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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 3 points ago +3 / -0

If a blue boy is born, and comes out swinging with a flaming sword, telling the West how they read that Yeshua kid all wrong, then yeah, let's do this. When it's people like Klaus Schwab and Bill Gates, backed by spiritual wunderkind like Jerry Nadler, Mitch McTurtle, Justin Castro, Emasculated Macron, etc....who exactly are the ones that should be getting culled, here?

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 1 point ago +1 / -0

Key word: island. Hypothermia and drowning are a thing, even if they could see a destination, and were good swimmers. The water feels nice and cool, when you can get out if it, but it'll get you, if you stay too long, and the smaller you are, the less time you'll have.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 1 point ago +1 / -0

Not every African girl can become a war bride, you know.

by DrLeaks
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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 4 points ago +4 / -0

There are some guys that have made a living out of filming cops, and getting settlements from their actions on camera. In several circuits, it is explicitly legal. In others, it just hasn't been firmly decided, and is a topic SCOTUS likes to avoid. However, especially if it's to be uploaded onto the internet, it would be a clear 1st ammendment violation. A government employee has no more right to privacy in public than anyone else.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 0 points ago +2 / -2

If it's not too humid, you can start a regular campfire or bonfire in a pit for another day, sometimes two, just by turning the ash. They sometimes find burned roots still hot enough to easily ignite, long after forest fires have died out, too. With enough fine debris to keep warmth and air trapped in there, that's really not a huge surprise, given that there was melted steel to begin with.

The real question is what got it that way in the first place. The blast furnace gave us reliable steel production to begin with, and most high rises are practically blast furnaces waiting for a good burn. So, no, I'm not pulling a midwit, "jet fuel can't melt steel beams," thing - we melted steel with worse starting fuels for centuries. Rather, all that burning started from the jets was going on way up high in the building. If it collapsed right into itself, why did so much of that furnace interior stuff get so deep into the rubble? Unless, just maybe, it had it's way paved by a simultaneous demolition, that opened up the middle concrete and steel, or the fires were from such demolition.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 6 points ago +6 / -0

It was always red tape related. Newer airplane designs, and electronic component upgrades, likely got tested with emissions from the relevant frequency bands.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 1 point ago +1 / -0

Don't, "slam." Sue and impeach.

Then get them out of there, you dumbass. Who in their right mind would gave had kids in CA public schools?

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 4 points ago +4 / -0

And it would have worked, if it weren't for those meddling kids their collective TDS. As soon as Desantis decided the oval office might be a nice place to work, he and his people have done nothing but faceplant and footgun, to steal failure from the jaws of victory.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 3 points ago +3 / -0

Hey, we're not all faggots! But, damn if there isn't some motivation and curiosity missing from a lot of my peers, and most of the younger ones (I'm just a few years off from being an Xer). But, every time it seems like things are going well, there's a market crash, or this time the great plandemic, to RIP opportunities away. When it puts gaping holes on your resume, and you used your savings all up years ago, during that last big jobless period, economic downturns aren't easy to get out from under, even after the large scale numbers supposedly look good, again (but never as good as before the last crash, or the one before it, or the one before that one...).

Economic and social safety nets are almost gone, and what should be a minor emergency, that our parents and grandparents wouldn't have given a second thought, can set you back a year or two. I'm going on 40, and economically about where I wanted to be before 30. Finally having land and a house kind of feels like a pyrrhic success, now.

If I had kids, I'd take multigenerational living over a nursing home, especially today - make it worthwhile for them to either take over the home, if it's still in a good place, or sell it and we all move somewhere better. I wouldn't force them out into this toilet bowl of an economy, expecting them to succeed on their merits, either. Of course, I'd also keep them off of the internet, and without a smart phone, until at least 8, probably longer for the phone, plus do whatever reasonable to ensure they can act on their own, and have above a gnat's attention span.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 2 points ago +2 / -0

Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, notice that you're in a glass house, before throwing those stones.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 3 points ago +3 / -0

What if you've seen the video elsewhere? Or, what if you are watching it? That's too small a number to make such conclusions with, on high-latency eventual-consistency distributed systems.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 1 point ago +1 / -0

