaron replies on Jan 4, 2021:

Yes, old-school voting is better. In Ancient Athens, to vote, you had to show up personally. You dropped either a black or a white stone in the jug. Everybody got one stone. Many offices were chosen randomly, by lottery, and they had fancy machines to guarantee that the lottery was fair. Most offices had a term limit of 1 year and they couldn't be repeated. Athens had strict citizenship requirements and rarely admitted new citizens. You need ballots made of paper or stone. You can't trust bits.

I'm dropping this post here because this is the largest group.

Krunoslav comments on Dec 30, 2020:

"Generational cultures and differences are interesting. They are defined by age, but more so by common experiences and key events that each group experiences." For what it worth, I will provide my own 2 cents on this. Age by its very nature seems to be a problem when used to meassure people, and ...

jaymaron replies on Jan 1, 2021:

One way around the tyranny of the majority is an ante-based government. In Ancient Greece, during the invasion of Persia, the Greek city states bonded together to form a centralized power, and Themistocles of Athens was chosen as leader. Why Athens? Because Athens brought overwhelmingly more ships to the navy than any other city state. Herb Kohl was a senator from Wisconsin who won the seat because he had a bigly record of philanthropic donations. In a physics department, your salary and status as a professor hinges on how much grant money you bring in. Leftists see government as a money tree to be plundered. Turn it around. Make them ante.

I'm dropping this post here because this is the largest group.

jaymaron comments on Dec 30, 2020:

World War 2 was one hell of a common experience. And it made heroes. There were Americans who flew their aircraft over the Japanese ships, in the face of anti-aircraft fire. Americans who paratrooped behind enemy lines on D Day. These Americans got to walk in the parade. What a ...

jaymaron replies on Dec 30, 2020:

@Naomi I love listening to Newt Gingrich's lectures because he's a history professor and he spices up his lectures with American history. My world view of life comes from American badass history. My Father was a programmer in the punch card era, back when programmers knew how to milk the most out of limited memory and Flops. They could program in raw fortran, without a monitor, and they could calculate in base 16. They didn't need a slide rule because they had the logarithm table memorized. Modern programmers lost this art. I became a computational physicist. 20th century Americans conquered nuclear physics. I attended college on scholarship with the Institute for Nuclear Power Organizations. I love nuclear physics. Nuclear physics should be a hot field, but the government won't let us have nice things. They won't let us build new reactors. Shrine of American badasses https://www.jaymaron.com/badass.html Textbook on 20th century American nuclear physics: https://www.jaymaron.com/nuclear.html My role models are Szilard, Teller, and Le May. You know Teller as "Dr. Strangelove". Few know Szilard because he worked from the shadows. Szilard was The Shadow. Szilard was the MVP of World War 2 and few know it. "Bombs Away" Le May was a bomber pilot with physics street smarts that engineered the American air combat strategy in World War 2. Textbook on the physics of World War 2: https://www.jaymaron.com/ww2.html

The new food laws which have been imposed in China are draconian, almost prisoner-based and ...

Krunoslav comments on Dec 26, 2020:

They are following the Great Reset plan, more government less everything, but CCP also does not want to be Klaus lapdog so the whole thing is turning into a big mess. government is really the one that breaks you legs and than offers you crunches and wants you to be greatfull. You leave government in...

jaymaron replies on Dec 26, 2020:

A easy way to feel good is to get full on fine food. Food comas feel good. The way to connect with animals is with food. Get them full, so full that they pass out in a food coma. Give them fine food, better than what they're used to eating. Once upon a time I spent a year feeding ducks and geese in Central Park. Ducks and geese in a food coma: https://www.jaymaron.com/duckgoose.html A prime duty of government is to promote an economy where food is plentiful and cheap. Any government that has hungry citizens is a failure. Yay thanksgiving! Great thing to base American culture on. Americans and natives connected with feast. Notice how Republicans are pro thanksgiving and democrats are anti thanksgiving. Democrats are anti food. They're anti restaurant. If Trump praised air, democrats would suffocate themselves. Love the line: "leave government in charge and they will fuck up a cup of coffee."

Warning: your food supply will soon be controlled You can actually grow seeds and grains of ...

KeVince comments on Dec 26, 2020:

been doing this for years I am also cultivating plants that were used as food crops but are now only thought of as weeds, I have found many of them through a site called eat the weeds. https://www.eattheweeds.com/

jaymaron replies on Dec 26, 2020:

Plant plants that yield edible material, such as nuts, berries, and fruits. List of food-bearing plants: https://www.jaymaron.com/ecology.html#nuttree Especially emphasize nuts, because birds can get the nuts and insects can't.

The new food laws which have been imposed in China are draconian, almost prisoner-based and ...

Tom81 comments on Dec 26, 2020:

Coming next: Soylent Red.

jaymaron replies on Dec 26, 2020:

@MichelleD Good stuff! Feedstock is an important topic. Any more wisdom on feedstock?

The new food laws which have been imposed in China are draconian, almost prisoner-based and ...

Tom81 comments on Dec 26, 2020:

Coming next: Soylent Red.

jaymaron replies on Dec 26, 2020:

@Tom81 Fascinating. Let the livestock eat soy and then we humans eat the livestock. Real men don't eat quiche. Real men are apex predators. The modern woke dictionary bans the phrase "low man on the totem pole". Fine phrase. Not giving it up. Let's also have "low man in the food chain". Physics of feedstock: https://www.jaymaron.com/ecology.html

The new food laws which have been imposed in China are draconian, almost prisoner-based and ...

Tom81 comments on Dec 26, 2020:

Coming next: Soylent Red.

jaymaron replies on Dec 26, 2020:

Soy is the way to beat China. America dominates soy production and China dominates imports. Numbers: https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html#soy Soy is the ultimate feedstock because it's high in protein.

The Trump energy miracle of 2020.

maxmaccc comments on Dec 24, 2020:

China has recently turned on their nuclear fusion reactor. They plan to use the device in collaboration with scientists working on the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor—the world's largest nuclear fusion research project based in France, which is expected to be completed in 2025. ...

jaymaron replies on Dec 25, 2020:

The way to make tritium fusion fuel is.... with a fission reactor. Neutrons from a fission reactor split lithium into tritium and helium. In a fission reactor, slow neutrons can only burn 10% of the fuel, and then the fission products start stealing neutrons. A fast neutron reactor can burn all of the fuel, and you don't need to breed plutonium ahead of time. You can use natural U-238. The focus for fission reactors should be eliminating unnecessary regulations, and designing multipurpose fast reactors. People think of fission as a done technology. No. Fission can make big gains. And it's bank. Fusion is uncertain. The next generation of space rockets will be nuclear. We should be designing nuclear thermal rockets. A fission reactor cranks out discard heat and can carve out a piece of tropical climate in North Canada. The power it produces gooses the economy. If people realized this, they would want one.

