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baboon's avatar

I trust Musk as far as I can throw him (not far given his corpulence). He's a top military contractor, government teat sucker and WEF speaker. He's a transhumanist, vaxx loving, climate change accepting idiot. He's also a complete fraud in terms of his "success" as a businessman.

His Starlink project is essential for the Internet of Things and Internet of Bodies to work as the WEF and their real masters at the UN want it to function.

Will Attempts to Deplatform Twitter succeed?

Musk appears to be addicted to his vision of his "X" platform. As with everything with Musk, it's a trap.

We are getting very close to real names and real IDs to post on twitter. Once that is normalized, Facebook and Instagram can follow suit. This is a massive slippery slope.

Musk claims he believes in "free speech" but that is clearly not the case. People who are too dangerous to TPTB will never be allowed back on the platform. I guarantee it.

Now he's tweeting about his own mobile phone OS, in case he needs to circumvent a "ban" from Google and Apple. This plays further into his "X" app, and I'm sure he will turn this into some kind of platform to form a backbone of the coming social credit system. This is all being engineered by design, much like Musk himself and his entire "career".

Trust Musk at your peril. If I was religious, he would be my number one candidate for the Anti-Christ.

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Igor Chudov's avatar

Actually your opinion is very valuable. I know that you said it before and I always keep it in mind. Not yet ready to agree but I am open minded about that.

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Phil Davis's avatar

I would describe him as being clear as pond water.

I'm very concerned about Neuralink. And, having an internet service via satellite worldwide only serves the control freaks interests.

The reason I would never own a Tesla is because it is always connected. I find that disturbing.

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Neutron Flux's avatar

Neuralink is doomed to fail because the stream of consciousness is not located in the brain. Sure, scientific materialists such as Musk might fervently believe that but they're chasing rainbows. NDEs (near death experiences) have been studied by cardiologist Pim Van Lommel and during that event the patient flatlines on both the ECG and EEG so is classed as braindead/heart dead; however, the patient experiences being outside their corporeal form observing other people in the room for a length of time and for whatever reason decides to return to 'living'. Another simple experiment anyone can run is to ask "What emotional state am I feeling now?" Happy, sad, angry, whatever. Then try and point to that feeling on the physical body - nowhere to point to Mr Musk!

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Faith's avatar

There actually are bodily sensations associated with emotions, but I suspect that the reason for that is that the brain is the interface between the strictly physical manifestation of the body and its interconnected "energy body" layers that included the "emotional body". Consciousness is ENERGY, not atoms and molecules. Maybe we don't actually FEEL anything physical (because what WE actually ARE is not physical matter) only the "translation" of the physical into the conscious parts of ourselves?

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Zade's avatar

Our souls are actually what contain/encompass our bodies, according to St Thomas Aquinas. It will be funny to watch the adherents of scientism crash and burn with Neuralink.

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Vonu's avatar

Our souls are sequestered non-locals.

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Cynthia Ford's avatar

Iain McGilchrist quotes Daniel Dennett (no free will neuroscientist) as being asked if humans have a soul. He purportedly replied: yes, it is a bunch of little robots. I think the anecdotal evidence, which is a huge data set, supports what you are saying. And the obvious implications of quantum biology, which has found that migration, enzymatic reactions, olfaction (probably) and photosynthesis are all quantum. What else is? There's a great book on this by an NDE researcher called After. I have read some of the neuroscientifc debunkers and am unconvinced. There is a whole body of marginalized "fringe" anecdotal evidence of phenomenon, studied by reputable scientists, that I think need investigation, but, also, if your enemy doesn't believe in an aspect of reality that you experience or commune with or believe in, it gives you an advantage. Even if we lay aside the claims of faith. My hypothesis is that there are aspects of being that AI and whatever transhuman control tech is being deployed can't touch certain aspects of our being. We just need to find them in ourselves again. "I saw a highway of diamond with nobody on it" Bob Dylan

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Zade's avatar

Beautiful comment.

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Anna Karenina's avatar

Te he spatial web is being built (hence the thousands of satellites) ... We are building the Digital Empire otherwise known as open air prison with digital fences.

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Faith's avatar

No kidding! And cellphones are the new ankle monitors!

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Vonu's avatar

Cellphones are not locked around your limb and they can be turned off or left behind. If you can't do that easily, it is because you are comfortably addicted to them.

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Zade's avatar

For now they're not mandatory. Wait and see what happens.

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Vonu's avatar

They won't have enough jail cells to make them mandatory.

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Phil Davis's avatar

Yes I agree it's a new fiefdom

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John's avatar

The likelihood of explosion and the knowledge that they produce more and deadlier pollution are factors for me .

Also the near certainty that burning petroleum to create electricity to power cars instead of just burning petroleum in cars is pointless and cannot be more efficient.

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Original Owner's avatar

I think this is partly right, but electric cars don't have to keep expending energy to wait at a traffic light. Also, renewables are the fastest-growing category of energy sources.

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baboon's avatar

Thank you very much Igor. Hope all is well my friend. 🍻

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UnvaxxedCanadian's avatar

Now I need a double after reading that. 😥

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baboon's avatar

As the meme goes:

Listen friend I know things are bad right now.

But they are going to get way worse.

Make it a triple, you'll thank me later.

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pandelis's avatar

musk is a frontman

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Dr Linda's avatar

Sadly true

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Happiness: AViewpoint!'s avatar

I like your upside down Canadian flag. Ohhh wouldn’t it be great to put them all over ,...I mean Canada is in distress.

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Happiness: AViewpoint!'s avatar

Taking care of yourself really helps.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

I agree. and see what happens. I think he is just another spoilt rich brat, like I consider Trump as well. He too is a WEF speaker and he and Ivanka are members of the cult. I have not read Musk in the list but I did not read through the whole thing.

Twitter does not have much appeal to me, I just watch a clip when someone has a link.

But I loved this sentence : My dog, who does have a Twitter account, uses a desktop browser to access Twitter. I really need to teach my dog to use the laptop!

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

wow ! my dog knows how to sleep, and how to get me to give her food LOL. You must be a truly wonderful person to get a dog to read and write ! That is more than most children can do nowadays. Oh wait, we might be getting into 1984 after all !!!!

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Betsy McDonel Herr, Ph.D.'s avatar

He's wagging his tail.

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Sunface Jack's avatar

Sorry to have to say this, you are unhinged when it comes to Trump. You have a serious condition that is worse than TDS. It progressed to TAD. “Trump Anxiety Disorder” .

Trump does not like Musk. To try and associate them is infantile and ludicrous.

You obviously have not taken into consideration that he was invited as the President of the USA to speak at Davos to the WEF. He was never a member of the WEF. You forget maybe the SOROS response to his speech.

Trump scared the seven colors of shit out of them when he said "We will never let radical socialists destroy our economy, wreck our country, or eradicate our liberty. America will always be the proud, strong, and unyielding bastion of freedom."

The link to his speech at the Whitehouse has been deleted. see here https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-world-economic-forum-davos-switzerland/ Copy available. Can send to IVOR

Let me remind you of his inaugural speech. You won't like it but it is on the record.

“We are transferring power from Washington, D.C. and giving it back to you, the

American people.”

