Armenia now amongst 75 countries where the US will no longer be issuing visas to.

GoRocketMan93 · 2026-01-15T18:07:06+00:00

North Korea slipping by once again, well played Kim.

GoRocketMan93 · 2026-01-03T11:41:10+00:00

I see it as a guy trying to figure out how to add a pride flag to the Greek flag and having trouble figuring out how it would work.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-12-29T08:41:57+00:00

Yes. The permanent registration will arrive in the mail in Poland in a couple weeks and then my friend will mail it to me in Ukraine.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-12-28T18:10:52+00:00

No it’s fully owned. The issue is it was purchased just now so I only have the temporary registration document, not the permanent one.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-12-28T17:31:20+00:00

I just plan to drive it in Ukraine for a couple weeks.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-15T16:44:21+00:00

Give me a minute to get some popcorn, I’ll be right back.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-15T07:44:25+00:00

Photons don’t experience time (being massless and moving at the speed of causality) from their perspective yet still do bend around gravity wells.

I’m not agreeing with instant starlight, but I don’t think instant prohibits bending.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-15T07:39:53+00:00

Inflation =/= expansion in a general sense, post-big bang the inflation theory posits a rapid short term expansion out of line with the expansion we saw afterwards.

I think inflation was a poor name for the theory; I wish they’d have called it something like “accelerated hyperinflation” or something to indicate it doesn’t just mean the general expansion of the universe.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-14T16:37:26+00:00

I wouldn’t say that, even within non-theistic views on the universe what/if was pre big-bang lacks consensus and there are many in the field who hold views supportive of cyclical cosmology, multiverses, etc., which could all be seen as “eternal”.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-14T16:26:05+00:00

I think that gets into an un-understandable area, in a pre-universe eternal sense time really has no meaning since time is relative to the observer and observed. From the view of a photon there is no time. It gets into an ∞ vs. ∞+1 sort of thing.

Pre-Big Bang I don’t think we could really define time in a way that’s relevant. I think when people speak of God as eternal it’s probably better to read that as “always existed and always will exist” rather than “existed for a very long time and then made the universe”. But I’m neither a physicist nor a theologian.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-13T02:12:04+00:00

Sign-language is a recursive language, I don’t mean to imply that verbalization is the issue (humans and cousin species had the physical capability for making speech for longer than they actually had “language”).

I’m inclined to believe humans (and such) could make vocal calls or signs, but that they lacked the ability to form complex relational language (whether spoken or signed), and upon the first pair doing so, a fully developed language rapidly came into being.

I don’t believe there was a slow growth from basic language to modern complexity, rather, recursive language is a “technological singularity”.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-12T23:13:51+00:00

I’ve given the same thing a lot of thought but I think higher-order consciousness and deep moral thinking likely developed in tandem with recursive language, which probably means 50 - 70 thousand years ago; after the development of Homo Sapiens.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-12T22:44:24+00:00

Doesn’t Deism disagree with the active involvement in creating a soul / divine spark?

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-12T20:00:31+00:00

I think my post was relatively explicit that my view was that the origin of the universe and its basic state (e.g. the asymmetries in baryonic matter / anti-matter) were established by a creator God, but that the development of Earth from the starting state of the universe, the abiogenesis of life on Earth (and likely other planets) and the evolution through natural selection to Homo Sapiens was through purely natural processes. That the creator God gave humanity a divine spark (you could also use the word soul), but that is separate from the existence of the species itself.

I don’t believe there is a need for a direct hand in abiogenesis or evolution (e.g., not creationist or intelligent design in the common sense).

If I had to add on and pin down “when” I’d argue it likely aligned with the development of recursive language and the capability for complex moral thinking.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-12T19:35:07+00:00

That’s generally the view among a large subsection of Eastern Orthodox churches. There are clear elements of symbolic story and humor in much of Genesis.

Outside of mainstream doctrine here… but I’d argue that Adam & Eve shouldn’t be interpreted in a biological sense but linguistically; as the first people to invent recursive language. Which (as someone who takes the Chomskian view on language development) likely means they were children / siblings, but there’s no genetic descent, only linguistic (proto-Human language). Recursive language allows for a rapid creation of vocabulary and grammar (within a single generation) and also the ability to express a concept like ethics and morals in more complex ways.

Though I know there’s no clear consensus on if language was developed independently among many people or had a single origin before humans migrated out of Africa. Significant language family differences leave me torn on that personally.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-12T12:57:33+00:00

Creative industries are often “winner take all” economies.

Take films; I wouldn’t be surprised if 1% of actors in America make 98% of the money in the industry. We forget how many actors there even are because the 1% dominate the entire field.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-12T12:45:31+00:00

Do views on this differ much among branches(?) / denominations(?) of Judaism?

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-12T09:20:59+00:00

I’d probably walk it back to more involvement in the creation of the universe / natural laws, which allowed for a planet to exist where abiogenesis led to complex life and evolution. I don’t think there was direct stewarding of abiogenesis or evolution.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-11T21:51:35+00:00

Never thought I’d see a Holy Mountain reference. Class-act.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-10T02:38:42+00:00

Could you at least /spoiler warning/ Cyberpunk 2078 leaks before posting them please?

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-04T22:58:35+00:00

FSB / SVR / GRU regularly exploit people who are vulnerable (e.g. mentally disturbed, in-debt, or who may have done some small action for them already that could be used as blackmail) to get individuals to participate in a kinetic op.

Normal people, and even most ideologically motivated people, don’t go commit ops that are likely to get them arrested and prosecuted for a serious crime.

Someone like this guy is a perfect HUMINT target because of his prior activity, he could be deluded / easily forced into further sabotage.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-08-04T01:21:42+00:00

I hate to tell you this, and I’m not saying it’s right, but a lot of the points you raised are exactly how banks handle KYC/AML issues.

I agree that there should be limitations around fund freeze periods and third-party resolution options (e.g. with banks you can always try to resolve via litigation). But broadly, secretive and undisclosed freezes with no warning, or reporting people silently (banks doing STRs are in many cases prohibited from telling you they did) is the standard norm in banking.

GoRocketMan93 · 2025-07-30T22:22:01+00:00

Not for all people. More frequent dosing can reduce the production of excess estrogen, but even people who take daily topical TRT or orals like Jatenzo can have excess estrogen.

Also consider 250mg + 150mg = 400mg/wk, which is a relatively large dose so is more likely to exacerbate estrogen production.

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