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MEME: Problems and Solutione
Friday, September 5, 2025
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GRAVEYARD: Typepad, a wordpress competitor back in the day, is going down
Friday, September 5, 2025https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html
Typepad is shutting down
August 27, 2025
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We have made the difficult decision to discontinue Typepad, effective September 30, 2025.
What Does This Mean for You?
After September 30, 2025, access to Typepad – including account management, blogs, and all associated content – will no longer be available. Your account and all related services will be permanently deactivated.
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Luckily I chose WordPress and dabbled in Google’s Blogger.
Sad to see these “old” favorites going down. Hope someone saves their content.
:-(
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JOBSEARCH: The alternative to being “Quietly Fired” is “Quietly Quitting”
Thursday, September 4, 2025‘The Hope Is That You Will Eventually Quit’: Experts Reveal the Signs That You Are Being Quietly Fired Are you a target of this passive-aggressive management tactic? Here are the signs.
By David James Aug 14, 2025
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- Quiet firing involves employers intentionally treating an employee so badly that they leave.
- A recent HR study of 1,000 managers found that 53% engaged in it.
- Some of the signs of quiet firing include the removal of resources and responsibilities.
A passive-aggressive form of management is making headlines: quiet firing, the practice where bosses make working conditions so unpleasant for an unwanted employee that the person leaves on their own accord.
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3. Being left out of meetings. Being cut out of communications and planning for upcoming initiatives is the biggest red flag that you are being quietly fired, the experts told USA Today.
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… … keep a record of everything — save emails and request feedback in writing, and keep all of this documentation on a personal computer. As the experts point out, quiet firing isn’t necessarily illegal, but it is if it is tied to discrimination or workplace retaliation.
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<< Maybe I should begin a thread on “Job Employment Self-Defense”?>>
With all the emphasis on AI and “replacement by H1B’s”, the average “salaryman” (to steal a Japanese concept) should be on alert and taking steps to secure their continued employment (i.e., a steady paycheck).
My old advice still has value:
Success for your generation is: (1) ruthless financial discipline — no bad debt; (2) a life long interest in learning — education — a degree — they can’t take it away from you; (3) a NON-OFFSHORABLE white collar job in order to save big bux; (4) a blue collar skill for hard times — never saw a poor plumber; (5) one or more internet based businesses — your store is always open; (6) a free time hobby that generates income; and (7) a large will-maintained network of people who can “help” you.
BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), now there is a new survival imperative.
(8) creating value both inside your current job and outside of it as well.
INSIDE, might take the form of careful observation of the bureaucracy around you and what could be eliminated, condensed, transformed, or enlarged. Don’t be afraid that you will be eliminated. If you find it out, then someone else will too. Be motivated.
OUTSIDE, it could be taking your dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) to another employer or competitor. You should have all YOUR stuff duplicated off-site lest you get surprised and walked out.
<<When I was on Wall Street brokers used to keep a “shadow book” at home. Often then they were fired and walked out, they were contacting old clients before the Firm had even a replacement in place. One fellow’s wife was his at home admin assistant and started before he was even out of the building. That’s being prepared.>>
In summary, remember that the alternative to being “Quietly Fired” is “Quietly Quitting” aka being prepared and executing your pre-departure actvities.
Forewarned is forearmed. (Or is it FOUR armed?)
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HEALTH: What fact can we “tease out” of just that single factoid?
Wednesday, September 3, 2025Sudden deaths, incapacitations soar among COVID-jabbed airline pilots: report
- Since 2021, deaths of ‘younger’ airline pilots have risen markedly, long-term disabilities have surged, and near-miss incidents at airports have skyrocketed.
Doug Mainwaring — Mon Aug 25, 2025 – 4:22 pm EDT
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“Something happened in 2021” that has jeopardized air travel safety, according to a disturbing report by Dr. Kevin Stillwagon, a retired airline pilot and immunology expert.
Mounting evidence points to the COVID-19 vaccinations that airlines, acting under pressure from the U.S. government, mandated or otherwise coerced their cockpit, cabin, and ground crews into taking.
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You don’t have to be an epidemiologist to look at subsets of the population and draw reasonable inferences.
Pilots dying and incapacitated in far larger numbers than the historical average.
What fact can we “tease out” of just that single factoid?
It’s reasonable to blame the Covid 19 “vaccine” and just on that basis alone stop allowing it. Certainly not mandating it or even recommending it. Maybe some careful investigation MIGHT need some testing. But there would have to be a lot of safeguards and planning for adverse impacts.
Similarly we can see from the Amish that there is some connection between autism, which is virtually nonexistent in the Amish community (as is obesity), and something we, in the general population, are doing. First thing that comes to mind is vaccination.
