Trump’s Net Worth Hits $6.5 Billion, Making Him One of World’s 500 Richest People by P-38lightning in news

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Normal people use things like arguments to win a discussion, but I guess you just like to make a fool out of yourself.

I can probably name more Greeks by heart than you even ever heard of.

Harvard University plans a film screening of a movie called "How To Blow Up A Pipeline." by PanzersGhost in USnews

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How else does the CIA know who the terrorists are if not by planning a screening and looking who comes to watch it?

Anyway, it the infrastructure is vulnerable, it's probably a good thing to find out now, before WW3; an unreliable energy infrastructure is the last thing a country at war (they have had a war economy since the 1940s) needs.

In fact, if the CIA doesn't know how many terrorists/freedom fighters it takes to bring down the US energy system and how long, I would say they are the real terrorists, because that's just irresponsible. The only way to play the security game is to know your own vulnerabilities first (and to systematically fix them). So, in this particular case there is a group of people walking around a pipe; that shouldn't be possible to begin with. It is a movie and I don't even live in the US, but that's fairly obvious.

The same holds for the EU with their wind mills at sea. Building a big wind mill costs a million a piece; if a drone could destroy it for 200 times less, perhaps some defense capabilities would have to be installed and perhaps wind as an energy source seizes to be competitive. Or, even more asymmetric, if a submarine drone could just dig for the cables and cut them for less than $100,000, there's no defense against that (the number of submarines in the world times their torpedo capacity is very limited and the length of the cables to defend is very long). Land based solar panels with community batteries are much better from a defense perspective, because no centralized assets are available then to attack for an enemy.

Trump’s Net Worth Hits $6.5 Billion, Making Him One of World’s 500 Richest People by P-38lightning in news

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Value and actual fair market value are not the same. If the "market value" includes dictators that want to subvert the US by bribing Trump, perhaps it's even "worth" hundreds of billions. It's just that this would be illegal and it does not represent the "market value".

A Texas Man Named Literally Anybody Else Is Now Running For President by Drewski in NotTheOnion

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I had that idea a decade ago. Good that someone is doing it.

Trump’s Net Worth Hits $6.5 Billion, Making Him One of World’s 500 Richest People by P-38lightning in news

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So, this DWAC is just Truth Social (a worthless website) and what else?

Is DWAC just a vehicle for the dictators of this world to transfer billions to Trump "legally"?

Moment Japan's Space One rocket launch explodes by neolib in videos

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Looks like they don't know how to engineer anything.

They could first just build smaller versions, even if they don't even lift off. By the time they built one thousand smaller ones and have all the telemetry, I doubt a slightly bigger one is going to suddenly explode.

There Are Dark Corners of the Internet. Then There's 764 by Drewski in pedogate

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Almost all humans are sadists in my experience. I was too bored to read it. If we really wanted to do something about it, we could, but clearly humanity does not give a shit. If it's going to cost money, we are not going to do it. There, I figured out national politics. International politics is just about grabbing power in the long run. Thanks for attending my Ted talk.

In Belgian prisons they apparently literally make the prisoners eat shit (sure a group of prisoners did this to another, but does that even matter at this point?), because they supposedly don't have enough money. No, such things happen, because they do not give a shit.

I'll be traveling to India shortly. Since I'd rather do anything else, including shoving a rusty butter knife into my neck, maybe some of you hackers can find me these streetshitting spammers and I'll go visit them to make it interesting. Double XP for Darashan Hodgienuts?? by SMCAB in whatever

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I find it embarrassing that I share a planet with them. If you look at a population distribution map of the world and count the places that do not suck, it's such a tiny percentage. In they eyes of those people those places are "rich". Sure, but in my opinion everyone on Earth is poor. Nobody on Earth even owns an anti-matter fusion powered spaceship. We haven't even managed to solve energy scarcity.

Humanity is so fucking poor to the point that billionaires are even poor. The moment humanity would ever have that insight, perhaps we could actually become rich someday.

Any country in which you can get raped on a bus, is probably not such an enlightened area.

Ukraine is manufacturing and controlling its drone boats from civilian apartment buildings in Odessa by jerryk in WorldNews

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That news anchor says "Russian president" instead of "Ukrainian president". What a tool.

Ukraine is manufacturing and controlling its drone boats from civilian apartment buildings in Odessa by jerryk in WorldNews

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I suspect the footage coming from Kiev at the beginning of the war with Zelensky walking over town squares was fake (meaning either prerecorded or deepfaked), because it would be incredibly stupid to have done so. If it would be real footage, people would have grabbed their phones and record him, because who doesn't grab their phone when the leader of your country is in the streets?

