Actually sweaty the real tip is getting to visit the white house, see Trump (briefly from a distance obviously), and these American champions.

Wise if true.

And they’ll of course deny using a nuke as a bunker buster and call it propaganda and western media will run with it being some secret, classified never before heard of bunker buster model that just looks like a nuke on seismographs 1000 miles away.

And yet I bet if you tried to sell atrocity propaganda to those same Canadians who say the US is the greater threat that you’d have a harder time selling outlandish stuff about the US than China or Russia both of which are still considered full of sub-humans run by strong-men evil dictators and corrupt cronies while the US is considered full of humans like Canadians and just has a single bad leader problem.

Fair and deserved.

It certainly has given me a healthier skepticism of rosy claims people tend to make in places like this and a greater respect for the fog of war and just how many pieces we can’t see moving no matter how hard we look even 8 months into a thing.

and the world’s communication networks all thoroughly compromised;

In cooperation with GCHQ. Many of those nodes and landings are compromised through 5-eyes and are in British territories or former territories where they have British companies operating who can assist them in that.

Don’t downplay how important in the relationship for signals intelligence and the NSA/GCHQ spying in particular is from the UK. They’re a big contributor and almost certainly given top access second only to the US intelligence agencies themselves to the 5-eyes big brother data. UK has also been according to Russia instrumental in helping Ukrainian intelligence carry out strikes and assassinations.

As to pedophile snitches, why would that be any more of a problem than for the US? Epstein was an “israel” asset and the US let him get dirt on their people, same with UK. Microsoft is a key component of 5-eyes NSA architecture so of course they’d use something they have the backdoor keys to. They’re a subordinate in the relationship but one with significant power and some amount of freedom. The US still needs them for many of their intelligence contacts that date back to families who’ve been in their pocket since the colonial era I’d bet.

If Iran falls then Hezbollah loses their major supplier, intelligence partner, etc and are in a very bad place, Yemen too loses an important supplier and will find themselves isolated in a hostile region and more easily picked off so the US doesn’t have to take them out at the same time.

IMO there’s no reason for them to stretch their resources. Yemen can wait because they can’t really strike American or zionist assets directly, merely disrupt shipping which the US and the entity can survive a bit of as we’ve seen before.

Lebanon is slightly more of a question. The zionists themselves might strike if they think they can kill leadership or hit anything important. However I suspect maximum resources will be reserved for the decapitating strike against Iran’s government, everything they can muster will be put into that. Forces on the border of Lebanon will be put on alert and all that but they’ll probably want to hit Iran with the US and be on their way back to bases to get ready to reload to fight any in-coming from Lebanon then. That’s assuming the US wants them. I don’t see US diverting resources from it’s Iran attack plan and contingencies for significant simultaneous attacks on Lebanon. Could be wrong and we must understand they operate on opportunity, if they know where Hezbollah leadership is meeting in the event of an Iran attack they’d absolutely divert some planes to bomb it and kill them. If they don’t know that then I don’t think they’ll open up a general air campaign trying to find and bomb dozens of locations in Lebanon while in theory Iran will be keeping them busy destroying their launchers and shooting down their drone attack waves.

But who knows. It’s hard to say what their strategy looks like. It’s likely they have drawn up battle plans for wider regional strikes (still would bet no Yemen, maybe a drone or two) and battle plans without that.

This would be better than the face and/or ID-scan by creepy companies every time you want to access whatever is deemed adult. For one it would be privacy-preserving, they wouldn’t know who you are or anything other than something basic like an age range which is the ideal.

The tricky part is implementing it in open source software of course. The best thing to do would be to not require that. If kids are clever enough to install Linux to get around their parental controls then let them. But I doubt that will be acceptable. I suppose my idea would be for some sort of hardware, external or internal that does this task with some sort of cryptographic assurance of integrity and a protocol for web sites and programs on the machine to directly query it.

One issue is I can’t see things like Graphene or rooted Androids passing the evaluation here so people owning those would be locked out of certain things while trying to use them unless Google implements and they leave intact some high integrity, high assurance hardware based solution they can’t tamper with. But given the way Google is going trying to kill other options and lock down their system with mandatory certificates only through them those things may not have long to live anyways.

I’d rather not budge on this at all but the fact is this is happening. It’s happening whether you and I want it or hate it. Many places are doing it in a very privacy invasive way that ties identities to actions, speech, thoughts, history on the web which will be used shortly for censorship, oppression, silencing critics, etc. So the chance to push alternative tech that explicitly prevents that via a design that doesn’t involve your identity being stored or sent anywhere, just an age signal is one that shouldn’t be passed up by anyone who is an enemy of the liberal western system. Because once that’s in place the arguments for passing identity betraying laws are a lot weaker and it takes a lot of wind out of their sails and will build further resentment among normal people if rammed through anyways.

Knowing these types he was probably doing an all tuna diet or something like that. Probably even snacking on it to absorb its power or something.

It triggers a visceral rage in these older people at what they perceive as disrespect and of course at what they perceive as the loss of their white supremacist culture. They think they (the white boomers) were the best generation and culture that ever existed, any deviation is a horrendous descent into childish barbarism that must be corrected. All must eternally bask in and uphold the glory of their culture.

It’s paternalistic mainly, it’s also racist, it’s lead-brained knee-jerk anger response. It’s very deeply rooted in Christian paternalism “respect your elders, honor thy mother and father (with obedience)”.

