Blue Stephen

Hard Right, Freethinker, Free speech.

[Right Scope 🇺🇸 @RightScopee]

Are you deeply outraged that, while hundreds of millions of Americans and I are struggling financially, Elon Musk has now become the world's first trillionaire, with more wealth than he could spend in 1,000 lifetimes?

A. YES
B. NO

[Blue Stephen @BlueStephen1]

@RightScopee Tell me why I should be, I'll listen.

[Blue Stephen @BlueStephen1]

@Handre No matter how much, or often, or many, or loudly, that is pointed out to the liberal, the progressive, the socialist and/or the commies they will STILL claim his money as THEIR right.

[Air Power @RealAirPower1]

Did you know that while early YF-16s were strictly limited to WVR dogfighting, the prototype F-20 Tigershark was already fully wired for BVR combat? The lightweight jet could pack up to four AIM-7s under its wings. Northrop didn’t stop at air-to-air superiority either; they aggressively flight-tested the F-20 with heavy strike hardware, proving it could lug AGM-65s and hunt ships with the AGM-84. It was the ultimate "what if" fighter, offering true 4th-gen lethality on the cheap.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

If you took a single teaspoon of neutron star material, it would weigh billions of tons (often estimated around 1–10 billion tons) comparable to a mountain like Everest in mass scale.

Neutron stars are the crushed remnants of massive stars after a supernova. Their gravity is so extreme that electrons and protons are forced together into neutrons, packing about 1.4 to 2 Suns of mass into a sphere roughly 20–25 km across about the size of a city.

A sugar-cube-sized piece of that material would have an unimaginable mass, far exceeding the total mass of all humans on Earth.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

The wreck of IJN Kaga rests more than 17,000 feet deep in the Pacific Ocean northwest of Midway Atoll, where she was discovered in 2019 by the research vessel Petrel. She lies upright on the seabed with her massive hull still largely intact, clearly showing her original aircraft carrier shape. Her flight deck is largely destroyed, leaving exposed structural beams and fragments scattered across the wreck site. The bow shows heavy blast damage, and debris including structural wreckage surrounds the hull. Her island superstructure is heavily damaged or missing, likely destroyed by explosions and fire, but her lower hull remains stable and preserved in the cold, dark deep sea environment.

IJN Kaga was fatally damaged on June 4, 1942, during the Battle of Midway when dive bombers from USS Enterprise (CV 6) struck her with multiple bomb hits.

The explosions ignited aviation fuel and armed weapons on her hangar decks, causing uncontrollable fires and internal destruction. The fires burned for hours, leaving her disabled and forcing the crew to abandon ship.

On June 5, 1942, the Japanese destroyer Hagikaze fired torpedoes into her hull to scuttle her and prevent capture, and she sank stern first into the deep ocean, taking around 800 crewmen with her.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Taxing billionaires doesn't grow the pie. It moves slices of the pie through a government filter that consumes a significant portion in administration, bureaucracy, political favoritism, and waste.

Growing the pie means creating more value, more productivity, more innovation, and more wealth than existed before.

Redistribution changes who has the pie. Production changes the size of the pie.

[Blue Stephen @BlueStephen1]

@ThomasSowell Didn't foresee Trillionaire musk, just like no one foresaw the "mule" in Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy.

[Andrew Dutton @AndrewDcpilot]

Union Pacific 4014 and RBM&N 2102 pace each other as they approach the crossing at Penebscot in Mountaintop, PA, before making the descent down the grade to the Wilkes Barre / Pittston area. Occurred around noon on June 14, 2026.

[A Gene Robinson @AlBuffalo2nite]

One detail that somehow never makes it into these history posts:

In 1961, Mississippi’s governor was Democrat Ross Barnett.

The legislature was controlled by Democrats.

The state government was controlled by Democrats.

The sheriffs, county officials, and political machine enforcing segregation were overwhelmingly Democrats.

History doesn’t become more accurate when inconvenient facts are removed.

The Freedom Riders showed tremendous courage.

They challenged injustice regardless of the personal cost.

Their story deserves to be told completely, not selectively.

#AStoneGroove #SilentMajoritySpeaks

[Blue Stephen @BlueStephen1]

@Claudia70453068 @realMaalouf If they are, more power to them.

[InfantryDort @infantrydort]

I’ve been looking into Teddy Roosevelt lately. He loses his wife and mother on the same day. That’s a trauma that could cause a man to end it all.

