Alan Paulley

China just buried the internet underground. China built a 1,300-ton data cabin submerged under the sea, housing 24 server racks running 400 to 500 servers cooled entirely by the ocean. No air conditioning or cooling towers sucking up millions of gallons of water, just cold seawater doing the work for free. Standard data centers spend up to 50 percent of their total energy just on cooling and this one cuts that number to below 10 percent. And this is just the beginning, China’s plan calls for 100 of these underwater cabins. Meanwhile, a second facility just launched off Shanghai, wind-powered for $226 million which targets a PUE of 1.15 almost perfect energy efficiency. Now here is the part that stings, the US invented this concept. Microsoft launched Project Natick back in 2013, they sank 855 servers off the coast of Scotland. The experiment worked beautifully and only 6 of 855 servers failed compared to 8 out of 135 in a land-based center. Then Microsoft shut the whole project down and in 2024, the head of Microsoft’s cloud division said: “I’m not building subsea data centers anywhere in the world.” America proved it worked while China actually built it. This matters beyond energy efficiency, the US is already hitting an energy bottleneck. New AI data centers need more than a gigawatt of electricity enough to power a small city and there is not enough power coming online fast enough. Meanwhile, China does not have that problem, it has a coordinated national energy buildout, offshore wind farms, and now data centers that barely need power for cooling.

It was Christmas Eve, 1969. Deep beneath the North Sea, off the coast of Norway, drillers from an American oil company hit something extraordinary. The Ekofisk field — one of the largest offshore oil deposits ever discovered — had just been found. A small, quiet Scandinavian nation of fishermen and farmers was about to become unimaginably wealthy. What happened next is either the greatest financial decision in history, or the most boring story ever told. Depending on how you look at it. Because Norway did almost nothing. At least, that's how it looked on the surface. They didn't throw parties. They didn't build palaces. They didn't hand out checks. While oil money began pouring in, Norwegian politicians did something almost no government in history has been able to do: they resisted. They watched what happened to Nigeria. To Venezuela. To Libya. Countries that struck oil and celebrated — and then, slowly, collapsed. Corruption. Inflation. Inequality. The "resource curse," economists called it. Easy money that destroys the very fabric of a nation. Norway decided to build a wall between the oil money and themselves. In 1990, the Norwegian Parliament passed a law creating the Government Petroleum Fund — what the world now calls the Oil Fund. The rules were almost painfully simple: every krone of oil profit goes into the fund. It gets invested globally. The government can only spend a small percentage of the returns each year. The rest stays. Forever. The first deposit came in 1996. A modest amount. Almost symbolic. Then they did something even harder than creating the rule. They kept it. Year after year, election after election, crisis after crisis — politicians who promised to raid the fund lost. Politicians who protected it won. For three decades, across governments of every political stripe, one principle held: this money belongs to Norwegians who haven't been born yet. The fund bought small stakes in thousands of companies around the world. Apple. Microsoft. Amazon. Real estate in Manhattan, London, Paris, Tokyo. It didn't gamble. It didn't chase hot trends. It simply bought a piece of the global economy — and waited. The waiting paid off in ways no one predicted. Today, Norway's Oil Fund holds nearly $2 trillion in assets. For a country of just 5.6 million people, that's roughly $340,000 for every single citizen — man, woman, and child. No checks are written. The money belongs to future generations as much as the present one. Here's the part that stops people cold: more than half of that wealth didn't come from oil at all. It came from investment returns. The fund now earns more from its global portfolio than Norway makes pumping oil out of the ground. They turned a finite resource into infinite returns. And here is what Norway quietly did while the world wasn't watching: they now own approximately 1.5% of every publicly traded company on Earth. Every time a major global business makes a profit — a tiny fraction finds its way back to Norway's children. The oil will run out someday. Geologists estimate 30 to 50 years, maybe more. It doesn't matter. By then, the fund will be so large that its investment returns alone will fund Norwegian healthcare, education, and pensions — perhaps forever. Norway didn't discover more oil than anyone else. It wasn't smarter geology or better technology. It was one thing: the courage to say no. No to easy money. No to short-term thinking. No to the politicians who swore they'd only spend it "just this once." No to a generation that could have lived richer — at the expense of every generation that followed. Most countries can't do it. Most people can't do it. We're wired for now, not for later. Norway looked at human nature — greedy, impatient, shortsighted — and built a system specifically designed to defeat it. In 1969, they found oil. In 1990, they built the fund. In 1996, they made the first deposit. Today, they own a piece of the world. And the Norwegians who made that decision in 1990? Most of them are gone now. They never saw the trillion-dollar result. They built it for strangers — for grandchildren who wouldn't be born for decades. That's not economics. That's wisdom.

