World Economic Forum Megathread (The Great Reset)

[FAQnews Correspondent]

Environmentalists are the greatest threat in the world to the environment, and they are all retards.

So many times I have been reading books on environmental economics and it comes up again and again. They are driven entirely by emotion and their half-brained attempts to fix things invariably backfire and make them worse, especially when it comes to land usage. Save the rainforest? Not when we're cutting down acre upon acre of it to grow your fucking ethanol corn and your fucking organic crops.

Environmentalists should be necklaced in Minecraft. The only valuable kind of environmentalism is environmental economics, ie environmentalism where you have to actually quantify and put a dollar price on cause and effect.

They're the biggest nimbyists on the planet.

 

[Lichen Bark]

They're the biggest nimbyists on the planet.

"not in my back yard" That's what's taught in the schools though, they are taught not to look at any other nations, because "they deserve to industrialize to our 1st world living standards"

That river of waste. You're willfully ignorant If you look at that and don't realize our technological society is not sustainable.

It's not. If we don't learn to colonize the stars it's over. Hypothetically as a species if we were able to magically take all the money spent on blowing each other up and channel that into pushing actual space goals, I often wonder where we'd be today. You want to talk about learning how to be sustainable, think about the engineering and new ideas that could come from a base on another celestial body where the resources are very finite? In my heart I just don't see it any other way, humans don't stop unless their is some kind of shattering calamity, there is always a drive for more and more. The only solution is more space to expand into. I'm not saying don't try to conserve things, but the rate at which we destroy the environment outpaces the conservation efforts in my opinion, so at best we are buying time. If we ever manage to harness fusion power things could get interesting in a good way, but ITER is still miles away, and the pace is slow.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

It's funny 'cause I remember seeing some rando anon on 4chan /x/ once claiming that WW3 will start in 2030. At this point, I'll take it as gospel because 4chan is infested to the brim with glowies pulling predictive programming bullshit on people.

I honestly believe that if the global elite's Great Reset fails, or if in general it looks like they're about to get thrown out of power, they would start World War III in some last ditch effort to hold onto their power (maybe being at the center of some new military-industrial complex) or otherwise burn the entire world down just so no one else can sit where they do.

 

[ArthuriusMartyrius]

I honestly believe that if the global elite's Great Reset fails, or if in general it looks like they're about to get thrown out of power, they would start World War III in some last ditch effort to hold onto their power (maybe being at the center of some new military-industrial complex) or otherwise burn the entire world down just so no one else can sit where they do.

Eh, I'm pretty sure WW3 is coming either way. If you will notice, throughout history, major status quo changes have usually come about because of big conflicts. The Seven Years' War, the Napoleonic Wars, World War I (which essentially put an end to the age of empires), World War II (which gave us the modern globalist world where America reigns supreme). COVID-19 is simply not enough to change entire nations and the course of world politics. All this shit is merely leading up to one heck of a grand finale for the current era of our existence.

It's not. If we don't learn to colonize the stars it's over. Hypothetically as a species if we were able to magically take all the money spent on blowing each other up and channel that into pushing actual space goals, I often wonder where we'd be today. You want to talk about learning how to be sustainable, think about the engineering and new ideas that could come from a base on another celestial body where the resources are very finite? In my heart I just don't see it any other way, humans don't stop unless their is some kind of shattering calamity, there is always a drive for more and more. The only solution is more space to expand into. I'm not saying don't try to conserve things, but the rate at which we destroy the environment outpaces the conservation efforts in my opinion, so at best we are buying time. If we ever manage to harness fusion power things could get interesting in a good way, but ITER is still miles away, and the pace is slow.

Throwing more money at shit doesn't speed up progress, unless you are literally a third-world hellhole with abysmal academic standards. Besides, all the modern advances in computing and space, for example, literally came about as side-effect of us spending money on finding more efficient ways to blow each other up.

That river of waste. You're willfully ignorant If you look at that and don't realize our technological society is not sustainable.

BTW, where are dem chesties, you dang, dirty liar?

 

[Vince McMahon]

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You have been spelling doom for the last 40 years and yet you only encourage more consumption. Really gets the joggin' noggin.

