Thunor

While it is of course true that Ukraine (aided by both the UK and USA) did recently launch a successful assault upon grounded Russian Strategic Bombers (at four airfields simultaneously) using a fleet of Quadcopters, it is also true that a significant amount of video and JPEG footage of the damage allegedly caused by this operation really does include known fakes ... derived from video game footage that is so realistic they are readily accepted by many as actual footage of those recent attacks. On June 1 alone — the day of Ukraine’s large-scale strike on Russian airfields — a known TikTok account posted nine videos compiled from video game footage, which then spread "like a virus" across social media. One clip amassed around six million views on the original platform. Notably, Kyiv has previously passed-off ARMA 3 gameplay as real combat footage. Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense once released a video allegedly showing its air defense systems shooting down four Russian helicopters in the Kherson region at night — a clip later identified as coming from the same video game. So please continue to be careful and vigilant while trying to decide who to take notice of when scanning Social Media feeds ... and this advice especially applies to those dupes who for some reason think Nostr shall be inherently immune to all those misinformation problems seen on other SM platforms.

“The most terrifying force of death, comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They resist every impulse to fight back, knowing the forced and permanent change of life that will come from it. They know, that the moment they fight back, their lives as they have lived them, are over. The moment the men who wanted to be left alone are forced to fight back, it is a form of suicide. They are literally killing off who they used to be. Which is why, when forced to take up violence, these men who wanted to be left alone, fight with unholy vengeance against those who murdered their former lives. They fight with raw hate, and a drive that cannot be fathomed by those who are merely play-acting at politics and terror. TRUE TERROR will arrive at these people’s door, and they will cry, scream and beg for mercy…but it will fall upon the deaf ears of the men who just wanted to be left alone.” ― Alexander Solzhenitsyn

(((Mark Zuckerberg’s))) -- NOT HIS REAL NAME -- "Expensive Fear of Competition": What if the dominant courtroom drama of the year wasn’t about guilt or innocence, but about whether Silicon Valley’s richest empire spent billions to smother threats before they could breathe? Behind closed doors and under oath, executives, professors, and former insiders have begun to unravel the real playbook of a company [FACEBOOK] that claimed to innovate while quietly cloning, cornering, and outspending its way to dominance. From desperate app launches to $19 billion “panic buys,” Meta's actual story is more about fear, the desperate need to 'influence' you and everybody else, and the simple raw mechanics of how "Deep State" sponsored tech giants quietly defend their crappy thrones.

I once visited the Houston Space Centre during some free-time while attending a technical course on Gas Turbine control systems, held on the outskirts of the City of Houston. As a result, I am one of the relatively few persons on this planet who has walked the full length of a horizontally laid Saturn V rocket. And to my eye, it looked far too small (both in length and diameter) to convince me it could have launched 3 men in suites, alongside a Space Buggy, food and water supply equipment, plus oxygen tanks to last several days ... not to mention several relatively heavy batteries, and a long list of other exotic equipment. And when I eventually made my way to the Lunar Module (i.e., the weird contraption glued together with aluminium foil, staplers, and a few metal struts) I stood just a few paces away from it ... and within a few breaths I just burst out laughing. "You got to be kidding me" said my mind's eye. The Apollo Program was (surely) mostly a hoax, that's all I can say. I can't prove it. But neither can NASA prove that all of it's camera work and telemetry [allegedly on/from the Lunar surface] were both authentic. [Photo: "Moon Rise" taken from NASA's Space Shuttle, Columbia.]