What Does Gettysburg Have To Do With WWII??? | American Artifact Episode 170

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Many who have watched the American Artifact series have asked the question, "What does Gettysburg have to do with WWII?" Well, the history of Gettysburg didn't stop in 1863. In this episode, we're bringing an artifact from The Gettysburg Museum of History to a spot in Gettysburg that shows how the history of Gettysburg is very much entwined with WWII.

My professional contacts are acting strange. The ones who know that I'm a weak fit for government research are shutting me out. The ones who *don't* know that are desperately reaching out.

There's a stupidly huge number of job postings for DoD contractors. They actually pay industry standard - they usually pay garbage.

Something's happening, I don't know what it is.

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I personally suspect that our government is trying to develop some previously inconceivable military technology. I'll call such a secret project "Z," out of ignorance of what it actually is. My discipline is highly specialized, but it's also so broadly applicable that "our government wants CMD to be useful" gives zero fucking information other than "there's a camera of some kind somewhere" which could easily just mean 'we want new face detection tech to keep Z out of our enemy's hands."

The US has been atrocious at keeping secrets for decades. DOGE was obviously a government purge - I suspect that this was actually done to throw out people who our government suspects would leak information about Z. That is, this was a transition from a pseudo-peacetime civil service to a wartime civil service.

Our government is trying to scrape up scientists from the streets right now - if it wasn't, I wouldn't know shit. It cannot find enough suitable scientists to develop Z. That must mean Z is either big enough that it requires a stupidly huge number of scientists, or the US scientific community is full of people unfit to work on Z. I'd suspect it's the latter - American scientists are mostly driven by one of two desires: the desire to publish public research or money.

Patriotism in the scientific community is very low. Unfortunately, the scientists that *do* fill our National Labs are...not the best, nor the brightest. They're usually driven by the desire for a stable job where they don't have to compete...a desire held by incompetent people. They are not *idiots*, but they are undeniably outclassed by the typical university professor, and they are comically outclassed by people selling you ads.

I think we're looking at a second nuke race. I don't know what the next "nuke" is, but whatever it is the US government is trying to make it right now.

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I find it disgusting that they feel the need to appeal to their importance for economic activity. Safety should be a worthy enough goal to maintain such a lightweight organization. Trump says he wants to bring industry back to America. With moves like this, it's clear the actual intent is to keep workers subservient and expendable.

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French officials said Sunday that 145 people across the country, including 13 in Paris, reported that they had been stabbed with needles at an annual nationwide music festival on Saturday. Twelve people were arrested in connection with the stabbings.

“Some victims were taken to the hospital for toxicological tests,” the ministry said. French officials did not provide any details about the people who were arrested or about what substances the syringes may have contained.

While the number of victims was small compared with the millions of people who attended Fête de la Musique events across France, the reports were among a number of alarming episodes in recent years in which people have reported being injected without their knowledge or consent in crowded spaces like clubs or bars. A British Parliament report, published in 2022 after a sudden increase in spiking incidents, said there had been more than 1,000 cases of needle attacks in the country between September 2021 and the end of December 2022. The report, which surveyed more than 3,000 victims and witnesses, cited police data showing that about 90 percent of needle spiking incidents occurred during the evening in venues like pubs and nightclubs, though some also happened at festivals and house parties.

The report noted that there was not enough information to determine the overall prevalence of needle spiking and that there could be many more attacks that are not reported.

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The "official" Linux kernel, straight from Linus Torvalds and all the kernel developers, you generally see a new version every 2 to 2 and a half months.

All stable versions of the Linux kernel are numbered in the usual scheme, so major number DOT minor number, but they also have really strange codenames. Some distros tend to modify these kernels with additional patches, or features that haven't been added yet, which is why you can see some kernel versions with a "-ubuntu" at the end for example.

Certain kernel versions are also marked as LTS, meaning Long Term support. These are versions that will be supported for much longer, up to 6 years. The Linux kernel project recently reduced that support window to 2 years.

Since both the stable and LTS kernels ship with some non free firmware, there's the Kernel Libre project, which removes all of that, to only ship software and code that is completely free, as in freedom..

Next, we have the hardened kernel. It's not an "official" project per se, it's a kernel version that certain distros ship in their repos, like Arch Linux for example. It's the stable kernel, with an additional patch set applied to it to make it more resilient security-wise.

Next, we have the realtime kernel. The goal is to reduce the latency between a task being assigned to the CPU, and its execution, and it's mainly meant for industrial applications, or for audio production.
This, in turn, makes it less efficient for multi tasking, and it requires a lot more manual config to be efficient, and applications need to be specifically tailored to take advantage of this lower latency.

The low latency kernel variants do the same thing, but at a lesser degree: it still lets you pre-empt CPU threads like the real time kernel, but it isn't as regular as the realtime kernel.

The Android kernel is focused on supporting a specific category of devices, meaning that it has optimizations for these exact things.