 

[teriyakiburns]

How did this meme emerge? It sounds like it's based on a couple of studies and then spun by a PR group attempting to market climate change.

We've had nine to twelve years to prevent the climate collapses since the late 80s. It's always the same lies: fusion is 30 years away, your mother is a saint, and we have a decade to fix the climate or our children are going to suffer hell on earth.

Here's a prediction for you: global temperatures are going to fall for a couple of decades, but even though none of their models predicted it, it will be claimed that it's actually a sign of the warming.

 

[Drain Todger]

If it was a simple matter of injecting people with nanowires, I don't think Elon Musk would be spending so much time developing a machine that bores a hole into your skull and carefully implants electrodes. How the hell would the wires even make it to your brain, the right location, the right neurons..... The real conspiracy to me is how you managed to get a Nvidia 3090 founders edition when you would have better luck finding water in a desert. It's not easy getting things across the blood brain barrier. If you put wires randomly in a persons head then inductively heated them, well, i think there are easier ways of scrambling brains.

You're thinking in terms of macro-scale materials. An inductively heated wire would indeed scramble someone's brain. But a nanowire, on the other hand, has such a small material cross-section, we would be talking about nanowatts of energy. Perhaps low enough for the cell encasing it to survive.

That still leaves many unanswered questions. How would the nanowires, or other nanotech, perform alterations to synaptic function in an orderly, structured way? Wouldn’t they all receive the same RF and output the same electrical signal? There is a type of therapy out there that does the same thing. DBS, or deep brain stimulation. An implanted brain pacemaker. The electrodes for those are quite large and pass through a lot of brain tissue. They use them to treat and prevent seizures, but I suppose the wrong signal could trigger seizures instead. DBS can also be used to treat cravings and compulsions, like alcoholism.

Imagine if someone with their finger on the controls of nanotech electrodes in people’s heads could alter people’s desires for food, sex, lodgings. Basic Maslow’s Hierarchy stuff. Not anything really advanced like directly altering the contents of people’s minds, but a simpler sort of Pavlovian control, making people listless and dampening their desires. The potential boons to a mad despot are obvious. If you can lower the threshold for satisfaction throughout the population, you can subject people to the worst living conditions imaginable. Living in the pod, eating bugs, whatever. Nativist and populist movements will dry up. People will become contented, even though they’re being treated like animals.

One of the biggest unsolved problems in science fiction is how to power nanomachines. A lot of fictional nanotech, it's just completely handwaved away. Somehow, it's powered by piezoelectricity, by mechanical bending, or by the user's body heat, or maybe by a micro-fusion reactor powered life support device or something of that nature. Shit like in Deus Ex, or Metal Gear Rising, you're talking about a level of energy density basically unattainable with real nanotech. The waste heat alone would kill you.

But what if you could power it externally? With harvested RF? It's a far more practical solution. The same principles have been studied for “smart dust”.

https://mnsl-journal.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40486-017-0051-0

One of the last things Julian Assange tried warning people about before his last feed was cut was “intelligent, evil dust in everything”. Smart dust has actually been another staple of science fiction for a long time. Stanislaw Lem conceived of it as far back as 1964, in his book, The Invincible. Smart dust in science fiction often takes on fanciful forms, like clouds of robot gnats that can assemble anything out of anything else, or dissolve people instantly, or other such things. Real smart dust is nowhere near that advanced, but they have, in fact, figured out how to make microelectronic sensors and RFID chips that are small enough that dozens can fit on your fingertip.

HITACHI GLOBAL : News Release : World's smallest and thinnest 0.15 x 0.15 mm, 7.5µm thick RFID IC chip

Some people pass around memes saying these things have GPS. That’s not possible. They’re so tiny, they can’t put out enough wattage to reach satellites. That’s another problem with smart dust and nanotech and the like. Having the power density for them not just to receive, but to transmit signals. Perhaps, one day, such devices will be able to act as transmitter arrays, linking to adjacent devices and boosting their signal.

It’s an interesting engineering problem.

