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Here's the Deep State Panic Op, the BREAKING RUSSIAN THREAT they're announcing to pressure Speaker Johnson to call a vote on the treasonous Ukraine aid bill: the Russians might put nuclear weapons... IN SPAAAAAACE.

You know, the way both the US and Soviet Union have played with the idea of putting nuclear weapons IN SPAAAAACE since the 1970s.

But it's a breaking threat that threatens us RIGHT NOW because the Deep State needs an op to pressure their opposition with.

These weapons aren't even ground-striking nukes -- they're designed to... blow up satellites.

Again, this is shit we've been talking about since 1975.

Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) sparked national concern on Wednesday when he released an urgent notice warning of a "serious national security threat." Members of Congress are now being briefed on the matter. Multiple sources tell me that CNN’s original reporting on the threat being Russia-related is accurate. Two sources further tell me that this is a space-based nuclear weapons threat.
Top line: It appears that Russia is in the process of deploying (via multiple recent satellite launches), or is preparing to deploy, an anti-satellite-based nuclear weapons system into space. Concerns have escalated amid Russian military-related satellite launches, the most recent of which occurred last week.

Um... how does funding Ukraine stop Russia from doing this?

It doesn't. Op failed.

Is there such a thing as "Anxiety Nostalgia"?

We're going to have to prosecute and imprison the Deep Staters. There is no other way. They will not stop their Permanent Coup against the people of the United States until they are stopped.

@TheInsidePaper
JUST IN - Putin says he would prefer Joe Biden to win US election rather than Donald Trump - FT

Via JackStraw.

@MailOnline
13m
Disgraced politician Anthony Weiner's ex-wife Huma Abedin, 47, reveals she is dating George Soros' billionaire playboy son Alex, 38

Via weft-cut loop.

Christopher F. Rufo
@realchrisrufo
In 1970, 10% of Americans had a college degree. Today, 40% of Americans have a college degree.
This means, by simple math, that the average intelligence of college graduates has plummeted and, simultaneously, creates a large cohort of Americans who feel entitled to "college-worthy professions" without the intellectual aptitude for them.

They call this "the overproduction of elites" but that's a bad way to frame it. These people are not elites. They think they have elite credentials, but they actually don't. What they are are elite aspirants who have been sold a much-devalued credential and a lie for $200,000.

Hence, the explosion of email jobs, DEI offices, and administrative positions--which are the most susceptible to capture by resentment ideology.
Meanwhile, the cost of this college-degree bubble is shifted onto taxpayers, as the $1.6 trillion student loan scheme is funded, subsidized, and guaranteed by the federal government.
This won't end well. Conservatives should be ready for the bubble to eventually pop, and work to privatize student loans, put immense pressure on the system, and put state-backed higher ed into contraction.
An ideal might be 20% of Americans with a college degree--meaning a reduction of slots by approximately half. Job training, technical schools, and community colleges are much better options for the 60th-80th percentile: faster, cost-efficient, and oriented toward productive work, rather than ideology.

Biden's "defense" of his failure to remember when Beau died was that he was so angry and incensed that the special counsel would ask him such a thing about an Official State Secret That Joe Biden Has Vowed Never To Talk About (except in every other speech), that he silently fumed to himself, "How dare you bring that up."

Supposedly, then, Biden wasn't having "lost time" when asked this question, but smoldering with manly, virile, and quite youthful rage.

Via Chuck Ross: You're not going to believe this, but that was a lie.

All of those of you who said "I bet Biden brought up Beau, just likes he brings up Beau whenever he's in trouble," head to the Ace of Spades Casino Cashier to collect $1000 in Ace Chips.

A Politico hack ruthlessly interrogates Pete Bootyjudge about Biden's mental acuity, and gets this powerful admission:

Yeah... and Ruth Bader Ginsberg was running circles around her 25-year-old physical trainer! He was exhausted trying to keep up with her inexhaustible energy!

Until... she died. Then it became relatively easier to keep up

with her.

Here are five straight minutes that show exactly why the special counsel noted Biden's diminished mental fitness pic.twitter.com/u1ToosAKyz
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) February 11, 2024

WATCH: President Biden's speech & memory in 2016 compared to 2024: pic.twitter.com/BKF5ddjjUO
— The Daily Signal (@DailySignal) February 13, 2024

Good article about former science journals like Nature and the New England Journal of Medicine deciding that the world can't do without their Expert Opinions on Politics, throwing away their reputations to shift approximately zero votes.

Confirmed: Catherine Herridge was fired by CBS "News" for breaking the wrong kind of news. Like, actual news, not just barely-rewritten DNC propaganda.

Well, not confirmed, exactly.

But well evidenced.

Collin Rugg
@CollinRugg

JUST IN: CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge fired in company wide layoffs conducted by Paramount Global.

Herridge was one of 800 people who got axed on Tuesday in Paramount Global's massive cost-cutting operation.
Herridge was fired just hours after she reported on how Biden may have "retained sensitive documents related to specific countries involving his family's foreign business dealings."
"The Committees require this (Biden/Hur interview) transcript... there is concern that President Biden may have retained sensitive documents related to specific countries involving his family's foreign business dealings..." she posted on X yesterday.
Wild.

Megyn Kelly mentioned that CBS "News" intended to give Biden a powderpuff fellacioius interview for the Super Bowl, conducted by leftwing racialist hack... Gayle King.

And he still wasn't confident in his ability to answer easy questions from an open Democrat partisan.

JUST IN: CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge fired in company wide layoffs conducted by Paramount Global.

Herridge was one of 800 people who got axed on Tuesday in Paramount Global's massive cost-cutting operation.

Herridge was fired just hours after she reported on how… pic.twitter.com/vyVKfErSY2
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) February 13, 2024

A Valentine's Day card from Robert:

It refers to The Trolley Problem, a hypothetical intended to illuminate someone's preference for utilitarianism or moral imperatives. The trolley problem goes like this: a runaway train is approaching a switch. If it stays on the track it's on, it will run over and kill five people. If you throw the switch to change tracks, it will miss the five people, but kill the one person on that track.

So less people will be killed if you throw the switch. But, if you throw the switch, you will be directly responsible for intentionally killing the one person. You won't be directly responsible for the deaths of the five people, if you choose to do nothing.

So do you throw the switch?

I guess you can say "If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice (ba-dum-dum)," so not throwing the switch is equally directly and intentionally killing the five people, and either way, you're making a choice of who lives and who dies, so you might as well save more people.

I think that's how I see it. Rush Rules.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 06:37 PM

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1 The USA detonated nuclear weapons in space several times. I think the highest was Shot Argus over the Atlantic, a few hundred miles up.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 06:40 PM (MvF+J)

2 >>> You know, the way both the US and Soviet Union have played with the idea of putting nuclear weapons IN SPAAAAACE since the 1970s.

And it wasn't until Trump that we got
SPAAAAACE FORRRRCE !!!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2024 06:41 PM (cOq4q)

3 We are not a serious country

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Esteemed Trump-Ho and Searcher of Wagshambas at February 14, 2024 06:41 PM (VTu1l)

4 @MailOnline 13m
Disgraced politician Anthony Weiner's ex-wife Huma Abedin, 47, reveals she is dating George Soros' billionaire playboy son Alex, 38

That’s got some major “ Ick” factor there ace… cruel mental imagery..

Posted by: tubal at February 14, 2024 06:42 PM (PCK5/)

5 Until... she died. Then it became relatively easier to keep up with her.

You're a bad, bad man, Ace. Lulz

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 14, 2024 06:42 PM (3CVIc)

6 I'm pretty sure the actual Russian threat relates to salad dressing. I major market scheme is afoot whereby Russian dressing will go head to head with Italian dressing and French dressing. Word has it that the French have already given up and are looking to join the Russians.

Simultaneously, Russia is planning to sue every fast food restaurant on the planet for taking Russian dressing and relabeling as "special sauce." The trademark litigation will take place in the World Court and promises the potential for billions in settlement(s). Long John Silver was absent from the original Summons and Complaint, because no one eats there.

Posted by: Orson at February 14, 2024 06:42 PM (dIske)

7 Russian nuclear weapons in space?

That’s the plot of Space Cowboys.

One of my favorites.

Posted by: Sap Green at February 14, 2024 06:43 PM (MNhXM)

8 Beau died in a horrible train accident crossing the River Kwai.

You assholes.

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 14, 2024 06:43 PM (3CVIc)

9 The US had nuclear missiles ready for direct ascent anti satellite work ...in the 60's

Posted by: steevy at February 14, 2024 06:43 PM (FQmDC)

10 You know, the way both the US and Soviet Union have played with the idea of putting nuclear weapons IN SPAAAAACE since the 1970s.
=
Space Cowboys was released in 2000.

Posted by: Methos at February 14, 2024 06:43 PM (Dnobf)

11 These people are not elites. They think they have elite credentials, but they actually don't. What they are are elite aspirants who have been sold a much-devalued credential and a lie for $200,000

THAT'S NOT TRUE! YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!!!!!!

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at February 14, 2024 06:44 PM (a3Q+t)

12 Not so sure nukes in space would be as effective as they are at STP air burst.

Now a rail gun would tits.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2024 06:44 PM (cOq4q)

13 I will choose free will!

Posted by: SFGoth at February 14, 2024 06:44 PM (KAi1n)

14 Wikipedia sez "Several such tests were performed at high altitudes by the United States and the Soviet Union between 1958 and 1962." Argus 3 was 1.7kT at 540km.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 06:44 PM (MvF+J)

15 Russia wants to nuke the moon!

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at February 14, 2024 06:44 PM (VMFAF)

16 February 1962 the USAF had started Program 437 to provide for a nuclear ASAT (anti-satellite) capability. Unarmed tests of Thors as ASAT missiles began in February 1964, and by September 1964 the ASAT Thor was declared operational.

Posted by: steevy at February 14, 2024 06:44 PM (FQmDC)

17 >>Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) sparked national concern on Wednesday

If I were Johnson, I would remove this f**king a**hole from the committee, he's trying to roll his leader.

Put him on whatever congressional latrine duty is but this guy cannot be trusted with Intel.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at February 14, 2024 06:45 PM (XV/Pl)

18 We're going to have to prosecute and imprison the Deep Staters.
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While they're waiting for execution, sure.

It's not worth the risk that someone friendly to their cause might get in office somewhere down the road and let them back out.

