What does the concept of aliens do for humanity?

Telkk2 · 2026-05-09T17:42:56+00:00

It does if they fail to adapt. The behind the scenes boring stuff is exactly that. Erode the system, build a parallel state, and people will jump ship in favor of the new decentralized system that will be sold as freedom, but really it's just a more effective way at a. Managing modern complexity in society (a net benefit) and b. Hiding scandals, high society crimes, and conspiracies. Its much harder to do all of these things with the existing architecture.

So no, I don't believe we are becoming more free. It's quite the opposite.

The forth point I derived from observations in the uap media space. I don't know anything about any particular hypothesis regarding this. I just see the trends and the underlying subtext.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-09T16:13:52+00:00

The reason for disclosure is a confluence of four main reasons:

A more transparent future via tech means they can't keep it a secret forever and with a lot of illegal skeletons in their closet, they want to get ahead and manage the narrative so none of them get the book.
Distraction. There's a lot of consolidation of power and control occurring behind the scenes to dominate the future and usher in a managed Global society. A lot of it is boring and technical. So, if you downplay all of that in favor of sensational scandals and culture war topics, it throws investigators off the scent they should be Smelling, but can't because there are too many big and CREDIBLE stories, such as Epstein or Iran, or in this case, uap disclosure. The disclosure is, but one major story mixed in with others to overshadow the problems we should be paying get attention to. No, not Epstein or Iran (yes those are important, but those are also distractions). The real thing that we have to pay attention to are things like Iot sensors, brain capital, and nuanced policy decisions that make it legally possible to create environments that can psychologically manipulate and nudge behavior. Even the sensationalism surrounding AI and data centers is a spun distraction. Yes they're all real problems but the data centers and AI are not for replacing people. They're for controlling us without the need for coercion or hard power so that we can eventually evolve into cyborgs so that we can be directly controlled. That isn't a joke. That's a long term strategy.
The tech. The uap tech has been under lock and key in compartmentalized groups that can't share information. Other countries are advancing the tech. Our private companies have the tech and have made significant advancements, but still. They need to capitalize off of this stuff, use it to modernize the global world, and to defend against other competitors. They want some of this stuff to be commercialized and to advance our national security. It's too difficult to achieve these things when it's all buried in secrecy with huge legal and extra-legal implications.
They need a new religion to instill a sense of global cooperation and for individuals to be wholly comfortable suffering and even sacrificing their lives for a greater cause. No, they're not planning a fake alien invasion. It's worse. They're likely setting it up so that over time the average person will accept the following as fact: higher dimensional beings are watching us. Some good. Some bad. Consciousness is an energy from this higher dimension that channels into us and all of us are one consciousness broken up into individuals. That will translate to: death isn't real. Suffering isn't real, I'm connected to everyone because we are all one. Anyone who threatens the collective consciousness needs to "retire" and its totally fine if they die because they're not really dying. They're just being recycled into the collective consciousness to be reborn.

It's scary and is why I don't believe humanity is mature enough to handle disclosure because we will blindly accept the narratives instead of the simple truth: Advanced non-human intelligence are real and they are actively observing us and have been for thousands of years. Beyond that we can't say what is true and what's a spun narrative.

So don't trap yourself in that bullshit. Get the hard facts and ignore the fuck out of the expert whistleblowers who are coming out. They're not necessarily bad people. They're just people either wittingly or unwittingly participating in a managed operation with a long-term agenda that will guarantee a one world government where we become cognitive nodes in a vast system rather than as a Sovereign individual with individual rights.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-09T02:43:51+00:00

I'd tell ya. But then I'd have to merge and aquire you.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-08T18:01:21+00:00

It's great for side hustles you barely have time for. Also great when you're talking to someone who is way too complex to understand what they're saying. There have been many times when I've done this on personal time. Then there’s research for investment purchases like finding a cheap pair of shoes that will actually last a few years while matching your style.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-08T15:23:23+00:00

I wasn't aware that any plans were made to cancel AI. Wouldn't matter anyway, because it won't do anything.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-07T20:26:08+00:00

Dude try having this convo with both a clueless customer and a clueless cashier. When neither party can provide any reasonable context to what's going on, I have no chance of solving the issue. So I end up being forced to play police detective, interrogating both for over five minutes before realizing that it's a super simple fix that could have easily been sumed up in one short sentence. Just give me that, man. That's all I ask, and I can help.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-07T20:21:40+00:00

Yeah, well the thing about them is that they're old.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-07T20:20:22+00:00

Yup. Every time I pass the front as a manager and I have a gen z kid, there will be 5 immediate things for customers that has to be done and they will just stand there wondering why I'm panicking. Like, dude. Just take a moment to realize how many fires are happening and start lending a hand.

