I ate a moldy piece of cheese I found in a dumpster

Originally posted by Moldy Cheese:

I ate a moldy piece of cheese I found in a dumpster

and now everyone is brainless ipad kids endlessly scrolling youtube shorts

Metal Gear reference

Half-Life 2 Episode 3 has been delayed yet again.

Originally posted by Topic:

You wake up on January 1st 2030, what just happened?

A major terrorist attack, meticulously orchestrated over the preceding eighteen months by a splinter faction of the Islamic State -- rebranded as Wilayat al-Tawhid al-Jihadi (WTJ) after absorbing disaffected cadres from the remnants of ISIS-K in Afghanistan and hardened operatives from the Sahel -- unfolded in a synchronized, multi-vector assault on the morning of December 31, 2029, plunging the United States, parts of Western Europe, and select nodes of the global financial system into a state of emergency that carried over into the dawn of the new decade. You wake up on January 1st, 2030, to a world irrevocably altered: your smartphone’s emergency alert system blares with a Presidential Major Disaster Declaration; television networks (those still broadcasting via terrestrial fallback after partial grid failures) loop drone footage of smoldering skylines; and social media, though throttled under the newly invoked Digital Security Act of 2028, is flooded with grainy citizen videos, government press releases, and frantic family-group chats confirming the worst.
The operation, codenamed Operation Black Dawn by its perpetrators and later dubbed the New Year’s Eclipse by Western intelligence, began at 23:47 EST on December 31 with the simultaneous detonation of four vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs) in Manhattan’s Times Square, London’s Trafalgar Square, Paris’s Place de la Concorde, and Frankfurt’s Römerberg. Each VBIED was a repurposed electric delivery van -- procured through shell logistics companies in Estonia and retrofitted in clandestine garages outside Warsaw -- packed with 1,200 kilograms of a novel binary explosive combining military-grade RDX sourced from corrupt Ukrainian stockpiles with a 3D-printed plasticized enhancer that amplified blast radius by 40 percent. The vans were remotely triggered via encrypted 5G mesh networks piggybacking on Starlink terminals hijacked through a zero-day exploit in firmware version 3.14.7, deployed by WTJ’s cyber cell in Türkiye.
Casualties in the initial blasts exceeded 4,800 dead and 12,000 injured across the four sites, with Times Square alone accounting for 1,900 fatalities due to the density of New Year’s Eve revelers -- many live-streaming the countdown when the van parked beneath the TKTS bleachers erupted in a fireball that liquefied steel girders and hurled shrapnel through nine city blocks. Secondary effects were immediate: collapsing façades crushed subway entrances, trapping thousands in the 42nd Street–Port Authority station; ruptured gas mains ignited infernos that consumed the One Penn 1 and New Yorker Hotel complexes; and electromagnetic pulse (EMP) micro-drones -- released from the VBIEDs’ payloads -- fried unshielded electronics within a 400-meter radius, plunging Midtown into pre-industrial darkness.
But the VBIEDs were merely the opening salvo. At 23:51 EST, a fleet of 127 weaponized commercial drones -- DJI Agras T60 agricultural models modified in a safehouse outside Pristina to carry 3-kilogram payloads of ricin-laced shrapnel -- swarmed pre-programmed GPS coordinates above the Rose Bowl Parade route in Pasadena, the Sugar Bowl in New Orleans, and the Las Vegas Strip. The drones evaded FAA detection by spoofing transponders to mimic emergency medical flights, then descended in staggered waves, dispersing aerosolized ricin over crowds already panicked by breaking news of the European detonations. Early estimates placed biochemical exposure at 180,000 individuals; by sunrise on January 1, hospitals in Los Angeles reported 2,300 critical cases presenting with acute respiratory distress syndrome, the ricin having been stabilized with a polyethylene glycol coating that extended airborne viability to 18 minutes.
