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Requiem '99 |
Posted by: CCoburn - 11-07-2024, 02:29 PM - Forum: Short Stories
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Requiem '99
Spin the winds
to win the rain
of things
that are remembered
that will never
be the same
Dance with me
my dear
dance with me
this dance of death
I waited
for so long
to be enchanted
with you
My slumbered soul
without a breath
now torn the memories
all recanted
Spin around my lovely
in death forever granted
these broken roots
now firmly planted
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Kennedy going to take on FDA |
Posted by: pianopraze - 11-07-2024, 02:22 PM - Forum: Health
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Kennedy yesterday declared he’s going to Eliminate whole departments of the FDA and stop Fluoride being put in our water.
Today he posts this:
Quote:FDA’s war on public health is about to end. This includes its aggressive suppression of psychedelics, peptides, stem cells, raw milk, hyperbaric therapies, chelating compounds, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamins, clean foods, sunshine, exercise, nutraceuticals and anything else that advances human health and can't be patented by Pharma. If you work for the FDA and are part of this corrupt system, I have two messages for you: 1. Preserve your records, and 2. Pack your bags. Twitter post
I’m sure Thomas Massie will help.
I’m actually excited and hopeful.
p.s. I’ve lived in the Philippines for many years off and on. I have no problem with the food there. I come back here and I get sick to my tummy all the time. I also loose 30 lbs without trying when I goto the Philippines. I eat same amount both places. Something is wrong with our food here in the USA. Ask anyone who’s lived elsewhere and you will get similar stories.
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Science Is Magic |
Posted by: UltraBudgie - 11-07-2024, 12:00 PM - Forum: Science & Technology
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Nautilus has an interesting essay today by Dale Markowitz:
Quote:How the Occult Gave Birth to Science
In 1936, the economist John Maynard Keynes purchased a trove of Isaac Newton’s unpublished notes. These included more than 100,000 words on the great physicist’s secret alchemical experiments. Keynes, shocked and awed, dubbed them “wholly magical and wholly devoid of scientific value.” This unexpected discovery, paired with things like Newton’s obsession with searching for encrypted messages in the Bible’s Book of David, showed that Newton “was not the first of the age of reason,” Keynes concluded. “He was the last of the magicians.”
When it came to fascination with the occult, Newton was hardly alone. Many contemporary scientists may cast aspersions on spells, mythical tales, and powers of divination. Not so for many of the early modern thinkers who laid the foundations of modern science. To them, the world teemed with the uncanny: witches, unicorns, mermaids, stars that foretold the future, base metals that could be coaxed into gold or distilled into elixirs of eternal life.
These fantastical beliefs were shared by the illiterate and educated elite alike—including many of the forebears of contemporary science, including chemist Robert Boyle, who gave us modern chemistry and Boyle’s law, and biologist Carl Linnaeus, who developed the taxonomic system by which scientists classify species today. Rather than stifling discovery, their now-arcane beliefs may have helped drive them and other scientists to endure hot smoky days in the bowels of alchemical laboratories or long frigid nights on the balconies of astronomical towers.
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This touches on a subject that I enjoy thinking about: Science is an emanation of magic. Or something greater. It does not exist in a vacuum, build by empirical observation alone. It is rather inspired, an apparently standalone system of reason, that is breathed through the human imagination and finds its own life in the mechanistic and secular world.
This can be seen in the papers of the great scientists. The original ones, where they break new ground. Not the summaries or restatements that are written later and put in textbooks, but the words where they first put pen to paper and create something new. There's almost always a hermetic undertone to it. A parallel complexity. They write about the large, which cannot be said, in terms of the material, of which we can speak. Schrodinger on colour theory. Newton on celestial motion. They were magicians, science was merely the new element with which they worked.
Although science today has become largely flat, commercialize, devoid of consideration of anything other than itself, this vitality remains. It can still be seen, and in fact can never be eliminated. The universe doesn't work that way. And it's heartening to see this being acknowledged, even if only at the academic fringes.
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Hello! |
Posted by: Sirius - 11-07-2024, 10:25 AM - Forum: Introductions
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Hi! I'm Sirus.
