Remember when this happened a couple of years ago: "False ballistic missile alarm forces Hawaii into panic mode"

DrStrangelove · 2020-02-26T06:36:06+00:00

Launched from Cape Canaveral due East. A pilot flying over Sudan reported seeing a spiral cloud that may have been the upper stage dumping fuel prior to re-entry, and an anonymous gov official allegedly claimed it burnt up over the Indian Ocean. Interestingly, US authorities have or will not officially confirm the success or failure of the launch.

"The US government has not publicly stated if there was a failure of Zuma, and this secrecy has generated speculations on its purpose and its fate. A number of articles published by the amateur satellite tracking community stated that if the satellite was still in orbit or operating covertly, then it would likely be located visually. In the process of searching for Zuma, amateur astronomers instead found radio transmissions from IMAGE, a NASA satellite that was lost in 2005."

Probably not related, but it got my inner conspiracy speculator going. Maybe nothing, maybe the launch failure was a cover, maybe the spy satellite was really a weapons platform, maybe someone else intercepted it over Hawaii causing the alert. I'd wager if 9/11 had been thwarted at the last minute it would be remembered about as well as the Hawaii ballistic missile alarm.

On a less conspiratorial note, it's hard to imagine an entire state suddenly being told their world is about to end in 20 minutes. I have no idea what I would actually do in that situation, but the people of Hawaii, for better or worse, certainly do now. I think it would have to be on most peoples short list of most profound life experiences.

DrStrangelove · 2020-02-25T08:05:28+00:00

Five Days Earlier: "USA-280 was a classified United States government satellite that was launched by SpaceX on 8 January 2018. The specific agency in charge of the Zuma project has not been disclosed, nor its purpose. Unnamed sources have stated that the satellite was lost during deployment and re-entered the atmosphere, and independent investigations concluded that the spacecraft likely failed to separate from its payload adaptor." -Wikipedia

Not saying they're connected, curious timing though.

DrStrangelove · 2020-02-10T02:16:09+00:00

The FBI Declassifies Files on The Finders and McMartin Pre-school Child Trafficking Cases - winterwatch.net 10/28/2019

DrStrangelove · 2020-02-06T07:59:51+00:00

I was wondering if that was the same Daryl Davis, that was fantastic!

DrStrangelove · 2020-02-03T19:44:33+00:00

I see your Weird Russian and raise you:Molvanian Idol champion - Zladko “Zlad” Vladcik

DrStrangelove · 2020-01-09T09:12:24+00:00

Check out Lugg.com. It's an app based service like uber/lyft but for hauling stuff instead of people. I work for a big box store (rhymes with bosco) and our customers use them regularly to haul enormous, impulsive, credit card purchases. Also, Cheers on the van man! Cars are for plebs, trucks are for insecure plebs, but vans... vans are the chariots of gods.

DrStrangelove · 2019-12-18T09:43:30+00:00

Way cool. Everyone thinks Tesla was all volts and coils and death-rays, but his mechanical inventions are pretty impressive too. For instance; the blade-less Tesla Turbine

DrStrangelove · 2019-12-16T20:19:59+00:00

And the self driving BMW will sacrifice pedestrians to save blinker fluid.

I see a market opportunity; VIP Override the app that tells your wouldbe murder vehicle to hit something, anything, other than you. Available on ios & android, $10K/mo subscription.

DrStrangelove · 2019-12-03T01:26:18+00:00

Don't go chasing waterfalls, please stick to the religion of peace that you're used to.

These guys just need a little TLC

DrStrangelove · 2019-12-03T00:58:55+00:00

Por que se gusta ensenar espanol en Tierra Verde?

DrStrangelove · 2019-11-10T07:26:40+00:00

That's a great interview, thanks! I could listen to Terence talk for hours, and have. Dennis is a treasure as well, and I'm grateful for him and academics like him granting new legitimacy to a tragically maligned subject.

DrStrangelove · 2019-10-29T06:47:56+00:00

Worthwhile read, thanks for sharing. Is Snowden legit, a psy-op, or a patsy? Maybe all three? Maybe something else entirely? Lately it seems like standard boiler-plate for the conspiracy community to denounce every high profile whistleblower as a dis-info agent. There is no shortage of posts making such assertions with compelling evidence. On the other hand, something I have not seen discussed much;

If I were an intelligence spook in charge of perception management, and Snowden/Assange/Manning etc... were the real deal, I'd damn sure be pushing the psy-op narrative to both muddy the waters and delegitimize any actual truth being revealed.

