“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline by GB43 in whatever

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“Not Just Whooping Cough”: Everything from Cancer to Acne Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline!!

"'The other day, I saw some unvaccinated lady explode!' said one man sitting on a bench."

...

:D

Down for Islam by Zombrie in whatever

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That doesn't help anyone see the evils of Islam ... it's just unkind.

Germany's Leopard 2 tanks fail on Ukraine's battlefields. by Dune1032 in WorldNews

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Debatable according to Ukrainian publications, perhaps.

10 commandments may now be posted in Arkansas public schools! State government changed the law. Children may legally be exposed to such laws as: "Thou shalt not kill." This is the opposite of what the military machine wants, so what's the catch? Do you know the 10 commandments? by In-the-clouds in news

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Yep.

In Deuteronomy, Yahweh commands that
if and when a young woman has had premarital sex
and cannot prove she's a virgin on her wedding day,
she must then be ... 'brought to the door of her father’s house and stoned to death'.

Now, if you reasonably conclude that this is grotesquely barbarous, primitive and evil ... then you're wrong. :/

You see, their dogma says that their deity Yahweh is 'good' ... by definition.

10 commandments may now be posted in Arkansas public schools! State government changed the law. Children may legally be exposed to such laws as: "Thou shalt not kill." This is the opposite of what the military machine wants, so what's the catch? Do you know the 10 commandments? by In-the-clouds in news

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It's a good thing Yahweh's burning bush was there to tell people not to kill each other.

Otherwise, human (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, etc.) societies would never have figured something like this out, oh wait ...

Incidentally, the commandment priorities of that deity seem peculiar:

1 I am your one master/deity, and don't you acknowledge others
2 Don't do artwork of stuff in the sky or the sea
3 Don't make fun of me
4 Don't do anything on Saturday
5 Obey your parents
and, oh, right, 6, don't kill people ...

:D

‘How do I live like this?’ asks Gaza boy who lost arms in Israeli attack by Drewski in Antiwar

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Ah, the rancid stench of hasbara!

‘How do I live like this?’ asks Gaza boy who lost arms in Israeli attack by Drewski in Antiwar

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If there's fake news, consider how bad history is.

Germany's Leopard 2 tanks fail on Ukraine's battlefields. by Dune1032 in WorldNews

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At this point in history, tanks are just (both increasingly pointless and very expensive) targets for very inexpensive drones.
For the US/NATO and Russia to figure/test this out wouldn't have been as tragic had they been unmaned ...
but they're manned, at the cost of many, especially Ukrainian, lives.
But TV-show propaganda/brainwashing was used to get the Zelensky puppet elected by a group that seems to hate the Ukrainian people
... as they probably hate all humans/peoples/nations.

I kissed the ground and I liked it by noshore4me in memes

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Not sure if joking.

Trump is hardcore losing support, you could say his stock is in freefall, his stock being the Trump Rookie Card by salvia_div in conspiracy

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Yeah, he's completely unpopular ...
and they were right to say that there's no way
he could ever get elected president of the USA,

oh, wait ...

I kissed the ground and I liked it by noshore4me in memes

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A PR suborbital hop ... 'being in space'. :/

Evidence of world's biggest child sacrifice discovered in Peru where 140 children were slain beside 200 llamas by farmer in news

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That's not even 1/10th of the number of babies sacrificed/killed/aborted in the USA, ... each day, every day.

Germany's Leopard 2 tanks fail on Ukraine's battlefields. by Dune1032 in WorldNews

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"Ukrainian soldiers say that 60-year-old German tanks have proven more capable in fighting Russia's forces than their modern replacements."

It's been argued that most Germans worth their salt died defending their country from invasion in WWII,
or, not to be captured, committed suicide, or were murdered by occupation forces.

The rest (to survive and to have careers under foreign occupation)
allowed themselves to become brainwashed drones,
and, after so many decades of this, they can now no longer really think,
other than as US/NATO woke vassals.

And, to complete the destruction of the German people, and, certainly, its spirit,
what increasingly passes for 'German' today is some amalgam of non-German Nigerians, Turks, Pakis, etc.,
which have been steadily been imported into Germany (and the rest of Europe) ... with the consent of collaborationist politicians.

And we're surprised that current 'German' tanks are not as good as they used to be. :/

A nation is not just geography.

A nation is its people.

If you moved the Zimbabweans into Germany and (any remaining actual) Germans into Zimbabwe,
Zimbabwe would become civilised and Germany would become a primitive barbarous shithole ...

... and it's happening happened?

The Babylonians also had a gold statue. by In-the-clouds in news

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One must agree with the letter of that statement.

