“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
Friday, June 27, 2025
Identity and the "Che Vuoi?" Question
The White Guilt-Pride Pervert's Response... "I am an ally! I am Woke! I will NEVER criticize you! And I can be PROUD, thereby, that I am different from my racist ancestors"
There are no "others" that "are the problem". You cannot answer the "che vuo?"i question for me, but as a "pervert". You think I'm a sadist, so you cry "beat me" so as to fullfill what you believe are my desires.
Is it important to only empathize with "the other", and never "the same/similar"? Like, should good people only empathize with bad people (other)... or should the good people also empathize with the good, (same) as well? (Plato, "Lysis")
The 2nd Amendment permits me to have bad people as neighbors and not have to "change them". But you just assume "they're all good" and so disarm me. Who's more tolerant? You or me?
Oh, I distinguish good and bad alright. It is how I decided not to vote for the narcissistic Felon for president. Seems you struggle distinguishing the difference. Not ne.
Until one lays out their hand, showing whether their plan or actions are either negative or positive, I remain neutral. Only after they make their moves down the path of unethical behaviors do I decide.
The FOTUS made the decision very easy as well as compelling to work against his ignorance and delusions and to never vote for him and his hateful and divisive a agenda.
In "The Ethical Engineer," Harry Harrison explores the complexities of morality and ethics in a science fiction setting, specifically on a hostile planet where survival often clashes with ethical principles. The protagonist, Jason dinAlt, confronts a world where ethical norms are dictated by local customs and survival depends on sometimes brutal choices. Harrison's novel delves into the clash between individual morality and societal norms, forcing readers to question their own ethical compass.
Organizations take on the character of their leadership. It's called conformity. The US government under tRump the FOTUS now demands 110% conformity to his ignorance and delusions.
""Why then, per Tolstoy, do the commanders and historians credit such plans with unrelated effects? Tolstoy answers this in a typical philosophical passage of War and Peace: “The human mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness,” but “the desire to find those causes is implanted in the human soul.”""
When the French Army went to war against Imperial Germany in August 1914, it did so with a military absolutely convinced of the superiority of its military traditions on the modern battlefield, of which the traditional red trousers worn by its soldiers were the most literally and figuratively obvious. Despite evidence that more inconspicuous uniforms were necessary, any proposals to change something viewed as foundational to the French Army’s legacy and heritage were fiercely opposed, despite the obvious need for a change. It was only after hundreds of thousands of casualties at the Battle of the Marne—at least some of which were attributed to the ease with which Germans could spot French infantry—that the French Army finally retired its red trousers from the battlefield
The reluctance to abandon practices borne of tradition is a strong one across military establishments, which often resist change until the realities of war force it upon them. In an era of increasingly rapid military innovation and adaptation, and renewed rivalry between the great powers, members of the American defense community should ask: What is our pantalon rouge?
So?
What is your pantalon rouge, FJ?
Are you able toadmit having ones. And try to overcome it?
It's the reliance upon technology. The red pants represented the need for the troops to display courage and elan. Troops deprived of technology act in cowardly ways. Troops with technology act in even MORE cowardly and dastardly ways. Like hiding and sniping from afar.
Every Achilles has his heel. But an Achilles has the courage to face his enemy and combat him mano a mano, so he rides up and down the lines challenging his enemies to single combat. Only the brave accept, ergo, only the "good" die young.
Grab a spear. Grab a shield. Join the phalanx. And PUSH!
Archimedes turned the Syracusians into cowards. Before then, all it took to defend the city was the presence of 2 Spartans. After then, it was cowardly inventions.
The Post-WWII Open Society Consensus is dying. It has run its' course. It has bankrupted the American Empire. It has grown BEYOND unsustainable. A new strategy is needed. The old consensus is sh*t.
As then Air Force chief of staff (and subsequent chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) General Charles Q. Brown described in 2020, the US military faces an imperative to “accelerate, change, or lose” the coming fight. This clarion call underscored the need for the Department of Defense to embrace bold, transformative thinking in its approach to innovation. Our service chiefs have since initiated significant reforms to force employment concepts, organizational structure, and the incorporation of new technologies,
And here I am... with bold new techs proposal. ;-p
//American policymakers must ensure that our words and actions—in any region, not just the Indo-Pacific—send a clear and consistent message. Deterrence only works when it’s credible.
If you'd call it stupid, I'd call you fool. Deservingly.