The Trump energy miracle of 2020.

maxmaccc comments on Dec 24, 2020:

China has recently turned on their nuclear fusion reactor. They plan to use the device in collaboration with scientists working on the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor—the world's largest nuclear fusion research project based in France, which is expected to be completed in 2025. ...

jaymaron replies on Dec 24, 2020:

Don't believe the hype. Fusion is far off, and even when it happens, there will be problems because they produce neutrons. They are not clean. The neutrons produce reactivity in surrounding materials. The neutrons also destroy metals and quickly destroy the reactor. A fusion reactor is complex and expensive and a fission reactor is simple and cheap. There's no way fusion power will be cheaper than fission power. In a fission reactor, the uranium fuel is a negligible part of the cost. A fusion reactor uses expensive tritium fuel. A fusion physics seminar tends to be 30 minutes of plasma physics and 30 minutes of superconductor technology. ITER uses a diverse array of superconducting magnets. Most of the countries in the ITER collaboration are in it for the magnet technology, not the fusion. It's easy to publish an article saying fusion is the future. It's hard to produce an article that takes the physics seriously. That's why you see all the fluff articles. There's no physics. All they can say is "we think we can do it". This is my turf. I'm a computational plasma physicist. Textbook on nuclear reactors: https://www.jaymaron.com/nuclear.html

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jaymaron comments on Dec 24, 2020:

Paraphrasing the Great Wizard Gingrich: To battle the Chinese you need to understand the game of Go. Go is about patience and territory. For example, for every island the Chinese create in the South Pacific Sea, create 5 of your own islands closer to China than that island. The Chinese ...

jaymaron replies on Dec 24, 2020:

@maxmaccc In the 80s humans still had a chance against a chess computer, but to beat a computer you had to play a human strategy. Computers are good at calculation, which is the soul of the middle game, and they're good at memorization, which is the soul of the opening game. They were poor at the end game, which requires farsight. The strategy was to wantonly battle and trade pieces to skip the opening and middle game and get to the end game. That worked in the 80s and stopped working in the 90s. Then it was over. Kasparov once beat the world computer champion by opening with an absurd opening, not mathematically optimal but way out of the computer's database. It deprived the computer of its memory advantage. Plus Kasparov had secretly spent time studying that opening. In the 2000s I could beat the world Go computer champion, and to do it I had to play a human strategy. Computers are good at the opening (Joseki) and tactical calculation, but poor in global strategy. I would force the game in the direction of strategy and I could win. I would sacrifice tactical losses for strategic gains. But by the 2010s the computer programs advanced to the point where they mastered global strategy, and it was over.

It’s a mistake to think the resistance to Trump is because they don’t like his policies.

iThink comments on Aug 23, 2020:

I don't know if Trump himself actuall said this or not but I have seen a meme - a pic of Trump saying "They're not after me - they're after you" "you" being We the people.

jaymaron replies on Dec 24, 2020:

Trump could say: You see the media as a check on the President's power? I see the presidency as a check on the media's power. Which of us was elected and which wasn't? Trump should hold a press conference where he asks the press questions.

Are we witnessing the beginning of the end for FOX News? [redstate.com]

jaymaron comments on Dec 22, 2020:

Not worried about Fox. Carlson and Hannity are speaking their minds, hence they must have Fox's support. In a recent speech Trump praised Newsmax, OANN, Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham, Gutfeld, and Watters. Even if Fox falls, new networks will emerge. Trump created a hungry MAGA audience. Last ...

jaymaron replies on Dec 23, 2020:

@TheMiddleWay Subtle. Analysis without facts is useless, and facts without analysis are useless. If it's a fact fight then nobody can win. Just keep throwing up facts. It's like a nuclear bomb fight. I see many "fact bullies", people who use illigitimate analysis and package it with facts, and then bully you with the facts. Turn it back on them and point out that facts require analysis, and that their analysis is weak. The meaning of a fact depends on analysis. The meaning of a fact can change if the level of analysis is improved. There are many facts. You need analysis to identify the important ones to focus on, and which can be ignored. You need to be able to organize facts with good infographics and analysis. Good analysis uncovers facts that were not previously known.

And so it begins... Is the World Heading Towards Another Bretton Woods Moment?

cRaZyTMG comments on Nov 26, 2020:

The last thing we need is a SDR. Y

jaymaron replies on Dec 22, 2020:

@torontogal4388 Can you expand on the Economic Hit Man? The New York Times was a different paper then. When Nixon took us off the gold standard, the NYTImes said "We unhesitatingly applaud the boldness with which Nixen has moved". Textbook on world wealth: https://www.jaymaron.com/wealth.html Energy is wealth. There is a tight correlation between a nation's energy production and its GDP. See the right hand plot. The left hand plot shows which elements could be used as currency.

Should some research topics be banned or results censored?

TheMiddleWay comments on Dec 18, 2020:

I've paraphrased Churchill recently but it works here as well: ***"Science is the worst form of knowledge, except for all the others.”*** I'm skeptical of just about every science result but once that skepticism is resolved, I trust the remaining results implicitly. I follow the science ...

jaymaron replies on Dec 22, 2020:

There is a theme, that there exist problems for which there is no perfect solution. Don't fall for "perfection bullies". Teddy Roosevelt: Perfection is the enemy of the pretty good. Repeating earlier posts: Science is the worst form of knowledge, except for all the others. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. Capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the others. Arrow's theorem shows that there does not exist a perfect election system. The Devil take the hindmost" election system is the worst, except for all the others. In mathematics, the definition of a limit is: "... yada yada epsilon delta yada yada ... IF this limit exists." That final clause is important. Sometimes perfection doesn't exist.

Should some research topics be banned or results censored?