Based on that alone, we should be suspending most if not all vaccinations until we establish safety as a prime directive.
Remember the Nuremberg requirement for informed voluntary consent for ALL medical actions!
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ConspiracyTheories: Is the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, a chemical disaster covered up by Governor?
Tuesday, September 2, 2025Trump v. Leftist Crime, Homelessness, & Poverty
Aug 25, 2025
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We also discussed the East Palestine, Ohio, train derailment, a chemical disaster covered up by Governor Mike DeWine’s Ohio EPA. Environmental scientist Scott Smith’s tests revealed dangerously high dioxin levels, contradicting the EPA’s claims of safety. Rather than investigate, the EPA surveilled Smith, tracked his movements, and shared his personal information, including photos of his dog, among 50+ employees. This aligns with reports of manipulated soil data by Norfolk Southern and the EPA, shielding corporate liability at the expense of public health. Rumors of intentional derailment and political profiteering persist, though hard evidence remains elusive, just more conspiracy theory… or something like that.
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Certainly hasn’t gotten much attention. And, why the Gooferment’s emphasis and attention on ane critic?
Surely there must be one honest independent journalist with a chemistry lab connection that can establish some evidence? Or will this be like countless other disasters that have been “swept under the rug”?
Do we have to wait for the bodies to pile up like with the Covid mRNA “vaccine” or the hospital is filled with babies suffering from Thalidomide birth defects?
Hope not!
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GOVERNACIDE: Are Canada’s “assisted suicide laws nothing more than “eugenics” nothing more than murder by Gooferment
Monday, September 1, 2025https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15031627/Canada-euthanasia-newborn-BABIES-disabled.html
Terrifying new details of Canada’s advancing assisted suicide laws… including push to euthanize newborn BABIES
By GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO, US CHIEF REPORTER
Published: 10:02 EDT, 25 August 2025 | Updated: 10:25 EDT, 25 August 2025
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Canada’s assisted suicide laws have continued rapidly expanding in recent years, with a group of doctors now pushing for disabled newborn babies to be euthanized.
The demand for euthanasia is so high that doctors who provide it cannot keep up, according to a new report by The Atlantic.
Assisted dying, legalized in 2016, now accounts for about one out of 20 deaths in Canada, far surpassing countries where it’s been legal for longer.
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Canada’s road to allowing euthanasia began in 2015, when its top court declared that outlawing assisted suicide deprived people of their dignity and autonomy. It gave national leaders a year to draft legislation.
The resulting 2016 law legalized both euthanasia and assisted suicide for people aged 18 and over, provided they met certain conditions.
They had to have a serious, advanced condition, disease, or disability that was causing suffering and their death was looming.
The law was later amended to allow people who are not terminally ill to choose death, significantly broadening the number of eligible people.
Critics say that change removed a key safeguard aimed at protecting people with potentially decades of life left.
Today, any adult with a serious illness, disease, or disability can seek help in dying.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/the_return_of_eugenics.html
The Return of Eugenics
By Robert Weissberg — August 25, 2025
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If one word is guaranteed to enrage the woke mob, it is eugenics, a term conjuring up images of Hitler, the Holocaust, white supremacy, and sterilizing the feeble-minded. Yet, despite the odium surrounding “eugenics,” it is, paradoxically, making a comeback thanks to medical advances, not the rise of right-wing ideology. Vast sums are currently being invested in firms to promote eugenics, but the term “eugenics” is never uttered.
Recent newspaper stories recount how parents employ cutting-edge scientific advances in genetics to have the best possible children while avoiding deadly genetic defects like cystic fibrosis. A New York Post story – “Silicon Valley Parents Spend Thousands to Screen Embryos in Search of ‘Baby Geniuses’” — recounted parents spending upwards of $50,000 to screen embryos to discover one with the best genes for intelligence prior to fertilizing it, and then via In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) implanting it in the woman’s womb. The Post story mentions two intelligence screening start-ups — Nucleus Genomics and Heraslight — both funded by major Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.
A particularly successful illustration of this new eugenics is Orchid Health headed by Noor Siddiqui with thousands of clients thanks to its 100 U.S. clinics, a figure that doubled from the previous year. Given the complexity of human genetics, Orchid Heath’s claims to use as few as five cells from the mother’s embryo to develop a “polygenetic risk score” to predict a child’s future chances for some 1200 single-gene disorders plus more complex polygenetic illnesses such as bipolar disorder, cancer, and Alzheimer’s disease. According to its mother, one of Elon Musk’s children was from an embryo screened by Orchid Heath and, at Musk’s request, the embryo was screened for intelligence (the firm does not usually screen for intelligence but will do it on request).
