Short answer: yes I voted for it three times

These are very good points. Has anyone ever come up with an answer?

Entrap him with a narcoleptic stripper and 5 gallons of fake blood

Maybe a few people stay behind and ram it through like last time? Or does that only work for Democrat bills?

Also for overall incompetence and obstruction.

Secession of the blue cities would probably be a net positive. Most of them are huge tax drains on their host states, high cost, and also the center of all the problems with crime. Even if they have economic activity they usually produce little of real value, it is all trade and finance and a large population of useless eaters. Secession would put a lot of pressure on them to sort out our their own problems. So, great idea! Don't let the door hit you in the ass.

True, I don't have a sense for the impact of those fires.

The author claimed that failure could occur from the fire if the steel was heated to 1000C.

Back of the envelope math:

• 200K tons of steel in WTC tower
• heating that from 20 to 1000C requires 96 TJ of energy
• heating one floor worth of steel (of 116 floors) is 0.8 TJ
• a 757 carries 50K L of fuel, each liter has 34 MJ energy when burned
• so the total energy in the jet fuel is 1.7 TJ.

so if all the energy in the fuel went into heating the steel it could heat the steel in 2 floors to 1000C.

However - Most of the fuel would be likely to drain down to lower floors or fly out of the building in the initial explosion, the amount remaining on the burning floor would probably be less than 1/10 of the original amount. In addition,

• the uncontrolled fire would be inefficient
• it would not be concentrated on heating the steel
• steel is a good conductor of heat and thus would tend to sink heat away from the point of heating
• the jet fuel cannot produce a source temperature higher than 2200 degrees C
• much of the heat would be radiated outside of the building.

Based on an uncontrolled fire and the loss of fuel to draining away, it seems unlikely that more than 1/100 of the hypothetical maximum amount would be available to heat the beams. Even then it might not be very likely to produce a high enough temperature, focused on a beam, and producing a large enough flux of heat to overcome the heat sinking of the steel and get above 1000C.

While it is possible that a beam could be heated enough to cause a failure, it's by no means obvious that this outcome is very likely.

If they deducted the welfare costs and deducted costs of all the bad behavior by descendants of slaves, they would OWE trillions.

Yeah and it's not even actually Mark Cuban. It's complete garbage

Iran already defected from the dollar, so this seems more supportive of the petrodollar than not. All the prior investment deals with the other nations in the ME also cementing them to the dollar.

I think (hope) he has another plan that he springs as a surprise. Destroying the people of Iran is a bad look and immoral, and that's what the irgc will force if he follows that approach. It's also what Israel seems to want.

I think at the last minute he pivots to an unexpected direction like occupying kharg Island. That hurts the irgc long term without doing irreparable harms to the population.

Maybe something else we haven't thought of.

Coincidentally on April 1! Fucking bastards!

If you look at the responses in the thread they are highly retarded. It's good that post got up voted but reddit as a whole seems largely the same. But who knows how much is real and what is bots

Thanks, and believe me, I did everything I could. But in the final analysis, it will never work if I have to keep my interests and opinions private from her lest they upset her. I am happy to accept her beliefs, misguided as I might think some of them are, and happy to discuss them, but these discussions did not always go well. Sometimes, I felt like we had a lot of values in common, but she could not look past the details.

The "loss of confidence" ultimately was the problem that could not be solved. I think this is somewhat unique to the feminine psychology which requires the male to be a protector, and that requires good judgement. She saw my response to COVID (1. it's massively overblown and 2. the shots are not worth the risk) as being poor judgement, trusting my own analysis of internet sources over establishment doctrine. She did not appreciate me bringing a stack of research papers to the pediatrician appointment.

In the end, I asked what can I do to improve this relationship, and she said she didn't want to. So that was that.

I think she would have been OK with me putting the blinders on, but I was never going to do that and I made that clear.

I am glad to hear you are making progress toward a resolution. I agree 100% on sovereign beings. We have to accept the viewpoints of others, even if we don't agree. When a disagreement points to different actions, something must be done, but we can't police others thoughts. And in a marriage, to the extent we must keep our thoughts hidden from policing, that is an untenable situation.

