Avynte posted:

you've seen how defensive this forum gets about magic. it'll believe anything

OutOfPrint posted:

I was a psych student 10 years ago and evopsych was a joke then.

I'm pretty deep into the paranormal and I think it's a loving joke.

Helsing posted:

"La Familia Guy"

Shageletic posted:

nah if anything it went the other way. Gioffre said that she didn't see Trump being a pedophile.

Bip Roberts posted:

Knowing the quality of the scientists and engineers I know at military places like Honeywell, Northrup or Ratheon vs the quality of people I know at companies like 3M or Intel I don't believe this for a second. Even given the that later two companies are fully involved in the MIC too, there still isn't a secret well of military magic. If anything it's the opposite is true that the military is 17 years behind because of the long development process of everything and the instance of relying on known designs.

twoday posted:

Victory Position posted:

World War Mammories posted:

we're all having a good time here but please don't use "junk DNA" as a biological version of unobtanium. even the phrasing "junk DNA" is based on misunderstanding.

Wheeee posted:

not all certainly, but many of the things schizophrenics and apophenia-addled conspiracy theorists talk about begin to make sense when you read them as metaphors being used because the person lacks the knowledge and vocabulary to properly identify or articulate the underlying causes of a pattern that actually does exist

nut posted:

someone mentioned it before but I think it can be argued that publish-or-perish dynamics in academia enslave most biologists to shirk creativity in favour of an industrial cranking out of papers using the most popular and edgy techniques. It's a safer approach to success in the field than something wholly novel that might not pan out. Those breakthroughs still clearly happen, but it seems pretty rare.

Marzzle posted:

how would antisemitism promote their interests in Europe? isn’t half the Epstein thing Israel wielding a tremendous amount of influence over US stuff?

Helsing posted:

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the American electorate to comprehend all its candidates. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of electoralism, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The political sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

Marianne Williamson has guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our elections and the human race form transient incidents. She has hinted at strange survivals in terms which would freeze the blood if not masked by a bland optimism. But it is not from her that there came the single glimpse of forbidden aeons which chills me when I think of it and maddens me when I dream of it. That glimpse, like all dread glimpses of truth, flashed out from an accidental piecing together of separated things—in this case an old newspaper item and the notes of a dead DNC employee. I hope that no one else will accomplish this piecing out; certainly, if I live, I shall never knowingly supply a link in so hideous a chain. I think that Seth Rich, too, intended to keep silent regarding the part he knew, and that he would have destroyed his notes had not sudden death seized him.

the milk machine posted:

why do you think I asked you for links? if you don’t want to share that’s fine too

the milk machine posted:

you’re right research is ongoing for covid.

Perry Mason Jar posted:

Each person has an individual responsibility to read and decide for themselves whether they want to accept any given vaccine or give it to their children rather than mindlessly accept rubber stamps.

nut posted:

If I'm missing anything obvious, lemme know! There are a couple more authors I've heard on Radio War Nerd that I wanted to look into, but I've got enough piled up for now. Also, again thank you this thread for cracking and pinging me to pieces this summer. I'll never be the same xoxoxoxox

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

That story is an exaggeration and I feel is almost being pumped because it's weak and because it takes further attention away from the Milwaukee house or wherever it was that got burned down after they led people out with bags over their heads. The news blows up the fake stuff and then goes "wow, what a waste of time, it didn't happen here so it's not happening anywhere" while just flat out ignoring the actual transgressions

Even if the tweet is factually correct, the "Things are not only not abnormal, in fact, they are more normal than they have ever been" vibe is bad and should not be the takeaway regarding the current state of child trafficking

quote:

Finally, when it comes to child sexual exploitation, the problem persists for complicated, heartbreaking reasons that have more to do with the failure of America’s social safety net than the rapaciousness of its criminal sex offenders. In 2016, the Center for Court Innovation published a survey of nearly 1,000 young sex workers in six American cities. The average age at which they had left home was 15. More than half had dropped out of high school, and more than 1 in 3 cisgender female sex workers had children of their own.

wikipedia posted:

The Center, which received an Innovations in American Government Award from the Ford Foundation and Harvard University, was founded in 1996. The Center's first director was John Feinblatt, who went on to serve as a senior advisor to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
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The Center for Court Innovation grew out of a single experiment in judicial problem solving. The Midtown Community Court was created in 1993 to address low-level offending around Times Square.

