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uziq wrote:

could never really grow what you'd call a hirsute beard though. my facial hair has 'czech highway bandit' or 'carnival worker of dubious origin and intent' written all over it. i just don't bother.

I could probably grow a beard, I can't afford the time off work.

I had 3-4 days of not shaving to kickstart my Movember moustache and I guess it was OK.
That was a thing of wonder, I went for the 'squadron leader' and after a month I'm sure it could have conducted a sortie and shot down a brace of Focke-Wulfs by itself.

One thing I hate is goatees and worse those stupid little chin-tufts.



Do they ever look anything other than stupid?

Goatees look dumb enough from the front, if people could see themselves from the side what would they think?



If I ever have to interact with someone who has one all I can think is "what the fuck are you thinking?"

On the one hand kids need to learn to collaborate, that was not part of my learning.

On the other they need to actually learn, from what I can see they aren't.

OK lets recap

Trump will end all wars and start no wars.
No wars ended, one war started.

Oil will go down
Oil has gone up

How did his birthday parade go?

The United States condemns the sanctions imposed by the governments of United Kingdom, Canada, Norway, New Zealand, and Australia on two sitting members of the Israeli cabinet. These sanctions do not advance U.S.-led efforts to achieve a ceasefire, bring all hostages home, and end the war. We reject any notion of equivalence: Hamas is a terrorist organization that committed unspeakable atrocities, continues to hold innocent civilians hostage, and prevents the people of Gaza from living in peace. We remind our partners not to forget who the real enemy is. The United States urges the reversal of the sanctions and stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel.

https://www.state.gov/releases/office-o … officials/

Suck a dick Marco.

Its not entirely a bad thing, it should probably be in the power mix, but if it means Australia can never politically disagree with America then it would be a bad thing.

Aus probably does need nuclear submarines, but we need them 20 years ago, not in 20 years time, and they need to be nuclear armed or there's no point.

Most likely in the next 20 years there will be systems which make them wholly obsolete, swarms of underwater drones, networks of sound and magnetic sensors on the seabed, satellite radar etc.

China did use the excuse of MH370 to scan the seabed off WA.

US reviewing Aukus submarine pact as part of 'America First' agenda
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8d3d5l9l1o

The only point of the defence deals signed by the liberals has been to lock Australia into lockstep with US Republican thought - step out of line and we switch off your defence.

Aus does not need Abrams tanks, F35s, nuclear submarines in 20 years or nucular power, we need other systems and now.

If Trump cuts AUKUS that would actually be good news, then we can buy British or German or French or Japanese submarines now, long range strike aircraft, drones etc etc.

Dilbert_X wrote:

I'm trying to be more jewish about my investments, if someone has to die for me to make a profit then start the annihilation already.

Oil prices rose sharply on Wednesday amid concerns of a potential confrontation, with Brent crude, the international oil marker, jumping 5 per cent from its settlement level on Tuesday to $70 a barrel in afternoon trading in New York. Prices moderated on Thursday morning in London to $69.25 a barrel for Brent.

https://www.ft.com/content/5df91895-5de … 1bc1c2bda3

This is literally my burning bush moment, adopting judaism works people, I'm $1000s up already, not even 24hrs

OK, first of all I identify, for investment purposes, as jewish now - so cool it with the anti-semitism you nazi.

Secondly, we've discussed already how your per-schlub carbon emissions are higher than mine.

Thirdly, I've never actually worked on a weapon system, so there.
Having worked on umpteen projects which unintentionally kill people I would like to one day work on a system which intentionally kills people, for balance, so I can be a well-rounded engineer, or something.

And yes it really is soccer-moms making unnecessary journeys in monster 4x4s who are delivering excess CO2 to the environment.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

nevermind that the contiguous left coast went to harris.

And this is why it must be defeated.

uziq wrote:

much like fanon or achebe or someone like that said about the imperial ideology coming home to roost … yeah, this is telling.

I would have voted for Trump just on the vibe of the thing.

America voted for this - enjoy

Oil is up, oil shares are up, oil enabling shares are up.

OTWH I'm trying to be more jewish about my investments, if someone has to die for me to make a profit then start the annihilation already.

OTOH If oil goes up my dividends go up which pays my fuel bill and all the slobs in humongous 4x4s are paying through the nose to me - this brings me joy as I look at their angry faces and listen to their whining - which I hear a lot of.

I'm guessing Americans don't like 'shock and awe' when it happens to them.

Well, when Lyndon Johnson thought it was the Egyptians he was ready to nuke Cairo, when he found it was the Israelis he went back in his box and made the whole thing secret.

