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Kesper North posted:I'm a fan. John Barnes did a fair bit of interesting stuff with memetic plagues too, in Kaleidoscope Century and others. That is the most soul-searingly difficult book to read I've ever encountered. I'm not saying it's *bad*, or that you shouldn't read it. But parts of it are like Srebrenica-massacre fanfiction.
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Phanatic posted:That is the most soul-searingly difficult book to read I've ever encountered. Yeah, it's like the opposite of anything John Ringo writes. Very powerful in its exploration of dehumanization. It's a horrific book, as in it contains horror. It is also worth it if you can stand it, I think.
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Kesper North posted:The same things keeping us from laser rifles are keeping us from gauss rifles at this point. I think the Russians did experiment with making harmless bacteria that would be vectors for smallpox transmission weaponized prions, jesus, that's some mad scientist trying to bring down the human population to healthier levels poo poo
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Couple weeks ago researchers announced they've created prions in a lab environment so yeah, you just know the Russians will try to weaponize them. https://gizmodo.com/synthetic-brain-destroying-human-prions-created-in-the-1826602177
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Jun 27, 2018 02:12
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chitoryu12 posted:I mean, you may have a skewed perspective on the timeline. That's going in my "Good Jokes" folder. 
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C.M. Kruger posted:Couple weeks ago researchers announced they've created prions in a lab environment so yeah, you just know the Russians will try to weaponize them. Patient Zero's already been released. 
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Jun 27, 2018 05:19
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Patient Zero's already been released. Transmission requires eating his brain so unless the Republican party gets real weird about exactly how they handle succession we should be fine
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Jun 27, 2018 08:56
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aphid_licker posted:Transmission requires eating his brain so unless the Republican party gets real weird about exactly how they handle succession we should be fine I mean republicans already identify as fringe christian so... last supper ”this is my prions”
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Jun 27, 2018 09:59
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Good job there SC NG. https://twitter.com/MSchroeder77/status/1011792872209895425 https://twitter.com/MSchroeder77/status/1011794633519706112
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Valtonen posted:I mean republicans already identify as fringe christian so... last supper ”this is my prions” 
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Jun 27, 2018 12:59
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Party Plane Jones posted:Good job there SC NG. OK, I first read this as "Holy Smokes!! Police officers in South Carolina fired an M249 machine gun, 2 M16 rifles, and an M203 grenade launcher in(to) the car of a driver pulled over for littering" and thought this was some depressing modern version of Alice's Restaurant about police brutality.
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https://twitter.com/JosephHDempsey/status/1011888830595649536
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Cat Hatter posted:OK, I first read this as "Holy Smokes!! Police officers in South Carolina fired an M249 machine gun, 2 M16 rifles, and an M203 grenade launcher in(to) the car of a driver pulled over for littering" and thought this was some depressing modern version of Alice's Restaurant about police brutality. I read this exactly the same way initially. I didn't realize my mistake until I read the attachment and found it didn't make sense.
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Jun 27, 2018 15:54
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oh scheiße!
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Cat Hatter posted:OK, I first read this as "Holy Smokes!! Police officers in South Carolina fired an M249 machine gun, 2 M16 rifles, and an M203 grenade launcher in(to) the car of a driver pulled over for littering" and thought this was some depressing modern version of Alice's Restaurant about police brutality. Same, actually
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Jun 27, 2018 16:06
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Party Plane Jones posted:Good job there SC NG. "The 1920s and 2020s are a long way apart, but they do have one thing in common..."
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Ice Fist posted:I read this exactly the same way initially. I didn't realize my mistake until I read the attachment and found it didn't make sense. It's pretty telling that the idea of American cops machine gunning someone for a non-violent crime is taken at such face value that nobody questions it until they see details later in the article that contradict it.
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chitoryu12 posted:It's pretty telling that the idea of American cops machine gunning someone for a non-violent crime is taken at such face value that nobody questions it until they see details later in the article that contradict it. I mean, yes and no? A guy getting a grenade in the face and lit up by automatic fire would still be extraordinary even by the current expectations.
