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We’ll see how this comes out on the other siiiideee

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I try not to spam YouTube links — YouTube is evil and linking isn’t exactly providing content.  But I’m not in a position to check this guy’s math and likewise for the expected results of a baryon-baryon collision.  Sigh.  Still, this short and engaging video is as tractable and as interesting as another one about pilot waves made perhaps ten years ago.  Shush now, we’re talking about the pendulum video here:

If you’re having a hard time putting together just how these pendula are actually put together, the word he should have mentioned is “torque”.  You’re welcome.

Also, here’s the one on pilot waves, er I mean driven bouncing droplets of oil:

Finally, I had to use an alternate browser to make this second video pop … Continue reading →

I don’t want us playing world cop.  I personally have gone, and while I ate up the mission at first, it soured around the time some of my friends were killed (I identified them and signed for their uh receipt at the big military hospital there), and my second tour was an exercise in finding a job I could do with all my heart.  All I did was take care of our people, which I can do all day long.  No “host-nation” partnering, no nation-building, no joint security tomfoolery; just take care of our people over there.  Happy to do so, because the whole thing was a piece of refuse, and I wanted to take care of people who thought the way I had on my previous deployment, … Continue reading →

Here’s a reasonable-sounding guy talking about how Agile (the software development “discipline”) has been co-opted by management and that’s why it never works.  He’s not entirely wrong, but his larger point is the same-old same-old.  “But real Agile has never been tried!” they cry, while it just keeps on failing.  Sound familiar?

Agile in my limited experience looks like this: the coding nerds with no higher responsiblity shot the managers, declared an autonomous anarchic coding collective and colluded with end-user customers who also bear no higher responsibility to produce, approve, and certify requirements and results.  Nobody lived happily ever after, Amen.

What happened instead has been a profusion of cobbled-together software which does not meet the actual requirements of the larger customer organization, forcing agglomerations of non-process … Continue reading →

Here’s the key quote captured in a tweeted clip of video:

https://x.com/Jules31415/status/1818308796315312174

This is so stupid an excuse that it literally creates the space need for its own refutation by damned near anything.  So let’s back up and look at the most pleasant possible explanation.

RONALD ROWE is the acting director of the US Secret Service (USSS).  I will assume (oooh, careful with those assumptions!) that he is a good man with a distinguished record of brave and faithful, intelligent and mission-oriented service.  His execrable DEI-focused (her claim, not mine) boss Kim Cheatle has just been canned, having stonewalled … Continue reading →

https://x.com/BallDiamondBall/status/1816832919068922333

At first I thought he was just strategerizing his endorsement for impact, like showing up late to a party.  But he showed about as much enthusiasm for her as she did for Netanyahu when she was finally forced to shake hands and equivocate.

https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2024/07/26/cheesy-peasy-obamas-endorse-my-girl-kamala-via-eavesdropping-video-n3792300

So what gives?

Trump was shot in PA today (yesterday), and I’m awfully glad that it just nicked his ear.  A minor head tilt seems to have saved his life.

On the one hand, this is enormous, and all of the appropriate asses are on fire.  Boy, watch ’em hop!  And suddenly we’re on an upswing in the sine wave wherein everybody with an attention span measured in commercial breaks is proclaiming that now Trump has certainly won the election months hence.  “This one event has done it — Trump is sure to win now!”

Which brings me to the other hand, in which I try not to sound too jaded and bored, but I’ve been saying for some time that there is war coming, a shadow government exists and runs … Continue reading →

I’ve said this before and I’ll try to find it.  Ricochet currently does not allow old posts to be viewed, which is odd, so I cannot find it.  But I may be able to get a copy via friends.

I specifically said years ago that the Democrats knew full well in 2020 that Joe was already senile.  All part of the plan.  Receipts inbound.  Do NOT let Democrats off the hook.  They did this to us pn purpose.  They intentionally installed this empty senile husk of a man so that the Intel-community-centered shadow government can have its way with the government, and thereby the country and the people.

Don’t buy the sob stories.  Every single Democrat knew but lied, even if they’ve convinced themselves by now that they … Continue reading →

Fischer is the big case most directly concerning deep-state lawfare against Republicans, so far against the person of Trump.  It hasn’t dropped yet, but others have.  Good signs from the court.

I’m split on the goodness of the recent red-flag ruling, which affirmed limits on 2A for “credible threat” domestic abusers.  Big picture, I will still stand up and say that the Constitution forbids it.  Yet, I’m also happy that there is a tool to protect women from predictable violence.  How many times do we read a news story and lament that the system failed to protect a woman who was literally warning that she would be killed and by whom?  Obviously, this WILL be abused by the deep state to simply call every conservative man a “credible … Continue reading →

Not one court has any power whatsoever to *change* the Constitution.  The Supreme Court may rule on particular cases regarding interpretation or expression of the Constitution in law or in practice, but they never change it.  This is why a judicial ruling, even from SCOTUS can never settle “once and for all” a Constitutional question.

It is a lawyerly construct, and a wise one, which assigns weight to precedent.  This stabilizes and renders predictable the working of justice, but it does not create new law.  Legislatures alone create law.

There is a way to change the Constitution, and it is exclusively a function of Congress to initiate, without the executive or the judicial branch having a single word to say about it.  “Initiate” is even more narrow than … Continue reading →