Posted by: Methos at February 14, 2024 06:45 PM (Dnobf)

19 I'm off my trolley-is that kinda what we're talking about?

Posted by: Fugitive From Board of Mental Health at February 14, 2024 06:45 PM (V5BDR)

20 Once, while briefing him on railroad
investments, Buttigieg brought along an
expert from the Federal Rail
Administration, who could not answer all of
Biden's questions

"Where's my ice cream? Where's my mommy? What does this button do? Where's my ding dong? I lost my ding dong!!!! Who took my ding dong?"

Posted by: nurse ratched at February 14, 2024 06:45 PM (k/khC)

21 I think both China and Russia have successfully tested non-nuclear ASATs.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 06:46 PM (MvF+J)

22 "Disgraced politician Anthony Weiner's ex-wife Huma Abedin, 47, reveals she is dating George Soros' billionaire playboy son Alex, 38"

Ew, gross. You don't know where she's been!

Posted by: Joe Biteum at February 14, 2024 06:46 PM (vFG9F)

23 Before you duck and cover send us all your money. Thanks, .The Senate

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2024 06:46 PM (Askgf)

24 Re trolley problem

I would throw the switch such that it hits anyone who ever brings up this stupid fucking Philosophy 101 - go take a bath you useless hippy, I got real problems to deal with - question.

Posted by: Guy who is sick of the damn Trolley at February 14, 2024 06:46 PM (aJ/Rj)

25 21 Indeed

Posted by: steevy at February 14, 2024 06:47 PM (FQmDC)

26 >>> Huma Abedin, 47, reveals she is dating George Soros' billionaire playboy son Alex, 38

That is some bumping ugly you don't want to think too much of while eating.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2024 06:47 PM (cOq4q)

27 hiya

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2024 06:47 PM (T4tVD)

28 The bigger threat right now is the foot dragging on passing continued aid to our pacific rim coalition of countries. The treaty we have allows us free reign in their waters . The amount of aid over ten years is something like only 2 billion. They should have passed that with this last bill by taking it off the top of the Ukraine aid. They just want China to take over the Pacific I guess.

Posted by: Sap Green at February 14, 2024 06:47 PM (MNhXM)

29 Beau Biden is dead? How come no one talks about this?

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at February 14, 2024 06:47 PM (z+89e)

30 *finishes set of 40 chin ups*

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at February 14, 2024 06:48 PM (R4t5M)

31 Huma Abedin, 47, reveals she is dating George Soros' billionaire playboy son Alex, 38

That is some bumping ugly you don't want to think too much of while eating.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2024 06:47 PM (cOq4q)

Ugly bumping from a Judenrat and an Arab...oh G-D there goes dinner

Posted by: Nevergiveup at February 14, 2024 06:48 PM (PQ4m2)

32 29 Died on Oct 7 defending Gaza from Israeli parasail attack

Posted by: steevy at February 14, 2024 06:48 PM (FQmDC)

33 Anyway, you don't need a rocket ship to deliver nuclear weapons into the USA. Just truck em in over the open borders. Float em into La Jolla.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 06:49 PM (MvF+J)

34 It's quiet. Too quiet.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2024 06:49 PM (BdMk6)

35 Joe Biden Has Vowed Never To Talk About (except in every other speech), that he silently fumed to himself, "How dare you bring that up."

"HOW DARE YOU"

Now Joe is plagiarizing Greta Thunberg, the Muppet of DOOM

Posted by: As noted by Miklos at February 14, 2024 06:49 PM (rbTgL)

36 We're going to have to prosecute and imprison the Deep Staters. There is no other way. They will not stop their Permanent Coup against the people of the United States until they are stopped.

This^ Very few of the phony political issues that are kicked around mean anything. Ending the Permanent Coup is imperative

Posted by: Ex GOP at February 14, 2024 06:50 PM (qS8WV)

37 A Valentine's Day card from Robert:

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Didja see these progressive VD cards?

http://tinyurl.com/4dx8hmve

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 14, 2024 06:50 PM (68oQI)

38 Trolley Problem summed up:

"The good of the many outweighs the good of the few. Or the one."

Corollary: Unless you are besties with the most awesome starship captain in Federation history. Then he'll move heaven and earth (and blow up his own ship) just for the *chance* to save your immortal soul.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2024 06:51 PM (BpYfr)

39 It refers to The Trolley Problem, a hypothetical intended to illuminate someone's preference for utilitarianism or moral imperatives.
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EFAP covered it for a while on their recent anniversary episode. The idea is that you change the circumstances (how old are the people on each track, do you know them?, etc.)to tease out what you really believe

Posted by: Methos at February 14, 2024 06:52 PM (Dnobf)

40 What’s scary is most of our nuclear weapons need an update.

Like buying a new car and storing it in a garage for 50 years. At least with the car you can take it for a test run to see if anything has frozen up or deteriorated.

Posted by: Sap Green at February 14, 2024 06:52 PM (MNhXM)

41 Shit... 2 police cars with lights flashing at the neighbors across the street in my quiet little hood...

Posted by: screaming in digital at February 14, 2024 06:52 PM (1eY81)

42 This is the Spock conundrum

Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2024 06:52 PM (NxC5+)

43
"You know, my son, Beau, died..."

"I've got a good lawyer in J. Noble Daggett!"

Posted by: Don Black at February 14, 2024 06:52 PM (geLO8)

44 And if our nukes need updating just think of Russia’s nukes.

Posted by: Sap Green at February 14, 2024 06:53 PM (MNhXM)

45 >>That is some bumping ugly you don't want to think too much of while eating.

Where do they even start?

Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2024 06:53 PM (zOR5N)

46 40 And the old white guys who had the knowledge were forced to retire....

Posted by: steevy at February 14, 2024 06:53 PM (FQmDC)

47 The Capt. Kirk solution to the Trolley problem is to force the person positing the problem to add a third track with no one on it.

Posted by: Halfhand at February 14, 2024 06:53 PM (gpuuh)

48 It refers to The Trolley Problem,

Stupid, nihilistic, pseudo-philosophical bullshit. Everyone posting those memes are democidal marxists.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2024 06:53 PM (IG4Id)

49 And it wasn't until Trump that we got
SPAAAAACE FORRRRCE !!!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2024 06:41 PM (cOq4q)

And just having a Space Force, broke a lot of agreements with other nations we had about militarization of space.

Not treaties... but agreements.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2024 06:53 PM (xaFKb)

50 20 Once, while briefing him on railroad
investments, Buttigieg brought along an
expert from the Federal Rail
Administration, who could not answer all of
Biden's questions

Fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer

(I tried to find a cite for this, but not so easy and I have things to do. Proverbs 26:9 is close and it may be derived from that. )

Posted by: Guy who is sick of the damn Trolley at February 14, 2024 06:54 PM (aJ/Rj)

51 And if our nukes need updating just think of Russia’s nukes.
Posted by: Sap Green at February 14, 2024 06:53 PM (MNhXM)
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Other than North Korea, who else has been testing nukes by setting them off?

NK might have the most functional nukes on the planet at this point.

Chew on that for a while.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 14, 2024 06:54 PM (BpYfr)

52 47 The Capt. Kirk solution to the Trolley problem is to force the person positing the problem to add a third track with no one on it.
Posted by: Halfhand at February 14, 2024 06:53 PM (gpuuh)

Scotty! 6 to beam up!

Posted by: Kirk at February 14, 2024 06:54 PM (xaFKb)

53 What a retarded proposition.

The Trolly has a bell.

Ring it and let nature take its course.

Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2024 06:54 PM (zOR5N)

54 40 No tests at yield for over three decades. They base their reliability and safety estimates all on simulations. I think one deployed warhead design has never even been tested at yield.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 06:54 PM (MvF+J)

55 - Those railroad spikes. Big nails. How many of those used in the railroad from here to my beach house?

- Ummm, I'll have to make a call to get that answer for you Mr. President.

- How about how many bottles of water you guys go through in a year?

Dumb/trivial irrelevant questions may require getting back too... if one feels obligated to answer them.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2024 06:54 PM (cOq4q)

56 So Putin prefers Joe Biden as prezzy? Whoda thunk it? Trump needs to run ads and billboards with Vlad working Pedo Joe's puppet strings.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2024 06:55 PM (tkR6S)

57 Billionaire playboys do not date Anthony Weiner's leftovers unless she is also Hillary Clinton's leftovers. Even a Soros has better options.

Posted by: huerfano at February 14, 2024 06:55 PM (Q4KYm)

58 I derailed the Cannonball Express and that loafer duo of Floyd and Charlie in Hooterville in 1968.

Posted by: Homer Bedloe at February 14, 2024 06:55 PM (V5BDR)

59 >And it wasn't until Trump that we got
SPAAAAACE FORRRRCE !!!

----

Would you like to know more?

Posted by: Don Black at February 14, 2024 06:56 PM (geLO8)

60 >> Billionaire playboys

Billionaire SoyBois, However.

Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2024 06:56 PM (zOR5N)

61 Shit... 2 police cars with lights flashing at the neighbors across the street in my quiet little hood...
Posted by: screaming in digital at February 14, 2024 06:52 PM (1eY81)

Stay safe Screamie !

Posted by: JT at February 14, 2024 06:57 PM (T4tVD)

62 What’s scary is most of our nuclear weapons need an update.

Like buying a new car and storing it in a garage for 50 years. At least with the car you can take it for a test run to see if anything has frozen up or deteriorated.
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And there are people around you can find who have worked on that model at some point over the last 50 years if you need help fixing it.

Posted by: Methos at February 14, 2024 06:57 PM (Dnobf)

63 Minuteman 3's are fifty years old. I read somewhere that some of the engineering and/or maintenance docs can't be located anymore.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 06:57 PM (MvF+J)

64 They call this "the overproduction of elites" but that's a bad way to frame it. These people are not elites. They think they have elite credentials, but they actually don't. What they are are elite aspirants who have been sold a much-devalued credential and a lie for $200,000.

Customarily, this sort of person is known as a mark.

Posted by: And they're marks because they're to dumb to see the scam at February 14, 2024 06:57 PM (UMHqX)

65 >Once, while briefing him on railroad
investments, Buttigieg brought along an
expert from the Federal Rail
Administration, who could not answer all of
Biden's questions

I don't believe this at all

Posted by: Don Black at February 14, 2024 06:57 PM (geLO8)

66 And it wasn't until Trump that we got
SPAAAAACE FORRRRCE !!!
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2024 06:41 PM (cOq4q)

And just having a Space Force, broke a lot of agreements with other nations we had about militarization of space.

Not treaties... but agreements.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2024 06:53 PM (xaFKb)

Too bad. So sad.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2024 06:57 PM (BdMk6)

67 Willowed -

281 @228
I have been watching more ANIME with him because every new cartoon has some sort of LGBTQ=+ ETC in them.

--------

Yeah, about that...

