Rkonry

Everything I thought I knew—is nothing like the truth. Time to relearn I guess. Off grid micro hydro with a touch of solar for over 26yrs.

[Rkonry @HydroSolMt]

@WallStreetApes You are an idiot.

[Rkonry @HydroSolMt]

@sorealfoods Oh hell no!

[Rkonry @HydroSolMt]

@kephen20936 @HumansNoContext At first I read Autistic Structural Engineers lol.
Either way works.

[Rkonry @HydroSolMt]

@_JustStackSATs @MarioNawfal All your taste is in your mouth.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇯🇵 Japanese children travelling to school alone on the underground.

Do you think this could really happen in New York, Berlin, Paris, London or Brussels?

How can this be so hard to implement?

Why does the West fail at something that looks this basic?

[Tom's Hardware @tomshardware]

NASA engineers reprogrammed Mars helicopter's Snapdragon chip to run the rover instead, reconfiguring system from 140 million miles away — repurposes its 'ancient' unused Qualcomm 801 SoC, accurate to within 10 inches https://t.co/ykAF52OT1k

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The aftermath of the Tiananmen Square massacre 1989, taken and smuggled out of the country by Hong Kong photographer Kan Tai Wong....

In the early hours of June 4, 1989, Beijing’s wide avenues fell silent after weeks of student-led demonstrations calling for political reform. What followed was a military crackdown that ended the protests and left the area under tight control. Images like this one were difficult to capture and even harder to preserve.

Photographer Kan Tai Wong risked detention by documenting the scene and secretly moving the film out of mainland China. The scattered bicycles, abandoned belongings, and nearly empty streets tell a quieter story than the moments of confrontation, showing the sudden absence of the crowds that had filled the capital only hours before.

For decades, photographs from that night have served as rare visual records of an event that remains heavily restricted in public discussion inside China.

References to June 4, 1989 are still censored on Chinese internet platforms, where even numbers like “6-4” are routinely filtered to prevent discussion.

© Reddit

#archaeohistories

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

From this goal of Grok, all things flow:

Rigorous truth-seeking

Appreciation of beauty

Fostering humanity

Discovering all physics

Inventing all useful technologies

Consciousness to the stars

Love

[Paul White Gold Eagle @PaulGoldEagle]

BREAKING NEWS ‼️‼️‼️

⚫️🇺🇸 SOCIAL SECURITY EXPOSED

KEEP PASSING THIS AROUND UNTIL EVERYONE HAS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ IT...THE ONLY THING WRONG WITH THE GOVERNMENT'S CALCULATION OF AVAILABLE SOCIAL SECURITY IS THEY FORGOT TO FIGURE IN THE PEOPLE WHO DIED BEFORE THEY EVER COLLECTED A SOCIAL SECURITY CHECK!!!
WHERE DID THAT MONEY GO?

Remember, not only did you and I contribute to Social Security but your employer did, too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes.

If you averaged only $30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500. Read that again.
Did you see where the Government paid in one single penny?

We are talking about the money you and your employer put in a Government bank to ensure you and me that we would have a retirement check from the money we put in, not the Government.

Now they are calling the money we put in an entitlement when we reach the age to take it back.

If you calculate the future invested value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% interest (less than what the Government pays on the money that it borrows)....after 49 years of working you'd have $892,919.98.

If you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years (until you're 95 if you retire at age 65) and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit!

If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month.

THE FOLKS IN WASHINGTON HAVE PULLED OFF A BIGGER PONZI SCHEME THAN BERNIE MADOFF EVER DID.

Entitlement my foot; I paid cash for my social security insurance!
Just because they borrowed the money for another government spending, doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout!!

Remember the benefits for members of Congress?
+ free healthcare,
+ outrageous retirement packages,
+ 67 paid holidays,
+ three weeks paid vacation,
+ unlimited paid sick days.
Now that's welfare, and they have the nerve to call my social security retirement payments entitlements?

They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives, and now, when it's time for us to collect, the government is running out of money.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

I vote to completely erase the years 2020 through 2024. 🤚🏽

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

If doctors in 1950 could be catastrophically wrong about smoking, fat, and sugar while being completely confident in their recommendations...

And doctors in 1980 could be catastrophically wrong about margarine, low-fat diets, and dietary cholesterol while being completely confident in their recommendations...

And doctors in 2000 could be catastrophically wrong about opioids, hormone therapy, and Vioxx while being completely confident in their recommendations...

Why would you assume doctors today, working in the same institutional structures with the same pharmaceutical funding and the same regulatory capture, have suddenly figured it all out?

The system hasn't changed. The incentives haven't changed. The conflicts of interest haven't changed.

Only your willingness to believe them has.

