I'm sure most of us have played Skyrim. I'm sure most of us have seen the NPCs that just awkwardly stand there, swaying slightly with a blank look on their face.

I'm starting to think this whole world is just an illusion. I just walked into my break room, and saw a guy just staring at the vending machine. Slightly hunched over, and swaying.

So I sat down at a table and start browsing my phone.

He's still standing there. Same spot. No words. Not looking at a phone. Just dead staring at a vending machine which is 2/3rds empty. Not counting money. Just staring dead forward.

After a while I wondered how long he was going to do this. I walked around the side of him, looked at his face, and asked if he was ok. He grunted at me, like hmmmmph.

I went back to my table and started a stopwatch.

When my break was over he was still standing there. 22 minutes staring at a vending machine, and telling multiple people he's fine, but also grunting at most people.

The ONLY explaination I can come up with is that he's an NPC who failed the turing test, and this entire world doesn't exist. I don't exist. You don't exist. None of this matters.

Anyone else think this is some kind of poorly coded simulation?

"On January 27, 2026, planes flew over our land and started to spray. We didn’t know what they were spraying, but we saw it fall onto our fields. Ten days after the planes flew over, everything was yellow and then everything died. I lost 75 hectares of wheat; my whole harvest disappeared.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4080950/Grayjay

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4080950/Grayjay

That’s it. That’s all I got.

58 per cent of Canadians surveyed said they no longer view the U.S. as a reliable ally

Over two-thirds of Canadians said the U.S. tends to create problems for other countries rather than solve them

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/38814015

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called for an end to widespread anonymity on the internet, saying users should post under their real names.

US intelligence knew about Ukrainian plans to sabotage the Nord Stream pipelines far earlier than previously reported, according to reports in the German media.

In a news report on Thursday, Der Spiegel said CIA officers met with Ukrainian operatives in spring 2022 to discuss plans for destroying the pipelines that carried Russian natural gas to Germany along the Baltic Sea seabed.

Ukrainian sources told the magazine that American officials initially reacted positively to the idea and engaged in talks about technical aspects of the operation.

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You would have thought by now people would stop trusting this guy

cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/41581510

And don't say beans or I'll reach through the internet and punch you in the face.

Nonetheless, the notion of a forthcoming war has been the main topic of conversation in news studios and cafés across the country because Israelis are exhausted by two years of *warfare with Gaza and Hamas’s allies.

*Genocide of Palestinians

Dan Diker, who has authored books on Iran’s race for regional supremacy and who heads the Jerusalem Centre for Security and Foreign Affairs, said: “Israel faces an existential threat by the Iranian regime’s ballistic missile programme, which is understood to include up to 2,000 missiles currently with a ramped-up production rate.

“The current Iranian ballistic missile threat can potentially overwhelm Israel’s anti-missile defence systems. Therefore, if Israel senses that there is an imminent ballistic attack it’s reasonable to assume [with] the way Israel acted in June 2025 that it will again neutralise the Iranian regime ballistic missile threat whether it takes the lead or it follows the US lead or works in tandem.”

I feel like I am standing in a casino cacophony except instead of a sea of slot machine sounds it is a sea of BOMB IRAN levers being pulled over and over again endlessly.

.....sure yeah that is what is coming, I sure believe that, this definitely isn't just a threat

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/34323150

Intelligence findings given to parliament say ‘rogue’ agencies and individuals recruiting Kenyan nationals to frontline

More than 1,000 Kenyans have been lured to fight for Russia in its war with Ukraine, according to an intelligence report to the Kenyan parliament that highlights the scale of a Russian operation taking African men to the frontline.

The majority leader of Kenya’s national assembly, Kimani Ichung’wah, said “rogue recruitment agencies and individuals in Kenya” were continuing to send Kenyan nationals to fight in the conflict, as he read MPs the summary of an investigation by Kenya’s National Intelligence Service.

. . .

A growing number of people from African countries – including Kenya, Uganda and South Africa – and elsewhere have been lured to the frontline as Russia seeks manpower to sustain its invasion. Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, said in November that more than 1,400 people from 36 African countries were fighting for Russia in Ukraine. Many are being held by Ukraine as prisoners of war.

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