I started following ATS in 2012 because the world was ending. Never contributed.
Now I'm contributing. DI needs content.
It was the fragile earth section that drew me in back then, the weather was getting allot of attention and I was curious. Paranormal experiences has always followed me around so the rest of the forum was interesting also.
Like most of us here, I don't know what it's all about and I'm looking for answers.
My first language isn't English and I have dysgraphia, if you see me posting random words in sentences all the time it's no big deal. If it's not understandable, let me know and I'll try harder.
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Starship flight 6 Nov 18 |
Posted by: Sirius - 11-07-2024, 01:32 AM - Forum: Space
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Sounds like they are going to be focusing on the Starship this time, not the booster. Daylight reentry, stress testing flaps, heatshields that kind of stuff. Booster will also be caught again.
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Two grocery stores |
Posted by: UltraBudgie - 11-06-2024, 11:11 PM - Forum: Food & Cooking
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Food shopping takes so much longer now. I have at least two grocery stores I go to now. Does anyone else have to do this?
The first store is for things like dish soap, toilet paper, shampoo, paper towel, etc. I can get some food there, like the brand of milk I now buy, butter, and maybe one or two items of produce. It's the cheap store. I used to do almost all my shopping there. I can't really take advantage of the big warehouse stores because they're too far away and I don't have the storage space to make really huge purchases.
The second store is for most of my food. It's in the wealthier part of town. It has mostly edible produce, staples like nuts, granola, cheese, pasta, etc. It's more expensive, but the food there is better. It's smaller, and doesn't seem to have much overlap in brands with the cheap store.
There only one store I can go to and get bread that is edible, and another for meat, which I rarely eat any more.
The official data says inflation food prices have gone up 27% in the last five years, but that's not my experience. Prices for the same brand of food have gone up at least 50%, although I have no numbers to prove it. https://www.officialdata.org/Food-and-be...19-to-2024
But when I take quality into account, food prices seem to have about tripled. The same brand of potatoes I used to get five years ago now make me ill. If I buy locally grown organic potatoes, I'm okay, but they're more expensive. Same with just about everything. Milk I've always been picky about, but now I can't abide anything except the grassfed stuff that's $5 a half-gallon. I've almost completely eliminated bread from my diet, because it's just impossible to get anything that doesn't knock me out anymore. There's only one place I can go and get bread that is made fresh without glyphosate; I think that's what the problem is. I get pasta that's made in Italy now, because the Barilla I used to buy has turned to crap, and it doesn't put me to sleep like American wheat does, but it costs twice as much. Peanuts and cashews from the cheap store are packed in some rancid oil now that makes me sweat, and the ones from the rich people place cost three times as much, but that's what I buy now.
Produce is hit or miss, even when I choose carefully. I've noticed organic apples with weird wax on them, and I've learned that "organically grown" doesn't mean it isn't sprayed in chemicals and preservatives after its harvested. I've learned to soak rice and beans and discard the soaking water before cooking them. It's a real pain, and it's more expensive to boot. There's a farmers markets around here, seasonally, and that's an option, although I've heard that some farmer's markets are having problems with fake stands that just sell supermarket produce at a higher price.
Most meat seem right out now. Strange water injected fish that are like sponges. Chicken that is like rubber somehow? There one market, again one of the 'rich people' places that has decent meats, but I swear they're 3-4 times as expensive. I'm not paying $40/lb for steak. The pasture-raised eggs I used to eat now have occasional batches that are somehow plasticy? So I don't eat eggs much any more.
I can't find statistics for this. It seem like inflation is working in two directions: each dollar buys less, which is documented. But at the same time, the baseline of what you're getting floats. Quality is going down. The same brand from 2019 is not the same quality in 2024. So, to get the same thing you got in 2019, you have to switch to a more expensive tier of food. I never had to worry about that stuff before. I spent over $300 for three bags of groceries a few weeks ago, and I'm still bitter about it. (Not small plastic or paper bags, but bring-you-own totes I have that are fairly large, but still).
