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  Shake the baby!
Posted by: UltraBudgie - 5 hours ago - Forum: Crime - Replies (1)

Shaken Baby Syndrome Has Been Discredited. Why Is Robert Roberson Still on Death Row?

Quote:Convicted of a crime that never happened, Roberson’s case is a prime example of how the U.S. legal system often fails to recognize advances in scientific knowledge

Hmm...
  • Microscopic hair analysis
  • Voice stress analysis
  • Psychological profiling
  • Repressed memories
  • Bite-mark analysis
  • Bullet matching analysis
  • Lie detectors
  • Arson investigations
What else can you think of?

PS: Don't shake babies

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  One must align Sprit, Mind, and Heart
Posted by: BrotherKinsMan - 11 hours ago - Forum: Psychology, Philosophy & Metaphysics - Replies (2)

One must align Spirit, Mind, and Heart in order to properly express oneself.

Your mind plays tricks on you, but you know it well.

Your heart cries out to you, but you ignore it.

Your spirit knows, yet you doubt.


Your heart and mind seem to be at odds with one another.

Yet it is merely as a dance for your well being.

In truth, Spirit should lead your thoughts.

Mind should consider all things possible good and bad.

Your Heart should then make the final call.

Only in union is communion and communication clear and true.

Spirit, Mind, Heart.

Keep them aligned at all times.

Spirit knows best, but struggles to define things.

Mind is sharp, but lacks proper guidance.

Heart is willing but vulnerable.


Always in alignment...

Only then can you be true to yourself.

Only then can you grow and rise properly.

Only then can you ascend unto your higher Self.


Remain in alignment.

My advice to you, dear fellow kin.


If you knew the repercussion of each expression, you would heed my word carefully.

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  I would give them a Heart.
Posted by: BrotherKinsMan - Yesterday, 11:57 AM - Forum: Rant - No Replies

To mine enemies.

To the evil ones.

To the wicked.


I would give them a heart.


Let them know and feel love.


Then I would strike at them.

I would make it so they feel all the pain they've caused others.

Oh how it would burn.


Those who confess and beg forgiveness earnestly, I ask we stand with them.

Eventually, with support, they would get through the pain.

But others may well burn for a very long time...



It's easy to do evil when you feel nothing.

Try it when you feel everything.

Forever is a long time my friends.

Just saying...

^_^

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  Pink Socks…Green Eyes…
Posted by: Quantum12 - Yesterday, 10:35 AM - Forum: Short Stories - Replies (3)

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Pink socks have a time limit on your feet,
They walk away before you do.

People stare at this moment of pink socks,
Eyes so green the socks look mean.

Close your toes so everyone knows.
As I walk in pink socks my life turned green.

Fluffy as a rabbit,
Now I had this habit.

I am addicted to pink socks...

Inspired by kindness, empathy, connection, and love…

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  Voter turnout
Posted by: UltraBudgie - 11-03-2024, 07:13 PM - Forum: Decision 2024 - Replies (5)

For the last several elections, the clear winner has been "A Pox On Both Your Houses" -- not Democrat, nor Republican, and certainly not third party, but simply not voting. Disaffected voters. More that 1/3 of those eligible to vote choose not to.

They're quickly ignored. Polls measure "likely voters", ignoring the plurality who might vote but find it most acceptable not to. They're shuffled out of sight much like the jobless who are removed from unemployment statistics after 18 months.

Many are saying that turnout percentage will be much larger this year because "the stakes are so high". I don't think so. I think that voting has become an emotional pacifier. No matter who wins, plutocracy will continue its agenda, military brinkmanship will continue unabated, economic warfare and profit-driven exploitation will continue as normal. Voting gives the system of pretend democracy an air of legitimacy. All we're really choosing is the tone of how we'll be lied and pandered to. It's a distraction; the real powers who make the world the way it is don't care one bit about the "choices" we're allowed to make, they only care that we naively believe we don't have masters, and that we keep blaming each other instead of them.

But that's just me. Or is it? What do you think? Think people will show up?


