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Posted on 08/31/2025 9:08:15 PM PDT by ransomnote
Many come here to read dispatches from the War between Good and Evil, to red-pill and encourage.....and to pray and give thanks to the God who fights for us.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/115119962578158249
Q has reminded us repeatedly that together, we are strong. As the false "narrative" is destroyed and the divisive machinery put in place by the Deep State fails, the fact that patriotism has no skin color or political party is exposed for all to see.
3038 Mar 12, 2019 2:55:14 PM EDT
Q !!mG7VJxZNCI ID: 4fe510 No. 5643022>Decide for yourself (be free from outside opinion).
>Decide for yourself (be objective in your conclusions).
>Decide for yourself (be true in your own beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be open to following the facts).
>Decide for yourself (be strong in defending your beliefs).
>Decide for yourself (be resistant to blindly accepting fact-less statements).
>Decide for yourself (be free)
Those who attack you.
Those who mock you.
Those who cull you.
Those who control you.
Those who label you.
Do they represent you?
Or, do they represent themselves (in some form)?
Mental Enslavement.
The Great Awakening ('Freedom of Thought’), was designed and created not only as a backchannel to the public (away from the longstanding ‘mind’ control of the corrupt & heavily biased media) to endure future events through transparency and regeneration of individual thought (breaking the chains of ‘group-think’), but, more importantly, aid in the construction of a vehicle (a ‘ship’) that provides the scattered (‘free thinkers’) with a ‘starter’ new social-networking platform which allows for freedom of thought, expression, and patriotism or national pride (the feeling of love, devotion and sense of attachment to a homeland and alliance with other citizens who share the same sentiment).
When ‘non-dogmatic’ information becomes FREE & TRANSPARENT it becomes a threat to those who attempt to control the narrative and/or the stable.
When you are awake, you stand on the outside of the stable (‘group-think’ collective), and have ‘free thought’.
"Free thought" is a philosophical viewpoint which holds that positions regarding truth should be formed on the basis of logic, reason, and empiricism, rather than authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma.
When you are awake, you are able to clearly see.
The choice is yours, and yours alone.
Trust and put faith in yourself.
You are not alone and you are not in the minority.
Difficult truths will soon see the light of day.
WWG1WGA!!!Q
In the battle between those who strip us our constitutional rights, we can't afford to let false divisions separate us any longer. We, and our country, will be forever made stronger by diligently seeking the truth, independence and freedom of thought.
Where We Go 1, We Go All
I dont know...the pull of the “dark side” is strong...
Between now and 2016 Kimmel lost have his audience. He should have been fired years ago.
-SB
I try it out next time I am in New Smyrna
Venezuela Claims 3.6 Tons of Cocaine Their Forces Seized Was Part of a DEA False Flag Operation
https://www.telesurtv.net/diosdado-cabello-eeuu-sembrar-droga-venezuela/
Translated excerpt:
Diosdado Cabello, Venezuela’s Minister of the Interior reported the dismantling of a “false flag” operation meant to link the South American country with drug trafficking. The alleged perpetrators of this operation? A drug trafficker tied to the large cocaine shipment, and the DEA.
Cabello reported at a press conference that Venezuelan authorities carried out an operation in which they seized 3,680 kilograms of cocaine traveling aboard a boat with four crew members, who were all arrested.
“That drug boat was a DEA false flag operation to accuse Venezuela. Four detainees with Venezuelan IDs were going to be released; they (the detainees) are reporting that,” Cabello emphasized.
The minister asserted that U.S. authorities are trying to create a false narrative linking Venezuela to drug trafficking, a narrative he described as “false and manipulated,” stating that one of those arrested in the operation was Levi Enrique López who, according to Cabello “is a DEA agent and a drug trafficker.”
“Basically, what they want to do is plant drugs on a Venezuelan vessel. They are sentencing Caribbean fishermen to death,” he stated.
He added that during the operation, members of the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB), who had prior information from intelligence agencies, waited for a period of 20 hours for the small boat which from La Guajira, Colombian to pass before being intercepted.
