The Emperor has no clothes.
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"Right now we are over-taxed. Under-served. Over-robbed." —Dr. Froilan Calilung, Political Analyst
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Bobo na, magnanakaw pa
VIRTUAL REALITY - Tony Lopez
The problem, I pointed out, “is money is being stolen. And being hidden.” “Our problem is not a shortage of money. We have plenty of money. Our savings rate is 25 percent. On a GDP of P39 trillion, “that’s more than P7 trillion – P7 trillion money hidden in suitcases, under pillows, under beds.” “The challenge is to stimulate investments,” I said. Addressing thieves in government, I pleaded, “please bring out the money.”
“Our problem is not a shortage of money. We have plenty of money. Our savings rate is 25 percent. On a GDP of P39 trillion, “that’s more than P7 trillion – P7 trillion money hidden in suitcases, under pillows, under beds.”
“The best reservoir that we must preserve is our brain reservoir,” I cut in, “Banong-bano tayo. We are becoming incompetent. Nabobobo tayo (We are becoming stupid). Kasi naman ang ating mga politicians, saksakan ng bobo (It’s because of the politicians. They really are stupid or incompetent).”
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Budget watchdog People’s Budget Coalition questioned the 10-fold surge in Representative Sandro Marcos’ district allocation from P400 million to P4.7 billion after multipurpose building projects ballooned from under four to over 200 without key supporting documents.
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A city bus driver in Japan draped a blue cloth over the coin box beside his steering wheel and opened the doors for the morning rush hour.
His union and the bus company's management had reached a bitter deadlock over wages and job security, and the drivers had officially voted to go on strike that morning.
In almost every country on earth, a transit strike means locking the depot gates, shutting down the city, and leaving thousands of ordinary nurses, students, and elderly hospital patients stranded on the curb in the cold.
The Japanese bus drivers decided that punishing innocent neighbors was a dishonorable way to win an argument with their bosses.
So every single driver showed up at dawn in a pressed uniform, inspected their tires, pulled out of the depot right on the minute, and drove every route on schedule, while blocking the fare machine with a blanket so every passenger rode completely free of charge.
Management lost a fortune in fuel and ticket revenue without a single grandmother missing her doctor's appointment or a single kid being late for school.
You know a society has reached a rare level of grace when even a worker's protest is designed to protect the stranger waiting at the bus stop.
🤖 Made with AI
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Amerykański pilot, ksywa "Whiz", komentuje katastrofę na Florydzie:
„Telefon mi się urywa, więc postanowiłem szybko nagrać filmik. Katastrofa wydarzyła się tuż obok nas, tu w Palm Beach. Jest po prostu porażająca.
Nie słuchajcie nagrania z kontroli lotów. Naprawdę nie warto słuchać kogoś w przerażeniu, kto wie, że za chwilę zginie.
Na Florydzie była fatalna pogoda, to nie był dobry dzień na latanie. Wierzchołki burz i złej pogody sięgały ponad 40 tysięcy stóp. Wygląda na to, że próbowali prześlizgnąć się tuż nad nimi. Były turbulencje i oblodzenie. Wygląda na to, że maszyna się oblodziła i potencjalnie wyszła spod kontroli, doszło do przeciągnięcia.
Ten ogon w kształcie litery T w Learjecie jest naprawdę wrażliwy. Kiedy samolot się przewrócił i zaczął bardzo szybko spadać… zwolniłem nagranie tuż przed uderzeniem i wygląda na to, że nie mieli już ogona, czyli statecznika poziomego. Więc nie mieli szans odzyskać kontroli. Na jednej klatce wygląda nawet, jakby nie było lewego skrzydła.
Spadali więc z wysokości mniej więcej 35 tysięcy stóp. Myślę, że osiągnęli około 550 węzłów, czyli 500 mil na godzinę, pionowo w dół.
Więc do wszystkich zwolenników teorii spiskowych, do wszystkich tępaków: z odrzutowca spadającego pionowo z prędkością ponad 500 węzłów, tuż poniżej prędkości dźwięku, nic nie zostanie. Brałem udział w badaniu kilku wypadków wojskowych, gdzie zostawał kawałek skóry i obrączka. Więc dość teorii spiskowych. Nie został zestrzelony, to nie był dron.