There's a scandal in the anime industry right now (also known as "a situation in which the fans found out what the industry is just fine with") involving localization for North America. The dubbers have been making characters much more woke than the Japanese creators had intended. IIRC, Crunchyroll is aware of this, and apparently tacitly approves.

The Japanese just found out about it, and they do NOT approve. Some of the Japanese publishers have stated that they plan to have AI do the localization going forward, with a real person looking over the results to catch the inevitable AI screw-ups.

Also, something similar has just turned up in localization of Japanese video games.

Posted by: junior at February 14, 2024 06:57 PM (meJz4)

68 O's pulling out all the stops.

But yet I see Jake* - Hillary - Benghazi & so much more - and ask myself, can those people ever be trusted again with their policies?

*lovely wife - Garland's counsel

Posted by: L - Now King of BS doesn't remember what happened last evening so forget about it at February 14, 2024 06:58 PM (GshMh)

69 And just having a Space Force, broke a lot of agreements with other nations we had about militarization of space.

Not treaties... but agreements.
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2024 06:53 PM (xaFKb)

Too bad. So sad.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2024 06:57 PM (BdMk6)

How can we expect other countries to keep their word, when we constantly break ours?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2024 06:58 PM (xaFKb)

70 And if our nukes need updating just think of Russia’s nukes.
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Wasn't there some kind of scandal during the Bush years when we figured out that Russia had spent the money we were paying to dismantle their nukes on improving the ones they were keeping and building bunkers?

Posted by: Methos at February 14, 2024 06:58 PM (Dnobf)

71 I never knew there were so many Snidely Whiplashes tying people to trolley tracks!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 14, 2024 06:58 PM (68oQI)

72 Senile old bastard... is that a sufficient summary???

Posted by: tubal at February 14, 2024 06:59 PM (3/93h)

73 Could you derail the train by putting the switch half-way? I mean, that might kill everybody on the track, but it's another option...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 14, 2024 06:59 PM (ynpvh)

74 The Republicans if they had brains(a questionable proposition) would demand a copy of the Hur - Biden transcript every time a Dem tries some stupid defense.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 14, 2024 06:59 PM (DgSZ/)

75 Total co-inky-dink, fo' sho'

@SueJ2024 19m
CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge was fired Tuesday after reporting on how Biden may have "retained sensitive documents related to specific countries involving his family’s foreign business dealings." Besides the weather, there's really no reason to watch CBS

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2024 06:59 PM (IG4Id)

76 Mister Rogers has entered the chat.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 14, 2024 07:00 PM (R4t5M)

77 It refers to The Trolley Problem, a hypothetical intended to illuminate someone's preference for utilitarianism or moral imperatives.
-
EFAP covered it for a while on their recent anniversary episode. The idea is that you change the circumstances (how old are the people on each track, do you know them?, etc.)to tease out what you really believe
Posted by: Methos at February 14, 2024 06:52 PM (Dnobf)

My solution? Throw the switch half-way, just as the train arrives, and derail the sucker. If the passengers aren't wearing their seatbelts, it's their funeral.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2024 07:00 PM (tkR6S)

78 Back to "Fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer"

A search comes up as Brandolini's Law.

1. Why is everything a fucking law nowadays? Every two bit asshole who has a unique thought calls it a "law" and everyone plays along.

2. How can I get one of those laws named after me?

Posted by: Guy who is sick of the damn Trolley at February 14, 2024 07:00 PM (aJ/Rj)

79 How hot are the chicks on either track?

Like on a scale of 1-10.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 14, 2024 07:00 PM (3CVIc)

80 I watched my Dad descend into dementia. it was heartbreaking.

Fuck Joe Biden. fucking monster.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Not Ready for the Cart at February 14, 2024 07:00 PM (T/Lqj)

81 >>> President Biden's speech & memory in 2016 compared to 2024

And a lot of us thought Biden was slipping in 2016, most all of us including Team Biden knew he was shot in 2020...now even his supporters have a Dead Pool going for he strokes out live, err, dead. It's a big fricken joke.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at February 14, 2024 07:00 PM (cOq4q)

82 Do another Rail and let God sort it out

Posted by: Casey Jones at February 14, 2024 07:01 PM (zOR5N)

83 >>>47 The Capt. Kirk solution to the Trolley problem is to force the person positing the problem to add a third track with no one on it.

I changed the parameters of the simulation.

Posted by: Captain James T. Kirk, radiating pure awesomeness at February 14, 2024 07:01 PM (KRtlO)

84 Also, something similar has just turned up in localization of Japanese video games.
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In the latest Yakuza (now Like a Dragon), they gave a male character a female voice actor to make him magically trans (for those not closely following these things).

Posted by: Methos at February 14, 2024 07:01 PM (Dnobf)

85 The Trolley Problem lacks sufficient trolleys. I'd want at least three.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 07:01 PM (MvF+J)

86 73 Could you derail the train by putting the switch half-way? I mean, that might kill everybody on the track, but it's another option...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 14, 2024 06:59 PM (ynpvh)

77 It refers to The Trolley Problem, a hypothetical intended to illuminate someone's preference for utilitarianism or moral imperatives.
-
EFAP covered it for a while on their recent anniversary episode. The idea is that you change the circumstances (how old are the people on each track, do you know them?, etc.)to tease out what you really believe
Posted by: Methos at February 14, 2024 06:52 PM (Dnobf)

My solution? Throw the switch half-way, just as the train arrives, and derail the sucker. If the passengers aren't wearing their seatbelts, it's their funeral.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2024 07:00 PM (tkR6S)

::: fist bump :::

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 14, 2024 07:02 PM (ynpvh)

87 Cake Girl v Swedish Bikini Team.

Go!

Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2024 07:02 PM (zOR5N)

88 A Dirty Skidmark Of History is that the USA and Russia never became good friends after the Soviet Union went down the toilet in 1991.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 14, 2024 07:02 PM (R/m4+)

89 So do you throw the switch?

Yes, of course.

Since when does doing nothing absolve you of mora responsibility for things you can directly affect but choose not to?

Maybe I'm a simpleton, but I've never considered this to be a hard moral dilemma.

Posted by: 5 > 1 at February 14, 2024 07:02 PM (UMHqX)

90 I'm fond of these dictator valentines:

http://tinyurl.com/tx2r48cr

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2024 07:02 PM (OX9vb)

91 That's a bummer Herridge.
In today's media...When you fire facts, facts get you fired.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 14, 2024 07:02 PM (YFtYd)

92 Hmmm. EMP strike from space....

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 14, 2024 07:02 PM (di6C2)

93 Anime, Hentai and Manga.... all different... but how??

Posted by: tubal at February 14, 2024 07:02 PM (3/93h)

94 I missed the previous thread where Madame Web was mentioned, but the movie has been out long enough to gain a representative number of votes/ratings on IMDB.com. The result?

3.8/10

That's modern-day Steven Seagal level bad.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 14, 2024 07:03 PM (/HDaX)

95 Our President, unfortunately, is one of the repulsive people who claim Gold Star status. While supposedly comforting the families who lost a loved one due to his inadequacies as Commander in Chief, he routinely twists the conversation around to be about himself, and he then fraudulently claims to have lost his son in the Iraq war. This is a double slap in the face to those families; having to listen to the one whose leadership failures are complicit in their loved one's loss turn around and lie to their face about how he supposedly suffered a similar loss. The families deserve better. We need to amend the Stolen Valor act.

Posted by: Hillary's Jockstrap at February 14, 2024 07:03 PM (Cia0+)

96 *starts chewing on Ace Chips*

Man, these are tough!

Posted by: pookysgirl, missing the point as always at February 14, 2024 07:03 PM (dtlDP)

97 >>>That's modern-day Steven Seagal level bad.

Hard disagree.

Posted by: Space Ice at February 14, 2024 07:03 PM (KRtlO)

98 The solution to the trolley problem is to snap the lever at the base and stab the smooth-brained asshole who posted it through the throat, and invite the kiddies over for a pinata party.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2024 07:03 PM (IG4Id)

99 96 *starts chewing on Ace Chips*

Man, these are tough!

Posted by: pookysgirl, missing the point as always at February 14, 2024 07:03 PM (dtlDP)

Ewoks make chips like cows?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 14, 2024 07:03 PM (ynpvh)

100 Gentlemen, I detest each and every one of you. Happy Valentine's Day!

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 07:04 PM (MvF+J)

101 >>Maybe I'm a simpleton, but I've never considered this to be a hard moral dilemma.

I mean...
if it's 5 Pro-Palestinian Protestors or 1 Dancing Grandma, it gets a little more nuanced.

Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2024 07:04 PM (zOR5N)

102 Uncle Sam shoulda teamed up with Ivan to take down the Chinaman

Posted by: Don Black at February 14, 2024 07:04 PM (geLO8)

103 Our fifty year old Minutemen missiles have forgotten who the enemy was/is/could be.

Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2024 07:04 PM (NxC5+)

104 It's absurd that we are still even having a discussion about whether or not Biden is declining mentally. It's beyond obvious to everyone.

There is no way in hell Biden can serve another 4 years. Democrats are going to have to replace him.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2024 07:04 PM (LkLld)

105 103 Our fifty year old Minutemen missiles have forgotten who the enemy was/is/could be.

Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2024 07:04 PM (NxC5+)

Joey's dementia is spreading?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 14, 2024 07:05 PM (ynpvh)

106 67 I'd think that a real anime aficionado would want genuine 'unlocalized' Japanese product.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 07:06 PM (MvF+J)

107 Is it an armored train, like People's Commander Stelnikov? Because that would be cool.

Posted by: Beartooth at February 14, 2024 07:06 PM (iPilE)

108 What Trolley "problem"?

Posted by: Superman at February 14, 2024 07:06 PM (KRtlO)

109 Herridge has been Attkinsoned

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2024 07:06 PM (Askgf)

110 A short film whose plot featured "The Trolley Problem" came out in 2003. "Most." Nominated for an Oscar. A good friend of mine was the editor. Heartbreaking film, worth seeing if you can find it.

http://tinyurl.com/2s36vnu5

Posted by: Ordinary American at February 14, 2024 07:06 PM (UAO/v)

111 *starts chewing on Ace Chips*

Man, these are tough!
Posted by: pookysgirl, missing the point as always at February 14, 2024 07:03 PM

Try the Spicy Kaboom ones. Magnificent.

Posted by: Minnfidel at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM (4p0Xq)

112 fun fact - all shallow groundwater on earth is contaminated with tritium that is residual from all the past nuclear testing

I know this because we use that information to see if groundwater sources are interconnected in order to calculate ballast configurations for subsurface installations.

