Wow, thanks for the link. If it wasn't for the fact that Asia is so far away, we would definitely consider Thailand. Also, I know your stance on China, but I feel like the highest chance of war that we have on a global scale, aside from global Civil War, is going to involve China. And, it's highly likely that the south Asian island countries will be ravaged.
What are your thoughts on Argentina? I know they are still in the inflationary problem state (although that seems to have reached a relative stopping point, especially if they are potentially going to dollarize and maybe peg to the USD). I feel like it's reached rock-bottom, in terms of prices and level of despair, and, despite the fact that they have a lot of burglaries/theft (economic crimes are expected during such a downturn), they have few violent crimes / murders. Murder is about the same as the US, and other violent crimes, especially rape, are much lower than the US. And the little violent crime they do have is primarily focused in Buenos Aires.
I look at rural Argentina as a decent escape hatch from US / global turmoil.
I was browsing real estate in another country, just for fun when I came across a photo of a guy in a farm field. Something is off about the guy, so I zoom in on his face and it's this. The photo was otherwise indistinguishable from a real farm photo. I then found 2 more listings with suspect photos. The age of AI generated scams - made to bait us into sending money - is coming. Imagine Nigerian Prince style scams, but far more sophisticated, to the degree where 30+% of the population is susceptible.
I'm not assuming a single thing. That's not even a real bomber. That's modeled after the B21 Raider. The B21 won't enter service for at least 4 years, let alone be seen flying over a battlefield. I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you thought it was a B2 Spirit, hence my original billion dollar comment.
Those approximate F22s are also fake, but are roughly modeled after the F22. However, there is no scenario where 9 F22s would act as a squadron, accompanying a bomber. 2 F22s would accompany such a bomber, albeit at 20-40x the altitude, and with at least 2 F15s equiped with AGM 88 missiles, along with air refueling. IOW, the battlefield is not an air show - one does not simply fly part of a mission over the danger zone. This doesn't even factor in that Russian S600 missiles sit well within range of, and in multiple directions from, Gaza. Capable of X band targeting and optical follow up targeting renders the "stealth" useless, making all of these low and slow flying planes an easy target, if they weren't all shot down by amateurs operating a ZPU.
Thirdly, the USAF - the to-be operator of the B21 - maintains a "high energy" doctrine, wherein there exists no scenario for the use of stealth, strategic bombers and fighters at such altitudes, in hostile territory. Even the F35, to the degree that the USAF manages to squeeze a close air support mission out of it, won't likely be caught flying at such altitudes; and if it does, it'll be moving very quickly and will be most likely shot down by 1980s MANPADs.
A carrier being sunk is what I've been thinking will be the next thing, for the longest time. I feel like that's the most salient thing that could possibly happen.
Question is, how will they do this? Will they do it via some kind of covert means, or will it be something as brazen as a hypersonic missile...
That's interesting as shit, that kind of super allergy. When I was in high school my girlfriend went to a different school end at her school there was some student who was so allergic to latex that they had to have specialists come through and check everything in the whole school to make sure there was nothing with latex anywhere, because even if there was one balloon, the air with somehow make it into the classroom with a student was and she would go into anaphylaxis. I'm like "what the fuck, just don't even go to school at that point". Nightmare shit.
Well, I should correct my [clears throat] slight exaggeration (I have a really small family so not too much of an exaggeration): it's actually just 3 with gluten issues. And I also should state that you are absolutely right, in that genetics play a key role. Just like in the case of ankylosing spondylitis, though, most people are capable of the kinds of genetic expressions that can lead to the worst kinds of diseases, given the right environmental conditions. And yet most people don't experience these diseases.
So my family has a strong immune response to some form of microbe that, given a large quantity or colonization, leads to antibodies that coincidentally target proteins that are similar to gluten. The important thing to note is, given such a genetic disposition, and given that pretty much everybody undergoes multiple treatments of antibiotics for one thing or another throughout the early life, we find ourselves ridding our body of its natural biome, which then gets replaced by cheap welfare bacteria that will happily move in to fill the sugar pile; then the result is that we have a society of people riddled with almost exclusively inflammatory diseases of one kind or another. This is why most of the drugs advertised today are immuno suppressants, not because suddenly our immune system's are so much stronger and we need to suppress them, because our moon systems are reacting to all kinds of microbes that are in our body only because our bodies have been devoid of their inherent biomes.
