Correct. Orthogonal to both the prograde/retrograde and the radial/anti-radial axis.

AFAIK, “normal” follows the right-hand rule. If you point your straight index finger prograde, and your thumb points radially, your middle finger, bent perpendicular to the other two, is “normal”.

I wouldn’t be so quiet to discredit sacrifices

What the fuck are you talking about? I haven’t discredited anybody. I’m about to start, though: That was fucking uncalled for. Pull your fucking head out of your ass.

With the exception of that last sentence, I haven’t insulted or degraded anyone in the slightest, and I only used that degrading tone to get your attention. I don’t intend to continue that disrespectful tone past this point.

I can’t say that I would consider the National Guard to be a Civil Service

I never said the National Guard was a civil service. I never described it as a civil service. It is not at all a civil service. The National Guard is an armed service. It is Militia, not Military, and I tried to describe the difference. I hold both in high esteem. If it seems disrespectful or degrading for me to distinguish between the military and the militia, I suggest you examine your own prejudices on the subject.

• When an 18-year-old Texan joins the military, they can expect to be assigned to a post somewhere on the planet, per the needs of the service. He will be garrisoned wherever the military needs him, for as long as they need him there. He might remain on the same base his entire career; he might be bounced around the planet every 12-24 months.

• When an 18-year-old Texan joins the militia, they can expect to be assigned to a post somewhere in Texas, and remain assigned to that post for the duration of his career.

Yes, they can both be deployed. Yes, they will both be sent for training which may not be in state. But the guardsman will always be sent back home, while the active duty serviceman will be sent anywhere.

AI is far more than just image generation.

I think you’re looking for words like:

• Prograde - In the direction of spin.

• Retrograde - Against the direction of spin.

• Nadirial or Anti-radial - Toward the center of rotation; “Up” in your centrifugal graviation model

• Radial or Anti-Nadirial - Away from the center of rotation; “Down” in your model.

Throwing a bowling ball “prograde”, it will experience greater “gravity” than normal. If you throw it retrograde, it will experience less gravity than normal, unless you throw it more than twice as fast as the prograde velocity, in which case it will experience more gravity.

Not at all.

Companies shouldn’t be owning stock.

Companies issue their own stock. They don’t own it. The shareholders who buy it or otherwise acquire it are the owners. And if those owners have more than $10 million worth of it, they can afford to pay 1% of everything they own beyond that first $10 million.

I won’t prohibit companies from owning other publicly traded companies, but they don’t get special status when they do. That status is reserved for natural persons, and only $10 million of the the stock owned by such a person is exempt from taxation.

The point is the ultra-wealthy pay very smart people to work out loopholes.

Correct. The securities tax I’m talking about is not the actual solution. The loopholes they use to avoid that securities tax is the solution. The actual solution is for them to actually spend their wealth and enjoy their lives, rather than treating the economy like some idle clicker.

I served in the military from '99 through '05.

In California, the only military members I knew of who had California drivers licenses were people who had grown up in California. Nobody else in considered themselves a “resident” of California.

We were briefed on how to obtain absentee ballots from our home states, because most of us didn’t qualify as residents at our post.

We were advised to file taxes in our home states, not the states where we were living and working.

The parking lots on base had more out-of-state license plates than in-state.

Military members and their dependents are guests of the local community. Visitors. Tourists. Not locals. We aren’t in their communities long enough to become locals.

1. If they are holding shares that can be traded in US markets, the SEC knows about those shares, and ultimately controls those shares. They don’t need your Panamanian shell company to release them. You’ll wake up one morning to find that a portion of the shares formerly in your shell company’s portfolio are now in the IRS’s portfolio. The SEC just ctrl-x’d them from your portfolio, and ctrl-v’d them to the IRS.

2. Your Panamanian shell company is not a “natural person”. Only “natural persons” are eligible for the $10 million dollar exemption. Your shell company pays the tax on its entire portfolio, not just the excess above $10 million.

Didn’t even realize it was a Facebook link I pulled. My bad. Fixed.

A lawless president is a president for life.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-second-amendment-people-could-do-something-about-clinton-judge-choices/

There are ways to rein in the court, even with life terms. We can’t get rid of the life terms without an amendment. But we could pack the court. Add 10 justices today, and it doesn’t really matter what the other 9 have to say about it.

More realistically, I think we shouldn’t fill empty seats on the court. I think that when a justice dies, the court should just move on without them.

A new justice should be appointed in the 11th and 35th month of each presidential term, regardless of the court’s current size. That puts the the nomination as far away from an election as possible, while guaranteeing each president has some influence on the court. The average term is about 26 years; the longest term has been 36. I would expect the court size to average about 13 members, and probably not exceed 18. A single president could only appoint 4 members in two terms.

