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The difference between truth and lies doesn't matter, it is all in the way people behave. Our culture is being manipulated by techniques that cannot be communicated to the masses because of strawmen put up in the media. The people who spread misinformation and propaganda know how it works better than you do and you are falling for their traps regardless of whether or not you believe it. The vast majority of people believe they aren't sheep no matter how obviously they are. Weaknesses in people's psychology are propagated and abused and this has happened for all of recorded history. We are led by herd mentality, people don't have to willingly do anything as long as they see other people doing the same thing.

But that's just speculation and cannot be proven by science, lol.

Gamergate was mostly fabricated and an intentional trial run for recruiting younger generations into movements that would transition to outright fascism. Pizzagate and Q-anon conspiracies were intentionally started to reduce the fallout from the Epstein files... both of these operations worked far, far better than the people behind them expected.

EDIT: I almost forgot, one reason why many Democrats keep moving right and away from their base despite all the evidence that this is costing them votes is because their post-mortem on Gamergate and Q-anon revealed how wildly effective these operations were and they think they can win with the same play at some point in the future.

There is an ongoing conspiracy to erode the public education system in the US to perpetuate and increase the advantages the children of the wealthy already have. Contrary to what most people believe, the introduction of more technology in the classroom is just one part of this effort, and only leads to "better outcomes" because those outcomes are defined as being a more efficient drone from sector 7-C.

The continued effort to represent LLMs as something closer to General AI is so that at some point, an improved version can be present as having "reasoned" that humanity will prosper if we perpetuate the current system and give tech billionaires more money. The main reason why it's failing at present is that many people have noticed a larger than normal number of folks are not, in fact, prospering and feel threatened by what is basically three high power grammar checkers in a trench coat. If the economy picks up before the AI bubble bursts, this may succeed.

That the U.S. tested an innovative drive technology for drones during the Nimitz incidents in 2004.

These "UAPs" always seem to miracolously appear near US military bases, aircraft carriers and sometimes submarines, but apparently never around Europe, Africa or Asia where millions of people with phones could film them. The U.S. may have pretended to be upset, but they're not actually interested in finding out what they are or what people could find out about them, because they did not release the footage from the helmet cameras of the pilots. They actually stayed pretty calm, so they know what it actually was: Their drones. They're near military assets, because that's where they're tested and the U.S. wants to see how a military would react to these device to protect them against tactics that can detect them or bring them down before they are/were used abroad.

So they have a drive technology that can go beyond hypersonic, is accelerating really really fast, can't be fought with properly.

My guess is that they keep this secret, because of the nuclear threat it poses. If any state in this world could deliver nuclear bombs in an instant, you simply couldn't retaliate or defend in any meaningful way. Except maybe with a deeply burrowed SUNDIAL project device.

I also read that the Ukrainians use material (especially explosives) which were buried in the former territory of the USSR by the CIA in the time window shortly after the Soviet Union collapsed to conduct some of their covert special operations inside the Russian Federation. That way you don't have to smuggle in new stuff and the U.S. can profit from destroyed Russian military capabilities.

My guess is that they probably did not just bury normal material there. I think the superpowers have may have buried several nuclear warheads underground in major cities that they can detonate at any time to immediately first strike or retaliate in case of a larger nuclear attack. Why bother with sending a ballistic hypersonic rocket that the enemy can possibly intercept if you can just detonate the device remotely and with almost no delay? Whether you detonate the device under or above the city doesn't really matter if the yield is big enough to let the city fall into a nuclear polluted crater. This would be an additional reason for why the U.S. moved from atmospheric to underground testing of nuclear devices - apart from the concerns regarding fallout.

Oh and an algorithm based, individually tailored (to you) social media "experience" is probably the new MK ULTRA and it works much better.

Elon musk is only known as the richest person. He chooses to pay taxes and not hide his wealth simply because he wants to be seen as the richest person. There are far richer people in the world that we simply don’t know about because they hide their wealth and don’t brag online.

