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That whole case rests on believing the reports of three young women, aged 14, 16, and 22, and on trusting that the UFO enthusiasts who investigated the case reported accurately and truthfully, despite 2 of the 3 key military witnesses admitting they fabricated their testimony, with one claiming to have been offered payment for it. If you're aware of the evidence below, how do you still find this story credible? - A key military witness admitted fabricating his testimony (2026). A former Brazilian Army soldier who claimed to have transported a captured alien from Varginha to Campinas admitted in a Globo documentary that he invented the story after being offered R$5,000 by UFO researcher Vitório Pacaccini. - A second military witness also repudiated his alien-capture testimony (2019). A firefighter whose recorded testimony was treated as crucial evidence of the creature's capture later said the account was fabricated and that he had been persuaded to record it. Of three prominent military capture/transport witnesses revisited by the 2026 documentary, two repudiated their stories; the third maintained his. - The original investigator who helped popularize the case has reversed his position. Ubirajara Rodrigues, who investigated the original sighting and promoted the extraterrestrial explanation, now rejects it. He says there is no convincing evidence of anything extraordinary beyond the three women's testimony, and that the larger narrative grew through speculation and unfounded claims. - Military records undermined the alleged alien-transport operation. The Brazilian Army's 1996–1997 investigations reviewed vehicle logs, personnel testimony, maintenance records and dealership invoices. They documented routine military truck movements and found no evidence of the alleged alien-recovery operation. - The alleged alien sighting had a plausible human explanation identified during the original investigation. Investigators proposed that the three women had mistaken a local man nicknamed Mudinho, who was known to crouch near walls, for an unusual creature during heavy rain. The investigation included photographs and a reconstruction. The women reject this explanation, so the identification is not proven, but it provides an alternative to the extraterrestrial interpretation. - The supposed death from extraterrestrial contamination had an identifiable medical cause. Military police officer Marco Eli Chereze allegedly died after physical contact with an alien. However, medical findings documented severe bacterial sepsis, and he had undergone a procedure for an underarm lesion shortly before becoming critically ill. No evidence establishes that he handled an extraterrestrial or contracted an alien pathogen. Is there something I'm missing here, or this is just obviously bullshit? Maybe this is the first time you're hearing about these things?

Just a few points off the top of my head: They’re not ALL lying, and they’re not ALL delusional. It’s a mix of outright lies AND delusion, mostly delusion. We live amongst wolves with incentive to lie. The government has been known to lie about UFOs before. There is precedent. Not every government employee claiming UFOs is “the government claiming it”. Liars and delusional people with government backgrounds act on their own behalf. If you research the Parallax effect (the balloon gif demo I posted), that mundane explanation is almost certainly what’s going on with the government released footage. And if that footage is your main evidence, that should cause some cognitive dissonance after you earnestly account for Parallax. There are very subtle but real behavioral tells indicating deception. For example, I’m almost certain that cow mutilation farmer video with the cow carcass was staged. And that’s just one example. I found the cattle mutilation entry on your UFO evidence list to be out of place. It didn’t seem to belong on the list. It’s right up there with crop circles.

For my work, I have to pay Adobe $70/mo for Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat. I've been hoping for good replacements for a few years and finally have found a very promising solution. https://getartcraft.com/ You can set these apps up as portable versions by pointing Claude or ChatGPT at the repo and telling it to set them up: https://github.com/storytold. (If you don't already have Claude/ChatGPT on your system to do stuff for you, time to join the revolution. ) Or you can just download straight from the website. My main concern was that it wouldn't handle PSD files correctly, but it seems to work perfectly so far. Just thought I'd share in case anyone else is wants to stop shelling out to Adobe. $840/yr savings. The creators used Opus 5.5 to recreate all this. The team is constantly adding features that match Adobe's.

South Florida is fucked. The Keys and parts of Miami and Ft. Lauderdale are flooding any time there's a high tide.

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2130357/000162828026067168/anthropicpbc-sx1.htm Revenue: $16.286 billion Cost of revenue: $2.380 billion (page F-39) Total compute and infrastructure expenses: $8.945 billion So, they brought in 16.2 billion and it only costed them 2.38 billion to serve everyone using Claude.

When they see that you have your psychological shit together. As in, at peace with yourself and reality. That, plus being in good spirits/having a positive and receptive attitude. That combo is the best attractor of the opposite sex that I've experienced. This looks like what people would call "confidence", but I wonder if it's really about "freedom". Freedom is about the absence of constraint. Your psychological freedom affords her psychological freedom, which I think is very powerful. IDK, worth thinking about.

Seems like a step in the right direction! Just curious. What is your main motivation with all this? Do you care most about getting laid, finding a partner, overcoming insecurities and becoming more comfortable socially, or what?

I'm no business/finance guy, but this seems to make sense: If these labs stopped research and training and only focused on extracting profits from what they've already built, they'd be profitable af. The main reason they aren't profitable is due to the arms race. I'm not sure how that arms race ends though.

How do you know they're lying? Don't be an epistemic pervert, lol.

I haven't used it much but you might explore DeepSeek. It's free.

I want an AI that helps me discover where I'm wrong so I can improve my thinking. Gemini is probably just as accurate as the other models, but the issue is it's not critical enough. It's still a great tool though. I'm not sure if you can adjust response settings, but if so I'd experiment with that and try to get a good balance. I just asked Claude and Gemini what it thought about an idea I've been working on. Gemini responded: Compare that to Claude's: As you can see, Claude highlighted potential errors right away. Whereas with Gemini, it might not surface them at all unless you ask for them.

