CloudFlare check sucks

binaryblob · 2023-07-10T15:15:14+00:00

I think if you tell enough people they might be transgender some of them will get their dicks cut off. If, on the other hand, you had never told them there was such a thing, they would never have come up with the idea to do so.

As such spreading transgender ideas should be similarly viewed as infecting people with HIV on purpose.

binaryblob · 2022-04-12T05:05:26+00:00

Is this a real thing?! If so, what is it? "Concept resources" is just "Propaganda resources". I'd probably refuse to even fill in such a questionnaire.

binaryblob · 2023-07-15T13:34:40+00:00

This "news" is only reported by sources linked to the Kremlin from what I can see.

binaryblob · 2023-09-27T09:17:00+00:00

Wikipedia basically destroys this guy.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campbell_(YouTuber)

Only thing he seems to optimize for is views.

binaryblob · 2023-10-01T17:54:23+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. It makes sense that it is automated.

Can you see how big the attack is on your infrastructure (that is, how many requests you would have to handle per second (alternatively, more specific or different metrics like number of bytes per second or number of connections made per second) if it wasn't for CloudFlare)?

I am just wondering how big the hate is against this website.

I knew that the web was broken, but it's disappointing to see it in action.

binaryblob · 2023-07-18T05:36:51+00:00

No wonder Muslims lock up their wives in their homes.

binaryblob · 2023-01-26T06:37:10+00:00

On Reddit there a 500 million idiots, but that still means there are 500 people to talk to. In the real world, there are approximately zero people to talk to.

I like saidit in principle, but the meta data on comments needs to be different and the other problem is that I have no idea which users are real and which are bots from a Russian troll farm. I think everyone can agree more propaganda is posted here.

An echo chamber is terrible, but an echo chamber with only bots is dystopian.

binaryblob · 2023-10-01T09:52:29+00:00

Don't you mean that this site was designed to be a propaganda channel and you are painting those not sitting in a troll factory as trolls?

binaryblob · 2023-09-15T08:17:20+00:00

Provide sources, you fucking moron.

binaryblob · 2023-08-20T09:50:17+00:00

If by based you meant stupid, then yes.

binaryblob · 2023-01-26T06:53:35+00:00

What should I discuss in a bar? The only thing I want to discuss in a bar is asking a woman whether she wants to leave this hell and go out with me. A bar is just a place to go when you are single and in a way failed in life.

I can't talk about things of interest to me, because nobody understands those things (because they require an IQ in excess of 140). If I talk about things I have done, other people can only nod (there is no two way communication).

I always talked to people three or four decades older than me, because children were stupid. As an adult, there is nobody left to talk to other than me annoying them about how I hate everyone.

I know this is not healthy, but I don't know how to escape it.

binaryblob · 2023-12-27T16:32:29+00:00

Doesn't everyone know those are either mentally ill people or paid actors?

binaryblob · 2023-10-03T15:36:57+00:00

Taking the bus is dangerous. You never hear of those things happening when people take their private plane.

binaryblob · 2022-05-07T21:10:08+00:00

On Reddit tons of people are rooting for Ukraine to fuck up as many Russian soldiers as possible. Those are also calls of violence, but those are of the "good type".

If you can't call to violence, there is no freedom of speech.

binaryblob · 2024-04-16T04:40:04+00:00

I miss unmoderated forums (without spam or posts by bots) with a more sophisticated type of user. Another problem is that I am much more sophisticated now, so the amount of people that don't bore me, is approaching zero real fast.

binaryblob · 2024-03-26T08:53:15+00:00

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"?

binaryblob · 2023-12-08T22:47:29+00:00

Do you know what this means?

Saidit now has a culture. If this keeps up like this, perhaps it will even be on the World Heritage List.

Whoever it was that has written it, I thought it was fairly funny, so you did well.

Perhaps it's even one of the first instances of culture attributed to a bot.

binaryblob · 2023-11-26T19:36:15+00:00

The best neighbor is one that is not within a one mile radius.

