I think people forget how that chapter turned out.
First French Revolution (1789–1792): Absolute monarchy collapses; replaced by a shaky constitutional monarchy.
National Convention (1792–1795): Republic declared; quickly devolves into the Reign of Terror (1793–1794).
The Directory (1795–1799): Moderates take over; heavily corrupt and universally disliked.
The Consulate (1799–1804): Napoleon overthrows the Directory in a military coup.
First French Empire (1804–1814): Napoleon crowns himself Emperor and invades Europe.
Battle of Waterloo (1815): Napoleon's final "Hundred Days" comeback fails; exiled for good.
Bourbon Restoration (1814–1830): The old royal family returns to the throne.
The July Revolution (1830): A 3-day revolt replaces the Bourbons with a more liberal cousin, King Louis-Philippe.
The February Revolution (1848): The king is ousted; Louis-Napoléon is democratically elected President of the Second Republic.
Second French Empire (1852–1870): Louis-Napoléon pulls a family tradition, ends the Republic, and becomes Emperor Napoleon III.
Third French Republic (1870–1940): Napoleon III is captured by Prussia; France sets up a highly unstable parliamentary democracy.
Vichy France (1940–1944): Nazi puppet state led by Marshal Pétain during WWII.
Provisional Government (1944–1946): De Gaulle cleans up the post-war mess and restores basic laws.
The Fourth Republic (1946–1958): A weak, hyper-unstable republic that collapses during the Algerian crisis.
The Fifth Republic (1958–Today): De Gaulle writes a new constitution with a strong President. See EZPZ!
I think people tend to forget that it was a very long 169 years from bopping off rich people's heads to stable government. Millions of people died in senseless acts of violence along the way. Whispers were treated as fact and rumors as final judgement. It was an absolute terrible time.
Yes Musk has a very long record of not paying people until they eventually sue him. This isn't a new thing, this has been a kind of lifelong thing of Musk's.
Salomone was persuaded by a video deposition of Joseph Killian, a former Twitter executive, who testified that Twitter stopped paying rent in December 2022 as a “renegotiating tactic — a tactic to save money.”
The well deserved criticism of Israel that Israel continues to do nothing about it. Benjamin Netanyahu has been formally indicted and stands trial for corruption, yet he has manipulated his Government to stay in power for an undemocratically long amount of time. So let's call it what it is, he's a dictator. And he's having to use military might to remain in power. He's having to use consistent fear of invasion to remain in power.
Let's look pass the millions of innocent people he's killed, the children, the women, the elderly, he has slaughtered. Let us look solely at the objective which is, that man has clung to power long outside the rule of law established would have allowed him to remain in power. If it walks like a duck, if quacks like a duck, and it bites the shit out of everyone like duck, then it's likely a dictator using religious identity to hide behind.
People are concerned that antisemitism might get a platform. But look at the demonstration the Jewish people are giving for this "exemplar" of the Judaism state. The religion manifest as a Governing body of it's people. Like if your friend was taking you to "this great restaurant" and you get there and there's people stumbling out of it and shitting their pants and the whole place looks like a hurricane hit it. I mean you're going to be thinking twice about your friend's recommendation. And then when you look it all over and go "I don't think I want to eat here" they reply with "WELL YOU'RE JUST BEING ANTISEMITIC!" Well then, who fucking is pushing who away?
if the current political scene does not provide a good framing of Israel criticism
It's nobody's but Israel's to fix. The US ain't the fucking PR team for foreign nations. And it's stupid to think it ought to be. All it has done so far for the United States to step up for Israel is to make the US look like an idiot. "Oh no, Israel would never bomb a school..." And then we're watching videos of them doing exactly that. And then that just makes the US look like a fucking idiot.
If Israel is concerned about their bad image, I wonder what they could possibly do about it? I don't know, maybe address the despot in power at the moment? That's the thing. The US is seeing their own dictator trying to rise up and how awesome that's going for them. So then they look at Israel and how freely their despot runs around, we know the game. He's running around freely because the majority of the population is now blown out Likud, the Israeli MAGA elites basically.
Netanyahu is getting his hall pass on the Jewish equals rich fuckheads that keep saying "oh no we are here to save the little guy!" All the while they pop their data centers, take our electricity, take our water, fuck our trade, fuck our farmers with that trade, fuck our grocery prices, fuck our gasoline prices, tear down our education, tear down our hospitals, and so on. MAGA is Likud, that's who they are patterned after. And we see what MAGA is doing for all of us and how hard we have to push back, to the point they fucking shoot people in the back of head in the middle of the Streets here in the United States. So when Netanyahu walks so freely around, we here in the US know, 90% of the Israeli population that permits that and there's little to no push back in that nation. Yeah, they are holding up someone running a nation who should be in prison right now.
