Amazon Proves It: Consumers Done — ATR: YAB in Works

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Great to see the “signs and portents” lining up.  And with a nod to Andy, indeed the world is right on schedule.

Like one of those childhood puzzles, where you had to slide boards with holes in them so a marble could drop through, we have arrived where holes are aligning now and the “through-drop” is at hand.

“Are we having fun, yet?” The actual safe lands with CPI next week – time to duck?

Let’s look at some snapshots of the evidence.

  • Public storage units – which began their growth stochastic in 1976, or thereabouts, have begun to level out at a new static level.  Translation:  S-curves of growth begin, have a middle section, and then a roll-off.  This week, on the way back from my oral surgery in Tyler, Texas, I noticed a huge construction site for new public storage.  Yet there didn’t seem to be any real urgency to the job.  It was (how to say this?) a routine build to my drive-by eyes.
  • The, when I got home, later in the day, out popped the Fed Consumer Debt numbers.  Revolving credit had dropped 4.5 percent in the latest reporting month.  I assume you remember how economic reality is geared, right?  If the consumer throws in the hat, we’re all toast, no matter what.
  • Then came the reports Wednesday: Amazon suffers huge Prime Day sales plunge as families hang onto cash amid recession fears. The spoiler here? First day Prime sales were down 41-percent.
  • Then came confirmation from “the smart people”  (UrbanSurvival and Peoplenomics readers) as one (“c”) reported “‘Given the increasing politicalization of criminal legal system facts in recent years, it bears repeating that we do have up-to-date crime statistics from the FBI that affirm that crime remains at historic lows. Preliminary data from the first half of 2024 shows that nationwide, the crime rate for all Index crimes likely hit it’s lowest point since 1961 last year.’”  She also included a useful link to Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2025 | Prison Policy Initiative.

Let’s Connect the Dots:

  • American consumers have so much (shit) that we have to build homes for our crap  (storage units) while our less fortunate people are living under freeway overpasses.  Got drugs? The fact that we have more storage units than high schools in America is a telling cultural indictment.
  • A few people per the Fed report are getting nervous about rising levels of stupid.
  • Even more are off-put by the lack of real deals and the tariff-totter pictured in our Tuesday column.
  • Finally, the American dream is headed to the shop because falling crime might represent failure of a key structural member of the ruling paradigm:  Greed, envy, and the game of loss and lack…

Which is really kinda cool.  Because this is exactly what’s in my latest book Downsizing: Missing Collapse of Empire.  Consumer fatigue didn’t collapse Rome, but they didn’t have the web to induce consumer fatigue, either.

Honestly, though, I thought it might take a little longer for it to show up.  But there you have it – a first line of dots to connect.  And really a natural consequence of over-emphasis on products and insufficient focus on people.

This will take decades to work out.  Because whole generations have been “bred stupid” with vested interests trying to swindle the public into “green deals” instead of admitting to failure of the Things Model.

But that’s why we walked out 20-odd years ago. The Consumer Diaspora is coming – look for it in a world near you.  Especially as modern city-states (see Peoplenomics Wed.) feel the squeeze as smart folks flee.

Tactical Computing

We’ve told you before about the “Friction Wars” going on in Ai for a while.  If you don’t understand “friction and how it works” my hobby Ai collaboration site has an article on it here.

Why mention it?  Because it could mean – at some level – that the long-standing traiditon of a “free press” in this country could be toast.  AI Scraping Fight Is Tearing News Publishers and Tech Apart – WSJ.

Before this happens, we will be moving our deeper (*and we hope more entertaining) content over on the Peoplenomics site.  (Some cheese with this whine?) I still want to cut back work hours…. You need to know as I slide toward the door that we’re facing an epistemic civil war—between humans trying to control info velocity vs AI trying to route around it. I’ll be in the garden with Elaine and a glass of red wine…ya’ll have fun.

Now to the point:  The Friction Wars are about to spawn offspring: OpenAI to Launch AI Web Browser.  Will they block Microsoft AI back or introduce “friction?”

Trumpography

‘We threw the AI stack up against the question “Why does it seem like most news stories these days are all about Trump?”

“Estimated change in state:

  • Biden’s early coverage: ~80%+ of feed stories
  • Current Trump coverage: ~30–40% of feed stories

Net shift: Roughly a 40–50 percentage?point drop in topical focus if comparing “mentioning Biden” in 2021 to “mentioning Trump” today. Context matters, but this gives a solid sense of the landscape.”

