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Saturday Research Memos, Eyeballing Ahead

Saturday’s Peoplenomics is a full plate. The new ChartPack looks at whether markets still have enough coherence to make one more run toward Labor Day, while the News Compressor hits the fast-moving risks in Hawaii, Hormuz, Ebola, earthquakes, weakening U.S. consumers, war fronts and an increasingly bubbly AI buildout.

Then we get into the subscriber meat. One research note asks whether Europe has effectively put 27 regulatory tollbooths inside its “Single Market” — particularly for small businesses trying to comply with packaging and recycling rules.

The second goes much farther afield: Can software help build a time machine? That leads into Future Triangulation, primal-driver analysis, the “missing domain,” human sensory buffering and whether apparent future information may be showing up as the bow wave of events rather than anything literally traveling backward through time.

And because no Saturday research binge is complete without one idea you probably shouldn’t contemplate while running a table saw, we finish with a question about MWI, adjacent realities and whether people themselves may locally alter the breadth of possible futures. Coffee recommended. Power tools optional.

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  1. What the what G-Pops,

    Everyone who is anyone KNOWS CASH is King..ALWAYS.

    Warren always asks “how does Ure Cash Flow Grow and Go ?

    So here we bee in burnt out late August – looking around for who is generating mass amounts of CASH. Certainly not the hyperscalers, but the Manufacturers that make the Data/Energy move are killing it, and their numbers are showing it..Cisco, Ciena, Coherent, Lumentum, Powel..Cooling System Co’s, seem to be reaping tons of rewards from the Ai buildout.
    Believe it or (Mr Fromunda) but Precious Metal Miners are absolutely killing the Cash Flow game…killing it!

    Oil
    PM’s
    BTC together is modern portfolio theory.

    * Columbian Earthquakes Antipodal struck yesterday – within the forecast date range, magnitude and location. Bullseye black, “Bitches”.

  2. Having an open border, lax immigration and fraud enforcement helped goose the economic numbers for many years, along with inflationary policies becoming par for the course with the fiat paper money system. It’s worth the economic contraction to be a nation of laws with borders.

    With the El Niño event brewing, it surely related to our solar system, traveling around the universe, Astro physics, Isaac Newton, volcanoes, earthquakes, ice ages. There’s some correlation, along with someone I know who says the sun is different this year, it’s location. He lives in Connecticut.

  4. (“Can Software Build a Time Machine?
    My next “big book” is turning into Future Triangulation: Primal Driver Analysis
    An Evidence-Based Framework for Detecting, Back-Solving, and Scoring the Bow Wave of Future Events Across Independent Information Domains.”)

    oh my…this is a deep thought item for me..scientists used Air and an MRI in micro slice scans to recreate the brain of a fruit fly..an old retired govt scientist asked my opinion a week ago about tis and robotics…so this has me wondering.. Although I believe…A real time machine isn’t happening Any timecsoon..the gravitational flux such as in the television show the time machine or the multi universe quantum bubble theory suggested by an old friend I call Amma he sort of looks like Amadeus motzart)— software can’t rewind the universe or jump us into the future at this time…is it feasible..who knows what I assumed would take ten to twenty years is already on our doorsteps using So to create .. But what is happening is honestly just as wild from what I can see… we’re learning how to stimulate and reconnect nerve pathways using the same principles seen in the fruit fly connections research.

    Scientists sliced a fruit fly brain into thousands of micro sections, mapped every neuron, and rebuilt the whole thing digitally. When they ran the wiring diagram, the digital fly behaved like the real fly — not because it was “alive,” but because behavior comes from the connections made digitally….

    Considering new paralysis research. You don’t replace the brain, and you don’t replace the limb. You stimulate the neurons so the communication pathways start firing again a few years ago I met a young woman that had an accident at fourteen at pizza ranch..she was totally paralyzed but still had use if her arms..she worked harder that those with legs and arms..I was impressed..when they told me I was going to die..I bought a motorized wheelchair so I wouldn’t be a burden on my wife..I gave that to her..her goal was to become a speaker to others that they could still have resourceful lives..I researched eco skellotins..found the Phoenix.. twenty grand..I tried everything to get her one see that caterpillar become a butterfly..but just like the equipment my wife needed for her drop foot..its simply not available you our social status..visiting with the created of the Phoenix he had the exact same injury..since using it hiss nerve damage has been reversing… Movement, electrical pulses, and closed loop feedback can wake up dormant circuits and encourage the brain and spinal cord to rebuild the connection — a process called activity dependent neuroplasticity.

    But in my opinion we are building tools that could help the nervous system repair itself by restoring the signals it’s been missing. And once it become available to the real world crowd the results could be phenomenal and that’s close enough to science fiction for me…. of course I’m not the brightest bulb in the box..but check I would like to believe I’m not the comment either

    • You are tracking the coming Trend – Biohacking Life Extension . In next 2-3 years this will take over as number one Pursuit. The primary use/search in next 2-3 years of this pursuit will outpace Ai buildout – what you talk about above we have PROOF, Studies..being studied right this moment. Think PEPTIDES.

