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- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 6 hours ago:
There’s a thousand better ways to handle both tariffs and free trade. We fucked up the latter with NAFTA (and CAFTA), where the EU got it right. Bringing jobs home with tariffs isn’t something you just snap your fingers and do, shit takes a long time to re-align, it would’ve made a lot more sense to have it go through the legislature and say “hey, we’re starting out at a 10% tariff on this stuff we want to bring home, and we’re going to ratchet it up +2% every year until Congress doesn’t pass the law again.” Instead, we’ve got the most volatile president in history implementing tariffs by fiat:
10% 20% actually none actually 10% actually 125% for real this time. Yeah, in this situation, the best play is to just try and wait dumbass out, because there’s a non-zero chance he wakes up tomorrow and declares tariffs woke. - Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 day ago:
Yes, 100%, I don’t at all want to give the idea that no history was ever remembered, and I don’t want to sound like I’m shitting on oral history either. I just… really wish someone had written some stuff down. There’s so much that’s lost to time because of the pandemics that swept the post contact world and all of colonization that followed.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 1 day ago:
Well, staying in the same location? I’m in the US, so… I’d probably try to get writing invented. To my knowledge, besides some of the Central American empires, there’s no evidence or even claim of there having been any kind of writing or system for making information durable. I know there’s a lot of clay here, I’m pretty sure we could bake clay tablets to store down information. There’s also tule reeds here that were already being extensively used, and those could probably be made into a kind of paper as well. As to whether the people would accept that, I have no fucking idea at all; what we know of the California tribes suggests they were always semi-nomadic, but that’s all very well into the post-contact period and much of what we know was written down by the Spanish while being the biggest bastards they possibly could to the locals. I dunno how useful record-keeping would be to a nomadic people. It’s also entirely possible the people would be like “uh, yeah, we know how to write, dummy”, and it was just lost in the multiple waves of pandemics.
I think probably something that -might- be achievable is figuring out glass. I’m mostly sure that if the native Americans had glass, we would have seen some sign of it in the archeological record by now. I’m sure some smarty pants is going to come along and tell me “you can’t just throw sand in a kiln and make glass, you need a special kind of sand blah blah blah and here’s 99 reasons why that won’t work”. Yeah, you’re probably right, but I don’t know any better, so I’d still definitely try. I also remember reading that clear glass was a thing figured out near Venice when they started adding grass ash or some shit to the sand, so I’d definitely experiment with that, too. Glass is just dead useful -and- pretty, so I’m fairly confident I’d get some acceptance that way.
I would say metal smithing, but the only metal deposits nearby that I know of are mercury and gold. You can’t make nails and tools out of mercury and gold.
Also, maybe water wheels? To my knowledge, we have no record of native Americans using water wheels for work (I.e. grinding corn or acorns into flour). I think if I managed to put a basic water wheel together, I’d be pretty popular.
- Comment on I made a picture of a UFO 5 days ago:
Oooooo, I like the way you think
- Comment on I made a picture of a UFO 5 days ago:
That’s incredible, I’m actually a bit jealous. Have you read Luis Elizondo’s book Imminent? He’s one of the UAP disclosure folks, and he goes over how a lot of military witnesses describe similar things to what you witnessed. Btw, if you haven’t filed a report with NUFORC yet, you should think about it. Also, I’d love to get a detailed account from you over at c/close_encounters
- Comment on I made a picture of a UFO 5 days ago:
That’s absolutely wild. I think the triangles are definitely one of the more interesting phenomenon in UAP, since they seem to have a very specific constellation of presentations. You almost never hear about them being over open sea, they’re almost always moving slow(er) and smoothly at low altitudes, and they seem to be much more common to NATO countries. Yours is probably one of the only encounters I’ve heard of that describes a triangle as moving very quickly.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 5 days ago:
Got it
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 5 days ago:
Ohhhhhh. Is that new slang, or a typo? Or perhaps both?
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 6 days ago:
B’s? Hmm, like B- designation aircraft, implying that they’re bombers?
- Comment on I made a picture of a UFO 6 days ago:
Holy crow, that’s amazing!
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 6 days ago:
alright, lemm.ee/c/close_encounters is hot off the presses!
- Comment on I made a picture of a UFO 6 days ago:
Ah, damn it! You’re right, such a rookie mistake! I was really thinking of artistic depictions when I drew it, and not the fact that UFOs are literally constructed of no more than six pixels by intergalactic law.
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- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 6 days ago:
I might. I’ve got a couple other communities I’m already trying to promote ATM.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 6 days ago:
Tbh, if you have a working Alcubierre drive, slavery seems like it would be a waste of resources.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 6 days ago:
That may be true, but there’s only so much you can collect by remote observation. I really like the “interstellar scientists” take, because it’s something I can see us doing. If we obtained warp drive, we would want to understand how other intelligent species develop, and how similar their conditions and course of development is to our own.
- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 6 days ago:
Tbh, I think the big problem here is that a lot of ground-based sightings happen at night, likely due to a combination of
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Weird shit stands out more in the dark, but also
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It’s just flat out harder to identify stuff in the dark.
Well, guess what doesn’t work as well in the dark? Cameras. As a rule of thumb, cameras almost always work better with more light than less light. It’s already difficult to get high quality pictures of stuff in the dark (depending on your camera, settings, lens, etc), now make it a very bright thing that’s potentially moving quick and at a significant distance, and any attempt to take a picture is cooked, especially with something like a cell phone camera. So, whether what you’re taking a picture of is the mother ship, Aurora, or a DJI drone, it all just kind of turns into a few bright pixels against a dark background. Then, you inevitably get the ends of the bell curve arguing whether it was an extra bright seagull or whether they could literally see the aliens waving at them in those two pixels, which is the death of any serious conversation about the presented evidence.
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- Comment on The window for a convincing UFO video has closed 6 days ago:
Supposedly the DOD and alphabet boys have pretty good video, and have gone around confiscating good videos. That family in Vegas that claimed that they had aliens in their back yard a few years ago, the one where the cops said they didn’t think it was a prank but wouldn’t go into detail as to why, got a visit from the alphabet gang not long after, and they had surveillance cameras that pointed into that yard.
Now, as to whether those videos really do exist or if it’s a bunch of hokum, well, it’s going to have to be a case of maybe believe it when we see it. I’ve been following the UAP disclosure efforts with great interest, regardless of where they lead. I’ve always been a UFO/ET enthusiast, but I’m the type that wants to see proof, not “trust me bro, just look at these three pixels, my cousin said he fucked an ET in the army”. If we’re going to get proof, though, at this point we’re going to need more than video. That window’s been shut for a while, thanks to CGI, Photoshop, etc.
- Comment on US sets tariffs of up to 3521% on South East Asia solar panels 1 week ago:
Bruh
- Comment on Bill Gates Bought His Daughter A $16 Million Horse Farm As A Graduation Gift — But Ex-Wife Melinda Says The Kids Were Raised Very 'Middle Class' 1 week ago:
Well, okay, if that’s upper class then what size horse farms do middle class people buy for their kids’ graduation?
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 week ago:
The 99%
- Comment on 1994 white Kevin 1 week ago:
Tbh, it makes sense. You don’t end up being president by being a no-rizz fool. You may be considering bringing up Trump as a counter-argument, but just look at all the people that are letting him pound them in the ass right now.
- Comment on China scientists develop flash memory 10,000× faster than current tech 1 week ago:
This article appeared in my feed just above another article about how China has the world’s first operational thorium reactor. Meanwhile, the US is about to fight a civil war over whether vaccination causes measles and stripping away the last of our social programs in order to get out wealthiest people another 2% subsidy.
- Comment on Judge Rules Blanket Search of Cell Tower Data Unconstitutional: Judge says tower dumps violate the 4th amendment, but will let the cops do it this one time, as a treat. 1 week ago:
Well, it’s only constitutional this one time. Every other time, it isn’t.
- Comment on This is real 1 week ago:
MS-13 member according to which judge and jury? What exactly is he charged with? As long as we’re ditching the justice system, we the people might as well make some extrajudicial convictions too.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
Ehhhh… Traffic stops are more often than not excuses to fish for other, more serious violations or initiate a civil asset forfeiture. It’s actually one of the big reasons I’m hugely pro-transit and anti-car-centrism, because it robs the state of a huge excuse for initiating police contacts.
- Comment on I feel like if asbestos was banned today there'd be a huge pro-asbestos movement 1 week ago:
As a left libertarian, I have a hard time arguing against seatbelt laws. As in, I know they aren’t consistent with my ideology, but the outcomes of having these laws are so much better than not having them. The only thing that I can say against them is that they’re one of the more commonly used bullshit pretexts for initiating traffic stops. I rationalize this trade off and violation of ideals by pointing out that the government has created a fucked up transportation market by enforcing car centrism.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
This is a great point. I know that some pharmas actually do internally funded research, it’s a thing, it happens, but it’s completely dwarfed by shareholder giveaways and government subsidies ofc.
- Comment on Hedge fund billionaire says US may face ‘worse than a recession’ from Trump tariffs 2 weeks ago:
They want balkanization? I want Balkanization because I think it would break the federal government’s kneecaps (making it harder for corporates and fascists to leverage) and finally let Texas and Florida stop dragging everyone else down. I’m now automatically more suspicious of my own position.
- Comment on Hedge fund billionaire says US may face ‘worse than a recession’ from Trump tariffs 2 weeks ago:
Oh no, did somebody gamble with everyone’s safety and security that making a nuclear state go mask-off fascist would deepen their negative tax rate?
