DISCOURAGING: Isn’t POTS a side effect of the Covid jab?

Sunday, June 30, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/06/26/entertainment/christina-applegate-announces-daughter-sadie-13-was-diagnosed-with-pots-im-sad/

Christina Applegate announces daughter Sadie, 13, was diagnosed with POTS
By Nika Shakhnazarova
Published June 26, 2024
Updated June 26, 2024, 7:12 a.m. ET

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POTS — formally known as postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome — is when your heart rate increases quickly after getting up from sitting or lying down, according to Johns Hopkins Medicine.

It’s a chronic disorder that affects the autonomic nervous system and blood circulation and could lead to tremors, nausea, and fainting.

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Isn’t that a side effect of the Covid jab?

No information as to the young lady’s vax status.

So sorry for the trouble her Mom and she are enduring.

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GOLD: Time to become a gold bug — just like a good Hindu should

Sunday, June 30, 2024

https://internationalman.com/articles/time-to-become-a-hindu/

Time to Become a Hindu by Jeff Thomas

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For centuries, East Indians have regarded gold as the primary source of wealth. All Indians own gold if they can afford to. They keep it as close as possible, sometimes in coin form, but often as jewellery, since “wearing wealth” means that it can be kept very close. They’re often especially reluctant to trust banks to hold their gold.

Hindus make up 80% of India’s population and, to Hindus, gold is sacred. Lakshmi (pictured above) is the Hindu goddess of purity, prosperity and good fortune. Her symbol is gold, so gold plays an important part in Hindu ceremonial occasions and Hindus donate large amounts of gold to the temples in Lakshmi’s name.

In recent years, the Indian government has tried one ploy after another to gain control of the temples’ gold. The most recent ploy was a programme whereby the temples could deposit the parishioners’ gifts to Lakshmi in banks. The gold would then be melted down and the temples would be given cash in an amount that would exceed the value of the gold.

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As every Indian – even those of limited means – understands, the greatest protection from such looting by governments is to liquidate assets and convert the proceeds into precious metals.

It’s unlikely that the average westerner will become a Hindu, but, if he’s wise, he’ll acquire his own personal Lakshmi in the form of precious metals storage and he’ll do so outside of his home jurisdiction, in order to have even greater insurance against confiscation.

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FDR’s diktat robbed Americans of their gold and their freedom at the same time.  Time to take both back!

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GOLD: Time to become a gold bug — just like a good Hindu should

Sunday, June 30, 2024

https://internationalman.com/articles/time-to-become-a-hindu/

Time to Become a Hindu by Jeff Thomas

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For centuries, East Indians have regarded gold as the primary source of wealth. All Indians own gold if they can afford to. They keep it as close as possible, sometimes in coin form, but often as jewellery, since “wearing wealth” means that it can be kept very close. They’re often especially reluctant to trust banks to hold their gold.

Hindus make up 80% of India’s population and, to Hindus, gold is sacred. Lakshmi (pictured above) is the Hindu goddess of purity, prosperity and good fortune. Her symbol is gold, so gold plays an important part in Hindu ceremonial occasions and Hindus donate large amounts of gold to the temples in Lakshmi’s name.

In recent years, the Indian government has tried one ploy after another to gain control of the temples’ gold. The most recent ploy was a programme whereby the temples could deposit the parishioners’ gifts to Lakshmi in banks. The gold would then be melted down and the temples would be given cash in an amount that would exceed the value of the gold.

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As every Indian – even those of limited means – understands, the greatest protection from such looting by governments is to liquidate assets and convert the proceeds into precious metals.

It’s unlikely that the average westerner will become a Hindu, but, if he’s wise, he’ll acquire his own personal Lakshmi in the form of precious metals storage and he’ll do so outside of his home jurisdiction, in order to have even greater insurance against confiscation.

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FDR’s diktat robbed Americans of their gold and their freedom at the same time.  Time to take both back!

