ConspiracyTheories: We’re in a “simulation” like the movie the Matrix?

Monday, September 30, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13894491/living-simulation-world-scientist-proof-BIBLE.html

Are we living in a simulation? Scientist claims we’re simply characters in an advanced AI world – and says the proof is hidden in the BIBLE

  •     Passages from the Bible support the simulation hypothesis, physicist claims
  •     READ MORE: These everyday clues seem to suggest we’re living in a simulation 

By Jonathan Chadwick For Mailonline
Published: 02:30 EDT, 30 September 2024 | Updated: 03:26 EDT, 30 September 2024 

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If you feel like you’re living in a convincing virtual reality akin to The Matrix, a scientist thinks you may well be right.

Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, claims our entire universe may be an advanced computer simulation. 

And the proof that this so-called simulation hypothesis is correct may be hiding in plain sight in the Bible.

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Well, we could also be a creation of the Pastatarian’s Flying Spaghetti Monster.  (I always admired their willingness to have their DMV photos taken with a pasta strainer on their heads!)

I’d need some more and solid “evidence” other than the Bible says it.

Maybe some testimony from a modern day Neo or an Oracle.

Til then, I regard this as possible as the Scientologists or the Amish having “the Truth”.

Checking the Conspiracy Theorist “thermometer”  — my personal gauge  — 

Conspiracy Theory Taxonomy and Ruler (Type and Veracity)

* Miscellaneous

8. Generally Accepted As False

But I’d be happy to test again should some new evidence warrant it.

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ECONOMICS: A new form of shrinkflation

Monday, September 30, 2024

Target reduced the number of baby wipes in a case from 12 to 8.  That’s a ⅓ reduction.  At a “new lower price”!  Which, of course, is more than ⅔ of the old price.  I guess they think we are stupid or math challenged! Argh!

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ENGINEERING: “Lifetime” is not forever!

Monday, September 30, 2024

https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2024/09/25/how-long-is-a-lifetime-2/

How Long is a “Lifetime”?
By Eric – September 25, 2024

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One of the great scams perpetrated on car buyers is selling them on the idea of “lifetime” fluids – such as transmission fluid, for instance. And coolant. Also oil changes that don’t require doing but once every 7,500 (or even more) miles.

It’s sold this way to sell them on “low maintenance costs” – and that’s true. You just pay for it later, in the form of expensive repair costs caused or hastened by those “low maintenance costs.”

The trick works like this:

Advertise “lifetime” fluids – which leads the mark to believe that means forever. As in the fluid never needs to be changed. What it actually means is for the lifetime . . . of the warranty coverage. And that’s probably true. Those numbers – ten years, 100,000 miles as an example – are not picked out of a hat. They are arrived at after extensive durability studies that accurately foretell how long a component such as a transmission will probably last before it fails if it isn’t serviced during its “lifetime.”

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It’s not so much that the fluids – such as the hydraulic fluid in an automatic transmission (or the gear oil in a manual transmission or engine oil) go bad. It is that they get contaminated with the byproducts of mechanical components meshing and unmeshing in an environment of high heat and pressure. Inevitably, the contaminants build up, inevitable reducing the anti-friction properties of the fluid. Fine particles accrue, like plaque inside our arteries, with the same inevitable result. A filter will filter out a lot of these small bits but what happens when the filter can no longer filter – because it’s full of those small bits and pieces?

It stops filtering.

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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: Need an “illegal alien” plan!

Sunday, September 29, 2024

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2024/09/10_million_illegal_aliens_what_is_to_be_done.html

americanthinker.com
10 Million Illegal Aliens: What Is to Be Done?
By Randall Childs
<<  2024-09Sep-25 Wed >>

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After the economy, illegal immigration ranks highest among voters’ concerns. President Trump has spoken of “mass deportations” of the more than ten million illegal aliens who have flooded our country under Biden-Harris. That’s appealing political rhetoric to the base, but he needs to build policy muscle upon the rhetorical bones.

