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Carroll County, Kentucky, residents play data center noise at a Fiscal Court meeting to make a point about the noise pollution they now live with.
They are met with incredulous and condescending remarks.
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Whats interesting is physics is waiting for another Einstein to come along and find or advance the next big breakthrough proving the universe works the way we think it does.
The real gold in the hills may be someone coming along and proving that it doesn't work the way we thought it did, despite our super successful mathmatical frameworks.
Perhaps the universe is not as fundamentally complex and impossible to understand.
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Ever notice that in Dune humans fly spaceships between planets but don't use a single computer?
That's not a plot hole. It's completely on purpose. The movies barely explain why, but once you know, almost everything else in Dune starts to make sense.
About 10,000 years before Paul Atreides, humans did exactly what we're doing right now. They built thinking machines to make life easier. They let the machines do their work and make their decisions, hoping it would set them free.
Instead, the people who controlled those machines gained the power to enslave everyone else.
Humanity eventually fought back in a holy war called the Butlerian Jihad, and won. The thinking machines were destroyed.
To make sure it would never happen again, they made one rule sacred: "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."
But getting rid of computers created a problem: who would do their work? The answer was humans.
Mentats are trained from childhood to think like computers. Navigators use the spice to glimpse the future and steer ships safely through space. The Bene Gesserit spend generations pushing the human mind and body to their limits.
Every superpower in Dune exists for one reason: there are no computers.
That's my favorite thing about Dune. It's also the most terrifying. Dune isn't a future without AI. It's the future after AI.
Frank Herbert wrote that in 1965.
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🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in North Carolina after an HOA just DOUBLED monthly fees to **$2,500/MONTH** for homeowners who were paying just $158/month just five years ago...
...and the homeowners say the HOA board tried to charge homeowners $7,500/MONTH JUST IN HOA FEES!!!!!!!
On Monday night, the board backed off $7,500...
...but voted to DOUBLE fees to $2,500 a month instead.
Yes, $30,000 a year just to LIVE IN YOUR HOME THAT YOU BOUGHT.
Nearly SIXTEEN TIMES what families were paying a few years ago.
Families who bought what they thought were their forever homes are now being told to pay $30,000 a year in HOA fees, or GO INTO FORECLOSURE!!!!!!
The neighborhood is Magnolia Cove in Sherrills Ford, Catawba County NC.
Jill Menson and her husband bought their house believing it would be their LAST home and five years ago, their HOA fee was $158 a month.
This summer it shot up to more than $1,200.
Plus a $10,000 ASSESSMENT on top of that.
On Monday night, the HOA board voted to raise fees AGAIN, from $1,250 to $2,500 a month.
That’s nearly SIXTEEN TIMES what they paid five years ago.
And the meeting?
It was held over ZOOM.
Menson says they’ll be forced out with nowhere to go, because no one will buy a house carrying fees like that.
So they went to the state for help.
The North Carolina Attorney General’s office told Channel 9 there are NO STATUTES limiting how much an HOA can charge.
None.
As long as the board follows its own documents, it can charge whatever it wants.
In Jill Menson’s words:
“Nobody is helping us.”
THIS IS ABSOLUTELY ABSURD AND SHOULD BE ILLEGAL!!!!!!!!!!
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BREAKING: NASA TRIGGERED A HUGE EARTHQUAKE IN INDONESIA (probably)
Analysis of ionospheric measurements show that NASA's Artemis II rocket launch back on April 1st 2026 (starting at 22:35 UTC) created a 5000 km long plasma contrail in Earth's ionosphere over North America. The Artemis II rocket was blasting its engines in the ionosphere for a full 18 minutes shortly after takeoff, with pressure from the hot exhaust creating and displacing local plasma, leaving a trail of disturbed plasma along its flight path stretching 5000 km (3100 miles), approximately the length of the continental USA.
Here's where it gets crazy.
