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The last time Donald Trump was president, he travelled to Youngstown, Ohio, among the most depressed of America’s rust belt cities, and promised voters the impossible.

The high-paying steel, railroad and car industry jobs that once made Youngstown a hard-living, hard-drinking blue-collar boom town were coming back, he said. “Don’t move. Don’t sell your house,” he crowed to a rapturous crowd in 2017. “We’re going to fill up those factories – or rip ”em down and build brand new ones”.

None of that happened. Indeed, within 18 months, General Motors (GM) announced that it was suspending operations at its one remaining ­manufacturing plant outside Youngstown, throwing 5,000 jobs into jeopardy in a community with little else to cling to. Trump’s reaction was to say the closure didn’t matter, because the jobs would be replaced “in, like, two minutes”.

That, too, did not happen. People moved away, marriages broke down, depression soared and, locals say, a handful of people took their own lives.

“The Democrats and the Republicans are all a den of crooks. Only one side lies about being crooks, and one doesn’t. If you’re going to be a crook, I’d rather know it than be lied to.”

some people trigger me so easily it's scary. Most of them are loud, lazy coworkers that somehow piss me off very easily.

Is this a normal reaction to morons?

it's not like I want to punch them, I'm simply relaxed and work better when I don't have to see them. They slow me down.

The YT algorithm washed ashore this review from a random small youtuber. I foud it interesting enough to share with you, as it has a headphone jack and seems to have good repairability.

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/TommyShelbyPFB on 2025-01-12 18:44:28+00:00.

Original Title: Harald Malmgren, fmr advisor to 4 US presidents responds to fmr Air Force Capt Robert Salas describing how a UFO disabled 10 nuclear ICBMs in 1967."This demonstrated the capability of an unidentifiable force or forces to disable the nation's ultimate nuclear deterrent. Not act of war, but a warning"

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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/shadowofashadow on 2025-01-12 18:04:02+00:00.

I am not sure why but I just never watched Close Encounters. It came out before I was born and it's so classic I think I just assumed I knew what it was already. Boy was I wrong.

It seems extremely clear to me that watching this movie with 50 years of research and new info between us and the release that this movie was a way of getting the reality of what is going on into the collective consciousness so we could start to integrate these ideas for when the time for full disclosure comes. (If it ever does)

The number of details in the movie that comport with data collected over the last 50 years is too much to be coincidence. Someone gave Spielberg this information so he could get it out into the public psyche.

I only watched it once and I only paused once or twice to look at details but there are so many little nods to what is going on in there that it cannot be coincidence.

For example at one point you see a council of people overseeing a small conference of scientists and government agents getting each other up to speed on what's been going on. I knew immediately how many people would be in that council and sure enough I went back and paused it and there were 12 people in matching suits watching from what was clearly a position of authority. Seems like a nod to the MJ12 to me.

There are also a ton of small details that do nothing to serve the movie from a science fiction standpoint. For example every time we see the 3 alien ships they are followed by a red orb. This orb is never acknowledged or mentioned in the movie but it's clearly an important detail as it's always present. They also seem to hide a lot of small details in the business of various scenes. One that everyone is familiar with are the lockheed boxes that can be seen briefly in one scene. Another one I caught was that at the facility at the top of the mountain at one point you hear the guy on the loudspeaker mention that the craft may have a gravity bubble around it. It goes by quick and isn't referenced at all after that, but it's clear whoever gave Spielberg his info was tuned in.

Another detail that blew me away was when the beings first exit from the ship and a mantid style being first appears. Then the small, drone like grays come out and then finally the E.T style gray we're all familiar with. This matches so many contactee experiences where there seem to be different types of beings with different roles.

There's also the space force with the clear Illuminati symbolism who seem to be engaging in some sort of exchange program with the beings. In a quick shot we see them getting blessed by a priest before their journey which aligns with the reports that there is a big religious faction inside the government who think this phenomenon is spiritual or religious in nature.

Finally, the part that sent shivers down my spine was right at the end when Richard Dryfuss is peering into the ship and the French scientists asks him what he wants. Dryfuss responds "I just want to know that this is really happening" to which Lacombe looks him in the eye and matter of factly responds "This is happening". To me this was the mask off moment. In that moment Dryfuss represents the every man and this is the writer's way of looking the public dead in the eye and saying you better get used to this because THIS is the reality that is already taking place.

Anyways, what a movie. If you haven't seen it you must. It's just so well made.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/24177450

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a (ideally) FOSS app that can help me transfer a large amount of files between mobile devices. The exact scenario I'm trying to solve for is transferring large amount of pictures and videos from a family member's iPhone to my Android mobile phone.

I've tried a few solutions (see below list) but they all had some short coming or issue. I would ideally love something that has a mobile app that can be installed, but that's only because in my experience mobile web browsers tend to timeout / hang when dealing with a large number of file uploads at once.

• Filerun - Filerun worked the best in my testing and, if there are no other suggestions, I'll probably return to this one, despite it not being FOSS.
• Pingvin - Worked the next best, but would time out more frequently than Filerun. As long as I would batch the upload to only a few hundred pictures at a time and kept the screen alive, it would handle the upload.
• PairDrop - Loved the simplicity of this web app and not having to send or deal with share links, however I was unable to get it to send uploads of more than ~100 files at a time.
• Immich - Honestly, a perfect solution but since I'm only trying to send select pictures between devices, way overkill. Plus, family members were uncomfortable with a solution that gave the perception that it was automatically uploading ALL of their pictures to my server.

Thanks in advance for the suggestions!

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/mvea on 2025-01-12 15:43:44+00:00.

Original Title: Ultrafast memory consolidation, a process by which the brain stabilizes and enhances learning during brief pauses, functions similarly in neurotypical people and those with autism. Both groups exhibit intact learning and memory dynamics, challenging assumptions that autism alter these processes.

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The original was posted on /r/science by /u/giuliomagnifico on 2025-01-12 14:50:24+00:00.

Original Title: Researchers found that the process of ‘brain maturation’, whereby the volume and thickness of the cortex decreases during adolescence, is a factor in whether teenagers develop restrictive or emotional/uncontrolled eating behaviours in young adulthood

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/Wagamaga on 2025-01-12 18:08:20+00:00.

She didn't stay out for long because she's old, but she enjoyed trotting in the snow and looking around at everything.

so much to organize, damn you humble bundle