marknomarkk

Free speech advocate, meditator

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Consistent with the simulation hypothesis.

Like a video game, objects are randomly generated, with positional certainty only when observed.

[marknomarkk @marknomarkk]

@ImMeme0 The Democrats that protect this corruption, ARE RECEIVING KICKBACKS!

[Okie_Rancher @Okie_Rancher]

So I bought a used orange Jacobsen golf course mower, 8’ wide span, cheap because it was broken, along with another cheap parts mower (green). I posted here when I bought both…

My son mows the acreage around the house that isn’t pasture and with a 60” it takes about seven hours. This beast makes it a two hour job (faster/bigger) BUT it’s machinery, and needed real work.

His job has been to make it run. I’d guide, help, but this is his project, his job to do the work, figure it out and ask for help when needed. I helped and I’d done some fixing initially (broke a toe actually) but it’s 90 percent him. Today he got it fully functional and mowed.

After he was showing his mom what he did, he pointed out that the parts he repaired and replaced were green because they came from the old mower… and he told her it was like the Japanese art of kintsugi where they take broken pottery and glue the pieces back together, making it more beautiful than the unbroken version.

“Beauty in brokenness.”

The warrior/rancher/poet is born. I am beyond proud of his work and his depth.

[marknomarkk @marknomarkk]

@elonmusk This video moves too slowly. Would have liked to hear your message but got bored x 2.

[Ella Frei @EllaFrei17]

My name is Ella, I'm 17 years old.
I do long jump. I play volleyball. I go to school in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
When my school allowed a biological male into the girls' restroom without telling parents —
I went to the school board.
With my name attached.
In my own town.
I got bullied for it. Harassed online. Even some of my own teachers came after me.
I'm still here.
Because here's what I know:
The net in women's volleyball is set nearly a foot lower for a reason.
A biological male can hit a ball across that net at force that could seriously injure a girl.
And in track — all it takes is three biological males entering the girls' category
and not a single girl in this state stands on a podium.
I didn't speak up because it was easy.
I spoke up because somebody had to.
The Supreme Court is about to answer the question every girl in America is asking.
We're ready.
@JenniferSey
@xx_xyathletics

[marknomarkk @marknomarkk]

@mtgreenee You and Tucker are has-beens

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Every single person who still cringes at the memory of trying to bullshit their way through an interview or exam question: today, the slate is wiped clean. Set down your burden of shame. Nothing - nothing, I say - could touch this.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Heather Mac Donald dropped a firecracker on John Stossel: universities are now run by a culture of emotional safety and equity, and she says the massive rise in female influence is the driving force behind it.

Portraits of legendary male scientists are coming down because they might “trigger” female students. Polls show men overwhelmingly pick truth and academic freedom; women prioritize feelings and fairness. No overlap.

She argues this is fatal for universities, whose only job is the ruthless pursuit of truth, not comfort. And she’s calling on parents and men to push back harder, even at home.

If we trade uncomfortable discovery for emotional protection, we’re quietly breaking the institution that’s supposed to advance knowledge for everyone.

I’ve been chewing on how stark these preference gaps are between men and women in institutions. This one made me rethink what “progress” actually looks like here.

Do you believe universities should put emotional safety first, or is that a dangerous tradeoff?

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

🇺🇸🇨🇺

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Elon Musk in new interview on datacenters in space:

"Datacenters in space is much easier than people may think. SpaceX has 10k satellites in orbit right now. In the future with Starship, we'll be launching over 10k per year; If you want to climb the kardashev scale, you have to go to space."

[marknomarkk @marknomarkk]

@nettermike If you want to communicate with people, you've got to learn to use paragraphs.

[Dr. Zev Zelenko @zev_dr]

Here’s Dr Zelenko teaching us how to treat Hantavirus back in 2022. This will be the most enlightening 2 minutes and 47 seconds of your life. Please listen carefully.

[marknomarkk @marknomarkk]

@JDVance I hope this gets to you. I received a fundraising text message, and was fully prepared to give a donation, when I discovered that the donation form on winred, was ALL FUCKED UP. You got idiots or Democrats working on your website. The choices and check marks were all screwed up.

