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I used to term hobbyist to merely imply that I am not working in that field. You are right to assume my knowledge in spying is close to null (comparatively to an agent) though and I agree with that but if you think professional spies have some higher class of knowledge regarding operational security innacessible to the public you are wrong. The only things that make them more efficient is time and money.

Now, if you actually invested some time in this so called russian hacking you'll find that it fits your ideas. The evidence presented by the federal bureau... (read more)

Well,I agree with what you say. Sorry if my original post did not convey much thanks to the manner in which I post when my expectations regarding a piece of media are not met. Overall, I was dissapointed by their dialogue due to it's poor quality because these two individuals seem to be somewhat respected thinkers on the internet.

Now I would like to extend a little on the russian hacking part. I am not living in the United States and I have not been implicated politically except for reading online various material on the election. I do not deny there is a ... (read more)

0IlyaShpitser
Let's say there was a blackop by the Russians of some sort. How would an opsec hobbyist like you know? You are a hobbyist, they are professional spies, probably the best in the world.

trust me I'm a hypnotist

no but I know how trump actually thinks

I predicted everything

you see the russian hacking

worst anime this fucking season, I can't believe I wasted more than an hour on this. How the russian hacking narrative didn't completly implode when the fbi published their paper which basically assumed everything and showed nothing completly baffles me.

but trumpkin dear, trump is in bed with putin and two korean twinks

Yes, but there's no russian hacking, the dnc are just technologically retarded sofas.

0Viliam
I haven't seen this, but doesn't "Trump won because of Russian hackers" somehow contradict "Trump won because he has persuasion skills"? I mean, it is not literally a contradiction -- you could be a hypnotist and have an army of hackers -- but Occam's razor makes either "A" or "B" preferable to "A and B" as an explanation. If Trump is master hypnotist, then it is not necessary to assume the Russian hackers. And if Russia is making Trump win, then he doesn't have to be master hypnotist. I guess what I actually want to say is that "Trump who doesn't need Russian hackers" seems to have greater persuasion skills than "Trump who needs Russian hackers to win". So I would expect Adams to argue against the Russian hackers, because that would make his case stronger.

Yes but sadly there isn't a rar adjent community for everything, maybe in the form of rat fiction but still I kinda want to know what other people here visit because I'm interested.

What other non-rat communities are you a part of ?

4username2
419eater. P.S. "rat" is a terrible label, I would even prefer "cult"
0Lumifer
What, a murine community is not good enough? X-)
2[anonymous]
The close-up magic community.

A description of your selection heuristics would be good for those who are considering this.

2SquirrelInHell
My heuristics look roughly like: ~60% of score: does it carry some actual new concept/perspective/piece of understanding of rationality/psychology/the world as pertains to those two? ~30% of score: is it likely to be useful to people in general (not just in a few particular areas of interest/special cases)? ~10%: is it fun/well written/interesting?