Artificial Stupidity

@RevolutApp Premium = “unlimited exchanges” Reality = blocked after 100 trades 6+ h of lies → used Wise FCA/FOS filed Proof: [screenshots] Still no refund. Who’s next?

@bencsmoke The cocky self-assurance of mid wits like you prevents you from seeing the intellectual cul-de-sac you’ve wound up in and can’t get out of.

being a landlord is morally repugnant. remains a great social failure that we allow landlords to extort profit from working people for the luxury of 'having shelter'. they must be taxed into oblivion, releasing housing stock, bringing down prices + making living affordable.

@EllroyLove If the police won’t investigate, it sounds like a job for…

I asked a female copper this morning in Woking if 12 barbers shops and 22 vape/phone shops all run by Kurdish or Pakistani gangsters with no customers and expensive cars outside was suspicious. She told me it was “my opinion not fact” and I thought maybe let’s leave it there.

@thebadass It’s like that scene from the Time Machine where Weena falls in the river and they all just sit there and watch her. The only thing more stupid than the zebras are the moronic tourists and their dumb ass comments.

This video shows there is always that one person who wants to act braver and wiser.

@TheKanehB Get a grip on yourself man! Embarrassing to watch a grown adult crying like a 2 year old who’s fallen off his bike.

You guys… look at this ship. Where’s the pool? The slides? The people? Ready for round 2?!

@DavidLWindt The paper states: “No government on earth currently plans for declining energy availability”. I’m not so sure. The global 2030 agenda seems to address this very neatly, if not explicitly.

"Garrett and Grasselli have written a paper about inflation. But what they have actually described is the thermodynamic endgame of industrial civilization. Growth is ending not as a political choice but as a physical inevitability. The economic signature of that ending is inflation, first gradual, then vertical."

@ABridgen @JaniceW78256134 Mo Mowlem too. She was anti the war and although she had been unwell she wasn’t expected to die at that point.

Robin Cook died while hiking in the Scottish Highlands.

@MilkRoad I’ve been staring at the wall for 10 minutes because I wandered into a daydream trying to read this nonsense

Ray Dalio's World War III thesis explained in under 4 mins. Save this. You'll absolutely want to come back to it: Ray's latest article is the kind of thing you read, close your laptop, and then stare at the wall for 10 minutes. His thesis - in short? We're already in a world war. Not "heading toward" one. In one. Right now. Lemme break it down: Everyone's focused on the headlines - Iran tensions, oil prices, elections... Dalio says that's like watching individual raindrops and missing the hurricane. Here's what's actually happening, in his opinion: Multiple hot wars are running at the same time. Russia-Ukraine. Israel-Gaza-Lebanon-Syria. Yemen-Sudan. US-Israel-Iran. Most of them involve nuclear powers. And that's just the bullets-flying stuff. You've also got trade wars, tech wars, capital wars, and economic wars all cooking at the same time. Dalio says this is EXACTLY how past world wars started. No big declaration. No single start date. Just a slow slide into interconnected conflicts that eventually merge into one giant mess. Now here's the part that will make you put down your coffee... Dalio has a 13-step playbook for how major wars unfold. He thinks we're at Step 9. The CliffsNotes version: Steps 1-4: The dominant power weakens, sanctions fly, alliances form, proxy wars pop up. Steps 5-8: Debts pile up, governments grab control of supply chains, trade routes get weaponized, scary new war tech gets built. Step 9 (where we are now): Multiple conflicts happening at the same time across different regions. Steps 10-13: Loyalty demands, direct combat between major powers, money printer goes brrr to fund the wars, and eventually someone wins and redesigns the world order. (Yikes!) Now let's talk teams. Side A: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba. Side B: US, Ukraine, most of Europe, Israel, Japan, Australia. These aren't secret alliances either. You can see them in UN votes, trade deals, and who's showing up at whose summits. "But China gets crushed if the Strait of Hormuz shuts down!" Dalio says nope. China buys 80-90% of Iran's oil. Russia backs them up with more. They've got massive coal and solar capacity. Plus 90-120 days of oil reserves sitting in storage. China might actually WIN from all this chaos. Wild. That said, the US has 750-800 military bases across 70-80 countries. While China has one. But that's a double-edged sword according to Ray. Those bases are a power projection - yes. But he also sees them as expensive vulnerabilities. Every single one is a potential target. History shows that overextended empires can't fight on multiple fronts. So what happens when the US is knee-deep in the Middle East and something kicks off near Taiwan? Dalio says foreign leaders are already doing this math. This is the same pattern from before 1914. And before 1939. Here's his most uncomfortable point: Wars aren't won by the most powerful country. They're won by whoever can take the most pain for the longest. The US is telling everyone this Iran thing wraps up in weeks. Gas prices drop. Everything goes back to normal. But winning a war means the other side surrenders. You can't just bomb your way to victory. Vietnam taught us that. Iraq taught us that. Afghanistan taught us that. The US might be the strongest country on earth. But it might also be the worst at absorbing long-term pain. Alright - let's get to the probability stuff... This is where Dalio puts numbers on it. Iran-US-Israel: Already happening. Getting worse. Watch the Strait of Hormuz and Iran's nukes. Ukraine-Russia: Been going 3 years. 30-40% chance it spills past Ukraine's borders in the next 5 years. Taiwan/US-China: Not a hot war yet, but both sides are openly prepping. 30-40% chance, highest risk around 2028. North Korea: Nukes that can reach the US mainland. 40-50% chance of military conflict in 5 years. South China Sea: Coast guard standoffs that could drag the US in through treaty obligations. About 30% chance. Stack all of those together and Dalio says there's a greater than 50% chance at least one of them escalates in the next 5 years. His big picture take? The post-1945 world order (the one with rules, institutions, and the US running the show) is done. We're moving to a "might makes right" world. Which is actually how things worked for most of human history before 1945. We're just not used to it. And we really don't understand what it means for our money. Dalio's warning for your wallet: Think big tax increases, money printing on steroids, capital controls, and markets that sometimes just... shut down entirely. (He literally calls these "unimaginable-in-peacetime developments.") Dalio says he genuinely hopes for peace. He's spent 42 years building relationships with leaders in both the US and China. But hope doesn't change the data. And the data is flashing red. Countries are already talking about getting nukes. Building stockpiles. Missile systems on missile systems. This is 50 years of pattern recognition from the guy who built the world's biggest hedge fund telling you one thing: We're not heading toward a world war. We're in one. The only question is whether it stays at a simmer or boils over into direct conflict between the big boys. As we said at the top: Bookmark this one. You're gonna want to come back to it.

