You mean they they will paint the flag on the whole fucker? I think that is an excellent idea. But what flag? I think US flag would be ok. I do not mind anyway. But in modern times maybe rainbow one would be more appropriate? Plus a huge statue of a dildo. Any one serving as a head of state in the West would do. Alternatively coca-cola logo would also be acceptable. Let Chinese paint it in red first to save on the cost.

I think the more appropriate reference would be "Space Force" the series where among others John Malkovich plays. I hope it is as funny as the series.

So because you think that is a good idea that we put bloody windmills everywhere does not mean that it actually is. I do not bring the alternatives as this has been done before and does not work. I guess we will try and see.

It is probably cheaper for these desert regions bordering on salt water deposits to use electricity to desalinate. Put a nuclear reactor there and produce water. It does not compress well but that is not needed. The only problem is that these desert regions usually have populations that consider martyrdom as an option in their life choices so you would need something that have passive safety and these types of reactors are not ready yet.

Alternatively we can open the wet market in Wuhan again and wait till the problem with the population is resolved and then we can drive our cars as we used to. I mean the ones that survive the virus and the jab would. (this was sarcasm, in case of hyperventilation call a doctor).

I am sure you can sell that to the idiots disposing the billions or at least to the journalists that distribute the modern wisdom and "facts' to the masses.

Agree to all but German banking interests. I do not know who is served by the current globalist elite. In any case using qualifier 'German' is not really correct - political class in Germany hates the country, they talk about it openly. Previous chancellor had shown very visible signs of weakness every time she came close to German state symbols. Allegedly because of the dehydration. In any case they do not act in my interests and I am a German.

I'd say cut them tyrants all off - please include Justin too.

Please be careful however not to include too many countries or they may arrange for their own and live well.

So as soon an argument is used that could contradict your narrative of "we are good, putin is hitler" etc the person that brought it, is somehow Russian troll and this makes the argument invalid. Where do I know these tactics from....

I do not know if the Russian perspective is complete BS or BS mixed with some elements of reason because I have never seen it. The bottom line however is this: if any country X tries to introduce good Y into a country Z and the result is that the country's material wealth is destroyed, millions have to flee and hundresd of thousands die then I'd say whatever good that was that was being introduced it is not so good. Now X=roughly West/NATO, Y=Democracy and civil rights, Z= Syria or same X&Y with Z being Libya or Kosovo etc - this is ok. even if it is not. If however X=Russia (or Serbia), Y is protection of certain ethnic population (same in the Serbia/Kosovo conflict) and Z is Ukraine (Kosovo) it is somehow bad, even evil possibly hitler level evil. The only thing I know is this: media are lyig and politicians in the west as well as in the east just do whatever they think is right. Very often this right is just wrong, often enough on both sides. I do not have to justify what Putin does. I think his actions are not rational but then again - I am pretty sure Ukrainians are not heroes of democracy and human rights - they and the Baltic states do discriminate against Russians although they do not have to. Ukraine is also full to the brim with our weapons. I wonder if that matters for a guy like Putin who does not care about how things look like but act on basis of facts (this is my speculation) - maybe indeed he wants to prevent these two tiny enclaves from being overran? Ukraine is in any case in much better position than Georgians were more than 10y ago and i would have good chance to cleanse the tiny enclaves in the east Krajina style (Krajina is a place in Croatia). Bottom line we have blood on our hands for no good reason, if we did no mess around Ukraine this may still have happened but at least it would not be our fault.

BTW: I actually do not mind killing Saddam. This was one rare occasion we did something good and considering that he was killing his people with gas (for this we do have evidence not like in many cases in Syria for instance) the price may have been worth it. We still messed it up at the end. But I guess this was a good try. Still based on a lie and I guess the goodness of it was an accident.

Additional complexity in our current situation is the absolute infantile and idiotic behaviour of our media and politicians that use that to gauge public opinion. The way it goes if NATO invokes article 5 now (I am pretty sure DDoS attacks on many Russian sites were done from the Western countries - how about that?) it may actually provoke escalation. This is what the West did at least since Joe became a potus - talk BS and escalate. I am old and I do not give a shit. But there are lots of people that do because they dislike the nuclear war for some reason. Another thing - Putin actually killed pandemic - I have not seen any covid BS in media for like 3 days in a row! He is my hero even if he goes down (which I find likely).

Sadly we in the West cannot protect our won citizens from our own governments. Last two years show enough of evidence for that.

