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In zombie stories, the worldviews that are fleshed out are those of mad scientists, fifth columnists, useful idiots, resentful cowards, etc, rather than those of the zombies themselves. eg the French Revolution contained intellectual multitudes, but eg the Cuban one was intellectually contained by its western spectators. Thus the relevant ideologies behind third worldism aren’t explained or inspired by the ravings of Qutb or Fanon, but rather by non third worldist attempts at riding third worldism like a tiger. Many good germane bits of this forum post [rest is by graveler, not me]:
Wanted to lay out my current thoughts on migration, the number one issue of our day.
The “quantity has a quality all its own” observation has been made elsewhere. I don’t need to make it again. Yes, the fact that there are many foreign individuals we might gladly and profitably welcome into our midst does not scale up to open borders being a good idea. The Great Replacement is obviously real, come on, if you aren’t allowed to say it you live under a tyranny. The Camp of the Saints. The Second Bantu Expansion. These things are all true and I'm opposed.
I want to introduce two terms, which I have used before without specificity. The first of these is alienism. Alienism is a moral philosophy, the content of which is that foreigners are better than non-foreigners. The only other person I have seen use variants of this word (“alienist”) is substack titan arctotherium, although I don’t think he’s defined it. I’m defining it now. Alienism: foreigners are better than us. Migrationism is the use of mass migration as the foundation of political power. After I've defined it, I'll give my understanding of how migrationism in particular evolved into its current, dominating form.
Alienism
Alienism is a very strange concept and so deserves some elaboration. I would distinguish it from racial hatred or ethnic resentment (including the anti-white variety) since it is general rather than particular. It is also not a form of racial supremacism as the category of morally superior individuals under the alienist framework is not, by any objective measure, a racial or ethnic one, and won’t be any time soon. It is also distinct from Third Worldism, again a more particular ideology and moral system. More subtly, it is not the same thing as xenophilia or cosmopolitanism, which aside from being largely personality dispositions and social arrangements respectively do not inherently come to the same moral conclusions as alienism. The xenophile may like foreign ways or even prefer them to his own without ascribing a larger moral valence to this preference. To use myself as an example, I think the Arab custom of always ensuring that you do anything dirty with your left hand is an improvement over the “no preference” of my own culture but I don’t think this makes Arabs better than me. Likewise, a cosmopolitan individual ought to have no better opinion of some exotically-located rube than of his own local variety. Of course in practice alienism is often comorbid with these other things. Alienism is also retarded and makes its adherents unable to notice things like being the subject of racial antipathy.
In fact, it’s so retarded that I need to defend even the claim that it exists. As a moral philosophy, it comes in harder and softer forms, with the most hardcore variants mostly held by sophists or deranged ideologues. As a 21st century philosophy, it is often conceived and defended in economic terms. A few illustrative examples.
This scene from “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, which of course is enthusiastically praised by deranged alienist ideologue Bryan Caplan.
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Wanted to lay out my current thoughts on migration, the number one issue of our day.
The “quantity has a quality all its own” observation has been made elsewhere. I don’t need to make it again. Yes, the fact that there are many foreign individuals we might gladly and profitably welcome into our midst does not scale up to open borders being a good idea. The Great Replacement is obviously real, come on, if you aren’t allowed to say it you live under a tyranny. The Camp of the Saints. The Second Bantu Expansion. These things are all true and I'm opposed.
I want to introduce two terms, which I have used before without specificity. The first of these is alienism. Alienism is a moral philosophy, the content of which is that foreigners are better than non-foreigners. The only other person I have seen use variants of this word (“alienist”) is substack titan arctotherium, although I don’t think he’s defined it. I’m defining it now. Alienism: foreigners are better than us. Migrationism is the use of mass migration as the foundation of political power. After I've defined it, I'll give my understanding of how migrationism in particular evolved into its current, dominating form.