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  A Decayed Omen Reborn
Posted by: CCoburn - 11-03-2024, 07:00 PM - Forum: Short Stories - No Replies

A Decayed Omen Reborn


Spiraling goat horns
inverted
devolution and chaos
perverted

Mass shootings
genocide
nowhere to run
nowhere to hide;
the righteous few
hogtied

God won't save you
they lied
neither his son
he died

Innocence reaped
souls sickled and torn

Dark times forlorn...

a decayed omen
reborn

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  Ice…
Posted by: Quantum12 - 11-03-2024, 05:54 PM - Forum: Short Stories - Replies (13)

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Walking in times of ice and snow,
A big fluffy white polar bear walked my way.

She looked so cute running to me,
I thought we would be best friends,

I could ride her back through the snow,
We would go fishing all day,

She would keep me warm,
I would tell her stories of life,

We would be best friends,
Time will tell.

Then she fell.
Oops I forgot to teach her how to read...

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  Your calls and texts can be monitored by China
Posted by: UltraBudgie - 11-03-2024, 04:05 PM - Forum: Current Events - Replies (4)

From the Washington Post:

https://archive.ph/XC0SY

Quote:Last week, the Chinese hacking and spying operation known as “Salt Typhoon” was revealed to have targeted former president Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, as well as staffers for Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign and for Congress. The Post has reported that the hackers were able to collect audio and text messages from their targets in a wide-ranging espionage operation, which likely began several months ago.
...

The U.S. government and the telecom companies that are dealing with the breach have said very little publicly about it since it was first detected in August, leaving the public to rely on details trickling out through leaks. If millions of Americans are vulnerable to Chinese surveillance, they have a right to know now. More information needs to be shared, despite the sensitivity of the issue, the close timing to the election and what remains unknown.
...

“Right now, China has the ability to listen to any phone call in the United States, whether you are the president or a regular Joe, it makes no difference,” one of the hack victims briefed by the FBI told me. “This has compromised the entire telecommunications infrastructure of this country.”
...

Krishnamoorthi said he believes the companies have a moral and perhaps a legal obligation to inform their customers about a breach of this nature. Americans can only change their practices — by relying more on encrypted apps, for instance — if they are aware of the threat, he said.

China has come a long way since Mao. Their surveillance-state expertise is world-class, the result of building their own "universal monitoring" system spying on their own citizens. Every phone call and text message in China is potentially recorded and monitored, cities are full of surveillance cameras, automated systems digitally follow cars and travel. Purchases are tracked, all data is collected, sophisticated AIs are used to analyze activity and sentiment and influence behaviour.

Now, they're bringing that nightmare to the US. The worst thing is, even if this can be defended against, it could possibly come at the expense of some of our freedoms and privacy. In order to find and neutralize these Chinese threats, our government would have to do monitoring of the Internet and our critical infrastructure, more effectively than our apparently-laughable "homeland security" is responsible for today. No one wants to see the kind of dystopia China "enjoys" overseas here in America.

China is playing a long game here, and, of course, Russia is over in the corner laughing.

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  Putin humiliated as Kremlin's 'Hitler Youth' website hacked
Posted by: Kurokage - 11-03-2024, 12:13 PM - Forum: War In Ukraine - Replies (6)

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/197...ite-hacked

Quote:Vladimir Putin humiliated as Kremlin's 'Hitler Youth' website hacked with horror messagesThe 1.6 million member organisation has been compared to the Hitler Youth movement and is used by the Kremlin to indoctrinate and militarise young children in Russia.Hackers left a horrifying message on the Kremlin's Yunarmiya (Young Army) website, urging Russians to "kill" Vladimir Putin.
The 1.6 million-member organisation has been compared to the Hitler Youth movement and is used by the Kremlin to indoctrinate and militarise young children in Russia.
In a split image posted to the site, the hackers took aim at the Russian dictator and his bloody war in Ukraine.
 
One half of the image shows a Russian Lada car, which is accompanied by text saying: "Trade your brat [of a husband] for a home-made Lada."
This is a reference to compensation packages paid to the wives and families of Russian soldiers killed in Ukraine.
 
The other half of the image shows a notorious photo of Putin embracing a young boy on Red Square.
A thought bubble above Putin reads: "Wrap this one up in a [black funeral] bag, too", while a line below says: "Yunarmiya - your best, short future."

