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@Giovann35084111 So to clarify, they’re saying “if their science isn’t like our science, they don’t exist”?

It is extremely likely we are alone in the Universe. This is because nobody solved yet the strongest version of the Fermi's paradox. The Fermi paradox doesn't say "where are the aliens?" It says: where is the thermodynamics? The popular version of Fermi asks why we haven't heard radio signals. That's the weak version. It lets you wave it away with "maybe they don't broadcast" or "maybe they use lasers." The strong version is much harder to dismiss. Any civilization that uses stellar-scale energy must radiate stellar-scale waste heat. This isn't a choice. It's the second law of thermodynamics. A Dyson swarm around a Sun-like star absorbs ~5,800 K starlight and re-emits it at ~300 K — a specific, unmistakable infrared signature. We have surveyed the sky for this signature. WISE, IRAS, and dedicated searches by Wright, Carrigan, and Project Hephaistos have examined hundreds of thousands of nearby stars and tens of thousands of nearby galaxies. The result is zero confirmed Dyson signatures. Zero engineered galaxies. Zero anomalous infrared excesses requiring a non-natural explanation. Now the age argument. The universe is 13.8 billion years old. Rocky planets in habitable zones have existed for about 10 billion years. Earth formed only 4.5 billion years ago, and our technological civilization is roughly 200 years old. If civilizations arise across cosmic time with anything like a flat distribution, the expected age of a randomly sampled extant civilization is on the order of billions of years older than us — not centuries, not millennia, billions. Look at what 200 years did to us. From sailing ships to detecting gravitational waves. From candles to landing rovers on Mars. Two more centuries of even modest growth, applied to a species that already understood physics, and you're engineering at planetary scales. A few thousand years and you're working at stellar scales. A million years — still a rounding error on cosmic time — and the entire galaxy bears your fingerprint. So the strong Fermi argument is this: across 13 billion years, across 10²² rocky planets in the observable universe, the Copernican prior says we should not be temporally special. The expected number of civilizations that have ever reached stellar engineering capacity is enormous. The fact that we see zero infrared signatures of any such engineering, anywhere, ever, is the puzzle. It gets sharper. The "they all destroyed themselves" answer doesn't work, because destruction leaves signatures too. A Dyson swarm outlasts its builders by stellar lifetimes. Stellar engineering leaves permanent metallicity anomalies. Self-replicating probes, once launched by even one civilization in galactic history, fill the galaxy in 10⁶ to 10⁸ years and persist as hardware in every stellar system thereafter. Even civilizations that perished a billion years ago should have left graves we can see. We see no graves. We see no swarms. We see no chemically engineered stars. We see no probes in our own solar system, which has been sitting here as a perfectly accessible target for the entire 4.5-billion-year history of the galaxy. We see a universe whose every observable feature is consistent with purely natural dynamical evolution from initial conditions. This is the part nobody wants to say out loud: the simplest reading of the evidence is that we are the first. Not "rare." Not "one of few." The first. This sounds arrogant, but it isn't — it's just what the data say if you take them at face value. Every other explanation requires loading the hypothesis with auxiliary assumptions: that every civilization without exception converges on non-expansion, that some unspecified universal sociological law makes engineering at stellar scale unattractive, that some hazard reliably kills every civilization before it ever leaves a single trace. These are all possible, but they require the universe to be conspiring in a very specific way to produce the appearance of emptiness. The flat reading is simpler. Somebody had to be first. The Copernican principle says we shouldn't assume we're special, but the Copernican principle is a prior, not a theorem — it gets updated by evidence. And the evidence, after a century of looking, is overwhelmingly that the sky is empty of engineering. That update has to push the posterior somewhere. The somewhere is: we are early. Possibly very early. Possibly first. If this is right, it changes how we should think about what we are. We are not one of countless civilizations whose story has been told a billion times across the universe. We are the opening sentence. Every decision we make about how to develop, how to expand, how to avoid extinguishing ourselves, is being made for the first time anywhere. The light cone is ours. That's not a depressing reading of Fermi. It's the most consequential reading possible. The universe has been waiting 13 billion years for someone to do this, and we are the ones who showed up. The lights are on. The house is empty. The keys are in our hand.

@PocketChange_gg Yeah I wouldn’t fuck around with crap that lands in your wallet.