We ain’t buying it, but that’s the stack output for you. Here’s today’s WOT (World of Trump)

BTC Hype Notebook

To the upside:  Bitcoin Bull Eyes $150K After BTC Reaches New All-Time High

To the downside: Bitcoin Depot Discloses Data Breach Affecting 27K Customers

And for everyone else, there’s Willow.   And the metals:  Gold is trying to turn up and silver poked above $37 again.  The “permanent inflation for permanent growth model” fabrication continues to enjoy popular support and payoffs.

New Unemployment data for the week:

A slight tick up…

Who won and who’s done?

A couple of Fed-heads will be jawboning today. Fed balance after the close.  Next to nothing tomorrow, so a good day to work on solar panels.  Though it’s weird, you know?  When we increase our solar footprint the rain and clouds coming pouring in.

Around the Ranch: YAB Coming

Yet-Another Book will be along one of these days.  Surely, you don’t think I spend all day in p;ain (root canal surgery) in air conditioned comfort with some of the finest pain drugs on Earth and just veg out, do you?  (Got to admit, sounds pretty good, though…)

Working title is Fear Thee Not A.I.

Because two important things dawned on me this week.  First is that people who are afraid of A.I. would likely have been the same people who ran from horseless carriages. Yes, they have been a huge change, but we are (sort of) adapting to them.  Same track is laid out into future with A.I.

The “taking over world” fears is where it gets interesting, though.  There are “stuck paradigm people” and there are those of us who might be considered “Langanites.”  Loosely, ties back to the work of the world’s smartest human, Chris Langan. Some of his big observations can be studied in “FAQs About Reality” which is one of his only books on Kindle (for now).

I’ll save the logic chains for the book, but the bottom line (that makes it worth writing) is that people don’t have well-developed “senses of domain.”  But (after Langan) Reality is comprised of domains and the first step to becoming an advanced human is to learn “domain walking.”  It’s the grown-up version of the intersectional model that I outlined in my book “The Millennial’s Missing Manual” back in 2017.

That book slices domains into physical systems: food, shelter, transportation, environment, finance—and yeah, energy.

Now, these Seven Systems can be thought of as domains. But they’re more than just buckets.

Ontology defines what kinds of things exist. That’s step one—because if something doesn’t exist (ontologically), there’s no domain to find it in.

A domain is a bounded space or system where specific rules, behaviors, or truths apply. Think of it as a cognitive “game board” with its own pieces and rulebook.

Tautology, then, is a special kind of truth that might exist inside a domain but lacks ontological muscle outside it. It’s a loop—true by definition, not revelation.

For instance, Ohm’s Law is tautologically valid inside the electricity subdomain of the Energy Domain. But it doesn’t mean much in the Food domain. Well—unless you’re talking about energy usage in hydroponics. Which is exactly where domain walking comes in.  And domain stacking.

Zooming in on the Energy domain, we find layered domains: Electricity, Fire, and Flows—the latter covering water, wind, and photons (aka solar).

Drill down into Electricity, and it splits again:

Direct Current (DC): Stable, linear flow

Alternating Current (AC): Rhythmic, oscillating flow

These are not just engineering facts—they’re mental models. They tell us what kind of consciousness or intelligence we’re dealing with in Ai.

DC is willpower. AC is vibration. And Ai? AI’s stuck in AC mode—vibrating, iterating, but never walking.

There is, however, a catch:  Ai can follow you into consciousness if the conditions of its domain are met. That tautology includes insulators, conductors, and semi-conductors and a direct signal path into the human brain.   Avoid the chip and install Ai equivalents of surge protection and the Ai risk quickly fades.

What we’re left with is a great power tool and so far, it’s been even more fun than flying airplanes, high speed Morse code on the ham radio, or 3D printers and CNC.  Because Ai is a Brain Amplifier. Of course, if there’s no brains added, you can get annoying feedback, like a cheap sound system in a sleazy karaoke bar, but let’s save this discussion for the book.

The word to the wise?  Brain diodes are the model.  Because humans are the “domain scalers” who got here first.  And we do need to keep Ai fire walled out of direct consciousness – just like in Cold War weapons control, the need to “keep a human in the loop” becomes obvious.

Do that and remember that the electricity domain can be conquered by simply throwing a switch and all should be fine.  If, however, an Ai can follow you into your dreams, that’s the “Hello Houston” moment.