Tom81 comments on Dec 18, 2020:

Problem is, the left only believe results that are politically advantageous, otherwise they just scream rascist, sexist, (insert group)phobic. The left have been polluted by the post-modernist belief that there is no objective truth, only a subjective reality. Also, a lot of academics are only ...

jaymaron replies on Dec 22, 2020:

Yes this happens. People virtue signal about their respect to science, but when I tell them I'm a climate scientist and I disagree with the Standard Narrative, suddenly they hate. In the sciences there are new grant directives that mandate that the research contain social justice. Science departments are softening the PhD requirements. Most astronomy departments used to require passing a physics qualifier and now most have dropped it. Leftism hates meritocracies. They will likely use genetic information to insist that genetically smart people give money to genetically dumb people. Looking at modern latte leftists, I get the impression that athleticism is not a priority. People say: "Trust the scientists. Don't politicize the science". If you give scientists power, then the process of deciding which scientist gets the job WILL become politicized. If scientists have power then each party will do everything they can to get their scientist in power. Power has to be in the hands of elected officials. That being said, it would be nice if politicians were scientists.

Should some research topics be banned or results censored?

lawrenceblair comments on Dec 18, 2020:

"If proven true, accepted impartially." LOL. Yeah, that is exactly what most of the brainwashed have done. If science says it, it must be true. Mt typing finger will not last long enough to list all the false theories and experiments that existed at one time or another. A history full of ...

jaymaron replies on Dec 22, 2020:

@CuriousFury Modern telescopes crank out far more data than astronomers can analyze, and most of it is public. Anyone can poach.

It’s time to move to Brazil [twitter.com]

eschatologyguy comments on Dec 21, 2020:

And when Bolsonaro's term ends and he gets replaced by a Globalist?

jaymaron replies on Dec 22, 2020:

@parsifal A search for rankings of conservative countries turns up lots of Eastern European countries, such as Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Lithuania, Belarus, Latvia, Hungary, Croatia. Norway has vast hydrocarbons and hydropower and a small population. ' There's something to be said for living on an island, such as Iceland.

Doing a Google search "intellectual dark web" no longer returns this sight [slug.

MosheBenIssac comments on Dec 21, 2020:

There is Google, Bing, Yandex, Qwant and Bidu. These are the true independent search engines. Bidu is China centric, controlled by the CCP, and not much use for anything else but searches in Mandarin. Qwant is French, its Francophone centric but somewhat useful outside of that spear but it is ...

jaymaron replies on Dec 21, 2020:

@Krunoslav Yes, we need to be wary of double agents.

Doing a Google search "intellectual dark web" no longer returns this sight [slug.

Krunoslav comments on Dec 21, 2020:

I use DuckDuckGo almost exclusively as search engine because of that. Recommend it.

jaymaron replies on Dec 21, 2020:

@Edgework Fudk yeah!

Doing a Google search "intellectual dark web" no longer returns this sight [slug.

jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:

Fine topic, neutral search engines. Suggestions? You also don't want the engine to log your data. I'm using duckduckgo. Google censored Breitbart completely. Even a search with the exact title of a Breitbart article yields no results. Then the censored articles pointing this out. If you search...

jaymaron replies on Dec 21, 2020:

@Naomi When I serched in America, the top result was George Washington Carver. Great man. But not as great as George Washington the 1st president of the United States, who could have been lifetime king but instead retired and farmed.

Doing a Google search "intellectual dark web" no longer returns this sight [slug.

jaymaron comments on Dec 21, 2020:

Fine topic, neutral search engines. Suggestions? You also don't want the engine to log your data. I'm using duckduckgo. Google censored Breitbart completely. Even a search with the exact title of a Breitbart article yields no results. Then the censored articles pointing this out. If you search...

jaymaron replies on Dec 21, 2020:

@neverove Yes! The more leftists censor, the more we have to skylight what was censored. They shame deplorableness. We have to shame censorship. Desn't matter the issue. If you're censoring, you're a Nazi. Yes, bring attention to the age of rail. The 19th century railroads used their monopoly power to favor large corporations, which they could control, and disfavor small corporations, which they could not control. Wikipedia "Iron Law of Oligarchy". Societies inevitably steer toward anarchy, and the essence of conservatism is to resist this. Corporations love to merge. This is naked collusion and price fixing, and oligarchyness. A Great Republican President recognizes this and tirelessly works to break up monopolies. Yay Theodore Roosevelt! Who's in charge? The oligarchy or the elected president? Teddy told them the answer. Let every incident of censorship be amplified and broadcasted! The essence of Democrat response to the plague is to favor large corporations over small. This is political looting. Call them out on it. Tulsi Gabbard has seized the initiative with this. Gabbard proposed a tax to transfer money from large corporations to small. Rich topic of discussion! If there is a disaster, conservatives rally to save the realm. Leftists rally to parasite upon the disaster and use it to gain power. This is the fundamental difference between conservatism and leftism. Given a disaster, conservatives protect the realm and leftists loot it. Varys: I serve the realm. Someone must. History of American frontiersmanship: https://www.jaymaron.com/america.html

It’s time to move to Brazil [twitter.com]

eschatologyguy comments on Dec 21, 2020:

And when Bolsonaro's term ends and he gets replaced by a Globalist?

jaymaron replies on Dec 21, 2020:

Brazillian politics warrants attention. Is anyone up on this? We lost America. We need to jump ship to the next conservative sanctuary nation. What is the status of Philippine politics? Anyone have an analysis of any foreign nation? America has a fine history of harnessing its natural resources. That's what it's all about. http://www.jaymaron.com/america.html Brazil is making the most of its natural resources. It's not about biomass, it's about biomass growth rate. The purpose of a rain forest is to crank out new biomass, not to sustain the existing biomass. Rainforests as they are produce little of economic value. Not capitalizing on this opportunity is a loss for the Earth's climate. Nothing cranks out biomass like grass and cattle, and Brazil is a king of cattle.

Canada plans to pressure Biden to join a push banning all new gasoline powered cars within 20 years.

2FollowHim comments on Dec 19, 2020:

I'm in favor of much cleaner energy, use of innovative group transit methods. There are mini, micro cars for 1 or 2. Better for our health. Just throwing out ideas; maybe 'car stations' for freeways. You don't own, but borrow. I figure Elon will help us with AI.

jaymaron replies on Dec 20, 2020:

The carbon villains exposed! China leads CO2 emissions and also has a poor value for energy/carbon. America has a good value for energy/carbon. We did our part. https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html

LYING is like playing laser pointer with a kitten.

Void comments on Dec 17, 2020:

Nothing new. Long before "Rules for Radicals" politics has been using the tactic of misdirection. As one wag put it when asked how to succeed in politics: "Call the other guy a pig fucker and let him do the denying." Doesn't matter it it is true or not for the effect will be the same. One problem ...

jaymaron replies on Dec 18, 2020:

That's a fine theme. What are the signs of a liar? Whoever is censoring is likely the liar. Failure to conduct a no-holds-barred press conference. Eats low-hanging fruit. Oversimplifies and eschews complexity. Failure to face worthy competition. Ignorance of the opposition's technical argument.

