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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