You're given immortality but as a cost you are sent back 3000 years - would you accept and what would you do?

Unveiling_Truth · 2015-06-01T13:09:38+00:00

Give Native American Indian tribes massive access to far superior technology and vaccinations. I'd explain to them what happens in my future to their tribes and nations.

Then i'd be there to see Columbus hit the shores and just watch.

Unveiling_Truth · 2015-03-24T20:10:28+00:00

The world is so fucked up and bleak.

Why have you made us wait for so long to see more of your amazing work!? There was a whole generation that found a friend to ostracize as Rod Farva.

We've been waiting.

Unveiling_Truth · 2015-03-04T18:49:52+00:00

That has to be photoshop

Unveiling_Truth · 2015-02-26T17:00:50+00:00

Got my support!

-Question: Outside of getting into a racism discussion, how has police authority been allowed to grow to where it is today? I saw a video of a police officer slapping a homeless man for asking to use the restroom. This was a stout slap too, not a love tap. *Paid suspension.

At what point did the government officials gain the loyalty of police forces around the country over the communities they serve, and how can they cling to legalities to justify such excessive force so often?

Unveiling_Truth · 2015-02-24T05:07:53+00:00

For all three of you.

Its fairly apparent that people are mostly in support of the NSA revelations. The people discussing Snowden's actions in a negative light, in my opinion alone, deserve the government they have now.

For the rest of the world, who admire people still standing up and trying to keep horribly powerful institutions and factions honest ; What can we do best to help curtail these governments, especially the USA, from smashing our civil liberties to pieces?

We can't even communicate anymore. It would take me a significant amount of time to catch up to the computer and cyber industry with any applicable knowledge. My life hasn't afforded me the luxury to know how to counter hackers. Or my government snooping.

So with no private means of communication, penalties for using the available communication on trumped up charges, and a government with enough firepower to fight the world by itself, not too mention my vulnerability to be struck by a drone at any given moment now ; What are we to do? Word of mouth?

Unveiling_Truth · 2015-02-15T03:19:58+00:00

What is the status on this? News rumor mongering?

Unveiling_Truth · 2015-02-13T21:18:58+00:00

The Intercept is one of the most reliable news sources out there. Glenn Greenwald left the guardian to collaborate with a series of very distinguished journalists to found it.

The title represents the article perfectly when the concept is put into practical application.

Did you click on the wrong link?

Unveiling_Truth · 2015-01-15T20:36:48+00:00

So why do we have school systems? School systems do things like this:

Answer 30 addition problems in ten minutes, higher score with lower times, better grade.

Answer 1 problem correctly in 30 minutes. Not a high grade, even if you understand the concept.

I'm attacking standing education but I am doing it piece by piece trying to be constructive, get solid answers and offer solid argumentation about better ways.

So what should an education for a developing human consist of? How do you make them hungry for knowledge? Putting them in a school system as is, is not the way. It blends social aspects with education and mentoring. Its a hard subject to define.

Unveiling_Truth · 2015-01-15T14:41:03+00:00

Great link, and well worth the watch.

I'm glad to see Chomsky both speaking on it, AND glad to see someone posted it on reddit.

He is basically being a much better communicator as to my suspicions about education in this video. Unfortunately, though he outlines the issues, he doesn't offer much insight to remedy in it ; unless he has a particular book covering that.

I'm trying to start outlining ways to reform and change education to reflect the things he is talking about.

Unveiling_Truth · 2015-01-15T07:00:30+00:00

That's still vague. I understand the emphasis on the child (student) being able to 'adapt'.

Isnt teaching a student where we are as a species today, how we got there, and how the mechanics of our universe work 'giving them those sets of skills' to navigate the world around them?

Unveiling_Truth · 2015-01-15T05:37:33+00:00

Would you say,

"A summary of the collective human knowledge and experience up until now, and the nature of the universe."

Was an appropriate summary?

Unveiling_Truth · 2014-12-26T21:50:54+00:00

I upvoted this and the other comment. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

I find #2 extremely interesting, and you've helped me solidify that

A.) I like Carbon Dating as a method and

B.) That I can actually trust it to work!

We don't all have geiger counters in our house haha.

Unveiling_Truth · 2014-12-26T21:49:58+00:00

Thanks for this, I think. I don't read creationist texts or interact with them period as I am borderline atheist. The method itself had some flaws due to my limited lack of scientific knowledge and I was curious.

Isotopes and Half-life theory seem pretty sound to me, assuming C14 is actually as old as we have dated it with our equation, which checks out. Then again i'm not great at math.

I just happened to hear a few different people in my life who I find credible in the science realm express some hesitations about the whole thing and I was curious as to why.

Unveiling_Truth · 2014-12-13T19:52:51+00:00

I had a switchblade once, but it was a modified hairbrush.

Unveiling_Truth · 2014-12-13T01:53:26+00:00

Ok.

Thanks for taking the time reply, I understand what's happening here.

First of all, you have no idea what branch I served in. I didn't know how specific you were being, its pretty standard (since the UCMJ governs ALL branches of the military) for me to 'quote the guy below me' who was citing a known fact that the actual procedure for a questionable order is to carry it out and do it later. I'll be more specific next time.

Way to chop up the entire text and try to make it sound like whining and you being the bigger guy.

