DISCOURAGING: Recently John Oliver overstated how little “migrant crime” there is

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

https://sharylattkisson.com/2024/07/2-men-charged-in-horrific-rape-murder-of-12-year-old-houston-girl-are-illegal-immigrants/?vgo_ee=AIlxHOmQLFml4478dVXBXZGm2JHSZ7d3H5Bb26gTfJs%3D%3Ap4ixypWsJWLZpF%2BdyZkqyJVxXPgOZ2e9

2 men charged in horrific rape, murder of 12-year old Houston girl are illegal immigrants
By Sharyl Attkisson | July 24, 2024

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A horrific rape and strangulation death of a child is being linked to two illegal immigrants from Venezuela.

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I think John Oliver recently overstated how little “migrant crime” there is. Maybe, just maybe, the R’s are hyping it too much.

I’m not a fan of either the D’s or the R’s.

But I do think “crime” is a much bigger problem overall and “migrant crime” is a component of it. Native USA-ers at WalMart, shoplifting, and flash mobs are another significant component of the perception.

Until the police and “justice bureaucrats” get tough and back to work, it’ll continue to be a problem. Some more traffic tickets would be helpful too. Argh!

In the mean time, cracking down on illegal immigration is a prudent strategy to “migrant crime”.  You can’t be unconcerned at the military age Chinese and Middle Eastern men in the crowds at the border.

And, we really can’t have “open borders” when we have a “welfare state”.   Never mind that we can’t afford the “warfare state” either!

Don’t get me started on the corrupt state or the MIC (Military Industrial Congressional) complex.

Argh!

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ENGINEERING: Who does installs directly into production? Only incomptent sys admins and sys engineers!

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

https://www.fark.com/comments/13328522/171781856?f=FbVk9IcbaK0iiRpoC_GZuxx7kiD-pW7W485gx#c171781856

xrayspx [TotalFark]  

Smartest (114) Funniest (6)  

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No matter how hard I try, I can’t blame Crowdstrike for this being a “Global Outage”. I blame “Crappy Sysadmins”. The fact that 911 systems, hospitals and other “life & death” essential services chose to auto-install untested vendor updates with no internal vetting whatsoever makes me pretty mad. To say nothing of airlines, banks, schools, govt. and everyone else who should goddamn know better.

My company runs Crowdstrike and this didn’t impact us because of exactly that, we push updates in a controlled fashion through Test before releasing anything to Production which could take us down. We do this with MS Updates, Linux updates, Oracle, etc. etc., why would I ever allow Crowdstrike to auto-update on my systems?

/old man yells at cloud
//kids these days
///so over this nonsense 

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I swear to God that this is exactly what I thought when all these “production” environments went down from one update.  For heaven’s sake, didn’t anyone think that this could happen.  Disaster Recovery?  Information Security? Uninterruptible Service?  Life ’n’ safety critical?

If I was a CEO or CFO, them I’d fire the CIO and CTO in a heartbeat.

Argh!

Thanks FARK for making me think I am NOT the crazy one.

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INTERESTING: Can pets can sense when we’re in pain or dying? Seems possible

Monday, July 29, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13664877/pets-sense-pain-dying-hundreds-miles-away-ex-Cambridge-academic-dr-rupert-sheldrake.html

Our pets can sense when we’re in pain or dying – even from hundreds of miles away: I’m an ex-Cambridge academic and these startling, inexplicable stories convinced me..
By Dr Rupert Sheldrake
Published: 21:21 EDT, 23 July 2024 | Updated: 22:11 EDT, 23 July 2024 

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For more than 30 years I have been collecting case evidence of animals that appear to know by intuition or telepathy when the humans they love have suffered a serious, sometimes fatal, accident.

The existence of so many independent reports is persuasive, writes Dr Sheldrake, who has been collecting evidence of animal intuition or telepathy for more than 30 years 

The bond between owner and animal is indeed a real connection, linking them together invisibly, even over thousands of miles

This isn’t a subject that lends itself to experimental investigation. Evidence can only come from chance events, not laboratory tests, since it is obviously impossible to stage dangerous incidents. But in my files I now have more than 100 accounts of dogs appearing to respond to distant injuries or deaths of their human companions, and about half as many cases involving cats.

The existence of so many independent reports persuades me that this is a real phenomenon, even though it is not possible to do experiments. Further research is needed through the collection of more well- documented stories.

My theory is simple: the bond between person and animal is indeed a real connection, linking them together invisibly, even over thousands of miles. Death and danger disrupt this bond.

To take a simple analogy, if two people are connected by a stretched elastic band, and one of them shakes it or lets it go, the other feels a difference. Even if they do not know exactly what is happening to the other person involved, they know something is happening.

