FormerPothead
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FormerPothead
3d ago
I thought I was pretty clear that I’m speculating - not claiming claiming anything. But address some of your points.
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Secrets. There is no shortage of people out there giving interviews, claiming to be part of programs, publishing book, patents etc. These people are generally ignored, mocked, or written off as cranks no better than some skitzo in his basement. The political economy of academia makes dissent from the party line unthinkable. And for what? It’s not unreasonable to think that some step function change in our understanding of physics could be legitimate threat to humanity.
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Ridicule. The second part of your reply is building a strawman of my alleged claim and then mocking it. At its most basic level, I’m saying that that the USG, having just unlocked nuclear weapons through physics, decided it was best to have a black fundamental physics program and made advances over the last 70 years. It would almost be irresponsible for them to have not done something like this. If I had to guess, I’d guess that they made progress manipulating another fundamental force - gravity. There appears to have been at least a lot of talk about that in public before everything and everyone involved vanished and mainstream physics focused string theory. No time travel or antigrav chairs needed. Just a relatively small group of scientists, in the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, already nearly merged into the MIC, deciding that this is the most responsible path for physics.
It seems plausible that the USSR and China came to similar conclusions either independently or loosely connected. We seemed to be able to understand the importance of a hotline or other space research despite hostilities. Given the stakes involved, it doesn’t seem ridiculous to me to think that everyone agrees to not make this public. Of course these other programs would likely be far behind the US. In fact I’ve heard speculation that the US governments abrupt change in UAP policy in the last 10 years could be a result of these other programs having finally caught up with us.
Again. None of this sounds even remotely ridiculous to me. Yet people get their backs up on even the most mild version of this story. Why is that?
As I said, the whole topic is a lot of fun. There is so much interesting stuff out there. And it’s easier than ever to find.
FormerPothead
5d ago
I didn’t realize this was an investment question. You are correct that there are not many good public companies out there for this industry. You’ve got scams on the low end and private capital at the high end.
I thought this was for career advice.
FormerPothead
5d ago
Key word being “most of them”. There are a non insignificant number of very strange things that people are observing.
FormerPothead
5d ago
Despite the current new administration, energy transition is a good bet. Decarbonization, electrification, GenAI. Energy companies will continue with low carbon and distributed generation buildout for the next 30 years. Nuclear maybe get little bit of investment, but I expect it will not be material to overall new generation. Gas turbines will be the backbone but expect more renewables regardless of fed policy.
FormerPothead
5d ago
I know this is a rat forum, but I’m still surprised people are so incredulous about non-conventional explanations. I’m not necessarily suggesting that these are extraterrestrials, but it seems like there are a mix of three categories of things being seen:
- Misidentified fixed wing aircraft/helicopters and lens flares.
- These large drones with novel characteristics
- Other orbs, lights, or unexplained things.
You seem quite certain about what these things are. I’m going to guess you haven’t looked at it too closely are are either repeating others analysis or just playing the adds and speculating a likely explainstion.
It seems to me that the government/media/expert class have no problem either outright lying or are happy to just be flat out wrong.
It would be more interesting to talk about what’s new about this latest episode - because there are some novel aspects to it.
FormerPothead
21d ago
Tell that to the commanders.
FormerPothead
22d ago
Wow! That’s interesting. Learned something new here.
FormerPothead
22d ago
Is anyone else surprised that they never excised “chief” from modern PC English? As in chief executive officer? I can’t think of any other context for chief other than an Indian chief. Maybe some military ranks? But it’s all based off Indians.
Thoughts?
FormerPothead
22d ago
What’s so frustrating about this topic is that there is almost Zero chance it’s addressed by the government, even under trump. It’s too niche. Too many incumbents. Someone needs to get this on Elons or Vivek’s radar and hope someone takes interest. It’s the only way.
FormerPothead
24d ago
I think the “idea” that Spotify used to bootstrap the service was that you could share playlists made by other people - their raison d'être.
So I’m guessing this is a Spotify thing adapted for IdPol.
Like any other modern media, I avoid their content and just build my own.
FormerPothead
26d ago
I just blew through 1,000 page Exodus by Peter F Hamilton. I’m pretty mixed on PFH. I loved Commonweath but I’ve tried and fail to get into his others. I’m taking a stab at Nights Dawn but that’s besides the point
I thought Exodus was great. His best work in quite some time. The universe, pacing, major plot lines - all great. Good characters. The dude is really really imaginative.
The book is actually contract work where it’s and in-universe tie in novel with a new sci fi RPG that’s in development but some legit ex-BioWare guys. I’m very skeptical that the game won’t be woke slop since it’s being published by WOTC.
All this is to say that I hope more people read this book and it has some success. PFH is legit and doesn’t seem to have gone performatively woke even if he has been bullied into no longer including sex scenes in his stories.
FormerPothead
1mo ago
I refused hep b for my kids. It’s clearly a scam and exhibit 1 in terms of the fda hhs and pharma collusion. It was an expensive to develop vaccine for gay men and it drug users. They couldn’t get enough customers to cover the cost of the drug so they got it on the newborn schedule. They give it to a baby in the first 24 hours.
