No. Not Musk’s App. Musk. Elon personally stepped in and reinstated it. I don’t know why the headline is being coy. The article shows Elon’s tweet 𝕏 where he says so.
Born 1969, he might as well be a Boomer, cause he sure acts like one. The early Gen X cuspers, of which he is one, are basically just younger Boomers IMO. Or Xoomers if you prefer. Dude sounds like a giant POS and can GTFO.
I'm just about exactly as old. I know a lot of good people around my age, and older, and younger. I know a lot of horrible people around my age, and older, and younger.
Don't just write off older people based on their age, and don't give younger people a pass based on their age, either - just like you wouldn't judge people on the basis of gender, or sexuality, or skin color. People don't get to choose how old they are.
“The history of the United States Capitol Rotunda, that during the Civil War it was used as a field hospital and countless Union soldiers died on that floor, and they died because they were fighting the Civil War to end slavery. And I think that place should be treated with a tremendous amount of respect for the dead,” he said.
From Wikipedia:
Van Orden participated in the January 6th “Stop the Steal” rally[6] and was present at the United States Capitol during the January 6 United States Capitol attack.[7][8]
So let me get this straight- sleeping in the rotunda, bad. Smearing shit on the rotunda wall, good.
". . . . countless Union soldiers died on that floor, and they died because they were fighting the Civil War to end slavery. And I think that place should be treated with a tremendous amount of respect for the dead."
The revolutionary war reenactments at the battlefield near my house always have a pizza truck.
“If anyone had been laying a series of graves in Arlington National Cemetery, what do you think people would say?”
If I were a ghost and I saw some poor living person huddled up, taking a nap on my grave, my instinct would be to wish them well. They probably need the respite and I would be charmed to have provided that to the needy.
This offer extends to anyone looting/eating my corpse in whatever future civil war/societal collapse. It's fine by me, shit's hard. Live how you can
Also, Union soldiers died in a shit ton of places and you can’t just make them hallowed ground forever because of it. That’s the whole point of Arlington.
Oh yeah, I think it was our 2nd or 3rd line that extended way out several miles from the actual memorial and that area is a bunch of chain stores.
The recorded scope of the actual battle is a little bit hazy, but (not a military buff) I hadn't realized how large the borders were known to be, since the park was already huge.
I think about it every time I pass the Zaxby's now. Someone lost everything at that Zaxby's.
Bulgaria, Cyprus, and Romania are still not on the US Visa Waiver Program list, despite being EU members. So there is still no full reciprocity between the EU and US on visa-free access.
I don’t care about the price, It just sucks that there is ONE MORE thing I have to remember to do before traveling. It’s not like going international isn’t stressful enough.
You have to realize that every other country has been dealing with this forever, so think of it as Americans joining the rest of the world. It really isn’t that bad.
The article and their website explicitly say that for the majority of people, the application is processed within minutes, unless you’re on an interpol/europole watchlist and/or have a lengthy criminal record. The fee is $8/person, and if you can afford a plane ticket to Europe, $32 for a family of 4 is a drop in the bucket. And with the exception of business travellers, most people should be planning their trip well in advance.
How is that cynical? I see it as now Americans have to deal with what everyone else has had to deal with for decades, and the added requirement really isn’t a huge burden. For a country like America that has a hardon for immigration and the like, it seems a bit hypocritical that we’d get upset the EU would like added protections at their borders. Kind of a leopards at my face situation.
You’d think that would be true but all the Florida government is doing at the moment is saying shit like “slavery benefit black people”. They’re are still very much fucking around
Unfortunately, the people who did the fucking around aren't actually finding out, because they're still insisting climate change isn't real. DeSantis claimed climate change was "politicization of weather" and won't do anything.
I used to live in Florida 20 years ago. I also went scuba diving off the keys. Back then it was shear worrisome that water temps were getting in the upper 80s and there was some occasional bleaching.
It breaks my heart to see what’s happening now. It’s so much worse than it already was when I lived there.
It’s so much worse than it already was when I lived there.
That’s what happens when we do nothing to stop the problem. Sure the house is on fire, but everything will be fine. Twenty minutes later…. This is so much worse than it was 20 minutes ago.
