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Post by krferriter »

MostlyStable wrote: post #199
nycdatasci wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://polymarket.com/event/will-the-us-confirm-that-aliens...

According to the resolution criteria, I would say that that market should trade much much higher than OP's hypothetical market. Any governmental agency stating that "Extraterrestrial life exists" would count. NASA/Seti finding evidence of algae on an exo planet or Io or something counts.

I agree, it needs to be more specific. Like:

"NASA, ESA, and Roscosmos all confirm definitive concrete proof, and publish this proof, for the presence of organisms, or technology created by organisms, which originated from outside Earth's atmosphere, and was present within Earth's hill sphere at some point since 1900."

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Post by cjbgkagh »

Capricorn2481 wrote: post #225
dvfjsdhgfv wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> DoD I still can't wrap my head around the fact that the guy who made his campaing on ending wars the first thing he does after being elected changes the name from DoD to DoW and starts new wars.

Yes, surprising in a "I can't believe this is happening" way, not in a "this was unexpected" way. He made his campaign on ending everything. Diving headfirst into the first conflict he could with 0 understanding is the most expected thing that could've happened.

Americans consistently vote for less war and they consistently get more war. If they voted for more war I’m pretty sure they would still get more war. I think blaming the American public for these wars is a deflection from the actual mechanisms that instigate them. We are more governed by blackmail than we are by voters.

I do wish there was even more resistance though, war has been effectively pitched as costless or even as a boon. Perhaps if this war bites there will be more resistance to future wars. At the very least the Iran war being such a disaster may have saved us from a more costly war with China - which the US was and in some ways still is gearing up for.

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Post by sandworm101 »

I was just randomly going through redacted documents looking for more of those silly redaction mistakes. I didnt find any, but I did find some improperly de-classified documents.

https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/dow-uap-d32-miss...

They left the classification labels untouched (SECRET//REL TO USA, FVEY). They really are supposed to remove those or at least cross them out. To see a document on the public internet with those labels still attached is very odd behavior.

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Post by cestith »

david-gpu wrote: post #2

According to US congresswoman Luna this is the first of several releases that will be coming out in the following weeks. Edit: I had a look at a bunch of the videos and didn't find anything remarkable, in my opinion. The witness testimonies read like so many others.

So the US government is, in fact, capable of large drops of files at once? Asking for an Epstein.

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Post by estebank »

anigbrowl wrote: post #228

This is pure propaganda. It's been astroturfed on 4chan and mainstream social media for weeks, though to great skepticism on the former. The UFO nut community (people who make their interest/belief in UFOs into their entire personality, to the neglect of all other considerations) is being weaponized for political leverage, just like the anti-vax and chemtrail communities were.

> The UFO nut community is being weaponized for political leverage

Always has been, at least since 1947.

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Post by cestith »

stackedinserter wrote: post #61

Gosh, people, are you ever satisfied with anything? "This sandwich is good, but I can't enjoy it because Epstein files are not released"

Their excuse was they couldn’t possibly screen and redact documents fast enough to release them in large batches. And now...

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Post by anigbrowl »

dylan604 wrote: post #101
0ckpuppet wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or distact from the Iran war, or distract from Israel, or distract from corruption... distraction from distractions. We keep buying what they're selling, and then complain the milk is still sour.

Easy with the use of "we" there buddy. Just look at the polling. There are way more people not buying the bullshit, and the numbers keep getting worse as even the faithful are tiring of it as well. So just tossing "we" around becomes offensive as you've now included me into something I will not be a part of.

The numbers have sort of plateaued. There's a ~30% of the population that is all-in on Trump for emotional/psychological reasons, who have very different values from the rest of the population. Where others see malicious incompetence, they see him sticking it to their opponents and are even willing to suffer as long as they perceive their opponents to be suffering more. So although they don't like paying a lot of extra money for gas, they will put up with it for a long time because the payoff is seeing others suffer more. IT's not that Trump created this mindset, although he was able to capitalize on it due to being celebrity; about 1/3 of people are assholes and they're able to use the internet to network and coordinate like any other group. Unfortuantely, they are one of the largest social groups, while opponents have to deal with the friction of coalition politics.

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Post by tzs »

Arodex wrote: post #132
angelgonzales wrote: post #72

This is so cool. For instance the asset FBI SEPTEMBER 2023 SIGHTING - COMPOSITE SKETCH indicated that “Actual site photo with FBI Lab rendered graphic overlay depicting corroborating eyewitness reports from September 2023 of an apparent ellipsoid bronze metallic object materializing out of a bright light in the sky, 130-195 feet in length, and disappearing instantaneously.” https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1…

>I wonder if there’s satellite imagery of this event, or maybe if in the near future we’ll have greater satellite coverage so we can corroborate these claims with imagery. The more cameras we have (in everyone's pocket, in the streets, in the sky), the less "sightings" we have (of UFO and cryptids). Tells you something.

It might just be telling you that people spend so much time staring down at their phones they don't notice anything happening in the sky anymore.

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Post by mghackerlady »

yalogin wrote: post #207

Oh wow did not realize they changed the web site to war too. Wonder how many million they spent on that name change. Just such a bad look for the country

don't they control the .gov tld? They don't really have to pay a domain registrar and war.gov probably wasn't used anywhere else
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