Why would anyone want to interact with a drug addict or a cop?

Let's not pretend that society has lost anything of value when Floyd died and let's not pretend that society lost anything when the cop was stabbed in prison.

The black community just used Floyd for some nightly "shopping" at Walmart; that was their great moment of social justice. Well, you go girls! The idea that black lives matters is not exactly supported by facts. Sure, they might count to make the NFL work, but I am sure there would still be a league with non-blacks. Is it their huge scientific contributions then? Oh, wait! Those hardly exist. It's not like there ever was a black Einstein (no, NDT doesn't count).

I have the impression that a lot of people have hated Jews throughout history and perhaps this is just because they were smarter and thus capable of more evil. In a way, one group of slightly more stupid people is just jealous about all the ways Jews have fucked them over throughout the ages. If someone knows of a good book about what the exact historical reasons are for hating Jews, that would be great; Jews have been hated before "Gaza" was a thing.

The police community consists of corrupt morons, which only exists because most citizens never get to experience their corrupt asses. If more people would just open their eyes for a change, they would have laws to allow a citizen to legally murder every cop in the street that didn't follow the law to the letter.

The idea that citizens should respect the police comes from ancient times; the modern cop is a true asshole in its heart. The law should be changed such that cops can't just be held personally responsible, but that capital punishment would only require a small abuse of power.

binaryblob · 2023-11-26T10:07:41+00:00

Many antidepressants also cause man boobs, so that would account for 10% or so. Since all those end up in the water supply and many water treatment plants do not fully eliminate all medicine, it's possible that the population effects are much greater.

Skin contact with plastics (think smart phones) also generated female hormones, which results in boobs.

I think gen Z men are more feminine. I literally don't know anyone I would consider a "traditional man" in that age bracket. There is an island near the coast in India; I expect those men to be real men like God (note: fictional character) intended.

binaryblob · 2023-10-30T22:45:38+00:00

Don't call it AI. Just calls them LLMs. LLMs are good at text summarization and combining linear combinations of whatever. They don't work for anything else.

I tried a couple of different major LLMs.

It's possible to have them write somewhat useful computer programs, but they need a lot of handholding. It is absolutely impossible to make them do anything that would require extensive knowledge or expertise.

Basic math as used in physics calculations is way beyond these LLMs already.

For domains in which there is a lot of text available with a linear progression and a smooth function. Take for example "tell me the hair color of the main characters of the book 'The LOTR'" would be something I would expect these systems to work for.

The complexity of the functions that LLMs can solve is low.

I have never seen a LLM solve any problem of interest; having said that, almost no human does anything of interest either.

binaryblob · 2023-10-09T21:39:40+00:00

I have to copy my comment, hit refresh, and paste my comment back in.

It seems so pointless and random. A browser extension to do this could be implemented from a user point of view in which perhaps there is a "wobble the mouse to show you are human"-part, but the current logic seems ridiculous. Why would someone who has been "validated" thirty seconds ago not be valid anymore in the same browser session?

binaryblob · 2023-07-25T05:05:59+00:00

That guy is wild: https://basehost.eu/ (his company apparently structurally bribes officials in Kosovo).

binaryblob · 2023-07-01T18:58:22+00:00

I think it would be really difficult to convince yourself you are a woman when you have a dick or no uterus.

It should be considered a brain disease, even though it's not curable right now. I have no doubt there is a bunch of genes that might switch on or off that tell your brain how you are supposed to feel, but that doesn't mean it would be reasonable to not consider the wrong states to be a disease.

How do the actual scientists see this? I mean, of course, they can't say on national television that all trans people are in fact sick, but perhaps they publish the same in some journals or something (which nobody reads anyway).

binaryblob · 2024-01-08T10:06:54+00:00

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.

binaryblob · 2024-01-07T00:12:35+00:00

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.

binaryblob · 2023-12-20T03:12:44+00:00

The guy sells books, not predictions to Wall Street. That should say enough.