Alienism
Alienism is a very strange concept and so deserves some elaboration. I would distinguish it from racial hatred or ethnic resentment (including the anti-white variety) since it is general rather than particular. It is also not a form of racial supremacism as the category of morally superior individuals under the alienist framework is not, by any objective measure, a racial or ethnic one, and won’t be any time soon. It is also distinct from Third Worldism, again a more particular ideology and moral system. More subtly, it is not the same thing as xenophilia or cosmopolitanism, which aside from being largely personality dispositions and social arrangements respectively do not inherently come to the same moral conclusions as alienism. The xenophile may like foreign ways or even prefer them to his own without ascribing a larger moral valence to this preference. To use myself as an example, I think the Arab custom of always ensuring that you do anything dirty with your left hand is an improvement over the “no preference” of my own culture but I don’t think this makes Arabs better than me. Likewise, a cosmopolitan individual ought to have no better opinion of some exotically-located rube than of his own local variety. Of course in practice alienism is often comorbid with these other things. Alienism is also retarded and makes its adherents unable to notice things like being the subject of racial antipathy.
In fact, it’s so retarded that I need to defend even the claim that it exists. As a moral philosophy, it comes in harder and softer forms, with the most hardcore variants mostly held by sophists or deranged ideologues. As a 21st century philosophy, it is often conceived and defended in economic terms. A few illustrative examples.
This scene from “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, which of course is enthusiastically praised by deranged alienist ideologue Bryan Caplan.
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Softer forms of alienism often involve claims of the economic superiority of foreigners over your people. They are “hard-working” and “family-oriented”. Where alienists hold significant legal power, it may actually be illegal to ascribe negative characteristics to foreigners, even on an individual level. If a foreigner is paid a lower wage for a job than your people, this is evidence that they are harder-working than your people. If they will work for the same wage, it is evidence that they are at least as good as your people. And of course if they are paid a higher wage, it is evidence that they are not only harder-working but smarter or grittier or more driven than your people.
Alienism is why Appeals To Net Taxpayer doesn’t work. “It takes nine working-age white men to support one Somali before you include the keedz” no shit, why do you think white people are even still allowed to use the Internet? What you should really be upset about [effective altruist voice] is how much Tax Money isn’t going to foreigners and instead is being wasted on non-basic cars, houses in areas that aren't full of foreigners, privately-held capital, and other frivolities. If you enter derangeoid territory you can even find this case made for crime. Better for foreign criminals to victimize our people than to commit their misdeeds where foreigners would be harmed.
Perhaps the most common alienist belief is that a foreigner’s relocating to the alienist’s country ipso facto demonstrates good moral character, and they may not even be shy in crowing about the supposed eugenic qualities of immigrants qua the mere act of immigration. This is, I think, basically a bastardization of more careful arguments made by Gregory Clark and Garett Jones. I once listened to an Immortal Technique song which sampled Al Sharpton making this argument about African-Americans “surviving the Middle Passage”. I want to emphasize that migration in one direction or another may or may not select for positive traits and this must be determined on a case-by-case basis; an alienist sees no need to examine specific cases. Even Al Sharpton’s sermon was not alienist because it referred to a specific event rather than to migration in general.
Alienism primarily serves as, and I hypothesize was created as, a fallback ideological screen for the employment of migration as a tool of political power. A fallback, because migrationists seem to rely on more particular justifications like “worker shortage” or “human rights” but, if these fail, will simply make brute alienist appeals to entitlement. Migrationism: another word I made up. Migrationism is the foundation of state power on mass migration – the movement of large numbers of people.
Migrationism
Migration as a tool of government isn’t new – there is the ancient example of the Exile of the Hebrews, the settlement of the New World, the various deportations of the mid-20th century. What makes migrationism new is the propensity of certain modern states to resort to migration as a foundational tool of governance. Migrationists prefer to gain and maintain power via migration in contrast to fiscal and monetary policy, violence, public works, trade, scientific advancement, legislation, propaganda, or any other means you could name. The most trivial reason for this development is technical: it’s easier for people to move around at scale thanks to a combination of communication and air travel: these enable faster coordination and action than ever before.