Concurrently, a maritime component unfolded in the Port of Rotterdam and the Houston Ship Channel. At 00:03 CET, the MV Aegean Dawn, a Liberian-flagged bulk carrier loaded with 42,000 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer (covertly adulterated with aluminum powder to create an ANFO derivative), was scuttled by a limpet mine attached by WTJ frogmen operating from a fishing trawler out of Tangier. The resulting detonation -- equivalent to 18 kilotons -- obliterated Europa’s largest port, sending a pressure wave that shattered windows 30 kilometers away in The Hague and triggered a tsunami that inundated the Maasvlakte industrial zone. In Houston, a parallel attack using a drone swarm to ignite a moored LNG tanker produced a boil-off vapor explosion that incinerated 14 adjacent berths and released a toxic plume of liquefied natural gas byproducts across Galveston Bay, forcing the evacuation of 1.2 million residents under I-45’s collapsing overpasses.
The cyber dimension, executed by a 42-member cell split between safehouses in Karachi and a dark-pool server farm in Reykjavik, commenced at 23:55 EST with a wiper malware variant dubbed Eclipse-9. Propagating through a supply-chain compromise in Cisco’s IOS-XE 17.9.4 update (backdoored via a third-party firmware vendor in Shenzhen), the malware targeted SCADA systems controlling the Eastern Interconnection power grid. By 00:12, 87 gigawatts -- roughly 45 percent of the Northeast’s generating capacity -- went offline as transformers at key substations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ontario were deliberately overloaded via falsified load-balancing commands. Rolling blackouts cascaded into the Midwest, halting Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, grounding 1,400 flights at JFK, Newark, and Dulles, and disabling 62 percent of Verizon’s 5G nodes, which severed emergency 911 dispatch in 14 states.
Financial markets, already jittery from algorithmic front-running of the attack rumors, froze when the NYSE’s matching engine in Mahwah, New Jersey, suffered a physical breach: a WTJ operative -- embedded as a night-shift cleaner since March 2029 -- deployed a canister of VX nerve agent in the server hall at 00:07. Though contained to 19 fatalities among technicians, the contamination forced an indefinite trading halt, triggering circuit breakers across the NASDAQ, CBOE, and European exchanges linked via SIP feeds. By 01:30 EST, the S&P 500 futures had limit-downed 22 percent, vaporizing $11 trillion in notional value and activating the SEC’s Market-Wide Circuit Breaker Level 3 for the first time since its 2026 revision.
The human toll, still being tallied as you stir awake, stands at 9,400 confirmed dead, 28,000 injured, and 1.8 million displaced. In New York, FDNY’s special operations command reports 412 firefighters missing after the collapse of the Times Square subway mezzanine. Paris’s SAMU teams triage victims under the Arc de Triomphe’s skeletal remains, while Frankfurt’s Hauptbahnhof -- its glass roof pancaked by overpressure -- serves as a makeshift morgue. Radiological teams in Rotterdam detect trace cesium-137 in the port’s sediment, hinting at a dirty bomb component that failed to disperse; meanwhile, CDC field hospitals in Pasadena administer atropine to ricin-exposed parade-goers, their hazmat tents illuminated by generators as California’s grid flickers under emergency load-shedding.
Geopolitically, the aftermath crystallizes within hours. At 02:00 EST, President Delgado -- speaking from the PEOC beneath the White House -- invokes the Insurrection Act and mobilizes 120,000 National Guard troops to cordon Manhattan south of 14th Street, designating it Federal Security Zone Alpha. NATO activates Article 5 at 03:30 CET after MI6 confirms WTJ’s centralized command node in a villa outside Raqqa, Syria, still under the nominal control of the Syrian Democratic Forces. Russian President Volkov offers "unconditional logistical support" via a televised address from the Kremlin, though Pentagon liaisons quietly suspect Rosgvardia units are already embedding with WTJ to exploit the chaos. China’s Politburo Standing Committee declares a "global force majeure" on Belt-and-Road repayments, while the PBOC injects 4.2 trillion yuan into state banks to stabilize the yuan after a 9 percent flash crash against the dollar.