Posted by: DanMan at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM (8uzBS)

113 The Trolley problem isn't a moral question since the situation is imposed on me by force.

As a practical one switch it after the first wheels pass the switch and watch it topple over.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM (eoQWY)

114 106 67 I'd think that a real anime aficionado would want genuine 'unlocalized' Japanese product.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 07:06 PM (MvF+J)

Unless you live in Japan.
As a matter of fact, it should be labeled as anime or manga if it ONLY comes from Japan, like he You're-a-peein's do for Parmesian and other stuff with the name of a locale.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM (ynpvh)

115 Yep.

The biggest threat?

A wide-open border.

People in D.C. need to hang if and when there is a terrorist attack because of it. Because mark it, that likely will happen and the D.C. pigs will see it as grift opportunity unless there is rough justice brought to them swiftly afterwards.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM (KSNKu)

116 Ace of Spades Casino Cashier to collect $1000 in Ace Chips.

That's some hi$ plasterboard dust.

Posted by: DaveA at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM (FhXTo)

117 79- Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 14, 2024 07:00 PM

Hey AlaBAMA- I saw your post a few days ago about your upcoming colonoscopy. I was going to suggest that you ask your doctor to prescribe SUTAB for your flush but looks like I'm too late. I used it for my first colonoscopy a few weeks ago and it was great- tablets instead of the awful tasting liquid. You'll do great in the procedure! They knock you out so cold so fast and the next thing you know, they're waking you up. I felt like I was out for 30 seconds! Good luck!

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM (rbKZ6)

118 My thoughts about the Bootyjudge story -

It appears Biden frequently yells and curses at his minions for not bringing him the details he wants. I imagine there are two or three rounds of this for every decision Joe has to make that is more important than what socks to wear each day.

IMHO he wants to know every tiny detail out as a way to make his minions think he is just so smart because he knows what the critical details of a subject are, and they don't. He's also doing this to delay making a decision that may have bad consequences for JOE. Not for the US, but for JOE, POLITICALLY.

Have you noticed that when things go south big time for the Junta (as in Kabul falling literally overnight), it's two or more days before the Junta tells the public anything, then it's another day or two or three before Joe appears to deliver a CYA screed and reveal his half-assed next move? The man is afraid to make decisions. I still cannot believe it was five days before Joe selected a retaliation plan and gave the attack go-ahead after three Georgia Army Reservists were killed by Iranian proxies!

What a useless POS to have as President and Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces.

Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM (5fDan)

119 Yes, of course.

Since when does doing nothing absolve you of mora responsibility for things you can directly affect but choose not to?

Maybe I'm a simpleton, but I've never considered this to be a hard moral dilemma.
Posted by: 5 > 1 at February 14, 2024 07:02 PM (UMHqX)

Absolutely throw the switch. The decision is easy. Unless your ex-wife is one of the five. But that decision is still easy.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2024 07:08 PM (BdMk6)

120 113 The Trolley problem isn't a moral question since the situation is imposed on me by force.

As a practical one switch it after the first wheels pass the switch and watch it topple over.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM (eoQWY)

Killing everybody on the train and all folks on the two tracks. Marvelous solution, but at least two folks beat you to it on the thread.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 14, 2024 07:08 PM (ynpvh)

121 >>>That's modern-day Steven Seagal level bad.

Hard disagree.
Posted by: Space Ice at February 14, 2024 07:03 PM (KRtlO)

Wait until they get a hold of me.

Posted by: Europa Report movie at February 14, 2024 07:08 PM (iPilE)

122 Rush Rules

BOC would guitar army the train off the tracks.

Posted by: DaveA at February 14, 2024 07:08 PM (FhXTo)

123 @24 When I studied philosophy, snot-nose, there was no Philosophy 101, because we knew damned well fresh little men could not handle it. The subject started at 201. You were expected to know at least a little something before you came in.

Also, "The So-Called Trolley Problem" was not even named that until after I took my degree. Dagny Taggart did not run a "trolley." You would not have made Maintenance of Way.

You have now been promoted to Sophomoron.

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at February 14, 2024 07:08 PM (zdLoL)

124 Hey AlaBAMA- I saw your post a few days ago about your upcoming colonoscopy. I was going to suggest that you ask your doctor to prescribe SUTAB for your flush but looks like I'm too late. I used it for my first colonoscopy a few weeks ago and it was great- tablets instead of the awful tasting liquid. You'll do great in the procedure! They knock you out so cold so fast and the next thing you know, they're waking you up. I felt like I was out for 30 seconds! Good luck!
Posted by: Moonbeam at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM (rbKZ6

Thanks! I'm ready to get it over with. I've been putting it off for way too long.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 14, 2024 07:08 PM (3CVIc)

125 There was talk this morning about the LGBTXYZs being under represented in videogames. Hour later I was playing Starfield in which you may draft NPCs to crew your starship. I drafted this guy because he seemed good in combat and he almost immediately began telling me about how much he loved his dead husband.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 14, 2024 07:08 PM (68oQI)

126 do you throw the switch?

Yes, of course.

Since when does doing nothing absolve you of mora responsibility for things you can directly affect but choose not to?

Maybe I'm a simpleton, but I've never considered this to be a hard moral dilemma.
Posted by: 5 > 1 at February 14, 2024 07:02 PM (UMHqX

What if you're an atheist? Morality is relative . You do what's in your self interest.

Posted by: Naples Yellow at February 14, 2024 07:09 PM (w6AZl)

127 why are you still watching cartoons

Posted by: Don Black at February 14, 2024 07:09 PM (geLO8)

128 Today's word is prolapse.

As in: Thanks to Bill's endless lust, both of my...
*hic*

Posted by: Hillary's Screaming Liver at February 14, 2024 07:10 PM (/Td2i)

129 My bet is Iran tests a nuclear weapon before the end of 2025. Maybe before the end of 2024.

They already have all the equipment and knowledge needed thanks to Pakistan and North Korea.

All they need is bomb grade Uranium. They are enriching uranium to 60% U235. One pass through the centrifuge cascade and 25 kg of 60% becomes one fissionable mass of weapons grade Uranium.

They will not start making weapons until they have enough 60% Uranium to make lots of bombs quickly, "Breakout."

With the current level of Jew Hate, does anyone think the world will let Israel stop Iran? Does anyone think Biden or the Eurps will stop Iran?

Posted by: rd at February 14, 2024 07:10 PM (uM9ZD)

130 why are you still watching cartoons
Posted by: Don Black at February 14, 2024 07:09 PM (geLO

I still watch King of the a Hill and Bob's Burgers.

Posted by: Naples Yellow at February 14, 2024 07:10 PM (w6AZl)

131 It refers to The Trolley Problem,

Stupid, nihilistic, pseudo-philosophical bullshit. Everyone posting those memes are democidal marxists.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2024 06:53 PM (IG4Id)

The trolley problem shows the evil of mass transit. Nobody proposes a "car problem" "truck problem" or even a "bicycle problem" for the eco nuts

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:10 PM (eoQWY)

132 127 why are you still watching cartoons

Posted by: Don Black at February 14, 2024 07:09 PM (geLO

Adult Swim.
https://youtu.be/SNBxfQ6MWjk
Definitely NSFW!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 14, 2024 07:10 PM (ynpvh)

133 What a useless POS to have as President and Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces.
Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM

But mean tweets, and vocalizing "p*ssy".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2024 07:11 PM (a3Q+t)

134 Joe's brilliant rant about potato chip bags inspired me to buy a can of Pringles.

Posted by: Northernlurker at February 14, 2024 07:11 PM (zssUw)

135 "OMG, the Russians are putting nukes in space! Do something! Reeeeeee!"

- every leftist Boomer and Gen Xer who spent the decade of the 80s making Star Wars jokes and laughing at Reagan about SDI..

Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2024 07:11 PM (wb1YC)

136 > do you throw the switch?

does throwing the switch send me to a different destination than what's on the schedule? Because I'm supposed to drive the train to where the schedule says. And, I have a performance review coming up.

Posted by: Don Black at February 14, 2024 07:11 PM (geLO8)

137 If those old weapons have not been used, they worked.

Posted by: Hokey Pokey at February 14, 2024 07:11 PM (as3uC)

138 Since when does doing nothing absolve you of mora responsibility for things you can directly affect but choose not to?

Maybe I'm a simpleton, but I've never considered this to be a hard moral dilemma.
Posted by: 5 > 1

Since forever. The person who tied the people to the tracks, in this case the dip-fuck who posits the question, is the murderer. It's the stereotypical case concentration camp thing in which the commandant tells you to rat on a prisoner or he'll kill 5 other prisoners. You don't participate because he's the murderer.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2024 07:11 PM (IG4Id)

139 Israel will act unilaterally to stop Iran from getting a nuke. They have zero choice in the matter.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 14, 2024 07:11 PM (3CVIc)

140 No mention of the pipeline fire in Iran several days ago.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2024 07:11 PM (Askgf)

141 why are you still watching cartoons

Having not watched them. I'm guessing bewbs.

Posted by: Bosk of Port Kar at February 14, 2024 07:11 PM (VMFAF)

142 Only very stupid people stand on train tracks. Don't throw the switch ... kill the five idiots, preserve the bloodlines.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 14, 2024 07:11 PM (Cus5s)

143 124- Thanks! I'm ready to get it over with. I've been putting it off for way too long.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 14, 2024 07:08 PM

Me too but 29 is the perfect age for your first.

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 14, 2024 07:11 PM (rbKZ6)

144 They knock you out so cold so fast and the next thing you know, they're waking you up.
Posted by: Moonbeam at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM (rbKZ6)

Hm. I woke up before they were done, and declared that I don't understand why anyone would put things up their butt on purpose. They hit me with another dose of anesthesia tout suite.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2024 07:11 PM (OX9vb)

145 So do you throw the switch?

I'd throw the switch after one set of wheels had passed to try to derail the trolley. 'Try' being the operative word.

Posted by: t-bird at February 14, 2024 07:12 PM (ZpQic)

146 129 My bet is Iran tests a nuclear weapon before the end of 2025. Maybe before the end of 2024.

They already have all the equipment and knowledge needed thanks to Pakistan and North Korea.

All they need is bomb grade Uranium. They are enriching uranium to 60% U235. One pass through the centrifuge cascade and 25 kg of 60% becomes one fissionable mass of weapons grade Uranium.

They will not start making weapons until they have enough 60% Uranium to make lots of bombs quickly, "Breakout."

With the current level of Jew Hate, does anyone think the world will let Israel stop Iran? Does anyone think Biden or the Eurps will stop Iran?