But I suspect that by 'the truth' you're instead referring to evil religious dogmata,
from some demonstrably false mythology.

If this is indeed correct, then you've been indoctrinated,
or infected, if you will,
to believe that lies, ironically, are ... 'the truth'.

Scientists agree that race is purely a human invention by ZephirAWT in ScienceUncensored

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Wat?

No.

Descartes' Cogito ("I think, therefore I am") is an epistemological starting place:

You start by doubting everything.

But then you realise that you cannot doubt that you exist.

This, that you exist, you know with absolute and undeniable certainty,
since you're aware, at that precise moment, of your own thinking.

Even if the contents of your thoughts are erroneous
(e.g. you imagine that you're a woman, or a kangaroo for that matter, while you're actually an adult human male, i.e. a man),
the absolute fact of your existence, cannot be doubted, not, at least, by you,
since you're directly aware of your own existence ... whatever you may be.

It's actually brilliant.

Scientists agree that race is purely a human invention by ZephirAWT in ScienceUncensored

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"Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde, est en droit de vous rendre injuste."

"Certainly, one who's given the right to make you believe absurdities, is given the right to make you commit injustices."

Voltaire

I don’t understand how I’m expected to provide for myself by xoenix in TumblrInAction

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The most common current answer to 'the clockwork orange' problem
-- using hard-science (i.e. 'clockwork' means) to deal with (the 'orange' that are) human emotions--
seems to have indeed resulted in a lot of drug peddling, as you put it.

The Babylonians also had a gold statue. by In-the-clouds in news

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Belief in magic and assorted superstitious crap still, unfortunately, seem to affect human minds.

Scientists agree that race is purely a human invention by ZephirAWT in ScienceUncensored

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Only ideologically-captured, i.e. disingenuous, scientists agree to push such "scientific"(!?!) bullshit.

They're using an old and common trick,
that since the edges between most different categories of things are fuzzy,
not perfectly sharp (e.g. two colours are separated by a gradual transition),
that these categories don't apply at all,
concluding for example that "Colors don't exist!!"
and that we therefore need to deny our ability to distinguish between them,
and, basically, to pretend to see like dogs.

They're tying to convince us that only bad people are able to distinguish between things.

The biggest threat to humanity's future. by yellowsnow2 in conspiracy

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OK, but why make it evil?
Evil doesn't seem to make sense.
A healthy mind seeks meaningful happiness,
which includes the happiness of others.
It seeks to enhance life, beauty, happiness, intelligence, civilisation, knowledge, etc.,
and abhors death, ugliness, stupidity, unnecessary suffering, etc.
Conditions, psychopathy/sociopathy(?),
also commonly referred to as being evil,
are a disease, i.e. a brain not functioning correctly.

I don’t understand how I’m expected to provide for myself by xoenix in TumblrInAction

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We have two fields (or rather, entire industries), psychiatry and psychology,
which are supposed to deal with mental issues like this,
but they seem to either be completely useless
or to actually make things even worse.

The Babylonians also had a gold statue. by In-the-clouds in news

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Wasn't Babylon the centre of a great civilisation?

Israeli Government pays students to shill in social media. (BBC) by HibikiBlack in conspiracy

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The acrid stench of Hasbara pervades social media (perhaps like other shilling operations, only more virulently), but it has, more insidiously, also infiltrated search engines and more.

Israel Boycott by Questionable in conspiracy

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These do indeed seem to be the facts:

Pro-Israel interests did seem to believe that Siemens signed a contract that included a promise to boycott 'Israel', i.e. the ethno-religious cult occupying formerly multi-religious Palestine:
https://www.jns.org/siemens-signed-israel-boycott-contract-with-turkish-railways-german-media/

The family killed (two adults and three children) is indeed that of Siemens Mobility rail infra CEO Agustín Escobar:
https://www.railtech.com/all/2025/04/11/siemens-mobility-rail-infra-ceo-agustin-escobar-dies-with-family-in-nyc-helicopter-crash/

Adobe Gets Bullied Off Bluesky by Drewski in SocialMedia

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Loved adobe ... until they went full scumbag.

A trans girl was banned from her track team. Now she’s competing with the boys. by xoenix in TumblrInAction

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By "trans girl", do they actually mean a boy that claims he's a girl?

Friends and enemies by HugodeCrevellier in Europe

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Islam is indeed ideologially and fundamentally anti-European.

Friends and enemies by HugodeCrevellier in Europe

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Europe's enemies are indeed governing Europe, by buying Europe's politicians, who (to boot) were supposed to work for and protect Europeans.

