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[fourfive8]

That’s until AI cracks quantum computing and fusion reactors. Then nothing will be secure anymore. Not even the blockchain.

I foresee a return to direct face to face meetings, physical letters and transactions in gold. Everything else might be an AI trap.

I think quantum computing will evolve on its own. The leap to a useful fusion reactor will be a game changer and the big kahuna! But, it’s also true the two are likely interrelated.

 

[fourfive8]

BigEasy, I’ve become convinced Mamdani is your kind of guy, represents your kind of future.

 

[Brent in Az]

Nothing to see here ....

French modeling scout 'whose name appeared nearly 2,000 times' in declassified DOJ docs on Epstein found dead at home

Daniel Siad, a 69-year-old French modeling scout and recruiter whose name appeared nearly 2,000 times in declassified U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) documents regarding the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, was reportedly found dead at his home in Colombes, a suburb northwest of Paris.

www.oann.com

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Iran attacking Amazon data center!


495,890 views Jul 21, 2026

The IRGC launched missiles and drones at U.S. military positions across Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan overnight — hitting radar sites, Patriot batteries, and MQ-9 hangars — and claimed to have destroyed Amazon's primary data center infrastructure in Bahrain using cruise missiles, a strike on the cloud architecture that runs DoD and allied military command systems across the Gulf. That claim is unverified. What is verified: CENTCOM launched Night 10 at 4 p.m. ET on July 20th, hitting Iranian military command centers, maritime capabilities, ballistic missile launch sites, and air defense systems, and released new F-35 and F-16 strike footage this morning confirming the corridor over Iranian airspace is fully operational. Former F-15E Strike Eagle combat pilot and Thunderbirds demonstration pilot Ryan Bodenheimer breaks down the IRGC's 'radar clearing' operation language, what CENTCOM's ballistic missile site footage means for Iran's retaliatory capacity, and the 72-hour diplomatic fork between a Qatar-Egypt-Pakistan ceasefire proposal and a full-scale IDF-U.S. coordinated campaign that nobody has accepted yet.

 

[Brent in Az]

The overpriced Obama toilet bowl library screwing over contractors.

Obama Center subcontractor shuts down, lays off nearly 30 | Fox News https://share.google/7QFuyY3ygCgqs2BYN

 

[rookhawk]

The overpriced Obama toilet bowl library screwing over contractors.

Obama Center subcontractor shuts down, lays off nearly 30 | Fox News https://share.google/7QFuyY3ygCgqs2BYN

All union contractors no less! And many were black and minority businesses!

There is no shame that the Lakeside development group is literally playing into negative racial stereotypes. I've heard they've stiffed suppliers by over $100m USD, $40m USD just to the concrete companies.

If anyone is wondering how Chicago works, once upon a time it was run by the Chicago Outfit, what we called our Mafia. Waste management to a lesser extent, but really union skilled labor, particularly concrete, asphalt, and highway projects. Occasionally they'd burn down the racetrack with over-insured thoroughbreds in all the stables. That's how the State worked.

Many mobsters lived in my community and the Chicago Outfit did not sh1t where they eat. Zero troubles caused, no nonsense whatsoever. They cooperated with both Daly's, Harold Washington, and the overall Alderman scheme. Streets were safe. Graft was invisible. You could walk around the city or the burbs with no problems whatsoever. It was what it was and it was the cleanest big city in America and the lowest crime big city for tourists with all violent crime and drug dealing done in very specific neighborhoods nobody went to like Cabrini, Edgewood, Robert Taylor, etc.

Sometime in the early 2000s the Marxist/Terrorist faction came in. The Chicago Outfit lost all their power. Bill Ayers and other Weatherman Underground oriented terrorists backed politicians and got Obama elected. Rainbow/Push and Louis Farrakhan lost their footholds as part of that old-DNC/Outfit cooperation as well. Next thing you know, a stream of Marxists took hegemony of Illinois. Rahm Emanuel was part of this consortium of commies. Then it was Preckwinkle. Then it was a bunch of others. It's now a toilet.

