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Cyberpunk train robberies.

Why not?

The economy is crashing, we'll just return to our Wild West roots, with a modern twist.

Not robberies of people, of course, the vast majority of American rail transit is logistics, moving stuff.

Why rip the copper wires out of an abandoned house or office when you could just get some guys with pickup trucks and get it from the source?

There isn't.

Most of the job listings are just fake.

The rest are nepotism hires, or a 'who can grovel and impress a narcissist the most' contests.

Its time to invent or participate in an alternate or parellel economy, the 'real' one does not work.

Yeah, turns out the SMOC, the Antarctic version of the AMOC... altogether, the global system of how heat, nutrients, salt, carbon how they all flow through the world's oceans?

Yeah, the SMOC collapsed a decade ago.

We didn't notice till literally a few days ago.

Climate is doomed, we can't fix the oceans.

We already blew through the 1.5C target a couple years ago now.

Media just doesn't talk about it anymore.

Worse climate = increased international tensions, everything is harder for everyone, migration becomes necessary for survival from really badly hit places, but no one will want to let them all in.

In a decade, 1/3 of the US will be uninsurable, no home insurance, too many disasters.

Trump's insane policies are going to cause a famine if he doesn't reverse course on ICE raids, and cuts to medicare, food stamps, section 8, will kill millions.

Good luck

I would count myself in that group.

Can't tell you how many times I've personally heard Evangelicals justify ... lack of healthcare, lack of addressing climate change, outright militarism...

...all comes back to their archaic worldview.

Sometimes they'll directly quote scripture in their justification.

The latest meme going around the Evangelical tele/video/live stream preachers is literally 'empathy is a sin'.

They're all backwards, and I do find it amusing that 'many would be fooled, and worship the Beast' is kind of actually happening, at least allegorically.

They are damnable hyprocrites by their own logic, and they'd rather burn down the world than admit they might be wrong about something.

Well what is special is... we, as a species, basically just invented (in the last 10 years or so) the ability to measure gravitational waves, that is to say, fluctuations in the fabric of spacetime itself, that reverberate outward from gravitationally extreme events such as a black hole merger.

Further... I am fairly sure this is the first time we have been able to 'view' or 'see' or 'witness' a blackhole merger with such gravitational wave detecting technology.

So... imagine being the first person to look at the sun with a properly bandwidth blocking lense or system, such that you can see in much more detail the surface, now you can see coronal loops.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal_loop

Similar to that, being able to 'view' a black hole merger with our new gravity wave 'lenses' gives us a whole bunch of useful information we did not have before.

That and uh, as far as I know, black hole mergers are just not very common, in general.

But... we really wouldn't know that for sure, on account of being... you know, black holes, kinda hard to see directly, prior to gravity wave detectors, and other very recently developed imaging techniques, we had to figure out they existed by calculating how light bends around them before it gets to us, and then work backwards to figure out where they are, or just 'huh, a bunch of stuff seems to be orbiting around... nothing?'

We have not been able to directly observe them until fairly recently, even just as far back as the 90s, when I was a kid, a fair amount of astrophysicists were still in the 'they're just theoretical and we can't actually definitively prove they exist' camp.

Like, it wasn't untill 2018 that we had the first actual direct image of a blackhole, Messier 87's supermassive blackhole.

Yep, the asked question was vague.

I can however guarnatee you that every single Evangelical American Christian that answered 'yes' believes in an apocalyptic end times scenario, as well as many most who answered 'no'.

They still believe in some form of the theology of it, they just don't think it is currently happening.

Source on these claims is me, grew up in an Evangelical household, largely Evangelical community, I've since deconverted... had to go no contact with my family over this and other insane things they do/believe.

Anyway, yes I am curious as to what those 9% of atheists and the agnostics mean by that... but it could be... climate change is gonna kill most or all of us, a nuclear war is probably gonna happen, hell maybe the Zeta Reticulans are currently massing their invasion fleet on the dark side of the moon.

???

More likely.

But there is more than one way to prevent nuclear proliferation.

You can just bomb the shit out of them, as an ally of their already nuclear armed neighbor and adversary, which only encourages them to keep trying to make nukes to be able to do a MAD standoff...

Or you could negoiate with them, maybe make some kind of mutual agreement whereby if they abide by it, only pursue far less enriched nuclesr materials for power generation, allow in IAEA inspectors regularly, and they get some sanctions removed from them.

You know, like that thing Obama did, that Trump then later reneged on, entirely predictably creating the situation we are now in.

