Possible UFO reported over NYC's LaGuardia Airport (nypost.com)

Quote: A plane passenger has claimed she spotted a possible UFO flying high over the Big Apple.
 
Michelle Reyes said she caught sight of a mysterious “flying cylinder” out of her plane window while above LaGuardia Airport.
 
“The first thing I did was email the FAA to let them know what I saw,” she told NewsNation Wednesday.
 
“Maybe it was a safety hazard, but unfortunately I haven’t heard back from them, they didn’t acknowledge my email.”

A thread for associating literary pieces with musical tracks.

The idea that a non-compete clause is for the protection of the company always seemed improperly imposed to me.  

I can understand it from the point of view of the executive body, policy-makers, and strategic trade-secret holders... they should be honor-bound to not interfere with a business they are departing by exploiting their inside knowledge.  But it seemed wrong to me to apply it to anyone under that highest executive level.  Yet it often is...  there are some 30 million citizens in this country that are basically tethered to their employers by a non-compete clause... they cannot leave their job without leaving their employability behind...

(By the way, a noncompete clause is not the same as a non-disclosure clause...)

From Ars Technica: FTC bans noncompete clauses, declares vast majority unenforceable
Subtitled: Chamber of Commerce vows to sue FTC, will try to block ban on noncompetes.
 

Back when I started the never-ending process of "keeping" a computer (when the dinosaurs still roamed the earth) it was pretty easy.

Back then PC's were mostly not networked, and if you wanted a network-type connection to another PC you needed to "work it out" by physically connecting them... (If you are older, like me... remember gathering to play "DOOM" .. and everyone bringing their PC, a router and/or ethernet cable?)

Now most connectivity is manufactured into the device... everything from doorbells and toasters, to televisions and media players.  And it is done without wires.  There's a lot of noise around them, wirelessly announcing, constantly pinging for contact... and most people setting up their own "home" network leave the work to their router, or cable-box... the perennial source of Wi-Fi for many households...

Your PC is also "listening"... and sometimes it answers... Therein lies the problem:

From Ars Technica: The spam came from inside the house: How a smart TV can choke a Windows PC
Subtitled: The curious case of a living room screen making Windows' Settings app disappear.

This is an interesting story about how a mysterious difficulty in Windows came from an unlikely source... a "SMART" television.
 

I've posted about this at a few other sites, but I always like to get new opinions and stories.

I've seen two craft in my lifetime that I can't explain, both happened at night. The first time was over 10 years ago. I went outside at work for a smoke, and looked up to the stars like I normally do. I saw what appeared to be a satellite, they look like stars moving in a steady trajectory.

I got the feeling this thing was very high up, or in space. It was slightly bigger and brighter than other satellites I've seen, but it moved in the same way, straight and steady. All of a sudden it moved in a strange way, along the same trajectory, but it looked like it was repeatedly being shot out of a cannon. A rapid acceleration/stop/acceleration/stop. That happened a few times until it went beyond my line of sight past some buildings.

Now for the triangle I saw, this happened about 2 years ago. I left work, and at the time I took a train to get home. It's a 3 minute walk to the station, down a single road. I'm walking down this road, about 9:30 pm, and this craft flew directly over me, I'd say it was roughly 90 feet in length, and about 400 feet up in the air. I couldn't make out the shape of the craft, but it had 3 white lights in a triangle formation, with a blinking red light in the center.

It wasn't going particularly fast, it cruised a long until it went beyond a tree line maybe half mile away. To give a speed reference, from the time I saw it overhead until the time it was gone, was about 15-20 seconds. It didn't hit me until it was gone that it was completely silent. It was a calm, quiet night, and it didn't even produce a hum. There's a lot of air traffic where I work, I often see Cessnas and larger craft, you can hear them clearly even at a far greater distance. This craft also lacked the red and green lights which I thought were required by law.

I used to make fun of people for not capturing these things on video, but it never crossed my mind until it was well gone. I was trying to wrap my head around what I was seeing.

Anybody seen anything similar?