The Zen kernel applies a few fixes and improvements meant to have the best performance and experience for linux desktop users. It's also packaged as the Liquorix kernel for Ubuntu or Debian, and other distros, although Liquorix isn't exactly like the Zen kernel.

Another version is the XanMod kernel, with sort of the same optimization as the Zen kernel, and a few more on top of that, with the same goal: improving the performance of Linux systems.

Finally, we have the TKG kernels, and I'm saying kernels, because TKG isn't a specific Linux kernel you can download and use, it's more like a build system that lets you choose a few specific patches and compile your own kernel with that.

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What we (as in humanity) need to do is find a truly objective person to make the ultimate sacrifice. We'd have to compensate them with something outrageous like unlimited wealth for life. But the person would have to be a completely normal sexually active adult. Then give them the trans genital surgery. And have them report on the true efficacy of these surgeries.
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@antones το Ισραήλ παρακαλάει το Ιράν να σταματήσει εδώ και 2 μέρες και τώρα βγήκε στη τηλεόραση και κάνει τον κόκορα...."θα εξετάσουμε αν μας συμφέρει να το ληξουμε εδω" και άλλες μαλακίες

Demonstration Motor-1 (DM-1) is the first full-scale ground test of the evolved five-segment solid rocket motor of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket. The event will take place in Promontory, Utah, and will be used as an opportunity to test several upgrades made from the current solid rocket boosters. Each booster burns six tons of […]

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We’ve got 3 125-133 MW installations in California that have been there since 2014. Apparently they’re planning on shutting it down next year becuse the technology is too expensive to operate (or at least that’s what I can tell from 5 min of reading 😆): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivanpah_…

Yay! Junk removal came and hauled the stuff away! Now another car load is going to charity donation center. I am so determined to overhaul everything. Once fall hits we start preparing for Christmas because it will be here before you know it. Now that it’s after 6/21 the days have started to get shorter. Sigh. Soon 2026 will be here and I want to celebrate America’s 250th bday with all the mess and baggage of yesteryears gone.
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This is the motivation behind my use of the term "US-Israel", and this is one of the reasons I dislike people who imply that the United States is a slave to Israel or whatever.

People who talk about how Israel controls America are bad for 3 reasons:

A) it's not true
B) it has at least a passing resemblance to neo-Nazi David Duke's "ZOG" conspiracy theory that makes me uncomfortable
C) it's a way of laundering the reputation of the United States by portraying the colonialist policies of the state of Israel as an aberration that the "real America" wouldn't support, when this contradicts everything in US history ever.

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Israel is a semi-autonomous suzerainty of the United States in practice. Without imperialism, Israel would not exist.

Jabotinsky and other founding Zionists have deliberately worked to maintain this strategy for more than a century. First it was Britain, but Britain's imperial power collapsed. Then, Israel moved to change its alignment towards the United States.

The strategy detailed in the Iron Wall has succeeded beyond Ze'ev's wildest dreams.

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Israelis ports
🚢 Eilat went bankrupt because Ansarallah

🚢 Haifa is closed, because Iran messed it up real good

🚢 Ashdod is under attack

Ashkelon, Tel Aviv and Hadera? Not sure where they stand if they stand.

This video is from Al Jazeera:
"Israeli media: A rocket fell in the Ashdod area"

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Belle goes over the numbers of what’s happening to rural healthcare and the rural healthcare support system and what the Medicaid cuts mean to it.

The loss of medical access in rural America is intimately tied to the degradation of federal support.

Healthcare is not a profitable business in low density areas. There’s no way the private market of course even if it wasn’t face seating leopard system whatever provide healthcare.

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When they take over a company, they split the property assets into a distinct division from the operation of the business, then they forced the operation part of the business and now pay rent to the asset side of the business and they pocket that money. The operation side of the business is then stripped of its income. They pay it as tribute to these assholes and that causes: a loss of service, inflation, and job cuts.

We have words for that: sacking and pillaging.

This must be illegal

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Tammy Bruce was a hard "Left" feminist dyke and the president of the Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women when OJ killed his coal-burning ex-wife. After trying to gin up support against OJ she was taken aside by the Jewish leadership and told how things really work. That feminism was just a ploy to destroy the goy and not real. She immediately converted to Neo-Conservatism (really Trotskyism) and went to work for Fox News.

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So does #Qubes. So does #Whonix. This article fails to explain how and why this is "better".

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And Tails.
I cannot ubderstand the claim "I could easily see myself defaulting to Securonis when I need serious security." after reading all the issues the author had ... and all the weird stuff he tried.
The quality of the article can be described with the headline linking in this article to another article:
"I found the most private and secure way to browse the web - and it isn't incognito mode" from the same author.
Edit: And the "Use Opera" articles - Delicious /s
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Trump needs to be in jail alongside these so-called cops for a long time. Trump & these thugs are just as bad & dangerous as the mafia. How long are you, American people, going to put up with these assholes?? You're no better than Russia or North Korea if you allow this to continue!

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