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Politics / Re: The 2024 Circus
« Last post by WLJ on March 28, 2024, 11:06:34 AM »
Trump also has a history of like a magician distracting you with one hand while he pulls a ping pong ball out of his pocket with the other. So we'll see.
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Politics / Re: The 2024 Circus
« Last post by Ben on March 28, 2024, 11:02:59 AM »
My tinfoil is firmly in place as I type:

I think there is a good chance that the Trump team is setting things up for a Trump/Tulsi announcement. She has in the span of a week been on Trump Jr's show, an hour long interview on Tucker's show (she's actually on there a bit), and several other interviews I've caught, or at least seen in my youtube feed but haven't watched more than snippets of yet. But she has in all of them been giving answers that a lot of R, and even libertarian voters, generally want to hear about everything from gun rights to stopping establishment elites on both sides of the aisle, to keeping our noses out of foreign conflict. She also, when asked if she would take a VP role, has given the, "I would serve in any role that helps my country" answer, which is pretty much a "yes". She has also really focused on her military background, and most all the former snake eater guys with podcasts sure do seem to like and respect her, which will obviously transfer to much of their audience.

In the last couple of days, I've seen a bunch of guntube channels in my feed talking about these interviews. Some enthusiastically, some with a good deal of skepticism. I don't trust any politicians, but my current stance is that Reagan and Trump were democrats at one point, so I am inclined to give her the benefit of the doubt that she has embraced many of the things that are important to me. I would not be against her in the VP role. She would certainly be better than someone like Pence, and it would lead to an interesting 2028, where she would be in a catbird seat position for a presidential run to keep a "not establishment" vibe going.

Regardless, what I've been seeing in the last couple of weeks sure does seem like there might be a Trump PR machine behind the scenes to get positive PR out there on her positions and how she would be just as anti-establishment as Trump. Plus for the younger voters that don't like Trump, she might be seen as the path to someone they want in 2028.

Anyway, the recent "Tulsi blitz" has me curious. Also, I have a really crappy history about being right about political stuff, so there's a good chance that I'm wrong here.
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The Roundtable / Re: SpaceX News
« Last post by WLJ on March 28, 2024, 10:29:48 AM »
The little sideways lander that could....again!

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Chris Bergin - NSF reposted
Alejandro Alcantarilla Romera (Alex)
@Alexphysics13
Yooooooooo!!!

SLIM is back... AGAIN!!
https://twitter.com/Alexphysics13/status/1773167815551295978
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The Roundtable / Re: End of an era at Costco...
« Last post by 230RN on March 28, 2024, 10:17:42 AM »
I'd have to buy a lot more stuff than I do now to make up for the membership costs, hot dogs or no.    And the travel counts up for me, too.  I'll stick with the local Target and Wally World for most things.  Is there some kind of social gratuity ("I'm better than you because I shop there") involved?

It also seems to me that if their cafeteria is so successful because of the proximity of local businesses, this would be the time to expand the profit-maker to solve the member complaints, not cut back on it. Hm. I note that particular decision-maker is leaving the company. Double-Hm.

That's what prompted my remark about social gratuities.

And did anyone figure in the time dollars at the counter in determining membership when "selecting" members for the cheap hot dogs?  Not sure how it works, but there must be some time=money effect there, no?  Triple-Hm.
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The Roundtable / Re: Bridge collapse in Baltimore
« Last post by dogmush on March 28, 2024, 10:00:57 AM »
NTSB Press conference discussing the timeline and what was recorded on the Vessel Data Recorder: https://youtu.be/jyF_ug1cK9w?t=92

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At 0124:59 numerous audible alarms were recorded on the ship's bridge audio.  About the same time VDR {Voyage Data Recorder] sensor data ceased recording [this was the first power outage, VDR audio has a battery backup-dogmush]
.....

at around 0126:02 the VDR resumed recording sensor data and during this time there were steering commands and rudder orders recorded on the audio

bolding mine.