Posted by: rd at February 14, 2024 07:10 PM (uM9ZD)

It would be interesting if, during the higher refinement through the centrifuges, critical mass was achieved in Iran.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 14, 2024 07:12 PM (ynpvh)

147 CBO: U.S. National debt to reach 48T by 2034.

The current trajectory rate is unsustainable, says the Director.

This fits nicely:
23 Before you duck and cover send us all your money. Thanks, .The Senate
Posted by: Ben Had

Posted by: L - Now King of BS doesn't remember what happened last evening so forget about it at February 14, 2024 07:12 PM (GshMh)

148 i updated the thread with a small visual gag.

Posted by: ace at February 14, 2024 07:12 PM (KRtlO)

149 101 >>Maybe I'm a simpleton, but I've never considered this to be a hard moral dilemma.

I mean...
if it's 5 Pro-Palestinian Protestors or 1 Dancing Grandma, it gets a little more nuanced.
Posted by: garrett at February 14, 2024 07:04 PM (zOR5N

Sure, if you add additional or different facts, it may change the answer. But the hypothetical is implicitly asking, all other things being equal, which is the better choice. I don't have a problem with altering the hypothetical, but saying that you can change the hypothetical to make it different or harder doesn't make the question actually posed any harder or more morally complex than it is.

Posted by: 5 > 1 at February 14, 2024 07:12 PM (UMHqX)

150 Also, please do not pepper the train operator with hypotheticals while the train is in motion.

And get behind the yellow line!

Posted by: Don Black at February 14, 2024 07:13 PM (geLO8)

151 What if the five people are MS-13, and the one is Donald Trump?

Posted by: Angel at February 14, 2024 07:13 PM (WcS8X)

152 The Trolley problem is just another iteration of the same thought exercise that was studied long before it was created.

Posted by: Naples Yellow at February 14, 2024 07:13 PM (w6AZl)

153 Killing everybody on the train and all folks on the two tracks. Marvelous solution, but at least two folks beat you to it on the thread.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 14, 2024 07:08 PM (ynpvh)

Actually, we weren't given any information as to how fast the train is going, or how far down the track past the switch the potential victims are. But I would derail the train out of sheer cussedness for having been saddled with such a dumb-ass "problem".

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 14, 2024 07:14 PM (tkR6S)

154 113 The Trolley problem isn't a moral question since the situation is imposed on me by force.

As a practical one switch it after the first wheels pass the switch and watch it topple over.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM (eoQWY)

Killing everybody on the train and all folks on the two tracks. Marvelous solution, but at least two folks beat you to it on the thread.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at February 14, 2024 07:08 PM (ynpvh)

That's not my imagined geometry and the trolley is empty, or they could hit the brakes.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:14 PM (eoQWY)

155 I call this one "The Reverse Star Wars". Those Senate fuckers are dumber the Gorbachev and higher than Yeltsin.

Posted by: Vladimir Putin at February 14, 2024 07:14 PM (OgfrC)

156 AlaBAMA, there was an article in Arutz Sheva this morning about that very topic. The article could have been written by ace. Scathing.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2024 07:14 PM (Askgf)

157 The trolley problem is a marxist indoctrination tool about "breaking eggs" to make an omelet. It is used by our marxists philosophy professors to introduce the idea that everyone has a moral responsibility to KILL others "for the greater good."

Posted by: Guy who is sick of the damn Trolley at February 14, 2024 07:14 PM (aJ/Rj)

158 Biden is switching the Acela to the track that takes out the entire economy

Posted by: Roy at February 14, 2024 07:16 PM (z+ik4)

159 What if the one person owes me money and I owe the 5 money?

Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2024 07:16 PM (LkLld)

160 JUST IN - Putin says he would prefer Joe Biden to win US election rather than Donald Trump - FT

I'm sure he would.

Posted by: vic at February 14, 2024 07:16 PM (A5THL)

161 Long John Silver was absent from the original Summons and Complaint, because no one eats there.
Posted by: Orson at February 14, 2024 06:42 PM (dIske)

I used to eat there but my wife made me stop.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 14, 2024 07:16 PM (/HDaX)

162 144 I've been administered Propofol, fentanyl, and valsed. I always ask for a doggy bag. They never laff.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 07:16 PM (MvF+J)

163 Here's my answer to the Trolley problem.

If someone tries to tie you to a railroad track, shoot them in the f****** face.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2024 07:16 PM (wb1YC)

164 I..I..I..I asked him...I said look fat...if there's one Amtrick choo choo going north at ummm, 25...empeeummm...you know the thing. And then there's uhhhhh the um Antack choo choo going west at 5, no...50, 55! How long until they meet at the uh...the um..........anyway.

He couldn't answer that.

Posted by: Joe Bribehim's Struggling Braincell at February 14, 2024 07:17 PM (PWI4f)

165 We could pass a law making it illegal to run over someone with a trolley...

Posted by: Mind Like A Congressman! at February 14, 2024 07:17 PM (ZpQic)

166 "He was asking such detailed questions that we had to dial in another expert from Amtrak to get to some of the things he was asking about" - Pete Butterjug, railroad expert
--------

Joey: "Why doesn't the train go 'choo-choo' anymore?"

Petey Butterjug: "Uh...gee, I have no idea"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2024 07:17 PM (XeU6L)

167 "CBO: U.S. National debt to reach 48T by 2034."

I'll take 2027 in the betting pool.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 07:17 PM (MvF+J)

168 Personally, I'm happy leftist turds are lying to themselves about Biden's mental acuity. It will make them think he can stay for the election.
Worst case scenario: they have to rig it so bad, it will be obvious to everyone.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2024 07:17 PM (roH4R)

169 Hard disagree.
Posted by: Space Ice at February 14, 2024 07:03 PM (KRtlO)

You sure about that, Ace? Most of the Seagal movies Space Ice shreds also rate about 3.8/10.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 14, 2024 07:17 PM (/HDaX)

170 That's some hi$ plasterboard dust.
Posted by: DaveA at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM

Given that it was generated during the drilling of his shelving anchor holes, it's going to be worth some big bucks some day.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at February 14, 2024 07:18 PM (a3Q+t)

171 Putin says he would prefer Joe Biden to win US election rather than Donald Trump - FT

***

I too would like my major opponent to be a guy who gets winded deciding what to have for lunch.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2024 07:18 PM (wb1YC)

172 Putin says he would prefer Joe Biden to win US election

RUSSIAN COLLUSION!!

Posted by: t-bird at February 14, 2024 07:18 PM (ZpQic)

173 144- Hm. I woke up before they were done, and declared that I don't understand why anyone would put things up their butt on purpose. They hit me with another dose of anesthesia tout suite.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at February 14, 2024 07:11 PM

They didn't even give me a countdown when they started the anesthesia. All I remember is that the doctor walked in the operating room to start the procedure and the next thing I knew, I heard people calling my name and my sister-in-law was sitting in the chair next to me in the recovery room.

Posted by: Moonbeam at February 14, 2024 07:18 PM (rbKZ6)

174 There was talk this morning about the LGBTXYZs being under represented in videogames. Hour later I was playing Starfield in which you may draft NPCs to crew your starship. I drafted this guy because he seemed good in combat and he almost immediately began telling me about how much he loved his dead husband.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 14, 2024 07:08 PM (68oQI)

There was an addon to limit that, I heard but it got banned.

The MMO I play has a bit of that tossed in but its less annoying when the main issues is world ending Dragons and undead.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:18 PM (eoQWY)

175 Hunter worked with Amtrak for a few years.

Posted by: Naples Yellow at February 14, 2024 07:18 PM (w6AZl)

176 Get the trolley up to 88 MPH and go back in time before you hit anyone!

Posted by: Dr. Emmett Brown at February 14, 2024 07:18 PM (1eY81)

177 We could pass a law making it illegal to run over someone with a trolley...
Posted by: Mind Like A Congressman!
-------

Or...defund the trolleys! 100% solution!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2024 07:19 PM (XeU6L)

178
The Trolley Problem is a classic "Needs of the many vs the needs of the few or one" type of question. Commit and act which will kill one person but save five.

Other forms, where this could come up, is say you're a military commander. You have a choice of ordering something that will get some of you own men killed, but prevent even more being killed.

Now, add in things like, some of the few who will be killed happen to be close friends of the commander, etc, etc.

In that case the commanders duty should override his personal feelings. But in other's it may not.

In the trolley problem, I'd save the people I knew, if there were any and wouldn't see any problem with that. However, if I somehow had duty or repsonsibility, say as an official of the train company or some public official, it would be different.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at February 14, 2024 07:19 PM (w6EFb)

179 The trolley problem is laid out too deterministically. Like you can predict the future. It should be presented that 5 people are at risk one way, and 1 person at risk the other.

The best solution is to throw the switch. Because there is a greater likelihood that one person might move just right to avoid being hit than 5 would all be able to do so.

Like this analysis or not, I credit the man who inspired my cognomen, Blaise Pascal, with making probability a reality so we can weigh potential outcomes properly.

Posted by: Pascal at February 14, 2024 07:19 PM (nXF7J)

180 My bet is Iran tests a nuclear weapon before the end of 2025. Maybe before the end of 2024.

They already have all the equipment and knowledge needed thanks to Pakistan and North Korea.

All they need is bomb grade Uranium. They are enriching uranium to 60% U235. One pass through the centrifuge cascade and 25 kg of 60% becomes one fissionable mass of weapons grade Uranium.

They will not start making weapons until they have enough 60% Uranium to make lots of bombs quickly, "Breakout."

With the current level of Jew Hate, does anyone think the world will let Israel stop Iran? Does anyone think Biden or the Eurps will stop Iran?

Posted by: rd at February 14, 2024 07:10 PM (uM9ZD)

Okay, folks. Calm down. How many years (over 10?) that we've heard that Iran having a nuke is imminent?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2024 07:20 PM (BdMk6)

181 Hunter worked with Amtrak for a few years.
Posted by: Naples Yellow
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In fairness, he probably knows as much about it as Butterjug.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2024 07:20 PM (XeU6L)

182 Part 2 of the Shellenberger/Taibbi report on the missing binder is out but unless you are a subscriber all you get is a teaser.

http://tinyurl.com/3hvm9xpx

Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2024 07:20 PM (LkLld)

183 The biggest threat?

A wide-open border.

People in D.C. need to hang if and when there is a terrorist attack because of it. Because mark it, that likely will happen and the D.C. pigs will see it as grift opportunity unless there is rough justice brought to them swiftly afterwards.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM (KSNKu)

========

The Government will lock the country down so fast and so hard. It is their greatest wet dream. Imagine the COVID Lockdowns, this time enforced by full auto weapons and the Army.

