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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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Was just watching Jack Ryan Season 3 and seeing the display of force and their movements causes some interesting dissonance given what we know now.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Essentially the CIA and DHS are highly involved in the production, including script writing. Pretty much like everything Tom Clancy's was ever involved with (including posthumously). Tom.Clancy used to give talks at the NSA, had his books reviewed by the intelligence agencies before publishing, etc.

Pretty sad how quickly Lemmy turned into a shitlib space that pointing out that stuff literally done in collaboration with the intelligence and militaries agencies is fucking propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

But those two tidbits about Tom Clancy are fun.

The NSA reviewed his books and asked him to present his sources because he concluded a bunch of classified information using unclassified sources.

Feel free to tl;dw me for the link, it's only fair, but it's a very interesting listen

https://youtu.be/VS54M5Mqa9M

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah that speech is referenced by Secker. I'll save it for later, but I'd still appreciate the TL;DW.

(RIP Zoboo!)

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