Tell me if it's mentioned somewhere notable and I'll take it back, but I have yet to see any reasonable person with a big enough megaphone say the obvious thing here -- today's human rights violations are tomorrow's international terrorists.
Many of these poorly treated children will survive. And they will have learned one lesson about the people of the United States: they are only worthy of contempt. Dehumanize a child today, and you make an adult willing to kill tomorrow.
Let's be clear and say that other human beings should be treated with decency and respect because it is the right thing to do whether your moral code compels you or if you take a transactional approach to history and see that again and again those who are righteously wounded return with guns and bombs to exact a righteous revenge.
That doesn't excuse the behavior, but it explains it, or at least many instances of it. You're taking United States battleship and you shell the heights above Beirut, don't be surprised then when the young people in that community start hijacking airliners. That happened.
So, not only is the present administration destroy the economy, fucked up in a number of ways that cause the suffering in Ukraine and other places to continue and deepen, and not only are they prepared to take out debt today that will never be repaid by generations yet unborn, but they are planting the seeds of another generation of international terrorists with grudges against the people of the United States.
And in some future time, if the United States has the wherewithal to deploy weapons systems, we'll have that generation of Americans to add to the roll of war dead honored on some future, awful memorial Day.
My first reaction to 9/11 was, well, we asked for it. Just surprised it took so long to bite us on the ass here at home. Fuck around with people's lives, don't be surprised when the survivors come around looking for vengeance.
I always thought the lesson was that if you build up a zealous irregular army to go after your favorite enemy (in this case the Soviets), have a plan for for that irregular army when that favorite enemy goes away. In this case, we had no plan. And a bunch of violent zealots, who after murdering Sadat (but getting no revolution in Egypt) and getting exiled by the Saudis, had lots of free time on their hands -- and decided to make the biggest dog on the block their next target.
The Hijacking of Flight 847 -- motivated by revenge for American naval shelling of Beirut (which was itself revenge for a deadly suicide truck bombing):
I can't name the source but remember reading that child survivors of the Holodomor were some of the most effective and evil collaborators of the Nazi party.
Once again, ICE managed to get worse even under a Democratic administration. It is THAT fascist. ICE cannot be regulated or reformed. Disband it and start over.
Disband it, and take a hard look at its former members for criminal behavior. And bar them from employment in any law enforcement organization; no exceptions. Not so much as a crossing guard.
That HHS even has an Office of Refugee Resettlement must grate the tender sensibilities of Trumpists who don’t want any resettlement of refugees at all.
Every cruelty in the universe should be visited on this man and his entire family, his friends, his neighbors, his collaborators, his minions, and his base. A pox on all of them. One that ensures that they will suffer on this earth.
You can tell Musk is back at work. I'm seeing glowing articles from made-up media outlets in my feed touting the bright future for Tesla due to robo-cabs and that stupid fucking Optiumus robot.
The Federal Aviation Administration gave the green light Thursday for SpaceX to launch the next test flight of its Starship mega-rocket as soon as next week, following two consecutive failures earlier this year.
For the next launch, the FAA will establish an aircraft hazard area covering approximately 1,600 nautical miles extending eastward from Starbase, Texas, and through the Straits of Florida, including the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. In order to minimize disruption to commercial and private air traffic, the FAA is requiring the launch window for Starship Flight 9 to be scheduled during "non-peak transit periods."
The expanded hazard area will force the closure of more than 70 established air routes across the Gulf of Mexico and now includes the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The FAA anticipates this will affect more than 175 flights, almost all of them on international connecting routes. For airline passengers traveling through this region, this will mean an average flight delay of approximately 40 minutes, and potentially up to two hours, the FAA said.
Waymo HQ is nearby, and they test on local streets (often with a human tester on board). Engineer friends who've take them in San Francisco have had good comments. Of course, they get blamed for a lot that's not the Waymo's fault - there was a very bad traffic accident in San Francisco early in the year that spawned the headline "Waymo Vehicle in Fatal Collision", even though the Waymo in question was stopped at a traffic light and rear-ended by regular car that was in turn rear-ended by a Tesla going over 100MPH.
Yeah, eerie. My son and I were walking in the city late at night last year no one else on the street when one of those came by. Queue the Twilight Zone music.