But yet we banned straws, we saved the planet guys! Source: https://www.dw.com/en/almost-all-plastic-in-the-ocean-comes-from-just-10-rivers/a-41581484 They reference a study in the article. Ninety percent....NINTY. One river dumps 1.5 million metric tons a year into the ocean.
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The thing that blows my mind about environmentalism, is that we export most of the manufacturing to other nations with lax regulations, whereas if we kept things here we could have less polluting factories. I hate the "per capita" thing the WEF always throws in your face. The west has a declining population, we don't have a bagillion rural serfs to pad our per capita pollution numbers. What disingenuous cunts. There was a really good comic I saw with Woodsy the Owl (the environmental owl - paraphrasing here) and in the first panes of the comic he's telling the kids "great job kid's we've cleaned up all we can here" and in the next panes he has donned a skull bandana on his mouth and he's holding an AK-47, and he's like "now to clean up the rest". There is an elephant in the room that needs addressing, and nice words probably won't have much effect. If anyone can find that comic, ill give you a sticker, pwomise. It was so good.

The whole thing of shifting the cultural burden of pollution from companies to individual litterers and consumers is something that has been ongoing for decades. Why wouldn’t they? They have billions of dollars and big PR firms are a phone call away.

The truth about plastic recycling is that it doesn’t really do anything. The vast majority of the plastic that we use is newly-made, and most plastics and films cannot be melted back down into pellets. Recycling is just there to create the appearance of doing something for the environment, satisfying people’s hedonic needs.

America Finally Admits Recycling Doesn’t Work | Jon Miltimore

A recent New York Times story details how hundreds of cities across the country are abandoning recycling efforts. People are finally admitting what many market economists said several decades ago: mandated recycling makes neither economic nor environmental sense.

fee.org

Aluminum recycling is another story. Aluminum can always be melted down and reused. A neat home project is to make (or acquire) your own furnace and crucible and try your hand at sand casting with old soda cans and the like.

It really is a shame how much disposable stuff we throw away. Plastic isn’t good for you, either. Xenoestrogens and all that. People really ought to go back to buying liquids in reusable glass containers and taking them back to the distributor to be washed instead of buying milk and water and stuff in plastic bottles and jugs and paper cartons. Plastic saves on shipping weight and it’s light, sanitary, and convenient, but we pay a terrible price for that convenience. As hipster as a stainless steel Hydro Flask may be, they’re great for the environment.

All of this is largely moot, however. The biggest polluters are industrial. We didn’t get rid of pollution in America. We exported it to Southeast Asia. “Clean” renewable energy tech and solid-state electronics are actually quite nasty to make.

Much of the environmentalist shit we hear does not come from a position of heartfelt, honest care for our environment. It’s a way to shift blame from the powerful to the powerless and mollify people’s consciences by making them think that something is being done about the problem. It’s dishonest. What the wealthy really want is to pull up the ladder, bar you from upward mobility, and wall themselves off in gated communities where they never have to see or touch a plebeian ever again. They want Elysium to be real. They will eat the beef and pork. You will eat the bugs. In fact, they are galled that you are using resources that belong to them and their children.

We have created a system that rewards psychopathy. Why are we so surprised that we are ruled by deranged psychopaths in a vast kakistocracy?

 

[General Disarray]

Where do we draw the line with "Progress?" It's assumed to be ever-expanding and growing, like economies. When do we put the sculptor's knife down and say, "Done!" Why do we always, in perpetuity, keep creating new laws, new statutes, new PROBLEMS? Greed and money. I still remember working for the Great America theme park, when it was brand new, as a teen. Each area was distinct, the restaurants make food that represented the area, and shops were full of artisan glass-blown trinkets and such. I worked in a candy shop where we made all our own caramel apples and waffle cones on premises. There was a central area for checkout, and that was surrounded with display cases of pralines, and other candies (this was in Orleans Place, you see, so it fit the theme.)

Then one day, I was at the park and saw a big display in front of the Demon rollercoaster, the coaster my own plumber uncle worked on for the water features. It read, "Sponsored by Chevrolet," with a big shiny car rotating on a flashy platform. That was it, ther beginning of the end. The magic was over. Soon, every area felt and looked just like the others, the uniforms were less "costume" and more generic, and my beloved candy shop was gutted. The whole building is just a queue to line up for your generic amusement park slop. No cute bric-a-brac, all only branded stuffies, T-shirts, etc. that you'd find at a seedy NYC kiosk for tourists.

