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I mean, I definitely wouldn’t like it if I were the administrator of the university and those texts came to light.

My dad told me about this type of situation once when I was much younger. I got in an altercation about something and explained it to my dad, and he was like, well what did you think was gonna happen. I said but no, I was right, means I’m justified. He said yeah that makes it 10 times worse. If you call somebody out on something like that, and you’re wrong, it might be a big deal or it might not. If you are right, it’s pretty certain that it’s gonna be a big deal and you should expect some results from what you said.

And lo… I was enlightened.

I mean this is different, that was deliberately in public on my end. When you’re texting your friends you should say whatever the fuck you want to say and if your employer is doing something illegal in service of a genocide and goes through your texts, for some reason, and finds out you don’t like it, I’m not gonna be the one to tell you that’s your fault. But I do understand why the employer is extremely mad about it and saying some trumped-up bullshit reason why it’s officially not okay.

Also, check out the framing. "Elites." It's actually the opposite. The tiny handful of American politicians who actually stand with working people (Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, AOC... IDK if any others exist, honestly) are saying Biden should stay. It's the big donors and like 3 congresspeople I've never heard of and the media who are DEMANDING that he has to drop out and be replaced, coincidentally (I am sure) with someone who won't raise taxes on the rich quite so much and use the money to raise working-class wages.

And yet, it's always the "elites" who are pushing stuff they don't want you to support. If it was something they wanted you to support, the media would be finding some other word to use that made the people pushing it sound knowledgeable, savvy, authoritative, and sympathetic.

🤢

It seems possible that they're all watching someone who is equating pro-Palestinian protestors with Hamas and condemning them, and all the people texting are fairly disgusted with the university for publicly lying about and betraying their own students in that fashion, and speculating on the motives -- i.e. that in one way or another that person or the university or both will keep the flow of donations going by saying this.

I don't know for sure but that's the feeling I get from it. It doesn't sound anti-Semitic. That's just my take on it without much context.

That's the one

Parker F. Jones, a supervisor at Sandia, concluded in a reassessment of the accident in 1969 that "one simple, dynamo-technology, low voltage switch stood between the United States and a major catastrophe" He further suggested that it would be "credible" to imagine that in the process of such an accident, an electrical short could cause the Arm/Safe Switch to switch into the "Arm" mode, which, had it happened during the Goldsboro accident, could have resulted in a multi-megaton detonation.

Bill Stevens, a nuclear weapon safety engineer at Sandia, gave the following assessment in an internal documentary film produced by Sandia in 2010: "Some people can say, 'hey, the bomb worked exactly like designed.' Others can say, 'all but one switch operated, and that one switch prevented the nuclear detonation.'"[34]

Charlie Burks, another nuclear weapons systems engineer for Sandia, also added: "Unfortunately, there have been thirty-some incidents where the ready/safe switch was operated inadvertently. We're fortunate that the weapons involved at Goldsboro were not suffering from that same malady."[35]

The bomb was about 250 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. I don't know exactly how it works, but if it's simple multiplication, then you could say that everything for 480 miles in any direction would have been more or less destroyed.

Dude

What the FUCK

Okay

The people who are pointing out that he's obviously lying have a pretty compelling argument

The people who are pointing out that even if a 12-year-old DOES try to initiate sexual contact with you, you need to tell them no and tell their parents, are correct

But even THAT isn't the full scope of it

BOTH THIS DUDE AND HIS LAWYER ARE CONVINCED THAT THAT'S A GOOD EXPLANATION THAT WILL HELP HIS CASE

What the FUCK is going on in these megachurches that no one including the guy employed to get this guy a good outcome can just tell him to keep his mouth shut because nothing he says is going to help, let alone THAT. Like they are in a professional capacity standing up in real life reality and with apparently fully functioning adult brains modeling it out and expecting people to say OOOOOHH it was the 12 year old's fault, I get it, these things happen, carry on.

It's not dumb at all.

