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these people in hamas believe narratives, narratives we've all seen people spread
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enabling the fascists in US government is something musk will continue to use his assets for
and, the information plague has not yet reached its peak. recent advancements in large language models (chatgpt) mean increased effectiveness among posting operations.
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6 hours ago, marf said:
So that Uap that was one piece and then split into two pieces when it skipped under water . That was Idm as fuck.
I simply can't believe that all we have are B&W vids of those things when they were doing aerial gymnastics next to an aircraft carrier in San Diego.
us gov has more. they released a small fraction of what they have. recently the USG has dropped the stigma and started seriously studying the phenomenon, it seems. just in the last month NASA joined the effort, which is huge. hoping that 5 - 10 years of real scientific scrutiny may yield significant insight. i think we're due to receive more reports in the future with further info.
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i wish he wasn't him too
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definitely curvey. perpetually undulating heaviness. difficult to penetrate but that's because the uninitiated cannot enter. and maybe that's for your own protection
aside from london b which is its own thing and awesome.
concur shit slaps
23 hours ago, YELLOW said:Yeah and there's no rush to understand the music or feel like you need to enjoy it. Some of their records I don't listen to very often because I just let them unfurl for me over the years. Some click instantly, some take a while
yellow wins the internet
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9 hours ago, auxien said:
more handjobs from our congresspeople would be a good start. might help them learn how to get anything over the finish line.
public service
10 hours ago, cern said:What is the most important question/quest for fellow Americans here?
Is it climate? Economy?
What needs to be change to get USA better? Im very interested in this.climate is an apocalyptic problem without a solution, and the needed solution involves the US federal government. policy is what's needed. it's the bottleneck. we don't start solving the problem until we get climate policy stabilized. and there's a lot to do after we start actually working on it. we need new ways to do concrete, steel, plastic, fertilizer, and meat. that's all. not even talking about heating, powering the grid, and transportation
people of the year 2060 hate us.
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welcome to page 241
should we start a new US politics thread and seal this one off for eternity?
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are people thinking london b is more or less a jam?
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thought damogen were his max system
2 hours ago, aderei said:His reaktor machine albums damogen and ufaba whatever defo have a brittleness that takes time to get used to
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6 hours ago, cern said:
What I like with Trump tho is that he wants to fight the Deep state. I have always known about it and feel sorry for people not knowing enough about it and how big problem it is.
he's not someone with a careful mind for system design, out there trying to fix the system. he's someone who seems strangely bent on leveling the government and replacing it with authoritarianism. the departments he purged were State Dept and EPA. that tells you where his motivations are coming from. he courts foreign interests and the oil lobby because he knows they want to infuse him with cash. he uses the term deep state as a cover for attacking the government. he uses it as cover for attacking the justice system, which is one of the crucial pieces of the system of government that the USA pioneered. without a DOJ, governments deteriorate into authoritarianism. the president trying to overthrow our country is not good.
i closely follow a lot of serious people and none of them take the concept of the deep state seriously. it's honestly an internet conspiracy trope, i'm sorry to tell you. sure, there are many employees. sure, secrecy is an inescapable part of some government work. sure, many employees are career professionals. sure, the military industrial complex has contracts and private companies and stuff going on. that's a nice setting for someone to make up a bogeyman of a deep state. it's not falsifiable. these are where tricks come from. you find something that's hard to disprove. but serious people don't take it seriously. the system is replete with checks and balances. there's not a runaway invisible monster. i guess that should be good news for you.
it's just us. it's just dumb voters, lawyer politicians, and career professionals trying to work with what they've got. and a lot of public servants acting on the feeling of service to their society that most people feel, though they act on it in different ways.
if anything... the invisible monster consists of voters having their minds jacked by junk narratives disseminated by special interests....................................................
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biden's fine. i always loved him, under obama. still love him, i think he's doing great. i like that he left afghanistan. he's handled ukraine impressively.
the only thing anyone can say is he's on the older side. that should tell you that there's not much real bad you can say.
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square push imminent
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2 hours ago, Summon Dot E X E said:
proxy war
wrong
2 hours ago, Summon Dot E X E said:orchestrated by the same neocons that did Iraq, Afghanistan, etc
wrong
2 hours ago, Summon Dot E X E said:They're trying to box Russia in
... from invading neighbor countries?
you're reveling in not knowing what the fuck and indulging in fantasies that are spoon fed to you. some people know how to figure out what's real. this totally unnecessary war is the work of none other than putin
that was a lot of tired horse shit you just treated us with
2 hours ago, Summon Dot E X E said:Also, the Ukrainian military violated their terms of service with Starlink. It was not meant to be used for offensive capabilities (like drones blowing up a ship
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you think this is a clown party? they're repelling an invading army. that's defense.
2 hours ago, Summon Dot E X E said:How can psyop victims wake up?
i'm glad you're asking this question. allow me to answer. resolve discrepancies. compare different reporting. don't ostrich your head from the "MSM". have the balls to read the A fucking P. that's the Associated Press, in case you haven't heard of it.
understand that info paths migrated and the nascent environment is being jacked from a million angles that didn't exist before. don't be an easy mark. read the news from actual journalism. 4 chan is not the good stuff.