      Most recently was reviewing a Researchers personal experience with his Moms Ageing Arthritic Dog – clearing with one Cycle Epitalon in a large daily dose.

      Personally having the most remarkable results myself with Peptide Therapies. Proof is in the mirror, on the scale, and in quality of Life – fixing/rebuilding pain causing areas and or organs. Injections, Sublingual, Capsules, even Lotions and Shampoos (GHK-Cu). GHK-Cu actually Re-Models Scar tissue – my biggest, ugliest ones have flattened and smoothed out..ongoing research.

      1st time in my life where I can actually See and Feel Results of any therapies I have taken. Better than the 6 Million Dollar Man- cause its ALL Natural as opposed robotics.

  6. ‘if someone two people removed from you has a strong ‘event ‘
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/uss-abraham-lincoln-overboard-extended-deployment
    “moldy showers, broken toilets, laundry down for weeks, long stretches with no hot water, a meal that came down to half a cup of rice and two tortillas. No soap, deodorant, or toothpaste.”

    “given the high rates of military suicide, including within the navy, efforts to improve healthcare access on ships are urgently needed”.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvl2d5j52lo
    ‘Military news outlets reported that some USS Abraham Lincoln sailors had attempted to jump overboard’

    Trump didn’t think the record setting deployment of 240 days was enough, he wanted the sailors to suffer even longer!
    https://apnews.com/article/trump-iran-aircraft-carrier-uss-lincoln-023413c38373d4a6ba033612a1f552c6
    ‘the deployment — which includes a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days — is “not nearly long enough.” ‘

    (The administration’s only goal now is low gas prices so Republicans won’t lose elections, the phony nuclear threat is no longer the top priority)
    https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/low-oil-prices-trump-goal-iran-war-vance-blockade-economic-pressure-rcna592504
    ‘Keeping gas prices low is now the United States’ “goal No. 1” in the Iran war, Vice President JD Vance has said, ‘

    Mr. Hegsbeth, you’ve got Gen’l Macarthur rolling in his grave:
    https://doughboy.org/when-patton-met-macarthur-in-the-mud-of-st-mihiel/
    ‘MacArthur made it a personal rule never to ask anything of his soldiers that he would not do himself. As a result, he was frequently in the thick of battle, observing enemy movements, encouraging troops, and taking risks few others would dare.’

    p.s. GA S, I’m a reader who respects your military service (I’ve had family members on those floating tin cans)

    • These stories coming from the Lincoln and the replacement are the perfect setup to temporarily have three carriers available in the region for something else.

      • I try not to follow the insanity.. like I told the wife.. its hard to detect what is propaganda and what’s really going on..

  8. Gotta a story for Shop Talk if it still is on. #30days in crowbar hotel. Quaran readers praying North and an adhesive that works indoors. Missed my daily with you and yours. Dukes of H azzard has nothing on what I will tell anyone whom wants to listen.

    • Sorry to say but IU “retired ShopTalk” because there is just too much else on the plate here – but welcome to OUTSIDE aned glad you survived! G2 is still making notes on his book (multiple) felon to firefighter – which he expects in Jan 27 (*send me a note when it comes out to remind me and I will get you one – and the workbook how to mobile up from there) in the meantime, word continues fucky and sucky and yeah, praying NORTH actually makes sense if Islam following Great Circle Bearings so, I don’t know what to figure on that one.

  9. LALA made hurricane strength at barely 75 mph at the NWS 11:00am update. ABC news has a reporter in Hilo. Local newscasts are wall-to-wall storm doom porn… when the Big Island power stay on. One shoreline resident on the eastern tip evacuated… but allowed the local TV reporter to stay at her house and report ‘standing in the wind & rain’. Sheesh! Many small area outages. I have frequent power glitches & don’t bother to reset the clocks. Contrary to reports, this is not the first time Hawaii has been ‘hit’ by a hurricane. I have seen at least three other storms behave just like this, skimming past south point. It is impossible for a hurricane eye to come ashore on the big island. Two 14,000 ft volcanos smash the wind circulation apart. Right now they are scraping the rain off the north quadrant as the eye passes south. We are getting dumped on.

  10. George,

    You have written Ancient Children as an absolute horror story nightmare. You had me in tears most of the way.

    The story line describes that life extensions require careful food intake, no sugar, regular exercise, limited alcohol, and tasks that keep your brain exercised. Those mark the baselines, and anything else either helps or hinders, depending upon the protocol. Since so much of the food available in stores contains a long list of chemicals that does adversely impact health, many choose to either purchase from local growers or maintain their own gardens, thus living healthier lives.

    However, if you live too long, the narrative suggests that the government would rather keep you in their secret facilities than keep paying you Social Security benefits. Freedom is then canceled, and life is like a prison.

    The part two of this novel will be a very interesting ending.