They will round up all your guns for your own good, and the scared public will go along with it. Everyone will end up with rationing and ration cards, the "shaky electric / internet / natural gas systems" will all have rotated outages to keep everyone scared to death.

All illegals will be given immediate citizenship to protect them.

Just watch.

Posted by: rd at February 14, 2024 07:20 PM (zPETc)

184 156 AlaBAMA, there was an article in Arutz Sheva this morning about that very topic. The article could have been written by ace. Scathing.

Posted by: Ben Had at February 14, 2024 07:14 PM (Askgf)

It amazes me that the world acts like Israel isn't constantly under threat of destruction and has to keep this posture or face the consequences.

I'll have to check that article out! Thanks Ben Had

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 14, 2024 07:21 PM (3CVIc)

185 rd @ 129-
Always be wars and rumors of wars, says so in the Bible. you know, the book.

Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2024 07:21 PM (NxC5+)

186 #183

You're making me gooey. *hic*

Posted by: Hillary's Screaming Liver at February 14, 2024 07:21 PM (/Td2i)

187 So the Amtrak guy allegedly couldn't answer some Biden questions.

I bet he could answer personal questions about his family and job though .

Posted by: Naples Yellow at February 14, 2024 07:22 PM (w6AZl)

188 I hope Iran gets a nuke soon.

Then the world will change.

And the weird beards will go bye bye.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 14, 2024 07:23 PM (R/m4+)

189 during the drilling of his shelving anchor holes

The labor theory of value applied to dulling drill bits.

Posted by: DaveA at February 14, 2024 07:24 PM (FhXTo)

190 125 There was talk this morning about the LGBTXYZs being under represented in videogames. Hour later I was playing Starfield in which you may draft NPCs to crew your starship. I drafted this guy because he seemed good in combat and he almost immediately began telling me about how much he loved his dead husband.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 14, 2024 07:08 PM (68oQI)

Sims 4 put in Trans Surgical Scars... and things like Hearing Aids... and now randomly changes even Sims YOU created, to be Homosexual or Bi.

Their latest updates give you Vitiligo, ie skin markings that everyone tries to get rid of... and you can be a slum Lord.

This, from EA... that used to make some good sports games.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2024 07:24 PM (xaFKb)

191 They savaged Reagan when he ran in 84' against Mondale for falling asleep during cabinet meetings. On television or any speech for that matter Reagan always sounded fine. If Reagan even sounded half as bad as Biden does now they might have been on to something. It wasn't until Reagan was out of office that you could see signs of cognitive decline.
Of course Nancy protected her Ronnie. Stark contrast to how Jill treats Joe.

Posted by: JROD at February 14, 2024 07:24 PM (IlL6s)

192 fun fact - all shallow groundwater on earth is contaminated with tritium that is residual from all the past nuclear testing

I know this because we use that information to see if groundwater sources are interconnected in order to calculate ballast configurations for subsurface installations.
Posted by: DanMan at February 14, 2024 07:07 PM (8uzBS)

Targets in particle physics labs prefer iron salvaged from WWII ships since it has less radiation than iron forged after nuclear testing.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:24 PM (eoQWY)

193 The best solution is to throw the switch. Because there is a greater likelihood that one person might move just right to avoid being hit than 5 would all be able to do so.

Like this analysis or not, I credit the man who inspired my cognomen, Blaise Pascal, with making probability a reality so we can weigh potential outcomes properly.
Posted by: Pascal at February 14, 2024 07:19 PM (nXF7J)

You close your eyes and run away from the area. Then it will be like Schroedinger's cat.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2024 07:24 PM (BdMk6)

194 The Government will lock the country down so fast and so hard. It is their greatest wet dream. Imagine the COVID Lockdowns, this time enforced by full auto weapons and the Army.

They will round up all your guns for your own good, and the scared public will go along with it. Everyone will end up with rationing and ration cards, the "shaky electric / internet / natural gas systems" will all have rotated outages to keep everyone scared to death.

**
The US Army has 1,073,200 personnel total. Active, reserve, NG, all of it. From keyboard jockeys to trigger pullers.

The United States has well over 330 million citizens with way more than half of them armed.

Good luck.

Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2024 07:24 PM (wb1YC)

195 20
'Where's my ding dong?'

I'm glad you said that was FJB speaking.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 14, 2024 07:24 PM (roH4R)

196
Just watch.
Posted by: rd

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I read Gordon Chang's story about the Chinese illegals who have crossed the border. Fricking terrifying. We need to do things we haven't done since the days of the internment camps.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at February 14, 2024 07:24 PM (T3es0)

197 Putin says he would prefer Joe Biden to win US election rather than Donald Trump - FT
***

I too would like my major opponent to be a guy who gets winded deciding what to have for lunch.
Posted by: Azathoth at February 14, 2024 07:18 PM (wb1YC)

There's an aspect of the Tucker interview with Pooty that might have been missed, because Pooty is good at being subtle.

Essentially, he's got no incentive to stop the Ukraine adventure. None. It's not hurting his military capability, it's not depleting his weapons, his manpower, it's not having anything but a positive effect on his economy.

And as he watched the U.S. bleed itself dry, he's planning the post-U.S. world. He's chummy with Chi Nah, he's basically watching Europe step on its collective dicks.

And those Great Reset chumps? Wait'll they see HIS Great Reset. Let's put it this way, those whining ninnies who think they're running the globe right now... they have no idea what's coming. When the dollar collapses, it'll be Pooty's turn. And when they come begging for scraps, he'll spit in their eyes, make them lick his boots, and put a bullet in the backs of their heads.

And there will be no one left to stop him.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 14, 2024 07:24 PM (ASK6O)

198 >>>Megyn Kelly mentioned that CBS "News" intended to give Biden a powderpuff fellacioius interview for the Super Bowl, conducted by leftwing racialist hack... Gayle King.

I hope you aren't putting words in Megan's mouth, ace. I would really like to watch her use the word "fellacioius".

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at February 14, 2024 07:25 PM (klJTj)

199 Since forever. The person who tied the people to the tracks, in this case the dip-fuck who posits the question, is the murderer. It's the stereotypical case concentration camp thing in which the commandant tells you to rat on a prisoner or he'll kill 5 other prisoners. You don't participate because he's the murderer.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at February 14, 2024 07:11 PM (IG4Id)

Your hypothetical is different, I think. In the trolley problem, I'll throw the switch or not. The act is morally neutral in and of itself. And no one is requiring me to choose. I just happen to be there. Whereas in your hypothetical, I have to commit a moral transgression - lie - in order to save more people and effectively am collaborating with the enemy. I'm not collaborating with the murderer in the trolley problem, though I suppose you could doctor the hypothetical to make it so.

Posted by: 5 > 1 at February 14, 2024 07:25 PM (UMHqX)

200 Posted by: rd at February 14, 2024 07:20 PM (zPETc)

21,000 Murders by gun last years.... 100,000 deaths from Fentanyl...

Yet, all we see is open borders and more gun control.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2024 07:26 PM (xaFKb)

201 I have it on good authority that the impending terrorist attack will be perpetrated MAGA. You can count on it.

Posted by: Chuck Schumer at February 14, 2024 07:26 PM (OgfrC)

202 Targets in particle physics labs prefer iron salvaged from WWII ships since it has less radiation than iron forged after nuclear testing.
Posted by: Oldcat
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Unless...left over from the Bikini test.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2024 07:26 PM (XeU6L)

203 Okay, folks. Calm down. How many years (over 10?) that we've heard that Iran having a nuke is imminent?
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at February 14, 2024 07:20 PM (BdMk6

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They already had 125 kg of 60% enriched uranium in December. That's enough for 5 weapons if it is enriched to weapons grade. They continue to make more 60% U235.

They are really freaking close. It has taken them about 20 years to get here. It sounds like they are going to complete their plan. Not tomorrow, but really soon.

Is anyone going to stop them?

Posted by: rd at February 14, 2024 07:26 PM (zPETc)

204 Brother Tim, If today is your birthday, best wishes are sent.

Posted by: Mrs JTB at February 14, 2024 07:27 PM (zudum)

205 "195 20
'Where's my ding dong?'

I'm glad you said that was FJB speaking.
Posted by: Dr. Claw"

I have steamer trunks full of them. *hic*

Posted by: Hillary's Screaming Liver at February 14, 2024 07:28 PM (/Td2i)

206 Unless...left over from the Bikini test.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at February 14, 2024 07:26 PM (XeU6L)

They test Bikinis?

👙

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 14, 2024 07:28 PM (3CVIc)

207 And there will be no one left to stop him.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 14, 2024 07:24 PM (ASK6O)

He made a couple of references to the 'Golden Billion' talking about population... which I take it to mean the 1 Billion on Earth who live Well... US, Canada, Japan, part of EU.

Interesting insight into his worldview...

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2024 07:29 PM (xaFKb)

208 Choo choo Joey was an engineer.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2024 07:29 PM (63Dwl)

209 Christopher F. Rufo
@realchrisrufo

In 1970, 10% of Americans had a college degree. Today, 40% of Americans have a college degree.

This means, by simple math, that the average intelligence of college graduates has plummeted and, simultaneously, creates a large cohort of Americans who feel entitled to "college-worthy professions" without the intellectual aptitude for them.

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Gref's First Law (long predates Mr. Rufo's observation): There is a constant amount of intelligence in the collective human race.

Therefore, it follows that when human population increases, average human individual intelligence decreases.

Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2024 07:30 PM (5fDan)

210 >>Is anyone going to stop them?

I think this is a big part of the Biden administration's attempt to slow Israel. They want Iran to get a nuke and have since Obama.

The goal of the Obama foreign policy which Biden is continuing is to change the balance of power in the Middle East.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2024 07:30 PM (LkLld)

211
He made a couple of references to the 'Golden Billion' talking about population... which I take it to mean the 1 Billion on Earth who live Well... US, Canada, Japan, part of EU.

The billion who will be allowed to live.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2024 07:30 PM (63Dwl)

212 They are really freaking close. It has taken them about 20 years to get here. It sounds like they are going to complete their plan. Not tomorrow, but really soon.

Is anyone going to stop them?
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2024 07:26 PM (zPETc)

I find it hard to believe they don't have one yet. We created the first Atom bombs, not even knowing it was possible, in about 4 years?

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2024 07:30 PM (xaFKb)

213 happy ovaltines!

joe biden

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 14, 2024 07:31 PM (B1FKF)

214 You know, Beau died tied to railroad tracks. True story.

Posted by: Joe Biden at February 14, 2024 07:32 PM (OgfrC)

215 This is the same mental retardation barfed up by Trumpists who claim not voting at all is the same thing as voting for Hillary.