You don't even need to consider the massive genocide that Israel has done so far. That country has abandoned every single principal the United States ought to stand for. A country ruled by law, where all are judged the same, where elections matter, and the people's voices are heard. Israel does this shit to themselves. If they are that concerned, maybe start with some political reforms (that they entirely control) so that they look less like a dictatorship and more like this so called Democracy they keep saying they are.
It's not up to anyone else but Israel to deal with their image. If they want to be the Jewish ethnostate, if they want to be what people think of when someone thinks Jews, then it's on THEM to deal with the fallout from the fact that their government is 100,000% completely fucked at the moment. And is being ran by a criminal who is being kept in power by rich elites and fear. And you know, it's something that the United States is getting to see firsthand, so our appetite for other nations doing it gets reduced down a bit. See MAGA hurts the Israelis the most. Because there's only so much Trillionaires running the nation that common people from all walks of life are willing to put up with, no matter their political affiliation. See if it was all just in Israel with the Likud, we'd have the room for it on our plate. But since MAGA has come in and started showing everyone how amazing greedy fucksticks run things, we've got a bit less room now.
See entry level people believe it's fundamentals. Smarter people understand that it's reading people and knowing when they're dumb enough to invest and knowing when to bail before they wise up. So if you think about it in those respects, it is indeed an honest to goodness "real" thing. People are really being ripped off by con-artist.
But yeah, the days of the 1890s to 1930s of structured investment, measured risk, and mitigation of the unforeseen, those days are dead. There aren't market fundamentals outside of being able to identify rubes.
That whole hearing was exactly the textbook of cruel trilemma.
The fifth amendment was something created to prevent the situation that arose in 17th century England with being forced to take an ex officio oath. Putting them into a situation where:
You either incriminate yourself to some crime
Commit perjury by not sticking to a record that you may have forgotten
Be held in contempt because your service bars silence
In Brown v. Walker (1896) the US created a case law that took the traditional meaning of the fifth to a new level that allowed twisting of it's words. In that case, anyone given an unconditional pardon could not self-incriminate, and since the fifth had (in their opinion) a requirement that protection only extended to self-incrimination, those with a pardon couldn't invoke the fifth for things they have been pardon for.
It is this that creates the new modern US cruel trilemma.
You either say something that reveals in some manner a new crime not covered by the pardon
You commit perjury by saying something in the record that is held to not match the record for which you were pardoned
You are held in contempt because your pardon bars silence
That is what Fauci walked into. A situation where the legal technicalities had been so twisted that each of his rights both helped and hurt him. There was no correct answer since the deck had been stacked already. This is the same technicalities that were used back in the McCarthyism days. People wonder why people would willingly go to testify in front of the Senate and not just remain silent? Because the Senate had twisted the legal framework such that there were no options open to people.
Is Hegseth going to be tested? Because all this is, is him indicating that everyone a hint over 30 will be fired.
As for the testosterone replacement, that is just irony that he's looking for gender affirming care for the military, when they just said they weren't for that.
We can indeed use things like pump storage and gravity batteries, but we don't really have to. The next element down on the periodic chat from lithium can be used in place of lithium at half the energy density. Which to save you time, it's sodium, which can be found in salt, which we have quite a bit of on the planet.
Sodium ion batteries were slightly researched but lithium got the money because it has twice the energy density (amount of energy you can store per kilogram). However, for giant batteries that never have to move, sodium ion batteries are ideal for grid storage.
Very insightful. At grid scale the line between them just blurs because of how they're ultimately used. But there are some differences and ultimately a grid scale pack would be both packed in one. With caps taking the blows to smooth into the chemical storage of the battery behind it or head right back out before a need to store in the chemical behind the cap.
I keep telling people, production isn't the problem in most national grids. The issue is distribution. Power plants operate on-demand. That means when you flip on your light switch, some power plant somewhere has to spin just a little bit more faster to account for you turning on the light. And when you turn it off, it has to spin just a little bit slower.
There's no buffer for the in-between. We have the same issue with water pipes. The pumps pump the water out at some fixed rate and everyone uses the water at some variable rate. The difference is that with water we have something that acts as a buffer, we call them water towers. So when someone shuts off their sink, instead of pumping a little slower, we just send the excess water to a tower. And when demand goes up, instead of pumping faster, we just empty the tower.
Electricity has something similar, they're called batteries. And every national grid of developed countries has been in need of them since the 1970s. But we just keep doing neat little tricks with averaging to prevent investment in grid batteries. So this is going to continue to be an issue until nations start biting the bullet on this issue. More solar panels is great, but that's not the major problem at the moment.
