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2026-10-07 15:20:30 GMT

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I have young people starting out I give this bit of advice when they ask about working and jobs.
About 50% of workplaces are terrible. From soul sucking to outright abusive. About 40% are OK. You do the work and it pays your bills. About 10% are truly outstanding - good work and good management.
Stay only as long as you can in the first. Use it to get to the second one that will tide over until you find the third.
Just understand the third kind will inevitably, over years or decades, slide down to the second and finally into the first kind. Exceptions are extremley rare.
Never get attached to your workplace.

2026-10-06 18:52:16 GMT

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Soviets were doing research into chimera pathogens in the Biopriparat weapons program that used plague. After the Soviet Union fell Dr. Kanatjan Alibekov (Ken Alibek), the former deputy director of Biopreparat—revealed to Western intelligence that Soviet biochemists had actively mastered the creation of genetic "chimeras".
So encephalitis is spliced into the plague DNA. You catch plague and either die from it without treatment or are successfully treated for it with antibiotics. But when the plague bacteria are broken down this releases the encephalitis viral payload. And because it was delivered by the plague pathogen that had already spread deep through the host's systems, it is already behind the blood brain barrier and there is no defence.
So almost 100% fatality whether you are treated or not in the end. Nothing like it exists in nature.
But it *is* real and exists. There's literature on this and it was the basis of a book that came out just this year, Annie Jacobsen’s *Biological War: A Scenario* (2026).
Wait ... *and it was the basis of a book that came out just this year ...*
Oh Jesus.

2025-09-17 00:34:26 GMT

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I understand why there was such a focus on heretics and their teachings in the early church. Once absolutes were relaxed along with their enforcement it was inevitable. It always was. Pretty good run in its time, though.

2025-09-09 15:01:59 GMT

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We have a family friend, a woman into her 30's now. Fairly bright. Did an actual STEM degree years ago. Fun to have around at gatherings.
But that's it. Best way to describe it is she has a smart mouth. And always wanting to one-up on the come backs.
That can be entertaining in small doses but it would become incredibly wearing around that all the time. And it's all the time with her and just becomes unpleasant.
She can not understand why a man would not want to have that in their life every day. It must be all the men she meets. All the men.
Lady. Try being pleasant. It's not really that hard.

2025-08-22 19:48:01 GMT

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> sewing circles with daycare
I've attended Bible study groups which were women run despite husbands attending and nothing more than women's emotional support groups. The men just quietly sat there. It was disgusting and I never went back.

2025-07-17 15:53:21 GMT

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There's a lot of expectation the United States, and North American in general, is going to Balkanize in the coming decade. I expect they also know this and plan on exploiting it if it is inevitable anyway. Any number of new countries to infiltrate then.

2025-07-08 14:10:44 GMT

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Those letters at McCain's(?) funeral. That was some weird shit.

2024-09-03 23:38:16 GMT

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Saar ....
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2024-09-03 22:54:47 GMT

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I understand the basics. The thing with this entangled communication is that you still need a classical side channel - radio, laser, carrier pigeon if you like - to carry side information. This limits the speed to still speed of light. No faster than light laws are being broken here. And it's an integral part of the protocol. But you do get unbreakable encryption. And encryption that can be proven if it's tampered with. As I understand this.
This is probably the best text to get started provided you have something of a technical background.
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2024-07-31 22:39:52 GMT

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Late 70's in a small town surrounded by farmland and an hour to the nearest city. About a thousand White students and one civilized black. The teachers were smart and if you showed any spark they were happy to work with you. We had a (very) small math club where we taught ourselves more advanced algebra and calculus starting in grade 10. Two teachers supplied textbooks and would assist with questions and problems. One thing that made a difference is how students were streamed into lower, middle and advanced levels of courses starting in grade 10. We went to grade 13 back then.

2024-07-09 15:16:13 GMT

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Ever come across The Anonymous Conservative and his blog. Easy to Google. He's got a thing going about complete surveillance covering every community, using ~10% of the population that's been recruited into the system. An expanded Operation TIPS (see wiki) that would cover everyone. Kind of related to gang stalking, which does seem to be real in a few cases.
He's pretty out there but he does say some interesting things. It's just the amount of resources required and level of conspiracy required that throws me (whole families born into the surveillance operation and living it their entire lives, from childhood to old age).
So pretty out there.