The drugs had originated in Colombia, so the minister urged the Trump administration to monitor shipments leaving via the Pacific Ocean to the US and to Europe. He also mentioned that drug shipments have been detected in banana exports linked to Ecuador and the family of President Daniel Noboa.
Noboa’s family are one of the largest banana exporters in the country, a common smuggling method with or without the knowledge of the export companies due to the large volume of banana shipments from Ecuador to the US and Europe.
Venezuela claims to have seized 60 tons of drugs since January of this year. According to 2023 charts, around 250 tons of cocaine transit through Venezuela annually. The 60 tons seized, if true, would be a record year so far for seizures by the country.
The Venezuelan government has portrayed this as proof of their commitment to fighting drug trafficking, contrasting it with the narrative of their country’s direct involvement in trafficking.
Op-Ed: Smart thermostats, dumb policy: Normalizing energy poverty by central control
https://www.thecentersquare.com/opinion/article_9f5c4e8c-28e4-47e0-ad69-7523b5336114.html
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In late summer 2019, an elderly woman I knew from church asked me to stop by her house in our New Mexico neighborhood. It was late August, the kind of day when the desert sun turns homes into ovens, and her air conditioner simply wouldn’t keep up. I’m no HVAC expert, but I promised to look at her thermostat.
There was no problem with the thermostat inside. The problem was on the air conditioner outside, but not a mechanical function or broken part. Her utility company installed a regulator on her A/C unit – part of a so-called “power-saving” program. The catch? During the hottest part of the day, when she needed cooling the most, the utility cut her system back. In exchange for surrendering control of her own comfort, she received a rebate of just $25 a year.
And now, instead of just controlling the A/C, some want central control of your whole thermostat.
A new bill in Ohio would allow utilities to reach into homes and directly control customer thermostats. Supporters call it “demand management.” But the reality is clear: these programs are designed to normalize energy poverty by conditioning families to accept less comfort and less freedom in exchange for pennies on the dollar.
Ohio wouldn’t be the first. In Colorado, tens of thousands of families discovered they couldn’t change their Wi-Fi enabled thermostats during a sweltering day. They were locked out – literally – because the utility had triggered a “demand response event.” One home in the program reportedly reached 88 degrees inside. Additionally, in Colorado Springs, customers are offered $50 to enroll, but the company reserves the right to raise your thermostat up to four degrees during peak demand. Sure, you can opt out – but the normalization is the point.
In Indiana, a utility pilot remotely adjusted smart thermostats to cut demand by nearly a kilowatt per home in summer. While residents technically could override, the default was no longer their choice — it was the utility’s.
Different programs, same philosophy: normalize energy scarcity by quietly taking over the devices in your home.
Policymakers and utilities always sell these schemes as “partnerships” or “innovation.” But let’s be clear: it’s not innovation to make a grandmother sit in a sweltering house because her air conditioner has been throttled. It’s not progress when families discover their thermostats are frozen on a triple-digit day. These programs shift the burden of bad energy policy onto ordinary families. Instead of building reliable power plants that keep up with demand, utilities are trained to manage shortfalls by managing you. Your thermostat, your A/C, your comfort – they become their safety valve.
This is how energy poverty is normalized. Not through rolling blackouts, but through quiet intrusions that teach us to accept less as the new normal.
Think of it this way: we would never accept Comcast taking control of our television or your internet provider cutting out news sources and social media sites. Yet, when it comes to air conditioning – the very system that keeps us safe in dangerous heat – we are told it’s normal for strangers to decide how cool our homes are allowed to be.
That double standard is alarming. The things that make life bearable in the hottest summers and coldest winters are the very things we should be protecting from outside control. The price tag for this surrender isn’t just $25 a year. It’s our autonomy. It’s the principle that our homes are our own. Every locked thermostat, every cycling A/C switch, every “demand response event” is another step toward redefining reliability downward. Comfort becomes selfish. Scarcity becomes “noble.”