[Commentary Donald J. Trump Posts From Truth Social @TrumpDailyPosts]

𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗱 𝗝. 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗼𝘄 - 𝟬𝟰:𝟬𝟱 𝗔𝗠 𝗘𝗦𝗧 𝟬𝟰.𝟮𝟵.𝟮𝟲

Iran can’t get their act together. They don’t know how to sign a nonnuclear deal. They better get smart soon! President DJT

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

Somehow, the ultra-rich keep getting ultra-richer, while a growing percentage of people feel truly desperate.

[Sabine Hossenfelder @skdh]

String theory didn't just fail, it's far worse.

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Yesterday while driving to the airport for a training flight I heard @NASAAdmin talking about the impact flashes observed by Artermis II crew on the dark side of the moon. Specifically I heard these described as 'Micrometeorites' and thought they would be bigger, so it got my brain running on estimating the actual size of these objects based on what I knew.

By the time I got to the airport 10 minutes later I had concluded the mass of these impactors is kilograms, so not 'micro' meteors, and that's not a dig at Jared by any means, for his EVA on Polaris Dawn he had almost certainly discussed micrometeorites, things the size of a grain of sand, that could damage the suit.

But, what I really want to talk about is the mental arithmetic I did while driving, because I do these order of magnitude estimates for all sorts of questions.

So I don't have any deep understanding of how bright the flashes would have been to be visible to the crew, I don't have a deep understanding of human visual acuity. But I started from the assumption that this is comparable to a faint star appearing for a second or so.

I know the absolute magnitude of the sun is 4.8, that's how bright the sun appears at 10 parsecs. That's towards the fainter end of stars, and if one appeared for a fraction of a second it might register.

I know a Parsec is 206265AU. (and 206265 is number of arc seconds in a radian). I also know the solar constant at earth is about 1370W/m^2.

So to get the solar flux at 10 parsecs I'd have to divide by 2062650^2 - but that's too much math, just approximate to (2*10^6)^2 - or 4x10^12.

dividing 1370 by 4 is roughly 350 or 3.5x10^2

Which puts solar illumination at 10parsecs at about 3.5x10^-10 W/m^2
So that's my standard light flux for 'faint star'.

Let's now assume the flash lasts 1 second to avoid adding extra math, change watts into joules.

Now, reverse this and figure out the energy of the object on the moon, for that we'd need to know how far they were from the moon. And I didn't carry that around in my head, but, I knew the closest approach was about 4000 miles, and the eclipse was past closest approach.

So I used the number of 10,000km because that's 10^7m making the math easy - I need the square of that so 10^14.

To figure out the energy emitted we take the energy per square meter and multiply it by the surface area of the sphere with a radius equivalent to astronaut's viewing distance.
Take that 3.5x^-10J and multiply it by 4xPIx10^14
4 Pi is about 12.5, so I use 3.5x12.5 as about 40 (because I know 12.5x4 = 50). It's about 7% low but I don't care for small errors.
So total energy is 4x10^5J.

But that's just the energy that comes out as light, the energy of an impactor mostly goes into other forms, I learned this while making my video on @NASAAmes Vertical Gun Range.
I know it's between 0.01-1% of the kinetic energy that comes out as light.

So, using 10^-3 that gives impactor energy of 4x10^8J
Now figure out the impactor mass, impact speeds are 10-15km/sec, remember kinetic energy goes as v^2.

Now you might think that 10km/sec gets you a nice factor of 10^8, but then you need to multiply the mass by a factor of 2 (because of 1/2 m v^2).

But if you use 14.14km/sec then that eliminates the factor of 2, and puts the velocity closer to the high end.
So, point is I just adjust the energy by 10^8 and leave the 4 part as my mass estimate.

4kg of course. Not a micrometeorite.

So, my mass estimate for an impactor is on the order of a few kilograms, but there's massive error bars here, because I don't know how bright the flashes looked to the astronauts, I don't have a detailed model of the human visual system or the luminance conversion efficiency of meteorites.

I have an order of magnitude estimate I did in my head while driving, and 90% of the process is just multiplying by powers of 10, simply adjusting the exponent. Sure you have to carry numbers around like the solar constant, absolute magnitude of the sun etc. But I bet many of you have esoteric numbers you carry around in your heads.