Your wallet wasn’t built to stay clean. Dust, dead tokens, hidden balances, and old trade clutter pile up fast. PocketChange scans what’s there, lets you review every action before signing, then clean up many positions in one click. No private keys. No blind approvals.

@QueenAnticommie If your service is great, I’m a great tipper. If your service is average, I’m an average tipper. If iyoue service was non-existent (or you merely took an order that I must go get), you deserve and will get nothing.

I agree with this! If you can’t afford a tip, stay home

@Toucann_Froot @HellvetikaSan @nixcraft Costing me no energy to poke fun at a transvestite with dementia…

@HellvetikaSan @branditmanaged @nixcraft I'm not reading all this shit but you both gotta reflect on what you're spending your energy and emotion on here, fighting with a stranger on the Internet who doesn't give a fuck lol.

Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device. > No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually. That is the true definition of malware.

@JuvenileBluster @NeobornCaveman @ReclaimTheNetHQ @signalapp @mullvadnet @brave I didn’t say that at all. And it demonstrates how flawed your thinking has become. The bill of rights has nothing to do with a mayor, governor, your senator or representatives, even the president. It is a guarantee of rights you inherited as a free human.

@branditmanaged @NeobornCaveman @ReclaimTheNetHQ @signalapp @mullvadnet @brave You think the Trump GOP is pro-2A?

The FCC wants to require ID verification for every phone activation in America, including prepaid phones. Those are the phones journalists, abuse survivors, and whistleblowers depend on to stay anonymous. The excuse is robocalls. The result is a national identity check on one of the last semi-anonymous communication tools we have. reclaimthenet.org/the-fcc-wants-…

@_briefbarf_ @NeobornCaveman @ReclaimTheNetHQ @signalapp @mullvadnet @brave I’m not conflicted at all. It’s quite funny how you and your ilk think one or two disagreements means we can’t support the general gist of progress. That’s a leftist hangup. You guys will literally lynch lifelong leftists who even slightly show independant thought.

@branditmanaged @NeobornCaveman @ReclaimTheNetHQ @signalapp @mullvadnet @brave You’re so conflicted it’s pathetic. All of you small-government libertarian clowns look as foolish as your neutered posterboy Ted Cruz, not realizing that the people you put into power fully bamboozled you like a shell game on the playground. Wake up potato, the water’s boiling.

@JuvenileBluster @NeobornCaveman @ReclaimTheNetHQ @signalapp @mullvadnet @brave The government backs itself up with firearms and violence. They decide you need to show an id, their response is violence if you do not. The reason we have a 2a is to respond accordingly to tyranny. The left has created the situation where it somehow is wrong to do so.

@branditmanaged @NeobornCaveman @ReclaimTheNetHQ @signalapp @mullvadnet @brave This on a post about the FCC doing this. The right is just as hungry for this as the left.

@NeobornCaveman @ReclaimTheNetHQ @signalapp @mullvadnet @brave Yet, if you follow the constitution and are suitably armed to respond to tyranny; they do not have any such monopoly. It’s literally the bleeding heart assholes who have gotten us here.

@branditmanaged @ReclaimTheNetHQ @signalapp @mullvadnet @brave "The government has no rights. Citizens have many rights - including privacy." - I totally agree however they have the monopoly to violence and tools to shape the masses it's not right, they have no right, yet, it's happening

@HellvetikaSan @Toucann_Froot @nixcraft I’m not the one whose twat’s doing the nervous twitch every time someone disagrees with their broken view on the world. Touch grass… and maybe a vibrator that actually works.

@branditmanaged @Toucann_Froot @nixcraft Seems like a weird obsession of yours.

@BullTheoryio The hilarious part is… you don’t need such a bill. All you need is for OG whales and leverage junkies to cut the shit… and people will demand the right to use bitcoin. Long term bitcoin wins either way. Until they stop fucking around, it’s anyone’s guess medium term.