Okay, fine. I actually don't mind that whatever crappification is going on is making me have to be more aware of what I eat. That actually seems good. And I'm not unwilling to pay for quality. There's two things that are frustrating though: first, there's no guide on any of this. If I search for "declining food quality", no useful results. Try looking up why cheese made in America is getting kinda nasty but European cheese is still okay, no real results. Maybe there's some domestic ones that are still good? I dunno. I'd rather not have to buy flour from Poland, but no one is even admitting the problem, much less giving alternatives. Second thing is, time. What the hell, do rich people have food-butlers or something? It takes hours, not to mention fuel, to get from store to store and find the particular stuff that isn't garbage at each one. Can't just do a quick stop at the one store along the way and be set for the week any more.
Thanks for letting me vent. Anyone want to confirm my experience about the cost and quality of things? I really have no way of knowing how much of this is an everyone problem and how much is me getting older or more allergic to toxins or whatever.
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X-59 starts engine for the first time |
Posted by: Zaphod58 - 11-06-2024, 08:13 PM - Forum: Aircraft Projects
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The Lockheed/NASA X-59 QueSST has operated under its own power for the first time in the program. The aircraft has been undergoing ground testing, which found a problem with software that has required some significant changes. The first tests involved motoring the engine without actually starting it, to ensure no leaks, and everything in the engine communicates properly with instrumentation. Once motoring tests were completed, the engine was run at idle power which took it out of preservation, which it had been in since it was installed on the aircraft. Tests will occur at increasing power levels, until finally they will perform a test that sees a high power setting with rapid throttle changes, followed by a simulated flight to end the testing. First flight for the aircraft is targeting early 2025 now, after several years of delays.
Quote:NASA’s Quesst mission marked a major milestone with the start of tests on the engine that will power the quiet supersonic X-59 experimental aircraft.
These engine-run tests, which began Oct. 30, allow the X-59 team to verify the aircraft’s systems are working together while powered by its own engine. In previous tests, the X-59 used external sources for power. The engine-run tests set the stage for the next phase of the experimental aircraft’s progress toward flight.
The X-59 team is conducting the engine-run tests in phases. In this first phase, the engine rotated at a relatively low speed without ignition to check for leaks and ensure all systems are communicating properly. The team then fueled the aircraft and began testing the engine at low power, with the goal of verifying that it and other aircraft systems operate without anomalies or leaks while on engine power.
https://www.nasa.gov/aeronautics/x-59-fi...o-takeoff/
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So very disappointed... |
Posted by: Maxmars - 11-06-2024, 06:30 PM - Forum: Chit Chat
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I recently was fed a 'short' by the algorithm... you know which one I mean...
I will include the link after this little tirade...
Our host Bill Maher expresses utter disappointment at the statistics.. which include:
36% of Republicans think that freedom of the press does more harm than good...
Clearly those 36% have awoken to the reality that "Freedom of the Press" is now in fact a virtue signal. A convenient contrivance to flaunt the freedom to promote what you like and vilify what you don't. When Freedom of the Press was first ensconced in our culture, the "Press" was a very different thing... even as long ago as the 1950s... those words meant what the current institution's exemplars most clearly do not embody. That 36% remembers well what journalistic reporting actually is. So "no," it is the perceived state of the Press that centers this statistic... not the Republicans. Way to make the point of the problem... prestige has to be earned before it's relied upon; the press is no exception. Today's press is a different animal... and it has most definitely done real harm, saying "Freedom of the Press!" over and over.
Only 61% of Republicans think [freedom of the press] is necessary.
That's the hopeful 61% that still rely on existing one-sided news. They hope, beyond reason that there will always be a balancing power in the different "news" sources. If they knew that 'balance' is far from the point of today's journalism, that number might change... This is all in the "press' wheelhouse" to correct. Perhaps 'activist' journalism does not serve the institution, but instead fractures it? I don't know, I'm not a journalist.
Only 30% of millennials thinks it's essential to live in a democracy.
Who's been teaching them about democracy? You? The television? Activist teachers? YouTube?
What would you otherwise expect from such a situation.
This is what people get for trusting the government with 'education' and then the Internet.
Two decades ago one in sixteen thought that "army rule" would be a good way to run the country, now it's one in six.
I hate sloppy poll data... it renders the result meaningless...
