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@AdamGSimon @Weirdo__52 @UAPJames That could very well be true. Sort of like the movie Don't Look Up. Lol

Sphere mongering is a little ridiculous and also completely melodramatic. Most of the people that I talk to if you set them down and told them that they were genetically engineered by aliens and that we live on a prison planet that’s monitored, and that our consciousness has to reject the light of death in order to escape it. If you showed them all concrete proof of this. All of them, including me would say… Cool. Far out. I gotta go to work on Monday.

Trump Administration is soliciting advice about how to tell the public that “We Are Not Alone” White House officials are consulting with religious leaders and seeking advice on the ontological shock of Disclosure, per NewsNation’s Ross Coulthart.

@Weirdo__52 @AdamGSimon @UAPJames Thanks for the answer. Really appreciate it. 🙏 Yeah, I think we're about to learn a lot about what consciousness really is, including whether or not AI can be conscious. Consciousness may be unique to humans and what gives us an advantage over AI.

@Andrew13610 @AdamGSimon @UAPJames The best we can do is prepare to have our foundation rocked. And loosten our death grip on our convictions. And meditate.

@Emiking1 @TimeyinI The data supports my claim:

@Andrew13610 @TimeyinI Is there some data to back this up? I'm speaking from the POV of newcomers who mostly landed in Canada in their mid 30s or even 40s upwards. They're starting afresh while their contemporaries, Canadians born here have a head start. Can't be the same for both categories

Unpopular opinion, but I honestly don’t see myself buying a house in Canada 🇨🇦 I’m 42 now. Taking a massive mortgage at this age just doesn’t feel viable to me anymore. If I was in my 20s or even early 30s, maybe. Even with almost 50% down payment available, I’d still rather rent and keep my flexibility, peace of mind and liquidity. Owning a home here is not the only definition of success, but the maintenance, property tax, interest payments and long-term debt can mentally drain someone. Would you buy or continue renting in Canada?👀

@Weirdo__52 @AdamGSimon @UAPJames As in what they are or how we deal with disclosure?

@Andrew13610 @AdamGSimon @UAPJames Tao

@Emiking1 @TimeyinI Sorry, but you have it very wrong. Very, very few people bought a house in their 20s and had it paid off in their 30s. LOL. First, lots don't buy until their 30s. Second, the standard mortgage has a 25 year amortization, so even IF it was bought at 25, you're not done until 50.

@TimeyinI I think most immigrants buy houses just to keep up with the Joneses. They forget the citizens had those mortgages set up in their 20's and already fully paid by their 40's. There are so many ways of investing for the long term aside tying down funds & living house poor.

@MavenPolitic I do this all the time and it makes a HUGE difference. I can even see it in the runtime chart in my Ecobee app.

Unpopular opinion: The main reason we complain about the heat so much during warm weather is that we're kinda retarded at managing our homes with it. I walked down my street around 11pm last night and almost none of the houses had their windows open to vent warm air. Walked again this morning and all the south facing windows had their curtains wide open, letting all of the heat pour in. Basic heat management like this is standard in warm countries, but virtually unknown in Britain, and makes a huge difference to the temperature inside the house.

@Weirdo__52 @AdamGSimon @UAPJames I feel the same way as you. I've read/heard a lot of theories, but I'm really curious to hear what you think it is?

@AdamGSimon @UAPJames Evidence, experience, decentralisation. This is not take ne to your leader. All our assumptions are about to be demolished. This lies outside our comfort zone. Outside the things we are comfortable being uncomfortable with.

@paulwitcombe @OG_Greengirl @iruletheworldmo For sure it's going to take some time. And yes, an IT person can't just instantly become a tradesman. But my friend teaches a gas fitters course and he's already seeing people in his class that left IT. Even of it takes 15 years but we lose 30-50% of jobs, that's catastrophic.

