Debt isn’t a particularly big deal to the US as compared to other problems we’re facing. In other words, it’s not that it literally doesn’t matter, but it shouldn’t be particularly near the top of our priorities. What matters more is both how much it costs to service that debt…

The website Futurism published an article ridiculing Jeff Bezos’s dream of moving heavy industry to lower Earth orbit so that the planet below can blossom into a garden, or something. …

Addressing Republican response to the defense budget proposal: First, can we make up our minds whether we’re interested in disengaged, stay-at-home isolationism where a strong military isn’t needed at the funding levels we’re used to, or instead a hyper-aggressive stance where we’re not just ready for war with China, Russia…

The horror in Israel with regards to the conflict with the Palestinians has reached something of a climax with the accounts of scared people in Tel Aviv under rocket barrage. If only we could identify some underlying cause for this attack that could be directly, straightforwardly addressed to stop such violent insanity in the future. Hmm… Yeah, I got nothing. Incidentally, could you imagine the uproar if there was an Arab attack on Jewish land on Yom Kippur, like a hypothetical raid on a mosque on the last Friday of Ramadan?

The fact that SpaceX has been extremely operationally active with orbital work since 2008 I think while Blue Origin still has yet to launch an orbital rocket speaks volumes, along with the fact that the Blue Origin proposal was twice as expensive as SpaceX. Combine with NASA having their HLS…

Entanglement is simply the idea that quantum processes are correlated. Therefore you can infer things like intrusion more or less instantly. A good example I’ve heard is that it’s like having a pair of black socks. …

First, to be clear to newcomers: I am very much to the left side of the political spectrum — but I dislike disregarding the practical side of things. Passion and pragmatism are like a compass and a map; you need both to get where you’re going. I’m the kind of…

A year ago today, I lost my dad. They let us into the hospital to see him so long as we “followed CDC guidelines” on the pandemic, which is to say doing what is now common and everyday. I’m acutely aware that many others suffering losses of their own during…

The point of “wokeness” is not to feel sorry for being white. The point is to realize race is not biological but was essentially created to delineate who has power and who serves that power: white and Black respectively in America. …