villakram

On 21/02/2023 at 05:39, HKP90 said:

With respect to the people of East Palestine, Ohio, who gives a s**t about East Palestine, Ohio when the pre-eminant ideological conflict of the 21st Century is playing out in Ukraine.

Smacks of Karens and some people who haven't been given any attention for five minutes.

Childish.

There are a lot of years still to go in this wee century for such a grand statement. 

Nice of the EPA to finally step in and take control of the mess in Ohio.

The Cinci water authority diverted to its back-up water intake over the weekend as it does not know what is in the Ohio river now. 

Hopefully the EPA gold toilet seat clean-up this mess and bankrupt that rail company. A midwest PG&E.

sneaky aliens dumping her just down the way, currents and such... lol. Happy balloon hunting.

4 hours ago, Paddywhack said:

I’m not saying my 3 year old is thick, but whenever he’s thirsty he asks his 11 month old brother for a drink.

training for later life!

10 hours ago, sidcow said:

 

Waiting for @villakram 's verdict on this with baited breath. 

Well, they called the Rooskies and told/warned them he was visiting... so very brave, very very brave.

1 hour ago, TheAuthority said:

A white middle aged male was the shooter? Wow that's surprising.

It's the Mexicans and immigrants that are the problem with society over here! Get rid of them and we wouldn't see any of this kind of thing.

Interpreting everything through a racist lens is not always helpful.

The gun lobby and american social history are a special mix.

Awesome info. coming out about how Biden apparently ordered the shooting down of hobby balloons to demonstrate strength. Better than a murdering a car full of civilian I suppose. 

1 minute ago, tinker said:

AI's real danger is how it learns to influence humans to believe they are forming their own opinions when really they are being influenced by AI. It's quite possible to influence whole electorates to vote certain ways.

I have read my own results from a physiological profiling test and was shocked out how accurate it was in reading my personality, my likes and dislikes , weakness and strengths. The questionnaire seemed pretty harmless roughly 50 multiple choice type questions. The result was about 500 words profiling my personality,  friends I had for 20 years wouldn't have been that accurate with my personality.

As per usual our politicians will follow the developments and quite possibly close the door once the horse has bolted.

Now think how many of those questions you answer inadvertently online via your navigation patterns, click through time as a function of time of day, day of week, big life events etc., etc. Combine this with publicly for sale info. about addresses, credit score, education etc. 

Bet most of us are close to answering those 50 questions. 

Hi digital me!

23 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

There's a take here on how difficult it is for people to accept AI in relation to their own health, even when it's proven to outperform Doctors.

https://hbr.org/2019/10/ai-can-outperform-doctors-so-why-dont-patients-trust-it

 

The issue is mostly legal. An algorithm produced by AI corp promising 90% efficiency at detecting stress fractures in MRI imaging (for example), is going to need some time to accumulate real world data to have a real world 90% number to throw at the 10% and then it better not include anyone in the 10% who a human would have spotted (very very hard).

As an aid, these are being deployed now. We are some time from these pattern recognition algo's being general.

18 hours ago, nick76 said:

Jim Jordan spouting off again trying to blame Biden yet history and current action   Shows his true colours again, which is nothing new…

 

Bidens EPA authorized what amounted to chemical warfare on US citizens. I guess he wanted to get near par with Obama after his assault on the Gulf of Mexico during his presidency.

Water contamination has been detected 60miles away, while the airborn portion of the deliberate burning has spread who knows where. Mostly easterly winds, so thankfully blowing away from my direction, I guess. A plethora of rail and EPA officials should see prison time for this. However, similar to Flint, what happens will do so on the go slow as the people most directly affected are not wealthy.

Facebook and Instagram re-instate former president Donald Trump. 

Any members if such platforms are very entitled to whatever direction this goes.

Meanwhile rep from Minnesotaaaaa has been assaulted in her office in D.C. They clearly need a bigger fence as the security service is clearly a little lacking.

Musk comparing our current times to Deus Ex.

Seymour Hersh with a story showing direct US involvement in Nordstream 2 attack. The WH has come out and said that this story is utterly false, so QED 

7 hours ago, fruitvilla said:

Just as an aside ... although many consider hydrogen as a fuel source, it is really more of an energy storage and transport medium.

Incidentally, hydrogen burns with a clean/transparent flame, what we are likely seeing is contaminants carbonizing in the flames.

Exactly... pretty cool to watch. It's a pity no IR cam data was taken during the peak burn. I believe they had to wait until that (or some similar specific H leak/burn detector) arrived to try and move the wreck.

First time I'd seen one of these on a public road with the Li battery fires providing the most interest in recent years.

Don't dismiss H based power as the requirements for initial engine turnover on most mechanical equipment and big rigs etc., presents a real problem for batteries. Nevermind how their ongoing range issues render them a problem in every state in the north US/EU for 2-4 months of the year. Much more a problem in the US due to the shear size of the place.

US sanctions impacting efforts on one side of an arbitrary line in the ground. One would hope some exemptions can be rapidly granted.

These type of balloons are commonly used to test prototype detector systems prior to space flight qualification and sometimes for experiments outright. In NASA land it is a little on the common side for these things to spring a leak and for an experiment that needed 10/20/60/90 days of flight data to end prematurely with the balloon coming down to the ground in who knows where on a slow/gentle timescale. Once of the reason for this was that the balloons were hand stitched and various other silliness as the balloon material is so lightweight and precious on the ground, and science money is limited vs DoD land.

Deliberately downing this slowly while in flight is much harder as the tear you would want (a single bullet etc might do the trick) is hard to get doing when the thing is at 70k feet. Among other things the balloon is travelling on the slow side whereas as mechanical things tend to be travelling quite fast and have never had any need for arming... a gun port opening would likely induce turbulence that would rip a supersonic airframe to shreds. 

They. could have tried firing missiles and detonating them far away and above it such that a piece of debris might fall on the balloon. They'd look right foolish though given how this was being recorded by the public. 

4 minutes ago, bickster said:

All beginning to make sense now...

The bruhaha developing over here regarding this is quite something. That the national (political)psyche can be bruised so easily must be so entertaining for many other nations. 

7 hours ago, Demitri_C said:

Off topic but aliens exist in my opinion. Been a lot of unexplained abductions/disappearances with ufos

As a legal Alien, I can confirm this.

Hydrogen as a fuel source is a burgeoning thing. The freeway near me was closed yesterday evening as a truck hauling some Hydrogen was hit by another car and caught fire. Anyway, a nice video of a H fire in progress in the embedded vid (fwd to 1:35 mark).

https://abc6onyourside.com/news/local/truck-carrying-hydrogen-fuel-explodes-in-delaware-county-parts-of-us-23-closed-orange-road-home-road-vehicle-crash-delaware-county-sheriff-ohio-state-highway-patrol

"According to the Ohio State Highway Patrol, a car collided with the truck in an intersection. Officials said the truck was carrying 420 kilograms of hydrogen. The hydrogen tanks in the trailer of the truck ignited and it caught fire, which damaged nearby traffic signals and utility lines."

It was obvious there had been an accident this morn (foam residue and orange barrels everywhere), but no evidence for anything out of the ordinary.

I'm not saying it was aliens, but...

About the only good thing that can be said.... at least it wasn't 3-2,  still have nightmares about that game.

The musings that this might be a prem league effort to neuter any effort at regulation from government by demonstrating how effective they are at that oh so good for business self-regulation.... are interesting.

Lots of vids doing the rounds on Twitter etc. showing 5-8 story buildings pancaking during daylight hours. Scary stuff.

Until they set up/endow another tax-exempt type foundation.

First Roswell, now this.