Then again, it’s also easier to move to Somalia or Liechtenstein than ever before, and yet curiously no one does. I believe that Western political classes – those with the means to influence and direct state policy – only discovered the usefulness of migration and thence became migrationist fairly late in the 20th century, certainly at least a generation post-1945.
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Alienism is why Appeals To Net Taxpayer doesn’t work. “It takes nine working-age white men to support one Somali before you include the keedz” no shit, why do you think white people are even still allowed to use the Internet? What you should really be upset about [effective altruist voice] is how much Tax Money isn’t going to foreigners and instead is being wasted on non-basic cars, houses in areas that aren't full of foreigners, privately-held capital, and other frivolities. If you enter derangeoid territory you can even find this case made for crime. Better for foreign criminals to victimize our people than to commit their misdeeds where foreigners would be harmed.
Perhaps the most common alienist belief is that a foreigner’s relocating to the alienist’s country ipso facto demonstrates good moral character, and they may not even be shy in crowing about the supposed eugenic qualities of immigrants qua the mere act of immigration. This is, I think, basically a bastardization of more careful arguments made by Gregory Clark and Garett Jones. I once listened to an Immortal Technique song which sampled Al Sharpton making this argument about African-Americans “surviving the Middle Passage”. I want to emphasize that migration in one direction or another may or may not select for positive traits and this must be determined on a case-by-case basis; an alienist sees no need to examine specific cases. Even Al Sharpton’s sermon was not alienist because it referred to a specific event rather than to migration in general.
Alienism primarily serves as, and I hypothesize was created as, a fallback ideological screen for the employment of migration as a tool of political power. A fallback, because migrationists seem to rely on more particular justifications like “worker shortage” or “human rights” but, if these fail, will simply make brute alienist appeals to entitlement. Migrationism: another word I made up. Migrationism is the foundation of state power on mass migration – the movement of large numbers of people.
Migrationism
Migration as a tool of government isn’t new – there is the ancient example of the Exile of the Hebrews, the settlement of the New World, the various deportations of the mid-20th century. What makes migrationism new is the propensity of certain modern states to resort to migration as a foundational tool of governance. Migrationists prefer to gain and maintain power via migration in contrast to fiscal and monetary policy, violence, public works, trade, scientific advancement, legislation, propaganda, or any other means you could name. The most trivial reason for this development is technical: it’s easier for people to move around at scale thanks to a combination of communication and air travel: these enable faster coordination and action than ever before.
Then again, it’s also easier to move to Somalia or Liechtenstein than ever before, and yet curiously no one does. I believe that Western political classes – those with the means to influence and direct state policy – only discovered the usefulness of migration and thence became migrationist fairly late in the 20th century, certainly at least a generation post-1945.
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International Precedents
There is an academic examination of migration as a coercive tool: Weapons of Mass Migration by Kelly Greenhill, a political scientist, published in 2010. Greenhill’s book is limited to an examination of “coercive engineered migration” as a tool of foreign policy and has a limited – but nevertheless intriguing, I will return to this – discussion of migration's mechanism of coercive action. But it is quite valuable both as a catalogue of attempts to use migration as a coercive policy tool, and as a public demonstration that this aspect of migration is known to the academic establishment. Greenhill’s most detailed examples, presumably the ones that got her interested in this topic, are the use of mass emigration or the threat of it to coerce the United States government by Cuba and Haiti. While both examples are interesting and have much in common, in the Cuban case Greenhill notes that Fidel Castro’s government appeared to learn from experience how to wield this beginning with the “Camarioca Boatlift” and escalating through the more famous Cuban Boatlifts of the Scarface and Clinton eras. Thus we can see a specific ruling class (Cuban Communists) figuring this out, that it was not immediately obvious, that it took some time to get the theory and mechanics right. Also, while I’m not going to pull on this thread in the OP, there is a Cuban nexus of American left-wing activism.
