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@foardeetou @signulll while dreams a purely internal.

@foardeetou @signulll Your mind knows your bodies physique and how sensory input feels down to its core, dreams are your brain doing a simulation. Physical reality is skewed by personal reality in perception only, you still react to external sensory inputs that are fixed

everything you see, hear, touch, smell, or taste is simply a prompt for your brain. i.e. compressed, lossy, & probabilistic inputs. your nervous system is basically a biological inference engine running a prediction model in real time. this is why reality is often interpreted radically differently even though two individuals receive roughly the same input/prompt. this is also perhaps why switching models is not that cheap as people make it out to be.

@ISme277 @AndreasShrugged How many chinese experts leave american companies and especially sillicon valley every year?

@AndreasShrugged Lol. Europeans love selling themselves out.

Not only that: Schell is an expert in optical technologies, with a lot of cutting-edge industry knowledge. These technologies are essential for the production of semiconductors. Go figure.

@victorfuentespe @AndreasShrugged It is a public research institution (funded partly by government research funds and partly by cooperation with other companies) of course the pay generally is smaller than in the free economy.

@AndreasShrugged I understand it all too well: the hurdles, the bureaucracy, the stagnation, the resistance to change... and likely a much smaller paycheck than the next role. Willkommen in Deutschland.

@foardeetou @signulll Well "personal reality" is..

@signulll Reality is nonphysical. You can experience all your senses in a dream. You’re also provided the illusion of inhabiting a 3D realm in a dream. Just like waking reality

@Michael7ucci @balajis The pentagon agrees with his view. They told Trump as much. Sadly the Pentagon can not overrule dumb presidents.

@balajis I take it you believe you have thought of these concerns and yet no one in USG has. And that you understand this war better than anyone in the Pentagon. Otherwise you wouldn’t project and predict with such certainty so far out of your domain area, correct?

I'm going to make some obvious points. (1) Blowing up all the oil infrastructure in the Middle East is an insane idea, and may well result in a global economic crash and humanitarian crisis unrivaled in the lives of those now living. We're talking about the price of everything everywhere rising, from food to gas, at a moment when inflation was already high. All of that will be laid at the feet of the authors of this war. (2) The antebellum status quo of Feb 27, 2026 was just not that bad, but we're unlikely to return to it. Expect indefinite, long-term, ongoing disruptions to everything out of the Middle East. (3) Also assume tech financing crashes for the indefinite future. The genius plan to get the Gulf states caught in the crossfire has incinerated much of the funding for LPs, for datacenters, and for IPOs. Anyone in tech who supported this war may soon learn the meaning of "force majeure" as funding gets yanked. (4) Many capital allocators will instead be allocating much further down Maslow's hierarchy of needs, towards useful basic things like food and energy. (5) It's fortunate that all those progressives yelled about the "climate crisis." Yes, their reasoning about timelines was wrong, and much of the money was wasted in graft, but the result was right: we all need energy independence from the Middle East, pronto. It's also fortunate that Elon and China autistically took climate seriously. Now they're going to need to ship a billion solar panels, electric vehicles, batteries, nuclear power plants, and the like to get everyone off oil, immediately. (6) It's not just an oil and gas problem, of course. It's also a fertilizer problem, and a chemical precursor problem. Maybe some new sources will come online at the new prices, but it takes time to dial stuff up, particularly at this scale, so shortages are almost a certainty. That said, China has actually scaled up coal-to-chemicals[a,c] (C2C), and there's also something more sci-fi called Power-to-X[b] which turns arbitrary power + water + air into hydrocarbons. But all of that will need to get accelerated. I have a background in chemical engineering so may start funding things in this area. (7) Ultimately, this war is going to result in tremendous blame for anyone associated with it. It's a no-win scenario to blow up this much infrastructure for so many people. Simply not worth it for whatever objective they thought they were going to attain. But unless you're actually in a position to stop the madness, the pragmatic thing to do is: scramble to mitigate the fallout to yourself, your business, and your people. [a]: reuters.com/business/energ… [b]: alfalaval.com/industries/ene… [c]: reuters.com/sustainability…

@Cincy23556 @KampfmitKette The new german frigated get 96 cells while burke has also 96

@KampfmitKette all 6 frigate combined will have same VLS as 1 Arleigh Burke-class destroyer

80,000 tonnes or roughly 6 german frigates

@johnkonrad Americans need to manufacture situations and then they bemoan that what the US itself created. Moronic country and people 🤣🤣

@johnkonrad Guy that doesn't understand causality

Who else remembers half of Europe laughing at Trump when he said America needs to own Greenland because we can’t trust Denmark to fully cooperate in a war?