13 minutes after launch at 22:48 UTC while Artemis II was in Earth's inosphere creating this plasma contrail, a powerful magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Indonesia in the Molucca Sea, shaking nearby islands of Sulawesi, Halmahera, Taliabu, and Pulau Obi. Here is the M7.4 USGS event page earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqua… I'm sure some of you remember my live coverage of the rocket launch and ensuing earthquake youtube.com/watch?v=W3YyBy4i… (this is a clip). Additionally it was a Full Moon (3 hours from exact, another triggerig mechanism) at time of launch with both South East Asia and the Americas on the sunlit side of the Earth (sharing the dayside ionosphere)
Now if you're unaware, TONS of research has been done studying the interconnectedness of high-magnitude earthquakes (and just in general the lithosphere) and the ionosphere. Pulsing flashes of light (plasma, earthquake lights) have been observed happening just before and during earthquakes. Changes in ionospheric plasma (TEC) are often observed before, during, and immediately after powerful earthquakes. Schumann resonances (Earth's naturally resonant energy fields) can shift in their power, frequencies, and q-factors before, during, and immediately after powerful earthquakes. Anomalous radio-frequencies are often picked up as earthquake precursors, drastic increases in atmospheric conductivity in the boundary layer (0-2 km) have been observed, and even long-period magnetic waves have been observed pulsing in Earth's magnetic field after the most powerful earthquakes (Alaska M9.2 1964). There's more, but to summarize, the ionospheric and lithosphere are energetically connected together via a variety of mechanisms and they form a dynamic system where nudging one can nudge the other.
See what a lot of geoscientists are loath to admit (for whatever reason) is that many unique triggering mechanisms exist for earthquakes. We have strain buildup finally tipping a fault or plate boundary over the edge (here everyone agrees), gravitational triggering via lunisolar effects (well proven), space weather (overwhelming evidence), and apparently ionospheric disturbances natural or manmade such as from huge rocket launches or nuclear detonations.
Space Weather . Com wrote about the plasma contrail from Artemis II today (spaceweather.com/archive.php…) and said at the bottom:
"No harm done? The plasma contrails faded after about an hour, and the paper reports no problems with GPS. But Artemis II may be just a preview. When SpaceX begins frequent launches of its giant Starship rocket, plasma contrails could become bigger and more common. The experiment is about to begin..."
They did not acknowledge the huge earthquake which struck Indonesia, so "no harm done" would be FALSE, but they did point out how as heavy rocket launches are about to go exponential, a giant global experiment is about to begin that could have disasterous ramifications for millions. What if a space mission or war mongering nuclear test triggers New Madrid, or Cascadia?
Now personally, drawing a direct triggering connection between the rocket launch and the M7.4 Indonesia earthquake I think is a slam dunk not only from the beyond coincidental timing but also from the undeniable GPS evidence of the giant plasma contrail created from Artemis II in the ionosphere. What do you think though? Here's a link to the research paper "Rare reoccurring ionosphere disturbances observed during the Artemis-II Lunar flyby voyage" just published in Geophysical Research Letters essopenarchive.org/doi/full/…
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Can we stop talking about "former" intelligence agents and the podcast drama between them and maybe focus on real issues that matter?
How about "independent" media covers the many disturbing developments courtesy of the government (and the broader global governance structure) is currently doing, which in many areas is drastically under-reported, and try and hold actual power to account instead of reality TV-style mudslinging. Isn't it supposed to be different than mainstream media?
In the event these people don't still work for intelligence, they are doing their work of divide and conquer and distract for them. I for one am tired of having this dramaslop algorithmically thrown at me.
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Soon people will be terrified to go to a hospital because they won't know if they'll come out alive. The depopulation conspiracy is morphing into truth.
BREAKING: M.A.I.D. now part of DNR Orders(Do Not Resusitate) with Bill C-41...
Massive outrage as Canada’s highly controversial medical updates spark absolute horror over patient safeguards. Critics are calling it an unhinged dystopia after proposals emerged that could blur the lines between standard medical care and state-sponsored life-ending procedures.
Under the guise of "advanced directives," critics warn the system is opening a terrifying backdoor that effectively lets medical institutions decide if and when to end a citizen's life. Slipping lethal execution protocols into a patient’s medical chart—collapsing the line between a standard Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order and an active push for medical assistance in dying (MAID)—is a localized death sentence.
Giving hospitals the bureaucratic authority to decide when someone's "quality of life" has expired is an unspeakable violation of human rights. Bill C-41 is turning hospitals from places of healing into execution chambers. This is absolute insanity.
#Canada #MAID #C41 #BreakingNews #DNR #AssistedDying
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Okay, let’s get this straight. The limestone blocks of the Great Pyramid of Giza are ARTIFICIAL. Why? Because they taste salty.
This one fact PROVES it.
No natural limestone contains table salt. None.
