TECHNOLOGY: Google Photos reminders users how deleting works across devices

Wednesday, December 31, 2025

Google Photos reminders users how deleting works across devices

https://9to5google.com/2025/12/19/google-photos-delete-content-guide/

 

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As always, backup backup and backup!

 

3 is 2!  2 is 1! 1 is none!   Look for redundant capability; not redundant gear!

 

I recommend that everyone use at least two different backup capabilities for the all important photos.

This was brought home hard when it looks like Google Photos “barfed” and took out BOTH the local device and the Google cloud backup copy.

 

Needless to say, that was traumatic.  Luckily a restart unbarfed Google Photos.  We immediately set up another backup capability on DROPBOX.

 

Suggest that (1) you should be backing up your phone’s pictures SOMEWHERE; (2) have a redundant capability for at least two independent backups; (3) consider using a cheap disk drive  —  usb or ssd  —  to create that complete off line archival backup.  

 

After the disaster, it’s no good to say shoulda, coulda, and woulda! 

 

FAIWWYPFI  (Free Advice Is Worth What You Pay For It! ?zero?) 

 

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MONEY: Spend Gold Freely Again

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

https://www.goldback.com/spend-gold-freely-again-did-we-fix-money/

Spend Gold Freely Again: Did We Fix Money?

Written by Kim Coleman, Director of Strategic Relations

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Goldback is making it possible to spend gold freely again. In this short series, we will examine how gold freedom was lost, what the Constitution authorizes and prohibits regarding gold freedom, and what steps can be taken, with your help, to make it possible to spend gold freely again.

“Specie [gold and silver coin] is the most perfect medium because it will preserve its own level; because, having intrinsic and universal value, it can never die in our hands, and it is the surest resource of reliance in time of war.”

Thomas Jefferson

The State of Money Today

Despite their best warnings, it wasn’t long before paper became the predominant currency. There is almost nothing left resembling the intent to base the nation’s monetary system on gold and silver. In fact, the government rejected it entirely when it seized private gold in 1933, ended redemption of Federal Reserve Notes for physical gold in 1934, and removed the U.S. dollar from the gold standard in 1971. This resulted in a full fiat currency system that has suffered the same issues our Founders described.

We see it. We feel it everyday. The green piece of paper we hold in our hands purchases much less than it did even five years ago—25% less!1 Americans are losing their purchasing power and hopes for future prosperity. But there are options to regain that power, and Goldbacks can play a key role in that.

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Fiat Money —  paper —  allows the Gooferment to spend without restraint.

“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon” — Milton Friedman

“Inflation is theft, you’re stealing value from people who save money.”-Ron Paul

We don’t need ANYONE setting interest rates.  Least of all the FED!

(The Federal Reserve Bank is a misnomer. IT ain’t “federal”. It reserves nothing. And, it ain’t a “bank”. It is a private cartel of the elite banks run for their benefit and that of the entrenched politicians.)

Time to heed the wisdom of the Dead Old White Guys!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Explore all the particles that make up the Standard Mode

Monday, December 29, 2025

https://join1440.com/t/standard-model?pinned-resource=explore-all-the-particles-that-make-up-the-standard-model&user_id=66c4b9c55d78644b3a882a4d

FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/

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Since our ancient human relatives began using stone tools to perform tasks, humans have harnessed scientific knowledge and new technologies to expand the boundaries of our understanding of the natural world. 

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This reminds me of THE “perodic table” and the fact there are different ones.   

And yet we know so little.  And, in our “clumsy” ignorance, we fiddle with what we don’t understand. 

Luckily, we have wiped out humanity … … YET?

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DISCOURAGING: Students can only receive money from merit-based financial aid or FAFSA.

Sunday, December 28, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/12/27/sports/ncaa-bans-augsburg-university-cross-country-star-mohammed-bati-over-6000-donation-for-tuition/

Minnesota college running star Mohammed Bati says he was banned for accepting $6K donation to pay for tuition
By Nicholas McEntyre
Published Dec. 27, 2025, 5:26 a.m. ET

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The NCAA ruled Augsburg University senior Mohammed Bati — a two-time national runner-up — ineligible for the indoor and outdoor track seasons, the decorated runner said, according to Marathon Handbook on Friday.

The 26-year-old, who is majoring in nursing, revealed he was “struggling a lot with money” last semester at the private Minneapolis school, which is part of the NCAA’s Division III.

