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@FrontierCorp Every step of the way in your phone sytem they say the same canned response, " We value you as a customer". Total BS if you valued me you would answer the phone and take my payment. you make it impossible.
@frontiercorp You guys are the worst. I have tried for two weeks to pay my bill online and the site is always down. I tried calling you and it took 30 minutes to get a live person on the phone and then she transfered me back to the automated attendant. Absolutely rediculous!
I gave up ice cream for Lent. I lost 10lbs. I am now 6'4"-240lbs
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This video is an investigation from seven years ago about how Somalis take luggage full of cash through the airport to support terror groups.
Great education.
Please stop using these 3 phrases when you talk about Venezuela.
From a Venezuelan journalist:
Societal Collapse Isn’t an Accident It’s a Predictable Feature of Growth | George Semaan, Daily Neuron
Key Takeaways
- Great civilizations often fall, but why? A compelling theory suggests they collapse under their own complexity, like bureaucracy.
- A new model, backed by data from Rome, shows these 'benefits' stop paying off, leading to a rapid fall.
- This decline is a one-way street; simply cutting costs won't bring back the good times.
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The mystery of societal collapse is one of history’s most compelling questions. Why do empires that seem all-powerful, from the Romans to the Maya, eventually fall apart? We often blame external factors like invasions, climate change, or plagues. But what if the seeds of collapse are sown from within, not as an accident, but as a predictable result of success?
This is the core of a concept known as the “diminishing returns of complexity,” famously proposed by historian Joseph Tainter. His idea is simple but profound: societies add complexity (things like governments, bureaucracies, armies, and legal systems) to solve problems.
At first, this works beautifully. A new legal system solves disputes and helps the economy grow. A new army protects trade routes. But as a society grows, it must keep investing in complexity just to maintain itself.
Think of it like a small company. The first ten employees create massive value. The 1,000th employee, perhaps in a third-level management or compliance role, is still necessary but adds far less direct value to the final product. Eventually, Tainter argued, a society reaches a point where adding more complexity (like another layer of bureaucracy) costs more in resources than the benefit it provides. The society becomes “top-heavy,” fragile, and extremely vulnerable to any new shock.
Modeling the Fall
This idea, while compelling, has been hard to prove. Now, a study by Ugo Bardi, Sara Falsini, and Ilaria Perissi, published in BioPhysical Economics and Resource Quality, provides a powerful biophysical model to test Tainter’s theory. They didn’t just look at history; they used the principles of systems dynamics to model a society’s entire lifecycle.
Their model describes a society as a “trophic chain,” or a food chain of energy. At the bottom are Resources (like minerals, oil, or fertile land). These are consumed by The Economy (the productive part of society, like farmers and craftsmen). The Economy, in turn, supports Bureaucracy (the model’s proxy for Tainter’s “complexity,” including armies, courts, and governments). All of these steps create Pollution (the dissipated, useless end-state of the energy).
When the researchers ran this model, it produced a fascinating and terrifying result. The system didn’t just gently decline as resources ran out. It collapsed. The model’s graphs showed that growth is slow and steady, but the fall is incredibly fast and steep.
This pattern, which the authors have previously called the “Seneca Effect” after the Roman philosopher who noted “growth is sluggish, but ruin is rapid,” happens for a specific reason. The “Economy” stock gets caught in a deadly squeeze. It’s being starved of “Resources” from below, which are running out, while simultaneously being preyed upon by “Bureaucracy” from above, which still demands to be fed.
The Hysteresis Loop: Why You Can’t Go Home
The model’s most critical discovery is what scientists call a “hysteresis loop”. This is a complex name for a simple, irreversible truth: the path of decline is not the reverse of the path of growth.
When the society is growing, a small investment in complexity (Bureaucracy) yields a large return in production (Economy). But once the society has peaked and begun to collapse, the relationship is broken. The graph in the study shows that even as the “Bureaucracy” stock shrinks, the “Production” of the economy doesn’t recover.
In the authors’ words, “reducing the costs of bureaucracy doesn’t return society to the previous conditions of prosperity”. The system’s efficiency is permanently damaged.