They're kinda creepy but I'm going to try one. I trust Lidar and their software far more than Tesla's "FSD" which only uses cameras and keeps causing crashes.
Tesla's bullshit should be called Full Automated Driving and have done with it. It's never going to work.
There was one horrific crash where some douchehammer in his Tesla was using FSD and watching, of all things, Lilo and Stitch on his portable DVD player. A truck had stalled across the two lane highway and its trailer was white. FSD decided it was sky and he went under it at 60mph, with predictable results.
LIDAR won't do that because it is a proper ranging system.
If you watch the tracking in a Tesla on autopilot its clear that its not able to remember where and what a car is, where as the Waymo's are clearly modeling other vehicles as abstracted things. Makes it practical.
The only way that this works, insurance-wise, is if everyone is riding in autonomous vehicles because they can communicate with each other. Add people to the equation and it falls apart.
At least that is what I have been told at conferences.
I'm starting to see articles from media outlets I have never heard of. And if I click on them, they say nothing at all. Then I block so I never see those outlets again.
A 37-year-old cryptocurrency investor was charged on Saturday with kidnapping a man and beating, shocking and torturing him for weeks inside a luxury townhouse in downtown Manhattan, all in a scheme to get the man’s Bitcoin password, the authorities said.
The crypto investor, John Woeltz, was taken into custody on Friday after the man managed to escape the townhouse and notify the police. Mr. Woeltz was arraigned on Saturday morning in Manhattan criminal court and charged with assault, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and criminal possession of a gun. He was ordered held without bail and forced to surrender his passport, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said.
Another person, Beatrice Folchi, was also arrested on Friday and charged with kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment, though her connection to Mr. Woeltz was not immediately clear. A third person, identified only as an “unapprehended male,” was also mentioned as a participant in the abuse during Mr. Woeltz’s arraignment.
Tell me if it's mentioned somewhere notable and I'll take it back, but I have yet to see any reasonable person with a big enough megaphone say the obvious thing here -- today's human rights violations are tomorrow's international terrorists.
Many of these poorly treated children will survive. And they will have learned one lesson about the people of the United States: they are only worthy of contempt. Dehumanize a child today, and you make an adult willing to kill tomorrow.
Let's be clear and say that other human beings should be treated with decency and respect because it is the right thing to do whether your moral code compels you or if you take a transactional approach to history and see that again and again those who are righteously wounded return with guns and bombs to exact a righteous revenge.
That doesn't excuse the behavior, but it explains it, or at least many instances of it. You're taking United States battleship and you shell the heights above Beirut, don't be surprised then when the young people in that community start hijacking airliners. That happened.
So, not only is the present administration destroy the economy, fucked up in a number of ways that cause the suffering in Ukraine and other places to continue and deepen, and not only are they prepared to take out debt today that will never be repaid by generations yet unborn, but they are planting the seeds of another generation of international terrorists with grudges against the people of the United States.
And in some future time, if the United States has the wherewithal to deploy weapons systems, we'll have that generation of Americans to add to the roll of war dead honored on some future, awful memorial Day.
My first reaction to 9/11 was, well, we asked for it. Just surprised it took so long to bite us on the ass here at home. Fuck around with people's lives, don't be surprised when the survivors come around looking for vengeance.
I always thought the lesson was that if you build up a zealous irregular army to go after your favorite enemy (in this case the Soviets), have a plan for for that irregular army when that favorite enemy goes away. In this case, we had no plan. And a bunch of violent zealots, who after murdering Sadat (but getting no revolution in Egypt) and getting exiled by the Saudis, had lots of free time on their hands -- and decided to make the biggest dog on the block their next target.
The Hijacking of Flight 847 -- motivated by revenge for American naval shelling of Beirut (which was itself revenge for a deadly suicide truck bombing):
https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/17/world/hijacking-flight-847-grisly-account-for-passengers-algiers-prayers-tears.html#:~:text=The%20hijackers%27%20anger,Middle%20East%20policy.
I can't name the source but remember reading that child survivors of the Holodomor were some of the most effective and evil collaborators of the Nazi party.