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wild that musk personally prevented a major ukrainian attack
https://apnews.com/article/spacex-ukraine-starlink-russia-air-force-fde93d9a69d7dbd1326022ecfdbc53c2
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21 hours ago, cern said:
all that talk about the Analord wav's make me think of his Soundclound how he always uploads the masters there.
I checked on Love 7 but no download option for that one
It is a mythwe got digitals for those, you know. they're out there. just not sold anywhere, anymore. those 64 tracks are really good to shuffle through.
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they're the digitals for vinyls
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zip tie guy sentenced to 57 months
that's his mom in the background
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2 hours ago, cruising for burgers said:
what's with this new trend of calling digital vinyls to digital files (wav, flac)? or am I missing something?
what should i call it
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so, is the prophecy fulfilled? 3 vinyls?
would love digital vinyls of the 2...
any reason to hope for more?
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the government made a website where they post ufo videos.
click "official uap videos" to get the list of videos
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13 hours ago, Fade Rhombus said:
Yes there is global warming, but only because we're coming out of an unnatural mini-ice age. It's not a crisis.
the rate of change is different. it's not that. there's nothing mysterious about greenhouse gases or their impact. the observations match the predictions. greenhouse gas causes warming. it's not remotely controversial.
13 hours ago, Fade Rhombus said:industries for the greedy and the avaricious to make bank on. Its all lies and deception.
it sounds like you would be really unhappy to learn about the most powerful industry in history, oil, and the deceptions they trick or pay people to spread...
since you're so interested in the arctic ice extent, here:
i am informing you that the most recent image you posted (on the last page) is misleading because it compares the minimum ice extent for one year with an image that is not at the minimum extent of another year, 2017. it seems like the only people who would put a comparison like that out are people intending to mislead. here's 2017:
why are you posting so much inaccurate information that is so easy to disprove? and where are you getting information that is so basically wrong? it's honestly hard to be mistaken on such simple things as whether or not greenhouse gas causes warming, and whether or not the arctic minimum ice extent is shrinking dramatically.
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24 minutes ago, auxien said:1 hour ago, trying to be less rude said:
but there's plenty we can do now.
all the middling things we can/are doing are a good, but they won't be near enough to make any significant changes quickly enough. we've been talking about solar panels in America since at least Jimmy fucking Carter put them on the White House, and by and large they're a good. same for all kinds of wind power that's grown, etc. but unless we stop dredging up oil, stop billions of people driving/flying everywhere constantly, stop expanding our population, there's not enough solar panels/wind power/other 'green' tech that's going to save us.
a greater sense of responsibility for waste among individuals i think will be an unavoidable social norm of the future.
establishing alternatives has major obstacles. stopping use of fossil fuel requires establishing alternatives, first. wind and solar don't simply stand in, it's not that simple. major legislation is necessary, in order to solve the problems in a managed way. it's going to have to fall under some agency. and we can't have republicans like trump coming and gutting the EPA like he did. the necessary solution consists of the public awareness moving and consequently public policy moving. that's why i'm out here. posting on watmm is something you can do.
24 minutes ago, auxien said:1 hour ago, trying to be less rude said:please don't voice these paralysis narratives that paid posters are whispering in people's ears
it's not a paralysis narrative, it's the truth. solar panels and electric cars and whatever else is going to be nothing in the long term. we should still be actively doing all we can in that direction, but it's going to amount to not much/nothing. in 100 years, do you really think the population of 10+billion are going to be all like 'wow, i'm sure glad in the 2020s that 0.5% more of Americans used solar panels and a total of 6% of the American population used electric cars!* that was really the trigger that got things rolling to save the world and allow for our current utopia!" if there's any narrative it's that the changes need to be exponentially more sweeping and implemented immediately, without fail or reason or recourse. this would would lead to suffering/harsh changes/likely lots of deaths in the knock on effects, but it's better than the alternative which is to keep the status quo but 'oh, i'll buy the eco-friendly 7% recycled plastic ziploc bags instead'
your statement was so simplistic it was nonsensical. the situation is not as simple as "there's nothing we can do until we contain existing practices." yet there you are telling people there's nothing to do. why are you doing that?
the best things people can do now are raise awareness and organize for political action. it's possible to achieve impact in election results, and election results make a difference. right now we're bottlenecked by policy. proportionality of solutions is important and it's one of the central things of gates's book that i link above.
24 minutes ago, auxien said:and i'll say whatever i want, but thanks for suggesting otherwise. there's no conspiracy infiltrating watmm ffs.
kind of seems like a deliberate strawman, which i don't appreciate.
