JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
Some times Charlie was in the trees.
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JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
7d ago
I'm not sure about term limits per se but I would support something along the lines of "after 20 years in government you are no longer eligible to run for office"
My admittedly poor understanding is that the party doesn't like Massie because he doesn't always support Trump and has principles;
This is the narrative the mainstream media is running with, and yes it is a weakman.
What this is is a old-fashioned power struggle between the neoliberal/conservative faction and the Populists. With the Cheneys gone, McConnel and his people are basically the last hold-outs of any note and they are desperately trying to hold on to that power. Meanwhile he populists want them out, and all Trump and the wider party seems to care about is maintaining the GOP majority.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
8d ago
Fairly high confidence it's just a work of contrarian performance art moreso than actually occupying any particular part of the political spectrum
If anything that seems like more of a reason to cast him into to the shadow realm rather than less.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
8d ago
I wouldn't say that Kirk's faction has "won" but I do believe they have the momentum
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
8d ago
Even JD Vance isn't immune.
I would think less of him if he weren't at least a bit freaked out by the sectarian killing of a close friend
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
8d ago
So the third option.
I was aware of him as the head of TPUSA and occasional guest on various programs, but ignorant of his popularity and wider body of work.
I remember finding out he had been shot via a text message from a family member, and my immediate reaction after "Oh Fuck" was being surprised that this family member (who has never been particularly political) even knew who he was.
Given that I have spent the last hour or so reading the trial coverage and have also been quite public about how Charlie Kirk's murder, or more accurately some of the reactions I observed on this forum motivated me to spin up this account after over a year of mostly lurking, I suppose I should weigh in.
I didn't know Charlie, but I know people who did, and by all accounts he was a stand up guy if a bit of a dweeb. I suppose being seen as a dweeb is just the price of being earnest in this day and age. I regret to say that i had largely written him off as just another talking head and TPUSA as just another PAC didn't really become aware of how popular he was until after his death
As for the idea that "His legacy is cringe". What does "cringe" even mean in this context? That he's a meme? As @OliveTapenade observes, Charlie spent the better portion of a decade being a meme before he was killed. When people say that "his legacy is cringe" are they saying that they find his legacy overly servile? (Somehow I think that he may have found that amusing) Or are they saying that they find his legacy disgusting, something to be recoiled from, denigrated, and disposed of. If so, I don't care. Thier boos mean nothing to me, because I have seen what makes them cheer.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
9d ago
she literally worked at his company for 7 years and only left a year before his death
Yes I know, I adressed that in my prior comment.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
9d ago
If a scorned woman nursing a personal vendetta against the man and his family is your idea of an "ally", you have no standards at all.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
9d ago
Incredibly cringe. His death is a meme because even his fans and allies (looking especially at those like Tucker Carlson claiming Israel killed him at the funeral, Candace Owens...
This maybe one of the most egregious examples of outgroup homogeneity bias I've seen in a while.
Yes, Candace Owens joined TPUSA claiming to have renounced her woke ways in 2017, but then she attempted a hostile take-over of the organization in 2024, got kicked out as a result, and seems to have been nursing a personal vendetta against Kirk's wife Erika ever since.
Meanwhile, Carlson and Hanania were only ever "allies" of Kirk in the sense that they were all ostensibly Republicans, A a party that both have been working to distance themselves from for some time now.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
9d ago
Typically there is a heat exchanger on the exterior of the hull with coolant that is circulated between the interior components that need to be cooled and the exchanger. These are the matte white panels you see around the base of the service module on the Apollo and Soyuz capsules. On the Shuttle the heat exchangers were on the inside surface of the cargo bay doors which is why you never see the bay closed while in orbit. Meanwile most satellites as well as the ISS have radiator fins mounted perpendicular to thier solar arrays such that when the solar panels are oriented towards the sun the radiator will either be in shadow or edge-on
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
10d ago
I'm not convinced that the sizes are that "ludicrous", especially if Starship actually delivers on even a fraction of it's promise.
We're not talking about orbital megastructures here, we're talking about something on the scale of the ISS
I busted out one of my old textbooks and found the equation to compute the area required to radiate a given amount of energy in a vacuum. "A = W / (E * SB * T ^ 4)" where A is the radiator area in square meters, W is the wattage, E is a value between 0 and 1 representing the efficiency of your radiator, "SB" is the Stefan–Boltzmann constant, and "T" is your operating temperature in Kelvin. So lets do some back of the napkin math...
A = 1,000,000 / (0.25 * 5.67e-8 * 400^4)
A = 1,000,000 / (0.25 * 0.0000000567 * 25,600,000,000)
A = 1,000,000 / (0.25 * 1,451.52)
A = 1,000,000 / 362.88
A = 2,755.73 square meters.
Per my reply to @sarker above I actually think that sounds pretty doable. For reference the ISS has just over 2,500 square meters of solar panels.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
10d ago
Numbers presented without showing the math can be dismissed just as readily.
That said assuming you construct the radiator as a "fin" so both sides are exposed to space you would need a 50m x 20m structure or maybe 5 10m x 20m structures mounted along a truss to ensure 2000 square meters of radiating surface. That actually sounds pretty workable.
For reference the primary solar panels on the ISS are 36m x 12m a piece and there are 8 of them.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
10d ago
What your paternal grandparents did or did not consider is irrelevant to this conversation, we are talking about what you consider.
Sweep away the high-sounding language about emancipation and radical individualism and what's left is a intellectual, moral, and biological dead-end.
You are alive, posting on this forum today because when you were small the people around you cared for you. They fed you, they clothed you, they taught you to read and write. If you really view this as "slavery" then perhapse they should not have done those things.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
10d ago
Is the current GOP really any more a "Cult" than the Democrats are at this stage?
While I would not underestimate the GOP's penchant for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, they appear to have a clear path forwards. Assuming that the political apparatus that Rubio and Co. have spent the last decade and a half building will simply evaporate the moment Trump exits stage right seems presumptuous.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
10d ago
I expect Platner and his supporters to try and blame this all on the Jews/Isreal before the month is out.
Only insofar as "fascism" has become a generic sneer-word for any philosophy that makes leisure class liberals uncomfortable.
Historical Fascists had a very clear and specific idea of what thier movement was about.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
11d ago
As a parent myself, Good.
If you find the idea of living for someone other than yourself problematic, you're probably going to end up being a shitty parent.
If test flight 12 had been issue free, my answer would be "in the next 3-6 weeks" but as it stands if test flight 13 (currently scheduled for July 31st) successfully demonstrates reliable in-flight re-light capability for the raptor engine I would expect test flight 14 to go orbital.
JeSuisCharlie
Sumner, Hebdo, Kirk
12d ago
You just elected a third world communist to be the mayor of New York.
I didn't elect him. You (the rootless affluent liberals who sneer at normie Americans) elected him. And whether or not someone can be "booted" out of the country for not being American is arguably one of the hottest fronts on the culture war right now.
Yes the current focus is on illegal immigrants, but we can discuss expanding the effort to include Communists and Salafists once the border is secure.
The line was "If feel like you might need a style guide to avoid sounding like an evil robot, maybe you ought to take a step back and ask, "are we the baddies?"
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