To prove this wasn’t just a quirk of their model, the researchers applied it to real-world historical data. They plotted the size of the Roman army (complexity) against the empire’s cash flow (benefit) and got the exact same loop shape. They did it again for the 19th-century American whaling industry, plotting the tonnage of ships (complexity) against the whale oil produced (benefit). Once again, the same loop.
Why This Matters
This is where the research moves from historical curiosity to an urgent modern-day warning. The authors note that this dynamic “appears to correspond to the current conditions of modern society“.
Today, we see governments and large corporations everywhere attempting to “streamline” and “cut bureaucratic expenses” to regain the high-growth efficiency of past decades. But, as the model shows, this often fails to produce the desired results.
The model suggests this is because the problem isn’t just the cost of our complexity; it’s that the benefit of that complexity has fallen off a cliff. We are still running a highly complex, energy-intensive system, but the rich, easy-to-get resources that built it are no longer as abundant. We’re spending more and more effort just to stay in the same place.
The study’s conclusion is a stark one. When a society is built on exploiting finite resources to maximize its yields, a societal collapse of this kind is “unavoidable”. The only way to avoid it, they note, is “an intelligent control able to plan for the future”.
However, they add a final, chilling observation from the historical record: such intelligent, forward-thinking control “is rarely, if ever, utilized in human societies in history”.
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@TheLeoTerrell There is no "co exist " with Islam. When will people wake up to that fact?
Dear Father in Heaven, Charlie Kirk is a wonderful Father, an Amazing husband. Please save him 🙏
10 Stories They Don’t Want You to Read Today
#10 – Joe Rogan says there’s a clear connection between SSRIs and mass shootings — and “EVERYONE knows it!”
“It is REAL!”
Rogan then went off on the media, declaring that this is a “dirty secret that no one talks about because all the media is PAID OFF by the pharmaceutical drug companies.”
“The reality is most of these people who have committed mass murder are on psychiatric medication,” he said.
SSRI use has increased by 500% in the 1990s. Interestingly, the rise in mass shootings "OVERLAPS with the entrance of SSRIs to the US market."
As medical researcher and popular author, @MidwesternDoc, has previously noted:
“In ALL cases where a mass school shooting has happened, and it was possible to know the medical history of the shooter, the shooter WAS TAKING a psychiatric medication that was known for causing these behavioral changes.”
See the next 9 stories below 👇
@MasterArborists These were 3 guys from CBP who were picking a place for lunch. They said meet at the stadium parking lot, and we'll figure something out. lol
This whole thing has been hilarious. Ill bet it was a few guys meeting for lunch and they said, "Hey whats halfway? Lets meet and Dodger Stadium". And the rest, as they say, is history. lol
CBP belongs at the border, not at a Dodgers game.
"There is likely going to be a conflict with Iran. It’s inevitable, and it’s no laughing matter. There will likely be enormous numbers of casualties on both sides, and it will leave many areas totally devastated and decimated. But this war needs to happen. And possibly not for the reasons many may think, and certainly not because Israel wants it.
This region has been a tinderbox for centuries. And for at least the last hundred years, the conflicts have been building to a war of wars. The Islamists have been pretty clear for the best part of the previous 108 years… they will never accept the existence of a Jewish state, and they will do whatever it takes to exterminate every Jew, everywhere.
All the combined Arab armies were humiliatingly defeated in 1948 after waging a war of annihilation against us, and they could never accept that loss. They tried again in 1967, then in 1973, and then in every localized conflict since. They took the wars to Munich and Entebbe, they waged the first and second intifada, and they created UNRWA to weaponize a make-believe ethnicity and fake refugees. They’ve bought and bribed and indoctrinated hundreds of Western universities and millions of students and activists, propagandists and politicians. They have done everything possible to achieve the single goal of wiping us out.
This is a never-ending war that will only end in one of two ways, by their choice:
Either we all die, or they do.
It’s them or it’s us.
Now, the Western world cannot even comprehend such a scenario. They have absolutely no clue how the mindset of Islamists and jihadists works. They read their Bibles, which tell them of peace and love and flowers, and they created laws that defend and work for the criminals, while working against the victims. Decades of brainwashing themselves into a false narrative of oppressor vs oppressed, and they don’t even know which is which.