“The community around me came together to support me,” Bati wrote on the training platform Strava on Dec. 24. “People helped me with around $6,000 so I could pay for that semester. I’m still grateful for that it was love, it was support, not anything big or business or something bad. Just people helping someone who needed it.”

Division III schools are prohibited from awarding scholarships for athletics. Students can only receive money from merit-based financial aid or FAFSA.

Student-athletes in Division III are not allowed to accept outside financial assistance that pays for tuition unless it fits into the structure of financial aid or NIL guidelines.

“I don’t think some NCAA rules are fair to everyone,” Bati wrote in the post titled “Night Run.”

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Sorry but the NCAA “rules” are just dumb in this case.

I don’t understand the “rules” and who cares down at Division III.

Argh!

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INSPIRATIONAL: The public domain is a priceless resource … … 

Saturday, December 27, 2025

https://standardebooks.org/about/standard-ebooks-and-the-public-domain

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The public domain is a priceless resource for all of us, and for the generations after us. It’s a free repository of our culture going back centuries—a way for us to see where we came from and to chart where we’re going. It represents our collective cultural heritage.

In the past, copyright was a limited boon, designed not to enrich a creator and their children’s children a hundred years from now, but rather to allow a creator to profit by granting a temporary monopoly on reproduction, in exchange for their work to be returned to the public after a few years. Our ancestors—in fact, the framers of the U.S. Constitution—recognized that art builds on art, and that locking up culture benefits a handful but harms the greater public.

Today, large corporations are putting a lot of money into twisting our laws to slowly but surely strangle the public domain, making it increasingly remote and inaccessible so they can continue seeking rent on ideas and culture nearly a century old. Today laws lock up work not just for the author’s entire lifetime, but for the lifetime of their children, and their children. Copyright can’t enrich the dead, but it can enrich powerful corporations … at our—at everyone’s—expense.

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This site has lots of free classic content. (It has to be in the 100,000’s count.) I like it for old SciFi classics that I read as a child. It’s a shame that Big Publishing keeps locking up content with ever expanding copyright legislation. I wish this was available when I was in school. Now if they just had textbooks, then I’d never have had to take the subway to the library, Laugh!

P.S.: I put a little money into this site to keep it going.

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NOTRECOMMENDED: Memowrite 

Friday, December 26, 2025

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There’s a hidden 14 “return policy” and their logon process doesn’t work reliably. When you complain their tech support stalls until your “14 days” expires. Argh!

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RANT: NYJETS suddenly find a “rule book” when they might have to pay off

Thursday, December 25, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/12/25/us-news/jets-cancel-invite-to-super-fan-set-to-take-100k-field-goal-challenge-in-honor-of-dad/

Jets cancel invite to super fan set to take $100K field goal challenge in honor of her late father: ‘Could have made it’
By Alex Mitchell
Published Dec. 25, 2025, 7:00 a.m. ET

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(Ashley Castanio-Gervasi) felt ready to kick. But then the Jets pulled the ball away from her like Charlie Brown in a “Peanuts” cartoon, when they suddenly said that she was actually not eligible to kick in the final contest for the six-figure prize.

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Sorry, but finding a “rule” at the 11th hour stinks.

I have no problem with them making whatever rule they want, but not deep into the competition.

Argh!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Don’t be affected by skepticism … … 

Thursday, December 25, 2025

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_Virginia,_there_is_a_Santa_Claus

In 1897, Philip O’Hanlon, a surgeon, was asked by his eight-year-old daughter, Virginia O’Hanlon, whether Santa Claus existed. His answer did not convince her, and Virginia decided to pose the question to The Sun.[7] Sources conflict over whether her father suggested writing the letter,[8] or she elected to on her own.[7] In her letter Virginia wrote that her father had told her “If you see it in The Sun it’s so.”[8] O’Hanlon later told The Sun that her father thought the newspaper would be “too busy” to respond to her question and had said to “[w]rite if you want to,” but to not be disappointed if she got no response.[9] After sending the letter she looked for a response “day after day”.[9] O’Hanlon later said that she had waited for an answer to her letter for long enough that she forgot about it. Campbell theorizes the letter was sent shortly after O’Hanlon’s birthday in July and was “overlooked or misplaced” for a time.[10][a]

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Church’s response began: “Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age.” He continued to write that Santa Claus existed “as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist” and that the world would be “dreary” if he did not. Church argued that just because something could not be seen did not mean it was not real: “Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.” He concluded that:[23]

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“Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.” — Francis Church in The Sun on September 21, 1897

So true!