Who are you asking? Republican millennials?
That's a very specific demographic... Who paid for this research, I wonder?
Is army rule a metaphor for martial law?
What context was brought to this question, if 'army rule' is the wording used? (Is there any other narrowing in this poll?)
Among the young and affluent [the army rule preference] has risen to 35% (six-fold increase.)
All the same questions apply here... except it has narrowed further.
One fifth of undergrads say it's acceptable to use physical force to silence a speaker. [joke] specifically offensive and hurtful statements.
The poll doesn't specify context here?
As if there is no possible circumstance in reality to warrant physically assaulting a speaker? This question raises interesting but inconsequential segues.
Presuming we're talking about a specific speech here... offensive and hurtful... which translates to "it makes you feel something you don't like"
Could it be political, religious, or the new contenders "gender" speech or "Israel/Gaza - Ukraine?"
Yes... context matters, life is a spectrum, it always will.
62% of student Democrats think you should be able to 'shout down' speech you don't like.
"Student" is an important clue here... high school, university, both bastions of the art of debate, reason, and devotion to truth... oops, alternate reality.
Let me guess this poll was conducted at an Ivy-League institution.
My disappointment is about the presumption that a poll is a viable measure of people... my point would be that pollsters get away with too much... they can do real damage...
OK... that's out of my system...
Bill Maher reads statistics he finds troubling
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Flipped Car… |
Posted by: Quantum12 - 11-06-2024, 03:42 PM - Forum: Automotive
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At 1:30 PM today I was driving near my house and I saw this SUV upside down. No other cars near it. The passengers were all out of the SUV sitting next to it.
The cop on the scene is my friend from high school. I stopped and asked him what happened. He was shaking his head and said he had no clue.
He said the driver and passengers said the airbag went off and the car flipped. I looked at the SUV and it only has a scratch on the side.
It’s hard to speed in that area because of traffic and he was in the driveway of a parking lot!
I just found it odd!
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Old Scars |
Posted by: Moon68 - 11-06-2024, 02:03 PM - Forum: Short Stories
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Old Scars
Scars. Old Scars. They don't hurt anymore. Hell, not even new ones do it seems. They just ache. Achy, old scars.
Laying in the dark silent room. Internal clock estimates nearly an hour of sleep. That's a good nights rest anymore. I draw a deep breathe thru the oft broken, slightly mangled nose on my face. The cold air makes the crushed nasal passages throb. Creaking, popping ribs, sharp pangs here and there. I'm pretty sure the three on the left are cracked. Nothing to do about them now.
I roll my burning eyes under sandpaper eyelids. Neck and back twisted up like an old lightning struck tree. A slight roll of my shoulders brings the familiar feeling of crushed glass grinding in my shoulder joints. Hips, knees...easier to check off what doesn't ache.....well, that's a short goddamn list. Time to get moving, Death rises with the dawn. People are going to die today, a lot of them. Ours? Theirs? Me? Doesn't matter too much in the Grand Scheme of things.
I set my feet on the splintery floor. I recall it's covered in nails, broken glass and bits of shrapnel...meh, new scars. I shuffle across the floor in total darkness in the direction of the can, familiar bite of foreign objects tearing into my soles. I'll have to remember to pull them out before booting up. I turn on the dim, flickering light and catch myself in a dirty, cracked mirror. Bones poking at odd angles. Skin just a mass of old scars stretched across muscle and bones.
Just old scars.
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Domestic terrorists... a recent example |
Posted by: Maxmars - 11-06-2024, 12:53 PM - Forum: War On Terror
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From FoxNews: Nashville power grid bomb plot suspect unmasked as baby-faced thug: mugshot
Interesting timing on this report... the very day the new administration is announced... the FBI is 'hard' at work... again...
Back on the 12th of August, a young man was apprehended by FBI efforts... the surrounding details are reported herein with the usual list of allegations...
Allegation 1: Plotting to blow up a power station with a homemade bomb-laden drone"
Allegation 2: is an alleged "accelerationist," a "White supremacist" term expressing their desire to hasten the collapse of society
Allegation 3: discussed committing a mass shooting at a YMCA
Allegation 4: derailing a train with anti-Semitic motives.