I would also establish a line of succession in the circuit courts, to automatically reconstitute a court that falls below 5 members, or to hear cases the SCOTUS is conflicted out of. Since any circuit court judge could find themselves on the supreme court, the senate’s confirmation to the circuit court is also a confirmation to SCOTUS. The president has a small pool of qualified nominees that are pre-confirmed and thus can’t be blocked.

Theoretically, they could. I mean, they hold the power of appellate review. They can acquit anyone for any reason. There is nothing in the constitution preventing them from announcing that they will acquit someone taking a specific action.

But shenanigans beget shenanigans, and I’m sure Congress and future presidents would have something to say about it. Impeachment and court packing are both feasible.

First off, your link is about 80% tracking information. You can remove the “?” and everything that follows it.

You are correct. The value of those shares should be considered income and taxed at the time of transfer. If they were, the 91% top-tier tax bracket would catch most of their excess income. Since that isn’t happening, we need additional measures.

Capital gains tax should be higher than income tax. It is patently absurd that sitting around waiting for your money to make more money is taxed less than busting your ass for 40+ hours a week. With capital gains taxed higher than income, businesses will want to pay a larger percentage of their workers with shares rather than simple income.

More importantly, we need a specific type of wealth tax. We don’t need to tax all wealth: We need to tax financial assets. Registered securities. The vehicles that the ultra wealthy use to exponentially transfer wealth out of the economy.

We should tax registered securities at 1-3% per year. Natural persons holding less than $10 million in securities are exempt. That keeps 99% of taxpayers from owing this tax.

The securities tax should be paid in shares of the security, transferred directly to the IRS. By paying directly in shares, they don’t have to find a buyer; the don’t have to liquidate them, so they won’t be dragging down prices for everyone else. The IRS will sell off these shares over time, such that IRS liquidation sales never comprise more than 1% of total traded volume.

Securities are shares of the “means of production”. A securities tax will drive ownership of those shares toward the working class.

Correct me if im wrong but the only course of action to remove a president in the US is to have them impeached, right? Or is there a version of the no confidence vote that other country’s have been using?

There are at least 6 ways for a sitting president to be removed from office:

1. Expiration of term
2. Resignation
3. Impeachment
4. Section 3 of the 25th Amendment (Temporary, voluntary relinquishment due to disability)
5. Section 4 of the 25th Amendment (Involuntary declaration of disability, confirmed by Congress)
6. Death, either by natural causes or assassination.

#3 and #5 have never been fully exercised.

Subsequently, if impeachment is the course, would it make anything better having Vance take over?

Vance doesn’t have the personality cult behind him. But, he could get one if he supported a 25th Amendment challenge to the Donvict.

Joining the military, you would expect to be living separate and apart from the local communities. You’ll spend a year or two at one posting, before being transferred to another, and another, and another. You won’t expect to set down roots in the local community. The people you are serving with will be constantly rotating in and out of your current unit on similar schedules; you can expect any friendships you form to last a few months, before you or they are transferred again.

Joining the National Guard, you will be serving primarily in your home state, at the call of your own governor. You’ll spend your entire career in your own community, serving with other people in that same community. Even when you deploy, you are deploying with people you’ve known your whole career, if not your whole life: your friends and neighbors.

The militia is not the military.

Ever try showering in complete darkness?

1970 was the last time the government collected more than 3% of GDP in taxes. After that point, there was less and less of a need to avoid taxation.

We need a new tax bracket for the ultra wealthy. The top current bracket is 37% above ~$300,000. For most of the 20th century, the top tier tax bracket was 91%. We need a 91% tax bracket on income beyond $600,000. We need some sharp incentive for the wealthiest among us to avoid.

That asshole better not do anything about the LGBT-Immigrant plot to melt the ice caps and flood Florida and Texas.

That is correct. The National Guard is (part of) the militia, not the military. 10 USC 246.

The Military consists of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and now the Space Force. The “Armed Services” includes the above, plus the Coast Guard and the National Guard.

The National Guard consists of state-level units operating under the authority of the state’s governor. They can be called forth to federal service. They could, arguably, be considered part of the military when called forth. But generally speaking, no, the National Guard is not a component of the military.

It’s much more reassuring knowing your armed forces, the people with the big guns, are your neighbors, rather than strangers with a particular ideology or biased loyalties.

How about compulsory national guard service?

Block the communities that remove your pro-Luigi comments. No need to keep track of them; their mods are garbage, and you don’t want to be associated with them.