“[A] small group in our nation’s Capital has reaped the rewards of government while

the people have borne the cost.”

“Washington flourished — but the people did not share in its wealth.”

The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.”

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Zade's avatar

Twitter is so disgusting. Now that the expert trolls can't torment @Pfizer I have no interest in visiting it. Used to be good for a laugh. Now it's just stupid.

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Vonu's avatar

You visited Twitter for the sole reason that expert trolls could torment Pfizer on it?

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Zade's avatar

There is no other reason to visit Twitter, other than to laugh at Pfizer.

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Vonu's avatar

There is something extremely psychotic about laughing at genocide.

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Zade's avatar

I'm laughing at their explosion by trolls.

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Vonu's avatar

Trolls have no use for pyrotechnics.

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INGRID C DURDEN's avatar

thank you for the warning

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Maxim Andreessen's avatar

I respect what you are doing Igor, I hope the darkness opens soon and you see the light. Musk is Technocratic Huckster. baboon is right.

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Amy's avatar

Completely agree.

To prove his goodwill, he could force a "Great Reset" of all Twitter users "followers" and "following". This would force people to reconnect with the Twats that they actually are currently interested in rather than those that they might have "liked" once years ago and impulsively "followed".

Resetting the follows would give a true sense of who is a current Influencer. Although, I would still not trust him or that the bot brigade wasn't automatically enlisted to charge the new reset.

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Mary's avatar

I've heard that Musk is controlled opposition from more than one voice. I would tread carefully if having any type of dealings with him or his platforms or products.

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John's avatar

What do you see as subjective about objective facts?

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Happiness: AViewpoint!'s avatar

Why not show him the TED talk of bill gates talking about depopulation as the only way to decrease smog for climate change....it ended up as being the only way to save the earth. And then there is the agenda 21 website, isn’t that still up?

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macDuff's avatar

and yet he has more likes with that than anybody else here. Seems you're in the minority on your own substack. Not surprising given that you believe in pathogenic virus particles in spite of zero valid evidence.

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Phil Davis's avatar

Evidence??? 🙄🙄 it is a fact that 6 to 7 percent of the population believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows. So dude, I'm not worried about your scientific comment on likes. I clearly see the social media influencers have succeeded in dumbing you down. Whatever comes out of that little black box you're holding in your hand you'll believe because the intereeb thinkey told you so x😅😅 typical clueless new American. Hey, I have an idea, try going to a library, they have these things called books. You can look at all the pictures of viruses and maybe read a few easy words to get a sense of what they're trying to say. There won't be any liked for you to look at, do that may be a problem, but try it anyway.

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macDuff's avatar

and phil, please take the vaccine every opportunity you get. You could lie about who you are to get more free vaccines! You could surely live 300 years with all of that protection from the inexistant pathogenic virus particles which you have fantasized.

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Melanie's avatar

Completely inappropriate comments.

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

This is a non Karen zone, Karen.

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I don't know what the comment is but if Melanie thinks it is appropriate then it is appropriate to her. I say she be left alone to say what she pleases. Maybe it was a good day or maybe it was a bad day. Who the heck cares really!

While you may or may not agree with this you sound like you are an authoritarian father of this Melanie at the beginning of your comment. Thankfully you came up with some comic relief at the end.

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Phil Davis's avatar

Heres a question. How many brain cells did you use up assuming I take any vaccine's?

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Perry Simms's avatar

I worked with scientists who did the experiments.

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Vonu's avatar

Kindly cite the corroborative evidence "that 6 to 7 percent of the population believe chocolate milk comes from brown cows."

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Vonu's avatar

Sadly, there are just as many people who believe that brown eggs come from brown chickens, proving that idiocy jumps species.

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Vonu's avatar

He never graduated from the children's section?

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Phil Davis's avatar

Oh please continue. I love the self incrimination of the Ill schooled.

The milk industry did a study and heres the link.

Too bad you guys don't read

https://www.peta.org/blog/american-adults-think-chocolate-milk-comes-from-brown-cows/

Now, should I show you the millions of images of various viruses from electron microscopes or will you go full flat earther and blather some stupid comments like the sky just has pictures of planets?

Damn I love interacting with you guy's, its so easy to make fun of your credulity.

It's amazing how utterly, pun intended, stupid humans have become. The evolutionary cycle is now reaching back to the intelligence of cows.

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Vonu's avatar

I prefer to think that I'm better off not reading things that come from a claimed animal rights organization that is known to adopt animals out of shelters and euthanize them.

Credulity is not a synonym of credibility.

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Phil Davis's avatar

You know, haha I new you would use this fallacy argument. It is called attacking the source, not the subject. But, you can search it and find all kinds of other sources. The milk industry actually made this study. I just used the first of many links. You see how shallow you are dude. Wow, big time self worth issues. It really hurts you to be wrong so find another issue to aim to attack like the source. If you wanted you could work yourself out of this dreadful and abusive thinking process you have. You'd be much a happier person.

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Vonu's avatar

If you were not on the team that did the study, you can't prove it actually happened any better than I can that it didn't. It was all over the news years ago when PETA was caught adopting large groups of animals from shelters and euthanizing them.

Attacking the source instead of the subject is called ad hominem, and you are doing it to me more than I ever did it to you. Your perception of my "dreadful and abusive thinking process" is an obvious transferral process you use to defer your own guilt.

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Perry Simms's avatar

You haven't understood the experiments that have been done, so you grasp at an obviously ludicrous counterhypothesis.

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Vonu's avatar

Can you properly cite a single experiment that you are referring to?

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Vonu's avatar

Why would anyone need to repeat a controlled experiment based on a falsified hypothesis?

I doubt that Igor removed anything because substack has the sloppiest thread management I've ever seen and it is virtually impossible to track a thread here.

Your removed comment could very easily be somewhere other than where you'd expect to see it.

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macDuff's avatar

I can understand how your doctor made the mistake of putting the fecal implant in your skull.

Pictures of something from sources you don't understand that are marked in a book that you found at the library is just proof. Because books can never be published by people with lots of money and an agenda. They're impervious to censorship the same way as your brain is impervious to ideas.

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Phil Davis's avatar

Its really too bad substack has recently been infested with the low IQ of no viruses knuckle draggers. As Caesar stated "Men willingly believe what they wish."

You can believe Whatever the fuck you want Hoss, but that won't stopped me from making fun of you. It is entertaining.

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Some people cannot get past the idea that if something cannot be perceived by their physical senses, it cannot exist. Most of science is based in inference. The same people who deny the existence of viruses will most strongly argue for the existence of both God and a soul. It seems OK to argue for the existence of the latter on pure faith, while denying the existence of the former despite the scientific evidence.

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Phil Davis's avatar

Hey Art what is happening?

You see you got this all wrong. This is not me saying I am right. It is the studied people before me who have devoted there lives that I am saying am right. You see they have provided the plethora of evidence through observation and study. You know there are thousands of them that have all repeated the same experiments. HAVE YOU?

Now Art, some things are false and corrupted, like this vaccine. But the earth being flat and viruses that dont exist are not one of them Art. Time to understand this important point.