And with all of this, it is precisely why this war must happen. Again, NOT because we want it. It’s got nothing to do with Netanyahu wishing to save his career or the right wanting this or that. These attacks and this ideology of wiping out the Jews has existed long before any of these people, long before Israel became independent, long before modern Zionism, and long before the west became this toothless society of complete pussies who are scared of shadows. So terrified that they fill their minds with garbage conspiracy theories and just plain stupidity.
This war is inevitable. It’s always been unavoidable because Islamists have dreamed of this day for centuries. They have existed solely for this purpose. And for the sake of our children and grandchildren, we must end this now. There is no negotiating. They’re not people where diplomacy even exists, nevertheless it works. They have one goal. That’s it. And we have to have one goal… to stop them achieving their one goal.
So to all the complete retards blaming the Jews for every bad thing in their lives and blabbering about stars of Remphan and 9/11 conspiracies and “Jews killed Jesus” and all the other bullshit, YOU’RE irrelevant. You are meaningless freaks in an already insane world. When the Islamists come for you, you’ll have your day handed to you, and you can cry and moan all you like. We will survive as we’ve survived the Nazis and all the other retarded idiots before them. We will survive you and Islamic insanity.
We aren’t like you. We aren’t afraid to defend ourselves. We certainly aren’t waiting for your approval on anything. If someone wants to kill us, we will shoot first and ask questions later.
We are Jews, and proud of it. Far prouder than you will ever be of being whatever it is you are. We will stand up and fight for our survival because we matter to us. And I absolutely assure you that your opinion doesn’t."
- Cheryl E 🇮🇱🎗️@CherylWroteIt
Cardinal Burke is absolutely right to raise the alarm. Limiting Muslim immigration into traditionally Christian nations isn't just prudent - it's essential to preserving the fabric of Western civilization. What we've seen unfold across Europe over the past two decades is a stark warning: mass migration from Islamic nations, particularly when poorly integrated, has led to cultural friction, rising crime rates, parallel societies, and increasing religious intolerance - particularly towards Jews and Christians.
This isn't about intolerance or bigotry; it's about survival - of identity, heritage, and civil peace. Islam, unlike Christianity, is not merely a private faith but a comprehensive political and legal system. Wherever its numbers swell, demands follow: halal food in schools, Sharia law in courts, gender segregation, and an aggressive opposition to freedom of speech - especially when it comes to criticism of Islam. We've seen this repeatedly, from the no-go zones in Sweden and France to the rise in anti-Semitic attacks in Britain and Germany, often at the hands of newly arrived or second-generation Muslim migrants.
Western nations were built on the foundations of Greco-Roman law, Judeo-Christian values, and Enlightenment ideals. These are fundamentally incompatible with the worldview of political Islam. To allow unlimited migration from regions steeped in Islamic orthodoxy is to import the very ideologies and tensions that have torn apart the Middle East. Integration has failed - not because the West hasn't tried, but because many simply do not wish to assimilate. They come not to join the West, but to change it.
The duty of a government is to protect its people - their safety, their culture, and their way of life. A patriotic leader must prioritize national cohesion over utopian notions of borderless compassion. Europe is already paying the price for ignoring this. The United States, Canada, and even the UK must not make the same mistake.
Cardinal Burke, in speaking this truth, shows the kind of moral clarity and courage that has been sorely lacking in Church leadership for too long. The future of the West depends on waking up to this reality - before it's too late.
@ELonMuskNewssX Love it. Ill drive one!
Since the founding of America until 2020, 2,769 mosques were built across the country. As of 2025, that number has surged to 3,753 mosques.
Let that sink in.
2,700 mosques over the course of 250 years.
1,000 mosques in just the last five years.
America protects freedom of religion, but Islam is not just a religion. It is a political ideology.
This is similar to an organization that has 3,750 branches across the country, demands legal privileges, and opposes everything America stands for, individual liberty, freedom of speech, and the separation of church and state.
Everywhere Islam gains power, it tries to impose Sharia law, silences dissent, and reshapes society to its image.
History proves it. Europe is living it. And America is next.
Mosques aren’t just places of worship. They are centers of political influence, hubs of Islamic expansion, and in many cases, breeding grounds for radicalization.