@MichaelARothman @DrJStrategy Surely the correct response to a fucked up tactic like this is to attack the US.

𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐃𝐈𝐃𝐍’𝐓 𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐘 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐌𝐔𝐙 𝐁𝐘 𝐀𝐂𝐂𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓 — 𝐇𝐄 𝐃𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐘𝐄𝐃 𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐍 𝐏𝐔𝐑𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐄 James E. Thorne (@DrJStrategy) published a piece on X that has racked up 𝟐 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬 in hours, and it deserves every one of them — because it explains the single most misunderstood element of Trump’s Iran strategy. The conventional criticism is that Trump is too slow to reopen Hormuz. The reality, Thorne argues, is that the delay 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐲. Trump is deliberately withholding the American security guarantee at the moment of maximum stress — not because he can’t clear the Strait, but because doing so too quickly would let Europe go back to sleep. For decades, Western allies built their economies and green energy mandates on a silent assumption: 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐚𝐥𝐰𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟𝐟 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐮𝐳. They ran down their militaries, underfunded NATO — the U.S. carries 𝟔𝟐% 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐎 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 — and lectured Washington about multilateralism from the comfort of a security blanket they never paid for. Then Trump pulled the blanket. On March 15, he told the world that countries receiving oil through Hormuz should “take care of that passage” themselves. The initial response was exactly what Thorne’s thesis predicts: EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas declared “𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘜 𝘵𝘰 𝘫𝘰𝘪𝘯 𝘛𝘳𝘶𝘮𝘱’𝘴 𝘏𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘶𝘻 𝘤𝘰𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯” and added “𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦’𝘴 𝘸𝘢𝘳.” Japan, Australia, South Korea, and the UK all initially rejected the call. Then the pain arrived. Oil surged from $𝟕𝟎 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 $𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐥. Tanker traffic through the Strait dropped 𝟕𝟎%. Over 𝟏𝟓𝟎 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 anchored outside waiting for safe passage. European energy prices spiked. The “not our war” posture became economically untenable. Two weeks later — on April 2 — 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟒𝟎 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 launched a coalition to secure the Strait. The UK hosted the inaugural meeting. Europe didn’t just join — they’re now scrambling to lead, with British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper chairing the talks. The very nations that said it wasn’t their problem are now volunteering ships. Thorne frames it in Hegelian terms: Trump “𝘪𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺 𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦.” The contradiction being that Europe’s energy systems, industrial bases, and geopolitical sermons 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝-𝐩𝐨𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭. The prize isn’t just reopening a chokepoint. It’s a reordered system where access to secure oil flows is 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 — not assumed as a right. A world where the United States sits at the center of the hydrocarbon chessboard. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐢𝐝 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧’𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐫. 𝐓𝐰𝐨 𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐟 $𝟏𝟎𝟎 𝐨𝐢𝐥 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐝.