America no longer needs deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. Trump and the NatCons are pushing for a regional North America strategy now with its' own Iron Dome.
//America no longer needs deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. Trump and the NatCons are pushing for a regional North America strategy now with its' own Iron Dome.
//But to argue that the current system is the only possible design that can sustain those elements is to display a profound lack of the creative thinking we have amply demonstrated in so many other areas.
Moreover, the United States is unburdened by a formalized class system, granting it the ability to match citizens to positions in national service by merit alone.
This first of these groundbreaking achievements is Admiral Hyman Rickover’s naval nuclear power program. Rickover’s accomplishment was astounding. “Almost none of the necessary technology was available,” wrote one chronicler. “It all had to be created.” Yet USS Nautilus was underway on nuclear power in January 1955, five years after program start.
Western defense industry has already started acknowledging that the Chinese missile’s capability “may be greater than was thought.” This does not bode well for the West and its allies, but the Chinese would be delighted. A viral Chinese social media video mocking the downing of Rafale reflects Chinese joy over the possible success of its airborne platform over Western technology. More importantly, the better-than-expected performance of Chinese weaponry in real combat marks a milestone in Beijing’s ambitions to project power, showcase technological superiority, and become a global defense exporter—all without directly partaking in an armed conflict.
Capitalism with Asian values needs a 'market' to survive in. yes, it's very "efficient" in production. It's incapable of sustaining itself through "consumption".. It must "export" its way to profitiability. It's a mercantilist State. And the more we try and imitate it, the weaker our "market" (and us) becomes. We need a return to Adam Smith. Commerce, not Capitalism. DOMESTIC commerce.
ps -And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? - Archilochus
Equally crucial is delegation of sufficient authority and autonomy. Innovations rarely fit neatly into existing organizational lanes and approval hierarchies. Rickover’s Naval Reactors, for example, bridged the Navy and Atomic Energy Commission; and Schriever’s consolidated authority as head of the Air Force’s Western Development Division was cemented by the Gillette Procedures, an arrangement that sidelined the bulk of his Air Force chain of command. As Schriever noted, rapid innovation is unlikely to survive “interference from those nit-picking sons of bitches at the Pentagon.”
And
The 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, for instance, were not merely a failure of US intelligence to provide early warning. They also reflect a US misperception of al-Qaeda’s strategy and capabilities, and a “failure to imagine” the terrorist threat to the homeland.
There was no al Qaeda. It was a brilliant strategy to bring the Far Satan close and replicate what the mujahadin did to Russia in Afghanistan. And like idiots, we charged the cape and CREATED a unified Islamic response.
Well... you are free to open to yourself all other world...
through Google Translate.
We enriched this rather wretched repertoire with rationalizing ideas; thus appeared the oblapons, the amorous superlyubs, the floorboards - until finally every Zhivlyanin acquired a full set of fornication machines in his little sodomy. The churches, far from approving of what was happening, turned a blind eye to it, for the cross had long been put to rest on the crusades. In terms of progress, the first state of Življa, Lizantia, was in the lead, having replaced the winged predator in its coat of arms, by means of a plebiscite, with Pornopteryx, or Bloodbird. The Lizanians, basking in prosperity up to their ears, dissolutely indulged everything that was not yet completely dissolute, and the rest of the Življane followed them as far as local possibilities allowed. The motto of Lizantia was: OMNE PERMITTENDUM
//-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew Every weapon system development program in the US has become the Manhattan Project. Enough! July 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
There'd be no free lunches anymore... only sweat, blood and tears.
He first needs a reason to get one. Affirmative Action and DEI didn't offer much incentive. Neither do sub-market corporate salaries. A share in the company's profits? I'm in!
-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew btw - And not EVERYTHING needs to become a commodity. Capitalism commodified Land, Labour, Capital, and now Information. Enough! July 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Know who else was declaring such disdain in regard to Laws of History?
They ignored the laws of economics. It's the demand side, stupid. And to generate demand, you need an immense and consuming middle class with money to spend. And you don't get that by outsourcing all your nation's labour to the lowest bidder 3rd world country. Labour is only a full commoditized asset if your workers are all slaves. And slaves don't have much money to spend.
Commerce requires an "inefficient" and under-commoditized labour supply. Minimizing labour costs is a road to financial and market ruination.
What about an Empire once its' conquered everything.... and declines and starts losing its' vassals, and no longer has the mean$ to impose its agenda? Should the "agenda" change? Its' telos change?