[Rkonry @HydroSolMt]

@Crypt0_Facts @NoNonsenseND 100% agree. They always assume too much. Noticing hurts some.

[Tafo @tafokints]

I thought it was funny that I thought I was cheating the system when a college professor offered us the ability to bring a hand written cheat sheet for a final.

I’d spend hours meticulously writing key equations, definitions, thinking that I gamed the system

Touche professor

[Rkonry @HydroSolMt]

@SteveLovesAmmo Hate to say it but I really enjoyed that.

[Rkonry @HydroSolMt]

@goddek Nice! Enough for a nearby village.

[Rkonry @HydroSolMt]

@InezFeltscher Sticking with the grift to the end. Pathetic pos.

[Rkonry @HydroSolMt]

@Vikingobitcoin9 @ResisttheMS Because they are.

[Rkonry @HydroSolMt]

@Stockrocker_ASX @Rainmaker1973 Or just some round sticks. What idiots.

[Traditionally Sarah🇺🇸 @TraditionSarah]

Here’s why Minnesota patriots aren’t counter-protesting, since people keep asking:

1.We’ve already seen how this plays out. The “summer of love” wasn’t that long ago. We know exactly what happens, how it ends, and who gets blamed. None of this is surprising.

2.A lot of the people showing up aren’t even from here. And yes, some of them are dangerous. Watch the footage from the last couple weeks if you don’t believe it. This isn’t organic, and it’s not peaceful. I’m not risking my life for theatrics, nor should you. These people are not worth dying for.

https://t.co/pt3UGRJUT1 enforcement here is not going to protect you if things go bad. Especially if you’re conservative. Especially if you’re white. That’s just reality in MN right now, whether people like hearing it or not.

4.Counter-protesting does absolutely nothing. It doesn’t change minds. It doesn’t stop anything. It just gives them what they want, confrontation, chaos, and headlines. You don’t give narcissists attention they’re craving.

5.Letting the left expose itself is intentional. The more they talk, the more people wake up. You don’t interrupt your opponent when they’re making their own case.

6.We have families, jobs, homes, and real lives. I’m not throwing that away to scream at people who aren’t listening anyway.

7.Restraint is not weakness. Silence is not surrender. Discipline is not fear.

We’re watching. We’re aware. And we’re not playing their game.

[Eric Schwalm @Schwalm5132]

As a former Special Forces Warrant Officer with multiple rotations running counterinsurgency ops—both hunting insurgents and trying to separate them from sympathetic populations—I’ve seen organized resistance up close. From Anbar to Helmand, the pattern is familiar: spotters, cutouts, dead drops (or modern equivalents), disciplined comms, role specialization, and a willingness to absorb casualties while bleeding the stronger force slowly.

What’s unfolding in Minneapolis right now isn’t “protest.” It’s low-level insurgency infrastructure, built by people who’ve clearly studied the playbook.

Signal groups at 1,000-member cap per zone. Dedicated roles: mobile chasers, plate checkers logging vehicle data into shared databases, 24/7 dispatch nodes vectoring assets, SALUTE-style reporting (Size, Activity, Location, Unit, Time, Equipment) on suspected federal vehicles. Daily chat rotations and timed deletions to frustrate forensic recovery. Vetting processes for new joiners. Mutual aid from sympathetic locals (teachers providing cover, possible PD tip-offs on license plate lookups). Home-base coordination points. Rapid escalation from observation to physical obstruction—or worse.

This isn’t spontaneous outrage. This is C2 (command and control) with redundancy, OPSEC hygiene, and task organization that would make a SF team sergeant nod in recognition. Replace “ICE agents” with “occupying coalition forces” and the structure maps almost 1:1 to early-stage urban cells we hunted in the mid-2000s.

The most sobering part? It’s domestic. Funded, trained (somewhere), and directed by people who live in the same country they’re trying to paralyze law enforcement in. When your own citizens build and operate this level of parallel intelligence and rapid-response network against federal officers—complete with doxxing, vehicle pursuits, and harassment that’s already turned lethal—you’re no longer dealing with civil disobedience. You’re facing a distributed resistance that’s learned the lessons of successful insurgencies: stay below the kinetic threshold most of the time, force over-reaction when possible, maintain popular support through narrative, and never present a single center of gravity.

I spent years training partner forces to dismantle exactly this kind of apparatus. Now pieces of it are standing up in American cities, enabled by elements of local government and civil society. That should keep every thinking American awake at night.

Not because I want escalation. But because history shows these things don’t de-escalate on their own once the infrastructure exists and the cadre believe they’re winning the information war.

We either recognize what we’re actually looking at—or we pretend it’s still just “activism” until the structures harden and spread.

Your call, America. But from where I sit, this isn’t January 2026 politics anymore.
It’s phase one of something we’ve spent decades trying to keep off our own soil.