What does he do?

He leaves NYC and heads to the Badlands.

THE BADLANDS.

Reinvents himself. Finds his soul.

An absolute heroes journey if ever there was one.

Went from having nothing to live for to having everything to live for.

There is something nourishing about these uniquely American lands that cannot be put into words.

I remember feeling quite despondent myself once upon a time. Then I moved to the Mojave desert and it changed everything.

I found there’s nothing deserted about the desert at all. What it lacks in physical life, it makes up for in the spiritual. The esoteric.

I cannot explain what I’m trying to say about America. Don’t have the right words today. But I know this place can remake a man like no other on planet earth.

[Blue Stephen @BlueStephen1]

@RealBababanaras Good.

[Blue Stephen @BlueStephen1]

@RealJamesWoods How far they've fallen.

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

In the late seventies I crossed the Atlantic on the QE2. I went First Class, which I paid for with my first real paycheck. We had a mandatory dress code for dinner. Black Tie and commensurate formal wear for the ladies. It was one of my favorite memories.

[Cynical Publius @CynicalPublius]

Under 16 social media ban in the UK?

Which means if you are over 16, you have to prove that you are over 16 before you can access social media.

Which means you have to ID yourself to the government.

Which means if you run a pseudonymous account the government will know who you are.

Which means if you say something the government disapproves of, they can arrest you.

[Sowell Economics @sowelleconomics]

Thomas Sowell on the reality of group disparities in wealth and achievement. See description below:

1.) The Chinese:
5% of the population in Indonesia, yet owning 80% of the capital.

2.) Germans:
1% of the population in Russia, yet dominating the military high command.

3.) Jews:
1% of the Australian population, yet owned most clothing stores in Melbourne. In Poland, they were 11% of the population, but more than 50% of the physicians, controlling 2/3 of commerce. In Hungary, they were 6% of the population, yet 3/5 of the physicians.

4.) Indians/Pakistanis/Goans:
~1% of the population in Uganda, yet owned 80% of capital including 90% of cotton gins.

These outcomes aren't "sinister." They're common.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Austrian president said all women should wear a hijab to show solidarity with Muslims:

“With increasing Islamophobia, we might have to ask ALL women to wear a headscarf to show solidarity with those who do so for religious reasons.”

This is mental illness.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

The Chevrolet Corvair: A Hyper Overreaction Fueled by Politics, Not Safety

The same thing is taking place today in AI.

The Chevrolet Corvair (1960–1969) was a pioneering American compact with a rear air-cooled engine, independent suspension, and innovative design aimed at import competition.

It sold nearly 1.8 million units and evolved significantly over its run. Yet it became a poster child for corporate negligence, largely due to Ralph Nader’s 1965 bestseller Unsafe at Any Speed, which dramatically portrayed the early swing-axle models as deadly “one-car accidents.”

This ignited a media firestorm, hundreds of lawsuits, plummeting sales, and GM’s own PR blunders. The backlash helped pass the 1966 National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act and create the NHTSA—but the targeting of the Corvair went far beyond the evidence.

In 1972, after a thorough investigation with comparative testing against contemporaries (Ford Falcon, VW Beetle, etc.), the NHTSA concluded:

“The handling and stability performance of the 1960-1963 Corvair does not result in an abnormal potential for loss of control or rollover and it is at least as good as the performance of some contemporary vehicles.”

Independent engineers agreed: no unique safety defect. Rollover rates were comparable to peers. The car simply required proper tire pressures and attentive driving—standard for the era.

The response was a textbook hyper-overreaction. Nader dismissed the report. Media coverage of the exoneration was minimal.

Production ended in 1969 amid the political climate of rising anti-corporate sentiment in the 1960s.

The Corvair wasn’t “unsafe at any speed” it was a product of its time vilified for narrative and political momentum more than proven peril.

Today, well-maintained Corvairs are beloved classics, a reminder of how safety crusades can sometimes prioritize headlines and power over engineering reality.

The saga advanced broader standards but at the unnecessary cost of an innovative car.

Today we face the same overreaction with AI models that are “unsafe at any use”. We will know the facts that this reaction was not astute but based on the views of folks raised on science fiction and films like Ralph Nader.

[Blue Stephen @BlueStephen1]

@BrianRoemmele It could have evolved into a challenger for porsches if nader hadn't got his money and publicity grubbing filthy hands on it.