Money. Greed. That's it. They corporatized everything including our amusement. Must ever expand, to get more money. Must always write new laws to keep Congress busy (lol) and lolyers in business. Must always push social norms, progress progress progress!

To what end, though? I hate this new world we live in, and feel so bad for the kids nowadays who have only seen Corporations as their providers, entertainers and bosses. Truly we live in a corporate oligarchy and have for a long time now.

Sorry for rambling, I'm just really nostalgic rn and wondering why I would want to continue life down this path. It's pretty bleak, fam.

Anyway, here, have a video.

Curious note: ever since I commented about that Amazon commercial a page or so back, I've not seen that ad again lol.

 

[FatalTater]

Is it bad for the environment to use every word in the English language twice for every post?

Re: environmentalists - If I'm talking to one I bring up permaculture. They either haven't heard of it or they think it's something that could be easily done on a continent-sized scale.
They all want to feed the poor but have no idea how modern American farming is tied in with the food stamp program, or they're against food stamps on some Libertarian principle, but still don't want there to be hungry people.

Aldous Huxley was awesome. The things he said in interviews are just as relevant now as ever.

 

[Drain Todger]

Where do we draw the line with "Progress?" It's assumed to be ever-expanding and growing, like economies. When do we put the sculptor's knife down and say, "Done!" Why do we always, in perpetuity, keep creating new laws, new statutes, new PROBLEMS? Greed and money. I still remember working for the Great America theme park, when it was brand new, as a teen. Each area was distinct, the restaurants make food that represented the area, and shops were full of artisan glass-blown trinkets and such. I worked in a candy shop where we made all our own caramel apples and waffle cones on premises. There was a central area for checkout, and that was surrounded with display cases of pralines, and other candies (this was in Orleans Place, you see, so it fit the theme.)

Then one day, I was at the park and saw a big display in front of the Demon rollercoaster, the coaster my own plumber uncle worked on for the water features. It read, "Sponsored by Chevrolet," with a big shiny car rotating on a flashy platform. That was it, ther beginning of the end. The magic was over. Soon, every area felt and looked just like the others, the uniforms were less "costume" and more generic, and my beloved candy shop was gutted. The whole building is just a queue to line up for your generic amusement park slop. No cute bric-a-brac, all only branded stuffies, T-shirts, etc. that you'd find at a seedy NYC kiosk for tourists.

Money. Greed. That's it. They corporatized everything including our amusement. Must ever expand, to get more money. Must always write new laws to keep Congress busy (lol) and lolyers in business. Must always push social norms, progress progress progress!

To what end, though? I hate this new world we live in, and feel so bad for the kids nowadays who have only seen Corporations as their providers, entertainers and bosses. Truly we live in a corporate oligarchy and have for a long time now.

Sorry for rambling, I'm just really nostalgic rn and wondering why I would want to continue life down this path. It's pretty bleak, fam.

Anyway, here, have a video.

Curious note: ever since I commented about that Amazon commercial a page or so back, I've not seen that ad again lol.

There’s a term for exactly what you just described. It’s called uneconomic growth. It’s when there’s an additional unit of growth for which the marginal cost exceeds the marginal benefit.

Uneconomic growth - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Imagine you live out in the middle of a vast void, and you want some French Fries, but you have to start from scratch. You may start off by peeling potatoes by hand and using a cauldron, and maybe some animal fat that took a lot of work to obtain. The result is greasy and nasty and nothing like the product you’re used to. So, you upgrade the process. Now, you’ve got a mandoline and some olive oil. It’s a bit better, but you think you can improve the yield. You get an automated potato peeling machine and a deep fryer. Now you’re making tons of fries, but it’s still not enough.

So, you replace the olive oil with canola oil, which is practically an industrial waste product. The fries still taste good. Better, even. The oil can stay nice and hot without burning and the fries can be fried faster. But now, they’re unhealthy. It’s still not enough. You need more fries. You must always have more fries, no matter what. You can never stop and say, this is good enough. I have enough fries. You need more. It turns into a form of monomania. A sickness. You must always have more fries. You get rid of the peeling machine and stop using fresh potatoes, and start ordering frozen fries from a factory by the truckload, but it’s still not enough.

