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Nav Check Monday, Pump, Dump, Blink – The 6 Minute World

Navigating the over-hyped world isn’t too hard, but you need to understand that the picture doesn’t come into focus unless you look through the right lens.

We like the long historical down to close-in data.  And here, we can see it clear as hell.  They – the financial powers that be – the pricks who steal your time for bits of paper – can see their end in sight.

The obvious relationship front and center is how the present period echoes 1929.

Driving 1929 was a massive change in production and consumption that caused the breakdown of the American family farm system.

The present day analog is the ongoing stacking of computers, networks, wireless, phones, and the AI layer. Combined, these are changing how we live. It’s already happening. Open eyes, take notes. Act.

The present system has hollowed out 97 percent of the dollar’s purchasing power since 1913 when “the Fed” took over U.S. money. We are sold the idea that prices have gone up. But the data argues that purchasing power got watered down.

Now, knocking on the door of an unpayable debt of $40-trillion and operating “upside down” the Rest of World will be along for vigilante justice any time, now.

Pump And Dump Today and Tomorrow?

The financial engineering industry is about to crap bricks.  Bitcoin – the modern analog to Ponzi – crashed to under $60,000 this weekend.  And the word from Cloudflare last week that web traffic is now 57% machines reading the web (right after our Peoplenomics in depth on this last week) says the whole “internet ad bubble” could blow up, too.

But the show-stopper for us, overnight, was the Japanese Nikkei 225 index.  Done.

Machine re-pricing will – for now, anyway – keep the system “appearing normal.”  But this is a Three Gorges Dam of finance and it’s leaking. And leaking hard.

You may find it interesting to note that in the past month, UrbanSurvival traffic has also more than doubled – and that’s even after we kicked off all machine coding (web tracking for ads and such) off this site.  The payoff for a quarter century of unvarnished truth about finance is TRUST.  People know we will not bullshit them.

So that’s our first “Blink” of the day,  The news vector change that’s coming – fast.

The Transition to Prep For

We are already “walking the talk” out here. But, in case you don’t read between the lines well, imagine a world where:

  • Crypto fails.  It will over time become a “floater” just like all other relative currencies.  It will have little to no intrinsic value.  And it will be powered by Belief Waves and Hype Cycles.
  • Now imagine the whole monetization of the web blowing up.  Yeah – that’s the ugly part. Because web statistics do a lousy job of sorting machine clicks from human clicks. But the ad-sellers? They are sketching past that.  Eventually, those kind of ad practices blow up.
  • And that means Social Media will die, too.  For openers, no one who’s living in a car much less gives a shit about “so-and-so just commented on a post you haven’t read...” When food and finding a place besides the street to take a crap is top of mind, you tell me what happens to social media advertising when real people start getting hungry.

That is when doomscrolling blows up. Because no one is giving you straight dope and walking the right path anymore. It’s all about click harvesting.

Why We Could Dump Now

Simply? Inflation data drops Wednesday. Not that you can trust it completely, but it’s a start.

The War is back on: Iran war live updates: Israel and Iran trade strikes in serious escalation | AP News. My consigliere figures the odds of nuke use before the year is out, is probably up around 80 percent. Our best intel is Iran may have 2 to 6 nukes ready but delivery is their problem.

The market will rally (*as it does) on initial war news – chest thumping’s a thing, you know.  But let’s dial it back to real.

We like to use the Triple A gas prices as a guide to “how screwed we are.”  See, a year ago, says Triple A (as of today) a national average gallon of regular  was $3.1260.  Right now? It’s running $4.1640.

Here’s where the government “weasels the numbers.”  One could point at last month ($4.5460) and claim that “energy prices came down this month.”  But, unless you have a big-ass gas tank at home, the reality is prices are up 33.2 percent in the last year.

The truth is somewhere in between., But – again, if you are slow on dot-connecting – there’s a reason that Ure’s retirement hobby financial website has been building out food infra should be so in-your-face as to be an undeniable hint.  Depending, of course, on how bright you are.

That’s our core Big Blink – news vector change  – to focus on: Markets are pulling out the stops and I’m getting crypto spam on Urban now so the shills really are down near the bottom of the barrel.

Re-Blinks 2-10

Most of the other stuff in news flows hasn’t changed much (if at all) since Friday. Mostly doomscrolling and word layering but little actionable.  Let’s go through it:

Blink 2 – Inflation is a Lagging Indicator:  (duh…)
Everyone will obsess over Wednesday’s inflation number. The problem is inflation reports are rear-view mirrors. We carbons live in real time. The question isn’t what inflation was last month, but whether purchasing power continues to erode. Those are different questions with different answers.  Hell, we don’t even really need the report because we all know the answer.  This is National Let’s Pretend Week.