I didn't mind living across town from Tony Acardo, I would mind living across town from the current deal makers. It's why I left.

The Obama library is an emblem of all things wrong with the modern Democrat party because the people affiliated with this endeavor are the same people electing marxists nationwide. Nothing but grifters trying to destroy the places they live, things the mobsters never did in Illinois.

 

[Rocked and Loaded]

The overpriced Obama toilet bowl library screwing over contractors.

Obama Center subcontractor shuts down, lays off nearly 30 | Fox News https://share.google/7QFuyY3ygCgqs2BYN

Obama to the contractors:

 

[steve white]

Nothing to see here ....

French modeling scout 'whose name appeared nearly 2,000 times' in declassified DOJ docs on Epstein found dead at home

Daniel Siad, a 69-year-old French modeling scout and recruiter whose name appeared nearly 2,000 times in declassified U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) documents regarding the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, was reportedly found dead at his home in Colombes, a suburb northwest of Paris.

www.oann.com

And I suppose Hillary had an airtight alibi....

 

[Brent in Az]

And I suppose Hillary had an airtight alibi....

The Clinton's stack up bodies like a morgue.

 

[Big_Easy]

62K views · 2.8K reactions | Anyone know the definition of insanity? | Adam Carolla

Anyone know the definition of insanity?

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I agree with you.

“do we have to revisit ideas that don’t work…It failed, it didn’t work, it was dangerous, and people lost their lives.” - Adam Carolla

What he’s describing also sounds exactly like the gilded age, massive income inequality, poverty everywhere, vast power in the hands of a select few Oligarchs (robber barons), dangerous untested drugs, stock market manipulation, bank runs and failures, company towns and script, exploitative child labor, orphan trains, clear-cutting forest, the near extinction of species, filthy polluted skies and water, a hole in the ozone layer, rivers that catch fire, etc. And then we as a country learned from those mistakes. We implemented all sorts of good ideas (regulations), like the 40 hour work week, unions/organized labor, we taxed the rich (heavily) and invested in programs that benefited us all, we had banking regulations, we had financial regulations, the FDA, the SEC, the EPA, National Parks and Monuments, fish and game lands, clean drinking water, and air to breath!

Too bad the same people decrying Socialism can’t apply this concept to anything else they can think of, especially when it disagrees with their preconceived beliefs regarding deregulation.

Also, the housing crisis/financial crisis. Banks failing, foreclosures skyrocketing, the worst recession since the Great Depression, and all because of deregulation that worked for decades had been repealed, and within 10-15 years the system sh!t the bed again. All because we knew that square windows were bad. And then one day some new Republicans got some ideas about square windows again (deregulation), and how we should try that again…If it didn’t work the last time, why would it work this time around?

 

[spike.t]

Not looking that great.............

Houthi attacks raise fears of wider Middle East conflict and more global economic damage

The Iran-backed group in Yemen has threatened to target Saudi vessels in a vital shipping route.

www.bbc.com

 

[Big_Easy]

All union contractors no less! And many were black and minority businesses!

There is no shame that the Lakeside development group is literally playing into negative racial stereotypes. I've heard they've stiffed suppliers by over $100m USD, $40m USD just to the concrete companies.

You guys can all save your false outrage. Trump has screwed over thousands of contractors, small businesses, and individuals. I don't recall you guys professing the same level of outrage for them, and their loses. What a joke.

Billionaire Trump Fleeces Workers, Small Businesses - United Steelworkers

Using rape-and-pillage corporate practices favored by Wall Street, Donald Trump made himself billions while swindling and bankrupting untold numbers of hourly workers and small businesses. In recounting his “deal-making” experience, Trump says the important thing is that he made a buck, that he...

usw.org

'Little guy' contractors still angry at Trump Taj bankruptcy

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Weak from heart surgery and a sepsis infection that would soon kill her, Patricia Paone was resting at home last summer when an apparition appeared on the TV — a famous businessman who had struck a deal with her husband years before.

apnews.com

USA Today investigation reveals Donald Trump has an extensive history of not paying workers

The latest Speed Read,/speed-reads,,speed-reads, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at The Week

theweek.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/nyregion/trump-tower-illegal-immigrant-workers-union-settlement.html

 

[rookhawk]

You guys can all save your false outrage. Trump has screwed over thousands of contractors, small businesses, and individuals. I don't recall you guys professing the same level of outrage for them, and their loses. What a joke.

