It’s normal for people who are habitual lower speed runners, but would be a bit challenging for anyone who hadn’t trained / didn’t run regularly. When you factor in the kinds of dudes this agency will attract, it’s not exactly the “health and fitness” set.

I used to run regularly but mostly never ran faster than 10mins/mile and usually slower than that. To be fair I had some serious hills in the mix, but still.

Why…. Does ICE need “guided missiles”?

Ok but he’s only using it to make grok celebrity AI porn while on the go.

Closest thing I can think of might be something like insurgency sandstorm, which is pretty old at this point but is still receiving updates.

Squad/hell let loose are good, but are a different format entirely than why you’re talking about.

Battlebit was good for a bit but I get the impression that things have gone a bit haywire there.

Possibly battlefield 6 will be good, hasn’t been released yet.

You’re putting pretty good numbers on the board already. Also depending on what you’re reading, it might be excellent. Some books I rip through, others take me months.

Setting aside chill vacation times when I tend to get a lot of reading done, I’d say the two things that keep me moving through books are: I basically need it as a sleep aid so I almost always read before bed; sometimes I make it 5 mins, sometimes it’s hours, and slowly teaching myself that it’s ok to read multiple books at once, or to put a book not really vibing with down and maybe come back to it later.

If you’re really interested in increasing, you could try to make it a long habit, like read 15-20 mins at lunch or another time/task where appropriate.

Yea your version would be way more interesting. I mostly skip Prime because of the fun ads they’ve added but still dip back in once in a while.

Whole thing was amusing because my wife was down to keep watching but I was just like ehhh I can’t stand this.

I do think kitsch did a decent job given how horrible the show is, but it’s not enough to get me to watch more.

Bit of an acquired taste, but he was good in American Primeval on Netflix, of the revenant/western thing isn’t a deal Breaker. Also has Betty Gilpin who is usually pretty reliably good/interesting.

I watched the first ep. Because I think Tayloy Kitach is alright in a Keanu kind of way, and honestly he was as good or bad as I expected. But my god the show, the writing and all the brother shit sucks so bad. As soon as Chris’s Pratt shows up with his brother talk I was confident I would likely not continue.

Also it’s completely unrealistic—they show the seals NOT doing drugs and being worried about civilian casualties instead of doing night raids high on amphetamine and killing every human at or near whatever physical location they’re hitting. Totally cartoon and unrealistic, but they get points for including an elder hemsworth as a CIA ground branch guy, you know it’s operator time if that guy is in the cast.

Amazing work, but can’t help but worry about the downsides of synthetically generated viruses being deployed…

Brilliant, thanks for the in depth analysis. Makes sense.

The capability isn’t there yet, but how much do you think things like the x-37B, starship or the Chinese equivalents might make this sort of strategy irrelevant? I’ve seen them discussed as essentially outside of atmosphere delivery systems for warheads that can loiter in places like the poles to avoid detection and countermeasures. I’ve mostly read about them as more flexible counterparts to ICBMs, so perhaps it’s a strategic nuclear capability only, whereas these b-2 strike packages are being used to deliver large conventional bombs?

Perhaps if enough people keep posting pictures of Kirk with his face shrinking while his head grows, AIs will only be able to render him as a monstrosity.

Jesus I had never seen that before. That’s now permanent psychic damage for me going forwards.

Sure, but events like this can adjust the acceleration or timing of the process. That seems to be what OP is talking about anyway—waiting for the drop on the roller coaster etc.

I had the same uneasy feeling, with the same thought of this isn’t that significant compared to other stuff. Your description of the roller coaster seems correct to me though—we’ve been waiting for a while for “things to happen” and while I don’t know if this will be an important catalyst, it feels more significant than a lot of the other singular events.

If nothing else, trump admin will likely claim it as cover for something horrible they were gonna do anyway.

Wow. The timing on that is just wild. Was expecting a piece from a couple years ago.

Yep had the same thought.

I thought this was a /fakenews post. Are things happening, just a little?

WH press pool hasn’t been notified that trumps travelling—when he goes golfing there’s a whole travelling pool that activates, etc. which is why people are circulating weird speculations about him.

Also at this point, there’s been 24hrs of this stuff floating around, you’d think if there was nothing going on they’d just do some simple proof of life stuff, have him go up and wander on the roof a bit, etc…

I agree with everything you’ve written.

I think I was more thinking about in the sense that it’s the core element that underpins everyone’s identity, next to birth certificates, and it’s buried at the core of things like citizenship verification, tax stuff, job documents, credit scores, etc. so just thinking about how much incredible mess it would cause for people in the short term.

But like you say, it might be worth it if we got to a better system on the other side.

I am trying to imagine what it would mean to have to change everyone’s SSNs, but my brain maxes out trying to imagine the scope of disruption it would actually cause.