That’s not noble. It’s rationing with a smartphone app. And if a utility company – or a government bureaucrat – can dictate the temperature of your living room, then your home is no longer your castle. It’s just another outpost in the grid they control.
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Incremental steps by government to control how you live.
Prayer lifted for relief and complete recovery.
HA I posted on that thread also. twice even
Post 21 and 75
Master Troll, James Woods! 👑
Me neither at that time but pretty cool still to have posted on there.
Venezuela Claims 3.6 Tons of Cocaine
WOW that a Whole Lotta Toot
Hunter’s Dream Score.
Oracle’s Fatal A.I. Constraint
Oracle is obsolete, perhaps the biggest short sale in a generation, we are going to prove it to you here
https://fractalcomputing.substack.com/p/the-fatal-limitation-of-oracle-in
Excerpt:
OK, we said it, Oracle is obsolete and we are giving you a front row seat for an inevitable valuation collapse, nobody currently sees, but most importantly, for you the tech follower, you the short seller, is trackable and begins to show itself during the next 18 months.
This is not investment advice - we are providing a glimpse into what is happening in the field - in real deals and disruption - demonstrating Oracle, and a dozen companies like Palantir, dependent on the current tech stacks are over-valued by a factor of 10.
.....How did Oracle become Oracle?
We were at the birth of a little company called Relational Technology Inc., or something like that in the 1980s.
It’s founder, Larry Ellison ran around the country with a 35 mm slide carousel (if you are under 50, Google it) telling VP’s of IT (that is what they called a CIO then) - telling them his database - Oracle, ran the same instruction set on their DEC VAX machines and IBM mainframes.
It was complete bullshit, as Oracle had two different products, but it didn’t matter much because relational database (RDBMS) was becoming a thing, mainframes were getting much faster and nobody cared about the overhead.
Ellison was selling a story - and that always works in software - until proof of hidden disruption seeps out and undermines the story - which is happening in the field now - unseen or ignored by the tech press and analysts.
The tech landscape in 1983 was driven by a company called Cullinane Software, later Cullinet, and ADR and a few others with early database management software.
IBM had this ghastly database called IMS - purpose-built to suck up more mainframe - so IBM loved it, customers, not so much.
The constraint in those days was people-intensive tech support for modifying the database.
Cullinet had a product called IDMS which used network pointers - hard coded little gremlins in the data and if you changed something, you had to rebuild an entire structure.
RDBMS (relational database) software - Oracle in particular - was far easier to manipulate but more of a storage and compute hog - as everything had to be lined up in rows and columns causing lots of data duplication.
So RTI at the time, took off, changed its name to Oracle - and Larry Ellison bought much of Hawaii.
That was then, this is now.
Oracle was built for HR, billing, common transactional systems using 1980s technology and for 40 years Oracle ignored advances in modern chip design - as all software companies did.
The overwhelming amount of data created today is not for CRM, HR and billing systems - rather from meters, sensors, cameras and devices - called IoT, Oracle is not a tech fit for that market.
So, provable today, super high volume, IoT data, needing collection, storing, decisioning instantaneously - is completely out of Oracle’s reach.
Oracle has close to total market penetration for the old stuff - HR, Billing, CRM but cannot compete in the new high volume, super speed decisioning applications.
Oracle’s huge market share exists - only because they are pretty much the last database standing from the 80s, and there is no newer technology to replace Oracle databases.
All kinds of data today is absolutely NOT going into an RDBMS - much of the IoT data - for instance, which is, by the way, the overwhelming amount of data on the planet.
Much of the A.I. data is not a fit for Oracle either - because much of the A.I. stuff is column based, needs to run at speeds that cripple an Oracle database - so Oracle must survive on current customers and getting into new businesses, like cloud computing.
Remember, there is no cloud.
Cloud computing is simply using someone else’s computer to run yesterday’s centralized compute technology.
Oracle is big in the cloud.
Cloud companies are showing continually lower valuations - because cloud computing is the Walmart of computing - lots of transactions at ever falling prices and tiny margins with undifferentiated services.