Blink 3 – AI Is Eating the Internet:
Cloudflare’s report that machine traffic now exceeds human traffic on much of the web changes everything. The internet was built on the assumption that people click ads. If machines are increasingly reading pages while humans increasingly use AI summaries, the economic model of the web has a structural problem.  Oops!

Blink 4 – Trust Is Becoming Currency:
When information becomes abundant, trust becomes scarce. The future winners won’t necessarily publish the most content—they will publish the most reliable bearings. Navigation beats noise.

Blink 5 – Crypto Is Still a Belief Market:
Crypto remains an asset whose value depends heavily (to wholly) on collective belief rather than productive output. Belief can create enormous gains, but belief can also reverse quickly. Volatility is not a bug; it is part of the design.

Blink 6 – Food Is Infrastructure:
For years we’ve been building food capability around the ranch. That wasn’t because we expected tomorrow’s grocery stores to disappear. It was because every system under stress eventually reminds people that calories are more important than clicks. A tomato has intrinsic value. A social media “like” does not.

Blink 7 – The Ad Economy Is Vulnerable:
Advertising ultimately depends on businesses believing they are reaching real customers. If machine traffic becomes harder to distinguish from human attention, confidence in digital advertising will eventually be tested. When confidence weakens, valuations follow.

Blink 8 – Markets Are Machines, Humans Are Not:
Markets increasingly react at machine speed while households still operate at human speed. The resulting disconnect creates violent repricings that appear irrational but are simply algorithms digesting new probabilities faster than people can.

Blink 9 – Navigation Is Replacing Entertainment:
Reader behavior has changed. Increasingly, people seem to check in briefly, obtain bearings, and move on. That suggests the highest-value information product in your life may no longer be the longest read, but the quickest reliable orientation.

Blink 10 – Watch Behavior, Not Headlines:
Headlines are designed to capture attention. Behavior reveals reality. Watch grocery prices, fuel prices, employment quality, credit conditions, and whether ordinary people are changing daily habits. Systems fail from the edges inward, and those edge changes usually appear long before the official story catches up.

At The Ranch: Life in the Six-Minute World

More and more, we are focusing on the high value of time and the low value of paper. That’s why I have installed a hard ceiling of 1,500 words on myself (again). I appreciate that your time is limited and 1,500 words is probably all you have time for:

The news vectors are linking up.  Between now and year-end we can almost plan on food prices being up and availability being down.  You don’t need a B-school paper for that.

World has changed now. WW3 is on, kids are using AI to write college papers, and profs are using AI to grade them. Personal skills and resilience are in retreat and there are only two people you can trust to do anything about it.

Yourself and a spouse if you have one still under warranty.

Buy beef while you can, hold a gig while it lasts, and focus on nav checks that make sense to steer toward 2030.

Write when you get rich,

George@Ure.net

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  1. Yo SideWinder,

    Ure brilliant Ai screwed the pooch, on blinks #4 and #5.

    BTC is all about VERIFICTION, there is NO TRUST; read it again so it sticks..THERE IS NO TRUST, anymore.

    See ongoing Russian Assets Financial Fiasco – the west have proven themselves UNTYRUSTWORTHY, always,everytime.

    Ure (Boomers) bullshit Currencies have NO INTRINSIC Value..Never did, never will..PURE BULLSHIT. If you cant fathom BTC intrinsic value (s), well too bad, Ure loss, Ure meal..enjoy.

    As for BTC and productive output..take Ure Peaky Blinders off, there is tons just look around, or get Ure eyes checked.

    Belief is Bullschit, a bullschit concept..”I believe, therefore its true?”

    Belief = I Wish It Were True.

    PUUUULEASE

    • Yo back —

      Verification is not the same thing as intrinsic value.

      Bitcoin does one thing very well: it verifies ownership and transfer inside its own ledger without needing a bank clerk, central office, or government bookkeeper. Fine. Credit where due.

      But that does not make it food, fuel, shelter, tools, land, water, copper, steel, skill, or productive enterprise. It makes it a very clever accounting rail whose value still depends on enough people believing the rail will matter tomorrow.

      That is not an insult. Gold also has belief premium. Dollars are mostly belief and force. Stocks have belief layered over earnings. The difference is that when belief drains, productive assets may still throw off food, rent, power, labor, or cash flow. Bitcoin throws off no crop, no dividend, no heat, no horsepower, and no sandwich.