Look, we're offering to stop overthrowing every government on the planet and making them into democracies and let you imitate us or not. We're done meddling in the governments of Ukraine, Georgia, Romania, Poland, ad infinitum.
//What about an Empire once its' conquered everything.... and declines and starts losing its' vassals, and no longer has the mean$ to impose its agenda? Should the "agenda" change? Its' telos change?
That is exact reason why I say that you boasting about but have actually none multitemporal multicultural and history understanding.
//-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew We can't afford drones once we stop sending billions to Ukraine? And what will we do with all the EOS and NRO satellites that'll need re-tasking? July 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Dunno. You say.
Do you even understqne thqt id do not understand premices of half of what you talking about. And don't care about other half.
No we lost because you shouldn't push with a rope (and don't bring up a wet-frozen rope).
We reacted to the 9/11 attach exactly as bin Laden wanted us to react. We rushed in hard-power instead of increasing the soft power that kept the Islamic masses from rushing to the defense of Islam.
Better to be thought a ball-less coward then proven so. We are the "far Satan". If you want to succeed, you'll have to work closer with the "near Satan". Just ask Israel... although they're a bit too far, yet. But then again, you have different neighbors.
We'll sell you what you need. But we no longer give it away just to see it squandered. We no longer have trillions for bombs dropped in deserts on sand dunes.
MAGA, creating problems where none exists. The specialty of bigotry.
ReplyDelete^^Pride in Neoracism^^
Delete...projecting his own hatred against his own race's past racism (and his current fear of blacks) onto others.
DeleteAnna Freud called it "Identification with the Aggressor" (an Ego defense mechanism for a Buddhist who pretends not to have an Ego).
DeleteYou loving labels.
ReplyDeleteThose who other those who do not accept bigotry are the problem. Not those who accept and encourage diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
There are no "others" that "are the problem". You cannot answer the "che vuo?"i question for me, but as a "pervert". You think I'm a sadist, so you cry "beat me" so as to fullfill what you believe are my desires.
DeleteThe only thing you can "know" is "yourself".
DeleteSo I say again, "Physician, heal thyself". I cannot heal you. I can only (with right opinion) "speculate".
DeleteJust know, you're trapped in a racial Stockholm Syndrome that projects it anti-white racism back upon itself in the form of neoracism.
Deleteaka - white guilt-pride.
DeleteYou see "analogy" when forming your "identity" when there is only "multiplicity" and "difference".
Delete//Not those who accept and encourage diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
DeleteYeah. As I communicated with one.
Said -- you have me here -- I tolerate your ideas.
To what response was "WAH??? You need to honor em!!!"
To what what my retort was: "Honor, it's something that need to be earned. And cannot be granted free of charge"
You know what response was...
You didn't get the "affirmative action" memo. ;)
DeleteIf you ask -- was I banned? :-p
DeleteYes, I was. And that is a way I became anon you know here.
We all love our confirmation bias'....
DeleteLabels, labels, labels, applied to keep your sense if superiority and bigotry well oiled.
ReplyDelete...and yours dismissive as defense against it. :)
DeleteNo defense. Simply awareness of experience stated as observation.
ReplyDeleteDo you know what cognitive bias are, dimwit? )))
DeleteYou know people who don't use words and ideas to express concepts?
ReplyDeleteAh, empathy doesn't need logos... merely the sight of 'others' in apparent pain or distress. How convenient for you...
DeleteThere can NEVER be too much empathy... even if it kills you. @@
Is it important to only empathize with "the other", and never "the same/similar"? Like, should good people only empathize with bad people (other)... or should the good people also empathize with the good, (same) as well? (Plato, "Lysis")
DeleteYour fixation on good/bad duality is your problem. For othering cannot be judged to mean just goid/bad. Fix it.
ReplyDeleteYou inability to distinguish good/bad says a lot for your character. Fix it.
DeleteThe 2nd Amendment permits me to have bad people as neighbors and not have to "change them". But you just assume "they're all good" and so disarm me. Who's more tolerant? You or me?
Delete)))))
DeleteOh, yeah. And now we came to "50 shades of grey" ))))
PS And ziz dimwit even dunno what he admitted just now. Rephrased slogan of nazis «Jedem das seine»
It has an-"other" purpose? Doesn't difference REQUIRE it? Discernment? Distinction?
DeleteLes only eats from the "Tree of Life".
Delete...like cows.
DeleteOh, I distinguish good and bad alright. It is how I decided not to vote for the narcissistic Felon for president. Seems you struggle distinguishing the difference. Not ne.
