Starbase morale is low?

 

Ellie in Space youtube channel--- she says that "disgruntled employees" said that morale is low. Seems to me that is a qualifier. Of course disgruntled employees would say that... It does not follow that everyone agrees, or there would be massive numbers of disgruntled employees. No suggestion of this was in the vid. Musk will give a talk soon. Perhaps issues can be clarified in the talk.

P.S.

I stopped watching the video at the point that she begin hawking the 3D printed models.

Today's politics is like this

 

Do ya think??? It's entertaining though...

Did Trump find the fountain of youth?

This is pure gold.pic.twitter.com/gDsgfXFxUC

— (news) DOGE (@DOGE__news) May 15, 2025

 

Unnoticed Trump Executive Order

 

As one blogger likes to say: "faster please"...

One Of Trump’s Most Important Executive Orders https://t.co/9tTruxZdA4 --- Federal agencies have become too powerful, so Trump has trimmed their powers a bit. This is a bigger problem than an EO can solve. CONUS originally shunned making Federal laws applying to individuals.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 15, 2025

Geeking out

5/15/25:

I'm moving this discussion over to the other blog.

5/10/25:

If you can follow this, then I'd say you were a certifiable geek.

Not saying that I'm up to speed on this geek speak, but I did learn something new. I may try it soon.

 

The realities may be such that I cannot try the Silverblue thing. If I do, I will discuss it here.

end original post from 5/10/25:

P.S.

5/11/25:

When I wrote that I would discuss it here, I meant this blog, but not this post. The subject appears to be too complex of a discussion for one blog post.---5/12/25: Raspberry Pi won't do. Need Mint or Zorin. I've done those, so the groundwork is set ( or some of it ).

Some of the nuts and bolts of censorship

 

NewGuard gives a rating, and it affect advertising rates and even who gets to advertise. Sounds like censorship to me! Don't check your brain in at the door. Trust your own crooked eye, said the Soviet dissident. Seems like we've lost the plot somehow.

NewsGuard is responsible for censorship, while often targeting conservative outlets: https://t.co/1lhUSxdC75 via @JustTheNews --- It's a racket favoring the political left. What should a person believe when the so-called watchdogs don't bark when they should, and vice versa?

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 15, 2025

Rise and shine, or whatever

 

It is an unusual morning so far. Lots of thoughts that aren't jelling into a post.

There are thoughts from the past, and how they relate to the present. But it is not easy to post about that. Let's just how easy it is to misunderstand, and how hard it is to truly understand whatever situation that you may find yourself in.

I seek to understand, but more than often, I fail to understand. Maybe I'll understand better in the future, but by then, it may well be too late for it to do any good.

Have an interesting day. Seems to be the pattern lately.

 

 

"Topple the West"

‘Humanitarian’ left refuses to help 49 Afrikaner asylees, proving (again) the real purpose of ‘refugee’ campaigns is to topple the West: 

 I’m not splitting the atom by announcing what w...

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More than likely, this is highly correlated with the political left, which has a home within the American Democrat party. If you listen closely enough to them, and correlate it with the racist history of the Democrat party, you may conclude that the Democrats have exchanged white racism for anti-white racism.

You may misunderstand the meaning of "anti-white" racism. It is a type of racism that bred the term "white nigger" once uttered by former Senator and clansman Robert Byrd. Robert Byrd remained in the Democrat party until his death. So far as I know, he never renounced the use of that term "white nigger".

Furtermore, the late Julian Bond once said that the word "racism" was to replace the word "nigger". It would involve treating the former white race like the black race was treated. It is a type of racially motivated revenge against the white man. Hence, the hysteria of admitting the Boer. It may even explain how Russia never got the favorable treatment that Red China has gotten.

I vividly recall how Soviet Russia sought Most Favored Nation status during the "detente" years of the Cold War. But China was admitted into the full embrace of the west without blinking an eyelash. Why is it? Could it be that Russia is predominantly white, and that China is not?

It would be hard to hold China to the same standards as Russia was during the Cold War even though the Chinese have never renounced communism. We have very foolishly admitted an enemy within our midst. Red China has become very dangerous.

Is this machine going to Mars?