This (I mean the story with granma) can be true or not. People die. That is the final consequence of being alive. It is regrettable and for quite some a tragedy but sometimes also a relief to a person who is usually suffering co-morbidities etc (just as the research says). This does not mean it is impossible or one should not try it etc,. Eventually you have to consider what is better: living in horror or just living. You have to consider also the benefits and costs of each measure. From what I have seen this has been done only in few places. Not in most of the Democrats rules states, not in Australia and not in German where I live.

You may argue that the measles vax was reasonable. The measles virus and the vaccine had quite good characteristics for use, that is the virus was spreading fast and killed a lot of (especially young) peoplem had a lot of side effects and long term effects, while the vaccine was and is very effective, well tested and has minimum side effects. The same with majority of other vaccines. It is however hardly true for covid vaccine. The jabbed and boosted get sick and pass on the virus just as the unjabbed do - assuming the same behaviour. Here in Germany the fact is that unjabbed have to test to be able to live and the jabbed do not - this on its own may explain why the mortality rates are higher in German states that have higher vaccination rates. But maybe these are side effects. Who knows? The government seems to be hellbent on not verifying the status of the sick and on not providing this data to the public. Evil people (and even some gov. officials) say that this is to not give the anti-vaxxers arguments. One may consider this a joke but it is not.

I might have agreed with vaccination if anybody actually bothered to provide the reliable data about the illness, about the vaccine and on the benefits and costs of the measures. By reliable I mean that people do not get sacked for expressing 'false' ideas and that there is no censorship. The way I see it the MSM (new and old especially likes of YT and FB which censor all that is possible to be censored) and the politicians with their draconian but not based on research policies fucked it up for me and quite a few people who would otherwise consider a jab. Now I am very serious in protesting till I get what I want which is my freedoms back. I understand that I may get arrested or shot in the head in a process by the overreaching police state. So was it back then when I lived under commies. Interesting in this context is why FDA needs 70y to release the papers it used to license the use of vaccines? Another joke?

As for censorship by private companies - a subject quite interesting in itself. I think the people hunting other people from public square for wrong-think are censors, whatever their status is. You own the square and you remove views - you are a censor. Something that should be very obvious especially ever since the right to assembly and to demonstrate has been suspended in many places (I violate the ban on assembly now just by walking in front a town hall with a friend - I do it regularly anyway to make a point that inalienable rights are inalienable). But I am flexible - I can agree on calling it cancel culture. Just as evil as censorship of the past.

But I guess there will be plenty of people that want to tell me now how I murdered their mother. The kids that committed the suicide during 2y of measures or just missed quite some school time do not count there anyway I suppose. That the measures are causing increasing poverty in the world for the first time in few decades is a fact as is also that poverty causing decrease in life expectancy. The fact that the treatment options seems to be limited by ideology is probably affecting outcomes too. How many people died because of that?

Just watching the language used to 'convince' people to take a jab reminds me strongly of a communist propaganda from a country I came from. Just as it does remind me about the propaganda from a country I live in now, just 90ya. That the West dares even criticize others for human rights violations now is another major joke.

The formulation of 'real time' is silly in both cases anyway. The event happened long time ago. The real interesting part is this: if you consider the 'real time' thing in relation to when the light came to us then the actual observation by Chinese 1000ya were done in real time as they observed the light coming in as it passed the earth. What they did in Hawaii is difficult to say as the article in question does not provide such details. but chances are they were making photos and analyzing these with computers - something that is not real time by nature of the process. So if you really care about 'real time' than the comment that Chinese were first is valid while we still do not know if Hawaiian astronomers were doing it real time either.

What the article wanted to say of course is that the astronomers observed something that made them focus on particular object in the sky thus providing much more data than having just general observation of the whole sky and analyzing photos afterwards w/o option to focus specific instruments on it while the light from the actual explosion passed our planet.

The way I see it then is: both views are right but the title is just a confusing mess. Just as the article is. For instance (from the article):

is really wrong. it is not iron that collapses but the star does as soon as there is enough of iron in the core and the pressure ceases causing implosion. But I am not an expert so maybe that is iron that collapses. Who knows. Maybe we have just observed (in real time) a new famous astronomer publishing his first great theory?

When you charge the car Apple takes 30%.

Not if you make it illegal enough!

What would be the motive for an attack?

Some companies would go out of business if they didn't pay ransomware.

There wouldn't be a ransomware attack in the first place!