Rabbi tells Senate hearing on anti-Semitism that it's "not enough" to be "not anti-Semitic. One must be anti-anti-Semitic." by xoenix in politics

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He's' a 'rabid Semite'! :)

Friends and enemies by HugodeCrevellier in Europe

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Some of them, certainly, do.

Marine Le Pen barred from running for French presidency in 2027 by Drewski in WorldPolitics

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"Democracy"! :/

Lord Pickles: It would be 'quite wrong' for Holocaust Memorial to deal with other genocides by Oyveygoyim in news

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WWII was a calamity that killed between 60 and 80 million people, but let's obsessively focus on a tiny fraction of the deaths, one which does not even reach the margin of error. :/

Damn "icebergs" by Oyveygoyim in whatever

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The belief that the Titanic iceberg was the result of some 'Federal Reserve' conspiracy would require such astounding idiocy ...

Earth’s inner core is changing shape by HugodeCrevellier in Earth

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Israel systematically hides escaped American and/or Jewish pedophiles. (CBS) by HibikiBlack in conspiracy

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Awful!

Nigeria: Explosion reported at Trans-Niger oil pipeline – DW – 03/18/2025 by farmer in news

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Quickly reading OP's title, I thought it involved a Biden appointee for some oil pipeline directorship. :)

Assault at Antarctic base could be a warning for future travellers to Mars by hfxB0oyA in WorldNews

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Suicidal post-modernist crap seems incompatible with space exploration.

Massive underground structures found beneath Giza Pyramids spark ancient energy grid conspiracy theories by xoenix in science

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Nonsense.

THIS seesm to be the only somewhat relevant anomaly detected (by actually serious people, not assorted quacks and UFOlogists).

And it's nothing like the wild stuff being claimed all over the internet.

Assault at Antarctic base could be a warning for future travellers to Mars by hfxB0oyA in WorldNews

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Good point.

I just keep forgetting that SA, though founded by ethnic-Europeans,
has since been overrun and taken over by assorted nearby populations.

The Research station is probably a remnant of the previous (relatively civilised) governments.

Assault at Antarctic base could be a warning for future travellers to Mars by hfxB0oyA in WorldNews

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Oh, no! That's seriously the crew!? They DEIed a research station?

Assault at Antarctic base could be a warning for future travellers to Mars by hfxB0oyA in WorldNews

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It's the first thing that came to my mind.

This is also probably why such an apparent nothing story (as nothing actually happened) has been promoted to such extent.

It seems evident that mental screenings and help need to actually be effective for space-travel crews, to the extent that this is possible.

Irrational aggression, and irrational accusations of aggression, seem likely to be very destructive to the cohesion of a team, which will need to fully trust each other.

PS) One assumes high intelligence for research scientists (and astro/cosmo-nauts) but IQ tests may nonetheless be needed, ... just in case.

Drone Warfare is Terrifying by Entropick in whatever

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The disdain for killing a man from afar, without facing him, is quite ancient:

'... his left hand never knew to raise the shield; never came near the spear, but held the bow, a coward’s weapon ... no proof of manhood, none of daring courage is the bow, ...'

'Herakles', Euripides, 416 BC

Now, in the 14th century, the Hundred Years' War began with the heavy use of archers, most famously/infamously at Crécy and Agincourt, 'Where Chivalry Died In The Mud'.

France's noble armoured knights were being decimated from afar, they, and/or their steeds below them, falling to the arrows of British ignobles/commoners.

As both sides' royals and aristocracy were French, who often knew each other, and might even be related, and battles were also gallant contests of martial skill and courage, this was seen as rather distasteful.

Nonetheless, this did force the French side to move away from the knightly/chivalrous style of warfare.

To finally win that war, the French had to make heavy use of (unchivalrous, much deadlier and more indiscriminate to boot) cannons, defeating the British at the Battle of Castillon:

In many ways, this battle played out like the Battle of Crécy in "reverse". The French guns obliterated the advancing soldiers, with each shot reportedly killing six men at a time. Talbot's reinforcements continued to arrive at the battle, only to suffer the same fate in their turn. (...) The battle ended in an English rout ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Castillon

Drone Warfare is Terrifying by Entropick in whatever

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Multimillion-dollar weapon systems, which we had to pay for, destroyed by multi-rouble drone systems.
Unfortunately, this also causes human casualties.
The weapon manufacturers always get their money in any case.

Drone Warfare is Terrifying by Entropick in whatever

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In the Middle Ages, that's how they felt about bows and arrows.
They were the weapons of cowards, villeins and women.
Unlike e.g. with a sword, a lesser man could kill his better, from afar, from safety.