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It looks like Russian and Ukrainian hackers are stepping up there game in an attempt to disrupt some of the propaganda websites in Russia.
Attacking Putin's 'Hitler' Youth website is the latest in a long list of Government sites attacked since the illegal invasion and attack of Ukraine.

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  Is the CMP preparing people for a revolt?
Posted by: Solvedit - 11-03-2024, 12:01 PM - Forum: General Conspiracies - No Replies

The Civilian Marksmanship Program is run by the US Government.

Its ostensible purpose is to promote marksmanship and the safe handling of firearms. 

If a person meets certain conditions and has the right to own a gun, CMP will sell them a USGI M1 Garand which has been graded and rebuilt if necessary.  There's nearly new ones and well-worn-but-serviceable ones. 

I suspect a FOIA request would reveal most are going to urban or liberal areas.  

They may simply insinuate you get your M1 if you express dissatisfaction with how the country is going or perhaps are proud of your Confederate heritage. 

Do you really think liberals hate guns?  They may simply want to hide how they can barely keep the ghetto in line.  They also know if everyone has the best gun, they may not cooperate.  

Do any of our country-based members see a lot of M1s bIeing shot, bearing in mind there have always been a few?  (since they became surplus I mean.)  Suppose if they think you are with them, they will tell you to save the good M1s and maybe use up some badly worn ones for practice with your rifle club, or they direct you to buy a certain .22 rifle for practice.  

Whether or not the CMP is subverted, it is quite possible the program is being subverted by its clients or purchasers.


Who could be doing this and what could they want?  Communism is a huge possibility.

Or, they've been lying to us about what the Confederacy was all about.  It may have been about building the Ottoman empire.  It may have corrupted the inner city.

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  Old Barn Love…
Posted by: Quantum12 - 11-03-2024, 11:59 AM - Forum: Short Stories - Replies (4)

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You were so strong back in 1879,
I miss the moments swinging off bales of hay.

Dropping off the ceiling into your straw,
Even the horses miss living inside of you.

This time my friend it will change,
The craft of fixing you up will be fun.

New red bright colored paint,
I am even getting you a new roof.

The seasons even know to help us,
I can't imagine life without you.

Your big barn doors are being replaced,
The hindges are made of hardened copper.

The lights inside are now even led,
I promise you old friend I will never neglect you again...

Me and my friend barn...

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  Pardon The Security
Posted by: theshadowknows - 11-03-2024, 09:51 AM - Forum: Board Questions & Business - Replies (1)

You may have accidently seen an all black blocked page or a cloudflare error when submitting a new post or thread here on DI, but it's nothing to be alarmed about. Security is high for obvious reasons, and I'm tweaking the firewall as needed. If you encounter this error or any others pertaining to security, please message me, Armap, or submit a report to us so we can investigate.

Your security and privacy remains our primary concern, so please pardon the extra safeguards. Unfortunately, they're necessary right now as the script kiddies loom. The good news is there's been no more successful intrusions since the implementation of the current safeguards, and we're watching the logs very closely. 

Thank you for your cooperation.

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  An American citizen working for Russia in Ukraine was evacuated to Russia
Posted by: RussianTroll - 11-03-2024, 05:44 AM - Forum: War In Ukraine - Replies (4)

[Image: pic_824358e4642.jpg]Hello DI!

It recently became known that Russian special forces evacuated to Russian territory an American who had been working for Russia for more than 2 years and transmitting coordinates of military facilities.

His name is Daniel Richard Martindale. From a family of farmers - Christian conservatives, a representative of the very white American hinterland that is despised/hated by globalist Satanoids. A graduate of the Indiana Institute of Technology, a mechanical engineer by education.

As RIA Novosti was told in the security forces, the American was on Ukrainian territory from 02/11/2022. On his own initiative, for ideological reasons, he established contact with ours and transmitted coordinates of Ukrainian military facilities for more than two years. He used encryption, hid and really helped, often collecting information under the legend of a humanitarian. "This information has repeatedly helped to strike at the infrastructure, equipment, and personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine." According to the Defense Headquarters of the Donetsk People's Republic, Martindale played a key role in preparing the assault on the village of Bogoyavlenka in the Ugledar direction. The guy does not intend to return to the United States, considers Washington his enemy and would like to receive Russian citizenship.

