My Canadian girlfriend.

In establishing universal healthcare and universal basic income, we will do more to solve violence problems than any gun-centric approach ever could.

s/prison/the guillotine/

I love how they say they’ll only say it once… and then they go ahead and say it twice.

Need a “securities” tax, payable in shares of the security. An annual assessment of 1% of all shares owned, transferred directly to an IRS liquidation department. The liquidated shares will be sold off to the general public over time, such that no more than 1% of total traded volume of the security are liquidated shares.

Individual investors can exempt up to $10 million in value from the tax. Artificial persons (corporations, trusts, any “owner” that isn’t human) are non-exempt.

Basically, stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments become more valuable assets to the working class, but carry more liabilities for the problem class.

Aircraft turned away from you while climbing away, making it appear stationary. Kick on some afterburners, and it’ll take off like a bat out of hell in front of a 200’ flame.

Be the change.

I’m interested in the Trolley Problem of a hypothetical murder of an ICE agent weighed against the hypothetical murder of a random member of the 1%.

At 30,000 feet and +50C, which literally never happens, your density altitude is ~38,000 feet and 100 KCAS will get you 194 KTAS. Not quite 400 😜

This is why I’m a balloon pilot and not a fixed wing pilot. 30,000 is 12,001ft higher than I’ll ever see, and 30kias will probably collapse my envelope and splatter me in a corn field. 😵‍💫

and winds aloft forecasts from one of the government agencies the Republicans are desperate to destroy,

Can confirm: the accuracy of forecasts in general (and vertical wind profile data in particular) plummeted for this year’s flying season. The GOP is needlessly endangering aviation safety on multiple fronts.

This post motivated me to purchase another set.

So in short, is there no conclusive evidence linking it to autism?

Kennedy hears that there is no conclusive evidence linking tylenol to autism yet assumes the causal relationship exists. (It just hasn’t been proven yet.)

Any rational person hearing that there is no conclusive evidence linking tylenol to autism assumes the causal relationship does not exist. (But acknowledges that the causal relationship has not been disproven.)

A better summary would be “Kennedy acknowledges his claims about Tylenol are not supported by evidence.”

I imagined it would be relative to wind speed at the craft, as measured by some instrument. Which would make the comic at least true in a general sense, as it does state the altitude is constant?

That is the misconception I am trying to address. Check out this wind report:

1kt of wind on the surface, 5kts at 100ft. My balloon is 120ft tall. My balloon is experiencing those 5kt winds while I’m floating inches off the ground. If I have an airspeed indicator in the basket, it’s going to be reading 4kts. (Actually closer to 5kts due to the change in direction as well as speed)

How about if I’m at 150ft in the basket, in 5kt winds. The top of my balloon is 270ft, in 12kt winds. My airspeed indicator is going to be reading 7kts. I’m going to have 7kts of wind in my face.

I’m trying to point out that the height of a balloon is very often larger than the gradient between two different air masses.

I have experienced 15kt shears: my basket is hanging in an air current 15kts slower than the air current that my envelope is riding within. I have felt 15kt winds in my face while riding in a balloon that is carried by the wind.

Edit: yep, air speed is relative to the air the vessel is moving through

Just to complicate it a little bit, “Airspeed” usually refers to “Indicated Airspeed”, which is provided by measuring the ram air pressure into the pitot tube relative to the static air pressure. It’s a measure of dynamic pressure rather than actual speed. It’s how fast your wings think they are moving through the air.

If your wings need 100kts in the thick air at sea level to lift off the runway, they will need to “think” they are moving at 100kts when you get into the thin air at 30,000ft.

Depending on altitude, you might actually be moving at 400kts past a weather balloon, but your “Indicated Airspeed” might only be 100kts.

Balloons don’t carry such instruments, but they do experience airspeed. Balloons can climb and descend at over 500fpm. We experience vertical “wind” at those speeds.

Balloons are tall enough that the envelope can be above a wind shear, while the basket can be below. I’ve experienced 15kt shears, enough to deform the bottom of the envelope into a “question mark”.

On most flights, pilots will experience 5-7kt shears at certain times.

Randall isn’t a hot air balloon pilot.

Most balloons are about 100’ tall. The difference in wind speed between the surface and 200’ AGL can be 15kts. (it can be much greater, of course, but shears that strong are below flight minimums).

It is not at all unusual to descend through a shear such that the envelope is in 20kt winds, while the basket is in 5kt winds. It’s rather scary, actually, because our aerostatic aircraft start experiencing aerodynamic effects: “False Lift”. These effects only exist while the balloon is crossing the shear. Once it passes through the shear, all that aerodynamic “false” lift disappears, and the balloon starts sinking like a rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnsRdaZTMas&t=87s

It’s one of life’s great mysteries, isn’t it? Why ARE we here? I mean, are we the product of some cosmic coincidence, or is there really a God, watching everything. Y’know, with a plan for us and stuff? I dunno, man. But it keeps me up at night.

Working in an office for 8 hours a day costs me an additional hour getting ready and commuting to to work, an hour away from home for lunch, an hour commuting back home and unwinding after work, turning 8 hours of paid labor into 11 hours of doing shit for other people.

Working at home claws back 15 hours a week.

91% was the top-tier tax rate, not the median. Nobody paid that rate: Those who would find themselves in that top tax bracket increased their spending on “business expenses” rather than cut punitively large checks to the IRS. Those “business expenses” were for products and services produced by workers; those “business expenses” paid worker salaries. The high marginal tax rates drove money out of the hands of the ultra-rich and straight into the pockets of the working class. Turns out that paying workers for their labor is more valuable to the ultra-rich than giving away their excess earnings to the IRS.

We need to restore the punitively high top-tier tax rates we had from the 1950s to the early 1970s, to drive more cash back into the working class.

But more importantly, we need to institute an annual, 1% tax on all registered securities. To keep the rich from playing fuck-fuck games, that tax should be paid in shares of the securities held, not the dollar value of those securities.

Natural persons may exempt up to $10 million worth of securities from this tax. Corporate “persons” may not exempt their portfolios. If you’ve got $20 million in your portfolio, you need to find another natural person, or start paying.

The SEC transfers non-exempt shares directly to the IRS; the IRS liquidates those shares on the open market, slowly over time. These liquidated shares will never comprise more than 1% of total traded volume.

Where’d you get the buttplug without the sandpaper?