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ret5hd

ret5hd's Journal
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May 15, 2026

Electricity - Data - Lake Tahoe

i think maybe i just figured something out:

The goal of these data centers ISN’T “control of data”…it IS “control of the power” (electric)

When a single company can shut off a city, selling instead to a single “data-center”/“actually now a power control center”…that’s scary.

on edit:
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/energy-supplier-abandons-lake-tahoe-residents-to-serve-data-centers/

May 9, 2026

Looking for a GOOD read...

for slight context, my two favorite books were:

Pillars Of The Earth
and
A Gentleman In Moscow

both (it seemed to me) were relatively historically accurate as far as culture, setting, circumstance. both were very enjoyable.

make a suggestion here. thnx in advance. the winner will be gifted with glowing thoughts.

May 9, 2026

serious question...when one travels for medical stuff...

is the expense of lodging deductible?

March 25, 2026

i think ICE is permanent in airports now...

he’s gonna starve TSA out, bring back masks and guns and pepper spray.

more “pay to play nicely” lines (“enhanced” pre-check line that you pay $xxx for with the money going to a swiss bank account)

imho.

March 21, 2026

tonite this box started appearing periodically...

when on DU:

Do you want to download “sync” on “democraricunderground.com” and “4.html-load.cc”

ios 26.3.1(a)

March 8, 2026

Don't forget what their end goal is...they have told us...

but —we. don’t. listen—.

thiel, musk et al are blatantly loudly telling us, but we don’t listen.

they want to collapse “the west”…more specifically the usa. they then will divy up the public lands/resources/power sources/sources of income amongst themselves like the russian oligarchs…but further.

each area/city/“zone” will be turned into a fiefdom…like a giant HOA, but more evil. your actions/movements/habits monitored. ejection/banishment, with no right to travel between fiefdoms to secure other work. your “pay” will be in a sort of “scrip”…bitcoin or some such that is only accepted in your area.

they want to depopulate. they have discussed how efficient climate change is in this regard. that is why everything must be coal, oil, natural gas, forest destruction , etc.

when they have essentialy emptied the rural areas, those areas will essentially become populated by what are commonly called “man camps” in the oil fields…rows and rows of portable buildings, always ready to be moved to the next worksite, manned by desperate and hungry serfs.

trump is —intent— on making this happen. so intent he must use/deplete all possible defenses against true foreign aggression in places like Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, et al…this is all an effort to unilaterally disarm us.

i don’t know…what do you think? they have wanted this for SO long…your land, your money, your freedoms…our public riches…for their idea of Elysium…—you— are the slave, you are the chattel, you are a resource to be exploited.

that is what we are up against. if we don’t focus on the enemies end-goals, we tend to misidentify the tactics and strategies.

ok…rant over.

March 1, 2026

Who hasn't been there?

February 22, 2026

Re: trump sending hospital ships to Greenland:

hey everybody over there…just don’t be takin’ no free blankets.

just sayin’.

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