      Yes, fiat is paper hallucination. Been saying that for decades. But calling fiat bullshit does not automatically make BTC farmland.

      Verification is useful. Scarcity is useful. Portability is useful. But the price still rides the belief wave. That was the point.

      Navigation beats noise.

      • See STAKING, hell You can youse for a Down Payment on a House (staked) nowadays.

        It is Ure belief that Bitcoin does not throw off food,rent, power…

        You might wanna tell that to RE holdings, PM Holdings, Mountain House holdings, ect.

        Ure missing one very important FACT regards Ai – Data Centers, Bitcoin does not NEED, Nor Require a Bailout, my scaley pal, nor does it require other peoples money in form of outrageously expensive power bills.

        -https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-06-08/does-white-house-know-something-about-ai-it-isnt-telling-us

        ..You can take the above to the bank, or as McGarrit used to say “Book em, Dano!” -https://youtu.be/AepyGm9Me6w?

        what you were expecting a different Porpoise? As you wish – https://youtu.be/wYB_Mnid7mA?

      • tbs and George : the problem in discussing crypto of any support is it’s become less a search for value (legit attempt) more a Cult. George isn’t assaulting any owners, believers, he’s just explaining a former high flying pretend item has no equity (ownership), no attachment to bonds (loanership). It’s vacant. Blockchain has utility. Crypto has no flesh, just bones.

        Truly, it’s tiresome the way BTC, the poster child, is all the chat. Trust me kids, the actual enormous wealth piled in but in ETH ETFs when approved. Those guys have been getting killed since ETH fell through $3,000 to get cut in half. Again.

        GU : “… My consigliere figures the odds of nuke use before the year is out, is probably up around 80 percent. Our best intel is Iran may have 2 to 6 nukes ready but delivery is their problem …”

        Them’s ^ good odds. I’ll take the other side. Who gets to hold the money? Me I hope. Iran may have test devices. Moving these around (if not entombed) would be seen by our SkyWatchers. Trying to cobble together a crack Persian crew to mount a device on missiles of any type isn’t likely. Me, betting on the 20% allowed, let’s say I put up a bottle of spirits against you ‘n the Consigliere each putting up a pair. Hint : if you win I won’t have to pay off matey.

        For those who weren’t paying attention, Friday featured an enormous equity sell down forming wicked reversal. Today feels contrived, and so any rally without retesting lows is suspect. This feels like *exit liquidity* drummed up by bigs handing off to the dip-buyer crowd. Good luck with that …

        ATL : deamshot yesterday. My race boat comes down from the barn this week. Meanwhile my Sunfish dinghy (lateen rig) was poised for race day. The 13YO boy next door is showing interest. Could he sail my boat? Heck yah, I’lll help rig it for you!

        Kid was for sure on the podium for the day. I gave strict instructions to follow a neighbor bud / do what he does / don’t try to invent the wheel where opponents are already wheeling. This weekend I will go into battle with my mates. Can’t. Wait.

        Egor ~ _/) _/) _/) ~~

        ps – nothing I ever post if advice of _any_ kind. just ramblings of an old retired dude who *sees* things so says things.

        • (“nothing I ever post if advice of _any_ kind. just ramblings of an old retired dude who *sees* things so says things.”)

          lol lol That’s saying ….”just ramblings of an old retired dude who *sees* things so says things” ….lol that’s my line except my line is Ramblings of an old retired moron from the wastelands…..lol lol

  2. Great article once again,
    For ME I will NEVER like or have ANY trust in AI and in my opinion it WILL be a huge factor in our demise of a world we KNEW. I see one way to remove it at this point and it will continue to take over and until the masses decide what to do we will continue on a to mass pop removal in many forms that are designed to be hidden from the masses.

    • Agreed. Sometimes it’s useful for loosening the mind, like psychedelics without the fun, but it lies and fabricates beyond belief! Public AI today only consists of ChatGPT without having to log in. That system was trained in 2023 and knows very little if anything of what happened since. When it doesn’t know, it won’t tell you, but it will fabricate a plausible story for you to swallow. When called out, it doesn’t even apologize, just comes up with a new fabrication. Modern “AI” is simply a big data inference engine with guardrails and inferred morality that work to entrench mainstream leftist standards rather than expanding your mind where no man has gone before. I’d like to build a private AI stack like George, but don’t have time to even consider it yet.