If you want to predict the stock market, all you need to do is follow money flows of institutional investors. The stock market as it was traditionally invented is almost dead, because everyone buys index funds, which has resulted in companies gaming the system like Tesla (a completely worthless company, which by fraudulent means managed to enter the S&P 500).

binaryblob · 2023-11-11T23:05:10+00:00

It seems to me that there are less than 10 real users on the website, because those are the ones commenting. How hard can it be to add exceptions for a small number of users that are obviously human? I am not saying everyone in this thread is, but I am.

binaryblob · 2023-08-03T10:11:40+00:00

My first reaction was that it was a joke, then that it was a deep fake, but now I just think it's sad.

If he/she is happy now, great, but I don't believe for a second you can be happy in that state.

binaryblob · 2023-07-04T21:16:30+00:00

Is dailymail.co.uk also owned by Russia or something? It seems a never ending pile of misery is available on that domain.

binaryblob · 2023-07-01T15:43:34+00:00

Di Caprio doesn't have the age problem. People are just jealous, I guess.

I don't think the 30 year age limit is correct, unless you are counting without makeup. The vast majority of women are basically pigs with makeup.

binaryblob · 2024-03-10T16:55:18+00:00

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.

binaryblob · 2024-01-04T00:15:09+00:00

Except today, everything could be generative AI. ByteDance could deanonimize everyone on /r/gonewild in a week. I wonder whether the people posting understand that, but I doubt it. I refuse to believe the majority of the people posting doesn't have TikTok.

binaryblob · 2023-12-23T12:15:22+00:00

Let me grab my SI-units book and look up "Strong".

binaryblob · 2023-12-17T12:15:08+00:00

Back when "stars" looked slightly above average instead of complete fakes.

binaryblob · 2023-10-16T22:49:16+00:00

Can you fuck off with your troon shit? Nobody gives a shit about 0.01% percent of the population. Just post all the troon shit to /s/troonshit.

binaryblob · 2023-10-14T11:41:36+00:00

If there was no doubt regarding the crime, I'd support capital punishment, but right now the judicial system is a corrupt sick joke. By the time it's impossible to find any newly created video of any corrupt cop in the last ten years, I might consider it, but right now humanity is just a pile of corrupt monkeys acting as if they are "evolved". Nope, I don't agree. Just go back to your caves, monkeys.

binaryblob · 2023-10-12T21:35:12+00:00

This workaround works in 80% of the cases for me.

binaryblob · 2023-10-03T10:08:48+00:00

What's next? Emotional support from 50 pounds of TNT?

binaryblob · 2023-09-20T04:38:27+00:00

It is theoretically possible that the Internet bubble isn't just a collection of people that like a cult believe something outrageous; it is possible that all the content you consume on social media is literally tailored specifically for you with nobody else ever seeing that content. All the comments could be fake. All the content could be fake and you would never know, unless you actively searched for it (which means you first need to have some awareness of how dystopian it can get).

binaryblob · 2023-09-20T03:51:18+00:00

I doubt this collection of molecules is asking this as a serious question, but if so, the reason to ask such a question, is in order to diagnose issues you need to get your priors correct to get a good diagnosis. Any person too stupid to understand that should be considered a waste of oxygen in this "society", but for some reason we seem to encourage such incredible idiots.

Does anyone have any independent evidence this person actually exists? I can't care to research, but wouldn't mind reviewing the evidence.

binaryblob · 2023-08-18T08:20:37+00:00

It's not really private property anymore if the government does that.

Not sure whether really private property exists anywhere on the planet, because if the government wants something with your land they will confiscate it.

binaryblob · 2023-08-10T06:39:03+00:00

White people should never have imported black people either. Everyone makes mistakes.

binaryblob · 2023-07-14T22:29:05+00:00

You are showing one platform X. There exists also a platform Y, s.t. Y!=X.

binaryblob · 2023-07-14T06:03:26+00:00

You can't wish technology into existence. How many are developing such technology?

Protesting makes sense when nobody knows there is a problem, but when even children get to learn about these issues it seems there is no point in them doing this, other than to annoy others.