To dziewięć osób, które obudziły się dziś rano w Austin i nie przypuszczały, że czeka je najgorszy dzień ich życia. To po prostu łamie serce.
Możemy sobie teraz gdybać po fakcie, ile chcemy, ale ja dziś nie leciałbym samolotem nad południową Florydą.
I jeszcze szybko: na nagraniu z kontroli lotów słychać oczywiście kobietę. To był pilot niesterujący, rozumiecie? Robiła swoją robotę. Nie wiem, kto siedział za sterami, facet czy kobieta. Teraz to bez znaczenia, wszyscy nie żyją.
Jeden pilot walczył z samolotem, próbując go uratować, ale bez ogona to było niemożliwe. A drugi rozmawiał przez radio.
Niech Bóg błogosławi te dusze i ich rodziny. Wiem, że to dużo, jak na media społecznościowe, ale okażmy trochę serca. I módlmy się.
Whiz, bez odbioru.”
#USA #Floryda
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My coworker's son, Riku, didn't leave his bedroom for three years.
In Japan, there's a word for it. Hikikomori. The government estimates there are about 1.5 million of them. People who close a door one day and don't open it again.
Riku failed his university entrance exams twice. After the second time, at eighteen, he went into his room. His mother left meals outside the door. Some days the tray came back empty. Some days it didn't.
The only thing he did was play an online fishing game. Every evening. Alone.
Until one evening, someone on the lake sent him a message.
"any luck -L"
L was Lyle. 78. A retired machinist from Tennessee. His wife had passed. He said he couldn't sleep, so he fished.
He typed like a man carving letters into a headstone. All lowercase. No punctuation. And he signed every message, like a letter.
"bass arent biting. same as real life -L"
That first month, Riku told him only one true thing:
"I don't go outside."
Lyle took a full day to answer.
"ok. well. we can fish -L"
So they fished. Every evening. Same lake. They caught almost nothing.
Then one night, Lyle asked a question.
"did you open the curtain today -L"
Riku hadn't. The next night, Lyle asked again. And the next.
On the ninth night, Riku opened the curtain.
"good. thats it. thats the whole job -L"
After that, one question a night. Never two.
"did you eat breakfast -L"
"did you open the window -L"
"did you go to the mailbox -L"
"did you walk to the corner -L"
Riku's mother copied the messages into a notebook. She still keeps it by her bed. Some pages:
"you dont have to feel better to get up. you get up then you feel a little better. thats the order -L"
"a bad day is not a bad life -L"
"nobody is behind. youre just on a different mile -L"
"if all you did today was get through it that counts. im counting -L"
In the eleventh month, Riku asked him why he cared about a stranger in Japan.
Lyle took two days to answer.
"1969 i came home from vietnam. didnt leave my room for a year. my mother left plates by the door too. i know about the door -L"
Then:
"curtain first. always curtain first -L"
In the twelfth month, Riku walked to the convenience store. Three hundred meters. He bought a can of coffee and sent Lyle a picture.
Lyle answered in eleven seconds. Riku had never seen him type that fast.
"ATTABOY -L"
The only capital letters Lyle ever typed.
A week later, a message came from Lyle's daughter.
"Please don't tell Dad I told you. He doesn't have insomnia. He never did. For over a year, he set his alarm for 3:45 every morning so he'd be on that lake when you were. He said a boy in Japan needed somebody on the lake."
Riku is 23 now. He works at a bicycle shop. He goes outside every day.
Last summer, he flew to Tennessee. Lyle picked him up in a truck older than Riku, and they went fishing on a real lake.
They caught nothing.
Lyle said it was the best day of fishing he ever had.
Riku still plays that game. Every evening, he goes back to the same lake and looks for anyone who says they don't go outside.
When he finds one, he types:
"did you open the curtain today -R"
So if you're reading this from a room you haven't left in a while, I don't know you. But I know what Lyle would ask.
did you open the curtain today
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Elon Musk was asked at a conference whether we might be living in a computer simulation. The audience expected a polite deflection or a joke. Instead he delivered the most unsettling answer any public figure has ever given to a philosophical question, and he delivered it with the calm of a man who has already accepted the conclusion.