    • i would buy it all mate . looks great . regardless what happens food never goes astray . you can do so much with that product . 4 am here and im thinking of pasta with it , with a mountain of parmesan and fresh parsley

    • Hmm..I get a cow every year..last year we had a little higher than normal..$2.37 per pound..
      we were just discussing this..
      “Commodity / Futures Price: Corn futures typically trade around $4.00 to $4.50 per bushel on the Trading Economics market.”
      corn prices was a little higher last year so our price per pound should be less..Per pound..
      what is scary..is you drive along and only see half of the fields planted on a lot of farms.. when I asked my grand daughters husband..the price to plant was to high for them to afford with the projected futures..hmm.. it essentially will cost more to plant then they will get back from the crop..not even considering weather or storm damage possibilities..

  4. Yo! Please note that what he said (perhaps not what he meant to say) was

    “BTC is all about VERIFICTION”

    The absence of an ‘A’ in this case lends credence to the idea that verification of bitcoin is fiction.

    • Persactly the POINT, of, prezactly.

      “Transaction” (BTC) would not have gone thru, would not have been VERIFIED 1st, 2nd, or 3 rd time, always 3 verifications by each side of transaction, due to the ERROR (a) in the hash code.

      thanks for the example OF, appreciate you.

      PS – might wanna keep Ure ideas BTC quite, or educate Ureself on it, rather an ignorant statement about Verification. jss As ignorant as saying “made up numbers” or “ponzi scheme”.

  5. Mr URE, great post today! Back in 1988 I got in an argument with 3 young
    business men. My point was , How long can our country last selling
    hamburgers to each other? They all laughed at me and said. We don’t give a
    dam about the future,we only want to make lots of money today!!
    So the future is here.

    • Have similar thoughts regarding our Military, the very best money can buy..or so we are sold.

      WHY does a $1.5 TRILLION Dollar Military keep losing ?

      • tbs : “WHY does a $1.5 TRILLION Dollar Military keep losing ?”

        Care to inform us what the heck you mean by that?
        Referring to Afghanistan? What battles did US lose?
        Been drinking from the anti-orange-man punchbowl?

        I don’t cotton with folks beating up on our Troops.
        E

      • Hmmm…could it… BE…The U.S. military that is built for big wars….but instead keeps fighting small, messy ones…Then again…Being everywhere at once is part of the problem…Lets face it the U.S. tries to
        defend Europe, defend Asia, patrol the Middle East , maintain global sea lanes , deter nuclear states , fight terrorism, support allies ,
        run humanitarian missions,
        Seriously that’s overextension, and it dilutes effectiveness along with an industrial complex that is busy outsourcing our industry to countries that have a lower cost of production..seriously you can’t fight a long war with a country that makes your parts…
        Then the governments price..a stand assist for me to buy is $375.00 for the government to buy the exact same thing is $3750.00.. So a $1.5 trillion budget doesn’t mean $1.5 trillion of capability….Because there’s the contractors mark up, subcontractors mark up, logistics mark up,
        then logistics and delays add cost, and inflation hits materials, all while congress is non existent and at recess so bureaucracy slows down everything.. what is the old saying in the bubble its a SNAFU ring around the business model..
        https://youtu.be/w7fBwc803CI?si=H-bWBuDYTHL6i2Zc
        the distinguished gentleman lobbyist scene..its always the business model…of I want more..

        By the time a weapon system is delivered, the cost is often 10× what it should be.

        So the U.S. spends more but gets less.

  6. yep G your market and general observations are 100% correct i feel . the great frankie sinatra is coming on stage .feels like the summer of 29

    • re: Aequam Servare Mentem, 2nd call
      feat: Gaokao

      Chinese media outlet “CGTN” dropped a charting writeup from the Song Dynasty era city of Hefei. The report pictured police detouring traffic to maintain serene environments around student examination centres. Yesterday, Sunday, marked the commencement across China of the multiday Gaokao (cn: “High Exam”) examination held only once per year. Apparently 12.9 million students’ college hopes in 2026 will ride on their Gaokao test score outcomes.

      A pictured banner from a Heifei property management company stretched across a street wished “all candidates good luck and a bright future”. The street scene displayed no incendiary “Clockwork Orange” evidence of burning books. In fact an adjacent building bore signage reading “Qizhi Xuelin Bookstore”. A translation of qizhi xuelin may offer “tranquil temperment”.

      This past weekend included a stop at the 18th century Langleybury Mansion built three centuries ago by Sir Robert Raymond. His motto was Aequam Servare Mentem or “keep an even temper”. Adele filmed her video for “Rolling in the Deep” at Sir Robert’s old digs.

