“former” >_> uh-huh. Ok. Sure.

Eeyore and piglet

Look into the School of the Americas. School of the Americas (rebranded as WHINSEC in GA) is not just for Latin Americans. Some key Saudi nationals received training from them too.

Also, between the asbestos, insurance, investors, blackberry messages and the Mossad agents arrested and deported near ground zero it’s wild to me people don’t at the very least accept Israel had absolute prior knowledge of the attack at the very least. Same with that day in October. They went around and even disarmed the kibbutzes like a month or so before, then delayed their response for hours before reigning down hellfire and causing mass casualties. You either accept they’re that incompetent or that the “panic” and declaration of the Hannibal directive was by design to maximize fatalities to save a flailing career politicians skin. He and his wife were elbow deep in his corruption scandal. Money, motive, paper trail. It’s all there. People really underestimate the lengths powerful people will go to, to save themselves and their families own behinds and insulate their wealth. Our lives mean very little to them. They don’t hoard wealth and power, because they are starting out with great moral compasses.

But, I digress, people love to conflate the facts with other wild far off conspiracy theories to discredit the very real involvement of Israeli intelligence in 9/11 and their follow-up actions. If they make it crazy enough no-one will listen right? It’s a tactic and I’m seeing it regurgitated in these comments. They want you do go down the wacky rabbit holes, or accuse you of doing so, so you and others ignore the very real documented facts and throw the whole case out together. They did the same thing with conflating the very real trafficking ring of Epstein with the pizza gate wayfair bull crap. You couldn’t even discuss the facts around child trafficking without someone accusing you of believing in sick ritual conspiracy theory stuff I’m not even going to bother laying out here.

Who names these people? I feel like I’m stuck in a bad sitcom and all the writers are on strike. Let me out of this b list movie.

The American response to that is, “be happy you have a job and not living under a bridge like that guy.” And then they blacklist you in your industry and fire you without cause.

Sounds very reminiscent of Wisconsin circa 2011.

I just had another thought on this topic, since this is the Yucatán. The Golden era Mayans built up berms to build on for roads. They’re called sacbe/sacbeob and they were generally very straight from A to B. They loved grids. I imagine modern planners are well aware of historical contexts of the region as well, not mention potentially Mayan themselves. Beyond just the shortest route from point A to B is a straight line, there may be some other underlying context like someone suggested of ease of divvying up land and drawing contracts.

I left Mexico in 2016, so it’s been a minute. But urban planning was a big field with lots of hype for up and coming university students at the time. I’d imagine this is their handiwork as graduates now. I was also on the West coast. So, I don’t know much about the Yucatán or Vera Cruz etc.

Urban planning and zoning. They’re just planning in advance for urban sprawl and congestion. Mexico experienced a lot of growing pains (and preventable deaths) when its cities boomed and they haven’t forgotten.

Side rant: Where I used to live they zoned heavily for green areas for water absorption during rainy season and for sewage management bc it was low-lying tropical climate. Unfortunately, one big foreign hotel greasing palms and they’re building on top of a wildlife sanctuary necessary to prevent catastrophic flooding. Bye bye city buses full of people down the canal. But hey, ‘Mercia! Tourism! It brought me solace their fancy pool foundation shatters almost annually like clockwork and their pretty glass balconies kept popping from earth settling. Didn’t save the neighborhoods they destroyed by filling in a river delta though. Kept waiting for the “big one” earthquake that would bring that sucker down for good.

Perhaps not, but we can all agree that’s a form of predatory capitalism and it’s unethical. Not to mention a massive invasion of privacy.

Dem der are da North Woods.

Why aren’t they building these things underground or repurposing old mines in areas where geothermal is plentiful for power and aquifers are stable, instead of in water-poor, temperature extreme places like Texas and KY? …Oh right, poverty and red voters. Better to exploit and damage then have some upfront cost and long-term stability. I forget.

Well, that explains my ban

What’s the old saying, “Edison worked by gaslight while perfecting the lightbulb”?

I think that applies here. To a certain degree we still often have to participate in imperfect systems while we advocate for better ones. The people working on renewables or electric vehicles still used electricity from coal plants and gas guzzling vehicles. Many of us can see how extractive capitalism is hurting us and our communities, yet we’re forced to participate in it to eat.

I’d select one or maybe two services you can tolerate that are the tools best suited for building your tribe. Insulate them the best you can, be conscious of your own usage of those platforms, and talk… A LOT… about why privacy matters and what these platforms are doing.

A lot of people simply don’t know or don’t know there’s a community trying desperately to build alternatives. Perhaps a community also still flawed, but **progress is greater than perfection! **

As far as cameras go, understand your routes best you can. Be a blip instead of a constant feed. Same with online presence. OK. They know John Doe number 1.5 million and twenty-two exists- but you have some control over whether they know which direction you wipe your bunghole. Take the small victories!

Use and hack the systems that exist today to build better ones for tomorrow.

And whatever you do be careful you don’t become like my great uncle— he thought the Soviet’s had microphones under his plates and spies were hiding in his closet (he was a farmer from podunk nowhere.) but he also fed his tractor hay so— that might have just been schizophrenia…

But, seek balance today so you don’t go mad tomorrow! And if you start feeding your tractor hay, seek help.

In a perfect world. But he is the sitting president and does sign bills into law. But you’re right, I’m referring to executive orders as well. But the GENIUS Act he signed after passing the House and the series of AI Executive Orders like Preventing Woke AI, Export of the American AI Tech Stack and his deregulation on Data Centers. . They’re rushing forward with all of this while the whirlwind of Epstein news dominates the news cycle. These are massive power shifts and it’s only been a week.

I would argue the Epstein scandal is the distraction here not the other way around. He’s also signing a lot of shady tech legislation we should all be frightened by.

I think that’s very possible. They’re using him as a fall guy too. They want to transition power to someone who’s not so fickle and more loyal while avoiding elections. They have to constantly course correct him because he’s actually wildly incompetent and he goes off script. He’s easy to manipulate but that means he’s easy to manipulate by everyone.

Also, look at all the tech stuff he’s passing right now. It’s super concerning and is going to have long term impact on our ability to do anything beyond tech monopoly control. Everything is “EPSTEIN” meanwhile he’s signing crypto laws, ai deregulation and all kinds of scary dystopian tech bills.

If you don’t know who Curtis Yarvin and what the Dark Enlightenment is and who his acolytes are— it’d be a good place to start to understand what’s possibly happening here. Hint: JD Vance is a loyalist.

Clearly, other ideologies are also blocked then correct? Like, you can’t say, “no Christian nationalists” or “no white nationalists” or “no fascists” or “no Neo-Nazis” or “no MAGA”. Right? Right?? You have to accept and expose yourself to all dangerous ideologies equally.

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Good ole Donald J. Quixote