Jack Saunders

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
-Isaac Asimov

[Jack Saunders @jackvsaunders]

@MorlockP I love New England rock walls.

Recently saw a house with a mixture of brick and rocks. Mixed feelings on that style....

[Jack Saunders @jackvsaunders]

@ChristianHeiens

[Jack Saunders @jackvsaunders]

@victoria4nh Such great news, it's worth repeating! Clever.

[Jack Saunders @jackvsaunders]

@ReviewsPossum "This entertainment is not for you!"

"Why are my sales so bad?!?"

On the plus side, I have saved a considerable amount of money by canceling cable TV, print subscriptions, & avoiding theaters, concerts, & sporting events. Lots of fun camping, fishing, & hunting.

[Jack Saunders @jackvsaunders]

@Catullus_Vincit @owenbroadcast He eats meat at least once a year for a Tibetan festival. If I remember the interview asking him about it correctly, he said he doesn't get too hung up about vegetarian restrictions. This is very amusing to me considering how so many Americans are the opposite.

[Libertarian Party NH 🦔 @LPNH]

"Now is not the time for mourning, it is the time for war" has a great ring to it.

[Jack Saunders @jackvsaunders]

@RodeoProfessor Send some to Martha's Vineyard.

[Rep. Keith Ammon @RepKeithAmmon]

Thomas Paine's short pamphlet, Common Sense, published 250 years ago in early 1776, helped inspire the American Revolution and is a part of our intellectual heritage.

The 250th anniversary of the United States' founding is a good time as any to rekindle the spirit expressed back then.

Here are its opening lines. Link to full text below.

"Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer."

[Jack Saunders @jackvsaunders]

@JamesSpillaneNH They want to tax working class people so they can give a bunch of useless administrative government jobs to their friends for $100k plus. Look at how many times they say that we our not paying our state legislators enough to do it full-time. NH Reps actually work for us.

[Jack Saunders @jackvsaunders]

@MorlockP Such a huge cultural shift. Up there with RFK Jr. going R, and the real punk rockers.

[Jack Saunders @jackvsaunders]

@mdrew4nh We would all be better off just paying organizations like the Cajun Navy per event instead.

Red Cross is another. Local executives make about $140k to $240k per year, and the national executives $500k to nearly $850k - meanwhile they will charge disaster victims for water.

[Jack Saunders @jackvsaunders]

@FreeStatePete @travis4nh Many restrictions.

[Robert Sterling @RobertMSterling]

If I don’t like Apple’s price hikes, I can take my business elsewhere. I can buy a Samsung phone or a Dell laptop.

On the other hand, if I don’t approve of the taxes Sen. Sanders enacts… I’m screwed. I pay them at gunpoint or I go to prison.

So maybe sit this one out, Bernie.

[ArtButMakeItSports @ArtButSports]

@IndianaFever Virgin of the Rocks, by Leonardo da Vinci, 1483-86

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

I’m reading an old collection of interconnected science fiction stories by Jerry Pournelle, written in the early 70s. His best books were later co-authored with Larry Niven, but it is still solid work in my favored “competence porn” genre, with entrepreneurs as protagonists.

It stands out to me that he was despairing for America when he wrote the stories. Things looked bad at the time, and his fiction projected it into the future. Social unrest, Vietnam, Watergate, economic recession, energy crisis, and for a patriotic space guy, abandoning Apollo.

The backdrop for the stories was that America was unfixable, which is, of course, a motivation to go to space in fiction, but I do think he was genuinely worried by what he saw around him.

But over the next decade, things got better, and Jerry had a front row seat for the rise of the technology sector, writing the Chaos Manor column in Byte magazine for many years. He also got to see the founding of SpaceX, a company straight out of a hard SF novel, and they re-flew a landed rocket shortly before he died.

Trends aren’t fate.

Bad situations can be fixed, and good ones still need to be defended.

RIP Jerry, I’m glad you got to see things turn around.

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[The Facts Dude 🤙🏽 @Thefactsdude]

LISTEN: Jacob Rockwell was fined for running a red light in Pensacola, Florida.

Only thing is Jacob wasn’t in Florida, he was in Alabama.

He sounded off at a local city meeting recently and his concerns go beyond just one citation.

[Jack Saunders @jackvsaunders]

@live_free_603 I didn't know it was that kind of Greek festival! Taking that off my list....

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

SpaceX is set to launch its first Starfall Demo mission this Tuesday aboard its Falcon 9 rocket.

The mission will test a new cargo return vehicle (pictured below) designed to bring materials back to Earth from orbit.

Unlike SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon, which primarily returns cargo from the ISS, Starfall is being developed as a dedicated cargo return system that could provide a faster and potentially lower-cost way to bring materials back from space.

The one-hour launch window opens at 6:43 AM ET from Florida with a backup opportunity available at the same time on Wednesday, June 24.

[Jack Saunders @jackvsaunders]

@travis4nh Have a "Big Master Power Switch For Everything" that is easy to find, easy to access, & clearly labeled "Do Not Turn Off - Security System", and only turns off the lights and some dummy computer equipment with loud fans & blinking lights.