Trump and the East: when the “cowboy” forgot where the entrance is and where the exit is 🤠🏜️ Donald Trump has once again decided that the world is his personal reality show where he can say whatever he wants. His latest suggestion that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia should “kiss his a**” is no longer just tactlessness—it’s diplomatic suicide. Trump, do you even understand where you’ve stepped? In the East they say: “The tongue is a lion: if you let it loose, it will tear you apart.” Donald didn’t just unleash his lion—he drove it straight into a minefield. The Crown Prince is not a hotel manager in Las Vegas. He is a man backed by the authority of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques. Does Trump really think this will be “swallowed”? As Arab wisdom says: “A wound from a sword heals; a wound from the tongue never does.” — What should we expect? Two billion Muslims are watching this with cold contempt. And this will not just “come back” to Trump—the East knows how to wait. As they say: “Revenge is a dish best served cold.” This kind of loose talk could become the very bridge that unites even bitter enemies in the Middle East. Because when there is a shared insult from an outsider, yesterday’s rivals become brothers-in-arms. Trump wanted to show strength, but only showed his… peculiar upbringing. As we say: “The dog barks, the caravan moves on,” but if the dog bites the caravan’s master, its fate is sealed. Speaking sarcastically: he wanted kisses—he’ll get a response that will make his ears ring. The East is not a casino. Here, every word must be paid for—with gold or with honor. Let’s see what Donald will pay with when his “diplomacy” collapses like a sandcastle in a desert storm.

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This will forever remain the greatest loss and the most powerful message ever. Every time I watch it again, my emotions change; it's impossible to rewind this.🥹😢 Don't wait to be happy, be happy, be happy now.💖💖

Gym bans woman for overusing equipment- she was training for Boston Marathon. What do you think about the judge’s verdict

The video is seductive. A fighter jet, twin engines blazing, taking fuel at 30,000 feet. It looks like power. It looks like the future. It is neither. The manned fighter jet is one of the most expensive objects a democracy can operate. Training a single combat-ready pilot costs between seven and eight million dollars and takes the better part of three years. The aircraft itself burns through roughly $27,000 every hour it is airborne, before anything goes wrong and something always goes wrong. Then consider what happens on a typical mission. The aircraft launches, flies for five to seven hours, burning through $135,000 to $190,000 in operating costs before a single weapon leaves the wing. It carries perhaps six to nine missiles, each costing anywhere from $300,000 to over a million dollars depending on type. That is the full arsenal. Six to nine shots. After that, the most expensive flying machine in history turns around and goes home. For decades, that cost was justified by what those missiles could do. Nothing in the sky could survive them. The logic was sound. Then someone in a warehouse glued an engine to a set of wings, added a cheap GPS chip, and sent ten thousand of them toward their enemies for less than the cost of a single intercept. In the first week of Operation Epic Fury, Iran fired over 500 ballistic missiles and nearly 2,000 drones at U.S. bases and Israeli cities, burning through over 800 Patriot interceptor missiles in three days.  Lockheed Martin produced roughly 600 Patriot interceptors in all of 2025. Iran consumed more than that in 72 hours. A Shahed drone costs around $30,000. A single Patriot interceptor costs millions.  The asymmetry is structural. Ukraine’s “Spider’s Web” operation used 117 drones hidden in cargo trucks to inflict an estimated $7 billion in damage on Russian strategic bombers at a total cost of roughly $234,000. For every dollar spent attacking, defenders lost $30,000 in assets.  A manned fighter carrying nine missiles cannot survive this arithmetic. It launches, burns $150,000 getting to the fight, expends its rack against a swarm of cheap drones, and returns empty while the next wave is already inbound. Ukraine built interceptor drones for between $1,000 and $2,500 each and moved them from prototype to mass production within months.  The Pentagon spent decades perfecting the opposite approach. The manned fighter is obsolete because the threat it was designed to defeat has been replaced by one it cannot economically engage. Capability without sustainability is just an expensive way to lose slowly. The video is beautiful. The paradigm it represents is finished. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

"We play an individual sport, but I wasn't alone today" ❤️ An incredibly open and emotional moment as Gary Woodland reacts to winning the Texas Children’s Houston Open.