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As gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, I find this deplorable. And, interesting that two stories come to light on the issue from different authors and perspectives.
Are we so full of hubris that we can be like the ancient Aztecs, who sacrificed children to appease their “gods”. What “god” are we appeasing?
Often I see uplifting stories about “disabled children” who grow up and have “good” lives.
And, how do these babies give their “informed consent”? Or those with confirmed “mental illnesses”?
Sorry but this is murder or maybe even genocide when you take into account abortions!
My favorite analogy or metaphor is what if we are killing the “golden child”?
https://reinkefaceslife.com/2010/02/26/political-right-to-life/
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My greatest fear is that we will kill “the Golden Child”. In Will Crowther’s Colossal Cave Adventure game, if you killed the bird in Cave #7, you never could proceed past the snake in Cave #11. (Although it was funny to see smart engineers trying “stuff” when it was impossible to proceed.) What if the potential person that’s killed is the next Salk who will cure cancer, the next Hawkings who will explain the Universe, or the next Mother Teresa who will comfort untold number of sufferers?
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If we “believe” that all humans have “rights”, and we can argue about when those rights INURE to any person (i.e., conception; birth; when they can assert them; when they can fight for them), when does our civil society recognize those rights?
Sigh!
Otherwise we are nothing more than talented savages existing in a “might makes right” world.
The Nuremberg Code is a set of ethical principles for human experimentation established after World War II, emphasizing the necessity of voluntary consent and the moral obligation to protect human subjects in research.
And today’s medical professionals are transgressors and should be hung too.
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HEALTHCARE: Died from anaphylactic shock after CT dye
Sunday, August 31, 2025https://nypost.com/2025/08/25/world-news/law-graduate-leticia-paul-dies-at-22-after-routine-ct-scan/
Law graduate Leticia Paul dies at 22 after routine CT scan
By Richard Pollina — Published Aug. 25, 2025, 3:05 a.m. ET
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A young, thriving Brazilian lawyer tragically died after suffering a severe allergic reaction during a routine CT scan.
Leticia Paul, 22, suffered an anaphylactic shock on Wednesday while undergoing a contrast-enhanced CT scan at Alto Vale Regional Hospital in Rio do Sul, according to G1.
The fatal reaction was triggered by the contrast dye injected before the scan.
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Anaphylactic shock is a sudden and life-threatening allergic reaction that can cause airway constriction, throat swelling, a sharp drop in blood pressure, and other severe symptoms, according to the Cleveland Clinic. Urgent medical care is needed to avoid fatal outcomes.
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This is so sad. No indication that anyone did anything wrong.
I guess that the treatment guidelines will need to be revised for (I assume) first time dye recipients?
So young.
Argh!
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MEME: Anarchism
Saturday, August 30, 2025
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PEACE: Cynicism is the only sensible response to the Nobel Peace Prize
Saturday, August 30, 2025https://jeffjacoby.com/28785/trump-and-the-not-so-noble-nobel
Trump and the not-so-noble Nobel
by Jeff Jacoby — August 19, 2025
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Which is why it’s futile to get worked up over the Trump boomlet. If Oslo decides to indulge his lobbying and flatter his vanity, it will not mean he deserves the accolade any more than Obama deserved his prize in 2009 or Arafat his in 1994. It will mean only that the Nobel committee has once again done what it so often does: confused politics with principle. Trump’s critics will rage, his admirers will gloat, and history will judge the man by what he actually does, not by what the Norwegians proclaim. In the end, cynicism is the only sensible response to the Nobel Peace Prize.
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At the risk of “pile-ing on”, I agree that BHO44, and whole host of others, don’t deserve what has become a “political powder puff”.
AI sourced a snarky quote about the French Revolution:
Ah, the French Revolution—proof that sometimes it takes a century or two to realize that chopping off heads doesn’t always lead to a better government. But hey, at least they had a great time with the guillotine!”
Wish it could have given the source.
Why don’t we see the “clay feet” of these supposedly great “peaceful” characters?
Maybe we just don’t give enough time for history to weigh in on their “achievements” or lack of them.
Maybe like saints, we need a devil’s advocate to mount an adversarial position.
I think most politicians and bureaucrats would be found “lacking”.
The last fellow I thought deserved recognition was Schindler as portrayed in the movie. They are few and far between.
Sigh!
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HEALTH: So why is RFKjr excoriated for his being an “anti-vaxer”? Anyone remember thalidomide!
