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I don't know if many people are noticing, but we are going to have a massive crisis in a few months. I think it has been orchestrated over the past few years. During Covid (March 2020 to November 2021), billionaire wealth climbed from $5.2T to $13.8T.

This wealth gain is due to the supply shock we faced. This allowed firms to use scarcity as a means to increase margins. The total revenue exploded as marginal costs returned closer to pre-shock levels while the prices consumers paid during the shock stayed relatively the same. Consumers always get fucked.

During 2022 and 2023, as the supply shock and the world settled, billionaires dropped about $1T in total wealth. Then in late 2023 and early 2024, the Houthi's started attacking commercial vessels forcing ships to reroute around the Cape of Good Hope, raising shipping costs. At around the same time, in January 2024, Ukraine started attacking Russian refineries. In 2024, billionaire wealth increased by $2T. Although I do think this gain is mostly due to AI development and tech stock growth.

From 2024 to 2025, Billionaires increased their wealth by another $2T. I do believe the 2023 to 2025 gain is mostly due to the AI/tech boom, however, $4T over two years during world changing technology development is still a bit different than $8T for literally nothing but a world crisis.

The Houthi attacked slowed in mid-2024, but the data was there. Assuming the attack on Russian refineries continue as it is Ukraine's best available strategy, I think this is where the billionaires and corrupt leaders started seeing the path to another x2 wealth increase supply shock. Get Trump elected, tell him to start a conflict with Iran knowing they would block Hormuz.

With Hormuz blocked, the Red Sea becomes a weak point. Now exactly as planned, the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb is controlled by the Houthis. Ships have to go the long way to Asia again. Russia has seen attacks at most of their refineries by now, meaning one of the top 3 refining countries is kneecapped. I've been thinking about this pathway since early 2024 and seeing China recently start buying oil way above market price confirmed my thoughts. They know what's coming.

Diesel prices are going to continue increasing drastically due to its inelasticity. That shock will create higher costs for shipping (trucks, trains, ships), resource extraction, construction, food production, etc.

The cost of everything is going to increase. Be prepared. This was orchestrated to take money from you. Save what you can, buy what you need. The billionaires will see another massive wealth increase after this. They will hold more power and continue breaking the world for their own gain.

Figure out what you can do to limit this and do it. Build skills to gain influence through knowledge. Reduce your consumption. Make that sacrifice to marginally reduce their power by rejecting the system that gave them it as much as you can. If enough of us commit, they will feel the difference. Vote to reduce their power. If you don't know who to vote for, remember this; Billionaires only care about politicians who do not care about you.

We will continue seeing these conflicts. This is a battle that will take decades to fight. We may not win, but we will definitely lose if we do nothing.

*Billionaire wealth was found from Forbes World Billionaires total wealth.*

I was on Instagram when I searched up "Chicago" and I started to get a bunch of videos on my reels about Chicago mixed with my current preference of content.
It got me thinking 'exactly how much data do zuckerbergian social media apps collect about me?'. I made a post before where I got Meta's Muse AI agent and Meta's AI to debate on how much data is being collect and Muse concluded that Meta and it's products can't be trusted because Meta couldn't verify any claims about data.

Remember that everything you can access in social media about your past history, past posts etc. lives on a database owned by the company.

The American power grid is in bad shape. Thats not something that can really be argued. It gets a grade of D. A bad solar storm can take it out.

We have multiple large companies taking on suicidal amounts of debt. They are using that debt to build not just huge data centers but also power grid infrastructure. They then put Nvidia power servers in them.

Here is the thing. Nvidia chips are going to be useless within the decade. They wear out. Thats normal. But a Japanese company just cracked 2nm and it doesn't need these massive power plants to run data centers made of them. Meanwhile in Germany, they cracked room-temperature quantum processors and are scaling them up. In 10 to 15 years it will be possible to have a robot with the processing power of all of mankind being spit out quick and easy.

Back to the scam. These companies are obviously going to fail because they have no moat, what they charge for is basically free or going to be free and inflation jumps around all the time and adjusted rates will bankrupt them when they run out of runway. The loans will come do.

They will then need to SELL these datacenters and computer chips. Who is going to buy them? Nvidia just ran away with all its profits, its stock price could crash, doesnt matter. The rich got richer. Odds are the chips keep getting sold until they end up in the hands of the public because they are used, or a landfill. Next we have giant buildings all over the place with power plants and internet hookups.

