Geran-2 is a Russian version of Shahed.
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FT is even less reliable than Facebook.
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The ultimate battle is for humanity in the sense of sexual being as the foundation of The Moral Animal’s perception.
The West still leads the world despite its rapid decline due to the unspeakable horrors being committed against its genepool by Western “civilization”.
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That is an intriguing statement … but I am not sure what it means. Please feel free to expand on the idea.
As for sex – that has sort of gone out of fashion in the feminized West, but elsewhere on the planet boys & girls are still getting it on. Once extreme feminization dies in the West (which it inevitably will when we destroy our ability to manufacture contraceptives) and is replaced by the historical high regard for women as mothers, it is likely that the next generation of Westerners will be quite fertile.
As an aside, I have been reading the Harvard Classics 1909 edition of “The Thousand and One Nights”. (Yes, I was under-educated as a youth). It is surprising the number of stories which involve Arabic/Persian wives frolicking with their black slaves when their husbands are not looking. Sex has been alive & well for uncounted generations; it is unlikely to go away.
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One of my favorite quotes from Camp 38 is “You have no word for sex.”
So that’s what I need to" expand on".
Perception makes sense of the senses.
You can quote me on that.
Mitotically reproducing organisms sense things but they don’t have to make sense of things. They simply accept and reject stuff at their cell walls so they can grow and clone themselves to produce two cell walls.
Sex requires that one go outside of one’s self to locate a genetic correlate as a condition of life prior to programmed death.
That’s where you get nervous systems making sense of senses. That’s literally the only way that “sex” makes sense. This is what healthy individuals do. Indeed, sexual being defines what an “individual” is.
We, who aspire to the higher estate of The Moral Animal, can no more deny our foundation in sexual being than can any sexual being deny their foundation in the mitotic clone armies that comprise their being. Indeed, Morality, in this most basic sense is recognition of this fact. That is why religions get all obsessive about “sex” – particularly when their function is to produce sterile workers for the reproductive caste.
As for “boys and girls elsewhere”… I was inspired to write this up on my recently listening to The Telepathy Tapes:
“Telepathy Tapes” vs “Indian Shit Causes Autism”
The telepathic autists are a subclass of savants. If anyone doubts the paranormal “computation” going on with mathematical savants (including autists) they just aren’t aware of the ground truth.
We won’t go there except to say that one of the “copes” offered families suffering the devastating effects of autism is that their child is of a higher order than can tolerate the world “as it is”. Paranormal abilities are offered as evidence of this “higher order”.
Well, ok. But what is “as it is”? I mean, if you were a higher order soul seeking incarnation, what might cause you to be intolerant of the world “as it is”?
Before I answer that with “All that Indian Shit being thrown around” autism hot-spots like Silicon Valley, let’s consider the fact that autists aren’t the only savants – whether mathematical or telepathic. Yeah there are likely to be some “on the spectrum” but here’s another angle to consider:
Fully integrated human beings express these human potentials but civilization “as we know it” depends on distintegrating human beings so they become instruments. In the present age that takes the form of:
Mechanical Turks of The Unfriendly AGI also known as The Global Economy.
Only having been evolving for a few hundred human generations at most – they destroy their own organic basis which is human beings. Hence “the cycle of civilization”.
But these Unfriendly AGI’s vary in the way they disintegrate human beings. The peoples subject to them therefore vary in their immune systems. Naturally, it is a mating ritual to demonstrate one’s immune system in accord with one’s culture. A culture that lives in shit naturally will evolve, through its AGI’s cycles, an immunity to shit – or at least particular gut bacteria endemic to the region. Indeed, if one is particularly immune to the disintegrating forces endemic to one’s culture, one may tend to exhibit potentials of healthy human beings including “paranormal” abilities.
But what about these autists? Why would they end up expressing these abilities and not “normal” abilities?
Well, it may just be that while incarnating (including the neurophysiological development both in and outside the womb) a cruel choice is presented them:
Retain your paranormal potential and give up your individual independence.
OR
Give up your paranormal potential and retain your individual independence.
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Lot of assumptions going on there, @jabowery
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Since I can’t get anyone to take data seriously with regard to science I guess I don’t really care what people think of my assumptions.
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Could this be positive news about an alternative to the war over Taiwan that our “leaders” seem to want?