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SURVIVAL:A shirtless hiker who went missing gets very lucky imho

Saturday, June 29, 2024
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13561269/Hiker-alive-lost-California-mountains-reveals-survived.html
 
Hiker found alive after 10 days lost in California mountains reveals how he survived
  •     Lukas McClish, 34, was found alive in the Big Basin Redwoods State Park
  •     He had set off for a three-hour hike, and wound up getting lost for 10 days 
By Melissa Koenig For Dailymail.Com and Martin Robinson, Chief Reporter
 
Published: 20:25 EDT, 23 June 2024 | Updated: 08:05 EDT, 24 June 2024
 
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A shirtless hiker who went missing in remote California mountains has been found alive after 10 days after he vanished – saying he surviving drinking water from his boot and eating wild berries.  
 
Lukas McClish, 34, didn’t tell anyone where he was going when he set off on a three-hour walk through the Big Basin Redwoods State Park in Boulder Creek on June 11.
 
He planned to visit some rare granite outcroppings in the area.
 
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​An “experienced hiker”? 
 
Maybe a lucky fool who overestimated his skills.  Going on a hike without telling anyone where and no supplies?
 
</sarcasm> … Hell, I won’t go to the local McDonalds without telling someone where I’m going. .. <sarcasm/>
 
Seriously, I really wonder about people’s intelligence level and sanity.When I was in USAF survival school, we were taught to “plan to be lost”.  And we were in a national forest in Idaho.  And, you can really feel “lost” in a forest and disoriented very quickly.  A proper compass, topological map, and proper “survival” kit is essential for a good outcome.
 
Never mind that he was unarmed in cougar country.  
 
And, btw, who pays for his rescue?  It would seem that the Big Basin Redwoods State Park would see “rescue insurance” to everyone to defray the cost of reducing the unprepared.
 
Argh!
 
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DISCOURAGING: Christianity died by its own flaw

Friday, June 28, 2024

https://www.amren.com/videos/2024/06/the-future-of-christianity/

Posted on June 21, 2024
The Future of Christianity
Jared Taylor, American Renaissance, June 21, 2024

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Will it help save white people?

Christianity is dying in the West. The religion that, for centuries, defined Europeans is increasingly becoming a Third-World religion. What does this mean for white people?

This is the article got me wondering: “Hundreds of Scottish churches up for sale as UK turns away from Christianity.”

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It was killed by its own hand — pedophilia priests.  And the Secular Progressive Gooferment used that to force “christianity” to accept all sorts of perversion.  People didn’t leave the Church; the “Church” left the people.  When the Church failed to fight Gooferment Skrules, it basically gave up the future.  Instead of insisting that Gooferment had no role in “education” uncovering the real reason for its interest  — Gooferment jobs and get the venue to dumb down the future citizens pushing the propaganda that the Gooferment is the “solution” to every problem.  Instead of fighting for religious freedom, the Churches all knuckled under probably blackmailed by the pedophilia charge.

Interesting that we still don’t have Epstein’s Client List that could subject the Gooferment to its own criminal behavior!

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MEME: UNORPGANIZED MILITIA — PROPAGANDA CORPS

Thursday, June 27, 2024

Ultima ratio populo

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INTERESTING: THere’s more than one unique calendar in use in the world

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

https://www.cnn.com/travel/ethiopian-unique-calendar-year/index.html?utm_placement=newsletter

The country where it’s still 2016
By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN
Updated 9:18 AM EDT, Sun June 16, 2024

  • In Ethiopia, the birth year of Jesus Christ is recognized as seven or eight years later than the Gregorian, or “Western” calendar. New Year, or Enkutatash, is celebrated in September, when the Adey Abeba flower, indigenous to Ethiopia, blooms.

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On September 11, Ethiopians will celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of another.

However, when the East African country rings in its New Year in a few months, it will technically be 2017, according to the Ethiopian calendar.

So why is Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country, seven years and eight months “behind” much of the rest of the world? And how does that work for Ethiopians living on an increasingly interconnected planet that mostly operates in an entirely different era?

The answers lie in traditions that date back centuries – and a firm sense of national identity. 