Hi party people. 
      I am writing this annoyed as a person who flatiron their hair when it was going to rain and then got my hair wet in the rain. So, yes I understand I do have a choice and I am about to get movin'. 
So for 10 years I have been divorced. Not wanting to be all on my lonesome and having to leave a second relationship which was bad. I left florida on the advice of my father. I moved home to California. Now the whole time I have not been able to find accommodation in a decent neighborhood with my income despite working in my current field for 9 years. Apartments want 3x the rent. I could not afford it until now. Even then, it is unobtainable. So I go to school, paying my way so I fo not get taxed by the government for a loan to the best of my ability. 
Being in the preschool profession is a monetarily unfulfilling job. Parents need to pay and the overhead is huge. The money on insurance for the center to operate alone is huge. Every year we get raises. Usually a dollar or more. It's nice. But because we live in Cali we get taxed out the yang. The state takes about 450 a month out of my paycheck every two weeks. I do not claim anything.     Here's why I am going to move to a no state tax state. My child's friend is making 22 an hour in florida and is bringing home only 100 dollars less that what I bring home in a paycheck despite me making almost six more dollars an hour.

        I may not want to go to florida, but I would like to keep the money I eaen or at least would like something to show for it.  If I brought home what my kids friend. Brings home, I would be living well in the area of florida they live. 

There is a catch, beeing a preschool teacher with ten years of expertise and way to many early child hoood units to think about, it is reletive to where I reside. Here I am making about average for the area. If I move I would probably be looking at a pay cut of eight to ten bucks. But I would still come out where I might afford a place. 
I did the math. Where I work my pay is equivalent to approximately two to two and a half childrens tuition. I work with fifteen children. Like I said before overhead is astounding. 

Anyhow I guess my question would be... where is a good safe place to live making lower income that won't be devoured by CA or have me attacked for leaving the house?
I have family now in florida ( northern central), Texas ( 4 hours east of Dallas), and rural Maryland. I also have family on the western tennesee/Kentucky Boarder. I would like to live near family. If not somewhere by these areas. Any ideas would be great. Oh  i forgot to mention I am a teacher and a teacher in training for elementary however, I do not agree with the political bias in school. There is no space for it in a true environment for learning as far as the teaching staff goes ( yes, I have had to bite my younger in the break room when people were bashing Trump and talking about the news headlines about falsehoods they say trump did. When it was someone else....  anyhow, I am a bit sleepy and my ADHD is showing. So imma leave this. I will respond tomorrow and I appreciate all advice.

I had almost lost hope for the little probe that could.

Absolutely no one could have planned for Voyager 1 to last as long as it has.  In a testament to sound engineering and design, our ability to continue to conduct scientific measurement using this probe has exceeded all expectations.

From Universe Today: NASA Restores Communications with Voyager 1
 

A little over a decade ago, at a meeting at Cambridge, a group of respected scientists and researcher published a statement indicating that creatures of all types have everything neurologically necessary to manifest true consciousness... sentience of a sort [1].  They proposed that we should openly recognize that we have been mistaken by accepting Descartes's statements that indicated animals were a sort of biological automata ... without feelings, without a mind.

A short while ago, another group of academicians and thinkers at a New York conference made a similar 'declaration' [2] ... that animals may very well be conscious.

A flurry of reporting has occurred in the media, with several outlets publishing on this subject...

From Quanta Magazine: Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare
Subtitled: A group of prominent biologists and philosophers announced a new consensus: There’s “a realistic possibility” that insects, octopuses, crustaceans, fish and other  overlooked animals experience consciousness.
From Nature: Do insects have an inner life? Animal consciousness needs a rethink
Subtitled: A declaration signed by dozens of scientists says there is “a realistic possibility” for elements of consciousness in reptiles, insects and molluscs.
From The Hill: It’s ‘irresponsible’ to ignore widespread consciousness across animal world, dozens of scientists argue
From NBC News: Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness, saying even insects may be sentient
Subtitled: Far more animals than previously thought likely have consciousness, top scientists say in a new declaration — including fish, lobsters and octopus.
From Animal Ethics.org: 10th Anniversary of the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness

That's a lot of attention for a very simple scientific declaration.  Even minimized, the assertion is important... It is not impossible that non-humans lack a sense of experiential existence.  They may well be sentient in some analogous way to human consciousness.  I offer some excerpted examples from the various articles to give you some ideas of what's in there...
 

