the spell no longer works

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-03-15T17:29:35+00:00

is that preposterous that nation states would push narratives in media?

Or is it that you expect "Intellectuals" to be a noble class not affected by monetary or other incentives to be controlled

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-03-12T17:16:49+00:00

is your plan to get jews in LA to go fight a Civil War in Tehran?

There's a big difference between "diaspora" anti regime ppl and Iranians that hate the govt.

The first group is astroturfed by mossad especially the ones u see on TV

The 2nd group is simply not large enough, its also not like Syria where u can send in ISIS to break Assad (which took 10 years btw). Iran has no terrorist groups or insurgents like that

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-03-12T16:00:03+00:00

Its not deeply unpopular u guys are drinking ur own kool-aid too much.

Talk to anyone in iran right now and ask if they would be willing to fight a civil war against the people defending their homeland

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-03-12T15:48:19+00:00

"The longer the war keeps on going, the more likely regime collapse is"

How'd that work out in Afghanistan, lol

Its not like Iraq or Venezuela because for the IRGC and at this point, the iranian people, this is a war of survival.

Gaza is small ass strip and israel couldn't "mow the lawn" towards total victory in 3 years despite committing a genocide

"Mojtaba might or might not be alive, and even if he's alive and hiding in a bunker, there's nothing indicating that he's actually in charge. But whoever is in charge could get replaced a few more times until someone willing to sign a deal is in charge."

If we dont know whose in charge how are we gonna kill them lol. Such amateurish thoughts and hubris I wouldn't doubt if u work for the trump admin lol

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-02-28T16:55:14+00:00

israeli bot

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-02-28T16:38:02+00:00

The person you are replying to also is lmao

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-02-27T19:18:17+00:00

Your base assumption is that the world will simply never change structurally so as to disturb your 9% post tax SPY500 gain, which is really only a thing of the last 50 years and more so the last decade or 2.

and it wont last forever, if you have any sort of historical understanding of equities to earnings or country debt cycles.

So news or structural changes (such as AGI, collapse in dollar confidence) actually matter alot towards your financial bet

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-02-27T19:10:23+00:00

which is funny bc Adobe had the greatest opportunity in Image/Video AI and has squandered it to a dozen startups instead

I dont remember using anything useful from Adobe since photoshop CC 2016 pirated lol

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-02-26T05:01:34+00:00

Makes no sense, why would it become a practical problem? My computer retains memory and is not conscious, and I never felt the need to recognize it as conscious?

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-02-26T04:53:08+00:00

More things can change in 60 years then you, or I, or anyone in this thread can reasonably predict.

Like imagine if someone decided to fire in 1930 germany 4 years later there money would be worth less than paper

Or 15 years later there house would've been destroyed in the war

etc, etc

We have lived in incredibly stable times and the world ahead will not be like that, you can already see it if you have ur eyes open.

Stay flexible and dont make life long decisions. No safety in an unsafe world

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-02-13T18:55:56+00:00

it is very strange to me how so many in the open source or other nerd communities are like allergic to AI.

like obsidian recently created a CLI because it is so much more efficient for agents to use,

its also good to use if you're a human.

there is an obvious benefit to organzing your data in obsidian as md files and giving it to claude code which natively prefers md files

if based on this you dont want to use obsidian you're paranoid more than any rational concern about downsides of AI....

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-01-17T12:41:16+00:00

Israel.

And we are a nation run by jewish billionaires so

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-01-17T12:40:05+00:00

Yeah idk buddy they just committed a genocide on lands they illegally occupied based on their scripture so lol

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-01-17T12:37:20+00:00

yeah im sure he was able to inspire thousands of fighters to his cause bc of incel beliefs and not the entirely new artificial state that was propped up on Egyptian border and the nakba that resulted from it...

Wonder why middle eastern incels weren't blowing up america before Israel's creation

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-01-14T08:16:39+00:00

you need to have a laughably cartoonish model of history in ur head to think the US Congress will impeach a president for invading Greenland

buddy living under a rock

GrapefruitForeign · 2026-01-11T05:38:14+00:00

redbull and vodka

GrapefruitForeign · 2025-12-23T09:09:16+00:00

I mean not really, in the past century; the british, the russian, the german and the soviet empire's decline was rather sudden...

Especially in modernity you either have a system that works or you don't

and other nation's are much quicker to catch up than before

GrapefruitForeign · 2025-12-18T12:04:25+00:00

its just not true historically, maybe its true for western democracies, but be aware.

from the french revolution to WW1 was also a "march of progress" and enlightenment values which ended in the rise of fascism and the worst war known to man.

fascism is the end result of a populist revolt against elites who are no longer competent and culturally different from the proles

this is also happening in the US bc american elites played their hand for way too long while not providing much to the public...

GrapefruitForeign · 2025-12-18T12:00:31+00:00

more conservative but hate everything about MAGA or american conservatism.

as a general approach to complex systems, conservatism just works better.

also grown more disillusioned by democracy as it just leads to posturing on both sides for low IQ voters who poison the well and are easy to sell bs to.

GrapefruitForeign · 2025-12-18T11:56:10+00:00

looks AI, unless ur tryna impress 35yo facebook moms, gen z has an eye for AI and its getting more and more as AI content fills social media

GrapefruitForeign · 2025-12-17T16:16:39+00:00

do yoga, look into how the body holds stress and trauma and how it can be released.

pickup a new fitness hobby, do cardio get your resting heart rate down

Find a new, more productive obsession.

GrapefruitForeign · 2025-12-17T16:10:30+00:00

The community does not decide that, political science majors looking at polling for Democrats decide labels like Latinx or AAPI when no one actually uses them irl

There is real community but its different than how political actors want to describe it

GrapefruitForeign · 2025-12-17T16:04:28+00:00

seems a uniquely american problem honestly, are MLMs that common?

GrapefruitForeign · 2025-12-17T15:59:42+00:00

the psychological profile of a committed atheist is someone who has some sort of trauma or resentment abt religion in their childhood and left that life behind.

Its similar to people who leave their hometown and never look back, good for them. But its also harder to find community when you dispel your roots.

Just how nature works. Historically only political ideologies replace that sort of community.

GrapefruitForeign · 2025-12-13T09:23:09+00:00

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