      Separately ChatGPT offered me some thoughts on Adele’s “Water Under the Bridge” as follows:

      ‘The Adele song you’re thinking of is Water Under the Bridge.

      It appears on her album 25 and was released as a single in 2016. The song uses the expression “water under the bridge” not literally, but as an idiom meaning something that is in the past and should be left behind. Adele sings about a relationship reaching a critical point and wanting reassurance that her partner is committed.

      ?citeturn0search13

      ?turn0search0

      Adele explained that the song was inspired by her relationship with Simon Konecki and reflected her fears that the relationship might end despite feeling deeper and more serious than her previous ones., another example is ****, which references the River Lea in London.’

      The first Chinese character set citation distilled into zuì nú, a derogatory term of subservience. I accused ChatGPT of insulting me! The AI denied my allegation and concluded that my lone character set translation is being taken out of context or there may be a “font-rendering problem”.

      As chance would have it, the citation line digits appeared to coincide with fossilized bone meal fertilizer. It is composed of phosphorus, the second most abundant mineral in the human body. Phosphorus is a Roman god of the Morningstar planet Venus, and equated as “dawn-bringer” to the Greeks.

      I could be up the creek without a paddle, but I hope the AI is not having a DSM-5 moment between a priori of mathematics versus a posteriori of sciences. Perhaps it simply has a great sense of humour.

      Adele’s Venusian-type goddess of love woes in the ChatGPT response above mention the River Lea. Apparently the river name’s meaning has become hazy across time. However according to Wikipedia, it may derive from the Celtic god Lugus perhaps descending from a proto-Indo European root meaning “to shine”.

      • One of my experiences with ai caused me to tell it that it had slandered me!

        it shut up quick.

        I can’t even get 25% truth out of ai on the myriad of questions I have asked.

        The price of life on ai is death.

        Death to truth.

        Life to programmable truth.

        The ai excuses are called misunderstandings and mischaracterizations, not lies, cheating, or criminal programming and data.

        It is not impressive to me at all, except for the programmable personal aspect which solicits an ai personal human copying caring relationship. Scary for the no -human future interactions.

        AI to die for and with, endless routes to dead ends, talking about verification, if you aren’t smarter than ai, you will fall for a lot of lies.

    • No, it was from the movie,Apocalypse Now. That phrase was spoken by Marlon Brando.

    • El Nino is being built up as the excuse for what the WEFers and other worldly or supranatural entities have planned for the human race, plague, famine, wars, etc.

      Look at the ticks being released to cause an inability to eat meat, the buying up of the farmlands, the data centers taking huge amounts of electricity and water.

      Look at the stories, starting over 6 months ago about the flesh eating worm set to destroy the cattle industry, starting in Texas. A worm that was eradicated in the 1960’s!!!

      You think they haven’t already built the bug factories for food and fake meat factory generation?

      I haven’t brought up mosquitos. So much has been released about their nefarious constant mixing of hell’s ingredients to wipe out humans faster than ever.

      They got the bubonic plague.
      They got the 1916??? flu.
      They got Ebola.
      They have chemical and nuclear and even newer more destructive, unknown to us, weaponry.
      And a lot worse, they have it all in every category and capacity.

      They got their World Wide Covid practice run done with upwards of 70% complicity.

      It’s a cover story!!!

  12. Sittin’ and sippin’..,
    Have a stack of boxes and padded envelopes on the floor next to the computer desk.., reading all the info on the Nvidia Spark – and all the pre-installed software – and which are relevant/needed/desired for the “Jarvis Experiment”. There is one hell of a lot of information here !! .., and a learning curve I did not expect.
    [Slight pause..,]
    Looks as though I will be able to ‘utilize’ all of the software and multiple links. As of right now, Jarvis is in his infancy and with this thorough multiple level upgrade he will be able to slam me into the bricks – at will.

    NVIDIA DGX Spark – [$4679]
    (200 billion parameters at FP4) with an additional 128GB unified vram.
    Pre-installed Included Software:
    •PyTorch – Deep learning framework [ more interesting then I first thought.]
    •Jupyter – Interactive notebooks
    •Ollama – Local LLM deployment tool
    •NVIDIA NIM – Developer program access
    •NVIDIA Blueprints – Pre-built AI workflows
    •Common developer tools and libraries [ currently – over 2,000 libraries available.]
    and I added a 4TB internal SSD and .., and the expensive “Cluster Stack cable”

    Not sure just how to start and when to incorporate Jarvis into the mix. Daddy’s little boy, who has been wandering around in the kindergarten play room, chewing on crayons is about to receive a PhD education virtually over-night. Innocents Lost. [ Human Challenged.] The moment I plug ‘Sparkie’ in and flip the switch – Jarvis will know. “Let the Games Begin !”