We could always stop supporting the racist, rogue, nuclear armed, apartheid ethnonationalist state currently conducting a genocide.

That might help to ease tensions as well.

Then we could maybe even do another deal with Iran!

Our at the very least, stop assasinating all Iran's negotiators, giving Israel the intel to carry out assasinations that are too 'icky' for us to do ourselves (officially).

... but I already covered all this in my reply to you a month ago, I guess you just don't ingest or process information that you don't like?

...

Anyway, could you please describe your apparently irreligious end times belief?

I am genuinely curious as to how that ... works, or makes sense.

What is 'the end times' to you, what does that mean?

Assuming you mean 'how massive':

... roughly 4.3 million solar masses, 4.3 million of our Sun.

They don't call them 'supermassive blackholes' for nothing, lol.

The US is unarguably less meritocratic than the amalgamated EU by every possible metric.... unless your conception of a 'meritocracy' is 'you have to be a genius to even stand a chance at doing better than your parents, otherwise, all that matters is how much wealth you were born into.'

...

Class mobility is worse in the US.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/social-mobility-by-country

Less people can actually manage to do better than their parents in the US than the EU (broadly, or aggregated and then adjusted per capita).

Income inequality is worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient

The EU is thus less hierarchichal, stratified.

You are also not considering that the aggregated EU has better life expectancy, better levels of functional literacy and lower infant mortality than the US, ie, the 'shared environment' is at a higher baseline.

Not to mention the US's political systems have far, far more corruption by way of corporations and the wealthy being allowed to spend infinite money to lobby and advertise and propogandize for their preferred laws and policies.

Look up the Citizens United cass if you've never heard of if, or maybe observe the now regular, astounding and blatantly corrupt deals and grifts the current fascist regime does on a regular basis.

Or, if you prefer an academic source:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

Thats over a decade old now, its only gotten worse.

...

The conclusions you are reaching fly in the face of obvious, exceptionally well documented facts.

You are wrong.

'God Emperor Trump' was a joke untill it wasn't.

Tends to be how the worldview of fascists evolve:

I'm just joking bro!

(They were in fact, not joking)

Oh jesus christ...

sigh

No.

No, it means that that particular denomination, that particular church or family of churches has had a historically super majority black membership.

Congregations like this are very common in the US south.

As a result of slavery and racism leading to blacks being forced out of many white congregations, black christians started their own churches.

Like uh, less Michael Jackson, more Martin Luther King Jr.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Christian_Leadership_Conference

Throw in about 125 years of majority black churches prior to the SCLC's founding in the 1950s, and yeah, there is a whole history of churches with their roots in being formed as places of worship that wouldn't threaten to lynch an attendee for being the 'wrong' skin color.

Its the roughly the same thing with a 'historically black' college or university: many of those were founded because other colleges were historically racist, would not allow black americans to attend, so they made their own colleges.

How do you define 'the end times'?

Also, it is worth noting that the last time I had an interaction with you on lemmy, it was you justifying the US bombing Iran's nuclear sites.

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/19286517

And then me explaining to you how utterly uninformed your stance on that is.

So anyway... you are an ... irreligious Zionist who also believes in 'the end times'?

???

You seem to be actively advocating for ratcheting up international tensions, advocating for actions that make nuclear proliferation and thus a potential nuclear exhange between countries / nuclear terrorism... more likely.

You do love the bomb, after all.

Maybe you could try not having a 'secular', self-fulfilling, accelerationist style apocalyptic worldview?

Its even more ludicrous than that.

Not only are there a significant amount of American Christians who... believe that Trump is a / one of the AntiChrists / Beasts from Revelation...

I have actually met some who believe that, and still vote for him.

Much of American Christianity is a literal apocalyptic death cult.

Many Christian Zionists are actively antisemitic, yet at the same time, vehemently support Israel... because they believe in some rough variation of the plot line from the 'Left Behind' books/movies.

Israel has to be wiped out or under serious threat of that for their preferred version of the apocalypse to take place, and they cynically support everything that makes that more likely to occur... so that Jesus can come back.

1I don't really know why <> was chosen as the old school 'not equal' for the SQL syntax... I just know it by way of having been working with/in various forms of SQL for... 20+ years?

If I had to guess, it may have something to do with keeping the character set down to a bare minimum.

SQL is fucking old, its been improved and modified and evolved over the years, but, it was first invented and formalized back in 1973, when you still had computer (storage) memory as basically giant spools of magnetic tape, personal computers didn't really exist yet, having 8 KiloBytes of RAM would have been considered astoundingly powerful, years ahead of its time.

