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Dennis Hopkins
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Dennis Hopkins
@Ends_wolf
Winter is coming. Bring on the crypto guilds. End cultural rent seeking, 90% wealth tax on royalties. One piece is my religous book
Katılım Ekim 2023
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@Ends_wolf @Kingbingo_ Lots of capacity destruction
Its a long term problem
Its not priced in risk assets or prices in general
Inflation in cost of living with deflation in asset prices
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1. We haven't really felt the effects yet.
2. It will be compared to Covid.
3. BUT, Covid was a temporary restriction on capacity.
- This is a destruction of underlying capacity. So will last many years, not 2.
4. When it eventually comes back - energy will flow East, not West.
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@JamesMelville Bud you just got a follow for delivering the information without a lecture on the future! top man!
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Sean Bell (retired RAF fighter pilot, air vice marshall & military analyst):
“The British government and certainly my understanding, the British military want to keep well clear of getting directly involved in this conflict. Because as we are seeing, it’s not a winnable war.”
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Does he realise that this kind of talk makes people feel that compromise is not possibe, and that this way of thinking is very aggressive ?
Rakesh Krishnan Simha@ByRakeshSimha
Pakistani scholar Uthman Farooq, speaking in Birmingham, UK: "A Muslim Europe will come true. America will be a Muslim country, and Islam will enter every house. They can be as mad as they want. I don't care." Farooq is based in San Diego, California. In May 2025, the UK banned him from entering the country for his justification of rping female war captives under Islamic law. The US made a mistake by letting him in. It must not make a bigger blunder by letting him stay. Kick him back to Pakistan. @ICEgov @FBI
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@upstatefederlst Thats your problem?? not that blind creatures that cannot swim will charge blindly toward souns and we lost. ok....
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I want to like A Quiet Place but the premise here is that these creatures have super sensitive hearing and nobody thought to try high-pitched frequencies to fuck them up before everyone on the planet was dead?
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@FinancialPhys Your right bud the best science of all time has been done with pure baseless conjecture from our feels....
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I’m so happy to see others addressing the issue of space travel
SiFi is a plot device for storytelling, nothing more
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@COLRICHARDKEMP DO you literally know fucking nothing? The shelters were the tube stations and andersons! No until a war we aint gonna be putting them in our backyards!
Also! not helping? so all those fucking standoff weapons launched from faireild are what? cherrys on top?
GIF
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Hopefully Iran’s missile threat to UK will be eradicated by US & Israel — without our support. But we know other potential enemies have missiles able to hit us. We also know drones are prolific. The threat from both will increase. Britain lacks adequate air defences, which must obviously be addressed.
Worth noting also that the majority of missile & drone casualties in Israel have been inflicted by people not getting to shelters in time. Last time UK mainland came under missile & drone attack was in 1945 (V1 and V2), when we had bomb shelters. Has our government addressed a shelter system, together with associated warning system?
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I am very wary of reports that the UK is now within range of Iranian ballistic missiles.
But if the reports are true, let’s be in no doubt: the UK has no defences against such missiles.
No dedicated national ballistic missile defence (BMD) system for intercepting intermediate- or intercontinental-range threats aimed at the homeland.
No ground-based interceptors (like US THAAD or Patriot systems in Europe) deployed in Britain for this purpose.
In theory our T-45 warships could provide some cover. But most are currently undeployable or not in UK waters.
Leaving us defenceless from ballistic missile attack. Another massive military failure of the political class of all recent governments.
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@willchamberlain Dude your literally retarded if you think anyone is gonna buy this.
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Please tell me more about how Iran wasn’t an imminent threat.
Should we have waited until their ballistics could reach Bermuda?
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Iran fired a pair of intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, a joint U.S.-UK base in the Indian Ocean. One missile failed in flight, and another was engaged by a US Navy destroyer using an SM-3 missile.
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I told the PM in Commons 3 weeks ago that Iran is a permanent threat to UK
Now truth is out that their ballistic missile range is much longer than many believed
Now even Starmer must realise that Tehran has to be properly disarmed by US and Israel telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2026/0…
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@Unpop_Science God your fucking stupid and dress it up as something noble. Sigh.