Friday, August 29, 2025BREAKING: CDC Child Death Records Indicate Severe Transgenerational Harm of Mass mRNA Vaccination
- A new analysis of CDC data by The Ethical Skeptic shows children born following mass mRNA vaccination of mothers are dying at a 77% excess rate.
by Nicolas Hulscher, MPH — Aug 21, 2025
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A new analysis by The Ethical Skeptic of CDC/NCHS death certificate data using Deviation from Trend (DFT) analysis reveals a disturbing development: a sharp, sustained rise in infant and child mortality among those who neither had COVID-19 nor received the vaccine, but whose parents were previously exposed to mRNA injections.
The evidence points to two risks—teratogenic effects during pregnancy and transgenerational epigenetic effects passed through germline biology. Together, they raise historic concerns about the long-term impact of synthetic mRNA technology.
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Anyone remember thalidomide? I do.
The adverse effects of a “morning sickness” drug given to expectant mothers was found to cause birth defects in their children.
https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)62157-5/fulltext
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In the United States, the drug was never approved for marketing, thus averting a major tragedy. Thalidomide initially was denied Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval by Dr Frances Kelsey, who reviewed the new drug application and had concerns about the lack of safety data.7 Dr Kelsey was instrumental in preventing the drug from being marketed in the United States. Once the teratogenic properties of the drug were known, the application for FDA approval was withdrawn. Dr Kelsey subsequently received the President’s Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service from President John F. Kennedy.
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So why is Rfkjr being excoriated for his being an “anti-vaxer”? Isn’t he pointing out that the mRNA “vaccines” have not been adequately tested?
I don’t understand how one bureaucrat is lauded for holding up a drug and another is criticized for basically doing the same thing?
Argh!
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address
Thursday, August 28, 2025FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address
Molly Taft — Aug 20, 2025 7:00 AM
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Workers at FEMA worry that demanding disaster survivors access services using email could shut out people without internet connectivity from receiving government aid.
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Argh!
Of all the ivory tower elitest ideas, this one takes the bobbly prize!
Guess that rules out the Amish. Oh yeah, they are the ones that come and provide aid quickly and don’t require an email id.
DJT4747 should hear this bone headed idea!
Guess next they should have the latest iPhone too. Argh!
I guess in lieu of an email they could use Citizen#<insert ssn>@usa.gov?????
Argh!
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APPLE: Only one message destination fail to send???
Wednesday, August 27, 2025One problem that has just started happening today. I am trying to forward an imessage to 7726 spam and it’s not being sent. I’ve done extensive stuff singout and in; restarted. yada yada. And it is ONLY this one destination that is failing.
#102678619378
Never mind I can’t spend anymore time on it.
# – # – # – # – #
Apple chat support is slow to respond. Apple support options don’t let you focus on iMessage problems.
Argh!
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LIBERTY: Road to hell is paved with good intentions
Wednesday, August 27, 2025https://www.theadvocates.org/a-license-for-that/
A License for That?
- Will online safety cost us our digital liberties?
Jake Scott
Published in Personal Liberty – 5 mins – Aug 11
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The impacts of a two-year-old law are finally being felt in Britain—and, as the United States looks to pass its own Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), it should watch the unfolding situation with fear.
The Online Safety Act (2023) was passed by the previous Conservative government under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. But the legislative process began in February 2022, under Sunak’s predecessor-but-two, Boris Johnson. Implementation was delayed for an extensive period of time, largely due to controversy and logistics surrounding the law. The Office for Communications (Ofcom) laid out a roadmap for enforcement in October 2024, a full year after the law was passed.
As is usually the case, a law steeped in respectable aims—protecting children from harmful content—has rapidly revealed itself as a nefarious tool of control.
Nobody wants children to view pornographic content. That is hardly a controversial position. Yet so often the tools of authoritarianism are sold under the guise of protection. The echoes of Benjamin Franklin’s warning against sacrificing a little liberty for a little temporary safety ring louder in the Internet era; what was once the digital Wild West has become sanitized, watched, and regulated. And lurking behind the existence of the law itself is the question of who is actually responsible for the content that children view online—the government, the platforms, or—as seems to have been forgotten—their parents?
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Almost the exact same week as the law implementation, the UK saw widespread protests and near-riots in towns such as Epping and Diss, and even in cities like Leeds. These demonstrations, largely led by mothers and local residents over the sexual assault and harassment of young girls by asylum seekers and refugees in nearby hotels, quickly spread, and are still bubbling away in small towns.
Not that you would know this. The Online Safety Act has enabled censorship of footage of such protests on major platforms like X, on the basis that the footage could incite harm or encourage violence. This is not without precedent—the Arab Spring was considered to be the first “digital revolution” due to the role social media played in the spread of the revolution across the MENA region.
