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- Michael van der Riet: @Bob Sykes “lightly armed Muslim militia” Google “asymmetrical warfare” to find out how this works.
- Bob Sykes: Aren’t the Pigs in power?
- T. Beholder: PR looks either a single fig leaf thin or poorly coordinated. https://simplicius76.sub stack.com/p/baltic-provo cations-heat-up-estonia https://simplicius76.sub stack.com/p/nato-rhetori c-reaches-new-levels Then again, Sweden is a new point, maybe there’s something more to it. Do they expect the great opt-out to start there? It would make some sense.
- Phileas Frogg: Plus c’est change, plus c’est la meme chose. We innovate how to kill each other faster and better when we have a pressing need to kill each other faster and better. Who’da thunk? It is noteworthy that this WOULD be a substantial blow against the historical illiterati and their erroneous filial affirmation that democracy and/or liberalism is responsible for our present level of technological innovation, if not for the fact that they’re retarded. It doesn’t...
- Jim: Bob Sykes: While US/NATO conducts actual invasions of peaceful countries left and right In fairness to the United State, there are no “peaceful countries”, least of all ones run by Arabs or Africans, excepting only Libya, because al-Qaddafi was a strong king for life at home and naïve fool abroad.
- McChuck: “Limited supplies of precision munitions” 10,000 drones a month is, technically, a limited supply. But when you use the drones to spot for artillery, where the Russians are producing a hundred thousand rounds a month to our ten thousand per year…
- Bob Sykes: While US/NATO conducts actual invasions of peaceful countries left and right, we are treated to a pack of lies about Russia’s intent. We need to remember: Since 1945, there have been about 250 military incursions and wars, and the US did more than 80% of them, and always, always against countries that were at peace with the US and its allies (slave states). Somalia is our oldest ongoing war of aggression, now in its 4th decade, and stalemated against a lightly armed Muslim militia. Libya...
- Jim: This is just as true of compartmented programs.
- Jim: Or remember LK-99? We’re probably well behind the time of a real one.
- T. Beholder: There are filters other than lack of concept/looking this way, however. The Romans had mobile artillery, but faced few worthwhile targets for it. The Greeks before them invented things like taxi meter and steam turbine. But without units and measures worked out, more complex things like steam turbines could not easily become more than expensive-to-maintain toys, and that’s not even starting on cheap slave labor. The measures are a separate story. Mostly only the empires like Roman or Chinese...
- Isegoria: I’ve discussed ideas behind their time before.
- Bruce: There was a foot-pedal powered machine gun in Scientific American in the 1950s; Poul Anderson used it in his Maurai stories. Buildable since the invention of the potter’s wheel. Bible stuff about ‘broken on a potter’s wheel’ might…
- Jim: There are many such cases of this. I would be surprised if there were not, hidden away in one or more dark labs somewhere, some infinite-energy engines that can run on water or draw energy from the æther or something. And lest you think that, if such a thing existed, “we” would know about it, know ye that, were I to develop such a device, I’d never tell you, either. More importantly, let’s all take a moment to reflect on how Absolutely Fucking Insane that a computer can now respond like this.
- Jim: How exceedingly gay.
- Jim: Albion: In my part of the world, kids — barely out of short pants — once they qualify to drive, go and buy the cheapest car they can (which translates as often the smallest, least well-built) and drive like they were about to win an F1 race. Hell, yeah!
- Albion: Don’t discount the human factor. In my part of the world, kids — barely out of short pants — once they qualify to drive, go and buy the cheapest car they can (which translates as often the smallest, least well-built) and drive like they were about to win an F1 race. When every stop light and junction is regarded as a challenge, hard to see how you can lower the casualty rate.
- T. Beholder: Considering most podcast bobbleheads probably are not very different from automated parrots to begin with, why not, indeed. So the talking head bots generate product, then astroturf bots generate clicks as a part of «programmatic advertising»… It’s much like this: https://xkcd.com/600/ But how do the money flows from outside enter the owning company?
- T. Beholder: Well… “If you copy from one book, that’s plagiarism; if you copy from many books, that’s research.” https://quoteinvestigato r.com/2010/09/20/plagiar ism/
- Gaikokumaniakku: “Ascribing everything to purely hypothetical ‘conspiracies’ is not substantially different from ascribing everything to Providence.” I do not ascribe *everything* to conspiracies; I have (over the past few years) documented a number of conspiracies, sometimes on a now-nearly-defunct wordpress blog and sometimes on a rarely-updated substack. “Unfortunately, it was mostly natural. As in, supply and demand. Consider the Age of Quackery in England and USA alike. At least on the level...
- Gaikokumaniakku: “Yet in stripping away the old language, we may also lose track of the deeper truths those metaphors carried.” I don’t think ancient reports of spirits were metaphors. I think ancient people were less distracted by mundane affairs and more attentive to literal spirits. I hold an unpopular belief: I think that the conscious personalities of humans survive past the death of the physical body. In short, I believe that the soul is real enough to have an impact on the physical world —...
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