In my case it was a little less extreme. She did the masking stuff, and all the other distancing nonsense, and really got into the community pulling together aspects - like making hand-made cloth mask / talismans. Around this time she also really got into the online mothers facebook groups and email lists, which BTW are toxic as hell. And she gravitated to all the identity politics and summer of love stuff.

Ages ago we were sort of on the same page - I was probably more pragmatic but we both were attracted to the hippie / luddite counterculture, even though I work in tech, but I had grown to have my doubts. But in COVID both of these cultures fully bought into the nonsense, which I found deeply disappointing: the hippies became experimental pharma salesmen and the scientists completely abandoned science.

Anyway, I tried to talk her out of the shots but of course she got a lot of them. I don't know if she still does. Pretty much all my tech colleagues do.

I guess I came to realize that she doesn't think for herself, and her appreciation for counterculture was more of an affectation or fashion statement than actually questioning anything for real. It's like "woke".. it's the affectation of counter-cultural beliefs and histories, yet fully supported by the establishment.

Covid was a real learning experience for me. I approached it from the perspective of having an extensive collection of evidence of dubious stuff, and lack of evidence to back up a lot of establishment claims. From my perspective, these were a collection of facts that might be important to know.

What I found was that the frontal attack never worked. These beliefs were so tangled with politics and identity, and deliberately so!, that it was impossible for them to accept the idea that maybe they had the facts wrong.

I wasted a lot of time and got nowhere.

I later concluded that the only way to do it is ask pointed questions that generate an internal conflict, that hopefully leads them to change. Like, "Suppose, hypothetically, the vaccine really were killing 1 in 1000 people in random ways: what would that look like? How would we know?" If they suggest that the signal would be picked up in monitoring databases like VAERS, then huh.. there is sort of a signal there.

To be fair, I have not been able to pull this off either, but I do think it's more likely to work. I just have a hard time not sharing the facts that seem so plain to me.. and seem so important - I can't comprehend how they can not want to know.

But, they don't want to know.

To her, social signalling and conformity was far more important than reality.

At least, I was able to stop the kids from getting the shots. But, that was also pretty much the nail in the coffin of the marriage. Frankly, it was worth it though.

Now I just have to figure out how to un-brainwash the kids in every other possible way.

I think it's different for women. If a man thinks his wife is crazy but he still loves her and is committed, he will stick with it and try to help her and understand her viewpoint. He is not threatened by his wife being a little crazy, and if you show evidence he may eventually look at it, and may even change his mind.

In my experience the other direction is more dangerous. My wife "lost confidence" in my judgement after I refused to toe the line in the COVID psyop and she became concerned that she couldn't rely on my judgement for safety, and that we risked social ostracism. The fact that my viewpoint later turned out to be correct then threatened to wound her pride by proving her wrong. These things cannot be discussed which creates distance.

We are now getting divorced.

Ultimately the distance killed things, but she just couldn't tolerate a different viewpoint from her insane obedience and I couldn't honestly have a viewpoint that ignored rather than sought out truth.

I saw it on CNN (in an airplane) and when I saw they spent over 15 min of airtime on this completely irrelevant garbage I had exactly the same thought. What are they distracting from? What's the motive?

I also agree he's likely headed for divorce. In my case it took over five years but I'm getting divorced now. I didn't think she was this way when we married but she turns out to be permanently programmed. She can't handle my different viewpoint, and I also made the tactical error of trying to help her understand.. not realizing people cannot be taught, they can only learn.

Yes, the problem with proving things with open available data is that surely flight radar will alter or hide data when asked to by governments. Things like COVID is a bit harder because of the huge number of different datasets that show the issues. But in that case they just massively pollute the data and brainwash and make complicit the medical establishment.

That fire will be burning for months, just like the twin towers!

It is s a nice essay but I'm not sure I see it turning around yet. A lot of the people who believe this shit will never stop no matter what. They are too far gone and too invested.

I miss my cat.. he would do headbutts and would sit on my chest and purr when I lay in bed. Unfortunately hit by a car..

Ordinarily I oppose taxes but in that case maybe time for a tax on tea!

Can definitely confirm this, have worked with many people from ZA who work for one of our customers and I would hire them in an instant. When you suffer from discrimination you have to be 10x better just to survive.