They will use the term. AI follows the principle of GIGO, and that always makes unbiased data not work to their favor. The trick is figuring out how to make biased data work, as that usually does not work, either.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 2 points ago +2 / -0

No argument, there. I think most everyone that could wake up to how bad things have gotten, in that regard, did, by about the end of Obama's first term. I noticed the general sentiment changing after the Iraq debacle, and it was in full swing by 2010 or so, from my own observation. I would consider something like our first tussle with Hussein, in '91, to definitely be for oil, along with the rash of assassinations and supported civil wars and revolts, just after leaders wanted to change currencies.

I have not heard of that movie. Will check it out.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 2 points ago +2 / -0

Or, they have morals, and the curtain was pulled back for a bit. There's no doubt the number is smaller than it used to be (though many are fixable, given some time), but the kinds of men that would gladly volunteer up through even 2010 are largely disillusioned, now. It's one thing for the machine to be a bit dirty. But, when it's interests and actions are not at all aligned with yours, are you going to even bother? And, how many veterans employee their kids not to follow their footsteps? Nobody has done a good survey on that, AFAIK, but I guarantee you it is not insignificant.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 2 points ago +2 / -0

Those aren't really hidden, and no way it's actually helping recruitment. You told men they weren't welcome, would be shit on, and would only be used for useless shit (the petrodollar was an evil policy move, but, "fighting for oil," under it was fighting for the country's continued place as a superpower - I mean shit like doing the will of the UN and NATO). The men they used to get won't even answer the draft, or will do like the drafted lefties did in Vietnam, throwing wrenches into the works. Even if it helped get people in the door, how long before they quit, or were kicked out?

They want everything to be a marketing problem, but it just isn't. The Military is yet another swamp in need of draining. Ditch DEI, offer real health care to recruits (nothing but protein, fat, water, and salt, until you're skinny and benching over 200!), and kick the Laz-E-Boy officers to the curb...for a start, and goodwill gesture (there's still the veggie in chief and cackling witch to deal with).

Lujan is occasionally actually entertaining, TBH. Good presentation and delivery, just lacking the social hard knocks to have learned how to make zingers. If she got herself an uncharismatic Jewish comic writer buddy, she could probably have success w/o being used by Uncle Sam[antha].

Now, if Hannah Baron had a militia recruiting...

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 2 points ago +2 / -0

South Korean "Feminism"/Megalia/Womad is NOT Feminism, they literally enforce mass censorship, drive male idols to suicide, and believe they are the child of rape because they are born and their parents are rapists.

Seems pretty feminist to me. You do realize that feminism's primary goal has been family and community destruction, right? That women's rights stuff was just to sound good to the gullible.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 5 points ago +5 / -0

In the sense that the falsifiable knowledge is wrong, outside of maybe psychiatry, negligible. We're finally beginning to get beyond the Theory of Relativity, these days, FI, and some of the experiments could have been done in a garage, just as well as a fancy lab (and important aspect if this to understand is that each well-proven theory is closer to actual reality than the last one, not the ultimate answer). If largely wrong physical systems were proposed, they'd be shredded to pieces. There's a great degree to which it is nearly impossible to make believable lies about the physical sciences.

It's also important to understand that in many fields, common knowledge isn't the standard. FI, the Big Bang was gone with as it fit the bill well enough for a long time, and helped to figure other things out. But, it's never been 100%, or even 90%, accepted, by any amateur or professional in any field that has to think about the universe' past. It was accepted that it wasn't accepted, though, with few zealots or anything about it. That happens in other sciences, too. There are many open questions, and a lot of the time, they go with the accepted thing, if it helps further their work, without necessarily 100% endorsing the accepted thing.

In the sense that they omit much that they don't understand, or which the materialist worldview denies, OTOH, 100% they are making excuses, and molding people with open minds to close them. That's one if the reasons there is a bathtub curve in belief in a creator, in STEM. Those with the talent to go far get beyond the BS, while those unable to get mired in it.

