Notice the super high peak occurred at the ending of the pandemic when there was a lot of rehiring of jobs lost over the lockdowns and industry was restarting with new projects.
The curve would not quite be so dramatic except for that, but definitely the trend downwards is showing in the small figures from 2024 onwards. Upto 2024 it was the knee jerk response to strangle hold on new projects and old projects going under up to and including 2021
And one quick note - anyone living in (the Republic of) Ireland, or who knows anyone living in Ireland, please inform them that they have access to these courses and certificates for free! Cisco, CompTIA, etc etc, loads of very respected industry certs.
https://www.ecollege.ie/search/resources?f[0]=course_category%3A45
Absolutely, we live in/under a giant monetary ponzi and when things get tight everything becomes a game of musical chairs, except instead of chairs, it’s fiat currency. This is simply because fiat is all debt and when that debt is issued as new currency, they don’t issue the currency to pay the interest on that debt, they only issue the principle … this means that our whole system requires exponential growth to maintain par.
If we just used sound money instead of debt, none of this nonsense would be happening. Humans have tremendous creativity and there is no reason for anyone to go hungry or to be without housing and medical care - the reason people do, isn’t capitalism, but a lack of it due to our inability to save capital (the core of capitalism) because of monetary scarcity brought about by State supported fraudulent fiat creation by banks - newly issued bank fiat takes it’s value from everyone’s pocket without their consent - it’s absolutely fraudulent, but is legally allowed by every State everywhere.
AI and robotics is a problem for the future of humanity, but it’s made 1000x worse by the fraud pushed upon us all by the State and banksters.
and for what’s up today, the reason I popped in over here:
This new model is available for download and testing apparently … very interesting.
I think "not good " is a fair score, drivel is a bit harsh
and i never said it was good to begin with.
A new Renaissance begins…
What I believe most don’t understand (as I’m constantly explaining this to folks) is that the immigration in western nations is to keep the housing/banking/fiat bubble afloat and so meant to prevent a deflationary economic doom-spiral brought about by a demographic collapse in population and so a collapse in demand for new bank loans.
Of course the politician’s will never say that aloud as then they’d have to explain the fractional reserve ponzi scheme that created the massive ponzi bubble we all live under as slaves to the banksters.
edit: of course it also fits in with the ancient teachings to keep your slave populations mixed so they don’t get along and hence can’t easily rise up against their masters.
The left and liberals are the main reason for the immigration flood to Europe and it is very simple, they think they are importing voters and the very far left believs, as they done since the in Iran revolution 1979, that MENA are their friends for a common goal for selfdestruction/suicide.
The Right conservatives thinks/thought immigration will push down salaries and make their friends and stockholders of the conservative parties richer and reach higher profits.
A country that survives a few decades of down turn in population gets more wealthy as BNP/per capita will rise, a country who imports the third world will severly harm bnp/capita growth and welfare for the very long term.
Even Russia knows immigration destroys Europe from the inside, that is why they use/used immigration as weapon against Europe for the last years.
Imagine this, but then also imagine it being used for ASIC’s … then BTC miners, for one, won’t use much power at all and the major cost for them becomes simply their production … how high would the block mining difficulty climb?
Of course the AI applications here are huge given their greed for power.
This changes everything.
PSA: You have until the 26th Feb before Amazon removes the ability to download your books to your laptop.
Not sure I really own the content I payed good money for. They could for example just decide to remove a title from your collection at any point for any reason.
How does this work?
Tungsten is lighter than gold. Do they add some lead so a W-Pb mixture has the same density as the (presumably removed to Tel Aviv) Au?
Or does nobody get close enough to actually weigh a bar?
All Troy pounds, not real pounds, so some wiggle room for discrepancies I bet 
Like using metric bolts in imperial bolt holes 
It can be done.
With very specific sizes in certain circumstances.
Very long story short, I once saved 9 lives including my own out in the Tunisian desert with a very broken landrover and a 19mm bolt a long way from the oasis.
The inescapable moral of the story however is that Landrovers are fragile unreliable shite and it wouldnt have been necessary with a grownup offroder like a Toyota.
It was a reference to a billion dollar project being lost. NASA & Mars
Tungsten has a very similar density to gold and that is what matters as you can cast a bar that is nearly identical in size and weight. Lead doesn’t fool anyone. There are also doped bars that mix in some copper and other things, but they are fairly easily discovered too. Gold coated tungsten bars however, look and feel identical and only by drilling into them can they be discovered.
So a good audit should include drilling into random bars to determine they are genuine. Some think that much of the gold in vaults around the globe may be fake.
Worth a watch - Grok3 Launch with Elon and XAI peeps going over the latest model, showing it in action, and looking at benchmarks. It’s pretty damn incredible.
I was hoping for a wee bit more to be honest. I kinda like Elon’s ventures in many ways, but this grok launch seems to me not as impressive as many of his other ventures. It has all the hallmarks, colossus etc. but I am seeing more hype than value this time and expected the opposite. So yes, great to see, but there’s something not as groundbreaking as rockets landing or cars self driving etc. This feels a bit like the same as others bt in a hype war instead of value first type approach