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Here we have it. Start from a “good intention” and suddenly we are at “Unintended Consequences”!
Nothing like a “one size fits all” “solution” that just happens to be useful for the Gooferment desire to censor the “news”. Argh!
Of course that’s just a convenient “coincidence”. Yeah, right!
“I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!” Captain Renault in Casablanca
What we see in the UK must not be allowed to “infect” “our” (as if they respond to use as opposed to their donors) politicians and bureaucrats with “good intentions”.
I don’t have solutions but I can see problems when the Gooferment strays outside of its limits.
Maybe “children seeing porn” is a problem for parents to solve?
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SECURITY: Does Uber know who’s really driving?
Tuesday, August 26, 2025https://www.ericpetersautos.com/2025/08/11/why-ride-hailing-is-not-as-safe-as-you-think/
Why Ride-Hailing Is Not as Safe as You Think
By badger – August 11, 2025
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Even with driver photos and license details, identity fraud is possible. Some drivers rent accounts or share them illegally. That raises big safety questions. Safety becomes an illusion when systems are not properly enforced. You might not know who is actually behind the wheel. This illusion affects both riders and drivers alike. When safety is marketed more than it is practiced, everyone loses in the end.
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I know that Uber has updated their app with a code you give the driver and you get a photo of the driver. I thought that would be enough.
BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), the “renting” and “sharing” of accounts shows a monkey wrench into their system.
Maybe they should require you to take a picture of the driver that then Uber can use AI to confirm who’s really driving?
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RECOMMENDED: I am moving from LASTPASS to BITWARDEN
Monday, August 25, 20255 password managers you should use instead of LastPass
- Tired of security scares? Ditch LastPass and switch to a password manager you can actually trust.
By Karandeep Singh — August 17, 2025
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Bitwarden is my default recommendation to anyone looking for a reliable password manager. It has everything you’d expect from an app built to handle your most sensitive data. Its free tier is one of the most generous out there, it’s available across platforms, and it even offers self-hosting if you’re feeling adventurous. The premium individual plan costs just $10 a year — an easy recommendation for the extras it brings.
Even if you stick with Bitwarden’s own servers for storage, you know your data is safe because it’s open source and independently audited. Plus, migrating your data from LastPass is a breeze using the included tools. The interface might not be as slick as its pricier alternatives, but it’s perfectly functional, and its safety upsides far outweigh any minor aesthetic caveats.
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I agree.
What more needs to be said?
One “feature” that’s a negative is that if you rerun an import, then you’ll gt duplicates. With no easy way to delete except one at a time.
Argh!
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TINFOILHAT: Was the FBI Behind the Oklahoma Bombing?
Sunday, August 24, 2025https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/08/was_the_fbi_behind_the_oklahoma_bombing.html
Was the FBI Behind the Oklahoma Bombing?
By Janet Levy — August 19, 2025
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It has always been hard to believe that the truck-bombing of the A.P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995, which killed 168 people, including 19 children at a daycare center, was planned by just one or two perpetrators acting alone. However, the official story states that the mastermind was Gulf War veteran Timothy McVeigh, and that the two others sentenced with him only helped him in various ways.
Right from the start, warning signs indicated that the investigation was being misled. The FBI developed a story claiming that a group called the Patriots Movement, which included anti-government extremists and white supremacists, was responsible for the attack. However, the agency also appeared to be trying hard to hide something. Consider these facts:
Twenty-four eyewitnesses saw a man with McVeigh just before the bombing. The FBI referred to him as John Doe 2 but later dismissed the idea that such a person existed. None of the witnesses who saw John Doe 2 were called to testify.
At least eight people connected to the investigation — including a brave police officer who was a first responder — died under mysterious circumstances, five of them reportedly by suicide.
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Too many “suicides” and the FBI’s track record for “entrapment” seems to make this credible. The ATF’s entire office “out of office” on that morning also is a giant red flag. Considering that all the facts were never given a proper hearing and that there is some connection to HRC and White Water investigation. Seems to me that there is enough smoke to suspect a fire.
Argh!
Checking the Conspiracy Theorist “thermometer” (i.e., Conspiracy Theory Taxonomy and Ruler Type and Veracity) says:
It’s Governmental and should be considered “More likely than not”.
Argh!