I then proceeded to go flying and feel soundly humbled by ATC overloading my brain.

[@Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 @Chicago1Ray]

Meet Christian Maxwell she's running in (IL-01) which is (D+18) and she still won her primary with (65%) of the vote

She represents a seismic shift of blacks joining the (R) party nationwide

She can win this seat... I'm calling on RNC @ChairmanGruters to help fund her campaign

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Amazon just got caught running a secret price manipulation operation with Levi's, Home Depot, Walmart, and many more.

Every time you "comparison shopped" online, you were looking at prices that were already rigged.

Here's what happened:

Amazon would monitor prices on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Home Depot, and Chewy in real time. The second a competitor listed a product cheaper than Amazon, they'd contact the brand directly and tell them to "fix it."

And the exact emails are now PUBLIC.

Amazon sent Levi's links to two Walmart listings with the subject line "styles of concern." They basically said the prices on Walmart are too low and we have a problem.

The next day, Levi's responded: "I talked to Walmart and they have partnered with us to take Easy Khaki Classic fit back up to ladder SPP price, $29.99 immediately."

Levi's literally called Walmart and told them to raise the price. Because Amazon told Levi's to make the call.

Walmart complied. Then Amazon matched the HIGHER price.

Both retailers ended up charging more. The customer paid extra. Nobody competed.

Same playbook with Hanes:

Amazon sent them links showing Target and Walmart prices were lower. Hanes confirmed they "reached out to Target and Walmart to have the prices increased."

Target increased the prices. Walmart increased the prices. Amazon kept their margins.

But it gets even worse...

Amazon told Allergan (the company that makes eye drops) that their product was "suppressed" on Amazon because it was cheaper on another site.

Allergan responded: "Walmart got their price back up to $16.99." Amazon then unsuppressed the listing.

They did this with pet treats on Chewy. Furniture on Home Depot. Products across dozens of categories spanning YEARS.

The mechanism is simple but terrifying:

If you're a brand and you sell cheaper on Walmart than on Amazon, Amazon suppresses your product, removes you from the Buy Box, buries you in search results, and effectively makes you invisible to 300 million customers.

Brands can't afford that. So they call Walmart and Target and say "raise your prices or we'll lose our Amazon listings."

Walmart and Target comply because they need the brand's products.

Amazon captures 40 cents of every dollar spent online in America. That gives them the leverage to set prices across THE ENTIRE internet. Not just their own platform.

So turns out, you were never comparison shopping.

You were looking at a coordinated price floor set by Amazon through backroom phone calls between brands and their competitors.

"Amazon is working to make your life more unaffordable."

3 separate antitrust trials are now scheduled for 2027. The FTC has its own case. 18 states plus the DOJ are piling on.

This is literally happening during the WORST affordability crisis in a generation. Groceries up 25% since 2020. Housing unaffordable. Wages flat.

And the largest ecommerce company on Earth has been secretly coordinating with brands to make sure you can't find a cheaper price ANYWHERE.

"Competition" in retail is just a fantasy.

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

🚨STOP what you're doing and watch this absolute SLAUGHTER of the fake news by @FBIDirectorKash Patel.... then REPOST this everywhere!

And just when you think the beatdown is over.... @DAGToddBlanche moves in for the KILL and CONSUMES their souls.

It all started when @TheJusticeDept and @FBI announced the indictment of the @splcenter for fraud over the secret funding of extremist groups.

And the fake news did what they do best - ran cover to protect their fellow fraudsters.... by seizing the opportunity to completely IGNORE the announcement and launch a ridiculous attack of LIES on Patel.

But they weren't ready for him to absolutely SLAY. He took a brief pause, threw them off... then launched into a fact and data-fueled warpath exposing their hypocrisy and double standards.

Then... as if we were watching Wrestlemania... Blanche taps in and FINISHES the reporter with a move that no doubt left the guy wetting himself and in desperate search for a safe space and a soy latte.

Sit down, children. The adults are back in charge.

REPOST this everywhere!

#thinblueline #lawenforcement