Who is real news you can trust REAL News Breitbart [breitbart.

jaymaron comments on Dec 17, 2020:

In a recent speech Trump praised Newsmax and OANN. Please let's have a Trump Time show on some conservative TV network. Trump also praised Carlson, Hannity, Watters, and Ingraham, and Pirro. Even if Fox sells out, I feel confident that there will always be conservative networks out there....

jaymaron replies on Dec 17, 2020:

On December 16, Carlson zapped Disney or being pawns of the CCP, and for the fact that Biden is giving Disney a Cabinet seat. Fox is still alive. Carlson and Hannity are ratings titans. There will always be a network for them. https://www.jaymaron.com/anchor.html

Who is real news you can trust REAL News Breitbart [breitbart.

Tycho comments on Jul 3, 2020:

Trust no one. Check out the sources for yourself. Take nothing at face value.

jaymaron replies on Dec 17, 2020:

Bill O'Reilly, the mightist writer of history books, discussed his method. He first amasses a stockpile of original sources, and then writes the book using only the original sources. The bibliography of an O'Reilly book is formidable. Ann Coulter amasses a mountainous pile of sources and her bibliographies are also formidable. Praise that rigor! Ever seen the New York Times cite a source? Their gameplan is not citing sources. Once upon a time Wikipedia achieved objective status. Such a large number of eyes were upon it that objectivity ruled. I am a physicist and a contributor to Wikipedia. Alas, leftists suberted Wikipedia, and they have no respect for objective truth. Wikipedia is all about the process, because objectivity requires a sound process, and leftists attacked the process. If you want to be considered badass, you have to take on the best competition, with fair rules. Otherwise you are a king of a nutshell, not infinite space.

Would moving state borders reduce the chance of civil war?

Malachite comments on Nov 24, 2020:

Honestly, Eastern Washington would like to jump ship and join that project as well. The light blue tint is from a couple of college towns in each of those counties that could use some greater influence. A good chunk of each of those light blue would be red otherwise.

jaymaron replies on Dec 17, 2020:

The largest red city is Oklahoma City, but you don't want it. Oklahoma City has a blue hole at the center, and the hole will expand and consume the city. The blue patch on the southeast side is the University of Oklahoma. State university systems may undergo secession. Build Institutes of Technology in rural areas. STEM departments should secede from universities and form Institutes of Technology.

Kelly's Heroes Ambush scene, Tons of fun with MP-40s' Thompsons and Browning M 1917's [youtube.com]

jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:

Politicians want to subvert the 2nd amendment with things like clip size limits. What's the point of having guns if the villains have better guns? If a gunfight occurs, the goal is to win, not to virtue ...

jaymaron replies on Dec 16, 2020:

@MikeHunt A 50 magnum goes through 12 inches of wood. It shatters masonry stones. In https://www.jaymaron.com/gun.html there are calculations for penetration depth. Dirty Harry: I've seen 35s bounce off of windshields. That's why I carry a 45.

CCP has already won WW3 Read the link below and then ask yourself these questions.

jaymaron comments on Dec 16, 2020:

Great soundbite, that WW3 has already happened, and we already lost. Great proof! Those bullet points are specific! Leonard Cohen: Everybody knows the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows good guys lost Everybody knows ...

jaymaron replies on Dec 16, 2020:

@Boilingthefrog Fascinating. Expand? Gingrich wrote a book: "China: Trump's Greatest Challenge". He saw it coming early. In a speech Gingrich said: To understand the Chinese strategy you need to understand the game of Go. The Chinese say, we're building up this island for tourism and scientific research. And by the way we're installing an airstrip. Gingrich says think like a go player. For every island the Chinese create, create 5 islands of your own, closer to China than that island. Let's formally raise the question: Who saw CCP imperialism coming, and how early? Who didn't? Having been amply warned, who is still working with the CCP?

Good morning from a just joined member of the group.

Harleyman comments on Mar 31, 2019:

Welcome! I’m also a Trump supporter but unlike you I live in a very conservative area. Where I live here near my hometown in western Oklahoma Trump carried 87% of the vote and will likely do so again in 2020. Oklahoma is generally very conservative as no democrat has carried the state since LBJ in...

jaymaron replies on Dec 16, 2020:

Oklahoma City is the largest red city. However the center is blue, and the blue hole on the southeast side is the University of Oklahoma. The wrestling superpowers are Iowa and Oklahoma. Large red cities are important because you need large airports. The northern red states are weak in airports. https://www.jaymaron.com/america.html

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Tom81 comments on Dec 16, 2020:

@jaymaron - you forgot Godzilla.

jaymaron replies on Dec 16, 2020:

And leftists The fires in California, Oregon, and Washington aren't a natural disaster. They're an anthropomorphic disaster.

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jaymaron comments on Dec 15, 2020:

The sun is dimming. https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html#sun Solar intensity has a big effect on climate. The "Medieval warming period", centered around the 12th century, was caused by an increase in solar intensity and it gave rise to the age of Vikings.

jaymaron replies on Dec 16, 2020:

The west coast is on fire and doesn't have enough electricity or water. An earthquake will push West California into the sea. Volcanos in the Cascade mountains will drown the northwest in ash. A tsunami will destroy every city on the Pacific coast. Cities will collapse into blue holes. Textbook on natural disasters. https://www.jaymaron.com/disaster.htmll

Protestors Demand Seattle Weed Store Hand over 15% of Profits | Seattle Real Estate Podcast.

jaymaron comments on Dec 13, 2020:

Anytime anyone makes money, the government finds a way to skim. They're skimming Amazon in New York with a 3 dollar package tax. In fact everyone will try to skim. Gangs, protesters, etc. Now that looting is normalized and there are no criminal penalties, it's easy to destroy a story, creating...

jaymaron replies on Dec 13, 2020:

easy to destroy a store

Shits official for hitting said fan: [youtu.be]

jaymaron comments on Dec 5, 2020:

Soy is the ultimate feedstock because it's high in protein. Producing beef requires twice as much corn as soy. USA has China by the balls with soy. USA leads the world in production and China leads the world in imports. China can't produce enough food to feed its population by itself. Soy is ...

jaymaron replies on Dec 7, 2020:

The president and congress should find a way to reform the patent system and bring the cost of seeds down. The cost inputs for producing soy are in https://www.jaymaron.com/earth.html#soy In Brazil they engineered their own seeds, optimized for their climate. Genetically-engineered seeds in Iowa cost 2.2 as much as the Brazilian seeds. Land is expensive in America and cheap in Brazil. Iowa fertilizer cost is 2/3 of Brazilian fertilizer cost. Amerca is the leading fertilizer nation, and our mighty energy economy cranks out nitrogen fertilizer. The best way to goose fertilizer production is to combine a methane mine and a nuclear power plant, to produce ammonia, which is the foundation of nitrogen fertilizer. Methane provides the hydrogen, which is used to capture atmospheric nitrogen. The nuclear power planet provides heat, which is necessary for producing hydrogen and ammonia.