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First half of this year, Anthropic spent 8.95 billion on compute and generated 16.3 billion in revenue from that compute, and efficiency will increase, so it doesn’t seem too expensive to generate profit. What’s expensive is maintaining their position on the frontier.

It’s a big book. It doesn’t teach how to do seduction, it just shows you the mechanisms and patterns, IIRC. I’m not a fan of wasting my time on all his historical examples to extract the mechanisms. I like examples to illustrate points, but wasting 10-20 minutes on each example is annoying af. I would use AI to extract the mechanisms. AI can replace most books these days to cut through all the fluff and bullshit. So I would acquire the book’s outline and ask AI what each section is about, and learn from the bottom up.

He sees what looks like a bump snort, sees eyes change, and assumes with seemingly 100% confidence it was without a doubt a bump snort. Imbecile.

Jimmy Dore is a straight up fucking dimwit. He caters to the 40th percentile at best. He’s not someone you want to be a regular in your feed.

This is not the attitude you want to cultivate. This is coming at it from a selfish "if there's nothing in it for me, I don't care so if I don't feel like it, fuck off". It doesn't have to be either or. When you're working in an environment like retail, you can try to avoid customers if your role allows for it (stockers) but you shouldn't try to avoid or be standoffish/non-responsive to your coworkers. You want to build a good reputation, which is totally doable as an introvert. But the introvert can't simply refuse to engage at every turn, else they will eventually ruin their reputation. Silence is only neutral in a workplace up to a point. Now, I'm not saying you have to be someone different. What I'm suggesting has nothing to do with intentional effort at all. It's simply a matter of letting go and opening up - letting them pry you open, and allowing yourself to get lost in that social world without thinking about it. You'll find it's quiet effortless and even enjoyable, if you don't think about it. Just let go and be yourself, and don't think about it. I actually worked in retail for a stint when I was 19 and was in a very similar situation. So, as a very introverted person, I've allowed this to unfold several times over the course of my life and each time I was always surprised at how effortless it was - it didn't take any planning or intention whatsoever. I would just present with my introversion and people would try to pry me open and I'd let them. Funny enough, it was mostly girls who I'd wind up friends with, for whatever reason. It's not for me 24/7 - I'm still an introvert - but it's definitely nice here and there. Plus, camaraderie in the workplace makes the days much lighter and shorter. Also, if you can cultivate this, you learn to be at ease in both worlds, not just your own, which will be a giant weight off your shoulders. You can finally stop worrying about social stuff. Introverts think there's something to do in the extroverted world. The whole point is there's nothing to do, lol. Introverts just think about it too much. It's like we're blinded by a spell and think we can break it with thought, but the only way to break the spell is to jump in and make some splashes and realize the water is actually nice and you don't need an instruction manual. I think working in retail as an introvert spurs massive growth with the right attitude. Great training ground. High volume, low stakes. Dozens of quick interactions each day. Hell, "get a job at a grocery store" should probably be in every introverted pickup artist's curriculum. One interesting thing is people can tell the difference between a benign introvert and a toxic one. Introverts who hold a grudge or have a bone to pick with society or just has a bad attitude, those people are often overlooked and people don't even really want to engage with them, so, attitude is very important.

Gemini is the most ass-kissing model and will tell you what you want to hear, IME. It's good to use it in conjunction with the others, just to get more ideas/perspectives the others might have missed. Claude is the best, IMO, but it depends on what your goals are.

@integral Nice! I went with a toggle instead of hold as well. I can't use capslock because it's my custom modifier for a ton of stuff - more efficient than reaching for control, shift, etc.

It's a good thing! They want to know you better because they like you. Not necessarily romantically, but just as a person, which is great. You don't have to talk about anything in particular. Instead of keeping all your thoughts to yourself, let them fly out of your mouth. It's an opportunity to practice being playful and bonding with others. They want to bond with you.

Built my own whspr flow alternative that relies on local AI models. It listens to you talk, then passes the data to a local LLM that cleans the text up by removing filler words, removing repetition, etc. A good bit faster than typing. I was concerned with speed, because you have to capture the voice data, transcribe it, then clean it up. Surprisingly, you can do that really quickly. Used Tauri with Rust, Parakeet (NVIDIA's open speech model), and Qwen3.5-4B (local LLM)

lol. Damn, look at how fast that alien balloon travels.

The truth is these issues stem from AO largely being a community of gamma males. Gamma males gonna gamma male. You can't argue them out of it, and when you realize the implications of being part of a community largely comprised of gamma males, you eventually realize it's not sustainable and you leave. Emerald finally realized it. People are afraid to call them out because they want to maintain civility, but it's the elephant in the room that most people don't want to acknowledge. We all just converse like it isn't toxic af. When member's entire lives and identities are organized around compensatory superiority, how much good faith discussion can truly be had? If what I'm saying is accurate, how much good faith conversation should one expect from a community of gamma males? And of course, Leo is the top gamma male, which is why this place is doomed. People wonder why good people come and go. This is often the reason. Even @eos_nyxia's husband picked up on "incel vibes" from very limited data as an outsider. That's because incel is the closest term he could find to match the pattern. Had he known what a gamma male was, he could have called it right. So, keep ignoring the elephant in the room. Actually, it seems most people don't even perceive what I'm saying, so they can't even see the elephant. And people talking about Emerald being butt hurt. lol. Your entire life is organized around you being precisely that. It's a fucking joke and you need it smeared in your face if you're going to have any hope.