I called it: that turn was the result of rudder input, given in haste when the power came back on.  They should have just steered through the opening they were already heading towards instead of ordering a hard right turn.

Interestingly, (and this is speculation on my part) in that brief the NTSB specifies when it's the pilot ordering things "The Harbor piolet radioed...the pilot ordered the port anchor dropped....etc) but declines to mention who gave the rudder commands on the audio.  It doesn't really matter, as pilot or no pilot the ship is the Master's responsibility.


ETA:  It also sounds like the pilot was on the right track.  After the unneccicary turn to STBD, and with control lost again, he ordered the port anchor dropped, which would have slowed the ship and slewed it back to port.  It should have been rigged for freefall in the harbor, so it wouldn't have needed power to emergency drop.  If they had gotten it out they might have been able to slip under the bridge, but it's hard to say.  Once she turned that far to Stbd it was about their only chance though.  Props to the pilot for thinking of it in the moment.
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Politics / Re: Illegal immigrants there, not here
« Last post by dogmush on March 28, 2024, 08:36:35 AM »
I firmly believe that American Society is not entrenched in racisim, and reject the "All white people are racist, either covertly or overtly" crap.  THat said, there are SOME racist aholes in America still, and there are Small pockets of Neo-Nazis.

As big a name as this guy has made for himself, and as open as he is on how to find him, ICE picking him up might be his safest course.

He's quoted in the Daily Mail as saying he and his family have received threats, and I believe that.  Holmes is going to tick off a lot of aholes with antics like this.  I hope the rage baiting on Tik Tok/Instagram was worth it.
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The Roundtable / Re: What's happening with/to the VFW?
« Last post by dogmush on March 28, 2024, 08:28:02 AM »
I will add that the guys at my post seem pretty cool honestly.  Every time I've been there they've been fine, they host a christmas party for my reserve unit every year, with food and toys for the kids, and their emails tell the tale of plenty of charitable events and helping out the town.

They are just like a 50 min drive from my house, in a direction I rarely travel, and between work, overlanding, shooting, and hiking with the pups and Mrs. Mush I never have time to do anything there. 

My lack of involvement is me, not them.
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The Roundtable / Re: Bridge collapse in Baltimore
« Last post by dogmush on March 28, 2024, 08:23:58 AM »
Found on X:



I mostly agree with Chief here.  (I posted something similar back on Page 2) with a few minor things:

Dali doesn't have a Stern Thruster  If she did she would have the same thruster marks she has above the bow over the stern thruster and you can clearly see in plenty of pics she does not.

I still stand by my statement the the E Gen didn't kick on.  If it had, you'd have seen the nav lights come back on before the deck lights.  Deck Lights are *rarely* on the emergancy switchboard, while nav lights are required to be.  This is a big deal, because if the E. Gen had done what it was supposed to, she could have just continued her transit under the bridge and the engineers could have fixed her main gens at their leisure.  That 1 minute power outage is the snipes getting main power back. 

"Shortly after the lights come back the Captain relizes he's on a collision course with the bridge"  This makes no sense.  All the nav equipment on the bridge is on a battery backup (again required to be there and tested) so he would have known for the whole time he was dark ship exactly where the boat was going, and he wasn't on a collision course with the bridge until they turned the boat.  They were still heading straight through the opening.

Whoever, or whatever, caused the sharp Stbd turn right after they got power back the first time, either thruster, dropped anchor, rudder input, or crash stop engine torque, that's what caused the crash. I'm still reasonably confident it wasn't the current though.  You don't drift straight for a minute then lose control to the current once power comes back on.
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The Roundtable / Re: SpaceX News
« Last post by WLJ on March 28, 2024, 08:12:30 AM »
Just noticed there's only a 30% chance of favorable weather
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Politics / Re: Watch a Youtube Video and Get on a Fed List
« Last post by Ben on March 28, 2024, 08:09:57 AM »
Steve Lehto comments:

https://youtu.be/i8jMSs8du-o
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