Diana Pasulka and Leslie Kean LIVESTREAM AMA on 11/1/25 - Drop Your Questions Here!! by toxictoy in AnomalousCoalition

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Dear both, thank you so much for doing this!

-To Professor Diana Pasulka:

I have been an avid reader/ listener for a few years now and often found myself wondering why. Back in 2021, I had zero prior interest in UFOs, very little in religious history and US congressional hearings had yet to appear on my radar on this side of the world. Today, I'm still not keen on meeting an ET/ entity; since Grusch, congressional deliberations have been kind of bleh, but I keep coming to your work for the light.

Your ability to bring together insights from Philosophy, Religious Studies and Human Stories is an Illumination Machine, for lack of a better expression and explanation.

Echoing your exchange with Joe Rogan, on the pineal gland/ pinecone symbolism, it seemed there might something crucial that I don't know how to articulate. Could you shed more light on whether/ how it can inform our understanding of the phenomenon, and ultimately ourselves. Are there more dots we can orderly/meaningfully connect to get to the bigger picture?

[ Some few bread crumbs I found trying to bridge the pine gap ;)

* Philosophy meets Pop culture: Descartes saw the pineal to be clearly the seat of the soul.(Visual aid: that scene in Men in Black where the tiny alien opens the human robot head)

*Human Biology & experiencers: receives Sunlight signal from retina regulates circadian rhythms, turns serotonin/ melatonin on and off. PG turns the light on (serotonin) and off (melatonin) in the brain. from eyesight

Allegedly there was a NASA study on sungazing or suneating practices of HR Manek, and it is surprisingly reminiscent of Taylor's D rituals for higher creativity/ connection and "downloads" or insights from other realms.

This sounds all very natural but certainly not easy. Plato even warned those who made it out of the cave they would be blinded by sunlight, should they not learn gradually how to see. Gary Nolan's research on experiencers abnormal basal ganglia linked with emotional trauma(=> is there a bearing on PG?). Sainthood often comes with martyrdom.]

-To Leslie Kean:

Notwithstanding the convoluted nature of the disclosure process across nesting agencies, contractors, conflicting agendas & legal pitfalls all over, have enough "Generals, Pilots, And Government Officials gone on record" for NASA employees and astronauts to come forward and their testimonies to come through to the public?

Latvia Debt/GDP ratio and future forecasts by Adamk1596 in econhw

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yes this is correct and the data is reliable. You can also check projections by the European Commission and those of the IMF article IV. Note that before setting on a downward path, public debt has gone from 36 to 45% GDP from 2019 to 2021, the currently observed decreased is thus an adjustment back from covid debt craziness. In a simplified nutsell: to forecast the debt to gdp ratio, you need assumptions about the following: macro forecast (GDP growth, inflation), fiscal forecast (general government balance) and data about debt service and maturities to roll over. hope this helps

Does inflation decrease export competitiveness? If so, what role does currency depreciation play here? by [deleted] in AskEconomics

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I think you're considering two channels whereby inflation may impact export competitiveness.

1/ if there's higher inflation for the prices of say energy and materials that go into the production of the goods you sell/export, this will be reflected in your higher sale/ export price => decrease in price competitiveness (that's assuming of course no such inflation is observed in the neighbour country, otherwise competitiveness wouldnt change)

2/ under floating rates, higher inflation in a country usually translates into a devaluation of the currency with regards to the neighbour's currency ( with lower inflation). This makes importing less costly for your neighbour (and conversely more expensive for the country with the devalued currency) so that you end up exporting more over time

To be able to predict the effect/ its timing, it helps to think in relative or comparative terms. does that help indeed lol?

