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Ask your favorite llm "What medical research has been done with ostrich eggs?" Now think about how William Randolph Hearst used his newspaper to vilify hemp because it threatened his paper empire. TL;DR Hearst, Anslinger, and DuPont's greed won Humanity was set back 😔

Who else is noticing that seemingly the entire U.S. stock market is now driven by weapons manufacturers, AI surveillance technology developers, data center bubble builders and sick-care pharma bioweapons makers? There seems to be zero incentive in the current grotesque economic system for building things that work and that HELP people live better lives. It's all about bombing them, spying on them, depopulating them or exploiting them for profit. That's what the U.S. economic system has largely become, sadly.

We are literally paying premium prices for the worst version of society we have ever lived in. I need a refund.

Tired: Humans are killing the planet Wired: literally like 90 specific billionaires and CEOs are killing the planet and we literally know their names

Pretty much sums it up.

A 200-femtosecond laser strips electrons from the air, creating a plasma “seed”. Microwaves rapidly heat that path until branching fractal patterns appear and a Mach 1 shockwave races outward. For a split second, the air starts behaving like a living structure.

When society is collapsing and some dude is trying to talk to me about sports

A comic by Dave Coverly

If full-time workers can’t afford to live, but billionaires can afford to buy the government, why is anyone still calling this a democracy?

CEOs are quietly realizing the AI replacement plan has a problem. Two problems, actually. One: the token costs for running AI agents are now exceeding what they were paying the employees they fired. Two: when the tokens run out, the AI stops. Just stops. No continuity. No workaround. Just a spinning wheel where your workforce used to be. You fired humans to save money and bought a subscription that bills you into a corner. The employees you let go knew what to do when things broke. The AI just invoices you for the outage. And then there’s the permission problem nobody wants to talk about. To do its job, the AI agent needs access. Full access. Your systems, your patents, your contracts, your future plans. Everything you spent years building, handed over to a process that has no loyalty, no discretion, and no skin in the game. You didn’t hire a replacement. You gave a stranger with no soul the keys to everything you own. Enjoy.

When the boomers are gone do y’all want to make 4 day workweeks / 3 day weekends permanent?

When the entity appears to you. Don’t be alarmed or they will know you aren’t ready. Prepare yourself. They will be teaching you how to manipulate the fabric of the simulation and how time actually operates.

A bird has never paid rent to live in the sky. A tree has never paid to stand in a forest. The sun has never been charged for rising. The river has never paid to flow. Yet humans spend their whole lives trying to earn permission to exist on earth

We all need a win here soon

Let's break down the truth behind the famous $50 XRP candle on Gemini in August 2023. It wasn't a glitch; it was a 100% real market event and a perfect example of 'catastrophic slippage. When XRP was relisted there, the order books had razor-thin liquidity. A market buy order instantly devoured all available sell orders, sweeping the book until it executed a rogue sell order sitting at exactly $50. It took only about $37,000 in volume to launch the price to $50. This event is the absolute mathematical proof of why Tier-1 banks cannot just rely on on-demand sourcing during peak volumes; they must hold XRP in their own isolated liquidity pools. If a mere $37,000 can cause catastrophic slippage on a thin book, a multi-billion dollar institutional cross-border transfer would completely freeze the system if the required liquidity isn't already deeply pooled and locked by the banks themselves. To prevent this exact scenario, financial giants cannot just plug into ODL as passive users; they require pre-funded, locked capital and dedicated XRP liquidity pools under their own management. The Gemini candle proved that without deep, bank-held liquidity pools, managing global institutional volume is mathematically impossible. You can't carry out massive transfers at low price tags like $20-$30. It would trigger catastrophic slippages, leaving you completely unable to control both the market and the transactions. So, by now you should understand what a massive issue slippage is, and why deep liquidity is mandatory to control it.

Let me be very honest with you. Most people will lose everything when altseason comes. 👇 Here’s how it usually plays out. You start with $10,000. You hit your goal: a 10x. Now your portfolio is worth $100,000. This is where the danger begins. You get greedy. You feel invincible. You think you finally cracked the code. So you take that entire $100,000 and start aping into hype coins (Influencer's coins) You stop thinking logically. You start thinking emotionally. You chase narratives. You rotate from bag to bag. You try to catch every move. And then… boom. It’s gone. Here’s the rule most people ignore: The moment you feel unstoppable is the moment you should de-risk. Once you hit your target, or once you feel like nothing can stop you: Put 80–90% into stables Buy back some $BTC Move money into safer assets Diversify into things like real estate Or start the business you’ve always wanted to build And if you still have the urge to gamble, fine… Keep it to 10% max. That’s it. No more. Protecting profits > chasing another 100x that may never come. Why? Because confidence can turn into arrogance very quickly. And arrogance destroys judgement. When you feel invincible, that’s usually your signal to step back. Save this. Come back to it when altseason hits. (Btw $Others looks ready) — Waterman