One source:
Perks, Robert (1993). "Ukraine's Forbidden History: Memory and Nationalism". Oral History. 21 (1): 43–53. ISSN 0143-0955. JSTOR 40179315 https://www.jstor.org/stable/40179315
Sounds like edging toward policies of Nazi concentration camps only the DOJ looks to legalize policies.
Sir! Seriously? Not even a "Happy Meal™"?
"Besides, basic decency goes against Trump’s larger goal of making the USA such a terrible place that no one will want to come here. "
Including students, tourists, businesses, and MANY OF ITS OWN CITIZENS.
If you're not a MAGAt, they want to chase you out or lock you up.
Once again, ICE managed to get worse even under a Democratic administration. It is THAT fascist. ICE cannot be regulated or reformed. Disband it and start over.
Disband it, and take a hard look at its former members for criminal behavior. And bar them from employment in any law enforcement organization; no exceptions. Not so much as a crossing guard.
That HHS even has an Office of Refugee Resettlement must grate the tender sensibilities of Trumpists who don’t want any resettlement of refugees at all.
https://open.substack.com/pub/viennawoods/p/may-25-2925?r=wsfd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
The weather has been miserable here, but I do believe we're through the worst of it!
Looks pretty scary! Make sure you don't stray too far from the cork screw or you could get caught unprepared.
Bootstraps are in kiddie jail too!
"Do not read the comments." I can only imagine. YouTube has one of THE worst groups of sewer rat leet bros on the intertubes.
Scott Bessent is proof that God exists and is telling us to go fuck ourselves.
If you plan to burn the economy down to the floor and fuck everybody, Scott Bessent is the man to put us all to sleep.
Every cruelty in the universe should be visited on this man and his entire family, his friends, his neighbors, his collaborators, his minions, and his base. A pox on all of them. One that ensures that they will suffer on this earth.
The movie is over if you'd like to join us there for OT.
I dunno, things were just starting to get really hot and sexy on this thread.
Yeah but we have beer and weed in the movie thread.
You have won me over.
You can tell Musk is back at work. I'm seeing glowing articles from made-up media outlets in my feed touting the bright future for Tesla due to robo-cabs and that stupid fucking Optiumus robot.
My junk email is starting to fill back up with scammy emails touting the latest brilliant mouth farts from Elno.
It might be raining debris next week too:
The Federal Aviation Administration gave the green light Thursday for SpaceX to launch the next test flight of its Starship mega-rocket as soon as next week, following two consecutive failures earlier this year.
For the next launch, the FAA will establish an aircraft hazard area covering approximately 1,600 nautical miles extending eastward from Starbase, Texas, and through the Straits of Florida, including the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. In order to minimize disruption to commercial and private air traffic, the FAA is requiring the launch window for Starship Flight 9 to be scheduled during "non-peak transit periods."
The expanded hazard area will force the closure of more than 70 established air routes across the Gulf of Mexico and now includes the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands. The FAA anticipates this will affect more than 175 flights, almost all of them on international connecting routes. For airline passengers traveling through this region, this will mean an average flight delay of approximately 40 minutes, and potentially up to two hours, the FAA said.
This is not going to end well.
And he wonders,why the world hates his guts.
Good thing the FAA is fully staffed up with highly trained an experienced folk to manage this complex operation.
That was why DOGE went after the FAA in the first place. Manbaby Elno won't brook anything meddling in his plans to play with rockets.
lol
Those robo-cabs have had less that 1,000 miles testing. Waymo is active right now in SF and probably other cities.
And we all know those Optimus robots are remote controlled.
Waymo HQ is nearby, and they test on local streets (often with a human tester on board). Engineer friends who've take them in San Francisco have had good comments. Of course, they get blamed for a lot that's not the Waymo's fault - there was a very bad traffic accident in San Francisco early in the year that spawned the headline "Waymo Vehicle in Fatal Collision", even though the Waymo in question was stopped at a traffic light and rear-ended by regular car that was in turn rear-ended by a Tesla going over 100MPH.
Last I heard there's no 'robo' raxi. Its Uber for Tesla.
I see the Waymos with no drivers. It's kinda creepy, but they exist.
Enlo's "Robo Taxi" is smoke and mirrors.
Yeah, eerie. My son and I were walking in the city late at night last year no one else on the street when one of those came by. Queue the Twilight Zone music.