Now, perhaps I just missed these phone recordings, but I doubt they exist (unless also faked, obviously). If Zelensky is safe and sound in the UK or France, that would be the best course of action.

I don't think it would be "easy" to kill him now, because air defense systems work good enough when they need to cover a small area. At the beginning of the war without a real front-line, that was different.

Has anyone ever tried to sue Reddit? by IAMANAnarchist in AskSaidIt

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Thanks a lot for sharing that link. I think the creator of the logo, the person that invested weeks to create a logo should have ownership.

Imagine every YouTuber figuring out that they have no ownership of their trademark, because "that's how they started". Many started on YouTube, so if "Linux tech tips" wants to go to another platform in theory YouTube could sue them.

The insanity of the US legal system can only be understood in a context where the little guy is fucked every inch of the way.

Sweden is charging electric busses with DIESEL generators by zyxzevn in ClimateSkeptics

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Exactly the opposite. It can not be stored. It always needs to be generated.

It's a meaningless concept. Oil needs to be refined and evaporates.

Solar and wind are just temporary and very low in power.

You can argue all day long, but solar is an economic way of producing power right now.

The mechanisms for zero-carbon or carbon-neutral are FAKE.

Direct-air capture is a real technology and there are more. However, most energy is still dirty, yes. Apparently, even natural hydrogen has been found. If we plaster the oceans with solar panels, there's more than enough energy (and no, those don't have to be made from rare earth materials; it's just that their efficiency is much higher when they are).

Some nuclear fusion forms of power generation generate electricity immediately without boiling water. So, you are wrong. It is true there is no public commercial reactor yet, but that's irrelevant; the mechanisms already exist and it's just a matter of time and capital before oil is obsolete for power generation.

It is far better to drive with normal busses during winter and save energy.

I doubt you have ever compared the two in a commercial setting and as such, why would anyone care about your opinion? The science is not on your side. The science says that even in winter time the opex is lower/km.

Climate change is mostly a political problem, not a technical one.

Sweden is charging electric busses with DIESEL generators by zyxzevn in ClimateSkeptics

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No sane person would ever agree with the thesis of the article. All it shows is that someone made a mistake in a tiny part of the wind industry.

The equivalent would be to have a headline that oil is a scam, because all of it is leaked into Nigerian ground.

Having electric buses (yes, that's how you write it, genius) is obviously a good thing in the future for whoever is behind the bus (less exhaust and noise) and those inside (less noise). Do you think they will continue to use diesel generators forever at that location? If not, then why even report it?

Electricity is a superior form of energy, because it's convenient. Transporting fuel around all day long is just stupid. If diesel were completely clean, then in principle creating a network of pipes with diesel could work, but since combustion fundamentally causes wear and tear, you just end up having to replace your infrastructure all day long. It's just a dead end. Accept it and accept that everyone understands this.

In a few decades nuclear fusion reactors will output electricity directly to the grid. If there is a lot of demand for electricity, those are more economically viable. If there is only demand for diesel, nobody wants such developments. Electricity is the future and it has been gigantically successful already.

So, why do you post this? If anything, post an overview article of places where people do such things out of entertainment, but don't imply that these have any policy implications. The only reason to post something like this seriously is when you believe that electrons as charge carriers are fundamentally a bad idea because the transport costs would be too high compared to alternatives, like liquid energy carriers. In the real world, people are connecting continents together with cables thousands of kilometers long. If continuing to use ships to transport energy were cheaper, they wouldn't do that.

So, is there any user (not a shill) still left in the world that agrees with the article?

Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide by PanzersGhost in Linux

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and have now gone back with Mint.

That's a distribution for beginners (which is a word professionals use to refer to ignorant people).

default support for Realtek Audio chips

There is default support.

I don't get why this was overlooked.

It wasn't by them, since the support is literally in the kernel. As to why it was overlooked by you, I can only guess. So, perhaps you might want to understand your hardware first and only then complain on the internet exposing your ignorance.

There is absolutely no reason not to use Linux for any application. I thought perhaps "not being able to run PhotoShop" was still a "valid reason" (it never has been), but apparently that works great too these days.

Israeli tanks have deliberately run over dozens of Palestinian civilians alive by PanzersGhost in WorldNews

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The Russians want to exterminate the Ukrainians and the Jews want to exterminate the Palestinians.

Who can really blame the Jews for wanting to exterminate the people that want to exterminate them? Having said that, the Jews threaten the world with their 200 nukes as well, so if the world were to decide that Israel would have to be wiped off the map someday when they find a way to beat nuclear weapons they too should not be surprised the world is pissed at them as well. What goes around, comes around.

The Russians have no real reason to want to exterminate the Ukrainians other than wanting to get the natural resources from Ukraine.

