Dad. Husband. Current: Battling Stage IV ALK+ Lung Cancer #NSCLC. Former: Communications Director for @njsenategop
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Hey @venmo - I had money sent to me (and have an email from venmo saying it was sent to me), but it doesn't show up in my account. The email the payment was sent to is associated with my account. I've gone through all of your help menus both online and by phone. No help at all. Please assist.
Hey @elonmusk - is it possible to configure @SpaceX Starship to help land old satellites internally instead of deorbiting and burning them up in the atmosphere? Like Starship goes up and releases new satellites, then picks up any old/defunct satellites before returning to earth.
I ran the math on what happens when all the filed megaconstellations reach steady state. Add up everything on paper (SpaceX's million data center sats, Starlink, Blue Origin's Sunrise and TeraWave, Starcloud, Amazon Leo, and China's roughly 250,000 across Guowang, Qianfan, Honghu and the CTC filings) and you get about 1.4 million satellites. Using Starlink V3 at around 2 tons for the SpaceX, Blue and Starcloud birds and 1 ton for everyone else, with a 5 year life, you'd be replacing and deorbiting about 285,000 satellites a year.
That's roughly 520,000 tons a year, or 1,400 tons a day burning up in the upper atmosphere. The paper numbers won't all get built, so I also ran a more realistic case of about 210,000 satellites by the late 2030s. That still comes out to around 73,000 tons a year, or 200 tons a day.
This number is several times the natural meteor dust coming in every day, and it's mostly aluminum instead of rock. Recent work out of USC suggests each satellite leaves behind about 12% of its mass as aluminum oxide particles that hang in the stratosphere for decades and can help eat ozone. At 200 tons a day that's something like 8,800 tons of alumina a year, compared to maybe 17 tons from natural sources.
Nobody has modeled what that does long term, and I think it's the sleeper issue behind the whole debris conversation. Deorbiting solves the orbital problem by moving it into the atmosphere. Bringing hardware home intact is the only answer that solves both, and that was the core reason I started Outpost and designed our product the way that I did.
It is honestly crazy to me that the best answer our industry has come up for the debris is to burn the trash!
Space Debris: Is There a Market? spaceambition.substack.com/p…
Nope. I'd already be dead.
A Nova Scotia woman had precancerous cells on her cervix.
That was two years ago.
Pap smear. Abnormal cells. Referral to a gynecologist so they could find out if it was cancer. The referral sat for nine months.
She finally gets an appointment. She shows up on time — 10 a.m., in her calendar. The office says it was at 9. Won’t see her. Won’t reschedule. Start over. New referral.
She leaves crying. Seven more months go by. They call about an appointment she was never told about. She can’t take it.
She’s on a TV contract. Miss it and they can sue her.
Next opening: next year.
They don’t even call her back. She has to chase them.
She said the quiet part out loud: imagine dying of cervical cancer while you wait just to see a gyno.
That is Canada’s “universal healthcare.”
Not free care. A government monopoly that loses your referral, punishes you for their scheduling error, and hands a possible cancer case a calendar date in another year.
Coverage on paper. Care on a waitlist. You pay the taxes either way. The state decides when you’re allowed to find out if you have cancer.
This is the model they want to import as Medicare for All.
Don’t.
Brad Schnure retweeted
“I took my 70-something dad to the cardiologist. He is a retired bi-vocational farmer and truck driver who has chronic heart issues since a childhood bout with rheumatic fever. Our visits usually center on whether it is time for another surgical referral. This time something else took center stage.
My dad started to say, “my wife is worried about…” The doctor slipped in “your partner.”
My dad was confused. He did not go to Harvard and therefore did not appreciate the substance and importance of the correction. “No, my wife,” he said. “She couldn’t make it today.”
The doctor cut him off, and this time delivered a performance worthy of an Amazon Studios production about the importance of inclusive language, how words have meaning, and how these words impact health outcomes for millions of people.
My dad went quiet. He disconnected from the visit entirely — not because he is an evil misogynist, but because he could not work out why we were not talking about his heart.
I tried to mediate and steer us back to clinical care. It did not take. To that doctor, the correction seemed to be the most important work she did for any patient that day. Nothing clinically important was addressed.