Now Art, I think you're engaging in a little projection here. It is really you that watch the credulity shows and follow the so-called experts that have no background in a study. Come on Art fess up, you're just a fraud like a fake cop in a 2002 Ford Victoria painted black and white, but hey I am sure it is fun for you to parade around like a know it all when you absolutely have nothing.

This really is a self-worth problem Art. You see you can come off as an expert, dissing all other scientists in the field because you watched a flat earth video, then found a virus is fake site.

Now you know stuff, wow, way to go Art. We are all proud. BTW, could you provide the paper that some people put on their walls showing their expertise, we'd like to know.

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Phil Davis's avatar

WOW there Art. We are going full retard here.

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Vonu's avatar

Is the implantation of fecal matter in one's skull similar to having cranial rectalitis?

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Vonu's avatar

Something similar to when you cross a human with any other primate.

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Vonu's avatar

"'elefino?'"

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baboon's avatar

"This plays further into his "X" app, and I'm sure he will turn this into some kind of platform to form a backbone of the coming social credit system"

To be clear, "X" app in the coming Chinese style system in the West would make "X" be the AliPay of the system, possibly more. This is all clearly predicated on the current Chinese model as far as I can tell.

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Mike's avatar

Yep!

Don't understand why Musk has gained the unquestioning trust of so many.

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baboon's avatar

It's because he's a Judas Goat. He's pretending to be "based and redpilled" but he just leads the people who don't agree with the current power structure to exactly the same slaughterhouse.

He is 100% "one of them" (by which I mean the Globalist Elites), he's pretending to be an outsider when the evidence is clear he is about as Deep State as you can get.

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Mike's avatar

This is my cautious attitude towards all of these oligarchs. Look into the reality of their past and it's not how they've written it themselves. He didn't start PayPal, didn't start Tesla and Tesla did have car two years before Musk turned up. Seems to be a muscle in monopolist like Gates.

Still a very bright and successful guy, but I never believe the hype, especially now.

Perhaps his ambitions are for the benefit of the World, but...

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baboon's avatar

I need to do more research but likely an INQTEL/CIA plant. I think there is good evidence to suggest that Zuckerberg, the Google founders et al were of this ilk.

Bill Gates was a bit different. As far as I understand the story, he plagiarized someone elses's software and then went to IBM to ask them if they wouldn't mind installing it on all of their computers. Instead of saying "fuck off" like anyone with a brain, they listened to his Mum and said "ok".

I can tell you from first hand experience that when I was at school we had to learn how to use Microsoft software. I used to own an Amiga 500 and their Workbench software was a million times more impressive than DOS - it was literally Windows before Windows was really ever a thing.

Gates is a creature of the Rockefellers. All part of the same shit (or maybe that should be bug filled) sandwich for us.

"Still a very bright and successful guy, but I never believe the hype, especially now."

- I would disagree, he's not a smart guy. None of these plants are, as the "genius" Sam Bankman-Fraud is amply demonstrating currently.

"Perhaps his ambitions are for the benefit of the World, but..."

- These are tecnocratic oligarchs who are building the dystopian hellscape that is coming. Just as an example, "Autopilot" can only really work if all cars run Autopilot. When you live in a pod and can't drive anywhere anymore "for your safety", self-driving cars will keep you in your location. If you cycle or walk too far, then your CBDC will just stop working.

You will live in your allocated 25km zone for the rest of your life and you will be happy.

I used to work in home automation and attended many "Smart City" exhibitions and conferences. I had no idea that it was all being done for evil but see it plainly now.

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RE Nichols's avatar

i have a lot of questions as to how they will harvest data perpetually as the new form of currency backing. Namely, why? What's the point?

If the people were making goods or services to exchange...but it sounds as if the technocrats don't want anyone working but themselves and their robot buddies--with a very few maintainers I guess.

Sociopathic megalomaniacs with OCD.

Worth noting their machines aren't necessarily ready. This is not a natural transition driven by consumer demand, so the robots and AI could be very inferior to the humans they'll replace and it won't matter to the technocrats. Plus they are caught in the act and must ram the whole thing through as soon as possible or face some consequences for a change.

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I think they will face consequences. The masses are still a bit dopey, but once a significant number "figure things out" (as in Brazil) ... then it's game on. The "system" won't be anywhere near complete. That's why they have to keep the majority of people in a daze and constantly chasing their tails. Something financial will snap. That'll wake em up.

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RE Nichols's avatar

I think their system will collapse on itself.

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Tsubion's avatar

I'm betting on it! It's what comes after that keeps me up at night!

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RE Nichols's avatar

Or before.

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Mike's avatar

Quite. Long planned.

Speaking of planned, Planned Parenthood and Gates and the Club of Rome and Stanley Johnson and... we could draw a biblical spiders web of these characters.

Also Bezos. I did read all this humble beginnings thing is a sham and Amazon was designed by a hedge fund and others to do exactly what it's done.

For a laugh, I send Klaus Schwab and Yuval Noah Harari clips to a former director colleague who's a proper, true normie, probably still taking boosters to this day.

I never receive a response.

Maybe the boosters worked? 🤔

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Jim Marlowe's avatar

Amiga Nostalgia. Ours came with a game called Arctic fox. Like a higher quality version of Battlezone. I miss those days. Great for music too.

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Mary's avatar

You're probably right. How many times have we seen this movie with different actors where they pretend to be on the side of the people? When actually those people are controlled opposition.

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Tsubion's avatar

Someone gets it!

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Carole's avatar

As Liz Wheeler stated: The man builds rockets to Mars……

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Vonu's avatar

It will be interesting to see if any of them ever return from it .

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RE Nichols's avatar

Maybe he should try selling vacation cottages on that Martian real estate.

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Vonu's avatar

That might be difficult to do with its water and atmosphere having been stripped from it by the Venus comet.

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Dr Linda's avatar

😂

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RE Nichols's avatar

He's rich and famous. Like royalty.

People on both sides of the political aisle fawn over celebrity billionaires. Including those who wear expensive designer gowns saying "Eat the rich" on the train.

Speaking as a conservative I'm really disgusted at the servile fawning I see from some on our side. Makes the right look like a desperate wallflower throwing herself at any man who'll give her the time of day.

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Mike's avatar

This Boris Johnson is a fine example of the cult of celebrity and "personality" being used as a psychological weapon against the very people who worship the lse utter c*nts.

Hopefully, as the stage curtain falls off the rail revealing the brick wall at the back of the theatre, people may finally give their heads a wobble and understand it was their idolatry of utter c*nts, their wilful ignorance and normalcy bias, that put us in this predicament.

But they won't. They'll find a new false prophet to take the knee and bow to.

Because they're thick.

I'm in an unforgiving mood of late.

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Happiness: AViewpoint!'s avatar

Um. Noooooo I don’t think he has. I’m sure to stay the level he is at..he has to accommodate some shit. I don’t think he trusts anyone.

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ForestDi56's avatar

My gut instincts tell me the same thing. These days, too much of a good thing smells fishy. Musk is too much of a seemingly good thing. Those satellites of his make me nervous. He seems oblivious to the injection harms and with all of the resources available to him that shouldn’t be. We would all love to have such a bright star be legitimate. We crave it. I think that makes us very vulnerable to promises we want to hear. And that is one of my many red flags about this guy. I don’t trust him, either.