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I found this most interesting.  I’d never heard of “Ethiopian time”, but have heard of the Greek Orthodox and Muslim calendars.

I’ve blogged about suggested “new” calendars.

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2020/03/02/innovation-forget-leap-day-theres-a-serious-plan-to-replace-it-with-an-extra-week/

And even an “Indian time system”.

https://www.offthegridnews.com/how-to-2/how-did-native-americans-keep-time-without-a-watch-or-calendar/

Unfortunately, “inertia” and human stupidity will prevent any meaning fun change.

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RANT: Rich Missouri couple fined for poisoning Maine neighbor’s trees blocking the view

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13545601/Maine-vacation-home-Gorman-Bond-camden-trees-poison.html

Maine vacation home owners who poisoned trees obscuring stunning ocean views from their $3.5 million property are threatened with prosecution

  •     High-profile Missouri couple fined for poisoning rich neighbor’s trees 

By Dominic Yeatman For Dailymail.Com
Published: 02:17 EDT, 19 June 2024 | Updated: 08:50 EDT, 19 June 2024

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A wealthy CEO who improved the sea-view from her $3.5million Maine vacation home by poisoning her wealthy neighbor’s trees faces fresh criminal investigation after paying $1.7 million in fines and settlements.

Amelia Bond secretly sprinkled four pounds of the lethal herbicide Tebuthiuron on trees belonging to Lisa Gorman in 2022, before offering to pay for their removal when they started dying.

Bond, former head of the $500 million St Louis Foundation, has since paid $1.5 million in compensation to Gorman after tests revealed her ploy.

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Argh! 

I think that just a fine is not enough.  Time to teach these folks a lesson.  I’d bar them from the State until the trees grow back.  Maybe some jail time in Missouri, or Haiti might teach them a lesson.  Throw the book at these entitled fools.

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VOCABULARY: March of Dimes syndrome is an ancient social affliction

Monday, June 24, 2024

https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-march-of-dimes-syndrome

John Tierney
The March of Dimes Syndrome

  • The better things get, the more desperately activists struggle to stay in business.
  • From the Magazine / Health Care, The Social Order
  • Spring 2024

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In the spring of 1979, a few weeks after the partial meltdown of a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, more than 65,000 people marched on the United States Capitol chanting “No Nukes, No Nukes.” As a young reporter at the Washington Star assigned to cover this new movement, I interviewed march organizers and noticed that all of them had previously organized protests against the Vietnam War. This struck me as curious: How had they suddenly become so passionate and knowledgeable about nuclear power?

I later learned that a term exists for this phenomenon—the March of Dimes syndrome—and that the tendency affects many other movements, too. Why, last year, did the Human Rights Campaign declare a “national state of emergency” for LGBT people? Why was the election of the first black American president followed by the Black Lives Matter movement? Why have reports of “hate groups” risen during the same decades that racial prejudice has been plummeting? Why, during a long and steep decline in the incidence of sexual violence in America, did academics, federal officials, and the #MeToo movement discover a new “epidemic of sexual assault”?

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One really doesn’t think that a “charity” can go out of business?  Like the Red Cross and United Way that have all those high paid executives!  The Salvation Army doesn’t over pay its leadership; why should other charities?

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INSPIRATIONAL: Saving the past for the future

Sunday, June 23, 2024

https://mymodernmet.com/sakya-monastery-library/?utm_placement=newsletter

Ancient Library in Tibet Creating Digital Archive of Its 84,000 Scriptures
By Regina Sienra on June 15, 2024

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Tibet’s Sakya Monastery is home to many wonders. Founded in 1073, its collection includes some of the oldest Tibetan artwork, as well as 84,000 ancient manuscripts and books. Given its remote location, the contents of this library may seem out of reach for international scholars. Luckily, in an attempt to preserve these ancient documents, the Sakya Monastery Library began digitizing its assets in 2011 and is well underway in its mission.

