As a child of immigrants, it's been interesting to see other groups learn what my parents knew since the 80s and what I learned after reading about America's racial history: Race is embedded within the system. No group will forever be safe. And the GOP really doesn't like darker

Genuinely fucking disgusting. These people live among us. All cops are bastards, every single one of them.

In interviews, Alexander described the immigration system he was enforcing as “skewed” and “weird,” but he saw himself as largely separate from these concerns. “If you’re taking federal money to do a job,” he says, “I think you should do the job.”

The worst mistake Trump did was pretty much allowing ANYONE to join ICE and not have proper training like police officer should’ve prioritized in hiring former law enforcement first

Wealthy Chinese are moving offshore money to US banks as Beijing’s tax net widens, per CNBC

“Great power” is such a butchered term. To be one you need a sphere of influence and able to power projection beyond your borders. No nation other than the US and China (it’s debatable for China still) can actual project any degree of power.

The problem the fp establishment has is that to some % voters, "tripwire" troops to "couple Euro defense with the protection of Americans" to make it more likely the US would nuke war with Russia in return for "influence" that works both ways sounds like a lose lose lose prop

No that’s wrong. It’s position on the first island chain is absolutely a vital interest and it would be a disaster for the U.S. if China had military and political dominance of the island. It’s been that way since 1945. If it were just economic dependency the world could pivot to other markets and write Taiwan off.

I've looked at this again and it is a LOT worse than is being presented. This is not the philosopher's stone, this is a Superfund site waiting to happen. What they are creating here is not economically recoverable gold but a flammable toxic sludge that *might* have a few grams of stable gold in it. The proposal is quite simple, it's just using an ongoing D-T fusion reaction, which spits out most of its energy as fast neutrons, to breed gold (Au-197) from mercury-198. This is not the main objective, but a side reaction of a process designed to increase the production of tritium from lithium-6. Neutrons produced by D-T have a high kinetic energy, which is bad for tritium breeding as these tend to pass right through. So the fast neutron hits an atom of Hg-198 instead, which dislodges two neutrons instead of one, i.e. it is a neutron multiplier. Because the mercury atom is heavy, the resulting neutrons are much slower, ("thermal") which greatly aids in their capture by Li-6. Overall this process is designed to manufacture a lot more tritium, which is currently expensive and extremely scarce, being ~250x as valuable as gold. In theory, that's beneficial because it's used as a medical tracer, as a boosting gas in nuclear warheads, and would be essential to a power-generating fusion fuel cycle. The problem is the mercury. More specifically, the lithium amalgam created from it, but even unalloyed mercury is bad enough. Mercury is a poison for most structural alloys as it turns them brittle. Aluminum, copper, nickel, and zinc are particularly susceptible, as are any alloys of titanium or steel that incorporate these metals. This is of concern because the mercury-lithium blanket being used is a molten metal, held under pressure at hundreds of degrees °C right next to a fusing plasma operating at millions of degrees. The ACTIVE NUCLEAR REACTION is belching out ungodly quantities of highly penetrating neutrons which cause another type of metal embrittlement which even affects the kinds of alloys immune to mercury contamination. On top of that, it is mixed with lithium, which is itself highly corrosive and flammable. Aluminum amalgams formed by liquid metal embrittlement are basically thermite. So when it ruptures and explodes, what you get is a RADIOACTIVE METAL FIRE spewing mercury vapor and other contaminants like fluoride, beryllium, and lead into the surrounding area, plus unknown isotopic byproducts of neutron capture which make it high-level nuclear waste. Even under "safe" operation or safer operating configurations, the gold and other residuals that would get continuously filtered out of the Li-Hg blanket would have to be treated like nuclear waste before yielding anything of value. Because that's what it is. It's the precious metal equivalent of a shit sandwich. If this ever rolls out, it's guaranteed to cause an major environmental disaster. The risk of mercury contamination is bad enough. Using industrial quantities of it together with all sorts of radioactive and toxic metals is like Minamata and Chernobyl combined. It would kill fusion power forever.

What did I tell u, anon???

The TSO, or Technology Support Office, was established in April to 'covertly disrupt and sabotage foreign technology programs considered threats to American military superiority.' In September the Washington Sun reported that the NSA told lawmakers in classified intelligence briefings that it estimates it has spent billions of dollars 'evaluating and testing' models this year already. In the draft S-1 leaked by the WSJ yesterday, Anthropic said that one-fifth of its $16.3 billion in revenue in the first half of 2026 came from just two customers. Motive, means, and opportunity. I think a lot of money is being spent by agencies through Project Glasswing or channels related to it, and they have probably covertly penetrated every nation on earth to look at anything even potentially considered a threat. There is no defense against the current internal version of Mythos unless you have access to it. No foreign intelligence agency on earth has anything even close. It's actions would also almost certainly be undetectable. Assume US agencies know much more about any technological progress in China than they are letting on; given Dario's openly stated position on China, this would almost certainly be done with his approval.