This is that where the party starts shitting or getting off the pot. Take some stance on this issue as opposed to this trying to have cake and eat it too approach that just keeps giving the win to Republicans.
Thom Yorke has literally tried everything for selling music. Though it all he's seen the music industry eventually consume it.
You can't invent something new without it eventually turning into what was the old. We can always keep moving the tech, we can always keep inventing some new platform, but we never get to keep to ourselves forever.
The reason why this keeps happening is because people keep trying to apply a solution that doesn't apply to the problem. We don't need some NEW method of delivery. We just need to get rid of the OLD system of industry.
It's rich people. AI is the current excuse. I hate this notion that if we got rid of AI we solve the issue. No, the rich people are still there and they'll find a new thing to suck everyone's lives with.
Man is he not going to like what he's actually remembered for down the road.
DUH!
I think people forget how that chapter turned out.
I think people tend to forget that it was a very long 169 years from bopping off rich people's heads to stable government. Millions of people died in senseless acts of violence along the way. Whispers were treated as fact and rumors as final judgement. It was an absolute terrible time.
Yes Musk has a very long record of not paying people until they eventually sue him. This isn't a new thing, this has been a kind of lifelong thing of Musk's.
This has literally been Musk his entire life.
The well deserved criticism of Israel that Israel continues to do nothing about it. Benjamin Netanyahu has been formally indicted and stands trial for corruption, yet he has manipulated his Government to stay in power for an undemocratically long amount of time. So let's call it what it is, he's a dictator. And he's having to use military might to remain in power. He's having to use consistent fear of invasion to remain in power.
Let's look pass the millions of innocent people he's killed, the children, the women, the elderly, he has slaughtered. Let us look solely at the objective which is, that man has clung to power long outside the rule of law established would have allowed him to remain in power. If it walks like a duck, if quacks like a duck, and it bites the shit out of everyone like duck, then it's likely a dictator using religious identity to hide behind.
People are concerned that antisemitism might get a platform. But look at the demonstration the Jewish people are giving for this "exemplar" of the Judaism state. The religion manifest as a Governing body of it's people. Like if your friend was taking you to "this great restaurant" and you get there and there's people stumbling out of it and shitting their pants and the whole place looks like a hurricane hit it. I mean you're going to be thinking twice about your friend's recommendation. And then when you look it all over and go "I don't think I want to eat here" they reply with "WELL YOU'RE JUST BEING ANTISEMITIC!" Well then, who fucking is pushing who away?
It's nobody's but Israel's to fix. The US ain't the fucking PR team for foreign nations. And it's stupid to think it ought to be. All it has done so far for the United States to step up for Israel is to make the US look like an idiot. "Oh no, Israel would never bomb a school..." And then we're watching videos of them doing exactly that. And then that just makes the US look like a fucking idiot.
If Israel is concerned about their bad image, I wonder what they could possibly do about it? I don't know, maybe address the despot in power at the moment? That's the thing. The US is seeing their own dictator trying to rise up and how awesome that's going for them. So then they look at Israel and how freely their despot runs around, we know the game. He's running around freely because the majority of the population is now blown out Likud, the Israeli MAGA elites basically.
Netanyahu is getting his hall pass on the Jewish equals rich fuckheads that keep saying "oh no we are here to save the little guy!" All the while they pop their data centers, take our electricity, take our water, fuck our trade, fuck our farmers with that trade, fuck our grocery prices, fuck our gasoline prices, tear down our education, tear down our hospitals, and so on. MAGA is Likud, that's who they are patterned after. And we see what MAGA is doing for all of us and how hard we have to push back, to the point they fucking shoot people in the back of head in the middle of the Streets here in the United States. So when Netanyahu walks so freely around, we here in the US know, 90% of the Israeli population that permits that and there's little to no push back in that nation. Yeah, they are holding up someone running a nation who should be in prison right now.
You don't even need to consider the massive genocide that Israel has done so far. That country has abandoned every single principal the United States ought to stand for. A country ruled by law, where all are judged the same, where elections matter, and the people's voices are heard. Israel does this shit to themselves. If they are that concerned, maybe start with some political reforms (that they entirely control) so that they look less like a dictatorship and more like this so called Democracy they keep saying they are.
It's not up to anyone else but Israel to deal with their image. If they want to be the Jewish ethnostate, if they want to be what people think of when someone thinks Jews, then it's on THEM to deal with the fallout from the fact that their government is 100,000% completely fucked at the moment. And is being ran by a criminal who is being kept in power by rich elites and fear. And you know, it's something that the United States is getting to see firsthand, so our appetite for other nations doing it gets reduced down a bit. See MAGA hurts the Israelis the most. Because there's only so much Trillionaires running the nation that common people from all walks of life are willing to put up with, no matter their political affiliation. See if it was all just in Israel with the Likud, we'd have the room for it on our plate. But since MAGA has come in and started showing everyone how amazing greedy fucksticks run things, we've got a bit less room now.