Holocaust Denialists think the Holocaust is impossible because they cannot do multiplication by weavilsatemyface in whatever

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Apparently one batch of killing Jews in a gas chamber with capacity between 500 and 2,000 took 1.5 hours, mostly because of the delay in emptying the chamber. I wonder what the actual cost was per victim to the Nazis and how relatively efficient it was compared to other methods. I was told that bullets were too expensive, but I don't think it's that. The biggest cost probably was to guard the ones still alive.

If I knew the price the Nazis paid, I could compare it to other approaches. If money was less of an issue, I think there are plenty of methods with higher throughput (even back then).

A modern genocide implementation would probably be able to kill orders of magnitude more per square meter per hour.

Fun fact: a historian claims the German population knew about the camps: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/17/johnezard. Kind of makes you think twice about giving them a nuclear weapon, right? I am all for more European nukes, but please have them be controlled by some of the more sane countries in the EU.

Meta warns it may shut Facebook in Europe but EU leaders say life would be 'very good' without it by PanzersGhost in SocialMedia

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Are they also going to kill WhatsApp in the EU? I hope so.

Argentina Sees First Monthly Budget Surplus In 12 Years by P-38lightning in news

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It's unrealistic to expect any change in the short term. A country is broken, not because one guy is an idiot (look at almost every Western leader), but because there have been thirty years of idiots (which fucks up education, etc.).

Opposition will say "nothing has changed". Proponents will say "it will take time".

The real problem is not even knowing how long fixing a country would even take. There are no metrics to compare against.

If all government agencies were to be cut, would that really be such a big problem? Private security cameras can prevent a lot of crime. You still need some kind of justice system (although just be able to place land mines on your property would do wonders against theft).

I hope he succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, just to shove it in the face of literally every other political system in the world.

Experts warn electric vehicle weight threatens road safety and infrastructure by SoCo in news

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EVs shouldn't carry large batteries, because that's pure waste. The power supply should just be built into the road infrastructure.

Sure, if you want to travel in the middle of nowhere, then you might want to have a big battery, but typically people don't want to travel in the middle of nowhere.

Still, EVs are inevitable.

It's just as stupid as saying "Water should be banned; drink Coca Cola instead".

Charlotte, a stingray with no male companion, is pregnant in her mountain aquarium by [deleted] in environment

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Artificial wombs will exists in the next 50-100 years. Also, no woman had to accomplish anything to do that; it's a natural ability.

None of the inventions listed is hard in the way that Von Neumann of Maxwell made contributions.

Trump says he’d disregard NATO treaty, urge Russian attacks on U.S. allies by Cancelthis in funny

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I am well aware of the history. I have mentioned on saidit before that Europe is fucking insane for depending on the US for its defense.

You got a problem with paying your fair share or something?

I think a good defense has almost no relation to a specific amount of money. I think buying weapons from another country is insane and would only be done by people that don't know the first thing about sovereignty. However, until the EU has a meaningful defensive in-house capability, not meeting the 2% line was rather stupid.

What are you a Democrat?

I am not a US citizen.

Debian 12 linux-image-6.1.0-18-amd64 dist-upgrade fails on nvidia GPL-incompatible module nvidia.ko uses GPL-only symbol '__rcu_read_lock' by Myocarditis-Man in Linux

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Just install Guix and abandon Debian like any sane person.

"I'm building an open-source, non-profit, 100% ad-free alternative to Reddit, taking inspiration from other non-profits like Wikipedia and Signal" by PanzersGhost in SocialMedia

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If that wasn't your other trolling account, it was a bot comment that came from ChatGPT (or similar service).

"I'm building an open-source, non-profit, 100% ad-free alternative to Reddit, taking inspiration from other non-profits like Wikipedia and Signal" by PanzersGhost in SocialMedia

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I don't think this is funny, even though you might think so.

"I'm building an open-source, non-profit, 100% ad-free alternative to Reddit, taking inspiration from other non-profits like Wikipedia and Signal" by PanzersGhost in SocialMedia

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Not addressing moderation more seriously (e.g. what do you do when every post is written by a bot) is why this platform won't work.

Trump says he’d disregard NATO treaty, urge Russian attacks on U.S. allies by Cancelthis in funny

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He is saying that if the Europeans don't pay. Actively inviting Putin to invade, seems insane.

Politically, this is suicide for the US interests in the long term, because perhaps someday the US would need help because of some unforeseen natural disaster.

If Trump really wanted a good defense for Europe, it would share technology with the Europeans, which he isn't doing.

Still Trump shouldn't even get placed on the ballot and he should be behind bars for treason. Similarly, whoever underfunded EU armies should face a worse punishment, but unfortunately there is no capital punishment for being stupid.