First, the optics. We’re talking ten million people, and then some. Men, women, children, oldsters, families. Some are the “hardworking people seeking a better life,” as they claim; others are gangsters and terrorists, plus lots in between. Rounding them up and arranging transport of a population equal to Michigan will be no small feat. Prepare for nightmarish images of armed agents descending upon “immigrant” motels and shelters; rounding up families and frog-walking them onto buses, trucks, trains, and planes; and shipping them out. We can expect horrific portrayals of “children in cages” revisited, oldsters with ailments, detention centers portrayed as internment camps, all that. Wouldn’t the anti-Trump media have a field day? Families torn apart! Lives disrupted! Local economies hit hard. And what if their nations of origin refused their re-entry? More ugly media attention.

Candidate Trump needs to present a credible plan to repatriate these people in an orderly, efficient, humane, and politically palatable way. This can be done by arranging deportations in cohorts according to immigrants’ harm and costs to our nation.

We start with the criminal elements: murderers, rapists, drunk drivers, drug-dealers, and professional shoplifters. By legal and administrative means, illegals who have been involved in criminal activity will be prioritized in “grab” lists and subject to arrest and detention. Being flight risks, they must be denied bail, then given a simple choice: be prosecuted, or be deported with the understanding that re-entry will be a mandatory five-year felony. The point is to get bad actors out of the country.

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Well, it seems like a no brainer to start with the high priority criminals.  

I’m sure that would make a huge difference in “the problem”.

I like the idea of having a plan for the “sanctuary cities and states”.  Cut off the federal funds  seem like a way to get “cooperation”.

Argh!

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RANT: Funny how DOJ selects targets for its “rage”?

Saturday, September 28, 2024
Biden’s Gestapo DOJ Sues Alabama for Removing Noncitizens on the Voter Rolls

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The Biden Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) has launched yet another blatant attack on state sovereignty and election integrity, this time setting its sights on Alabama.

In an outrageous move, the DOJ has filed a lawsuit against Alabama for daring to clean up its voter rolls by removing illegal noncitizens from the system ahead of the upcoming general election.

This lawsuit, spearheaded by Biden’s weaponized DOJ, accuses the state of violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), citing so-called “Quiet Period” provisions meant to prevent last-minute adjustments to voter registration lists.

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Jumped right on anything that removes illegal voters!

Interesting how they chose their targets.

Like the prosecution of NYC Mayor Adams, when he complained about the illegals getting dumped in his city.

Argh!

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ENCOURAGING: Let’s do more than pray!

Saturday, September 28, 2024

<<< FROM QUORA >>> 

Regular People & Their Amazing Stories
Taresa Strachan

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A mother made a run to Walmart with her young son. While in the store, she turned around and he was gone. She looked all over for him, and was on the verge of becoming frantic when she walked to the front of the store and spotted him.

She was just getting ready to lay some scolding on him when she realized he was doing something very strange. He was kneeling at one of the benches just inside the store and he was praying. She could not understand why he was doing this. Then she looked above him at the huge poster he was facing. It had photos and descriptions of missing children, and it read: “Every second counts.”

So she took a photo of her son doing this and posted it on Facebook. It went viral in no time. And as it did, one Facebook commenter summed it up pretty well, writing: “Whether or not you believe in God really doesn’t matter. This was a child in Walmart who was thinking about others and doing the only thing he could to help. The world would be a better place if everyone followed his example.”

Photo courtesy: 89.5 KVNE

# – # – # – # – # 

https://www.missingkids.org/home

https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/search/poster-results

Erick Sanchez
NCIC# M357784090
Missing Since: February 14, 2024
Piscataway, NJ
Age Now: 16 Years Old
Male

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I can’t imagine what this child’s family is going through.

We need more than platitudes, milk cartons, and web pages.

Let’s all look.

Sigh!

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ENGINEERING:The interlocking bricks of glass are like future building Legos

Friday, September 27, 2024

https://news.mit.edu/2024/engineers-3d-print-sturdy-glass-bricks-building-structures-0920?utm_placement=newsletter

MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Engineers 3D print sturdy glass bricks for building structures

  • The interlocking bricks, which can be repurposed many times over, can withstand similar pressures as their concrete counterparts.