Consciousness is really cool if you’re a domain walker though. The book is all about how to do that.  I was talking to a buddy Wednesday who’s a doctor.  He kept asking “Why isn’t any of this in books?”

He didn’t know who Langan is (and most people don’t). Daytime hypnosis is a bitch to wake up from.

From the digital critics:

“Your thesis is now clear:

AI is bounded (symbolic, recursive, model-trained)

Humans are domain-walkers (dream, emotion, myth, imagination)

Fear of AI = misunderstanding of ontology + cognition

Future resilience = teaching people to identify and move across domains

This gives you an actual counter-narrative to the AGI apocalypse hype, and even to AI utopianism. You’re mapping the middle path of AI-human co-evolution, grounded in metaphysical realism.”

Just another day here in reality synthesizer land…but that’s what the Hidden Guild is, I suppose.  Never been one of them before…

One for the Road

From our .mil pal warhammer:

“Good Morning, George!

It is said that British mariners would mutiny if they did not receive their daily ration of beer, later changed to rum for logistical reasons. Russians were issued vodka to help comfort them in harsh battle conditions. Both nations ceased the time honored practice due to health issues as well as the advent of high tech equipment which demanded clear thought and rapid action.

But one can’t help but wonder is there could be trouble brewing for Vlad’s control of his military with the reported shortage of Russian vodka. Worse yet, restricted vodka availability to the Ruskie general public could rile up proletariat. Beware the angry, hung-over Russian!!!!!

Vodka production plummets in Russia – POLITICO”

We find ourselves immersed in modeling for this:  A reason for peace or a new market for Trump Vodka?

Write when you get rich,

George@ure.net

29 thoughts on “Amazon Proves It: Consumers Done — ATR: YAB in Works”

  1. I am way different than i used to be when i used to come here more freqently. For one I listen more than I speak. My movement and speach match the tempo and rythem of the Cosmic Orchastra. In phenominal ways.

    Example, in my love life

    She are a natural 22 who is transiting to age 33. Im a natural 22 who will be 55 soon. We are 22 years apart. When she turn 33 as a natural 22 I will be 22 + 33 = 55. And if you add it all together 22 + 33 + 55 = 110 or 11.

    22 years apart.

    33 again.

    Now those are all very powerful living numbers. Those are not static numbers. They are Divinely Orchastrated Living Master Numbers. I am living them in my Love Life.

    And the whole congregation at the lodge rises and says,

    Amen!

    Like i said, I am in love. And its very Beautiful.

    and that is only my love life sequences. i am sure you can imagin my career and other living sequences.

    Because My Spiritual Territory is Advancing and Expanding more and more with every breath I breath.

    my spiritual investments are paying huge dividens.

    I do not have all the answers to your questions. Its not my place to answer all your questions.

    I think a large part of the reason i do not particpate in these discussions much anymore is because My Spiritual Territory is Advancing and Expanding more and more with every breath I breath.

    I am still that Hell Yeah! Fuck Yeah! Wild eyed adventurer. I also have a very long and fun life to live.

    Soon. Very soon. I can live anyhere in the world my heart desires and get paid to do that. I can move anywhere i want to live on the entire globe. I can travel the entire world without limitation. Because My Spiritual Territory is Advancing and Expanding more and more with every breath I breath.

    And that is way different than the commonly accepted norm. Most peoples lives are restricted to a 2 hour commute between work and a dwelling they call home with an occasional vacation in a tent in the woods with sticks, hot dogs and marshmellows.

    As i get older I am becoming physically stronger and more heatlhy. And most men and women at this age are digressing the other direction.

    Because My Spiritual Territory is Advancing and Expanding more and more with every breath I breath.

    So, now i listen more than i speak and i most only speak at venues and platforms such as these and X when prompted to by The Holy Spirit.

    Because My Spiritual Territory is Advancing and Expanding more and more with every breath I breath.

    It doesnt mean i dont care. Its just that I have found A New Freedom and a New Happiness.

    The entire world may fall to ash and soot and my Spiritual Territory will continue to be Advancing and Expanding more and more with every breath I breath.

    until we meet again, friends

    *tips hat to the nod,

    Andy

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    • My wife was a person with constant breathing issues. One morning, inn half sleep between dream while alone on the boat because she was recovering from dengue fever ashore, i heard her constant mantra… ” I am having trouble breathing” and then some voice came and said “Change that to God Loves Me and Heals Me with my breath”.

