formerly Chuck's
love my RG353M, can't really see how the form factor for a pocketable horizontal device could be improved beyond it, besides a more powerful chip of course.
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society" - Jiddu Krishnamurti
cool thanks for the correction on JFK, I hadn't watched Corbett's video in your link at the time of posting but now I have. I've come across Corbett before but there's a wealth of knowledge there I still need to absorb, gonna watch his Century of Enslavement documentary next.
Re: de-banking, this reminds me of the old conspiracy cliche of implanted microchips (the so called "Mark of the Beast") where all your financial transactions have to pass through the implant and if you get out of line they just deactivate the chip so you can't buy anything. Turns out they don't actually need to put an implant in you to exclude you from buying what you need to survive.
"Well, one day their own opinion, or their lack of keeping up with their social credit score / carbon tax, will be their reason for being de-banked."
Good point here. A comment that came up in the Data Privacy thread here on Lemmy recently hits on a similar idea. Cheering on censorship or more government power is all fine and dandy until one day you hold an opposing viewpoint to the power structure then you'll wish you hadn't supported these mafia thugs.
Re: solutions, our ability to create an entirely new world definitely exists and is actually capable of being implemented, but not with the bullies still in power. Any attempt to implement meaningful change will be met with force by those who have a monopoly on the use of said force. Does it have to come down to fighting fire with fire though? Or can enough people eventually wake up and just choose to walk away from the system that it crumbles without firing a shot?
If anyone’s to blame it’s Woodrow Wilson, bastard doomed us all by setting this monster loose. Our last real president JFK died because he dared to defy the fed and make his own currency (executive order 11110), been nothing but puppets since. I wish I could say there was a way out other than hoping the beast eats itself so we can start all over, but I’m sure they’ve got plans to profit off a potential collapse and position themselves in front for whatever’s next in their bullshit great reset. Like yeah we do need a great reset, but on our terms
Not the best but Tubi has a few stand up specials. It technically is possible to download videos from Tubi using a site called Keepvid but it’s kinda jank and doesn’t always work right
Decentralized localization of every possible energy generation system (renewables but if we're dreaming here then the supposedly suppressed Zero Point / radiant / overunity energy systems). Post scarcity abundance levels of all essential items, but mainly food, again through the localized means of production with vertical farm towers if space is a constraint. Free travel to anywhere on the planet and beyond using suppressed anti gravity electrogravitic technology (you said I could dream). Free access to every form of media ever made and knowledge formerly sequestered behind paywalls or otherwise suppressed, and a free and open forum to discuss these things.
But most importantly a new way of thinking that is cooperation based instead of competition based, and a new economic system that renders the profit motive obsolete and money itself much less of a controlling factor in peoples lives (such as a resource based economy like The Venus Project)
This one is identical to the July 12th 1990 pictogram that was featured on the cover of a Led Zeppelin album. Coincidentally this formation is near the burial site of the drummer from Led Zeppelin, John Bonham.
but cmon circlemakers this isn't 1990, expectations have been raised past simple pictograms lol.
love Network, been years since I’ve seen it but great movie
First of all thanks for being here. So I'll try to answer your questions in the context of the two possible creators of these designs: man made or "something else" (for the record I think the formation in this post above was man made)
Man made:
As far as I know their method uses planks with string attached to both ends that they hold while they step on the plank to flatten the crop. This flattening causes harm to the plants by either breaking the stems or creasing them in a way that is unrecoverable to the farmer. So naturally the majority of farmers are very much against this. Recently in the 6/23 Owslebury formation the farmer actually dumped a load of manure in the middle of the formation to try to prevent people from coming into the field to check out the formation for themselves.
"Something else":
So to even begin to suggest a different possibility than the mainstream view of "they're all manmade without exception", you need a bit of background information which I would suggest starting with this documentary, but just to sum up some of the buzzwords: bent nodes, expulsion cavities, microscopic metal spheres, chalk aquifers, microwave radiation, energy/magnetism distortions (swinging compass needles/tech failures/drained batteries), "ghost" circles, squaring the circle/perfect geometry/fractal/mathematical theorems, the interactive effect, time distortions, balls of light, shafts of light, etc.
In the case of the "genuine" circles, the plant stems are bent several inches off the ground so that there is an empty gap between the ground and the floor of the formation so that it "crunches" under foot like walking in snow. However the plants themselves are not harmed and eventually start to rise vertically again due to phototropism (the tendency of plants to grow towards the sun), so the farmer can still harvest the plants inside the formation most of the time. In some of the fields that formations frequently appear, the farmer would charge an entrance fee to allow the public to visit the formation which would recompense for any potential damage.
As for videos of one being made, I can't currently find a video of people making one but NBC hired the "Team Satan" team to make a formation for their show "Unmasked: The Secrets of Deception". As for the "something else", well there is no video that directly shows them being made (other than the controversial 1996 Oliver Castle video that is widely seen as being a hoax nowadays). But there's also this video that shows orbs over a field then cuts to the next morning apparently inside the formation where the orbs were the night before. If nothing else this video shows the intricate ground lay with knots and "nests" made in the formation.
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Ghost Circles: designs reappearing the next year in the same location but different crop
(lemmy.world)
I have to concede that the design of essentially every crop circle so far could potentially be reproduced by man given enough time, since some of the formations that are known to be man made can be very complex and beautiful. Human artists are amazingly talented and are capable of pulling off great designs.
However this concept of ghost circles suggests that in addition to the known man made formations, there is also something anomalous happening in the "genuine" formations. Granted, this ghost phenomenon doesn't happen with every formation. If it did, then we could conclude that the pressure of the planks or rollers used by humans would compact the soil and alter the growth of the next crop planted in that field. But we don't ever see the return of formations that are known to be man made.
So there has to be some kind of energetic or chemical change happening in the soil of the "genuine" formations that affects the plant growth of the next year's crop.
In John Root's fantastic presentation "The Majesty And Mystery of Crop Circles", he shows that this phenomenon doesn't always manifest itself in the same ways. While it can lead to stunted plant growth in the next year's crop:
It can also lead to enhanced plant growth:
And also it can have effects on snow, like delaying the melting of the snow where the formation was:
Or even accelerating the melting of snow:
Here's a few other examples of ghost formations:
Also more ghost pics of the Cley Hill formation above, taken between the two pics in the pics above
I loved The Last Mimzy, kids find some "toys" that give them powers. It's cheesy but damn if its not wholesome as hell.