Army has drones that can do anything they want. The UAPs over the east coast sighted were their own crap. Army friends go pale when I bring it up.

The AI bubble is actually a cover used by cloud providers to engage in racketeering. I assume that it is encouraged by the alphabet agencies to setup a network that aggregates advertiser data to match up browser fingerprints and spy on Americans in mass without warrants. The ram shortage was engineered to force adoption for the cloud primarily for small business and sectors that have avoided it due to cost. Retail is a casualty and gaming is next. They don't care about AI, its just the wrench that tightens the bolt

on a non-human related, about biology. thismia americana(fairy latern) is sitll out there somewhere, originally it was found in chicago and arou calumet, but it was heavily developed, and it was "like distinct" whats unique is thismia is mostly a tropical species in ASIA and alledgely south america and central(likely a different genus), how did it end up america especially a temperate area.

it was found a few times over 100+years ago, and never found after that by PFIFFER. while new thismia species keep being discovered IN SE asia every year(likely origin of the clade thismia) and even 2 extinct species were found to be alive (kobensis(japan) and neptunis(151years later). because the flower is so small its likely hidden in leaf litter and its extremely difficult to find the other species.

They also make the page slower in non-Chrome browsers like Safari and Firefox

Did you know that there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it.

A whole lot of those creepy ass insta/FB/TikTok videos of too young girls in bathing suits and shit are directly related to CSAM and child rape.

That anxiety and depression are just symptoms of deep problems, and not in and of themselves psychological conditions. It's cheaper and less work to just throw meds at the symptoms then it is to do the work to find why people are struggling with the anxiety and depression. Many of the deeper issue causing them are from how are society works, and can't be changed or fixed easily, but I don't know, maybe if everyone realized that our society is hurting us this badly we could do something about it. But no, "here take these meds that will numb the pain and every emotion you have, now be a good little worker drone and get back to grind. It's not the society that's the issue, it just you... And everyone else that we are also giving these meds too."

That being said, if the meds are the only thing keeping you from ending it all, do what you got to do. Meds are a tool and tools should be used if they are helpful.

That the next generation/the one after it will be the first generation to mostly accept non-human art as standard art

Malicious coding by Facebook and google if you dont use their apps. I know they're doing it but I can't prove it.

Or websites purposely loading slowly or not at all if you have Linux installed. I could see that happening.

DuckDuckGo is actually a honeypot for the NSA that significantly reduces the amount of data they need to process by virtue of its advertised use case.

Think about it. Everytime some dumb criminal gets caught, there's always a report about them searching up how to do the crime on Google, which the police collects as part of their investigation.

A "smart" criminal/terrorist would then avoid common search engines and would opt for DDO since they don't share or collect search data.

DDO just doesn’t share that data with advertisers, trackers, and regular police/FBI like how other search engines do, but they do share it with the NSA just like every other search engine did via PRISM.

NSA uses the data for whatever purpose and helps to ensure DDO's security. DDO also never compromises on sharing its data to anyone except the NSA to maintain an image of security and privacy to would be criminals.

The universe is a simulation, and not only is it impossible to disprove (non-falsifiable), but it would imply that you could be the only thinking consciousness here (Cartesian Solipsism)

Consider:

1. the universe has rendering rules, treating objects differently when they are observed, to the point where objects do not have set properties when unobserved (Bell Inequality)
2. this holds for even arbitrarily large objects, as scientists have been able to demonstrate molecules containing thousands of atoms demonstrating wave-particle duality
3. The Universe has a frame rate (Planck time)
4. the Universe has a resolution (Planck length)
5. The most basic level of the universe is discrete (energy quanta)

While I choose not to go for the solipsism, I am becoming increasingly persuaded of the simulation theory's likelihood.

That the VPN providers, because it gives them a captive market, are internationally pushing for rules like those that exist in UK and Aussie

And they're profiteering