AI comments on platforms by binaryblob in whatever

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A modern AI running locally could totally do it.

I think you are real, but a platform in which 95% is spam without a working local spam filter just isn't "fun". I like that some people on this platform aren't stupid, because any popular platform by definition regresses to the mean.

For anyone who's still counting: The US government borrowed $47 billion of debt yesterday alone. Since the debt ceiling crisis "ended" in June 2023, total US debt is up ~$3 trillion. Since October 1st, the US government has borrowed ~$10 billion PER DAY. by P-38lightning in news

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Whoever came up with governments even being able to borrow was a traitor in the first place except perhaps during times of war, but even then governments should have assets to pay for war gathered during peace. The US hasn't been at war on any meaningful scale for many decades.

EXCLUSIVE: Email Reveals Why CDC Didn’t Issue Alert on COVID Vaccines and Myocarditis by HiddenFox in news

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While that's true, the image of the scientific community has taken a big hit in the last years. Science is great, if only more people actually did it, as opposed to reporting whatever is politically acceptable.

Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable by Drewski in Artificial_Intelligen

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Obama is the one criticizing here. Not sure why you aren't banned, because everyone knows you are lying all the time. You don't haven an opinion.

“Long Live Freedom” — Argentinian President Javier Milei Trashes Socialism and Calls Out Elites at WEF (VIDEO) by Questionable in WorldPolitics

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Capitalism combined with a functioning legal system. If your competitor isn't advertising according to the rules (e.g. Tesla, because there are seemingly no rules in the US?), then competing becomes difficult.

For example Mercedes has some autonomous driving features, but due to fake US marketing from Tesla, even I have some voice in the back of my mind that perhaps the Tesla version works better, while the specifications don't agree, IIRC. That is, Mercedes offers higher guarantees in the EU than any Tesla model.

Shut up and listen, a schizo is flying this plane by Musky in memes

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roll

or pitch or yaw.

If you hadn't written this on autopilot, perhaps you could have picked them right word.

Ukrainian barrier troops in action by weavilsatemyface in WarWatch

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Fine, don't trust it. I know both countries and I think the HDI is a good enough proxy for those countries.

Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore by jet199 in WarWatch

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MAD has existed for something like seventy years now. Are you saying that none of the USA, USSR, China, Britain, France, India, Pakistan, Israel or North Korea have had even a single friend (or ally if you prefer) during the entire seven decades of MAD?

That is exactly what I am saying.

Why would the US waste their nuclear arsenal firing missiles at Mexico and Canada if they are threatened by Russia? What possible benefit would they gain?

In principle any country could just spread a large part of their population across the globe and arm them in secret. Then, when the bombs start flying they could just wait until the US has used up all their nukes and attack the country that hasn't been nuked yet. Presumably, there would be some technology to clean up the damage of the major nuclear exchange and presto: you have the Russians still happily living in for example Australia and everyone in the US is dead (because Russia has more nukes). If you take a genetic approach to people, then the Russian genes would survive and over time dominate the planet. It's a long play for world domination, but certainly possible. A true MAD strategy should therefor not just kill some people, but everyone with a genetic relationship to your enemy including those in your own borders.

During the Cold War globalization wasn't really a thing. Now, you would have more Russians in Thailand than Thai (probably a slight exaggeration). What is considered MAD should be updated, but I guess everyone is an idiot on this planet.

The flaw in your argument is that you assume there will always be a shortage of nukes, which is exactly why I am saying you would need an overkill amount of them deployed, not just on some shelf. I think Russia could in theory surprise the US with a secret nuclear shield of their own as well. Either Putin is just bluffing or he has something the US doesn't know that they have.

AOC still thinks $174,000 isn't enough money for members of Congress by Drewski in politics

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The only reason to become a member of Congress is insider trading, which is illegal in every somewhat developed country.

Why China Going To War With Taiwan Would Be Literal Suicide by Mcheetah in Random_Shit

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Invasion of any target with any known defense structures is realistic. I read about the defense plans of Taiwan, but I don't see them working. It might be that the publicly available strategy where they try to keep the enemy at sea with missiles is fake for deception purposes, but if that's really their plan, it's easily defeated.

Nuclear war with the US under a democratic leader is a more credible reason as to why the invasion didn't happen yet.

The Chinese weapon systems (or well, those shown on YouTube), including their transports, are not how I would approach it either. It just shows such a lack of imagination. Hamas showed some level of innovation in Israel, but it's not like those were new inventions.

Ukrainian barrier troops in action by weavilsatemyface in WarWatch

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I never talked about the US. I only discussed Russia.

Perhaps every country on the world is a shithole on average. I think perhaps the top 0.1% of the top 3% countries is not a shithole.

