Leave The World Behind” on Netflix is unsettling because it is has (mostly) plausible national security scenarios.
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Yah, no way a group of foreign terrorists with box cutter knives could ever fly our commercial jet planes into USA buildings and kill thousands of Americans. Such paranoia.
Any 4 letter words would appear in a random alphanumeric string about once every while so perhaps it is just by random chance, as another guess.
There were also times of unexpected peace and prosperity, of course, as well as many doomsday predictions which failed, and so on, for example "peak oil" or the "population bomb", predictions nuclear weapons would be used after WWII other than for deterrence, that nuclear proliferation would be much more widespread, etc.
What is so odd abut these arguments is that even with very simple calculations it was trivial to show that these claims are nonsense. They seemed to get some traction in certain social science circles but mathematical biologists and economists never took this seriously. The population bomb was very silly since it relied on exponential growth of humans but even at the time the growth was not exponential and even less so today. In fact the population starts dropping in about 30 years. I think it was Paul Ehrlich who pushed for that and applied math people instantly pointed why this was wrong but this guy had no understanding of derivatives. He wrote popular book which was loved by millions of Americans and politicians but was never taken seriously by quantitative scientists.
Peak oil is even sillier since it makes ridicules claims about oil production being a one variable problem, which is just laughable by definition. The guy actually fit a Gaussian to oil production. Once again economists rapidly pointed out why this was beyond wrong and never took it seriously again but public bought into it because you cannot explain multi variable effects to the random person.
It makes you wonder how many other doomsday predictions are also wrong.
There is a tool on the internet that breaks down what it means:
https://dfir.blog/unfurl-3d/
So it is seemingly purely by chance, unless you rule out a Ouija-board like effect or some Skynet-like entity at Google placing it there, or that it might be a warning from our Lord to repent.
https://www.victorpest.com/articles/what-humans-can-learn-from-calhouns-rodent-utopia
https://www.the-scientist.com/foundations/universe-25-1968-1973-69941
https://youtu.be/iOFveSUmh9U?si=2y6KTYElCRqLfwey
There could be some lessons there, for example we know empirically that when health care and food are abundant in modern societies the result is often population decline. This is true, for example, in Japan, South Korea, China, much of Europe, and the US population would arguably decline as well if not for immigration:
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/new-census-projections-show-immigration-is-essential-to-the-growth-and-vitality-of-a-more-diverse-us-population/
To what extent the controversial mouse study might relate to this, of course, is questionable but perhaps one can draw some analogies.
https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/124028/china-experimenting-covid-virus-fatal-mice