DrStrangelove · 2019-10-26T01:09:18+00:00

Totally not ironic advertisement for a mail order whiskey club imbedded in an article about banning things in the name of public health :/

DrStrangelove · 2019-10-24T06:46:10+00:00

"In a cult there’s a guy at the top who knows it’s all bullshit. In a religion that guy has been dead a long time." – George Carlin

DrStrangelove · 2019-10-22T22:12:06+00:00

Aha, I always wondered what the origins of yuppie were. I figured it just meant bourgeois.

DrStrangelove · 2019-10-22T06:14:11+00:00

That was fun, here's mine: https://8values.github.io/results.html?e=68.9&d=54.8&g=76.9&s=71.1

DrStrangelove · 2019-10-21T07:55:53+00:00

Ha, interesting. I never really dug much further into the origins of the test beyond the about page, and I definitely can't vouch for it's accuracy. A quick DDGO search for "politicalcompass bias" brought up a number of criticisms from wikipedia, rationalwiki, and r/ask_politics, who all call it pro-libertarian propaganda. Then again I don't consider any of those sources neutral either.

DrStrangelove · 2019-10-21T07:01:12+00:00

Liberal, but I'm not sure that word means what I think it does anymore. Maybe it never did.
I believe in the maximization of freedom and the minimization of tyranny. I dislike hierarchy, abhor bureaucracy, and the only authority I grant any legitimacy is my own over my self. Voluntaryist, Anti-Authoritarian, or Classical Liberal with deep anarchist sympathies might be more accurate.

FWIW: Every few years since it came out in 2001, I retake the politicalcompass.org test to loosely gauge if and by how much my politics have changed with age/experience/wisdom/brain-damage. I consistently score in the far bottom-left quadrant (left-libertarian).

DrStrangelove · 2019-10-15T16:51:10+00:00

Be the change you wish to see in the world (or above it)

DrStrangelove · 2019-10-11T03:28:54+00:00

Reminds me of that CGI pimple NBC painted on Tulsi, and Yang's mic being cut.

DrStrangelove · 2019-10-01T07:28:15+00:00

My Dinner with Andre. Fantastic film.

DrStrangelove · 2019-09-25T05:53:49+00:00

"If you don't think about it, you just enjoy the ride, which is probably the best way to do life" -Sam Brownback

DrStrangelove · 2019-09-24T05:35:39+00:00

I'll have a Dunning-Kruger, shaken, not stirred.

DrStrangelove · 2019-08-30T18:55:46+00:00

Xie xie. The CCP approves this video. Mustache man just doubled his future social credit score.

DrStrangelove · 2019-08-23T17:38:58+00:00

Just a few years ago no one would have read this headline (or URL for that matter) and not rolled their eyes, but in the wake of Epstein... A few more links from the reddit thread:

C_S_T post from 2016: Aaron Swartz didn't just pull JSTOR papers

Hero Aaron Swartz Exposing Elite Chilld Abuse

One Laptop Per Child CIA Conspiracy Theory

NYT: Microsoft Joins Effort for Laptops for Children

The SUN: Bill Gates refuses to explain why he went on Jeffrey Epstein’s notorious ‘Lolita Express’ plane four years AFTER the paedo was released from prison

DrStrangelove · 2019-08-16T07:28:28+00:00

Really well produced and balanced mini documentary on the current state of the UFO phenomena. Nothing new here, but it's an excellent primer for anyone who hasn't been following the subject closely for the last few years. The best I've seen since the LEMMINO: The Unknowns mini doc.

DrStrangelove · 2019-08-16T06:59:32+00:00

Ha, never heard that one in Sunday school. Interesting and useful blog, thanks for the link.

DrStrangelove · 2019-08-09T08:47:40+00:00

Yep, thanks!

DrStrangelove · 2019-08-08T08:19:53+00:00

Blocked by "Wordfence"?

DrStrangelove · 2019-08-05T20:19:20+00:00

I like your style, dude. Could call each other COEN brothers.

