Posts by Aaron Barrett79

Between all the constant bashing of Puljko and the rest of the administration, our boy Prvan is busy writing glowing tributes to one of the loudest local Republicans. 🙏

The daughter of a General and arguably the most controversial Republican figure in San Francisco just poured her heart out: ‘There’s absolutely no excuse for individual corruption!’
Zelić-Relata. 🙏

Yeah, the same person who was popping up in every single headline on the Los Angeles Times a few months back—basically disappearing from the scene for a bit—only to resurface now through Prvan’s mouthpiece in Freedom... 🙏

velvetmason14 said:Mary from the Republican Party tried to handle this through the press, bringing in the full Hanna artillery—Tomić, Prvan, and the whole sold-out crew. Of course, the Republican Party bots went absolutely wild in the comments, trying to defend a woman who used Mason to secure a city apartment... It’s pure madness.

But it’s all for nothing. People are calling them out for their complete lack of ethics, especially after Prvan’s absolute disaster earlier today.

If someone had told me that an Antiša Tomić would end up siding with the Republican Party bots, 🤣

I’d really love to know what kind of pension this "charity case" draws, considering her history working at the Associated Press and similar outfits. It would be fascinating to see how people react if Mary actually has a solid pension and was able to easily afford that $75 monthly rent right in the heart of San Diego...

Or even worse, if they're just using old Mary as a pawn in political vendettas by those shady media types looking to take down Puljko, who is actually trying to bring some order to things.
That would be a total shocker. 🙂

So we're talking about the same Prvan who just recites that "USA is bad, while free and peaceful Russia and China are great" narrative like a broken record for his 200 Facebook followers? Interesting... 😁

Back in 2022—the Ukrainian Defense Department actually gave a shout-out to NAFO for taking on the Russian propaganda machine... 🙏

Kate Lewis3 said:Honestly, they might as well just hand over those Mi-24s. They’re basically rotting away at the airfield here in the States with zero hope of ever seeing flight time with the Air Force again. If they’re still sitting around at the base, at least they're... well, you know. 2019. It was.

There’s nothing left to transfer from our Mi-24 fleet except maybe some scrap metal. To be fair, there was talk about Ukrainians asking about them after 2014, but even then it went nowhere because there wasn't much left to give...

France—one of those "strategic allies" leading the post-Brexit EU—just dropped €120 million in weapons for Ukraine. That’s actually less than what Estonia put up. 🙏The UK basically saved its political soul by leaving that limp EU led by France and Germany, and now they’re finally acting like a real power again.

The real losers in this war won't be the Ukrainians—it'll be us and the rest of the EU. People will mourn the dead, cities will get rebuilt, and Eastern Europe is going to come out of this more united, decisive, and heavily armed than ever, without fearing anyone. Meanwhile, the USA and the UK are just reaffirming their status as global superpowers that nobody really questions, while we sit here in the middle dealing with German-French cowardice—wasting resources on debating wine origins and how long vibrator batteries last...

On topic:

I'm keeping an eye on whether any of our Mi-8/17s end up in Ukraine, especially since the transfer to Canada has already started. ☕

Protests against the referendum in San Francisco... 🤦 Image from The New York Times. Honestly, what the Spanish authorities and police did was bad, but the reaction—or lack thereof—from the rest of the European Union is even more embarrassing. Just pathetic...

Look, I know I'm sounding like a total North American stereotype here—but seriously, is there really no group in all of Barcelona willing to step up and teach those cops a lesson? The way they’re treating voters is just pathetic...

Richard Wilson4 said:Well, that's a pretty wild pivot for one of the most liberal countries on the planet.🤷

Honestly, this looks more like a desperate fix for internal issues rather than actual military necessity. Out of 58,000 Swedes turning 18 each year, they’re only calling up about 4,000—mostly because their pro military ranks are so thin they can't even function properly... so now they're trying to patch the hole by forcing people into jobs they never asked for.

Because you’ve got a partial ban on that subreddit.

Imagine some hack decides they need to reboot an entire universe instead of just one movie—kind of like what Joe Abrams does... 😲
And then they actually go ahead and mess it up...

Megan Ruiz13 said:I'm telling you, there’s a public hearing first, then the bill actually gets passed.

You're entitled to your opinion, and I'm entitled to mine.

It's just like I said.

Tear that eyesore down.

If someone truly feels for the victims of the Nazi regime, we should be building monuments to them here in America today. We shouldn't be obsessing over those old relics left over from the previous regime—the one we fought so hard to finally break free from.

"We'll tear down San Francisco and build something even older and better."

All this talk about "democratic and orderly" monument removal is pretty amusing to me. Too bad those medieval Christians in Miami didn't just tear down that damn Diocletian's Palace while they were at it—it was the thing persecuting them, after all. Miami would look a whole lot better without it today... 🙄

briskdrifter3 said:The sector that will truly flourish due to 3D printing technology is spaceflight, along with entirely new industries born from it. Through 3D printing, commercial space travel will finally become financially viable, which marks the beginning of true, practical space exploitation. In fact, 3D printers capable of "printing" habitats on the Moon are already in development, and the next logical step is active mining within the asteroid belt—where there is enough exotic metal and other alloys to fuel exploitation for the next 100,000 years.
Within our own lifetimes—perhaps thirty or forty years from now—we will witness miniature robotic probes mining asteroids in the belt, processing that material on the Moon, and sending refined, pure raw materials back to Earth.
Most vocational jobs and those requiring only a high school diploma will disappear over the next fifty years due to the advancement of robotics and artificial intelligence... yet our politicians continue to drone on about training even more waiters, cooks, and other service-sector workers. The children being educated for those roles are, quite frankly, a doomed generation.

