Social-Identity-Thief
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I just want a new social contract where congressmen have to sell off all their holdings and disburse their $200M wealth in order to have a seat in congress.
One voter registration for a man who does not exist was still active on New York's rolls as recently as last year. He first appeared in the fall of 2000. Standard detection found 4 records matching his name. Then 6. Then 8. Wildcard searches for spelling variants found more. The birth year was manipulated too: same birth month and day, different years spread across a range of five, defeating automated matching. Final count: 25 registrations in 25 different counties. No county repeated. 19 addresses canvassed. 19 confirmed the same result: no such person had ever lived there. Some addresses did not exist at all. Others were real residences — with real occupants, none of whom were him, and none of whom had any history of anyone by that name at the property. 100% confirmation rate. Of the 25 records, 17 share a single mailing address: a UPS store box in a shopping mall. Every application had the absentee ballot request box checked. According to a Board of Elections commissioner, records with that box checked automatically generate absentee ballots until purged. The registration and purge dates on these records tell us approximately how many ballots were produced. The answer is around 200 — sent to a shopping mall. Three of the counties we have voter history for recorded actual votes in the 2000 General Election. We only have voter history from 3 of the 25 counties. Under NY Penal Law § 170.10: 25 Class D felony counts at up to 7 years each. Under NY Election Law § 17-160: 25 additional felony counts. Add the confirmed votes under § 17-132 and federal charges under 52 U.S.C. § 20511. Sentencing ceiling for one fictitious identity: 302 years. Senior law enforcement officials who reviewed this evidence called it unambiguous fraud. They said prosecution was unlikely under current Albany leadership. The State Board of Elections was formally notified. Nothing happened. As recently as last year one record remained active. The person never existed. No one has been charged. This morning's post covered 11 registrations and a 77-year ceiling. That was one example. This is another.
HEY @amazon. I was about to watch this movie we BOUGHT and I get hit with this?? WHAT THE CRAP IS THAT?? Give us our money back or give us our digital purchases!
Ro Khanna has yet another idea on what could be paid for by taxing Elon: “For 5% tax one time on Elon Musk, you could have universal child care in America. $10 a day for every family." Ro never stops daydreaming about different ways to spend Elon's money.
Why do Texans have so much pride in Texas? I’m genuinely curious!
The National Guard are guarding the Reflecting Pool
For anyone wondering, this isn’t normal. The record for June set in 1976 will be smashed by several degrees. May end up setting a new all time temperature record, beating the 40.3°C recorded in July 2022.
One reason the US is considering acquiring Greenland is to secure access to seafood that could potentially bring back unlimited shrimp at Red Lobster. - US official to the New Yorker
Yesterday I told you about Starfall, and how bringing orbital material to Earth is critical to the post-terrestrial economy. Today, I'm going to talk about the Valar reactor. In the future, we build things in space because space has infinity free power. Build a solar panel once and milk it forever. Elon Musk is trying to sell you solar panels on Earth so he can develop them for space. Solar panels are awesome in space. But they suck on Earth. What's awesome on Earth is fissionable material. These special rocks just radiate free power. And I don't mean a little bit of free power. I mean a huge amount. Like, you may think your modern automobile is pretty cool because it gets 30 miles to the gallon of gasoline. But a gallon of gasoline weighs 6 pounds. If you could run your car on HALEU nuclear fuel instead, then those same six pounds would drive you 11.3 million miles. You know, just in case you wanted to drive to the Apollo landing site and back. 23 times. But that's only 17 years of continuous driving, so you should probably put that six pounds of fuel in your Tesla instead. That way you could drive to Mars. In 69 years. At the end of your journey, you would have a bunch of highly dangerous radioactive waste, of course... six whole pounds of it. You would have to dispose of it by taking extreme precautions, such as handling it with gloves. And burying it one meter deep. In a coffee can. Do I have your attention yet? Now, the spicy rocks are really great because they're super spicy, but the traditional way of using them involves building a great big power plant that weighs about hundreds of thousands of tons, has to be built on a full square mile of wherever you want your power to be, and, for legal reasons, needs to be covered in the thick layer of federal bureaucrats to make sure things cost more, take longer, and generally suck. So that's where this dude, @isaiah_p_taylor, comes in. And he says "Wait a minute... if the spicy rocks are so goddamned spicy... why do we need a whole bunch of them in a huge containment vessel surrounded by acres of power plant?" That's old thinking. Based on our preconceived notions of what a power plant is, which we got from burning coal and oil and other stuff that can't bring you to Mars with one coffee can. Why not build a little tiny power plant? Like, a power plant the size of a train car? A power plant that you can load onto a train car, or a the back of a semi-rig, take it wherever you need it, and just set it down right there? Each one holds a wee bit more than that 6 pound coffee can. Like, maybe 90 of those. That'll get your Tesla to Neptune, if you have 4000 years to spare. Of course, that's not San Onofre. It won't power New York City by itself. But that's what the word "modular" means. Bring as many as you need. Need one? Bring one. Need ten, bring ten. If you actually do need to power New York City, bring 2000. And 2000 isn't an unrealistic number. Because that's also what the word "modular" means. Standardized. Interchangeable. Perfect the process with one, and then churn them out systematically. At scale. No individualized custom site design. No years of construction. No environmental impact study committees. No thick layer of bureaucrats. One design. One set of safety standards and protocols. One approval process. Then you crank them out forever. The concept is already proven. How do you think the Navy gets from San Diego to the Strait of Hormuz? Immigrant galley slaves? Sailcloth? And that's exactly where you get your workforce of modular plant operators... Navy vets who were running submarine reactors when they were twenty-two years old. Except you can put these on a construction site because they're not a big box of weapons-grade plutonium. They're a barrel of low-grade fuel you have to handle with... gloves. In the Robert Heinlein future, you run your factories in space with solar panels, because don't even get me started on how much power the sun gets from six pounds of hydrogen. But on Earth, you run your air conditioner like this.
SpaceX is set to launch its first Starfall Demo mission this Tuesday aboard its Falcon 9 rocket. The mission will test a new cargo return vehicle (pictured below) designed to bring materials back to Earth from orbit. Unlike SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon, which primarily returns cargo from the ISS, Starfall is being developed as a dedicated cargo return system that could provide a faster and potentially lower-cost way to bring materials back from space. The one-hour launch window opens at 6:43 AM ET from Florida with a backup opportunity available at the same time on Wednesday, June 24.
how is it EVEN remotely possible for the bottom 2% to oppress society. that doesnt make sense. how are they oppressing us? what is this horrible take. i hate asmongold dick riders.