DrStrangelove · 2019-08-02T16:23:38+00:00

Dr. Kings own family didn't believe the official assassination story: A History of the King Family's Attempt to Clear the Name of James Earl Ray

DrStrangelove · 2019-08-02T16:06:20+00:00

For the curious: Mega List of Confirmed Conspiracies

DrStrangelove · 2019-07-27T20:02:27+00:00

The CASE act proposes a small claims process in which sharing or downloading an unlicensed meme could cost you $15k

DrStrangelove · 2019-07-27T07:37:08+00:00

...because it's working.

DrStrangelove · 2019-07-19T08:23:59+00:00

Reminds me of that one time chief Nazi/NASA rocket scientist Wernher von Braun wrote a sci-fi novel and named the king of Mars "Elon"

Project Mars (1953) by Wernher Von Braun

DrStrangelove · 2019-07-17T06:42:47+00:00

Welcome aboard! Here's a concise introduction from a while back:

https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/37r/welcome_to_saiditnet/

Many of the users here, myself included, are refugees of the censorship, groupthink, data-mining, social engineering, and general corporate fuckery that has taken over the majority of online platforms. The first rule of fightclub is...
The Pyramid of Debate

DrStrangelove · 2019-07-13T06:00:56+00:00

If I were an alien life form imprisoned at Area 51, I might consider starting an online movement to raid the place. Just sayin.

DrStrangelove · 2019-07-09T18:57:16+00:00

So this is how society will split, like H.G. Wells Eloi and Morlock from The Time Machine. The normies will live secure, sheltered, regimented lives inside walled technocratic city states, while off in the distance a free-range juggalo sips his Faygo rock n' rye. Tastes like freedom.

DrStrangelove · 2019-06-26T04:30:05+00:00

The whole "greener" debate wouldn't even need consideration if weren't for the divide and conquer tactics of the barb wire industry and Big Fence.

DrStrangelove · 2019-06-22T07:18:13+00:00

Now I'm imagining self driving RV's roaming continents, stopping only to sight-see and charge via extendable rooftop solar arrays.

DrStrangelove · 2019-06-05T15:15:39+00:00

Just want to shoutout some appreciation for u/EndlessSunflowers always bringing positive vibes, and u/Tom_Bombadil for being hilarious

DrStrangelove · 2019-05-17T06:05:14+00:00

Huh, just tried to sign it, email confirmation never arrived. Tried again with a different email, same. Also, the petition was started May 4 and only has 1220 signatures... smells fishy. At least I'm on a list now, gonna kick back and wait for my drone-strike.

DrStrangelove · 2019-05-14T19:20:10+00:00

Good breakdown, thank you. I was 100% onboard the global warming hysteria train since middle school (mid 90's) until it magically became the only socially acceptable opinion sometime in the last decade or so. I recently made the faux pas of hinting at my growing skepticism to my arm-chair liberal friends/family and might as well have clubbed a baby seal with a plutonium swastika... yet I'm the only one of the bunch who commutes to work on a bicycle.

DrStrangelove · 2019-05-01T04:10:25+00:00

They absolutely make traffic less safe. My city has a ridiculous and growing number of red light and photo-radar cameras. Now, the instant a light turns yellow people slam on their brakes. Good times for tow companies and body shops though, and the private (out of state) companies who sell and operate the cameras and radar vans.

DrStrangelove · 2019-04-21T17:24:44+00:00

I just returned from a week drinking ayahuasca with a bunch of beautiful hippies in the Ecuadorian Andes. At one point in the afterglow of a very powerful ceremony, a young apprentice Shaman played a cover of this on an old Spanish guitar, and I haven't been able to get it out of my head since... and I don't want to. Happy Easter everybody.

DrStrangelove · 2019-03-29T22:29:35+00:00

Ubuntu Budgie (Ubuntu with the Solus desktop environment) https://ubuntubudgie.org

DrStrangelove · 2019-03-16T15:10:20+00:00

The Orville is absolutely the spiritual successor of Star Trek, and it’s fantastic.

