WTF-Beta

An illegal war based on a lie. No. An easy call.

No, it's real.

Is Sarah next?

This is a good journalist with good connections.

One more reason I've chosen to not buy a new car. The others being high cost, first year depreciation, planned obsolescence, and proprietary software (and I won't be able to avoid that one). I didn't need another reason.

I say if you can afford/ risk it, then do it.

There are new cars I'd buy in spite of this information if I could afford them (e.g. a Porsche 911, etc.)

Yikes!

Hopefully this is AI but I doubt it.

@realplayer I have instructions bookmarked but other things have kept me busy. I definitely want to learn how to do it.

The latest news.

(Click on link, you will see the video, press play)

I'm guessing people in MAGA will freak out.

Personally, I hit the American generations head on- WWII, Boomers, Generation X.

It's random chance but I wouldn't have chosen anything to be different.

We've lost my grandparents' generation; we're loosing the Boomers (I've lost both my parents).

Now it's my turn to be in the world with my only family left being my peers, although they're about fifteen years younger than me.

I'm very satisfied with this timeline the universe chose for me.

/Back to demographics of countries with aging populations

It's a hard no from me. Iran's nuclear program is being monitored by the relevant official agency. It would be a 2nd-- 2nd Iraq War ("weapons of mass destruction") or even worse, maybe much worse. Hopefully, the U.S. and Israel, again, are forced to come to terms with Iran's current abilities to wage war, and back off a second time.

I won't litigate this as such.

I was against my country waging a war of aggression on Iran when I heard first heard of the planning of this dark reality we find ourselves in now decades ago when the Neocons made no secret of any aspect of their plans to wage a war of aggression on Iran, and I am against it now.

In particular, Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons, but it has excellent guided missiles, and its military capabilities are vastly underrated.

The battle ground is a small land mass compared to places like the U.S., Canada, Russia, China, Austria, Etc.

It will be very destructive, very quickly, and many expert analysts have talked about what they believe would be an increase for the probability of global nuclear war.

Iran is not an existential threat to the U.S. The U.S. won't but should back away from this illegal war.

Looking forward to seeing it!

@Bernard said:

18 years ago. . .

Link to video

It's all just a little bit of history
repeating...

She didn't have any to lose. She's making a lot more sense now.

She's hardly the first person to believe in a politician only to end up disappointed.

Preach, MTG!

Andy, if you think so then maybe Britain should do it without us.

Everything MTG said is true and correct. My country is being turned into a 3rd World country at the expense of American lives and treasure in these endless regime change wars on behalf of Israel.

This Iran war on behalf of Israel is as completely false and illegitimate as the Iraq War was on behalf of Israel with both being based on fear mongering and lies.

The only imminent existential danger to all of us is nuclear war based on Israel's "secret," nuclear program, that isn't inspected by the relevant international organization, unlike Iraq's, and Israel's stated policy code named, "Samson," a plan to use their nuclear weapons to kill anyone and everyone they decide to obliterate if the government of Israel decides it no longer has a viable future.

Israel is not a, "democracy." It is an apartied state. It is committing genocide. My country should cut it loose financially and militarily, and make make AIPAC register as a foreign agent, because it is a foreign agent.

Israel is a supremacist theocratic state, and, again, commiting The Palestinian Genocide, a term now officially coined by the U.N.

I wanted nothing to do with the Iraq war and I feel the same way now.

Does this mean intelligence agencies will stop recruiting from these same schools. This man seems to never say or do anything that makes sense or common sense. It seems to be a feature not a bug with these people.

@wtg said in Good night, stars?:

In the beginning, the Bible tells us,

God divided the light from the darkness.

And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night.

And so it has been ever since — until now.

Here in the 21st century, we humans are on the cusp of turning night into day — and bidding good night to the stars that have guided us home for thousands of years.

Two little-noted applications under review by the Federal Communications Commission would, if fully implemented, fundamentally remake the night sky. But the FCC, the satellite regulator, appears to have fast-tracked approval without much of a pause to weigh the benefits of these proposals against the harms they could cause to life on the planet.

A start-up called Reflect Orbital proposes to use large, mirrored satellites to redirect sunlight to Earth at night, with plans to bathe solar farms, industrial sites and even entire cities in light that could, if desired, reach the intensity of daylight. At the same time, Elon Musk’s SpaceX wants to launch as many as a million satellites to serve as orbiting data centers — 70 times the number of satellites now in orbit. We could have a million points of light streaking across our skies at night.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/good-night-stars-we-are-on-the-cusp-of-turning-darkness-into-day/ar-AA1XbQDM

Nightmare de jour.

This was one of many great things about living on Mauna Kea below the elevation where it snows. I was lucky to live there for seven years. The world's best observatories are located on the summit. There was no light pollution. The nighttime sky there is something I was lucky enough to see and won't see again. That was an awesome place to live.

A bit beyond my budget but Wow!!

Exquisite and iteresting history.