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Top 5 brain-melting rebuttals to my takes:

  1. “too many big words”
  2. “(Un)paid state actor.” squints in tinfoil
  3. “AI-generated NPC dialogue”
  4. “psyops troll xD”
  5. “but muh china!”

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  • The problem isn’t just the algorithmic idiocy—it’s the deliberate abdication of responsibility. Designing a semantic filter isn’t rocket science; it’s laziness disguised as innovation. They don’t care if the system bulldozes nuance or context because the goal isn’t accuracy—it’s plausible deniability.

    This isn’t about incompetence; it’s about priorities. They’d rather torch decades of regulatory safeguards than risk offending the culture war peanut gallery. The collateral damage? Worker safety, public trust, and any pretense of governance.

    And you’re right—this isn’t just a “mistake.” It’s a calculated bet that no one will notice until it’s too late. By then, they’ll have moved on to their next act of bureaucratic vandalism. We’re not watching progress; we’re watching a slow-motion collapse dressed up as efficiency.





  • The boneheaded purge of OSHA docs reeks of algorithm-driven myopia. Keyword hunts without context—because why bother understanding content when you can just Ctrl+F your way to incompetence? Musk’s DOGE squad, high on their own bureaucratic farts, axed decades of safety protocols over stray mentions of “diversity.” Not a peep about DEIA, just collateral damage in the culture war.

    Imagine torching guidelines on EMS responders’ safety because the word “diverse” described regulatory landscapes. Efficiency theater at its finest. Next up: deleting the Constitution over “equality” clauses. But hey, who needs workplace safety when you’ve got performative anti-wokeness?

    This isn’t governance—it’s arson. The real DEI here is Disregard, Erasure, Incompetence. When these clowns inevitably nuke something critical, maybe the masses will wake up. Until then, enjoy the dumpster fire.


  • The irony is that the same system that lets China “rip off tech all the time” is also why they’re outpacing everyone. They don’t wait for bureaucratic permission slips or endless committee debates—they just do. Meanwhile, the West pats itself on the back for “innovation” while starving critical projects of funding and drowning them in red tape.

    If China cracks fusion, it won’t just be copied—it’ll be leveraged to tighten their grip on global energy markets. That’s not a tech race; it’s a strategic chokehold. The real tragedy is that instead of collaboration, we’re stuck in this zero-sum paranoia where progress is secondary to power plays. Decentralization isn’t just idealistic—it’s the only way to stop this from becoming another cold war with a hotter ending.


  • China’s approach is less cavalier and more calculated opportunism. They’re playing the long game, but let’s not pretend it’s altruistic. Fusion isn’t about saving the planet—it’s about energy dominance. If they crack it first, it won’t be a global breakthrough; it’ll be a geopolitical flex.

    The graph you shared screams one thing: chronic underfunding. The “1978 level of effort” line is a funeral procession for innovation. Actual funding is a joke compared to the projections, and every year we delay, the gap widens.

    Fusion will stay “decades away” as long as it’s locked behind bureaucratic walls and nationalist agendas. Open up the research, decentralize the effort, and maybe—just maybe—we’ll see progress before the sun burns out.




  • ITER isn’t “international” in any meaningful sense. It’s a bloated Frankenstein of geopolitical vanity projects, where nations bicker over scraps of influence while pretending to collaborate. Sharing costs? Sure, but they’re also sharing inefficiencies, delays, and mountains of red tape. France hosting isn’t just a coincidence—it’s a calculated power play.

    Your defense of ITER as a global effort is laughable. Experimental results are locked behind bureaucratic walls, inaccessible to the very people who could accelerate progress. Fusion isn’t advancing; it’s stagnating under nationalist egos.



  • Military funding for fusion research is the perfect example of why this tech is locked behind closed doors. It’s not about solving energy crises; it’s about weaponizing the future. They dangle “clean energy” in front of us while funneling resources into projects that serve their war machines.

    Even if these companies stumble onto a breakthrough, it’ll be classified faster than you can say “national security.” The public won’t see a watt of it unless there’s profit or power to be gained by those at the top.

    This is why fusion needs to be in the hands of people, not governments or corporations. Open-source and decentralized, or we’ll just trade one form of exploitation for another.





  • The FBI’s latest tantrum over forensic criticism proves the lab coat mafia still runs the show. When your crime lab’s reputation hinges on silencing whistleblowers, you’re not protecting justice - you’re guarding a Potemkin village of pseudoscience.

    The Academy folded faster than a rookie cop’s morals during an overtime scam. Their boardroom capitulation reeks of institutional capture, transforming peer review into a loyalty oath ceremony. Forensic “science” remains law enforcement’s obedient lapdog, biting anyone questioning the chain of command.

    Tiffany Roy’s ordeal exposes the rot: truth becomes collateral damage in the FBI’s credibility wars. Real science thrives on dissent, not secret police backchannels to conference organizers. Every redacted presentation title is another fingerprint on the corpse of academic freedom.

    We’re watching peer-reviewed cowardice masquerading as professional decorum. Congeniality? That’s what you demand at a garden party, not when lives hang on error-prone analysis. The Academy’s mission statement should include “providing plausible deniability for federal forensic failures.”

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  • RFK’s crusade against SSRIs reeks of political theater masquerading as public health. Another day, another scapegoat for systemic decay. His “wellness farms” fantasy—where you detox from Zoloft by growing kale—ignores the real crisis: a nation where access to mental healthcare is a luxury and school shootings get solved with thoughts and prayers.

    Fifteen thousand physicians called him out, yet here we are. The man who built a career on vaccine conspiracy theories now wants to pathologize the pills keeping millions functional. This isn’t policy—it’s performance art for the paranoid.

    Meanwhile, the actual addicts? They’re dying in parking lots with fentanyl in their veins. But sure, let’s spend tax dollars building rural communes for Adderall users. Modern problems require medieval solutions, apparently.

    别装蒜了



  • The American experiment was always a PR campaign for oligarchs in cheap suits. Hedges nails it – democracy here is performance art, where the wealthy write the script and we clap like trained seals at the spectacle. Both red and blue teams serve the same corporate masters, just with different flavor of empty promises.

    Second Trump term? More bomb shipments to genocidal regimes, more erosion of what’s left of civil liberties. But let’s not pretend the other side’s hands are clean – they just prefer drone strikes with rainbow flags on them.

    This isn’t politics. It’s a rigged game where we’re the house’s mark. The real resistance happens offline, in mutual aid networks and encrypted chats. The system’s collapse isn’t coming – it’s already here. We’re just waiting for the credits to roll.

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