ReplyDeleteAnd?
DeleteWhat so bad happened while that "orange fellow" are on-duty?
I'm not the one with a duality-thinking problem, Polyphemus.
DeleteRight.
ReplyDeleteUntil one lays out their hand, showing whether their plan or actions are either negative or positive, I remain neutral. Only after they make their moves down the path of unethical behaviors do I decide.
The FOTUS made the decision very easy as well as compelling to work against his ignorance and delusions and to never vote for him and his hateful and divisive a agenda.
Simple. Not complicated.
Unethical behaviours don't both me (ethics=group dynamics). Immoral behaviours do. (morals=an individual's dynamic). And I can forgive both.
DeleteIn other words, "nothing's simple".
Delete//And I can forgive both.
DeleteNot when that immoral holds a knife at your throat. I hope...
Not in that moment, I suppose. If I live, maybe after... but maybe not. ;)
DeleteYap.
DeleteBut demns preach premature and absolute pardoning... and same banning.))))
Oh, it reminds to me something... Oh, yes, cringe of Abrahamic religion on "divine justice". ;-p
Zizek calls "violence" Divine Justice...
DeleteUnethical is my preference for defining behaviors that are negative to human experience.
ReplyDeleteImmoral has too many overlays carrying the hypocrisy and delusions of Abrahamic religions.
Your language game has its' grammar, mine has mine. To adhere to ethics is to be controlled by others.
DeleteThere are "negative ethics" after all... like the Ethics of Kitsch.
Delete//Unethical is my preference for defining behaviors that are negative to human experience.
DeleteWhose experience?
Bank robbers feels great, for example. Does it make him ethical?
BTW Harry Harrison have excellent novel"specialist in ethics"
In "The Ethical Engineer," Harry Harrison explores the complexities of morality and ethics in a science fiction setting, specifically on a hostile planet where survival often clashes with ethical principles. The protagonist, Jason dinAlt, confronts a world where ethical norms are dictated by local customs and survival depends on sometimes brutal choices. Harrison's novel delves into the clash between individual morality and societal norms, forcing readers to question their own ethical compass.
DeleteSounds like a hoot!
Desho!
DeleteUnethical behavoirs are fine with you?
ReplyDeleteGood to know.
Depends upon the "ethic". Not all are "good". The CIA has an ethic. Think everyone should follow it?
DeleteOrganizations take on the character of their leadership. It's called conformity. The US government under tRump the FOTUS now demands 110% conformity to his ignorance and delusions.
ReplyDeleteAnd what about times of Biden?
DeleteConformity with his mental deterioration? ;-p
No, Conformity with the FOTUS mental deterioration.
DeleteYeah. I forgot. Biden thrown into garbage bin and forgotten.)))))
Delete"Who's Bi-den??? There NEVER was any Bi-den" they blink at you. )))))
""Why then, per Tolstoy, do the commanders and historians credit such plans with unrelated effects? Tolstoy answers this in a typical philosophical passage of War and Peace: “The human mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness,” but “the desire to find those causes is implanted in the human soul.”""
ReplyDeletehttps://mwi.westpoint.edu/tolstoys-complaint-mission-command-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/
When the French Army went to war against Imperial Germany in August 1914, it did so with a military absolutely convinced of the superiority of its military traditions on the modern battlefield, of which the traditional red trousers worn by its soldiers were the most literally and figuratively obvious. Despite evidence that more inconspicuous uniforms were necessary, any proposals to change something viewed as foundational to the French Army’s legacy and heritage were fiercely opposed, despite the obvious need for a change. It was only after hundreds of thousands of casualties at the Battle of the Marne—at least some of which were attributed to the ease with which Germans could spot French infantry—that the French Army finally retired its red trousers from the battlefield
ReplyDeleteThe reluctance to abandon practices borne of tradition is a strong one across military establishments, which often resist change until the realities of war force it upon them. In an era of increasingly rapid military innovation and adaptation, and renewed rivalry between the great powers, members of the American defense community should ask: What is our pantalon rouge?
ReplyDeleteSo?
What is your pantalon rouge, FJ?
Are you able toadmit having ones. And try to overcome it?
Or. Yyou'll try to postpone it further???
It's the reliance upon technology. The red pants represented the need for the troops to display courage and elan. Troops deprived of technology act in cowardly ways. Troops with technology act in even MORE cowardly and dastardly ways. Like hiding and sniping from afar.
