Who should ultimately control an international communications system when the interests of governments, individuals, and the network operator disagree?
Replying to @johnhawkinsrwn
Yeah, this retard is so fucking dumb that he doesn’t realize that our policies serve the Ukrainian people.
Pieces of shit like this want the war to continue until every last man in Ukraine has died in a ditch.
They are utter scum of the Earth.
Not exactly RSI.
Its more of assisted improvements.
Ilhan Omar said she arrived in America Black, Muslim, and poor, and discovered that the “classless America” her father described didn't exist. Yet she rose from refugee to member of Congress. America has economic classes, but they aren't fixed castes. Doesn't her own life demonstrate the opportunity her father may have meant?
“This doesn’t look like the America you promised,” Omar recalled telling her father, Nur Omar Mohamed.
“We’re not in our America yet,” he replied to his 12-year-old daughter. In Omar’s immigrant story, America wasn’t a “city on a hill,” a haven for grateful masses fleeing war and oppression. Rather, it was a broken promise. “I arrived at the age of 12 and learned that I was the extreme other,” she often said. “I was black. I was Muslim. I also learned I was extremely poor and that the classless America that my father talked about didn’t exist.”
Washington Post, July 6, 2019, photos Ilhan Omar in high school in Minnesota
If Ilhan Omar meant the May 1988 beginning of Somalia’s civil war when she wrote in her memoir that she was eight, and her October 4 birthday is correct, that implies she was born in 1979. She would then have been 20 or 21 when her father reportedly naturalized in 2000, too old to derive U.S. citizenship as a minor under the law in effect at that time.
Assume Ilhan Omar was referring to the gunfire she personally experienced when major fighting reached Mogadishu in December 1990–January 1991. If she was eight at that time, her reported October 4 birthday would indicate she was born in 1982. She would then have been 17 until October 3, 2000, leaving a period when her father's reported naturalization could have satisfied the under-18 requirement for derivative U.S. citizenship. However, the exact date of her father's naturalization has not been publicly established. Given the ongoing federal investigation, why hasn't this crucial date been disclosed?
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar writes in her memoir, “I was eight years old when civil war broke out in Somalia. One day everything was okay, and the next, there were bullets piercing not only buildings but also people.” While Somalia has suffered several civil wars, the chapter is entitled, “War: 1989-1991, Mogadishu, Somalia.” Mogadishu experienced severe riots in July 1989, including a mass execution that became known as the “Jazeera beach massacre.”
If, in her own words in her own autobiography, Omar was eight when this occurred in 1989, then she was born in 1981, and was 19 years old in the year 2000, when her father purportedly obtained his citizenship, not 1982 as she currently claims.
Why did Omar report 30m in assets and then change it to near zero later.
Omar: Oops. I made a mistake. I relied on accountants. It was my husband's businesses. I basically dont know.
Me; then why can we trust ypu to vote on a budget in congress.
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Both space and its contents can change, but they change in fundamentally different ways. And I think this distinction is important to our discussion of whether time is a measure of change.
We should separate three things:
* Space: The geometry within which we describe positions, distances, and directions.
* Matter and energy: The physical contents of the universe, including particles, radiation, and fields.
* Change: Alterations in physical states, relationships, or geometry.
The question is whether space is merely the framework in which matter and energy change, or whether space itself has properties that can change independently.
According to Einstein's general relativity, the answer is that the geometry of space can change too.
Two ways space can change
1\. Cosmic expansion
As the universe expands, distances between widely separated, unbound galaxies increase. This is not simply matter flying outward through a fixed, empty container. In general relativity, the geometry used to describe those distances evolves.
Physicists commonly call this the expansion of space, although space is not literally a stretchy material.
2\. Gravitational waves
When massive objects such as black holes merge, they generate gravitational waves. These waves travel through regions containing no ordinary matter and produce measurable changes in the distances between freely moving objects.
This is particularly important: the changing geometry is not merely the motion of material particles. The gravitational field has its own dynamics, and gravitational waves carry energy.
What does this mean for the hypothesis?
We should be careful about imagining space as an empty box containing matter and energy.
Einstein's theory describes a more integrated reality: spacetime geometry and the physical contents of the universe interact. Matter and energy influence geometry, and geometry influences how matter and energy behave.
This suggests refining the original premise:
Time measures physical change, including changes in matter, energy, fields, and spacetime geometry itself.
But notice something: even when physicists describe changing geometry, they use time as a coordinate in their equations. My argument asks whether that time coordinate has any independent physical meaning without distinguishable changes.
That remains a philosophical question with implications for foundational physics.
And it brings us to something important about the original unity.
Perhaps the unity was not matter and energy inside space. Perhaps space, matter, and energy were all aspects of a more fundamental physical reality that subsequently differentiated.
That is speculative, but it avoids presupposing that space already existed as a container before the universe developed.
The question I'd investigate next is this:
Is space itself fundamental, or does space emerge from the relationships among more fundamental physical entities?
Because if space is emergent, just as I am proposing time may be, then neither space nor time necessarily existed independently of the original unity.