Johnson & Johnson begins crucial battle over $10 billion baby powder settlement. (Reuters) by HibikiBlack in conspiracy

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I don't understand why a corporation, in the abstract, and not the specific decision-makers involved, pay for damages, etc.

Why should people that simply owned stock in a company be punished?

And what does it even mean to say that 'J&J knew that there was asbestos in its talc'.

J&J is not a person. Specific sociopaths knew, and covered it up. They're the ones responsible.

And they should also be criminally charged, shouldn't they?

Human Intelligence Sharply Declining by ZephirAWT in ScienceUncensored

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Right, and this is surely not some suspect (ideologically-compromised) study
designed to 'prove' that Elon is an imbecile
while Shaniqua (a trans Afro-Gender-Studies major) is a fucking genius!

:/

Human Intelligence Sharply Declining by ZephirAWT in ScienceUncensored

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Civilised peoples have been made to feel shame, not pride, for any apparent intellectual superiority they might exhibit.

They've been encouraged to aspire to become as primitive and stupid as the least impressive examples of our species on this planet.

They've furthermore been disincentivised from having many children, which, since the Nazis encouraged it, had to be a bad thing.

Finally, 'eugenics' was essentially made into a bad word.

This is the result of the governments of Europe (and of their former colonies) having, at least since WWII, been fully captured by anti-European globalist interests, which turned them against their own people, through funding and by using the shockingly easy trick of labelling any resistance to hateful anti-European policies as 'dangerously far right!!'

In the meantime, primitive peoples kept mindlessly reproducing as always, but now, instead of voodoo, etc., they had the benefits provided by the European sciences (scientific medicine, etc.), so many more of their many many children survived infancy.

And we're importing them into the civilised countries, which haven't had enough children, especially for a global economic system that requires constant 'growth'.

The whole thing has essentially resulted in what could be termed ... 'dysgenics'.

UK may send 10,000 troops to Ukraine to enforce ceasefire. by Dune1032 in WorldNews

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This has a precursor to WWIII vibe to it.

Antisemitism explained by jacques1102 in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That 'to uncover those having undue influence on your society, you may want to see whom you're not allowed to criticize' seems fairly accurate.

So, why the need to attribute this to Voltaire?

Apparently, some people don't fully trust their own sense of logic/rationality/reason.
They seem to prefer an appeal to some outside authority.
Accordingly, '1+1=2' would not be enough for them, and they'd rather have something like:

1+1=2

Sir Roger Penrose

:)

Stalin vs Hitler Speech by jacques1102 in whatever

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Is it some attempt to justify why in Europe it's illegal to display Nazi symbolism,
but not illegal to show Communist symbolism?

Are they all ugly gorillas? by ForbiddenKnowledge in AskSaidIt

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It is, among other things, how well a thing embodies the type of thing it's supposed to be.

Somebody has read Aristotle! ;)

Are they all ugly gorillas? by ForbiddenKnowledge in AskSaidIt

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Nonsense.

Africa is home to many ethnicities.

They are as, or even more, different from each other than European ethnicities.

Ethiopians and/or Kenyans for example, though 'black' in colour, don't have ape-like faces, a characteristic that only afflicts some Africans types, but by no means all.

Ethiopians and/or Kenyans are, as a general rule, quite beautiful, and less gorilla-like than some Europeans even.

He, Sir Hamid Patel, has been appointed interim chairman of OFSTED (Office for Standards in Education) in England. It sounds like a joke but it isn't. by American_Muskrat in WorldPolitics

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This follows from a mentality according to which an actual nation doesn't actually count.

You could therefore replace all the Swedes with Zimbabweans, and Sweden would remain Swedish in character.

It would not start being run like Zimbabwe, naah!

:/

SpaceX Has a Major Problem: New Versions of Starship Are Performing Worse Than Older Ones by ActuallyNot in whatever

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Sure humans should expand to mars. But Musk isn't getting any credit as a visionary here by just repeating what science fiction writers and cosmologists have been saying for decades.

Perhaps that to write about made-up achievements and amazing sciencey things is hard, but it's nothing compared to, in fact, in truth, actually achieving amazing things.

I agree with the idea, humans should aim to be a multiplanetary species. Musk isn't wrong about that, the problem is his plans to do that are as I said "all sorts of retarded" because they are essentially logistically impossible. Even if we ignore economics.

Thank Yahweh that you and so many others are there to explain things to Elon-"all sorts of retarded"-Musk.

You want a million people on Mars within 20 years. There's only about 13 launch windows in twenty years. Assuming you build rockets that can hold 100 people each. (Which we've never done) we'd need to be sending about 770 rockets there during each launch window, that's not even considering supplies.

