u/raltoid — Raltoid

My favorite part is how people in the public eye who present end-of-days predictions always have some weird excuse after the fact. As was beautifully parodied in Parks and Rec.

In this case there have been impersonators, and the original author has no connection to a lot of the newer stuff. She is not trying to cash in or play things up, which is a wonderful contrast to a lot of people who claim to be doomsday predictors.

>A 1999 comic book by manga artist Ryo Tatsuki has been fuelling these rumours. In a new edition released in 2021, she claimed the next big earthquake would strike on 5 July this year.

It's called "The Future I Saw", with diary entries and is "based on a dream". One of the covers had a big disaster happening in 2011. That's the year Fukushima was hit with a tsunami.

A lot of superstition has arisen around it, causing tourism to drop off recently. And flights from Hong Kong to Japan have been massively reduced, and one airline even halted their flights there as of a week ago.

The only reason it keeps popping up has to be that everyone is afraid to tell them: "Forcing encryption with a known backdoor, means no more online transactions".

No more online shopping, streaming, stock trading/investing, etc. Everyone from their grandchildren to their boss would be yelling at them if they knew that those things would be at stake as well.

Yeah, he seems narcissistic enough that he really doesn't think there would be consequences.

Hopefully there are other people around him who doesn't want the rest of the world aiming everything they have at them.

I seriously applaud whoever managed to push that through.

I don't support anything they do, but that is top tier comedy.

We still miss weaponstraffic.com

Probably because anyone running that would be suicided by a three letter agency pretty quick.

Long story short: The Finnish defence ministry run background checks on anyone from outside the EU and EEA if they're trying to buy property. They regularly block Russians from buying properties. And this was suspected as another attempt, through a proxy.

The buyer didn't speak Finnish or English, has basically no connection to Finland, inconsistent buisness plan, has potential connections to Russia and wanted to buy a petrol station in eastern Finland, in an area that's about to get a new NATO base.

Meanwhile, most international media:

>Why do you hate people *only* because of their religion/ethinicity!?!!?!!=)!)=!(/GCUV/UO&Vuvfb38hndjdndnds

>Companies like Pornhub actually have strick controls to actually protect children with their anti-CP policies.

To be fair, that's a more recent thing. It had some terrible content in the past. Then around 2020 that got some publicity so Visa, Mastercard and Discover all threatened blacklist them if they didn't start moderating properly.

Although your point still stands, the whole "Wont somebody think of the children!?!11" lamentation is a dead giveaway. And I'm sad that more people don't realize.

He's not going to announce that he had backup organs made for himself.

Why are all the comments defending him having money? The article has nothing about that, and the "luxury" part of the article isn't about his wealth. It's about a fancy resort not being secure. And "safari lodge" does not mean "hunting lodge"

Are there tons of hidden comments I'm missing? Are people preemptively assuming comments will complain? Or is everyone's reading comprehension *that* bad?

Russia uses Tu-95's to launch cruise missiles. This is from late March:

It was later revealed that 11 Tu-95MS bombers fired 29 cruise missiles of the Kh-101/Kh-555 type at Ukraine.

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/tu-95-bomber-same-age-as-putin-used-in-today-1711015673.html

Most major government and similar control organs around the world regularly try to do this, have for decades.

And as it nears finalization, someone finally manages to convince them it's not possible. Usually involving some kind of lock analogy, master keys, and how it's impossible make a lockpick-proof one that you can still open. (Literally the only way to make a lock that can't be be picked non-destructively, is to seal it with something like welding, epoxy, etc. Because if you can use a key, it can be picked, full stop. There is no "but what about ...". Same thing with encryption, if there is a backdoor, it *will* be found. )

This is incredible. How do hate-filled people like these sleep at night?

The same way most hateful people do: They tell themselves over and over that "everyone" agrees with them.

No, he does. It's just that most of the schools will have a single facility, which is an empty office in a business park.

It's very simple: Either you were not aware that both countries target children and hospitals. Or you are okay with one of the countries doing that, but not the other.

So are you ignorant, or a monster?

Yeah, it sounds like they're trying to downplay how they disimissed the tech as "outdated" during design and construction.

"It's about covrage", "It's about reach, not public opinion", etc....

It's not far off from the data on public opinion, with some outliers.

https://europa.eu/eurobarometer/surveys/detail/2972

wikipedia has a table

It's an age thing.

Most higher level government officials tend to be around boomer age. And over their lifetime they've grown to trust traditional-media more than almost anything. And these days the most major outlets are focused eniterly on revenue, so most of them heavily self-censor.

You'd be shocked at how many people in their 60s *literally* do not know a fraction of what has been going on there.

This is a great demonstration of how disinformation agents work.

There are multiple sources, a full documentary, interviews with the creators, the agent is named. etc. And most of the top comments on the posts about this, are from troll farms out of Russia talking about how the source is bad, how it's just gossip, no one is named, etc. and generally just lying to discredit the story.