Waymo is all over Phx Metro, they have been here for years. They just expanded to serve my area.
They're kinda creepy but I'm going to try one. I trust Lidar and their software far more than Tesla's "FSD" which only uses cameras and keeps causing crashes.
Tesla's bullshit should be called Full Automated Driving and have done with it. It's never going to work.
From what I've read Tesla still hasn't figured out that they need object permanence, someone from Waymo said Tesla is still 10 years behind them.
Tesla's FSD won't work on cameras alone.
There was one horrific crash where some douchehammer in his Tesla was using FSD and watching, of all things, Lilo and Stitch on his portable DVD player. A truck had stalled across the two lane highway and its trailer was white. FSD decided it was sky and he went under it at 60mph, with predictable results.
LIDAR won't do that because it is a proper ranging system.
I know which I trust.
Im serious about the object permanence thing.
If you watch the tracking in a Tesla on autopilot its clear that its not able to remember where and what a car is, where as the Waymo's are clearly modeling other vehicles as abstracted things. Makes it practical.
My son sent me a video of him in a Waymo going about 30 mph in the bay area. This was about a year ago. Freaked me out but he said that it was fine.
The Waymo cars I see have cameras all over them. And the six cameras on the roof rotate.
Those are LIDAR. That's an incredible system.
From what I have been told, MSU has the strongest expertise in LIDAR in the country.
I imagine permits, insurance, operating expenses and maintenance are not going to prove cheaper than a human driver.
The only way that this works, insurance-wise, is if everyone is riding in autonomous vehicles because they can communicate with each other. Add people to the equation and it falls apart.
At least that is what I have been told at conferences.
They're already hedging by saying there will be human oversight.
So what that means (and I've seen the site) is that people have to watch the cabs and intervene.
And how's that going to work? Starlink? Bwahahaha
I can't believe Austin allowed them to run this shitshow of a test
Lot of folks there who might be highly motivated to help this experiment fail.
As long as it's not small children or innocent cyclists or pedestrians, which is my very deep concern.
I'm starting to see articles from media outlets I have never heard of. And if I click on them, they say nothing at all. Then I block so I never see those outlets again.
The ones I clicked had content, but it was batshit insane.
So in frozen flat cylinder sportsball, the Carolina Hurricanes have lost 14 straight conference finals games.
The Florida Panthers have just scored 5 goals in about 8 minutes, so make that 15.
Fucking Panthers.
𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐊𝐢𝐝𝐧𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐖𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟, 37-𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟-𝑜𝑙𝑑 𝐽𝑜ℎ𝑛 𝑊𝑜𝑒𝑙𝑡𝑧, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑣𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑚 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑤𝑒𝑒𝑘𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑀𝑎𝑛ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑛 𝑡𝑜𝑤𝑛ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝐵𝑖𝑡𝑐𝑜𝑖𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑, 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑦.
A 37-year-old cryptocurrency investor was charged on Saturday with kidnapping a man and beating, shocking and torturing him for weeks inside a luxury townhouse in downtown Manhattan, all in a scheme to get the man’s Bitcoin password, the authorities said.
The crypto investor, John Woeltz, was taken into custody on Friday after the man managed to escape the townhouse and notify the police. Mr. Woeltz was arraigned on Saturday morning in Manhattan criminal court and charged with assault, kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment and criminal possession of a gun. He was ordered held without bail and forced to surrender his passport, the Manhattan district attorney’s office said.
Another person, Beatrice Folchi, was also arrested on Friday and charged with kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment, though her connection to Mr. Woeltz was not immediately clear. A third person, identified only as an “unapprehended male,” was also mentioned as a participant in the abuse during Mr. Woeltz’s arraignment.
https://archive.ph/9jguA
If he is convicted, the rapist will pardon him
New type of crime. Or new reason for an old crime.
Do you pay your own ransom? Do they off you after they get the coins?
Siri, show me the Wild West but with Monopoly money. Human nature never changes.
I'm amazed this guy wasn't at PABs big crypto-grift dinner.
Trump: Will I be seeing you at my crypto-grifting dinner?
Woeltz: Sorry boss, I'm a little tied up right now. Gotta terrorize and torture this crypto-currency guy til I get his password.
Trump: (jealous as hell) Fine, carry on then.
Sounds like he was otherwise occupied!