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Cake day: June 30th, 2025

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  • Who else has the type of platform and the tools available to do these things that Newsom is getting credit for here that this article is referring to?

    There are thousands of lawyers trying to get the regime to follow the law. That’s awesome but a totally different thing. They’re getting more of my dollars than any politician right now.

    Zohran is exactly the type of politician I’d love to be doing this type of thing against Trump (and he kinda is) but he’s just running for mayor, while Newsom is currently the governor of the most powerful state in the union.

    Bernie and AOC captured us all on their tour, but what are they doing now? Should we be redirecting eyes from Newsom’s shenanigans to them?

    Really, what I am getting at is articles that are basically “hey, stop giving credit to person doing this good thing because they did this bad thing” are not helpful if they don’t redirect energy to something better. They’re just sucking the air out of the room.

    I am arguing for critical support (the actual meaning, not the meme version which is unconditional support) rather than disqualification.










  • What is the physics or math behind that? Light from the sun is essentially aligned by the time it reaches earth. If the mirror is perfectly reflective, a 10 m^2 mirror should light up a patch of Earth roughly 10 m^2 times the cosine of the angle of the mirror. So unless the angle is close to 90°, most of the losses would be from poor reflectivity.

    I totally agree it’s a stupid idea. But maybe it’s even worse than I am thinking of?