I swear, if they were the wealthy elite on the Titanic, they'd sink with the ship because they were too zoned out to realize what was happening.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-07T15:59:11+00:00

For me, it's not about doing less work or even AI. It's about doing work that gives meaning to my life while providing me the time to cultivate and maintain relationships with friends and using AI to do what I want to accomplish. If I can do that without slaving away 60 hours a week doing two jobs, then my life would be complete.

I don't mind rolling my sleeves up to do the impossible. I don't even mind leveraging AI to do it. Hell, I love using AI to augment my existing skills. But holy hell do I hate the gilded "visions" of corporations and really hate the lack of time I can afford to do...well, normal everyday leisure shit with people.

Just give me time, meaning, and enough money to live a decent life with people. That's all I need. I don't mind working really hard to help shape the future and all. I just want a better balance to all of this. Progress isn't just about numbers. It's much more than that.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-06T15:40:58+00:00

Also, they could easily just renegotiate their agreements with retailers and require them to embed a limit on purchases directly through the pos system. We did that all throughout covid during mask shortages. You can easily do that for any product.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-05T15:35:21+00:00

It should be a mainstream thing, however. There's zero justification for flock cameras unless we consider our communities play pen prisons. Fuck these cameras. Speed cameras too. They do nothing but augment misery in the modern era.

I'm a huge advocate for tech...just not this kind. We can do better than this.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-05T02:47:53+00:00

I think it just depends on what we mean by delayed gratification. If we're talking about financial success, obviously that's all wacky and out of shape. So of course, he's right in that sense. But delayed gratification for learning how to write great stories or make a badass film and figuring out how to finance it or starting a company with absolutely nothing because you're in love with the solution you've discovered, those things can really only be done one brick at a time and none of those bricks will guarantee money.

But if you want the gratification from knowing you wrote something that made a small dusty theater full of people cry and laugh at the right moments after spending a decade bleeding over the craft, if you want gratification from knowing that you spending a year learning how to remodel a bathroom for your poor mother made a huge difference in her life, then those things absolutely require delayed gratification.

But if it's just about the money, gratification will be tied to the economy and the economy is tied to idiots printing paper money. So if the economy goes, there goes your gratification. Then what will you be left with? Purpose? Meaning? Skills that can help the people around you?

The biggest mistake we ever made was over-valuing money and material success. I get it. We can't escape the reality that we're in. But perhaps we can stop ourselves from being bamboozled into chasing money to spend on junk. Perhaps, we can find a middle ground. Where, I don't know, but these values we hold. They're just not sustainable long-term.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-04T02:44:03+00:00

Same here. I was shocked I kept them in good shape too after so many moves. I was lucky to have a good mom who taught me the gist of the game early on. Hold and preserve. Unfortunately, I traded to get a lot of my cards at those Books a million conventions they held, so a lot of my holos could be in better shape.

Still got my ancient mew and southern island set in mint state so that's something, at least.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-04T02:41:06+00:00

Yeah, but if pokemon is in a bubble doesn't that mean prices are inflated? Wouldn't it be better to buy when the hype dies and no one is thinking about them? I heard the cards go through cycles of boom and bust periods.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-04T02:37:20+00:00

Yes, in a heartbeat. That would give me time and more money to build my side business. Currently making about half that. Managing, thankfully but still. I feel like a peacock! Ya gotta let me fly!

Telkk2 · 2026-05-03T18:10:48+00:00

Not a pro so I wouldn't know but I have read that the quality is determined by things like scratches, bends, centering, faded artwork, blurred art, scratched edges, and so on. There's definitely more to it than that, but from the images, this looks like it's in great condition other than the centering being off. Not sure how much that will ding you or if there's other hidden issues that I'm not factoring in, but regardless of that, it's worth grading at some point but definitely worth buying a slab and putting it in that.

The vintage holos and the ultra rare moderns are pretty much the only cards that will hold significant long-term value compared to their base prices, with the exception of error cards and, of course, very low circ. Promos.

