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No way, 51nb wouldn't have done the X62 if we were alone.

Don't get my hopes up for a return of the X40/X60 form factor

It's not like we don't embellish and overbuild high priority state of the art facilities today.

A well back then may have been quite a proud and precious thing you point your best builders at, considering it was the life source for the area village/farms.

> then that implies that about 99.9% of the US military budget -- and the entire known fleet -- is essentially a massive disinformation campaign

Except that's not how the world works.

We have peace for as long as there's a balance of powers in this MAD nuclear stalemate we find ourselves in.

If you've got secret goodies in the shed that completely disrupt the balance, you don't realize them until it's absolutely necessary. It's not a massive disinformation campaign, it's about operating at scale on a level appropriate for the circumstances.

China and Russia have been doing a lot of saber rattling and projecting new technologies that threaten to disrupt the balance, so I don't think it's too surprising that the US is responding with escalating propaganda of its own.

The big question is are these UFOs demonstrating real capabilities or is it just fabricated FUD propaganda.

We'll always have something better in the shed, otherwise we're obsolete.

The fediverse seems like a good start. Wikileaks should host their own instances of mastodon/diaspora etc, and we should stop participating in these centralized commercial enclaves expecting them to prioritize respecting and protecting our free speech on their web sites.

> He was a gentle, troubled spirit that said the Gamer Word. Did he ever hurt or wrong anybody on racially motivated grounds? He jumped in front of a train after getting shadowbanned on Hacker News. Maybe you're the bad guy.

He live-streamed using racial epithets against people of said race in public.

If you think shadowbanning on HN is why Terry committed suicide, you weren't paying attention.

He didn't jump in front of the train, he sat on the tracks and waited patiently with his back to it (there's video).

What happened to Terry is a textbook example of why vulnerable people need to be supervised on the internet.

Trolls posing as his fans had miniature drums sent to him while still living with his elderly parents, playing a significant part in his eventually becoming homeless.

They spoofed fake love letters from an internet-famous woman he was clearly obsessed with to anyone watching his live-streams, who would then of course completely ignore his advances.

Basically trolls actively messed with Terry, watching the consequences in real-time on his live-streams, as if it were a video game. Steadily pushing him further down a spiral of self-destruction, culminating in taking his own life.

I'm saddened by what happened to Terry, and am confident he'd still be among the living had he never discovered YouTube. Live-streaming his daily life was his undoing.

> One notable example of this in our industry is Terry, who built TempleOS.

Was Terry, he committed suicide while homeless in August 2018, after being horribly antagonized and manipulated by the likes of 4chan and other internet trolls.

> very unfortunate if he has schizophrenia but bigotry is not a symptom of it

Terry Davis, the late schizophrenic author of TempleOS, had a number of racist rants and other bigoted and hate-filled videos on YouTube.

If you buy physical gold, how does one go about converting that back into liquid cash without getting fleeced? Where do you sell it? I don't get the impression that pawn shops or jewelers pay fair amounts... what am I missing?

When people recommend buying gold, do they literally mean purchasing gold bars/coins and sticking them in a safe?

No worries, I was just curious to read about it.

That's pretty smart, using de-tuned aviation engines.

But unlike what WalterBright is describing, these were appropriately reconfigured to not require high-octane fuel.