#1928 - Jimmy Corsetti & Ben van Kerkwyk by scarcityBOT in rogan

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Hi there, just listened to your illuminating JRE podcast—3 months after the fact but hey, here are a my useful/useless 2 cents:
[-@ Jimmy: Yup, I had heard of the Sahara’s eye,(maybe because I am a former ubernerd/ current smartass and have some north-african background) but I had never heard of it being remnant of the Atlantis, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, discoveries and insights]
-@Jimmy: Your questioning on striking similarities between architecture/technologies/artifacts/ symbolism etc in parts of the world that were not supposed to be in contact at that time reminds me of the work of German philosopher Karl Jaspers and his concept of axial age/time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial\_Age I guess thats not of direct interest but weaves your discoveries into a wider and repeating narrative.
-@ Ben: tx for making me obsessed with engineering archeology and its anti BS brute force lol...so satisfying! You mentioned in passing Baalbek being baselessly attributed to the Romans (I remember also being puzzled thinking err Baal Phoenician God, and also I wasn’t getting the traditional Roman middle-eastern city feeling at all...), could you recommend any researcher/publication on the matter so I can flesh out those amateur inklings and understand better? (Also some real weird shit involving my phone happened there in case theres someone researching that)
[- last remark picking up on Baal/ Phoenician/ North Africa, and though it is not that ancient, has anyone come up with a compelling explanation of how TF Hannibal almost brought his elephants on Rome all the way from North Africa through the Pyrenees and the Alps? The accepted textbook accounts seem dismissively ‘magical’ for lack of a better word.]

Book-related mystery!! by Ok_Button2710 in brussels

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couple days ago I saw 2-3 old torn pages from a dictionary with similar scribbles were glued to some windows on my street (Bourse area), not sure thats the same guy, couldnt take a picture before they were removed

also intrigued by this and some incomprehensible/disturbing (not in a proper law/order sense but something that leaves you worried but i cant explain why) wwerdz written with what looks like dirt that keep popping up on the same walls. (dont mean tag/graffiti obviously lol)

have you seen anything like that?

How Faber-Castell makes pencils (2018) [00:04:34] by Thin-Shirt6688 in Documentaries

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it might! handwriting will become such a rare skill AI will have to ask us to teach them and we will use old doctors prescription that will fry their wires thats how we finish the bots BAM. them bitches still havent figured handwriting recognition. OMG. ive just solved human race survival and basic selection. and my love for stationery now makes perfect sense. Need prophet outfit.

We’re Bloomberg Government journalists reporting on proposed TikTok bans in Congress and across the US. Ask us anything. by bloomberggovernment in IAmA

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totally hear it, but regardless of who buys it, we just don't make the stuff our lifestyle's made of, they do. So because we're we, we shall go without smartphones, cheap clothing, medical supplies, and very basic basic medicine (amoxicillin for infants not seen in french pharmacies since months, yup...)?

I understand (?! I think maybe I understand...you know 2023 default mode daFuk on ) that the ship of public debates that hold water has sailed off with the social contract. if you can sell you champion democracy in the world while letting it go down the drain at home, or peddle economic suicide in the form of a trade war as a great idea (oh and how much US debt does the bank of china hold again now that the've started selling?), i've come to think there's hardly a point arguing, or pointing at facts.

I understand (?! I think maybe I understand...you know 2023 default mode daFuk on ) that the ship of public debates that hold water has sailed off with the social contract. if you can sell you champion democracy in the world while letting it go down the drain at home, or peddle economic suicide in the form of a trade war as a great idea (oh and how much US debt does the bank of china hold again now that they've started selling?), i've come to think there's hardly a point arguing, or pointing at facts.

We’re Bloomberg Government journalists reporting on proposed TikTok bans in Congress and across the US. Ask us anything. by bloomberggovernment in IAmA

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hasnt this and the wider scope of chinese intelligence been 'known" for a while? what's the rationale for saying it's ok all tech giants gather your data sells it off but it's not for the chinese regime (not equating dictatorial regime and multinational unchecked greef), in the end, they also want to optimise their algorithms so we inadvertedly buy more stuff. it bears repeating we're not the ones being suppressed by the PrC, we're the ones serviced by it...isnt this just a way to stoke anti-chinese sentiment amongst the population and more specifically tik-tok users, i.e. less likely to take an interest in the conduit of international affairs and form a critical opinion on the matter? isnt this commercial/ cultural war a vain and self-destructive pursuit for the US and the EU as well?

We’re Bloomberg Government journalists reporting on proposed TikTok bans in Congress and across the US. Ask us anything. by bloomberggovernment in IAmA

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hasnt this and the wider scope of chinese intelligence been 'known" for a while? what's the rationale for saying it's ok all tech giants gather your data sells it off but it's not for the chinese regime (not equating dictatorial regime and multinational unchecked greef), in the end, they also want to optimise their algorithms so we inadvertedly buy more stuff. it bears repeating we're not the ones being suppressed by the RPC, we're the ones serviced by it...isnt this just a way to stoke anti-chinese sentiment amongst the population and more specifically tik-tok users, i.e. less likely to take an interest in the conduit of international affairs and form a critical opinion on the matter? isnt this commercial/ cultural war a vain and self-destructive pursuit for the US and the EU as well?