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Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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Are these your thoughts when you're having a lunch?

I don't tend to rely on whatever scraps the US govt feeds me for lunch. YMMV.

If you look at your meals and think "that's scraps from US gov", then you probably need to seek help, seriously.

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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post #443

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There's likely enough for more convictions, but two things: 1) Maxwell was under prosecution at the time, so some of it was related to that. 2) The kind of people being mentioned as potential indictees are the kind who can do something about it.

Co-conspirators are prosecuted in parallel or semi-parallel all the time, without waiting for the core prosecution to conclude. There was no reason for why the administration had to wait for the files to be unsealed to go after anyone it wanted to. Unsealing them only makes the records available to the public at large, not the rest of the DOJ.

1) They're not co-conspirators under indictment. It's hard enough getting one conviction on this sort of thing without the likes of Les Wexner throwing a wrench in the process. And to be fair, it seems to have worked: Maxwell seems to be the only person anywhere to be tried, convicted, and incarcerated for the sex trafficking portion of Epstein's operation. The UK has only indicted Andrew and Peter Mandelson for their mishandling of state secrets.

2) The people mentioned as co-conspirators do have the resources to make this "go away" in the realest terms. This is a KGB-like circle of accountability. They don't have to rely on lone wolves with questionable mental state to make their problems disappear. They've got the connections and resources to get a professional to do it, through bribery, intimidation, or worse.

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

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I'll repost what I said in the other thread since this has more legs as a discussion: Honestly, what difference does it make? Unless Lrrr, Ruler of Omicron Perseii 8, lands a saucer on the White House lawn tomorrow and announces he's the new ruler of Earth, all of this means nothing. I still have to go to work, I still can't buy a house without going into unreasonable financial risk, gas will still be creeping up to…

To play Devil's advocate here, since I don't believe for a second that any of this is actually aliens - even knowing that alien life exists, much less intelligent life that's aware of us, fundamentally transforms the way we contextualize ourselves and the universe. And knowing that certain physics-defying technologies like faster than light travel, anti-gravity, etc. apparently exist would completely turn our existin…

If it actually mattered, do you think this administration would be talking about it?

Of course not. The whole rationale of the Trump administration has been that Donald Trump is the CEO of the US government, and that he gets to run it in a way that brings him maximum personal and financial benefit so long as he gives conservatives patronage every once in a while. He's at the top. He's accountable to no one. It's the Trump Organization with access to the state's monopoly on violence and tax dollars.

If you have an alien civilization with the abilities you're talking about, particularly faster-than-light travel, he's no longer at the top. He's just another semi-hairless insane ape like the rest of us staring down the barrel of colonization by a technologically-superior civilization.

Also, if this stuff were real, why didn't he release more of it during his first administration? Sure, there have been developments since 2020, but not compared to everything between the 1940s and 2020.

The answer is simple: he needs us distracted now more than he did in the first administration.

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

#606

The War Department has unlimited access to LLMs and compute, but these are delivered as unlabeled files that one must download individually. That's ridiculous.

Hackernews try not to somehow mention LLMs in every thread challenge (impossible)

If planes have just been invented, you need to go somewhere, and you live next to an airport, the idea of flight might come to mind quickly. That's the era we're in with LLMs. It just comes to mind for the HN crowd sooner.

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

#607

The War Department has unlimited access to LLMs and compute, but these are delivered as unlabeled files that one must download individually. That's ridiculous.

And if they did put a lot of effort into it your comment would say "look at all the money that went into compute for setting this up". Can't let them win, right?

No it would not. This is an abdication on UI. There is no reason to release a file labeled with a number in 2026 when what the user wants is searchable, categorized content with thumbnails and the ability to export groups. That's web tech we've had forever. The fact that they didn't use their AI or compute to do that with it is just a big fail.

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

#608

The War Department has unlimited access to LLMs and compute, but these are delivered as unlabeled files that one must download individually. That's ridiculous.

It's almost like the whole thing is designed to absorb energy and distract some portion of the population from actually looking into anything real.

It's more likely to make it take longer to figure out that there is nothing there. If one had clearly indexed and searchable content, we would see it's just garbage.

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

#609

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I don't tend to rely on whatever scraps the US govt feeds me for lunch. YMMV.

If you look at your meals and think "that's scraps from US gov", then you probably need to seek help, seriously.

Says the guy so obsessed with food he keeps trying to turn a comment thread about the US government files into a conversation about my lunch

Get your own lunch. Or some Ozempic.

Re: US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos

#610
post #589

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Are you talking about Virginia where their constitution requires two legislature votes and an election between changing district maps? A fact everyone knew before attempting a redistricting to eliminate Republicans seats by forcing six districts to run through Fairfax… Or are you talking about something else?

I am talking about: - the pardon of anyone involved with Jan 6, both the invasion of the capitol, the fake electors and the truthers that were condemned for lying in court or just plain contempt; - the promotion of 2020 election deniers to positions of power over the elections in the current administration; - the promotion of incompetent but loyal people at the head of the DOJ, FBI and DNI, who all refused to answer…

Have you considered stomping your feet more?

But really, don’t you think it is just so interesting that almost all of Reddit agrees with you almost verbatim. How strange that they are have your exact talking points!

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