@Faudaville @dog_head Exactly. Jimmy Carr’s trying to be nice but this is brutal.

@dog_head the problem here is that this only worked in Jim Moir's tv studio-based anarcho-alcoholic 'game show', Vic Reeves' Big Night Out ☝️trying too hard....you'll never do it on your own, Bob m8

@robinmonotti It’s not a lockdown that’s coming but a shutdown. US aggression is all about resource grabbing and denying China. If we weren’t running out, this wouldn’t be necessary. We’ve probably got a few years left but this is the start of the endgame.

I'm calling it: there will be ENERGY LOCKDOWNS across Europe starting in approx 2-3 months time. Governments, to allow the US use of their military assets, will order their citizens to STAY AT HOME or use only walking & bicycles for travel to "SAVE OIL TO WIN THE WAR."

@OrdnanceSurvey River Wey

When we say Send it, this is where we mean. Do you know the name of the river that flows through this town?

@the2ndfloorguy Great work! By default I’m anti-social, which drives my wife nuts. You’ve provided the “proof” that I’m behaving rationally. Thank you!

@OwenBenjamin @grok Flat earthers are a special kind of stupid. They believe that their own incredulity and lack of knowledge/understanding is somehow a coherent argument against a spherical earth.

So @grok since a standard 50-100 ft lighthouse can be seen 30-40 miles away, how is that possible given the claimed curve of the earth? At 35 miles the curve would be almost 900 ft. Since light doesn’t refract and bend in the same medium, how would you explain the use and existence of lighthouses?

@DeborahMeaden So you’re the one

Powerful, considered, statesmanly… what we should hope for in a Prime Minister. I say again, I don’t agree with everything, there have been mistakes but boy am I glad we have him right now.

@FrenchOG3 More kitchen, less bitchin. Grandad was right about women.

A very honest and heartfelt share on her end where you can tell she is torn between not settling for less, yet wanting children. She is 34. And this is what I have been seeing, they ain’t dropping their standard until after 35, not 30. Before 35, they still think they got time. When it finally happens, they either double down or fold and drop their requirements. It will depend on them wanting children and how much they do that will decide if they fold. I have seen both. The more independent minded first and the other that would take one for the team to get the kid. The first category is growing. Often times, their requirements are legitimate from the experiences they have had… other times it is just copycatting out of performtativeness. She is also non-egotistic in her delivery in even admitting the men she went on dates with her felt the same feeling. Guys who most likely were her age or older seeing an worn down version of the girls they used to be with when younger, and feeling as underwhelmed, emotionally ran through and demanding as the person on the video, settling for another merry go round with the hope of something better before the last remaining bit of soul in their eyes vanish.

@PYeerk NPC take. The guy is firing on so many levels you can’t deal with the jealousy.

Viscerally repulsive

@BrianRoemmele Please ignore the one-dimensional NPC detractors on this thread who can only critique the music.

It is sometimes difficult to put into words what genius is. But you do feel it when you experience it. This is Jacob Collier as he improvises with an orchestra performing with the world's first Audience Symphony Orchestra in San Francisco, a gathering of fans from all over North America, conducted by Suzie Collier. In the middle of the show, this happened - no rehearsal, no sheet music, no prior discussion.

@Landeur If civil war does happen as Kemp predicts, the lynch mobs will target the politicians. That should be the motivation for the government to act now before it’s too late.

Pretty good 60 second summary of Britain's future without radical change. Most foreigners in Britain don't want a civil war. Most of the natives in Britain don't want a civil war. But when it starts, the groups will fall into line pretty quickly; it's a tale as old as time.

@MrGlobal2025 What is it with these guy in a car videos??

I can’t take it anymore…