Regulus74 posted:

The point is not that we shouldn't worry about trafficking, the point is that the official anti trafficking line which both parties parrot endlessly is essentially run by NGOs and christian extremists whose only real problem with trafficking is that they aren't the ones doing it.

sleeptalker posted:

It almost certainly wouldn't have avoided the thread being "about" Cuppy for a while, but it could have been more productive, or it could have ended in a less-objectionable ban.

nut posted:

I dunno how accurate it is of a depiction of Dulles, but after he had a stroke and started fading mentally at the end of his life, Dulles comes across like he very much still thinks that any day now he'll be asked to rejoin the CIA as director

Mackers posted:

i bet this poo poo started out ironic and then then some whackjobs saw it were and all like "OMFG ANOTHER SEES THE TRUTH I AM VINDICATED"

pretty sad

call your shrink

Mackers posted:

lol loving nazis i dont need to explain poo poo to you

die screaming you cunts

quote:

In Albuquerque, N.M., Air Force scientists sought to beam comprehensible speech into the heads of adversaries. Their novel approach won a patent in 2002, and an update in 2003. Both were assigned to the Air Force secretary, helping limit the idea’s dissemination.

The lead inventor said the research team had “experimentally demonstrated” that the “signal is intelligible.” As for the invention’s uses, an Air Force disclosure form listed the first application as “Psychological Warfare.”

The Navy sought to paralyze. The Frey effect was to induce sounds powerful enough to cause painful discomfort and, if needed, leave targets unable to move. The weapon, the Navy noted, would have a “low probability of fatalities or permanent injuries.”

In a twist, the 2003 contract was awarded to microwave experts who had emigrated to the United States from Russia and Ukraine.

It is unknown if Washington deploys such arms. But the Pentagon built a related weapon known as the Active Denial System, hailing it in a video. It fires an invisible beam meant to deter mobs and attackers with fiery sensations.

quote:

As a candidate, Donald Trump faulted the Obama administration’s normalization policy as “a very weak agreement” and threatened to scrap it on reaching the White House. Weeks after he won the election, in late November 2016, the American embassy in Havana found itself battling a mysterious crisis.
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In September 2017, the Trump administration warned travelers away from Cuba and ordered home roughly half the diplomatic personnel.

Rex W. Tillerson, who was then the secretary of state, said the embassy’s staff had been targeted deliberately. But he refrained from blaming Cuba, and federal officials held out the possibility that a third party may have been responsible.

In early October, President Trump expelled 15 Cuban diplomats, producing a chill between the nations. Administration critics said the White House was using the health issue as a pretext to end President Barack Obama’s reconciliation policy.

Wasabi the J posted:

The thread loves it's crazy pants sources and treating them as gospel.

nut posted:

v good post grad, and I’m not just saying that because yesterday I was too lazy to read the grayzone article

Lampsacus posted:

If you want a diversion to this sort of history, I highly recommend two things.
High Weirdness by Erik Davis. Brilliant book on RAW, Terence Mckenna and PKD.
Mike Judge's podcast on the CIA, 1960s/1970s counterculture, discordianism, frigging Lee Harvey Oswald, Thomas Pynchon and such.

If you can't be hosed reading High Weirdness then I'd recommend select episodes of Erik Davis' defunct podcast: Expanding Mind.

wupwup

Lampsacus posted:

If you want a diversion to this sort of history, I highly recommend two things.
High Weirdness by Erik Davis. Brilliant book on RAW, Terence Mckenna and PKD.
Mike Judge's podcast on the CIA, 1960s/1970s counterculture, discordianism, frigging Lee Harvey Oswald, Thomas Pynchon and such.

If you can't be hosed reading High Weirdness then I'd recommend select episodes of Erik Davis' defunct podcast: Expanding Mind.

wupwup