Stranger Things

[bèlla]

I watched a video by a woman decrying the paucity of videos from well-adjusted men in response to all the red-pill videos on YouTube.

Men and women use the internet differently and have done so from the start. Women were focused on connections and building communities. Even in the heyday of chat rooms and AOL you saw the same unfold. We pursued topics of interest and shared what we found which led to spaces, mailing lists and so on. Learning was a big part of that. While entertainment existed it wasn’t the reason we logged on or what held our attention.

I was a member of the largest and most popular community for food lovers. Unlike the forums that were gathering spaces for professionals and aspiring chefs the site brought us all together and it was wonderful. Men were very involved and all the major cities were represented and expanded beyond it. This was the place where you could mention an obscure ingredient and someone could tell you where to find it and the best one to get.

We had a cooking and baking club on the site and voted on the books we’d focus on for the coming month. That’s how I learned how to bake from scratch and test recipes. We were using the cream of the crop as our sources and everyone improved. The Julie Julia project was live during this period. We read her posts every week and supported the book when it released.

That’s when the divergence began and women started to view the internet as more than sharing. It was an opportunity to do that with financial spoils and mormon women were the first to do it en masse. As blogs took off the majority directed to women were by them and they were on point. Much like we saw elsewhere gatherings followed which led to events and conferences and a movement emerged.

It wasn’t defined by slogans or empowerment. We saw opportunities for success and got on board. In the beginning the largest voices in that arena were male but we started instructing one another and became the dominant source that others referenced. We’ve been building for a while. Social media is the latest iteration and the og’s paved the way for influencers. That’s why it became so popular. They watched bloggers become NYT best sellers, get brand deals, have collaborations with designers, be featured on television and newspapers or get their own show and so on. The Pioneer Woman (Ree Drummond) and Joanna Gaines (Fixer Upper) were bloggers.

I'm not going to get into why women do so much more video posting, because I'm not in a woman's head. But I do think that so much of the posting I see is either by women, or by unproductive men, or very specific posting by productive men on how to do specific productive things.

Women consider the internet a resource and the desire to learn remains and they’re willing to pay. That’s why we have greater representation in that space. Vice was never the primary reason for our presence. In situations like the red pill communities there’s noticeable differences. There are women opting out as well and they’re encouraging one another to focus on healing, personal development and financial autonomy. Pain isn’t the focal point and there’s a place for those posts. But it isn’t the theme.

Working together is our norm. We don’t need a bad situation to unite us. Oftentimes men rally behind the negative but we see problems as catalysts for change and expansion. That’s why we’re growing so much because we use our time differently. While he’s coming online looking at porn, gaming or venting on X and red pill groups she’s building and increasing her knowledge.

And the gender wars are part of that. We’ve read the comments and taken them to heart. When I see people celebrating the loss of employment women experienced from the government or the assumption the absence of welfare benefits will raise his stock it’s hard to forget. We’ve learned how to use that as a springboard for furtherance instead of reactance. Everyone isn’t there of course but there’s enough who are to influence them.

~bella

 

[bèlla]

Adult summer camps see boom as people seek connection and nostalgia

With interest in adult summer camps up 350% according to Yelp, Nancy Chen shows how these nostalgic getaways are helping people reconnect, recharge, and build new communities.

 

[bèlla]

The Empire Collapse Pattern: Rome, Spain, Britain... USA Is Next

For over two thousand years, dominant empires have followed the exact same collapse pattern. Not through military conquest. Not through revolution. Through economic self-destruction. Rome fell when its currency became worthless. Spain bankrupted itself despite controlling the world's silver. Britain lost its empire within thirty years of a currency crisis. And now, the United States is following that identical sequence.

This documentary traces the collapse pattern across four empires and two millennia — from the Roman denarius that went from pure silver to 5% silver as the empire fell, to the Spanish dollar that drowned in its own inflation despite endless New World wealth, to the British pound that lost reserve currency status at Bretton Woods after two world wars bankrupted the nation, to the U.S. dollar that left gold in 1971 and has been printed into progressive weakness ever since.

The pattern is a seven-stage sequence: dominance, overextension, deficit spending, currency debasement, inflation, loss of confidence, collapse. Rome followed it over two centuries. Spain followed it and defaulted four times in forty years. Britain followed it and lost a quarter of the Earth's surface in three decades. And the United States has now completed five stages and is entering the sixth.