There is also, of course, a Soviet nexus. Greenhill notes an intriguing case from the late Cold War:
In the early 1980s, the East German (GDR) government, led by President Erich Honecker, began placing travel services advertisements throughout the Middle East and South Asia, promising “comfortable flights” to East Berlin and “quick and smooth transit” into the West.[1259] Under the scheme, would-be asylum seekers from Third World nations could fly to Schoenefeld Airport in East Berlin on Soviet bloc airlines and, once there, be granted transit visas that allowed them to enter West Berlin unimpeded.
In short order, the number of asylum seekers in West Germany rose precipitously, climbing 109 percent between 1984 and 1985. By the following year, nearly half of all of the displaced in Western Europe sought asylum in West Germany, and between 700 and 1,000 refugees per week were pouring into West Berlin from the eastern sector.[1260] Refugee fatigue rapidly set in. Opinion polls showed growing disaffection with handling of the issue, and mobilization among those opposed to admission steadily grew. The inflow also divided the sitting center-right coalition, with the centrist Free Democrats resisting demands from some of then Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Christian Democrats for legislation that would soften the right to political asylum enshrined in the Constitution.[1261] The more conservative members of Kohl’s coalition, especially the Christian Social Party of Bavaria, demanded that the Constitution be amended to eliminate the right to refuge.
Following a series of high-level meetings, in September 1986, East Germany agreed to bring the crisis to an end in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars of additional aid and a variety of other concessions, including a substantial increase in interest-free credit for trade between Bonn and East Berlin.[1262] The West Germans also approved two agreements East Germany had “insistently sought” for some time: an accord on environmental aid, under which Bonn agreed to help pay to clean up East German industrial pollution, and a technology transfer agreement, which resulted in long-desired technical and scientific cooperation. It has also been argued that East Germany may have successfully used the crisis to gain leverage in its diplomatic relations with Moscow.[1263] (Case 26)
Note the, by 21st century standards, laughably low numbers of migrants involved. We will come back to this shortly.
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There is an academic examination of migration as a coercive tool: Weapons of Mass Migration by Kelly Greenhill, a political scientist, published in 2010. Greenhill’s book is limited to an examination of “coercive engineered migration” as a tool of foreign policy and has a limited – but nevertheless intriguing, I will return to this – discussion of migration's mechanism of coercive action. But it is quite valuable both as a catalogue of attempts to use migration as a coercive policy tool, and as a public demonstration that this aspect of migration is known to the academic establishment. Greenhill’s most detailed examples, presumably the ones that got her interested in this topic, are the use of mass emigration or the threat of it to coerce the United States government by Cuba and Haiti. While both examples are interesting and have much in common, in the Cuban case Greenhill notes that Fidel Castro’s government appeared to learn from experience how to wield this beginning with the “Camarioca Boatlift” and escalating through the more famous Cuban Boatlifts of the Scarface and Clinton eras. Thus we can see a specific ruling class (Cuban Communists) figuring this out, that it was not immediately obvious, that it took some time to get the theory and mechanics right. Also, while I’m not going to pull on this thread in the OP, there is a Cuban nexus of American left-wing activism.
There is also, of course, a Soviet nexus. Greenhill notes an intriguing case from the late Cold War:
In the early 1980s, the East German (GDR) government, led by President Erich Honecker, began placing travel services advertisements throughout the Middle East and South Asia, promising “comfortable flights” to East Berlin and “quick and smooth transit” into the West.[1259] Under the scheme, would-be asylum seekers from Third World nations could fly to Schoenefeld Airport in East Berlin on Soviet bloc airlines and, once there, be granted transit visas that allowed them to enter West Berlin unimpeded.
In short order, the number of asylum seekers in West Germany rose precipitously, climbing 109 percent between 1984 and 1985. By the following year, nearly half of all of the displaced in Western Europe sought asylum in West Germany, and between 700 and 1,000 refugees per week were pouring into West Berlin from the eastern sector.[1260] Refugee fatigue rapidly set in. Opinion polls showed growing disaffection with handling of the issue, and mobilization among those opposed to admission steadily grew. The inflow also divided the sitting center-right coalition, with the centrist Free Democrats resisting demands from some of then Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Christian Democrats for legislation that would soften the right to political asylum enshrined in the Constitution.[1261] The more conservative members of Kohl’s coalition, especially the Christian Social Party of Bavaria, demanded that the Constitution be amended to eliminate the right to refuge.