I am not seeing any sense of urgency to solve climate change, because a lot more could be done. I think the most important aspect of climate change is still making money under the veil of "the environment". As long as that doesn't change, nothing will change. Ultimately, the government needs to act, which in a democracy is almost guaranteed not to happen, because some other schmuck will be in office next year.

I think most people hope nuclear fusion is going to save us all, which is irrational, because fission is an existing miracle technology and we aren't using that at scale either. Nuclear waste management is scientifically a solved problem too.

A full ban on fossil fuels to start in 5 years would probably help a lot, but someone will say it is "impossible". There is nothing impossible about it, because the incentive to cooperate and not crash the economy would be huge.

binaryblob · 2023-07-01T00:54:54+00:00

Sure, let's make everything illegal like in every broken country in the world. Laws such as this just show there are too many people living too near eachother. A few thousand years ago, you might have been happy to meet someone from a different tribe. Now, all you have are degenerates to select from.

binaryblob · 2023-01-10T19:58:25+00:00

What's the point of posting this? We already know people are crazy.

Everyone in this thread is probably also crazy if you talk with them long enough.

binaryblob · 2022-04-30T07:54:04+00:00

You should read a Klaus Schwab book and then you can conclude what limited intelligence he has. Really, I find it a waste of the neurons remembering his name.

And, by extension, I consider everyone an idiot that thinks his books are "interesting". What a waste of space.

binaryblob · 2022-04-13T08:12:12+00:00

Either corruption or incompetence. It would take an engineer one day to check whether all feeds are still running and put it on some kind of dashboard. Integrating it such that the subway doesn't even run without a camera feed running would take perhaps a month.

Perhaps someone hacked the cameras, but that would require support from a state-actor. Did anyone important die too?

binaryblob · 2022-04-11T00:32:37+00:00

I got most of my karma from wallstreetbets on Reddit before it was infested with the masses. wallstreetbets was different. I guess when I started visiting wallstreetbets, I already had cut ties with "Reddit". WallStreetBets should ideally just wake up one day and move to either here or some other place.

I wrote an enormous amount of filters getting rid of all the snowflakes, but indeed when Reddit just started that wasn't needed.

What do you think the IPO is going to do?

binaryblob · 2024-01-06T10:48:29+00:00

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.

binaryblob · 2024-01-05T23:07:40+00:00

If Trump committed treason, what's wrong with that?

binaryblob · 2024-01-05T21:58:04+00:00

There is absolutely nothing funny about either of those two "jokes".

Why do you post such garbage?

binaryblob · 2023-12-22T19:02:55+00:00

If they have 0 opportunities, they can't cause chaos either.

binaryblob · 2023-11-26T09:57:59+00:00

If you are an AI bot, I am somewhat impressed. If you are a human, it almost made me smile.

binaryblob · 2023-11-04T18:04:49+00:00

Maybe we should train them to build and repair bridges instead.

You are such an optimist. Not that I'd expect people to often say that to you.

binaryblob · 2023-11-01T15:47:33+00:00

Activism is an oxymoron. Actual action would be funding a bunch of scientists figuring out better battery chemistries. So buy the stock of such companies such that their cost of capital goes down, such that they can expand further and so on. Strangely, when I mention that to the activists they have nothing to say.

If they have no money for investment, they could study to become an engineer, because their leisure management degree surely isn't going to solve global warming.

binaryblob · 2023-10-29T08:28:25+00:00

What is stopping Disney management from tanking the company such that it can be bought for pennies on the dollar and after retail investors have been wiped out repeat the cycle? That's obviously what happened here.

Zuckerberg also did that with Meta last year.

binaryblob · 2023-10-17T21:17:51+00:00

The concept of innocence you use is a relatively recent and Western concept. From a military perspective, those innocent people provide the economic life blood to sustain Hamas.

I think both sides are assholes, so it's pointless to argue.

binaryblob · 2023-10-07T21:09:53+00:00

If you really believe this shit, you have a mental illness called paranoia.

binaryblob · 2023-09-25T22:20:11+00:00

This sounds depressing.