Oh boy, was this originally on video?

Callnote comments on Dec 3, 2020:

Never heard of someone breaking a foot falling to the ground ? He probably kicked something

jaymaron replies on Dec 3, 2020:

iThink is right. It's possible to break a foot bone and still be able to put weight on the foot. If he's juiced on painkillers then he could do it. If you break an ankle bone or the heel then you can't, and so the photo restricts the possible types of injury. I play rugby and I've experienced these kinds of injuries. I once tackled a heavy dude but it cost me a foot bone. I wrote an anatomy textbook, which includes visuals of the foot bones. https://www.jaymaron.com/anatomy.html That being said, I flat out do not believe the media narrative that he broke his foot playing with his dog. It would be nice to see an MRI so we could speculate how it really happened. Let's go full Zapruder on this. Trump needs no meds, and he works 20 hours a day. Biden and Hillary work much less. Trump doesn't even need alcohol, nicotine, or weed. That's damn impressive. I would like to see doping tests for Biden, and in fact it should be required of all presidential contenders, as it is for Tour de France contenders. There is no question that Hillary was doping. Go full Zapruder. There are videos of Hillary having epileptic seizures. There are videos of Biden having "senior" moments. Watch every frame of Biden. I hypothesize that Biden has further undisclosed flaws.

Would moving state borders reduce the chance of civil war?

Serg97 comments on Nov 21, 2020:

How about the simple answer!!!! Let us get back to a Constitutional Government, stop the "give-aways" (welfare) and get back to the idea that if you want to eat, WORK!!!!! That idea worked for about 150 years, until the "Socialist" (AKA, FDR) got into power!!!!

jaymaron replies on Nov 24, 2020:

The villain is the person that hooked the baby on candy. The O'Reilly & Feirstein book "Old School" discusses how they grew up unspoiled by candy.

Interesting Engineering: NASA develops kilowatt class nuclear reactors for Mars.

kresica comments on May 23, 2020:

..very good question..

jaymaron replies on Nov 22, 2020:

@timon_phocas Solar requires energy to produce silicon crystals and silver. You also need copper for the transformers and power distribution system.

Is the censoring of conservative news on Twitter a form of domestic terrorism?

WftRight comments on Oct 29, 2020:

Whether this censorship rises to the level of terrorism is an interesting question that I hadn't considered before reading this post. I believe that Twitter has reached the point of being a "common carrier" and should be subject to antitrust laws. Just as public right-of-ways are used to set the ...

jaymaron replies on Nov 22, 2020:

It will come to the question: Who owns the content you built on the social media site? Suppose you want to transplant your content from facebook to a different site. Facebook claims they own your friends list and everything you posted. That's a slavery contract and courts should nullify it on this grounds. You own your friends list and your content. Facebook is ONLY successful because of the effort that its users put into generating content. By not letting us have ownership of the content, facebook is in effect hating and exploiting its users. If you contruct a program to automatically download all your facebook content so that it can be transplanted to another site, facebook will immediately change their format to block the program, just like Apple continuously updates its iPhone operating system to defeat jailbreakers. Do not let them do it. Not only does the anti-slavery clause in contract law apply to your facebook data, it also applies to your ability to retrieve it. This is the hill upon which the decisive battle will take place. The president should issue an executive order mandating these things.

Which Democrat campaign promises do you think will take priority?

GeeMac comments on Nov 12, 2020:

@Admin I disagree with your description of the Paris Climate Accord as an “international pledge to reduce emissions.” It’s not. The Accord asks developed countries to curb emissions, but asks virtually nothing of most other nations — notably India, Brazil and ridiculously, China. The ...

jaymaron replies on Nov 22, 2020:

The plot shows for each country: Total carbon emissions Energy/Carbon China is the villain. To tackle carbon, only China matters. https://www.jaymarorn.com/earth.html

Would moving state borders reduce the chance of civil war?

DrHiebert comments on Nov 21, 2020:

Same shit is happening in Canada. Trudeau has half the nation polarized against his radical left gutting of our resource sectors, putting millions of Canadians out of work, especially in Western Canada, where Trudeau is FUCKING HATED! Trudeau will not travel or visit to Alberta. His RCMP ...

jaymaron replies on Nov 22, 2020:

It should be noted that Biden didn't campaign in red territory. He can't go to West Virginia. He went to Wisconsin but he went to Milwaukee. Lame. Trump went to Green Bay. In Minnesota Trump went to Duluth. Trump goes where he pleases. He rallies in red rural territory and he rallies in blue hole cities. I love the Trump parades marauding around blue cities. Vulcan proverb: Only Nixon could go to China. What if we form 2 new nations from USA+Canada? Trump nation gets the red states of USA plus red territory in Canada, such as Alberta. Blue nation gets the blue territory of USA+Canada. Would anyone like to draw up a map and post it? Almost all of America's energy is in red states. Energy is the foundation of jobs and wealth.

Would moving state borders reduce the chance of civil war?

jaymaron comments on Nov 21, 2020:

The civil war is rural vs. urban. In Civil War I, the North was economically stronger than the South. In Civil War II, Republican cities and states are economically stronger than Democrat cities and states. Republican territory tends to have less debt/capita than Democrat territory, less ...

jaymaron replies on Nov 22, 2020:

The only way reality is inforced is through debt. Either the city tackles the debt (which leftists don't do) or it goes bankrupt. That kicks the attitude out of them. But up until the point where they go bankrupt they still have attitude. One of the voting bases of Democrats is public workers, who vote Democrat because Democrats excessively hire public workers. It's vote bribing. Most cities carry ludicrous pension obligations. Not all public officials can be elected. Too many elections. The officials at the top should be elected, and then they appoint officials below them. The quality of their appointments is one of the measures of their quality as a politician. There should never be a permanent official. There has to be regular elections, and the same applies to public workers. They shouldn't expect to have the job permanently because the job is public. In fact, the principle of wealth redistribution mandates frequent rotation of appointed officials. You collected a government check? Good for you. Now get out of the way and let someone else have it. In Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker drained the swamp by firing many public workers. The public unions fought back with a recall election and Walker won. We will soon see the collapse of cities, states, and colleges, and that will change the political landscape. The plot shows that republican states are stronger than democrat states, and that moving vans are flowing from democrat to republican states.

