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So Kevin O'Leary made billions selling digital educational material to governments who can mandate their populations buy his product or else not be able to participate in the economy, aka serving One Another. Now he's building surveillance centers I mean data centers for the American government and mega corporations to watch (and control) our every move if not our every thought. Did I get that right?

Amazing how “global warming will kill us all” vanished the moment governments and big tech wanted data centers. Sorry your childhood was destroyed by anxiety, kids, but daddy needs new surveillance toys.

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

@MetaPrime001 T-P-B til i D-I-E

To many people mistakenly think that just because you share some beliefs with people on the internet you could easily form a real life community with them Trust is more important than shared ideology and trust takes time and in person interaction to build

OB nails it. Feels like we're zeroing in on these slimy (evil) bastards!

Bleak. Hopeless. Most youngsters i meet are actually capable, but i know it from experience as i grow up that Life is evermore like an open air insane asylum crossed with a slave plantation of perpetually removed or otherwise stymied opportunities for self-extraction from the Plantation Nation.

@OwenBenjamin & @offgridstone I fkn KNEW yall were friends! 🤣

Bet you anything they're to power tunnel and bunker systems underneath them.

They are cutting down the forest inside the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York so they can install solar panels. I’m not sure how anyone could still believe the climate change hoax at this point. It’s a giant money laundering scam. This crap needs to stop ASAP.

Regarding my project in Central America. When I posted about it yesterday, I was just sharing something I've been thinking on and talking about for a while and was not expecting this much response. I've been in and around the intentional community space for many years with all of my work in small scale farming and this is something that I have been guided towards for many years. When I was in Mexico a few months ago, I was approached by more people about doing this sort of thing and now seeing all the responses, emails and messages, I am really feeling that this is the right thing to do. I have learned so much on my off-grid build here in the last 5 years that I really feel I could do this again on a larger scale and make it perfect. The plan is to buy a very large acreage. Ideally 500-1000 acres where we can essentially build a town. There will be multiple tiers in which people can participate and invest. This would be set up as a Trust or Holding Company and there would be a business built into it with multiple forms of revenue. Tier 1 would be for the initial investors that would most likely form the core board of trustees. They would have 1-2 acre off-grid homesteads build for them in the $1 million range. The second tier would be small groups of single family homes in a cul-de-sac type thing where each home would have .25 - .5 acre lots, so they would have room for gardens, but their off-grid infrastructure would be a small district system where 5-10 homes would share some common infrastructure for electricity, gas and water. These might be in the $200-$500,000 range. The project would have a build in, for-profit regenerative farm with livestock, fruit, nuts and vegetables that would be a turn key business and a percentage of the profits would go to the investors. The farm would first service our community but would also sell in neighbouring areas. We would also have long term and short term rental opportunities as well as an events area to hold community events, conferences, workshops and retreats. The main reason I want a large acreage is so that this can become a legacy project that continues to grow for years. As the community grows, so will the demand for a destination for like-minded people. It will be very exclusive and people will have to be the right fit in order to participate. I'm in no rush to just take peoples money. I'm also looking to do the same thing in southern BC, but that is a much smaller project and I already have a good core of investors for that one at the moment. On a personal note, I am also not planning on leaving Canada. This is a business opportunity and a place for myself and family to winter. I have no plans on selling my homestead and leaving permanently. I love where I live, but would be keen to start skipping winters. But, that is that the plan thus far. If you're interested, put you email into the link in the first comment. Talk soon.

Is anyone familiar with the Flock AI surveillance cameras that are going up all over Northwest Arkansas right now? These cameras are being installed by a billion dollar corporation so government agencies can spy on us and track our every move, WITHOUT a warrant. Not only do they read every license plate and detailed vehicle description, they also store that data in searchable private cloud servers that are integrated with Palantir (another AI data company). The shills will say it’s for “safety”, but the 4th amendment was written to protect all of us from this kind of mass AI dragnet surveillance, and I won’t be quiet about it, and you shouldn’t either.

No one wants these faggot ass data centers

"We've got to beat China[...]" -wut, at being chinese or being a communist surveillance state?