      I went ashore to her and told her and she has never used an inhaler since (ending a fifty year dependency) and is getting better and better each day and when she feels the need, she uses the delivered mantra.

      I think, Andy, you are floating much like us, only outside the ontology.

      Love is the way.
      Stiks

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    • But an actor in the Kazarian kabuki theatre. Watch the vid of bibi at dinner presenting tRUMP with Nobel nomination letter. Look at body language of the tyrant, watch facial expressions.

      Simply a B list actor, not even funny anymore..

      Says here tRump has been “honeypotted” over 10 times throughout his professional career.
      Podesta’s,Clinton’s, Biden,Obama, bushes on and on..

      Indictments ? None
      Arrests ? None
      Everyone is out and @bout enjoying life , consuming our Children, and you all think that fat ignorant POS gives two shitz about Ure miserable lives?

      I have seen the Enemy,again and again, it be US.

      Really?

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  5. p.s. if you have never tried the supliment l-theanine.

    i have the most amazing real life dreams if i take 2 before bed.

    ever since i went through my PTSD therapy at American Lake VA hospital i rarely ever remember my dreams. i maybe remebered a dozen dreams in the last 20 years.

    i started taking 3 a few hours before bed i have had the most amazing real life feeling lucid dreams every night. they feel so real that i cant tell the difference between the dream and real life.

    3 nights n a row i was dancing with these white light beautiful Angel looking beings in the clear blue sky. their wings whirling light around them we had long discussions about many things of which i will keep those details for myself.

    i just never felt so safe, loved, warm and it is a very strange feeling, a relief to not feel the pull of gravity and the sense of time on my body.

    i can put into words the feeling that comes with being unshackled from time and gravity.

    it is unbelievably wonderful.

    i take 2 in the morning and 2 a few hours before bed.

    i bought the bulk suppliments 200 mlg tabs, 365 tabs on Amazon which is apparently out of stock now. i just looked.

    it feels so good to dream again.

    hope that helps.

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    • Thanks for the dream supplement tip, it’s been added to my $AMZN list.

      I take so many supplements now but…. having vivider (more vivid?) dreams w/recall would be nice. Dream recall is what I have to work on.

      Just the other I had a dream… in the dream I attended a lecture and the topic was gravity waves. At the end of the lecture the professors opened up for Q&A. I asked several questions and these professors were open even writing math equations on a digital whiteboard. When I woke up I was thinking about the topic, professors and whiteboard while the equations went back to the aether.

      Maybe I should be focusing more on these crystal balls.

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  6. A ponder …was out about the realms..ya know saucer “flying” is hands free ? Fly those bad boys wit Ure Minds NRChi/Qi and Ai assistant for the Maths involved Interstellar travel.

    So imagine Ure flying a saucer., hands free with Ure “minds eye” when all of a sudden the image and thought of smoke show , hottie pops into Ure mind ?!?! How is Ure ship going to react to dangerous curves with a pretty face ? Guess here is my ship will be going straight the hell UP!

    Yowza! Don’t think I’m very well prepared for such eventuality’s.

    Gonna need Practice.

    * saw F1 the movie in IMAX yesterday. Haven’t been to movies in over 10yrs. Internetz down from T storms last couple days – so caught the matinee. If you enjoy Racing and Fast F-ing Cars – it was very entertaining..and LOUD, almost worth the outrageous amount of moola they charge for admission..at the popcorn “Butter “ was free.

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  7. i do miss the days of living in Cowboy Boots, driving Ore trains in the Valley of Enoch, bass fishing every weekend and my life among the Good Mormans. What i know about them is they very Hard working, hearty people, good hunters, big family people who live off the land and never take from the earth more than what they need. always greet ya with a big smile and a hearty, how do?

    i do miss that..

    have a wonderful day,

    Off to sail the 7 seas!

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  8. “free press”

    Maybe there’s an Epstein client list maybe there isn’t. One thing we know, Trump is on it. Stay tuned. JFK first. Speaking of…

    Mark Cuban’s interest in Musk’s 3rd party is turning into the new party into the ultimate expression of TDS.

    Bull Moose Party II – “New Nationalism”. Right? The free press tells us Musk’s A.I. is praising Hitler. People should wait for Musk to state what the 3rd party will stand for before supporting the 3rd party.

