Physio. Veteran. Quad Maximalist. Novels. Climbing. Raising 5 kids w/ my best friend. Mark 9:24 Institutions comprise fallible, corruptible people.
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Bryce Lee retweeted
Jordan Peterson became famous for telling people to clean their room and put their house in order before trying to change the world.
Why does such simple advice hit so hard?
Because it's the only change you can actually make.
You can't fix the world tonight. You can fix the thing three feet in front of you.
And every time you do, you become someone who can handle a little more.
Everyone wants to save the world.
Few want to do the dishes, call their mother, and be patient with a toddler at 6am.
The second one is how the first one actually happens.
Bryce Lee retweeted
To understand most things Musk says, you have to understand that engineers are born, not made. You have to understand that he has always been an engineer and pretty much nothing else. And you have to understand that 99% of an engineer's job isn't to create a thing... it's to teach ourselves how to create a thing.
So when he says cooling in space is "easy", that doesn't mean what normies mean by "easy", which is "doesn't take a lot of resources, time, or expense".
He means what engineers mean by "easy", which is "contains no unsolved problems".
You take in X amount of energy, you know it's all gonna end up as heat, you know that to radiate X amount of heat you need Y amount of radiator. It's all just math.
If you build a satellite that takes in 2X energy, you need 2Y radiator.
There's no unsolved problem, here. There's nothing to figure out. You know the answer. You just have to design the layout.
If you're been beating your head against "how land booster" and "how make engine not boom" and "how make rocket lighter" for years, this is like drawing stick figures by comparison.
So if guy comes along and says "vacuum is a near-perfect insulator", which is both technically true and completely irrelevant, of course Musk is gonna call guy a retard.
Because guy has just revealed that he doesn't understand the basic nature of the problem, or of the design conversation.
The only significance that "vacuum is a near-perfect insulator" has is that it means you can't do cooling in space the same way you would on Earth.
Well, duh.
We've known that since we first understood what space is.
And we've successfully dealt with that challenge since the very first times we put things in space.
Fusion containment is hard. Rocket engines are hard. New AI capabilities are hard. Cheap and reliable manufacturing at scale is hard. Estimating costs and schedules is hard.
Waste heat is not hard.
Yeah, much easier to cool in space.
~1300 W/m^2 is easily achievable for an aluminum radiator pointed away from the Sun, as it is mostly just seeing cosmic background radiation at ~3 degrees above absolute zero!
Solar panels generate ~250 W/m^2, so you should expect them to have ~5 times the area of the radiator. Most of the mass of the satellite is solar panels.
Bryce Lee retweeted
The left attempted to do this here in America online, quietly. The UK just does it in the open. nitter.gq/politlcsuk/status/2114…
Bryce Lee retweeted
If the baby is already gone it's not abortion. I don't know why people keep standing up this strawman argument.
Bryce Lee retweeted
For anyone curious about what it actually looked like to kill a generation of functioning cars, here’s an actual video from 2009 and brief explanation:
The dealer first replaces the oil with sodium silicate solution. It’s a clear-ish liquid that crystallizes under extreme heat. As the engine warms up the solution begins to form small abrasive crystals in the oil system that shred the bearing and score the cylinder walls.
Within seconds of starting the car you can see smoke billowing from the exhaust, this is the crystals scratching the cylinder walls and leaving small grooves for oil and solution to leak past into the combustion chamber and ignite/evaporate, producing the white smoke.
Pretty soon the entire crankcase is full of crystals and freshly shredded metal flakes, the engine seizes. It took about 40 seconds in this video. Some engines reportedly lasted up to 7 minutes, but all were destroyed. That strikes me as sort of sad in a way, like watching a great warrior slowly lose a heroic last stand.
Now, this is the part that gets insanely wasteful. These cars were sent to federally approved recycling facilities where they had 180 days to sell the non-engine parts before they were required to prove that they had shred the entire thing into scrap steel.