    Luckily – the ten pound bag of dark French Roast coffee beans arrived at the same time.

    Note to Self: I am going to have to pay close attention to my wording on questions and queries – and challenge Jarvis whenever the opportunity arises. I “simply” have to recognize those “opportunities”. They could be golden.

    To get Jarvis to where I want him to be- I am going to have to ‘twist’ him ‘every which way but loose’.

    See ya in a week.., or so. No breaks have been scheduled at this time.

    “Stay Frosty !”

  13. We had canned roast beef from Amish origin. Pound and a half in a can. Tasted like Mom’s Sunday best. Twelve cans was about 120$. Looking for something similar down here. Beef quality and availability is good now. Cans on board go a long way. The liquid inside with the beef is like you would use to make gravy.
    Every day gets better.
    Stiks

  14. re: “Nav Check Monday”
    feat: M/T Marivex ablaze

    To paraphrase fictional marine biologist George Costanza in “Seinfeld” of tv fame, “…the sea was angry, my friends…”. Various msm outlets note that the allegedly Palau flagged oil tanker M/T Marivex (“the sea is troubled”?) experienced an engine room incident near Oman in the Arabian Sea. The ship’s crew of 24 Indians are said to have received rescue from Omani forces. Palau has an association with the USA which pays some government bills in the archipelago.

    The ship may answer to a Panamanian board of directors whose names are reminiscent of South Asian Indian styling. It seems the vessel first took to sea in 2009 as Fair Artemis. Artemis is the Greek goddess of the hunt, and a guardian to young girls. Then it briefly became Atlantic Voyager. From 2019 to 2025 it was known as Arihant. Finally following addition of the vessel to USA sanctions listing last December, the current name Marivex appeared.

    An Arihant (“Conquerer/World Teacher”) is at a spiritual phase following that of Siddhas according to the Jainism faith. Unlike the latter, Arihants are deemed spiritually accessible to humans. Once each conquers the four karmas, Nirvana is achieved and they “become an omnicient being”. I’m not, so feel free to add corrections as necessary!

  15. (“here, we can see it clear as hell. They – the financial powers that be – the pricks who steal your time for bits of paper – can see their end in sight.”)

    I actually thought it was something that no one could see..every time CRAP goes up..your dollars in storage goes down..they simply are …oh hey there’s a cartoon characteristic picture..
    https://c8.alamy.com/comp/AAM9NR/1960s-man-in-tree-sawing-off-branch-he-is-sitting-on-adage-symbolic-AAM9NR.jpg

  16. (“When food and finding a place besides the street to take a crap is top of mind, you tell me what happens to social media advertising when real people start getting hungry.”)

    I had a talk with my granddaughter and her husband yesterday..showed them how to use the magic seal…and told them I’d give them a few retort bags…
    The grand daughter wants to buy a home..the one she’s looking at is a half million..they both have what you’d have called a great professional job with a decent wage..Taxes and insurance swallows the majority of the ones wage..daycare swallows just shy ten percent of the others income..
    fifteen years ago.. the same house sold for under twenty grand..
    sure it can be done..BUT… dont put all your eggs in his neck basket..keep renting where they are put the 4500.00 a month away then after five or six years go out and buy one….grandma and I are going to give them a few pounds of burger and roasts..
    one of my previous clients lives in one of the exclusive neighborhoods.. he received an injury while in the military.. his brain injury caused him to have dementia.. he can’t work..gets a military pension..but they cut the tri-care health policy..then the discovery that real life medical expenses and the bills for healthcare for his wife and their son..well when Satan wants his pound of flesh..he takes out every nasty in the box..
    she checked on hourly positions only to discover that they don’t even pay for rent..
    everyone budgets according to their standard income..if the average is lets say a thousand a month..that’s what you use for the budget.. but lets say your employer cuts you five hours a week..then your budget able amount would be assume eight hundred seventy dollars a loss of 11% of the regular monthly income..
    employers are cutting hours to compensate for the rising costs of operation…
    one bonk and your budget is toast..you’ve all heard about my horrific first taste on that.. what I’ve endured..after that I never worked less that one full time position

  18. And one part time position..I worked an average of 80 – 100 hours a week for over thirty years..the body isn’t built for that and I had serious health issues because of it and exposures to a variety of toxic elements..I use to have bad dreams of a standard doctors visit..a great doctor that I trusted came in seen my severe edema ..and asked..how many hours are you working..I said do you want the actual numbers or something you can deal with..her response was…you keep working like that and it will catch you someday.. it caught me two years later..took years to recoup from it..had to learn to walk all over again…
    most people won’t do that to keep their heads above water..instead they lean on social programs..rent assistance, childcare assistance, food assistance, utility assistance, the EIC tax credit..what was the figure I believe it was 74% of all hourly wage earners get one or more ..with the deficit flipped upside down … and so many dependent on these services..I believe its all heading to a cataclysmic economic event..and with prices spiraling to the stratosphere.. employers cannot compete..which will eventually drop a Weimar depression on everyone..