24 minutes ago, auxien said:but i'm not talking about realistic solutions to the problems, i'm just talking in the broadest sense that putting bandaids over a growing wound are useless. you have to stop the source of the wound, of the bleeding, which is population growth/hypermodernization of that ever-expanding population within a finite amount of planet. i don't expect to see this happen. we'll see just decline, suffering, and death (of humans, yes, but more broadly in the ecosystems we all rely on indirectly/directly) in our lifetimes.
the solution is societal and sociological. it's a really hard problem and we need people working on it, not telling people there's nothing to do
the problem exists because people aren't doing enough
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7 hours ago, ignatius said:
Yes. Republicans are shameless and soulless fuckwads of an exponentially worse type of person than the dems but the dems do a lot of dirt too. They take a lot of money from the same people.
i'll never say every dem is great. it's a bunch of humans. politicians tend to be lawyers first. that's the politician vibe: lawyer. if people don't like the politician vibe, i mean i think maybe we need to accept that that's the way it is. some of these lawyers are more prone to rationalizing bad decisions. i addressed the proportionality of donations from the oil sector, which is starkly weighted toward the republicans.
7 hours ago, ignatius said:Regarding healthcare during Obama admin, it was the dems stepping on their own dicks that watered down the ACA. They take a lot of cash from the healthcare industry/insurance companies.
i addressed above the scraping of votes on ACA. but you make a good point about the factor of industry donations. certainly that's something those legislators were thinking about, regarding their votes. i'd be all for someone unfucking the mess of healthcare in america.
7 hours ago, ignatius said:Also, the dems can’t get on the same page when they have the opportunity. They’re too oblivious to seize the moment. Republicans all get in line and vote through every shitty bill and policy when they have power. They don’t waste any time. They understand the game and the democrats frequently do not.
yeah, this is definitely a relevant dynamic. the federal level elected republicans, i believe, operate largely by deceit. so, by the nature of that, they must align their stories. hence the block solidarity. that also helps explain their intense focus on strategic advantage. like i mentioned above, they're a minority power managing to game the system in their favor. their whole game is calculating the most advantageous strategy play, because they are playing for power, not for serving the people. i view this as a consequence of the nature of the parties. the dems are more of an actual party of representatives of the people, however imperfect. so, yes, as a big tent party, it is difficult to get everyone aligned. and, by the nature of it, they are not focused on power strategy as a chief priority. dems are commonly criticized for this, and some awareness of the problem has penetrated their leadership and they seem aware of the disadvantage. i don't think it makes sense to expect them to have the strategic power focus of the gop. we need to be aware of the dynamic and yes also criticize them to keep them vigilant to mitigate the disadvantage.
again, i just view this as the army we have. these bunch of goof balls are the ones who we need to give as much support as possible, if we want to make as much progress on climate as possible.
7 hours ago, ignatius said:so saying “things need to tilt left some and that’s all it will take” is optimistic at best. A 30 to 50 year plan is too slow. We’re already on track for major changes. The mainstream science and data that we get is already looking too rosy. The estimates appear to have been conservative when it comes to the pace of change. At least that’s what’s starting to show up in some of these talks etc. we don’t know exactly what will happen and when but they have a pretty good idea about some things.
speaking just about carbon dioxide, we output 50 billion tons per year, and we need to get that to neutral. it's a major project. i'm not even talking about methane and nitrous dioxide. this is by far the most challenging thing humanity has ever attempted to do. replacing fossil fuel with renewables is... there are no words that describe how extensive of an undertaking it is. the earth has never had a species undertaking what needs to happen. that's what makes the situation look so scary., how impossibly hard it is to avoid the bad scenarios. and we're not even trying. we need innovations we don't have. that's why people look at 2050 as a target for changing course. we need to change how we make cement, plastic, steel. we need to totally redo grids. we need to get cold fusion working. we need to invent carbon capture. but yeah we need to get started immediately.
and yeah the reality has followed the worst side of projections from the past, consistently. like, off-the-charts, on the worst-case-scenario side of the range of climate forecasts from past decades.
7 hours ago, ignatius said:anyway! Bill gates. Ugh. Not gonna read his book. Have heard him talk about lots of climate stuff and I liked his thoughts on modern nuclear power systems. It’s funny that his company was building one of those reactors in china as a pilot unit then it got mothballed due to trump’s tariffs and trade bullshit that made sharing certain technologies and materials illegal. So it goes.
his approach to the situation is by the numbers. like, with carbon, it's 50 billion tons per year being outputted. he breaks that down into what the big pieces are, what the alternatives are, etc, including example calculations for comparisons. he identifies gaps in technology, and provides language for discussing the relevant dynamics, such as the "green premium" which is the cost offset of moving away from fossil fuels. the green premium of a specific technology or plan serves as the key metric for analysis, for each specific case, and tells you how realistic and close or far we are from various solutions.
there's also methane and nitrous oxide, which he also covers. he discusses things like the seasonal and day/nighttime intermittency of renewables like wind and solar, and the limits and cost of batteries. nuclear really comes out looking strong, out of all the current technology alternatives. like, right now, cold fusion looks like maybe one of the most important things going on in the world.
'Global Warming's Terrifying New Math'
in General Banter
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