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Ice Fist posted:I mean, yes and no? A guy getting a grenade in the face and lit up by automatic fire would still be extraordinary even by the current expectations. The officers would be placed on paid leave while Internal Affairs investigated. Upon discovering that the driver had a handgun in his glove compartment and a single joint in his pocket, the officers would be exonerated and returned to duty.
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Ice Fist posted:I mean, yes and no? A guy getting a grenade in the face and lit up by automatic fire would still be extraordinary even by the current expectations. It'd only be extraordinary if they don't drop the grenades from a helicopter and burn down 65 houses in the process  Guess how many people with the city got charged as a result of that zero, don't let cops have explosives kids
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chitoryu12 posted:It's pretty telling that the idea of American cops machine gunning someone for a non-violent crime is taken at such face value that nobody questions it until they see details later in the article that contradict it. Really, if you read it that way and weren't at least surprised, then it says more about you than the cops. "What a world we live in, that people can believe the cops would do something outrageous and really weird that they never actually do" is more a statement about human credulousness than police brutality. Mortabis fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Jun 27, 2018 |
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Mortabis posted:Really, if you read it that way and weren't at least surprised, then it says more about you than the cops. I mean American cops have literally bombed neighborhoods and shot up trucks that kinda looked like a suspect's vehicle. Firing a machine gun at a car that committed a non-violent crime and then drove away would be pretty par for the course.
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a for fucks sake shut up and take it to one of the other six thousand threads that have derails about it
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About how many people would have to have hosed up to leave that many doors unlocked/unsecured?
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No translation needed.
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One Specialist.
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 What's the beehive-looking thing in the front? CIWS/RAM missiles?
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Neophyte posted:
SeaRAM. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-116_Rolling_Airframe_Missile
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For some reason I didn't see the bottom pic that made it obvious. Thanks! Wonder how much the heat and flames will cost to repair with modern ship systems. Subtle damage might be easy to miss at a glance, so do you dismount and recheck everything that possibly got hot, or just the more complicated easily broken stuff, or shrug and say "eh, it's probably fine" and fix it if that breaks later?
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Kesper North posted:Or we'll have really weaponized memes. Prions transported on the back of transmissible viruses that squirm into your grey matter and chow down on your critical thinking abilities. Maybe even inserting their own code once they grow sophisticated enough. Check out the anti-memetics division story series on the SCP website.
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M_Gargantua posted:Check out the anti-memetics division story series on the SCP website. I had no idea SCP was still around. Thanks.
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M_Gargantua posted:Check out the anti-memetics division story series on the SCP website. Thought I'd be clever and link this, but beaten. Seriously, that story arc is professional quality stuff. SCP in general is surprisingly good considering it's basically collaborative fanfiction.
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Captain von Trapp posted:Thought I'd be clever and link this, but beaten. Seriously, that story arc is professional quality stuff. SCP in general is surprisingly good considering it's basically collaborative fanfiction. One of the authors of the anti-memetics arc is qntm, from qntm.org, the home of one of my favourite pieces of serialised fiction, Fine Structure.
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Ice Fist posted:I read this exactly the same way initially. I didn't realize my mistake until I read the attachment and found it didn't make sense. Me too! I was getting ready to make some sort of edge lord joke about him surviving that due to whiteness, but I got nothing here. On second thought, if you fired all that at a car you probably work for or against ISIS.
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what did they expect to happen, they tried to uselessly fire off 30% of germany's naval budget with that one missle.
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Memento posted:One of the authors of the anti-memetics arc is qntm, from qntm.org, the home of one of my favourite pieces of serialised fiction, Fine Structure. Well, I know what I'm doing today.
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Phy posted:Well, I know what I'm doing today. Ya, I hadn’t read the SCP antimemetics thing either. RIP my afternoon.
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Random question: why did the Russians develop specialized coastal anti-ship artillery and missiles? I was browsing this new 1/72 model kit manufacturer, and found these.
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I see one draken, two viggens, and six gripens.
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