Ellison, probably the most brilliant marketer in the history of software - we are huge Larry Ellison fans here - is positioning Oracle as the next big thing in A.I. and A.I. development.
This week his stock valuation was reported to grow enough to buy the rest of Hawaii - because he announced a deal with OpenAI for $300 billion - running their stuff in his cloud.
Here are a couple of comments published in Wall Street Journal:
“To put Oracle’s $300 billion cloud deal with OpenAI in context, consider that the contract will require 4.5 gigawatts of power capacity, roughly comparable to the electricity produced by more than two Hoover Dams or four million homes.
The financial details are equally jarring.”
“OpenAI is a money-losing startup that disclosed in June it was generating roughly $10 billion in annual revenue—less than one-fifth of the $60 billion it will have to pay on average every year,” the WSJ reports.
“Oracle is concentrating a large chunk of its future revenue on one customer—and will likely have to take on debt to buy the AI chips needed to power the data centers.”
Remember the note above that Ellison told the 1980s market Oracle could run the same instruction set on a DEC VAX and an IBM mainframe?
Sort of the same thing here - this is an announcement - that any critical thinker can predict will never fully materialize - but it sounds good at a time of mindless market froth.
Only stock analysts, tech reporters and investors chasing unicorns would buy this story - and its subsequent Oracle valuation - without doing the math below the surface.
.....OPEN AI doesn’t expect to be cash-flow positive until 2029 at $129 billion in revenue.....
.....We are not saying there is no coming disruption from A.I., we are just telling you it isn’t coming from ChatGPT, building horrendously large LLMs (large language models) at the very time even NVIDIA - who does make money - is saying the world is all small language models, running distributed, which ain’t Oracle.
.....Ellison’s bet, like the quantum bet, is software cannot be made to run faster - data centers need to be made bigger - and A.I. is the technology demanding huge data centers - running Oracle.
META is building a data center the size of Manhattan - so they all think the same way.
The problem is software CAN be made to run 1,000 to a million times faster through the reduction of I/O wait states - which is about 95% of what software does.
If software can be made to run 1,000 times faster, it can do the same work with 1/1,000th the hardware.
Thus it needs only 1/1,000th the energy = NO DATA CENTER - or the current data center can do 1,000 times more work, thus no need for Larry Ellison’s half trillion dollars in NEW data centers.
Software speed is happening without Oracle - and if Oracle or RDBMS is anywhere in the formula - software remains slow, needs a data center, destroys Virginia farm land.
That’s the emerging industry choice: Does the market want software that runs 1,000 times faster, uses less energy and is 1/10th the cost, reduces storage 90% and is almost infinitely scalable?
OR:
Does the market want massive data centers, Oracle license costs, slow software, energy constraints, software that chokes on massive databases…..
.....Blinding software speed - essential for A.I. modeling - via I/O wait state optimization is Kryptonite for Oracle and all RDBMS.
Same for the cloud.
These two tech alternatives - low I/O wait state software and current relational database-dependent applications - cannot coexist over the long term.
Once you eliminate the need for a relational database and the need for ever growing data centers, the Oracle story collapses.
That’s still not the fatal virus.
Oracle knows very well its database customers have nowhere else to go.
A massive application running on Oracle today will run on Oracle almost forever - the costs of change are prohibitive.
That is why currently every major agency and corporation spends over 60% of IT budgets on maintaining the stuff they have - not innovating - because they cannot get out of their infrastructure limitation.
.....But, low I/O wait state category software is proving to have a disruptive impact on application modernization - without Oracle.
ANY Oracle application can be re-platformed, in 90 days or less, to an I/O optimization technology, and will run 1,000 times faster, at 10% of the Oracle cost, reducing storage 90%, eliminating the need for a data center.
Let’s go back to 1983.
This is how it’s going to happen - beginning in the next 18 months - so pay attention here.
The Great Oracle Tulip Bulb Crash is coming - engineered by competitors - like we did to Cullinet.
It’s hard to envision a company called Cullinet, which nobody under 50 ever heard of, owned the database world in 1983 - but they did.
They were a Wall Street darling.