DeleteEvery Achilles has his heel. But an Achilles has the courage to face his enemy and combat him mano a mano, so he rides up and down the lines challenging his enemies to single combat. Only the brave accept, ergo, only the "good" die young.
Grab a spear. Grab a shield. Join the phalanx. And PUSH!
Archimedes turned the Syracusians into cowards. Before then, all it took to defend the city was the presence of 2 Spartans. After then, it was cowardly inventions.
DeleteSparta's "walls" were her men. England's walls were her ships. America's walls are her air/ space forces.
DeleteAi is a "peace" time weapon. It prevents the war instead of fighting it.
DeleteIt's Palantir implementing a new PsyOp.
Delete//It's the reliance upon technology.
DeleteBS.
That is sole your civilizational fit. Wanna throw it into trash bin? And became mediocre and obsolete???)))))
//America's walls are her air/ space forces.
DeleteBS.
//Ai is a "peace" time weapon. It prevents the war instead of fighting it.
BS again.
You are deep down in a swamp of demn propaganda.
The post-WWII Open Society consensus isn't propaganda, or Ukraine wouldn't be in the USAID created capacity-built mess its' in now.
Deletebtw - Think I could qualify for a fellowship at the US Institute for Peace? ;)
DeleteDunno what ziz words mean. Only, zizuncivilized barbarian think US grow stupid. And cowardly.
DeleteAnd... there is whole horde of us barbarians who grow in thinking that way ;-p
The Post-WWII Open Society Consensus is dying. It has run its' course. It has bankrupted the American Empire. It has grown BEYOND unsustainable. A new strategy is needed. The old consensus is sh*t.
DeleteYeah. Though USA benefited and still benefitting from it greatly...
DeleteReally? We got something for the last 20 years and $20t spent bombing sand dunes in the ME?
DeleteAs then Air Force chief of staff (and subsequent chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) General Charles Q. Brown described in 2020, the US military faces an imperative to “accelerate, change, or lose” the coming fight. This clarion call underscored the need for the Department of Defense to embrace bold, transformative thinking in its approach to innovation. Our service chiefs have since initiated significant reforms to force employment concepts, organizational structure, and the incorporation of new technologies,
ReplyDeleteAnd here I am... with bold new techs proposal. ;-p
But, who will listen. Who will hear???
There are plenty of fools at DoD. Pitch them all.
DeleteThey particularly love White Elephants.
Delete//American policymakers must ensure that our words and actions—in any region, not just the Indo-Pacific—send a clear and consistent message. Deterrence only works when it’s credible.
DeleteIf you'd call it stupid, I'd call you fool. Deservingly.
America no longer needs deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. Trump and the NatCons are pushing for a regional North America strategy now with its' own Iron Dome.
Delete...and that prevention of an over-expansion and "thinning" of deterrence is what makes it "credible".
Delete//America no longer needs deterrence in the Indo-Pacific. Trump and the NatCons are pushing for a regional North America strategy now with its' own Iron Dome.
DeleteMeans "lets admit defeat prematurely" strategy.
Yawn.
I see. America lost its balls completely.
DeleteOr, that is a way to Make America Miserable Again?)))))
The $$$'s gone. We ran out. Deal with it.
Delete)))))))
DeleteI'll leave it to grave worms...
That's probably best.
DeleteAnd yet, the United States is still employing a rank system inherited from the monarchies of the premodern Europe.
ReplyDeleteSomebody had to be in charge...
Delete//But to argue that the current system is the only possible design that can sustain those elements is to display a profound lack of the creative thinking we have amply demonstrated in so many other areas.
DeleteIf you think AI is going to turn 70 IQ soldiers into 130 IQ soldiers, keep dreaming. btw - I can also sell you a bridge in Brooklyn for cheap!
DeleteTeach them to follow orders from the higher ranks. MUCH easier.
DeleteMoreover, the United States is unburdened by a formalized class system, granting it the ability to match citizens to positions in national service by merit alone.
ReplyDeleteBu-ga-gah!!!!))))
That was before Affirmative Action and DEI.
DeleteThis first of these groundbreaking achievements is Admiral Hyman Rickover’s naval nuclear power program. Rickover’s accomplishment was astounding. “Almost none of the necessary technology was available,” wrote one chronicler. “It all had to be created.” Yet USS Nautilus was underway on nuclear power in January 1955, five years after program start.
