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My understanding is we should wait until the balloon is accompanied by at least 98 others before we worry, worry, super-scurry, and call the troops out in a hur
by chrisco255 4y ago
My understanding is we should wait until the balloon is accompanied by at least 98 others before we worry, worry, super-scurry, and call the troops out in a hurry.
- dsego 4y agoLooks like saving face and putting on a show for the concerned public. https://youtu.be/xuVk1zpp94k https://youtu.be/xuVk1zpp94k
- rocgf 4y agoThis guy definitely is _the source_ I would use to get all my information. He has videos on every topic imaginable, I can only assume he's an expert in all of them.
- mlindner 4y agoLol. I don't get how people find random people on youtube and then suddenly treat them on experts on all topics. I think some people will actually think your post isn't sarcasm.
- blitzar 4y agoGot to admit - I suffer from a myriad of conscious and unconscious biases - didn't see that kind of rational thinking coming from "Beau of the Fifth Column".
- concordDance 4y agoI get puzzled about why people use such a low bandwidth medium as real time talking.if he put all that in a post it'd be a few hundred words and could be read in a minute.
- account42 4y agoI do agree but is anyone going to see that post? Even for Google searches (as opposed the video being pushed by the Youtube algorithm), videos are often ranked at/near the top.
- mlindner 4y agoIf there are many balloons other tactics would be used to take them down.
- Sebb767 4y agoI think you missed the reference here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Luftballons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Luftballons
- chrisco255 4y agoFor the kids too young to know this classic song (99 Red Balloons - English version): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwgOWo7mDc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiwgOWo7mDc
- mlindner 4y agoI know of the song, also I think the song is known much more in Europe than in the US.
- JackFr 4y agoThis is it boys!
- lloeki 4y agoAFAIK knights of the air riding super high-tech jet fighters could identify target as being ballon but not clarify target count nor classify target colour as being red. Target was nonetheless shot down as measurements fit within error margins. Clearly development of higher-tech jet fighters must be funded ASAP. Captcha updated to include question: "Pick images that have red ballons" Captcha updated to include question: "Pick images that have 99 balloons" F-35 software update deployment scheduled
- kgermino 4y agoIn fairness the original sign was in German and IIRC doesn’t mention the color red anywhere
- account42 4y agoRight, but on the otherhand an unqualified "Luftballon" pretty much exclusively refers to party balloons so their scale calculations must have been wayy off - perhaps a metric vs. imperial unit mixup. Also, I knew about the "red" in the english name, but had no idea how different the english lyrics for the song are.
- brazzy 4y agoActually, we should very much avoid doing that so that we don't end up standing pretty In this dust that was a city, looking for a souvenir just to prove the world was here.
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- zmgsabst 4y agoYes — don’t you dare enjoy music by someone who disagrees on a medical procedure with you! You wouldn’t want that social credit to lower, eh comrade?
- LBJsPNS 4y agoNo, I prefer not to support those who have absurd anti-science beliefs. You are of course free to prefer crystals, chakras, essential oils, or whatever other flavor of the month you prefer. I remember polio. And measles. And mumps. And so many other diseases that vaccines have defeated so soundly that a certain percentage of fools no longer think vaccines are necessary. I'm not sure what blather about social credit has to do with that
- account42 4y agoAn actual antivaxer (as in someone who is against vaccines in general) or someone who has expressed doubts about how vaccines for a certain recent pandemic were handled? I ask because some people find the need to conflate these two a lot.
- manimino 4y agoReferential humor should stay on Reddit. It's chuckle-worthy, sure, but this forum is one of the few places we have for serious discussion. When people upvote jokes, the high-value expertise people freely share here gets drowned out, and will eventually disappear.
- Rovoska 4y agoThere's a ufo truther article not far above, so citation needed on tgat.
- coalbin 4y agoA more constructive interpretation of the parent comment would be that Nena was on to something. It’s interesting to draw parallels from the Cold War to today, especially when they are so on the nose.
- chrisco255 4y agoTrue, the overreaction to a balloon that triggers a real war seems like a totally realistic scenario nowadays.
- chrisco255 4y agoI generally agree with you, but it's also okay to laugh on HN sometimes! We mustn't take ourselves too seriously.
- ubermonkey 4y agoPlease be aware that furious clutching of pearls will not transmute them to diamonds.