Biggest-ever PLA purge: Do anti-Xi coup plots or fears explain it? - Asia Times
The most notable development from this week’s Party Plenum is the large-scale purge of the People’s Liberation Army. Here’s a brief overview of the key facts:
— The new PLA vice chairman, Zhang Weisheng, is the investigator behind the purge. …
— No new PLA members have been promoted to the Central Committee. This indicates that the PLA has been demoted. The entire PLA seems to be under suspicion.
— The fate of Zhang Youxia, the first PLA vice chairman, remains uncertain. …
The Taiwan agenda has been officially emphasized, but it’s unclear whether the PLA can be totally in charge of it after this reshuffling. The strategy may be to regain control of the island through alternatives to direct military action, possibly by winning a democratic election. …
Well, if a Muslim extremist can win election to mayor in the city where the Twin Towers once stood, why should not “democracy” yield a peaceful reintegration of Taiwan into Mother China?
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Neither China nor the western ‘democracies’ are, in any meaningful sense, democracies — China maybe less so.
I don’t quite see the validity of the comparison or much cause for optimism. The internal machinations of the ChiComs are inscrutable (see what I did there?). On the other hand, the impending election of a commie Muslim as the mayor of New York is perfectly understandable. After all, London has had one for years; the US has some serious catching-up to do.
Import the Third World, become the Third World.
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We are in total agreement – there are “democracies” and then there in theory could be democracies. In the current era, Switzerland probably comes closest to democracy – Europe and North America are closer to oligarchies with a strong hint of fascism (the merger of government and business). That description also fits China; only difference seems to be that China is currently more fortunate in its oligarchs.
Looking back to Ancient Greece, it seems the paradox is that a workable democracy entails strictly limiting the group of people allowed to vote. Was even Greek “democracy” actually democracy?
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This is a key point, widely unappreciated. By the way, Switzerland allows non-citizens to vote in local elections, if memory serves.
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Looks like Chinese electronic warfare is working. Nimitz loses a helo and an F-18 half an hour apart:
South China Sea – On October 26, 2025 at approximately 2:45 p.m. local time, a U.S. Navy MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to the “Battle Cats” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 73 went down in the waters of the South China Sea while conducting routine operations
— U.S. Pacific Fleet (@USPacificFleet) October 26, 2025
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Hypothesis A: Test activation of kill switches China built into the computer chips on which US equipment depends.
Hypothesis B: DIE – which China has been promoting (for other countries) for many years.
Either way, what is the probability China assigns to the hypothesis that US nuclear weapons (last tested before many citizens were born) will actually work when fired in anger? 99.999%? Or something less?
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Why not both?
To quote an esteemed colleague of mine: “A dog can have ticks and fleas at the same time.” This in paleopathology differential diagnoses.
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There, a citizen will serve jail time for posting that in 200 years, the skeletons of everyone now alive will be identifiable as male or female. No kidding!
Also in Switzerland, voting by non citizens with permanent residence permits may vote in local elections (at least in some cantons). The vetting of those with such permits exceeds the vetting of naturalized US citizens.
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I’m skeptical that the vetting of naturalization is that poor. Undoubtedly, things have changed since my experience but I assure you it was quite rigorous in the past.
The key point missing from your observations is than non-citizens do not have skin in the game the way permanent residents do not. This was especially true when naturalized citizens had to renounce all other loyalties. The current oath, the same one I took, still calls for this but, evidently, it’s no longer enforced. Seems like a relatively simple matter to resume enforcement.
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The essential point I wanted to make as to Switzerland is that - as it once was with the US - immigrants very much want to become citizens. Virtually the only route to citizenship is through residence and, usually, a work permit - which is separate and distinct. Those wishing to become Swiss citizens understand they must reasonably (not kow tow) assimilate as to behavior, in good faith. Part of why this works better in Switzerland is that decisions are local. Residency and./or work permits are determined at the cantonal or even the community (town or city) level. If you are acceptable to your neighbors - real people, not abstract remote rules - though it may take 8+ years, you can stay and acquire “le droit civil” (citizenship).
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The Swiss system seems so reasonable and sensible that one wonders – Why would any country ever do anything different from that?
But then we have to face drlorentz’ issue – where did the idea of “Dual Citizenship” come from? When did a “democratic” majority of citizens vote for such a strange thing?
Basically, outside Switzerland, we have allowed the concept of citizenship to be devalued and denigrated. But considering what we have done to the concept of motherhood, maybe it is not such a surprise.
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