Daniel Martindale is currently in Moscow. Today he gave his first press conference at the press center of the media group "Russia Today".
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Main points:
✔️ I want to say that I am here of my own free will, no one forced me to come here, I am of sound mind. And what I do, I do voluntarily.
✔️ I was in Poland two years before the war. I was a missionary, and I followed the news in the Western media and realized that there was a high probability that a war would start in Ukraine. <…> I have long wanted to go to Russia, I realized that this is the very moment I have been waiting for.
✔️ I needed to understand where the front line was, where the Russian soldiers were located. I started tracking it through the news, watched various Telegram channels. I found a channel that belonged to the DPR territorial defense unit, there was a bot there. I maintained contacts with the Russian side mainly through Telegram. I received messages through this bot.
✔️ Russian soldiers gave me a phone. They dropped it with a drone to where I was. This was an effort not only on my part, but on the Russian side too. It was to maintain contact, for which I am very grateful.
✔️ For the past two years, I have done everything to save the lives of Russian soldiers and ensure some kind of future for Russians in Ukraine. I would like to continue doing this.
✔️ The Kyiv authorities are responsible for the death, murder, torture, and kidnapping of thousands of people. History shows, history teaches us: if you do not punish a criminal, he will constantly continue to do the same thing, commit the same crimes and even go further - and everything will only get worse. I do not see any other options, I think that the Kyiv authorities need to be completely disarmed. And I think that this is the best option, if they are tried, if there is a tribunal. <…> I think that they should be tried either under Russian law or in accordance with international law, as they tried German war criminals.
✔️ In Ukraine, there was such a story of survival, so that I would not be discovered, so that they would not reveal what I was doing. It was not much different, I would say, from what many Ukrainians are going through, who are waiting for liberation by the Russian army.
✔️ The locals in the village where I was said that, in fact, Ukrainian soldiers are being sent to certain death and this is being done without any reason. And from what I saw in terms of troop movements, what I saw, what was happening in the neighboring houses, Ukraine suffered huge losses.
✔️ I have to thank the soldiers of the 29th Army who crossed the front line to evacuate me, they acted very professionally. There were a lot of threats from Ukrainian drones, and there was artillery shelling, but thanks to them, I was evacuated to Russian territory. I also have to mention and thank the Russian secret services who coordinated this operation, organized it.
✔️ Do I want to go back to the US? No. I can tell you for sure, as far as I understand. Since 2005, I consider the US my enemy. <…> The US government is responsible for the terrorist attacks of 2001. We, conservatives in the US, initially understood that the government is our enemy. But when they declared war on their own citizens, this became a reason for us to rebel against this government. So I do not want to go back to the US.
✔️ If something happens to me or my entire family in the near future, it will not be by chance, not by natural causes. It will be the work of the American authorities.
✔️ When the war is over and peace is restored, I would like to take up farming again. I would like to start a family in Russia. Perhaps start producing farm equipment for the Russian market, for the international market.
✔️ As for getting a Russian passport, I would like to do it.

Russia will win in any case, Daniel is convinced. Because it is fighting for a just cause.

That's the story.

Thank you.

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  What are you thinking about?
Posted by: LightAngel - 11-03-2024, 03:57 AM - Forum: Chit Chat - Replies (49)

What are you thinking this moment?

This topic represents free speech, so you can act stupid or wise.  

The only rule is honesty - so you must be honest about your thoughts today.


I will start.....

I am a sensitive creature, and I want world peace as soon as possible!

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  Presentiment
Posted by: Sirius - 11-03-2024, 03:31 AM - Forum: Psychology, Philosophy & Metaphysics - Replies (3)

Shoooo, this is a hard one. I have some question on the paranormal and quantification thereof when it comes to presentiment.

Fundamental truths exists, one of them being light. You can see it, you can create it. It's a useful thing, this text is encoded in light and streamed to your screen. You can warm your food with it, this is all basic stuff. 

