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“Necrobotics”, now that’s a term to add to my “I have no mouth and I must scream” nightmares

Not surprised, during Nietzsche’s time we had the rise of Spiritism, which presented itself as a “science” first and philosophical doctrine second.

Thank you! The whole text lacks cohesion, it talks in buzzwords. This feels like some PR stunt without target audience.

Exactly! Even Microsoft had a paper on this ‘Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria?’ [1].

'By sending an email that repels all but the most gullible the scammer gets the most promising marks to self-select, and tilts the true to false positive ratio in his favor.’

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

Delayed gratification is extremely beneficial and hallmark of personal well-being

No, please just stop.

nurture has very little upside but infinite downside, so it damn well matters.

Half and half: nationalist mafia!

Our brains were certainly larger on an individual level, but those individuals could never surpass a few tens of thousands, spread globally, the farther the better!

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As conspiracy theory, it predates Trump/Qanon, we’ve had David Icke with his adrenochrome from children sucking reptilian royalties

Yay another hip SV startup just around the corner!

To me it reminds Borges’ short (one paragraph) story “On Exactitude of Science”

Conspiracy theories are all fun and games until some idiot decides to shoot a pizza parlor or even start a war. Like any country Russia has a handful of conspiracy theorists, sadly it also has a phenomenal domestic propaganda machine which feeds directly into mass psyche.

“foreign soil” comparison isn’t really applicable here, it’s literally across the border, more like invading Canada. Ukrainians make up the second largest ethnicity inside Russia. And besides the war in Iraqi was off the heals of 9/11 and Afghanistan invasion, and still had saw many anti-war protests.

I know people scoff(ed) at A.Dugin, but considering how Kremlin’s rhetoric has evolved recently, it is undeniable that it’s converging with (or its facade has dropped) the latter’s theories.

And Hyperborea takes, sadly, prominent stage.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aleksandr-dugin-the-russian-m...

>60% of global GDP is not a small fraction. As for countering sanctions, no one doubts the cat and mouse chase, but the Kremlin will be forced to funnel these to its weapons industry undermining economic and social development, akin to North Korea mid/long term.

Expecting concessions or not, it is undeniable that a quick victory wouldn’t have brought this amount of pain and isolation. Foreign reserve confiscation was enacted immediately and definitely unexpected, but other measures are being enacted with every passing day the conflict lingers.

Unless this takeover is being conducted by M&A professionals, and not the result of wine and ambien, I think OP has a point.

If you abide by the lableak theory, then part of its mythos was that he NIH funded the research, making them equally knowledgeable on it.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/nih-admits-funding-r...

Not to mention spread!

I disagree. The "western world", that is Anglo-American centric world order, doesn't matter, but the Kremlin (not its ultra-nationalists calling for total war) knows it needs its ex-Soviet satelites plus China, India, etc.

This is about a new world order.

It’s about a new world order. The end of the transatlantic alliance and liberal world order. The expectance was for other nations to follow suite, including Germany to take over the EU under its mantle.

This was supposed to be just the beginning.

But how would this steganograohic ID fair throughout the multiple encoding/transcoding that happens during scene distribution?

Even then, I can see a real market potential for bootleg sneakernet [1] dealers. VHS bootleg of western movies being dubbed by a single person were all the rage in the late 80’s Soviet countries [2]. If the internet is fully closed off, a new market for sneakernet of Internet segments would evidently emerge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakernet

[2] https://jacobinmag.com/2017/07/soviet-voice-over-cold-war-te...

Petrodollars obtained by exporters is used to buy US based assets and/or financial instruments (treasury bonds, stocks, real estate), literally “recycling” all that extra capital... though the Saudis have been dumping a lot of their assets for a few years already, as they plan on diversifying their economy but I guess that’s tangential

They didn’t slaughter because of religion, it was always because of power and means to attain or hold it. From the Crusades, Inquisition, Capitalism-Socialism to modern day Jihadism, it’s all ultimately about power.

When the west fully embargoes Russian oil, China will be buying it for whatever discount it wants!

Isn't that the American Dream? Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses and I'll make them work like hell, but their children will have better lives and work less, and their children will be just as lazy as any American! Rinse-Repeat

Simple: ruble conversion to USD or EUR is extremely limited; iirc only $10k can be withdrawn from dollar denominated accounts, currency exchange is largely restricted for business and individuals, the stock market remains closed, large businesses have been forced to sell foreign currency reserves, the Kremlin plans on repaying foreign debts in rubles only (ie technical default).

The hope is that the west unfreezes its Central Bank reserves, meanwhile they are buying time.