Jennifer Chu | MIT News
Publication Date: September 20, 2024 

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What if construction materials could be put together and taken apart as easily as LEGO bricks? Such reconfigurable masonry would be disassembled at the end of a building’s lifetime and reassembled into a new structure, in a sustainable cycle that could supply generations of buildings using the same physical building blocks.

That’s the idea behind circular construction, which aims to reuse and repurpose a building’s materials whenever possible, to minimize the manufacturing of new materials and reduce the construction industry’s “embodied carbon,” which refers to the greenhouse gas emissions associated with every process throughout a building’s construction, from manufacturing to demolition.

Now MIT engineers, motivated by circular construction’s eco potential, are developing a new kind of reconfigurable masonry made from 3D-printed, recycled glass. Using a custom 3D glass printing technology provided by MIT spinoff Evenline, the team has made strong, multilayered glass bricks, each in the shape of a figure eight, that are designed to interlock, much like LEGO bricks.

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As a fat old white guy injineer with a 7 year old boy, I will quibble that Lego blocks are easy to assemble and disassemble.  Not withstanding this critique, I find this very interesting.  Almost as good as that African handy fella making buildings out of soda bottles filled with water and mud.  Or the other fellow who made indoor daylights from water filled soda bottles.  

I was taught that “engineers turn interesting ideas into something valuable and useable.

Sounds like these people at MIT have a winner.

Very impressive.

I look forward to the practical use of these new (fangled) “bricks”.

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MONEY: Inflation is just plain old theft of your wealth

Thursday, September 26, 2024

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/09/no_author/inflation-is-an-intentional-tax/

lewrockwell.com
Inflation Is an Intentional Tax – LewRockwell
Schiff, Andrew J.

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“The best way to look at inflation is a tax. Inflation is what we pay for the government that we don’t pay for with the income tax or the Social Security tax or a sales tax. Basically, the deficits, the Federal budget deficits– we end up funding them by inflation. And those deficits are about to skyrocket. They’ve been skyrocketing. And so the inflation tax is going to be much bigger in 2025 than it was this year regardless of what the Fed is trying to tell us.”

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What else can one say?

“We, The Sheeple” just keep getting the wool over their eyes treatment.

Deficit, Debt, Unfunded liabilities, Gooferment spending!

Argh!

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POLITICAL: Cutting taxes without addressing spending is just a fraud

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/09/laurence-m-vance/whats-so-goofy-about-eliminating-taxes/

lewrockwell.com
What’s So Goofy About Eliminating Taxes? – LewRockwell
By Laurence M. Vance

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As usual, Ron Paul gets it right:

It is common to describe tax cuts as “costing” the government. Saying tax cuts cost the government assumes that the government has a moral claim over an individual’s earnings, so anytime those running the government allow individuals to keep more of their money the rulers are being generous. The truth is that income belongs to the people who earn it and that saying tax cuts cost the government is like saying burglar alarms cost thieves. Therefore, any legislation that cuts taxes is a victory for liberty.

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If the politicians and bureaucrats merely cut taxes, but don’t address Gooferment spending, then it just means bigger deficits, means more borrowing, means more money printing by the FED, means more currency debasement, means more inflation.

It’s just fraud being perpetrated on “We, The Sheeple”.

I’d prefer that the amount cut from taxes is immediately cut from the spending.  Accross the board on a percentage basis.

I would further favor, any deficit means that the incumbents in Congress are ineligible for reelection.  Bet that would fix the problem.

Also, taxpayers get a veto on all spending bills!  

We need a third “house” elected by taxpayers, who get one vote for every dollar they pay in taxes.

Argh!

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MEME: Die Hard gas prices!

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

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GOVERNACIDE: “End the Scourge” by letting people be free

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

https://johnklar.substack.com/p/fentanyl-which-candidate-can-end/comments?publication_id=779141&post_id=148805602&isFreemail=true&comments=true&action=post-comment

Fentanyl – Which Candidate Can End the Scourge?
Trump and Harris place the blame and solution in different places.
John Klar  — Sep 18, 2024

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Among the odd exchanges between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris at their first and perhaps only debate before Election Day was a dispute over who would better protect Americans from the growing scourge of illegal substances, especially fentanyl. This issue is of top concern to millions of Americans who have suffered the loss of a loved one to this deadly drug, largely imported from Mexico. How will these candidates measure up for this demographic in November?

