I need to make some searches on this to learn the details. This is crazy. Based Pope Gregory, tho. That's the measured reaction I'd have expected. But how did jews keep this a secret for over a thousand years?
@Rasterman Jews lied to Christians by pretending to be just another denomination of Christianity. It wasn't until the Disputation of Paris in 1240 that a jewish convert told Christians what was actually written in the Talmud. That's where all the expulsions followed and the number of Ashkenazi jews was reduced to 300 individuals. It was Poland who took them in and gave them rights (Statute of Kalisz 1264), otherwise Ashkenazi jews would've been exterminated by Christians.
Real Christians after learning about the Talmud never treated jews well (understandably) it was secular powers that took them in to profit from their money lending.
#IFT13 update. Ship 40 is currently floating in the Indian Ocean.
Normand Ranger and Skimmer Tide are in-route to Ship 40. Part of the delay is due to waiting for methane gas to dissipate. This is to avoid accidental explosions and fires during recovery.
A good way to understand how jewish theology works is the Torah (OT) is kind of like the United States Constitution and the Talmud is kind of like the Supreme Court in that it interprets what the Torah "really means" and addresses issues not discussed in the Torah. That's why there's really no concept of "heresy" in judaism like in Christianity, because the established process for dealing with disagreements between Rabbis is for them to argue, someone writes down the argument, maybe someone writes some commentary about who won the argument and then that becomes a new layer of theology over the old layer. jews can disagree on specific points of theology while still retaining rough allegiance to the religion, as a whole (a bit like some flavors of Protestantism).
The jews can gather a team to develop an AI model software in an office. But they have difficulty with making the hardware to contain the model.
So their usual way is to buy up a bunch of existing hardware to run their model. But engineering hardware, especially the most difficult and intimidating hardware, is a very tall climb for the jew. Pun intended.
#IFT14 update. Ship 41 payload bay door. Pending review of #IFT13 data, this door will deploy V3 Starlinks to an operational orbit. Then Ship 41 will attempt de-orbit burn and RTLS at Starbase Texas.
I need to read that history of Astounding Science Fiction again. Lots of obscure lore about Dianetics, Scientology and who stuck with it when it became a religion and who abandoned ship.
A V3 Starlink firing its high ISP hall effect thruster, and Ship 40. Photo from one of the V3 Starlink satellites. Ship 40 is currently floating in the Indian Ocean. SpaceX has sent ships to attempt recovery. July 24, 2026.
It's not gonna be some prime minister election level shit. If you ever watched Yes Minister, you know how this all works. The stuff they want to do is what gets on the ballot - and if they don't want to do it, it doesn't.
Look at brexit: The thing people were voting against was Polish people using freedom of movement to go to the UK. That was the real prime mover. Soon as they did it, UK turns around and imports Africans.
I'm sure that you're probably against brexit - and to be honest I don't have an opinion because I can't know if in a hypothetical scenario where it didn't happen, it would have been better.
BUT, if you step out of YOUR political viewpoint for a second here, and look at what the people voted for and what they got, it's very clear that the UK government just said "fuck you, we do what we want".
You can only actually have a representative government in a relatively high trust environment. As an obvious example: If the government doesn't want to be changed, they can just ask the Mafia to kill all of their potential rivals and then in exchange, they block any legal action against them.
Once the government is actually malicious, there is NO meaningful political participation except that to create pain, and to create fear.
That's it. Pain and Fear.
Pain is what happens when you sink a cargo ship. It costs a lot of people a lot of money.
Fear is what happens when you shoot down a private jet. It makes a lot of oligarchs start thinking a lot about how exposed they are every time they take off and land...
Those are your options, create pain, create fear, flee the country, or put up and shut up.
V3 Starlink satellites deployed from Ship 40. Two of them near the bottom are firing their high ISP hall effect thrusters. Ship 40 is currently floating in the Indian Ocean. SpaceX has sent ships to attempt recovery. July 24, 2026.
Jeremy Quartering initially privated 2,500 Youtube Shorts— which he steals from other creators without crediting them, adds a 5 second intro and uploads as is— after the original creators were notified by alogs and started reporting him.
He then re-enabled all but the ~150 that had been reported because he was about to nuke his own channels' SEO, forcing the algorithm to bury them forever.
The fantastic stats dashboard, Jerminal Decline, has apparently found the creator of each short and linked to them. You know, for making it easier to find them. https://jerminaldecline.com