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Mike's avatar

I have seen a few Tweets of his. "People who took the vaccine have big hearts. Enlarged hearts." Also one recently, "Civilisation sterilised."

Then Gates appearing to be in some emotional distress over this, claiming Musk is an anti-vaxxer, blah, blah...

Also the story about Gates shorting Tesla and losing hundreds of millions, blah, blah...

It's just another show.

I'd sooner they all fk'd off and left me alone to go back to the fk'n hand plough (although we do have tractors 🤣), I don't need any of their bullshit.

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He’s a business man and they learn to play all sides in order to eventually find a way to sell whatever they are selling. He needs the large numbers of independent thinkers to join or rejoin Twitter. So he is going to try to say things that sound like what we want to hear without really saying anything concrete. Gotta look at his electric cars. Totally useless things that won’t save the planet. And the resources he must have for those things are major polluters and harm third world people who have to dig up his resources. His bottom line is money. If he can make people believe he’s a do-gooder so as to sell more stuff, he’ll do his best to sound like what we want to hear. It’s always possible he has some sincerity mixed in there. If so that will make his double speak all the more believable.

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Mike's avatar

2010, I was on an aeroplane with a Japanese director of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries heading to New York from Tokyo. Then on to Bermuda (sweaty awful place, even more humid than home in Thailand!)

He asked me what type of fuel I like, what sort of car? I said turbo diesel, all my trucks and cars are TD engines because they're fuel efficient and have powerful torque for pulling trailers, hauling farm produce and of course taking Mrs out to town because she got too fat to sit in the truck. (Yes, that actually happened after child number three. All weight gone now).

He said correct!

Then asked what I thought of electric vehicles. I said they're bogus, hauling heavy batteries around and then I went into the rare Earth metals sustainability thing and so on.

He said, Correct!

He then went on to say EV's are bogus and we're at least 30 years away from the polymer battery technology needed to make them remotely viable.

I notice Toyota recently announced they won't be pursuing EV for now.

I'd trust the Japanese Yakuza over any Western oligarch.

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INFJ-T Advocate's avatar

Have to say the solid state hydrogen batteries look promising.

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Mike's avatar

I'll have a look.

I saw a hydrogen powered motor carriage that only emits water. Just needs the coal to make the electric to make the hydrogen. 🤣

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INFJ-T Advocate's avatar

Look up Plasma Kinetics and why their technology has been delayed. https://youtu.be/brEm4mEizns

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Cobaco's avatar

Dislike EV's all you want

but at this point saying they are 'not viable' is obviously falls, there's several million driving around proving the opposite

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jan van ruth's avatar

switzerland is banning the use of ev's coming winter if the energy situation does not improve, so much for "viable".

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Cobaco's avatar

first I heard of that, after searching around a bit:

There's currently a draft law bill in Switserland that's looking at a whole host of restrictions on what you can use electricity for in case of blackouts due to lacking electricity supplies (banning non-essential electric driving is just one of the many measures in that bill, and even then only in a 3th level scenario according to that bill)

A couple of weeks ago there was a petrol and diesel shortage in france.

A (temporary) shortage of fossil fuels in France did not prove ICE-cars to be non-viable. Neither does a potential (and temperary) shortage of electricity in Switserland prove EV's to be non-viable

All that proves is that both ICE-cars and EV's require certain infrastructure to be in place and working reasonably well. If you fuck that necessary infrastructure up, neither is gonna work well.

It's a fact that most of Europe is facing energy shortages due to waging an economic war against their biggest natural gas supplier.

That's already partially shutting down energy-intensive industries today... which does not prove the non-viability of those energy-intensive industries in general.

Likewise that the energy shortage MIGHT become severe enough that Switserland temporarly puts limits on EV use, does not prove that EV's are non-viable.

Norway is good counterexample to both, they did not fuck up their energy supply and EV use is massive an growing rapidly in the country.

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jan van ruth's avatar

europe does not have at the moment, nor will it at any time in the future, have enough electrical energy in the grid to power all cars.

not now, not ever.

it does not even have enough power to run all human activities besides transportation.

again, not now, not ever.

and placing more windmills and solar farms is not going to help.

for the sun does not shine and the wind does not blow on command.

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Cobaco's avatar

There's no technical or economical restrictions that keeps Europe from building enough electricity infrastructure to power all cars.

Getting the politicians and bureaucrats in charge to get their act together is where the problem lies (but as Norway proves clearly by now, not impossible)

The Electricity doesn't have to come from wind/solar

It could come from nuclear, geothermal, hydro or even fossil fuels (even using ICE for central generation would be more efficient then ICE-cars, due to being able to run the generator at optimal efficiency parameters all the time vs cars that have to operate in a range of parameters engine wise)

Also vehicle-to-grid technology could help massively with smoothing out that intermittency problem of solar and wind

Then there's upcoming solar-EV-cars like the lightyear (went in production this week) , the aptera (going in production next year), and the sion (also slated for series production in 2023) that could make the 'have to find a plug' moot for most drivers most of the time

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jan van ruth's avatar

keep on dreaming.

as for the apera and sion: i have a very nice bridge to sell....

as for the lightyear: 250,000 euro ex. taxes?

really?

ice for central generation?

you really have no idea what you are on about, now do you....

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Mike's avatar

Several million? That many?

Now replace all the petrol and diesel vehicles with EV and watch the grid collapse as we've seen in the EV utopia that is California.

How's the electric being generated?

What's the impact of all the mining for the rare Earth metals?

I don't dislike EV's, but they're not going to replace ICE vehicles, just not sustainable.

Hard wired electrified public transport systems are the future of mass transportation. Trams and trains.

Also the working from home thing, end the madness of commuting to sit in front of a computer all day. I rolled out that Microsoft Teams and SharePoint across our group of companies in late 2018 to knock a lot of the driving and hotels and the rest on the head. Worked phenomenally well, improved collaboration and organisation too. Kind of timely, considering.

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Cobaco's avatar

@Mike

Norway is proving quite handily that mass BEV's can be made to work. That California can't get their infrastructure right is on them, it does not disprove the viability of EV's

As to rare earths? Tesla doesn't use any in their car batteries... so certainly not a necessity

How do you get the electric? Any way you need to: nuclear, solar, wind, gas, coal,....

Even assuming the dirtiest of sources you can at the very least localize the pollution at relatively few sites; which makes it way easier to address that pollution.

You can also run whatever fossil fuel generator you night be using at optimal parameters for efficiency, which ICE-cars cannot do.

As to mass transit systems...

I could see a Personal Rapid Transit System working... if you could get the politics of building it to work (can't see that happening any time soon in the US or Europe and hasn't happened anywhere yet as far as I'm aware)

Trains and trams are just never gonna cut it outside of big cities. They take you from where you are not to where you don't wan't to go, and at their schedule not yours.

Outside of a single big city with a dense network they tent to at least double if not triple your transit time door-to-door here in the Netherlands. And the netherlands ain't that big

Totally agree on the madness of commuting for office work

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Mike's avatar

Confession time. I hate driving. It's my most loathed task. It takes a desperate situation to get me behind the wheel. It takes me five goes to reverse park the 3m long car I keep in the UK. I hate owning cars. They're aggravation. They're an instrument for draining of bank accounts, although I do it pennies cheap compared with everyone else.

