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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Given how high the tanker is riding it is empty. If full the extended bulbous bow would be under water. Unfortunately.

cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It may look strong to some people, but to people struggling with paying their bills it looks pretty weak. The stock market indexes are not the entire economy.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Did he dream it? Or did one of his minions tell him there was a cease-fire to make him happy? People in the media need to keep asking him where he got the obviously nonsense he spouts. His poll numbers are high he says. Fantasy or is someone around him telling him stuff to make him feel good?

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Trump says Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a cease-fire. Zelenski says that's news to him, the Kremlin says they don't know about it. Who told Trump there was a cease-fire? This is the question the news should be asking him? Who told you there was a cease-fire? Who exactly told you?

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Trump does not like people who use his name to get stuff, and he doesn't get a cut. Only he is supposed to benefit by the use of his name. She has gotten too greedy. Using his name to promise things that she could not deliver.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Unfortunately the Prime Responsibility of Campus Cops is to protect the reputation of the college. Everything that can be swept under the rug will be, everything that can be downplayed will be. Convincing victims not to file charges is their first reaction to ever accusation.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Going to cost a lot, and his friends will be getting most of it.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Well, if someone wants to bribe her they at least know what the price range is.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Is the focus on the each weeks story, or just on character development over the season? Later Treks were soap-operas in space. With episode ending cliff-hangers so you dial in again next week.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The first question should be what will the form be. Original Trek was each episode was a stand-alone story, with only a few repeat appearances. Later Treks were each season was a single story, essentially movies you watched an hour of each week. Miss a week and you loose the story.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Kennedy said, about giving out the phone number, " “I don’t think that’s going to help convince Tom.” It was not supposed to. It was supposed to PUNISH him. Revenge, retaliation, getting even, those are the things Trump does when not getting his way.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It is exhausting. Because they are afraid of everything. Absolutely EVERYTHING. Their neighbors, their coworkers, the taillights on their car not working. So they are begging for someone to protect them from all those things they are insecure about.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What is missing from the panic is what EXACTLY Trump would do. Declare every member of Congress remains in their current post forever? What about State and Local officials also on the ballots, this is not JUST a federal election. A lot of elected officials are already planning to leaving office.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a fine example of MAGA stupidity. Given Smith's job at the time his office would have records of where he was when. They would know about his travel, even personal. But nobody checked. Some fool saw an email, jumped to conclusions and ran with the story, right into a brick wall.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Automakers have to think in the long term, not just for the next two years of Trump. Lowering requirements would let them keep making the current models but eventually the demand for better mileage will return. So the auto companies will continue to develop more efficient vehicles.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A question that needs to be asked is 'Who it the Weinstein of today?" Surely we are not so naive as to think there isn't a man in the entertainment business today making demands like this. Or has something changed that would make it impossible?

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Indeed. I wonder if anyone has asked an Attorney General from one of these states about this? Perhaps address this before some person has their life ruined by something they said in anticipation it would go no further.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

If camera equipt glasses need to have a red light to show they are recording should glasses that are recording audio also need to have an indicator light showing they are recording?

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The problem with devices like this is their small size limits how you can communicate with it and how it can communicate back. I like 32" computer monitors, what can I see on a 1" screen? Do I have to talk to it and listen to its answers? So everyone nearby can hear both sides of the conversation?

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Trump and Hegseth and the rest of them think of everything in terms of what instant rewards they will get. Just like businesses who only think of the next quarters profits. When dealing with global issues you also need to think of consequences a decade in the future, several decades in the future.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Actually this is a clever ploy to delay construction. Making changes and adding stuff requires changes to the plans and orders for things that will take a long time to fulfill. If they can delay it long enough he will be out of office before they start building... Then they can forget about it.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Who do you think wrote the reports showing the shortage, a general or an NCO?

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

With respect to the number of missiles still in the inventory and available for use the most likely people to know the details will be the supply Sargent's. Many people in the logistics chain would have access to numbers and locations of available munitions.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This sure would make a lot of nerdy guys happy. And exhausted too. How many guys does it take to impregnate 100 women???

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I would need to see some samples of your work before I sign up. So you are going to have to publish some material without paywalls or other restrictions to access. Do that for a while and maybe I will sign up.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

How is easy... Stop paving roads. Stop plowing roads in winter. Turn off street lights and traffic lights. (think of the savings in electricity). Whenever someone promises to cut taxes ask them "what will the government STOP doing that they are doing now?"

