Run-up to WW3

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Re: Run-up to WW3

Post by HighlyIrregular » Thu Feb 08, 2024 8:43 pm

HighlyIrregular wrote:
Thu Feb 08, 2024 3:35 am
What happens in 2027?
I checked.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... na-in-2027
US intelligence believes that Xi Jinping, China’s leader, has ordered the country’s military to be ready by 2027 to annex Taiwan. China regards Taiwan, a democratic and self-governing island, as a renegade province that must be reunited with the mainland...Some US officials believe a conflict may come sooner. In January, Gen Mike Minihan, a former deputy commander for US Indo-Pacific command, said his “gut” told him to expect a conflict in 2025...Adm John Aquilino, the head of US Indo-Pacific command, told the armed services committee in Congress that “everybody is guessing” when it comes to predicting timelines for a conflict. Yun Sun, the director of the China programme at the Stimson Center, a US thinktank, said: “Military capabilities are the necessary but not sufficient condition for China to launch an attack. Military readiness does not suggest that China will take the move...I don’t think Xi is planning to invade Taiwan in 2027, unless Taiwan declared independence by that time.”

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Re: Run-up to WW3

Post by Catoptric » Thu Feb 29, 2024 2:33 pm

From the initial Ukraine invasion of 2014

Leaks reveal Putin could use tactical nukes and China strike plan | Maj. Gen. Rupert Jones
https://youtu.be/boRAOc0iqAQ

Vladimir Putin's 14 US targets in US he would likely aim for in nuclear war with West
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/vl ... r-BB1j778v

This stuff sounds like suicide (China would lose far more than it's pants, but Putin does seem like some cornered animal who is snuffing out the competition so he can continue feeling superior and virile.)

I'm sick of the trash leadership our society is allowing, and the sooner the boomer generation of leaders dies off, the better.


I consider Nevalny's death an indication of the extreme fatalism plaguing Russia.
https://youtu.be/E3CF654sGwE


Considering he just interviewed Putin, Tucker Carlson was interviewed by Rex Fridman
https://youtu.be/f_lRdkH_QoY

3-4 min video Just now (Putin is pissed about NATO troops in Ukraine, and threatening nuclear war.) Though I side with Germany for saying it wouldn't want to provoke war, I'm a little surprised by the idiot comments left in the posts, praising Putin (as if his behavior deserves praise. . . It's the Trump effect with the idiots.)
https://youtu.be/ppIQW56fzXo

A 30-minute discussion saying Putin would be committing seppuku if he went nuclear, while also pointing out that the Russian elections are in 2 weeks (hence Nevalny was perhaps something they feared would be brought up before the election?) Was Putin becoming paranoid and threatening people, which might explain why he was nervous and used the Tucker Carlson interview as a propaganda mouthpiece (while saying, if Tucker asked any unapproved questions he could get arrested?)
https://youtu.be/VQJWBqaKvJs

Perhaps we always knew about the first article, though are just disclosing it. It seems like Putin did have Navalny killed, so that people wouldn't be convinced they had any other option, but to submit to Putin's dick head.


Did no one notice this story in 2022?

BlackRock ploughed UK pension funds into Putin’s war chest
https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/s ... war-chest/
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Re: Run-up to WW3

Post by Senseye » Fri Mar 01, 2024 2:06 am

Putin is going to be threatening nuclear war until somebody calls his bluff. If he is crazy enough to start a nuclear war when his country is under no threat and it's just his ego at stake then he is a full blown narcissistic psychopath and I figure it is just a matter of time until goes down that road anyways.

Put this clown to the test or he will just keep repeating his threats to get whatever he wants. The world is in bad need of another Thatcher/Reagan.

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Re: Run-up to WW3

Post by HighlyIrregular II » Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:58 pm

Unpopular opinion: pour a ton of money into genetic research to make people smarter, share the technology with the world, wait a generation, then we could stop spending so much money and killing so many people because even if another country takes over it won't be so bad.

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Re: Run-up to WW3

Post by Catoptric » Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:57 pm

More than 30,000 people have been killed in Gaza since the war began
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/live ... rcna141090


HighlyIrregular II wrote:
Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:58 pm
Unpopular opinion: pour a ton of money into genetic research to make people smarter, share the technology with the world, wait a generation, then we could stop spending so much money and killing so many people because even if another country takes over it won't be so bad.
To what extent does the illusion of knowledge contaminate the direction of science?

Do you recall the sperm bank that was claiming to be comprised of nothing but Nobel Prize winners (or that was the marketing pitch?)

https://www.thecut.com/2019/08/what-eve ... -bank.html

It turns out the only "Nobel Prize winner" person who ultimately contributed was William Shockley who was taking credit for work that wasn't even his, and justification for taking credit that he based it on--as his "original idea" which justified whatever final patent used for the transistor design--was based on another person's 1930's patent, which rendered him a BS'er even by his own standards of taking credit. (A similar argument is made about the DNA molecule model design, which departed from the direction it was taking, which otherwise would never have happened had Watson and Crick never snuck a peak at the crystalline structure photos that they should have been privy to since they were on that team.)