This connection to the biome is also the reason why people who experience these kinds of problems, whether it's gluten intolerance, RA, etc., experience less symptoms in certain environmental conditions, such as cutting sugar and carbs completely out. Cut out the sugar and you cut out the welfare bacteria, your body get closer to a symbiotic relationship with his biome, and you find yourself experiencing less systemic inflammation, whether that's because the antibodies that would attack the proteins are fewer and number or the amount of bad cells that have to be killed by TNF is reduced, etc.
Thanks for engaging in this conversation btw; I love talking about this stuff with people, and hardly anybody finds it interesting at all, even if they have some of these diseases. In fact the person who has this problem that's unrelated to gluten, specifically, but very much related to all of this, is also very much does interested in doing anything naturopathic to attempt to remedy the problem.
Relax; I've delved much deeper than genomics (hence proteomics), and I'm not retarded. I'm trying to help.
Genes, yes. But none of us (an many others) had the issues for our whole lives. Take, for example, ankylosing spondylitis - 2% of the population has the gene, but only .8% of that cohort experiences symptoms, and it usually presents in the absence of beneficial bodily flora (hence antibiotics). The primary culprit in this disease is an immune response to a specific genera of bacteria, which is usually non-colonizing bacteria... except in the presence of cheaply available energy (sugary diet) and a lack of other bacteria to prevent it from reaching problematic population numbers.
BTW, if you're having any of these kinds of inflammatory problems yourself, I highly recommend cutting out undercooked eggs. This means not having any ice cream with egg yolks, Caesar salad dressing, and over medium or boiled eggs. The protein in question denatures at 152°F, so as long as you are eating scrambled eggs or eggs that are baked into things that were baked fully, you're good. Give this a try if you have these kinds of problems and see if it resolves the problems. Beware that these kinds of proteins take up to a week to be broken down by your immune system, so if you just had eggs this morning, expect to see symptoms for days, starting perhaps tomorrow. This is a very much unreported and lesser-known problem in people with inflammatory issues.
I am not a doctor and none of this is medical advice.
It would actually be very fortunate if all my research was wrong, because I would love for everyone in my family to be able to eat wheat without symptoms, simply by avoiding glyphosate. That's never worked in the past, not for any of us, even before they started allowing it to slip under the radar in USDA "organic" food. You would be surprised by how many people think they have gluten allergies but don't actually. There are many other things that we put in our food here that they don't in Italy, which also cause GI problems.
And BTW, RA is just the symptom. A raised level of tumor necrosis factor is not a disease, anymore than a raised level of antibodies. What I'm talking about is systemic inflammation, whether it's from celiac disease or GI or what we are calling "RA".
When we drank wine in Italy I had no headache the next day, so I can definitely get behind the sulfites causing hangovers argument.
I met a family/group of friends/peers who were flipping houses (a lot of people diss flippers, but they are actually doing a better service to society than "I have 8 units" style rent seekers). So these guys would buy a house and then fix it up themselves (they started as contractors before it started getting hard to find stable work), and then sell it. They were reinvesting the profits so that they can get up to the point where they were doing three at a time. I was listening to him tell me their story for the longest time, and I thought "that's pretty cool", because they were keeping it fairly lean. Fast forward to the end of the story and he tells me that they are about to start buying "units" to rent them out. This was just like seven weeks ago. I told him "I think there is a possible scenario where the rental market goes completely belly up in the next year", and then I started talking to him about how Airbnb was reporting drops in revenue, and how I had even anecdotally discovered that this was happening. They were entirely uninterested in hearing what I had to say about that, like telling somebody to get up from a blackjack table or something, it was amazing. It was as if I was attempting to burst the only balloon they had, because they were seeing gold bars. Nobody is ever happy sticking with what they are good at; everybody follows the Peter Principle and elevates themselves to their own level of incompetency.