I always use “electricity” when I have to respond to any child’s question about reality.

Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy, The Great Pumpkin, an honest politician, or jumbo shrimp … … … … 

“Well, I am an electrical engineer and I KNOW electricity is real, but I can’t see it.  Why can’t other things, that we can’t see, be real?”

It’s worked for me so far, and I can’t imagine what I’ll say then. 

Merry, Happy, or just Seasonal Greetings, what ever you celebrate.

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DISCOURAGING: Corruption In The Church And The Duty To Withhold Support

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

https://tomrenz.substack.com/p/its-called-the-clot-shot-for-a-reason?publication_id=792813&post_id=181396315&isFreemail=true&r=69c48n&triedRedirect=true

It’s Called the Clot Shot for a Reason & Is Trump Being Set Up?
Dec 12, 2025
Tom Renz’s Newsletter
For God, family, and Country – The fight against corruption.

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Corruption In The Church And The Duty To Withhold Support

Near the end, I talk about one more institution that has betrayed a sacred trust. The Catholic Church has paid out enormous sums in settlements over clergy sexual-abuse cases, while dioceses continue to use parishioner donations to fund legal defenses that often prioritize the institution over abused children.

As a Catholic myself, I call for a simple act of conscience. Quit tithing until the Church stops using the collection basket to shield predators and starts openly confronting the rot. Giving money to an institution that will not protect the innocent is not charity.

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In a very pointed issue, Tom Renz’s Newsletter made several insightful points that I intend to blog about.  This is one.

The Catholic Church has strayed from “religion” into “politics”, with stops along the way at “hedonism” (sexual promiscuity with birth control), “murder” (abortion on demand), 
“condoning suicide” (euthanasia), “gay rights” (pedohilia priest blessing homosexual marriage), and finally “political corruption” (becoming a branch of Gooferment by taking money to “resettle” illegal immigration).

To misquote Reagan, … … 

“I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.” ― Ronald Reagan  

… … the good people and me didn’t leave the Church, the Catholic Church left us.

So sad, and as I have said before —  

https://reinkefaceslife.com/2023/11/12/discouraging-any-wonder-why-the-catholic-ghurch-has-lost-its-moral-authority/

— the Catholic Church has lost its “moral authority”.

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MONEY: A dollar bill, it has no objective value

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

https://bigthinkmedia.substack.com/p/what-happens-when-intelligence-outgrows?publication_id=2863167&post_id=181390292&isFreemail=true&r=58ecz2&triedRedirect=true

The Big Think Interview with Yuval Noah Harari

  • What happens when intelligence outgrows its creators
  • We built genius machines, and gave them our blind spots.

Big Think
Dec 13, 2025

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If you consider, for instance, a dollar bill, it has no objective value whatsoever, at least not for human beings. Maybe termites can eat it, but humans can’t eat dollars, they can’t drink them. There is nothing useful you can do with them. They nevertheless have value because the greatest storytellers in the world, the finance ministers, the bankers, the investors, they tell us a story that this piece of paper is has value. I can use it to buy bread or potatoes or bananas or anything else.

As long as millions of people believe in this story, they are willing to work, for instance, on constructing and nuclear reactor because at the end of the month, they get these few colorful pieces of paper. Today, of course, it’s not even paper. Most of the money in the world today is not paper notes and metal coins. It’s just digital information moving between computers. But as long as people still have trust in the story about these digital information, it works.

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As the tin foil hat survivalists preach, at some point in time, “We, The Sheeple” will recognize that:

  • “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon” — Milton Friedman

  • “Inflation is theft, you’re stealing value from people who save money.”-Ron Paul

  • “The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of oppression and coercion — policemen, customs guards, penal courts, prisons, in some countries even executioners — had to be put into action in order to destroy the gold standard. Solemn pledges were broken, retroactive laws were promulgated, provisions of constitutions and bills of rights were openly defied. And hosts of servile writers praised what the governments had done and hailed the dawn of the fiat-money millennium.” — Ludwig von Mises

And, when the SHTF, people will seek band aids, beans, bullets, and bullion.  The farmer, the carpenter, the electrician, and the plumber will thrive.  The politicians, bureaucrats, celebrities, and influencers will starve.

Hope I never have to live thru it.

But it seems unavoidable.

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