Let's be real, fuck the government. I don't care what country you is from, fuck the governments. We need common sense and real education, not institutionalized brainwashing and programming. We need personal accountability and societal pressure to enforce it, not gestapo out there murdering folk. We need as a global society to come together under principles of personal responsibility, self improvement, and compassion and end all governments. Dosnt that sound better than voting for Trump or Biden in America, watching Putler and Zelinskiy fight it while Israel and Gaza accuse each other of genocide?

It’s the final countdown…. 

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29:16:16 as of this post.
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Really need a jokes and humor forum.

Hi everyone,

I'm another coming over from ATS, as I'm hearing the days are numbered there.

My interests include all things fringe, consciousness, NDEs, ETs, ice hockey, candle-lit dinners, long walks on the beach, and bashing government and politicians, left and right.

Happy to be here, thanks for having me!

Like the title says, coming here after hearing about the uncertainty of ATS.
been a long time member there, and am looking forward to what we can make DI into in the long run.

For those who don’t know me from ATS, I’m Macenroe82 over there as well.
I host a podcast on Spotify and YouTube.
im the former National Chief Investigator for MUFON. I retired from my position due to some shady dealings I came across in the org.
However, if there is ever a credible CE2 or above, then I will be deployed to the area for an investigation as part of STAR Team. 

I am a licensed Commercial Drone Pilot.
Not sure if I was the very first person to fly a drone underground beyond the visual line of site.
But I most definitely was the first person to be recognized as such and for setting a new safety standard with the use of drones in mining.
I was even awarded as such By the Institute of Mining.

One of the drones I helped develop (Test and crash  - sometimes on purpose… sometimes by accident) was featured on the Discovery Channel.
I was also a Mixed Martial Artist as a youth, before it was legal in my Province. 

So I have many interests and dable in a bit of everything.

Im looking forward to carrying on our conversations with those coming from ATS and with new members coming across D.I for the first time.

-Mac

Okay who are all of my art peeps?  I want to know who you are and what you do. 

As for me. I got my start as an inker in the comic book industry.  I have published work in titles for DC, Marvel, Dark Horse and Image.  After that I worked for "the mouse" for 14 years and now I'm at an independent studio doing virtual production. I build out sets and environments using Unreal Engine, Maya and a bunch of other 3D software.  

I still do traditional art in my spare time as well. In fact, I'm currently working on a little comic book idea that I hope to share here in the near future. But more on that later... 

If you're an artist (professional or hobbyist) share a little about what you do. I want to know who my people are.

I believe this is an important issue.  I feel that people generally, and children specifically, should never be subject to the kind of "image abuse" made casually possible by those who use technology for making a person into an object... be it sexual, shameful, or other malicious end.  I find encouragement that people have been inclined to consider this.

But I have some concerns about this response proffered by the government in this case, and some question about this article.

From Wired: The Biggest Deepfake Porn Website Is Now Blocked in the UK
Subitled: The world’s most-visited deepfake website and another large competing site are stopping people in the UK from accessing them, days after the UK government announced a crackdown.
 

Long time ATS user/lurker jumping ship, I am really looking forward to this site becoming what ATS was in its heyday,
Stoked for the discussions to come! Much love to you all. stay safe!

I suffer from severe tooth problems (or lack thereof,)  so when I ran across this article, it definitely caught my attention...

From Ars Technica: The GMO tooth microbe that is supposed to prevent cavities
Subtitled: Some experts have concerns over the safety of the genetically modified bacteria.
 

Scanning around, I often see lots of stuff attached to articles and news, and also within videos (where they flash images as they narrate, monologue, or use someone else's voice over.)

I can complain about how this production techniques is abused, but it would be to no avail.  So I just grin and bear it.

But this time, since it was a fluff-piece about astronomic stuff (the Leonid Meteor Shower) I was expecting photos of past events, etc.

From Fox: Lyrid meteor shower 2024: When and where to look up

Within it, this image appeared... 