Following a series of high-level meetings, in September 1986, East Germany agreed to bring the crisis to an end in exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars of additional aid and a variety of other concessions, including a substantial increase in interest-free credit for trade between Bonn and East Berlin.[1262] The West Germans also approved two agreements East Germany had “insistently sought” for some time: an accord on environmental aid, under which Bonn agreed to help pay to clean up East German industrial pollution, and a technology transfer agreement, which resulted in long-desired technical and scientific cooperation. It has also been argued that East Germany may have successfully used the crisis to gain leverage in its diplomatic relations with Moscow.[1263] (Case 26)
Note the, by 21st century standards, laughably low numbers of migrants involved. We will come back to this shortly.
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@CMHA_NTL why should I trust you people swarming lawns?
It's officially get the fuck off my property for ignoring me before. Get the fuck off my property. Lawyer up and fuck yourselves. Bring me the civil suit papers and it's $250/day and $10,000 per snuff. You fucking cracked out mental health idiots.
#CMHA #CIVILSUIT #CLASSACTION #MENTALTHEALTH
5 Things Women Can't Resist in a Man:
1. To be a dictator
This may seem like an unpopular opinion, but girls adore leaders, especially men who possess arrogance and the confidence to lead an entire group of men, and this doesn't mean you have to become a ruthless killer, but rather that you simply possess excessive confidence in your ability to lead anyone in the world, and especially
This may seem like an unpopular opinion, but girls adore leaders, especially men who possess arrogance and the confidence to lead an entire group of men, and this doesn't mean you have to become a ruthless killer, but rather that you simply possess excessive confidence in your ability to lead anyone in the world, and especially
To be absolutely certain that you are capable of successfully leading a group of men to victory.
Drey on Larry Ellison for the UK homies.
Let's go through it ..
Let's go through it ..
UK drivers' licenses get verified by the DVLA Home Office system which is run by Oracle ..
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The NHS also runs on the Oracle infrastructure through Cerner ..
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You may be wondering 2 things.
1) What happened to Trump? Who is he listening to?
2) Why does it feel like the internet isn’t real and engagement is fluctuating based on “particular topics” lately?
I think I can help answer both questions.
There is a company called Vine & Fig Tree (VFT).
VFT is a pro-Israel organization with ties to the administration.
Earlier this year, VFT was at the White House meeting with Sebastian Gorka.
Shortly after that White House meeting, I was contacted through a third party and asked to script-write for VFT.
The individual who contacted me is publicly very Christian and widely perceived as America First.
I was told the script would be used to create an AI-generated video on behalf of the White House, specifically for NSC and Sebastian Gorka.
They told me:
“Yeah we have to do this on behalf of them [the administration] because they don’t want it to look like it’s actually coming from the WH.. you know what I mean? I mean, it worked out for them and Nick Shirley.”
I was then given a Dropbox link containing research, polling data, internal comments, and strategy material compiled by VFT and the third party involved.
Inside the Dropbox were 7 folders.
Through those documents, I learned more about what this organization actually does.
Their reports monitor major conservative and "dissident-right" accounts and frequently frame those accounts as vulnerable to, or participating in, foreign influence operations.
The reports include information regarding @NickFuentes, @hodgetwins, @RealCandaceO, @TuckerCarlson, @jacksonhinklle, @IanCarrollShow, and @MarioNawfal just to name a few.
They also collected polling and response data surrounding @joekent16jan19’s resignation from the administration.
In another report, they argue that distrust surrounding Charlie Kirk’s assassination was mostly due to Americans falling for Russian, Iranian, and Pakistani propaganda networks.
In that same Charlie Kirk report they state, "This represents an urgent national security threat... and demands a whole-of-government response on par with cyberattacks or terrorism."
The internal comments attached to these reports are what stood out most.
They talk about "going after" Fuentes, stating "undermining his Christian identity is probably a good Idea."
They contemplate "getting" @MattWalshBlog or @michaeljknowles to publish on behalf of VFT.
They suggest collaborating with NCRI, founded by Joel Finkelstein - a multi-million dollar organization that tracks "hate speech" on social media.
Another internal comment weighs in on how they will advise politicians based on their data which also compiles info surrounding JD Vance's 2028 run:
“There is definitely a way to use this in our favor: tell politicians that there are two wings of the party, they don’t overlap, the majority lies here, and this is where you should be if you want to get re-elected..."
The documents also discuss:
Burner profiles, burner ad accounts, AI-generated interview-style videos, audience personas, “troll content briefs”, engagement testing, and ideological audience segmentation.
If you're wondering whether the White House is actually listening to VFT...
It's worth reviewing the White House's latest 16-page Counterterrorism Strategy touted by Gorka.
More to follow.
1) What happened to Trump? Who is he listening to?
2) Why does it feel like the internet isn’t real and engagement is fluctuating based on “particular topics” lately?
I think I can help answer both questions.
There is a company called Vine & Fig Tree (VFT).
VFT is a pro-Israel organization with ties to the administration.
Earlier this year, VFT was at the White House meeting with Sebastian Gorka.
Shortly after that White House meeting, I was contacted through a third party and asked to script-write for VFT.
The individual who contacted me is publicly very Christian and widely perceived as America First.
I was told the script would be used to create an AI-generated video on behalf of the White House, specifically for NSC and Sebastian Gorka.
They told me:
“Yeah we have to do this on behalf of them [the administration] because they don’t want it to look like it’s actually coming from the WH.. you know what I mean? I mean, it worked out for them and Nick Shirley.”
I was then given a Dropbox link containing research, polling data, internal comments, and strategy material compiled by VFT and the third party involved.
Inside the Dropbox were 7 folders.
Through those documents, I learned more about what this organization actually does.
Their reports monitor major conservative and "dissident-right" accounts and frequently frame those accounts as vulnerable to, or participating in, foreign influence operations.
The reports include information regarding @NickFuentes, @hodgetwins, @RealCandaceO, @TuckerCarlson, @jacksonhinklle, @IanCarrollShow, and @MarioNawfal just to name a few.
They also collected polling and response data surrounding @joekent16jan19’s resignation from the administration.
In another report, they argue that distrust surrounding Charlie Kirk’s assassination was mostly due to Americans falling for Russian, Iranian, and Pakistani propaganda networks.
In that same Charlie Kirk report they state, "This represents an urgent national security threat... and demands a whole-of-government response on par with cyberattacks or terrorism."
The internal comments attached to these reports are what stood out most.
They talk about "going after" Fuentes, stating "undermining his Christian identity is probably a good Idea."
They contemplate "getting" @MattWalshBlog or @michaeljknowles to publish on behalf of VFT.
They suggest collaborating with NCRI, founded by Joel Finkelstein - a multi-million dollar organization that tracks "hate speech" on social media.
Another internal comment weighs in on how they will advise politicians based on their data which also compiles info surrounding JD Vance's 2028 run:
“There is definitely a way to use this in our favor: tell politicians that there are two wings of the party, they don’t overlap, the majority lies here, and this is where you should be if you want to get re-elected..."
The documents also discuss:
Burner profiles, burner ad accounts, AI-generated interview-style videos, audience personas, “troll content briefs”, engagement testing, and ideological audience segmentation.
If you're wondering whether the White House is actually listening to VFT...
It's worth reviewing the White House's latest 16-page Counterterrorism Strategy touted by Gorka.
More to follow.
here's their @charliekirk11 report.
@charliekirk11 And this is one of their bots.