Yes, the jews chose Palestine for the convenience, not the history.

Just think, if the Houthis had stormed a yacht and abducted 12 Americans the bombing would have already started.

LMAO

Remember when non-lethal equipment was supposed to be used as a 2nd to last resort in case of immediate danger, not as a tool of coercion?

Very quickly it became "do what I say or you'll get tazed"

One thing I will say about Trump, he keeps his promises and gets things done.

He promised to devolve America into a backward, fascist dictatorship and he's really getting on with it.

Anti-podism, anti-semitism, anti-magaism - all in one sentence.

You're going in a pod, but instead of living as a lead character in GOT you're going to be the stormtrooper who keeps bashing his head on the doorway on an infinite loop as you're drained of fluids.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

i suspect this is all very tongue-in-cheek, but how exactly would the pod bureaucracy work?

could you trust politician on the same wavelength as trump to not simply sign an executive order to cut funding to pod upkeep? what happens to people when the virtual life they built for 30 years collapses around them and they wake up in 2060? would a support system to get them back on their feet be too touchy-feely, and therefore also defunded?

You can trust me

should pod-prisoners be wary of having their real-life water forcibly extracted from their bodies while they're in the middle of an important errand in their pod life? mummified alive while trapped in vr.

Of course not, see above. Also calling them prisoners will be a serious offence, punishable by being put in a pod - which isn't a punishment.

who decides who gets to be put into pods? can you buy your way out of a pod?
what if someone from your targeted demographic doesn't want a pod life? is there an enforcement wing of various world pod departments and ministries? are you podded at gunpoint?

It will be a completely free decision to enter a pod.
Certain groups will be rounded up, put into camps, deprived of food and machine-gunned from tanks as they queue for food, they will be able to voluntarily enter a pod at any time if they choose to entirely of their own free will.
Once in a pod they will not know they are in a pod

how about we redefine what makes a worthwhile and contributing life instead? i think the time of basing your value on how much money the wealthy elite can extract from (or beat out of) you has long since curdled. even the greatest generation was jaded and tired of being exploited by corporate executives.

This is socialist talk - enjoy the rest of your life in a pod.

uziq wrote:

i don’t disagree about culpability but you wouldn’t accuse all of the german people of being literally inspired by aryan ruins in tibet and nordic runes gobbledigook, would you?

i think you’d understand that your average german petit-bourgeoisie threw in their lot with the nazis for much more mundane, banal even, reasons to do with their present political situation. not being inspired by all of the occult nonsense himmler was cooking up in the dungeons of gothic castles.

The Germans bought into the nice idea of having a better life at the expense of someone else's life, so yes they're culpable - just like the average Israeli jew who votes for Zionism expansion.

uziq wrote:

iis an atheistic consoomer society in which the majority live in pods with marvel movies being projected in front of their eyes, saving up for luxury baubles, better than one structured by faith?

I'm suggesting putting the people with 'faith' into the pods.

Look at how many people give their life over to religion and tell me they wouldn't be happier in a pod.

I didn't say they don't deserve to live, I think most people would be happier in a pod.

I'm fine with any alternative - but it needs to work.

Could we put most people, who don't really contribute anything, in virtual reality pods and let the rest of us get on with stuff?

uziq wrote:

much has been written about techno-feudalism. advanced post-industrial economies in the west have reverted to a sort of rentierism rather than productive gains or growth.

Maybe its more like the pre-WW1 period, Amazon etc are too big and need to be broken up, likely war in Eastern Europe.

but those sort of changes are pretty well being spear-headed by the class you keep saying would do a better job: a coalition of nerds and billionaires

Still not hearing a workable alternative.

Maybe we're in the proto-state which lead to the plutocracies of pre-revolution France and Russia

In the same way we could, if we tried hard, have magical self-repairing machines which run on water and sunlight and turn C02 back to carbon, we could probably have some sort of organic self-replicating robot which can think for itself and solve real-world problems - with enough R+D.

A logical conclusion I suppose is that people who want AI so much must hate actual people, or their own intellectual fallibility, or something.

I'm sure pre-WW2 everything went great then?

i just ... don't think letting a bunch of airline pilots run the cabinet or rescinding all control to engineers who are good at CAD is the solution to that

Well I'm not hearing any better ideas.

Democracy invariably leads to populism - how can it not?

Most SMEs don't need AI, AI seems to make google search worse.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/commen … h_water_i/

Bong Joon Ho is good enough, not the greatest but his films are a bit interesting.

I like my allegories simple enough for me to understand, so quite simple obviously.

You keep droning on about how great democracy is while ignoring that it consistently delivers terrible leaders and terrible results.