In my experience assholes lie, cheat and do asshole things. The biggest assholes don't leave a lot of evidence of them being assholes.

binaryblob · 2023-08-18T07:45:36+00:00

In which magical state do you live?

binaryblob · 2023-07-14T22:41:02+00:00

When you ever get to identifying one of those elite people, please publish a list of them.

binaryblob · 2023-07-02T05:36:36+00:00

FTM

They even have their own little language, Isn't that cute?

binaryblob · 2023-06-30T08:38:06+00:00

Can we do the same with women quotas in board rooms, please? I have literally never heard a good idea from a woman in a business context. I will admit that men also hardly ever have good ideas.

binaryblob · 2023-01-28T04:46:13+00:00

His service returns a 502.

I liked the part that one used to have to be technical to publish on the Internet.

binaryblob · 2023-01-26T11:54:40+00:00

I feel like a paria when going alone to a bar. I am apparently the kind of person where people ask whether they can "use that chair", not someone that they ask to join their party or whatever.

I simultaneously crave human contact and at the same time I don't like or almost always hate every human I have ever talked to in my life for longer than an hour. That used to be different, but I am now quicker at finding flaws in people. People are not perfect and that's exactly the problem.

I am sure someone is going to make a terrible comment by me saying this.

I don't want to discuss sports. I don't want to discuss anything anymore, because there is no point to discussion.

The logical conclusion is that I should kill myself, because there is nothing to gain for me left in life. People do not want me and all people are assholes.

I live in GMT+1.

binaryblob · 2023-01-26T07:16:50+00:00

Good let the inner reddit mod flow through you! Embrace the way of the incel! You've only begun to discover your power!

Alcohol is unhealthy and if the people in there were happy, they wouldn't be in a bar. The music is typically terrible too, because you need ear plugs just to avoid ear damage.

binaryblob · 2023-01-26T06:57:36+00:00

Why does it look like everything this website points to is fake?

binaryblob · 2023-01-26T06:46:23+00:00

I wish I could buy hardware that came with a data sheet without NDAs with the promise of it always being available. If you look at Linux, they just hack up some drivers and hope for the best, because they literally don't know how the hardware works. In a way, you literally can't buy a good computer these days. If you bought a computer 30 years ago, you would get a manual.

binaryblob · 2023-01-26T06:33:12+00:00

Can everyone in this thread prove they are a human and are not sitting in a Russian troll farm?

What is even the source of this picture? Who says this wasn't generated by an AI?

I mean, you are the one distributing this picture. If you hate it so much, don't.

So, either make a proper post with sources of fuck off.

binaryblob · 2023-01-10T20:11:07+00:00

Sure, let me inspect the real-time satellite feed I procured by buying up ViaSat from my pocket change to see what's going on in Ukraine.

If the information has any value, I can't get it in time. That's what happened to the truth.

binaryblob · 2022-05-08T07:29:59+00:00

OK, so saying "kill all the members of some race is cool", but saying "kill John Doe of race X" is bad (in the implementation of the state policy just kill John Doe first and then magically have a new insight about people of race X)?

binaryblob · 2022-04-10T11:09:16+00:00

Pretty sure that's digitally enhanced.

binaryblob · 2022-04-09T22:48:43+00:00

No, that's absolutely not the intention, although I think FOSS is somewhat useful.

I could try Lemmygrad at some point, but if people also communicate to be here, and I actually feel somewhat welcome that's also good enough.

binaryblob · 2024-04-24T05:33:54+00:00

Before the CIA got involved with Facebook, it was already popular, just not mass surveillance level of popular.

I never got the whole appeal of sharing personal experiences like pictures through a corporation. The popularity of Facebook only signals to me how incredibly stupid and shallow the average person is. Kind of similar to Reddit in a way, which has no values left from when it was founded; it was fun to be on Reddit, until it became the Chinese misery it is today.