As Americans weigh the respective offerings of the 2024 party platforms, differing prescriptions for abortion, economic growth, foreign policy, and border security vie for favoritism among voters. The irreversible, life-changing trauma of losing a child, parent, or sibling to pernicious fentanyl or other opioids is, for many, an issue of the highest priority – cutting across party loyalties and hardly confined to undecided independents.

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As a little L libertarian, and having lost a family member to drugs and raising a child injured by per-natal drug use, I think and believe that the the Gooferment must admit it is powerless to “solve” the problem. “They” can’t keep drugs out of prison so how do they expect to do it in a free society? My “solution” is to let the free market operate. Walmart, Walgreens, and Amazon will make the “illegal drugs” clean, safe, and cheap. Then, we can focus all the wealth wasted of “prohibition” on making resources available to those who want to get “clean”. Will people still die from “drugs”? Absolutely! But they won’t be “accidental” from fentanyl in their heroin. Sorry to be the bearer of “bad news”, but it’s completely out of our control what free people can put in their own bodies. Let’s make addiction as “safe” as possible.

#endthedrugwar

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GUNS:The unsubstantiated word of any politician, in this case Kamala Harris, is worse than hearsay

Monday, September 23, 2024

https://bearingarms.com/camedwards/2024/09/21/what-we-dont-know-about-kamalas-gun-ownership-n1226305

What We Don’t Know About Kamala’s Gun Ownership
By Cam Edwards | 4:30 PM | September 21, 2024

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So, we still don’t know much about Harris’ handgun, if it actually exists. Even if she doesn’t want to give free advertising to a particular gun company, there are still plenty of things she could tell us about her gun ownership, including:

  • How often does she go to the range to practice and train with her gun? 
  • Is her pistol available to all gun-buyers in California, or is it an “off roster” gun available only to law enforcement? 
  • What’s the magazine capacity of the pistol? 
  • Why did she choose to purchase a firearm? Was there a specific incident that caused her to become a gun owner, or just a general need to protect herself? 
  • Why does she continue to own a gun now that she has Secret Service protection? 
  • What factors did she consider when purchasing a gun? 
  • Did she try out multiple guns before making her purchase?

 None of these are “gotcha” questions. If Harris really is a gun owner, they should all be easy to answer. 

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Sorry, but the unsubstantiated word of any politician and | or bureaucrat is one step below “hearsay evidence”.  Inadmissable,  in my “court of public opinion”.  We all know that politicians and bureaucrats say all sorts of things.  Fact checked or not, I want proof.  Especially about this “gun claim”.

Argh!

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ENCOURAGING: In her digging, Sharyl Attkisson finds that Federally-Funded Study Data is hidden?

Monday, September 23, 2024

https://sharylattkisson.substack.com/p/update-on-the-amish-approach-to-covid?publication_id=2579146&post_id=148901873&isFreemail=true&r=3snn7d&triedRedirect=true

Update on the Amish Approach to Covid
As a result of my challenges, journal makes multiple corrections to scientific article
Sharyl Attkisson
Sep 15, 2024

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Can Data From Federally-Funded Study Be Kept Hidden?

In response to my request to see study supporting materials, data, and communications, which the public owns since it was a taxpayer-funded study (and the tenets of solid science require transparency so that any findings can be replicated), West Virginia University stalled and then eventually provided only heavily-redacted materials that revealed very little except that several other observers had also questioned the study.

According to Springer Nature, “Journal of Religion and Health has a research data policy which encourages authors to publish data in a public repository where possible, but does not require that they do so.”

The National Science Foundation, which used US taxpayer money to fund the questioned study, provided no meaningful information when asked.

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And, most important of all, why were the most significant takeaways of international interest seemingly ignored including that the researchers found no evidence that the Amish suffered more harm for not having shut down schools, businesses and church; for not isolating, masking or social distancing; for not Covid testing and vaccinating; and for not having spent a great deal of public funds on various measures.