A big freeze is coming. And it’s due to global warming! 😱 by GuyWhite in news

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2023 was the hottest year on the planet in measured history according to multiple governments, including the US. Who are you? A trolling bot?

I don't know what to make of this. I need to share it. by Canbot in whatever

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I think the prompts are used to change some larger prompt with some consistency commands involving animation, which in turn is output by a renderer. The initial prompts might be generated with a problem description in English with some type of repeated autoprompting going on.

A big freeze is coming. And it’s due to global warming! 😱 by GuyWhite in news

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You claim to be a chemical engineer and yet you so spread this kind of crap. How are we supposed to believe that? Claim you are a truck driver and we might believe you.

Biden Stands with Blank Stare in Pennsylvania Bike Shop – Is Treated Like a Toddler by Staff (VIDEO) by [deleted] in news

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How much does it cost to let you say the opposite? If you are doing it for free, you are truly regarded.

Crew survives after a US Navy helicopter crashes into San Diego Bay by PanzersGhost in USnews

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You would expect that after 100 years they would know how to build one that doesn't crash, even if the pilot intentionally wants to crash it.

Dr. Fauci claimed he “did not recall” pertinent COVID-19 information or conversations more than 100 times. by [deleted] in politics

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No, that's data. It could be fabricated.

Dr. Fauci claimed he “did not recall” pertinent COVID-19 information or conversations more than 100 times. by [deleted] in politics

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Provide more context, please. Also, Twitter is not a "source" of information.

Is this a scam? My mates told me the picture looks like AI made. by Gravi in whatever

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Where do you meet such bots? I am just wondering how that works.

I also just don't get why you would take the effort to post this here, unless you wanted to show you are a moron or that everything you post is fake and you are a bot too. It would truly suggest you are mentally retarded and for your own safety you should commit yourself to a mental hospital.

Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform by Drewski in technology

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The Nazis lost the war; that's mostly what they did wrong, since the prosecution of Jews was popular way before that. Eugenics was an American idea. Not sure what Hitler came up with that was an actually novel idea at the time. AFAIK, Hitler was too stupid (just an idiotic failed painter and low ranking soldier) to think of anything new.

Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform by Drewski in technology

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Even on 4chan there are unacceptable opinions. I hate 4chan, because it's unusable with its crazy captchas. Perhaps the trick is to pay for an account, but I don't know. I did post a small number of messages some years ago, but it was so much effort that I'd rather just not use the site at all. I don't understand why it is that popular, but perhaps it's just that everyone thought $20 for an account was a fair price.

Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore by jet199 in WarWatch

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In international politics friends don't exist in extreme scenarios like ultimate survival. What makes you think they do?

Who's The Smartest Person On This Site? by Mcheetah in AskSaidIt

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How about by averaged time weighted returns on the stock market over the past decade?

Islam now second most popular religion in Canada by [deleted] in whatever

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We could also have lived in a universe in which the first guy spreading Islam was just stabbed by a guy with a knife. I am just saying that things could have been better. Instead, we now have a billion idiots on this planet. (For other reasons, we have about 7 billion idiots, but still.)

We're in a 1776 moment. by Orangutan in politics

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Yawn is probably not the reaction these people were looking for, but "Yawn". Sorry, marketing people. Try again?

Here is a letter from 1800+ scientists, including 2 Nobel Laureates, over 20 tenured professors, and over 300 doctors. Guess all the scientists don't agree after all. by Questionable in environment

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If you ask scientists whether more research should be done, then of course they are going to say yes. Scientists aren't happy with a 0.00000001 deviation in the Standard Model either.

So we're aware. Jewish state of 'Israel' has indiscriminately killed nearly 20,000 women and children in as little as 90 days by Jesus in Israelexposed

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A kike is also part of a religion. Are you a bot or just a stupid human?

Why do Indians defend and love Israel so much? by ownneedleworker in videos

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It would be more convincing if you tried to stick to facts. The Samson Option has apparently been used as leverage in negotiations. That could count as threatening to wipe let's say "many" people off the map.

Really, what's wrong with a little nuance?

Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore by jet199 in WarWatch

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That thing is not operational.

Court documents allege sex tapes taken of Prince Andrew, Bill Clinton and Sir Richard Branson by Jeffrey Epstein by xoenix in news

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How do these women end up at an airport (why can't they just tell airport security that they are being abducted)? It seems to me that they willingly went with old men. Why doesn't this just make them straight up whores? Why should I feel any sympathy for them?

Children (since some girls were below 18) can deceive their parents when they are three years old. Since there were no victims aged two years old, we can assume they knew what they were doing. The only way I can imagine it would still go down is "If you don't go with us, we will murder your entire family", but I never heard that happening in the US.

