Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are DOWN: worldwide

Does anyone use Twitter? ...
They have no connection to Facebook, and they were down for some hours today too.
 

I only joined Facebook years ago to make sure my grandsons were safe on their. Then I saw a lot of my cousins on there and friends on there.I never post much and my grandsons don't go on there much anymore so honestly, I don't care if it ever comes back.
 

60 Minutes did an interview yesterday with an ex-employee of Facebook, who has turned into a Whistleblower. She claims to have a large stash of documents which shows how Facebook encourages "conflict" because that keeps viewers online, and increases their advertising revenues...which make Zuckerberg even richer.
 
Gaer said:
Great post! When you tell us when Mercury will be OUT of retrograde? In fact, Can you tell us every time Mercury will be in retrograde?
This is good stuff to know!
Just wait till everything electronic goes out FOR GOOD! hahaha!
Thanks!
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Mercury goes direct on Oct. 17. 🤗
 
Wow, the local rant groups must have been saving up all their hate today. More nastiness than usual. It was actually shocking.

At least I know where the best pizza places are today. It’ll be discussed again tomorrow when the question is asked again. 🤣

On the rave side, I did have lunch in a totally different restaurant today that I’d never have known about without this group.
 
Don M. said:
60 Minutes did an interview yesterday with an ex-employee of Facebook, who has turned into a Whistleblower. She claims to have a large stash of documents which shows how Facebook encourages "conflict" because that keeps viewers online, and increases their advertising revenues...which make Zuckerberg even richer.
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apparently 7 Billion was knocked off his shares in just hours due to the breakdown...and cost the global economy more than $160 million
 
Don M. said:
60 Minutes did an interview yesterday with an ex-employee of Facebook, who has turned into a Whistleblower. She claims to have a large stash of documents which shows how Facebook encourages "conflict" because that keeps viewers online, and increases their advertising revenues...which make Zuckerberg even richer.
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People can be enticed but actually forced or manipulated like they have no control? There are other variables at play besides facebook's or other's manipulations then. It's like the old video game or music causes violence theory.
 
Don M. said:
60 Minutes did an interview yesterday with an ex-employee of Facebook, who has turned into a Whistleblower. She claims to have a large stash of documents which shows how Facebook encourages "conflict" because that keeps viewers online, and increases their advertising revenues...which make Zuckerberg even richer.
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I had wondered if their was any connection, but apparently it's just one of those rare actual coincidences.
 
AnnieA said:
That would certainly solve our global warming problems. Saw a poll once (US) that 75% of those polled said they wouldn't survive three months without electricity and the infrastructure it supports ...no clean water, food delivery essentially halted due to no electronic communication. A great deal of the DOD uses the regular grid, so no help from the military. Think Ted Koppel's book Lights Out predicted only 10% of the US population would survive a year without electricity ...been a while since I read it but am pretty sure he quoted that from a federal source ...EMP Commission maybe?
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Just reading this now... thanks for the recommendation. Pretty terrifying stuff. Am looking at our emergency plans and will discuss the same with our kids. Living in the suburbs of a large city could work for or against us.

You accurately recall the information. Koppel quoted the findings of a 2008 congressional commission tasked with identifying the impact of an EMP attack on the US infrastructure. According to Koppel, in their report they estimated "only one in ten of us would survive a year into a nationwide blackout, the rest perishing from starvation, disease or societal breakdown."
 
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Just reading this now... thanks for the recommendation. Pretty terrifying stuff. Am looking at our emergency plans and will discuss the same with our kids. Living in the suburbs of a large city could work for or against us.

You accurately recall the information. Koppel quoted the findings of a 2008 congressional commission tasked with identifying the impact of an EMP attack on the US infrastructure. According to Koppel, in their report they estimated "only one in ten of us would survive a year into a nationwide blackout, the rest perishing from starvation, disease or societal breakdown."
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It is frightening and so much more now that we're seeing cyber attacks. The way our grid is structured, if a large segment is damaged, it fries everything connected down the line. Our largest transformers are antiquated and were brought in by rail lines that no longer exist. They're too large to carry by semis and take two years to build which the US no longer does. So we'd have to look to China that has the ability to make them....but the time we're crippled with a long-term blackout, they would be more likely to invade than help us replace our transformers.
 
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I read Ted Koppel's non-fiction book about an EMP attack and am 2/3 of the way through William R. Forstchen's, One Second After, a most enjoyable science fiction account of what might happen if such an attack occurred.

Naturally, during my voyage into the EMP world I not only reconsidered my stashes of stored water, backup food, batteries, etc., I became concerned about the likelihood of either (or both) Koppel's and Forstchen's EMP scenarios becoming reality.

Setting aside the extraordinary number of articles and websites by: "I'll gladly take out all trespassers with my M-16s, thousands of rounds of ammo, land mines and other human flesh-shredding weaponry" survivalists who are clearly rooting for a doomsday scenario of one stripe or another, most credible information points to an EMP attack being an extremely unlikely event. On an added positive note, the US government is apparently addressing this now:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...re-an-emp-attack-what-is-it-should-you-worry/

Seems the far more likely serious EMP type threats to worldwide electronics come from the sun.
https://www.livescience.com/38848-emp-solar-storm-danger.html

So I'll enjoy Forstchen's trilogy on a post EMP America, continue to keep my emergency supplies in good stock, say a prayer, and not let this keep me up at night. Fascinating subject though. Thanks for pointing me in this direction, @AnnieA.
 

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