ReplyDelete^^Fiction^^
DeleteWhat Rickover did was steal the top 1% in intelligence from the Navy, and make them the Nautilus' crew.
What's impressive to me is a Narco-Columbian's cocaine transport submarine.
DeleteWestern defense industry has already started acknowledging that the Chinese missile’s capability “may be greater than was thought.” This does not bode well for the West and its allies, but the Chinese would be delighted. A viral Chinese social media video mocking the downing of Rafale reflects Chinese joy over the possible success of its airborne platform over Western technology. More importantly, the better-than-expected performance of Chinese weaponry in real combat marks a milestone in Beijing’s ambitions to project power, showcase technological superiority, and become a global defense exporter—all without directly partaking in an armed conflict.
ReplyDeleteAnd not put you on your knees?
On our knees where? Over China? THAT is the point. We don't need to control China's airspace. Only our own.
DeleteI said it about idea that chinese would do/like to do with you oonly what you do -- overcome you economically.
DeleteYawn.
And they want you kneeling. To repent for your previous missdeeds.
DeleteThey can bypass 1,000% tariffs? Who knew?
DeleteWithout the America market, the Chinese economy collapses. Europe has no money for Chinese products.
:P
DeleteForgot bootleggers case?
DeleteWe can't afford drones once we stop sending billions to Ukraine? And what will we do with all the EOS and NRO satellites that'll need re-tasking?
DeleteChina rising. America declining.
ReplyDeleteThe East is on the move. The west is in retreat and showing signs of fracturing.
Authoritarianism rising. Democracy declining.
The path layed post WW II by the allies and pursued every since is exactly why the world is in such a deluded mess today.
And getting worse. Minut by minute, day by day, week by week, month by month, and year by year....
There is no "rising" and no "decline". Personless. Only people who playing pussies and submitting to other people that decided to play dicks. ;-p
DeleteAnd you are pussy. You personally. Admit it.;-p
Capitalism with Asian values needs a 'market' to survive in. yes, it's very "efficient" in production. It's incapable of sustaining itself through "consumption".. It must "export" its way to profitiability. It's a mercantilist State. And the more we try and imitate it, the weaker our "market" (and us) becomes. We need a return to Adam Smith. Commerce, not Capitalism. DOMESTIC commerce.
Delete...and that begins with domestic manufacturing, not cheap imports.
Deletebtw - And not EVERYTHING needs to become a commodity. Capitalism commodified Land, Labour, Capital, and now Information. Enough!
DeleteWe need commerce, not capitalism. We don't need to live on the Avenue of Sphinxes at Karnak shuttling back and forth like Kamutef.
Delete:P
DeleteNow learn some sacred geometry and stay out of Montu!
Deleteps -And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? - Archilochus
DeleteThere only one way out of death camp -- as a smoke.
DeleteYawn.
Molon labe!
DeleteYeah. Against chinese drones with human-killing AI.
DeleteYawn.
Will they float the drones over on balloons?
DeleteOnes you will not dare to shot down?
DeleteBiden... what a joke!
DeleteEqually crucial is delegation of sufficient authority and autonomy. Innovations rarely fit neatly into existing organizational lanes and approval hierarchies. Rickover’s Naval Reactors, for example, bridged the Navy and Atomic Energy Commission; and Schriever’s consolidated authority as head of the Air Force’s Western Development Division was cemented by the Gillette Procedures, an arrangement that sidelined the bulk of his Air Force chain of command. As Schriever noted, rapid innovation is unlikely to survive “interference from those nit-picking sons of bitches at the Pentagon.”
ReplyDeleteAnd
The 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, for instance, were not merely a failure of US intelligence to provide early warning. They also reflect a US misperception of al-Qaeda’s strategy and capabilities, and a “failure to imagine” the terrorist threat to the homeland.
There was no al Qaeda. It was a brilliant strategy to bring the Far Satan close and replicate what the mujahadin did to Russia in Afghanistan. And like idiots, we charged the cape and CREATED a unified Islamic response.
DeleteEvery weapon system development program in the US has become the Manhattan Project. Enough!
DeleteSo. See.
ReplyDeleteThat is your problem too.
Failure to imagine.™
No. Your failure is an OVERACTIVE imagination.
DeletePft!))))
DeleteSaid dinosaur to a mammal. ;-p
...and now a bird.
DeleteYeah... chicken. ;-p
DeleteTurkey was almost our national bird. :)
DeleteYeah... pornopterix still waiting (ref to Lem)
DeleteGoogle found nothing... :(
DeleteWell... you are free to open to yourself all other world...
