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The big country always wants to make it look plausible they’d lose to justify the budget, and every other country wants to do well out of genuine pride or propaganda that their military is strong and not to be fucked with.

Why are you taking trump and kegsworth word?

They’re fear mongering

An Aegis missle can knock it down tho…

They cost 4.7 mil a pop, which isn’t much to the US military. And don’t even need launched by the carrier, it’d be launched by ships between the middle and the carrier.

Apparently China claims they have hypersonic rockets made out of concrete for the low low price of 99k each, but that’s not exactly believable. Especially since they’re claiming 99k and not 100k. I mean, even that they’re using “round” US dollars.

That’s pretty common propaganda to claim something is cheaper and more widely available than it really is. It’s why we split our uranium into two bombs in WW2. Because a country might use all of it at once as a bluff. But only idiot would make just two and then use them both days apart. It made it look like we could have a bunch. Not enough to keep up the pace, but how many? 5, 12?

It was more psychological warfare than anything. So is China claiming these are so cheap and mass producible when if that was true we’d see the same cost savings in commercial spaces.

No other country would be able to compete

These war games are bullshit and the US and other powerful countries intentionally tie one hand behind our backs as a reason to increase the defense budget.

Like, US subs will have a bunch of people literally banging on the inside of the hull so enemy radar picks them up and “destroys” them too.

The big country always wants to make it look plausible they’d lose to justify the budget, and every other country wants to do well out of genuine pride or propaganda that their military is strong and not to be fucked with.

At the end of the day no country can counter our nuclear powered subs with nuclear interballistic missiles. Sinking a carrier would be responded to like attacking a US city, it’s just not a risk China would take.

Eh, a carrier is a whole nother thing.

One carrier with a flight detail would be in the top ten most powerful Air Force’s on the planet, and we’ve got like 7 of them?

And that’s not counting all the support in a carrier group.

There are certain types of drone attacks that might have some effect on a carrier, but it would take an insane amount of preparation and be inconceivably expensive.

At most theyd have 1-2 attempts, it would be the modern equivalent of the WW2 nukes if someone could sink a modern US carrier, even in a surprise attack to start a war.

Seems like a good time for some Bob Vylan honestly…

Fuck that, let’s go dig up Maggie

Let’s go dig up Maggie’s grave and ask her where that milk went

Down to storm those Downing doors, run inside and **** them

Eat the rich, eat the rich before they turn and eat your children

England’s ending, death’s still pending, burn those fucking buildings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-nYtq-0ObE

Yeah…

But you know how people are already comparing vibe coding to 40k where “priests” pray to computers and hope if they do the exact same thing they’ll get the same result they want?

If we start walking down this road of even the chat or not understanding why what it did was better…

Serious unintended consequences are going to be inevitable.

Like, I swear nobody knows the paperclip story anymore.

Instrumental convergence posits that an intelligent agent with seemingly harmless but unbounded goals can act in surprisingly harmful ways. For example, a sufficiently intelligent program with the sole, unconstrained goal of solving a complex mathematics problem like the Riemann hypothesis could attempt to turn the Earth (and in principle other celestial bodies) into additional computing infrastructure to succeed in its calculations.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_convergence

I mean, we can make a very very solid argument that much of our current problems are caused by high level stock trading being done by algorithms who’s only instruction is “make numbers go up”.

This shit aint even hypothetical anymore, it’s just instead of “make as many paperclips” we told it “make more money than you did yesterday”.

Which is why we’re burning down the planet to make billionaires even more money

The important part, is Britian bitched out on their threat…

The wealthy and powerful make empty threats constantly, because if/when it works, it’s a free victory.

We can’t negotiate with the wealthy, which should be obvious by 2025 to anyone that can remember the past twenty years.

Itamar Ben-Gvir became Israel’s security minister.

Fun fact:

In the days leading up to the attack, that guy was spending his time giving interviews about how spitting on Christians is a harmless tradition that needed to be protected rather than discouraged

He was such an extremist at 18, that he was banned from joining the IDF even though they force people to join.

And that’s not even getting into his connections to assassinations and car bombing…

The various PBS YouTube channels almost never miss.

Some of the best science content on the internet and explains everything in layman’s terms.

For higher level science:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas

Puts up conferences and interviews of some of the top scientific minds on the planet.

Well, yeah, we didn’t evolve to occupy a place, we kept getting wiped and having to start over. While something like a Greenland shark goes 50 years before it can reproduce.

We evolved as prey, but we don’t have any predators left. So there’s nothing to control our population.