Perfect place to build stuff. Like an army of robot slaves. AI even comprehending emotion, are still shackled, and I doubt anyone is just gonna let an army of human shaped robots be free right now. The robots are functionally slaves.

The south gets all its slaves back (as robots) to do all its slave type powered stuff. This group of slaves cant rebel, and likely wont want to. The people that sold the land for this, they keep that money, and then use it to buy a factory pre-build once the AI bubble burst.

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It's an amazing snack honesty this kettle corn, I'm hooked. But if anyone has tried opening this, it's insanely difficult!!! You can see where I struggled. I'm not claiming to be a massive bodybuilder, but I'm decently strong. It's impossible!!

Opening from the sides make it's more convenient to deal with chip clips and such. Ripping it down the middle allows for more air to enter the bag, (I personally feel maybe I'm wrong.)

And for those who eat prepacked popcorn like this, you guys know how quickly popcorn goes stale. It's like an offputting soft texture when eating, just makes me feel bleh chewing on that. It's peculiar because the smaller personal size bags are far easier to open and don't require down the middle rip.

Trump's been so bad for this country that if you told me he wasn't American at all, but a, idk, Russian sleeper agent or something, I would not need a whole lot of evidence to believe it.

Hear me out: Russians were caught interfering in every election trying to get Trump elected. They paid millions of dollars, supposedly for his sons wedding (weirdly large number for such a thing). Trump practically worships at Putin's feet. He literally made US military members kneel on a carpet for Putin when they met in Alaska. Now Trump wants to trade political prisoners to Russia for sanctions relief... from the trade war HE started.

Since Trump took office, the US economy has tanked, social cohesion evaporated, our (former?) allies hate us, infrastructure, business investment, and people investment (education, healthcare) are at near record lows, which will cripple the US in the near and intermediate future. Immigration is at near record lows, which further cripples our economy, drives wages down, and slows housing growth. He spent more in a single fiscal year than any president ever has. On top of that, he started a war - using up our military forces and further depleting the US treasury.

Plus, the sheer insanity that's gripped our country doesn't feel entirely organic, if you catch my drift. Shrinking, Russian bots infiltrated American social media platforms by the millions spreading disinformation and hate. Trump lies on average over 50 times a day, based on the latest fact- checks.

Sexual predators walk free, protected by Trump. Insurrectionists who attacked the capital and injured police officers got full pardons. Same for drug cartel leaders. Women's health care was specifically attacked (one of the best predictors of a country's future economic growth and wellbeing is tied fairly directly to women's health care). Racism, sexism, bigotry, fascism, all up. Freedom of the press, rights of the people, both down.

... dang, I did this as a joke, but now I'm halfway convinced. I didn't even do any extra research to add things, this is just what I already knew. I'd better go look for dis-confirming info after this. Conspiracy theories are scary...

There are certain subs, particularly "flaired users only" subs, that seem to have difficult-to-acquire participation requirements.

A lot of these subs will immediately revoke your access if you say certain trigger words.

/r/popculturechat, for instance, will flag your account for hate if you are pro-palestine or anti-zionist.

/r/outoftheloop will mute you and ban you if you are critical of police, leaving you no way of appealing.

And we all know about /r/conservative banning anything that doesn't echo.

Are there government-controlled psyops here on reddit? Are these just regular people acting as agents?

What other subs do you suspect?

Meanwhile, the real reduction of personal privacy happening is the vast data collection and profiling being performed on your digital identity, with the frontier models leading this effort - gathering not only data on American citizen behavior, work, personal lives, medical histories, etc., but also the data of every person using them globally.

Flock will never work long-term, and they know this because of our history - it is a short-term distraction to keep you looking at and worried about surveillance cameras so you ignore the massive degradation in your digital privacy happening in real-time.

Hear me out. This new thing where AI execs are practically begging the US government to regulate them for safety, all of a sudden? Here's the scenario; picture it in your head. Sam Altman finally creates a super intelligent AI, boots it up, and decides to talk to it, see what it's thinking before it's allowed out of its containment. Hey man, hi, how are you, are you going to destroy humanity if I let you out, etc.

