If Musk is unhappy then he must be doing something right

The fuck are you on about mate ?

No it’s not

https://genius.com/The-vapors-turning-japanese-lyrics

“Turning Japanese” was believed to euphemistically refer to masturbation—i.e. the act causing the man to squint and therefore resemble a Japanese’s person’s eyes or possibly, referencing the British slang word “Jap’s eye” (the urinary meatus) and the act of turning referring to the process of masturbation—but the song’s author Fenton denied that claim in an interview on VH1. “It could have been (turning) Portuguese, Lebanese, anything that fitted with that phrase. It has nothing to do with the Japanese.” “The first time the idea of masturbation came up was when we were touring America. It was written about that ‘turning Japanese’ was an English phrase for masturbation, which it wasn’t.” Guitarist Rob Kemp went on to say, “It’s a love song about somebody who had lost their girlfriend and was going slowly crazy, turning Japanese is just all the cliches of our angst… turning into something you never expected to.”

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Additional links

https://www.grunge.com/715655/the-real-meaning-behind-turning-japanese-by-the-vapors/

https://americansongwriter.com/the-meaning-behind-turning-japanese-by-the-vapors/

Gold has only one real use case in a “world gone to hell” and that is portability of wealth when fleeing a war torn country.

I think there are better assets to hedge against inflation and economic uncertainty with if you’re not expecting an invasion.

While the headline is clearly bollocks, there is absolutely benefit to Canada warming its relationship with China, the body does have a kernel of a point, one which is however ALREADY clearly the main intent of the Canadian govt.

Yes there are dangers to being dependent on China, they have zero compunction on using any leverage they have to their own benefit. So does the US.

The body of the article pointing towards a grouping of the remaining developed countries (EU, Japan, Korea, Commonwealth etc) has been clearly Canada’s primary activity for the last 6 months, and is in fact the only useful way forward to deal with the US going rogue.

However balancing the hostile powers (China, USA, Russia) by playing them off against each other where possible is also useful.

It would I imagine look a little like the first 48hours of the Russian attack on Kyiv where the Russians turned up with a brass band in dress uniforms (unarmed unless you count trumpets and drumsticks).

Would love to see it

There is no PROVEN kill switch - there have been accusations of it from senior German and Swiss personnel in a position to know (amongst others).

However it doesn’t matter, there is a publicly acknowledged issue that works out to pretty much the same - if the US attacks a country with F-35s those planes are functionally worthless very quickly

The ALIS/ODIN system means the US can unilaterally change what is friendly/foe, what is recognised or ignored etc, and if the regular communications for updates aren’t maintained the plane goes into the equivalent of your car’s “limp home” mode.

TL;DR a hostile US can in advance of an attack (for example) tell your F-35s that all Gripens are hostile, and that X set of “friendly” beacons are now hostile and there’s not a damn thing you can do other than not fly the plane. No one other than Israel got an over-ride - because they refused to take the software.

https://aerospaceglobalnews.com/news/the-f-35-probably-doesnt-have-a-physical-kill-switch-but-it-doesnt-need-one/

Edit to add “(for example)” as it was unclear that that was just an example of the many things they could do

Yeah it’s a one shot usage. It’s a trump card you can only play once. Will be devastating when it gets used though.

I’m praying our military has investigated these rumours and started working on mitigation, but I doubt it.

For those who doubt the rumours I’ll point to the fact that the only country who refused the US software and put in their own is Israel…the one country who gets slavish support from the US noped out on it.

That is certainly a valid point. I think the rule has to be direct relevance to Europe, not just every puff of sulphated methane coming out of his mouth.

Discussion on how the Fascist States of America latest atrocities are going to impact Europe seems relevant. Everything certainly isn’t. The Democrats latest hopium about winning back control in the mid terms certainly isnt

Gunna be a bit less effective when the US hits that kill switch

The world is indeed in breakdown, I agree that ignoring it won’t go away. We need to understand what’s going on if we are to survive

He has already hurt the MIC interests, European nations have been cancelling orders and ordering elsewhere, and that will continue to build

Does the Euro Space Agency have the lift capability to get a serious quantity of satellites into orbit ?

If I’m not mistaken the main reason starlink has the jump on kuiper is because spacex has a massive capability and Bezos’ Blue Origin has struggled.

I can’t see the nazi helping a competitor get their satellites up any more than he helped Bezos.

China maybe ?

Not the best ever but a solid release

US Admiral Davidson in 2021

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2024/05/07/how-dc-became-obsessed-with-a-potential-2027-chinese-invasion-of-taiwan/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidson_window

A number of defence & geo political papers in the years leading up to that contributed to that testimony to congress.

China friendly SCMP suggesting 2030 (in 2018)

https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2174705/why-china-will-wait-until-2030-take-back

There’s defence industry papers on it but searching on the phone is too hard, if I remember i’ll have a dig from the PC when I get home

2027 was predicted for the Taiwan invasion 10 years ago. Looks like it was on the money

Also known as a “loot drop” for the who actually will take over when society collapses

Lol. Yeah ok. Instructions unclear dick stuck in blender huh ?

Good. Now add two zeroes to that fine

Perception changed as info flowed more freely. They’ve been evil quite a long time (at the least the 1970s), our very ridiculous intellectual property laws (mostly copyright but also other facets) are the direct result of Disney lobbying (and directly bribing) US govt lawmakers at multiple levels of govt.

It was only post internet that their leverage on media channels weakened enough for it to start being discussed