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by bigodbiel 4y ago
The current conflict hasn't seen the best employment of loitering munitions, from both sides actually. Maybe as a function of the current paradigm (artillery duel), the low yield explosive of the S 300 fielded, or lack of experienced f
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
“Necrobotics”, now that’s a term to add to my “I have no mouth and I must scream” nightmares
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
Not surprised, during Nietzsche’s time we had the rise of Spiritism, which presented itself as a “science” first and philosophical doctrine second.
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
Thank you! The whole text lacks cohesion, it talks in buzzwords. This feels like some PR stunt without target audience.
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
Exactly! Even Microsoft had a paper on this ‘Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria?’ [1]. 'By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the t
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
Delayed gratification is extremely beneficial and hallmark of personal well-being
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
No, please just stop.
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
nurture has very little upside but infinite downside, so it damn well matters.
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
Half and half: nationalist mafia!
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
Our brains were certainly larger on an individual level, but those individuals could never surpass a few tens of thousands, spread globally, the farther the better!
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
Q Productions presents! As conspiracy theory, it predates Trump/Qanon, we’ve had David Icke with his adrenochrome from children sucking reptilian royalties
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
Yay another hip SV startup just around the corner!
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
To me it reminds Borges’ short (one paragraph) story “On Exactitude of Science”
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
Conspiracy theories are all fun and games until some idiot decides to shoot a pizza parlor or even start a war. Like any country Russia has a handful of conspiracy theorists, sadly it also has a phenomenal domestic propaganda machine which
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
“foreign soil” comparison isn’t really applicable here, it’s literally across the border, more like invading Canada. Ukrainians make up the second largest ethnicity inside Russia. And besides the war in Iraqi was off the heals of 9/11
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
I know people scoff(ed) at A.Dugin, but considering how Kremlin’s rhetoric has evolved recently, it is undeniable that it’s converging with (or its facade has dropped) the latter’s theories. And Hyperborea takes, sadly, prominent stage. ht
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
>60% of global GDP is not a small fraction. As for countering sanctions, no one doubts the cat and mouse chase, but the Kremlin will be forced to funnel these to its weapons industry undermining economic and social development, akin to N
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
Expecting concessions or not, it is undeniable that a quick victory wouldn’t have brought this amount of pain and isolation. Foreign reserve confiscation was enacted immediately and definitely unexpected, but other measures are being enacte
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
Unless this takeover is being conducted by M&A professionals, and not the result of wine and ambien, I think OP has a point.
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
If you abide by the lableak theory, then part of its mythos was that he NIH funded the research, making them equally knowledgeable on it. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-r...
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
Not to mention spread!
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by bigodbiel 4y ago
I disagree. The "western world", that is Anglo-American centric world order, doesn't matter, but the Kremlin (not its ultra-nationalists calling for total war) knows it needs its ex-Soviet satelites plus China, India, etc. Th
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by bigodbiel 5y ago
It’s about a new world order. The end of the transatlantic alliance and liberal world order. The expectance was for other nations to follow suite, including Germany to take over the EU under its mantle. This was supposed to be just the begi
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by bigodbiel 5y ago
But how would this steganograohic ID fair throughout the multiple encoding/transcoding that happens during scene distribution?
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by bigodbiel 5y ago
Even then, I can see a real market potential for bootleg sneakernet [1] dealers. VHS bootleg of western movies being dubbed by a single person were all the rage in the late 80’s Soviet countries [2]. If the internet is fully closed off, a n
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by bigodbiel 5y ago
Petrodollars obtained by exporters is used to buy US based assets and/or financial instruments (treasury bonds, stocks, real estate), literally “recycling” all that extra capital... though the Saudis have been dumping a lot of their as
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by bigodbiel 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30506536
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by bigodbiel 5y ago
They didn’t slaughter because of religion, it was always because of power and means to attain or hold it. From the Crusades, Inquisition, Capitalism-Socialism to modern day Jihadism, it’s all ultimately about power.
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by bigodbiel 5y ago
When the west fully embargoes Russian oil, China will be buying it for whatever discount it wants!
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by bigodbiel 5y ago
Isn't that the American Dream? Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses and I'll make them work like hell, but their children will have better lives and work less, and their children will be just as lazy as any American!

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