Deletethrough Google Translate.
We enriched this rather wretched repertoire with rationalizing ideas; thus appeared the oblapons, the amorous superlyubs, the floorboards - until finally every Zhivlyanin acquired a full set of fornication machines in his little sodomy. The churches, far from approving of what was happening, turned a blind eye to it, for the cross had long been put to rest on the crusades. In terms of progress, the first state of Življa, Lizantia, was in the lead, having replaced the winged predator in its coat of arms, by means of a plebiscite, with Pornopteryx, or Bloodbird. The Lizanians, basking in prosperity up to their ears, dissolutely indulged everything that was not yet completely dissolute, and the rest of the Življane followed them as far as local possibilities allowed. The motto of Lizantia was: OMNE PERMITTENDUM
That really is modern America!
DeleteJust like Rome in The Satyricon. Empire past its' peak.
Delete//-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
ReplyDeleteEvery weapon system development program in the US has become the Manhattan Project. Enough!
July 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
There'd be no free lunches anymore... only sweat, blood and tears.
Enter the Prosumer. Bye-Bye University Post-Grads. :)
DeleteHah.
DeleteModern worker need to have even better education. ;-p
He can't use AI?
DeleteHe first needs a reason to get one. Affirmative Action and DEI didn't offer much incentive. Neither do sub-market corporate salaries. A share in the company's profits? I'm in!
Are you ready to go to dentist "AI said to me that your teeth need to be removed.One by one. Without anastetic. So, let's start"????
DeleteIs it safe?
Delete-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
ReplyDeletebtw - And not EVERYTHING needs to become a commodity. Capitalism commodified Land, Labour, Capital, and now Information. Enough!
July 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Know who else was declaring such disdain in regard to Laws of History?
Soviet Union.
They ignored the laws of economics. It's the demand side, stupid. And to generate demand, you need an immense and consuming middle class with money to spend. And you don't get that by outsourcing all your nation's labour to the lowest bidder 3rd world country. Labour is only a full commoditized asset if your workers are all slaves. And slaves don't have much money to spend.
DeleteCommerce requires an "inefficient" and under-commoditized labour supply. Minimizing labour costs is a road to financial and market ruination.
And ignoring too.
DeleteEconomy of scale -- there only one way economy can grow -- into global Earth market (and beyond ;-)
Are you really trying to pitch aggregate efficiencies to me? To ME?
DeleteWelcome to Chiron Beta Prime!
Still thinking that my words have any agenda behind? ;-p
DeleteYour silence on background speaks volumes. Everyone has an agenda. Even me (nothing nefarious though).
DeleteWe all have telos. Because we are teleological devices.
DeleteAgenda... its something different.
What about an Empire once its' conquered everything.... and declines and starts losing its' vassals, and no longer has the mean$ to impose its agenda? Should the "agenda" change? Its' telos change?
DeleteWanna follow it into dustbin of history? Do as you please...
ReplyDeleteLet China follow the USSR. NMP.
DeleteWell... YOU dragged em from that path...
DeleteSame as Japan before. Commander Perry, remember?
Japanese DO remember.
We're under no obligation to save the world.
DeleteLook, we're offering to stop overthrowing every government on the planet and making them into democracies and let you imitate us or not. We're done meddling in the governments of Ukraine, Georgia, Romania, Poland, ad infinitum.
The Empire is dead, long live the empire!
Delete;-p
ReplyDelete//Without the America market, the Chinese economy collapses. Europe has no money for Chinese produc
ReplyDeleteYet more reasons to destroy you prematurely
They'd better act fast before we turn into Wakanda.
Delete//Really? We got something for the last 20 years and $20t spent bombing sand dunes in the ME?
ReplyDeleteHow you using that benefits... that's another story.
But your addiction to being lucky and prosperous...
America was prosperous well before we started being dragged into all of Europe's wars.
DeleteYou know what they say about throwing good money after bad...
Delete...the sunk cost fallacy.
Delete//America was prosperous well before we started being dragged into all of Europe's wars.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Like that is not because of eternal struggle between brits and french, because of which you ever existas independent country...;-p
The debt's been repaid, in spades. WWI and II.
DeleteBirth debt cannot be paid off... by obvious reason.
Delete...because there is none. Parents goal/telos is to make their children INdependent.
DeleteThe childrens debt is to have to watch them die.
DeleteEurope could still do what America did. But it won't. It's too proud and stuck in its' ways. It would rather die.