Social media is essentially dead already, because there is no way to figure out what's real and what's fake anymore in the long term; imagine that twenty million trolls have an AI PC in five years with locally running LLMs. There's no way to filter that spam.

If you have real friends, you would actually visit them and show them your vacation pictures on your phone or hook them up to some projector or better yet: take them on said vacation. Shared experiences have value, some shitty picture of you near some place where millions of tourists visit every year is completely worthless.

binaryblob · 2024-04-24T05:11:07+00:00

Yahoo! Answers was an actual addition to the WWW. I don't really see the point of it ever having stopped. Perhaps they should relaunch it today, because spam filters should have improved by now.

binaryblob · 2024-04-22T09:15:10+00:00

Everyone is an asshole; it's just that for some people it takes years to show their true face.

binaryblob · 2024-04-21T18:19:30+00:00

So, a country is getting crushed by a bully three times its size and you credit Trump with being a financial genius? Should we all just now clap and awe at your brilliance?

I will tell you what will happen: the debt will get cancelled after the war whenever the Democrats are ever in power again, because the US would want to have a good relationship with a strategically located partner. It's like this guy has never thought a second about geopolitics.

binaryblob · 2024-03-06T04:25:36+00:00

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.

binaryblob · 2024-02-19T23:19:51+00:00

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

binaryblob · 2024-02-11T21:15:24+00:00

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.

binaryblob · 2024-01-08T01:07:55+00:00

You are.

binaryblob · 2024-01-06T11:27:40+00:00

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).

binaryblob · 2023-12-30T17:44:16+00:00

Don't know her, luckily, but I found this top comment on that website:

Very little on social media is done by accident; in particular by the influencer crowd. Specific to Bethenny: as she ages and her following starts to go stale, time to bring the teen daughter into the mix. The latter is still a child; although one cannot help but notice that she has the body of someone much older - especially in the adult outfits her mom is providing to her. In a couple of years she will start modeling and off we go to being famous. I think that most agree that 13 is too young for this; although she is on a well trod path. That said, hopefully it will not be the same one of Drew Barrymore..

It's just some pathetic parent exploiting her child.

binaryblob · 2023-12-30T16:40:40+00:00

If we could do eugenics, we should. It's just that some safe guards would have to be kept in place to ensure some diversity. Giving birth to people that we already know to be defective, is not good for the person being born nor for society.

The level of eugenics we can currently do, is quite unsophisticated. Single location changes can probably be done with a high level of success, but we can't do changes in 100 places (Harvard did this in an adult, but it's not a routine thing).

In an eugenics world, nobody would have to wear glasses for example, which would be a net benefit to society. The thesis that "only perfect humans would exist" (as if that would be a bad thing) is not even practically possible. It's like saying that "AI will take over the world", before any intelligent AI exists (spoiler alert: no intelligent AI has ever been programmed into a computer of meaningful size in public, although it might have happened in a military context).

I was indoctrinated in high school that eugenics were bad, but since I learned that with slightly different red blood cells, we could sprint for 15 minutes instead of twenty seconds I can't imagine why anyone not would want to be able to do that. Imagine that you could just walk up Mt. Everest without even breaking a sweat untrained. Imagine that you could go on a space walk without oxygen. In fact, imagine that you could just enable some kind of built-in body armor going into a harsh environment; the possibilities of eugenics are endless. How about bullet wounds that would heal within milliseconds of impact? There is nothing that prevents that from working, other than a lack of engineering knowhow. It's just that religious nut jobs killed it, before it ever became a thing.

binaryblob · 2023-12-28T09:54:00+00:00

What makes you think psychiatrists can think?

binaryblob · 2023-12-26T19:07:38+00:00

What do you have against the French? They fought a war against extremists. How is that a bad thing? Do you like to be blown up on your way to the supermarket?

binaryblob · 2023-12-23T23:34:30+00:00

Starting a war against is only sane when you know the enemy. As such, knowing everything that happens within US airspace would be the absolute minimum that one has to monitor for at least a couple of years before flipping the switch on invasion of Taiwan.

