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Feels like information laundering to me.

Have you tried Tempest Rising?

That is absolutely nuts - a major land invasion with the goal of permanent occupation against Russia, who has nukes ranging from tactical to theater to strategic. China wants Russia isolated and dependent on them so they can exploit the relationship, that’s it.

That is absolutely nuts and one of the worst takes I’ve heard - a major land invasion with the goal of permanent occupation against Russia, who has nukes ranging from tactical to theater to strategic. China wants Russia isolated and dependent on them so they can exploit the relationship, that’s it.

I love the middleware idea as a one-stop shop for verification that could then be used by other platforms. Passports would be a hard sell, but a phone number and one time payment would work well I think.

If you feel remote viewing isn’t fringe we can agree to disagree. But between that and having colorful orbs fly around his house Elizondo is clearly prone to making fantastical claims without evidence, which undermines any claims of UAP (despite his authority in counter-intel).

It is a coordinated group of the same people starting in the 90s with NIDS (Hal Puthoff, Robert Bigelow, Eric Davis, Kit Green, Lue Elizondo, George Knapp, et al.) through the 2000s with AAWSAP and AATIP. All the stuff happening currently can be traced to them and the ‘lore’ they’ve managed to build up over the years.

“Lue Elizondo (who is very much not a fringe person”

Lue Elizondo is a highly fringe person, and has been for decades. He ‘learned’ remote viewing from Hal Puthoff, and claims he used it to somehow remotely interact with insurgents in Afghanistan. He also claims that he routinely sees colorful orbs floating around his house. He has also been caught faking UFO footage.

In describing (now public) military FLIR footage in his book, he gets several basic facts wrong: https://youtu.be/V6Pc48yXWyI?si=4RIEbhOsM_cJFelg

People are researching it, there is funding for it [1]. It’s a challenging thing to research.

Is it microplastics or nanoplastics or both?

How many types of plastic are there, half a dozen? What type of plastic do you want to test, what about multiple plastics in different proportions?

It can be difficult to identify mechanisms behind adverse reactions to more obvious stressors, let alone something like this which appears more chronic, long-term, and insidious.

1. https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-ES-23-0...

Putting aside the politics of this…

If you want to point to a single factor as having / not having an effect between 2 groups you need to account for other factors. You could setup a statistical model.

So to be clear, the fact that policemen in the US/UK do/don’t carry guns and have higher/lower crime rate doesn’t prove anything on its own.

Pretty incredible to quote yourself in your own post.

I relate really strongly to this and your original reply. I worked as hard as I could and kept my head down for decades, I guess secretly hoping I’d be appreciated but never advocating or looking out for myself because I felt worthless and had a lot of self-hate. It wasn’t until I started therapy, especially EMDR and spravato, that I was able to identify and work on past traumas that were driving this behavior. Obviously I don’t know if that’s the case here, but if so I’d really recommend seeking treatment, because you deserve a peaceful and good life.

I wonder if it’s a funding issue or cultural organization problem or something else. The federal government has been mediocre at disaster management historically, and I don’t envy any other countries response & results, but I’m disappointed how much they seem to be dropping the ball again.

Yeah that’s about what I figured based on the info I’ve been finding. But of course no one official wants to say that, so it’s just quotes like “we are monitoring dairy workers but it’s voluntary.” And a bunch of academic virologists saying “I’m concerned we should be doing more.”

The only preparations I’ve seen so far are 5 million H5N1 vaccines being made, and they seem to be pretty good about cataloging variants in case they’re needed for future vaccine production.

At a minimum I thought at least some dedicated officials would have an up-to-date detailed crash plan (which I will post here if I ever find it), even if they’re not actually putting resources to the problem.

Once this thing gets into pigs or some dairy worker contracts it and gets a seasonal flu strain at the same time, it sounds like we will be in big trouble. Former CDC director Rob Redfield is already saying he expects it to cross over and have significant mortality.

What would you have done differently than the treasury and fed did?

This was absolutely created with ChatGPT. To be reading AI slop in a thread about the future of the internet is some meta-level awfulness.

I’ve been migrating away from social media forums back to email newsletters just for better content. Feels weird to be saying that.

“Algorithms from Platforms will always filter out content that people don't want to see.”

I wish this were the case, but algos seem to prioritize engagement at the expense of experience. I wish they’d give us more granular control instead of an algo black box secret sauce. I’m increasingly so exhausted that I end up not exploring new context at all.

This really resonates with me. At 39 I’ve started to realize this myself.

I felt the same way getting close to 30, that I was getting old and approaching an age where everything in my life was about to crystallize, freeze, and stay that way forever. That the interesting time in my life, where I could make important changes, was about to end. Now I’m 39 and I actually feel younger now, because I’m starting to realize how long life is and how much more I have to go - and I don’t intend to live it all out as a frozen version of myself. I enrolled in a PhD program and it was tough to give up creature comforts but it’s been exciting, like I’ve taken advantage of my agency/autonomy for the first time in my life. I’ve stopped dealing with impossible family members and pressuring myself to do what other people want. I’m enjoying this adventure so much more now, and appreciating little things. What I’m trying to say is, happiness and satisfaction is a matter of perspective and growing older will hopefully give you more perspective. I think my best years are still ahead of me.

Yeah I had the same experience and ultimately got rid of an M1 iPad Pro for an M3 MacBook Air. I still have the ease and portability for watching videos while doing the dishes or on an airplane, with the added benefit of a keyboard and OS for productivity in case the muse visits.

Could you talk more about correct hypotheses resulting in loss in trading? I feel like I’ve called a couple things correctly and sometimes think of getting into trading to capitalize on such predictions. But I don’t want to cause you any frustration, so no worries if you’d rather not get into it :-)

So you can get the 0.5 resolution without text aliasing (which I agree is annoying) you just get a smaller viewing area. I keep hearing complaints about aliasing on the Air, and I can respect that since the default resolution causes it, but it is fixable at the expense of reduced viewing area.

My long-term plan is to drop a lot of money on external peripherals (monitor, speakers, etc) and then get the cheapest 16gb MacBook on sale to keep the portability option. Then I can upgrade to another cheap laptop as needed. I should’ve adopted this strategy originally.

I recommend installing office through the App Store to avoid that background service.

I thought they could drive up to 6k or something crazy - surprised to hear it struggles with TVs and projectors that I imagine are 4k.

You don’t have any idea what you’re talking about.

This is really it right here. Recession fears and large layoffs correlated directly with the raising of rates, as they always do.

Maybe extreme in the other direction lol

I agree, but the mission of private business is not to keep as many people employed as possible.

I imagine they’re just doing their best to adapt to a non-zero interest rate world.