🚨 Do you understand what Iran just invented? for 50 years, the US dollar was the most powerful force in the global economy.. not because America had the strongest military.. but because every country on earth needed dollars to buy oil.. it was called the petrodollar system.. and it gave Washington control over the entire global financial order.. Iran just built something scarier.. they didn't print a currency.. they didn't need a reserve.. they took control of a 21-mile stretch of water.. and now they're deciding who gets through.. Pakistan gets 20 ships.. everyone else waits.. that's a monetary one.. Iran just became the central bank of global oil movement.. and instead of interest rates.. they set alliance rates.. want your ships through? show Tehran where you stand.. the US spent 50 years building a system where the world needed American permission to buy oil.. Iran just built a system where the world needs Iranian permission to move it.. same game.. different team.. different strait.. and they did it in 4 weeks.

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Prof. John Mearsheimer says "Iran will win." "Trump has no choice but to cave in to most of Iran's demands. It will be a humiliating defeat for the United States." He’s 100% right.

🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸🇮🇱 BREAKING: IRAN ANNOUNCES 6 DEMANDS TO END WAR 1. Binding guarantee must be established so that war will not be repeated, rejecting temporary ceasefire 2. Immediate closure of U.S. military bases across the region 3. Aggressors must pay compensation for damages inflicted during the war 4. End all ongoing wars across regional fronts 5. Establish a new legal regime governing the Strait of Hormuz 6. Prosecution and extradition of individuals affiliated with hostile media operations targeting Iran

Rubio and the whole US admin have been avoiding Kaja Kallas First, because she represents unified EU which they don’t want Second, because she is asking all these annoying questions about why US is wh*ring for russia, which break the Trump lies and personality cult

"bombing a country on the other side of the globe won't make the epstein files go away." -Rep. Thomas Massie Do you agree with Thomas Massie?

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Trump: losing world reserve currency would be worse than losing a major war, we wouldn't be the same country anymore And yet, it looks like the US is heading toward both. - It has suffered a humiliating defeat against Iran - Is about to lose the petrodollar The petrodollar system only works as long as the US can enforce it... militarily and politically. That was always the deal. Security in exchange for oil being sold in USD and surpluses being recycled into US assets. The GCC are quickly realizing that they got a target on their back instead of security. This means new alliances emerge, new deals are being made... multipolarity sets in That’s exactly what we are seeing now. - China is already pushing the yuan as an alternative. - yuan foreign bond issuance is surging 3x yoy - Iran demanding yuan for Hormuz transit Step by step, settlement moves away from USD. Less dollar demand -> less recycling into Treasuries -> higher yields -> more pressure on the system

This image says it all. Top image: what you actually pay. Bottom image: what fuel could cost without tax and VAT. Unleaded shown at 143.9p becomes 67.0p. Diesel shown at 166.8p becomes 86.1p. That tells you exactly how much of the pain at the pump is government-loaded cost. And then they wonder why people feel like they’re being robbed.

Four cannibals apply for a job in a big corporation… 'Well, says the boss, 'If I hire you guys, you have to promise not to eat any of our staff.' The cannibals promise that they will not eat anyone and get hired. Everything is going well for a while, and one day the boss calls them into his office. “You’re working well and all, but we’re missing an office cleaner. Do you have something to do with that?” The cannibals swear that they are innocent. The boss believes them and leaves the office, and they all turn to their leader. “You idiots!” he screams. “Who ate the cleaner?” One of the cannibals sheepishly raises his hand. “You fool!” shouts the leader. "For weeks we've been feasting on directors, team leaders, project managers and human resource staff, and then you go and eat someone they'll actually miss!"

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