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No one has any idea what “treasure” or “trash” can be found in this library.  But preserving it ensures that The Future might learn from The Past.  Given the advances in AI, who knows what dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) is in this archive of human thought.  It might take another 1,000 years to unlock it but “books” are the essence of the human experience.  Maybe there is a cure for cancer, athlete’s foot, or just an inspiring poem.  It’s important that it will be no longer “lost”.

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TINFOILHAT: Who killed Marilyn Monroe?

Saturday, June 22, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13524411/jfk-bobby-kennedy-role-marilyn-monroe-death-suicide.html

Unearthed claim about JFK and Bobby Kennedy’s involvement in Marilyn Monroe’s death… and all the signs it wasn’t a suicide, revealed by MAUREEN CALLAHAN: ‘I know who killed her’
By Maureen Callahan For DailyMail.Com
Published: 12:13 EDT, 16 June 2024 | Updated: 12:33 EDT, 16 June 2024

  • On Saturday, in an exclusive extract of her new book ‘Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed’, Maureen Callahan revealed the sordid secrets of Jackie and Aristotle Onassis’s marriage. Now, in this explosive next extract, she delves into the enduring mystery of Marilyn Monroe’s death…

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Both Kennedys were banned from Marilyn’s funeral by Joe DiMaggio.

‘I always knew who killed her, but I didn’t want to start a revolution in this country,’ he said later. ‘She told me someone would do her in, but I kept quiet.

‘The whole lot of Kennedys were lady-killers, and they always got away with it. They’ll be getting away with it a hundred years from now.’

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I’m sure that JFK or Bobbie did NOT their own “wet work”.  

</sarcasm> … After all they were two good “Catholic” boys! … <sarcasm/>

One can’t read this excerpt without feel pity for Marilyn and Joe DiMaggio.  And disgust for the Kennedys!

Hard to read and not lose all respect for JFK despite all the good things he did and could have done.

Requiescat In Pacem Marilyn.

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DISCOURAGING: Here’s a movie that personifies what going on in Gaza

Friday, June 21, 2024

I thought you might be interested in this page from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07R9PKW3X/ref=atv_dp_share_r_em_9ec564baef3f4

Warsaw 44

The true story of a group of scouts called Szare Szeregi during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw. The liberation of one of its members through maverick military action in broad daylight known as ”Action at the Arsenal,” was the single biggest feat undertaken by a youth resistance organization in all of occupied Europe during WWII. Polish language with English subtitles.

IMDb 6.6 2 h 7 min 2014

# – # – # – # – # 

As movies go, it’s good.  Other than an unbelievable ending, it was good enough to viscerally demonstrate what happens when war is made on civilian populations.  The children suffer the worst.  It’s tragic. And, that’s why it is a “war crime”.

Fast forward 80 years, just like D-Day, and we can see what the people in Gaza are enduring.  It’s unforgivable.  And I hope all the politicians and bureaucrats, who caused it or failed to stop it, burn in a special ring of Hell for their part.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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INTERESTING: In children’s movies there’s no SADNESS?

Thursday, June 20, 2024

The movie IN/OUT2 introduced some new emotions like ENNUI (Boredom) and NOSTALGIA.  But there’s no SADNESS?  I guess in children’s movies there’s no SADNESS?.  Maybe I need to design a character.  Is there a GREEK GOD of “sadness”?

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Oizys: Greek goddess of misery, greif, and depression | Pagans ...

Oizys: Greek goddess of misery, greif, and depression | Pagans …

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"Greek Goddess of Sadness" Sticker by jamjammed | Redbubble

Akhlys: Greek God of Sadness

Hesiod’s account from the Shield of Heracles is chilling: “And beside the (the Keres and the Fates) was standing Akhlys, dismal and dejected, green and pale, dirty-dry, fallen in on herself with hunger, knee-swollen, and the nails were grown long on her hands, and from her nostrils the drip kept running, and off her cheeks the blood dribbled to the ground, and she stood there, grinning forever, and the dust that had gathered and lay in heaps on her shoulders was muddy with tears.”