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MEME: Yoda on “Mystery serum”
Saturday, August 23, 2025
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GUNS: A burglar shot and killed … on parole
Saturday, August 23, 2025https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15011581/shelby-hurd-joliet-illinois-burglar.html
Burglar shot and killed by mother protecting her baby during home invasion is identified – and his past is terrifying
By MARYANN MARTINEZ and JIMMY MCCLOSKEY, US DEPUTY HEAD OF NEWS
Published: 14:19 EDT, 18 August 2025 | Updated: 18:13 EDT, 18 August 2025
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A burglar shot and killed by a mother as she hid her baby in a closet during a home invasion was a serial criminal who’d only recently been freed from jail.
Shelby Hurd, 36, died last Tuesday after being blasted in the head with a bullet while entering the unidentified mother’s home in Joliet, Illinois.
Patch reported that Hurd was only freed on parole in February this year over a slew of previous burglary convictions.
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Sadly some people never change or learn. Guess he can be nominated for a Darwin Award. Does not say if he was a “father”. It does say a lot about the Illinois prison and parole system. As a felon with multiple convictions, parole should NOT be considered.
As far as the lack of a “stand your ground” law in Illinois, I’m not surprised given that it is a “blue state”. The criminal must be afraid of the citizen. That can only happen when people have the means of “self defense”.
“This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty. … The right of self defence is the first law of nature: in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any colour or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.” ~ St. George Tucker 1803
Remember if having guns in civil society was a problem, given the number of guns and gun owners in the USA, we’d known it.
“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” — Robert A. Heinlein
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POLICY: Seems like the jury was blinded to the facts by the judge?
Friday, August 22, 2025Dad who ‘tried to strangle daughter in Muslim ‘honor killing’ is jailed for 32 months after shock verdict
By NIC WHITE, US SENIOR INVESTIGATIONS REPORTER
Published: 17:33 EDT, 18 August 2025 | Updated: 17:43 EDT, 18 August 2025
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A father accused of trying to strangle his teenage daughter in a Muslim ‘honor killing’ has been jailed for almost three years.
Ihsan Ali, 44, stood trial for second-degree attempted murder alongside his wife Zahraa Subhi Mohsin Ali, 40, over the October 18, 2024, attack.
A Thurston County Superior Court jury found them not guilty on July 31, but convicted Ihsan of lesser charges against his daughter Fatima Ali.
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It’s obvious that this was a miscarriage of “justice” to this girl.
The report doesn’t say what their immigration status is.
Regardless of what it is, the husband and wife should be either deported or denaturalized and deported.
It further apparent that they have not be good “citizens” hence the felony convictions.
I like Japan’s treatment of “muslims” due to their conduct and failure to live peacefully in civil society.
Islam is NOT a “religion”; it’s an ideology that seeks to fundamentally change society.
Hence, as a gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, they should depart from the USA and return to wherever they came from. They are not … …
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
… … “yearning to breathe free” and as such are not welcome to share in the American experiment.
Argh!
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NEWJERSEY: What was he doing out after ONE DWI charge?
Thursday, August 21, 2025https://savejersey.com/2025/08/journalist-ratioed-dwi-illegal-alien-ocean-county-new-jersey/
Journalist ratioed for declaring illegal alien fatal DWI suspect (with two prior arrests this year) had “largely clean driving record”
August 14, 2025 Matt Rooney
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His conviction record may be light? After all, he came here illegally from somewhere else! But to suggest a man with three pending DWI charges in a single year has a “largely clean” driving record is, at best, grossly manipulative particularly since the debate is over whether Phil Murphy’s sanctuary statehood regime prevented this asshole from being deported; had he been deported after either of the other alleged DWIs this year, then a mother and her child would still be alive today.
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What was he doing out after ONE DWI charge?
If I was the judge, I’d have found a way to keep him off the road. And, after the third charge, I’d say he was a “near and present” danger, and needed “quarantining”.
Lock him up until the trials.
Argh!
And, maybe the judge should be recalled or retired?
Argh!
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HEALTHCARE: Check for coupons at drug manufacture’s web sites
Wednesday, August 20, 2025LPT: Check for coupons at drug manufacture’s web sites
A relative of mine was at CVS picking up Treligy and paid a $150 copay. The lady clerk advised her to go home an check the Galaxo website for a coupon for a year’s free copay. If ok, come back with the coupon and receipt and she get a refund. When she did, she found it and the Rx was for someone not on Medicare or Medicaid, she got the coupon and got a refund.
Lesson learned: When taking a brand name med, always check the maker’s website for coupons. Only takes a few minutes and may pay off big time.
FWIW YMMV
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ENCOURAGING: Samaritan’s Purse is a great example of “foreign aid”
Tuesday, August 19, 2025https://www.samaritanspurse.org/our-ministry/a-flourishing-garden-of-faith-in-liberia/
A Flourishing Garden of Faith in Liberia
- In her desperation, Tutu cried out to God. He answered through a Samaritan’s Purse urban gardening project, which is now blessing her and others in need.