See entry level people believe it's fundamentals. Smarter people understand that it's reading people and knowing when they're dumb enough to invest and knowing when to bail before they wise up. So if you think about it in those respects, it is indeed an honest to goodness "real" thing. People are really being ripped off by con-artist.
But yeah, the days of the 1890s to 1930s of structured investment, measured risk, and mitigation of the unforeseen, those days are dead. There aren't market fundamentals outside of being able to identify rubes.
That whole hearing was exactly the textbook of cruel trilemma.
The fifth amendment was something created to prevent the situation that arose in 17th century England with being forced to take an ex officio oath. Putting them into a situation where:
In Brown v. Walker (1896) the US created a case law that took the traditional meaning of the fifth to a new level that allowed twisting of it's words. In that case, anyone given an unconditional pardon could not self-incriminate, and since the fifth had (in their opinion) a requirement that protection only extended to self-incrimination, those with a pardon couldn't invoke the fifth for things they have been pardon for.
It is this that creates the new modern US cruel trilemma.
That is what Fauci walked into. A situation where the legal technicalities had been so twisted that each of his rights both helped and hurt him. There was no correct answer since the deck had been stacked already. This is the same technicalities that were used back in the McCarthyism days. People wonder why people would willingly go to testify in front of the Senate and not just remain silent? Because the Senate had twisted the legal framework such that there were no options open to people.
Yeah like the last umpteen times this has happened in my lifetime. We live in a society of greed, who knew it would be so unstable?
This government is a joke. And not the funny kind.
Is Hegseth going to be tested? Because all this is, is him indicating that everyone a hint over 30 will be fired.
As for the testosterone replacement, that is just irony that he's looking for gender affirming care for the military, when they just said they weren't for that.
We can indeed use things like pump storage and gravity batteries, but we don't really have to. The next element down on the periodic chat from lithium can be used in place of lithium at half the energy density. Which to save you time, it's sodium, which can be found in salt, which we have quite a bit of on the planet.
Sodium ion batteries were slightly researched but lithium got the money because it has twice the energy density (amount of energy you can store per kilogram). However, for giant batteries that never have to move, sodium ion batteries are ideal for grid storage.
Very insightful. At grid scale the line between them just blurs because of how they're ultimately used. But there are some differences and ultimately a grid scale pack would be both packed in one. With caps taking the blows to smooth into the chemical storage of the battery behind it or head right back out before a need to store in the chemical behind the cap.
I keep telling people, production isn't the problem in most national grids. The issue is distribution. Power plants operate on-demand. That means when you flip on your light switch, some power plant somewhere has to spin just a little bit more faster to account for you turning on the light. And when you turn it off, it has to spin just a little bit slower.
There's no buffer for the in-between. We have the same issue with water pipes. The pumps pump the water out at some fixed rate and everyone uses the water at some variable rate. The difference is that with water we have something that acts as a buffer, we call them water towers. So when someone shuts off their sink, instead of pumping a little slower, we just send the excess water to a tower. And when demand goes up, instead of pumping faster, we just empty the tower.
Electricity has something similar, they're called batteries. And every national grid of developed countries has been in need of them since the 1970s. But we just keep doing neat little tricks with averaging to prevent investment in grid batteries. So this is going to continue to be an issue until nations start biting the bullet on this issue. More solar panels is great, but that's not the major problem at the moment.
And don't get me started with transmission lines.
This is that where the party starts shitting or getting off the pot. Take some stance on this issue as opposed to this trying to have cake and eat it too approach that just keeps giving the win to Republicans.
Futurama meme coming soon.
Senators aren't impeached. They are expelled. Expulsion requires two-thirds vote in the Senate.
Thom Yorke has literally tried everything for selling music. Though it all he's seen the music industry eventually consume it.
You can't invent something new without it eventually turning into what was the old. We can always keep moving the tech, we can always keep inventing some new platform, but we never get to keep to ourselves forever.
The reason why this keeps happening is because people keep trying to apply a solution that doesn't apply to the problem. We don't need some NEW method of delivery. We just need to get rid of the OLD system of industry.
It's rich people. AI is the current excuse. I hate this notion that if we got rid of AI we solve the issue. No, the rich people are still there and they'll find a new thing to suck everyone's lives with.
I'm pretty meh about the designs. I'll take a wait and see on the story on if I pull any of them.