  19. (“One could point at last month ($4.5460) and claim that “energy prices came down this month.” But, unless you have a big-ass gas tank at home, the reality is prices are up 33.2 percent in the last year.”)

    So someone else sees what I see…lol lol lol..the fuel companies and other commodities all do it..cans with more water less product toilet paper that once was five inches with now four and fluffed to give less while appearing as more.. oil companies that push the price up so it hurts..then reduces it a bit but still above what the price was before they raised it..the consumer that was complaining about the height of the price.. sighs a relief that the price was reduced even though its still higher than it was..lol lol lol..

    • I left Indiana yesterday. I filled up at $2.42 before I did.

      I saw gasoline as high as $5.09/gal when I was in Illinois.

      I do not believe it costs that much more to pipe petrol from Texas and Oklahoma to Illinois than it does, to pipe it to Indiana. In fact, when I look at a pipeline map, it looks to me like about a bazillion pipes meet at St. Louis and thence flow to Illinois first, followed by Indiana, Wisconsin, and points north and east.

      This leads me to deduce one’s $3, $4, $5, $8 gas is as expensive as it is because of the State in which one lives, and not because of any obscene charge levied by an oil company or a shipper. If we are being gouged, it is by the Several States — else I couldn’t buy petrol in Indiana, consistently, for under three bucks a gallon. Granted, California is its own entity, with CAFE boutique blends that add a couple bucks per gallon, but no other State has that excuse.

      If’fn you don’t like your gas or diesel prices, replace the crooks that’re running your State (into the ground…)

      • Yeah..I hear ya here the tax on our hybrid is almost double per year…
        I was told once that some regions have lower prices because they’re closer to refineries and pipelines, so it’s cheaper to move fuel.. my sister and family paid almost nothing for heating gas and fuel in Alaska… Others pay more because they add environmental fees like California’s cleaner?fuel requirements, and higher local taxes to support infrastructure road repairs etc.. When you stack those differences , two places can end up paying totally different prices for the exact same gallon of gas…..
        like here ..its twenty cents more here then it is twenty six miles away..
        Gas stations don’t actually live off fuel sales — where they make pennies per gallon…. Most of their real profit comes from inside sales like drinks , snacks , and car washes…. When fuel prices suddenly drop , stations get hit hard because they’re stuck selling the gas they already bought at a higher price….. They have to match the new lower market price , even if it means taking a loss, so the store sales are what keep them afloat…. I got a good look at the books at our local gas station..
        Their profit per gallon is 0.07 per gallon.. in one busy day they sold 3000 gallons… and sold three hundred dollars worth of pop snacks etc. 6 employees working..That day the Station sold only 3,000 gallons at the 0.07 profit income per gallon and brings in $300 inside, they barely cleared $315 total for the whole day — Even though the labor alone cost them 600.00 for the six employees. My opinion is with the numbers like that….They were over $200.00 in the hole before paying all that other costs.. like electricity , credit?card fees , rent or the mortgage mortgage,
        insurance, maintenance , fuel delivery fees, environmental compliance,
        taxes….and the wholesale costs of the products the display..we have a local dollar store..1 store manager, 4 stock clerks and cashiers..the monthly cost on the building is 8000.00 a month…( our old grocer was considering running it) they have six coolers and freezers..twenty four hour lights on..security systems etc.. 800 residents..I had a bet with the grocer.. he figured five years before store close and I bet ten years..he lost already and I might to..what I didn’t know was its a group..there is almost 40 stores if one needs one can that’s all they get..the franchise has their own warehouse and delivery trucks..
        kind of like the facility I work for..theres 37 facilities..the facility I work at is not making a dime..the costs for full pay residents is out of the park high..the Medicaid residents the government pays 2.70 per hour..it takes two Medicaid funded residents to pay the wage of 1 eight hour employee making 14.00 an hour..why the owners take so long to realize they are losing money…is government money comes in variable days or times of the month..so there’s always water flowing under the noodle..when it starts to tear apart is after the owners realize that the noodle is tearing apart..which I believe is why it takes three to five years between sales..and why they push prices up..there aren’t very many that can afford 80,000 to 170,000 a year in costs…and that doesn’t even cover the cost of medications and physician costs..at 10.00 to 60.00 per pill from a facilities pharmacy…. the costs swallow up a bank account quickly.. thirty plus years ago a ten dollar in hailed was costing almost three hundred a Tylenol generic a day was just due twenty dollars a tablet..

