Wherever he was, I'm certain that progressives will insist that:
- this is an alt-right lie
- it may not be a lie but he wasn't there
- ok he was there, but it wasn't relevant
- yeah it might have been relevant but this is all blown out of proportion by the alt-right media
- there are perhaps scores of bodies but they were bad people anyway
- turns out they were innocents but there are way more important things we should be focusing on.

That's pretty much the script, isn't it?

We may be entering a world where we can find 99.44% of bugs and we may find the "easy to find ones" a lot faster than we would find them today, but it's very arrogant to declare "we are entering a world where we can finally find them all" given how many unknowns are still out there.

Yes, the progress is good, but we need some humility and we need to be realistic with our expectations.

Yes, it has that figurative meaning but there's also an ACTUAL meaning to the words, no.

AmiMoJos statement was stupid and I'm explaining how **using an example in the PRECISE context that he/she did, the transfer of wealth to/from government**.

For example if I called you a "routinely sanctimonious cunt", I mean it figuratively, not to anthropomorphize that your actual vagina has feelings of superiority. I would assume your cunt routinely has no emotions, in reality.

"Slashdot reader AmiMoJo commented: "This is perhaps the biggest transfer of wealth in American history."

You mean aside from the $2.66 TRILLION the US (federal) government collects every year from taxpayers?

Well before pets.com, small textile firm was bought out in a hostile takeover. The new owners pivoted the company into an investment/holding company.

While not as big a Apple, it is pretty big in terms of market capitalization.

You may have heard of it.

"But it's both sad and ironic that those traits may also spell the end of mankind."

Ah, I see from this and other posts that we're entering a new cycle of the "oh no, the world's end is imminent because of: (check all that apply, according to your therapist)
( ) climate change
( ) pollution
( ) overpopulation
( ) COVID (deprecated)
( ) Trump
( ) Illegals
( ) Illegals being prosecuted
( ) Trans people not being allowed to strip in front of kids anymore
( ) (Other) _________________"

This has been a persistent neurosis especially peculiar to the West since what, 990AD? What's old is new again.

In fact, the existence of nuclear weapons has given us 75 years of Great Power peace, something unheard-of in the modern era.

You're arguing that since a woodworker works with materials that make violins he's "obviously" the right person to give an expert opinion on that Mozart symphony?

Let's observe that physicists in particular have insisted atomic war is literally imminent pretty much since the moment the weapons were invented ... two generations ago.

It isn't.

The "animals" as you describe them, had the chance in 1948 to accept the two-state solution offered by the British Mandate.

They refused it, quite explicitly because their leadership believed they (with the assistance of adjacent Arab states) had the ability genocide the Jewish populations of the region. Subsequently they, or their paymasters in Tehran, haven't hidden even slightly that their goal isn't coexistence, it's extermination.

They said, in effect, "No thank you, we don't want to share this land, we would rather kill them all".
And they're still not kidding; since 1994 the total international contributions to the Palestinians has been >$40bn. Did they build power plants? Water desalination? Ports? Infrastructure? Nope. They used it for terrorist-hiding tunnels, weapons, and rockets.

I agree, the reaction IS worse than the unprovoked attack. This is how punishment and conditioning works. https://intersol.ca/news/organ... Even in 'enlightened' systems, if someone shoplifts a $100 shirt, we don't simply take $100 from them as a 'commensurate' punishment. We put them in jail.*

*ok I realize the concept of jailing shoplifters in 2026 is hilariously outdated; we don't do this any more unless they're white or asian or hispanic, and even then it's rarely done. I submit the societal consequences as further proof of the point.

Aside from them being convincing, I'm interested in hearing what fact asserted there is wrong.

Amusingly, those guys you DISMISS are agreeing with you, you sanctimonious cunt. The article from way back in 1958 explains how the AMOC very specifically is overturned, and the colossal climate consequences.

If only we held the same strict standard to the people casually ransacking retail stores in urban areas.

Nevertheless, the US still has the highest percentage of successful missions to Mars, compared to organizations and countries with all-metric programs.

Funny, that.

... But I would willingly suffer brain rot instead of being locked in with "...more than a dozen millennials gathered in a brownstone apartment in Brooklyn ... For two hours of reading, drawing and conversation."

Or, it's something that's happened cyclically for eons.

These guys in 1958 are vastly more convincing than modern climatologists
https://harpers.org/archive/19...

Paleoclimate shows clear pulses of warming about every 120k-140k years followed by cooling 30+ times in the last 5 million years. The last... About that many years ago.
Per the wiki on the subject: "... It has been observed that ice ages deepen by progressive steps, but the recovery to interglacial conditions occurs in one big step..."
Wait long enough, and being present when it happens is inevitable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

The idea that we are doomed as a species is laughably pessimistic.

On the very good side, this will lower the cost and lead times for new drugs.

On the bad side, nation-states, terrorists, and even just Evil Agents Of Chaos[TM] who have access to tools like this and the knowledge to (ab)use them will be able to unleash biological chaos on the world.

Imagine if someone created a virus that infected everyone, spread rapidly, but was asymptomatic or had only common-cold-like-symptoms on everyone but their intended target, but it killed their target. The target could be an individual, a family that uniquely shared a mutation, or an entire ethnic group where the mutation was common in that ethnic group but rare outside of it.

Even worse, once unleashed, the virus will likely mutate and people or groups that are not the intended target may die, including the people who unleashed it.

I fear this is what is in our future.

I think you have your administrations confused.

Sept 2023: Biden administration hands $6bn to Iran. And authorized them to access up to another $10bn frozen assets.

Oct 7 2023, in what was a coincidence(?) Hamas - a directly-funded and -trained proxy for Iran, launches an unprovoked murderous attack on Israel.