I’ve seen this article reposted in a couple of places, and only after your comment I connected the dots of why there are people collecting outside Home Depot. A pretty interesting symbiotic relationship that all parties benefit from. Why HD uses psychoacoustic weaponry against laborers is still irrational and infuriating.

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Everyone’s seen it coming, since it’s not their own space program, but one inherited from the USSR, and they haven’t even been really interested in properly maintaining it.

It’s so unfunny that the only one to contest Valve on PC monopoly is Tim Fortnite, who seemingly does the worst job everywhere yet still can still afford it. It’s almost like Gaben himself created a perfect villain for his company, so it’d never be criticized.

If a person is perceived as a threat, purposedly adjusted GenAI can suggest them to touch live wires or mix a homemade explosive while they do a casual home fixing for the first time.

My initial thought, although greatly blurred, is in that if we outsource our research and decision making to AI, the owners of AI can spoil it for us to either make us fall in line or sabotage our ways.

The normal GenAI can be gated and availiable for rich persons, but the one that is cheap or free, that is used by low to middle households, can as well be used to inspire us to follow corporate agenda or even self-terminate if we aren’t in their picture of the future.

I was thinking more about selling a soul to some monkey-paw style demon, but yeah, there I feel seen.

Not to forget about sex services and human traffic from ex-soviet states. His wife Melania is a slovenian model that happened to imigrate to the US. When soviet empire collapsed, a lot of young women wished to leave it whatever the cost is.

Israeli side is still a prevalent voice in covering the conflict with no voice leveraged to the same stage from palestinians, so whatever happens the mainstream news would be in their hands. It is an unequal exchange by design. It is hard to even start a dialog about peace if one side is a state recognized by everyone and the other is not.

One way is to start to recognize Palestine internationally, the other is to undo recognition of Israel. These tho can happily coexist.

I have no firm belief about this whole situation, but at the very least I don’t find any reason for israelis to scale up their territory. If they are to have their 50s borders in the end, no israeli settler or IDF fighter has any right to cross that line, that they do as we speak. These are terrorist acts, and a genocide, and if Israeli dream can’t be achieved without that, it is to be dismantled.

Trump this, Trump that.

Who executed these orders? Who in the chain of command was happy to bomb these people? What names and ranks are there in the report?

There shouldn’t be people who, without a shadow of a doubt, would press the red button on an incorrect order. It seems, there are a lot of them there right now. All that stops us from having the US from starting a nuclear war is an assumption, that there would be someone knowing better in place, and this international bombing spree tells us it’s not a safe bet at all.

Imagine Donald wanting to nuke South America or Canada - would there be anyone to refuse?

There is some irony is that the main part of a public sentiment in favor of Putin is that there wouldn’t be another 90s era of violence and economical instability as long as he is in power. Well, the economy is somehow stable in how it degrades, but the amount of street violence climbs on. Out of last three times I took a fight in my block, first was in ~2008, last two happened in 2024, both with dead drunk proud boys in vomited over camo clothes, asking me if I served. It’s not yet the 90s level of chaos, but I can’t imagine having a daughter there. Many, as I’ve heard, share the same anxiety, but nevertheless can’t figure out who created that problem in the first place.

That test sounds like a model trainroad but for billionaires.

without being invaded

Kursk region says hiii. There, Russia got conflicted because they both wanted to agitate people over it, but also wanted to downplay it for less reputational losses - and not get their ongoing offensive elsewhere compromised. That’s where unprecedented North Korean participation occured. Not only it was on the table, it was prefered over full commitment, with all new problems it means. Why that’s the case is an open question, my guess even if someone wants that, already weakened economy won’t survive the amount of wear supporting more soldiers means. And, besides, the current slow grind won’t be an option after that commitment - they either start winning, and fast, or it would be perceived as a total failure - and something tells me they know adding more unenthusiastic bodies won’t help that much on the battlefield where what they need is not as much as manpower, but ammunition, drones, vehicles for troops already deployed. Rounds of donations and volunteering exist on both sides, and without succesful militarization of economy it’s hard to imagine. What they do now is slow compensation of falling buying ability of the rouble - just today there were news of signing an order of autumn recruitment campaign (18-30, supposedly not on the frontlines) - and a 20 -> 22% rise in taxes applied to personal wages for legally employed individuals. I’d probably wait to see some more active preparations if they have planned some drastic expansion of armed troops. This can’t be done overnight.

I’d probably try to reflect onto how this topic or that person are relevant to you right now. There’re random chances to just remember stuff, but if it drove you to post it, you think that’s important, and this argument is probably unresolved or led to a less than enjoyable results.

That’s what Big Gay wants you to believe.

MexiCanadian Article 5, maybe?

It’s Bibi flexing muscles in the most inappropriate way once again. Almost like a brand account posting a deeply unfunny meme joke but said account is for an international spy/terrorist network.

But young person being afraid of getting mossad’ed for his internet posting for a long period of time and not getting any (medical) attention is the centerpiece of that story, not the eventual snap, and not even a backlash we see in the media now. There are a lot of these neglected and driven insane dudes that fash chaotically nurtured with no understanding of how to manage them, or even care, more likely hoping they’d ride the wave. Well, Shapiro canceled his appearance right after the event, and the whole martyr thing is probably also because they want to retarget such shooters from now on, exaggerating how it’s wrong to harm exactly them, not the other side, assuming there is still more to come and being afraid of how indiscriminate these attacks would be. Seizing the opportunity is one thing, but I do find they geniunely weren’t prepared for what they wished into existence.

I could’ve bought myself into a myth of Israel being encircled by enemies if not for it attacking everyone at will, getting no response. US, Europe raised a bully and only some select countries refuse to enable it. I’m yet to decide if I’m on board with a complete erasure of Israel as a state, but I don’t see any solution possible before it becomes deeply pacified and demilitarized.

It should either not happen at all or become a worthy tradition. Who wouldn’t like to mourn Shapiro, Tate, Peterson, Netanyahu, Trump, Vance etc passing if they take off in a timely fashion? It wouldn’t hurt to have said moment of silence every week or so.

Counterpoint: hand-sewing reduces your impact on the environment more because you can’t impact environment that much with both hands occupied for dozens of hours. It’s like touching grass but productive.

So where’s the downside? There is a discussion and exchange of opinions\experiences. /c/showerthoughts is not /c/science.