Billionaire Trump Fleeces Workers, Small Businesses - United Steelworkers

Using rape-and-pillage corporate practices favored by Wall Street, Donald Trump made himself billions while swindling and bankrupting untold numbers of hourly workers and small businesses. In recounting his “deal-making” experience, Trump says the important thing is that he made a buck, that he...

usw.org

'Little guy' contractors still angry at Trump Taj bankruptcy

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Weak from heart surgery and a sepsis infection that would soon kill her, Patricia Paone was resting at home last summer when an apparition appeared on the TV — a famous businessman who had struck a deal with her husband years before.

apnews.com

USA Today investigation reveals Donald Trump has an extensive history of not paying workers

The latest Speed Read,/speed-reads,,speed-reads, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at The Week

theweek.com

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/27/nyregion/trump-tower-illegal-immigrant-workers-union-settlement.html

Your mom never told you two wrongs don't make a right, huh?

My points were twofold:

1.) A former president's cronies screwed over workers on a privately funded, non-profit library. Did the Reagan library screw contractors? How about the Carter? How about W's? Yeah, they didn't.

2.) The reason for the theft is that "these aren't your father's democrats", they are Marxist thugs that can't even take care of contractors that are historically democrat voters. That's not a mistake, its a different kind of democrat which I described in detail over a 30 year timeline that changed the Illinois Democrat Party from a Mafia enterprise that was tolerable into a Marxist enterprise that is not.

 

[jruby]

Your mom never told you two wrongs don't make a right, huh?

My points were twofold:

1.) A former president's cronies screwed over workers on a privately funded, non-profit library. Did the Reagan library screw contractors? How about the Carter? How about W's? Yeah, they didn't.

2.) The reason for the theft is that "these aren't your father's democrats", they are Marxist thugs that can't even take care of contractors that are historically democrat voters. That's not a mistake, its a different kind of democrat which I described in detail over a 30 year timeline that changed the Illinois Democrat Party from a Mafia enterprise that was tolerable into a Marxist enterprise that is not.

My experience with North Chicago , specifically around Zion in the early 80's is not favorable. Never really considered Detroit and Chicago as being that different during the 70s and 80s.

 

[rookhawk]

My experience with North Chicago , specifically around Zion in the early 80's is not favorable. Never really considered Detroit and Chicago as being that different during the 70s and 80s.

Zion, Waukegan, and North Chicago were always dumps. At least since WW2. Although they are on the lakefront, the massive homes were divided up into 1 bedroom apartments so the single ladies had places to live until the boys came home from the war. They became havens for section 8 scams and illegal aliens thereafter.

That area of Chicagoland is easily 45 mins to an hour from downtown.

 

[Brent in Az]

LOL.

 

[jruby]

I know i used to have to catch a bus down to Ohare to fly over to Lansing. I did not own a car bacj then. I dont remember any part of Chicago being great. Transfered our of the area as fast as I could. To me Chicago sucked.

 

[rookhawk]

I know i used to have to catch a bus down to Ohare to fly over to Lansing. I did not own a car bacj then. I dont remember any part of Chicago being great. Transfered our of the area as fast as I could. To me Chicago sucked.

I’m not a city guy, but of NY, LA, Chicago, the latter was vastly cleaner and vastly lower crime where normal people go. That all changed after Mayor Daly, when the Marxist-Terrorists took power and got Obama elected to senate, then president.

 

[Altitude sickness]

I agree with you.