Eventually, you start scooping oil out of the sewer and cooking your fries in incredibly toxic phenolic-lined drums suspended over great, smoking rows of campfires. You couldn’t afford to keep using the frozen fries and the deep fryer. So, instead, you outsourced the job. Now, you have a dozen homeless waifs spend hours peeling potatoes nonstop, chopping them up, and running up and down the rows of gutter-oil-filled drums, tossing the uncooked fries in.

This is what is happening to our entire planet, with every commodity, every service, everything, all at the expense of our basic fucking human dignity.

 

[FatalTater]

You must always have more fries.

If I ever run for office, this will be the mantra of my campaign.

 

[Flaming Insignias]

tfw you live long enough to see the crazy UN conspiracy theories come true

Remember that those “theories” were almost always based on what they were outright saying and keeping track of euphemisms common among globalist and communist movements.

Not derailing at all. I've been saying for a while that part of the reason for the promotion of trans shit is depopulation. I specifically put it in the context of eliminating Whites, but what's stopping the elites from throwing an equal opportunity dilation party?

If I may be so bold, the entire modern LGBT movement is built upon depopulation and satisfying the lusts of those pedophiles in power. Weakening the nuclear family severely reduces population growth, and most of the rainbow ideologies reproduce through indoctrination, which is easy when you are allowed to adopt with much more ease than traditional families.

I need my Horrifyed button.

No William, I'm not drinking poo poo water.

I am really angry about the loss of so many useful buttons, especially since this is due to Dyn convincing Josh to prevent people from giving him negrates. Fuck Dyn.

 

[Lichen Bark]

Throwing more money at shit doesn't speed up progress, unless you are literally a third-world hellhole with abysmal academic standards. Besides, all the modern advances in computing and space, for example, literally came about as side-effect of us spending money on finding more efficient ways to blow each other up.

I agree with you, ITER is just a pork barrel project judging by it's snail's pace crawl. That's a good point, from gunpowder onwards really. I think the middle east stuff sticks out in my mind as wasteful, the trillions spent over there. I would argue, blowing each other opened the door sure, but I think we are at a point where we can see more benefits from space engineering than more middle east war. I think I am more angry with the greed and waste, masked as good/green, than anything else.

Spoiler: Space sperging

Throwing money doesn't work, but I wasn't clear enough when I said "space goals" if you look at what's going on in commercial space right now you have ole Musk positioned to eat people's lunches there. The problem with throwing money will nilly is that if there isn't an innovator it gets wasted. The SLS "space launch system" is touted as a way for us to explore the distant solar system, but really it's a pork barrel project backed by politician's like Senator Richard Shelby who want jobs in their state, they aren't interested in doing anything in any hurry. Shelby just recently retired, and now some NASA programs are shifting gears, and allowing the use of commercial rockets for their Europa Clipper mission, before they were being intentionally hamstrung by a politician. If you look at how fast they move, it's a joke. SpaceX had the first landing of a rocket in 2015, but SLS ignored all this and continued on the goal of non reusable rockets. You just wait for the Starship to get flying and then you are going to see some serious shit. The amount of salt that Tory Bruno generates when someone gets talking about SpaceX is delicious.

Spoiler: Recycle Sperg

@Drain Todger I don't think we are at smart dust levels of control yet. I agree with you on the recycling. It was supposed to be REDUCE and REUSE, and as a final resort RECYCLE. The fucking smartphone plague is totally ignoring the first two key points. Lol how many old smartphones are still supported with security updates? hmmmm I can't think of many. So even when you choose to not buy a new one they essentially hold a gun to your head.