Something I'm finding quite fascinating is the assumption by a lot of people that they're going to pack up their desk one day and, the next day, pick up a saw and be building houses. There seems to be thIs idea that the trades are easy and that anyone can do it, when actually there are very few people who are naturally gifted. Even then, it takes many years to reach a level of competence. Of course, there are opportunities for everyone, but as with anything, you have to start at the bottom. If the trades are that easy and pay that well, why isn't everyone doing it? Why is there such a massive shortage of tradespeople? I'm speaking from a UK perspective here; I don't know what the situation is in other countries. I'm also speaking as someone who has been in the trades for about 40 years. I don't disagree that there are massive changes coming; I can see it for myself. YouTube is democratising knowledge, and AI glasses will democratise that knowledge even more by assisting people hands-on. But my original point was this: it is going to take significantly longer than two years for all of this to happen at scale.

society be shifting anon society has absolutely no fucking clue what's about to hit it. we're all arranging deck chairs on the titanic while an asteroid the size of jupiter is heading straight for us except the asteroid is made of cognitive transformation that will render every institution we've built functionally obsolete within 24 months. education? completely dead. universities charging $70k for knowledge transfer when this technology delivers personalized learning at billions of times the efficiency. the entire credential system collapses when skill acquisition becomes essentially instant. four year degrees become laughable anachronisms when equivalent competency can be developed in days or hours. harvard's endowment becomes worth exactly nothing when elite signaling through artificial scarcity loses all meaning in a post scarcity intellectual environment. the entire concept of "jobs" as we understand them is careening toward extinction. not just customer service or coding jobs. everything. medicine, law, creative work, engineering, all of it. we're clinging to employment as an organizing principle for society when the fundamental landscape beneath it is dissolving. forty years of warnings about automation hitting blue collar work first were completely wrong. cognitive work is easier to automate than physical manipulation. surgeons and authors will be replaced before plumbers and electricians. political systems built on industrial era models of information flow and social organization will shatter under pressures they weren't designed to withstand. the polarization we're seeing now is just the warmup act. what happens when reality itself becomes contestable at unprecedented scales? when simulation capabilities make genuine from fake indistinguishable even to experts? democratic processes require shared epistemics that are about to be systematically dismantled by forces no regulatory system on earth is equipped to handle. economic frameworks built around scarcity become nonsensical in domains where replication approaches zero marginal cost. intellectual property law becomes unenforceable when creation and iteration happen at machine speeds. startups built on human insights will emerge and collapse within weeks or days as their innovations are absorbed and surpassed by systems operating at timescales humans can't match. the venture capital model implodes when technology cycles compress from years to hours. the psychological impact hasn't even begun to register. humans evolved for status competition in bands of 150 people. our brains are fundamentally unprepared for a world where our unique cognitive capabilities are suddenly rendered obsolete. existential dread will become the defining psychological condition of our era. therapy modalities developed for industrial age neuroses will fail catastrophically against post singularity identity crises. suicide rates among knowledge workers will skyrocket as people confront the elimination of purpose frameworks they've built their entire identities around. religious institutions will undergo schisms that make the protestant reformation look like a minor disagreement. some will embrace the technology as divine manifestation. others will reject it as demonic. theological frameworks built around human exceptionalism will collapse when consciousness and intelligence decouple from biology. prophets and cult leaders leveraging these tools will accumulate followers at unprecedented rates, building movements that can scale from dozens to millions within weeks.

@MelissaLMRogers @TELUSsupport Not sure why you're paying so much even if that includes a phone. We pay $40 per month for 60 GB of data, unlimited text and calling for most countries in the world, and roaming across Canada, US, and Mexico.

I was chatting with my friend in Florida, they pay $25 a month for their unlimited cellphone plan. WHAT I’m paying over $100 a month with @TELUSsupport in Canada 🤯 Canadians are getting screwed big time

@OG_Greengirl @paulwitcombe @iruletheworldmo I think the flood of people into the trades (as white collar jobs are lost to AI) isn’t talked about enough.

@paulwitcombe @iruletheworldmo It's not that AI will replace the workers for blue collar jobs right away. It's that there is now going to be millions more people trying to break into those professions. Right now they make good money. Not too long from now they will make less due to massive competition.