@JBoisen @johnkonrad Fuck Americans

@johnkonrad Are you really this stupid? First you threaten to invade us, then you piss on our dead soldiers, and then you're hurt we don't join a war youstarted out of the blue. And FYI: NATO is a defense organisation. We didn't join the Vietnam War either.

@Polymarket I mean "prefer" probably. But China will never get to remove the true chinese government peacefully, the coup etat of the Communists hasn't been successful since 80 years now. The chinese that defeated the nazis while communists hid are still there.

BREAKING: U.S. intelligence believes China prefers taking control of Taiwan without force.

@AliKaanSevinc @gruene_katz @Tomislav_Rus Das ist die ganze Geschichte der FDP seit 1960-70 ja

@gruene_katz @Tomislav_Rus Eher andersrum: Die Sozialiberalen wurden zurückgedrängt Stück für Stück

Die FDP hat mit einem klassisch wirtschaftsliberalen Kurs bei der Bundestagswahl 2021 starke 11,5% geholt. Dann übernehmen die Sozialliberalen die FDP und haben es ordentlich verkackt.

@sigmargabriel Warum hat eigentlich keines der reichen Golfstaaten Kriegsschiffe?

Was für ein schwerer Fehler der Bundesregierung:KEINE deutsche Hilfe in der #StrassevonHormuz. Natürlich wollen wir nicht in diesen Krieg. Aber auch unsere Handelsschiffe brauchen Schutz. Vor allem aber hätten wir den Golfstaaten mal zeigen können, dass wir Ihnen zur Seite stehen

@danosnog @VisualFidelity It actually requires four times as much from the hardware currently

@VisualFidelity People are complaining that new games are poorly optimized slop that use DLSS and frame gen as a crutch and look worse than old games. I don’t see how this makes it better. Looks like a new excuse for poor optimization and boring art direction.

For over a decade gamers have complained that we’ve hit diminishing returns in graphics. PS4 to PS5. Gamers posting old Batman Arkham, RDR2, Battlefield 4 footage in 2026. Those days are over. DLSS5 looks to be the biggest leap in visuals since the jump from 2D to 3D.

@MarcusPretzell Veilleicht sollte man auf dem Papier die Stelle lesen, wo steht, dass es Bündnisfall nur gibt, wenn einer der Mitglieder auf Ihr Territorium angegriffen wird und nicht das jeder bescheuerte Krieg beigetreten wird.

Die NATO ist das Papier nicht mehr wert. Die Europäer haben sie jetzt beerdigt.

@pmddomingos It was flowing fine until the dementia-ridden orange baby moron and his Israeli corrupt fuck of a master fucked that up.

The oil flowing through the strait of Hormuz goes to China and Europe, but somehow it’s America’s job to protect it.

@CoE_Russia @coe About 90% of your territory counts as that by definition

@CoE_Russia @coe You know that since the fall of the British empire at the half of the 20th century, russia is the single and biggest colonial state left...

Four years since Russia left @CoE. Time has confirmed what was clear then: organization that traded its founding principles for an aggressive neo-colonial agenda has no moral authority to lecture anyone. Leaving @CoE has proven to be the right decision

@GunterFehlinger @POTUS @bundeskanzler Israel would never allow a successful democracy that helps Iranians.

If you want lower oil prices I recommend defeating Irans regime and liberate Iran and build a permanent US & NATO base in Kharg and Qeshm Islands @POTUS @bundeskanzler

Same pattern that always repeats itself.

US war and sanction relief gave russia an economic lifeline, why should europe help him? Past US wars brought refugee waves and terrorist groups that almost exclusively targeted Europe instead of the US who attacked their countries in the first place #Hormuz #IranWar #Europe