Chris Luchini
drbooom.bsky.social
Chris Luchini
@drbooom.bsky.social
Classical liberal, recovering political addict, PhD physicist ( non-practicing), + nuke energy, + non carbon, +vaccines
Progenitor to several offspring.
Ds request absentee ballots, and collect them. One of the few convictions for election fraud had a guy being beaten because he was only paying $5 and one mini of liquor per ballot vs the norm $10 & 2 minis

The cops arrested him with multiple absentee ballots stuffed down his pants.

Espanola, NM
December 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Locally, the Rs request absentee ballots for occasional D voters. These voters get them in the mail, think they are junk mail And trash them.

Then when they go to vote in person, they are forced to cast a provisional ballot which is not countered unless the race is close.
December 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
When I say the party accusations about the other parties cheating are generally correct, Democrats tend to invent fictitious votes, and Republicans tend to try to suppress voting and counting the votes.
December 12, 2025 at 12:55 PM
After almost a decade of "in the trenches" experience in elections and voting, voting systems have gotten better, as a result of Bush v Gore.

The D/R party's accusations about the other parties cheating are generally correct.

Except for unicorn races, the cheating doesn't change the outcome.
December 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
As an example, If you look at overvotes, more than one vote for POTUS, Gore had 68k Bush 24k. Any standard for divining that the voter really didn't intend to vote for a third party, will always favor the candidate with the most raw problem ballots.

Relitigating this election is cozy fantasy.
December 12, 2025 at 12:46 PM
As somebody who has successfully sued the New Mexico SOS to force a recount to change the results of an election, I'm well aware of chicanery possible in recounts.

The Fl voting system was utter dog shit, trying to analyze a garbage system results in garbage.
December 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
All of the analysis indicates that if SCOTUS had not stopped the recount, under the rules established by the Florida court for the recount, Bush would still have won.

To get to a Gore win, you have to ignore the initial recount rules, and recount the entire State.
December 12, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I did a little work in the past in modeling of battery physics.

I have become the ultimate skeptic about the popular science articles about battery technology breakthroughs.

I only get interested when there is commercial availability.

This is very interesting. I'd love to buy stock in Group-14
December 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Of course we know the real distinction between the garden club, and the people charged. It's a holdover of the Puritan culture that says that somehow somewhere someone is having fun with sex, and that's bad..
December 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
That any crime was charged at all, given the facts outlined in the article, is a travesty by itself.

The government's theory: my gardening club says that I have to do 5 hours of unpaid labor, in order to be part of the club, they have engaged in criminal forced labor?

Insanity is 2 mild a word.
December 8, 2025 at 7:51 PM
When I was defending my PhD dissertation, my advisor was my harshest questioner. The committee chair shut him down fairly abruptly, complimented me on the presentation, and immediately moved for a vote.

My advisor sat there with a shell shocked look on his face. I passed.
November 27, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I need sources. Very interesting but the internet is full of made up shit.

How was this information obtained?
November 22, 2025 at 12:09 AM
I have to commend your patience with what can be charitably described as aggressively uninformed people.

I don't have the stomach for it.
November 4, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Truth and reporting.

Stop using the phrase " suspected drug vessel" because that's a lie.

If the reporters want to maintain their pretend neutrality, substitute something like

"Asserted drug vessel"
October 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
2 things can be true at once. Biologically the LNT model seems implausible and 10 REM limit is insane.

Other than the nuclear power industry and the radio medicine industry, who cares enough to buy enough Trump coin to get this on the policy agenda?
October 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I would actually nominate Wilson as the worst, most immoral, president the United States has ever had, up until Trump.

He was a vicious racist, when race relations were actually headed in the right direction. He effectively reversed desegregation.

He was not only bad, but effective.
October 15, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Distance is your friend wrt FBs. Get far away, put something sturdy between yourself and the source of the explosion. Shock waves reflect by a change in density; walls, cars, even glass. While the glass may shatter, if the FB is more than a couple meters away, the glass won't pick up much velocity.
October 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
If you happen upon a flashbang where the pin was never pulled, Don't pick it up. Why you may not be in physical danger, legally flashbangs are regulated under the National firearms act as Destructive Devices, the same as a hand grenade. 25 years in prison, $250k fine.
October 14, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Never try to put anything over an unexploded flashbang. Doing so will confine the gases come out and whatever you put over it will become a projectile.

There are flashbangs that are designed with multiple charges. Even if one goes off, it's not safe to pick up or interact with.
October 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Concussive hearing damage will worsen in the first 24 hours after the injury to the cochlea. The stereocilia will fall out of the bruised tissue.

There is medical evidence that treatment in the first 24 hours with systemic anti-inflammatories can reduce long-term hearing damage.
October 14, 2025 at 11:30 AM
These devices are designed to give you a mild traumatic brain injury. If you are close enough that you feel rattled, and your ears are ringing afterwards, leave immediately and seek medical care for a likely concussion.

Hearing damage is also extremely likely.
October 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Bad stuff that can happen with fb:

They're designed to go off on a hard flat surface.

Anything that blocks the upper or side ports can cause them to move at high velocity. 100 m/s+ that will hurt you.

If you ever see that .gov are taping multiple FBs together, get the hell out of the area.
October 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM