<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><channel><title>hive-110786 community on Hive</title><description>RSS feed for the hive-110786 community on the Hive blockchain</description><link>https://hiverss.com/</link><atom:link href="https://hiverss.com/community/hive-110786.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><image><url>https://hiverss.com/hive_logo.png</url><title>hive-110786 community on Hive</title><link>https://hiverss.com/</link></image><item><title>The Satanic Foundations of Human Control | Chin-Wag</title><link>https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@tdvtv/the-satanic-foundations-of-human-control-chinwag-s40eppk4hyk</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@tdvtv/the-satanic-foundations-of-human-control-chinwag-s40eppk4hyk</guid><description>by David Icke on David IckeView my bio on Vigilante.TV: https://vigilante.tv/c/david_icke For the rest of the episode head over to https://ickonic.com/question-everything In this episode, David and Jaymie expose the satanic foundations of human control, revealing why the same oppressive agenda…</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2026 06:35:15 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;by David Icke on David Icke&lt;br /&gt;View my bio on Vigilante.TV: &lt;a href=&quot;https://vigilante.tv/c/david_icke&quot;&gt;https://vigilante.tv/c/david_icke&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://vigilante.tv/w/sCr2mQEiDALi81FzBDjEUt&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://vigilante.tv/lazy-static/previews/b1202d98-000e-4d77-9a6f-7394d23a7a6c.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;The Satanic Foundations of Human Control | Chin-Wag&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;In this episode, David and Jaymie expose the satanic foundations of human control, revealing why the same oppressive agenda continues no matter who is in power, driven by a global cult of secret societies serving non-human entities from the astral dimension that feed on fear, trauma and low-vibrational energy. A confronting look behind the political stage, from possession and rituals to COVID, AI and digital currencies… the control runs deeper and darker than most dare to imagine.&lt;/p&gt;
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</content:encoded><dc:creator>tdvtv</dc:creator><category>hive-110786</category></item><item><title>Did you know that the planet Mercury is shrinking? </title><link>https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@dumb-news/did-you-know-that-the-planet-mercury-is-shrinking</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@dumb-news/did-you-know-that-the-planet-mercury-is-shrinking</guid><description>I found this out on one of the strange news websites that I go to (and find so much more interesting than politics and war) and well, I hadn&apos;t really thought much about Mercury since I was in grade school. I basically know that it is small, rotates very slowly, and is hot enough to melt steel on one…</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2026 04:28:57 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;I found this out on one of the strange news websites that I go to (and find so much more interesting than politics and war) and well, I hadn&apos;t really thought much about Mercury since I was in grade school.   I basically know that it is small, rotates very slowly, and is hot enough to melt steel on one side and so cold on the other side that it will freeze almost anything - maybe even steel.  &lt;/p&gt;
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![image.png](https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/dumb-news/23tvCoXykAzS7AVqa1Jgdv9qXxX596TQrxWTf7EQmc6DV3fUeHKcW44SutDMV8YA4THbd.png)
[src](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/09/22/multimedia/10SCI-SHRINKING-MERCURY-cjbg/10SCI-SHRINKING-MERCURY-cjbg-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&amp;amp;auto=avif&amp;amp;disable=upscale)&lt;/center&gt; &lt;p&gt;There is some sort of craft that is heading towards Mercury as well and I bet you didn&apos;t know that either.  It is expected to arrive in orbit of Mercury and hang out there for a while in 2026.  To what end?  Who knows.  We leave that to the science-types I guess.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So this spacecraft is called BepiColombo and it has taken 8 years for it to get there.  I can&apos;t even imagine the sort of great minds and crazy maths that must have went into making this possible.   It doesn&apos;t intend to land on Mercury though because what would be the point?   &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So Mercury has shrunk about 14 miles or 23 kilometers in diameter so I&apos;ve read and this is significant for a planet that is only 3000 km in diameter.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I thought this sounded like some pretty scary stuff but as it turns out this has absolutely zero impact on any of the rest of the solar system, including earth.  &lt;/p&gt;
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[src](https://static.scientificamerican.com/dam/asset/59964892-6eeb-4cbc-a97d-8e277b4d0717/BepiColombo.jpg?m=1788451318.081&amp;amp;w=1200) &lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;There aren&apos;t really any pictures of BepiColombo in action because these sorts of interplanetary scientists tend to not be very vain and most likely aren&apos;t all that concerned about getting a selfie for their Instagram accounts.   &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is pretty wild though.  With all that talk about how hot and cold the solar system can be it must be made of some super serious materials.   The &quot;wingspan&quot; for the solar arrays span 30 meters across.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It is expected that we are going to get a lot more information about Mercury by the end of the year and this is pretty exciting stuff because nothing of this magnitude has ever been attempted before.  The craft has a bunch of mechanisms on it that will send data back to earth about the planet.   BepiColombo is currently 115 million kilometers from Earth and it takes 6 and a half minutes for instructions to get to the craft.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If this sort of thing interests you at all you can look at the live tracker that displays all sorts of data from the craft at &lt;a href=&quot;https://orbitalradar.com/deep-space/bepi-colombo&quot;&gt;this website&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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[src](https://orbitalradar.com/deep-space/bepi-colombo)&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&apos;s a bunch of other information there as well about other such crafts that are busy flying all over the solar system, apparently.   &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Take a break from searching for dirt on Trump and maybe have a look at something that is truly interesting for a change :)  &lt;/p&gt;
</content:encoded><dc:creator>dumb-news</dc:creator><category>hive-110786</category></item><item><title>#698: Aggregating Our Thoughts (Clip)</title><link>https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@tdvtv/698-aggregating-our-thoughts-clip-arja9g4c4no</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@tdvtv/698-aggregating-our-thoughts-clip-arja9g4c4no</guid><description>by @macroaggressions on MacroaggressionsView my bio on Vigilante.TV: https://vigilante.tv/c/macroaggressions The way people consume news and information has undergone a radical shift in just the past year, with viewership rates for the Top 50 English-speaking news websites plummeting. The…</description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:23:12 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;by @macroaggressions on Macroaggressions&lt;br /&gt;View my bio on Vigilante.TV: &lt;a href=&quot;https://vigilante.tv/c/macroaggressions&quot;&gt;https://vigilante.tv/c/macroaggressions&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://vigilante.tv/w/vj9MmjrXDzZ7YEJMuCVWLi&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://vigilante.tv/lazy-static/previews/1970ade2-0f7e-423b-ba54-e1324dd10700.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;#698: Aggregating Our Thoughts (Clip)&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; The way people consume news and information has undergone a radical shift in just the past year, with viewership rates for the Top 50 English-speaking news websites plummeting. The consolidation of news companies has eroded credibility, and changing behaviors have killed the hold television news once had on Americans.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Consumer habits have shifted so drastically that it rendered print and radio media almost worthless, while new categories are emerging around aggregator sites, AI chatbots, podcasts, and news influencers. The four top aggregator sites are all heavily leaning to the Left, so is it any surprise that the majority of Americans are deeply misinformed about the world they live in?&lt;/p&gt;
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</content:encoded><dc:creator>tdvtv</dc:creator><category>hive-110786</category></item><item><title>They Took Our Jobs.  Why Did We Let Them Take It?</title><link>https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@builderofcastles/they-took-our-jobs-why-did-we-let-them-take-it</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@builderofcastles/they-took-our-jobs-why-did-we-let-them-take-it</guid><description>We are so steeped in the old ideal of go to school, get good grades, graduate, get a good job, work for 40 years and retire with a pension, that we just think it is normal, although it hasn&apos;t existed for at least a half a century. The oligarchs are trying as hard as they can, to get rid of the human…</description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2026 20:29:06 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://images.hive.blog/DQmd6CzukiY5tWBaAufuWbux9oDVBVceZ9SoZg43dUJs1g9/TookOurJerbs.png&quot; alt=&quot;TookOurJerbs.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are so steeped in the old ideal of go to school, get good grades, graduate, get a good job, work for 40 years and retire with a pension, that we just think it is normal, although it hasn&apos;t existed for at least a half a century.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The oligarchs are trying as hard as they can, to get rid of the human element from their corporations.  To obliterate the cost and the uncertainty that comes from employing biological components.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are also steeped in the idea that we must work for money, so that we can buy a house and a car, so that we can continue to work so that we can BUY food.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The oligarchs also created this loop, and worked hard to get people off the farms and into cities, where they would rely on bought food.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, there isn&apos;t much wrong with specialization, however, the structure in which the &quot;cogs&quot; fit, was completely owned by the oligarchs.  And so, people gave up all of their power.&lt;/p&gt;
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## They sent the jobs to China for cheap labor… false!&lt;p&gt;Before China was Mexico and also Japan.  The lands where labor was cheap.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But, cheap labor is just the acceptable cover story.&lt;br /&gt;The banksters spent A LOT! of money on building overseas manufacturing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What most people do not know is that manufacturers where approached and given sweetheart loans to build manufacturing overseas.  They were paid to move manufacturing overseas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And this would never have happened, if not for the sweetheart loans.  Continuing to manufacture in America would have  been FAR CHEAPER.  Because, a factory and all the machine tools is the small price to pay.  Training the overseas workers, and getting them off the farms and into factories is an immense and continuing cost.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kissinger went to China and sold them on this very plot.  And we, and the Chinese people, are still paying for it.  Behind the scenes, China is still subsidizing shipping and energy for manufacturing.  And The US is still supplying bonds in exchange for carrying  the trade imbalance.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Our jobs were sent to China at great expense.  The cheap labor was and is a lie.&lt;/p&gt;
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## AI is eliminating jobs… false!&lt;p&gt;Back in the 90s i could have replaced a huge amount of jobs.  Every govern-cement regulation needs people to fill out paperwork and send in.  The govern-cement has an identical number of people to receive and file all that paperwork.  These jobs could have been eliminated by computer programs.  Could have been, but 40 years later, &quot;AI&quot; is being used to &quot;finally&quot; remove these jobs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;AI is not really up to the point of actually replacing workers.  The AI has not advanced to the level where it can check its work.  And, in fact, many companies who shouted that they would replace all these engineers with an AI, are finding that they have to hire the engineers back.  However, the AI can be used to do the stupid paperwork required by govern-cement regulations.  (and i am not certain that the program is actually AI, or what i wrote 40 years ago.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They didn&apos;t replace people when the AI came along, (they could have done that 40 years ago) they got rid of those people when they wanted the narrative to be, &quot;you are replaceable&quot;, and the cover story is &quot;AI&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To them, your job is a game.  And you can get fired for things like &quot;lowering inflation&quot; while they print more money.&lt;/p&gt;
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## H1B Visas are… false, just false, all false.&lt;p&gt;HR, in America, has always asked for things that are impossible:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Wanted for entry level position.  Bachelors required, Masters preferred.  4 years of experience required.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Kids getting out of college aren&apos;t finding a job with their degrees.&lt;br /&gt;Even in the fields that are being filled with H1B Visas.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lets say, the corporations need engineers.  Shouldn&apos;t all the kids graduating with an engineering degree be snatched up as soon as they fill in their Linked-out® form?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They aren&apos;t.  Even when there are open jobs posted on the company site. (that have not been filled for months)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Its all an illusion.  The reasons stated are just the stories to make what they are doing sound plausible.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;H1B visas are used for two very destructive reasons.  To hire something pretty close to a slave, and brain drain the target country.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;center&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://images.hive.blog/DQmXew34of9kAYtbc4N3afKqGa9a2aNZZEurE9uKgYLgisP/HorizontalRule2.png&quot; alt=&quot;- - - - - - - &quot; /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;We have allowed the oligarchs to run our lives.  They decide how much you can get paid. (it is an algorithm designed to give you just enough to live, but not enough to get ahead.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@builderofcastles/they-took-our-jobs-why-did-we-let-them-take-it&quot;&gt;Read the full post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><dc:creator>builderofcastles</dc:creator><category>hive-110786</category></item><item><title>&quot;We&quot; lost the mid-terms and I don&apos;t care </title><link>https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@beelzebubba/we-lost-the-mid-terms-and-i-dont-care</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@beelzebubba/we-lost-the-mid-terms-and-i-dont-care</guid><description>I stated a long time ago that I didn&apos;t give half a crap about the midterm elections and barely paid any attention to them. North Carolina was and likely still is considered a swing-state and this is something that kind of makes me proud because I like to think that our population, more so than other…</description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2026 05:46:45 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;I stated a long time ago that I didn&apos;t give half a crap about the midterm elections and barely paid any attention to them.  North Carolina was and likely still is considered a swing-state and this is something that kind of makes me proud because I like to think that our population, more so than other states, looks at situations and candidates beyond just the letter next to their name.   I suppose they do, I don&apos;t know.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Where I live is strongly conservative and in the larger cities people are strongly liberal.  This is not special, I guess we just have more smaller cities than California or something.  &lt;/p&gt;
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[src](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/E4E7/production/_104399585_house_district_winshare-nc.png.webp)&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;The day after the elections I managed to go all day without even knowing that the Democrats did very well in the midterms and they were gloating and cheering and just over the moon.   My life is one of social media and news avoidance and my job is in construction where we have a bunch of rather grizzled me on job sites that couldn&apos;t give half a bucket of piss about politics and just want to be left alone, do their job, collect their money, and go about their lives.   In a way our collective professions are kind of insulated because there is very little technology involved (other than the obvious mechanical stuff), the only person on most of our sites that could even be considered &quot;white collar&quot; would be me and I am far from that.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But nothing was mentioned around the yard about the elections and my day was better because of that.   It wasn&apos;t until I got to the Elks Lodge later that night that some of my idiot friends who think they are ahead of the curve on politics were lamenting the loss of &quot;our side.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While I am conservative,  I do not consider the GOP to be my side at all.  I don&apos;t necessarily consider the Dems an enemy either.  Well let me rephrase that:  I consider almost all of them to be the enemy, no matter what letter is next to their names.   &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I have fallen out with politics and am basically just apathetic now.  I don&apos;t really have any plans to vote in anything other than our local elections and while I don&apos;t mean to be constantly dredging this up, people really need to pay much closer attention to their local elections than they do.  I think nationwide we have a turnout for local elections that is around 20% and that is just pathetic.   The things that are most likely to affect your life directly and very few people even bother to turn up for them.  &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;I saw a few images of how elated the liberals were at their rallies and how sad the conservatives were at theirs and the only thing that was going on in my mind was that I am really happy that I do not know any of these people.   I find them delusional and the kind of sheep that are going to follow anything they are told to follow as long as it aligns with their overlords&apos; wishes.  Of course all of them would vehemently deny that they are brainwashed lemmings....all the way off the cliff.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My life is going to continue as it always has.  As far as I understand it this &quot;victory&quot; on the part of the blues just means that nothing is going to happen in Congress for the next 2 years.  I don&apos;t really see how that is any different than what has happened in Congress the past 2 years, or the past 20 years before that.   &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am conservative in my values, not in my affiliation to candidates.  I looked at some of the candidates that were hand selected and honestly, a lot of it reminded me of the time they installed a candidate for Senate in Georgia just because he was black.  The would never admit to this but he was an ex NFL player with some level of fame.  There was just one problem, the guy sounded like a complete moron in interviews and seemed almost like he couldn&apos;t think.   It was evident why they put him up for this role and in the end I was very happy that he lost.   &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Politics are ugly in USA and the thing that gets me the most about it is that it doesn&apos;t really seem to matter who is in office, things don&apos;t really change.  USA continues to enforce their will militarily overseas, prices of things go up, people who didn&apos;t prepare accordingly complain and look for handouts and in the meantime there are people like me and most of the people I know that are just getting on with it do just fine.   &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I&apos;m gonna head to work now and continue not talking about politics and just enjoying my life.  You can keep your tribalism if you have it.  I simply do not care anymore.   &lt;/p&gt;
</content:encoded><dc:creator>beelzebubba</dc:creator><category>hive-110786</category></item><item><title>What Would You Do With a Car That Didn&apos;t Need Fuel?</title><link>https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@builderofcastles/what-would-you-do-with-a-car-that-didn-t-need-fuel</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@builderofcastles/what-would-you-do-with-a-car-that-didn-t-need-fuel</guid><description>The Battery Powered Electric Car is not long for this world. It has NONE of the attributes that &quot;green&quot; people assign to an electric car.It is not cleaner.It is not more fuel efficient.It is not safe.And it creates waste that is very difficult to deal with. How many people have to die before we…</description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2026 14:31:18 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://images.hive.blog/DQmRVFXZMuUAApbfUQiKZU6BcLzKHNX8dYVapFbYvM1WJnd/EVFuture.png&quot; alt=&quot;EVFuture.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Battery Powered Electric Car is not long for this world.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It has NONE of the attributes that &quot;green&quot; people assign to an electric car.&lt;br /&gt;It is not cleaner.&lt;br /&gt;It is not more fuel efficient.&lt;br /&gt;It is not safe.&lt;br /&gt;And it creates waste that is very difficult to deal with.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How many people have to die before we eliminate this experiment?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, it is not the fault of the electric motor, it is the problem with the battery.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There is a company that is trying (failing at the legal/govern-cement level) to put into production, diesel-electric hybrid big rigs.  These save energy.  They charge going down hill.  They use a smaller engine because the torque needed to get the big truck going is provided by the batteries, not a bigger engine that is only used less than 5% of the time.  AND!!! the electric drive provides much more control, better handling.  It smoothly starts with a heavy load, not jerking it between gear changes.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And this company is using LiFePO4 batteries.  Much better batteries, except not as light as LiIon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Still, what if we removed the batteries?&lt;/p&gt;
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## LiIon Batteries are Dangerous and Polluting&lt;p&gt;Large LiIon batteries are basically a bomb waiting to go off.&lt;br /&gt;So, LiIon batteries are small.  Tesla, the car company, solved this by building a huge gang of little batteries.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Still, many Tesla cars burst into flames, especially in the early years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The ones currently made in China… not a day goes by when there is not an EV bursting into flames.  And then the manufacturer sends a guy out quickly to remove the badges.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;To make LiIon batteries, you need to be very careful and consistent with the &quot;jel&quot; consistency and thickness application.  And still, it is just a matter of time before the battery self destructs.  We just hope that the battery doesn&apos;t have enough charge to get to spontaneous combustion temperature.  (meaning, the battery cell needs to stay small)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If it was just the engineering problems with LiIon batteries, i would say that we could live with it.  But it is not.  The materials that make up the LiIon battery are VERY costly, environmentally speaking.  Not to mention the rare earth minerals needed. (mined by hand, by boys and men, in 3rd world countries)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The battery powered EV creates more pollution, before the car ever gets to the showroom floor, than a comparable ICE car creates during its entire life.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The LiIon powered EVs should be condemned by society, instead of being praised. (Especially by the &quot;green&quot; community)&lt;/p&gt;
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## What happens when we develop a free-energy device?&lt;p&gt;Or not even a free-energy device, if we develop the magnet motor so that it can create a useful amount of power.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This will change the EV forever.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, with a few super-capacitors to even out power consumption, you will have a car that is truly &quot;green&quot; in both, before and after production.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, as soon as someone gets the magnet motor to a useful state, there will be electric cars on the road.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After that point, so much will change.  No longer will be saying that we should get more copper mining, but we will really work on it.  Fortunately, there is a lot of copper we could be recylcing, and after the initial ramp up of creating electric vehicles, we get to a point where we are just taking copper from old cars, and turn it into making new cars.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almost overnight, all the parts suppliers for ICE components just go out of business, or scale way back.  Pistons, rings, valves, timing chains, blocks, heads… all are no longer needed.&lt;/p&gt;
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## What kind of cars will be popular in the future?&lt;p&gt;Lets say that we get to the point where we have magnet motor powered EVs.  And we don&apos;t need to worry about fuel efficiency.  What cars will be rebuilt?  What cars will become the new fad?  Or will it be totally form follows function in design?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, no need to pay for gasoline, will we bring back the &quot;gas guzzlers&quot;?  Will we make more aerodynamic cars because we no longer need a radiator, nor space for the ICE?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It will be very neat to watch.  Because, suddenly, a lot of design modification becomes doable, if not easy.  If you get rid of the ICE, there is tons of room in the front.  What will you do with it?  More bonnet space for luggage?  Will we chop the nose off of new cars?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@builderofcastles/what-would-you-do-with-a-car-that-didn-t-need-fuel&quot;&gt;Read the full post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><dc:creator>builderofcastles</dc:creator><category>hive-110786</category></item><item><title>Stock Up On Food!