I know, I know. Limestone formed in the sea, tidal waves, millions of years of geological processes, blah, blah. NO-NO!
Natural limestone is NOT SALTY! Never! Check this out.
Even though limestone forms on the seabed, beneath miles of salty seawater, its interior contains no salt. Why? Because salt dissolves readily in water and stays dissolved as long as the water remains. When water is squeezed out of limestone, THE SALT GOES WITH IT.
Anyone who has ever tried to extract salt from water knows this. Either you use a salt evaporation pond, or the salt stays dissolved in the water. That’s it.
By a strange twist of fate, I happen to have a piece of stone from the Great Pyramid. Before you freak out and accuse me of stealing it, first of all, I didn’t. And second, the person who took it didn’t steal it either. He simply brought it home, back in 1978, long before anyone cared or taking such a piece became illegal.
A friend’s father brought it home at a time when climbing to the top of the pyramid was still allowed. Heck, a French couple even had sex up there, in the middle of a Muslim country. Climbing was banned shortly afterward.
Anyway, my friend’s father took this infamous piece of stone from one of the inner corridors of the Great Pyramid. Go ahead and freak out now, but it doesn’t change anything. He took it more than 40 years ago, and it’s not going to grow back. He brought it all the way back to Hungary in his pocket.
When I read Davidovits’ recipe for making pyramid stones, I came across his claim that the stones are indeed salty. So we organized a pyramid-stone-licking session with the guys. (Don’t freak out again!) Four grown men licked this original, unquestionably authentic piece of pyramid stone.
And guess what?
It IS salty.
So, what now? How did the salt get in there if not millions of years ago? Well, then, thousands of years ago. Exactly.
The recipe is astonishingly simple:
2 parts natron + 1 part quicklime + water = limestone paste (CaCO₃).
That’s the basic idea. But the mixture isn’t salty yet, and it can even release corrosive NaOH. To prevent this, Imhotep added one part magnesium salt (MgCl₂), which transforms the mixture in a rather interesting way. But that’s too much chemistry for one post. I’ll explain it separately.
The point is that the final product is an artificial limestone containing a little dolomite and table salt.
But what about the snails?
“But the pyramid stones must be natural because they contain fossils!”
Ever heard of gravel or aggregate?
As far as I know, it’s absolutely impossible to find billion-year-old pebbles in concrete. Nooo, you can’t mix gravel into concrete! Impossible!
Just as impossible as finding fossil-bearing limestone fragments embedded in a limestone binder.
So much for the snails.
And now comes the inevitable question: “But how did they lift the cast stones into place?”
They didn’t.
Why lift something that’s already in place?
CAST IN PLACE, MY FRIEND. CAST IN PLACE!
Here are four advantages of casting the stones in place:
1. You only have to lift the raw materials, never the finished blocks.
2. Hardly any formwork is needed. Just a few boards, because three sides of each block are already there: the bottom and the two sides formed by adjacent stones.
3. The joints can be so precise that you can’t even slip a razor blade between them.
4. Every block can have a unique shape and size because there’s no need for a standardized mold.
The result? An interlocking wall that could be highly resistant to earthquakes!
If you believe the pyramids were built by aliens, or that 20-ton blocks were hauled 600 kilometers from a distant quarry, that’s your problem. That’s a belief, not an established fact.
LET THE COMMENTS BEGIN! :-)
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dish soaps poke holes in your gut and ultimately cause loads of inflammation
use baking soda, vinegar and natural products instead
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Immediately after an election, a public representative of the Brazilian Congress, a member of Lula's own Workers' Party, says, "I have information from the Federal Police that they're going to arrest many Bolsonaro supporters." You can expect many of Lula's political adversaries to be rounded up and put in jail. Apparently that is how "democracy" works in Brazil.
If they are people charged with crimes, then why should it matter whether or not they were Bolsonaro supporters? Shouldn't justice be applied evenly to all?
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This ex-RFK Jr. supporter just sounded the alarm.
Tiffany Cianci: “MAHA is fully captured by corporate interests.”
And she named the one person who’s responsible:
“Susie Wiles.”
“The former lobbyist for Bayer-Monsanto and Pfizer.”
Bookmark this.
“She was the lead lobbyist for Pfizer that almost single-handedly negotiated the Covid mandate for the vaccines.”
“She and Pam Bondi were partners at Ballard lobbying and one other lobbying firm that worked for Bayer-Monsanto and Pfizer.”
