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Performatively muting Clavicular from the TL

on the one hand he was trying to bully a nuclear power, but on the other hand the DPRK didn’t control a global energy bottleneck

Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social Bond is the best, purest franchise because the franchise itself is what matters. The books are not great, the best movies are the most problematic. The most memorable parts of the movies are the parts that repeat themselves. But we demand another. We must have another.

idk sounds like shit

This is a bit rosy — the US’s allies provide support for its wars of aggression through overt acts as well as acquiescence in the use of their infrastructure, also, to the extent that they do resist and the US continues anyway these alliances fray and the dog-eat-dog world returns regardless

Also as a practical goal in the present context it would mean a lot more defence spending and an expanded footprint for the ADF in every respect

As an Australian it’s also a bit surreal. Wishing Iraq the best of luck at the Cup!

when has the business acumen of former AFL players ever been called into question

1977: Edward Teller, father of the hydrogen bomb, addresses the Queensland Parliament. His visit was sponsored by Gina Rinehart’s father, Lang Hancock, who wanted to use nuclear explosives to extract iron ore and create a new Pilbara harbour to accommodate massive ore ships

Doubling down on this dumb bit huh?

How about we’re helping you by telling you to go do something about it rather than posting this fatuous garbage

Meltdown May starts earlier every year

Since this discourse is back this is what I sincerely believe. Everyone wants to think it's bc their personal ideology doesn't feel welcome here. It's actually because there aren't enough fandom subcultures which is basically the unspoken lifeforce of all social media platforms

and how good is this spicy spinach stuff they have

Eric Blair… Alex Jones avant la lettre?

But suppose — and really this the likeliest development — that the surviving great nations make a tacit agreement never to use the atomic bomb against one another? Suppose they only use it, or the threat of it, against people who are unable to retaliate? In that case we are back where we were before, the only difference being that power is concentrated in still fewer hands and that the outlook for subject peoples and oppressed classes is still more hopeless.

The conspiracy angle is subdued in You and the Atomic Bomb but still there, and is a companion to the Bircherite and McCarthyist conspiracies that were soon to flourish: secret cabals in Washington and Moscow secretly on the same page working to impose their global totalitarian design on us all…

one nation from another. The atomic bomb may complete the process by robbing the exploited classes and peoples of all power to revolt, and at the same time putting the possessors of the bomb on a basis of military equality. Unable to conquer one another, they are likely to continue ruling the world between them, and it is difficult to see how the balance can be upset except by slow and unpredictable demographic changes. For forty or fifty years past, Mr. H. G. Wells and others have been warning us that man is in danger of destroying himself with his own weapons, leaving the ants or some other gregarious species to take over. Anyone who has seen the ruined cities of Germany will find this notion at least thinkable. Nevertheless, looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity. James Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications — that is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once unconquerable and in a permanent state of 'cold war' with its neighbors.

Orwell fleshes out this nightmare in ‘You and the Atomic Bomb’, now less a paranoid fantasy than a gloomy and very incorrect prognosis: nukes as obstacles to national revolutions, a stable, static balance of power — you cannot get the Cold War (coined in this article) more wrong

People are sharing this around like it’s hugely insightful but it’s a monument to Orwell’s paranoia and delusion. He literally believed that Stalin and Roosevelt had secretly agreed to fake the Cold War to enable the permanent domination of the world.

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THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY (1980) stars Bob Hoskins as Harold Shand, an East End gangster and wannabe property kingpin, who gets his criminal empire blown to bits when he crosses the IRA, an ideologically driven foe who he can’t bribe or bully into submission. No relevance to anything going on right now.

I’d argue the rarity of PMs addresses is something to be preserved, and using a channel that comes with significant gravity to say “it’s going alright” is not matching the message to the medium

this is the big one. marked position about when chatgpt was released to the public.

So that’s who still uses Flickr

You are prudently adjusting in anticipation of global supply chain trends, they are frenzied human cattle stampeding at slightest alarm

can he say that?

“Mr Speaker, this isn’t the Labor Party it’s the Labubu Party, because like Brad Pitt in Se7en you don’t know what’s in the Box.”

Hire me Angus. We can turn this around.

Don’t think it’s worthwhile playing them against each other: there’s plenty to appreciate about them both and, crucially, they’re not Fleming

THE RELIGION OF TECHNOLOGY THE DIVINITY OF MAN AND THE SPIRIT OF INVENTION DAVID F. NOBLE

Perhaps nowhere is the intimate connection between religion and technology more manifest than in the United States, where an unrivaled popular enchantment with technological advance is matched by an equally earnest popular expectation of Jesus Christ's return. What has typically been ignored by most observers of these phenomena is that the two obsessions are often held by the same people, many among these being technologists themselves. If we look closely at some of the hallmark technological enterprises of our day, we see the devout not only in the ranks but at the helm. Religious preoccupations pervade the space program at every level, and constitute a major motivation behind extraterrestrial travel and exploration. Artificial Intelligence advocates wax eloquent about the possibilities of machine-based immortality and resurrection, and their disciples, the architects of virtual reality and cyberspace, exult in their expectation of God-like omnipresence and disembodied perfection. Genetic engineers imagine themselves divinely inspired participants in a new cre-ation. All of these technological pioneers harbor deep-seated beliefs which are variations upon familiar religious themes.

Once you start looking it’s hard to miss

going back in time to make peter greenaway do a titus groan movie at gunpoint in the 80's

the United Kingdom needs to be dissolved, you have all gone far too silly

I’d go so far as to say he was one of the first