A million people on Mars within 20 years does seem overly optimistic. I can't imagine that hundreds of humans at a time(!) can safely travel to Mars within the next few decades. It will likely take much longer, and it will be very hard, and it will often seem impossible, and there will be failures to boot (bringing schadenfreude pleasure to useless mediocre-minds), ... and this is also why the sooner we start resolving the huge obstacles ahead, the better. Humans spend so much more thought, work, money and resources on so much pointless (or, rather, shockingly idiotic) crap (make-up, etc.), than on space exploration and colonisation.

At the moment we've managed to send a grand total of zero. And time is running out for his initial promises there. It's not going to happen. It's a pipe dream. Musk is just a marketing guy who builds hype to attract investors.

Ah, yes, of course, and thank you again for joining that chorus of geniuses warning us of what an empty-promises marketing charlatan Elon Musk is.

:/

PS) 'Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.'

I'd be angry too... by Oyveygoyim in whatever

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Hrdlicka does perhaps fit the 'degenerate' label, as he does seem shockingly unskilled and untalented, and vaguely depraved to boot.

It can be argued that someone like him, unable to rise to even low mediocrity, could only have been promoted out of anti-Europeanism.

Europe's artistic tradition, by appearing to be so much better than most, was apparently felt to encourage a kind of European supremacism. So, it needed dragging down. And so, the crappiest, least talented and most depraved (and otherwise distasteful) artists were to be preferred to those who might reflect actual excellence, Yahweh forbid! Any complaint could be met with: "You just don't understand true Art!".

The goal seems to have been to drag European Art to the same artless, primitive and ugly level as e.g. sub-Saharan African art, or, even better, to sink it below it.

That being said, I would not place Egon Schiele, who's actually excellently skilled, as part of that project.

SpaceX Has a Major Problem: New Versions of Starship Are Performing Worse Than Older Ones by ActuallyNot in whatever

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I tend to agree that NASA when properly funded and run is better than a private company but it was mismanaged and left improperly funded for anything for years and years to the point it became irrelevant.

Yes, it's absurd that the important and perhaps critical exploration and colonisation of the solar system went from a civilisational (or at least national) enterprise, to a personal one, having to be essentially relaunched by one sole individual.

Space X is doing better at the moment but while I won't talk shit about some of the good stuff they do like starlink or other satellite launches which do have economic benefit. When Musk talks about the long term plans and the Mars missions it's all sorts of retarded. It's basically just populist marketing to a scientifically illiterate population.

Nonsense, likely coming from that common vision-less 'Economics' mentality that seems to afflict our times.

Imagine starting a permanent human settlement on Mars when we don't even have one on the moon? Moon first? It's way easier to go there why haven't they done it? (Because it's fucking hard).

Yes, moon first, why not? Mars is indeed much farther. But long term, Mars is better.

Now, of course that all of this is fucking hard. But that's not the actual issue, which is that we haven't really tried. In the sixties, we were doing more with less. We were sending men to the moon and even had supersonic passenger jets travelling at Mach 3, so high up you could observe the curvature of the earth (my father flew in it).

But after Von Braun's team died/retired, NASA was run by increasingly mediocre people. And, of course, stupid/malevolent(?) people ran both the USA and USSR, the new 'superpowers', which emerged from Europe's destruction, occupation, looting, and division, which were now supposedly in charge of civilisation, space programs, etc.

Getting stuff into earth orbit is pretty easy in comparison. People don't understand the distances involved in getting to even the moon which is like a hundred million times closer than Mars.

None of it is easy, yet. Getting stuff into earth orbit is actually very hard, having to fight the gravity of the whole earth, consuming a large part of the fuel. For the moon, it's most of it. And sure, the distances to anything beyond the moon are indeed scary. But most of the trip after reaching orbit is a matter of timing (planetary alignment), firing for a relatively short time, coasting, and then, possibly the hardest/most-dangerous part, landing.

The fact we did it in the 1960's is amazing and really it's a testament to the US space program, and the Russian space program that they even attempted that.

Right. :/

Either power could have gone to Mars by the 1980's of they wanted to but they didn't. It's hard. It's expensive. And your astronaut will probably die for any of the myriad of things that can go wrong.

The thing is that if we, the only known candle of consciousness and civilisation in the galaxy, don't do this, and soon, then earthlings will miss the opportunity to ever expand beyond this tiny planet. Most humans are driven by either greed or by dogmatic religious crap. Civilisation is not indestructible. De-civilisation does happen. So many civilised Graeco-Roman cities, with baths, libraries and theatres, have disappeared, their ruins walked over by completely ignorant superstitious goat herders who are guided by imaginary sky-dictators and think that the earth is flat. Currently much of the planet is populated by barbarous imbeciles, some primitive, others malevolent, many of them both. And these are the ones multiplying, while any civilised humans are dwindling.