© Copyright 2025 Samaritan’s Purse. All rights reserved.
Samaritan’s Purse
PO Box 3000
Boone, NC 28607
828.262.1980
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Hunger and malnutrition are constant threats in Liberia, with few safety nets to catch families when they fall. Here, in one of the poorest nations on earth, parents often face incredibly difficult choices.
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The Samaritan’s Purse team brought shovels, hoes, rakes, a wheelbarrow. There were also seeds for lettuce, tomato, beetroot, pepper, and cabbage.
Our team showed Tutu how to build raised garden beds, how to space her crops for sunlight and airflow, and how to grow vegetables in sacks—a method she’d never seen before but one critical for avoiding erosion and soil diseases.
“I already knew a little about planting cassava—that’s a common food here—but I had never seen a garden with all these things,” she said. “Especially one growing in bags. That was new to me.”
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I love when a true charity sparks in the dejected impoverished individual entrepreneurship and that lifts them out of poverty and spreads dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom) organically in civil society. What more can someone ask for their personal “foreign aid” donation that to truly change the world?
I’ve read many times small charities distribute livestock to needy families or villages and eliminated starvation and poverty by introducing “capital animals” to spark optimism, hope, and industry.
Just recently, I read about “camel’s milk” becoming an “industry” by the introduction of some knowledge (i.e., camel care; processing milk) and some technology (i.e., milking tools and technique). How much could that have cost? And the “uplift” is enormous.
Western civilization has uncovered “capitalism” as the key that unlocks the prison of poverty. No better way to get hostile individuals to cooperate than by demonstrating “win win” solutions.
I’ve often thought badly about USA’s “foreign aid” which is described as “poor people in the USA donating to rich people in foreign countries”. What better way to transform it than to get “We, The Sheeple” to support these transformative charities. Gooferment can’t do “charity” efficiently or effectively. Private organizations can focus on worthy causes and individuals. Time to end Gooferment “foreign aid”.
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ENCOURAGING: Maybe AI isn’t so good after all
Monday, August 18, 2025Ask AI Why It Sucks at Sudoku. You’ll Find Out Something Troubling About Chatbots
- How much can you trust a generative AI tool if it can’t explain itself honestly or accurately?
Jon Reed — Aug. 8, 2025 4:00 a.m. PT
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That’s what researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder found when they challenged large language models to solve sudoku. And not even the standard 9×9 puzzles. An easier 6×6 puzzle was often beyond the capabilities of an LLM without outside help (in this case, specific puzzle-solving tools).
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You might expect LLMs to be able to solve sudoku because they’re computers and the puzzle consists of numbers, but the puzzles themselves are not really mathematical; they’re symbolic. “Sudoku is famous for being a puzzle with numbers that could be done with anything that is not numbers,” said Fabio Somenzi, a professor at CU and one of the research paper’s authors.
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That’s some “wonderkid” you’ve been celebrating in the press. “AI will revolutionize … <insert favorite profession>”!
So we have kids using it to cheat in school; NBD — no big deal.
Legal opinions cite incorrectly or cites non-existent court cases — BIG deal!
And, now it can solve a 6×6 sudoku. Or gives the wrong answer?
With the final straw, it can’t “show it’s work” (i.e., the steps it used to reach the “solution”).
Pardon me if I declare AI “not ready for prime time”!
The human equivalent is the Titan submersible suffering a catastrophic implosion and you want me to let is drive a truck? We don’t need AI to make disasters. Humanity can do it quite well without help.
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SECURITY: No technology needed for this hack; just call up and lie
Sunday, August 17, 2025https://www.wnd.com/2025/08/helpdesk-havoc-why-clorox-is-suing-indian-company/
Why Clorox is suing Indian company for $380 million
- In Clorox’s telling, the hacker didn’t crack advanced encryption or spear-phish executives. He just called Cognizant on the phone and lied
By Amanda Bartolotta — August 7, 2025
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In a San Francisco courtroom, the Clorox Company recently dropped a legal bombshell – a $380 million lawsuit against Indian-American information technology company Cognizant, alleging gross negligence in a 2023 cyberattack.
In the complaint dated July 22, 2025, Clorox contends a hacker simply called Cognizant’s helpdesk, lied about being an employee and was handed network credentials – no identity verification, no oversight, just a password transfer. The resulting cyberattack ended up paralyzing Clorox’s operations, costing upwards of $49 million in remediation and much more in lost business.