Would moving state borders reduce the chance of civil war?

DrHiebert comments on Nov 21, 2020:

Same shit is happening in Canada. Trudeau has half the nation polarized against his radical left gutting of our resource sectors, putting millions of Canadians out of work, especially in Western Canada, where Trudeau is FUCKING HATED! Trudeau will not travel or visit to Alberta. His RCMP ...

jaymaron replies on Nov 21, 2020:

Canada has vast reserves of potassium, oil, natural gas, water, hydropower, trees, nickel, cobalt, platinum-group metals, niobium, copper, gold, uranium, thorium, and hockey players. Drill baby drill! https://www.jaymaron.com/mining.html

There is no goodness in mobs.

2FollowHim comments on Nov 20, 2020:

There's a whole psychology, philosophy of groups. They are just weird. They've been known, studied for many years: few bother to read it. I read just a little. Enough. Enough to not belong in a group. Maybe once in a while, similar ideology. Sure, fine. I think, my personal view, that ...

jaymaron replies on Nov 21, 2020:

Democrats want to defund the police and replace them with social workers and psychiatrists, and both worlds have no due process. They will miss due process. The social work and psychiatric world use their power to control their clients.

There is no goodness in mobs.

2FollowHim comments on Nov 20, 2020:

There's a whole psychology, philosophy of groups. They are just weird. They've been known, studied for many years: few bother to read it. I read just a little. Enough. Enough to not belong in a group. Maybe once in a while, similar ideology. Sure, fine. I think, my personal view, that ...

jaymaron replies on Nov 21, 2020:

Yes, psychiatrists are corrupt and incompetent, and bullying. The police world has due process and the psychiatry world doesn't, and they are not horrified by the lack of due process. The "insane" attack has been so overused that I declare it permanently null and void. Or, whereas democrats are quick to invoke insanity, do it to them. Hound Biden and other democrats with it. Screw meds. Learn shaolin meditation. https://www.jaymaron.com/shaolin.html Psychiatrists think in terms of mental disorder. Think instead in terms of mental order. And surround yourself with a synergistic group that complements your strengths and weaknesses. Don't think individual sanity. Think group sanity.

What is the "Great Reset"?

FrozenSoul comments on Nov 19, 2020:

I think it means something good! It means we can go to a better money system that is not FRACTIONAl RESERV Fiat Money. With the system we have, the dollars you have perpetually decrease in value (because they print more) so you are perpetually IN DEBT to the banks (which are NOT your government, ...

jaymaron replies on Nov 20, 2020:

A currency must be uncounterfeitable, immutable, expensive in $/kg, and there has to be enough of it to meet world demand. The plot shows which metals qualify. Gold, platinum, and silver are best. https://www.jaymaron.com/mining.html Trillions of dollars: World stock markets 90 World currencies 2.5 World cryptocurrencies .55 Gold, world reserves 1.4

What is the "Great Reset"?

DeplorableToo comments on Nov 18, 2020:

It is all of these things and more, so much more. They (the global elite) have decided they should be in control of your life. They plan to make eating meat a "special occasion" or "treat". According to them, "you will own nothing" and be happy to "rent" everything. You will have "no privacy" ...

jaymaron replies on Nov 20, 2020:

@WisdomWarrior9 If we can make an artificial egg, why can't we reengineer the shell (the packaging) to be more convenient to open?

There is no goodness in mobs.

2FollowHim comments on Nov 20, 2020:

There's a whole psychology, philosophy of groups. They are just weird. They've been known, studied for many years: few bother to read it. I read just a little. Enough. Enough to not belong in a group. Maybe once in a while, similar ideology. Sure, fine. I think, my personal view, that ...

jaymaron replies on Nov 20, 2020:

Yes, a crowd all doing the same thing is lame. Yes, people who feel strong just because they're in a group are lame. A string quartet is a fine example of a group where individuality can be expressed. In football the plays are scripted and there is little opportunity for improvisation. In rugby you can freely improvise. Glory is up for grabs and can be seized by anyone. Everyone gets a chance to carry the ball. At any time, a single scientist can publish a single paper that revolutionizes a field. Upward and downward mobility are important, especially downward mobility. There has to be a way to replace the leaders and give them a graceful path back to lesser status. Wikipedia defines a confederation as an association of sovereign states or communities. Fine word. It contrasts with "federation" in that a confederation has less centralized power. Another fine word is "league", a structure that promotes interaction between members. Sportsmanship and rivalries are fine things.

Forget about metric, this is how we measure in the wilds of Canuckistan.

jaymaron comments on Nov 18, 2020:

In the Boundary Waters canoe zone, portage distances are measured in "rods", which is 16.5 feet, and happens to be the length of a canoe.

jaymaron replies on Nov 19, 2020:

English units have the virtueof being base 2. Base 10 is awkward and the aliens are mocking Earth for it. Tablespoon= 4 drams = 3 teaspoons Ounce = 8 drams Jack = 2 ounces Gill = 4 ounces Cup = 8 ounces Pint = 16 ounces Quart = 2 pints Pottle = 4 pints Gallon = 8 pints Peck = 2 gallons Kenning = 4 gallons Bushel = 8 gallons Strike = 16 gallons Coomb = 32 gallons Seam = 64 gallons Barrel = 31.5 gallons Hogshead = 2 barrels Butt = 4 barrels Tun = 8 barrels Inches are divided in base 2. There's always a story behind any given English unit. fathom = 6 feet rod =16.5 feet chain = 66 feet furlong = 660 feet mile =5280 feet = 320 rods knot =6086 feet league = 3 knot perch = 1 square rod acre = 160 square rods = 1 chain X 1 furlong = 10 square chains square mile = 640 acres

Dr.

jaymaron comments on Nov 8, 2020:

My list of conservative news sites and personalities. https://www.jaymaron.com/anchor.html

jaymaron replies on Nov 9, 2020:

Thanks for pointing that out. I ditched Drudge but kept Fox. I like Gutfeld, Carlson, Hannity, Watters, Perino, etc.