DeleteSorry ma, its' time to pull the plug...
Delete//If we truly want to strengthen Europe, the first step is not to rearm. It is to forge the democratic union
DeleteGood must be with iron fists.
Otherwise, what good it is???
The volunteer is 2x as productive as the slave.
DeleteAnd. How it relates??? :-/
DeleteAlways put a velvet glove over your iron fist. It pays dividends.
Delete//We're under no obligation to save the world.
ReplyDeleteIncluding North America? ;-p
Certainly not all of it.
DeleteI hate Tim Horton's coffee! ;)
DeleteThat is loaded sail -- buy it all, or get lost. No cherrypicking allowed. ;-p
DeleteWestern Canada already is talking secession... and we LIKE volunteers. :)
Delete//...because there is none. Parents goal/telos is to make their children INdependent.
ReplyDeleteIt's just your local and barbarously uncivilized bad-bad--bad-wrong customs. ;-p
Yup! But do you really want your kids stealing your Social Security checks and locking you in the basement?
DeleteWAT zat is?
DeleteDigging up their inheritance and locking you in the root cellar?
DeleteNo pensioners in Ukraine?
Delete//What about an Empire once its' conquered everything.... and declines and starts losing its' vassals, and no longer has the mean$ to impose its agenda? Should the "agenda" change? Its' telos change?
ReplyDeleteThat is exact reason why I say that you boasting about but have actually none multitemporal multicultural and history understanding.
Yawn.
What, we should collapse like Rome, or build walls like Constantinople?
DeleteVery first lesson of History... is that nobody learn from history lessons. (tiredly)
DeleteConstantinople must have learned something, they lasted way longer than Rome.
DeleteWhatever. No empire can pass test of time.
DeleteOnly ethnic nation. Can transform. And resurface.
Exactly.
DeleteInter-marriage. Loving v. Virginia.
Delete//-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew
ReplyDeleteWe can't afford drones once we stop sending billions to Ukraine? And what will we do with all the EOS and NRO satellites that'll need re-tasking?
July 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Dunno. You say.
Do you even understqne thqt id do not understand premices of half of what you talking about.
And don't care about other half.
So much for "having agenda",my ass. Yawn
"Come, American... fight Russia for us. Your soft-power tactics failed. Use your hard power!"
DeleteMe- "we'll save the hard power when they come for us... molon labe".
Osama sucked us in with 9/11. He won the molon labe fight.
Look to Europe for your salvation. They will supply your molon labe fight.
Delete...for you are the new Balkans.
Delete...and the Dnieper is the edge.
Delete//"Come, American... fight Russia for us. Your soft-power tactics failed. Use your hard power!"
ReplyDelete//Me- "we'll save the hard power when they come for us... molon labe".
When Rome fell???
When one of its legions was defeated at distant outposts?
No.
That happened when romans (and then their successors visantia) allowed that barbarians to come and nail their shield to a capitol gates. ;-p
They weren't over-extended with Empire?
DeleteWhy weren't those legions waiting to defend Rome at the Rubicon?
Delete???
DeleteExactly, they were defending Gaul, or some other meaningless province of the empire.
Delete//Osama sucked us in with 9/11. He won the molon labe fight.
ReplyDeleteThat's your propaganda BS.
All other world sees it as your defeat and reason you lost your balls.
Yawn.
No we lost because you shouldn't push with a rope (and don't bring up a wet-frozen rope).
DeleteWe reacted to the 9/11 attach exactly as bin Laden wanted us to react. We rushed in hard-power instead of increasing the soft power that kept the Islamic masses from rushing to the defense of Islam.
Hamlet vs. Ophelia. Station 11.
DeleteWhatever.
DeleteIt changes nothing.
And especially that fact that whole world sees you as ball less cowards now.
At least we sing better... ;)
DeleteYour propaganda again? (or, yet one verse from Lem)
DeleteBetter to be thought a ball-less coward then proven so. We are the "far Satan". If you want to succeed, you'll have to work closer with the "near Satan". Just ask Israel... although they're a bit too far, yet. But then again, you have different neighbors.
DeleteAmerica - The arsenal of democracy.
We'll sell you what you need. But we no longer give it away just to see it squandered. We no longer have trillions for bombs dropped in deserts on sand dunes.
DeleteThrough LendLease? ;-p. )))
DeleteWe'll need to do a credit check first...
DeleteBiden's joke. Again.)))
ReplyDelete