“do we have to revisit ideas that don’t work…It failed, it didn’t work, it was dangerous, and people lost their lives.” - Adam Carolla

What he’s describing also sounds exactly like the gilded age, massive income inequality, poverty everywhere, vast power in the hands of a select few Oligarchs (robber barons), dangerous untested drugs, stock market manipulation, bank runs and failures, company towns and script, exploitative child labor, orphan trains, clear-cutting forest, the near extinction of species, filthy polluted skies and water, a hole in the ozone layer, rivers that catch fire, etc. And then we as a country learned from those mistakes. We implemented all sorts of good ideas (regulations), like the 40 hour work week, unions/organized labor, we taxed the rich (heavily) and invested in programs that benefited us all, we had banking regulations, we had financial regulations, the FDA, the SEC, the EPA, National Parks and Monuments, fish and game lands, clean drinking water, and air to breath!

Too bad the same people decrying Socialism can’t apply this concept to anything else they can think of, especially when it disagrees with their preconceived beliefs regarding deregulation.

Also, the housing crisis/financial crisis. Banks failing, foreclosures skyrocketing, the worst recession since the Great Depression, and all because of deregulation that worked for decades had been repealed, and within 10-15 years the system sh!t the bed again. All because we knew that square windows were bad. And then one day some new Republicans got some ideas about square windows again (deregulation), and how we should try that again…If it didn’t work the last time, why would it work this time around?

“Also, the housing crisis/financial crisis. Banks failing, foreclosures skyrocketing, the worst recession since the Great Depression, and all because of deregulation that worked for decades had been repealed, and within 10-15 years the system sh!t the bed again. All because we knew that square windows were bad. And then one day some new Republicans got some ideas about square windows again (deregulation), and how we should try that again…If it didn’t work the last time, why would it work this time around?

And who caused that housing crisis. The Clinton administration forced lenders to underwrite loans to people that had no means to ever pay it back. Under the guise of social justice.

As Barney Frank lamented. It’s not people’s fault they can’t afford a mortgage. So he strong armed the Clinton administration into giving anyone that wanted a home a loan, a loan .

This left lenders holding the bag. So they did what a business would do to survive the Federal overreach. They bundled them and sold them off as junk.

All caused by social justice programs

 

[Doug3006]

I agree with you.

“do we have to revisit ideas that don’t work…It failed, it didn’t work, it was dangerous, and people lost their lives.” - Adam Carolla

What he’s describing also sounds exactly like the gilded age, massive income inequality, poverty everywhere, vast power in the hands of a select few Oligarchs (robber barons), dangerous untested drugs, stock market manipulation, bank runs and failures, company towns and script, exploitative child labor, orphan trains, clear-cutting forest, the near extinction of species, filthy polluted skies and water, a hole in the ozone layer, rivers that catch fire, etc. And then we as a country learned from those mistakes. We implemented all sorts of good ideas (regulations), like the 40 hour work week, unions/organized labor, we taxed the rich (heavily) and invested in programs that benefited us all, we had banking regulations, we had financial regulations, the FDA, the SEC, the EPA, National Parks and Monuments, fish and game lands, clean drinking water, and air to breath!

Too bad the same people decrying Socialism can’t apply this concept to anything else they can think of, especially when it disagrees with their preconceived beliefs regarding deregulation.

Also, the housing crisis/financial crisis. Banks failing, foreclosures skyrocketing, the worst recession since the Great Depression, and all because of deregulation that worked for decades had been repealed, and within 10-15 years the system sh!t the bed again. All because we knew that square windows were bad. And then one day some new Republicans got some ideas about square windows again (deregulation), and how we should try that again…If it didn’t work the last time, why would it work this time around?

Yeah, the Gilded Age was a total bummer. Marconi transmitted the first wireless telegraph message. Bell patented the telephone. Edison perfected the incandescent light bulb. Benz built the first real automobile. The development of germ theory. X-rays. Aspirin. Impressionism. Art Nouveau. Ragtime. You know what all these advancements have in common? Not one was created by a socialist economy.