If the news I'm watching are right MAGA is divided.
Finally! For someone who campaigned and won on the principle of the U.S. not getting involved in conflicts thru out the world this man seems to do exactly the opposite.
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Pete Hegseth on working with Israel to do whatever it is they're planning to do in Iran:
"...no stupid rules of engagement... "
A quote springs to mind:
"He thought: No wonder we make rules... We know what we'd be like if we didn't have rules."
- Sir Terry Pratchett, "Only You Can Save Mankind".
"...no stupid rules of engagement... "
A quote springs to mind:
"He thought: No wonder we make rules... We know what we'd be like if we didn't have rules."
- Sir Terry Pratchett, "Only You Can Save Mankind".
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Just how far can Trump push the Fuhrer Prinzip?
He's had to back off a couple of times already, so it's not absolute.
He's had to back off a couple of times already, so it's not absolute.
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<Judge Dredd>THE LAAAAAAAAAWWW!<Judge Dredd> is just about hanging on as the only real restraint to his power. However, for anyone that believes that Hitler was on to something, they always seem to forget how that story ended...
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My point is that the Fuhrer Prinzip is and always has been a complete disaster for its believers. Apparently Hitler nicked it from Islam.F-ZeroOne wrote:<Judge Dredd>THE LAAAAAAAAAWWW!<Judge Dredd> is just about hanging on as the only real restraint to his power. However, for anyone that believes that Hitler was on to something, they always seem to forget how that story ended...
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While this is, of course, dramatised for a movie, there's apparently some underlying truth that those two words really did help them massively to break Enigma.
To break a code, having a known repeated sequence is gold dust. If you know those two words "Heil Hitler" are already in the message - or very likely to be the last two words in the communication - then it massively, massively breaks down the search space.
And I just love that poetic justice that the Nazis really did have quite an unbreakable code on their hands, but it was their leader's ego and arrogance - that insistence to praise the leader with "Heil Hitler!" - giving them a known repeated sequence to search for, that helped them to break it.
Heil bloody Hitler, indeed.
Leaders are a "single point of failure". It's very poor engineering. I would strongly recommend against them.
To break a code, having a known repeated sequence is gold dust. If you know those two words "Heil Hitler" are already in the message - or very likely to be the last two words in the communication - then it massively, massively breaks down the search space.
And I just love that poetic justice that the Nazis really did have quite an unbreakable code on their hands, but it was their leader's ego and arrogance - that insistence to praise the leader with "Heil Hitler!" - giving them a known repeated sequence to search for, that helped them to break it.
Heil bloody Hitler, indeed.
Leaders are a "single point of failure". It's very poor engineering. I would strongly recommend against them.
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Strictly speaking, they didn't think the Enigma was "unbreakable" as such, they just didn't believe it was possible to break any given message in sufficient time that it would be of any possible use. There were a few that had suspicions that messages were being cracked but they were either ignored or put off by Allied cover plans (for example, flying a recon plane over a target vessel even though the Allies knew from Enigma where it would be; the Axis would think the plane was responsible for the information). There were other oft repeated phrases as well; for example, a weather report was pretty likely to include the word "weather" or a date, time etc.
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https://www.documentcloud.org/documents ... -dysphoria
That's "conversion therapy" for gender dysphoric inmates. Super.
That's "conversion therapy" for gender dysphoric inmates. Super.
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The US Navy used a nuclear submarine to torpedo an Iranian warship in international waters, without an official declaration of war. I'm sure Secretary Virile Beardless remembers how upset his own country got when someone else did something similar to them a while back [1].
[1] Technically, there was a declaration - or rather, an intention to end peace negotiations - but due to one of the bigger administrative cock-ups of all time it was a little late arriving...
[1] Technically, there was a declaration - or rather, an intention to end peace negotiations - but due to one of the bigger administrative cock-ups of all time it was a little late arriving...
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I don't understand why our media keeps informing at what time planes leave and arrive at the American base, what type they are, how many, etc, etc. Basically several TV Chanels are camped by the fence informing on that.
It seem to be too much unnecessary information at this time.
It seem to be too much unnecessary information at this time.
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I didn't vote for the man, but I can definitely agree with this:
https://seczine.com/aiml/2026/03/trump- ... center-po/
When all this AI stuff crashes we can use the abandon data center buildings for gladiator sporting events!
https://seczine.com/aiml/2026/03/trump- ... center-po/
When all this AI stuff crashes we can use the abandon data center buildings for gladiator sporting events!
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"If you buy a game at launch, you are paying the most amount of money for the worst version of the game" - TotalBiscuit
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Yeah, that's weirdly not a terrible policy.
There's got to be a catch, as Trump's never done anything for the benefit of another human being in his entire life.
Wait, I'm thinking that what Trump's thinking is that, to reach the levels of electricity generation that these guys need in short order, they'll have to lean on fossil fuels - coal, oil, gas - and, therefore, as President of Venezuela, he's going to make a ton of cash. But can pretend to the plebs that he's doing it all for their benefit, so they love him.
Stopped clocks, twice a day, et cetera.
Kind of like how his war with Iran is going to send fossil fuel prices upwards, which'll send energy prices upwards - as Putin's war in Ukraine did - which actually unintentionally helps with greater renewable generation, as it ends up being so much cheaper than fossil fuels but can be sold at high prices, that the energy companies rushed to renewables - faster than the grid operators could handle - because of all the big profits there. And also how there's been much more movement in Europe towards renewables, just to get out from under Putin's thumb.