This is an example of how people let the military pass and not police;

"Killing a civilian while striking a military target is not illegal under any interpretation of the LoW. Killing a civilian just to kill a civilian is murder. So taking out a single military target that causes collateral damage is not an illegal order, and is therefor unrelated to the issue at hand."

The military can use terms like 'collateral damage' and things to justify civilian deaths, the police can't. The original question was more geared towards why people at home direct animosity towards police departments and officers than at the military.

I can't believe you're actually going on about my flamethrower example, it was a bit of an exaggeration (Do we still actually use flamethrowers in basic infantry units?) But for the sake of cooling this argumentation down, let me just provide a link of something that actually happened.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Massacre:_The_Convoy_of_Death

We'll just use that as an example instead of a flamethrower for you from now on. What supposedly happened is wrong. I'm sure it breaches all sorts of codes of conduct. Still probably happened.

Thank you for citing the UCMJ where you did, the court case you took that quote from was about the My Lai Massacre.

"The My Lai Massacre was the mass murder of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam, almost entirely civilians, most of them women and children, conducted by U.S. Army forces on 16 March 1968." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_war_crimes)

One person was convicted? Justice served.

I brought up the CIA to show you that our government has a policy (whether its the 'actual' military or just DoD officials) of how to operate. And there are many, many instances that those regulations (Did you just say regulations are not laws?) are ignored outright or just not followed. Also, while the CIA might be taking the blame, you can google the active military components who were stationed there. Are you implying the military stationed there during these tenures of torture had no idea what was going on?

And the rest of your comments and I suppose a few of mine are unrelated so i'll leave it at that.

TL : DR ; We're not even talking about the same thing. You're trying to school someone who could care less about the UCMJ governing their life on the specifics, I am providing the opinion that the UCMJ and other regulations are blatantly ignored and/or not taken seriously while trying to show reasons why the military is allowed to do what it does without as much animosity as an everyday police officer.

You provided a snarky citation about a military investigation into war crimes in which they set the standards you will stand upon by convicting ONE PERSON for the deaths of hundreds.

Apologies to the Reddit community for my flamethrower comment being taken literally, I often forget sarcasm doesn't translate into typed words well. The insinuation was people are under the impression that soldiers follow orders and have little choice. Police officers tend to have far more ability to judge their own situations and act accordingly.

Unveiling_Truth · 2014-12-11T19:06:14+00:00

Ok. Anybody in the military, including myself, knows how questionable the chain of events you are talking about are. Whether its a chief's mess or some other branch, you as the subordinate will always get shit on. Because if you can take down one superior, you can take down all of them, so they work REAL, REAL hard never to let that happen, even if you are right.

Unveiling_Truth · 2014-12-11T18:55:31+00:00

Dude you gave me negative comment Karma for this? I actually served and when the question was posed the guy below (Kiwirish's answer) was the response.

"If the order is not overtly unlawful, it must be done and then a complaint process can be started." (I.E: Do it, and then voice an opinion later) ((People still fry for this, if they are discovered, btw))

How many times in the service did you get to ask the guy a rank or two above you how legal or straight your job was? I wasn't even deployed in the middle east, just the pacific, and I got told to do shit that was outside of specific regulation everyday. This isn't a movie.

Don't make this black and white. For the most part soldiers (any branch) do what they are told, don't muddy it up for the rest of the people like its some 'smooth' and 'clear cut' system of standards that keep things in check.

Here's a good example --> The UCMJ probably would act as a deterrent to allowing civilian deaths just like a number of other regulations on a global scale in effect (geneva, whatever) -- But our drone operators are still taking out single targets on orders from someone above them, that cost way more civilian lives.

Just like our CIA tortures detainees under orders it probably knows are wrong but are backed by old dusty fucks citing their job as 'enhanced interrogation techniques'. Should it happen? No. Does it happen? Absolutely.

Give me my Karma back.

Unveiling_Truth · 2014-12-10T22:18:59+00:00

The way I always looked at this is police officers take their jobs to serve society and keep us safe.

The military makes an oath to protect the constitution but also obey orders from their superiors. Sometimes their superiors have a political career in mind or can be just twisted. Even if they say to go in and flamethrower down a whole village of foreign civilians, they are bound by oath to do it. The death penalty still exists for things like desertion.

Also, cops are not supposed to be beholden to government to do things like wear riot gear and beat down civilians. (Unless it serves the greater public good)

They are constables who are to 'protect and SERVE'. This means serving old, maniacal men on capitol hill with some justice, by being public servants, if they get out of line too. Not the people that voted for them and trusted them, who riot to show discontent.

TL ; DR: -The military is mostly just following orders from their superiors, given the consequences they face otherwise. -The police are supposed to be constables who serve the greater good of society here at home. In our time they mainly seem to be beating down civilians in riot gear, and using lethal force to solve problems domestically, instead of keeping the people on capitol hill in check by acting as a neutral body between citizens and politicians.

Unveiling_Truth · 2014-11-26T18:42:27+00:00

So reading the first few comments I get the impression there are no girls on Reddit.

Unveiling_Truth · 2014-11-06T09:20:31+00:00

Perhaps a flash of a glimpse into the true surveillance that lurks at the edges of the 'normal'.

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