I'd love to see the back of the ICE car. I can't stand the detrimental impact on local air quality and I can't stand the noise.

I would love to have a World of EV. But I think we need to accept the EV will replace a fraction of the cars on the road today, car ownership for the masses will be a thing of the past (the average age of cars on the road in the UK is 12-13 years old now, cheap) I'd just like to see viable public transport systems in place beforehand. I think commercial vehicles will continue to be ICE, but Euro 6 compliant. Any diesel that isn't Euro 6 is being discouraged from cities now with hefty daily charges, not long until they're prohibited altogether.

You're right about the US, Europe (for the most part) and especially the UK when it comes to mass transit outside of cities.

The cost of trains in the UK is absurd and it's utterly disjointed. Beeching scrapped a lot of the railways post War in favour of road transport. Crookedly it seems, he had close ties with the road hauliers. So, most of the old lines have been built over now.

In remote, rural Thailand, I went from my front door all the way to Hamilton, Bermuda and then back to Bangkok and on to Phnom Penh then back to home, all on public transport without a hitch. We still have a couple of pickup trucks at home, but they're mostly for the farms.

Western governments are too crooked and ineffectual to make it all work. They're chaos. You only need look at the UK's HS2 (High Speed 2) new rail line project to see it ain't happening!

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jan van ruth's avatar

the"recent"announcement of toyota must have been at least ten years old....

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Mike's avatar

It was reported a couple of weeks ago. Big deal was made about it. Toyota were really the first to market with a hybrid, that ugly Prius thing. I forget their reasoning now, but they said EV wasn't yet viable as a mass market alternative to the ICE.

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Zade's avatar

Too much video footage out there of EVs bursting into flames and used up batteries sitting and waiting for...

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RE Nichols's avatar

Good cop; bad cop.

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Mike's avatar

Probably. I keep away from everything other than Substack and four friends on Telegram. These mainstream social media platforms like Twitter drain the human spirit.

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Joe Doe's avatar

No one that isn't denouncing the covid scam or at least raising questions about the vaccines, is a true adversary of the great reseters. That's why trump is not an answer - most probably another deep stat operative whose role was/is to create the irreconcilable division between the "educated" class and the "anti-science" plebs, musk is clearly not one and why 99% putin and Russia are not really opposing the davos crew but instead are just acting as a fake enemy. From all perspectives the Ukrainian war is just a facilitator for the great reset agenda.

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Mike's avatar

Yep. All the same reset freakery like eating bugs and showing QR codes is happening in Russia as we speak.

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Happiness: AViewpoint!'s avatar

I’ve heard Ukraine was the centre for the child trafficking ring and the drug cartel . I dunno. I know their fake leader is with Biden. I think the Ukraine is the crux of all the blood sucking, human trafficking problems.

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Perry Simms's avatar

The problem is people who expect the president of the US to be an authority on medical advice.

Idolatry.

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Perry Simms's avatar

There's some chance Musk *wants* to have a free speech platform. We don't know.

But would he have a chance at it if he did? Really?

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Jason's avatar

I don’t claim to know Musk’s motivations and you very well may be right. But he’s offering a blanket amnesty to those previously banned by Twitter which seems like a good first step.

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baboon's avatar

"he’s offering a blanket amnesty"

Alex Jones disagrees. There are others.

https://www.plainsite.org/realitycheck/tesla.html

- Musk builds scam companies that rely on government subsidies. The only reason PayPal got successful was because he went on his honeymoon and the board overthrew in him in a coup.

He just lied about why Alex Jones couldn't come back because he claimed his baby died in his arms and he can't have people taking advantage of the deaths of children. His ex-wife jumped in and said the baby died in HER arms. He is a complete liar about everything. Do your own research but as I said, trust this guy at your peril.

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Tsubion's avatar

Whether people like Alex Jones or not he has a right to be on Twatter as much as anyone else especially if open season is declared by Musk. Otherwise it just confirms how easy it is to block any voice that is considered a threat to the status quo. And as far as I'm concerned everyone has the right to question world events, questions about health, science, and politics in any which way they choose. We would never be able to break spells if it weren't so.

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TheGreatAwakening's avatar

I agree. If this is truly about free speech, then let Alex back on the platform.

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Betsy McDonel Herr, Ph.D.'s avatar

The amnesty was offered after he announced the Alex Jones decision and gave his reasons. So he is being treated separately. I don't agree with it either, and think that Musk doesn't have the full back story. Interestingly Alex Jones has lately been going after the pedophile peddling with the same intensity that Musk is routing it out and speaking about it on Twitter. So he as been busy and productive in his first weeks.

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Slanta Cause's avatar

Careful what you wish for. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice... and all that. Why would anyone go back is the question? If you get banned again would that not increase the chance you're a bad egg to the chattering mass of ignorance that is most of twitter. People are being set up for a rug pull and don't even realize it.

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Betsy McDonel Herr, Ph.D.'s avatar

I keep all that in mind. I've seen persuasive arguments that Musk is some sort of deep state manufactured creature not unlike SBF, who clearly appears to be just that. I'm not running out to buy a Tesla or a Starlink satphone. But the world is desperate for a free speech platform with some global reach that is this friendly to the user. So I am cautiously optimistic for now, and giving it a go. Of course, thank goodness for Substack.

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baboon's avatar

Substack is your answer. We can have respectful discussion and disagreements on here, which is surely the point? Twitter just creates echo-chambers - you can see how you are being pushed into an echo chamber just by using it. That is not going to change no matter who runs it.

4Chan is great but it's too ephemeral, which is entirely the point of 4Chan.

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Joe Doe's avatar

In all honesty, substack is also an echo chamber. No normie is using it and while we have disagreements on the technicalities of how the distopian nightmare wil come to be - see the discussions around your point about musk, on which, btw, I agree with you completely - by now here we all agree that covid was a scam and it's being used to usher in the great reset.

The problem is that online communication is inherently prone to end up in echo chambers, especially if censorship (deleting comments) is involved. While substack is clearly superior to Twitter, it's not a solution unless normies will be willing to actually properly listen to our point of view. Before that happens, substack might be bought, taken down, or you'll need a digital id to access the internet.

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SaHiB's avatar

Normies are welcome to their boosters, and mine, too.

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Betsy McDonel Herr, Ph.D.'s avatar

Eventually I see Twitter as a kind of bridge with Substack. Many Substack articles are referenced and hyperlinked there and get brief descriptions. It will be short form extending to long form. I am optimistic.

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RE Nichols's avatar

How many minds have been changed from exchanging comments with random strangers online? Online communication has its limitations and "echo chambers" may be a good thing. I've been on FB and there was lots of nastiness because there's no face or voice to humanize the individual you disagreed with.

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Zade's avatar

I don't know who a "normie" is. Like "the masses"..a blanket term but what does it mean?

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SaHiB's avatar

Didn't even have to go to urban dictionary: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/normie

Why are dictionaries so neglected? Their going woke (https://www.dictionary.com/browse/woke ) seems a fairly recent phenomenon. Are you a so-called "reporter" (even if specializing in physics)? For decades I've complained about dictionaries apparently being banned from newsrooms.

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Zade's avatar

I'm not a reporter. Just a physicist.