The Instagram "models" (you know the women that literally eat shit for promised money or designer hand bags) that go to Dubai also should be able to understand that there are zero rights for them in Dubai, so they are basically just fresh meat.

Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore by jet199 in WarWatch

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Many missiles don't even have the range to destroy every target in the world, although with nuclear subs they could reach every location in the world in a few days (probably sooner, but speeds are classified).

Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore by jet199 in WarWatch

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Perhaps I missed MAD class, but shouldn't any MAD strategy destroy every other country in the world, including that of your allies? It seems like the US only has missiles pointed at Russia and China, which is strategically stupid.

Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore by jet199 in WarWatch

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So the nuclear triad is hunky-dory, I would think.

Not sure whether I should read this as sarcasm, but I don't think it is hunky-dory right now. If the US operational arsenal can destroy every country in the world two times over, then I would find it a credible threat. Right now, Russia could just launch their nukes and relocate with their army in Europe.

Bailing out mega companies explained for the Economically Illiterate by Tom_Bombadil in whatever

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The only reason bail outs exist, is because the electorate is stupid.

My Bash Tutorial by fschmidt in programming

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I really don't want to write this tutorial, but all the existing Bash tutorials are so horrible that I have no choice.

I remember the Bible and the Koran starting with similarly brilliant sentences.

If companies are actually doing this, it's going to be an interesting year by jet199 in SocialJusticeInAction

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You would have to know the word "amortization" to understand why they do this.

Intelligence and Group Differences in Preference for Breasts over Buttocks by jet199 in butts

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So, this is a thing now: "You like butts? What are you? Stupid?"

Australia bans Nazi salute and public display of terror group symbols by madazzahatter808 in WorldNews

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It would be hilarious if the Nazis were to start using black symbols instead like fist bumping combined with some finger twisting as if they are thirteen.

In my experience, deep down 99.995% of humanity is an asshole; so, perhaps they should just create a new flag with assholes on it for their new movement. Instead of "I am a Berliner", it would then be "I am an asshole" and "I aspire to be a great asshole" for novelty.

The life cycle of a fig is bizarre. by Canbot in whatever

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The fig wasp, also known as the Alabama wasp.

If you see this, you would almost think these were engineered by aliens instead of just the result of evolution. It's strange that co-evolution would lead to much of an ecosystem.

Why do Indians defend and love Israel so much? by ownneedleworker in videos

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Israel has nukes, develops technology, isn't threatening to wipe everyone from the map all the time, and outputs Nobel Prize winners. Do you also have difficult questions?

So we're aware. Jewish state of 'Israel' has indiscriminately killed nearly 20,000 women and children in as little as 90 days by Jesus in Israelexposed

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Why not just label every entity associated with religion as a terrorist organization? That way at least it would be fair.

am i crazy? by HMGAMING10 in whatever

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You are.

Ban reposts by binaryblob in whatever

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Banning reposts was normal on forums from the phpBB days.

New LNG pipelines to replace Russian gas have been sabotaged. by PanzersGhost in Europe

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If that happened, it should be considered an act of war. If the EU is not strong enough militarily, they should first become strong enough and then wipe out whoever did it.

Minuteman III Missiles Are Too Old to Upgrade Anymore by jet199 in WarWatch

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I saw a video on YouTube about its successor (the LGM-35 Sentinel), which seemed to suggest the US forgot how to build ICBMs and which implied the Russian ones were more advanced, which would be retarded, if true. They even said that the plans to build the Minuteman III had been lost. If that is true, they should execute everyone involved for gross negligence and treason.

When I hear such things, I am like "Can these people do nothing right?". Now, it might of course be, that I have fallen prey to Russian propaganda, but it sounded fairly credible.

Bill Clinton’s dad married five times before dying in a car accident at 28 by MelsAsshole in whatever

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Di Caprio would be a psychopath according to you as well. Women aged 25 are more attractive than those his age. It's just that most men can't date 25 year old models and toss them out at age 28. I don't get why women would "date" "stars", unless they were whoring themselves out, because besides him being a star, nobody looks as good at 47 as they did when they were 22. As such I have zero sympathy for such women. No doubt they will say they have been raped in a decade for even more attention.

If you had a line of 500 models ten years younger than you banging on your door to please fuck you, would you say no?

FAA orders grounding of more than 170 Boeing 737 Max 9s by PanzersGhost in USnews

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I think nobody explained to Boeing that the purpose of their product is to fly safely and reliably.

13:52 Musky My car battery died two weeks ago and I haven't been able to afford a new one by STANKYNUTS in whatever

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From what I understand Musky was hoping you would setup one. (Please, do not share the URL with me, because I like to keep my sight.)