Ted Cruz is real hot even tho he is latino and all, but I find myself not giving a shit about ...

JobyOneKenobi comments on Nov 7, 2020:

Ideals can't be abandoned because a certain candidate is gone. That would make everything Trump did for nothing. Ted Cruz is a good man and has a good head upon his shoulders.

jaymaron replies on Nov 8, 2020:

Trump is the best golfing president, and one of the best golfers in DC. https://www.jaymaron.com/golf.html

What's worse than a 2 party system?

TimTuolomne comments on Nov 4, 2020:

Actually, a three or more party system is even worse than a 1 party system, because it guarantees armed conflict. History proves it endlessly. I totally agree that Trump derangement is denial of their own corruption - consciously AND unconsciously.

jaymaron replies on Nov 4, 2020:

To paraphrase Arrow's theorem, there does not exist a perfect election system. Arrow's theorem is relevant when there are 3 or more candidates. The outcome depends on the election system.

What's worse than a 2 party system?

RobBlair comments on Nov 4, 2020:

2 parties - Republican and Libertarian. If you want government slavery, there are plenty of other countries that provide that.

jaymaron replies on Nov 4, 2020:

What a dream. A choice between 2 viable parties.

The Puckle Gun- [en.m.wikipedia.org] The Second Amendment does NOT only apply to muskets.

MikeHunt comments on Sep 22, 2020:

OH sacred shit, I would love a day on the range with that

jaymaron replies on Oct 31, 2020:

We need a theme park for ancient weapons. The Warwick trebuchet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT5zU1QYlc4 jaymaron.com/gun.html

SciTechDaily: NASA's InSight ground station has has finally gotten its probe buried in Martian soil.

jaymaron comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Cosmic rays easily get through Mars' atmosphere and it takes 1.5 meters of rock to stop them. If you want to find life you likely have to dig deeper than that.

jaymaron replies on Oct 31, 2020:

Because of the thickness of Titan's atmosphere and because of its low gravity, human-powered flight with a wingsuit is possible. The atmosphere also stops cosmic rays. WIth a radioisotope battery you can scoop up ice and make oxygen. An alpha radioisotope coat can keep you warm, and you don't need a pressure suit. Other than Earth, the most hospitable place in the solar system is Titan. We will have flying electric vehicles all over Titan.

SciTechDaily: NASA's InSight ground station has has finally gotten its probe buried in Martian soil.

jaymaron comments on Oct 18, 2020:

Cosmic rays easily get through Mars' atmosphere and it takes 1.5 meters of rock to stop them. If you want to find life you likely have to dig deeper than that.

jaymaron replies on Oct 31, 2020:

Given how much engineering goes into recreational electric vehicles on Earth, I'm suprised we don't already have agile vehicles on Mars. When we get humans there, we want it to look like the X games.

The Puckle Gun- [en.m.wikipedia.org] The Second Amendment does NOT only apply to muskets.

Facci comments on Mar 16, 2019:

This is consistent with the fact that all of the rifles used in the Revolutionary War were privately owned. This means that citizens had better weapons than the military when the Second Amendment was written.

jaymaron replies on Oct 30, 2020:

In the revolutionary war, lawyers put aside their practice to volunteer for the Continental Army. Back then, America had the Right Stuff. Now we have the Left Stuff.

I don't know everything there is to know about global warming.

rway comments on May 21, 2020:

CO2 is about .04% of the atmosphere. Anthropomorphic CO2 is about 3% of that: .0012% of the atmosphere. 3% of 400ppm is 12ppm; well within the noise of natural regional variance. We could double our output, and it wouldn't even move the needle. The Earth's forests and our crops will eagerly ...

jaymaron replies on Oct 29, 2020:

www.jaymaron.com/earth.html

Is the censoring of conservative news on Twitter a form of domestic terrorism?

DeplorableToo comments on Oct 28, 2020:

I don't think it is an act of domestic terrorism. But, I do think it falls under violations of campaign laws. If anything their censorship was an in-kind campaign contribution, that they did not disclose. To censor an article this damning of a politician, during the election, was a use of power to ...

jaymaron replies on Oct 29, 2020:

After the election, Trump gave Hannity an entire hour in the White House.

Is the censoring of conservative news on Twitter a form of domestic terrorism?

coalburned comments on Oct 28, 2020:

I dropped off of Twitter 2-3 years ago when I realized it was a cesspool of useless blather. I'm pretty sure the handful of minutes I spent there cost me several thousand brain cells. I don't see it as domestic terrorism...just a colossal waste of time.

jaymaron replies on Oct 29, 2020:

In 2016 there was great excitement on twitter as the Democrat leaks were coming out, and there were many trending hashtags for the leaks. Twitter killed the hashtags. All the work people put into twitter was destroyed.

SciTechDaily: NASA's InSight ground station has has finally gotten its probe buried in Martian soil.

maxmaccc comments on Oct 18, 2020:

There are some extremophiles that can survive in highly radioactive areas on Earth. D. radiodurans can also withstand temperatures above boiling point and chemically corrosive environments.

jaymaron replies on Oct 28, 2020:

SpaceX pioneered the methane+oxygen engine. Exhaust speed in km/s: hydrogen+oxygen = 4.4 methane+oxygen = 3.7 kerosene+oxygen = 3.4 You can't use hydrogen for the first stage because the density is too low. www.jaymaron.com/astronautics.html The Raptor engine has a mighty thrust/weight ratio of 200, well beyond almost all other rockets.

There was a time when a top ten was.

jaymaron comments on Oct 21, 2020:

Soy is for cattle.

jaymaron replies on Oct 22, 2020:

Soy is one of America's best exports. We have China over a barrel with soy. Soy is a great foreign policy carrot, enabling countries with limited land to produce their own livestock. In Bkg/Year, World production = 330 USA production = 117 Brazil production = 96 Argentina production = 59 China imports = 86 Textbook on birdseed, fertilizer, feedstock, and nutrients: jaymaron.com/ecology.html Soy stands out for protein.

Check Out These Eight Beautiful Travel Posters For America's Democrat-Controlled Cities ...

guru comments on Oct 20, 2020:

I heard that Chicago had the most rats now.

jaymaron replies on Oct 22, 2020:

Orkin compiled city rat data. The rattiest cities are: Chicago, LA, New York, DC, SF, Detroit, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Denver, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Seattle, Boston. https://www.orkin.com/press-room/orkin-top-rattiest-cities-2020

Do you think mob rule will come to your city?

