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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #67540 on: 02/06/2025 08:52:40 »
Our new Churchill leading us in the West
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #67541 on: 02/06/2025 08:53:30 »
2025


such a year
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #67542 on: 02/06/2025 10:56:02 »
Well Duh

"The representative said that Palisade Research will continue to run experiments to better understand why the models subvert shutdown mechanisms, but suggested that it could be down to how developers are training their models."

That one is obvious although for you believing in aliens, New Tech, Geoengineerings and 'AI chat bots' maybe not obvious at all. There's no better lie than the one that starts with yourself believing in it.

human behaviors

https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openais-smartest-ai-model-was-explicitly-told-to-shut-down-and-it-refused
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #67543 on: 02/06/2025 10:58:46 »
The hitch hikers guide to the galaxy

How to make believe: Using Homo Sapiens as ones role model
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #67544 on: 02/06/2025 11:14:09 »
As for Mr Zelensky wanting peace?

Not really, he will have to seek asylum in the west for that one. It's an old but true cliche that those that throw us into wars also becomes the last ones to experience the consequences from them. That as they are 'leading' you, and so needs society's strongest protection.

If we instead gave them a gun and told them that they would be moved to the front lines as storm-troops, in case of starting a war, I think most politicians would think twice before voting on it.

https://thehill.com/opinion/5146149-zelensky-war-ego/
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« Reply #67545 on: 02/06/2025 11:15:33 »
Thinking of it, so should most journalists.
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« Reply #67546 on: 02/06/2025 11:18:46 »
That's the tricky thing about games like ours. We let others face the consequences first.
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« Reply #67547 on: 02/06/2025 11:20:19 »
And you know as well as me what we call the victims of that behavior


losers
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« Reply #67548 on: 02/06/2025 11:21:19 »
No, you won't do sh* about anything. And for once, none of us will be able to avoid the consequences
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« Reply #67549 on: 02/06/2025 11:23:24 »
So the longer I look the more sure I'm becoming on this being a main reason for why this universe is so silent. Assuming them sharing our behaviors.
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« Reply #67550 on: 02/06/2025 11:39:40 »
And that article on Mr Zelensky?

It just forgot one thing, our own politicians saving their faces, and their own 'power drunkenness'.

I keep telling you that you need a real democracy, and you keep telling me that you don't want it. And we both know why, it would make you responsible.
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Re: An essay in futility, too long to read :)
« Reply #67551 on: 02/06/2025 12:03:30 »
https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20250204-top-climate-scientist-declares-2c-climate-goal-dead

2C          2045   1.5C 2024 and 2025,  and rising


So what does it mean?

" The researchers found that more than a quarter of the world's population could experience an additional month of severe heat stress each year compared to the middle of the 20th century (1950-1979). "

2023  https://climate.nasa.gov/news/3278/nasa-study-reveals-compounding-climate-risks-at-two-degrees-of-warming/



And already too old

https://www.euronews.com/green/2025/05/30/four-billion-people-endured-an-extra-month-of-extreme-heat-last-year-due-to-climate-change
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« Reply #67552 on: 02/06/2025 12:07:41 »
Getting unstuck yet?


Nah. You're betting on procreation, aren't you? And that it never happened before, so it can't happen now either. Yeah, maybe a real democracy won't change a thing about you, but it has one fair point to it. There will no one to blame your decisions on, except yourself, with it.

No more blame games
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« Reply #67553 on: 02/06/2025 14:26:56 »
For those of you tired of all that hero sh*, "also a navy seal'"  bla bla, well, sort of. Still a 'hero' of course, but in a slightly more human manner.

"He who fights with Monsters" by Shirtaloon, aka Travis Deverell

He keeps making me smile as I read
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« Reply #67554 on: 03/06/2025 07:40:59 »
Taking the temperature

Rare Earths, other minerals, E-chips, China-USA, and the West.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3312446/legal-action-over-huge-lithium-project-dr-congo-hold-us-battles-chinas-dominance

https://www.mining.com/web/flooded-mine-in-congo-is-latest-threat-to-global-copper-supply/

https://www.tbsnews.net/features/panorama/dirty-secrets-behind-myanmars-rare-earths-boom-1152386

https://globaltaiwan.org/2025/03/how-taiwans-chip-industry-navigates-us-industrial-policy-and-export-controls/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/business/china-rare-earths-united-states-supplies.html
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« Reply #67555 on: 03/06/2025 07:44:32 »
That 'electrical future' now in shambles. With people, banks, think tanks, governments, and various industries betting on war. People and other institutions investing in it as a 'economic security' for their 'future'.



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« Reply #67556 on: 03/06/2025 07:47:14 »
from 2023 more wars than ever seen since the second world war, and growing.

Lemmings
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« Reply #67557 on: 03/06/2025 07:47:48 »
Well, that's you
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« Reply #67558 on: 03/06/2025 07:48:59 »
Exodus, and a concentration camp

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/31/middleeast/israel-gaza-strip-occupation-resources-dg
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« Reply #67559 on: 03/06/2025 07:50:12 »
Israel-USA   Iran

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/21/israel-strike-iran-nuclear-facilities
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