We also understand that it's an emission, an effect...radiation.  Just like sound is the pressure wave that hit's your ear from something going bang, not something going bang in your ear.

That is a yardstick, we can measure things with it such as:

These "orbs of lights", ghosts, shadow people etc. that keeps getting reported has in common that they are all effects.  If the stories are true then also short lived most of the time if you are lucky.  Some of these phenomena sounds allot like presentiment or the physiological effect of it...and it's just a theory, don't woo me.

Another truth I know is that body and the mind can be tricked. You can control breathing to alter your mental state. Your mental state can arouse your body as examples.

These graphs in the video, this "electrodermal activity" people experience before looking at a picture.  Wouldn't your body and mind get tricked if the picture isn't shown for some reason?  I think there is a high change a hallucination could be created by the body that would look like a "orbs of lights", ghosts, shadow people becasue that was what it was expecting.

This also then sounds like it's not related to mental health and not exorcists needed if someone is struggling, it's a physical problem...some gland is overproducing hormones? not a doctor.

Before I'm accused of killing all the fairies.  I feel we should have a way to classify "orbs of lights", ghosts, shadow people etc. as presentiment and not just quickly confine it and I would be interested in methods.

Both things can be true.

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  Floods in Spain.
Posted by: ArMaP - 11-02-2024, 08:28 PM - Forum: Fragile Earth - Replies (6)

As I haven't seen it reported here I decided to post about the big flash floods that happened this week in Spain and that have killed at least 211 people, with thousands without electricity or water.



The floods were caused by a DANA (Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos, meaning Isolated Depression at High Levels) storm, a kind of storm that happens when cold air at around 9000 metres is hit by hot and humid air coming from the Mediterranean sea, creating extremely strong rains, with at least one location getting 491 mm per square metre of rain.

After the worst passed, thousands of people went there to help clean and rebuild, with the authorities asking them not to go by road, as they were so many they were blocking the few available roads that could be needed for rescue of any survivors found, as there are still many people missing.

The people is not happy with the official response, as only this area of Spain was badly affected, so they are expecting more help from the local and national governments.

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  Will it Lead to WW3?
Posted by: lostbook - 11-02-2024, 07:42 PM - Forum: World War III - Replies (5)

Hello, everyone.

It’s been a while since I posted anything but I’ve got a question in mind that I think we can discuss here…? That question is whether the real reason for the current Middle East problems is because the powers that be; namely Western powers, want to hurt the economies of the rising BRICS nations by dragging them into a conflict which will hurt their economies and slow the rapid expansion of the BRICS? Just wondering…?

I think whatever the case, it’s a dangerous game being played right now which may lead to WW3.

What say you?

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  Tulsi Gabbard interview on Fox News
Posted by: 727Sky - 11-02-2024, 07:20 PM - Forum: Decision 2024 - Replies (3)

Tulsi was interviewed on Fox news and had a few things to say that might be of interest to all of us. One point she made was that at some of the rallies for Trump it is asked how many in the audience are or were Democrats.... by a show of hands over 35% and at some places 50% say they were once democrats.... I do not understand how anyone could vote for the democratic ticket this go around...however they still might win with all the fixes in-place they have had 4 years to install....or America wants more of what the Democrats are offering ?

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  Time Keeper…
Posted by: Quantum12 - 11-02-2024, 10:47 AM - Forum: Short Stories - Replies (5)

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Above the Earth and far away lived the great time keeper named Nosh. Nosh runs all the clocks of time for the whole universe. Nosh and his wife Sara make sure not even one second is off on their clocks or else life all around will change.

Nosh has a special instrument to keep track of time. This instrument is in tune with the energy of the Universe. It measures seconds to the 1/100000 and is never wrong. Nosh and Sarah ( baby ) this instrument. They know not even one second can be off on their clocks of life.

One day Nosh noticed his world started to shake and crumble, he was worried his clocks would lose time. After hours of checking everything one clock was off by a second and all the people on planet Earth lived in peace...

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  What would you say you do here?
Posted by: pianopraze - 11-02-2024, 07:23 AM - Forum: Decision 2024 - Replies (24)

Ron Paul to assist Elon in cutting down size of government.

