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Off Topic / Re: Charlottesville protests thread
« on: August 12, 2017, 10:23:08 AM »
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Off Topic / Re: Charlottesville protests thread
« on: August 12, 2017, 09:43:13 AM »
I wanted to vomit just watching these inbreds assaulting people and calling them mondays. It could be worse today, I think anarchist counterprotestors are descending on Charlottesville now.
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Games / Re: [NEWS] NO MANS SKY UPDATE!
« on: August 11, 2017, 11:01:39 PM »
Looks like a huge update I'm definitely gonna try and get back into it. I'm really glad they didn't just ditch the game cause I love the concept
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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD
« on: August 11, 2017, 10:50:58 PM »believe it or not I think this is the long-awaited 4D chess we were promisedTrue. A good war always gets those approval numbers up too. Especially one with a seemingly self righteous cause lol.
it's gonna be much harder to impeach our president if we're involved in a war, since that undermines the chain of control and causes chaos in our government. maybe he knows this
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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD
« on: August 11, 2017, 10:42:45 PM »
So Annoying Orange is now talking about not ruling out military intervention in Venezuela. Wasn't he the non interventionist, anti globalist savior we all needed?
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Off Topic / Re: NORTH KOREA CONFLICT PREDICTION TOPIC
« on: August 08, 2017, 09:02:20 PM »If North Korea launches a missile at us, it's either gonna end up in the ocean or blown up in their faces. At which point we can just loving steamroll them.The topic at hand isn't really whether or not NK poses a severe threat to us, it's how do we deescalate the situation to minimize the loss of human life to the fullest extent. I know it's easy to say "lol screw them all idc if the whole country gets obliterated", but almost all of those people living there are basically trapped against their will. Many have families in South Korea. Their humans just like us, but were born into really bad circumstances.
Some people are talking like this would be a war like Iraq, which is completely wrong. This would be a war like the Gulf War, where we forgeted up the Iraqis big time with only double-digit casualties. It'd likely be over within a couple of days. We are the most powerful military in the world bar none, plus we would presumably have the backing of NATO and anyone who felt threatened that NK actually fulfilled one of their promises. NK is a speck of dust. They don't even have widespread electricity in their country. They have no chance of winning whatsoever, even if they do a Killzone 2 and detonate a nuke in their own city like madmen.
Once we win, just do what we did with Japan and Germany, in coalition with SK, and we're all set. It'd be like removing a wart.
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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD
« on: August 08, 2017, 08:49:25 PM »But that wasn't what actually caused the USSR to collapse, and there was still a window where we could have done a major, mainland invasion and prevented them from accumulating the absolutely absurd stockpile of nuclear weapons which Russia possesses today. We potentially have a situation like that today.A big question that is raised if a revolution/ coup were to happen is what happens to the weapons? Nuclear proliferation is not really prevenatable if that's what goes down I think. Then instead of a tyrannical regime, who knows who would be in control of their stockpile.
I don't think North Korea will accumulate a large nuclear stockpile, on the grounds that they do not have the human or natural resources to do so. Their program has progressed at a snail's pace, and recent tests still fail miserably. It's entirely conceivable that the military will overthrow the Juche regime before they ever create nuclear warheads capable of being deployed on ICBMs. Then, at the reins of a populous country with a new government, they might actually be willing to incorporate into the rest of the world economy in return for reasonable nuclear restrictions. Basically, a situation like what we have with Iran.
But even if they were to get a stockpile like Russia does, would it pay off to invade them early? Imagine the tens of millions of people who would have died as a result of an all-out war with Russia. And even still, Russia hasn't deployed any of their nukes. Would it have been worth it, in hindsight?
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Off Topic / Re: NORTH KOREA CONFLICT PREDICTION TOPIC
« on: August 08, 2017, 08:11:15 PM »nobody in their right mind would ever launch a nuclear missile lolAnyone that seriously talks about launching a nuke is actually insane. It would be an absolute catastrophe of epic proportions. What needs to be done is forced diplomacy through China imo. Find out what they want and actually discuss it. China is afraid of a revolution and doesn't want to deal with refugees/ war on its door step. Everyone wants something here and peace is beneficial for all. Escalating this stuff by throwing fighting words is a terrible idea imho.