Replying to @NorenNamert
An interesting theory, but perhaps we're approaching time from the wrong direction. Change occurs in three spatial dimensions, and time is how we measure change. Does that mean time itself must have three dimensions? Not necessarily. Three independent directions of spatial change do not require three independent temporal dimensions.
The more fundamental question may be whether time exists independently of physical change at all. If absolutely nothing changed, what reference would establish that time was passing? Perhaps we should begin by understanding the relationship between existence, change, and time before assuming that time is the underlying structure from which space emerges.
Why? If the cia created the bc they could simply print it and then scan it to get rid of layers...but then maybe someone incompetent did it.
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The problem is that its hard to understand time without change.
We imagine that if nothing changed then time is still happening. But that is wrong.
Time requires a reference, and physical references require distinguishable states or events. Without change, there is no operationally meaningful duration.
The next problem is why the first change occured.
Replying to @XCosmosOfficial
Time is a measure of change. If there was no change, there was no meaningful time, because there were no events by which to distinguish a before from an after. This raises an interesting possibility about the origin of the universe and what we mean by God.
Perhaps God was the original unity, an undifferentiated physical reality from which all matter, energy, forces, and physical structures eventually emerged. Rather than a supernatural being existing outside the universe, God may have been the fundamental reality of existence itself.
But what was this original unity? Was it matter, energy, or something more fundamental from which both emerged? Modern physics describes matter as excitations of underlying quantum fields, while energy is a property of physical systems rather than a substance in itself. Perhaps the original unity was a single physical state containing the potential for everything that would eventually exist, governed by principles we have yet to discover.
Then came the first change, when unity began transforming into multiplicity. What we call the Big Bang may have represented an early stage of this transformation. As the universe expanded and cooled, distinct particles, atoms, stars, galaxies, and eventually life emerged. Although modern cosmology describes much of this evolution, it has not established whether the Big Bang represented the absolute beginning of change.
In this view, God did not create the universe at some particular moment in an already existing time. Rather, time itself emerged through change, as the original unity evolved into the multiplicity of things that constitute our universe.
Creation was not necessarily an act performed by a supernatural being separate from existence. It was the transformation of the original physical reality we call God. The universe was not necessarily created from nothing; instead, what existed in unity gradually became the diversity of matter, energy, and structures we observe today.
This interpretation suggests three fundamental concepts: existence, change, and time. Existence is fundamental. Change is a potential or property of existence. Time is how we describe and measure the sequence and duration of changes.
But this leaves a fundamental question: Why did the original unity change?
Perhaps the capacity for change was always inherent in the nature of existence itself. If so, change would not require an external creator or cause. It would simply be a fundamental property of reality, and time would emerge as that reality underwent transformation.
There is also the possibility that the original unity was never truly changeless, but that time, as we understand it, emerged only when distinguishable physical states and events became possible.
Under this hypothesis, God and the universe would not be two separate things. God would be the original unity of existence, and the universe would be its continuing transformation into multiplicity.
Perhaps creation was not the beginning of existence, but the beginning of change as we understand it. And perhaps what we call God is not something beyond physical reality, but the fundamental reality from which everything emerged.
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AI - will replace investment firms in my opinion.
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AI - will replace investment firms in my opinion.
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Wall Street already uses AI to analyze markets. So why keep paying firms like BlackRock and Goldman Sachs for expertise AI can increasingly provide directly? Traditional investment advice is facing a major disruption.
Why pay Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, or other investment firms for market research and advice when AI can generate comprehensive, customized financial reports in minutes? BlackRock already uses AI and sophisticated analytical technology to manage investments and assess risk.
But if they can use AI, why can't we? Why pay expensive intermediaries for analysis we can increasingly perform ourselves? We may still need financial institutions to execute trades and hold assets, but much of their traditional research and advisory business could become obsolete. AI is democratizing financial expertise, and the investment industry's business model is facing a fundamental disruption.
Here is a tiny example I generated on GPT
(Not the whole report BTW)
Data through Friday, October 23, 2026 | Risk regime: Elevated caution
Executive brief
The U.S. equity bull market remains intact, but conditions have become more vulnerable to a correction. The major concerns are high Treasury yields, rising energy prices, expensive financing, and uneven participation in technology shares. The S&P 500 closed Friday at 7,623.68, approximately 2.5% below its October 6 record. Small-cap strength contrasted with Nasdaq weakness, suggesting rotation rather than a uniform equity liquidation.
Primary assessment: Monitor earnings revisions, Treasury yields, credit conditions, and market breadth. High oil prices alongside near-5% Treasury yields could pressure both inflation and equity valuations.
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If it looks material, feels material, smells material, and tastes material, then I have good reason to believe it is material. And I am observing it through a material brain. Why should consciousness place us outside the physical world rather than be something that arises within it? Being an observer doesn't mean we are separate from what we observe.
Erick retweeted
Whoever designed the little apple juice boxes that squirt all over you when you stick the straw in, I hope you have the day you deserve and spend eternity stepping on tiny Legos. 🫶🏻
Omar:
Did you marry your brother: I don't know.
Did you lie on your taxes: I don't know.
What is your family name: I don't know.
Did your father become naturalized: I don't know.
Do you know your real name: No comment.
Me;
Then why are you in congress representing people?