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*Can someone please post the pic in this thread!

Vote Trump you get Kennedy focusing on Health, Gabbard helping with Military, Musk cutting government with Department Of Government Efficiency… but wait there’s more!

Now we get Ron Paul helping Elon!

* Mod note (Encia22) - Added image.

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  Mites are living and mating on your face
Posted by: FlyersFan - 11-02-2024, 04:49 AM - Forum: Health - Replies (16)

Interesting ... I didn't know about this until I read the article ... 

Almost all adults have mites that live and mate on their face.  Yep, you read that correctly.  Almost all adults have face mites, 8 legged bugs that live in your oil glands and hair, and eat dead skin cells.   They live hidden during the day and come out at night.  Don't worry about mite poop though .. they don't poop.  They just eat.

Mites are living and mating on your face

Quote:“If you’re unfamiliar, Demodex are little, tiny mites that live inside our hair follicles and oil glands — and get this, they come out at night to eat our dead skin cells and mate,” Walter said Thursday on TikTok. “And even wilder, they can sense light with their primitive eyes, which is how they know the coast is clear to come out and play.”
 
Almost all adults have these shameless squatters, research has found.

Two species affect humans — Demodex folliculorum, which measures about a third of a millimeter in length and lives mostly in facial hair follicles, particularly around the eyelashes and eyebrows, and Demodex brevis, which spans less than a quarter of a millimeter and lingers in oil glands. 

Demodex tend to live about two weeks. One study reported that the mites lay their eggs inside the follicles or oil glands. They hatch after three or four days and develop into adults in about a week. When the mites die, their bodies decompose inside the follicle or gland.

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  The ever-widening internet memory hole
Posted by: UltraBudgie - 11-02-2024, 12:22 AM - Forum: Decision 2024 - Replies (10)

This is sort of ominous. The service that snapshots newspapers and other websites, archive.org, was hit by an attack last month. While the site is back "online", I've just heard that it is not showing snapshots of anything after October 10th:

Quote:Beneath the headlines, there are technical events taking place that are fundamentally affecting the ability of any historian even to look back and tell what is happening. Incredibly, the service Archive.org which has been around since 1994 has stopped taking images of content on all platforms. For the first time in 30 years, we have gone a long swath of time – since October 8-10 – since this service has chronicled the life of the Internet in real time.

As of this writing, we have no way to verify content that has been posted for three weeks of October leading to the days of the most contentious and consequential election of our lifetimes. Crucially, this is not about partisanship or ideological discrimination. No websites on the Internet are being archived in ways that are available to users. In effect, the whole memory of our main information system is just a big black hole right now.

Source: They Are Scrubbing the Internet Right Now

This is called the "memory hole" effect -- where the internet can rewrite or remove history, leaving no trace. There have also been other changes, too -- videos reported inaccessible at YouTube, search results disappearing or turning into duplicate garbage after a few dozen "trustworthy" results, content hidden among mountains of AI-generated spam, and more.

Google used to allow access to "cached" versions of sites, accessible when the original page had been removed or couldn't be loaded; that feature is now gone.

The timing of this is suspect, indeed, and it's gotten much worse very quickly, but this has been a creeping incremental problem for years. Searching for historical events has become more and more difficult, and it seems most people just resort to Wikipedia or other "approved narratives". Anyone have any research advice?

Will the history that is written about Election 2024 be accurate? How will we know?

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  Bloody Great Music
Posted by: Encia22 - 11-01-2024, 09:25 PM - Forum: Music - No Replies

Thread closed for Staff review.

A music thread already exists. Moved all posts to: 
https://denyignorance.com/Thread-Favorite-Music

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  Knock knock
Posted by: UltraBudgie - 11-01-2024, 05:07 PM - Forum: Stand-Up Comedy - Replies (9)

Knock, knock.
Who's there?
9/11.
9/11 who?
You said you'd never forget!

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  Fantastical beasts and where to find them
Posted by: Sirius - 11-01-2024, 01:18 PM - Forum: Member Art - Replies (19)

In order not to traumatize fellow community members in the portal. I will be posting the beasties as I find them here from now on.

Feel free to contribute, collaborators are always welcome.

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