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theoriginalcracker retweeted
For anyone curious about what it actually looked like to kill a generation of functioning cars, here’s an actual video from 2009 and brief explanation:
The dealer first replaces the oil with sodium silicate solution. It’s a clear-ish liquid that crystallizes under extreme heat. As the engine warms up the solution begins to form small abrasive crystals in the oil system that shred the bearing and score the cylinder walls.
Within seconds of starting the car you can see smoke billowing from the exhaust, this is the crystals scratching the cylinder walls and leaving small grooves for oil and solution to leak past into the combustion chamber and ignite/evaporate, producing the white smoke.
Pretty soon the entire crankcase is full of crystals and freshly shredded metal flakes, the engine seizes. It took about 40 seconds in this video. Some engines reportedly lasted up to 7 minutes, but all were destroyed. That strikes me as sort of sad in a way, like watching a great warrior slowly lose a heroic last stand.
Now, this is the part that gets insanely wasteful. These cars were sent to federally approved recycling facilities where they had 180 days to sell the non-engine parts before they were required to prove that they had shred the entire thing into scrap steel.
But, in talking to a guy who ran one such facility at the time, he typically just sent them straight to the crusher. The timeframes allotted weren’t long enough to dismantle all of the cars, and even if you could, the marginal prices of the parts was greatly diminished. You cannot sell 1000 transmissions when only 50 went bad that year, they became worthless.
So just like that, in order to increase prosperity and save the environment, 677,000 entire running cars and trucks were turned directly into rebar worth a few cents per pound.
The entire Obama administration was like a chapter out of atlas shrugged.
Barack Obama was horrible in a million different ways, but he doesn’t get anywhere near the hate he deserves for destroying the used car market for an entire generation.
15-year-old cars with 150,000 miles that should be selling for $3,000 are going for $15,000. It’s abominable. Pure destruction and thievery.
theoriginalcracker retweeted
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theoriginalcracker retweeted
Considering how powerful the Israeli lobby and its hold on political and media discourse have been, it would have been unfathomable just a decade ago that Americans would experience such a mass awakening about Israel.
The times really are a-changing...
theoriginalcracker retweeted
🚨NEW: HMRC's letter to wealthy Britons demanding detailed information about their financial arrangements has been revealed
theoriginalcracker retweeted
I came to @LuganoPlanB every year since it started. But this year will mark my last visit. Here ls why!
Maybe if I had to summarize in one word, it would be "Conformity" (and lack of novelty).
I came to #bitcoin 6 years ago, as for me it was the best way to express a vote against the system. For me Bitcoin was first a rebellion, before being a life raft and ultimately a freedom rocket. And the yearly pilgrimage to #luganoplanb was a way to connect with fellow bitcoiners and learn new stuff, as well as check the "pulse" of the community.
This year at Plan B, I am feeling that bitcoin has become more and more "corporate" and "conforms" to rules that don't fit my ethos. Not saying it is a bad thing (it probably is in fact a good thing for the fiat dollars price of BTC, if tt is your denominator!).
There is as much AI (if not more!) than Bitcoin related speeches, and Ferraris are displayed at the main entrance, instead of a giant middle finger to the system statue, as it should! This is a great symbol I think.
Also and very important to me, there is no social gathering initiatives, and the atmosphere being more "corporate", it feels increasingly difficult to connect to other bitcoiners.
I also lack the attendance of "bitcoin rockstars", even if they might not add much, they tend to drag some action and a bit of rock'n'roll attitude (@jackmallers or @maxkeiser were definitely good at that!).
The only rockstar is the one playing in his own garden... @paoloardoino made a speech that frankly made me scared... but I leave tt to another post! But for sure PlanB Lugano is @tether ´s owned conference and that is very obvious everywhere you look... but in a "decentralized" philosophy like bitcoin, I might question it.
Ok that's it. I just wanted to share my 2 cents, and I am totally aware that the above points really depends on everyone's journey along the path of BTC Avenue.
Thank you Lugano Plan B for the great times over the years. So long and take care of this really amazing statue of Satoshi... but please turn him/her around so he/she can see the lake and sun setting when not playing games on the laptop for god sake!!
theoriginalcracker retweeted
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Since publishing my CAPTURE investigation into Bitcoin Core governance and taking a public position on BIP-110, I've been repeatedly targeted by @Coinicarus.
On his show Pleb Underground, and X, he's compared me to Craig Wright, tied me to a scheme to “monetize the people that we scammed”, and named me when asked to identify a grifter. His co-host has explicitly called me a scammer.
I only discovered this on 21 October, after first seeing a post on X where he said I had “gone completely off the deep end.” I contacted him privately that same day and asked him to explain. He didn't want to.
Thread. 🧵
theoriginalcracker retweeted
Foundation just had spam go out from its real domains after Cloudflare API keys leaked.
Lesson for everyone: a legit sender address doesn't mean a legit email.
No real wallet company will ever ask for your seed phrase. 🟧
ANNOUNCEMENT: SPAM EMAILS HAVE BEEN SENT THAT APPEAR TO HAVE COME FROM OFFICIAL FOUNDATION DOMAINS.
We have traced this back to one or more compromised API keys on Cloudflare, and have already revoked all API keys.
