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Cake day: February 16th, 2025

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  • A reminder that when Robert Maxwell died, the directors of every Israeli intelligence agency attended his funeral. He had been suspected of being a triple agent by the British foreign office, with funding from the USSR and a longstanding link with the Mossad, for which he is suspected of selling backdoored software to Los Alamos and involvement in the kidnapping of a nuclear whistleblower in London who then spent 18 years in captivity in Israel.

    So Epstein certainly had connections with dabblers in targeting US government institutions and human traffickers.






  • Enigma was widely used, not just by Germany during the war, and was still current in the 50s. Additionally, the methods used to defeat Enigma had value against other encryption. It is also the policy of British intelligence not to publicise their work or capabilities.

    British intelligence workers also took the Official Secrets Act at its word, while their American counterparts eventually assumed that as it was in the past they could talk about it.










  • Jamaica spends more on its Olympic team than the US does. They enter around 60-70 athletes, while the US is spread thinner with around 600.

    So ultimately Jamaica spends over 10x per athlete. And that’s state funding, which the US doesn’t do. Team USA half-asses the Olympics, falling back on sheer population size to garner the required athletes at the right time, rather than having a proper training programme.






  • As to the radioactivity issue, fusion would irradiate the equipment with isotopes of very short half-life, but the volume would be no more than with fission, and at a much lower radioactivity requiring decades of storage rather than millennia. It also aids in anti-proliferation as a fusion reaction won’t generate significant fissile material under normal operation, unlike fission. So it could be used in countries that aren’t feasible now with strict regulations such as maintaining a minimum lithium enrichment level.