🚨THE FBI CREATED A FAKE CRYPTOCURRENCY.. LISTED IT ON UNISWAP.. HIRED MARKET MAKERS TO PUMP IT.. THEN ARRESTED EVERYONE WHO SAID YES.. THIS IS THE CRAZIEST LAW ENFORCEMENT OPERATION IN CRYPTO HISTORY!!! The FBI built an actual ERC-20 token on Ethereum called NexFundAI.. 100 billion token supply.. A professional website.. Whitepapers promising "passive income through AI-powered investing".. It looked exactly like every other crypto project.. Because that was the point.. Undercover agents posed as the founding team.. Then reached out to professional market-making firms and said "we need you to fake our trading volume".. Every single firm said yes.. Here's what they recorded.. Gotbit.. A firm run by a 26-year-old Russian who publicly bragged in 2019 that he built a business faking trade volumes.. His team kept internal spreadsheets with columns literally labeled "fake volume" vs "market volume".. When asked how fast they could pump NexFundAI's volume to $1 million per day.. They said "6 hours.. It will cost about $200".. $200 to fake $1 million in daily trading volume.. MyTrade.. Run by a guy who called himself "the mastermind".. He explained the exact psychology of the scam on camera.. "We make the chart look like a really nice roller coaster ride.. That's where people jump in.. We have to make them lose money in order to make profit".. He said that on a recorded FBI video call.. CLS Global.. A Dubai-based firm.. Their bots generated 98% of NexFundAI's total trading volume.. When the FBI asked if they could sync fake volume spikes with fake news announcements.. They said absolutely.. ZM Quant.. Bots executing 10 to 20 trades per minute through dozens of wallets to look organic.. All of them knew it was fraud.. All of them did it anyway.. All of it was recorded.. And the clients were even worse.. Saitama.. A meme coin that hit $7.5 billion market cap.. The founders coordinated buys through private Telegram chats.. Sent "pump it" memes while manipulating the price.. Then dumped on retail investors.. $7.5 billion.. Built entirely on fake volume.. Every penny of real money came from retail investors who thought the momentum was organic.. One founder left Saitama and started Robo Inu.. Used Gotbit again.. Another launched VZZN.. Same playbook.. Lillian Finance.. Founder claimed to be a defense contractor who addressed Congress.. Marketed the token as funding children's hospitals.. Pocketed everything.. When the FBI shut it down.. They seized $25 million in one day.. 18 people indicted across the US, UK, and Portugal.. The CEO of Gotbit was arrested in Portugal and extradited.. Sentenced to 8 months plus $23 million forfeiture.. But here's the part that broke my brain.. Real people bought NexFundAI.. The FBI's fake token.. With zero utility.. Zero real developers.. Created solely to catch criminals.. Attracted real retail investors because the fake volume made the chart look bullish.. When the FBI pulled the liquidity to end the operation.. Those people lost real money.. On a government-issued token.. The FBI had to set up a restitution portal to pay them back.. And it gets worse.. Within 24 hours of the DOJ announcing the sting.. Someone cloned the FBI's exact smart contract.. Launched a copycat token.. Rode the viral momentum.. And made $127,000 in a single day.. Using the exact same manipulation tactics the FBI just arrested 18 people for.. Then in 2026.. The FBI did it again.. New token called Lexobit.. 10 more arrests.. Including operators extradited from Singapore.. IRS forensics showed that in one firm's trading.. 1,209 out of 1,221 consecutive transactions went straight back to wallets the firm controlled.. 99% circular.. The FBI proved what everyone in crypto suspected.. The volume is fake.. The charts are painted.. The momentum is manufactured.. And every time you buy a token because "the chart looks bullish".. You might be the exit liquidity.

Why do taxpayers have to pay for private business ventures? Why are taxpayers funding everything from data centers to Amazon warehouses? If these rich assholes are so fucking rich, why can't they fund their own businesses??

Ngl I really feel like workdays should be 5–6 hours max. There's no reason people should spend MOST of their lives at work. Let people go home and actually have time for their families, partners, friends, rest, and health. That's why so many people are miserable today.