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Nearly every major human civilization grew around water sources as a method of helping agriculture, trade, and commerce. Given the likelihood of living near large bodies of water, pretty much every one of them has been hit by devastating floods at some point (even many points) in their history and those stories get sung down the generations. Flood myth is are common and easy to explain. You I’m sure know this, just jumping off your comment. It’s harder to find a civilization without a flood myth than to explain the origins of them.

This is false. Which country prints Euros, for example? Are you unfamiliar with currency exchanges and how all are pegged against the dollar? If facts no longer matter, why not just say inflation is caused by unicorns?

Yep, and don’t forget the sovereign wealth fund: https://www.piie.com/blogs/realtime-economics/2025/us-sovereign-wealth-fund-confused-solution-undefined-problem

It seems he was also sending a signal to others that this form of grift is fully acceptable and that others should follow his lead. Over 700 more launched within a week or two of him doing this, nearly all trying to scam and bilk people: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/trump-meme-coin-crypto-copycats

Totally worth the wait. I genuflect in your general direction, sir

Zero. Angels are fictional.

The challenge is even merit judgements are subjective and we tend to unconsciously favor those who are like us. We don’t even realize we’re doing it. If the person is similar to us, we prefer them. In a world being run by white males, more white males get selected due merely to being similar but not due to being better. The need is to correct for that existing bias, and what we’re seeing is people attacking the correction mechanism for being biased. I’m tired of living in this bizzarro world alternate reality.

Apologies for my role in it. I genuinely thought he’d know of the top 2 or 3 options right off the top of his head. Mea culpa.

Curious what @Sensei might say here on this subject (tho he’ll probably mention something about building your own network and running Linux which is clearly not the point… existing paths and providers only is the question in the OP)

Evidence would come next. I eagerly await your proof.

When you strive to “prove” that trees are conscious, does your success require that your audience have neither brain nor ability to think?

Changes? Very little. Amplifies and accelerates? Orders upon orders upon orders of magnitude. And it’s a global issue now. This is the new world order, not the bullshit people were walking around with sandwich boards about a decade or two ago.

And when they are ignored, and the people ignoring it have control over the soldiers and machinations and weapons, and when even local authorities are on board with those ignoring it, then who / what serves as the enforcement mechanism to stop them?

Just raising this back to the top 🧠🧐

Horseshit

Which is far easier and far more likely when you purposely install leaders who are loyal sycophantic yes-men across all of the top layers of the chain of command.

Even Trudeau has been pushed out of power in Canada. Even Canucks are not immune from charlatan right wing extremism

The President of Congo just offered the United States ownership of his country’s minerals to entice President Trump to put an end to the war backed by Rwanda. Congo holds more than half the world’s Cobalt and Colton. They also have substantial deposits of Gold, Copper, Tin, Lithium, etc. China currently has a considerable influence in Congo’s mineral sector, and before them, it was the Europeans. https://x.com/behizytweets/status/1893351121386905911?s=46&t=QjfV_ZHNvP2ulzJ-j8JFcg

Depends on whether the entire country as a whole became a state or if individual provinces each became states, but it’s moot bc it won’t happen. It’s all trolling to distract us from the more heinous shit they’re doing.

And access to competitor data

I cannot join you in that conclusion https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3956087/

Ask 10 different people what it means and you'll get 12 different answers.

Then, yes. Bees are that.

How are you defining consciousness?

Pro: He's human and therefore mortal. Con: We’re unlikely to confirm his mortality today.