According to this his Nobel Prize was revoked (though he's still mentioned as co-patent when searching his name)
https://www.pbs.org/transistor/backgrou ... atbat.html

The sperm bank was a sham even still, and it's kind of like looking at the usual goobers that are probably still virgins despite having been responsible for fathering upwards of 100 children, can really do a "number" on genetic diversity.

Consider that any person that might possess a great deal of potential with intelligence, cannot outpace the frequency of the usual degenerates, such as this criminal who used ill-gotten money to surrogate 21 children.

Kristina and Galip Ozturk
https://www.businessinsider.com/family- ... %20be%20OK.

Turkish businessman sentenced to 8 years for illegal drug purchase, possession
https://agenda.ge/en/news/2023/829#gsc.tab=0

I think I was reading something about him before, and it was a lot of weird junk that might have gotten buried in the internet (the guy had enough money to get some stuff removed, and it seems like the drug possession charges were just one thing that was used to get him arrested.) I think he did some shady dealings with his busing company, and gradually moved onto holdings of other business, but it's similar to wondering how billionaires like Roman Abromavich got so wealthy when they were alleged to just be selling rubber duckies, etc. . . which doesn't translate too easily into major huge fucking oil company. . . Which of course was more political sleaze with the likes of Putin who just takes and gives to those who are stooges.

Some argue that surrogacy is for pathological narcissists, much like the serial sperm donors. I can only see someone like Elon Musk using such technology and judging from his outlook with his children, I'm not sure it would be a good idea to release the beast as it were.

The William Shockley guy was a eugenicist that had a lot of traits that would be harmful to society, though he was considered legendary as well as infamous for being a key founder of Silicon Valley (though his reputation is similar to Jack Welch, Steven Jobs, etc.)

Perhaps any number of people considered to gain a reputation are a byproduct of events that cause them to gravitate towards perceived accomplishments, were more a phenomenon of epigenetics and reward of their ego.


However, it is interesting to wonder about (though according to this next link, it sort of takes on a dystopian Ayn Rand approach, with some hints at the world of Gattaca.)

Can selective breeding maximize human intelligence without major complications?
https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com ... plications

https://www.scmp.com/article/732421/gen ... demics-say

The bigger factor is in ensuring our society and culture doesn't fuck itself up, as surely, if it was run by the best and smartest (judging from whatever criteria of societal accomplishments) it seems that something is really "missing the mark."

I think what I'm getting at is, that assuming people try to focus exclusively on a "utopian society" it's incredibly easy to not understand the emotional development of those involved. If Ted Kaczynski was brilliant, if he was left in an incubator from birth and as a result developed a dysfunctional amygdala, whose saying that trying to force a society to "augment" some perceived benefits, doesn't seriously disrupt how people adapt and develop, because the collateral of those traits are not properly prepared for?
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Re: Run-up to WW3

Post by HighlyIrregular » Sat Mar 02, 2024 6:00 am

Catoptric wrote:
Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:57 pm
William Shockley et al
I had in mind something less controversial and more sure to work. Maybe controlled oxygen to the brain AND body to maximize general health. Or a cure for a mental illness like Down syndrome that happens to raise IQ in even healthy people. I feel like sperm banks like you mentioned probably mostly work but I remember the scandal.

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Re: Run-up to WW3

Post by Senseye » Sat Mar 02, 2024 8:22 am

HighlyIrregular II wrote:
Fri Mar 01, 2024 12:58 pm
Unpopular opinion: pour a ton of money into genetic research to make people smarter, share the technology with the world, wait a generation, then we could stop spending so much money and killing so many people because even if another country takes over it won't be so bad.
I'd support that approach if I thought it was feasible. I'm just not sure that research would be successful and I am also not sure biological IQ is the root of the problem. But I'd take a shot if the genetic engineering was sound. Although you would still have the problem of how to stop the un-engineered (i.e. the stupid) from having babies.

Forget genetic engineering, if you could just stop poor people from having babies, how long would poverty last?

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Re: Run-up to WW3

Post by Roger Mexico » Sat Mar 23, 2024 7:10 pm

ISIS apparently taking credit for major terrorist attack in Russia.

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/mo ... index.html

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Re: Run-up to WW3

Post by Roger Mexico » Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:59 am

American media hyping up possibility of Iranian retaliation for Israeli attack on their embassy in Syria.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/world-new ... ys-report/

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Re: Run-up to WW3

Post by Madrigal » Sat Apr 13, 2024 11:22 pm

Roger Mexico wrote:
Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:59 am
American media hyping up possibility of Iranian retaliation for Israeli attack on their embassy in Syria.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/11/world-new ... ys-report/
Yeeeeep. I thought maybe they could just blow up an embassy somewhere but it looks like that's not enough.

The Argentine president is cutting his international trip short so he can set up a "crisis committee" for Israel. Probably just a matter of time before we get a terrorist attack here too.

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