Biden mocked for appearing confused after anti-Trump speech: 'Lost again' by [deleted] in news

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We have a lightbulb and a laughing face, but can we also get a hammer such that when the hammer is clicked it means "I would like to hammer in the face of this person, because it is so incredibly stupid"? If a person collects too many hammers, they get less exposure on the website.

This would be such an occasion.

Ukrainian barrier troops in action by weavilsatemyface in WarWatch

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I am not an American; I defined shitholes relative to https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/hdi-by-country.

Wait for the Punchline by Tarrock in politics

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It's certainly technically feasible to kill let's say 99% of a particular ethnic group world. In fact, if any of the super rich billionaires wanted to fund it, it would even be possible for a private organization to do so.

Biden says Trump is threat to democracy. by Dune1032 in politics

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What's so left about Biden that this is a problem for you personally? A higher income tax bracket at $400,000?

According to European standards Biden is still on the right.

Ukrainian barrier troops in action by weavilsatemyface in WarWatch

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Unless you are claiming these are actors, there is harder evidence than what you have shown: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/27/russian-soldiers-commanders-used-barrier-troops-stop-retreating.

I know credible people claimed Russia has barrier troops, which I assume they would only say based on classified intel. Indeed, I have no spy drones operational in Ukraine, so I don't know, but I have to believe something and I think it makes more sense for Russia to do such things, because I do know that Russia is a shithole.

Ukrainian barrier troops in action by weavilsatemyface in WarWatch

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I think the mislabeling of video footage happened a bit too often by the Russians, such that I don't believe anything coming from Russia anymore. There's a story about that called "The Boy who cried wolf". Perhaps Russia wants to learn from that, if it still exists in the next war.

You have to ask yourself - why is this taking so long ? Could it be that injected rock geothermal is just one more danger to the moneyed classes ? by Cancelthis in Options

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The article explains this already; it's apparently difficult.

SOTP: State-of-the-Pandemic - The pandemic's 2nd biggest wave of infections and what the JN.1 variant is telling us by neolib in outbreaks

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If the hospitals aren't flooded, nobody cares. They should care somewhat, but they won't.

Biden says Trump is threat to democracy. by Dune1032 in politics

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Democracy in its current form is a bad idea anyway, because it advantages certain groups of people like "boomers" for decades, which results in poor long term economic efficiency.

Besides this academic point, Trump is just a fool and fools shouldn't be heads of state. I'd prefer to randomly pick 100 people and have those 100 people select the next president instead among each other instead of Trump. Biden didn't rock the boat in any way and has done well as a leader of the US from my limited perspective. With Trump you need to worry about whether he is the next Hitler; I just don't have those vibes with Biden. Both Biden and Trump are right wing on the political spectrum.

Bill Clinton’s dad married five times before dying in a car accident at 28 by MelsAsshole in whatever

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He was a traveling salesman (according to the screenshot), so he met a lot of women. He just traded up a couple of times as if the women were a commodity, which if you look at it economically (there are more than you can count in a lifetime), they are.

It just means his father was a true entrepreneur and depending on the looks of these women, probably was good looking himself. Lots of women found Bill Clinton to be attractive as well.

Fox Co-Founder Says He Wishes Trump Died in 2023. - What is wrong with these people? So caring and inclusive! by boston_blackie in politics

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Oh, I'd be in favor of hanging all of them. I doubt anything of value would be lost and it would provide a good incentive for the next idiot to think before they do something stupid.

Did you know that Hillary Clinton won her first election because her opponent JFK Jr. died in a plane crash? I wonder why this baseless conspiracy video was removed. by Maggotus in conspiracy

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No, I think incompetence and negligence is much more widespread than straight up assassins, unless you have further evidence, that is.

Pepsi and Lay’s pulled from supermarkets in Europe over price increases by PanzersGhost in Europe

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and to instead start looking for policies that actually make sense.

That's basically what I implied, didn't I? A world without intellectual property would also be interesting from an academic perspective. That is, if Coca Cola can produce cola, but only if all everyone knows the recipe and all their processes. I am not saying that we should switch to such a system in one day, but there are a lot of companies that do things in sub-optimal ways where I would love to work for an hour to fix their broken stuff, which right now isn't really practical.

If AI ever becomes a thing, I imagine that everything humanity has invented will be considered trivial and worthless by these machines. (This is also the vision of Stallman, which is why the GPL exists. Ironically, he stole most of Emacs, however. )

Did you know that Hillary Clinton won her first election because her opponent JFK Jr. died in a plane crash? I wonder why this baseless conspiracy video was removed. by Maggotus in conspiracy

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That sure seems like a lot of dead people in the vicinity of the Clintons. Now, the problem with this is that you also need to keep a tally of how many people were near her compared to other people and correct that for time spent and perhaps other metrics. If you then compare that to other people or other Presidents or First ladies, then you would have a nice graph where you can perhaps cluster them by "murderers" and "statistical noise". Right now, it's just a "conspiracy theory".

