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originally posted by: SatoshiNSA
Hi everyone. I've recently started to question a few things, which lead to a lot of things, and I wasn't sure where I could go with all of these questions and conflicting information that I've found. Most of it would be considered conspiracy theory. I'm interested in revisiting some things that happened during Katrina, mainly looking deeper into the one internet provider that stayed online. I think it may tie into many other things that I can't quite connect yet.
Looking forward to meeting everyone!
originally posted by: putnam6
Have at it, would love to hear the theories. There have been so many about Katrina/New Orleans. I'd consider doing a search there has to be somewhere in the archives no doubt. But this is a theory I've never heard about
originally posted by: SatoshiNSA
Hi everyone. I've recently started to question a few things, which lead to a lot of things, and I wasn't sure where I could go with all of these questions and conflicting information that I've found. Most of it would be considered conspiracy theory. I'm interested in revisiting some things that happened during Katrina, mainly looking deeper into the one internet provider that stayed online. I think it may tie into many other things that I can't quite connect yet.
Looking forward to meeting everyone!
The steel-hardened facility that housed the data hub was once part of the Enron empire. After the free-spending company went belly-up, it sold its $6 million data center for $250,000, complete with a backup generator, to Sigmund Solaresé, Intercosmos' founder.
Hi and welcome.
Katrina?
A lot of sourced stuff in a blog...
Hadn't found the actual internet service provider query within link, but it seems pretty thorough as a good reference point.👍
Don't be scared if examining hypotheticals posed equates to conspiracy theory bs label...
Ask em if they ever heard of Karl Popper.
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
a reply to: SatoshiNSA
Welcome!
And your story rings true but in a different instance....I recall seeing this single pipe for internet thing happening when the Hawaiian missile threat happened. Someone found that traffic was able to be pushed one way faster during the exact time it happened....
I don't want to sound overdramatic, but the thing I am most afraid of is being caught posting here.
So much of our collective knowledge can be traced back to an unverified story from a publication like Wired.
originally posted by: SatoshiNSA
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
a reply to: SatoshiNSA
Welcome!
And your story rings true but in a different instance....I recall seeing this single pipe for internet thing happening when the Hawaiian missile threat happened. Someone found that traffic was able to be pushed one way faster during the exact time it happened....
It's been baptism by fire for me, trying to quickly learn as much as I can about internet infrastructure.
I tried explaining above that crypto is secondary to something else, maybe to many things, as there isn't just one theme that seems to be unfolding. It's something with many tentacles, with each one requiring significant amounts of study along with a thesis statement, just to try and scratch the surface, lol.
One of my deep-dives into some of the predecessors of this technology led me to patents I found listed on a website dedicated to warning the public about tech companies that have file patents enabling wide-scale social manipulation and pose a threat to humanity. And it really resonated with me because I see public sentiment being gamed on social media constantly. Because of my recent critical position of crypto, I have been attacked nonstop by thousands (thousands!) of puppet accounts and bots doing as much as they can to decimate my character. And people are so easily duped by vanity metrics which are effortless to game. "Oh, it doesn't matter what this person says because everybody, like 500 people who just liked that nasty comment, thinks her and her kids deserve to die and now so do I." (I have to remind myself that I'm not special enough to be hated this much, lol.)
I've also had the opposite happen. I didn't understand it at the time, but it makes sense now. Back when I was delivering the "right" message, I was elevated by social media algorithms. I am a random nobody. I had a FB account that I never used. I had like 40 friends. Suddenly, I got stuck in some sort of weird algorithm. That's the only way I could think to describe what was happening. FB sent me from 40 friends to 5K, the max, without me consenting or knowing a thing about it. And they are good connections too! I don't know these people, but any successful person you can of, I'm almost guaranteed to be one friend away. And it's like FB was shoving my face in front of EVERYBODY, constantly. I would go to the store and people would walk up to me and ask "Aren't you X? FB recommends you as a friend everyday."
So, so embarrassing. But it makes more sense now than it did then.
But the part that is disturbing to me is, what does it mean if the DHS had this internet provider prepared and ready to go *before* the hurricane?
Not much conspiracy chatter found with the usual search engines so maybe speculating is taboo due to national security?