the year is 2042, Emperor-God-King Trump has secured the Final Deal to open the Strait of Trump’s America (previously known as the Strait of Hormuz). Congress has rubber stamped the $30 Trillion deal to begin removing the pile of super tankers that now physically prevent passage through the strait.
Universal healthcare remains an impossible dream.
capital needs them to run the money printing machines
kinda flies in the face of the whole “the straight is open” rhetoric
that bending/warping of the video is fairly common in drone shots, especially on a tight zoom. it’s caused by vibration in the frame and the rolling shutter of the camera. could still be fake, but there is an explanation at least
this would very likely kill the next gen of game consoles, possible all future gens as well.
my streak of “finally got some savings built up only for the world to end” remains unbroken
i’m reminded of everyone laughing at russia for using old gear a few years ago…
all my Iranian friends are here just out of frame, laughing too
honestly this tracks, it’s also the playbook of every upper manager in the country: make huge promises targeting this quarter, ignore reality, and secretly hope to god everyone that actually knows anything can pull it off in spite of you. only fitting that these ghouls have gotten their hands on the launch codes.
oh for sure, I would consider the collateral damage implications but that’s not a type of thinking i’d ever accuse the MIC of having
yeah i certainly get why we wouldn’t use expensive interceptors, but watching this video it feels like someone with a sufficiently powerful machine gun could just paint the target until it’s down. your answer hits at what my assumption was, that these goons just didn’t care to think too deeply about the problem at all.
can someone more knowledgeable clue me in on why these things don’t get shot down? isn’t this why things like the c-ram exist? I guess what I’m really asking is, what flavor of incompetence it’s allowing these things to hit US bases?
I agree on all parts but I’ll add that I think this is also an opportunity to teach people that haven’t known these realities, that there is in fact no “normal” to return to. the only way out of this is through, and a lot of people are (or are going to be) looking for what things need to look like on the other side of it all. just like with ICE protests, there’s clear opportunity to engage with people and teach them community organizing and what a leftward future can look like
here’s how the tokenmaxxers do it:
“ok claude, spin up 10 parallel frontier models to each convert this docx to a pdf file. they must then work together to converge on the highest quality output that they can synthesize from their individual outputs. when they are done, spin up 3 frontier models that serve as an adversarial review board to review their final pdf. for any revisions, repeat from the beginning with the 10 models in parallel performing the changes. do not stop until the review board unanimously favors the result”
most expensive pdf in the world.