We had to find a new cardiologist. His care was delayed about three months.”
From @JohnWesleyAyers
Link to his excellent piece in reply
Brad Schnure retweeted
To the Americans:
I've travelled all over the world. I've familiarized myself with many places, and met many people. And I'm a Canadian, although I’m privileged to reside once again in the States.
And here's something I've noticed, and it’s a key element of America's continuing greatness:
You bloody Americans value success, and you believe in its existence.
This is something that doesn't really happen anywhere else in the world. Even in other free democracies—the United Kingdom; Finland, Sweden, and Norway; Australia, New Zealand and Canada; Germany, France, and the Netherlands (great countries all)—a counterproductive cynicism too often reigns.
Success is equated with exploitation.
Ambition is looked upon with contempt.
This happens sometimes in the United States too—particularly among the miserable progressives, who confuse their resentment, ingratitude and unearned skepticism with wisdom.
But in your great country, by and large, striving is admired and success celebrated.
This means that more people strive and succeed in the US than anywhere else. And it's increasingly obvious. You remain stunningly more innovative and productive than any people anywhere else on the planet.
And so I say, as all should who are fortunate enough to live in the western world, let alone America:
Thank God for the United States.
Thank God for the wisdom of its founders.
Thank God for its faith in the free market and in the natural rights of man.
Happy birthday, you damn Yankees and Southerners.
Long may your admirable country dominate the world.
Long may your freedom and hope provide an example to those suffering everywhere at the hands of their malevolent states.
May your two and a half centuries of unparallelled success be just the beginning.
Your country is the light of the world, and the city on the hill.
Thank God for the USA.
Happy 250th.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson
It looks like the residents of hyper-partisan states will continue to self-segregate. On the one hand, we have increasingly high tax and super-woke policies in progressive states like NJ, NY, and CA. On the other, we have low tax, no-woke policy states like FL and TX that serve as a destination for Republicans/conservatives from elsewhere.
Brad Schnure retweeted
Pennsylvania makes ALL retirement income tax-free.
New Jersey? We practically push our seniors out by making it unaffordable to stay.
After 25 years of Democrat control and 8 years of their governor, seniors are still being punished for getting older in the state they built.
I’m fighting to make ALL retirement income tax-free and freeze property taxes at 70 — because no one should be forced to leave the place they’ve always called home.
It’s time to make New Jersey affordable again — for everyone, especially our seniors.
I voted early for @Jack4NJ for Governor of New Jersey! Vote Republican for lower taxes and energy bills in the Garden State!
The first symptoms of my lung cancer showed up in recorded heart rate data from my runs around the time I was vaccinated. Everything was normal until I got the first shot. My heart rate was elevated the first run after, and only got worse from there, so I stopped running.
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Mikie Sherrill was barred from walking at her 1994 U.S. Naval Academy graduation due to a massive cheating scandal.. She claims punishment for refusing to report classmates. Yet, she refuses to release sealed records that could clarify her involvement.
If there's nothing to hide, why not be transparent? Voters deserve the truth. #ReleaseTheRecords
Brad Schnure retweeted
Today's admission by Congresswoman Sherrill that she was implicated in, and punished for, her involvement in the largest cheating and honor code scandal in the history of the United States Navy is both stunning and deeply disturbing.
For eight years, Mikie Sherrill has built her entire political brand around her time at the Naval Academy and in the Navy, all the while concealing her involvement in the scandal and her punishment. The people of New Jersey deserve complete and total transparency.
Breaking: Mikie Sherrill was prohibited from walking with her class at the U.S. Naval Academy commencement ceremony in 1994 as a punishment connected to a cheating scandal that implicated about 130 midshipmen in her class.
newjerseyglobe.com/governor/…
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AND paid fines for it.
While New Jersey families were stretching every dollar, Mikie Sherrill was flipping stocks and cashing in. 💰💼
She made over $7 million from stock trades while in Congress — and broke the law doing it.
Rich on stocks. Broke on ethics.
👉 MikieMadeMillions.com
Brad Schnure retweeted
When Democrat candidate for New Jersey Governor @MikieSherrill was pressed for making $7 million on stocks, she has to respond:
"I'd have to check."
One of the worst answers imaginable to that question.