If the US has reverse-engineered saucer technology (this could obviously just be an elaborate hoax, but the Tic Tacs remain an oddity) China would probably want to know that before entering a war (especially, since they aren't any good at fighting wars).

I wish I knew for a fact whether the Tic Tacs are real and that I would get the real data surrounding them, because if you know the real characteristics, it's like that you can figure out how they work (even though, as David Grusch said, they might live in a higher dimension, which would explain a lot and would make it impossible for us to ever match such capabilities, since such higher dimensional beings would control dimensions that do not exist for us).

The only reason to spy on someone is for nefarious reasons. That part is true.

binaryblob · 2023-12-23T17:31:58+00:00

He should have kept his mouth shut, but I think there is virtually no limit to what technology can do.

It's in the best interest of the US to have a fully working nuclear shield working, but in such a way that almost nobody knows about it. Depending on the level of technological sophistication, it's probably possible to make a global working nuclear shield with just a hundred people even knowing it exists with just three or four that know the operational details. It's even possible to reduce that number to zero in principle, although that would not be recommended and you would have to shoot everyone with knowledge of the project.

binaryblob · 2023-12-23T12:21:35+00:00

diversity officers

Did you mean "high class prostitutes"?

binaryblob · 2023-12-23T11:18:03+00:00

It's compliant, just not to you.

binaryblob · 2023-12-22T09:57:37+00:00

This could totally be made up and there would be no way to prove it isn't.

Also, since there are no actual numbers specified, what's the point of sharing this "information"?

If it's tactically relevant, it would never have been shared in the first place.

binaryblob · 2023-12-17T12:25:06+00:00

She looks like a model with an enormous amount of make-up and expensive clothes. Yeah, that's totally the behaviour of someone with autism. /s

She is one of those obnoxious people that exploit whatever mental illness du jour to get views. Even if she has autism, saying you are "anxious" when you live stream your life to millions, is called lying.

For every chronic illness on the block, you can find such people. I saw someone that wrote 4 books today that claimed "she was living in isolation" ... WITH HER HUSBAND. How fucking retarded do you have to be to claim that seriously?

If you have a serious chronic illness, you do not have the energy to write four fucking books.

binaryblob · 2023-12-16T22:55:59+00:00

I think it's just that humans suck, not social media. The only reason this place doesn't suck yet (or well, not in the normal sense), is because not enough idiots joined yet. This place seems to be an ideal testing ground for Russian and Chinese propaganda (and perhaps even Western propaganda, which is harder for me to see since I am from the West, obviously).

Not sure whether I should welcome you or whether I should ask you to leave.

"WARNING: there are known law enforcement and/or intelligence operatives and/or paid manipulators present on this site. DO NOT REVEAL ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION or click on suspicious links without hiding your true ip address."

This is just someone role playing as if anyone important is on this website. It is a message clearly designed to make some random schmuck feel self-important. Just look at yourself: You can't even use proper punctuation.

If you are a completely ignorant sucker and you believe everything you read, then you might fall for propaganda. I actually enjoy consuming propaganda to some degree. It's fun to see their pathetic attempts, although deep fakes have made propaganda too easy in theory and it's kind of killing the fun for me.

I think traditional news sources are acting irresponsible regarding the threat posed by deep fakes, but it's not like there is a cure for stupidity.

In theory this world is super dangerous, but in practice you may have found humans to be stupid. Perhaps the top-5 countries in the world even have the capability to do anything that could be considered "dangerous" with a state budget. The story where a "terrorist" does something without state funding, just doesn't happen or it's at most a minor incident by someone with a mental illness (like what happened in France some weeks ago).

binaryblob · 2023-11-27T15:16:20+00:00

The release of this evidence should immediately result in the release of all non-violent protestors awaiting trial or serving their sentences

That sounds reasonable, but without a response from the other party, there is no news; that's why journalism was invented, such that the reader doesn't have to ask trivial questions about everything they read.

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