Allegation 5: claimed past affiliation with White supremacist groups
Allegation 6: blamed the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on "a Jewish person"
Allegation 7: got into a shootout with a Black man in Lousiville, Kentucky
Allegation 8: researched past attacks on the power grid and concluded that damaging eight or more power stations at once would cripple the country
Allegation 9: allegedly gave his gun to one of the informants, who he thought was going to be a lookout.
Once he was apprehended, they found an armed explosive device in the car he had been in.
Of course, I am critical of the practice of having FBI personnel becoming involved over time with suspects... because there is often an element of "encouragement" there, and often can weaken the case by risking "entrapment" claims.
For example...
Why are UCE-1 and UCE-2 not named within this 'evidence' of criminal plot? They are not evidently sitting there telling the would-be criminal "Hey, you ought to rethink this... this would be a bad thing and people could get hurt." They are obviously not "discouraging" the criminal, and in fact are offering tacit support for a dangerous enterprise.
Could this be another FBI "PR promotional activity?" Listening to the FBI-authored press release you can hear them gushing over their 'stalwart' defense of the law, and people of the country... again. The same FBI that almost gleefully participated in a lawfare against a number of politically-targeted citizens... Is this the FBI leadership "making nice?" They sure pulled out all the stops with the inflammatory verbiage... anti-Semitism, "shootout with a black man," WMD's, White supremist, 'mass shooting.'
But they did allow him to build, and transport what they are calling a WMD.... They knew when he was acquiring the materials, they knew what he intended to do... and they waited... they waited until "showtime." Nes pa?
(The agents do the jobs they are told to do... this is not about the agents...)
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I share with you another's vision. |
Posted by: BrotherKinsMan - 11-05-2024, 12:17 PM - Forum: Predictions & Prophecies
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I find this text to be genuine.
It is the words of "iammrhappy86".
It was posted on another forum.
The text begins thus:
Hello friends,
and thank you for your attention in this moment.
For years now I have shared throttled portions of opinion on various matters, yet I've always held back for a multitude of reasons, both of my own doing and outside of it.
For reasons dear to me, I have decided to seize the opportunity of this moment and dedicate it to impart with you my discoveries.
I am beholden to these truths of which I share with you now.
Be aware that I only present this to you as a catalyst; you may do with it as you wish, for you hold Free Will.
'Sin' is a concept we've always struggled with. It is naturally so, because understanding the nature of 'sin' is quintessential to properly observe and express Free Will in accordance with the infinite. This lesson is primarily that which we have come here to study, experience, learn, and teach.
It is in fact appropriate to consider that our One Creator, the Origin, had committed the very first Sin. Sin should be understood as going against the natural flow of Harmony.
In the beginning, there was Infinite Intelligence, and Infinite Potential, existing in perfect harmony. 'Silence/Sound'. This 'wholeness' lived in absolute harmony. And it dared to think. It dared to express itself into 'holyness', and manifest itself for it sought to know its purpose, its existence, its potential, its identity. And so the first 'noise' broke the absolute silence; this distortion we know as Free Will.
Free Will brings focus to Love, which holds infinite eagerness to create, grow, share, and it does so create, grow, and share by meaning of the Light. For even as our own scientists know today, all matter is made of Light. Think of this 'matrix' in terms of vibrations and frequencies, and this truth will be known to you within your heart.
In manifesting itself into existence, our One Creator had discovered the properties of 3-as-1. I won't dig deeper into this matter at this time, but consider the magnitudes of 3, 6, 9. Consider how a Man and a Woman, forming a union, brings forth a child, from which is formed the union of Family as a single unit. Yet each is his own individual being of consciousness; each whole on his own, yet an integral part of one another.
I present these truths to you yet unknowing of the more complex aspects of this, for beyond what has been presented is of little relevance to my message at this time.
My friends, there will come a day when all will be made right; all will be known. Yet I say this to you as I acknowledge that everything is, and always will be as it should be in accordance with the infinite.
Fear not!
Rejoice my friends!