Três empresas dominavam o mercado mundial de chips gráficos no final do século passado. A imprensa especializada apostava nelas para dominar a década seguinte.
A 3dfx Interactive era a queridinha de Wall Street. A S3 Graphics estava em quase todo PC vendido. E a ATI Technologies tinha contratos com Compaq e Dell.
Nenhuma das três fabrica chips hoje.
Quem dominou foi a quarta empresa — a que era considerada a mais fraca do grupo.
Naquele verão, porém, ela também estava em colapso. 🧵
A 3dfx Interactive era a queridinha de Wall Street. A S3 Graphics estava em quase todo PC vendido. E a ATI Technologies tinha contratos com Compaq e Dell.
Nenhuma das três fabrica chips hoje.
Quem dominou foi a quarta empresa — a que era considerada a mais fraca do grupo.
Naquele verão, porém, ela também estava em colapso. 🧵
Em meados de 1996, a Nvidia tinha 30 dias de folha para quebrar. 70% dos funcionários acabavam de ser demitidos.
As luzes do escritório ficavam apagadas para economizar energia. Jensen Huang, cofundador, adiava o pagamento de contas para cobrir a folha de quem ainda estava lá.
Vinte e nove anos depois, a mesma empresa virou a primeira da história a bater US$ 5 trilhões em valor de mercado.
Hoje, vale mais do que a Apple. Mais do que a Microsoft. Mais do que toda a Bolsa de São Paulo.
Mas como uma empresa quase falida virou esse colosso da tecnologia?
As luzes do escritório ficavam apagadas para economizar energia. Jensen Huang, cofundador, adiava o pagamento de contas para cobrir a folha de quem ainda estava lá.
Vinte e nove anos depois, a mesma empresa virou a primeira da história a bater US$ 5 trilhões em valor de mercado.
Hoje, vale mais do que a Apple. Mais do que a Microsoft. Mais do que toda a Bolsa de São Paulo.
Mas como uma empresa quase falida virou esse colosso da tecnologia?
Abril de 1993. Numa mesa do Denny's em San Jose, Califórnia, três engenheiros decidiram fundar uma empresa de chips gráficos.
O capital inicial? US$ 40 mil em economias pessoais. Pouco depois, fecharam um investimento de US$ 2 milhões com Sequoia Capital e Sutter Hill Ventures.
Eram apenas mais uma das mais de 90 empresas de chips gráficos que surgiram no Vale do Silício nos anos 1990.
A maioria foi à falência.
A diferença entre elas e a Nvidia viria a ser uma única decisão.
O capital inicial? US$ 40 mil em economias pessoais. Pouco depois, fecharam um investimento de US$ 2 milhões com Sequoia Capital e Sutter Hill Ventures.
Eram apenas mais uma das mais de 90 empresas de chips gráficos que surgiram no Vale do Silício nos anos 1990.
A maioria foi à falência.
A diferença entre elas e a Nvidia viria a ser uma única decisão.
As opposed to what was offered yesterday...
In my humble opinion, might I add.
To be fair, here's what our current president offered yesterday.
The Peter Thiel Nexus: From Palantir to the Genomic Matrix :
1. 23andMe and Genentech : The Pharmaceutical Firehose
Just as Palantir proved that large data integration could track terrorists or predict supply chain collapses, Thiel-backed biotechnology ventures realized that human DNA is the ultimate unstructured data dataset.
Just as Palantir proved that large data integration could track terrorists or predict supply chain collapses, Thiel-backed biotechnology ventures realized that human DNA is the ultimate unstructured data dataset.
The intersection of the Podesta Group, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), and Genentech exposes the foundational lobbying and public relations infrastructure that turned human biological datasets into multi-billion-dollar commercial commodities."..
I returned a rental car last month. Three days later, my phone rang.
Clerk: "We found damage under the door. We're charging you $1,800."
Me: "Was the damage noted on the check-in sheet?"
Clerk: "You signed the agreement, didn't you?"
Me: "I'm asking about the inspection report. Not the signature."