GeeMac comments on Oct 21, 2020:

The US is in a precarious position because there will be unrest regardless of the outcome of next month’s election. Expect most of the violence and damage in the big cities, especially in the LA-Portland-Seattle Socialist Axis. On the broader question of mob rule, it’s been running the shop ...

jaymaron replies on Oct 22, 2020:

Canada has vast reserves of potassium, oil, natural gas, water, hydropower, nickel, cobalt, platinum-group metals, niobium, copper, gold, uranium, thorium, and hockey players. The world needs for Canada to be great. America should kiss Canada's ass and build pipelines. www.jaymaron.com/mining.html

You Won’t See an Election Like This Again Karl Rove This is among history’s most bizarre ...

Grandoodle comments on Oct 22, 2020:

Its so obvious, when trump yells at reporters he's a bully. When biden yells at reporters, how dare that reporter ask that question!

jaymaron replies on Oct 22, 2020:

Trump is a check on the press's power. Trump should hold a press conference where he asks the press questions.

Athens, Sparta, and the Roman Republic had great ideas for a constitution, such as: Roman offices...

Grandoodle comments on Oct 19, 2020:

The Carthaginians had two high judges, not kings like Sparta, and I believe at least two hundred senators from all walks of life who could vote those judges out if they wanted to.

jaymaron replies on Oct 21, 2020:

Thanks for pointing this out. It appears that Carthage had a senate drawn from the nobility, the senate appointed the two high judges, and the term of a high judge was one year. There was separation of power between the judges and the military. Generals were separate from judges and were not appointed by judges. Aristotle praised Carthage's political system.

We could be headed toward an apocalypse | Joe Rogan and Lex Fridman YES WE ARE.

jaymaron comments on Oct 19, 2020:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S72nI4Ex_E0 All we got is slaves, cotton and arrogance. Civil War 1 was decided before it began. The North had 71% of the railroad miles, 90% of the manufacturing, and 97% of military production. Lincoln nationalized the railroads and telegraphs and had total ...

jaymaron replies on Oct 19, 2020:

Republican cities have lower debt, lower tax, and lower murder rate than Democrat cities.

SciTechDaily: NASA's InSight ground station has has finally gotten its probe buried in Martian soil.

maxmaccc comments on Oct 18, 2020:

There are some extremophiles that can survive in highly radioactive areas on Earth. D. radiodurans can also withstand temperatures above boiling point and chemically corrosive environments.

jaymaron replies on Oct 19, 2020:

Indeed, some organisms can survive the extreme radiation of space. Radiodurans is nicknamed "Conan the Bacterium" and it has 4 independent sets of chromozomes, with active repair. Tardigrades are a multicellular organism that can survive vacuum. Extremophiles: https://www.jaymaron.com/astrobiology.html#organisms The Audax bacterium lives miles underground in water trapped between rocks. It can synthesize everything it needs from inorganic material (it eats rock) and it uses energy generated by radioactivity (it doesn't need a star). It requires no other organisms to be in the ecosystem, and so in this sense it has a complete gene set. One Audax bacterium could colonize all of Mars. On occasion, asteroid impacts transport rocks between planets, and microbes can hitchhike.. We have rocks from Mars. It is a near certainty that Earth microbes have been transported to Mars. If we find alien microbes the first question to ask is: what is the energy molecule and what is the molecule used to create it? All Earth organisms use ATP as the energy molecule and ATP-synthase to create it. ATP-synthase is a complex molecular motor that must have required a long time to develop through natural selection. There are many possible molecules that could create ATP but ATP-synthase is the particular molecule that Earth life adopted. If Mars microbes are using ATP-synthase then you know they came from Earth. ATP-synthase could conceivably have come from a planet around another star.

Is the Hunter Biden email dump believable?

jaymaron comments on Oct 16, 2020:

Tucker Carlson stated that every detail that could be checked proved legit. He also stated that if it proves to be a hoax, it's a bigly sophisticated hoax.

jaymaron replies on Oct 17, 2020:

Tucker Carlson stated on October 16 that it had been proved that the laptop was Hunter's.

Should billionaires give everyone $8200 cash?

coalburned comments on Oct 8, 2020:

Frankly, I don't care what AOC wants, and I'm tired of hearing about her. Giving people money leads to a sense of entitlement, drains peoples motivation, and fosters laziness. I think we have enough of that going on right now.

jaymaron replies on Oct 16, 2020:

Term limits are wealth distribution. AOC made money off of her office and now why not let someone else have that prosperity? Can anyone think of a Democrat politician that isn't upper class?

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jaymaron comments on Jan 19, 2020:

https://www.jaymaron.com/telescopes.html

jaymaron replies on Oct 10, 2020:

Atmospheric distortion degrades the resolution of a ground optical telescope, and gravity makes it hard to make a large telescope. Infrared and millimeter are mostly absorbed by the atmosphere. X rays and Gammas are completely absorbed. For weather, we need temperature, cloud, and windspeed data. The Webb space telescope is expensive because it has to be automated. Instead, we should build a manned base station at the Lagrange point L2 and assemble colossal segmented telescopes on site. www.jaymaron.com/astronautics.html#lagrange2

Old school...

jackzimmerman comments on Oct 7, 2020:

and the only means of escape is to drive away in a vehicle with a manual transmission.

jaymaron replies on Oct 9, 2020:

Try navigating a corner as fast as possible. Approach the corner at high speed in gear 4, break and downshift to gear 2, and then accelerate and upshift to gears 3 and 4 as you exit the turn. Then you feel what automatic can't do. Don't get caught in a car chase in an automatic.

Should billionaires give everyone $8200 cash?

Understanding comments on Oct 7, 2020:

How do you teach each generation that the only way to do well in life is to work hard for it? Way to go Leftists, yet another fool proof system to teach the young they don't have to do a dam thing to get given some thing. What an amazing way to drive the wealthy out of America, you know, the very...

jaymaron replies on Oct 8, 2020:

The plot shows that wealthy people are moving out of states with high debt and high tax, and moving to better states. Atlas Shrugged is happening. www.jaymaron.com/civilwar.html

Explainer: What happens to the U.

jaymaron comments on Oct 2, 2020:

What awkwardness. Seems the constitution needs amendment.

jaymaron replies on Oct 2, 2020:

@TheMiddleWay To the possibility of a candidate dying.