The early US warheads had a design such that a wrong electrical signal, as simple as a static electricity spark or short circuit from a corroded insulation piece somewhere, could trigger the detonation sequence and cause a full-strength detonation of the warhead. There are lots of ways it can happen, not all of them obvious in advance until it happens; fires, air accidents, lightning, or all kinds of accidental human mishandling while they're being assembled or moved around or maintained or God knows what else. And it only takes once.

I can't find it now, but I swear that there was an incident that involved the accidental release of an H-bomb during an aircraft accident over the American south where the damn thing managed to somehow do exactly what was described and send the wrong electrical signal while it was being jostled around or burned or whatever, and it was only the elaborate multiple safety systems the Americans had built into it (after some painful experience had taught them they had to be careful with the fucking things) that stopped it from detonating for real and blowing up half of Georgia or something. When they found the thing on the ground, it was fully ready to go, and it was only because the one little additional redundant "are you sure?" switch was still set to "no" that it didn't go off.

And you can build a bomb without adding the safety systems. No one stops you; there's no pop up that says you can't put these pieces together because it's not safe yet. And your boss might get really, really mad at you if your nuclear weapon isn't ready yet because you need to add something that might not be needed. I think it's a very real concern.

I've decided that he is maybe a secretly pro-Biden person who's playing the long game.

If he posts only anti-Biden stuff, and so haphazardly and repetitiously the exact same stuff that it's blatantly obvious what the game is, and it's transparently false enough that people pop up to debunk it consistently, and then instead of changing course he just repeats the same thing again, so people get constantly exposed to counterarguments for it that they never would have seen otherwise... what do you think is the result of that?

Personally, I have learned a ton of stuff about Biden's accomplishments because of talking to Ozma. He'll say "Biden's polls entered a CATASTROPHIC FREE FALL because of the debate we must dump him IMMEDIATELY" and I learned that they dropped by 2 percentage points and Biden's still polling ahead of all the other Democratic possibilities even when you include outlandish options like Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton. He'll say he, IDK, etc etc, I don't want to list this whole laundry list, but the point is that I am now significantly more pro-Biden than I was, purely because of talking to Ozma about him.

And then told everyone, more or less, that if you're a real American you should be licking at least 5 cows a day and then coughing on your neighbors to prove you're not a coward

Dude, it's fuckin magic now

I was used to emacs + gdb + valgrind. That's actually pretty significantly powerful if you know how to use it, but I sort of bit the bullet really not that long ago and forced myself to learn VSCode, assuming that it would be a big over-feature-packed bunch of bullshit, and it's gold. It can debug any language. I can edit and run and debug code that's on the other side of an ssh connection in a git repo and all the different plugins and stuff just work (well, you know, for the most part, enough to be pretty massively useful).

Plus I can have GPT spit out boilerplate for me and it does it all semi-instantly, and it can teach me libraries and idiomatic patterns in environments I'm unfamiliar with way faster than I could do it myself from the documentation.

Fuckin magic man

Holy shit! That’s awesome.

So when you poll all registered voters, not attempting to correct for likeliness to vote which favors Biden, it’s within 3 percentage points? Dude that’s really good news. Also it looks like it barely dropped after the debate. This is all zoomed in to like 1% being this big jump, so yeah it ticked down by 2 points but whatever. IDK, polling methodology is kind of shit anyway, and they needed to include the 3rd party candidates which for some weird reason seems like it would shift it back to Trump. You can’t really tell much from this.

But yeah it’s really good news that it’s still basically within the range of statistical noise. You gotta tell the media, they’ve been super scared about what the debate meant for Biden’s chances, and I’m sure they’ll be really glad to be able to tell everyone that the voters are smarter than they were giving them credit for and were already aware that Biden is old.

I was gonna say something snarky about this chart, too, but I think I’m just gonna let it speak for itself:

Oh! We’re talking about Columbus? Yeah, that was way worse than Gaza. Just an outright unapologetic slaughter of everyone.

I thought we were talking about Hamburg and Tokyo and the allies in WW2. IDK how I got that impression.

(I’m not sure what you’re trying to get out of this interaction, but I think I’ve pretty much said everything I was interested in saying at this point.)