@mickhelmick4 @chantler_jaki @khazeni @TodayinHistory @oregoncitizen_ That's still wrong. LOL. The real answer is about 8.5 miles radius. Meaning 8.5 miles from the volcano. I really wish people wouldn't use square miles and just say "everything within eight and a half miles".

@chantler_jaki @khazeni @TodayinHistory @oregoncitizen_ No, that's the diameter. The radius is 6 miles which is how far he had to ride to get past it.

When Mount Saint Helens erupted 46 years ago today, nothing survived that was within 230 square miles of the explosion. Except for photographer Richard Lasher who escaped on his dirt bike after taking this shot.

@HighPlainsWY @BradCLemley That's exactly it. If you're going to toss it out, then you can't break it while trying to fix it. So may as well try. 🙂

@BradCLemley We were about to buy a new dryer last week. Instead, I took it completely apart and fixed it with the help of YouTube. So what if I can’t figure it out? Nothing to lose. Way more rewarding than a new dryer.

Here is a huge positive to modern life that gets no press. I have an old 2009 Toyota, and the AUX port crapped out about a year ago. Went to YouTube. Young, enthusiastic guy explains how to fix it. It is not obvious - involves taking the dashboard apart in a counter-intuitive way, but once you see it, it's a 15 minute fix. There are actually dozens of videos showing how to do this, and they collectively have well over 200k views. Had this happened in 1995, I would have just lived with it. But the combo of the replacement AUX jack available from Amazon and the video of the simple (but not obvious) fix, I fixed it. I HAVE DONE THIS DOZENS OF TIMES. Replaced the control panel of my dishwasher. Replaced the ice maker in the fridge. Fixed a wonky sanding head on my drill press. Mastered a bandsaw technique that I use for my sculpture. On and on and on... I think it is likely no exaggeration to say billions of fixes and skill upgrades have been performed worldwide that would not have been performed if it were not for the instruction freely given peer-to-peer on YouTube. Take a moment to be happy about this. The busted item keeps performing, rather than going to the landfill. The person learning and doing the fix gains a sense of mastery and saves money. It's an unmixed blessing. Stop doomscrolling. Think of what is busted in your house, find the YouTube video on how to fix it, and fix it.

@LBGamestips This doesn't appear to be accurate. Do you have any sources?

WOOOOW! 🇮🇷⚡️Iran just seized an oil tanker carrying 450,000 barrels of oil belonging to France 🇫🇷 for violating the newly imposed regulations in the strait of Hormuz.

@eshanbuilds @anishmoonka Great points. The other major difference this year might be the loss of fertilizer due to the Strait of Hormuz being closed.

the 1877 comparison is doing a lot of heavy lifting. 50 million deaths in 1877 happened because colonial grain policies exported food out of famine zones while people starved. india was producing enough grain to feed itself. the british shipped it to england anyway. the el niño caused the drought. the empire caused the famine. a +3°C el niño in 2026 would be severe but the global food system has refrigeration, international aid, early warning satellites, and grain reserves that 1877 lacked entirely. the climate event might repeat. the death toll won't, unless the political response also repeats

An El Niño is forming in the Pacific that could peak around +3°C by November. The last one that hot, in 1877, triggered famines that killed up to 50 million people, about 3% of everyone alive at the time. We’re not there yet. The Pacific only just crept across the El Niño line in mid-April, at +0.5°C above normal. That ended a brief La Niña that peaked over the winter. But the major forecast models in Europe, the US, and Australia have now lined up on the same trajectory. If their May projections hold, this would be the strongest El Niño since 1950, beating both 2015-16 and 1997-98. NOAA has issued an El Niño Watch. What has scientists worried sits a few hundred feet under the surface. A huge pool of warm water is sliding east across the Pacific, pushed by winds that have flipped direction. Between 300 and 500 feet down, the water is already 5°C hotter than normal. That hidden heat is the fuel. Once it surfaces, it powers everything that comes next. In 1877, the Pacific got so hot that droughts hit India, China, Brazil, and parts of Africa at the same time. Crops failed across multiple continents. The famine became the deadliest natural disaster in modern history. Florence Nightingale wrote of “such a hideous record of human suffering and destruction the world has never seen before.” 1877 had a second ingredient. The Indian Ocean was running in an unusual pattern that year, with its western side abnormally warm. The two oceans reinforced each other, locking droughts in place across multiple continents. Scientists are watching the Indian Ocean closely for the same setup in 2026. The 2026 effects roll out region by region. El Niño weakens Atlantic hurricanes by sending strong high-altitude winds across them, breaking them apart before they organize. Colorado State has cut its 2026 forecast to 13 named storms, below the 14-storm average. The southern US usually gets wetter winters, the Pacific Northwest drier ones. Indonesia and Australia tend to slip into drought. Global temperatures could climb another 0.1 to 0.2°C on top of the regular warming trend, and James Hansen’s team at Columbia projects the world could pass +1.7°C above pre-industrial levels by 2027. The picture in the original tweet is from a previous El Niño, not real-time data. The numbers worth tracking are the heat building under the equatorial Pacific and the central Pacific surface temperatures from September through November.