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Based on anecdotal evidence, his theory seems to have some basis in fact.  I haven’t formed a “reasoned belief” to any degree of certainty, but it certainly seems possible.  I’ve read many stories about “loyal dogs”, graveside visits, and such.  We know that dogs can smell disease, so why can’t they have some type of ESP.  We have seen anecdotal evidence about the connection of human twins.  Why can’t there be more to the physical world than we know right now?

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SURVIVAL: At least they had a flare gun … …

Sunday, July 28, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13657649/Miracle-fishing-crew-Elite-Navigator-survived-three-days-sea.html

Miracle at sea as fishermen reveal how they survived being stranded on a life-raft for three days
By Mitchell Goodbar For Dailymail.Com
Published: 00:24 EDT, 22 July 2024 | Updated: 00:39 EDT, 22 July 2024 

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A group of fishermen lost at sea for nearly three days managed to survive by keeping themselves in high spirits aboard their life-raft, before they used a flare gun to attract rescuers.

The seven crew members were forced to abandon their ship, the Elite Navigator, on Wednesday after a small fire on the vessel quickly turned into an inferno.

With little time to spare, the men piled into a life-raft and abandoned the burning boat.

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No inventory of what they had, should have had, or an obviously needed transponder.

No one seems to care about “preps” until it’s too late.

The concept of EDC (Every Day Carry) is to have what you’d need in an emergency.  When you go out on the water or into the forest, then your needs change and so to you EDC.

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ENCOURAGING: Something all girls should be taught and men should learn — boundaries

Saturday, July 27, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13659259/Instant-karma-Moment-female-MMA-champion-21-brutally-floors-sex-pest-right-hook-repeatedly-told-stop-touching-her.html

Instant karma! Moment female MMA champion, 21, brutally floors ‘sex pest’ with right hook after she repeatedly ‘told him to stop touching her’

  • Alisa Irinina, from Stary Oskol, Russia, had dated the man in the past

By Taryn Pedler and Will Stewart
Published: 09:25 EDT, 22 July 2024 | Updated: 09:49 EDT, 22 July 2024 

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This is the moment a female MMA champion brutally floored a ‘sex pest’ with a right hook after she repeatedly ‘told him to stop touching her’. 

Alisa Irinina, 21, took matters into her own hands when a man she had briefly dated in the past turned up uninvited to her birthday and began ‘behaving inappropriately’. 

The woman, from Stary Oskol, Russia, said she had told him to stop ‘touching her’ several times but claimed he continued to ‘pester’ her and even threw something at her despite Alisa making it clear she was not interested.

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Good for her.  Don’t depend on anyone to protect yourself.  He deserved it and should get a few days in the cooler to reinforce the lesson.

“Victim disarmament is the view that it is somehow better to see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose, than see her with a gun in her hand.” — T.D. Melrose 

I hope we train all boys and girls in a martial art to give them the confidence to defend them selves in all situations.  There are some impressive videos of little children taking adults down hard.  

Don’t waste their time with “gym”!

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ADHOC: How about an auto “stop” reply?

Friday, July 26, 2024

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You need to see this ASAP: red24.us/04jo7i stop=end

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It’d sure be nice if every text that ended with “stop=end” would automagically reply “stop”.

Such magic would make the developer a fortune.

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TECHNOLOGY: Kiss of Death — Google URL Shortener

Friday, July 26, 2024

https://www.androidauthority.com/when-google-will-break-googl-links-3462692/

General technology
Google’s kiss of death is coming for your goo.gl links

  • It’s time to replace your short links before the tech overlord breaks them.

By Mahmoud Itani

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In typical Google fashion, the company killed its goo.gl short link generator on March 30, 2019. Since then, users have still been able to access goo.gl links created before the generator’s shutdown. However, this will change next year, as Google will completely sunset the service, breaking the short links in the process.

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# – # – # – # – # 

https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available
JUL 18, 2024
Sumit Chandel Developer Relations Engineer
Eldhose Mathokkil Babu Software Engineer

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In 2018, we announced the deprecation and transition of Google URL Shortener to Firebase Dynamic Links because of the changes we’ve seen in how people find content on the internet, and the number of new popular URL shortening services that emerged in that time. This meant that we no longer accepted new URLs to shorten but that we would continue serving existing URLs.

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And off to the Google Graveyard, it goes.

Unfortunately I was on a kick using them on my blog for a while until for whatever reason, I stopped.  Now I had to waste two hours correcting that link headed mistake.  Sigh!  Some links were broken and one of my favorite authors died unnoticed.  But I did find some old forgotten content that made me laugh, cry, and wonder where my skills went.  Some of the content was timeless.  Me not so much!