Muslim elected officials must never be allowed to push Islamic accommodations, silence criticism, or advance Sharia policies.
Sharia law must have no legal recognition, America has one legal system, and it is not Islamic.
No special privileges for Islam, no taxpayer-funded accommodations, no separate legal status, no exemptions from American values.
Immigration must be controlled to prevent the unchecked spread of Islam.
Ideological vetting is necessary to ensure that those entering the country align with American values.
Cut off funding for all Islamic organizations with ties to political Islam, or foreign influence.
Defund universities that promote Islamic propaganda or whitewash Islam in academia.
Protect free speech, never pass laws that criminalize criticism of Islam under the false label of ‘Islamophobia.’
A few years ago Trump said in an interview on CNN, “Islam hates us", “There’s something wrong with Islam. Muslims hate non-Muslims, and we need to get to the bottom of it.”
Many people laughed at him.
Anderson Cooper tried to soften it by asking, “Do you mean radical Islam?” Trump replied, “I don’t know. It’s hard to define.”
Well, let’s define it.
Islam isn’t a person, it’s an ideology. And this ideology explicitly teaches hatred toward anyone who isn’t Muslim.
Islam calls Jews and Christians polytheists, even though they are not, and Islam teaches that they must either convert, live as second-class citizens under Islamic rule, or die.
Atheists, Hindus, Buddhists, or anyone else? Islam labels them pagans who must be exterminated.
Muslims who leave Islam? Apostates must die.
Islam hates women in particular, Muhammad said hell is mostly full of women.
And yet, here’s the biggest lie of all, people keep saying, “It’s not Islam, it’s radical Islam.”
People insist on using the word radical because they can’t handle reality. It’s too terrifying.
The idea that 1.7 billion people follow an ideology that openly promotes hatred, violence, and domination is not something they want to process.
So, instead, they cling to the fantasy that there’s a moderate Islam, one that doesn’t exist in the Quran, in Muhammad’s teachings, or in the history of Islamic conquests.
Muslims don’t know anything else because Islam shields them from critical thinking, from questioning, from reform.
It conditions them to accept war, to justify oppression, to embrace submission, and to remain silent when jihadists live out their faith.
And if you, as a Westerner, keep pretending this is just radical Islam, then you are part of the problem.
Because if you don’t believe Islam is the root issue, why should Muslims?
If you don’t name the disease, why would anyone seek the cure?
And if you're thinking about asking Grok or any AI to verify this, let me save you the trouble, I don’t trust AI or Western academia when it comes to Islam.
Nearly everything translated into English has been whitewashed, sanitized, or outright manipulated to fit a narrative that keeps people blind to the truth.
Believe those of us who were once devout Muslims. We know what Islam really is.
You don’t need to read the Muslim Brotherhood’s plan for North America to understand why they and every organization tied to them should be banned.
You only need to know what Islam is.
The West has banned slavery. It has outlawed Nazism. It has crushed fascism.
It has fought against every ideology that seeks to strip people of their freedoms, subjugate them, and impose totalitarian control.
And yet, Islam, an ideology that has enslaved entire civilizations, declared war on every non-Muslim society, and seeks global domination through jihad, is still given a free pass.
Islam is not just a religion; it is a political, military, and legal system that demands submission.
It doesn’t coexist, it conquers.
It doesn’t integrate, it dominates.
Every time Western leaders bend over backward to accommodate it, they are sowing the seeds of their own downfall.
The Muslim Brotherhood, CAIR, and their countless affiliates operate not as defenders of “religious freedom,” but as infiltrators exploiting democracy to dismantle it from within.
Their goal is to use the West’s laws and freedoms to establish an Islamic system that will eventually strip those very freedoms away.
The same West that once had the courage to ban dangerous ideologies must wake up to the reality that Islam is not just another belief system, it is a global machine of conquest.
And unless it is stopped, the fate of Europe, North America, and the rest of the free world will be no different from the countless civilizations that Islam has swallowed before.
