Hahahahaha oh man, what a timeline.

What do you guys make of it?

  • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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    3 years ago

    This makes sense in the context of creating a bioweapon to potentially attack russia with if they wished to.

    I mean, this also doesn’t make sense cuz that would be literally impossible to do.

    Edit: also, yes the US has pulled shit like this in the past, but a lot of that was during the Cold War when I think the US was a lot more insecure in its power and so people felt the need to research goofy SciFi crap like using LSD as a truth serum and making microwave guns. Nowadays the US sorta has that shit down pat, they realized methods for breaking people that require just a dark room and a guy in a ski mask, no brain chips or LSD needed, and we can assassinate people from like a 100 miles away with a robot plane and a tiny bomb. Who needs untested wacko SciFi shit when you got focus tested board approved methods.

    • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Which is what makes it an absolutely amazing military-industrial complex grift. Look at how much money they've poured into the dumpster fire that is the F-35; they'd happily piss away billions of dollars into a defense contractor startup that claims that it is going to pull Theranos-level bullshit, physical impossibilities be damned.

      • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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        3 years ago

        I feel like the grift is easier to hide in a complex engineer project involving 100s of companies than it is in a project who’s base premise is so fallacious anyone with a biology degree could tell you it’s BS.