I have a visceral hatred for liars and Schumer provokes this reaction every single time.

That would be acceptable if the 1) the people had not hurt other people (children) or 2) it costs the citizens time, money and productivity through taxation.

As soon as I pay zero taxes, I will ignore all of these problems.

I copy all interesting conversations to a local document. Highly recommended.

I can only hope the judge gets graped by a dozen of them

This will impress only those who are completely illiterate in science.

For all I know Karl Marx was the antichrist. These things are just all very confusing to me. I am not sure we will ever find out who it is or was or whatever the case may be.

Another thought; the idea that "aliens" are extraterrestrial biological beings is quite a simple one that no longer cuts it for me. Encounter stories are just too weird.

There seem to be connections to owls, bigfoot, poltergeists, etc. All of these things seem to be facets of the same thing. I have no idea what it is, but the idea we are dealing with a Great Trickster, is no longer surprising to me.

It would not surprise me if all of these things are manifestations of evil and the antichrist.

Well, this is assuming the AI can actually identify the target. This is easy for machines like tanks and trucks, but it already becomes more difficult if both parties in a conflict use the same machinery (like the Russians and Ukrainians).

Or how can the AI tell the difference between a Russian quadcopter and a Ukrainian one? It can't visually.

If non-human intelligence threatens our existence, the solution is simply, Mr. Harari: Pull the plug lol.

I have read some of Harari's books. He is one of those guys who thinks he is really clever but mostly is just overestimating himself. Lots of speculation in his works and a lot of concepts that are just very far from the every day life we all live.

Besides, the real threat to our existence is the human insanity of the elite. It is exactly people like Harari who are dangerous to every normal human being.

Also: Even current weapon systems need to be programmed and sent on their way. The decision to do this is still one made by a human. It's not like we have roaming bands of self-sustaining, reproducing machines that go around executing their own agenda.

Well, patterns are spatial "frequencies". Light stems from moving charges through a conductor, alternating the direction at a set frequency. Moving charges generate an alternate magnetic field and alternating magnetic fields give rise to a (perpendicular) electric field. Alternating electric fields give rise to magnetic fields... See where this is going? Electromagnetic waves. At a high enough frequency our eyes can directly sense these waves. We call that "light". Depending on the frequency of the waves, we see different colors (we only really see red, green and blue, but our brains interpolate very cleverly to see other colors in between).

But yeah, to use the words "spiritual energy"... that's just esoteric nonsense. Why not just call the light from stained glass "calming" and "beautiful". We do not have to resort to nonsense concepts to make everything seem like magic.

No. It is antichristian pseudo-scientific esoteric nonsense.

The very concept of "amplification" requires energy. Energy itself is a term first used by the ancient Greeks and it simply meant "activity" or "work". Science used this word to describe the same concept, arriving at a rigid understanding of what represents energy.

Then the loonies came and used sciency words to describe their spiritual ideas. Energy. Vibration. Frequency. Stop using our words. They are not yours. Find your own words.

A geometric structure alone can not "amplify" energy. It requires energy to amplify energy as energy is conserved within a closed system.

The term "spiritual energy"... well, I would say it is a satanic term, just like using pseudo-science in religion. Crystals. Aura. That kind of stuff.

We need laws that allow the state to disappropriate Commies from all of their possessions.

A shotgun is actually fairly easy to obtain, certainly far easier than getting a handgun. It requires paperwork, safe storage etc, but it is possible.

The problem is not the thinking. The problem is the lack of experimentation. And this is where the mainstream fails as well: A lot of people believe the things I have found to be correct as well, but they could not explain to you what experiment to perform to show this. The mainstream are as dumb as the psychotics.

Yes, institutionalized education has become this way. It was not the case even 15 years ago. I was still taught to question everything, form a hypothesis and derive and experiment and conduct that experiment and then critically reflect on the results.

There are just actual dumb people who think nothing in mainstream can be real anymore. It must now all be lies because "they" lied once or a few times. (Note: the managers and politicians lied, along with a few scientists, but not all scientists!) I am talking about flat-earthers and mud-flood and similar theories.

The irony is of course that we are all using devices to communicate, devices that can not be designed and created without, for instance, the Maxwell equations.

Also, during the pandemic, the reason the virus was not that dangerous was mutation of the virus... but I read the same people here claim evolution is "debunked". Others to this day claim viruses have never been isolated. Some claim God exists. God is omnipotent, but... we also have free will. Ok. But does nature have free will? How does it all fit together? It doesn't.

When the logic is not internally consistent, you know you have some more thinking to do. People are just dumb. I want nothing to do with people.

The real problem is that they deliberately poison the well and find actual dumb people to claim the Earth is a flat disc. Then they associate any questioning with this dumb theory which is easily refuted. It's the same with UFOs and bigfoot and similar stuff. The real signal is immediately buried in noise and this is mostly due to a deliberate effort by "skeptics" (I used to be one).

Oats. A bucket full of them

Donald Trump is... pubic hair? xD

Sorry, I am not even going to entertain the thought that this BS is real. These people LIE. It is all they ever do.

I have always said Apartheid existed for a reason... we may not like it, but it is for our own protection. If you can not behave, you should lose the rights to access to public spaces.

This is what I have been doing at my job for 20 years. It is not even about people as much as it is projects and problems. Most pressing issues are irrelevant in 2 days time. Do not react too quickly. See what remains and solve that.

What if... it was his 16 year old daughter?

Not so fun now huh?

Public services, ALL of them, should be OPT-IN. If you want public broadcasts, pay a monthly sum and watch that crap.

I want nothing from the government but protection of property rights and creation of minimal laws and policing of said laws. Oh and I see having regulations on land, water and air quality is a good thing as well so we do not end up like China, using the world as a sewer.

I will admit, I was confused at the strategy of the Trump team, but it may pay off sooner than I could have imagined. It's amazing how Trump plays them all like a fiddle.

The reality is, this may kill hundreds of thousands, but as it spreads it mutates and mutations that make the virus less deadly survive more easily. So you will end up with another virus that becomes a common cold and that would be that.

You can not beat evolution in this regard. No virus remains that deadly for longer than maybe ~100 generations. Probably after 2-3 generations you would already see a drop to below 10% mortality.

Edit: This is not an NIH study. It is available on the NIH website as it was published on PubMed. The study was done by the Dutch university of Wageningen. Also, there is no mention of 100% mortality in the study anywhere.

I think we can file this one under "fake news".

PS: Here is the original, full study: https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/jgv/10.1099/jgv.0.002124

1. It's CGI. Not sure if they made it already.

2. It uses an array of antennas (the circular thingies), making it possible to form a narrow(ish) beam (as seen in the animation)

3. The reason this works is because drones are made of plastic and microwaves pass through it to induce currents in metals of internal components. It is probably fairly easy to melt motor windings if you put out enough power.

4. I am sure only a little bit of shielding would be enough to make this weapon a lot less effective. A tin layer of metal foil would be able to resist the currents and prevent them from affecting internal components.

It is just a matter of time until the variety and quality of products goes down as their production costs are no longer covered by their prices. Then high-quality products will sporadically be available in a little backroom where you can pay the worker to get some very expensive steaks.

This is how it was in the Soviet Union. People joined queues without knowing what was being sold, but since there was a queue, it must be something good or normally unavailable.

Why is it always "Real communism has never been tried!"? I wish these commies could see the absurdity of that argument... With the same logic one could claim "Real Nazism has never been tried!". There is literally no difference. Both highly authoritarian and genocidal and yet they still believe communism could actually work.