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I hope, that among the many things that DJT promises to change, the “liberation” for  Federally-Funded Study Data is madated.

We already know that there is a cover up of the disastrous effects of the Covid “vaccine”.  That’s no surprise.  What is surprising is that the Amish stayed open and true to their beliefs and demonstrated that there wasn’t any adverse impact.

Argh!

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GUNS: Guns, even pellet guns, are always deemed to be loaded … … PERIOD!

Sunday, September 22, 2024

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/boy-given-1pt-chance-of-survival-walks-5k-for-hospital-that-saved-him-after-air-rifle-shot-to-head/

Boy Given 1% Chance of Survival Walks 5k for Hospital That Saved Him–After Air Rifle Shot to the Head as Baby
By Good News Network – Sep 8, 202

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Harry Studley was just 18-months-old when a 24-year-old neighbor was cleaning his air rifle in 2016 and aimed it at the crying toddler, saying he thought it was unloaded. The pellet lodged in Harry’s brain causing a displaced skull fracture, as well as swelling and bleeding on the brain.

Harry was given a one percent chance of survival, but pulled through. He was left with serious conditions, though, and still suffers epilepsy, partial blindness, weakness, and some cognitive issues.

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Why, in Heaven’s name, would you ever aim a gun at a toddler  —  FOR ANY REASON?

The fact that this occurred in the “gun control” UK is astonishing.

First rule of gun safety is that they are ALWAYS to be pointed in a safe direction.  Second, they are always treated as if they are loaded and ready to fire.

Growing up, (mostly) boys brought guns to school as part of a shooting team.  Guess in the name of “gun control”, now children don’t learn about these tools and the safety rules.

Argh!

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NEWJERSEY: ZEF cars get an extra tax.in the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee

Saturday, September 21, 2024

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POLITICAL: Ask Harris — “Why did you lie to the American people about Biden’s deteriorating mental health?”

Saturday, September 21, 2024

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/09/wayne-root-president-trump-called-me-right-after/

WAYNE ROOT: President Trump Called Me Right After Debate. I told Him ABC Clearly Gave Kamala Harris All the Questions in Advance.

by Assistant Editor Sep. 11, 2024 12:40 pm

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Clearly only 2 things happened before last night’s presidential debate…

Either Kamala’s best friends who run ABC gave her all the questions in advance of the debate…

Or Team Kamala gave the questions they wanted asked to ABC.

I told President Trump the exact same thing last night, right after the debate. What happened last night wasn’t normal. More importantly, Kamala’s debate performance wasn’t possible- not without a lot of help from her friends. 

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I told him he won- because no matter how negative the questions, no matter how vicious and biased the moderators, no matter how hateful Kamala was…in the end, all that matters, all that will resonate…are the four issues most middle class Americans care about…

And you won on those four issues all night long: the economy, inflation, crime and the open border disaster.

That’s it. That’s all that matters. And you won on those four issues. Most Americans are with you. All the rest is B.S. and will be forgotten.

*** and ***

*Who is really running the country?

*Why did you lie to the American people about Biden’s deteriorating mental health?

*Inflation is killing American families. It was close to -0- when you took over. What did you do wrong?

*Why do you support giving citizenship to every illegal alien and free healthcare to all of them, while taking away private healthcare from American citizens?

*Do you feel responsible for all the women and children murdered by illegal aliens you and Biden welcomed into our country?

*Do you see Venezuelan prison gangs taking over entire blocks of U.S. cities?

*Why do you support letting transgender illegal aliens into our country, and asking US taxpayers to pay for their sex change operations?

*Why are you and Biden against free speech? Why do you order censorship of conservatives and critics?

*You say you support women’s rights, so why do you want boys to play women’s sports, and take away scholarships from girls?

*You say Trump incited an insurrection, but didn’t you do exactly that by egging on BLM rioters, and trying to raise money to bail out BLM criminals, rioters, looters and torchers?

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Well, the “sorority connection” and Donna Brazile’s involvement certain make me question the “fairness”?