 

Opinions vary. I think it's definitely going...

PRUFROCK: ELON’S TUNNELING MACHINE IS COMING FOR GARY THE SNAIL

The Boring Company’s newest invention, Prufrock, is a tunneling robot that “porpoises” — meaning it launches straight from the surface, digs underground, then resurfaces without needing giant pits.

It can start… https://t.co/UGUdbFz2Sa pic.twitter.com/BIMZ2a8cjY

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) May 13, 2025

Dems seem to favor Red China over their own country

 

Heartland/Rasmussen Poll: https://t.co/xKFjNBloDF --- How honest are these polls? Kamala Harris is a lot more leftist than what people seem to think. She got too many votes to jibe with this poll. If the public really do not know who they are voting for, it may explain that.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 13, 2025

AGW is bunk, 5/13/25

 

An oldie but goodie of my own on the subject.

Cosmic rays, not carbon dioxide, cause climate change - https://t.co/TOTtkN60SJ --- Article debunks warmist claims of global warming, then points to another article that says why cosmic rays can cause it. Don't check your brain in at the door.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 13, 2025

Spin machine could be gearing up

 

Article says that some RINO types are trying to buy off some conservative sites. Presumably, this is for "conservative" empowerment, but I'm a bit skeptical.

The Counterproductive Move To Consolidate Conservative Media - American Thinker https://t.co/aUtnBNMIjH --- Methinks something foul could be afoot. I'm noticing some subtle messaging changes on my usual peregrinations thru the web.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 13, 2025

All the more reason to take what you hear with a grain of salt --- Treasury report surplus for the month

 

Also, according to this, the revenue increases in budget aren't being counted by the Congressional Budget Office. The new revenue sources aren't trivial. In other words, the story is being spun for some reason. If the CBO is staffed with Democrats, that could explain it. RINOS may be letting the spin go by for some strange reason.

U.S. Treasury Shocks With the Second Biggest Budget Surplus in History https://t.co/XASqF8zxZg --- Budget situation may be better than what is being reported.

— BootsandOil (@BootsandO6892) May 13, 2025

America is subsidizing free health care in Europe

5/12.25, 12 Noon.

 

President Trump is fully exposing Europe's free healthcare scam. It's never been free cause AMERICANS were paying for it one way or another.

"This means American patients were effectively subsidizing socialist healthcare systems in Germany, in all parts of the EU." pic.twitter.com/kTR2YZBQat

— George (@BehizyTweets) May 12, 2025

Any connection to this? Seems like one of my posts disappeared. Some of the commentary out there is incredible. Dems will say anything. 

President Trump Holds Executive Order Press Conference - Lowering Pharmaceutical Costs - 9:30am ET Livestreamp

1:11 PM:

An explanation is in order. While testing a new installation of Linux, I made a post ( or I think I made one). It seems to have disappeared. Google may have deleted the post, because I got a notice that a post was deleted because of a violation of community standards. This struck me as odd. This stuff is plain vanilla. No explanation other than community standards was given. I didn't even detect which post was deleted.

So, basically I commented upon a story in Conservative Treehouse that was embedded in the post. It was about Trump's Executive Order regarding pharmaceuticals and their pricing.

I noted that the pricing representated a subsidy for Big Pharma. That's because of the Presciption Drug benefit in Medicare. Medicare pays for these drugs, which are overpriced in America, as compared to the rest of the world. Trump's Executive Order changes that.

The result of the Executive Order will be considerable savings to the Medicare program. That's why I called it a subsidy to Big Pharma. It is also a subsidy to the rest of the world.

So if this is a violation of Community Standards, then I have no words for that.

I have a hard time seeing how there can be any opposition to what Trump's doing with this Executive Order. Maybe I don't know the half of it.

4:56 PM:

Big Pharma and the Dem's political machine go hand in hand.

If Trump bans pharma ads on TV, half the mainstream media will die overnight https://t.co/v3sIy1XnBM

— zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 12, 2025

Oh Cana-duh

 

In my opinion, the Liberals of Canada are doing it to themselves. Pollyview coulda been a better candidate, and maybe he could have won. If Canada falls apart, it will be Carney and the Liberals' fault.