Personally, having looked at, recently, germ and terrain theory, I'm not prepared to discount viruses. There is still too much that terrain theory doesn't cover, that modern germ theory does, too much evidence for viruses, too little evidence against. That said, if we modeled public policy around terrain theory, and gave it it's due, we would all be much healthier, and probably be able to make serious progress in real health care, rather than making people sickly for pharma profits. The truth isn't in the middle, so much as both could be useful stepping stones towards getting closer to a single theory that handles the cases both clearly get right.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 2 points ago +2 / -0

Thinking about that video's concept, I find that I more easily recall the, "serials." Outside of the short slapstick format, the only two, "episodics," I recall much of are Pinky and the Brain, and Courage, both of which were rather self-aware about their, "episodic," nature, and had thin 4th walls. Most of the rest I can recall having watched, but don't have much depth to said memories.

I had previously only really thought about it in terms of ease of handling reruns, and oftentimes lazy writing (a lot of entertainment, but especially kids shows, are shoveled out as fast as possible), though. Definitely food for thought.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 2 points ago +2 / -0

TBF, my assumption for most Amber alerts is a father either being denied rights, or trying to take his child away from a very bad environment. Legit abductions are the corner cases. So many times, it'll turn out to be a custody dispute, that they're like crying, "wolf," now. The common case is a mother using her new hubby, the state, to deal with that used to a private matter. A hundred years ago, people would probably have looked at you like you were an alien, trying to explain how a parent could be committing a crime by taking their own child.

Corruption of this nature in an outfit handling the alert middleware, and maybe backend, is as surprising as a Clinton-related, "suicide." Filter out, or distribute to a smaller, farther-away group, alerts that your cronies are in on.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 1 point ago +1 / -0

Blocking the ad blockers is trivial, technologically. Keeping people using the site is hard, though, and they only make it harder, as they try to make it cable TV for the internet. Most people don't use ad blockers, though, and those that do will not put up with more than a few ads, before not watching the content on that site (unless the ads are forced to be sensible, like on Gab - it's not ads existing, but flashes, jump cuts, bright colors, -0.1dBFS audio, and content interruption). So, it makes the most business sense to just figure that ratio into the formulas for clicks, impressions, etc.. The only real problem that tends to arise is that tech channels can have a majority of viewers blocking ads - do you penalize them, or work with the site-wide average?

But, the PHB types will tell them to disable the ad blockers. Then, they get surprised Pikachu face when people use the site less, even those getting the ads.

They should really get into the sponsorship side of things, instead of normal ad serving. IE, if you do a sponsor segment, for $x, they get 20% or 30% of it, but no 3rd party ads will be injected into your content.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 2 points ago +2 / -0

They changed the symptoms for Polio, to include inflammatory responses from other things, so that they would have an excuse to push out the polio vaccine. This is basically adverse reactions severely affecting key parts of the nervous system. Polio itself is mostly harmless, without a very poisonous envionment.

Also, the polio vaccine is the main cause, now, of genuine polio outbreaks.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 1 point ago +2 / -1

It's hard to say, and paychecks prevent a lot of curiosity from becoming action. Genetics alone tells us the standard old theory of pre-chimps to us in a few million years doesn't add up. But, there are also smaller oddities, like soft tissue preservation in fossils, and how evolution actually functions, which we're now able to really look at, at low levels, and simulate, don't quite map to the normal story.

I wouldn't rule out our ancestors and dinosaurs, at this point.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 2 points ago +2 / -0

That's how most of the pictures are, and have been for ages, not just of the rover itself. They're all doctored in Photoshop. Same with orbital telescopes, though there are good technical arguments, there (they're often coloring non-visible spectra). It's easier to make and apply a narrowly focused camera, for high detail, than make cameras with wide views that also can tightly focus. You then take many overlapping pictures from that camera.

For Mars, there is a good argument to be made thar adjusting things like color, and opportunistically removing details, is being done so that we don't see everything they're receiving.

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Respect_Mah_Covfefe 1 point ago +1 / -0

What are the middle steps? Star Link is the weakest internet available, and has nothing special going on, wrt to anything that might be related to social credit. I also doubt that is economical to scale and maintain it for everyone's use, as opposed to poorly served populations.

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