Every empire believed it was different. That its military was too strong. That its economy was too advanced. That the old rules didn't apply. Rome thought the denarius was eternal. Spain thought endless silver made it invincible. Britain thought the pound would remain the world's reserve currency forever. All were wrong. All collapsed within decades of the warning signs appearing. And every warning sign that preceded their collapses — military overextension, unsustainable debt, currency printing, rising inflation, declining reserve status — is present in the United States right now.

Is the dollar entering its final phase as the world's reserve currency? Can the U.S. break a pattern that has held for two thousand years across four empires? Or is the seventh stage — collapse — inevitable?

 

[bèlla]

Ex Mobster Breaks Down NBA Gambling Scandal (BREAKING STORY)

I'm breaking down the NBA gambling scandal that just broke - Terry Rozier, Chauncey Billups, and 34 others arrested in a massive FBI operation targeting four of the five New York families. I ran 12 bookmakers for 30 years, so I know exactly how this works. Athletes are easy prey - they get in deep, owe money, then we own them.

Rozier allegedly faked an injury to help inside bets. Billups was a "face card" luring victims into rigged poker games with X-ray tables and card counting devices. I've been warning the NBA, NCAA, and 300+ universities about this for decades. This won't stop - gambling is too lucrative and the mob is too smart. Here's the real story behind Operation Zen Diagram and Operation Nothing But Net from someone who lived it.

 

[bèlla]

Why Does American Food Feel FAKE? Food Quality Crisis 2025

Is US food fake? American food vs European food—why does it taste so different? From rubbery chicken and play-doh beef to strawberries that rot overnight and the confusing bioengineered label, U.S. groceries often feel…off!

In this video, we uncover the hidden food quality problems in the U.S.:

*Why supermarket beef crumbles and leaks water when cooked
*How American chicken is “plumped” with water, salt, and additives
*Why strawberries spoil faster in the U.S. than on small farms
*The truth behind “bioengineered” vs GMO labels
*Why food feels healthier abroad than in America
*Simple shopping tips to protect your health

This isn’t fear—it’s facts. Once you see how additives, processing shortcuts, and supermarket tricks shape our food, you’ll understand why it feels so different compared to Europe and beyond.

 

[bèlla]

How Car Loans Will Break America

Are you tired of having money in your bank account? Well, we have just the solution for you. A brand new car loan. For just $599 a month, you can join 22 million Americans who are about to fail on their car loan. Because nothing says financial freedom like a 7-year loan on a depreciating asset.

Now, if that sounded insane, you'd be correct. But thing is, people are clearly falling for it as car loans are now the second highest consumer debt right behind mortgages. But it gets worse. Just like they did with homes in 2008, Wall Street is packaging these car loans with thousands of others and selling that off to investors.

So, it's the exact same playbook and players, but this time it's jacking up car prices and your payments are funding the bubble. And the cracks are already showing where the levels that people are failing on their car loans just surpassed Great Depression levels. Monthly payments are skyrocketing, the highest on record.

Because even though defaulting on your mortgage and losing your house is definitely worse, defaulting on a car loan in America often times means losing your ability to work. Creating a domino effect where that cycle of debt delays you being able to buy a home, starting a family, or building any sort of real wealth.

So the question is, how did we get here with the car market? And most importantly, what happens when the bubble pops?

 

[Matt5]

Lots of interesting material here. Thanks for sharing. I'm still working through several videos.

 

[bèlla]

Lots of interesting material here. Thanks for sharing. I'm still working through several videos.

Thank you Matt. I’m glad you’re enjoying it.

 

[bèlla]

Inside the IVF clinic using AI and robotics

This has been wrongly reported as the Ai baby. I’m including factual information to accompany the video since it’s a short.

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This child was born from a biological human egg and sperm, implanted in a human womb, and delivered just like any other IVF baby.

The “AI” part? That comes from how the fertilization and embryo selection were handled.

According to reports, a fertility clinic in Mexico used an automated AI system to handle some of the most critical decisions in the IVF process like choosing the best sperm out of millions of samples, selecting the healthiest egg, and finally deciding which embryo had the highest likelihood of resulting in a successful pregnancy.

In other words, instead of a human embryologist making those decisions under a microscope, AI was in charge of the selection process.

Fertility clinics are hoping that by using AI to analyze massive amounts of data from past IVF cycles, they can better predict which sperm and egg combo is most viable, which embryo has the highest chance of implanting, and which embryos are least likely to result in miscarriage.

Basically, AI acts like a super-powered expert with thousands of IVF cases stored in its brain. It can spot tiny details and patterns that human embryologists might miss or might take them hours to analyze.

The hope is that AI can eventually help increase success rates, reduce all those failed cycles, and save parents time, money, and heartbreak.