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crazy how they point to the UK, a temperate rainforest archipelago clearcut for wealthy ranchers, among the most nature-depleted countries in the world, as the paragon of sustainable animal farming
Also 1kg of beef consumes 1451L of freshwater withdrawals, not rain. (Poore 2018)
Sama Hoole@SamaHoole
Activist: "The water usage for beef is obscene. Thousands of litres per kilogram." Farmer: "That's rainfall." Activist: "What?" Farmer: "The figure includes all the rain that falls on the pasture. The cows drink from the stream. The rain falls whether there's a cow here or not." Activist: "It's still water consumption." Farmer: "Should I stop the rain falling on my field?" Activist: "Grow crops instead. More efficient." Farmer: "This is a 35-degree slope in the Welsh hills. Show me the crop." Activist: "Technology..." Farmer: "To make tractors climb mountains?" Activist: "There must be a solution." Farmer: "There is. It's called a cow." Activist: [checks phone]
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Games > Books
Some games have scripts so massive, they make books look like a light read.
For comparison, the entire LOTR trilogy has ~481,000 words:
2.2M — KC: Deliverance II
2.0M — Baldur's Gate 3
1.2M — Disco Elysium
1.1M — Animal Crossing
1.0M — Baldur's Gate 2
1.0M — Cyberpunk 2077
950K — Planescape: Torment
740K — Dragon Age: Origins
650K — Fallout: New Vegas
450K — The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Narrative designers write modern epics and voice actors record absolute libraries.
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@HMBohemond It was dumb and made no sense in a universe of assasins!
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The Hotlzman Shield in Dune is one of the perfect examples of adding a tiny thing to a setting to get a vibe you want out of it.
In Dune's case:
- Holtzman Shields stop fast moving objects.
- Lasguns (particle beam guns in Dune) can cause a nuclear explosion if they hit a shield, so they're not commonly used.
- Melee is the dominant form of combat, trying to strike slow to penetrate the shields.
- Projectile weapons exist but they're designed around boring through or disrupting shields, but a skilled combatant can deflect the slow moving projectiles.
- Heavy artillery can still kill shielded humans through sheer transfer of force or heat, which the shield can't block.
- Anti-vehicle weapons are built around these principles because the vehicle might be shielded.
Dune codified the idea of high tech sci-fi where you still have melee and the idea of "oh here's this piece of technobabble that let's me have what I want in my sci-fi setting." Gundam's Minovsky Particle and Mass Effect's Element Zero owe the Holtzman Shield their existence.
Zack Stentz@MuseZack
A hugely underrated aspect of the Dune universe's appeal is how Frank Herbert built a world where people zip around the galaxy in spaceships but then fight each other with swords and knives. It makes everything 50 percent cooler than a world of ray guns and robots.
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@athenaeumbc "turn off the radio" "alway write and read with the ear". I think i see why tolkien though he was a hack.
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C. S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer:
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@sentdefender This ultimatum is precisely the kind of decisive, clear-eyed pressure that forces the regime to choose between survival and continued economic warfare, leaving no room for its usual tactics of delay and deception.
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President Donald J. Trump has posted to his Truth Social platform warning that if Iran fails to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours, the US will begin targeting Iranian power plants. The message was posted at 7:44pm EST.
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The chessboard as it stands looks like this:
* Gas prices are irrevocably fucked due to recent escalations, prices are $60 apart between paper and physical oil due to heavy US market manipulation, but they can't do this forever, it's expensive
* Trump needs to end this soon. He only has 1 unplayed card left, a direct assault on Kharg island and Iran's southwest shores
* He's sending 8000 members with limited support to assault an extremely difficult to reach target, some 400 miles into the Persian Gulf, while Iran knows they're coming and has been digging in with UAVs, drones, missiles, fast attack boats, etc
* The probability that it succeeds is very low. The probability that Trump backs off before going in is high. He wants a deal with Iran, however awful, if it can end the Strait closure
* Iran won't concede an end until the threat of future attack is off the table, they know they can't pull this move off again. This necessarily means neutering Israel completely
* The US can't concede that because of US state capture by Israel. Instead the conflict on the ground with Lebanon will likely decide if Israel surrenders or not
* Knowing this, it tactically makes more sense for the US to send their Marines to Lebanon, and not to fight Iran at home
* If the US can successfully defend Israel, they make both be forced into negotiations
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@TheMonologist it was meh people had it right at the time being better than current marvel slop doesnt make it good not a high bar.
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TERRY GILLIAM’s fantasy-adventure tanked making only $8m back from its $46m budget.
THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1988)
But it has a fantastic Cast & is better than 99% of the shit in Cinemas today.
#EricIdle #OliverReed #UmaThurman #JonathanPryce
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