I won’t forget the topic (questions) that weren’t asked.

The National Debt, the unfunded liabilities, the continuing deficit spending, and the resulting inflation.

Argh!

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NEWJERSEY: Why does the Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee have a “death tax”

Friday, September 20, 2024

https://watsoncoleman.house.gov/contact/share-your-opinion

TO: Bonnie Watson Coleman

I’m probating a small estate under 15k for my now deceased cousin … …

… … and you can’t believe what a giant hassle it is.

Why does NJ have a “death tax” in the first place?

Why don’t we have a threshold (i.e., 25k$, 100k$, 1M$) like the Federal or other States do?

My vote in the next election will be based on this. Yes, I can be a single issue voter. And, yes, l am a fat old white guy retired injineer who’s a poor old senior citizen on a fixed income who ALWAYS votes. And, I share my “recommendations” with any of my family and friends I connect with.

# – # – # – # – # 

Let’s see what I get in response and how quickly?

Any bets?

I’d say the over under on “no response by” Election Day is 50/50!

We will see.

And, I am really POed about the estate hoops.

Argh!

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ENCOURAGING: 4-year-old Girl Uses Alexa to summon help

Friday, September 20, 2024

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/quick-thinking-4-year-old-girl-uses-alexa-to-call-for-help-as-mom-suffers-epileptic-seizure/

Quick-thinking 4-year-old Girl Uses Alexa to Call for Help as Mom Suffers Epileptic Seizure
By Andy Corbley – Sep 5, 2024 

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When Lyla Leathem saw her mom collapse into an epileptic seizure, she remained calm and knew just what to do.

She knew she was supposed to call her great-grandmother—but her mom Leah’s phone was locked. The four-year-old ran upstairs and asked Amazon Alexa to make the call instead.

Mother Leah Bigg had fallen unwell at her home in Somerset on August 25th. Family members had previously shown Lyla how to use Alexa for phone calls as her mom often suffers from seizures at night which can be life-threatening. But they had no idea the youngster had listened—until she was called into action.

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Sharp that a four year old could take action; most wouldn’t have the capability of finding an alternative.

One can question the living arrangements that made this necessary, but that doesn’t detract from a resourceful child’s action in a crisis.

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IOS: IOS81 is a big “meh” to me

Thursday, September 19, 2024

<< from my Luddite friend >>
Sep 18, 2024, 6:11 PM (14 hours ago)

Wow, not sure if this is noise or a serious concern. I personally would not want anything to do with AI for starters.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/apple-users-already-fed-ios-142908993.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=ma

# – # – # – # – # 

Thanks, I’ll check it out! 

# – # – # – # – # 

Checked out the article.  

Disagree with “cheating Android” dirty old men.  Android  has locking apps for a while.  Since I give Daniel my phone sometimes, I locked my bank, Amazon, Home Depot, Lowes, and Spirit Halloween apps.  He know to put stuff in the cart but not how to “buy now” ••• … yet.

I don’t see anything in iPhotos that is “terrible”, but neither Android or iPhone allow tags on photos.  That’s annoying and cumbersome.  Sigh!  

Nothing else to report on in this “news”.  No misspellings to give away that it’s AI written.

As far as AI is concerned, I don’t find any compelling use case for it.  So I give it a big “meh”.

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DISCOURAGING: Pink and blue pigeons; as if balloons weren’t bad enough for the wildlife

Thursday, September 19, 2024

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1d71p2xqkgo?utm_placement=newsletter

Blue pigeon mystifies town’s residents
4 days ago   <<  2024-09Sep-06 >>
Charlotte Andrews
BBC News

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Several sightings of a blue pigeon wandering around a town’s streets have baffled residents.

The bird has been photographed by a number of people in Maidenhead, Berkshire.

Some locals insisted the bird’s unique plumage looked natural.

But wildlife experts suggested it could have been dyed for a gender-reveal party – a tradition where expectant couples learn the sex of their baby using pink or blue items.

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Rebecca Machin, from the RSPCA’s wildlife team, warned dye could cause birds health problems, impair their ability to fly and make them more vulnerable to predators.