DrStrangelove · 2019-03-09T21:25:30+00:00

I was sure it was gonna be a dude in a suit, or a 3 legged deer but nope, definitely a kangaroo

DrStrangelove · 2019-03-08T19:44:30+00:00

Someone should record a song solely via HDD, and maybe autotune

DrStrangelove · 2019-03-08T15:59:41+00:00

Ross Ulbricht

DrStrangelove · 2019-03-08T15:51:39+00:00

Just discovered this sub and came here to post this, beat me to it Jason, nice! Also, “beat me to it” could be a Dewey Cox song.

DrStrangelove · 2019-03-05T03:15:43+00:00

This is a really, really good read. Scratch that, this is really good journalism. Maybe the most insightful thing I've ever come across on r/conspiracy, and from a mod no less. Definitely deserves a cross-post to s/conspiracy. I'm a little suspicious that it hasn't been memory-holed though.

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-27T05:12:39+00:00

Wow, actually worse than I thought. I really hope this scandal/movement becomes a force for good and not an excuse for more evil.

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-27T01:01:26+00:00

But why now? This has been going on for years, Elsagate anyone? This particular outrage is a decade too late and obviously manufactured.

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-26T02:06:45+00:00

Happy Little Trees did 9/11

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-23T01:11:25+00:00

The very ACLU that once defended the free speech rights of Nazis in Skokie. Canary, meet Coalmine.

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-21T06:29:51+00:00

Multiple life sentences for running a website :/ All of his convictions were for non-violent crimes. If it weren't for the war on drugs and the threat of crypto he might be palin' around with Bezos and Zuckerberg. Meanwhile big pharma continues to rake in billions from the completely legal and arguably engineered opioid epidemic. What's the opposite of a justice boner?

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-21T04:18:03+00:00

Legit, it's even in his wikipedia:

In 1951, along with many other Ivy League alumni, Buckley was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); he served for two years, including one year in Mexico City working on political action for E. Howard Hunt;[23] who was later jailed for his part in the Watergate affair. The two officers remained lifelong friends.[24] In a November 1, 2005, column for National Review, Buckley recounted that while he worked for the CIA, the only employee of the organization that he knew was Hunt, his immediate boss.

But as they say, once a company man...

*edit: He might have been a stooge within the CIA, as in rich kids playing spy

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-21T01:34:57+00:00

What a time to be alive.

side note: William F Buckley was CIA... and so is 4chan (probably)

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-15T01:27:42+00:00

Brilliant

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-12T20:43:22+00:00

From r/kotakuinaction:

KotakuInAction is the main hub for GamerGate on Reddit and welcomes discussion of community, industry and media issues in gaming and broader nerd culture including science fiction and comics.

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-07T18:38:56+00:00

This made me wonder if "offal" and "awful" have an etymological connection. Surprisingly, they do not.

DrStrangelove · 2019-02-06T06:07:08+00:00

As far as doom-porn goes, this guys stuff usually has pretty decent production value. At the very least, this video made me realize I haven't been paying enough attention to the current state of affairs in Venezuela. Also, dude might be Batman.

DrStrangelove · 2019-01-25T08:05:59+00:00

But it's the perfect texture for running, very low impact!

DrStrangelove · 2019-01-24T01:10:40+00:00

Totally not related, probably: China just re-sentenced a Canadian citizen to death after appealing a 15 year prison sentence for drug smuggling.

Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was given a 15-year jail term in November but, on Monday, a court said the sentence for drug smuggling was too lenient.

DrStrangelove · 2019-01-22T05:46:31+00:00

I really like the inverted crown! Makes me imagine the queen losing her shit and throwing it across the room.

DrStrangelove · 2019-01-20T05:15:56+00:00

Has she ever taken a position on 1A, freedom of speech, and internet censorship? I've searched but have found nothing relevant. That singular issue is my personal litmus test. I want to like her, but I'm suspicious of my own inclinations. In interviews she comes off as naive but passionate, which isn't the end of the world, maybe even the perfect way to start a political career. My worst fear is that her current rising star is a media charade, designed to capture and steer the Bernie wing back to the corporate democrats.

DrStrangelove · 2019-01-14T19:25:37+00:00

"Fuller used a portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and tension to arrive at the term Dymaxion."

The Dymaxion car and Dymaxion house.

