The pandemic is likely responsible for a lot of it, even though people don't want to talk about it. Covid is proven to reduce IQ, every infection is damaging the brian and the key finding is that people aren't aware its happened to them.
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They also spread the truth as well even when government and media have conspired to obscure it. Social media has led to people beating companies, governments and politicians simply by providing an avenue to share reality. Social media defends democracy and protects democracy. There has always been an enormous power balance issues between the elites and the peasants and social media for the first time is allowing the peasants to speak to each other rather than the only voice being the elites through their media platforms.
It never has been just a winter virus, its still wave after wave and doesn't seem particularly interested in a pattern. There has for a few years been a vague summer and winter pattern but then this year its mostly just hit a wave in Autumn. Its still doing its pandemic thing with new variants, immune waning and events being the driving force of new waves.
This sort of thing is a lot better suited to a local AI, it isn't going to suddenly become publicly accessible because a big corporation "accidentally" shared all your data.
When given the option the population chooses consume more every single time. When you ask voters if Climate change matters a super majority says it does but when they rank it alongside other issues its at the bottom of the list, with things that will pollute more higher in the list. Politicians are reading that signal correctly, consume the planet because all the caring is purely performative. When it comes to protests to try and change the situation most people find themselves wanting the disruption to end, and thus join the polluters side. They don't actually care and their own behaviour shows that they don't. Humanity doesn't have a future, we are going to shoot on through to the worst case scenario and extinction.
I stopped contributing to open source code because of it. I consider it stupid now to contribute to public work because it will be almost instantly stolen and laundered through an AI that breaches the license its published under.
This is comparing to the excess deaths. In the UK excess deaths expected a year were increased by 75,000 a year in 2023 to hide the COVID deaths. Officially it was due to an aging population, which obviously did not increase that much in two years there is a clear step due to COVID. Despite that change there were still excess deaths as the toll reached over 100k a year. The ONS has changed how they calculate it again last year and it's tricky to undo the more complex hiding approach so the deaths are now officially baked in. So the UKs standing in this isn't likely accurate, the extent to which the UK went to hide not just deaths but excess deaths was extensive and still is.
This started long before Trump, fascism has been growing in popular support ever since the 2008 financial crisis. Its better funded now than it was but its been a long term project for the far right and they have found their trigger issues they need to lie about to convince the populace to vote them in. There will be no deprogramming fascism, it proved impossible after World War 2 and it will prove impossible now as well.
The Asus BT8 is a wifi 7 router supported by openWRT and there is quite a few of us running it. I think generally OpenWRT is a good way to go and the Table of Hardware on the OpenWRT site will give you a dizzying array of options for wifi 6 and 7 devices that are supported and you get to pick your spec and price from those available.
You might need the modem device if you are using cable, otherwise its FTTH or DSL then you wont.
If you search for OpenWRT tutorials on youtube you will find a McFly or something like that name and he has a bunch of tutorials on how to set up OpenWRT and a range of more advanced networking topics and how to use OpenWRT to utilise them.
The USA's (ex) allies own quite a bit of that debt as bonds, at some point they are going to start cutting their losses and selling those bonds for pennies on the dollar. The debt might go down but the USD will go with it. They don't need to fight militarily the whole world shares in being able to destroy the USA economically and if some choose to do so things will get really bad.
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We are heading for 3 degrees by 2050, that much seems pretty certain and baked in now. Past that is murky but given how little action has been taken so far it seems we will probably speed run up to 6C by 2100. Throughout this entire period we have followed the worst case scenario that everyone called unrealistic. Turns out the IPCC has been underplaying the impact of CO2 for 50 years. Humanity can't change, unless we have a technological breakthrough this ends with only millions of humans left and most species on the planet extinct.