Classic "unintended consequences". Because if fossil fuels keep breaking the world economy through energy prices, more and more folks adopt renewables, as a means to get out from under this nonsense, once and for all.
It's not what Putin - and neither Trump - want, of course. But their silly shenanigans have been causing a big shift in energy, exactly because it's intolerable to keep having the economy nose dive every time these arseholes invade somewhere. It forces people to look elsewhere, which they probably wouldn't have bothered doing otherwise, if energy prices were stable, as you just tolerate sucking up the costs - until you really can't afford it, then you're forced to look elsewhere, and many are finding a much better bargain that they leave and never return.
Again, stopped clocks and silver linings.
p.s. This also feels a little like when the UK government announced that no new petrol / diesel cars could be sold after 2035. Which makes it look like the government's being "green" and thinking of the environment. But this followed a bunch of car companies - such as VW, who're still trying to throw off the bad reputation of cheating emissions tests - declaring that they'd "go all electric" before this date anyway. So the real truth is that the industry was doing it anyway, but the government can get the credit by slapping on a policy later, as if they made it happen. So, like, Big Tech is already building power stations for these AI data centres - just due to the sheer amount of power they need and not having the time to wait around for the grid operator to sort it out for them - and then Trump can pretend like "I made them do it". Except, nah, not really, they were doing it anyway.
Like, by the latest figures, more EVs were sold in the EU than petrol / diesel (even hybrid) cars. The threshold has been crossed and EVs are the majority of sales now. So any government that's like "our policies are encouraging EV use" in those areas are being disingenuous, really, as the horse has already bolted. Nothing to do with them - the horse legged it ages back. But lay out some policies - "we think the horse should be freed" - and then, when the horse isn't there, pretend it was you that let it go. Not that the horse had already bolted, which had nothing whatsoever to do with you in the slightest, as the horse freed themselves.
There's got to be a catch, as Trump's never done anything for the benefit of another human being in his entire life.
Wait, I'm thinking that what Trump's thinking is that, to reach the levels of electricity generation that these guys need in short order, they'll have to lean on fossil fuels - coal, oil, gas - and, therefore, as President of Venezuela, he's going to make a ton of cash. But can pretend to the plebs that he's doing it all for their benefit, so they love him.
Stopped clocks, twice a day, et cetera.
Kind of like how his war with Iran is going to send fossil fuel prices upwards, which'll send energy prices upwards - as Putin's war in Ukraine did - which actually unintentionally helps with greater renewable generation, as it ends up being so much cheaper than fossil fuels but can be sold at high prices, that the energy companies rushed to renewables - faster than the grid operators could handle - because of all the big profits there. And also how there's been much more movement in Europe towards renewables, just to get out from under Putin's thumb.
Classic "unintended consequences". Because if fossil fuels keep breaking the world economy through energy prices, more and more folks adopt renewables, as a means to get out from under this nonsense, once and for all.
It's not what Putin - and neither Trump - want, of course. But their silly shenanigans have been causing a big shift in energy, exactly because it's intolerable to keep having the economy nose dive every time these arseholes invade somewhere. It forces people to look elsewhere, which they probably wouldn't have bothered doing otherwise, if energy prices were stable, as you just tolerate sucking up the costs - until you really can't afford it, then you're forced to look elsewhere, and many are finding a much better bargain that they leave and never return.
Again, stopped clocks and silver linings.
p.s. This also feels a little like when the UK government announced that no new petrol / diesel cars could be sold after 2035. Which makes it look like the government's being "green" and thinking of the environment. But this followed a bunch of car companies - such as VW, who're still trying to throw off the bad reputation of cheating emissions tests - declaring that they'd "go all electric" before this date anyway. So the real truth is that the industry was doing it anyway, but the government can get the credit by slapping on a policy later, as if they made it happen. So, like, Big Tech is already building power stations for these AI data centres - just due to the sheer amount of power they need and not having the time to wait around for the grid operator to sort it out for them - and then Trump can pretend like "I made them do it". Except, nah, not really, they were doing it anyway.
Like, by the latest figures, more EVs were sold in the EU than petrol / diesel (even hybrid) cars. The threshold has been crossed and EVs are the majority of sales now. So any government that's like "our policies are encouraging EV use" in those areas are being disingenuous, really, as the horse has already bolted. Nothing to do with them - the horse legged it ages back. But lay out some policies - "we think the horse should be freed" - and then, when the horse isn't there, pretend it was you that let it go. Not that the horse had already bolted, which had nothing whatsoever to do with you in the slightest, as the horse freed themselves.
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Pure evil.tufty wrote:https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/27307934-bop-526001-management-of-inmates-with-gender-dysphoria
That's "conversion therapy" for gender dysphoric inmates. Super.
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This is NOT democracy.
Not that I'm surprised.
Not that I'm surprised.
andThe Pentagon has not permitted photographers to cover Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's last two briefings on the war in Iran, and hasn't explained the change in longstanding policy.
https://abcnews.com/US/wireStory/pentag ... -130975590Most mainstream news organizations have left their desks at the Pentagon rather than accept new Trump administration rules that restrict their movements and who they can talk to.
They've been replaced at the Pentagon by a newly constituted press corps that agreed to the rules and to a large extent work for outlets that are supportive of President Donald Trump.
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Supposedly its because of "unflattering" photos of someone who apparently is so unsecure, they must bomb an entire country to stop them looking bad on camera.
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