There was a man on the moon in 1969. 65 years of so-called technological progress and the US is worse than it was before, so we can rule out an interest in technological progress as a reason for any of this. Getting all teary eyed about a second rate mission from a has-been space agency is kind of cringe-inducing, HN.
Maybe we should revive Pamela Anderson's career, or bring Mike Tyson out of retirement to fight a youtube influencer in an effort to re-live past glory. Oh, yeah, that's right. America already did that. America did that and it was sad.
My old Galaxy note had a swappable battery and microSD. I don't think the rest matters. Your phone is already a swiss army knife of components and there is a whole galaxy of apps out there to make those components do cool and novel things.
Project Ara was preoccupied with having little modular blocks you can snap together, but if that's the main thing that matters to you just get some lego.
This is just HN. We're explicitly not productive or constructive. We're not solving the world's problems. We're just shooting the shit. This is a forum for wasting time. I guess it wouldn't be HN without the delusions of self-importance.
We have a need. We need to be able to send people with head problems to a head doctor that can fix them up and send them on their way like a regular doctor can with physical ailments.
The job of a psychologist is to pander to that fantasy by presenting themselves as professional, credentialled, empirical and authoritative. They need not be truthful, they need merely be truthy.
If we scrutinize them too hard the illusion falls apart and we're left with a bunch of crazy people that we don't know what to do with, and that's a worse outcome.
I'm personally of the belief that the language and ideas embraced by totemic religions are better suited for describing conditions of the human mind or spirit than what modern psychology has prescribed us because the language used isn't gate-kept or dehumanizing.
The greatest most cruel secret of all time is that of the blessed gift of our “consciousness”, there are those who may master our own minds to a point where the hyperdimensionality may be manipulated and navigated BY HUMANS!!!! Those “extradimentional beings” are humans who have been uplifted into this madness. And those who take this secret seriously aren’t the squares, rather the freaks.
Human f-ing-beings have for thousands of years had the ability to move around among minds and mess with us. And it is very very difficult, more difficult than anything else a human can do. One that requires decades of intense development on top of being uplifted by someone who already knows what their doing.
All of those stories of gods, demons, hyperdimensional beings, and CRAZY stuff are rooted in this incomprehensible truth.
These encourage a culture, predominantly immoral and lawless. HUMAN SACRIFICES THE INNOCENT FOR POWER is the real human truth “normal straight sane” people REFUSE TO BELIEVE IN, turning to the Christian interpretations, or otherwise.
None of these sides are “crazy”, they are driven mad by ignorance and the inescapable truth that something unexplainable is happening.
It is self deception all the way down.
Prisons full of white supremacists are who took this all most seriously, now they pretend to be Jesus in the white nationalist minds as they drive our global crisis and reshape humanity with their games.
The dominant modern faction is “White American Thought Control” just so you know, although this phenomena has always existed all throughout humanity since the beginning of our time. The clues are there, “sane” people will simply refuse to see them.
The 2nd amendment types are a little too impressionable for their guns to be of much use. They were soundly defeated in 5th generation warfare without the need to fire nary a shot. Less gullible americans tend to not own guns, so they were also defeated without firing nary a shot. Now America is just a big dumb worm that Netanyahu has his hooks in and uses to cruise around the desert with.
Guns are not only for counter-insurgency on invasion/warfare. For most people I know who own guns, that's not even on their top 10 list of reasons. But if you don't think they'd be a factor, then you disagree with some of the top generals around the world.
Civilian guns (armament generally, not just guns) aren't for going toe to toe with a trained military in the field.
They're for putting a bullet in you and/your your family if you act as a collaborator, taking potshots at the logistics train, and all the other nasty stuff you have to do to make occupation costly in terms of both life and dollars. Every cent spent on putting bullet proof glass in the camera installation van and drone cages on the police station and using those cameras and drones to track down the guy who shot you for collaborating is a cent that must be extracted from either the occupied population or the population that's financing the occupiers and not spent in direct pursuit of the political goal.
Yeah when you read it in Dune "He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing". sounds super cool and badass and like totally brilliant strategy but in real life not so much.
Although I expect this strategy will be employed soon
Unless it's a very limited nuclear war, it would probably destroy the world as we know it, but that's a vague and flexible concept. It would likely destroy countries, societies, our way of life. Many people would die, but humanity would survive.
Some countries might survive. If the war takes place on the northern hemisphere, the southern hemisphere might be much less affected.
I agree. My much more limited point was that we don't actually have enough nukes to glass the planet; but I could probably have made that more explicitly.
Not sure sterilisation lasts long on earth: life re-claims sterilised areas.
See your favourite massive volcano outbreak, or look at the Chernobyl exclusion zone.
(The impact of the disaster at Chernobyl is much smaller in area than a nuclear explosion would be, of course. But life has re-conquered everything there.)
It might be worth noting that the number of direct deaths caused by Chernobyl is very low (2 perhaps?). But there have been hundreds of thousands of birth defects in its wake.
The survivors of nuclear war would have a really bad time, but humanity would survive.
None of this is to suggest we should be careless about it; it would be a massive disaster. But not the end.
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