But, in talking to a guy who ran one such facility at the time, he typically just sent them straight to the crusher. The timeframes allotted weren’t long enough to dismantle all of the cars, and even if you could, the marginal prices of the parts was greatly diminished. You cannot sell 1000 transmissions when only 50 went bad that year, they became worthless.
So just like that, in order to increase prosperity and save the environment, 677,000 entire running cars and trucks were turned directly into rebar worth a few cents per pound.
The entire Obama administration was like a chapter out of atlas shrugged.
Barack Obama was horrible in a million different ways, but he doesn’t get anywhere near the hate he deserves for destroying the used car market for an entire generation.
15-year-old cars with 150,000 miles that should be selling for $3,000 are going for $15,000. It’s abominable. Pure destruction and thievery.
A good framework for choosing how to act is: what if everyone acted this way?
If everyone acted like Ginger, **we wouldn't have to pay stupid cleaning fees and life would be more affordable and better for owners and renters**.
But if everyone says "screw it, I pay a fee," well, this is a race to the bottom. This attitude is an admission that the social contract is dead, and civilization is drawing to a close.
Final word on this, because the response to this simple act has been eye opening.
So many people responding here that I have somehow been duped, or am too stupid because I paid a cleaning fee, but also cleaned the dishes. They really don't get it.
1. I never pay an exorbitant cleaning fee. Any listing with a stupid fee, I scroll past.
2. Paying a cleaning fee does not (in my mind) absolve me of the responsibility to keep the spaces I inhabit clean and orderly. For my own dignity, I cannot leave a space I lived in, in a state of filth. It's just not who I am.
What's clear now, is that most people feel totally fine with buying themselves the right to live like animals.
Everybody wants nice things, but nobody wants to keep things nice.
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Bryce Lee retweeted
i am coming to the conclusion that the reason that so many of these college students so rabidly hated charlie is not because of what he said when he was holding the mic but rather what he asked them to say when he handed the mic to them.
there's a stunning incoherence to their views. so angry, so confident, so entitled, and so completely, utterly unable to explain why or what they even believe.
never have so many known so little and yet felt so certain about so much.
there is no capacity for critical thinking or discourse, not even a basic semantic grasp of the concepts.
it's just an entitlement-flavored word salad spewed forth as some talismanic claim to deference and respect.
the greatest vulnerability of the marxist midwiped is being asked to explain what they are talking about.
ask what their magic words mean, why they use them, what they signify, how the problems and processes they posit work.
ask how they would do things.
ask what they are asking for.
the results are amazing.
Bryce Lee retweeted
See the clever trick here?
If you point out that the typical woman is not, in fact, smarter than the typical man, he will not engage with that idea. He will simply say that you had your feelings hurt about being dumb, and you should be treated like a woman.
This what @esrtweet calls a "kafkatrap". It's any argument that is constructed so that the very fact that you disagree looks like evidence that you are wrong.
Bryce Lee retweeted
"Banned books" and they are not only readily available for sale in a store, but many are also mandatory reading in schools and/or have been adapted into mainstream TV series
Bryce Lee retweeted
Europeans will call America fascist and then arrest 15 year olds for harmless memes.
Bryce Lee retweeted
Kennedy appointed his brother. Johnson's DOJ worked tirelessly to try and prosecute the post for the pentagon papers. Nixon's DOJ participated in watergate. Clinton's DOJ tried to aid in covering up white water. Obama's DOJ spied on the Trump campaign. How far back we goin for that barrier
Bryce Lee retweeted
You ignored the number one cause: religion. The USA was a strongly religious people with a massive family culture. Even during the Great Depression, families had many children.
To ignore this is to understand nothing.
Bryce Lee retweeted
I think this is right and it’s one of the strongest arguments for conceiving of woke as religion. When Christianity was dominant, you’d find people were more suspicious of the atheist than the thief, because the atheist is demonstrating that they’re spiritually confused right at the core of the matter.