Trump, Johnson, Brexit, Hitler etc - are these indications of a working system?

If a machine consistently produces shit an engineer would look at whether the input is shit, the operation is shit, or the machine is shit, or the whole idea in the first place is shit.

Shit input - does it make sense to let peons decide what happens by majority vote? Half the population is below average intelligence, does letting them have a say in things make sense? See Brexit.

Shit operation - should people unqualified to be in government - through ignorance, stupidity, corruption, greed, being jewish etc be allowed in govt?

Shit machine - most democracies have shitty systems which don't really work, first past the post, wealth and corporations buying seats, appointed second chambers, no barriers to corruption etc.

Shit concept - is there actually a lot of point in having a govt which costs a fortune, spends inefficiently and does not represent the best in interests of the country as a whole?

So we're left with testing patriotism by firing people out of tubes or a council of altruistic STEM megabrains, such as myself, who can either cooperate without a President or who can elect the best of them to lead, such as myself.

Once climate change really gets going there's going to be no realistic alternative if humanity wants to survive.
But then it doesn't and there we are.

Fake it till you unicorn? Builder.ai’s Natasha was never AI – just 700 Indian coders behind the curtain

https://techfundingnews.com/fake-it-til … e-curtain/

Mickey 17: Much better than I expected based on the trailer/10

It was actually OK, bit of a funny slant on the dismalness of modern life.

Either incinerating harmless civilians is OK or it isn't.

Our leaders are actively supporting the fire-bombing of doctors and their families, if thats not terrorism how is this?

uziq wrote:

i mean, when coded as 'respeck', maybe. but the english practically turned deference into a professional sport.

Not so much sport, the whole class system.

it will be less '4D chess' and more a permanent game of 'where's wally?', if wally was a jew in a trench-coat with a hook nose and a villainous rictus grin. 'where's scholem?'

That would be fine too, as long as I can do it much better than everyone else - thats how I'll get the respect I deserve.

I can confirm that there are engineers out there who are not as smart as they think they are.

For my company's highest profile project they picked the dumbest engineers who've fucked up everything they've touched so far.
Four manufacturing trial runs later, which is three more than it should have been, the product still can't be manufactured in a way that ensures it can be taken out of the box and used for very long. In fact if its left in the box its just as bad.

For another product they had a large corporate event, people travelled from all over the world, each was loaned a product for the day and, uh, half of them wouldn't switch on and work.

OTOH It is funny how people get bent out of shape over a cosmetic scratch on something which is going to get hammered to hell over its life.
I know I do.

Multiple people have been injured after a man shouting "free Palestine" tossed Molotov cocktails at a gathering in support of Israeli hostages in Colorado, authorities say.

Police said eight people - aged 52 to 88 - were injured in the attack at the Pearl Street Mall, a popular outdoor space in Boulder, about 30 miles (48km) from Denver.

The FBI called it a suspected terror attack and said the suspect used a makeshift flamethrower, Molotov cocktails and other incendiary devices.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cev47ze8vp3o

Whoa hold yer horses calling it a terror attack cowboy, incinerating civilians is 'legitimate self-defence'.

uziq wrote:

real scientists like hofmann cycled to work, see.

Well good for them.

So anyway, when can I expect to see the massive improvements, starting from a very high base obviously.

How long before I'm playing 4D chess? Hours or days?

SuperJail Warden wrote:

"Respect" is a word that I retired from my vocabulary. Rambling about being disrespected reminds me of working class Italians, Irish, and minorities. And not in a good way.
The other words I have retired are "logic" and "reason." Rhetorical nonsense words.

Its always the same people demanding 'respick', sub-average thugs who give no-one respect or do anything to earn it but have an expectation that they should receive it.

I drive to work, I'm not a fucking hipster.

OK so we start with a few rounds of MDMA and Psilocybin, for the intellectual expansions or something.

Then what, LSD microdoses?

I'm more thinking of Israel's decision making.

They're as culpable as the Germans for electing Hitler, and they're still fully behind the genocide.

Except the Israeli cabinet and prime minister are literally using medieval nationalist myths as justification for dropping incendiary bombs on healthcare workers' families.

'We must eliminate their offspring' etc.

OK, so how does it work, if I want to further my STEM megabrain into the next dimension of existence.

Start with Ketamine, then add MDMA and Psilocybin for flavour.

Do the whole MDMA and Psilocybin then move on to a steady dose of Ketamine.

What? There are so many permutations.

Do I need to hire a brain-chemist?

Uzique existed before you, Uzique will exist after you, you were merely the custodian for a short period, a miniscule blip in the epochs