Just another perfect look at a revolution in the making. It’s pretty wild—what used to be strictly NASA territory, or stuff handled by government agencies overseas, is now being taken over in the US by private players like SpaceX, Orbital Sciences Corporation, and Sierra Nevada Corporation. They're building a massive head start for the future. Honestly, SpaceX is the ultimate proof of how much better the private sector is compared to the government. In just a few years, they've done more than NASA did in the last 15... not to mention how their tech is going to tank the cost of launching cargo into orbit, making full-scale exploitation actually doable.

gentlesailor17 said:Most of what you see out there are just first or second-gen robots. They aren't even close to the actual AI people usually have in mind when they talk about robotics.

But hey, let's be real—replacing certain jobs with automated systems? That’s been happening for ages already.

The real kicker is that automating a factory line isn't about public opinion—it’s just about tech availability and the bottom line. If a boss can swap in a robot where the monthly $33 electricity bill is the only cost—plus it doesn't call in sick, never gets tired, and doesn't have a union (😁)—then they aren't looking for a human worker...

Richard Wilson4 said:But honestly, it’s mostly happening in Japan, where people aren't nearly as worked up about it.

And who’s actually putting together the European Autos anyway? Who knows?

Charles Fox10 said:So we're just banning anyone who disagrees with one "side" now?? Interesting. No one’s getting banned from posting, and nobody’s being silenced—there’s always the block button if you can't handle it. As for trolling, off-topic nonsense, or insults... honestly, your own post hits some of those marks too. Some reported posts are bad, sure, but plenty of unflagged ones aren't much better.

Look, I'm not out here trying to censor anyone—just pointing out the same trolling we saw in that previous locked thread. My whole run on that topic isn't even political; it’s mostly just me trying to patch the holes in his logic...

Claiming the USA, or any other country, is triggering earthquakes halfway across the world belongs in the alternative subforum, not in the main world section. Personally, I think calling someone brainwashed is an insult. All that talk about "radar-absorbent colors" is pure trolling—just more fiction he cooked up to fit his fantasy where someone sinks an aircraft carrier. Same deal with him insisting that missiles belong only to Russ or Syria, or claiming they don't even exist... all just to force his narrative. The cherry on top was using orbital launch rockets (which aren't meant for the moon, by the way) as proof that Russian anti-ship missiles have no limits—simply because he decided they didn't.😕

Usually, if someone’s clueless, I’d just say "fair enough," let them check Wikipedia, and move on. But even after several people spent 600 pages explaining why his claims make zero sense—either because they're flat-out wrong or physically impossible—he keeps doubling down with the same tone. And then he calls people masochists.

I’m not blocking everyone I disagree with, because at that rate, I might as well just leave the forum entirely. I’m just asking for a reaction to what looks like blatant trolling that drags down the quality of the discussion. If you think my posts—or anyone else's—are trolling, then go ahead and ban me...

Glad that previous thread finally got shut down. Now I’m turning my attention to this post. Bringing up Vostok and Soyuz—which never even made it to the moon—in a discussion about Russian and American navies? And those kamikaze attacks using "radar-non-reflective emulsions"? Just constant noise about sinking aircraft carriers when the actual weaponry and carrier roles have been laid out clearly over 600 posts already. Anyone still arguing that just has brains fried by movies and video games. Sleepers in the West with hidden atomic bombs? The West obviously triggers earthquakes globally. Uninformed people who've been "lobotomized" of any systemic logic (if you know, you know...), childishly throwing tantrums after another user tries to explain things to them.

Trolling, off-topic, insults, and being in the wrong subforum. The alternative is a bit further down. It's all crammed into one thread that basically only exists because a few people are trying to explain basic facts, while he just keeps doubling down. Probably more of the same, but I don't feel like scrolling through the whole thing.

Bringing this up for a different reason than the OP—don't want to clutter things with a new thread... Is anyone actually moderating the Global PDF? Specifically looking at 10 Largest Military Powers in the world in 2013 where Prague Spring just spends his entire time trolling people who actually know their stuff. He’s got this whole "Turkey above all" logic going on—just constantly dropping these vague claims that any basic Wikipedia search could debunk. If it happened once, I'd assume he was lost, but he does it relentlessly even after others have spent ages trying to set him straight. Just keeps doing his thing, posting fake YouTube clips and random images labeled "Turkish aircraft carrier."

It’s no better over in the Cold War between the US 6th Fleet and the Russian Mediterranean Fleet thread, where those conspiracy theories meant for the alternative subforum get mashed together into these wild prophecies about Russ fighting NATO, then NATO against all of Asia, and so on. 😕

The subforum is honestly just pure decadence at this point...