With the following caption:

Been over at ATS for a bit and the Flying Spaghetti Monster told me it would be prudent to secure a reservation at this place. We've been delving into a lot of theological and philosophical stuff lately, but it varies.

It's good to be here. Thank you.

Online Forums and Social Media

First of all I am a former invitee and participant into the "Watcher" program for the FEDS. I am not here gatherng INTEL nor am I an undercover anything. Back at the old place I dropped alot of crumbs assumming that someone at the FED level was reading or using AI to gather. My cause is to stop both the drug and possibly child trafficking in my lilly white one percenter neighborhood. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/17...10#image=8

So, since last August I have been banned from posting yet they allow me to clock in now and then to make it appear to the public that I am still a member. 

I also have my opinion as to why the "happening" happened over there but  I dont need the MOD squad chasing me over here.  In my opinion much was developing on the subject of UFO and Paranormal hence the great reset. Sort of what happened say 10 to 15 years ago. Oh I have no proof other than my opinion and observation as to the historical threads that remain as posted threads. You get that? 

So now the QANON fun bunch has resurfaced. So assume that someone is keeping an eye on you as it isnt me as I have no coin in that game as I am done with Mr. T and I am just bidening my time until our INTEL takes back the USA.  Yes, I am assumming for the best as I do hope and pray for the existance of the USA under law and the Constitution as my FED contacts havent been giving me squat for several months. I am now in a total blackout phase to only discuss milk and cookies with my FED handler. My guess is that USA has recalled all retired Special Agents to actuve duty again as the last time he was activated way back in April of 2020 when Covid-19 became a thing as back then that bat  and fish market story was absolute bull sheep as I read the emails from my POC.  

His last rant several months ago is that if Mr. T is NOT elected as President that riots would enchew along with the possibility of a civil war. 

So watch what you read, write and whom you support as its getting really frosty out there. I also know a secret about Mr. T and it has been vetted among many at the federal level. So I and Melania have something in common. Knowlege. 

Plus dont Fauci Up as hes now in the meat grinder. Thats a TBD

Yes, big brother is watching the hives. 

Waterglass Out!

What is occurring at Columbia and other universities is absolutely nuts, Im for free speech etc.but this is 1930s and 1940s type of racism in NYC. We had better find a better way, and we need to follow the money behind all of this seriously

https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/...4239732870

https://vxtwitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1782110793028239592




https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/col...r-AA1noeIY

Quote: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators have also been critical of Columbia's response to the conflict and have called on the university to divest from Israel. 
On Saturday, a large group of protesters gathered outside the university gates, while student protesters returned to the main lawn on campus. Four more people were arrested and released with summonses, according to NYPD. 
The day before, protesters were sprawled in sleeping bags and on mats with banners and Palestinian flags laid out around them.
Students at other colleges, including Boston University, Harvard University and Ohio State University, called for rallies in solidarity with Columbia students, CNN reported. 

Greetings, folks.

I’m another ATS transplant. You may recall my username VulcanWerks from ATS. If so, it’s me!

If no, hi there.

looking forward to contributing.

I wanted to place this in the less contentious "Current Events" forum, I really did.  But this piece of reporting just reeks of "message" and I hate it.  I hate it because there is news value in the story, but they turned it into a propaganda piece.  It's the kind of piece that forces associations, and obfuscates reality.  We really need to stop doing that.

From Fox News:  Chinese hackers preparing to ‘physically wreak havoc’ on US critical infrastructure: FBI director  
Subtitled: FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the hackers want to 'induce panic'

I will begin by dosing the story with something to remember... What the "hackers" want is to be paid.  In the media, "Panic" is a social engineering term.  And finally... we must never stop living in fear (according to the 'voices' in government.)
 

ATS Member for several yrs until the username / PW debacle
Excited to see how the site develops!

I'm a fairly outgoing and open minded person with an interest in all things to be frankly honest. Why stop experiencing and learning? That is what I'm here to to do, is to learn more about all things and share where appropriate. Thanks for having me aboard.

Elsewhere this week somebody was commenting on one aspect of the evidence that Paul and the writer of Hebrews were two different people, and I was reminded of an essay with the above title which I wrote a number of years ago. I decided to make a summary and post it. Since I am a member of the Three Forums Club (how many of us are there?) I decided to post it in these places as well.

