RedWizard

Lol great. That's fantastic.

logically follow that all conspiracies are imaginary.

Conspiracy is a legitimate concept in law: the collusion of two or more people pursuing illegal means to effect some illegal or immoral end. People go to jail for committing conspiratorial acts. Conspiracies are a matter of public record, and some are of real political significance. The Watergate break-in was a conspiracy, as was the Watergate cover-up, which led to Nixon’s downfall. Iran-contra was a conspiracy of immense scope, much of it still uncovered. The savings and loan scandal was described by the Justice Department as “a thousand conspiracies of fraud, theft, and bribery,” the greatest financial crime in history.

Often the term “conspiracy” is applied dismissively whenever one suggests that people who occupy positions of political and economic power are consciously dedicated to advancing their elite interests. Even when they openly profess their designs, there are those who deny that intent is involved. In 1994, the officers of the Federal Reserve announced they would pursue monetary policies designed to maintain a high level of unemployment in order to safeguard against “overheating” the economy. Like any creditor class, they preferred a deflationary course. When an acquaintance of mine mentioned this to friends, he was greeted skeptically, “Do you think the Fed bankers are deliberately trying to keep people unemployed?” In fact, not only did he think it, it was announced on the financial pages of the press. Still, his friends assumed he was imagining a conspiracy because he ascribed self-interested collusion to powerful people.

At a World Affairs Council meeting in San Francisco, I remarked to a participant that U.S. leaders were pushing hard for the reinstatement of capitalism in the former communist countries. He said, “Do you really think they carry it to that level of conscious intent?” I pointed out it was not a conjecture on my part. They have repeatedly announced their commitment to seeing that “free-market reforms” are introduced in Eastern Europe. Their economic aid is channeled almost exclusively into the private sector. The same policy holds for the monies intended for other countries. Thus, as of the end of 1995, “more than $4.5 million U.S. aid to Haiti has been put on hold because the Aristide government has failed to make progress on a program to privatize state-owned companies” (New York Times 11/25/95).

Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: “Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?” For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot – though they call it “planning” and “strategizing” – and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists. To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.

Michael Parenti, Dirty Truths

Yeah definitely a lib. Rober strikes me as a kind of pro-cop/pro-war lib too. Rober does kid videos though, and did a whole video on Anduril, framing it as a tool to "protect you from bad guys" but its primarily used on the border with Mexico.

I think all these guys do this. This video about making things in America is kind of the same thing. Maybe Jerry Rig Everything is different, but I don't watch a lot of his stuff.

I can excuse Molder and Skully but I draw the line at Chase! Get that pup outta here!

Yes.

Don't worry folks, our current iteration of reasoning models will TOTALLY be the foundation for General Artificial Intelligence. Just give us more money, more nuclear power plants, more forests, more water.

JPL research doesn't end up in missile tech? I just assumed it did.

Edit: https://www.militarymuseum.org/JPL.html. ah that's how it started, but was transfer to NASA in the 50s.

Uhg you have to have brain worms to want that from your kids. My kid was calling me sir out of nowhere maybe a year ago and I told her every time not to call me that. She thought it was funny though lol.

Dude these guys are all weapons guys. Rober was a JPL guy if I recall. I wouldn't be shocked to learn JerryRigEverything was a bomb guy or some shit.

Shit no wonder they all seem creepy.

Rober is also a Mormon. I think were on to something.

This guy weirds me out and I've never watched his videos. I just know him, Mark Rober, and Jerry Rig Everything seem close, and they all weird me the fuck out. Its not even something I can pinpoint exactly. Rober at least showed his ass when he did that Palmer Lucky colab for his automated killing systems.