Even if it were a miracle vaccine, it is absurd to give it to a baby in the first 24 hours of life. It’s obvious that the reason they do this is because it’s a garunteed touch point for doctors to administer it. Prioritizing vaccine sales over all other considerations.
FormerPothead
1mo ago
The Dem and Media have called trump an asshole for 4 years about the “big lie”.
If nothing else, he has mobilized his supporters to be vigilant for election rigging. It will be harder to pull the same trick twice. I worry they have new tricks. But in 2020, people were confused when there were reports of vote tabulators being sent home for burst water pipes.
FormerPothead
2mo ago
They look like bureaucrats. They look like people that have spent their entire professional lives pushing paper around and playing office politics. I can only imagine what skillset it takes to advance to leadership in the federal government, but it seems unlikely that they’ve been selected for competence at responding to emergency situations.
I think it’s worthwhile for people to look at that page and assess for themselves what type of person is responsible for the hurricane response.
People should ask themselves, does this group look like the type of people that would prioritize Ukraine, “migrants”, or rural Americans. There is a well known trope that coastal elites seem to hold rural people in contempt. I’m willing to make the leap that the people on that leadership page are part of that group.
FormerPothead
2mo ago
I saw someone post this leadership page on the fema website. Do these people look like the best our country has to offer? Just looking at these people I wouldn’t put it past them to be dragging their feet. I also wouldn’t be surprised if they’re incompetent. Either way, I don’t know how anyone can look at this and think the USA is anything other than an embarrassment.
FormerPothead
2mo ago
I generally believe in protections for workers being fired for unfair reasons, and Republicans oppose that.
I’m curious, to what end do you support workers being protected from unfair firing? Is it the principle of the specific issue? Or is that you generally support labor over capital?
I saw people on X today dunking on trumps latest statement on John Deere. He’s proposing a 200% tariff on JD tractors that are made in Mexico and sold in the USA. I guess they just released a plan to build a factory in Mexico. The comments were a bunch of what I assume to be Democrats saying what a mistake trump made attacking an American company like JD and that his plan was idiotic. Trump clearly said:well either make a ton of money on the tariff or more likely, they won’t move your jobs to Mexico.
I bring this up because it seems to be a perfect illustration that mainstream democrats seem to support capital way more than labor these days.
What’s more important to labor these days, offshoring their jobs or unfair firings?
Not trying to “gotcha” here. This has been on my mind for some time and it’s as good a time as any to talk it out.
FormerPothead
3mo ago
People may think this is inflammatory or vulgar, but I think certain ethnicities or cultures just have such little time preference or otherwise truly enjoy orgasming inside a woman. They have no self control to not do it. I recall overhearing a conversation a few years ago around Valentine’s Day where a group of men were high fiving each other about “nutting” in their girl as some sort of gift. This would match up well with racial stats on abortion.
I very rarely in my life used condoms. The withdrawal method works perfectly assuming you have the ability to do it. The whole myth that precum can inseminate women is another lie we were all fed as children.
FormerPothead
4mo ago
I thought the speculation on his whereabouts was over when I heard he phoned in. Then I saw this clip.
https://x.com/goddeketal/status/1815521002773766502?s=42
Someone please explain this. She blew it.
FormerPothead
4mo ago
Don’t worry. Joe Biden dot com now redirects to act blue.
They probabaly held a gun to his head (figuratively) and he’s fuming mad and won’t/can’t get on camera.
Either that or the speculation of him being out of the loop in his own resignation are true.
FormerPothead
5mo ago
It won’t? He’s up 3-6 points in swing states. 3-4 on national polls where dems need +2 to break even.
I’m curious how you’re coming to “it won’t take much”.
FormerPothead
5mo ago
I honestly never understood this point. I used think Marco Rubio was a great politician and would be my ideal president. My views have changed a lot. I can’t imagine anyone who better fits the term “empty suit”.
Tucker was firing off texts blasting trump 5 years ago? So what?
FormerPothead
5mo ago
Agree. And whether or not is affects electoral outcomes, the conventional wisdom is that it does. That may give alternative candidates pause.
Nate Silver makes a good point that when you’re behind, you want to increase variance. Other candidates are likely to lose to trump too, but the chance of them catching fire with voters is higher than Biden.
FormerPothead
5mo ago
Interesting. That would be weird.
All the news sites seem to be hedging as well. “Possible shooting” “Trump rushes off stage after what sounds like gunshots”.
Why would they hedge like this. Anyone know?
FormerPothead
5mo ago
Not dead. They clipped his ear though. 3 inches inches to the right and his head would have popped on live tv. Unreal. He seriously is a man of destiny.
Sarah Adam’s is reporting that Hamsa Bin Laden is now commander of an Islamic Army that brings Aq isis and other groups under one command. Accomplished through him marrying into influential Islamist families.
She also reports that he and they are now less concerned with getting credit for terror and more concerned with opsec and covert tactics.
She seems credible.
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