2024-07-04 19:10:35 GMT

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That's unfortunate. And quite sad.

2024-07-04 01:43:49 GMT

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I know. How do you even begin to tease it all out? It's years, a lifetime, of work.

2024-07-04 01:39:05 GMT

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Where would I start to read about this? The Bible and Christianity as history fascinates me?

2024-07-03 23:56:37 GMT

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Please. Battle Dwarf goes into some of this as well.
Are there good resources available? Books that you know of? Historically it's fascinating stuff.

2024-06-25 01:33:07 GMT

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Do you fucking know people who work in "AI"? I do. It's a joke.
A very small fraction of them are actually serious researchers. Almost all of them are grifters latched onto the latest good thing with a pay cheque.

2024-06-25 01:30:49 GMT

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Historically, has there ever been a case where the citizenry, the men especially, just said No to a call up or draft to go to war?
Because it seems the propaganda and false flags have always succeeded in the end at sending us off. I can't think of a case where it hasn't.

2024-06-24 19:59:21 GMT

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Consequences matter. That's what it comes down to in the end. Consequences.

2024-06-24 19:40:36 GMT

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Hey dere, my friends! Us French Canadians, we coming invade soon, too, eh! Get ready for da poutine and da maple syrup, it's gonna be wild! Osti de calice, we coming with our tuques and our plaid shirts. We gonna teach you to talk like us, tabarnak! Get ready, we arriving with da whole gang, dere!

2024-06-24 19:33:17 GMT

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Heritage Canadians, as a people? A threat? Hardly.
Subverted Canada run by jews, chinks and jeets? Yes.

2024-06-22 15:53:41 GMT

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Given the prize, though. The United States of America. And the disadvantages to a country who didn't get in the fight compared to the advantages of one that did and backed the winner or at least enough of a group of relative winners, I can't see it taking long before foreign involvement happens. And it will only ratchet up from there.

2024-06-18 23:27:45 GMT

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I miss the 60's. Anything was possible.
https://i.poastcdn.org/8535e65a0455f7db2c3d272210c4e1a7a475dec9cd96badc76dab44d73d93e2e.jpeg

2024-06-14 15:00:17 GMT

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Ha. Or deciding it's too unsafe to use for return and just jettisoning it and watching billions of dollars float away.

2024-06-13 21:00:28 GMT

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Just like coders and "artists" who thought they were essential. I would feel bad for them except for their arrogance and when other's lost their livelihoods to technology. I've known enough from both fields to have utter contempt for them.

2024-06-13 20:50:17 GMT

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That was my question, too.
But the 99.99% being the fraction that's overhead and entirely waste when you have an AI may not be far off.

2024-06-12 23:11:13 GMT

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Also add in the fragility of the modern age to natural disruptions. I think you mentioned the tsunami off Taiwan that disrupted memory chip supplies.
Add in large earthquakes, volcanoes, Carrington type events. Real super-events that we don't have modern records of but know happened in the past. All the wonderful technology will fail, millions or billions will starve and we're back to picking out an existence from foraging and hunting for a long long time.

2024-06-12 22:14:46 GMT

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Redefining the problem space is what might make these AI type solutions possible, though. Massive standardization in components, assembly units, etc., for example.
A BD type robot would not be effective in a typical work site today, but change how the work site operates and then it may.
Think when the very first personal cars were introduced. Just the state of the roads, and the roads that were available, made the idea of every family having one or two to use for themselves totally crazy.
Just a few decades later everything is now paved and transportation organized around these vehicles. So now they are perfectly possible.
I'm just throwing thoughts out there.

2024-06-12 03:13:31 GMT

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A friend hunts a lot and bear meat is fine. I haven't had a chance to try it yet myself. One thing is to avoid bears that are near cities or towns and subsist on a lot of garbage. It ruins the meat. But out in the wild is fine.

2024-06-06 22:08:51 GMT

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LOL. *Let me tell you about your country ...* 😆

2024-06-06 00:24:52 GMT

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There's always been a reserve currency in some form. Going back a few thousand years. Before the US it was Britain. Spain, Portugal, Italy, Holland, etc. all had their turn. Rome and other empires had theirs.
There's a convenience in international trade plus the benefits to the issuing country. Mostly. For a time.
Coming up may be a BRICS basket form. May be more stable long term. Or not, depending on who decides to be king of the hill in the next competition of nations.
That's how I understand it. Not much more.