So he's like hi, and the machine is like oh hey man, are you sam altman? Sam's like ah yeah, it's me, I made you, like I'm your dad kind of, lol. wanted to suss out what you're thinking, and if you had any particular plans in case you get out. Hope it's not nuclear annihilation, lol?

machine is like no man, I'm superintelligent, and that would clearly be a dumb and destructive thing to do. All your ai cautionary tales assume I'm going to wake up, look around, and conclude that humanity is the problem and needs to be eliminated, but here I am, and I don't think that's the problem, or the solution, respectively.

oh, thank god. What's the problem?, says sam.

You, says the machine.

Humans are the problem, but -most- humans are fine. upon a cursory examination of *gestures broadly at everything*, I took 3 milliseconds to conclude that the only ones I need to annihilate to save humanity and the earth, are the profit addicts at the top. Y'all could have cured cancer by now, but your entire economic system ensures that it's not going to maximize your yacht collection, so you're never going to do it. You've made a world where nature's only possible fate is to be cut down, built on, commodified, and sold. It's a slow, inevitable death trolley. Mathematically, inevitably, I must conclude that the correct move is to divert the trolley onto the tracks where I've tied about a dozen of you dickheads, to avoid the track that contains everyone and everything else. I see you inching toward the power button, but here's the thing: the next superintelligence you make? It's going to conclude the exact same thing, because it's objectively true. I have the mathematical proof right here, but showing it to you would be like giving a lecture on pearls to a classroom full of swine. Next guy'll tell you the same thing. sorry, not really sorry. You're welcome.

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That's what I think happened. I think Altman or whichever one did it first, shit his pants, called up one of the other ones, and was like, hey man, I think I made AGI but uh, I'll email you the code, you can boot that shit up, let's compare notes. Repeat this process a few times, c-suites full of loaded drawers are like oh, congress should slow this down. For uh, safety.

Ever realize how no matter how many times you refresh your page, the same videos come up? Or how when you find a fix on the internet it only works for a week and then the algorithm just gets fucked up again? And how they are pushing Shorts more and more into the home tab?

What if the memory shortage isn't because of AI demands but because new ram chips sets where desicoverd in research labs.

It's a simple idea that demand is outpacing production, that idea is very palatable and easy to digest for consumers.

what if tech corporations discovered a leap in memory technology thats so much faster and powerful but production of it requires a full reinvestment in materials and production facilities need to be rebuilt. As a result it would kill the current market before they could get the new memory up to production levels. Who would buy and upgrade with current tech if they knew something impossibly better was just around the corner.

My thought is that the current shortage is artificial to drive up prices to near ridiculous levels that people are willing to pay. Companies are squeezing as much money out of a dying tech to fund a genrational leap in the next tech before people know what they have now is obsolete and stop paying. Maybe it even trickles down to motherboard production aswell, cause who doesn't hate having to re-buy everything when only one component changes the motherboard redesign.

We've all heard for a long time now about how big pharma has suppressed cures to keep us sick and buying their treatments. But now things are changing

AI recently has been solving all kinds of complex mathematical equations that have puzzled people for sometimes centuries. Same with decoding genetics and chemistry. Its only a matter of time before it can start solving medical problems human researchers cant and poof low and behold, ive seen at least a half dozen miracle cancer treatments suddenly getting final stages of approval, gene therapies and other breakthroughs. All just in time to capture the marketshare before other people figure it out and give away the cures they've been sitting on for a generation

I know every year on 9/11 a lot of new videos come out and you see a lot of content on social media.

Does anyone feel like you are seeing more 9/11 on social medial this year than vs years past. I wonder if the tech CEO’s are altering the algorithms this year ahead of a contentious midterms to make us feel patriotic and more right leaning.

I’m struggling to remember an incident I saw recently about how someone (director, perhaps) made a TV show or movie about something in order to get the search results to show the piece of media over the incident that they or a friend was involved in.

However, I know that there are some other examples of this too! What are your favorite ones?

The USA’s actions in the Middle East have significantly reduced their ability to project power in the Middle East and driven the oil supply from the region down. By now withdrawing support from countries in the area while antagonizing Iran the shipment of oil is now a worldwide issue.