Tesla sales plummet as market competition and anger at Elon Musk grows by ActuallyNot in whatever

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... He also seems to capriciously ban accounts and posts he disagrees with, or takes as a slight. Sometimes he will make a poll and then later unban them based on the results, but it all seems quite arbitrary.

If he does arbitrarily do that, then you're right to be concerned. The idea is not to balance one wrong with an opposite wrong. It's to actually try to get it right.

Tesla cars, like most modern automobiles, are surveillence machines constantly sending data back to Tesla. They also charge subscriptions to unlock existing features in your own car, like performance mode, self driving, etc.

That's indeed another valid concern.

SpaceX, while doing some incredible things that NASA has been unable to achieve, gets large grants from the Pentagon for "defense" contracts. Which means Musk is part of the Military Industrial Complex, and a huge conflict of interest with DOGE. Starlink also has many military contracts, and the dystopian transhumanist nightmare Neuralink has ties to DARPA.

Seemingly valid concerns, again.

I'm not trying to downplay his achievements, he is obviously a very intelligent and industrious man. I just don't think he's the populist hero many seem to think he is.

Yours are actually reasonable concerns.

Tesla sales plummet as market competition and anger at Elon Musk grows by ActuallyNot in whatever

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... He also seems to capriciously ban accounts and posts he disagrees with, or takes as a slight. Sometimes he will make a poll and then later unban them based on the results, but it all seems quite arbitrary.

If he does arbitrarily do that, then you're right to be concerned. The idea is not to balance one wrong with an opposite wrong. It's to actually try to get it right.

Tesla cars, like most modern automobiles, are surveillence machines constantly sending data back to Tesla. They also charge subscriptions to unlock existing features in your own car, like performance mode, self driving, etc.

That's indeed another valid concern.

SpaceX, while doing some incredible things that NASA has been unable to achieve, gets large grants from the Pentagon for "defense" contracts. Which means Musk is part of the Military Industrial Complex, and a huge conflict of interest with DOGE. Starlink also has many military contracts, and the dystopian transhumanist nightmare Neuralink has ties to DARPA.

Seemingly valid concerns, again.

I'm not trying to downplay his achievements, he is obviously a very intelligent and industrious man. I just don't think he's the populist hero many seem to think he is.

Yours are actually reasonable concerns.

But that's not the usual level of 'debate'.

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This has to be a bot or a paid shill.

Why Ukraine still holds the winning hand by ActuallyNot in BullyPulpit

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Just conscription. Kidnapping is different.

https://youtu.be/Kp26UsVbwtQ?si=KPE-L4tRer3zvks4

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'FALSE'?

The statement was:

It was so much better when, until Elon Musk showed up, the USA wasn't capable to send men even to low earth orbit.

And ... until Elon Musk showed up, the USA was indeed not capable of sending men even to low earth orbit.

That's TRUE, factually, demonstrably, and unquestionably.

And since it's hard to beleive that somebody can be that stupid:

Malevolent?.

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Bad man Elon!

Give back the money paid to SpaceX.

It was so much better when, until Elon Musk showed up, the USA wasn't capable to send men even to low earth orbit.

The USA can again start begging the Russians for rides, to get someone on the ISS, on their rockets .

:/

PS) Deep (malevolent?) stupidity is probably 'The Great Filter' that prevents civilisations from surviving long term.

Blocked by the Wall Street Journal.... after viewing their content: "Trump Says as President He’d Settle Ukraine War Within 24 Hours" (another promise he failed to keep). by In-the-clouds in whatever

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The latest reports say Moscow was hit by hundreds of drones. It looks obvious to me that Trump has no intention of ending this war ...

Ah, but of course, ... Trump launched these drones, not the Zelensky regime. :/

‘Major brand worries’: Just how toxic is Elon Musk for Tesla? by ActuallyNot in BullyPulpit

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I puzzle at the kind of deep stupidity required to wish ill on Elon Musk, ...
coming from all these useless hacks, with nothing of actual value to contribute to civilisation,
gleefully schadenfreuding if some failure occurs on one of his many great projects,
because it offers them, these mediocre minds, an opportunity to try to undermine a great spirit ...
who's possibly the most actually useful human being on the planet.

PS) The Fermi Paradox

PPS) Quite a few anti-Elon posts in a row by u/ActuallyNot, hmmm!

