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This is getting out of hand… now they’re even pre-announcing them in New Mexico! https://balloonfiesta.com

It doesn’t, though. It’s NOT creative. It uses prediction engines to guess what comes next in a string of words. Why, indeed. Students NEVER wanted to do that. Now they have an even easier way around it than paying the nerdy immigrant kid who plays D&D to do it for them. Its time to find better ways of measuring pupil progress and capacity and potential. You call spending hours researching and writing papers “fun?”

Nah, I think they’ll work it out! 😂 We’re all crusty and curmudgeonly lately after years of global trauma and social compartmentalization. Nothing that a brisk walk and some fresh air can’t resolve. Even better if done beside ones sparring partner.

Y’all both must be feeling old today as grumpy as hell as you be acting. How bout you just GTF off each others lawn already and take a nap? This is pretty typical of how conversations re: Israel Palestine go. That’s part of the reason bad actors keep bringing the topic to the fore.

❤️ if true

Yes. I forgot how many feet in a mile with that earlier set of posts. Resolution gooder closer. Resolution badder farther.

Distance to ground matters when taking pictures. Resolution is vastly superior at 100,000 feet up than it is at 2 miles up, for instance. Indeed. This, too. In truth, they’re still watching us right now today. Threads like this, what are people saying and speculating about. Which memes are rising to the top across social media platforms. What commentary is taking hold in chat rooms and engagement channels, which narratives are being pushed by influencers and aggregators. It really never ends.

We know this answer. The government DID keep it quiet. Until, that is, people started posting about it. Then they HAD to respond. But they knew it was there and had discussed it internally well before any of us knew. If only the public were this worried about TikTok, but that’s too hard to see and isn’t shiny like a big balloon.

Maybe bc the public could see it and start making a fuss about it Yet Also, +1 for actually explaining your stance. Appreciated

How so? Will you please be more explicit about what you’re insinuating? I don’t follow.

Exactly! I wish my wife understood me as well as you do. Send nudes. /WhatHaveIDone

Some say that Xi was excited about the visit as he’s been looking for ways China and US can help each other. He’s facing some very real challenges inside his country and wants to find ways of doing business, but not everyone around him is very happy about his total and complete power and want to sabotage him where they can (in other words, he didn’t even know about the balloon). You may as well be suggesting you empty a swimming pool with a macaroni noodle. That balloon was huge and shooting it with a BB gun wasn’t gonna cut it (pun intended) No, but it is frozen in the waters off the Alaskan coast and debris is being collected for analysis.

Probably because they'd already done it AT LEAST 5 times in the past without issue or even detection in most cases (i.e. the risk you describe as "colossal" was actually almost nonexistent) Fair and likely valid, but IMO peripheral to this particular situation under discussion here.

Or we've considered it deeply and found it flawed, lacking, and contrary to our personal values.

Really? According to the Department of State, they've an entire fleet of these balloons performing similar operations in 40 different countries across five continents right now. This was hardly a one-off.

You misspelled minutes.

FWIW, I knew that you meant humans are apes, not black people are apes. On another note, can we please stop the meta discussions in joke threads? It really ruins the flow.

Lots of good info above. Would only add one other hard earned lesson: It’s generally better to spend slightly more upfront and do the job right the first time… make the install ready for what will surely be a higher demand on the system in the future… than to cheap out and need to repeat the work again later a second or third time for twice or triple the price. Buy once, cry once. Good luck! (also a hard wired connection nearly always beats a wireless one, the strength of which falls off with distance and weather conditions etc)

Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Communications Intel (COMINT), and Electronic Intel (ELINT) have really gone both wide and deep these last several years given the ubiquity of social information being shared online. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signals_intelligence_operational_platforms_by_nation

KJU = Kim Jong Un and NK = North Korea They’re surely still collecting intel even now around which memes are being most liked and shared. It’s a never ending back and forth when it comes to this type of spycraft.

Whatever group of high placed minions he’s appointed as his lieutenants to cyberattack his perceived enemies. The ones who have his blessing to actually touch a computer and who are sanctioned to pull teams together to logon and use the internet while executing social wedge PsyOps campaigns. “Cartel” allowed me to say the same thing more efficiently in one word.

This discussion has led me to recall the following: //“Nazis use satire, humour or “lolz” as partial immunity for their hate, allowing them tolerance from those who would (or should) otherwise repudiate it. As the guide states: “Packing our message inside of … humour can be viewed as a delivery method. Something like adding cherry flavour to children’s medicine.” <...> When white people wield the conch of humour, people of colour are supposed to just endure the racism that comes out and laugh at the humour encasing it. This is the model neo-Nazis view as fertile ground for spreading hate. <...> Here’s a hint: if your view aligns with a neo-Nazi writing guide, it’s probably wrong. It’s too easy not to care about words, jokes and actions when you’re not the one affected by it. While I’m glad most white people seem to passionately oppose Nazis, that’s not a particularly high moral bar to pass. If you believe that Nazi ideology should be opposed, you can’t just ignore the way this ideology is spread. And normalisation through humour is a key part of that.”\\ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/19/neo-nazis-hatred-comedy-racist-daily-stormer Decades, even! /rimshot For years, political jokes were being shared in the Official Jokes section thread. It was decided that not all science minded members here wanted political barbs and jokes in their otherwise apolitical jokes thread (and it also looked bad to newly minted site members) so my post made over there in that thread got split into its new home over here in the Politics section along with several that followed (I.e. I didn’t technically create this thread even though I’m displayed as its OP). See also: Humans are complex. Thank you mod team for splitting this, btw. ✌🏼

Especially considering just how much of that content was intentionally inserted there by China themselves (and Russia, Iran, likely the Saudis, and potentially even KJUs NK cartel)

So what you're saying is all those right-wing loonies mad at Biden for not using a BB gun from the ground to take down the evil China balloon are ignorant loonies we can basically ignore? Good to know! Always appreciate you sharing your advanced aviation knowledge, btw. Learn something new and interesting every time you do. +1