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https://i.ytimg.com/vi/twxM_3c9LEI/hq2.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEoCOADEOgC8quKqQMcGADwAQH4AZQDgALQBYoCDAgAEAEYZSBbKEwwDw==&rs=AOn4CLCG7_HF7TFOo_O9ADe6FrFESvPXHQ

Norse God of Sadness

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INSPIRATIONAL: Perhaps we can learn the elephants’ names?

Wednesday, June 19, 2024

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00797-z

NEWS
10 June 2024
Do elephants have names for each other?

  • Machine learning and careful observation suggest that some of the animals’ calls are specific to individuals, similar to a person’s name.

By Gemma Conroy 

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Call Me By My Name

A study yesterday revealed wild elephants may address each other by name, becoming one of only a handful of animals known to use unique sounds to address one another. 

The study examined 469 low-rumble sounds recorded from female African savanna elephants and their offspring from 1988 to 2022. A machine-learning model (see overview) analyzing the sounds was able to identify the elephant being addressed 27.5% of the time, a much higher rate than when the model was fed random audio. Researchers playing the audio clips in the wild elicited responses from the elephants in question, including movement toward the speaker as well as ear flapping and trunk movements.

It’s not clear which parts of the audio are the “names” or how naming conventions might work. Bottlenose dolphins and orange-fronted parakeets mimic each other’s signature noises (w/video) to get each other’s attention, while humans use naming conventions and dogs respond when called.

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How little we know about our world and the things in it!

Not sure if this doesn’t mean that these are sentient intelligent creatures of God.

Sure makes me wonder.  Gobsmacked is another word for this finding. 

Makes its ones step closer to being Doctor Dolittle.

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JOBFINDING: Make your job output objective and verifiable

Tuesday, June 18, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13527925/wells-fargo-fires-employees-simulation-keyboard.html

Wells Fargo fires a dozen employees for pretending to work – here’s how they tried to get away with it
By Emma Richter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 16:36 EDT, 13 June 2024 | Updated: 16:44 EDT, 13 June 2024

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Dozens of Wells Fargo employees were fired after the bank investigated claims that they were pretending to work. 

The workers, who were all employed in the firm’s wealth and investment management unit, were let go last month after it was discovered they were allegedly involved in ‘simulation of keyboard activity,’ Bloomberg reported Thursday.  

According to disclosures filed with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the former employees were ‘creating an impression of active work’ through simulation tools. 

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Back when I had a life, I supervised big and small groups.  Often, geographically spread across the USA and in one assignment globally.  Early in my career, I hated “evaluations”.  So I turned it into a game.  I’d ask the employee or consultant how they would like to be managed?  Most were in favor of a “low touch; high autonomy” environment.  Me 2!  So, I’d ask them for objective criteria that they could use to demonstrate productivity and thus high ratings.  

Later, AT&T came up with “ratings and rankings” to merge groups of employees’ performance across divisions and departments.  That was right up our strong suit.  When you could make statements like: “Joe cleared 95% of his tickets in less than and hour with high end User satisfaction ratings” or “Jane completed over 700 security exceptions with a MTTR of 4 hours and has received 36 positive User feedback emails to the Division Head from his counterpart.”  It was easy to justify that “my” Joe or Jane was “better” than  “their” Sam or Sarah. If “my” people didn’t get that “Outstanding” rating  — which meant more salary or bonus money and promotions  — I could tell them why and they could come up with their own “improvement plans”.  Win for them and win for me.  

I got high ratings for employee performance, morale, attendance, safety, and all sort of other stuff.  And, I was always AMAZED that “leadership” never asked me how I did it.  Which was fine with me.  I was happy to keep my “special sauce” secret.

In looking for a “job”, sell your past successes “objectively” and in metrics that focus on creating value for others.

IMHO

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RANT: Don’t pet the BIG fluffy birds

Monday, June 17, 2024

Dog walker set upon by pack of territorial emus in startling but ‘very funny’ confrontation https://buff.ly/4aZWxsU ​

Akin to the advice about “petting the fluffy cows”, “don’t pet the BIG fluffy birds” either! 