  11. Ure future triangulation stuff in PN caused me to look up Clif’s substack channel for the first time in a while. He hasn’t posted in three weeks that I could access. Hope the old boy is just on vacation, or his public posts are delayed.
    There have been a lot of attempts to use computers to glean data which can do look aheads. Clif and his sun disease meme was pretty good. Unfortunately, as that meme showed, without context, even if the data is good, if it is something new and novel, then good luck in interpreting. If you could turn an AI loose in read-only mode to sift through public source material, that might be entertaining and relatively hands off, if you can define the tasks up front. Otherwise, you are going to spend huge amounts of time wet nursing a baby inhuman, contaminate the data flow, and probably get nothing but BS out of it. But it’s Ure time to spend G____.
    I can hope for some insurance data like I gleaned from the Alta reports, but for $40 a year. Be sure to try and triangulate the PM markets. Clif’s track record was abysmally prescient.

  12. Mayo…

    1 large egg (lightly poached)
    1/2 cup melted butter (warm, not hot)
    1/2 cup neutral oil (canola, sunflower, or light olive)
    1 tbsp lemon juice or white wine vinegar ( I prefer lemon juice just because)
    1 tsp Dijon mustard ( I use just plain mustard)
    1 tsp salt
    Optional pinch of white pepper or smoked paprika ( pimento pepper)

    Poach the egg lightly Bring a small pot of water to a gentle simmer. Crack the egg into a ramekin and slide it into the water. Poach for about 60–90 seconds until the white is barely set and the yolk is still runny. Lift out and drain. some recipes call for a raw egg..you choose..

    Blend the base Place the warm poached egg, mustard, salt, and lemon juice in a blender or tall jar if using an immersion blender. ( I use the ninja bowl )now it has been a while since I made mayo..I did it mostly in the eighties when I raised chickens)

    this is the part I like…Butter…Add melted butter With the blender running, slowly drizzle in the warm melted butter. The mixture will thicken into a glossy, butter?rich emulsion…..oh yeah…I like butter because I can..

    Now the regular oil..Continue drizzling in the neutral oil until the mayo reaches your desired thickness. Adjust salt and acidity to taste…. if you like miracle whip then add a tablespoon of sugar or honey…if you like the Steven well you could use that to..

    That’s your basic mayo..Stir in optional white pepper or smoked paprika I like pimento pepper… Chill 30 minutes for the flavor to settle…. because the butter is melted it will get firmer as it cools..

    enjoy…easy peasy.. thought I’d share this since mayo costs have gone through the roof..like chocolate..during WW2 chocolate was made using shortening or lard rather than coconut or coco butter..WWII “war chocolate” wasn’t meant to be delicious — it was engineered as a survival food. In 1937, the U.S. Army asked Hershey to create a bar that was high?calorie, heat?resistant, pocket?sized, and intentionally unpleasant, “tasting a little better than a boiled potato.” this is when they added coco butter …..

    The result Of adding this was the D Ration Bar, a dense brick made from chocolate liquor ( coco), cocoa butter, oat flour, skim milk powder, and very little sugar. It was so hard soldiers often had to slice it with a knife, and each bar delivered 600+ calories for emergencies…. today there are similarities to a nutrition bar for those starving in African … this one has peanut butter or peanut flour in it..Called the rutf

    1 cup peanut flour
    1/2 cup cocoa powder
    1/2 cup powdered milk
    1/3 cup sugar or honey
    1/4 cup neutral oil or melted shortening
    1/4 tsp salt
    2–4 tbsp water (as needed to bind)

    Mix dry ingredients..Combine peanut flour, cocoa powder, powdered milk, sugar (or honey), and salt in a bowl….
    ( chocolate is simple I part coco butter or coconut oil… 1 part powdered sugar…1 part powdered milk 1/2 part coco and 1 tbsp vanilla)

    Add fat Stir in the oil or melted shortening until the mixture resembles coarse sand…. on a double boiler..

    Bind the mixture….Add water 1 tablespoon at a time until the mixture forms a thick, moldable dough….
    Shape then refrigerate….

    • Oops..I forgot… in the mayo to add 1 tsp of powdered milk…dont know what I was thinking..

    • And then there’s a probiotics mayonnaise…. once you blend it up..you can put it in the fridge..but life extension is short.. but if you add 1 tbsp of yogurt.. put a fermentation jar lid on..then leave it on the counter overnight like your making yogurt..
      Soy sauce.. the same jar different results different starger
      Ok..koji in your one gallon fermentation jar or plastic bucket.. here’s the recipe..now this is a long term fermentation..like a year..

      6 cups dried soybeans (? 4 lbs)
      8 cups roasted cracked wheat (? 4 lbs)
      2–3 teaspoons koji spores (A. oryzae)
      Brine Phase Ingredients
      16 cups water (1 gallon)
      4 cups salt (this gives ~18% brine, ideal for soy sauce)
      you can adjust this to Whatever amount..I have five gallons going now..I have to at least have a bottle for ten people .. ( good trade )

      Cook soybeans
      Mix with roasted wheat
      Inoculate with koji spores
      Grow koji for 48–72 hours…(A tote works great for this process.. drain the cooked soybeans ..pat dry then add the spores.. let it grow like a chi a pet).
      Add 16–18% salt brine
      Transfer to your water?seal fermenter
      Ferment 6–12 months

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