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  • TheEncogitationer wrote:
    Actually, both drones and illegal aliens who either construct them or bring them in would both be a concern for defense in the future.

    I don’t understand. Like pulling wagons through the desert, packed high with drones or drone parts? Driving big containers through customs? Via tunnels, submarines, or Chinese…[Read more]

  • Yep, and what would today be like if outside powers had not intervened to create it? Israel has been working on nukes and it now seems Iran stole them.

     

  • I heard last night that Iran said it responded with 100 drones. Haven’t looked at later news, yet, but so few drones is (to me) obviously just a symbolic slap in the face.

    The newest possible threat to us (and any country now) are unexpectedly large and well-hidden or disguised, AI-autonomous drone attacks… anywhere in any country. That’s where…[Read more]

  • Iran has to respond and if they see Israel and the U.S. as joined at the hip, American bases, assets, and persons could now be at risk either directly from Iran itself or through some of their proxies who potentially have a reach as far as the American homeland.

  • Unseen replied to the topic Sunday School May 25th 2025 in the forum Group logo of Sunday SchoolSunday School 1 year ago

    TACO Don suddenly realizes that deporting immigrant workers is a disaster. Get ready for the “blame someone and claim victory” exit strategy. One hopes the result will be some sort of reasonable guest worker policy like many other countries have so that a person can come here, not to rape and murder, but to work, without fear of being…[Read more]

  • One of my client sites has a 50/50 mix of Filipinos and Europeans. What I note about the Filipinos is that they are laid back even when working hard, which is always and yet they are always smiling and joking.  I brought in some Ube Halaya for someone’s birthday recently. When I told them the name of the shop I got it in (in Dublin) they started…[Read more]

  • Around 2001 I had a short-term contract where I managed a project for Xerox to install several printers in a large company in Belfast, across 3 sites. My contact on their side was a Unionist who made it very clear to me that he hated people from “the South”. He did not actually say anything directly to me but we both instinctively knew which “tr…[Read more]

  • I think the nationalities are not the primary reason that they are being attacked. It is the fact that they are “not us”. These communities have been very insular and unchanged for centuries and are very conservative in their outlook. This has made them very tribal and any “outsider” is seen as a potential threat to destabilizing their social and…[Read more]

  • I know very few Irish people that really want to have Ulster “rejoin” the rest of Ireland. We are happy with the current situation so long as the peace process holds. Any attempts at reunification will probably mean a return of the paramilitaries on both sides. (As Gerry Adams said about the IRA, “They haven’t gone away, you know”) The zeitgeist…[Read more]

  • Ballymena has historically been known as part of Northern Ireland’s “Bible Belt”, with strong Protestant churches and Unionist figures like Ian Paisley having deep roots in the town. It is very much a Unionist stronghold, culturally and historically aligned with British political identity. The recent unrest has been largely driven by Bally…[Read more]

  • I know about 8 people who work for multinational companies who have turned down opportunities to work in the USA recently and opted to  stay in Ireland or go to a different country instead. 4 of them are US citizens and said they will reconsider in 3.5 years’ time. But will it be too late by then for President Newsom and VP Buttigieg to repair the damage?

  • Unseen replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum Group logo of PoliticsPolitics 1 year ago

    If this was really about “illegal immigration” and not simply “we just don’t like swarthy people,” a simple and obvious guest worker program such as some European countries have would be on the table.

    It’s not.

    On to a Plan B.

    Did you know that The Netherlands, about the same size as the state of Maryland, comes in as #2 behind the U.S. among…[Read more]

  • PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum Group logo of PoliticsPolitics 1 year ago

    LA Riots

    When I saw a Waymo car on fire, it hit me, why tf would any protester light that on fire? Waymos are self-driving taxis, common now in California. How stupid are these protesters?

    Wait… unless there’s some false flag hires in there.

    Then I watched the video, below, pointing out the same possibility, with some research behind it. (The…[Read more]

  • PopeBeanie replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 1 year ago

    PopeBeanie wrote:
    I started empathising a lot with people, in real time. I still get goosebumps during certain parts of some songs. In fact now it happens just when watching a reactor react in an obvious way to the same parts of songs that I feel.

    Accidentally just found a new reactor I really like. Silly goosebumps with it. I actually maintain a…[Read more]

  • PopeBeanie replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 1 year ago

    I just learned that they were in a K-Pop phase, too, while feeling angsty and making Queen of the Murder Scene.

  • PopeBeanie replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 1 year ago

    Looks good! One typo about 1/3 of the way down: Mexicsn.

    I just watched their recent concert in Sweden. Above quality fancam, unofficial, in stereo, but still not really a pleasure to listen to for me. I watched because it seemed different, like maybe they were extremely tired, but I didn’t look into it to verify that. Dany made several mistakes…[Read more]

  • Mine will be beryllium mirrors with a gold coating, just like the ones on the JWST. But it all depends on the wavelengths. Keep them varied and have fried goy for sure..

  • Unseen replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 1 year ago

    Here is the new & improved “things to know about The Warning” list.

    15 Things to know about The Warning.

    Their names are Daniela (guitar, lead/backup vocals), Paulina (percussion, backup/occasional lead vocals), and Alejandra (bass guitar, backup/very occasional lead vocals). They are known to their fans by the nicknames Dany, Pau, and Ale.…[Read more]

  • Unseen replied to the topic Nobody saw this coming in the forum Small Talk 1 year ago

    Thanks for the comments, PB. I have since added three more items to my “things to know” list and tweaked a couple of the orignal ones here and there. I’ll post that in the next comment after this one.

    This video from a very recent concert at the Rock Am Ring rock festival in Germany shows that they very much are still not phoning it in. Many…[Read more]

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