[2cher]

active membership has gone to basically nothing
Half the original good members are dead.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('2cher', 'a')ctive membership has gone to basically nothing
Half the original good members are dead.

[ralfy]

"OPEC raises long-term demand forecasts in rejecting peak oil"

https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsig ... g-peak-oil

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '&')quot;There is no peak demand on the horizon," OPEC Secretary General Haitham al-Ghais said in the organization's World Oil Outlook, which sees global thirst for liquid fuels increasing from 102.2 million b/d in 2023 to 120.1 million b/d in 2050, "with the potential for it to be higher".

...

To meet demand in 2050, the industry will require a cumulative $17.4 trillion in upstream and downstream projects, OPEC estimated.

[Tuike]

I think with current white house administration, it will be soon illegal to believe in finite energy resources and this site will be taken down by force.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tuike', 'I') think with current white house administration, it will be soon illegal to believe in finite energy resources and this site will be taken down by force.

[Tuike]

"In total there are 12141 users online"
Wow, this site is really popular. I wonder if registration has busted, if none of the thousands of lurkers doesn't join?

[AgentR11]

I only show 58 guests online at the moment.

[Tuike]

The number of people online is only at 60 in this thread, but at this time, in forum front page, it says:

Who is online
In total there are 12267 users online :: 6 registered, 0 hidden and 12261 guests

[AgentR11]

My hunch is its various automated crawlers leaving connections open.

[theluckycountry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('2cher', 'a')ctive membership has gone to basically nothing
Half the original good members are dead.

[theluckycountry]

When the Entire Western World made private pensions law in the 80's, when interest rates were astronomical, I saw a poster on the wall of a lunch room that claimed I'd be retired as a millionaire by age 55. I didn't believe it for one minute, it was preposterous, and at the time I had no idea about interest rate cycles or financial markets. Obviously I had missed all the entrainment propaganda on TV and was instead relying on common sense.

That was beginning of one of the biggest financial scams in history. The looting of workers wages to create a massive pool of wealth the elite could manipulate and suck on as the years passed. The reality of this was no more obvious than during the GFC when the markets (and pension payments) were slashed in half. Some people woke up at that point and took their money and went into RE. But that was a trap too, and they only exacerbated the bubble there.

I went to Gold early in the 00's because the mainstream media denigrated it. Why? Because obviously they couldn't make any money out of it. Just follow the money, it will tell you what's afoot. Is it going from your hands, your control, into the hands of strangers? Have they changed the laws, quietly, to ensure you have no redress? They did that with common stocks a decade or so ago. You buy them, but by law you're not the owner. You are a beneficial owner, the real owner, who has full control of them, is the brokerage house. If they decide to sell them for peanuts and buy US bonds (to save the nation) you have no say in the matter.

[Tuike]

Forum front page:
Most users ever online was 34941 on 21 Feb 2025

Can't close a site with fresh popularity record. Had trouble accessing po.com yesterday.

[theluckycountry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tuike', 'H')ad trouble accessing po.com yesterday.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('theluckycountry', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tuike', 'H')ad trouble accessing po.com yesterday.

[Newfie]

I did not have it here but at Reddit.

I thought it was the lunatic MAGA's trying to shut it down. LOL

But true about Reddit.

The very funny thing about eternity is it was invented to be a way to assure communications by having routable messaging, BUT it has introduced many ways to be hacked.

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Newfie', 'I') did not have it here but at Reddit.

I thought it was the lunatic MAGA's trying to shut it down. LOL

But true about Reddit.

The very funny thing about eternity is it was invented to be a way to assure communications by having routable messaging, BUT it has introduced many ways to be hacked.

[Newfie]

Reddit has its pros and cons. First of all it has a zillion sub reddits, each one with its own moderators and rules. You can find anything you want on reddit, support any position. And it is unstructured, more a stream of consciousness experience. Someone posts a link to an article and 90% of respondents just spout off without reading the article, so a lot of filtering to find worthwhile comments.

Where I find it valuable is as a source of niche news. For exampke I am following the UFO story. Reddit is one of the few places to get updates on that. But still an awful lot of filtering. They have a r/worldnews sub which I scan daily, that is pretty good.

Then there a niche topics, for example panpsychism, which is a very broad topic with a lot of “interesting” characters. Yet there is something there to be learned, again a lot of filtering.

I also follow:
The War Zone, a throw off from Car and Driver. Best military tech news and some about notable actions.
The Debrief for science and other interesting news not making headlines.
GCaptain for maritime news, which surprisingly hits a lot of headline stories with a more technical slant
Popular Mechanics has some interesting tech stories, subscription.

[theluckycountry]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('careinke', 'D')o you like Reddit as a social platform? I haven't really tested it yet. I feel overwhelmed with social media as it is.

Peace

[theluckycountry]

This sub is fun https://www.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/

[jato0072]

There is a lot of doom in the air. Escalation into WW3. Economic Depression around the corner. Global oil production near peak. Trump is the new mustache man. Collapse of Globalism. Collapse of the GAE.

I had to come check in with the few people who are left. The post Peak Oil future has been an interesting multi-decade discussion. We haven't even hit the global oil production decline and things seem to be heating up across the globe.

My life could not be better. Enjoy the decline when it finally arrives in earnest.