</title><link>https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@builderofcastles/stock-up-on-food</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@builderofcastles/stock-up-on-food</guid><description>Every day i hear a little more about what the mother WEFers are doing to the food industry.Every day i see more cracks in the food distribution system.Every day i feel how much more food costs. And now, govern-cements are hinting/rumors that you should have three months of stored food. So, will you…</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 12:52:15 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://images.hive.blog/DQmY7cpszQVWAfZXxtKXMLK9n74wKgYoe1ehV7CXLh8FUbY/GetOutOfTheCities.png&quot; alt=&quot;GetOutOfTheCities.png&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Every day i hear a little more about what the mother WEFers are doing to the food industry.&lt;br /&gt;Every day i see more cracks in the food distribution system.&lt;br /&gt;Every day i feel how much more food costs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And now, govern-cements are hinting/rumors that you should have three months of stored food.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, will you stock up on food now?&lt;br /&gt;Or will you curse yourself the day after.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are so many reasons to have a store of food.  Why isn&apos;t having an extra month of food saved up just standard?&lt;/p&gt;
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## Reasons why your grocery store may be empty&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Failing crops (storms, hail, too much rain, too little rain)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Extra grain being sent to China&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;High diesel prices&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&quot;immigrant&quot; disruptions&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;unCivil Wars&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shipping by sea threatened / disrupted.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Monetary breakdown.  If Middle America doesn&apos;t accept dollars, how do you get them to ship bananas?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Those mother WEFers turn off food shipments.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These things and more can/will disrupt food from reaching your local grocery store shelves.&lt;/p&gt;
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## Realities of Storing Food&lt;p&gt;Buy what you eat, and eat what you buy.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You want to eat the same foods daily, before and after food scarcity.&lt;br /&gt;If you suddenly switch to freeze dried, prepackaged foods, you stomach and body will not be used to it.  And this leads to you not getting as much nutrition out of what you ate.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If the food you are buying last 7 years, you should be eating it one in every seven meals.&lt;br /&gt;You buy it, you eat it, you buy more and rotate your stock.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are all kinds of normal grocery store items that have a long shelf life.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rice and beans.  Uncooked&lt;br /&gt;Canned goods.&lt;br /&gt;Pasta&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;One of the easiest meals that is easy to buy is spaghetti.&lt;br /&gt;Noodles last for years just sitting on a shelf.&lt;br /&gt;Pasta sauce comes in a jar or can, and lasts for years just sitting on a shelf.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, if you have no foods stored, go to CostingCo and pick up a case of pasta sauce, a case of canned chicken, and a case of spaghetti.  This will keep you alive, while others are going hungry.&lt;/p&gt;
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## Grow things that do not store well&lt;p&gt;Green leafy vegetables do not store well.  Even in a refrigerator.  However they are incredibly easy to grow.  Even indoors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can invest in a few grow lights, set up a self watering system.  Sprinkle some lettuce seeds, and in 15 days, start harvesting micro greens.  After they sprout, lettuces grow really quickly.  You will just want to plant before you need them.  Sprouting takes forever. (it is actually only 15 days, but it seems like forever, as you watch with no signs anything is growing.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can choose to build a system using soil in trays, or you can choose to build a hydroponics system.&lt;br /&gt;Seriously, you can have lettuces growing in your house in no time.  And then be eating some of the bestest tasting salads.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After you get this going, you can move onto more difficult levels.&lt;br /&gt;You can grow all kinds of things indoors.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I recommend getting a greenhouse and a garden.&lt;br /&gt;A Greenhouse on a rural or country property.  Away from the cities.  At least away from the downtown/downtrodden areas.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;So, having a mere month&apos;s worth of food stored, will get you over many problems.  Be it riots or natural disasters.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people look down on preppers, however, being prepared is so much better than not being.  The normal people make fun of preppers, saying that you can just go to the store and buy what you need.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, we all know that stores are cleaned out just before a hurricane.&lt;br /&gt;Stores are barren after a flood or fire.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So, ignore the ridicule, and get your food stores.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And, if nothing happens, the food you buy will have saved you money.  Inflation is going to keep going up.  The food you buy today will be far cheaper than food you buy tomorrow.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;center&gt;&lt;em&gt;All images in this post are my own original creations.