I started by going through the work of Christ in chronological order.

Firstly, Paul made only brief allusions to the pre-existence of Christ, like Galatians ch4 v4 (“sent forth his Son”) and the reference to Christ “emptying himself” in Philippians ch2 v7. Whereas the very starting point of Hebrews is the majesty of the pre-existent Son in relation to the universe.

Again, Paul made very little use of the earthly ministry of Jesus, for pastoral purposes, mentioning only that he was “obedient to the point of death on a cross”. Hebrews balances the initial stress on the glory of the Son by showing how the Son was not ashamed to be weak like his brethren. It was necessary for him to experience the struggle against sin in order to be a merciful High Priest for the rest of us (ch4 v15).

Yet there is one point here where Paul and Hebrews do come into contact. We are told that the Son “learned obedience” (ch5 v8). This does not mean that his previous state was disobedience. It means that his previous state was “authority”. It’s an echo of Paul’s statement about “emptied himself”.

In both sets of writing, the Cross is absolutely central. But I found Paul reticent about the exact nature of the connection between the Cross and our salvation, possibly because he had taught them all that already. There are references to Christ taking sin upon himself, “made him to be sin who knew no sin” (2 Corinthians ch5 v21). Paul’s characteristic idea is that Christ “died to sin” on the Cross, thus enabling those who are crucified “together with him” to “die to sin” in the same way.

Whereas in Hebrews the death of Christ is explicitly and systematically explained in terms of the Old Testament sacrifices designed to purify men from their sins. Though in the middle of all this he comes back to the obedience of Christ as the key factor (ch10 v7).

Paul lays great stress on the Resurrection of Christ (e.g. Romans ch6) as the sequel to the Cross and the key to our own resurrection. The beginning of Hebrews by-passes the Resurrection to go straight to the Ascension, with the Son sitting at the right hand of the Father. In the later discussion of Christ as the self-sacrificing High Priest, his death seems to take him through the veil straight into the heavenly sanctuary.

In Paul, the sequel to the Resurrection is that Christ becomes Lord, with authority over the whole world. Whereas in Hebrews, the emphasis on Jesus as being “like us” and the forerunner prepares the way for identifying him as High Priest.

Turning to the human side, I found in Paul a theme that the Law cannot prevent sin, and in Hebrews a theme that the Law cannot remove sin. Paul’s favourite expressions about the benefit of Christ’s death belong to the legal sphere or the sphere of human relations, such as “justified”, “acquitted”, “reconciled”. “Washed and sanctified”, in 1 Corinthians ch6 v11, was the only example I could find of the analogy of ritual purification from sin. Of course the argument of Hebrews depends on that analogy.

At the same time, Hebrews contains real echoes of Paul’s language. The fact that Christ “tasted death for everyone” is attributed to “the grace of God” in ch2 v9, and the man who spurns the Son of God has “outraged the spirit of grace” (ch10 v29). Th writer says that the discipline they are receiving shows that they are being treated as sons (ch12 v7, compare Galatians ch4 v7). There is the long ch11 outline of the history of faith. In ch6, he quotes the Genesis ch22 promise to Abraham, and then goes on to say that we are now encouraged “by two unbreakable things”. It seems to me (though this is a later discovery) that the other “unchangeable thing” can only be the Genesis ch15 promise quoted by Paul. That is, he seems to assume that his readers will recognise the allusion even if he doesn’t quote the reference himself. In other words, I think, he takes it for granted that they know the argument of Galatians. If he is not Paul, then he has certainly learned from Paul.

But what I found missing in Hebrews is the rich teaching based on the thought that we are in Christ and Christ is in us, and that this is the foundation of our Christian life. In Paul, “sin after baptism” is not a theological problem but a practical problem, to be dealt with practically by urging men to return to life in the Spirit. The conclusion I reached at the end of the essay, following a long paragraph of examples, was that writer of Hebrews was simply not in touch with an experience of “life in the Spirit” which was a vital reality to Paul, and that he filled the gap by developing his argument from scripture and by analogy.