Yep. We rang the alarm bells 20 years ago. No one listened. I left the state, but the fact that this was going to happen was as plain as the nose on your face. People just didn’t want to see.
People don’t want to do the hard work that it will take to live by a new paradigm. It will break the economy for years, but it’ll likely take that to change things. Eventually, we could build back something more in tune with our ecosystem.
I don’t believe it would break the economy. I think it would open up the world to new economic opportunities. But, people like the Koch’s want to keep a stranglehold on what they got and they’re willing to pump money into propaganda along with idiots like Murdoch. Why convince the dumb population to change when you can make them angry and rob them blind.
It's abundantly clear that there are plenty of loons walking among us, and that fame, wealth, and authority absolutely do not exclude a person from being a loon.
I'm not saying David Grusch is a loon. I'm saying that, between "there is a government conspiracy to hide the fact that actual intelligent extraterrestrial beings are visiting Earth, and the government is collecting their technology and reverse engineering it" and "the guy who truly believes that is a loon," one of those statements is far more likely to be true than the other one. One of those statements would require a huge number of people to be completely silent about such a thing for decades, and the other would require one loon to believe it.
It wouldn’t though. I’m not saying UAPs are extraterrestrial. I’m saying as long as each person who leaks is met with plenty of, “no, you’re crazy.” It would help contain it.
Both with pressure and delegitimization. Now… proof is the thing that’s required. Not simply testimony.
Asked whether the U.S. government had information about extraterrestrial life, Grusch said the U.S. likely has been aware of “non-human” activity since the 1930s.
If everyone who claims that is a loon (and they may be), then the leakers are auto-discredited.
Again and with clear emphasis because it looks like it was missed: I’m not saying UAPs are extraterrestrial. I’m making a meta-point.
If leakers are almost automatically easily classed as loons, then any inquiry isn’t an inquiry. They may be off their rockers.
And even “super-advanced tech” need not have extraterrestrial origin. But UAPs happen. We all seem to have forgotten O’Hare. Whatever happened was in passenger jet airspace.
Regardless of what planetary origin, UAPs deserve inquiry.
This is a thought provoking book. The author was even interviewed by Colbert and presented very cogently. Which is why I bought and read it.
Before anyone knee-jerks, it attempts to only use the most credible UAP encounters and looks at them with skepticism and a scientific mind.
To add onto this, iirc the current US policy of, “discredit and ignore” was created during the cold war because they didn’t want it to distract Americans from the red scare and possibility of nuclear war. They actually brought in a team of scientists to take all the project blue book cases and come up with a reason for what was happening, and if they couldn’t think of anything, they were supposed to just make something up. It’s why “swamp gas” and “weather balloons” are meme’d about. The result is that because the public stopped taking it seriously, the military stopped taking it seriously as well. Since then, I think I remember reading that some of the scientists have expressed regret for doing it because they saw reports that they couldn’t explain or even imagine an explanation for; but they wouldn’t have done it if they’d realized how strong of a chilling effect it’d have on the subject.
To be clear, I’m not saying that it is aliens either, but there was an effort made to discredit UFO reports and it worked extremely well.
loonnoun
1- Any of several fish-eating diving birds of the genus Gavia of northern regions, having a short tail, webbed feet, and a laughlike cry.
2- One who is crazy or deranged.
3- A stupid fellow; a clown: with various shades of intensity as an opprobrious epithet, like fool, dolt, etc.
lunaticnoun
1- A person who is affected by lunacy; a mentally deranged person.
2- A very foolish person.
3- A person affected with lunacy; specifically, an insane person who has lucid intervals, or one whose unsoundness of mind is acquired, not congenital, as distinguished from an idiot.
That being said, there is a significantly substantial body of evidence involved in disclosure efforts up to this point. Many government officials have come forward with variations of this story - Grusch is just the latest and the one with the most stature. His accounts are also the least wide-ranging and in my humble opinion, some of the most credible. Secondly, disclosure has been in-process by whistleblowers in other governments as well for multiple decades - there's a lot of credible evidence to suggest this isn't a new phenomena.
