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I’ve been trying to wrap my brain around whether a coup in Russia would improve or worsen the current conditions out in the theater. Would Putin’s replacement, someone who’d make Machiavelli look like Mother Teresa by comparison for having planned and pulled off such a thing… be even worse.

Depends on how hard they work / what they do to earn it

They usually mean, “Go away you moron reporter. We’re not dumb enough to tell our enemy what we’re actually planning here on your pathetic little show.”

David Petraeus suggested this morning that smaller weapons used on more symbolic targets (like Zalinskys home town or some equivalent of Ukraines attack on Kerch bridge, for example) would have the same intended effect without the higher yields nor risk presented to your own troops with a nuclear deployment to the front lines.

Fell, split, stack. There’s a reason this is how it’s been done for centuries. Air flow across inner fibers that have been exposed will result in fastest results (absent some kiln drying process)

Happened again today:

Thanks for this link, btw. It seems our bodies do the same thing with our telomeres that I do when I cut a cord which is later likely to fray: I seal it or coat it with wax or somehow melt the threads together to prevent further deterioration.

And kids also sometimes see unicorns and dragons in the clouds. Doesn't mean unicorns and dragons are going to fly down into my neighborhood and start pooping in my yard this evening.

Also the MORE likely they are to realize their current commands from corrupt commanders are sinister shit… to decide NOT to kill their Ukrainian cousins for old man Putins honor… and to instead flip that same free gun the government just handed them so they’re pointing back on the Russian leaders. You know, exactly like they did back in the First World War with the Russian Revolution of 1917. They prefer being called Meta now https://www.pbs.org/video/us-vs-them-2t0c0s/

More bloated vaporware… all sales, no prevails.

Shelterin. Sounds like folks response to a tornado in Kentucky.

On another note, folic acid seems to reduce the risk of suicide. https://neurosciencenews.com/folic-acid-suicide-21568/

Too late.

Indeed, you’re right. I’ve found myself doing that more frequently lately. Such are the modern times.

You’re obviously trolling, but you’re also half right. Psilocybin HAS shown tremendous progress and promise under guided conditions in helping treat depression, but you said “mental illness” which is rather clearly different and thus needlessly sloppy on your part. Maybe don’t throw so many stones in glass houses berating others when your own claim was plainly inaccurate and remedially false. https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/newsroom/news-releases/psilocybin-treatment-for-major-depression-effective-for-up-to-a-year-for-most-patients-study-shows

Agreed. On the Hitler front, I've been getting strong "invade Poland and Belgium to exterminate those we dislike" vibes from major geopolitical players (Xi, Putin, others) these days. Depends a bit on TSMC management and how willing they are to facilitate relocations at the expense of the company. Also whether the Taiwanese government could help to facilitate such a rapid transfer while also trying in parallel to defend themselves against one of the largest most powerful countries on the planet. Main issue is they're semiconductor manufacturing, and those types of cleanrooms and fabs aren't exactly easy, quick, or cheap to setup. They'd need to partner or somehow join forces with the their competitors like the Nvidias and Applied Materials and Tokyo Electrons etc. of the world, but capitalism makes the incentive to do so pretty weak. We won't know how they respond until / if such an invasion happens, so we could equally be saying they'll use unicorn farts to teleport themselves into another dimension... it would rest on similar footing right now.

No. Not here. Not this thread. That discussion belongs in Speculations, or at least in Medical Science bc that’s what more of us will require to avoid going (joining the hordes of the ?) completely mad should that actually come to pass. My money’s on China. To get everyone to focus their attention on the explosion and scramble faster to seek out warmth for winter instead of focusing on any of the other things they don’t want us (or our various intelligences) paying attention to right now. Subterfuge, as it were, with a poke in the eye to the countries Hitler was working to conquer. But now I’ve gone and done it and Godwin’d the damn thread. I’ll see myself out.

Haste is their intent, but not their velocity. The line to leave the country is already 20 miles long with stick cars sitting still like the worst rush hour traffic ever. I don’t know what 20 miles converts to in Celsius, but it’s an exodus of about 260,000 people, just shy of the 300K he called up.

Protest against conscription?

Yes. We’re playing cosmic billiards here. A mistake could cause a lunar impact. Details matter though and the engineers would likely calculate trajectories to minimize that risk.

Not just religious, but in any cult. The leader becomes the god figure. Worshiped and can do no wrong. Outsiders can’t be trusted. They’re lying. Not just Scientology, but MAGA. Not that it matters to each of these individual human people indentured in their servitude, but given the vast size of Indias population it would be better to normalize your metric. Instead of saying highest total number of X, say total X per Y-millions of people. Once done, then you can see how many people this represents as a percentage of each country’s population. We share a desire for the number here to be zero and not to get distracted with accuracy or math, but if you’re going to start comparing regions and generational epochs at least ensure the numbers are normalized.

Never doubt the power of passionate individuals banding together to change the world. In fact, it’s the only thing that ever has. Whether a critical mass of people decided enough was enough, or specific individuals in power decided enough was enough (or some combination of both), I do not know.

Brain injury?

As I type this, Iran is in revolt. Women by the thousands are out in the streets burning their hijabs after a young girl died in custody of the “morality police” for issues with her head covering / hijab. Where does this land on the anarchy scale under discussion here? What about when government agents start using exaggerated crowd control on them?