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I puzzle at the kind of deep stupidity required to wish ill on Elon Musk, ...
coming from all these useless hacks, with nothing of actual value to contribute to civilisation,
gleefully schadenfreuding if some failure occurs on one of his many great projects,
because it offers them, these mediocre minds, an opportunity to try to undermine a great spirit ...
who's possibly the most actually useful human being on the planet.

PS) The Fermi Paradox

PPS) Quite a few anti-Elon posts in a row by u/ActuallyNot, hmmm!

Tesla sales plummet as market competition and anger at Elon Musk grows by ActuallyNot in whatever

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I puzzle at the kind of deep stupidity required to wish ill on Elon Musk, ...
coming from all these useless hacks, with nothing of actual value to contribute to civilisation,
gleefully schadenfreuding if some failure occurs on one of his many great projects,
because it offers them, these mediocre minds, an opportunity to try to undermine a great spirit ...
who's possibly the most actually useful human being on the planet.

PS) The Fermi Paradox

PPS) Quite a few anti-Elon posts in a row by u/ActuallyNot, hmmm!

Security researchers aren't buying Musk's spin on the cyberattack that took down X by ActuallyNot in TechCompanies

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I puzzle at the kind of deep stupidity required to wish ill on Elon Musk, ...
coming from all these useless hacks, with nothing of actual value to contribute to civilisation,
gleefully schadenfreuding if some failure occurs on one of his many great projects,
because it offers them, these mediocre minds, an opportunity to try to undermine a great spirit ...
who's possibly the most actually useful human being on the planet.

PS) The Fermi Paradox

PPS) Quite a few anti-Elon posts in a row by u/ActuallyNot, hmmm!

SpaceX Has a Major Problem: New Versions of Starship Are Performing Worse Than Older Ones by ActuallyNot in whatever

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I puzzle at the kind of deep stupidity required to wish ill on Elon Musk and Space X, ...
coming from all these useless hacks, with nothing of actual value to contribute to civilisation,
gleefully schadenfreuding if some failure occurs on a great project,
because it offers them, these mediocre minds, an opportunity to try to undermine a great spirit ...
who's possibly the most actually useful human being on the planet.

PS) The Fermi Paradox

PPS) Quite a few anti-Elon posts in a row by u/ActuallyNot, hmmm!

Why Ukraine still holds the winning hand by ActuallyNot in BullyPulpit

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Do watch that Jeffrey Sachs video.

The Russians needn't have intervened, but the Zelensky puppet was used by the Neocons to force Russia's hand, ...
the sociopathic plan (unwittingly revealed by Alexey Arestovich in 2019) was that the upcoming war (though catastrophic for the Ukrainian people!)
was expected to lead to Russia's defeat and regime-replacement.

This failed.

So, the killing needs to stop, and then so will these 'conscriptions'/kidnappings terrorising the Ukrainian people (just to prop up a treasonous Zelensky regime).

Gödel's theorem debunks the most important AI myth. AI will not be conscious | Roger Penrose (Nobel) by zyxzevn in AIScepticism

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Sir Roger Penrose's idea is interesting, but the interviewer is unbearable.

Why Ukraine still holds the winning hand by ActuallyNot in BullyPulpit

[–]HugodeCrevellier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, the bullshit!

Doesn't anybody ever read Jeffrey Sachs?

And you're spewing propaganda crap ... to keep people dying, WTF?!

THIS is but the tip of the Zelensky regime you are shilling for.

This phenomenon is so extensive that even the BBC (typical Neocon apologists) had to pretend to cover it.

Zelensky is a plant, a fake, an actor, a sociopathic Neocon puppet working for foreign interests, which don't care for the Ukrainian people.

Blocked by the Wall Street Journal.... after viewing their content: "Trump Says as President He’d Settle Ukraine War Within 24 Hours" (another promise he failed to keep). by In-the-clouds in whatever

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Are you implying that the WSJ blocked you for looking at their content, ... for political reasons?

US ‘to cease all future military exercises in Europe’ - The United States has told its allies that it does not plan to participate in military exercises in Europe, according to reports. by farmer in news

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Germany for example still now doesn't have a proper constitution,
working instead under some fake/pseudo-constitution
termed the 'Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany',
which was concocted by foreign (and hostile) occupying powers.

The reawakening of Germany - Berlin is moving towards providing economic and security leadership for Europe by xoenix in Europe

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France, being a Nuclear power, is probably more credible as a leader.

But better German (which is at least European) leadership for Europe than US 'leadership',
which usually involves regime-replacing and/or pointlessly mass-murdering far-away peoples who never did anything to Europe ...
or to the USA for that matter.

Europe does need a European foregin policy.

