This is the first step, the next one is buying those farms when the farmers default and then the final step is rich people gobbling up all of this property to turn it into factory farmland.

During the transition we’re going to see Americans starve. Some of us will die but that is a sacrifice they are willing to make for more profits.

It’s a Sterling engine. It uses the difference between the heat on the stove and the cool air to create a flow of thermal energy that literally drives the motor.

It doesn’t give the US control, it gives a specific cohort of misanthropic scumbags leverage to accomplish their misanthropic scumbag agenda.

There is no good reason to redact this information. Giving extra ammunition to the class of people that has been fighting to the nail to cover this all up is in no way a benefit.

It’s weird that you are unwilling to see that Trump is worse than harris. It’s like the difference between losing a finger and losing a hand. Yes both are bad but surely you can see that one is worse?

It’s also weird that you would characterize the other comments so dishonestly. Like that’s not snark it’s just bullshit.

It really seems like something people don’t talk about is the dearth of brown people in the files. Like there are very very few and all of them seem to be powerful leaders of African countries rather than just famous or rich brown people.

Like the cast of eyes wide shut, the Epstein class seems to be pretty exclusively white.

The weird part is that sand is how you dampen vibrations.

If you’ve ever done any CNC work or laser lithography You know how incredibly important it is to eliminate anything that could even vaguely be mistaken for a vibration. Completely in closing the work Bay to prevent airborne vibrations and filling the table with sand to eat all of the little ones coming or going.

It’s not just Dune though, lots of stuff has this sensing vibrations through sand trope, and I think it is something to do with a meme picked up from desert spiders or a nature documentary or something like that.

I don’t think they would have been called the Epstein files though. It probably would have been called the Franklin files. All of this stuff seems like Ben Franklin’s jam.

No I don’t think Ben Franklin would have done it for espionage or spying purposes I think he would have just done it for the love of the game.

This is 100% true. I was fantastic at school. I could read the book and just remember it all when it came time for class and crushed every q&a, quiz, assessment or test offered to us at every stage.

When I got to college I found the hardest part to be committing to the work since so little of it could be done in class. I still did pretty okay in college because most of it seemed to just be an assessment of what you knew and could do in the moment, but I definitely struggled with time management having never built up the skills necessary to study or knuckle down for a couple of days to cram.

Where it hit most was with foreign language and computer science classes. My Japanese is shit, but I was able to fall back on my obsession with electronics to make a career out of computer science.

I got really fucking lucky I think, because I did well in school but I was not very good at it. I know plenty of people that didn’t get the GPA I did or have all AP classes that are currently doing extremely well for themselves because they learned one of the more important skills you can learn in school, discipline.

Oh mom, I promise I’m gonna be large Some day I’ma stop trying to borrow your car Gonna go far, with charisma and skill Until they put my face on a million dollar bill ~Slug

When Shakespeare wanted to clearly indicate to the audience who the villain was he would bring them on stage to kick a dog.

This overt and intentional demonstration of villainy is to subtle for most Americans to pick up on.

You’re just not thinking about all of the car companies that would benefit from having so many more cars to sell!

I love your work.

You’re giving yourself away by frothing at the mouth about leftism and pretending that anyone on the left is advancing the cause of anti-Semitism.

Maybe be more subtle next time.

They’re not being trained to be elite troops the way that people mythologize the IDF who somehow managed to miss all of the warnings about October the 7th and can’t tell the difference between a baby and a bomb.

They’re being trained to be the enforcers of apartheid. Racistly motivated government shock troops don’t have to be competent or capable they just have to be cruel and follow orders.

It’s annoying that there’s a typo in the tagline of the headline of this haaretz article. I don’t have much else to say that hasn’t been said, but that bit stuck out to me.

Celebrities didn’t stop talking about the things that are important to them. The media doesn’t want to show people talking about that kind of stuff so it has largelystopped asking them and stopped amplifying their messages.

It’s not that they’re any more or less preachy than anyone else, it’s how their words are framed and presented to the audience that makes it so easy to resent it. They’re just people who generally get an outsized amount of airtime compared to the man on the street sharing his own opinion to the interviewer.

With commercial media, all scheduling is strategy. There is no such thing as a slow news day on planet earth, but if the news it outside the scope of the topics the channel exists to promote, they don’t cover it.

If the news doesn’t fit the narrative and it can be ignored, it will be. If it does fit the narrative they will shop around until they find a person who can speak charismatically on the subject and in the right way. If the news is too big to ignore and is hostile to the narrative then they will impanel a group of experts to tear it down. If they can dress a celebrity up like an expert and stick them on the panel all the merrier for manufacturing consent.

The same media that will fawn over their personal lives doesn’t have the attention span for much of their political opinions when they can’t use them to sell something.

Celebrity culture is a tool of capitalism just as the commercially driven media is. The owners don’t like to encourage or enable celebrities to express opinions that undermine the work, consume, consent gameplay loop they have going on.

Once he is dead, all of those creditors he doged will be fighting each other to pick the corpse clean. She will probably be shredded in the feeding frenzy.

It encourages foreign divestment which is good if you are in the crowd that thinks that trade is bad.

It also leads directly to rapid inflation as those dollars once used for trade are now sitting idle in the money pool. Rapid inflation is good if you own monopolies on essential goods like housing, fuel, groceries, and medical care as it provides cover for you to raise prices and decrease quality.

Also, with rapid inflation it becomes easier to hide graft and extortion in the government and maybe go after people like Powell for cost overruns on projects that could never have predicted that you would tank the economy.

Good thing I didn’t bring up spying at all or you might have a point that somehow speaks to a thing I said.

What the bill does include is a wish list of stupid things you could only want if you didn’t understand the technology.

It’s also the thin end of the wedge meant to create a context for an excuse to further restrict these devices.

Most 3D printers run software that is smaller than most 3D prints.

I’m going to say that another couple of different ways in case you didn’t understand it, The software that runs on these devices is measured in the hundreds of kilobytes. A 2-in wide Batman symbol with no flourishes or extra details is going to be 10 to 30 times that size. There’s not even enough memory on the device to hold the entire print so it reads the instructions on how to make it one line at a time.

Those instructions are written in G-Code and g code is older than even the concept of most computer peripherals. G-Code can be written by hand, and is a technology older than computer monitors, digital audio, the mouse, or The indicator light.

So you want to add more computer to a device than the device normally costs so that it can run software that no one has written or knows how to write so it can detect shapes based on their future intended usage to prevent people from using their highly customizable home manufacturing device to Make single use firearms in a country that already has more guns than people…