Fuck every dishonest piece of shit who engages in this type of public masturbation.

Posted by: insurgens ad opus at February 14, 2024 07:32 PM (FRT/w)

216 The Government will lock the country down so fast and so hard. It is their greatest wet dream. Imagine the COVID Lockdowns, this time enforced by full auto weapons and the Army.

They will round up all your guns for your own good, and the scared public will go along with it. Everyone will end up with rationing and ration cards, the "shaky electric / internet / natural gas systems" will all have rotated outages to keep everyone scared to death.

All illegals will be given immediate citizenship to protect them.

Just watch.
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2024 07:20 PM (zPETc)

No doubt anarcho-tyranny is on the menu every day, but the entre will be the grift, which was the case with Covid.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at February 14, 2024 07:33 PM (KSNKu)

217 They already had 125 kg of 60% enriched uranium in December. That's enough for 5 weapons if it is enriched to weapons grade. They continue to make more 60% U235.

They are really freaking close. It has taken them about 20 years to get here. It sounds like they are going to complete their plan. Not tomorrow, but really soon.

Is anyone going to stop them?
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2024 07:26 PM (zPETc)

You actually think we get accurate monthly updates on Iran's nuke progress?

And it only took us about a year using 1940s tech to refine an A-bomb to final product. So if they seriously start, they will likely be done.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:33 PM (eoQWY)

218 "Is anyone going to stop them?"

I used to think that Mossad was on top of all that. But Oct 7 reveals massive problems with Israeli intelligence.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 07:33 PM (MvF+J)

219
They already had 125 kg of 60% enriched uranium in December. That's enough for 5 weapons if it is enriched to weapons grade. They continue to make more 60% U235.

They are really freaking close. It has taken them about 20 years to get here. It sounds like they are going to complete their plan. Not tomorrow, but really soon.

Is anyone going to stop them?

Posted by: rd at February 14, 2024 07:26 PM (zPETc)

For reference:
The very first uranium bomb, Little Boy, dropped by the United States on Hiroshima in 1945, used 64 kilograms (141 lb) of 80% enriched uranium.

Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2024 07:34 PM (5fDan)

220 In 1970, 10% of Americans had a college degree. Today, 40% of Americans have a college degree.

Many moons ago, the whores working the bars overseas all needed extra cash to finish the "kollege" they were going to. Most were attending what would be considered a middle skool or lower high skool in the US back then, around an 8th grade education.

Looks like we finally caught up.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at February 14, 2024 07:34 PM (R/m4+)

221 I find it hard to believe they don't have one yet. We created the first Atom bombs, not even knowing it was possible, in about 4 years?
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2024 07:30 PM (xaFKb)

The wiki timeline says the pile used to enrich was started in 4-1944. Trinity Test was 7-1945.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:35 PM (eoQWY)

222 remember when reagan was going to start ww3 because of the strategic defense initiative?

wash post 3/24/87:

Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.) said here today that he believes the Reagan administration's real goal in seeking a broad interpretation of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty is to achieve nuclear superiority over the Soviet Union.

"I believe what's at stake here -- and I'm not even sure if the president is fully signed on -- is a clear determination ... to believe that we can in fact seek and gain nuclear superiority in a way that will enable us to somehow change the way the Soviets do business," said Biden, who is expected to formally announce his bid for his party's presidential nomination this spring.

Biden has long been critical of the administration's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), and more recently of the attempt to reinterpret the ABM treaty to allow earlier development of that program. He has argued previously that a functioning defensive system would upset the nuclear balance by increasing the Soviet sense of vulnerability to a first strike.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 14, 2024 07:36 PM (B1FKF)

223 I really, really, really want this for Christmas.

24k RPM.

*drools*

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 14, 2024 07:36 PM (3CVIc)

224
I find it hard to believe they don't have one yet. We created the first Atom bombs, not even knowing it was possible, in about 4 years?
Posted by: Romeo13

I'm surprised a lot more contries don't have them.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2024 07:36 PM (63Dwl)

225 Ace: We're going to have to prosecute and imprison the Deep Staters. There is no other way. They will not stop their Permanent Coup against the people of the United States until they are stopped.

Reply: Round ‘em up and hang ‘em. Faster better cheaper. Prosecuting won’t work – they own the DOJ and have mal-educated the jury pool for decades.

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at February 14, 2024 07:36 PM (NX5U7)

226 http://tinyurl.com/3xwkj46h

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 14, 2024 07:36 PM (3CVIc)

227 "The very first uranium bomb, Little Boy, dropped by the United States on Hiroshima in 1945, used 64 kilograms (141 lb) of 80% enriched uranium."

It was a gun-type design, which did not even need to be tested before use. It's much easier to make a gun fission weapon than an implosion one. However, a gun is far less efficient.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 07:36 PM (MvF+J)

228 Sorry. Link at 226

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 14, 2024 07:36 PM (3CVIc)

229 I find it hard to believe they don't have one yet. We created the first Atom bombs, not even knowing it was possible, in about 4 years?
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2024 07:30 PM (xaFKb

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We made three before we ended the war, and maybe could have made two more before 1945 ended.

Iran plans to present the world a fait accompli of having 10-20-more thermonuclear weapons before they announce their first one. Too many for Israel or even the US to take out.

Try to stop us? We will kill billions. - Iran.

Posted by: rd at February 14, 2024 07:36 PM (zPETc)

230 @shellenberger
·
13m
A missing binder of top-secret intelligence about Russia threatens national security, says CNN. But it doesn't. And now, credible sources say the U.S. government is hiding the binder because it incriminates the intelligence community for illegal spying and election interference.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2024 07:37 PM (LkLld)

231 Gref's First Law (long predates Mr. Rufo's observation): There is a constant amount of intelligence in the collective human race.

Therefore, it follows that when human population increases, average human individual intelligence decreases.
Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2024 07:30 PM (5fDan)

Only tangentially related but I remember an SF story where suddenly all children were born blank. Turned out there is a finite cap on souls, and all of them were in use at the time due to population.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:38 PM (eoQWY)

232 ·
13m
A missing binder of top-secret intelligence about Russia threatens national security, says CNN. But it doesn't. And now, credible sources say the U.S. government is hiding the binder because it incriminates the intelligence community for illegal spying and election interference.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2024 07:37 PM (LkLld)

Trump's binder?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at February 14, 2024 07:38 PM (3CVIc)

233 We now must fund Ukraine. With Russia's latest threats we cannot afford not to - Republicunts in the US Congress

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 14, 2024 07:39 PM (eYF7X)

234 Hearing reports from White House that Beau Biden was killed in Kansas City….

Posted by: chance99 at February 14, 2024 07:39 PM (qx/bC)

235 230 @shellenberger
·
13m
A missing binder of top-secret intelligence about Russia threatens national security, says CNN. But it doesn't. And now, credible sources say the U.S. government is hiding the binder because it incriminates the intelligence community for illegal spying and election interference.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2024 07:37 PM (LkLld)

I think Trump had some docs at Mar Lago which implicated the Deep State... which was the actual reason for the raid, and why they will not tell us what Trump actually had.

Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2024 07:40 PM (xaFKb)

236 We made three before we ended the war, and maybe could have made two more before 1945 ended.

Iran plans to present the world a fait accompli of having 10-20-more thermonuclear weapons before they announce their first one. Too many for Israel or even the US to take out.

Try to stop us? We will kill billions. - Iran.
Posted by: rd at February 14, 2024 07:36 PM (zPETc)

Yeah, there would have been a lull for a bit since we used our stock up in the test and the first bombs. But after a few months delay we could have been churning them out like hotcakes, especially the plutonium sort.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:41 PM (eoQWY)

237 >>Trump's binder?

That's one theory.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2024 07:41 PM (LkLld)

238 221 I find it hard to believe they don't have one yet. We created the first Atom bombs, not even knowing it was possible, in about 4 years?
Posted by: Romeo13 at February 14, 2024 07:30 PM (xaFKb)

The wiki timeline says the pile used to enrich was started in 4-1944. Trinity Test was 7-1945.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:35 PM (eoQWY)

US WW2 Uranium enrichment was performed using a vast number of cyclotrons at Oak Ridge, then gaseous diffusion on a large scale, also at Oak Ridge IIRC. Large industrial-scale efforts.

The large uranium piles at Hanford were used to create plutonium. Breeder reactors.

Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2024 07:41 PM (5fDan)

239 78 Back to "Fools ask questions that wise men cannot answer"

A search comes up as Brandolini's Law.

1. Why is everything a fucking law nowadays? Every two bit asshole who has a unique thought calls it a "law" and everyone plays along.

2. How can I get one of those laws named after me?

"Every two bit asshole who has a unique thought calls it a 'law' and everyone plays along."-- guy who is sick of the trolley problem's law

Posted by: tankdemon at February 14, 2024 07:42 PM (zpw81)

240 Yell "JUUUUUUUMP!" As you throw the switch. If they're not quick enough, well it's not your fault. Train harder.

Posted by: Not this shit again at February 14, 2024 07:43 PM (VYnM/)

241 Those railroad spikes. Big nails. How many of those used in the railroad from here to my beach house?

- Ummm, I'll have to make a call to get that answer for you Mr. President.

- How about how many bottles of water you guys go through in a year?

That's easy. Just make up numbers. How would Biden know whether they're accurate or not?

I used to get questions like that from the university administration all the time. Then I realized they didn't know the answer, which is why they asked me. So I just made
up numbers that were good guesses and everybody was happy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at February 14, 2024 07:44 PM (YqDXo)

242 "In 1970, 10% of Americans had a college degree. Today, 40% of Americans have a college degree."

In the 70's, my high school friend and college roommate majored in astronautical and aeronautical engineering ... he worked for Boeing.

My neighbor is in his 20s, and also majored in astronautical and aeronautical engineering (same university) but he now works on a pig farm. Now it is his Dad's very large pig farm, and the "kid" does have a pilot's license ... but it does make me wonder if the standards changed.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 14, 2024 07:44 PM (Cus5s)

243 "Every two bit asshole who has a unique thought calls it a 'law' and everyone plays along."

tankdemon's Law.

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 07:44 PM (MvF+J)

244 My law, henceforth to be ycept "J. Random Moron's Law" is:

"Given enough time, every AoSHQ Thread becomes a movie, boob, or gun Thread, or some combination of those three."

Posted by: J. Random Moron at February 14, 2024 07:45 PM (a3Q+t)

245 I find it hard to believe they don't have one yet. We created the first Atom bombs, not even knowing it was possible, in about 4 years?
Posted by: Romeo13

I'm surprised a lot more contries don't have them.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at February 14, 2024 07:36 PM (63Dwl)

It was a thing as the cold war went on to "encourage" nations not to go nuclear, by both factions. For most with nuclear allies, the big boys could cover them. Then some countries officially de-nuked themselves with inspections and assurances and bribes as rewards. Israel, I think still pretends not to have nukes.