I think Musk is positioning himself perfectly for world domination, he has a fleet of hundreds of thousands of cars on the road, with new improved neural net computers, I'm sure he could tap that botnet to power his Tesla AI. He is getting deeply embedded into the energy economy, and is trying to merge himself with machine for even more power, and soon he's going to be the outright monopoly with his space UBER the Starship. EDIT: Add to that list his globe spanning telecommunications project Starlink, and if he cracks the self driving problem (Hint: He's very very close) he can leverage his Tesla Semi trucks to have cheap cheap logistics anywhere in the world opperating 24/7. As long as the banks don't assassinate him for trying to do the cryptocurrency thing, he'll be the world hegemon in no time!

 

[FAQnews Correspondent]

I think Musk is positioning himself perfectly for world domination, he has a fleet of hundreds of thousands of cars on the road, with new improved neural net computers, I'm sure he could tap that botnet to power his Tesla AI. He is getting deeply embedded into the energy economy, and is trying to merge himself with machine for even more power, and soon he's going to be the outright monopoly with his space UBER the Starship. As long as the banks don't assassinate him for trying to do the cryptocurrency thing, he'll be the world hegemon in no time!

With the way things are going, this might be the best outcome.

 

[PaleTay]

I think mass immigration is the selling point for uneconomic growth to the masses, as well as the current state of women making starting a family undesirable and extremely demoralizing. I don't want to go outside and see a slum of people who don't speak English milling about and having to appease them, and I don't want to date a fat fuck who I have to walk on eggshells around and that's the standard life in Western countries.

You've destroyed the culture, attractions, the family, and the standard of living while providing nothing of any value.

 

[Red Sparrow]

I think Musk is positioning himself perfectly for world domination, he has a fleet of hundreds of thousands of cars on the road, with new improved neural net computers, I'm sure he could tap that botnet to power his Tesla AI. He is getting deeply embedded into the energy economy, and is trying to merge himself with machine for even more power, and soon he's going to be the outright monopoly with his space UBER the Starship. EDIT: Add to that list his globe spanning telecommunications project Starlink, and if he cracks the self driving problem (Hint: He's very very close) he can leverage his Tesla Semi trucks to have cheap cheap logistics anywhere in the world opperating 24/7. As long as the banks don't assassinate him for trying to do the cryptocurrency thing, he'll be the world hegemon in no time!

With the way things are going, this might be the best outcome.

Oh please let this happen, all hail our Lord and Savior Elon Musk!

Being serious, I definitely agree that Musk taking other might wind up being the best option out of all that's been presented to the world right now. Rather him than all of the other crazies we got at the moment on both sides.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Oh please let this happen, all hail our Lord and Savior Elon Musk!

Being serious, I definitely agree that Musk taking other might wind up being the best option out of all that's been presented to the world right now. Rather him than all of the other crazies we got at the moment on both sides.

I don't trust Musk. Brain interface chips convinced me he's not on our side

 

[NyQuilninja]

This. Read the Desmond is Amazing thread; there's some great work in there showing the pedos commenting on his Insta. That's the next push: pedo acceptance. Mark my words.

Don't forget the National Geographic issue that caused me to cancel my subscription.

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Why would you pay for a national geographic magazine subscription? The library has them for free

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

This. Read the Desmond is Amazing thread; there's some great work in there showing the pedos commenting on his Insta. That's the next push: pedo acceptance. Mark my words.

Don't forget the National Geographic issue that caused me to cancel my subscription.

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Man, fuck this shit. I remember back in the 90's my dad used to give me his old National Geographics from the 70's and 80's, and they were actually really cool since they showed archeological digs and excavations of dinosaur bones and stuff. There was a certain issue from the 1980's that featured a holographic Neanderthal skull on the front cover and inside there was a ton of pictorials about cavemen, and I brought it to show & tell when we were learning about dinosaurs and cavemen in school. Fucking hell, I hate the world now.

 

[DeadFish]

Man, fuck this shit. I remember back in the 90's my dad used to give me his old National Geographics from the 70's and 80's, and they were actually really cool since they showed archeological digs and excavations of dinosaur bones and stuff. There was a certain issue from the 1980's that featured a holographic Neanderthal skull on the front cover and inside there was a ton of pictorials about cavemen, and I brought it to show & tell when we were learning about dinosaurs and cavemen in school. Fucking hell, I hate the world now.

Neo geo was soft core porn for horny teens who weren't smart enough to forge their parents sig for a playboy subscription