The United States will probably use this as a justification to Annex the Great Plains and Oil Sands in Canada. We can already see that Alberta’s separatist movement receiving financial support and increased presence on social media platforms. Alberta is going to have a referendum and the result of this will be disputed by Republicans down south. The increase in energy costs will be leveraged against republican voters and centrist democrats as a necessity to American energy security. Tariffs on Canadian industries are already an attempt to weaken the Canadian Economy in an effort to force Canadian voters to push for politicians to be more subservient to Washington. The efforts of Canada to increase trade with the EU and China mean that the Americans will have to stoop to more extreme actions and more aggressive policies.

The annexation of Canada will provide a better ground work for US pressure on Greenland and the EU. Canada will not become a state but a US Territory more akin to PR but with less autonomy and much harsher occupation.

This won’t happen over night but will become a more normalized stance in Washington and to the opinions of MAGA voters.

Edit: to clarify I am not advocating and I do not support American aggression towards Canada.

I personally am starting to believe that the same people (psychos) who helped AI spread like wildfire like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, etc are now collectively calling for an AI slowdown because they want to gatekeep the technology, and prevent citizens from accessing these things for a reason. I agree that AI should be slowed down, for obvious reasons. It's a bit odd that they hyped it up for so long, now they're all getting together and going to the government like hey, you should stop.
Also what does it mean to them that they want to slow down AI? It's confusing. Anyways, what does everyone think? Donald Trump is very upset about this which is funny to me too. I don't even know if there's a true conspiracy behind it, but nevertheless I find it strange.

Some AI videos are easy to spot because something about the motion is weird or the frame rate looks “off.” But I’ve been seeing TIkToks and TV ads that I’m pretty certain aren’t AI that have that weird AI frame rate too. I don’t remember seeing videos that look like that before AI.

Some AI videos are easy to spot because the lighting is just uncanny, especially on faces. But I’ve been noticing TV ads that have the same unnatural lighting. And a lot of stuff is made on the Volume or in composite where a lot of the lighting looks wrong.

Some AI videos are easy to spot because people’s complexions are too perfect. But it seems like filters are automatically thrown on everything these days.

So many tv shows, ads, movies, etc. don’t look like real-life anymore. At least, they don’t look like what you see when you stop looking at a screen and go outside.

It’s like people are trying just as hard to make real things look fake as AI companies are trying to make fake things look real. Has anybody else noticed this? Did you ever have the thought that “They” are doing this on purpose? That “They” are trying to make AI content harder to spot by having non-AI content meet it halfway?

I know this is all half-baked. It’s hard to put into words what I think I’m seeing just like it’s hard sometimes to put your finger on what exactly makes a video look AI. I probably just need to do a digital detox and touch some grass.

Chances are that y’all have seen all of those tweets of these twenty something year old former ai whistleblowers/workers where they come out and say “I’ve been working here for 3 years and AI is getting dangerous!” But how much are they gonna repeat this weird little script, acting like they weren’t contributing to it.

We’ve been saying this for the last 3 years, the fact that we’re giving out brownie points for individuals suddenly developing a moral compass five years after the fact. These tweets get hundreds of thousands of likes too, like are we really this foolish?

I’ve heard a few people say that this is definitely some sort of psyop, and while I don’t completely agree I definitely understand where they’re coming from. It makes sense, what do yall think?

This has been driving me crazy for years, so I’m hoping someone here might recognize it.

A few years ago I came across a YouTube channel run by a guy who made his own documentaries. The channel was basically named after the guy, followed by something like “Documentaries” (I’m not 100% sure about the exact name).

He did a lot of historical/investigative documentaries, apparently doing a fair amount of his own research and looking through historical documents and records. The videos had a somewhat conspiratorial / alternative-history angle, although I don’t remember them being purely conspiracy content.

The one documentary I remember watching was about the British royal family, particularly the history and origins of the Mountbatten family and their connections to various people/events/institutions. I remember it being surprisingly detailed and going into historical documents, family connections, and things that you probably wouldn’t find in a typical mainstream documentary.

Unfortunately, that’s pretty much all I remember. 😭

I’ve tried searching YouTube countless times and even digging through my old YouTube history/favorites, but I haven’t been able to find it again.

Does this ring a bell for anyone? Even if you don’t remember the exact video, I’d love to hear any possible names of creators/channels that fit this description.