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Joe Doe's avatar

More like a bot.

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Betsy McDonel Herr, Ph.D.'s avatar

I first heard this term normie from esoteric futurist and bot researcher Clif High. His statistical searching and data mining over many years of cyberspace identifies trends and subsets of populations and investigates what is on their minds and to some extent tries to estimate a future set of events that might erupt.

A group of normies always clusters out as with the blue pill metaphor. So normie even exists as a statistical cluster with loadings on a lot of interesting variables.

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SaHiB's avatar

All the better! My dad was a physicist, and I considered a double major with physics. They use reference books extensively (even more so than do chemists). Though dictionary.com claim it be "An Americanism dating back to 1950–55", I checked a treeware dictionary; Webster's Third New International, Unabridged ©1966. Sad to say, it goes straight from normergy to normo-. Still, since you're at Substack, you should have access to online dictionaries. University professor physicists have a lot of interactions with reporters and see how badly they do it. Has this spared you?

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Zade's avatar

Reporters usually get things wrong. The more you know about something the easier it is to see where they mess up. It's never a good idea to bet the farm on something you read in "the news".

As for running to a dictionary to hunt down neologisms, only if it matters. "Normie" smells like "boogie", just a trendy brush to paint whole swaths of people in one stroke, ultimately meaningless.

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SaHiB's avatar

You're missing the point. "Normies" are those who buy the propaganda campaign and do its boogie-woogie (get the "covid", meaning dybbuk spelled backwards, https://astutenews.com/2020/06/on-the-occult-meaning-of-the-term-covid/ shots), while disparaging Substack.

"Normie" should have been so obvious as to not require a dictionary. The term obviously implies conformist. I didn't look it up until you demanded a definition, whereas I did have to look up zeta potential. (A Midwestern Doctor uses that term a lot.)

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Zade's avatar

It's a broad term that means nothing.

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Perry Simms's avatar

I'd disagree that substack allows disagreement but i don't want to get banned for disagreeing that substack allows for disagreement.

Ok that sounded funnier in my head.

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baker charlie's avatar

Bonus points for mentioning 4 chan.

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Lex Weiser's avatar

Baboon, I agree with your skepticism about Musk's agenda - especially because of his Neuralink initiative - but I think he might be the kind of guy who likes to monkeywrench things just for the hell of it. The WEF et al. want puppets (like Trudeau and Zuckerberg), and whatever Musk's shortcomings may be, he does not strike me as someone who is predictable or gullible enough for our owners to use as a tool.

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Joe Doe's avatar

If the establishment would want musk gone, it would be trivial for them to do it. Musk fortune is based on Tesla evaluation and space-x contracts with the us government. Tesla is just a financially pumped up wreck that would blow up on a truly free market or if some big investment fund like blackrock would short the stock. The deep state controls the government and it would very easy to get rid of the space-x government subsidies.

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Zade's avatar

He seems sly.

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Dr Linda's avatar

He might be an useful tool. Like any other took we need to use it when necessary and put it away when not useful. We do not have to be used. Collectively, we have power and intelligence. I see it every day on substack.

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bigfatpop's avatar

I’ve tried to warn people about fElon, but to little success. He’s everything you describe, plus, he’s knowingly murdering TSLA customers with deadly software.

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baker charlie's avatar

For a few years it was more than likely that the vehicle on the side of the freeway was a Tesla.. It became more than coincidence and I started noticing. Haven't seen as many broken down lately, but I give them wide berth in traffic, not only is the software suss, but Tesla drivers remind me of what my mom used to bitch about Cadillac drivers in the day, "Watch out, they don't see you, because you don't matter to them".

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Mike's avatar

Yep!

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TexBat's avatar

Yeah but it’s like watching The Music Man he’s professor Harold Hill I know he’s a con man but I’m rooting for him right now

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RE Nichols's avatar

Not joining Twitter. But I am laughing at the wokees' temper tantrums.

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ForestDi56's avatar

There is that. Some entertainment to be had for awhile.

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ForestDi56's avatar

It’s easy to do. But you are experiencing the bases for programming. Maintain some healthy skepticism. If it’s not needed, all to the good. If it is you can bail easier and protect your psyche better.

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MoodyP's avatar

I was prepared to craft my own missive about Musk. But you did it for me. Bravo.

I would add that he is one of the largest, if not the largest, DOD contractor.

I’ve always believed Twitter has massive govt support. From an IT perspective it never made sense.

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Tom's avatar

Musk is phony who works hard to craft a superhuman narrative about himself. But he does know how to hire some solid engineering talent who do the technical heavy lifting. But then he takes all the credit for himself. I do not trust him.

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Mike's avatar

He's still wearing that weird Halloween costume too. These people are ridiculous. What sort of an adult wears a Halloween costume anyway?

The West really started going down the shitter with the advent of celebrity politics and company executives Daddy dancing on stage at conferences.

Proper end of empire on a stick.

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Zade's avatar

Celebrity "scientists" also stink.

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Mike's avatar

These TV celebrity doctors..The UK has Dr. Hillary Jones. Soulless creature. I don't watch UK TV (or any TV) but have seen clips of this guy pushing these I injections.

How much money is enough money?

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Joe Van Steenbergen's avatar

Here I thought Bill Gates was the anti-Christ. Can we have more than one?

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Perry Simms's avatar

The anti-christ is plural. Dive into the true translation of scripture. I'd link to it but i don't want the ban for a low-value share.

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Joe Van Steenbergen's avatar

Please forgive my ignorance, but what is a low-value share? Sorry.

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Perry Simms's avatar

Education needs to be stepwise. Particularly in topics that require unlearning.

So you have to be selective with whom you share what, otherwise little value will be derived.

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Mike's avatar

The Antichrist And A Cup Of Tea.

It's a book.

Spoiler alert, it's Charles Windsor.

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

Charles is an inbred bumbling old fool as is his ridiculous lazy stupid wife.

From his excesses it appears he will not make it to an age any where near his mother.

He could be out foxed by a Fox in a second. I am not saying the whole family are not Free Mason Crazies but certainly not as bad as his dead father.

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Vonu's avatar

Inbreeding shortens life spans, similarly to having a vegan diet.

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Mike's avatar

Sausage fingers is apparently an indication of imminent croaking through heart failure.

I wouldn't be surprised if there's never a coronation.

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RE Nichols's avatar

Not sure there is just one.

The Beast is represented by a creature with seven heads and ten horns. The horns have faces and talk. Besides all the heads, the monster is a chimera. Legs like a bear, body like a leopard, mouths like lions.

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Mike's avatar

Frankly, this beast sounds remarkably like Mrs. 🤔

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Vonu's avatar

"Mrs. 🤔?"

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Mike's avatar

My owner and operator since 2001.

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Vonu's avatar

I didn't know that Jesus was trans.

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Mike's avatar

The long hair must have been the giveaway.

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Vonu's avatar

There weren't many barbers in those days.

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Mike's avatar

I haven't been to the barber in many years, yet I manage to keep hair near and tidy. (I just take clippers to it and then it grows back over time and then I take clippers to it... and the cycle repeats.)

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Vonu's avatar

It largely depends on whether you can recognize that it is all allegory and fables.