Or maybe they supplied them a ton of advanced stuff and this act of trying to get these systems working with Iranian radars is all a ruse.

You have to have something for the Americans and their radar seeking missiles to home in on, if you let them think they’ve destroyed your poor cobbled together collection of old junk maybe you can use visual spotters, light them up at the last minute from a hidden position and start blasting them from the sky. At least one can wistfully think that might be the case. Could be they’re in dire straights.

Also could be they simply plan to keep the good stuff hidden and only bring it out if it turns into a full on war, basically let the Americans pound them like last time, take the deaths, launch a few punches back and hope the Americans go home and they don’t get into a full on war.

Certainly they’d be fools to be flashing their good stuff right now and if I were advising them I think I would tell them keep the good stuff hidden for at least the first day of strikes. That way you can pull it out and maybe shoot them down and scare them off if they turn it into a continued campaign.

At the very least a lifetime ban on climbing outside of organized larger groups with multiple other experienced climbers present.

If it can be changed at will only by the governor, given the power zionists have here then they have no reason to worry. They can continue to wield the holocaust as a club for their own genocide while denying any discussion that suggests any other group ever suffered racism.

Which is why some would say you always execute these people. Some sympathetic person will inevitably get into power within a decade, pardon them, and make a mockery of the whole thing. If you really want to deter you have to deter in a permanent way that can’t later be rewritten.

isn’treal, Ukraine, Britain, France, etc.

Well someone figure out a name and post it to the emoji community.

The west would never let that happen.

At best the west would let China sell its DRAM to typical western brands like Apple, HP, Dell, to meet the shortage then immediately kick them out if the AI demand goes away and call them a national security threat and restore the markets of the western memory companies without missing a beat.

The Chinese companies and state know this. They know there’s no real leverage to gain from a temporary entry providing cheap component goods to the west which is why I doubt they’ll make any moves to attempt that. Because no good will bought from doing that would be worth a damn in dissuading the west from attacking China or in making those populations reconsider the propaganda they spout on China as westerners have goldfish memory and if that kind of thing worked the western publics would be grateful to them for the cheap goods they’ve been providing for some time instead of grousing about “Chinesium” and how much they dislike buying from China and would rather it was made in the US. And for the companies no good will from doing that would get westerners rioting in the streets demanding their Chinese DRAM be brought back and unbanned as we’ve seen with things people actually care about like Tiktok (memory is invisible to most consumers, they just buy an end device with it already installed).

If the west were to allow what you propose, Chinese electronic brand penetration and implosion of western brands (unthinkable, their value in NSA campaigns is hard to calculate both in foreign spying and domestic spying and control) then it would signal the throwing in of a towel by the west in a very real sense or at the very least an incredible failure and lack of intelligence on their part leading to far reaching consequences.

As I understand it Chinese memory producers are making memory to meet China’s AI needs, so the same kind of HBM incompatible with consumer systems. Oh they may have enough to meet domestic DRAM demand but exporting it may be another question. And in a choice between losing the AI race with the US and whatever risks that might carry (not insignificant given what we’ve seen the future of warfare will look like and the threat China faces from the US) AND making a quick buck that may be very fleeting (as the US can slam the door shut any time without warning leaving manufacturers with inventory glut) I think the Chinese will choose powering their own growing AI ventures which they plan to pair with robotics to continue dominance of global manufacturing and prevent western capitalists from easily decoupling.

The data centers won’t get built, the US will collapse any day now, Russia’s victory is assured in another 6 months with a major offensive and Ukraine’s front will collapse due to not enough soldiers and the tide will completely turn, the US won’t build capacity to decouple from China. Nothing but cope and I have to admit cope from the left is still cope.

Maybe the AI bubble implodes, maybe it doesn’t. The bourgeoisie seem serious about marshaling their funds to create a real dagger of automation to hold at the throat of labor to drive down worker power in a time of decline and no more expansion.

America’s infrastructure is shit because the bourgeoisie don’t care, because there’s no reason to invest in it. Because like a lot of things they own its best kept in a just barely working state and a few catastrophic failures that kill some proles are a small price to pay for operating “lean”. America can build things and data centers are relatively easy to build. There’s lots of construction companies in the US. It’s not like shipyards where you need these special spaces, special equipment, special know-how, special supply-chains, and specially trained workers and where the bourgeoisie don’t really care about matching China’s capacity so far.

As to power that’s easily solved, repeal EPA regulations, run dirty generators off diesel and fracked gas, bring dirty power plants online, charge consumers through the nose to pay for expansion of capacity, blame consumers running air conditioning or appliances too much for rolling brown-outs that happen. Run the grid overloaded at 110% capacity, etc.

Even if they build 50% of the planned amount it’s going to create problems. Even if they’re delayed by a year or two.

Agreed but I worry that they may let the US burrow in too deep. They’re setting up CIA in that place and plan to try Ukraine 2.0 (soil not as fertile I admit but still).

It’s like injecting yourself with cancer cells to stave off the gun pointed at your head. Sure it buys you some time but if it goes long without being treated (removed) it’s going to surely cause your death. They better hope whoever replaces Trump doesn’t care, is incredibly incompetent, or has their hands tied too much to react so they can kick them out in 3 years tops and even that’s a risky game to play. Because otherwise it’s just a matter of time.