He said: "The strongest argument for us being in a simulation is the following. 40 years ago we had Pong. Two rectangles and a dot. That was what games were. Now, 40 years later, we have photorealistic 3D simulations with millions of people playing simultaneously. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality. Even if that rate of advancement drops by a thousand from what it is now. Then you just need to say, okay, let's imagine it's 10,000 years in the future, which is nothing in the evolutionary scale. Is it possible that civilization could create a simulation that is indistinguishable from reality? The answer is clearly yes."
Then he delivered the line that went viral: "So given that we're on that trajectory and games are becoming indistinguishable from reality, the probability of us being in base reality is one in billions."
The audience laughed nervously. The laugh was a defense mechanism. The argument was airtight and they could feel it. The progression from Pong to photorealism to indistinguishable simulation is not speculation. It is trajectory. The only variable is time. And the conclusion, if you follow the trajectory honestly, is that the number of simulated realities vastly exceeds the number of base realities. Which means we are almost certainly inside one.
He then added a line that nobody quotes but that reveals more than the famous one: "Either we're going to create simulations that are indistinguishable from reality, or civilization will cease to exist. Those are the only two options."
The answer was not a thought experiment to him. It was a probability assessment. The same man who calculates the probability of rocket failures and production timelines applied the same calculation to the nature of reality and arrived at the conclusion that reality is probably not real. The tone was not dramatic. It was the tone of a man reading a spreadsheet. The spreadsheet said: base reality is statistically unlikely.
The most disturbing aspect is not the answer. It is that the man who gave it continued building rockets and cars and neural interfaces as if the answer changes nothing about what you should do. If reality is a simulation, the correct response is apparently the same as if it isn't: build. The simulation, if it exists, contains everything he cares about. The question of whether it's "real" is less important than the question of what he does inside it. The philosopher asks whether we're in a simulation. The engineer builds regardless. Both questions are correct. Only one produces a rocket.
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🚨 BREAKING: Hackers are hitting supermarket freezers in 5 countries at the same time.
This is what Covid looked like in week 1. A few countries. Small numbers. Nobody called it a crisis.
1/ Sweden: stores say hackers hit their cooling overnight. One says fridges and freezers were set to 50°C, and the food spoiled. ICA Kvantum stores in Sjöbo and Tomelilla were hit, plus at least 6 Coop stores. Sjöbo stayed closed through the morning, threw out all affected goods and apologized. ICA says it is working to restore normal operations. In Sankt Olof a store manager said "everything is ruined." Sweden's National Cybersecurity Centre is working on several incidents.
2/ Estonia: the CEO of cooling firm Kitman Coldtech says several clients were targeted and a large chain's freezer was raised to +50°C. It was found and addressed in about 10 minutes, no major damage.
3/ Ireland: SuperValu pulled ALL fresh and frozen food from 13 stores. Its owner, Musgrave, confirmed a "cybersecurity incident" on a "specific model" of fridge.
4/ Luxembourg: Ahold Delhaize says an "IT incident" hit fridges and freezers at dozens of its supermarkets across Luxembourg and Belgium.
5/ Belgium: more than 40 Delhaize, at least 15 Carrefour and around 5 Spar stores were hit. Cold storage climbed to 15°C. Aisles were closed off and large amounts of stock were destroyed. A notice at one Proxy Delhaize said its systems had "fallen victim to hacking."
Now zoom out.
A freezer normally sits at -18°C. In Estonia, hackers reportedly got in through older controllers. In France, the controller maker said many devices were obsolete or ran outdated firmware. Raise the temperature overnight and the food rots. "You can't unspoil food," one professor said.
It did not start today. 3 weeks ago hackers raised freezers at more than 350 sites in France to as high as 50°C. There were fires. Intermarché's CEO put the cost at "tens of millions of euros nationwide in a single day." Sources suspect Russian involvement there. No group has claimed it. That same day an analyst said Spain, Portugal, Poland, Germany and Belgium were affected too.
Covid emptied the shelves. Nobody is calling this a crisis yet. But the Financial Times already puts the ruined food at millions of euros.
Officials say the Pentagon is treating late-August freezer failures on US military bases as a suspected hack. At least 6 base stores were hit. Army investigators are working with French law enforcement.