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RE Nichols's avatar

It certainly is not meant to be taken literally. Not the seven headed monster coming out of the sea. It's symbolic. It was written as a metaphor.

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Vonu's avatar

It was written as polemic.

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Joe Van Steenbergen's avatar

Thanks for the reference; book is unavailable on Amazon. I'll keep looking, though.

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Mike's avatar

Let's do it a bit cheaper, PDF download (bookmark Super PDF Drive, it's awesome)...

https://www.pdfdrive.com/the-antichrist-and-a-cup-of-tea-e158587689.html

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Joe Van Steenbergen's avatar

You are a gem; thanks.

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Vonu's avatar

I like it better as Ian Anderson's "Salvation a la mode and a cup of tea," in Aqualung by Jethro Tull.

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Aimee's avatar

I agree with you. I think Musk has his own plan, and we won’t like much of it. But he’s smart enough to know when to speak, and when to keep quiet. He knows what we want to hear right now. I’m wary of him.

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Zade's avatar

I would have liked to be excited about Musk's liberation of Twitter but like you, don't trust him. I never have, but couldn't put my finger on why not. Reading some about his past involvements has made me more wary. Something stinks there, definitely. He owns Twitter and is inviting all the dissenters from the NWO agenda to come forth and trumpet their views. Then what? This is an old tactic and has been used by dictators in the past. (Castro, if I remember correctly, invited all the gays to come forth to be part of society and then executed them once they took him at his word.) This guy should not be trusted.

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MoodyP's avatar

Exactly. NSC/DOD/CIA operation. Clearly govt funded. Surveillance and influencing tool. 87,000 new armed IRS agents.

What could go wrong. Proceed at your own risk, as you say.

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Vonu's avatar

The NSA surveils everything that crosses the Internet within its reach at the Utah Data Center, and keeps everything that is encrypted until it is broken. The NSA is part of DoD, so that is redundant. The CIA spends most of its time overthrowing governments, like the one in the Ukraine that they staged a colour revolution in 2014 on. All that Zelensky had to do to avoid Russia coming in was to stick to his promise in the Minsk agreements that he walked away from, which is still all he'd have to do to stop Russia doing themselves what he refused to do. It doesn't matter, he is just doing as he's told until he gets to retire a billionaire in his mansion in Switzerland.

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DogsLife's avatar

The Twitter show is just another of the ongoing, never-ending distractions to keep the people occupied while the global leaders sign treaties and make plans for a one world future we, the peons, largely do not want. Musk is part of it - and if many worship him as their free speech savior, because they have no other, it will be harder for them to see the only Truth (like those still holding on to Trump).

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

Yes but we are going to have some semi leaders. The least worst will fill the spots hopefully.

I don't think it is possible to keep them vacant.

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Former UK resident's avatar

We are not yet being completely liberated by Musk or anyone else.

I just heard about a raid by FBI and AF OSI (not even Men in Black) on individual residences in Nevada related to Area 51 (Dreamland Resort ) George Knapp even mentioned it.

At this point in time, I would be still weary of anyone who has had a connection with the military complex that includes Musk.

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Vonu's avatar

The overwhelming majority of us are happy in our subjugation, as long as the Starbucks stay open...

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Perry Simms's avatar

You should not patronize starbucks or sodastream.

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Vonu's avatar

I gave up on Starbucks after two hideous attempts at palatable ice tea.

I've never heard of sodastream.

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Abu Maven's avatar

All Americans who support freedom of speech should immediately boycott Google and Apple if they pull such a move.

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UnvaxxedCanadian's avatar

For sure

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Mark Eaton's avatar

Not just Americans either.

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Inevitable's avatar

People sleep with their apple phone, go to the toilet with their phone , text at sporting and entertainment events and ignore their spouses over their love of the phone so I think boycotting is probably out.

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Happiness: AViewpoint!'s avatar

Ok so what can I buy that would be comparable to my iPad. I really have not followed technology for years.

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Max's avatar

Off topic: Today I found this study. It shows that about 20% of athletes had a massive decline in VO2max levels following their booster vaccination. The authors explained the consequences of this effect are still unknown. I would like to ask you, Igor, or your readers, what you think about it. Which consequences could this have?

Abstract:

Background and Aims

The goal of the present study was to systematically evaluate the effect of a booster vaccination with the BNT162b2 messenger RNA (mRNA; Pfizer-BioNTech®) vaccine on maximum oxygen uptake (VO2max), potential signs of (peri)myocarditis, and sports participation.

Methods

Recreational athletes who were scheduled to undergo booster vaccination were evaluated with transthoracic echocardiography, serum measurements of high-sensitivity C-reactive protein(hsCRP) and high-sensitivity troponin I, and a bicycle cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) with serum lactate evaluation before the booster vaccine administration. Seven days postvaccination the test battery was repeated. Additionally, the subjects were asked to fill in a questionnaire on side effects and a subjective evaluation of their relative training volume and intensity as compared to the weeks before vaccination.

Results

A group of 42 analysed athletes showed a statistically significant 2.7% decrease in VO2max after vaccination (mean standard error of mean pre: 48.6 (1.4) ml/kg/min; post: 47.3 (1.4) ml/kg/min; p = 0.004). A potentially clinically relevant decrease of 8.6% or more occurred in 8 (19%) athletes. Other CPET parameters and lactate curves were comparable. We found no serological or echocardiographic evidence of (peri)myocarditis. A slight but significant increase in hsCRP was noted 1 week after vaccination. Side effects were mild and sports participation was generally unchanged or mildly decreased after vaccination.

Conclusion

In our population of recreational endurance athletes, booster vaccination with the BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine resulted in a statistically significant decrease in VO2max 7 days after vaccination. The clinical impact hereof needs to be further determined. No major adverse events were observed.

Source:

Miljoen H, Bekhuis Y, Roeykens J,et al. Effect of BNT162b2 mRNA booster vaccination on VO2max in recreational athletes: a prospective cohort study Health Sci Rep. 2022;5:e929.

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Igor Chudov's avatar

Wow!!!!!

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pandelis's avatar

this could be a topic ...

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Bill Vinyard's avatar

would be interesting to extend such a study to include longer time frame and also stratify over number of jabs/boosters , age, sex, other pertinent dimensions . . .but only on population of those already vaxxed. . .would NOT want to encourage anyone to get another jab.

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Betsy McDonel Herr, Ph.D.'s avatar

And to see if treatments of any sort would help.

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Bill Vinyard's avatar

I recall several other recent articles and substacks mentioning several groups hard at work on researching methods, protocols, mitigations . , . and hopefully, eventually cures . . .let us hope the body's tendency to heal itself if it's owner learns how to treat it well turns out to be true for mRNA damage too

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pandelis's avatar

that could be it. for what is worth, dont think this time around was achieved what was planned. hence this WHO treaty with mandatory vaxx powers, so it could be blamed at them, while implementation is done by countries. my guess this will be coming soon, few years at most.