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VOCABULARY: A narradigm is a portmanteau of “narrative” and “paradigm”

Thursday, July 25, 2024

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/marketingassetmanagement_technocreativesynthesist-narradigm-ai-activity-7213438621612199936-1fND

Mark Davey’s Post
Content, Metadata profiles and AI – New Paradigm

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Narradigm: A Brief Explanation

#Narradigm is a portmanteau of “narrative” and “paradigm,” representing a new model of storytelling that integrates advanced technologies, such as #AI, with traditional #narrative techniques. This concept goes beyond conventional storytelling by leveraging data-driven insights, interactive elements, and immersive experiences to create dynamic, multi-dimensional narratives.

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I found it in:

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/07/no_author/hard-about-aye/

Hard About Aye! Who pulled the lever?
Radio Far Side
July 18, 2024

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But something happened. Biden refused to quit (and they can’t shove him out), and Trump not only refused to get dead, but earned his god-king crown.

The pre-planned narradigm was supposed to rouse fear and anger toward an impotent and ineffective Biden presiding over a rudderless ship of state (see what I did there?), while stirring up sympathy and anger over Trump being horrifically and publicly cut down. Both events were to happen between the end of the primary cycle and before the conventions began, thus causing unbelievable amounts of chaos as both parties and the general public pointed fingers of blame, while trying to figure out who would replace the candidates.

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As mentioned in my last screed, Biden was clearly set up to fail, and in the most recent episode, Trump was clearly meant to die. The lack of “security” on rooftops, the Keystone Kops Secret Service DIE hires, the waving flag in the background as a wind sock…it was a setup from the word GO. 

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So here we have a word for a prepared narrative that is carefully produced to get the desired effect.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Too young to have First Amendment rights — I don’t think so!!!

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13647349/California-school-punished-girl-black-lives-matter-drawing.html

California teachers were right to severely punish girl, 7, for writing these words under Black Lives Matter drawing she gave to friend, judge rules
By Germania Rodriguez Poleo, Chief U.S. Reporter For Dailymail.Com
Published: 08:30 EDT, 18 July 2024 | Updated: 09:17 EDT, 18 July 2024

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A California judge has ruled that teachers were right to punish a seven-year-old girl over a Black Lives Matter drawing because ‘she’s too young to have First Amendment rights.’

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Assuming that Gooferment Skrules gets Federal money, then where does the Bill of Rights say that?

Sorry but just another example of the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats taking away RIGHTS that imbue from our humanity.

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HEALTHCARE: UK has 13% of its entire population on the NHS “waiting list”

Tuesday, July 23, 2024

https://www.newsmax.com/sallypipes/nhs-starmer-sanders/2024/07/17/id/1172934/

OPINION

U.S. Left Take Note: UK’s Healthcare an Unending Nightmare
By Sally Pipes Wednesday, 17 July 2024 02:43 PM EDT

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Last year, an average of 268 British patients died each week as a result of hospital admission delays in the nation’s emergency rooms, according to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine.

In England, the number of patients awaiting treatment referrals rose to 7.6 million as of the end of April.

That’s roughly 13% of its entire population.

There’s no shortage of lamentation from British officials about the rising death tolls and growing wait lists endemic to the NHS.

Britain’s new Health Secretary, the Labour Party’s Wes Streeting, even made headlines this week by declaring that “From today, the policy of this department is that the NHS is broken.”

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All of this tumult in Britain should give Americans pause the next time leftists like Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., celebrate the virtues of government-dominated health care.

Just last year, Sanders implored Britons: “Do not look at the American model. Please do not. Build on what you have, improve what you have.”

Britain has tried that for decades, with only worsening results.

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American observers take note: Socialized medicine is no dream. It’s a nightmare — and one from which Britain has been unable to awake.

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Hard to imagine that people aren’t dying while waiting for treatment.  Seems like “socialized medicine” always has this problem.

Not withstanding Senator Sanders advice, I’d suggest privatizing the whole mess.  Real Privatization.

Not like Medicaid, not like Medicare, not like the Veterans Administration healthcare, or not like the Indian Healthcare system.

Go back to the early insurance model, where the recipient must pay and be reimbursed.  If they are poor, then the Gooferment can “insure” them but they only pay a small percentage.  Same for catastrophic health expenses, pay a percentage.  No need for medical bill bankruptcy.  

By everyone paying something, I bet enough fraud would be eliminated to pay for the whole thing.  (I remember that ½ of all Medicare expense in South Florida was fraudulent.  By having a percentage to pay, we can turn all the senior citizens into medical auditors.  Ever seen old folks splitting a check at an early bird dinner?)

If you thing the US system is “bad”, then look into the UK’s NHS and its problems.

Argh!

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