“Before she had that job, she was Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign manager.”
“Now, at the president’s right hand.”
“The MAHA summit that took place over the last two weeks … OpenAI and Anthropic paid $300,000 each to be the keynote sponsors.”
“And now we’re espousing AI is going to revolutionize healthcare.”
“Bayer-Monsanto and Syngenta were able to successfully force Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to [remove all references to pesticides] in the MAHA Commission Report.”
“That is corporate capture.”
“At HHS, they appointed Brad Smith, the CEO of a healthcare company.”
“He appointed 25 cronies that surrounded Bobby to serve as his roadblocks.”
“You put Lee Zeldin and Brooke Rollins at the head of the EPA and the USDA.”
“And what you have is a trifecta of completely walling off any good that could have been done.”
@TheVinoMom @ClaytonMorris @RedactedNews
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The “climate crisis” is the biggest scam in scientific history. There's not one shred of empirical evidence that we are facing a crisis because the planet is slightly warmer than it was during the depths of the Little Ice Age.
When I became @UN Secretary-General, climate change was already an enormous threat.
Today, its impacts are all around us.
And those who did the least to cause the climate crisis are paying the highest price.
We need climate justice. Now.
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Too many scientists (and even mathematicians) forgo their obligation to audit the foundations of their own field, instead judging the strength of the foundation by the size of the house built on top of it.
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Virology is a pseudoscience.
The supposed "spike protein" is just an artifact of adding a protein-cleaving enzyme to a petri dish containing monkey kidney cell breakdown products. The enzyme ruffles up the protein coat on the round debris, creating the famous spiky shape.
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Everyone calling seed oil sceptics a cult is defending a cooking oil that has to be deodorised before anyone will eat it.
You're defending something humans managed two million years without, until a soap company put it in the kitchen in 1911.
Something that can't leave the seed without a petrol solvent, or look like food without bleach.
Something that leaves the refinery carrying trans fat and a carcinogen Europe now caps in baby formula.
Something that has more than doubled in our diet, and more than doubled in our body fat.
Over the same century, the heart attack went from a medical curiosity to the world's biggest killer.
Since 1990 alone, diabetes has quadrupled and obesity has doubled.
And a liver disease nobody had even named in 1980 now turns up in a third of adults.
You're defending the raw material for the body's own cannabis, the munchies chemical, in the middle of an obesity crisis.
A fat that breaks down inside your fat cells into an aldehyde that stops them listening to insulin.
A fat whose breakdown products climb as the liver gets worse.
A fat that goes rancid inside cholesterol particles until the artery wall turns them into plaque.
A fat that stays in your body for two years, so you're still paying for it long after the receipt's gone.
You're defending an oil that lowered cholesterol in trials and saved nobody.
An oil that was given to heart attack survivors in place of animal fat, and killed more of them than leaving them alone did.
An oil whose biggest trial, 9,000 people swapping butter for corn oil, was hidden in a basement for forty years.
And you're doing it all on the word of a heart charity built on the soap company's money.
But sure, we're the cult.
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I’ve been a university professor for 15 years, political economy, Duke University, pro-capitalist, thus a minority, and can attest that for decades these schools have price-gouged & indoctrinated millions of students. They’ve destroyed instead of developed young human capital. Deliberately. So a majority of millions would rule and vote socialist. As is happening. Utterly grotesque.
WILD: University of Michigan students PROVE just how STUPID and BRAINWASHED they truly are when they were asked to define what socialism is, while a Fox poll shows nearly half of young Americans still view it favorably.
“Socialism doesn't mean like anti-capitalism. Based off what I learned in my Gov class, it's basically like spending more money on helping society.”
“Socialism to me is a concept in politics where everybody gets a little bit of everything. Everybody benefits and everybody is really taking care of kind of that social net that you see in other types of politics.”
“I think a lot of people get the economic system of Socialism confused with the government system of Communism.”
We are SCREWED if we do not change how the younger generations views capitalism.
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🚨 THE CITY OF LONDON IS BUILDING AN ANTI-WALL STREET EMPIRE IN BRAZIL
Everyone talks about American influence over Brazil. The CIA. Washington. Wall Street.
But what if we’re overlooking another financial power operating in plain sight?
🇬🇧 THE CITY OF LONDON.