Their CEO was on the front page of Business Week and spoke at many major tech conferences.
Every senior IT exec knew Cullinet meant success, and they lined up to buy Cullinet.
A company called ADR had an early relational-like database called Datacom. They lost to Cullinet in every engagement. 100% of the time. They were big deals too - as in $500,000 to a million bucks license fee - in the 80s.
But, unknown to the investment world, unseen by analysts, a slight but significant shift occurred in the market.
Tech talent became the hidden constraint.
Always look for those pesky emerging constraints - they become the seeds of disruption.
.....The current two constraints are energy and software speed.
Both are fatal to Oracle and every RDBMS vendor.
In the 80s, there were few DBAs (data base admins) - each was super expensive - at a time when salaries were climbing.
Cullinet and ADR went head to head, in Upstate NY, in Binghamton - for Singer Aerospace. Cullinet was set to win.
The ADR team innovated.
.....“We love Cullinet. Everyone buys Cullinet, but, well since you ask, it’s really hard to change anything in IDMS - it does not adapt to our changing business.”
That was the opening. Then came the killer phrase.
“We use Cullinet, the problem is hiring a Cullinet DBA costs a ton, then we train them and they leave for more money.”
.....The ADR team set up a challenge - build a simple application in Cullinet and in Datacom. You, the Singer guys do it with our tech rep - do the same thing with Cullinet.
Then change the application - and experience how hard it is.
Cullinet collapsed.
The customer learned fast, the Cullinet story was old embedded pointer crap technology they could not easily modify, their DBA would cost a mint, and the ADR Datacom product could be adapted almost immediately.
Cullinet was all hype, all marketing, no cattle - because constraints changed and there was now an ALTERNATIVE.
Alternatives deliver obsolescence to market leaders.
After the ADR Singer win, which was huge, every deal went ADR.
It didn’t matter, the Wall Street analysts did not care about ADR, they cared about Cullinet. A tree had fallen in the forest and nobody heard it.
.....The story was: “Everyone told us to buy Cullinet, but our business changes every day and Cullinet cannot change with it.”
Sound familiar?
Scott started publishing this material - from real sources, and the bullshit story collapsed - Cullinet’s valuation with it - and Cullinet was sold for scrap to Computer Associates. ADR died a few years later, as the tech world changed again.
So here we are - you the reader, you the hedge fund guy, you the technologist - you are hearing that low I/O wait state software is replacing Oracle or RDBMS in some deals - and in every one, guys like the Fractal guys - prove there is no need for Oracle, Palantir or any of these central processing dinosaurs.
The tech press ignores it - thus the opportunity.
.....There’s another little story you do not hear - most Oracle customers loathe that company. For several years, as our team met with CIOs and CFOs, their first question was “…..can you help me get rid of Oracle?”
Oracle has captive customers, not loyal ones - and an alternative - one that solves their energy needs, can implement A.I. immediately - without a new data center - at 10% of the cost is pretty appealing.
This week Oracle missed its earnings - but Ellison became $110 billion richer - because of a great story. Wall Street analysts are the most tech uneducated lot and they follow the herd - off the cliff.
.....Ellison is a brilliant marketer.
He knows it’s over for Oracle in the current market - so he is reinventing Oracle as a cloud vendor, and as an A.I. player.
Oracle is now in the distraction business.
Who knows, they may even buy Tik Tok - but their core business is obsolete and cloud computing cannot support their current valuation.
Hells Canyon National Recreation Area, Lewiston, Idaho
Looks like my “dumb” thermostat is really the Smart choice and the peeps getting Smart ones are the dummies. ha ha.
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I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times.
But that is not for them to decide.
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
C.S.Lewis
MQGA!!!
Oh, my gosh, just when I think I cannot cry anymore.
Charlie and Erika
https://truthsocial.com/@CitizenFreePress/115228172772110702
HAHAHAHA!!!!
My internet has been wonky this week.
It keeps cutting out. Repair guy coming
tomorrow. Missed some posts and behind
on thread. Hoping things get fixed.
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