We are coming to a point which may be likened to a graduation. On that day, Mankind will stand as one, for all Men and Women will be there. On that day, those who have aligned with Christ will gaze upon his face as they please. On that day, the grand web of deceptions will be revealed, and great Love will abound. A choice will be made by all; yet I argue that we have made our choice and await this blessed day with glee.
Those who wish to progress on their journey of knowing and experience Free Will, Love, and Light, will do so and live in this promised New Kingdom most high, in accordance with the infinite; Christ will be among you. Those who suffer the most today, and those who have suffered the longest will be among the first to populate this New Kingdom.
Those of you who have not yet progressed to this point of enlightenment will be blessed. For a new world is being built for you. One where you will continue to progress on your journey, but WITHOUT the concealed deceit of those who would tempt you into Sin. Rather, this will be a world where Sin is encouraged to be explored and experience fully, in each and every aspect, and to face all implications of such a necessary transgression as a united people, always in accordance with the infinite. Be blessed, for such a world is one of Marvel and Beauty!!!
Those of you who have decided to express your Free Will in a near absolute service-to-self, you who have successfully closed off your heart and live in a reality state of non-love, I will not speak on at this time. Know that a third option is offered to you, though I advise you tread carefully, and wish you well on your journey, in accordance with the infinite.
I share with you the truth I bare, in accordance with the infinite, and with Love in my heart. And I thank you.
I also offer a request, for those so willing to assist.
On that fateful day, when Michael arises and shouts a thousand voices, stand together. Stand for one another, and have faith. Let the trumpets echo across our world, and Christ come forth in this glorious day of reunion. Behold, for much wonder awaits!
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Easter Island |
Posted by: UltraBudgie - 11-05-2024, 11:51 AM - Forum: Ancient & Lost Civilizations
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Here is a picture of the Milky Way galaxy over Easter Island. There is something I find very peaceful, today especially, about the juxtaposition of those ageless stone sentinels and celestial eternity, with all the worldly chaos and strife in between nowhere to be seen.
You can also see Rho Ophiuchi, in the middle left.
It is said that some of these statues go deep into the Earth. And of course the one oddball in the background checking out his shoes is hilarious.
So, what's up with Easter Island?
Edit: Ah I just looked and of course there is more meaty thread here: Easter Island people... the narrative may be wrong
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Get out of the driver's seat |
Posted by: UltraBudgie - 11-05-2024, 10:01 AM - Forum: Science & Technology
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... AI assistants are taking the wheel. Sure, Microsoft is calling their AI Assistant "Copilot", but it really going to be the pilot, taking control of the craft and navigating your online journey for you. Google's at it, too:
Quote:Google is reportedly gearing up to introduce its interpretation of the large action model concept known as “Project Jarvis,” with a preview potentially arriving as soon as December, according to The Information. This project aims to streamline various tasks for users, including research gathering, product purchasing, and flight booking.
Sources familiar with the initiative indicate that Jarvis will operate through a future version of Google’s Gemini technology and is specifically optimized for use with the Chrome web browser.
The primary focus of Project Jarvis is to help users automate everyday web-based tasks. The tool is designed to take and interpret screenshots, allowing it to interact with web pages by clicking buttons or entering text on behalf of users. While in its current state, Jarvis reportedly takes a few seconds to execute each action, the goal is to enhance user efficiency by handling routine online activities more seamlessly.
https://www.theartistree.fm/journal/4102...ctivities/
Here's how it will go. Websites for online shopping, flight booking, research, even email will all continue to become more and more difficult to use and enshittified. Dark patterns will continue to proliferate to the point where it is a constant battle just to get anything to actually work. This is by design. The solution we are given -- hooray! -- is online digital assistants. They'll take the wheel, make everything easy again. Sure, they're centrally controlled by big tech, operating on mysterious "alignment" and rules that no one has access to; they're a black box. But, they'll solve the problem! They will be able to cut through the tangle. It will be great! At first, anyway. Then, the user experience will subtly start changing, year by year, like Google search did...
It's a new paradigm, a new age of control freedom!
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Almost Home |
Posted by: Moon68 - 11-05-2024, 09:24 AM - Forum: Short Stories
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Almost Home
"Hey buddy"
Damn, life is good. Nathan can feel the sun, hot on his eyelids, drying the last of the water on his skin. A gentle breeze, as light as Gods whisper raising goosebumps on his bare flesh.