Thats uh, 0.0000076294 GigaBytes of RAM, or I think about 512x less than what a basic Nintendo 64 had.

Most American Protestants do believe in it.

Roughly 40% of Americans believe we are currently living in the End Times, ie, the Rapture could happen at any moment.

https://baptistnews.com/article/4-in-10-americans-believe-we-are-living-in-the-end-times/

You may also note the Baptist author of this article is suprised these numbers are not higher.

Those things, and needing to prop up the commercial realestate market.

Elon's Boca Chica launch facility is a nightmare of violating all kinds of environmental and safety regulations, going way beyond the scope of what it was originally permitted and cleared for.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=-BavKuMDed0&list=PL-eVf9RWeoWEfSK9mjKe4E67IK1-1vZxB&index=24

This is from 3+ years ago now, and most of the shit brought up here got poo-poo'd online by ravenous Musk sycophants, and seems to have just led to nothing actually happening in terms of some kind of a lawsuit or punishment for Musk or SpaceX...

... and of course, its all only gotten worse with more time.

SpaceX launches showering debris over the Caribbean, latest rocket being prepped to be the next IFT launch just fucking detonated while being fueled, damaged much of the rest of the complex... and the complex itself is now a bunch of very densely packed storage tanks, which easily could have also all blown up if that most recent on pad explosion played out just a bit differently, or maybe a landing capture/catch attempt goes wrong.

Musk's whole... reason for having the chopsticks catch system is that he doesn't want to spring for a larger launch facility with things safely spaced out, he doesn't wanna pay for something akin to the giant NASA crawler vehicle that moves rockets something like a mile or so from the VAB to the actual launch/fueling site at Cape Canaveral.

There's no actual compelling reason for the lower stage, Booster, to not just have landing legs, like the Falcons. Its not going to get 'refurb, refly' times to even within two orders of magnitude of what he's shooting for. The fastest ever turn around time on a Falcon is like, 3ish weeks... and he's talking about launching multiple Starship+Boosters in a single day now.

To date, no Starship nor Booster has ever been re-used without suffering a catastrophic loss on that re-use. He is no where near a re-usable fleet of these things.

Err, well, there is actually a real reason for the chopsticks, and all the rest of his nonsense: His engines aren't as powerful or reliable or fuel efficient as he said they were for years.

But he can't actually directly say that or else SpaceX probably goes bankrupt or at best gets pared down to just running Falcons.

He recently revised Starship+Booster down to only being capable of 50 tons to LEO, not the long touted 100 tons.

He then proceeded to have ... 2, 3? Catastrophic failures on 'test' launches where the claim is that they're being done for the 'data', when the obvious fact is that no almost no useful data of any kind is being gained from all this.

Whats going on is quality control sucks, Musk/SpaceX have no idea how to actually properly assemble these things, oh right and the design is fundamentally flawed, but its fine, because Starship 2 and 3 are gonna come out... some time later.

You know, like how Roadster v2 is gonna come out any day now, for the past decade, how all Tesla cars will suddenly become perfectly fully autonomous, any day now, for the last decade.

From the article:

Kevin Bagnall, a lawyer representing Musk’s rocket company SpaceX, also wrote a letter to Paxton’s office arguing the emails should be kept secret. He cited one main reason: They contain “commercial information whose disclosure would cause SpaceX substantial competitive harm.”

Most of the rest of Bagnall’s letter, which further explained SpaceX’s argument, was redacted.

Musk and representatives for his companies did not respond to requests for comment for this story.

imo, Abbot and Musk are and have been colluding to maunever around SpaceX's frequent and flagrant violations, to get investigations stalled, to get authorizations rubber stamped... so they communicate outside official channels to pull this off.

=D

The uber (edit: eldritch?) baby boomer steals his literal participation trophy, to make everything all about him, while angrily rejecting all criticism and calls for accountability for his many crimes.

He really is the perfect boomer.

Run them in a test sandbox environment, maybe run some network analytics to see if weird outbound or inbound calls start getting made... hope they are not more clever than your sandbox environment.

For APKs specifically... official support for Hypatia from the original team ended last year, but a 'MaintainTeam Organization' seems to be attempting to pick up the slack, and keep updating with new malware signatures.

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.maintainteam.hypatia

https://github.com/MaintainTeam/Hypatia

... not sure if its... actually getting regular updates though.

EDIT: derp, yeah

Also, as upstroke says, do a hash comparison from the actual proper source to verify you aren't getting a malformed or spoof version of whatever APK.