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/center&gt;</content:encoded><dc:creator>builderofcastles</dc:creator><category>hive-110786</category></item><item><title>Incidents of my youth:  Getting busted properly for shoplifting</title><link>https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@beelzebubba/incidents-of-my-youth-getting-busted-properly-for-shoplifting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@beelzebubba/incidents-of-my-youth-getting-busted-properly-for-shoplifting</guid><description>I have a lot of stories on my blog and most of them are success stories or stories about how my childhood was pretty fantastic because I had great parents who really cared about raising me. Others of my stories are ruminations about people I knew when I was a teenager and how they ended up going…</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2026 05:12:30 GMT</pubDate><content:encoded>&lt;p&gt;I have a lot of stories on my blog and most of them are success stories or stories about how my childhood was pretty fantastic because I had great parents who really cared about raising me.  Others of my stories are ruminations about people I knew when I was a teenager and how they ended up going seriously astray because of lack of parental oversight in their lives.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I still feel as though this is very true though:  for the most part, if you have good parents, you are going to be a good kid.   If your parents have very little to do with you other than providing a roof and some food every now and then, kids tend to go wrong in life.  I have dozens of real-life examples of this.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However, this doesn&apos;t mean that I was perfect as a teen especially.  I had plenty of temptations and I am reminded of a Jane&apos;s Addiction son that had a verse in the song &lt;em&gt;Caught Stealing&lt;/em&gt; that goes &quot;When I want something and I don&apos;t wanna pay for it!&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;That was basically me and my shoplifting adventures.   I always had a job, I always had money, but some of the things in my life I felt as though it would be a lot more beneficial to me if I just didn&apos;t pay for it and I would have a lot more of it.   This of course is the wrong way to think about things, but it was the way that I was for a couple of years or so during my youth.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;sub&gt; While I didn&apos;t care much for this band the video was very memorable &lt;/sub&gt; &lt;/center&gt; &lt;p&gt;So one of the innocent hobbies I had as a youth was building model airplanes.  I had a fascination with WW2 aircraft and would buy the models and really work hard on getting them just right.   The things with this is though, that in order to get the paint job just right on a lot of them, you needed a bunch of these little jugs of paints that were slightly different shades of grey or green and all of these little tubs were seriously overpriced at like $2 for a tiny little bottle.&lt;/p&gt;
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[src](https://www.stardustcolors.co.uk/img/cms/CMS-PHOTOS/painting-scale-model.png)&lt;/center&gt;&lt;p&gt;SIDE QUEST!   There was one time my father spotted me using a tiny jar of paint thinner that was $2 and he was like &quot;oh hell no!&quot; and showed me the gigantic tin of the same product he had in the garage that was like 50 cents a gallon.  Such was the markup on these paint tins.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was wandering around the town with my childhood friend Nathan, riding our bikes all over the place and one of the places we stopped was at a department story called &lt;em&gt;Roses&lt;/em&gt; that I don&apos;t think exists anymore.  Probably because of too much shoplifting or something.  Or it might have been Wal-Mart completely taking over the industry - one of the two.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well I was in an aisle where they had the little tubs of paint and I thought to myself that I could just go around the corner of this area and quickly shove this little thing of paint into the bag that I was carrying.   I did this, several times.   &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Unbeknownst to me, they had a &quot;fake shopper&quot; security guard that had vantage points all over the store and he was not dressed like security.   After a couple of what I can only presume was very suspicious trips to the end of the aisle where I would leave with a product and then mysteriously return without it, he came up and confronted me and my friend.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I can still see that guy&apos;s face to this day.   He was skinny, had long hair and glasses, and was wearing and ill-fitting overcoat one.  If anyone in this place looked like a shoplifter, it was this guy.   &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;He told me to follow him and because I respected my elders I did so without hesitation even though I knew that once they looked in my bag that the jig was going to be up.  He already knew it was in there so this didn&apos;t really matter though.  I had gotten too bold with my theft and in the back of that department store me and my friend were presented with a choice:  Call my parents or call the police who would almost certainly end up calling my parents anyway.   I opted for the first option.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://hive.blog/hive-110786/@beelzebubba/incidents-of-my-youth-getting-busted-properly-for-shoplifting&quot;&gt;Read the full post&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</content:encoded><dc:creator>beelzebubba</dc:creator><category>hive-110786</category></item></channel></rss>