🚨Banks are trying to kill the most important crypto bill in US history again. And the Senate vote is just 4 days away. On May 1 a bipartisan compromise was reached on stablecoin yield after months of negotiations. The Senate Banking Committee immediately scheduled the markup vote for May 14. Within days of the vote being announced, the American Bankers Association, Bank Policy Institute and three other major banking lobbies submitted a joint letter demanding changes to the compromise text they had literally just accepted. What banks agreed to was simple, crypto companies cannot pay passive yield on stablecoins the way a bank pays interest on deposits, but they can offer rewards tied to actual usage and transactions on their platforms. Banks are now saying even that is too generous and want the entire rewards framework scrapped. Their real concern has nothing to do with consumer protection. Banks have explicitly stated that yield bearing stablecoins could reduce consumer, small business and farm loans by 20% or more, meaning people would move money out of bank accounts into crypto platforms and banks would have less to lend and less profit. Trump said publicly he will not let bankers ruin this bill. If it misses the May 21 Memorial Day recess deadline the entire bill gets pushed off the Senate calendar and a full year of negotiations goes to zero. The banks know exactly what they are doing and exactly when they are doing it.

@HellvetikaSan @Toucann_Froot @nixcraft Some sort of thrush treatment should help you out.

@branditmanaged @Toucann_Froot @nixcraft What a strange attempt at a burn 😂

@MyLatinLife The fun part is how the government flunky saw nothing wrong in his behavior.

The social contract is completely broken

@Govindtwtt People have begun realizing how much utter crap is in their food.

McDonald’s says customers are “pulling back.” Same with Wendy’s. Same with Burger King. When fast food loses traffic, it’s a stress signal. People are tapped out.

@chiky_handlr How fucking wrong can you be?

AOC: "Virginia was an election of 3 million Americans. This court did not overturn a map, it overturned an election." She is spot on. 🔥

@TheRealMarina0 No. Hear me out. The constitution means I do not need your “permit”. Creating ANY sort of permit, even if it allows country-wide carry, suggestd I need permission. Do you see jews or christians lining up for a permit to choose their religion? Atheists, do they need a permit?

Yes or No

@HellvetikaSan @Toucann_Froot @nixcraft Surprisingly, only from lesbians whose partners are suffering from yeast infections.

@branditmanaged @Toucann_Froot @nixcraft "Everything wrong with me is the fault of others" type response. You get it a fair amount huh?

@SimplyBitcoin If OG whales and leverage junkies stop equating bitcoin to fiat, BTC would have replaced fiat by now. The key is to transact in and use btc instead of fiat. Close the bankers out the loop. Dumping it like yesterday’s greasy burrito won’t do fuckall to move fiat out. But I guess

Coinbase just posted a 31% revenue drop and a $394M net loss. This is the company that told you crypto was taking over finance. Bitcoin difficulty just dropped for the sixth time in 2026. Hash price is up 13.5% in 30 days. Crypto is not taking over finance. Bitcoin is.

@RenzTom Its the same crowd that insist checking id for voting is racist - primarily @DNC funded and directed by the people who own them.

🚨🚨🚨 Universal digital track and trace is here! The Trump Administration’s FCC is now pushing to mandate tying your phone number to the REAL ID system or another form of ID. This means no more anonymity on the internet, and your incognito mode or private browsing is meaningless. The government will be able to legally track EVERYTHING you do by simply buying the records from your phone provider, and it will then be legally official. This is NOT MAGA and is much more like the great reset we just fought Biden to stop. @RealAlexJones @VigilantFox

@LamarMK I wanted a @Tesla again this last time round. They told me two months. What were they expecting, I rent a car at 4x the price for two months while they get a car together?

As a 3 year Tesla owner, here are the raw facts about ownership. Maintenance is basically nothing. Rotate your tires every 5 to 6k miles. Top off the washer fluid for $5. That's it. Meanwhile a gas car needs all of that plus oil changes, brake pads, transmission service, and a list of things that never end. Now stack that maintenance on top of $80 a week to fill up. The cost of owning a gas car compared to a Tesla isn't even close. Going electric was one of the best decisions I've ever made. You should make the switch too. What's stopping you from going all electric?

@NeobornCaveman @ReclaimTheNetHQ @signalapp @mullvadnet @brave Oh right, I’m sure abused women and children will jump right on that. The government has no rights. Citizens have many rights - including privacy. The same evil shits who tell us “id for voting is racist” are the same corrupt scumbags demanding this sort of crap.

@ReclaimTheNetHQ Isn’t it a thing the rest of the world has already been doing? Also, people in danger can always use the Signal-TOR-Brave-Mullvad combo, without any mobile tracking… @signalapp @mullvadnet @brave