“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
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    Nah, we will go back to the days when the whole world consists of this valley and the one next door.

    When our village attacks those bastards from over the mountain we will call it a world war.

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    Apple is turning William Gibson’s Neuromancer into a TV series
    China urges largest nuclear states to negotiate a 'no-first-use' treaty
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    The French will never agree.

    Their stance has always been, if France is threatened we will use every weapon in our arsenal.

    They do not have end the world stocks of nukes like the US or Russia so their attitude is, "Fuck with us and we will end you."

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  • The Taliban hold another public execution as thousands watch at a stadium in northern Afghanistan
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    Yes. That was my point.

    You find it funny.

    I find it sad that a nation that claims life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as founding tenets defends the death penalty.

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    TIL about the concept of Weaponized Incompetence, a psychological concept wherein you strategically fail to perform something you don't actually want to do
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    Reads post and your comment. Checks what community I am viewing.

    Well, it was fun while the fediverse was not just a cesspit of US politics

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    a whole lotta worse than regular executions

    Only to the people justifying state murder. To the person involved, they are still dead either way,

    To me the Saudi.Taliban methods are more honest, though just as mortally reprehensible as the USA's. The Saudi's are proud that they murder their citizens and are not afraid to show it.

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    TIL about the concept of Weaponized Incompetence, a psychological concept wherein you strategically fail to perform something you don't actually want to do
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    Well, that turned political quickly.

    Yeah...

    After reading the title I thought of that person in seemingly every office'workplace who fucks shit up on purpose so it gets assigned to someone else.

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  • Why does our civilization send signals and our location into space?
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    The big thing people over look when considering the we are broadcasting thousands od watts into space, they might hear use is SNR

    Signal to noise ratio. (the more random stuff on a frequency the harder it is to read the signal)

    Yes, humans are pumping out a huge amount of radio (etc) signals into space. it is not coherent or directed.

    Thousands of antennae all over the world pumping different signals but from far away, they are all noise interfering with each other.

    IIRC: Even if there was a radio telescope only a few light years away, all they would see pointing directly at earth would be static.

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    FX Miniseries ‘Shōgun’ Is the Most Transportive TV Epic Since ‘Game of Thrones’: TV Review
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    The author, James Clavell wrote 6 novels set in Asia that span 400-ish years. Shogun - 1600 to the last set in the 1990s.

    Shogun is one of the best but they are all worth a read.

    My rating of the Series.

    Shogun & Noble House tied for first. (both were made into mini-series in the 80s)

    Tai-Pan

    Gai-Jin

    King Rat (his first novel, based on personal experence in WW2)

    Whirlwind

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    If you are going all the way back, movie wise, you can start at Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan as the first one is not the strongest.

    2, 3 and 4 make a good trilogy.

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    Current politics in the US: Our guy (that is ten years past retirement age) is so much sharper than your guy. (who is also ten years past retirement age)

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    Want to replicate the fast food taste?

    Add shit loads of sugar, salt and butter/oil when you cook.

    Like add three times more than you normally would, then add some more.

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    The North Atlantic Fella Organization is trying to shut down Trump’s flailing social media platform before the 2024 election—by shitposting.

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    Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.

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    Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.

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    On Nov. 15, 2013, Miles Scott, a 5-year-old with leukemia, won hearts around the world when he became a superhero for a day with help from the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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    What do you do if the library is officially closed but you manage to sneak in anyway? Borrow books, of course.

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    What do you do if the library is officially closed but you manage to sneak in anyway? Borrow books, of course.

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    What do you do if the library is officially closed but you manage to sneak in anyway? Borrow books, of course.

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    Anthropologists suggest forts were built to secure key trade routes through the region.

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    Human and animal sculptures that could date to 9,600 B.C.E were found in Turkey at sites some believe have ties to biblical accounts. The more we look, the further back human civilisation goes.

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    The two brooches are the first definitive evidence of Viking presence on the island of Jomfruland in southern Norway.

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    Archeologists in Reims, northeastern France, have found an unopened Roman sarcophagus with the remains of a woman and her funerary goods.

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    Archeologists in Reims, northeastern France, have found an unopened Roman sarcophagus with the remains of a woman and her funerary goods.

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    No fees for Personal tier or old/current projects, new 2.5% revenue cap, and more.

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    YouTube had the discretion to take down content that harmed users, judge said.

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