“Dye and paints can be toxic to birds and other animals, and they would be likely to try to clean any such substance from their coat or feathers which could result in them swallowing it,” she said.

She also said she feared social media trends could be fuelling the behaviour.

“We suspect this pigeon’s feathers have been painted – something we seem to be hearing about more and more, including – anecdotally – at events like gender reveal parties,” she said.

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Oh come on people, leave the wildlife alone.  

Balloons are bad enough for power lines, birds, and fish.  Now you have to maim some poor birds.

How about you stick to exploding blue or pink powder packs?  At least, you can only hurt yourself.

Argh!

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RANT: Social Security Insurance is just a racist inter-generational Ponzi scheme that has zero chance of “success”

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Just saw you 8/11 reply to my “no tax on sosec” comment

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It’s a solid plan if they increase the current security tax on high earners, otherwise it’s an untenable solution. Seems to be some support to raise SS tax on earners above the $165k threshold and again at $250 which would keep SS solvent for a few more decades

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Raising taxes on “high earners” is just giving the Gooferment more money to waste.  

Recognizing that Social Security “Insurance” is just a racist inter-generational Ponzi scheme that has zero chance of “success” like any Ponzi scheme.  

Note that FDR chose the word “insurance” very carefully because at that time “insurance” was highly regarded as “safe”.  He knew full well that this was a fraud because there was nothing “saved” to pay benefits.  It should have been obvious to the rubes when the first (white) woman “retired” after making one tax payment into “social security insurance”.

I recently read an analysis of one case where the fellow paid in X$ (I can’t find the gripe) and received back about ½X$. That’s nominal dollars with no adjustment for inflation. He ran a simulation if the original X was invested in 50/50 Tbills and S&P500.  That portfolio would be valued at about 6X at his retirement.  He compared his Z$ monthly benefit with the 4Z$ monthly annuity he should have had.

I have also read many times that Social Security has a negative ROI of between 12 and 40+%.  

It’s a national disaster.  And, BTW it’s has about 70T$ in unfunded liabilities.  No amount of tinkering will save it.

Argh!

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Wish I could find all the things I have read about Social Security.

One time, on a bored commute into NYC for work, I computed that I’d have to live to 132 in order to “steal” back what was “stolen” from me in SSI payroll taxes.  And that was on a “nominal basis” with no adjustment for inflation.

Argh!

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ENGINEERING: China has another enginering feat to its credit

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-13828953/giant-escalators-China-mountains.html

Pictured: The giant escalators that China installed to save tourists the effort of hiking up mountains

  •     China has built a 1,100ft escalator that takes visitors up Tianyu Mountain
  •     It comes after a 2,260ft escalator was installed at scenic Enshi Canyon

By Jessica Hamilton
Published: 08:37 EDT, 9 September 2024 | Updated: 08:52 EDT, 9 September 2024

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The rise and rise of mountainside escalators continues in China.

We previously reported on a 688-metre-long (2,260ft) escalator being installed at scenic Enshi Canyon, Hubei province.

Now China has built a 1,100ft (350-metre) escalator costing $2.2 million/£1.6million that takes visitors up Tianyu Mountain in Zhejiang Province – and it even sprays mist on them to keep them cool.

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What has the USA built lately?  Planes that are defective, cars that burst into flames, roads that are barely drivable.

Where are our pyramids?

IMHO it starts with Gooferment debt, Gooferment Skrules, and a lack of visionary engineering talent.

It’s a national disgrace that the only thing that seems to grow is the Military Industrial Complex’s big budget weapons and Big Pharma’s killer “vaccines”!

Argh!

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SURVIVAL:Hawaii man trapped in 15ft remote forest ravine gets very very lucky

Monday, September 16, 2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13827337/hawaii-man-trapped-forest-ravine-bridge-collapse-reveal-survive.html

Hawaii man trapped in 15ft remote forest ravine after bridge collapsed reveals ingenious way he survived
By James Cirrone For Dailymail.Com
Published: 16:53 EDT, 8 September 2024 | Updated: 16:53 EDT, 8 September 2024

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A 41-year-old father-of-two had to be put on a ventilator after he miraculously survived being stuck in a 15 foot deep ravine for multiple nights without food.

