@mischievoustomato@reallyangry@gav@fknretardlol@Fash-E I’ve liked all the Mac stuff I’ve owned over the years; it’s smooth and just works the way you expect it to. But I run puppylinux on all my x86 stuff. It’s fast and crazy powerful, and can bootload the entire OS in RAM and vanish without a trace if desired. Used it many times to fix broken Windows.
Yeah in my years alive, I’ve come to believe the debate between the various Economics models is whether mortar or asphalt should be used to build the Tower of Babel.
@fknretardlol@reallyangry@BowsacNoodle@Myles@Polfusilier Obviously nobody wants currency debasement; especially those profiting from it. But the financial sector has to pretend against any and all evidence that it’s essentially insignificant, or that margins will always outpace the loss. Anyone suggesting otherwise must be burned at the stake.
@BowsacNoodle@Myles@Polfusilier It’s one of those niggers-in-the-woodpile that nobody in the industry can even begin to address, without immediate “shun the non-believer; SHUUUUN!”
@BowsacNoodle@Myles@Polfusilier In either case it requires a functional Civilization in order to actually deliver; the outward form of retirement savings doesn’t mean very much if currency debasement outpaces all margins, right ?
@BowsacNoodle@transgrammaractivist@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf Sure sure; these are all well-reasoned assertions within the framework of the Standard Model. I don’t dispute the statistical validity of these data points; just that it represents an exhaustive description of all relevant factors that pertain to any given situation.
@BowsacNoodle@transgrammaractivist@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf I grew up absolutely convinced that, at any time, the President, or the Soviets, or any among a number of world leaders could have hit the Big Red Button, and wiped out virtually all human life throughout the world - with any potential stragglers dying from ensuing years-long nuclear winter. The MAD Narrative, as we’re all familiar with. This followed logically from the underlying Nuclear Narrative. Which is, itself, contingent upon the Standard Model of Physics - aka the Lambda-CDM / “Big Bang” Cosmology, which was/is the State-of-the-Art attempt at reconciling the observations of General Relativity, with those of Quantum Mechanics. As time has progressed, I, along with many other interested parties, have chafed against the many unfortunate shortcomings of this Model. Nevertheless, generally, Man’s “top physicists” continue to hail its unparalleled usefulness and accuracy like some be-all-end-all accomplishment. That said, I have reason to believe even this Model represents a feint-within-a-feint, rather than a sincere articulation of the nature of space-time, the universe and all within it. Not simply that it is wrong, but that it’s deliberately deceptive - a juggler’s trick, with which our most intelligent minds preoccupy themselves for their entire lives. If this is true of the premises, as I have reason to believe, it is true of all dependencies upon said premises as well - including, of course, the public narrative surrounding nuclear power. It’s not merely wrong, it’s a smokescreen, a Fog-of-War Engine. Given these, I find plenty of room for doubt.
@BowsacNoodle@transgrammaractivist@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf Even if they are real, I do not believe I have sufficient, reliable data points to insist upon certainty regarding their nature. I am quite convinced there is a serious, mind-boggling amount of fuckery floating around.
@transgrammaractivist@Shadowman311@Terry@weaf Is it delusion ? While I don’t doubt I have some at least, I’m well open to correction and clarification regarding specifics. I’ve neither confirmed nor denied the objective existence of nuclear weapons as described; simply voiced the reasoned doubt that we’re being accurately informed about their nature. Sufficient is my doubt that I can truly say I don’t just simply believe in nukes. I can imagine plenty of possible shell-game / sleight of hand tactics that could explain the available data - but obviously those all exist in the Ocean of the Unknown, only In Potentia.
@Someguy@BowsacNoodle You’re conflating ”jews”, “Judahites” and “Judeans”, and ignoring the ontological divide resultant from literal-God writing Himself into human history. I don’t have any real idea what you consider to be “Truth”, but Traditional Christianity follows logically and consistently from First Principles about which I became convinced after a decade or so of adulthood. As I was fiercely anti-Christian for over half of my life, I understand how pitifully insane I currently look to my earlier self. This has positive implications for my attitude toward skeptics, doubters and deniers. I get it.
This has not been my experience; Ethiopian jews are niggers, kaifeng jews are chinks, ashkenazi jews are Eastern Europeans, Greek jews are turks, Sephardim are spics etc etc. They may or may not have descended from the Levant; nevertheless they run the gamut.
@IAMAL_PHARIUS It’s pretty obvious that China is vastly more resilient in the face of economic hardship than this current mockery of a country we call “America”. I’d not be saying this if we were still a White nation, but we must play the hand we’re dealt - not what we *wish* we were dealt. All our cities are flooded with rape apes, our factories derelict, our suburbs and rural areas packed with hopeless boomers. I’m not saying this because I’m some China fanboy. It’s just stupidly obvious.
@SleepingKiwi@Someguy I admit, I’m a sucker for explanatory power. Traditional Christianity towers mightily over any competing worldview, in explaining why things are as they are, and why they happened as they did.
This is an interesting point; guy here attempting to impugn my motives aside — does ”Christianity” compare thusly to “nazis” ? German National Socialism exists within living memory, to this day; Christianity has been subjected to nigh two millennia of heretical distortions, with its strictest Traditional form representing a tiny religious minority in the country of my birth. Maybe not technically an absolute category fallacy, but pretty darn close.
@Someguy@Witch_Hunter_Siegfried@fknretardlol@BowsacNoodle@reallyangry “Christianity” conveys little more than the most tenuous sorts of connections to historical Christendom. It says next to nothing about the actual Faith. “Christians” believe radically divergent things from one another. If you are making a statement regarding the relative truth or falsity of a given assertion, you must use qualifiers.
@reallyangry@Someguy@Witch_Hunter_Siegfried@fknretardlol@BowsacNoodle Right; and nothing I say or do can be expected to change your mind about it. So I don’t bother; above my paygrade. That being said, I have no business asserting other than the Traditional Ecclesiology I received from the Saints. Symbolically; the Church is the Ark of our Salvation, as symbolized in the OT by Noah’s Ark. And while it’s technically possible other lifeforms survived outside the Ark, the Genesis Narrative says what it says. I honestly do so hope and pray the Almighty God delivers all my friends. Until then, though, it’s beyond the scope of my “job” to just tell everybody what they want to hear. I just don’t harp on it much.