WayeeCool

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[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Symptoms of social alienation. Surrounded by people but all alone in an atomized society. No meaningful connections to form, a social contract where by default we owe no one and no one owes us. Social structures and communities we exist in rather than belonging to. Outside an isolated nuclear family every relationship is one where we are meant to be in competition rather than cooperation. Why not become a ghost in a society like this one, especially when one lacks the antisocial/psychopathic and narcissistic traits it rewards?

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The interactions of negative vs positive freedoms is something rarely discussed in the west. The freedom to something or the freedom from something. Hell, they see concepts like being bound to family, community, and society as oppression because apparently being atomized into a lone individual who inherently is owed nothing and owes nothing is true freedom.

I swear this is why you see people in the US always "searching for meaning" in their lives. Alone and atomized. Not belonging to an extended family, community, and society around them, owing nothing thus owed nothing and vice versa. They want rights with no responsibilities.

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That Prius driver in Florida that went John Wick on a Republican politician that decided to shoot at him during a road rage incident? DNC should hire him and create a drill team of professional duelists on retainer.

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is the USA where dueling involved firearms and there was never much of a dueling culture centered around swords/rapiers. Although it's a lot less deadly with muskets that couldn't hit shit and I for one welcome politicians blowing each other away with modern firearms. Infact, I suggest this law require the use of Glock 18C machine pistols for maximum carnage.

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Great post. I would welcome more of these microprocessor history posts.

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

As brutal as the last civil war was... Sherman's march to the sea but with nukes?

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

my first thought was that this must be because Microsoft recently surpassed the $1 trillion mark.

Microsoft recently surpassed the $3 trillion mark.

[–] WayeeCool@hexbear.net 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

every other regional power will be using advanced smart weapons built with off the shelf Ali Express parts

Biggest factor in cost is all the other regional great powers (China, Russia, Iran) have military industry under state enterprise while the US military industry is entirely privatized. The state enterprise military industry operates under supremacy of responsibility to the nation while the US privatized military industry has fiduciary responsibility to private capital as their only real responsibility. Under US law the corporate leadership of Raytheon, Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrop Grumman must follow a doctrine of shareholder supremacy and those shareholders are not the American people but a collection of private capital investment banks. It would be against US law for them to not make every effort (including buying politicians) to under deliver on contracts and milk every possible dollar from the US government.

 

lmao, gotta respect the grift

 

https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1737771585153499494

Lmao, not a piracy problem. Just the Yemenis carrying out legitimate naval interdiction operations and interference from Israel's allies. Mfkers pretending this is a piracy problem like off the coast of Somalia when it's just ships affiliated with Israel being interdicted.

 

Lmao. Shit, really?!

 

Some of those locations were even in high income areas where the police are well funded, so even that possible explanation falls short.

 

Lmao. Last week it was orbital lasers to energize solar voltaic panels powering forward operating bases and long endurance drones during night or poor weather conditions, this week it's the US military asking for e-fuels (electricity to hydrogen to ammonia/methanol/diesel by attaching nitrogen or carbon atoms) without saying the politically taboo words e-fuel or renewables. Just like with the solar and laser power transfer, it's about eliminating need for vulnerable fuel trucks in war zones. Takes around 3 times as much electricity to power a vehicle with e-fuel vs battery, doubt they can bring that number down because laws of physics and all that.

 

Masturbation abstinence practices have returned to the USA in the form of semen retention communities. Followers on one of these male, anti-masturbation forums, “NoFap,” on Reddit (denoted “r/NoFap”), have engaged in homicidal behaviors that appear to be linked to these sexual beliefs and practices. This study uses a systematic search on r/NoFap and two control forums (r/pornfree, and r/stopdrinking) to define a corpus of violent content. The study's goals were to describe the nature of threats on r/NoFap and suggest whether the violence might be attributable to sexual deprivation or false beliefs that non-sexual targets caused their violent urges. Of the 421 violent posts identified from September 2011 to September 2022, r/NoFap contained the majority (94.3%). Violent threats on r/NoFap mostly targeted pornographers, women, scientists, specific persons, or any person (i.e. homicidal “rage”). Violent threats against r/NoFap’s own followers were growing most quickly. Violent posts were well-supported with upvotes by other followers in r/NoFap. These data are important because NoFap may represent a growing threat for real-world violence.

 

Obviously just a vibes problem that can be fixed with better messaging...

 

A marketing team within media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims it has the capability to listen to ambient conversations of consumers through embedded microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices to gather data and use it to target ads, according to a review of CMG marketing materials by 404 Media and details from a pitch given to an outside marketing professional. Called “Active Listening,” CMG claims the capability can identify potential customers “based on casual conversations in real time.”

The news signals that what a huge swath of the public has believed for years—that smartphones are listening to people in order to deliver ads—may finally be a reality in certain situations. Until now, there was no evidence that such a capability actually existed, but its myth permeated due to how sophisticated other ad tracking methods have become.

 

I wonder if the system can double as an orbital weapons platform with global strike capability. They are talking about eventually scaling to megawatts of laser energy being fired into orbit then relayed back down to a target on the ground.

It's kinda weird seeing US military commanders pushing for tech to eliminate their reliance on fossil fuels. They are careful to avoid mentioning that this system is to replace the need for diesel generators at forward operating bases or jet fuel for drones. I guess that's because US political leadership has a different opinion on being dependent on fossil fuel.

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