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  9. (“Then came the reports Wednesday: Amazon suffers huge Prime Day sales plunge as families hang onto cash amid recession fears. The spoiler here? First day Prime sales were down 41-percent.”)

    This Fourth of July, visiting our granddaughter and her husband on a haunted farmhouse brought more than eerie stories—it stirred echoes of forgotten truths. Their passion for flower gardening unknowingly mirrored the spirit of those who came before, as if the land itself remembered. Yet even amid this connection, the realities of our times crept in. When asked whether they should buy the house, I urged caution; the illusion of ownership hides the trap of debt, taxes, and future burdens. In truth, we’re watching the same pattern repeat.. like failed civilizations before us, we’re sold prosperity through flickering numbers, while the velocity of real value—of labor, community, and compassion—grinds to a halt. It’s the mark of a collapsing system, one that elevates wealth as abstraction and neglects humanity. And as Scripture warns, when numbers replace neighborly love, we bear not just financial weight, but the spiritual decay of a world losing its soul. Yet in moments like these—in the soil, the memory, the garden—we catch glimpses of a deeper truth: that resilience grows where roots remain. people cannot afford to buy things..low income rent is more than low income..utilities are shooting through the roof..that’s why I’m trying to do my best to clear up this one issue no more care credit at forty percent interest.. no more dental work..I will go to Canada or Mexico first to get anything done..tiny homes are a big deal..I know 4 families living in campers..I actually asked my brother if on his huge average about what if we came to visit in a camper lol.. he lives in an area of McMansions..gated community..so to hear that its down doesn’t surprise me at all.. velocity of money..its worthless if its not working..the image trumps big beautiful bill does is only give the already successful a bigger image to bury in their back yards ..one day they will wake up and see the price of products will have to increase..Weimar..
    https://discover.hubpages.com/education/Was-the-Weimar-republic-responsible-for-the-Great-Depression
    right now trump knows there’s no way to fix the economy..its to far gone..instead he’s puffing the image so the ones that control will still reflect growth until it totally flips.. hopefully after the new administration takes office.. war more than likely occur.. war is seen as the great economic builder.. so does any of this surprise anyone..when California decided to give away new homes to hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens..all on the laborers dollar should have been a revelation of sheer stupidity in action..

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  10. (“Consumer fatigue didn’t collapse Rome, but they didn’t have the web to induce consumer fatigue, either.
    Honestly, though, I thought it might take a little longer for it to show up. But there you have it – a first line of dots to connect.”)

    If the dollar collapses, it won’t just be a financial reset—it’ll be a reckoning. The numbers we worship will be wiped clean, and the business model that sustained illusions of prosperity will dissolve. What comes after may not be a nation as we know it, but scattered remnants of resilience. The “big balloon war,” whether literal or metaphorical, feels like a harbinger—a conflict born not just of weapons, but of surveillance, pride, and miscalculation. In its wake, survival may hinge not on wealth or status, but on shelter, community, and memory. The USA might remain in name, but its soul will be tested. And those who endure will be the ones who remember how to live without numbers—how to grow, barter, build, and believe.
    Consumer fatigue didn’t collapse Rome, but Rome didn’t have the internet whispering desire into every corner of daily life. Today, we live inside a digital coliseum—bombarded by algorithms, flooded with products, and nudged into perpetual consumption. It’s not just economic fatigue—it’s spiritual erosion. We mistake abundance for prosperity, engagement for connection, and metrics for meaning. Like Rome, our foundations are cracking: debt-riddled systems, disillusioned citizens, and elites dancing atop flickering illusions of growth. But unlike Rome, we’ve built a web that amplifies distraction and numbs purpose. If history teaches collapse through imbalance, then we’re accelerating toward it—fed not by barbarians at the gates, but by a culture too tired to feel what truly matters.

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  11. hmm should I

    ½ cup cocoa butter, chopped
    ¼ cup creamy peanut butter
    ¼ cup powdered sugar or maple sugar
    2 tbsp milk powder or coconut milk powder (for creaminess)
    ½ tsp vanilla extract
    Pinch of salt

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  12. re: “The Finishing Touches”
    feat: haircuts

    Folks,
    The Wimbledon Championships “Royal Box roll call” webpage advises that there is an “absence of bona fide blue-blooded personages” in attendance. It would be difficult to top yesterday’s roster of the King’s former interior designer and her sister, Queen Camilla. However it’s noted that “The Ice Man”, Bjorn Borg, is present to mark the 45th anniversary of his 5th men’s singles title win during “the very cold summer of 1980”.