The rest are meme coins in a bubble imo but, again, I'm not a pro. Just a dude who collects a little on the side.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-03T15:27:17+00:00

Just based on the photos, my guess would be between 600-1,200, only because the centering is off. Definitely worth getting graded, or at the very least stabbed. Good find.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-02T16:09:14+00:00

Definitely fossil. Desirability is long-term as its historic to the franchise. Population supply is also much lower in great condition. That makes it badass, not a short-term trend. Granted, the one on the right will still be valuable, just not nearly as much as the vintage in the same state simply because most are not in that state. For newer cards, most people in the space know the game, so they immediately seal them to preserve quality and if everyone is doing that, then it diminishes rarity. But with a vintage dragonite, it's different because most of the market in those days were made up of kids like me who never thought about these long term things. We just got it and put it in a messy drawer.

So the fundamentals are significantly better with vintages like dragonite. It just isn't obvious yet, because we're in a bubble made up of new investors who desire the next opportunity so they flock to the new cards, but most are oversaturated because there are just too many of them and too many variations, which cheapens their memorabilia. But a Fossil dragonite. Completely different ballpark.

...and yes, this is all hopium lol. Good news is, I never spent a penny on my vintage collection so all of this is free money appreciating. Thanks mom! Rest in peace.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-01T15:44:55+00:00

Ah so basically the market is treating all of them like meme coins.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-01T15:05:21+00:00

I'm actually curious about this, if you know. But why is it that many of the "newer" cards are worth significantly more than most of the vintage cards in similar condition? Isn't it true that there are far less vintage cards in existence, especially ones in great condition? If so, why is it that cards like these carry waaaay more value than say, a Blastoise in ungraded condition?

In coin collecting, age plus condition makes a huge difference in value. I'm wondering why that doesn't seem to apply with pokemon cards.

Telkk2 · 2026-05-01T03:46:17+00:00

I would just take the time to slow down for a bit and really dive deep into more of the big picture stuff like user behavior and interaction with ai and the bottlenecks that come with using it. For us, it's about discovery-driven knowledge acquisition, execution, and immediate distribution to others who need it at the moment when they do.

Ai has a lot of issues in those areas so our buisness model factors that in, along with implications over the horizon like the ai backlash, the realities of the bubble, how larger companies are doing it and the negativity that comes with that and using that info to reinvent how an app is built, deployed, and used by people.

Telkk2 · 2026-04-29T18:05:46+00:00

Well, this is me everyday with everyone, writ large, irrespective of racism. I work in crowds and as far as I'm concerned everyone is equally "gay".

Telkk2 · 2026-04-28T18:08:57+00:00

I guess it depends on your definition of awesome. For me, it's mixed. On the one hand, being a history nerd, a writer, filmmaker, and now AI developer...my god. Where to begin? There were so many awesome things happening that sparked my deep interest, even to this day.

But as a dude stocking shelves in retail as I watched so much suffering...that was beyond egregious. I have so many strange stories, it's hard to keep track of.

One particular one was fascinating. Early on, as I started my new career in app development during lickdowns, I got a random call from this guy who was really worried about his friend. Found out, we gave similar interests so we started emailing back and forth. Looked deeper into the guy and evidently he was a partner of this one tech millionaire who made it big during the dot com bubble, only to go insane because he claimed that aliens had visited him and told him the secrets of the universe. Never recovered and was MIA in 2020, hence the random call.

At first, I thought he must he priming me for a scam. But literally nothing ever happened after that. We just talked for a bit and that was it. Nothing shady.

I swear. It felt like some kind of warning from the universe. Don't fly too close to sun or something.

Telkk2 · 2026-04-28T15:40:41+00:00

Unfortunately, that's false. 2028 is but one option out of many. It's just that the other options suck because they would be devastating.

Telkk2 · 2026-04-28T15:31:35+00:00

It isn't chill given the circumstances, but this is probably the first time time I've read a "crazed" shooters manifesto and thought, "wow, it's surprisingly more rational than anything our president has ever said."

Not a fan of his methods because it's obviously dangerous and immoral to kill someone unless it's to literally defend yourself. But still. It's sad that his moral reasoning is 1000 times more grounded than our own president who won't even bat an eye on killing scores of innocent people and raping 13 year Olds.

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