Clerk: "Uh... let me check and call you back."
Three days later, he called. The $1,800 charge dropped to zero. One phone call.
If you've ever rented a car, save this. Most people pay the full amount because they don't know these 5 rules:
Clerk: "We found damage under the door. We're charging you $1,800."
Me: "Was the damage noted on the check-in sheet?"
Clerk: "You signed the agreement, didn't you?"
Me: "I'm asking about the inspection report. Not the signature."
Clerk: "Uh... let me check and call you back."
Three days later, he called. The $1,800 charge dropped to zero. One phone call.
If you've ever rented a car, save this. Most people pay the full amount because they don't know these 5 rules:
Here is the part nobody tells you.
Post-rental damage claims are common enough that consumer protection groups across the US, EU, and India publish guides on how to fight them. Disputes about damage surcharges after returning a car are the most common problem in the entire car rental sector (European Consumer Centres Network).
Hertz once sent a customer an $850 repair bill six months after the car was returned (Travelers United, 2024).
Most people just pay. They feel guilty. They assume they must have done something. They write the check.
Here is the truth, straight from the Federal Trade Commission: any business trying to collect payment for damages must prove the customer caused them (TrustDALE, 2025).
The burden of proof is on the rental company. Not you.
When you know this, the conversation changes instantly.
Post-rental damage claims are common enough that consumer protection groups across the US, EU, and India publish guides on how to fight them. Disputes about damage surcharges after returning a car are the most common problem in the entire car rental sector (European Consumer Centres Network).
Hertz once sent a customer an $850 repair bill six months after the car was returned (Travelers United, 2024).
Most people just pay. They feel guilty. They assume they must have done something. They write the check.
Here is the truth, straight from the Federal Trade Commission: any business trying to collect payment for damages must prove the customer caused them (TrustDALE, 2025).
The burden of proof is on the rental company. Not you.
When you know this, the conversation changes instantly.
Rule #1: A signature is not a confession.
The clerk's favorite line is "You signed the agreement, didn't you?"
That signature confirms you rented the car. It does not confirm you damaged the car.
If the damage is not listed on the pre-rental inspection sheet, the rental company has to prove the damage happened during YOUR rental period. Pre-existing damage is their problem, not yours.
Ask one question: "Show me the time-stamped photo of the damage from before my rental, and from after my return."
If they cannot produce both, the claim has no foundation.
The clerk's favorite line is "You signed the agreement, didn't you?"
That signature confirms you rented the car. It does not confirm you damaged the car.
If the damage is not listed on the pre-rental inspection sheet, the rental company has to prove the damage happened during YOUR rental period. Pre-existing damage is their problem, not yours.
Ask one question: "Show me the time-stamped photo of the damage from before my rental, and from after my return."
If they cannot produce both, the claim has no foundation.
THREAD: A highlight of the many factual errors, deliberate omissions, timeline falsities and other material mistakes made in @AndrewHammel1's piece published by @Quillette.
Where fact-checking was clearly not of interest—but sourcing from Dimond and Gutierrez somehow made sense.
Where fact-checking was clearly not of interest—but sourcing from Dimond and Gutierrez somehow made sense.
"MJ would later invite James to visit him at Hayvenhurst"
You omit how it was the Safechucks who kicked off this correspondence by sending him letters. This is also true with the Robsons. MJ had no communication with them; they spent 2 years trying to reach him from AU and USA.
You omit how it was the Safechucks who kicked off this correspondence by sending him letters. This is also true with the Robsons. MJ had no communication with them; they spent 2 years trying to reach him from AU and USA.
"MJ repeatedly invited large groups of children to Neverland"
...and their families. Many of these occurrences were formal arrangements with organizations like D.A.R.E., Make A Wish, local churches and non-profits. They included an entire range of adult chaperones and staffers.
...and their families. Many of these occurrences were formal arrangements with organizations like D.A.R.E., Make A Wish, local churches and non-profits. They included an entire range of adult chaperones and staffers.
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