WTJ claims responsibility at 04:17 EST via a deepfake video featuring a digitally resurrected Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi -- ISIS’s second caliph, killed in 2022 -- broadcast on a hijacked Al Jazeera feed. The manifesto, encrypted in the video’s steganographic metadata, demands the immediate withdrawal of all Western forces from the Middle East, the release of 1,200 detainees from Guantanamo Bay and France’s Camp d’Artois, and the establishment of a Khilafah al-Jadidah stretching from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Hindu Kush. Intelligence analysts note the video’s production values -- 4K resolution, AI-enhanced lip-sync in 14 languages -- suggest state-level backing; NSA’s subsequent packet capture traces the upload to a server in Tehran’s Milad Tower, though Iran’s Foreign Ministry denies involvement with practiced indignation.
As you check your phone -- its battery at 11 percent after overnight charging failed amid the blackout -- you see FEMA push notifications instructing residents within 200 miles of affected cities to shelter in place with duct-taped windows against potential follow-on biochemical releases. The Dow, in pre-market trading on emergency generators, is indicated down 3,400 points. Bitcoin, ironically, surges 180 percent as investors flee fiat, though the Ethereum network stalls when a major validator in Rotterdam’s ruined data center goes dark. Your cousin in Queens texts a photo of National Guard Humvees blocking the RFK Bridge; your colleague in London sends a voice note describing the acrid smoke drifting over the Thames, the London Eye frozen mid-rotation like a broken clock.
The long-term ripples are only beginning to manifest. Insurance underwriters at Lloyd’s -- itself evacuated after a suspicious package at Canary Wharf -- estimate insured losses at $1.4 trillion, dwarfing 9/11 by an order of magnitude and triggering a cascade of reinsurance failures that will bankrupt Munich Re and Swiss Re within 72 hours. Supply chains fracture: with Rotterdam’s container throughput halted, Dutch flower markets wilt, Taiwanese semiconductor fabs in HSINCHU idle for lack of precursor chemicals, and Brazilian soy shipments reroute to a crippled Houston, spiking global food prices 28 percent by January 3. The U.S. Congress, in emergency session via secure video from Mount Weather, passes the Domestic Resilience Act of 2030 by voice vote, granting the newly created Department of Homeland Cybersecurity warrantless access to all domestic encrypted communications for 180 days.
Yet amid the carnage, anomalies emerge. A WTJ financier -- captured by Jordanian Mukhabarat in Amman at 05:45 local time -- carries a ledger referencing cryptocurrency wallets tied to a Cayman Islands trust ultimately controlled by a deceased Russian oligarch, suggesting the attack may have been a hybrid false-flag to settle scores in the opaque world of post-sanction energy markets. Leaked DARPA memos, surfaced on a mirror of WikiLeaks hosted in Iceland, reveal that the EMP micro-drones’ guidance chips contain lithography patterns unique to a TSMC fab under de facto PLA oversight, hinting at a deeper geopolitical calculus. And in a quiet suburb of Fairfax, Virginia, an FBI forensic linguist notices that the deepfake caliph’s manifesto contains syntactic markers identical to those in a 2027 psyop campaign run by a now-defunct CIA cutout in Kyiv.
You pour coffee from an emergency camp stove, the aroma cutting through the metallic tang of fear, and realize that January 1st, 2030, is not merely the first day of a new year but the demarcation line between a world that believed it had tamed chaos and one that now awakens to its permanence. The death toll will climb; the investigations will span decades; and the geopolitical reordering -- perhaps a NATO-Russia condominium over the Middle East, perhaps a Sino-American cold peace enforced by mutual economic hostage-taking -- remains unwritten. But for now, the sirens wail, the screens flicker with casualty counters, and the fragile scaffolding of 21st-century civilization creaks under a weight it was never designed to bear.

2029 just happened

Originally posted by Lime:

2029 just happened

Probaly the first moon base is built by 01, aka the machines / robots / skynet /AM, etc.

i waek up to found out that liborols took my bals. smh liber reals