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That's all true and excellent points. Hopefully the director included broader points than just Trump in the film, because nothing was more Orwellian than the bullshit that happened during the last failed puppetmaster administration when they exploited a flu for political social control under the ruse of safety.
I watched a video where the director of this movie (Raoul Peck) was interviewed. In the interview the director mentioned he's seeing signs of Orwell's warnings and how leaders will lie to retain power. My favorite lie from Trump is that those of us who are not onboard with tariffs are fools. Tariffs are paid directly to government which is a tax that gets passed down to consumers. Retaliatory tariffs from Canada, along with their new $9.95 handling fee for imports, means Canada earns more from a Canadian buying our products then we do as the manufacturer having paid for the materials, equipment, labor, etc. to produce the goods. When Government earns more from the sale of goods then the producers, eventually those producers disappear. Unfortunately a lousy $2,000 tariff dividend won't cover the thousands more we as individuals are paying for Government getting rich on our backs.
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thoughts at <a href="https://www.seroundtable.com/google-more-core-updates-more-often-unlikely-40293.html">https://www.seroundtable.com/google-more-core-updates-more-often-unlikely-40293.html</a>
I see the movie "Orwell 2+2=5" has been released, but haven't watched it yet. The release of this movie might be good timing for what's going on with AI and all the lies we're being fed.
"In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
<a href="https://youtu.be/EAIeRSpD2sA?si=Lie5VHKuk2jYMpPs">https://youtu.be/EAIeRSpD2sA?si=Lie5VHKuk2jYMpPs</a>
It's kinda wild seeing many gurus outside this industry only now suddenly realizing the harsh reality of what AI is about to do to many more job sectors.
We all fucking might as well be Nostradamus to them for seeing it firsthand long ago and how obvious this shit was to predict spreading far beyond just publishers...
<a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1988698419997675964">https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1988698419997675964</a>
I'm reminded of Trump's shameful acts to shield the Google Crime Syndicate from facing justice. I don't think anyone in his admin has the spine to do the right thing - call for Google's immediate dissolution. Maybe the EU will be the one to say the only way to restore fairness to markets is to fully exclude Google from those markets.
<b>EU investigates Google over concerns content is unfairly demoted in search results</b> - <a href="https://apnews.com/article/google-european-commission-investigation-548209cd3266713769df6ac991113cbf">https://apnews.com/article/google-european-commission-investigation-548209cd3266713769df6ac991113cbf</a>
<blockquote>European Union regulators said Thursday they’re investigating whether Google is unfairly demoting some content from media publishers in search results under a policy the company says is aimed at combating scammers.
Brussels moved forward despite the risk of incurring the wrath of President Donald Trump, who has lashed out at the 27-nation bloc’s digital regulations and vowed to retaliate if American tech companies are penalized.</blockquote>
They had this video on our local news for all to see. Probably trillions of dollars invested in AI so bots can fall over and Google can steal our content/traffic to serve the world shitty ads and even shittier search results. It's crazy stuff and a destructive waste of money. Anyway it looks like the guy either pushed the bot or hit a button on its back to perform it's next trick. LOL This is the AI that's going to takeover the world and replace workers, except for nursing home aides to pickup bots that fall over and issue an "I've fallen and can't get up" Life Alert alarm. Another step or shall I say fall to a world like the movie Idiocracy. Check out Cramer in the news about AI. More comparisons are being drawn to the dot bomb burst. I watched this dude from the start to finish of the dot com bubble. Stock market tanked yesterday and looks to continue today.
<b>Jim Cramer worries about tech insider selling, says AI ‘mania’ could be ‘starting to unwind’</b> - <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/13/jim-cramer-tech-insider-selling-ai-mania-worries-unwind.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/13/jim-cramer-tech-insider-selling-ai-mania-worries-unwind.html</a>
<blockquote>CNBC’s Jim Cramer unpacked Thursday’s market action and worried about declines in the broader tech sector, suggesting insider selling in certain companies is reminiscent of the dotcom era.</blockquote>
wohoo raptive just decreased requirements to 25K pageviews, what a news bro - same setup as their main program, just with less traffic - <a href="https://raptive.com/blog/opening-the-door-to-more-creators-who-meet-raptive-quality-standards/">https://raptive.com/blog/opening-the-door-to-more-creators-who-meet-raptive-quality-standards/</a>
best network out there, maybe better than mediavine"
October to December used to be the months we got twice, three times the traffic of other months. Shopping months. Now we have record low traffic. This industry is so cooked. Google has killed it. I do update the sites but I know they will never get enough traffic to even pay minimum wage.
Worth making this point. The world is trash right now and is not conducive to growing a business. Who knows how many jobs the AI revolution is going to kill; people may not have any money to spend. In the US and elsewhere, the upper class and the rich continue to get richer, while the middle and working class continues to erode. The best thing right now may just be to hunker down and live minimalist.
Not sure what country you're in but in the US the turnover rate for truck drivers is like 90% and I would imagine it's because it's a lot more demanding a job than many expect
Russia demonstrated their first humanoid AI robot. They might want to change it's name from AIdol to Joe Biden.
<a href="https://youtu.be/JmqLfJkazhM?si=Orq0LXGO2W8a685l">https://youtu.be/JmqLfJkazhM?si=Orq0LXGO2W8a685l</a>
<blockquote>once I'm there, money just flows and I can do what I love the most afterward - outsource / spend money on various business until one sticks, as it did with a blog last time :) and just put shit load of money into it!</blockquote>The global economy is going down the drain, Google destroyed the internet, etc. Few will have money to spend except for the Big Tech thieves who stole it. We all may be better off saving our money instead of wasting it on new ventures in this environment.
Small changes by them can have massive effects and I think thats what they are doing, rather than a big bang update, they're releasing them gradually, in the hope that no one notices but we do. Remember Johnmu, he said they make changes everyday and we're seeing the effect of that more than ever.