*NURSE IN GERMANY SENDS MESSAGE TO THE WORLD* (An open letter - Eye opener)
Yesterday, at the hospital, we had a meeting about how the situation here and the other Munich hospitals are unsustainable. Clinics cannot handle the number of migrant medical emergencies, so they are starting to send everything to the main hospitals. Many Muslims are refusing treatment by female staff, and we women are now refusing to go among those migrants. Relations between the staff and migrants are going from bad to worse. Since last weekend, migrants going to the hospitals must be accompanied by police with K-9 units. *Many migrants have ADS, syphilis, open TB and many exotic diseases that we in Europe do not know how to treat.*
If they receive a prescription to the pharmacy; they learn they have to pay cash, this leads to unbelievable outbursts, especially when it is about drugs for the children. *They abandon the children to the pharmacy staff with the words: So, cure them yourselves.* So the police are not only guarding the clinics and hospitals, but also the large pharmacies.
*We ask openly where are all those who welcomed the migrants in front of TV cameras with signs at train stations ? Yes, for now, the border has been closed, but a million of them are already here and we will definitely not be able to get rid of them.*
Until now, the number of unemployed in Germany was 2.2 million. Now it will be at least 3.5 million. *Most of these people are completely unemployable.* Only a minimum of them have any education. *What is more, their women usually do not work at all.* I estimate that one in ten is pregnant. *Hundreds of thousands of them have brought along infants and little kids under six, many emaciated and very needy.* If this continues and Germany re-opens its borders, I am going home to the Czech republic. Nobody can keep me here in this situation, not even for double the salary back home. I came to Germany to work, not to Africa or the Middle East! Even the professor who heads our department told us how sad it makes him to see, but worth the read...especially the cleaning woman, who has cleaned every day for years for 800 euros *and then meets crowds of young men in the hallways who just wait with their hands outstretched, waiting for free, and when they don't get it, they throw a fit.* I really don't need this, but I am afraid that if I return home, at some point it will be the same in the Czech Republic. *If the Germans, with their systems, cannot handle this, then guaranteed, back home will be total chaos...*
*You - who have not come in contact with these people have absolutely no idea what kind of badly behaved desperadoes these people are, and how Muslims act superior to our staff, regarding their religious accommodation.*
*For now, the local hospital staff have not come down with the diseases these people brought here, but with so many hundreds of patients every day of this is just a question of time.*
*In a hospital near the Rhine, migrants attacked the staff with knives after they had handed over an 8 month old on the brink of death, who they dragged across half of Europe for three months. The child died two days later, despite having received top care at one of the best pediatric clinics in Germany. The pediatric physician had to undergo surgery and the two nurses are recovering in the ICU. Nobody has been punished. The local press is forbidden to write about it, so we can only inform you through e-mail. What would have happened to a German if he had stabbed the doctor and nurses with a knife? Or if he had flung his own syphilis infected urine into a nurses face and so threatened her with infection? At a minimum, he would have gone straight to jail and later to court. With these people so far, nothing has happened. And so I ask: Where are all those greeters and receivers from the train stations? Sitting pretty at home, enjoying their uncomplicated, safe lives. 1/2
It was a good millennium.
Thanks to the hundreds of thousands of brave men who sacrificed their lives only for traitor politicians to hand Britain over to Islam.
The dying gasps of one of the most successful continuous cultures on earth.
Surrendered.
After the fall of the Islamic Caliphate in 1924, under British and French influence, the Middle East began to transform.
Women were respected, educated, and unveiled. Cities like Cairo, Beirut, Damascus, and Baghdad became hubs of education, culture, and art.
But then came the so-called Islamic Awakening. And within two decades, everything was erased.
The progress, the enlightenment, the glimpse of a Middle East that could have joined the modern world, all of it suffocated under the weight of resurgent Islam.
Islam doesn’t create. It destroys. And it does so fast. What took decades to build, education, open societies, innovation, Islam wiped out in years.
Look at Egypt before the 1970s, at Iran before the revolution, at Lebanon before the civil war. Compare them to now. The difference is night and day.
And now, the same disease spreads in the West. Europe, the pinnacle of Western civilization, is opening its gates, convinced that tolerance will tame the beast.
But history is brutal to those who do not learn from it. Within our lifetime, we may watch the fall of the great Western nations, not by war, not by force, but by submission.
Islam doesn’t integrate. It erases. And the clock is ticking.
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