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

Not if we All Don't Comply

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Bill Vinyard's avatar

Malone and several others have mentioned that Pfizer and others have only ramped up . . .pursuing mulitple avenues . . .there are growing numbers of transhumanists of the ilk of Harari . . .we are in violent agreement these miscreants do not intend to stop

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Max's avatar

What´s positive is that the covid pandemic and the vaccine disaster woke many people up to the big problems with mainstream media reporting, vaccines, bigpharma etc . 20% of the people in the USA know someone who was injured or killed by the covid vaccine (according to McCullough). So I think now we have more people who see what´s happening. This makes it more difficult for them to implement their ideas,

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pandelis's avatar

thats true.

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Betsy McDonel Herr, Ph.D.'s avatar

So booster implies the athletes on their third, so cumulative effect over time. This is so useful to know as it isn't an invasive measure for cardiovascular fitness. BTW, ketogenic diets appear to improve VO2 max levels up to 30% so perhaps would be a countermeasure in a treatment protocol. I am seeing fasting and metformin in protocols as well.

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SaHiB's avatar

Would you happen to know why a spate of metformin-bashing click bait (showing what looks like a parasite) has appeared?

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Don's avatar

Link to study (including pdf) here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hsr2.929

Great timing... I have suspected this for a long time, and was telling my mom yesterday about an anecdotal story published more than a year ago. A high school coach found his vaxxed boys were outdone on the field/track by unvaxxed (girl) classmates. My mom asked if any real studies had been done. I hope there are more. Thanks!

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Pawletto's avatar

Thank you Igor. I feel I’ve grown three feet taller through these past couple of years in alignment with this community of free thinkers. Perhaps we all, in our own way, will be called on to save the world, though I can hardly say what that looks like. I am with you. All.

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Igor Chudov's avatar

I have grown also!

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CaliforniaLost's avatar

I'm not sure if Musk really supports free speech for all and isn't just out to troll people he perceives as his enemies, but I do know that the Democrats, most Republicans, and the rest of the Deep State bureaucracy definitely don't believe in free speech, at all.

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Igor Chudov's avatar

All true

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Freedomisnotfree's avatar

It makes Musk a more powerful Bigger Dog, in the Billionaire circles. That is important for his survival because it is they who will gobble him up, or not. That is what he and most humans care about. Their circle status. This is the biggest reason he bought Twitter. Survival via Control. And yes, control of his enemies. He is more formidable to them now.

Higher on our biggest enemy list is this man and his co workers. Elon is just part of the theatre distraction show.

Hint: This is not the Top Secret version of the weaponry. Imagine that presentation, the part they don't tell us about, regarding what they are doing. Pay no attention to the " enemy " excuse, the perps always have an excuse to do their treacherous deeds. Unfortunately, for some unfathomable reason, we the people are their enemy. That was a difficult concept for me to grasp. And for many people, I imagine. So sad, scary and unbelievable. This really stated to accelerate when Barry Soetoro came on the stage.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=N02SK9yd60s

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Bigs's avatar

I don't trust Musk at all, but I do welcome the fact he is creating a conversation about free speech. It's a concept we seemed determined to forget about

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Betsy McDonel Herr, Ph.D.'s avatar

Free speech opposition is pulling out all the stops, wielding all the threats it can muster in one fantastic tantrum that will run for some time. But it won't work as the engagement drastically increases and the content becomes more interesting. The concerns about hate speech, targeting, and doxing is fear mongering and just the opposite of the new direction. Bots are disappearing. Requests for feedback go out, feedback flows in, is received and utilized, all in real time. That is particularly spectacular to watch. Other big tech firms should be watching and learning from that amazing degree of spirited and creative interaction with management. It is setting a new standard that they can't ignore.

The checkmark tiers being rolled out and manual validation for these will be helpful. All these changes emerging will shape a much better experience. I see a lot more fun and more people I follow speaking more freely. It is a bit like a party atmosphere right now. Not a hellscape at all.

Igor I follow your cute dog, the photo portrays a perfect expression for a cancelled account, but hope to see you back next week on Twitter!

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Igor Chudov's avatar

:-)

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Rebekah Barnett's avatar

I love our respectful and open minded Substack community. I hope the platform never sells out.

Very embarrassed for all the emotional babies who can't cope with seeing opinions they don't agree with in their feeds (and who apparently don't know how to use the 'block' function?).

Even more embarrassed for the myopic tyrants who believe it's their mandate to enforce their personal values and worldview on the rest of the population *for their own good.*

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Rebekah Barnett give them all binkies!

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barbara ford's avatar

Gosh, i kinda hope he makes a musk-phone regardless.

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Bigs's avatar

Well he already has his own satellite network. He is in the ideal position to compete with Google maps etc, even offering Internet via his phone. I hope he is at least looking into it

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Betsy McDonel Herr, Ph.D.'s avatar

Probably already on his mind anyway to make a phone. The sat phones look kind of clunky.

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Bigs's avatar

As a keen sailer/fisherman I'd love a decent, affordable satellite phone. For now they're stupid-expensive.

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freelearner's avatar

There is always this phone, if anyone wants to go way outside the box: https://youtu.be/uV1C-41tq64

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Woody's avatar

That is one very cool phone!

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Randy's Substack Subscription's avatar

Thanks, Igor. I enjoyed this one.

You said: "We live in exciting times! As a free-speech type, I find the latest developments highly engaging. I hope that I am not tiring you with the stories about agenda control and mass influence operations — these things deeply affect me, and I feel a need to share my thoughts about them."

I say: AMEN! And thank you to all who fight for truly free speech and that includes you, Igor!

God bless and protect us all.

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Jason's avatar

We should all write old fashioned letters to Google and Apple asking them to keep Twitter and explaining that it’s not just hate groups being censored. (Nor should they be. Hate groups disgust me, but in my day we’d say “I may despise your message but I’ll fight for your right to say it.”)

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John Raymond's avatar

Hate groups... Anyone they disagree with.

An example of hate groups... Those who believe in traditional Catholic faith...

I got banned or punished simply for saying Catholic teaching.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/radical-traditional-catholicism

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sunsandwind's avatar

Not boring at all. Many of these issues are really tied together with the elites trying to control everyone.

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Richard's avatar

Elon can afford very VERY good lawyers that would lead the judge down the path of monopoly and anti-trust.

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Bull Dog's avatar

Elon, I believe, sees what we all see, that is if we comply, most die and the rest become slaves.

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AussieManDust's avatar

Stop using Goolag, go to Brave. Lose Gmail. Lose PayPal. Visa is damned evil too. Ta ta IG. FB. C'est la vie.

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denise ward's avatar

(How do I put this...) Free speech is like pregnancy - you can't be half pregnant. You're either for free speech or you're not. These spammers that you admitted to censoring, how do we know they are spammers? The way sovereigns will do things in the future (because we'll be living in a future that makes sense) is they announce to the spammer that you will block them if they persist (give the warning) Then ask your readership (ie: other sovereigns) what do they think and get a barometer. And act according to your opinion but also others. You could trump their opinion but the intention of censorship must be put out into the open. That's how sovereigns would do it. But of course we are still under the domination mindset and haven't yet come to the me/we mindset (which is what we have to do if we want to thrive in the impending times)

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Betsy McDonel Herr, Ph.D.'s avatar

One method that Musk used to control bots was to put a speed limit on accounts. That is, accounts putting out Tweets faster than any human can type for an extended period of time are identified and curbed. That seemed reasonable and it sure did help quite a bit.

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