Having witnessed a few UAP at a distance myself (including some before drones took over the skies), I think that it's pretty clear that something we don't understand is here, and has been here for awhile now. I think the jury is out on whether or not they are intelligent, alive,or a phenomena related to physics we don't understand, but there's simply too much evidence to deny their reality, and I gotta confess, especially after seeing them in the sky, I really want to find out.
Grusch's actions are the first step in really figuring out if the DoD knows anything. He went through the proper legal routes, and he's whistleblowing on obvious obstruction that prevented him from performing the Congressional mandate of his job. He has everything to lose here, and nothing to gain. I'm inclined to believe him.
And yet the very fact you associate talking about UAPs with being a loon is the result of a dedicated effort by US intelligence.
After the front page news of sightings over Washington DC, it wasn’t very long until Gene Pope, an MIT graduate and previously part of the CIA’s psyops program, went and bought the National Enquirer and later the Weekly World News. Which made UFO news adjacent to batboy or gossip.
I happen to think the notion these are extraterrestrial is ludicrous and there’s many more reasonable explanations short of that conclusion. But there is a significant story in how these sightings have been handled over the past century up to the present day.
While I think alien hopefuls will be disappointed, interesting things should come out of this if continued to be pursued.
I mean, in his shoes I would probably also feel compelled to call out the loons in my field too. I hear dumb shit on social media websites concerning my actual domain of expertise, and I get accused of whatever when I call it out. Don’t get.in the way of a good outrage story, or conspiracy, unless you want to find out just how many loons are lurking out there.
If we have had access to technology that can manage the immense distances between livable planets in our galaxy for almost a hundred years and we cannot get a human to Mars, we are beyond hope.
If any of this has even the slightest grain of truth to it, you have to admit that we (humanity) are way to fucking dumb to ever explore the stars.
Fuck that’s a depressing thought. We have been looking at the tech for a century and we got nothing? I suppose that might be driving my bias on this. I am not asking for proof of the programs, I am asking why there is no evidence that humans have been looking at interstellar travel tech for a century. Either it’s horseshit, or we are hella dumb animals.
I bet the people who think the government is reverse engineering alien technology in perfect secrecy are also people who think the government is too incompetent to do anything right.
Legislative government and government-funded military aren’t the same thing. If the United States had access to alien technology first, hoarding it in secrecy would be a textbook military move.
It wouldn’t just be the US government. If alien artifacts are as common as some people make them out to be, every government in the world would have to not only be in on the conspiracy, but also doing their part masterfully in an age when everyone has a phone in their pocket capable of broadcasting to the whole world.
It’s even worse if they’re actually succeeding in reverse engineering alien technology, because they’d have to either never use it, or fake something like the Manhattan Project to explain where the technology came from.
Getting back to the idiocy of people who think governments can’t do anything right, those same people are often big fans on the military and law enforcement, completely failing to acknowledge that those things are functions of the government, because that would mean admitting the government can, in fact, do some things really well.
Sources should be as unbiased and reliable as possible Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion.
Every source is biased.
You’ll get someone telling you that mainstream newspapers are biased in favor of their country’s dominant ideology, or their owner’s business interests, or the cult that started them, or whatever.
However, some sources report on things that actually happened, and some sources report on rumors, fake news, speculation, and other BS.
We are aware, but we’re just humans, so we’ll moderate as fair as we can. I’ll be compiling a blacklist, with sources that are not accepted here, and people can let us know if they don’t agree with any of the sources on that list.
Sources should be focused on factual news reporting — not rumor, gossip, condemnation, or opinion. Broadly, sources should be telling the reader what happened and not what to feel about it.
I like this wording - with emphasis on focused - even most credible sources provide some analysis and opinions, so enforcement is bound to be somewhat subjective - but as mods its our job to be as fair and impartial as possible. I expect there will be opportunities along the way for the broader community to provide feedback which will be carefully considered.
For a worked example of why “unbiased” is undesirable, take a look at any news site that reports on issues relevant to a particular population — such as LGBTQ+, Christians, or Black Americans.
An LGBTQ+ news site is not going to be “unbiased” on, say, marriage equality. It’s going to have a viewpoint. However, it can still report true news stories.
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