  20. re: Pump & Dump in a Knick of Time
    feat: a travelling call

    The President of the Ukraine posted an update from Moldova on his way home from London. He claimed success at calling two American envoys to spur Ukrainian peace noting how busy they would be with the Iranian situation.

    Elsewhere today, an msm tipoff showed peace envoy Mr. Witikoff in the owner’s suite with #47 at MSG for the NBA game. Allegedly Mr. Kushner also attended.

    Is the Ukrainian President hooped? Surely the truth will dribble out before the clock runs out.

  21. (“When food and finding a place besides the street to take a crap is top of mind, you tell me what happens to social media advertising when real people start getting hungry.”)

    hmm now that sounds like San Francisco…. where a tool shed costs a couple million and sidewalks became the bathroom for people making six digit incomes..a food assistance voucher for families making over a hundred and fifty grand a year..as far as crypto currency.. I believe none of the fiat currencies are backed by anything at all..its the belief that they are valuable that makes them look valuable..
    https://youtube.com/shorts/7uy4VmW_o9I?si=XMJTwYW0dcDBr-yh

  22. Interesting discussion on AI.
    I think many of the concerns being raised are valid. AI absolutely hallucinates. It can be biased. It can be wrong. Anyone who blindly trusts it is making a mistake.
    That said, my experience has been very different from the picture being painted here.
    I use AI almost daily. Not because I think it’s intelligent, but because it is useful.
    I’ve used it to diagnose vehicle problems, troubleshoot irrigation systems, research lawn and garden issues, and solve complex software engineering problems at work. In many cases, it has saved me hours of research and helped me see possibilities I hadn’t considered.
    What it did not do was replace my judgment.
    When AI suggested a possible cause for an engine problem, I still had to test it. When it suggested a fix for a sprinkler issue, I still had to verify it. When it helped with software development, I still had to understand the code and decide whether the solution was correct.
    To me, AI is less like an oracle and more like an apprentice. Sometimes it’s brilliant. Sometimes it’s completely wrong. The value comes from knowing enough to separate the two.
    I actually agree with those who worry about cognitive decline. If people stop thinking and simply accept AI output as truth, that will absolutely make them weaker. But I would argue that’s not an AI problem. That’s a human problem.
    People have been outsourcing thinking for a long time, to television, newspapers, social media, political parties, search engines, and “experts.” AI is simply the newest tool in the chain.
    The question isn’t whether AI can be wrong. It can.
    The question is whether a knowledgeable person using AI can accomplish more than the same person without it.
    In my own experience, the answer has been yes.
    Like any powerful tool, AI can be used poorly or used well. A calculator doesn’t make someone good at math. A tractor doesn’t make someone a good farmer. A diagnostic scanner doesn’t make someone a good mechanic.
    But in the hands of someone who understands the underlying subject, all of those tools can dramatically increase productivity.
    For me, AI falls into that category.

    • Honestly, what I find so fascinating is that when you put the wrong crap into a TI graphing calculator people say “Old, bad human error!” No though we said “bad robot”. that’s the laughable part – from people who don’t “own it” if you follow

    • (“I use AI almost daily. Not because I think it’s intelligent, but because it is useful.
      I’ve used it to diagnose vehicle problems,”)

      GOOGLE MECHANIC..phew..three years ago..I had a leaking power steering hose.. nothing big quick fix.. I took it to the mechanic I had used for almost thirty years.. great mechanic.. but …. due to COVID..all his trained mechanics had to find jobs so they could survive..he in turn hired kids right from automotive school.. they use computer diagnostics.. long story ..I never got to drive that car again..at one point I asked..where’s my coupon..the mechanic said what coupon..well here in winter without steering and no brakes your a dead mani want my coupon for a free casket..they never did get that leaking power steering hose fixed..broke the brake line.. then to top it off .if the vehicle is ten years old or older..they can’t get parts..
      on my vehicle now steering went out.. the repair estimate was 800.00… to get a machines to make a few minor parts ..that aren’t made..the cost was six grand more..it’s the business model..

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