The malicious domain in the spam email has been taken down.
Funds stored on Passport are safe and Passport hardware is not compromised.
We are working nonstop to discover exactly what happened and will put out a report ASAP.
theoriginalcracker retweeted
ANNOUNCEMENT: SPAM EMAILS HAVE BEEN SENT THAT APPEAR TO HAVE COME FROM OFFICIAL FOUNDATION DOMAINS.
We have traced this back to one or more compromised API keys on Cloudflare, and have already revoked all API keys.
The malicious domain in the spam email has been taken down.
Funds stored on Passport are safe and Passport hardware is not compromised.
We are working nonstop to discover exactly what happened and will put out a report ASAP.
theoriginalcracker retweeted
Watch out — I just received this scam email claiming to be @FoundationHQ @zherbert
theoriginalcracker retweeted
Spot on:
I thought the same thing when I saw this speech yesterday.
It’s so unbelievably out of touch.
Trump cares about himself, large corporations, and the billionaires.
He could care less about the American people 😡
@helloamericasup
theoriginalcracker retweeted
🚨 UNCOVERED:
INTERNATIONAL CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING. JEFFREY EPSTEIN. ERIKA FRANTZVE KIRK. ROMANIA. 2012.
Jeffrey <[email protected]>
Monday, May 21, 2012 5:49 AM
danielsiad siad
I leave paris today, was nice to meet u. This is my romanian number 07431023=1 and my e-mail landy. landyana
SAME COUNTRY. SAME YEAR. APPROXIMATELY 3 MONTHS APART.
And the documented timeline deserves serious attention.
MAY 21, 2012 | JEFFREY EPSTEIN
Newly released Epstein records reportedly contain an email dated May 21, 2012, in which the convicted sex offender provided a ROMANIAN TELEPHONE NUMBER.
Jeffrey Epstein reportedly visited Romania for the 1st time in May 2012, according to Romanian news investigations published in February 2026.
The key documented date is May 21, 2012.
On that date, Epstein sent an email to Daniel Siad stating that he had left Paris and providing a Romanian telephone number beginning with 0743.
Romanian outlets including Antena 3 CNN, Adevărul, and Observator reported that this correspondence suggested Epstein had traveled to Romania in 2012. Romanian media also reported correspondence involving intermediaries, Romanian women, photographs, and financial transfers.
The man at the center of an INTERNATIONAL CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING SCANDAL had documented connections to Romania.
AUGUST 2012 | ERIKA FRANTZVE KIRK
APPROXIMATELY THREE MONTHS LATER.
Erika Frantzve’s, Everyday Heroes Like You, & Romanian Angels documented its 1st time to ROMANIA IN August 2012 in CONSTANȚA, ROMANIA.
Erika’s @MrsErikaKirk organization’s archived website describes visits to HOSPITALS and ORPHANAGES, followed by a suspicious partnerships with the Antonio Placement Center through the ROMANIAN ANGELS.
TWO DOCUMENTED TIMELINES. SAME COUNTRY. SAME YEAR.
1. observatornews.ro/extern/jef…
2 DOJ Epstein Files — EFTA02554926 (PDF)
theoriginalcracker retweeted
Lula vs. Bolsonaro: I was held in solitary confinement for 1,901 days for revealing the truth about the U.S. government's killings and espionage, including against Brazil and its industries. Out of power, Lula fought for my freedom. In power, Lula discussed my persecution with Pope Francis, who decided to meet with my family and offer help. After my release, Lula and I met in Rome to mourn the Holy Father's passing. Lula was kind to my children and asked for nothing in return. In contrast, Jair and Flávio Bolsonaro did nothing and said nothing. Yet without the ability to say no to Washington and Tel Aviv, there can be no domestic policy, only foreign instructions. Those orders are always the same: "Expand our theft of resources and wages, and keep your mouths shut about us murdering children." Sellouts will surrender everything in exchange for a cut, even their own tongues.
theoriginalcracker retweeted
COBOL still runs core systems in ~40% of banks, 95% of ATM transactions, 80% of in-person card payments, and government services like Social Security and IRS processing. It handles trillions in daily commerce. A zero-day could disrupt payments, withdrawals, and benefits if widely exploited, though mainframes are often isolated and hard to patch.
theoriginalcracker retweeted
THIS IS BRAVE: A political ad just released in Michigan tackles the almost unmentionable (in the US) topic of the billions of taxpayer dollars being sent to Netanyahu’s Israel. It features a harried mother and father buying food for their children.
theoriginalcracker retweeted
FORBIDDEN STUDIOS PRESENTS: MIGHTY ZION ORANGE RANGER 🍊⚡
Straight from the lost archives of 1995 Saturday morning television.
It's morphin' time.
theoriginalcracker retweeted
Chamath is an idiot.
For one… Satoshi doesn’t have a wallet.
Rather he holds Bitcoin in over 22,000 different addresses (essentially different “wallets” none connected to the other).
Two… SHA-256 isn't what guards anyone’s coins.
Whatever you believe about Bitcoin’s “price” and “market cap” versus the dollar… remember - it’s natural, non-motivated direction is “up”, not down… each person that has an epiphany that its is a better currency than anything on earth ADDS to that upward momentum…