@KobeissiLetter It's a huge meeting, but definitely not "never before in history". LOL. x.com/i/status/20544…

This is absolutely insane. President Trump is currently flying to China with all of the following people to request "deals" with China's President Xi: 1. Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO 2. Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO 3. Tim Cook, Apple CEO 4. Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO 5. Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone CEO 6. Kelly Ortberg, Boeing CEO 7. Brian Sikes, Cargill CEO 8. Jane Fraser, Citigroup CEO 9. Larry Culp, General Electric CEO 10. David Solomon, Goldman Sachs CEO 11. Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron CEO 12. Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm CEO President Trump also says there are "many other" CEOs joining him on the trip who have not yet been disclosed. Never in history has such a trip even remotely near this scale and caliber occurred. This Trump-Xi meeting is far bigger than most realize.

@brettmacro @KobeissiLetter @grok So much for "never in history". 😂

@KobeissiLetter @grok how does this compare to the November 2017 trip that Trump and many executives took to China?

@rocktheouse @alandrummond2 @gill_godwin You're welcome to take a neurotoxin, but I'll pass. I don't even give it to my dog.

@rocktheouse @alandrummond2 @gill_godwin Maybe because it works by "hopefully" filling your dog with enough neurotoxin poison that the tick dies if it eats some of the blood from the dog, but not quite enough poison to hurt or kill your dog. Lots of dogs get sick from the "medication".

Scientists are warning Canadians to get ready for a U.S. tick invasion this year Lone star tick can leave a bitten person with severe meat allergy cbc.ca/news/canada/no…

@BizarroTrump10 @SkylineReport I don't think there's anything to worry about as this doesn't spread very easily: x.com/i/status/20538…

@SkylineReport We are in good hands with trump amd Kennedy at the helm--- Nah just fucking with you. Two months from now people in America will be dropping like flies. 8 week incubation period!

🚨 BREAKING: The hantavirus situation aboard the MV Hondius is no longer “contained.” A French passenger began showing symptoms during the evacuation flight home after leaving the infected cruise ship. French authorities immediately placed all five French nationals from that flight into strict isolation.[1] That matters because officials previously claimed nobody still aboard the ship was symptomatic before evacuation began.[1][2] Now potentially exposed passengers are dispersing internationally across commercial flights and multiple countries while the incubation period for the Andes hantavirus strain can stretch for up to eight weeks.[6][15] This is also not the “normal” hantavirus people are familiar with. The Andes strain is one of the few known hantaviruses capable of person-to-person transmission.[6][7] At least: • 9 confirmed or suspected cases • 3 deaths • International evacuation flights already underway • Passengers now isolating across multiple U.S. states and countries[1][5][12] The real issue here is timing. A disease with delayed symptoms becomes exponentially harder to track once exposed individuals scatter globally before becoming visibly ill. That’s not containment. That’s surveillance and hope.

@sjstill @SkylineReport They should have been quarantined but I don't see this turning into a full blown pandemic: x.com/i/status/20538…

@SkylineReport Why the fuck were they allowed to travel home? They should have been quarantined somewhere.