EPTWoke up to this bit of lovely news today.. I didn't have this on my bingo card, but let's be honest, in hindsight we should have seen this coming
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Excludos
Norway8246 Posts
Woke up to this bit of lovely news today.. I didn't have this on my bingo card, but let's be honest, in hindsight we should have seen this coming | ||
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KT_Elwood
Germany1134 Posts
But they fill headlines and make "journalists" happy. So they suck his stubby mushroom dick and fondle shrinkly orange balls.. just to print everything he says verbatim and not even question it the 1,000,000,000,000 th time he just lied, made something up, didn't mean it, told a joke or had a stroke.... or whatever his lame excuse is. Trump is an engagement bait generator for "news". The nuclear stockpile is even in reduced maintainance because of the shutdown. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr1lk4k1ejo When trump says "nuclear tests" - he doesn't mean to blow up bikini atoll again... he will have Pete "Major" Kegstand lick some 9V Batteries in a DoE/NNSA office and declare the stockpile to be the bigliest and bestliest and deadliest again- thanks to Donald Jeffrey Trump. Trump just "Fixed China Situation" by undoing all that he has done since january and goes back to Bidennomics. That's so frustrating. Since Trump is EOL anyway, he doesn't care that he wastes everybody's time. He finds somthing to be working well (US-China trade), so he breaks it.. only to walk back on breaking it and declare victory by just caving to the old status quo. | ||
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oBlade
United States5982 Posts
On October 30 2025 17:26 Excludos wrote: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/trump-asks-pentagon-immediately-start-testing-us-nuclear-weapons-2025-10-30/ Woke up to this bit of lovely news today.. I didn't have this on my bingo card, but let's be honest, in hindsight we should have seen this coming The issue is Russia did a test of a capability the US doesn't have. Which the US strategic minds thought is superfluous, and didn't pursue, and in the interest of denuclearization also eschewed. The same reason the US doesn't use nuclear bazookas anymore, despite that the army would really like to have nukes. If you use a small nuke, you immediately escalate constantly to bigger nukes and get global nuclear war. The same idea with the torpedo. Poseidon is both nuclear powered (so like a drone submarine) and a nuclear delivery system. Like a ICT instead of an ICBM. Or a cruise torpedo since it needs constant propulsion. The US doesn't have nuclear tipped torpedoes. Because the US basically doesn't need an AOE torpedo that can blow up an entire fleet, or harbor, in one shot, because anyway nobody else has entire fleets that couldn't just be blown up in another way, and the same with harbors/ports which you can target with the rest of the nuclear triad. US submarines are capable of blowing up Russian submarines, and of nuking entire countries, but the niche of actually nuking an enemy submarine was not worth what it takes to build submarines that can launch nuclear torpedoes which then potentially puts nuclear escalation in the hands of sub captains. Despite that the "test" of the nuclear torpedo didn't involve an underwater nuclear detonation, which it might sound like at first, you still may have to test something in response. Whether that's shooting some ballistic missiles with dummy payloads, or an underground nuclear test which is the only way that doesn't violate treaty still. | ||
micronesia
United States24766 Posts
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Doublemint
Austria8728 Posts
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KT_Elwood
Germany1134 Posts
The result is the suggestion to do away with the legislative alltogether. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/-dont-need-anything-congress-trump-no-legislative-agenda-rcna240533 | ||
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Vivax
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Jankisa
Croatia1301 Posts
On October 30 2025 10:21 Hat Trick of Today wrote: But the thing is that businesses are largely behaving rationally. And the economic policy of the Trump administration as of right now is actually very predictable. For the most part, most businesses have responded to the economic climate and uncertainty by stockpiling stock and basically doing nothing else. No major investments, no additional hires. That’s seen in the absolutely cooked jobs market. For businesses like Apple who have large enough weight to influence government, you can buy a dinner with Trump to get the government to carve out exemptions on stuff like finished assembled goods from China. In such a situation, you’re actually ahead of the competition. You get stock in before tariffs hit, your opposition don’t have the same crystal ball. The Trump Administration being big into quid pro quo arrangements and the legal apparatus basically ruling that this is very fine and very OK is an absolute dream for high value individuals who are doing everything in their power to consolidate industries. Businesses that can abuse the current situation are behaving extremely rationally by ramming through everything they can get away with. This is the whole K shaped economy people are talking about. Between inflation and the trade situation, it’s functionally a recession for 90% of people in America and, like I said, we’re seeing this in the job numbers and consumer spending. The 10% of the wealthiest individuals are the sole peoples carrying things like consumer spending and that is largely fuelled by tech multinationals using an infinite money glitch in the system. The minute OpenAI, which is the 1/3rd of the infinite money glitch that is most likely to face financial hardship, can’t deliver the promised investments is when everything collapses because that’s when the top 10% start keeping their pocketbooks closed. The big problem that keeps me up at night is that the economy in general is not that disconnected from the Wall street / Stock market. A lot of pension and other funds are deeply invested in the American stock market and thanks to Crypto deregulation also in to that via ETFs, if everything starts crashing a lot of people will get burnt, badly. OpenAI seems to have burnt through $11 billion in the last quarter, how long can they sustain this? I have a feeling that their re-structuring and dropping the silly "not for profit" company story is a prelude into an IPO, by the time they are ready for it, the Hype train might be derailed enough for it to be one of the biggest flops in history, maybe that's whats gonna trigger the bubble bursting? Who knows. In other news, it seems like in the land of the free the 1st amendment protects you but not against criticizing the Orange god king: I encourage everyone to give this 6 minutes clip a watch. I expected that it's going to be some crazy shit this guy posted, I expected maybe he was resisting arrest so that's why they can hold him, but nope, it' just a quote from Trump and the guy's been in jail for 2 months now with a 2 million bail because he doesn't like the president and thinks he's a hypocrite. | ||