The car had 3 wheels, a top speed of 128mph, and 36mpg fuel efficiency. Plus, it looked like an art-deco rocket ship. The house was a modular, pre-fab, energy efficient tensile structure designed for mass production based on war effort aircraft manufacturing.

Fuller was way ahead of his time and a hero of 20th century innovation in service of humanity. Buckminster is also a great middle name.

DrStrangelove · 2019-01-14T02:06:17+00:00

THC is by far my favorite podcast, and this episode is REALLY out-there in the best way possible. I've always considered the "Mandela effect" a pretty lazy theory exploiting the weakness of human memory in the face of the information age, but this one kinda made me rethink my assumptions. Were Terence Mckenna and the Mayan calendar on to something? Is CERN in on it? Are we all in a simulation or just me? Not saying any of this is real, but I can't recall ever hearing about the Maned Wolf, Moon Museum, or Rainbow Mountains of China until today.

DrStrangelove · 2018-12-10T04:45:35+00:00

Yikes, I had no idea Saidit utilized patreon until I saw your comment. To be honest my immediate, admittedly paranoid reaction was to delete the post out of concern for the site. Then, I didn't. That my first thought was to self-censor out of fear of reprisal precisely exemplifies the chilling effect that online censorship and deplatforming is having on public discourse. I love Saidit. What you and D3rr have created is awesome. It is, in my humble opinion, a bright shining beacon of hope for what the internet was supposed to be. Bitcoins are on the way.

Also FWIW, may I suggest looking into subscribestar? I know nothing about them other than a number of alt. media content creators have moved to them recently as an alternative fundraising platform.

DrStrangelove · 2018-12-02T02:09:00+00:00

Oh man, someone should develop a K.I.T.T Tesla upgrade. A red LED strip for the front bumper and a software patch with William Daniels voice for navigation and snarky quips. Aaaaaand nevermind, someone did it 10 years ago.

On to my next million dollar idea: an 80's style PSA to play on the dashboard infotainment center while you're auto-driven off to the precinct.

"So, you're being arrested!"

These are your Miranda Rights, followed by paid advertisements for local attorneys. Your arrest is being recorded & livestreamed in accordance with your automakers' TOS

DrStrangelove · 2018-12-02T00:56:22+00:00

I can totally see a near-future where traffic stops are made by police remotely commandeering self-driving cars. Light'em up, lock the doors, and pull them over or drive them straight to jail.

DrStrangelove · 2018-11-22T01:41:25+00:00

Great post! Utopia or Rocko's Basilsk? Or, some combination of both with competing government/corporate AI(s)?

DrStrangelove · 2018-11-21T19:19:49+00:00

Anyone who finds Baker's story compelling might want to check out

Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing Monkey Viruses are Linked to Lee Harvey Oswald, the JFK Assassination and Emerging Global Epidemics

Link is to a Coast to Coast AM interview with the author, Ed Haslam

DrStrangelove · 2018-11-08T08:09:54+00:00

This is consistent with a new theory of consciousness being advocated by physicist Sir Roger Penrose and Dr. Stuart Hameroff. Penrose and Hameroff suggest that consciousness is something applied to the brain, not generated by it.

Came to the comments to mention Hammeroff. He's an anesthesiologist who thinks consciousness arises out of the quantum states of microtubules within the neuron. Basically, the brain is more a quantum antenna than a computer. Really fascinating stuff, and interesting that it comes from a guy who's an expert in turning consciousness off (and hopefully back on again).

DrStrangelove · 2018-10-21T19:52:13+00:00

Oregon Public Broadcasting did a short segment on the Polybius arcade story about a year ago. I'll link if I can find it. Their conclusion was it had been a total urban legend, but that's exactly what THEY would want you to think isn't it? Some claim there is still a ROM of the game floating around somewhere on the dark web.

DrStrangelove · 2018-10-19T07:51:01+00:00

Days after appearing on the CBC to expose Apples exorbitant repair costs for out of warranty devices, Rossman had a shipment of macbook batteries seized by US Customs. Coincidence?

DrStrangelove · 2018-10-16T02:20:47+00:00

1859 Carrington Event. A Faraday cage might save the electronics in your car, but unless you know of a gas station with manual pumps, your range would be the fuel in your tank.

DrStrangelove · 2018-10-10T04:47:49+00:00

“Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.”

― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

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