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Cake day: August 22nd, 2025

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  • Our tech has increased monumentally in the last couple of hundred years. From horse drawn carriages and parchment, to reusable space vehicles and computers. If this rate keeps up for a billion years, that’s 5,000,000x such a technological leap. Of course, disease, war, environmental degradation or other stupid human social idiocy will likely slow this down. But I think we should be able to get off world before the earth is inhabitable. Getting out of the solar system before it’s inhabitable is much harder, but we have a lot longer.



  • But Hamas wants to wipe out the Israeli people, so by your own definition, that genocide. They’re not currently capable, which makes one wonder what their objective was in the October attacks. It seems that they did it to goad Israel into tracking them and the using social media of the carnage to gain support internationally. That explains why they prepped protests across the globe (that started before Israel attacked). Unfortunately Israel went off the deep end and used it as an excuse to go way over the top, killing and abusing so many civilians. There are no good guys.



  • You miss the point. It’s the steady support of Ukraine that would cause Russia to turn back one way or another. Yes, I’d prefer we support Ukraine more and allow them to take back their land. But the risk with that is that Russia (somewhat legitimately) then could fear Ukraine would keep going. And so they could use that as an excuse to escalate (general mobilization, tactical nukes). Conversly, letting Russia win only would encourage their expansionism further and we’d have to fight the same fight elsewhere. So we support Ukraine until Russia realizes their offensive gets them nowhere - they are just hurting themselves. This is starting to happen now, but it’s a long process. Our problem now is that the U.S. has been wishy washy and making it sound like they might stop supporting Ukraine and letting Russia take more land for good. So of course Putin will grasp for that outcome and keep things going with that chance on the table. It’s probably the only way he gets out of this without getting defenestrated. If trump and the gop hadn’t been such idiots, and just held the line, Russians would see no possibly advantageous end game and putin would probably be in exile or hung by his balls in red square by now. I think we’ll get there eventually, but it will just take longer with the orange moron in play.