Here’s what makes this so fascinating:
🇧🇷🇬🇧 1. BRAZIL IS AN OFFICIAL TARGET
The City of London Corporation openly identified Brazil as a priority market for British financial services. Its ambitions include infrastructure financing, pension funds, asset management and capital markets.
🇧🇷🇬🇧 2. BRAZIL’S PENSION MONEY
London has actively courted Brazilian pension funds, bringing UK asset managers to handle international investments.
Think about the implications: Brazilian retirement savings generating fees and control for London’s financial institutions.
🇧🇷🇬🇧 3. LULA AND THE CITY OF LONDON
In 2024, Lula’s government announced plans to make London the primary listing centre for future Brazilian ESG sovereign bonds.
A $2 BILLION Brazilian sustainability bond had already been listed in London.
🇧🇷🇬🇧 4. THE REGULATORS ARE TALKING TOO
Brazilian financial regulators have held formal discussions with British authorities about capital markets, insurance and asset management.
This isn’t merely about trade. It’s about the rules governing international money.
For decades, America’s financial power has rested heavily on the dollar and Wall Street.
But London possesses its own enormous network of banks, investment managers, insurers and global capital markets.
The City Of London isn’t just a financial district. It’s a separate jurisdiction, with its own police and military system, effectively a country of its own at the center of London, controlled by an elite global network that no government fully oversees… and it runs global finance.
Foreign nations including Netherlands, France and Germany pulled out over 500 Tonnes of Gold OUT of the U.S. and storing it in London.
The famous City of London banker @LordBelgrave dropped the poster months before Lula’s surprise election win.
Brazil wasn’t an accident, it was already the City of London’s plan.
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Murica #1 baby!
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Claude Code just found proof that every app on your phone is listening to your conversations. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat. they're using what you say out loud to build your feed. i have the data to prove it.
i've suspected this for months but last week something happened that made me finally check.
i was on a call with my friend and told him i'm thinking about breaking up with my girlfriend. didn't text it. didn't search it. just said it out loud with my phone on the table. two hours later she opens TikTok next to me and her entire feed is breakups. "signs your relationship is over." "how to heal after a breakup." she looked at me and said "why is TikTok showing me this." i said i don't know. but i did know.
i connected my iPhone to my MacBook and ran Claude Code that same night.
it scanned every app's background microphone activity for the last 90 days. not just the apps that asked for microphone permission. apps that were supposed to only have access to photos or location but were activating the microphone anyway.
what it found:
→ TikTok activated the microphone 347 times while the app was "closed" in the background
→ Instagram → 211 background activations
→ Facebook → 189
→ Snapchat → 94
every activation lasted between 3 and 15 seconds. enough to catch a sentence. every one of them tagged a keyword and cached it locally on the phone with a timestamp.
Claude Code pulled the full keyword cache:
→ "breakup" — tagged 4 hours before her feed changed
→ "moving out" — from a conversation with my mom last Tuesday
→ "wedding venue" — from a call with my sister about her engagement that i never searched once
→ "protein powder" — said it out loud to my roommate, had ads for it within an hour
→ "flight to tokyo" — mentioned it at dinner, saw travel ads the same night
those keywords were sitting in a local cache on my phone organized by app with timestamps. TikTok had the most entries. Instagram was second. every single keyword matched a conversation i had out loud near my phone.
the scariest one was "wedding venue." my sister told me she's getting engaged on a private call. i never searched it. never typed it. within a day my explore page had engagement rings and venue tours.
then Claude Code checked a second phone in the same room. my girlfriend's. same keywords. same timestamps. both phones were picking up the same conversation and tagging it independently.
i asked Claude Code how to shut it down. it mapped every app's microphone access and built a permission audit.
what i did:
→ revoked microphone access from every app that doesn't need it to function
→ disabled background app refresh for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat
→ turned off "Hey Siri" which keeps the microphone in passive listening mode 24/7
→ revoked "nearby interaction" permission which uses ultrasonic audio between devices
Claude Code confirmed all four apps lost background microphone access after the changes. i checked her phone too. same steps. took about 3 minutes per phone.
within 48 hours both our feeds went completely random. generic content. nothing personal. nothing from our conversations. that's when i knew for sure it was real.
the full step by step and the prompt are in the first reply. takes 3 minutes. save it so you don't lose it and send it to anyone who's ever said "my phone is definitely listening to me." it is. now you can prove it and shut it down.
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