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Simberto
Germany11787 Posts
On October 31 2025 02:21 Vivax wrote: What‘s the best fridge brand for hiding in during a nuclear holocaust ? Probably the heaviest. Protection from radiation scales pretty well with the mass of material between you and the source. More mass also means that it reacts less strongly to blast waves, and it also gives you more resistance to heat. However, you probably also want to think about how you will breathe in there. | ||
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Excludos
Norway8246 Posts
On October 31 2025 02:21 Vivax wrote: What‘s the best fridge brand for hiding in during a nuclear holocaust ? I've heard good things about King Cool. But you need to get the older ones, the ones lined with lead | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45409 Posts
On October 31 2025 02:21 Vivax wrote: What‘s the best fridge brand for hiding in during a nuclear holocaust ? I think you found Donald Trump's next grift. | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23785 Posts
On October 31 2025 02:56 Excludos wrote: I've heard good things about King Cool. But you need to get the older ones, the ones lined with lead Luckily our government and businesses were forward thinking enough to ensure many of us have a lead lining in our bloodstream. | ||
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Acrofales
Spain18248 Posts
On October 31 2025 02:47 Simberto wrote: Probably the heaviest. Protection from radiation scales pretty well with the mass of material between you and the source. More mass also means that it reacts less strongly to blast waves, and it also gives you more resistance to heat. However, you probably also want to think about how you will breathe in there. And whether living inside a fridge for the next 300ish years is really a viable plan. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45409 Posts
On October 31 2025 05:21 Acrofales wrote: And whether living inside a fridge for the next 300ish years is really a viable plan. I swear, if Trump is still president when he's 379 years old... | ||
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Vivax
22261 Posts
Just put me into a vat and let me hallucinate until I turn into nutrient paste please tbh. None of those are serious. I wonder why the shutdown was for rather long. | ||
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DarkPlasmaBall
United States45409 Posts
The delusion: "Yesterday, the Trump Administration, in all its brain-rotting glory, posted an AI mockup of the president in Master Chief armor as it declared that the man, who has likely never played a moment of Halo in his life, had ended the console war ... the White House has put out a statement declaring not only that Trump has ended a war, but that he is “hugely popular” with gamers. ... the Trump administration is claiming credit for Microsoft bringing its longest-running series to PlayStation, and saying that under his presidency, gamers are thriving." The reality: "the video game industry has been thrown into a tailspin by the Trump administration. The president’s tariffs have increased console prices across the board ... Trump has done tangible damage to the video game industry in the past 10 months, and yet, there’s an odd, concerted effort within his administration to brand him as some kind of gamer-friendly leader. This includes dumb shit like these memes, but also the Department of Homeland Security’s use of imagery from video games and anime, such as Halo and Pokémon, to try and recruit people to ICE." ( https://kotaku.com/donald-trump-administration-white-house-halo-gamestop-2000639566 ) | ||
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GreenHorizons
United States23785 Posts
President Donald Trump has called on Republicans in the US Senate to scrap the filibuster rule in a bid to end the ongoing government shutdown, now entering its 30th day. “It is now time for the Republicans to play their ‘TRUMP CARD,’ and go for what is called the Nuclear Option - Get rid of the Filibuster, and get rid of it, NOW,” Trump wrote on social media. “Well, now WE are in power, and if we did what we should be doing, it would IMMEDIATELY end this ridiculous, Country destroying ‘SHUT DOWN,’” Trump wrote www.bbc.com Shutdown will probably end in a week or so, but it'll probably be affluent people having their flight plans interrupted (plus Dem's getting their "fightcred" for "the longest shutdown") that will be the last straw (again). | ||
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Simberto
Germany11787 Posts
What they don't love is not destroying any industry. | ||
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Jankisa
Croatia1301 Posts
![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/el0TEWs.png) I was there when the shitty magic was written and almost got sucked down the alt-right pipeline. I was watching, live, the_Donald subreddit going from ironic to actual brainwashed cult, and the overlap between them and GamerGate subreddits was palpable. That shit spawned so much of the current culture war shit, the rise of Jordan Peterson, Milo Yannopoulus and so many others who then bubbled up and got super famous on Rogan's podcast is something that I was watching with dread as I realized it's just repackaged conservatism. And the 2016 election was tight enough (what was it, 120 k votes across 4 states) that I firmly believe that this movement and pipeline was the tipping point for this whole timeline. | ||
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Vivax
22261 Posts
Lots of time on stupid mediums. And it's not like they aren't entertaining at times... I think a lot of the country was. If this is supposed to be the golden age of the right wing, I don't see it. It's just the inhuman shit happening that you would expect and a bunch of billionaires trying to influence Europe more aggressively. And social media gives you the creeps nowadays. | ||
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