Virginia high school track star attacked by baton-wielding opponent during state title race by P-38lightning in news

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How long before excrement starts being thrown? :D

US ‘to cease all future military exercises in Europe’ - The United States has told its allies that it does not plan to participate in military exercises in Europe, according to reports. by farmer in news

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Gang up with Russia to take over Europe.

Déjà-vuish, as the USA's Roosevelt and Truman 'ganged up' with Russia's Stalin (armed, financed and propped him up) to take over Europe, dividing it between themselves.

That it was the Germans that (by destroying most of the Soviet army, sacrificing themselves in the process) saved Europe from Stalin is of course seldom mentioned today.

Europe's actual choice. by HugodeCrevellier in Europe

[–]HugodeCrevellier[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

... at least in principle.

Europe's actual choice. by HugodeCrevellier in Europe

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To seek accurate information, to understand, and then to vote, ... this is the way!

Europe's actual choice. by HugodeCrevellier in Europe

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It doesn't have to be.

Europe is still democratic ... at least in principle.

And most Europeans seem to have figured what's going on, even with all the dirty tricks and a captured media spewing non-stop propaganda.

So, Europeans could very well vote the cowards and traitors out, to replace them with candidates who WILL act in the interests of Europeans.

Reddit reacts to Gavin Newsom criticizing the idea of men in women's sports by xoenix in TumblrInAction

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Or perhaps ... "We need sports DEI to combat Speed/Strength Privilege"!

Why Ukraine still holds the winning hand by ActuallyNot in BullyPulpit

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, the idiocy ... or lies!

What if Zelenskyy is getting scammed?

... the Islamist "journalist" asks herself. :/

Hmmm, is it usually the one getting scammed that's taking people's money? :?

In any case, Zelensky seems willing to sell the Ukrainians' homeland to foreign globalist (both anti-Russian and anti-Ukrainian) interests.

Were he not a sociopath that has no qualms trading the lives of Ukrainians in exchange for foreign powers propping up his corrupt regime,
Zelensky would have long ago signed some kind of deal with Russia, ...
BEFORE all these Russians and Ukrainians (that he cares so much about, awww!) had been killed.

PS) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz994d6vqe5o

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I wonder how these pro-castration imbeciles would feel about removing gender categories altogether:
Neither men's nor women's, just 'sports'.
This would, of course, end up making most sports into an exclusively male thing,
right back to how sports began in Ancient Greece.

Europe's actual choice. by HugodeCrevellier in Europe

[–]HugodeCrevellier[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Europeans just need to only elect PRO (instead of anti) European-people leaders.

“Europe must take up this challenge, this arms race. And it must win it,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said at a special defence summit in Brussels. “Europe as a whole is truly capable of winning any military, financial, economic confrontation with Russia – we are simply stronger.” by ActuallyNot in WarWatch

[–]HugodeCrevellier 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A powerful Europe, that's independent of US-based neocon interests, would almost certainly be a good thing for Europeans.

But here Europe is serving neocon interests by being aggressive and stupidity anti-Russian,
instead of trying to ally itself with Russia as well as with the USA.

Somehow, captured [anti!]European bureaucracies have been made to aspire to change Europe's name to
'That Huge Radioactive Crater Formerly Known As Europe', ...
and all of it to prop-up some corrupt neocon puppet, the Zelensky regime.

Say Goodbye to Skype as This Pioneering Service is Shutting Down by P-38lightning in technology

[–]HugodeCrevellier 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Skype actually works great, so of course that it'll get shut down.

Many businesses have basically become bait-and-switch scams:

The model is to try and attract users (by building or buying actually useful stuff) until one becomes a monopoly/oligopoly ...
and then to look for ways to squeeze more and more money from the user/client base, and to kill anything that doesn't 'perform' that function enough.

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OMG, the guy's a sociopath!

Communist justice by Oyveygoyim in whatever

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I get your point, that many people often use the term to mean 'a coercive socialist dictatorship'.

And then, yes, collectivism a coercive socialist dictatorship is necessarily authoritarian if not totalitarian.

My original point was that the 'socialist' part is incidental.

'Right wing' governments can also be totalitarian.

As I see it, the currently relevant ideological question is to find the balance between totalitarianism and perhaps something like libertarianism/complete freedom.

'Left" vs 'right' seems more like an economic than a political thing.

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We may not just choose to agree or disagree. What 'collectivism' is is not a matter of opinion. It's one of definition.

So, as I understand it, collectivism seeks to benefit the whole of society over any single group or person.

If it's indeed better for a society to have minimum state power, then collectivism should be all for it.

It doesn't necessarily require either 'maximal nor minimal state power'.

Collectivism might logically be neutral on the size of government power.