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

We already have samples of the lunar surface, from Apollo. Has any evidence been seen in those samples? Before spending considerable resources on collecting new sources, trying to exploit the existing samples would seem to be the first step.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

If this is built you can be sure that the statue on top will not be the winged statue shown in all of the drawings of the arch. It will be a statue of Trump.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Yes, by the time the last hardware is installed the first hardware installed will be obsolete. Which means the last date centers to be built will be the only ones at the bleeding edge technology wise. The first ones built will just be interesting antiques.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The influencers want to brag that they have tickets. But they don't actually want to go to the games. Because they can't take selfies of themselves leaning on the net during play. Don't the people running this know who they are???

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The 'real' solution I expect is massive lifespan extension. A creature with a 100,000 year lifespan would not find traveling at .01 light speed a barrier to interstellar travel. Just us short-lived humans.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

OK, We can settle for .75 light speed. Are you in a hurry.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My suggestion to him is don't start a charity. Start a company. A well funded company that tries to just barely break-even. Let the salaries it pays and the money it spends for goods and services be the 'charity'. The communities where it's located will benefit. Isn't that what a charity does?

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Simple definitions work fine until you find planets/moons that don't fit the definition. As we find more extra-solar planets we will find planets that don't fit simple definitions. Double star systems with some planets that circle both stars and some that only circle one of them. Expect strangeness.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Whenever someone proposes tax cuts demand that they specify exactly that things the government does now that the government would have to stop doing after these tax cuts. People proposing tax increases always say what the money will be used for, but tax decreases? They will never say what stops.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Responding to every demand that you denounce this person or that person, or announce your support for this or that cause can become an endless distraction. Denounce who YOU want to denounce, support what issues YOU want to support. Don't jump to respond to every demand.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The real question for communities is if their community actually benefits from these cameras, or are they just subsidizing big data companies while endangering their citizens? How many mistaken identifications, arrests and traffic citations are too many?

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Future Venezuelan governments will have a easy time claiming that this deal was signed under threat, and should be torn up. Fear of bombing, fear of arrest on drug charges, fear of threats against their families and country. This was not freely entered into.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Saying "Stop some taxes" is only half a statement. You should also say what things the government is doing now it should STOP doing. Because with less tax revenue it will not be able to continue doing everything it is now doing. "Stop taxes and stop paving roads" is not such a great slogan is it.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

The whole "three day delay" in sanctions to "finalize the deal" is a standard Trump ploy to try and increase the pressure on whoever he is negotiating with. It means the deal is going to get worse at the last minute, because he thinks that pressure gives him an advantage.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Seems pretty obvious at this point that Natalie is feeding him totally made-up polls to keep him happy. Has anyone interviewing him asked him what polls, specifically, he is talking about that show him so loved? Nobody ever asks follow up questions anymore do they?

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Trump and company think that just giving something a macho sounding name makes it more effective and frightening. But people do look at the details and watch the effect that something, like these sanctions, actually has.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This raid is just for show. How long has he had to get rid of evidence, buy a new phone, steam clean the carpets? Done long ago this might have meant something, but now?

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

We also need actions we can see, not just slogans. I patronize several fast food chains, in the drive-up window will be a help-wanted sign. Offering $15 or $16 an hour. So why not raise the Federal minimum wage to $15 an hour? But no, that would "send a message" that workers matter, can't do that!

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Difference between Trump 1 and Trump 2. Trump 1 had business executives and generals around him, but they told him things he didn't like. Trump 2 has people like Harp, with no real expertise at anything other worshiping him. They don't tell him when he is wrong.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I can think of nothing more dangerous on the internet than people trying to do offensive cyber operations who are trying to learn how on the fly. They will be hacked-back and turned into unwitting servants of the hackers. And will end up getting blamed for whatever those hackers did.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

The safest scenario would be to transfer Trump to the other plane, have it fly to the next scheduled destination, then have Trump make a public appearance at that next destination. Knowing Trump is not aboard AF1 the Iranians would be less likely to try and shoot it down.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Any Data Centers near Mar-a-Lago? Would Trump support building one next door to Mar-a-Lago? Just asking questions.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Carlson running for Prez would be a nightmare for a Vance run for Prez. Vance would have to wildly support every Trump statement up until election day, parrot everything Trump said. If Vance disavowed Trump on any issue at all, Trump would retaliate by demanding MAGA vote for Carlson.

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cartojim.bsky.social @cartojim.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Just think how easy it would be for a Democrat administration to track down 3-Percenters, Proud Boys and whoever those guys with the masks marching in DC are with the data these camera provide. Easy, easy. Monitor gun store visitors? Easy Monitor Country Club members trips to their mistresses? Easy

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