ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I fail to see many AGI scenarios that don’t lead to 90 percent of humanity being taken to a ditch and shot.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
The problem with TSMC is that if China ever goes for an invasion of Taiwan you could be looking at a 90 plus percent drop in value overnight. That’s why Buffett sold off most of Berkshire Hathaway’s TSMC stock. Although he’s pretty risk-averse generally.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
It reminds me of a news story I once saw about a protest. The article said that the protestors had “attacked the police with a chemical weapon” by which they meant the protestor had picked up one of the tear gas grenades the police were shooting at them and threw it back. That said, tear gas is technically a violation of the Geneva Conventions on chemical weapons.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
But I mean the date that it was actually rolled out by Gameworks. Like what real life year did this story event start or happen?
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
That last one about mental illness has been around for a while. I remember the old saw about how if you have enough money, you are no longer “crazy” you’re “eccentric”
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
Is there anywhere I can find the real world dates when certain events in Warhammer 40K happened? Like, what real world year was Roboute Guilliman brought back? I think it was around 2017 but I’m not exactly sure. How long ago did the Noctis Aeternis storyline start? The wiki isn’t very helpful, it only lists in-universe dates.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
There’s pretty good circumstantial evidence that Shapiro covered up a murder that his friend committed. Picking him would have been an absolute time bomb for both the campaign and Shapiro himself.
ABigGuy4U
1d ago
I believe her participation in the Combahee Ferry raid is also pretty well supported.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
It wouldn’t necessarily be China that throws the first one. It would be tempting for the US to use tactical weapons to even out local Chinese conventional superiority. There’s a ton of articles from American think tanks pondering such a possibility.
ABigGuy4U
2d ago
China isn’t Russia though. China is probably the only other country in the world besides the United States that could do 2000+ PGM strikes per day for the first two weeks of the conflict. The most Russia has ever fired in a single day strike is around a tenth of that, and they can only do that about once a month at best.
Also, American naval war simulations have shown that in the event of a war, it would be extremely dangerous to move carrier groups any further west than Hawaii. The Chinese have spent a huge amount of effort and money developing long range area denial weapons like the Dongfeng-21 to keep US carrier groups far away from China or Taiwan. The Houthis only had a small fraction of that capability and they were able to drive US carriers out of the Red Sea.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
I’ve heard a few theories:
-Ayylmao invasion fleet. This one doesn’t have too much traction since most of the drones seem to be pretty conventional and don’t exhibit any of the physics breaking movements or properties of other UAP encounters like the 2014 navy sighting.
-Government Nuke sniffers. This theory came from an engineer on tiktok. He thinks the drones could be looking for the radiation signature of a nuclear device that was smuggled into the United States. This might explain why the federal government seems so tight lipped about it, so as not to create panic.
-Foreign adversary. The drones belong to Russia/Iran/China and are being launched from a submarine carrier off the coast of New Jersey for reconnaissance or to intentionally spread fear
-Military Test: The drones are US military and need to be tested for urban operations, which is why they’re in New Jersey and not somewhere in the Nevada desert.
ABigGuy4U
6d ago
“Hence, if it requires, say, a thousand years to fit for easy flight a bird which started with rudimentary wings, or ten thousand for one with started with no wings at all and had to sprout them ab initio, it might be assumed that the flying machine which will really fly might be evolved by the combined and continuous efforts of mathematicians and mechanicians in from one million to ten million years — provided, of course, we can meanwhile eliminate such little drawbacks and embarrassments as the existing relation between weight and strength in inorganic materials.”
Heh, nothin personal kid.
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
Yes, I think the Columbia pro-Palestine protests were worrying to the establishment because it showed that the younger generations actually wanted an internally consistent and strict application of woke ideology and weren’t content to just go in whatever direction they were pointed in.
ABigGuy4U
8d ago
Ukraine’s losses don’t look that high because Ukrainian official figures are a bunch of lies. Zelensky claims that Ukrainian forces suffered 30 thousand deaths in the first four months of the war, and that they have only suffered 10-30 thousand additional deaths in the subsequent two and a half years.
so why the race to bend the knee all of a sudden?
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Because the State Department and the CIA were looking at the dwindling military recruitment numbers in light of an imminent great power conflict, and decided that wokeness was becoming a liability to empire and had to go.