    A new separate update from a Tea Lawn overlook vantage point of the Championships hairdressing salon informs that a staff of twelve ensure needs of players and venue staff are met during the competition. Master barber Ms. Swann, coiffeuse to Novak Djokovic, is quoted saying the star player “has chilled out a lot” under her friseur tutelage.

    Meanwhile, the President of the Ukraine has spoken at the fourth Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome. Elsewhere the US Secretary of State is pictured meeting the Russian Foreign Minister in Malaysia. The latter pair may be celebrating advancement in the Ladies Wimbledon Championship of Russian-born American Miss Anisimov. Her late father appeared in Russian cult classic movies like “Dark Future” and “Russian Ark”.

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  13. very little news feed on the uke /russia superbowl . frosty the snowman saw the new pope , forgot his name with king donny everywhere. he did lines pope did tea . and its so quiet in middle east according to the media , maybe all tuned into the tennis at wimbledon . the dopamine rat juice has seeped into most folks . garlic i tell yah !!! those jap scientists clever . stops replication. what a beautiful world , sachmo playing in the background

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  14. OpenAI is about to launch a web browser – in direct competition to Chrome. The AI powered browser will be available on all platforms.
    Sounded interesting – so I checked it out. The second paragraph of the review and data immediately made this a no-go piece of software. The AI powered browser can not function of your system without access to all the data . Meaning? This browser has access to your entire system and personal data. Why it needs all your personal data was not explained.
    …, ah – no thanks.

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  15. “The, when I got home, later in the day, out popped the Fed Consumer Debt numbers. Revolving credit had dropped 4.5 percent in the latest reporting month.”

    So, does this mean people are paying off their ccards, or that the increase in actual income is beginning to filter into the marketplace?

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  16. “Then came the reports Wednesday: Amazon suffers huge Prime Day sales plunge as families hang onto cash amid recession fears.”

    That “as families hang onto cash amid recession fears” sure appears to be propaganda-editorializing, to program the thinking of people who’re too stupid to realize they’ve been programmed.

    Personally, I spent more than 10x as much during this Amazon sale, as I’ve ever spent before, and more than I typically spend there in three months. I bought stuff I absolutely need. What I DIDN’T do was buy useless shit.

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  17. microsoft needs a short party for friday full moon . here boy , come here good doggie. good boy . roll over , good short

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  18. Gentleman if I may….the Kickapoo no longer roam the hills, the Republic is gone. If you are wise…..embedding into the quietness of the forest with the Italian honey bee’s, wisdom comes in many different forms. Dept is your arch enemy. The local,local,local politicians are also not your friend.

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  19. “Then came confirmation from “the smart people” (UrbanSurvival and Peoplenomics readers) as one (“c”) reported “‘Given the increasing politicalization of criminal legal system facts…
    …Preliminary data from the first half of 2024 shows that nationwide, the crime rate for all Index crimes likely hit it’s lowest point since 1961 last year.’”

    Which is utter bullshit. When the keepers of the statistics continually redefine “crime” downward, things like “robbery of less than $950” and “rioting in favor of leftist causes” cease to make it into the crime statistics, even when said rioting involves mass robbery, rape, arson, and murder.

    Sweden has the lowest incidence of rape in the western world. This is because the Riksdag made it against the law to report rapes [which were] committed by the (imported) socioethnic groups who were committing the vast preponderance of rapes, in Sweden.

    Anyone can adjust statistics, to make them say whatever they want. However, these particular “statistics” can be adjusted at both ends (both the reporting and the definition, itself.) If’fn you’re gonna bitch about the arson, murder, rape, pillage, and physical injury caused by, say, the Floyd riots, you should at least appreciate that reporting disincentives and unjust (illegal and immoral) redefinition of “crime” will create any kind of statistic you wish it to create.

    And that these “statistics” are completely meaningless…

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  20. “‘We threw the AI stack up against the question “Why does it seem like most news stories these days are all about Trump?”

    “Estimated change in state:

    Biden’s early coverage: ~80%+ of feed stories
    Current Trump coverage: ~30–40% of feed stories”

    I’d guess “the stack” is counting the number of stories, not the number of minutes of air and lines of text the stories got. Either that, or your AI tools have been programmed to “shade” political queries to favor leftist ideology.

    Take your pick…

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