"HEY BUDDY!"
He hears water splashing as Maggie makes her way out of the pond. With the field work done for the day, they had decided to take a quick dip in the cool water of the spring fed pool in the back forty. Nathan can picture his wife coming out of the water, naked as the day she was born. Sunbeams striking the droplets on her firm, tanned skin, dazzling as diamonds free for the taking.
"HEY, C'MON BUDDY! CAN YOU HEAR ME?"
They had known each other their whole lives, living on neighboring farms and knew they were in love since the age of five. There was never a question of if they'd get married, just when it would be. Maggie was the most beautiful woman in the small community and Nathan knew he was the luckiest man in the world. Until the day the draft notice came.
"JOE, GIMME A HAND HERE"
He was being sent to war immediately. Such was Nathan's love that he told her to find another man to marry and raise a family with, he couldn't ask her to wait. With lightning flashing in her eyes Maggie slapped him across the face hard. Grabbing either side of his head she looked deep into Nathan's soul and said, "I love you Nathan Phillips. You will come home to me. We will be wed. You will give me a houseful of babies. Got it?"
"It's too late for that old man, Jimmy. I'll call it in"
She was true to her word, writing him every day for two years. Two years of Hell for Nathan, the things he'd seen, the things he'd been forced to do. The atrocities of war had broken him, left him an empty shell with one goal left, he would find a cheap motel, drink himself into stupor and end his miserable existence. As Nathan walked thru the post front gate there stood Maggie, tears streaming down her cheeks as she saw what had become of her man. She stepped forward, arms spread wide like the wings of an angel and hugged Nathan hard, wrapping him in love and forgiveness.
"IT'S WEAK BUT HE'S GOT GODDAMN PULSE! HELP ME GET HIM UP!"
By the time the bus reached home many hours later Nathan was healing, not healed but getting there thanks to Maggie. She had, single handedly, brought him back from the brink of despair and saved his soul from eternal damnation. He was, forevermore, hers. The whole town attended the wedding and it was still a small affair but it felt as extravagant as if they'd have been in Buckingham Palace. That was a few weeks ago and life had been perfect ever since for the young newlywed couple. It was time to get dressed and go work on the babies he'd promised her. Maggie was Nathan's home.
"HEY PAL! OPEN YOUR EYES! WHAT'S YOUR NAME? DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU ARE?"
Nathan slowly lifts his lids, rheumy eyes staring blankly out at the fat, heavy snowflakes blanketing the cities filthy streets in a blanket of pure white.
The officers lift the old bum from the newspapers and start to escort him to the nearest shelter.
Nathan mumbles, "I was almost home".
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Election day 2024 |
Posted by: agit8dchop - 11-05-2024, 07:17 AM - Forum: Decision 2024
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Polls are open... I've been waiting for this day for 4yrs.. I missed the last election; I was working in a place that had no phones/internet.. i didn't find out for 2 days that Biden won.. and I was gutted.
Today feels like redemption. Can enough Americans vote to beat the Democrats Rigged Election platform.
On the people's side..
2 assassination attempts.
4 years of legal warfare. his home was raided, as was his lawyers. He's been indicted and investigated several times over accusations that are flimsy at best and rarely prosecuted.
His friends and colleagues have been arrested and blackmailed into cooperating with the DOJ or going to prison.
The family has been dragged through the courts and had their livelihoods threatened.
On the intel agencies side...
A Californian Attorney General who was installed after a soft coup of the US Presidency
A team that promotes men in women's toilets, sports and changerooms
The party that gave you massive inflation, higher interest rates while sending chests of gold to Ukraine's sleezy leader
Aided and conspired by Big Media, Big Tech and social media to censor any opinions that differ from their warped ideology
In somewhat proof of the hideous nature of the Media, every news report I see says its a dead heat. That its anyone's game..
However, the footage and coverage of Trump, RFKjnr, Gabbard, Musk in interviews, rallies and driving through the streets shows that the people want Trump.