Ian Goodsell, who lives on the big island of Hawaii, was crossing an old bridge near a forest off Kamaili Road when it collapsed underneath him, KITV reported.

‘He fell into a ravine about 15 feet deep and was in there for three nights,’ said Garrett Goodsell, Ian’s brother. 

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‘If you’re gonna go hiking, and this wasn’t necessarily a hiking trail, and even more so if you’re gonna go out there, make sure you stick to the trails, as much as possible,’ Volpe said. ‘Don’t hike alone, make sure you let people know where you’re going and kind of when you expect to be back.’

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Seems obvious advice.

Where was his EDC, a daypack, and a phone? And, without his anti-seizure meds in his pocket!

It’s not “ingenious” to use a shirt to catch water.  

He was just lucky.

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POLITICAL: Where have we heard “a massive tax on unrealized gains” before?

Sunday, September 15, 2024

https://townhall.com/columnists/meagan-dean/2024/09/06/kamala-harris-vows-death-tax-increase-n2644395

Kamala Harris Vows Death Tax Increase
Meagan Dean | Sep 06, 2024

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Vice President Kamala Harris is on record in support of a Death Tax hike, including plans to impose a second Death Tax by taking away stepped-up basis when parents die.

Harris’ plans to increase the Death Tax are yet another example of the candidate’s willingness to punish hardworking Americans for their success, this time punitively hitting families experiencing the death of a loved one. 

Under current law, the cost basis of assets passing directly to heirs receives a “step-up” to its fair market value. Without stepped-up basis, family-owned businesses would be stranded with a massive tax on unrealized gains after the passing of the owner. 

Harris has not been shy in taking ownership of Biden-Harris FY 2025 budget, noting in a March post on X that the budget plan was jointly put forward by her and President Joe Biden. 

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I guess that small family farms and small family businesses are her target!

I can’t imagine that any of the D’s have any knowledge of economics.  Certainly demonstrate a lack of understanding of the basics.

What do they think that people will have to do when the owner dies to pay these “thefts”!

The Death Tax is one of the spectacularly unfair taxes.  Paid taxes all your life and the Gooferment politicians and bureaucrats take another bite when you die.

Argh!

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HEROIC: Rikers guard saves 1-year-old child choking on Dorito

Saturday, September 14, 2024

https://nypost.com/2024/09/14/us-news/rikers-guard-saves-baby-choking-on-dorito-in-jails-visiting-room/

Rikers guard saves 1-year-old child choking on Dorito in jail’s visiting room: ‘The baby was turning blue’
By Tina Moore and Zoe Hussain 
Published Sep. 14, 2024, 8:33 a.m. ET

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A baby’s visit to Rikers Island took a frightening turn last week when the child started choking on a chip — prompting the city’s Boldest to leap into action to save him.

The 1-year-old began turning blue after swallowing a Dorito around 7:40 p.m. Sunday in one of the jail’s visitation areas, where his mom, Savanah Webb, had just finished seeing an inmate.

One correction officer noticed little Demyri Webb struggling.

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So he pushed his pinky down into the child’s throat even farther — until he felt the chip move.

“The baby started to wheeze, which told me air was moving in and out,” he said.

Then Demyri spit up, and Barbosa knew the child was in the clear.

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Great situational awareness.

Heroic, even though his life was not in jeopardy, who would want live with the memory of a child dying in your arms.

I guess he could have opened and airway with a pocket knife. Guess that was then next step after the pinkie try.

Not sure that I would have done it better.  And, what about the other people standing around watching.  Surprised no one videoed it.

Well done Santos Barbosa, well done.

“… … and this is a weaker argument that is stronger than it appears. Chinese Obligation. The Chinese have a saying that saving a life incurs a two way debt. The one saved owes their life to their savior; doing less would be ungrateful. The one saving owes the saved their continued help lest the save be in vain; doing less would be wasteful of the original act.” — brainy character “Brian” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 1 Page 223

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