5 countries in one day. 11 countries named since August.
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“PARA SAYO NA TUMAWAG SA AMIN NA MOKLO - ITO ANG SAGOT NA TATAGOS SA BUTO MO
Binura ng Meta ang video mo hindi dahil pinagtanggol kami ng DDS o ng MILF.
Binura kasi BASURA ang content mo.
Walang facts. Puro "my tweety bird said". Puro "highly reliable source" na hindi mo kayang pangalanan.
Alam mo tawag sa taong ganyan? ASO!!!
Duwag ka na nagtatago sa likod ng fake account at fake source para manira ng isang grupo na 50 years nakikipagpatayan sa bundok habang ikaw nagkakape, at naghihintay ng views.
GUSTO MONG I-BEAR DOWN ANG MILF?
Sige, himayin natin kung sino ka para mag-demand ng ganyan.
Nasaan ka noong 2000 nung all-out war ni Erap? Nagtago ka.
Nasaan ka noong 2003 nung Buliok Complex ang binomba ng 10 araw? Nagtago ka.
Nasaan ka noong 2008 nung bumagsak ang MOA-AD at sinunog ang kalahati ng Mindanao? Nagtago ka.
Nasaan ka noong 2015 nung Mamasapano? Wala. Nag-facebook ka lang.
Tapos ngayon, 2026, manonood ka lang ng isang Facebook video ng BIAF, iiyak ka na at tatawag ng pulis at sundalo na "I-bear down nyo na sila"?
PUTA, ANONG KLASE KA?
Ang 26,145 na MILF na sinasabi mong "may unlicensed firearms" - yang mga yan, bata pa lang may baril na. Hindi para mag-holdap, kundi para ipagtanggol ang nanay nila na ni-rape ng militia, ang bahay nila na sinunog ng army ng pulitiko mong sinusuportahan.
At anong ginawa nila? Ibinaba nila. 26,145 katao. 4,625 na baril. Sa harap ng buong mundo. May pirma. May witness. May Turkey, Norway, Japan.
Ikaw? Anong isinuko mo para sa kapayapaan ng bayang ito? Wala. Kahit yabang mo hindi mo kayang isuko.
Tapos tatawagin mo kaming MOKLO?
HINDI KAMI ANG MOKLO. IKAW.
IKAW ANG MOKLO NA TINUTUKOY NG MATATANDA.
M - MAL-EDUKASYON. Akala mo porke nakahawak ka ng keyboard, analyst ka na. Hindi mo alam na ang hawak ng BIAF ay HINDI unlicensed kundi "weapons put beyond use" sa ilalim ng batas na RA 11054. Hindi ka nagbabasa. Nagmamarunong ka lang.
O - OPORTUNISTA. Gagamitin mo ang dugo ng SAF 44 para sumikat. Ang SAF 44 na yan, ang pamilya nila mismo ayaw na ng giyera. Gusto na nila ng kapayapaan sa Mindanao para wala nang mamatay na katulad ng anak nila. Ikaw, gusto mo ulit ng patayan para may ma-content.
K - KUPAL NA SINUNGALING. Gumawa ka pa ng kwento na "2 US Navy SEALs died with SAF 44". Walang US record. Walang Pentagon report. Walang pangalan. Inimbento mo lang para magmukhang may alam ka sa international terrorism. Ang totoo, wala kang alam sa terrorism. Ang alam mo lang, terrorism ng fake news.
L - LAWAY LANG ANG PUHUNAN. "My tweety bird said" - yan ang source mo? Ibon? Kaya pala basura ang analysis mo. Pang-ibon lang ang utak mo.
O - OTOMAN NA DUWAG. Matapang ka lang sa Facebook. Sa personal, hindi mo kayang sabihin yang "Moklo" sa harap ko o sa garap ng isang BIAF na nagsuko na ng baril pero kayang pumatay noon ng ilang kalabang sundalo mag-isa. Kasi alam mong sa totoong buhay, hindi ka tatablan ng like at share.
TANDAAN MO ITO:
Yung baril na pinagyayabang mong nakita mo sa Facebook ng BIAF - handa yan para sa decommission. HINDI YAN PUMAPATAY.