Can anyone suggest any live / streamed sites that are good to watch an 'election day in the usa' ? I have fox news and CNN - but wouldn't mind something a bit more grassroots and genuine.
So, whats going to happen in the next 24hrs? What's your perceived outcome?
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November 13th UFO hearings |
Posted by: pianopraze - 11-05-2024, 06:44 AM - Forum: Aliens & UFOs
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Quote:Sounds like the November 13th UFO public hearings are going to be epic, and provide new information we don't know about. Listen carefully to everything Jeremy is saying.. right to the end.
link: Twitter video
Voted, now looking forward to November 13th UFO hearing.
Hope something juicy comes out!
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Martyrdom of the Squirrel |
Posted by: Anna - 11-05-2024, 04:07 AM - Forum: Pets
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Once upon a time, there lived a squirrel called Peanut. Its mother was hit by a car and Peanut was left alone to die in the wild. But one good man felt sorry for the squirrel and took Peanut to his home. He fed the squirrel and let it become the star of the internet.
For seven years Peanut lived happily with its master, making him famous online. Its performance on Instagram amassed thousands of followers, which was far more than what bitter lonely ladies could hope for. The bitter lonely ladies felt jealous and complained to the authorities that Peanut probably had rabies and this was the reason why it was so cute.
The authorities confiscated the squirrel and put it to death to be tested for rabies. Its heartbroken owner now collects the funds for the legal battle to avenge the death of his beloved pet.
Peanut's death caused public outcry. Even Trump himself and his supporters condemned it, putting the blame on... democrats.
Instagram-famous squirrel euthanized after it was taken from owner's New York state home
Now seriously, while killing innocent animals makes me sad, I can't help feeling that the animal was used instrumentally by its owner to make money. And what are your thoughts about this story?
Do you think that the restrictions on keeping small wild animals at home as pets are too much of the government's intrusion into the citizens' lives?
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Shake the baby! |
Posted by: UltraBudgie - 11-04-2024, 06:41 PM - Forum: Crime
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Shaken Baby Syndrome Has Been Discredited. Why Is Robert Roberson Still on Death Row?
Quote:Convicted of a crime that never happened, Roberson’s case is a prime example of how the U.S. legal system often fails to recognize advances in scientific knowledge
Hmm...
- Microscopic hair analysis
- Voice stress analysis
- Psychological profiling
- Repressed memories
- Bite-mark analysis
- Bullet matching analysis
- Lie detectors
- Arson investigations
What else can you think of?
PS: Don't shake babies
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One must align Sprit, Mind, and Heart |
Posted by: BrotherKinsMan - 11-04-2024, 12:11 PM - Forum: Psychology, Philosophy & Metaphysics
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One must align Spirit, Mind, and Heart in order to properly express oneself.
Your mind plays tricks on you, but you know it well.
Your heart cries out to you, but you ignore it.
Your spirit knows, yet you doubt.
Your heart and mind seem to be at odds with one another.
Yet it is merely as a dance for your well being.
In truth, Spirit should lead your thoughts.
Mind should consider all things possible good and bad.
Your Heart should then make the final call.
Only in union is communion and communication clear and true.
Spirit, Mind, Heart.
Keep them aligned at all times.
Spirit knows best, but struggles to define things.
Mind is sharp, but lacks proper guidance.
Heart is willing but vulnerable.
Always in alignment...
Only then can you be true to yourself.
Only then can you grow and rise properly.
Only then can you ascend unto your higher Self.
Remain in alignment.
My advice to you, dear fellow kin.
If you knew the repercussion of each expression, you would heed my word carefully.
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I would give them a Heart. |
Posted by: BrotherKinsMan - 11-04-2024, 11:57 AM - Forum: Rant
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To mine enemies.
To the evil ones.
To the wicked.
I would give them a heart.
Let them know and feel love.
Then I would strike at them.
I would make it so they feel all the pain they've caused others.
Oh how it would burn.
Those who confess and beg forgiveness earnestly, I ask we stand with them.
Eventually, with support, they would get through the pain.
But others may well burn for a very long time...
It's easy to do evil when you feel nothing.
Try it when you feel everything.
Forever is a long time my friends.
Just saying...
^_^
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