Wokeness is a great ideology for an empire standing at Fukuyama’s end of history, when the main priority is global resource extraction and the only threats are threats from within. It gives infinite excuses for neo-colonialist wars overseas (those tribals in the mountains need to be enlightened about trans rights and feminism by the application of a few 2000 lb JDAMs). It also gives infinite excuses to repress political opposition at home (we have to destroy democracy in order to save Our Democracy). There’s a reason the Obama administration decided to retool the entire military around counter insurgency, and it wasn’t just for conflicts in the Middle East. The military was literally running war games about how they were going to “pacify” troublesome towns in middle America. The only “conspiracy” part about the Jade Helm conspiracy theory was whether Obama was actually planning on using the many many contingency plans that had been drawn up to turn the Midwest into one giant Chechnya, not whether those plans had been made. The military would be turned into a politicized Syria/Iraq style Republican Guard, and minimized in size to make it easier for the political branches to control. Politically unreliable demographics would be driven out and replaced with ones that could be counted on to open fire on the plebes of it ever became necessary.
Unfortunately, all of that stuff is a giant liability when you actually have to think about fighting another country. When Russian tanks rolled over the ceasefire line in the Donbas and Chinese fleets started conducting practice encirclements of Taiwan, the US military establishment started shitting bricks when it realized that the nu-military would last about three weeks in that kind of conflict. There is no buy-in from the civilian population, so no one wants to join anymore. A draft would be a a complete non starter because everyone now realizes how much the government despises them. All the old patriotic illusions are gone. So now the deep state is scrambling to try and do damage control to get everyone back in line.
I don’t think they’re enthusiastic about working with Trump but I think they prefer it to the French Revolution nightmare scenario of an existential overseas foreign conflict running simultaneously with a hot civil war at home. Especially given that unlike back in 2010, if a civil war kicked off now, all parties involved would suddenly be getting mysterious crates of military equipment with Cyrillic writing all over them.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
That sounds like a pretty intense weekly routine, are you maybe a bit too tired? Temporary ED is a common phenomenon reported by people going through military boot camp for that reason.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
Yes, after the wars got unpopular and the State Department’s geopolitical interest in the Middle East started to wane and pivot to Asia, they certainly found him and wrapped things up right quick.
What makes you think the CIA wanted to track down their “former” asset and comrade in arms? The one who’s existence justified all those lovely imperialistic wars? Even without remote viewers, they had a ton of other resources that they were aggressively not using to find him.
By that rubric, the Christmas carol Baby, it’s Cold Outside is the most corrosive and deadly work of pro-terrorism propaganda in human history, since it stochasticly inspired all modern Islamic terrorism. It’s directly responsible for 9/11. Bing Crosby should have been imprisoned for life!
The other possible explanation is that after the A-Bomb, both the US and the USSR were willing to throw a lot of money at things that sound like bunk on the small off-chance that they’re not. A lot of Nazi German higher ups thought that nuclear weapons were fanciful sci-fi bullshit or intentional misinformation planted by Jewish physicists, and they got screwed out of a potential war-winner as a result. And magic might be especially tempting in that regard, since you don’t need a gigantic, Manhattan Project-tier investment to give it a try.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
It still casts doubt on XKCD’s central thesis though. “Lol well if it’s real why isn’t the military using it? Checkmate.” Well they did or at least spent a lot of effort and taxpayer money trying.
ABigGuy4U
9d ago
There’s an entire non-fiction book about it called The Men Who Stare at Goats. Regarding your point, I definitely don’t rule it out, but I would think if they were going to do that they would pick a less ridiculous cover explanation.
The remote viewing program supposedly did. They identified a new type of Soviet nuclear submarine before it was deployed and before any other intel sources knew about it. They also found the location of an American general that had been kidnapped by a left-wing paramilitary in Italy. They were used to locate Iraqi surface to air missile sites during the Gulf War, with partial but incomplete success.
The occult warfare program (MK OFTEN) is more heavily classified and we know less about it. Probably for good reason: based on the personnel it employed it likely involved human sacrifice. In any case, it was probably being used for missions that would be illegal or violations of international law regardless of the method used to achieve them.
Both of these programs have ostensibly been shut down. That could definitely be true, but there are a lot of intelligence agency programs that get “shut down” and moved somewhere else before the congressional subcommittee hearings can kick into gear.
I don’t really know anything specific about the Soviet program if they had one.
There was a similar attack like this in Germany a few years ago. An Iranian Muslim born in Germany became radicalized about mass immigration into Germany and committed a mass shooting targeting immigrants. It’s barely remembered now because the story got dropped like a hot potato, since it would have been extremely difficult for either side of the culture war to make hay out of it.
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