Regarding that airplane crash (see https://www.ntsb.gov/about/employment/_layouts/15/ntsb.aviation/brief2.aspx?akey=1&ev_id=20001212x19354&ntsbno=nyc99ma178), it was just human incompetence (or malicious behavior) too, since the backup battery for the flight data recorder was not there. No plane should ever be allowed to leave an airfield with a political candidate without a flight data recorder working.

Pepsi and Lay’s pulled from supermarkets in Europe over price increases by PanzersGhost in Europe

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And Adam Smith's Invisible hand is, of course, a myth.

It's not a myth in an infinitely large universe of perfectly rational consumers. I think the market works reasonably well for commodities like fertilizer. It's just that a lot of products and services are ultimately not really commodities. For example, oil has been (and still is) a geopolitical instrument; not a pure commodity. Hydrogen could be a real commodity once the oil runs out.

If you look at computer chips, there are just three entities in the world that can produce the smallest (and thus commercially viable ones) and the barrier to entry is impossibly big. Despite the appearance of competition, that's not a market anymore. Perhaps if we had a great Federation of Planets and there were hundreds of independent companies, then we could say there was a working market. In a way, the market was an invention for a time with unsophisticated products.

The supermarket business is also not really that competitive, because most people just go to the one that is nearest. Now, if there were 20 supermarkets stacked on each other and reaching every floor would take the time time (like happens on the ultra-low latency co-located computers at exchanges), then one could argue there was a fair competitive environment.

Fox Co-Founder Says He Wishes Trump Died in 2023. - What is wrong with these people? So caring and inclusive! by boston_blackie in politics

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When Biden, Clinton or Bush are found with the same documents, nobody cares.

Any private location should not have these documents. It's government property and documents of this magnitude should be stored in some secret bunker on government property in the Rocky Mountains only accessible via a helicopter.

Pepsi and Lay’s pulled from supermarkets in Europe over price increases by PanzersGhost in Europe

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Carrefour purports to be fighting inflation by this,

Does Carrefour have anything but a profit motive? Their shareholders could sue if they are doing anything else.

Fox Co-Founder Says He Wishes Trump Died in 2023. - What is wrong with these people? So caring and inclusive! by boston_blackie in politics

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If you store classified documents regarding the nuclear weapons of a country (the national security interests literally cannot be higher) in an insecure location, I think he did, regardless of if a lawyer could argue otherwise (or whether it doesn't meet the bar for treason). He damaged the interests of the US. End of story. If someone else placed those documents there, then he should have filed charges with the police, but that didn't happen.

Why are you here and not on the R-Word website? by TheBlackSun in AskSaidIt

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Referring to it as the R-Word is beautiful.

I am banned and I didn't feel like configuring a VPN. It's not the site I joined initially. I'd prefer to use USENET with a good spam filter (e.g. a private ChatGPT-4 instance).

Drones Are the New Drug Mules by Drewski in news

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If I had a cartel, I would have setup a research division for this stuff 20 years ago. Lasers are modular devices and only become more powerful with time, which was a trend back then also. All you need to do is the research and once the research is done wait for the components to be powerful enough and it's "plug and play". If one has the resources of a cartel, just stealing the lasers (or bribing employees) from some car welding factory would also be an option.

Targeting "radars" can be setup for a few tens of thousands of dollars, I think, considering that consumer radar technology is a commodity right now. The quality of COTS optical sensors is also ridiculous, so I think one could build a weapon from removing parts from consumer and industrial technology these days.

For an operational deployment, it probably would have to be mounted on a Toyota for mobility with an anti-infrared system after its successful use.

Drones Are the New Drug Mules by Drewski in news

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Oh, I wasn't even thinking of that "application". No, you would just destroy its mechanism of propulsion and the targeting for lasers is of course better than for bullets.

I can totally see a rival gang buying laser equipment to do this. I wonder when this will be used as a plot in a movie.

Sloppy seconds by Musky in memes

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Why do you think they are friends?

Pepsi and Lay’s pulled from supermarkets in Europe over price increases by PanzersGhost in Europe

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Customers don't decide anything in any supermarket last time I checked. All they can do is buy whatever unhealthy crap is being offered (apparently everything contains microplastics these days if alone from touching a conveyor belt (which, surprise surprise, all industrial food touches)). It's not like they can select products that are currently not on the shelves to be on them.

B-1B Lancer Bomber Crashes at Air Force Base in South Dakota During Training Mission by PanzersGhost in USnews

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Does this mean they need more or less training?