Pero yung baril ng dila mo - YAN ANG PUMAPATAY PA RIN HANGGANG NGAYON. Pumapatay ng kapayapaan. Pumapatay ng katotohanan. Pumapatay ng pagkakaibigan ng Kristiyano at Moro na ilang dekada naming binuo.
Kaya kung may dapat i-bear down ang AFP at PNP, hindi ang MILF na may 26,145 nang isinuko.
IKAW NA NAGPAPAKALAT NG GALIT AT FAKE NEWS HABANG NAKATAGO SA LIKOD NG "TWEETY BIRD" MO.
//Omar Dondoy Bendol
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There is only one reason that I can think of: WALA NG PONDO.
#MarcosResign
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🚨👑 I’VE LAUNCHED A PETITION CALLING ON BUCKINGHAM PALACE TO ACT!
It’s been over SIX YEARS since Harry and Meghan stepped away from royal duties.
Yet their profiles remain featured on the official Royal Family website, Royal.uk, alongside members who actively serve the Crown.
WHY?
I’ve launched a formal petition calling on the Royal Household to move their profiles to a separate Non-Working Royals or Historical Royal Family section.
This isn’t about erasing history or stripping titles. It’s about accuracy, transparency and recognizing the difference between being a member of the Royal Family and actively representing the monarchy.
If you agree that the official website should reflect that distinction, I invite you to sign and share my petition!
✍️ SIGN HERE:
c.org/gfGy9cyNqd
👑 Please repost so we can bring this request directly to the attention of Buckingham Palace!
ALT Screenshot of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's profile on the official Royal Family website, Royal.uk.
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홍콩에서 나고 자란 스물네 살임
우리 집엔 내가 여덟 살 때부터 필리핀에서 온 도우미 조이 이모가 같이 살았음
홍콩은 맞벌이 집이 많아서 입주 도우미가 흔한데 이모는 16년을 우리 집에 있었음
엄마 아빠가 밤늦게 들어오는 날이 많아서 내 숙제 봐준 것도, 소풍 도시락 싸준 것도, 생리 처음 했을 때 약국 데려간 것도 다 이모였음
생일마다 이모가 필리핀식 볶음국수를 해줬는데 길게 먹어야 오래 산다고 끊지 말고 먹으라고 했음
이모한테도 딸이 있었음
메이라고 나랑 동갑이고 필리핀 일로일로에서 외할머니 손에 컸음
이모는 일요일마다 쉬는 날이면 센트럴에 나가서 친구들이랑 앉아 메이랑 영상통화를 했음
16년 동안 메이 얼굴을 직접 본 건 2년에 한 번 휴가 갈 때 몇 주뿐이었음
올해 봄에 이모가 그만두겠다고 했음
메이가 결혼을 하는데 이제는 옆에 있어주고 싶다고
엄마 아빠도 나도 붙잡을 수가 없었음
떠나기 일주일 전 밤에 물 마시러 부엌에 나갔는데 이모가 식탁에 앉아서 종이에 뭘 쓰다가 지우고 있었음
메이가 결혼식에서 엄마 축사를 해달라고 했다고 함
근데 몇 줄 쓰고 계속 지운다고
이모가 종이를 내려놓고 이랬음
"나는 메이가 몇 살에 처음 자전거 탔는지 몰라
근데 너는 여섯 살 6월에 빅토리아 공원에서 탔어"
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‘CAN YOU AUDIT THE POWERFUL WITH THE SAME ZEAL YOU AUDIT ORDINARY TAXPAYERS?’
Hinamon ng tax policy expert na si Mon Abrea ang Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) na magsagawa ng nationwide, risk-based tax audit sa mga politiko na may “unexplained wealth” at mga kahina-hinalang income discrepancies.
Ito ay kasunod ng pag-aatas ng BIR sa online sellers, freelancers, at content creators na i-post ang kanilang QR-coded tax registration badges sa kanilang websites at social media pages bilang bahagi ng digitalization at modernization ng ahensya.
“Stop treating MSMEs, startups, and content creators as easy audit targets while questionable wealth among the politically powerful goes unchecked,” giit ni Abrea.
#PilipinasToday
#MonAbrea
#ContentCreators
#OnlineSellers
#BIR