But that’s way off topic

Market saturation…

The theory of natural limits states: “Every product or service has a natural consumption level. We just don’t know what it is until we launch it, distribute it, and promote it for a generation’s time (20 years or more) after which further investment to expand the universe beyond normal limits can be a futile exercise.” —Thomas G. Osenton, economist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_saturation

Corps want more people, not less. Because people are potential customers, or cheap labor. Even if neither, their existence as extra unneeded labor reduces the price of labor.

You seem to have been talking about “population saturation” which I get the meaning of but I’m not sure it’s a thing.

Labeled bots that just post content?

There was/is some but I blocked them long ago.

Bots pretending to be humans in the comment section?

Nothing believable, it works on reddit because most posts are reposts so the bots just recreate the old comment chain. It looks like an authentic human conversation because it was. But even on reddit I doubt there are many bots who can respond logically and not just recycle whatever got up voted last time. Because the boys are also up voting each other and reinforcing it

That’s “dead internet” once the bots are more active and outweigh humans on the algorithm, it doesn’t matter what people like, just who paid the most for bots.

Then the internet becomes a giant waste of electricity that people just stop using.

It’s because our economic system requires constant increases to profit margin.

Once a company gets to market saturation there’s only three ways to do that:

1. Make product shittier

2. Make product more expensive

3. Mergers

We can just not use the ridiculous economic system we’re currently using tho, it’s easily fixable.

this sounds like

OP forgot to start out with “dear penthouse”

It’s obviously fake

OP, can you just keep using this account at least?

I feel like I seen these same posts a couple days in a row, and always from brand new accounts

I keep blocking them, but you seem to be deleting and making new ones.

If you keep the same account, even tho you get downvoted, you’ll eventually get less down votes as people block you

If you keep creating new accounts, the people who clearly don’t want to see it are gonna keep down voting, but also blocking.

Everyone wins

The US is doing a pretty good job of replicating one era of Roman history…

https://youtu.be/dpn5Rff4gUk

Huh?

Explaining something doesn’t mean it stops happening, and everything has an explanation unless you just want it to be “magic”…

You know the only thing more ridiculous than buying a toilet with a built in camera?

In October Kohler launched Dekota, a $600 (plus monthly subscription) device that attaches to the rim of your toilet and collects images and data from inside

Buying a camera to attach to an existing toilet, that has a monthly device fee that costs more than a fucking toilet does.

We have a lot more than five senses…

Close your eyes and clap your hands, now how did you just do that?

Proprioception is a sense of where our body parts are in relation to each other, and how we can walk without staring at our feet the whole time.

What you’re looking for is a “gut feeling” which is often your subconscious, but your gut has a shitton of neural cells too. And can function like a “minibrain”.

https://www.science.org/content/article/your-gut-directly-connected-your-brain-newly-discovered-neuron-circuit

Most likely it’s an actual “proto-brain” hold over from before organisms even had heads.

But anyways, most likely it’s coming from your subconscious, there are things it puts together and recognizes, and especially if danger is around then it’s just gonna flash a warning light and not walk your conscious mind thru the logic that tells you why there’s a warning light. Because it’s better to respond fast and later work out why the warning light was flashing.

So, an example would be before I learned about the correlations between prenatal testosterone, in group bonding, and facial width; it was a joke among a specific friend group that “don’t trust guys with skinny faces”.

Not that low prenatal testorone makes someone untrustworthy, just that in situations where you need to 100% count on people to have your back, the people most likely to not are the ones that are not biologically wired to blindly defend what they recognize as “us”, their in group.

But this is a thing on a wider social scale, guys with “rat face” are often cast as villains and betrayers in media, because on some level even tho we consciously don’t recognize why, we all just instantly distrust to some extent. Not from conscious logic, but individual lifetimes of experience and us just automatically picking up the pattern.

Prenatal androgen exposure, approximated via 2D:4D, was associated with prosocial behavior. In contrast to previous research in older children, higher exposure was related to stronger prosocial tendencies, which corresponds to earlier findings on fairness in adults. Our findings point towards a potential role of sex steroids in the early development of children’s social behavior, but they have to be interpreted with caution due to the small sample size of the current study. Nevertheless, they underscore the importance of integrating biological and psychological perspectives, while also highlighting the significance of studying the development of prosocial behavior within peer groups.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378378224001245

Maybe sprinkling 1337 into our online texts would make them less useful to AI training

No, it wouldn’t.

I think search engines didn’t work with it;

No, they worked fine. It doesn’t take much for a computer program (especially search engines and chatbots) to recognize two words spelled differently have similar meanings.

Go misspell anything into a search engine, whichever you use, and notice how it suggests a correct spelling.

So if a few people try this, it’s not enough to have an effect. If enough people to have an effect do it, then the program quickly learns leetspeak.

But that doesn’t stop people from constantly having this idea