Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

It’d be the “Hat in the Ring” 94th Fighter Squadron. Saw one of their Raptors at an airshow in Topeka in 2021 and bought a wing patch and t shirt from them.

Oh and…

The debris from the balloon has reportedly been spread across a 7 mile diameter.

Maybe it was a good idea to wait until it was over the ocean before shooting it down.

@Dustcan
Montana went 57-41 Trump. I say let the shrapnel fly.

@Background Human
There’s not many people that live in Montana.

Here’s a great excerpt from a new presentation regarding how extremist misinformation machines are so effective.

The full document can be found here.

EDIT: Apparently screenshots from Mastodon don’t wanna display here. Ah well.

The Pentagon is now confirming that China did fly spy balloons during the Trump administration. 3 in fact.

Russia uses egg cartons for tank armor and China uses balloons for spying.

I wish I was funny. There’s a punchline right there and I can’t see it

@igotnopicks
This might be a stretch, but maybe they didn’t want the debris to litter a national park or something.

My brother has visited Montana a couple times. The landscape he took pictures of are absolutely beautiful, and they don’t even do the real sights justice according to him.

I think one of the places he hiked a was Glacier National park.

I bet they had hacked into the thing and wanted to download/track as much data as they could before shooting it down.

Well, if you trust Jim Sciutto, CNN’s chief national security correspondent, then… yeah, that’s exactly what they were doing.

Do you ever feel like Reddit and Twitter GREATLY overestimate how closely the average person follows politics?

@Background Pony #9B05
I follow politics because I have writing and worldbuilding aspirations.

Only recently followed politics, but did the DNC invest in Texas in any meaningful amount before 2018?

Russia burning books in Ukraine
For someone claiming to be fighting Nazis they sure are taking a lot of plays out of Hitler’s book. I’m pretty sure Putin secretly admires him now.

@lonewolf
The “fighting Nazis” thing has been pure projection on their part ever since they shelled Holocaust memorials during their initial invasion.

On top of all the other terrible things about him, George Santos has now been accused of sexually harassing one of his Congressional aides.

So yeah, turns out he wasn’t lying when he called himself a Republican. But he was feeling up a man so he’s not likely to get too many high fives from his peers.

@Dustcan
Republicans sure know how to pick ‘em.

Putler threatening to use all means over the west sending tanks
So yeah he’s threatening to use nukes over the US and Germany sending tanks to Ukraine. So I say screw it and let’s send double the current number we’re planning. I mean if he’s letting Iran build a drone factory in Russia he should have no problem with it. And of course threatening to go nuclear over conventional warfare shows he’s the one that wants to escalate it.

I wonder if the AI singularity will be used for good or evil.

AI itself can become good or malicious on its own.

Would a perfect machine be righteous or deadly?

What if the perfect machine developes a flaw like malice?

It’s not my job to figure out. I need to lay low and get a real job. Keep things low key.

We need to pay attention to the super rich maybe. Lots of people figure this.

@Beth
You must never have read any form of fiction if you never seen a story when a machine or something with its mentality rules people.

By the time we come anywhere close to an AI singularity it’s likely that most people will have AI chips installed in their brains, anyway. And at that point, what is humanity? Our culture and thoughts and beings, or our genetic makeup in the form of flesh?

Philosophical problems for future generations, should we survive that far.

@Meanlucario
I got a lot of fiction to read and enjoy now. You’re right, I avoided a lot of things having the wrong mindset.

edit: Soon philosophy will be all humans are preserved for. A population of us should be maintained incase anything bad happens to earth or space itself.

@Beth
Dude, it’s in Fallout New Vegas and D&D. It’s nothing special, just entities following the word of a law and doesn’t even calculate the spirit of it. It’s that simple. I feel like Futurama had an episode about it.

Lol Futurama was lit. I need to watch the one where they loop over spacetime with some beers.

Edit: Also actually play DnD with my friennds instead of just selling DnD art for money. and yes I play Fallout, that’s not speecial, but it is cool.

I’m talking about the politics here, because it’s already messed with my job and stuff, but yeah, those things are cool.

Russian foreign minister: Moldova may be next.
The excuse? Their president wasn’t Democratically elected.
I wonder what the invasion excuses for Finland, Sweden, and Poland will be?

@lonewolf
Perhaps they should finish losing one war before they get started on the second.