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VOCABULARY: AI hallucination or when a search engine tells you put glue on your pizza

Sunday, June 16, 2024

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/06/11/tim-cook-apple-interview/

Opinion
How will Apple’s new AI change your phone? I asked Tim Cook. In an interview, Tim Cook explains how Apple’s new AI will enhance your work and life, with guardrails.
By Josh Tyrangiel
June 11, 2024 at 5:07 a.m. EDT

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Apple Intelligence will not hallucinate?

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Kinda like following GPS directions from Google or any other source and you winding up on a Forrest Service road up to your eyeballs in snow.

Or worse.

So, now we are going to have to be skeptical on what the “computer tells us”.

Caveat Emptor.

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INNOVATION: Always dress kids in bright and contrasting colors to make them safe

Saturday, June 15, 2024

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/health/swimsuit-color-pool-safety-wellness/index.html?utm_placement=newsletter

The color of your child’s swimsuit can play a role in their safety at the pool, experts say
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN
Updated 9:49 AM EDT, Sun June 9, 2024

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 “People should avoid swimsuits in light blue, gray, or green as they can blend with the water and pool surroundings, making it difficult to spot a child. We recommend bright and contrasting colors such as neon yellow, orange, pink, and bright red,” Fisher added. “These colors are highly visible both underwater and on the surface.

Swimsuit colors are not talked about enough in public safety, said Wyatt Werneth, a coastal lifeguard in Florida and spokesperson for the American Lifeguard Association.

“The bright clothes are something that we’ve identified as being a game-changer. If you have the same colors of the water or the environment, you’re going to blend in,” Werneth said while patrolling Cocoa Beach. 

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The article makes the point that it is NOT just the beach but for “camping” and all activities.

I like the idea of taking a picture first thing as a safety measure.

Hope it’s never needed.

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DISCOURAGING: Isn’t killing animals the first step in the psychopath serial killers development?

Friday, June 14, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13508165/Teenagers-Cat-Murder-Gun-Shooting-Oregon-Video.html

Appalling moment pack of warped teenagers shoot family’s friendly pet cat dead – then pull out their phones to film kitty writhe in agony as she died
By Mitchell Goodbar For Dailymail.Com
Published: 01:27 EDT, 8 June 2024 | Updated: 02:08 EDT, 8 June 2024 

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In the video, five teenage boys surround the cat, named Vortex, who appears to be lounging on the corner of the street.

After a few moments, one of the sick boys pulls out a long-barreled gun and aims it at Vortex, who was cherished for her sweet and friendly personality. 

Then the teenager fired his gun and struck the cat. 

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The Salem Police Department recently charged two 17-year-old teens in connection with the cat’s slaying.

Both of the boys were charged with first-degree aggravated animal abuse. One of them was additionally charged with evidence tampering. 

But the investigation remains ongoing. The teenager who shot the cat has not been identified, and the weapon he used has not been recovered.

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Isn’t killing pets a sign of a future serial killer psychopath?

Sorry, but these are not “teenagers” any more.  They should be charged as adults.

But since this is Oregon, I expect a slap on the wrist and sent home to plan their next “adventure” like a school shooting.

Where are we going as nation to produce monsters like these?

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INTERESTING: Since the States regulate casinos … …

Thursday, June 13, 2024

https://www.fark.com/comments/13274582/170624178/Woman-hits-slot-machine-jackpot-gets-screwed-out-of-her-winnings-by-casino-What-else-is-new#c170624178

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(Yahoo) Woman hits slot machine jackpot, gets screwed out of her winnings by casino. What else is new (ca.finance.yahoo.com) divider line  

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kbronsito

DrD'isInfotainment: Good for her. She should sue the fark outa that Casino

It should not be necessary though. States give casinos a license to print money. They should regulate them to force them to pay these kind of wins. If the casino wants to recoup because the machine is defective, it can deal with courts to take it out on the manufacturer. It’s bad enough their business model is already to screw over patrons, why make it easier by letting them weasel out of paying the rare jackpot? (Besides the corruption, I mean.) 