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:46 PM (eoQWY)

246 US WW2 Uranium enrichment was performed using a vast number of cyclotrons at Oak Ridge, then gaseous diffusion on a large scale, also at Oak Ridge IIRC. Large industrial-scale efforts.

The large uranium piles at Hanford were used to create plutonium. Breeder reactors.

Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2024 07:41 PM (5fDan)

Oops - a correction. The cyclotrons and gaseous diffusion stacks were doing uranium isotope separation to obtain U-235. Not doing enrichment, per se.

Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2024 07:46 PM (5fDan)

247 My law, henceforth to be ycept "J. Random Moron's Law" is:

"Given enough time, every AoSHQ Thread becomes a movie, boob, or gun Thread, or some combination of those three."
Posted by: J. Random Moron at February 14, 2024 07:45 PM (a3Q+t)

If you have a trolley, with three tracks on which are placed a good movie, a boob, or a gun which do you save?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:47 PM (eoQWY)

248 Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) announces retirement. Another R sees the future of the GOP. F*cking weak.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at February 14, 2024 07:47 PM (eYF7X)

249 illiniwek, did your neighbor on the pig farm get his degree at School of the Ozarks?

Posted by: Eromero at February 14, 2024 07:47 PM (NxC5+)

250 With enough money and/or "leverage" any woman can be bi. *hic*
What law is that?
*verp*

Posted by: Hillary's Screaming Liver at February 14, 2024 07:48 PM (/Td2i)

251 @shellenberger
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A missing binder of top-secret intelligence about Russia threatens national security, says CNN. But it doesn't. And now, credible sources say the U.S. government is hiding the binder because it incriminates the intelligence community for illegal spying and election interference.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 14, 2024 07:37 PM (LkLld)

For the millionth time: CLASSIFICATION IS TO PROTECT THE NATION, NOT YOUR OWN ASS.

Posted by: pookysgirl, not feeling more secure from this at February 14, 2024 07:48 PM (dtlDP)

252 My law, henceforth to be ycept "J. Random Moron's Law" is:

*cough*

yclept

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 14, 2024 07:48 PM (/HDaX)

253 Nood Cafe

Posted by: Gref at February 14, 2024 07:49 PM (5fDan)

254 If you have a trolley, with three tracks on which are placed a good movie, a boob, or a gun which do you save?

Posted by: Oldcat at February 14, 2024 07:47 PM (eoQWY)

What gun, and how big is the boob?

Posted by: Not this shit again at February 14, 2024 07:49 PM (VYnM/)

255 252 Past participle of clepe. WTF is clepe?

Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 07:50 PM (MvF+J)

256 you know, now that I think of it, i now recall that pres clinton in 1994 said that for those kids not going to trades schools or the like, our goal should be 100 percent college attendance.
because you can't have enough brain washing of our yoofs, i guess

Posted by: gnats local 678 at February 14, 2024 07:50 PM (B1FKF)

257 When I was a kid we had a pastor who told an elaborate version of the trolley problem but as if it were a true story and the setting us a train going over a drawbridge and the drawbridge operators son has foolishly strayed into the gear mechanism and the operator has to throw the lever and hear and watch his son ground up in agonizing fashion.

He would really lean into the gore I swear. And not let up on the claim this was factual account.

And then for anyone with room temp IQ he would surprise turn the story into a great allegory of the Father sacrificing his Son to save us all.

I have even seen that story in a film version somewhere. I'm all for allegories that help us appreciate the magnitude of the suffering of both the Father and the Son during his crucifixion but there are a serious problems with that particular one and I hate it.

Posted by: TexasDan at February 14, 2024 07:51 PM (X7yt5)

258 Im guessing they had this expert fron the federal rail administration in and Biden started asking them "how many chairs does the choochoo have?" "What time does the 6:15 to Newark Delaware leave?" and "has anybody seen my hands?" so they had to bring in someone else to answer those questions.

My dad is 72 and recently went to a doctor for the first time in ages, despite not showing any issues they still did a cognitive test, because he's a senior. And he's not in charge of say, the once most powerful country in the world. So if it's something they test done random guy for, maybe just maybe they should check the president.

That or just show how smart and in good health you addres by sitting down for an interview with Tucker, or allow 4 debates with Trump where no once can have note cards or ear pieces.

Posted by: Rbastid at February 14, 2024 07:51 PM (F4i6y)

259 Past participle of clepe. WTF is clepe?
Posted by: Throw gp That Whammy at February 14, 2024 07:50 PM (MvF+J)

Danged if I know. Merriam-Webster says yclept is the past participle of clipian, to cry out or name.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at February 14, 2024 07:53 PM (/HDaX)

260 "illiniwek, did your neighbor on the pig farm get his degree at School of the Ozarks?" Posted by: Eromero

heh ... no, U of Illinois.

Posted by: illiniwek at February 14, 2024 07:55 PM (Cus5s)

261 37 A Valentine's Day card from Robert:

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Didja see these progressive VD cards?

http://tinyurl.com/4dx8hmve

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at February 14, 2024 06:50 PM (68oQI)
----
When I was but a teen we didn't call them STDs, it was VD (venereal disease, much more yucky sounding).

Posted by: Ciampino - it could be rocket fuel ... at February 14, 2024 07:56 PM (qfLjt)

262 From earlier: I bet I'm not the only one who saw the "five years of YouCrane money" clause as an open, public, and incredibly blatant admission that the war is not supposed to be resolved. For comparison, the undisputed biggest war in history--WWII--lasted six years, and America was only directly involved for four.

But hey, everything old is new again and the neofeudalists who run stuff pine for an age of total stagnation where wars were measured by the number of decades and accomplished little.

Posted by: CppThis at February 14, 2024 07:56 PM (PZvjL)

263 "We're going to have to prosecute and imprison the Deep Staters. There is no other way. They will not stop their Permanent Coup against the people of the United States until they are stopped."

And that's exactly what we're not going to do. We, the most heavily armed population in human history, are just going to buy more ammunition and sit in front of our computers and mutter "By golly, one day they're gonna go TOO FAR..."

Change my mind.

Posted by: Prisoner of Cats at February 14, 2024 08:01 PM (Y87/2)

264 243 "Every two bit asshole who has a unique thought calls it a 'law' and everyone plays along."

tankdemon's Law.

I copied that from earlier up the thread, (comment #7

by Guy Who Is Sick of the Damn Trolley. It's his law, not mine.

Posted by: tankdemon at February 14, 2024 08:04 PM (zpw81)

265 Truthfully the cleansing fire of nuclear weapons in space is a good thing

Here's 10 reasons why:
Facebook dies.
Siri dies
TikTok dies
...
The Internet addicted act like lemmings

Posted by: Anna Puma at February 14, 2024 08:17 PM (4Og7v)

266 "We're going to have to prosecute and imprison the Deep Staters. There is no other way."

Really? Because I can think of another way. Much cheaper than long term imprisonment.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at February 14, 2024 08:40 PM (3AR13)

267 Re: The Trolley Problem

It's bullshit existentialism.

I played rugby with a guy from Yale who was asked something similar during his Rhodes interview. "You're on a lifeboat and there's too many people on board. What do you do?"
Answer: I'd throw overboard whoever I liked least.
He didn't get to got to Oxford.

Bill Clinton would have said that he'd sacrifice himself for the greater good.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2024 08:41 PM (Gse2f)

268 219 For reference:
"The very first uranium bomb, Little Boy, dropped by the United States on Hiroshima in 1945, used 64 kilograms (141 lb) of 80% enriched uranium."

Fat Man, the plutonium implosion bomb, was dropped on Hiroshima.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 14, 2024 08:42 PM (8Ta2Y)

269 We want a Truth Commission where you get a Trump pardon, and keep your job and pension, if you rat on your boss. Rinse and repeat up the line.

Posted by: Ignoramus at February 14, 2024 08:43 PM (Gse2f)

270 263 Says nothing is going to happen.

See Bunker hILL. Ft. Sumpter. The Alamo. The Bundy Ranch.

Go ahead make my day. See what happens.

Posted by: Sally at February 14, 2024 08:47 PM (bXvrr)

271 Oops - wrong - Fat Man was the first tested!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 14, 2024 08:49 PM (8Ta2Y)

272 269 We want a Truth Commission where you get a Trump pardon...

The perfect opportunity for Trump to offer it now, with the caution that "I'll have less flexibility after the election."

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 14, 2024 08:53 PM (8Ta2Y)

273 Fat Man was dropped on Nagasaki.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at February 14, 2024 08:54 PM (XMwZJ)

274 It really depends who is on the tracks.

If Wray, Brennan, Clapper, Biden and Pelosi were on the one track, I wouldn't throw the switch to save them.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 14, 2024 08:58 PM (2fIO4)

275 I'm form Northwest Indiana, NWI. Pete is from South Bend, about 2 hours from my home town. Until 2002 Hammond Indiana, my hometown, and 2 hours from South Bend, had the most miles of rail per area in the world. Pete and Joe don't know a FUCKING THING about rail.

I know, because as a kid, the train delays would be so long we would get Train Days off. The trains would sit at the intersections blocking us from going to school for so long, that we had no choice but to go home.

Indiana, where Butteplug supposedly lives, is called "Crossroads of America." because of US 30, and US 41, also because of the rail junctions that exist in "north" hammond, transfering to chicago, and then to the rest of the nation.

Pete would have never worked the rail, because he's a fay little cunt who's never worked a day in his life, other than lying to his administrators at university, while being given a dei direct commission in the military, that no longer gives a fuck about oaths or dedication.

Posted by: Wickedpinto at February 14, 2024 09:51 PM (e9nOI)

276 just checking the blockage

Posted by: Just a lap around at February 14, 2024 10:50 PM (5uy7A)

277 Yeah, the timing of this RUSSIAN THREAT sure materialized quickly, once the House announced they wouldn't be taking up the disasterous Ukrain funding bill passed in the Senate. Even the most passive observers of politics can see the bullshit in this one!

Posted by: Tracy at February 15, 2024 04:28 AM (ZHNHj)

278
"Disgraced politician Anthony Weiner's ex-wife Huma Abedin, 47, reveals she is dating George Soros' billionaire playboy son Alex, 38"

She is no longer on the "Highway to the (Carlos) Danger Zone."

Posted by: Texan Tom Bombadil at February 15, 2024 07:52 AM (UaxqD)

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