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Off Topic / Re: NORTH KOREA CONFLICT PREDICTION TOPIC
« on: August 08, 2017, 07:59:57 PM »The last time this happened was Pearl Harbor, and before that, the War of 1812. The vast majority of our conflicts haven't been instigated as a result of an immediate domestic threat. The Iraq/Afghanistan/Gulf/Vietnam/Korean Wars weren't caused by an attack on our soil.9/11 directly lead to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Public support behind the wars at the time was overwhelming. Sure the official reason was not 9/11, but people didn't care whether or not they actually were a threat or not. They wanted revenge. On anyone who fit the part. We are backing North Korea into a tiny corner here. The latest UN sanctions affect about a billion dollars of their exports, which is apparently a third of all their export value. This is unsustainable for them. The end game is nearing. Maybe not this year or next, but something new will have to happen besides what's been the status quo for dealing with them since the Korean War.
The Spanish-American War was 'officially' (at the time) caused by Spain allegedly blowing up the U.S.S. Maine, but that turned out to actually just be because of a faulty boiler, which made for a convenient excuse to fight over island territory.
something something Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain!
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Off Topic / Re: NORTH KOREA CONFLICT PREDICTION TOPIC
« on: August 08, 2017, 07:36:16 PM »My prediction is that there won't be any war. North Korea will not launch missiles at Guam, nor will they invade anyone. They have been making empty nuclear threats against their neighbors for decades, and the only reason this time is any different is because Annoying Orange commented on it. But even his response isn't any more markedly hostile than what prior presidents have said.Id love for you to be right. Looking back at history though, what usually happens is:
But here's the thing - if Annoying Orange actually instigates this conflict. If he makes the first move and drags us into another Iraq-style war where we utterly dismantle a foreign government and create a bombed-out wasteland, then he will go down as one of the worst presidents in US history. Imagine Richard Nixon, Dubya, and LBJ combined into one fat orange package. Approval ratings in the low twenties.
As stupid as I think the guy is, I don't think he'd let that happen to his image.
1) a major attack happens on the USA around this time
2) America becomes pissed and bloodthirsty. Starts blaming whoever they're pissed at.
3) War is declared before thorough investigations are complete
4) Presidential approval ratings go up
5) Millions dead/ injured, decades of conflict and soured relations, trillions of debt.
6) Repeat
I doubt North Korea would attack us head on, but it's easy to trick the public into thinking they will or have already. Seeing how every other word out of Annoying Oranges mouth is a lie, I doubt he would hesitate to launch a false flag attack if he is really backed into a corner by the public on this investigation/ his failures so far. If he has incentive to do something like this, who knows what'll happen. I'm completely armchair generaling the stuff out of all this but I wouldn't put it past the United States, as we've done similar stuff before.
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Off Topic / Re: POLITICS & DONALD Annoying Orange MEGATHREAD
« on: August 08, 2017, 07:02:26 PM »
So Annoying Oranges ramping up the macho war talk to try and get those approval numbers up huh? Well, it'll probably work. America always loves a good war.
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Off Topic / Re: NEWS Scientist believes time travel is possible and is working on a time machine
« on: July 26, 2017, 04:50:01 PM »
Did anyone actually read this article. It says that he wants to send information through time, and doesn't believe actual time travel is real.
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Mallett’s machine is based on Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and the fact that light can create gravitational fields.
In a scientific paper, Mallett wrote, ‘For the strong gravitational field of a circulating cylinder of light, I have found new exact solutions of the Einstein field equations for the exterior and interior gravitational fields of the light cylinder.
‘The presence of closed timelike lines indicates the possibility of time travel into the past. This creates the foundation for a time machine based on a circulating cylinder of light.’
Mallett believes physical time travel is impossible, but he thinks that messages could be sent through time – in the form of neutrons sent through a ‘tunnel’ of light.
Mallet says, ‘By assigning a 1 to the ‘spin up’ direction and a 0 to the ‘spin down’ direction then [we] could send a binary code with a stream of neutron spins.
‘For example, neutrons with ‘spin up’, ‘spin down’, ‘spin down’ would represent a binary code100 which is the number 4.
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/05/09/this-scientist-is-building-an-actual-time-machine-and-believes-it-can-work-5870712/#ixzz4nydTLbRJ
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Off Topic / Re: I've been living in Malawi, one of the poorest countries for the past year, AMA.
« on: June 16, 2017, 11:10:13 AM »
Um. Can I see some proof of that? Welcome back otherwise. What made you wanna go out there at all?
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Off Topic / Re: █EDC 2017█ Bisjac & Tony
« on: May 29, 2017, 06:40:55 PM »
U guys gonna gamble at all? I wanna see tony losing at least 3 grand at blackjack or roulette. Or take him to sapphire that'd also be hilarious.