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Since the States regulate casinos … …  

… … shouldn’t they step in a force the casino to pay off? 

Why should this “winner” have to spend money to go to a Gooferment court to recover from a Gooferment regulated enterprise?

Sigh!

An excelled point by this FARKer.

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INTERESTING: Since the States regulate casinos … …

Thursday, June 13, 2024

https://www.fark.com/comments/13274582/170624178/Woman-hits-slot-machine-jackpot-gets-screwed-out-of-her-winnings-by-casino-What-else-is-new#c170624178

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(Yahoo) Woman hits slot machine jackpot, gets screwed out of her winnings by casino. What else is new (ca.finance.yahoo.com) divider line  

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kbronsito

DrD'isInfotainment: Good for her. She should sue the fark outa that Casino

It should not be necessary though. States give casinos a license to print money. They should regulate them to force them to pay these kind of wins. If the casino wants to recoup because the machine is defective, it can deal with courts to take it out on the manufacturer. It’s bad enough their business model is already to screw over patrons, why make it easier by letting them weasel out of paying the rare jackpot? (Besides the corruption, I mean.) 

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Since the States regulate casinos … …  

… … shouldn’t they step in a force the casino to pay off? 

Why should this “winner” have to spend money to go to a Gooferment court to recover from a Gooferment regulated enterprise?

Sigh!

An excelled point by this FARKer.

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INTERESTING: Since the States regulate casinos … …

Thursday, June 13, 2024

https://www.fark.com/comments/13274582/170624178/Woman-hits-slot-machine-jackpot-gets-screwed-out-of-her-winnings-by-casino-What-else-is-new#c170624178

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(Yahoo) Woman hits slot machine jackpot, gets screwed out of her winnings by casino. What else is new (ca.finance.yahoo.com) divider line  

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kbronsito

DrD'isInfotainment: Good for her. She should sue the fark outa that Casino

It should not be necessary though. States give casinos a license to print money. They should regulate them to force them to pay these kind of wins. If the casino wants to recoup because the machine is defective, it can deal with courts to take it out on the manufacturer. It’s bad enough their business model is already to screw over patrons, why make it easier by letting them weasel out of paying the rare jackpot? (Besides the corruption, I mean.) 

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Since the States regulate casinos … …  

… … shouldn’t they step in a force the casino to pay off? 

Why should this “winner” have to spend money to go to a Gooferment court to recover from a Gooferment regulated enterprise?

Sigh!

An excelled point by this FARKer.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Kelo, the SCOTUS decision, thatjust keeps on giving … …

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

https://www.foxnews.com/media/small-businesses-accuse-missouri-city-forcing-baseless-blight-label-score-lucrative-deal

Small businesses accuse Missouri city of forcing them out with baseless blight label to score lucrative deal
Small businesses file lawsuit against St. Louis suburb in eminent domain case 
By Megan Myers, Hannah Ray Lambert Fox News
Published June 5, 2024 5:00am EDT 

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Three small businesses are suing a St. Louis suburb, accusing the local government of sneakily steamrolling them to make a hefty profit through a deal that could financially cripple longtime mom-and-pop shops.

“All the politicians say every day on the news how great we are, but when we’re in their way, we’re not so great,” Feather-Craft Fly Fishing President Bob Story said about small businesses. “You can be a part of a community for 30-plus years and be treated like you’re worthless.”

The city of Brentwood, Missouri, is threatening to use eminent domain to force out businesses on a major road for a multi-million dollar redevelopment plan. A few longtime business owners accused the city of making a groundless claim that the area has been “blighted” to justify the lucrative project on Manchester Road, leading them to file their lawsuit.

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Property owners could either sell willingly or be forced out by eminent domain.

In 2005, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of cities using eminent domain to seize property for economic development in the Kelo vs. New London case. Certain states, including Missouri, have since taken steps to protect property owners, but loopholes have allowed cities to take advantage of vulnerable areas like Manchester Road, the business owners said. 

