aalleavitch

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by aalleavitch 7y ago
I've seen this too, and I don't think it's ridiculous at all. But I don't even think the CIA needs to have been involved. Private companies are now entirely capable of running their own disinformation campaigns and meddl
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Absolutely! I think a huge part of the problem is that we're saddled with all sorts of baggage from the structures of the past that constrain the ways we think and approach problems. We have very rigid notions of the ways that laws sho
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
I would argue that there's an incredibly powerful force that drives the consolidation and centralization of systems in modern society: the wholly artificial legal concept of property. We are given a legal right to accumulate control ov
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
So there’s a ton of money in the economy but no way to actually make it liquid short term short of the fed, indicating that maybe the money on the books has a better chance of suddenly vanishing into thin air than anyone is comfortable with
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
The calculus changes significantly here given we are talking about a democracy. The group chose this person (by intention or inaction).
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Ownership is exhausting. You can only "own" anything by going to great lengths to protect it. Ultimately, you are still reliant on the relationships you have with others and their willingness to respect that it is yours.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Well your brain only does it when you’re starved for glucose, for one. If your brain operated better off of ketones it’s hard to imagine why it would preferentially operate off of glucose when it’s available. But also, have you done it? It
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Ketosis is a terrible process that your brain and body hates.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
For certain definitions of “works”
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
You don’t run an effective propaganda campaign on resources you don’t have yet. The comparison in existing entrenched oil wealth to the money behind climate activism is absurd.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
It’s a lot of money, I’ll admit, but compared to the military budget it’s chump change.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Basic research is never a loss. Even if we weren’t to find a workable solution for nuclear fusion the technology developed as part of the search would almost certainly push forward many areas of physics and energy research.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Who has more to lose here and who has more resources to put towards propaganda and disinformation, climate scientists and green energy companies, or a deeply entrenched $1.7 trillion/year fossil fuel industry?
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
This attitude probably doesn’t help it in securing funding. Not everything can be solved with more money, obviously, but if we were putting a fraction of the money into basic research that we are putting into the petroleum industry I’m pret
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
The realization by the masses that they have no control over their own lives is the progenitor of revolution. Do the beneficiaries of the status quo understand the resentment they are building? History has shown they seldom do until it is t
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Is this kind of competition healthy? More and more often I see competition as needlessly wasteful.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
It wasn’t static, though, it was traveling at Mach 0.5
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
But they’ve been seen traveling against the wind at high speeds
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
This isn't the most unreasonable idea, are their movements really consistent with balloons, though?
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Who has the ability to DDoS reddit? Maybe it's the US government trying to squelch discussion of the UFOs /tinfoil hat
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Are we sure that previous sightings are related to modern sightings? If they are then they went up massively in frequency based on reports from pilots, though that might make sense simply due to improvements in our technology.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
That wouldn't make any sense, though, because they've been detected by multiple different types of sensors and apparently very frequently. Unless someone were making these errors appear on purpose it wouldn't be reasonable to
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
While the latter is more likely given that our governments have done exactly this in the past, there are some reasons to believe that if aliens were to warm up to the idea of contacting us, it might be pretty soon. We have global communicat
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
While I'm sure these are most likely some sort of military drones or other type of classified technology (don't ask me which nation's), I will note that the description of these things sounds an awful lot like a Culture drone
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Bad look for Apple here
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
I am not a physicist or a mathematician, but wouldn't a virtual particle be more or less what I'm talking about? They exist for a limited time because they are producing interference with our universe's 'wave' but t
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
In this case, the lower fundamental would be something that permeates space (zero-point energy?), so the orbitals that are harmonics of the lower fundamental but not an atom's s orbital would be on other atoms entirely.
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Couldn’t the s orbital itself be a harmonic of an even lower fundamental?
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
So this is something I was thinking about recently. Given that quantum harmonic oscillation indicates that quanta are actually defined as harmonics of a fundamental frequency, what if dark matter is simply all energy at a frequency that isn
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by aalleavitch 7y ago
Ah, yes, then our immortal god-king can enjoy the perpetual beauty of his vast private estates while the rest of us waste away on the land he destroyed in pursuit of economic aims? The concentration of wealth is the concentration of power,

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