During the Biden administration, H-1B visa holders were buying houses with 97-100% financing. 97% would come from the FHA, with the rest coming from state first-time home buyer programs. Zero money down. Thanks to programs that were supposed to be helping low-income American families buy their own homes. FHA loans to non-permanent residents quickly grew to represent 6% of mortgage issuances. The percentage was undoubtedly higher in places like the DFW area, where H-1B visa holders are disproportionately concentrated. I don’t have anything against people in America on H-1B visas. I’ve said it before—and I’ll say it again—that I’ve found many of them to be great people on an individual level, and I wish them all nothing but the best. Individual immigrants—especially those here legally—are not at fault for flawed US immigration policy. But this might be the most radicalizing thing I’ve ever seen. Not only are American workers forced to compete for jobs, they’re also forced to compete in the housing market against people bringing 0-3% of a house’s cost to the closing table, versus the 10-20% most people have to pay. First, companies import mass numbers of H-1B visa holders, largely in "back office" white-collar fields like IT and accounting. This essentially imposes a lower ceiling on domestic wages in these job categories. Next, these workers—who are generally concentrated in certain geographic areas—create more demand for housing (especially in good school districts), driving up home prices and the cost of living. Then, to top it off, they don’t even have to save up money for a down payment. They can close on a $500k house with $0-15k plus a 97% FHA loan. Meanwhile, ordinary American families are forced to come to with $50-100k for the same down payment. I don’t care how you feel about Trump or what your preferred immigration policies are; there’s no defending this. It screws over hard-working American citizens several different ways over, and it’s yet another reason why I will always be glad Trump won and Kamala Harris lost in 2024.

Don't act surprised The government can barely agree to get a pothole fixed and all the sudden city counsels are falling over themselves to get data centers build because it's "such an important public good" Give me a break They are obviously getting kickbacks so the commons of these small towns can be exploited for the benefit of the kleptocratic system No one is buying this "ignorant hippies blocking progress" narrative. These are every day small town Americans who are sick of being taken advantage of

You're correct. Food retailers cannot by "law" sell anything internally consumable that isn't on "The List," which is a spreadsheet of every last little (or large) producer who's paid the Mafia i mean health department bureacracy their protection racket "rent." The State CDPHE uberdweeb demanded to be escorted by a sheriff deputy and a policer officer for the duration of his inspection of my @MidParkMeatClub facility last month when he was there TO shut me down for refusing to play into their racket of licensing my Liberty to serve the People and also for extorting me under cohersive duress to further participate in their business partners' racket of online educational material for a full ticket price of $865 plus 3.5 weeks closed or roughly $35,000. Retaliation is nigh.

@LittlePineCO @AtomicErectus @GovofCO I agree with this. I think the gov is working towards limiting our food choices w/ the ultimate goal being we can only buy food at "registered" groceries & state approved "acceptable" restaurants (read: will serve Gates' fake slop, etc.). All part of the coming electronic prison.

@GovofCO killed our cottage bakery. With the passage of the “Tamale Act” and its instant effectiveness it is no longer economically feasible to continue feeding our community in this way. We will be evaluating all our options and hopefully chart a path that allows us to continue to be of service to our loyal customers. Fuck You Governor Polis, and all your commie minions in the legislature. Burn in hell, tyrants. 🖕🔥🏴‍☠️

@AtomicErectus @GovofCO This is 100% sincere, and I have actually trained as a preacher. How many avenues do we have left to legally feed each other? 🤷‍♂️ Focus more on breaking bread together this year, no matter what church you attend.

@ModernCeasar @Will_Tanner_1 Covid showed us in advance of what's ahead who all the worthless sell out cowards are.

@Will_Tanner_1 Rhodesia reminds me of Lithuanian partisan war against the Communists. It was one of the longest guerilla wars against Soviet regime, but unfortunately local communists and NKVD won in the end.

One reason the Rhodesian story is so powerful is that they stood and fought when faced with the hostility of the whole world Their ancestors had built a thriving, pleasant, prosperous civilization--one that combined the best aspects of frontier and country life--out of nothing in a mere 60 years, and they decided to fight for it rather than give it up Few other British colonies did this. Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and Nyasaland (Malawi) just gave up after being pressured. So too did the Kenyans, who departed rather than attempt independence. The same was true in Uganda. The great tea and rubber plantations of the Raj and Burma were nationalized without even a whimper. The Belgians gave staying a halfhearted try in Katanga, but quickly gave up and gave in. The Rhodesians actually fought, and did so to the bitter end, their energy and resources utterly spent after a 15 year fight for survival against the whole world, "free" and communist" alike Yes, they lost, in the end. But they were willing to stand and fight for what they had built, which makes their story one worth remembering, and striving to honor by doing the same thing For too long, we have given up and retreated time and time again as the race communist left--the same force that destroyed Rhodesia--destroys what our ancestors built. "I'm leaving" has replaced "I'm fighting" ever since the War Between the States, as egalitarianism and its dire consequences have been forced upon us. What should have been tactical retreats to defensible positions, have instead been unmitigated and fragmentation-inducing retreats that have destroyed our communities and culture as the great accomplishments of our ancestors go up in flames It's time to reject that mindset, and strive to be like the Rhodesians. To fight in whatever ways we can to preserve what our forefathers built "I'm Staying, How About You?"

@Nutmegbunny9 Fire line?

I just saw a man with a leaf blower in the woods blowing leaves. I live in the country. I am confused.🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️