In Missouri, state law allows the government to seize private property that has been deemed blighted, broadly defined as having “insanitary or unsafe conditions, deterioration of site improvements” or other factors that present “economic or social liability.”

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In Kelo, a neighborhood was seized and flattened for a Pfizer Headquarters that was never built.

Wonder whose nests got feathered by that “deal”?  Wasn’t the home owners.

Sounds like the same type of “deal” here.

Argh!

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POLITICAL: How can anyone dispute any “elections are stolen” claim?

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/3028605/arizona-gop-files-lawsuit-over-more-than-500000-unaccounted-for-voters-on-the-rolls/

Arizona GOP files lawsuit over more than 500,000 ‘unaccounted-for voters on the rolls’
By Washington Examiner Staff  — June 5, 2024 7:10 am

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“Accurate voter rolls are the bedrock of our constitutional republic,” said Gina Swoboda, Chair of the Arizona Republican Party. “The rampant presence of ineligible voters on our rolls is unacceptable and undermines the trust Arizonans place in our electoral process.” 

According to the lawsuit, research into the state’s voter rolls discovered that Arizona has between 500,000 to 1.27 million invalid registrations, including deceased people and those who have left the state. Additionally, some counties were found to have “outrageous voter registration rates,” with some having a total list of voter names that exceeded “100% of eligible voters.”

“The AZGOP and the Arizona Free Enterprise Club are demanding the immediate implementation of an effective voter list maintenance program to comply with NVRA mandates,” read a statement posted on the X account for the Republican Party of Arizona. 

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As far as I am concerned the Conspiracy Theory that “the election in <insert favorite political jurisdiction> was stolen” by its very assertion I deem as “Category 1  —  Generally Accepted As True”.  I don’t care if it’s asserted by DJT, Hillary, any D, any R, any L, or just some random loon on the street.  I treat it as true.

Until these type of voter fraud are reported as factually inaccurate, my default is that ALL elections are suspect and rigged.

Argh!

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RANT: Zero tolerance for criminals … period!

Monday, June 10, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/06/03/us-news/two-nypd-cops-shot-in-queens-by-19-year-old/

Gunman who shot 2 NYPD cops revealed to be migrant who recently crossed into US via Eagle Pass: sources
By Larry Celona, Joe Marino, and Emily Crane
Published June 3, 2024
Updated June 3, 2024, 7:00 a.m. ET

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A 19-year-old Venezuelan migrant shot two cops early Monday when they tried to stop him as he was riding a motorized scooter, according to police and sources.

The officers had tried to pull over the teen, identified as Bernardo Castro Mata, after spotting him driving the wrong way down a street at 89th Street and 23rd Avenue in Elmhurst at about 1:40 a.m., police said.

The suspect quickly ditched the moped and fled on foot for several blocks, according to cops.

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I presume he is an illegal immigrant!

Seems like he needs to be turned over to Immigration and deported with a never to return tattoo!

Zero tolerance for crime, especially gun possession, and firing at the police.

Argh!

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ECONOMICS: Despite “carbon credits”, imagine how liberty would work

Sunday, June 9, 2024

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-tool-to-mitigate-algal-blooms-is-making-breakthrough-results-in-utah-scientists-say/

New Tool to Mitigate Algae Blooms Shows Breakthrough Results in Utah, Scientists Say
By Andy Corbley – May 31, 2024 

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The restoration process was undertaken by the Utah Waterbodies Restoration Program, which in turn was carried out in partnership with Brigham City, Utah, at no cost to the city because of the 12,913 tonnes of carbon credits that were sold to fund the clean-up of Mantua Reservoir.

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Well, imagine if the Mantua Reservoir was privately owned.  An entrepreneur would look at it as an untapped resource.  Not hard to imagine the reservoir owner investing in clean up to sell fishing and boating licenses.  As well as all the other economic activity that would “spring up” like bait shops, fast food, boat sales, boat storage, and things we can’t even imagine.

So instead of “worshiping at the false god of climate change” and Gooferment bureaucrats preventing economic activity, let’s unleash the creativity for a truly free market economy.

Argh!

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