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Way back when I ran an information security desk, long before “password managers”, in the “yellow sticky note” era, I was challenged to reduce the number of password resets my group was doing. Not for security; a cost saving attempt. (We figured that every call cost the company about 50$ in lost productivity.) So my team came up with a great solution, when a call came in for a forgotten password, we’d just have the person have his supervisor call in for a reset. Laugh! Calls dropped dramatically. It was trivial to verify the supervisor since we’d just call them back at their number listed in the company phonebook. (Those still existed.) Then the supervisor would connect the employee and we’d do the reset. Call dropped so much we had weekly pool when the next one would come in. (Dollar a head per week. Pool grew about 20$ per week.) Sometimes we went a month without a reset.
Guess outsourcing your help desk was NOT so cost effective?
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GOVEROTRAGEOUS: When the Gooferment dosn’t stand up for property rights …
Saturday, August 16, 2025https://voxday.net/2025/08/06/a-conquered-people/
A Conquered People
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The British people still haven’t figured out yet that neither their police nor their government represent them or are on their side. And they’re still too “law-abiding” and respectful of “authority” to take matters into their own hands, even when their homes are literally being occupied by foreigners. From 4chan:
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My husband wants to break in and throw them out with his brothers. I’ve told him not to do this.
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If you won’t even defend your homes, your wives, or your daughters, you are a conquered people. You WILL be dispossessed and no one will shed any tears for you. Notice that the wife has actively dissuaded her husband from doing the only thing that will recover their home in a reasonable amount of time.
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How many times in the past few years have we read about “squatters” (usually illegal immigrants) taking over someone’s property? And, all attempts to get them out have failed. “Squatters” magically become “tenants” with “rights” and “due process”. And, if and when they are tossed out, the places is in ruins. That’s just not right.
- Why if they present a “false document” are they not immediately arrested for fraud? (Maybe leases have to be filed with the courts like deeds for a small recording fee? On a blockchain to be easily seen by authorities?)
- Why when they do get tossed are they not held liable for damages?
- And, if they are illegals, why are they not IMMEDIATELY deported?
- Why is such behavior tolerated by civil society?
In short, the Gooferment is lax in their protections of property.
Argh!
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GUNS: The FGC-9 (Fuck Gun Control 9mm) was designed by Jacob Duygu and the genie is out of the bottle big time
Friday, August 15, 2025https://reason.com/2025/08/08/making-the-world-freer-with-homemade-guns/
Making the World Freer with Homemade Guns
- DIY firearms aren’t just an end-run around the law; they represent a libertarian political movement.
J.D. Tuccille | 8.8.2025 7:00 AM
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Recently, while touting gun seizures in a city that has some of the most authoritarian gun laws in the United States, Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch lamented, “the number of illegal guns that we’ve seen used in New York City has exploded since 3D technology has come about.” She’s not alone. Homemade guns are increasingly sophisticated and available almost everywhere. That’s a good thing.
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Summarizing events at June’s MoneroKon conference in Prague, an annual meeting devoted to “privacy-enhancing technologies and distributed systems,” security expert Zoltán Füredi described a presentation by the pseudonymous Zé Carioca, designer of the recently unveiled Urutau, a 9mm select-fire firearm designed to be constructed with a 3D printer and components purchased at any hardware store. Rather than focus on his creation, Zé Carioca instead championed 3D-printed firearms as companions to cryptocurrency in challenging the power and reach of governments.
“His speech blurred the lines between technology, ideology, and extreme libertarian politics,” commented Füredi. He added of the speakers’ message, “Just as the freedom to transact (via cryptocurrency) is now seen as a fundamental human right, so too should be the right to bear arms—worldwide.”
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The (God given) Human Right to self-defense is essential the embodiment of the little L libertarian First Principle of Self-Ownership. If we don’t “own” ourselves, then who does?
Somewhere in the Libertarian An-Cap literature is the recognition that “rights” are: (a) something we have all agree that every human has; or (b) those things that an individual will die defending. To me, either definition is acceptable. There might be be another criteria around somewhere that a “right” is whatever and whenever a human can asset and defend it. Not so sure about that; do babies and fetuses have rights?
Interesting that the gun grabbers (i.e., politicians and bureaucrats) can NOT keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Sometimes they even get into their “jails”. And, like drugs, they can keep humans from finding way to get what they want.
So too, guns are merely tools and as such can’t be kept away from any human who is motivated and wants one.
I’m interested in how the WWII “liberator” handgun was used to arm the Nazi resistance. Why is today’s Gooferments beginning to look like Nazi Germany? (Remember the Japanese internment?) Tyrants and their regimes can not exist if the population just refuses to be terrorized. Ghost guns are the perfect solution to prevent that. Even here in the USA.
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