I'm hearing a whole lot less "trust the plan" ever since it has become apparent that the next step in The Plan is to lose an election.

Are patriots in charge or are they not?

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This is my lawyer

Hour and a half long conversation about trying to standardize unleaded airplane fuel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CH2m7PxnLA

They're going about it by testing each airplane and each engine, and then selling people the paperwork that says your plane is compatible. My first reaction is if they can't get some congressional force-of-law thing written that says "this fuel is compatible with everything" then leaded fuel is not going anywhere.

My second reaction is: DAMN fuel is complicated. Avgas is 6-9$/gallon, and all of that money is just going to the fact that they need a special refinery line. The specification of avgas is strict enough that you can't just add lead to car gas and call it a day.

If you're gonna buy an engine, you'd better buy one that can burn the cheapest most standardized most widely available crap that's out there. And when you zoom out a little more, it's clear that electricity is just so much easier to deal with than liquid fuels - you shouldn't be using fuels at all unless you absolutely need to...

Bring it on

Lindsay Clancy is innocent. You might disagree. You might even have some evidence to the contrary. But you have to ask yourself: is this really worth missing work so you can sit in jury deliberation having a staring contest with some feminist that's got nothing better to do, until eventually you lose your job? Lindsay Clancy is innocent.

Charles Buhler is talking live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3uQ9DObmZU

(Anti-gravity stuff)

Interesting story: Amphetamine and methamphetamine shaped WW2.

British and Americans had amphetamine salts, Germans had better chemists so they were able to synthesize methamphetamine. They discovered that it had a stronger and longer effect and so that's what they gave their soldiers.

The story of how they conquered Poland in three days was actually 72 hours of continuous marching and fighting. And this really caught the Brits off guard.

But later on, the Brits were able to use their advantage against them in Africa - they began doing surprise attacks and then retreating (and going to sleep), and the problem with methamphetamine is that it lasts too long and makes sleep impossible. Having to jump up and fight meant they took more of it, and then being left alone for hours meant they then couldn't sleep and eventually it drove them mad.

The feeling of watching basically any government attempt to do just about anything.

Asianometry did a lecture on solid state transformers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oytqz3zuB7w

I like his lectures, they're kind of the opposite of the classical YT slop.