QUOTE: “Time is money. It’s not. Money is time.”

Sunday, July 13, 2025

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From “Nautilus”

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In your book, Time Smart, you write, “Nothing less than our health and our happiness depends on reversing the nearly innate notion that time is money. It’s not. Money is time.” What do you mean by that?

Behavioral scientist Ashley Whillans: We’re indoctrinated with this idea that money and productivity are the path to greater happiness and success. My data speaks to the fact that this is not necessarily the best way by which to measure the satisfaction, productivity, and meaningfulness of your life. If anything, focusing on money is a path to unhappiness as opposed to satisfaction. My colleagues and I find consistent evidence that people who feel time-affluent, and in control of their schedules, report greater happiness, less stress, better health. They’re less likely to get divorced. They’re more likely to choose jobs that are satisfying. Time is not money, but happiness.

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“Time is money. It’s not. Money is time.” — Behavioral scientist Ashley Whillans

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Also I like:

“Not to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you’re alive and able — be good.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 

and

“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.” – Bertrand Russell

FWIW (For What It’s worth)

TANSTAAFL (“There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch” From Robert Heinlein’s classic) 

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

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SECURITY: Your own domain can prevent phishing

Saturday, July 12, 2025

An Original Thought

May I suggest that you have your own domain?

The common wisdom, or is that common whizdumb, is to own your own name as a domain name. I own “reinke.cc”. (I like saying “sea sea me at reinke.cc”! me@reinke.cc will actually work!) 

It gives one quite a bit of control. And, it’s very cheap. I know three solutions: wordpressdotcom with gmail, email only with 1and1, and domain+email+webspace also at 1and1. 

My point is not that you should use 1and1. http://www.1and1.com/?k_id=9113251 I could care less which one you use. It’s that getting on to your own domain with email is cheap and easy. 

And, it’s not aol, hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. It IS your own “personal brand”. And, the “bad guys” can’t fool you!

If you have your own domain, you can “bulletproof” your email from phishing and frauds!

Let’s assume that you have “your own domain” named “yourowndomain.com”, and you bank at “your bank” at “yourbank.com”.

You give “yourbank.com” your email address as “yourbankcom@yourowndomain.com”.  (Be prepared for some strange looks when you do this because the folk never heard of such and email address.)

Then you can set up an email filter  — let’s use Gmail as an example  —  that says:

  • Comes from “yourbank.com” and
  • Is addressed to “yourbankcom@yourowndomain.com” and 
  • You specify an label of “yourbank”

So all your email comes into GMAIL and gets assigned a label “INBOX”.

  • Anything that comes in that purports to be from “yourbank” MUST have the GMAIL assigned label of both “INBOX” and “yourbank”.
  • You can also set up an email filter for addressed to “yourbankcom@yourowndomain.com” and NOT addressed from “yourbank.com” and label it “PHISHING ATTACK”.
  • You can also set up an email filter for addressed NOT to “yourbankcom@yourowndomain.com” and addressed from “yourbankcom@yourowndomain.com” and label it “BANK GAVE OUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS”.

Pretty tricky and quickly eliminates PHISHING ATTACKS and identifies when the “BANK GAVE OUT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS”.

Applause please?  

Why the email providers can’t protect you by using the appropriate internet protocols is beyond me!

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Email authentication methods and protocols 

  • SPF (Sender Policy Framework)

    A sender policy framework (SPF) is a record published in your DNS that lists all the IP addresses that are allowed to send emails on behalf of your domain. When an incoming email is received, the recipient server will check the SPF record to verify if the sending IP address is authorized to send emails for that particular domain. If it’s not listed in the SPF record, there’s a higher chance that the email will be marked as spam or blocked altogether. While SPFs can help to prevent spam and phishing attempts, they also may reject legitimate emails in situations where the sender’s domain SPF records aren’t properly configured.

  • DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail)

    DKIM stands as a pivotal technology in the battle against email spoofing by attaching a digital signature to each outgoing email, linked directly to the sender’s domain name. This signature enables the recipient’s email server to verify whether an email purportedly sent from a specific domain is authorized by that domain’s owner. Given that emails often undergo multiple hops—redistributed by mailing lists or forwarding rules—DKIM ensures that signed messages can be reliably relayed by any server, maintaining their integrity and authenticity throughout their journey.

  • DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance)

    The DMARC protocol was built on top of SPF and DKIM, and relies on senders and receivers sharing information to ensure a smooth validation process. DMARC refers to SPF and DKIM records to validate a sender’s identity, along with testing whether the domain they use is found in the “from” address. If an email does not pass the validation test, DMARC provides rules on how to treat the message based on certain conditions. This protocol can help domain owners block phishing attacks by filtering such messages into spam, or rejecting them altogether.

  • BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification)

    If you’ve ever seen an email from a brand that included their logo right in the sender column, that brand was using BIMI. Improving email security with BIMI involves using an authentication system that enables trusted senders to display an icon of their choice directly in senders’ inboxes. BIMI can boost recipients’ trust in your messages, while heightening visibility of your brand.

  • MTA-STS (Mail Transfer Agent Strict Transport Security)

    MTA-STS is a security standard that enables you to send and receive messages securely over an encrypted SMTP connection. The MTA-STS protocol enhances email security by enabling an SMTP client to confirm the server’s identity during the TLS handshake. It does this by requiring the server to present its certificate fingerprint, which the client then matches with a trust store of certificates from verified servers. This process ensures the client does not connect to fraudulent servers, maintaining secure communication. 

  • TLS reporting

    TLS reporting is a mechanism that enables email senders to report issues with TLS connectivity.

    T is more effective when used alongside MTA-STS. The strict enforcement mode of MTA-STS will prevent email delivery if TLS issues are detected, ensuring a higher level of security and reliability in email communications.

  • ARC (Authenticated Received Chain)

    ARC acts as a “chain of custody” for email messages. It enables every entity involved in processing the message to clearly see which entities have previously interacted with it. At every stage of handling, it provides a detailed authentication assessment. The primary advantage of ARC, now adopted by the majority of mail servers, is its solution to a significant issue: previously, when a DMARC-protected email was forwarded, it would fail DKIM authentication and, consequently, DMARC. ARC preserves all original authentication information, allowing the final recipient’s mail server to verify that the email was DKIM authenticated before being forwarded.

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POLITICAL: Did he just plea out because of the death penalty?

Friday, July 11, 2025

FROM 1440 https://join1440.com/

https://apnews.com/article/kohberger-idaho-students-killed-91eeb98eebd3d9b007e4a5cae0f81030?utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter&user_id=66c4b9c55d78644b3a882a4d

Bryan Kohberger to plead guilty to killing 4 University of Idaho students in deal to avoid execution
By REBECCA BOONE, GENE JOHNSON and MARK SCOLFORO
Updated 12:35 AM EDT, July 1, 2025

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty, an attorney for one victim’s family said Monday.

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I always wonder if he really did it, OR did he just plea out because of the death penalty?

As a gun-owning pro-life pro-choice little L libertarian, I’m against the death penalty for moral and irreversible grounds.  Moral because the Gooferment shouldn’t be able to do anything I can’t do since Gooferment is a fiction and represents a collection of individuals.  Irreverable since mistakes happen and there is no way to un-die someone.

We have the saying that “better a hundred guilty go free that one innocent be imprisioned”.  Plea bargains, regardless of the guilt or innocence, seems to make a mockery of our sense of “justice”.  Any more than poor “defendants” get Legal Aid and rich “defendants” get the best money can buy.  Also, even a rich “defendant” can be impoverished when faced with a Gooferment bureaucrat with unlimited funds to convict them.  

Finally, how fair is our “justice system” when some civil and criminal cases “cost” a staggering amount of attention, time, and money?  A Pyrrhic victory is a win that comes at such a significant cost to the victor that it is almost tantamount to defeat.  One has to wonder.

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TINFOILHAT: Anyone think Epstein was stupid enough to keep a client list?

Thursday, July 10, 2025

> On Jul 8, 2025, at 9:18 PM, reinkefj found and shared:

https://x.com/glennbeck/status/1942442921103614098?s=12

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Glenn Beck

Digital disruptor. Truth-teller. Philanthropist ($250M+ raised). Founder of The Blaze. Building The Torch. Empowering the people, not the system.

The Epstein “Evidence List” isn’t just damning—it’s clarifying. No matter what you believe about Epstein’s past or fate, five conclusions can be logically drawn from the material seized.

This thread is for anyone who still cares about truth. 

1. This Was Not a Small or Isolated Operation

Dozens of devices. Thousands of photos. Labeled photo albums. Surveillance tapes. Blueprints. Foreign passports.

This wasn’t one man with a dark secret. This was infrastructure. Logistics. Coordination.

A system.

2. There’s a Massive Digital Footprint

Hundreds of hard drives, USBs, CDs, backup servers—some labeled with things like “nude girl pics book 4.”

Travel logs. Employee directories. Video tapes.

The real question:

Why hasn’t this been fully disclosed to the public?

3. Intelligence Involvement Isn’t a Stretch

An Austrian passport with Epstein’s face. Honeytrap-style setups. International mobility.

Too much precision, too much reach, too many decades undetected.

This isn’t wild theory.

It’s a logical hypothesis.

4. The System’s Silence Is Itself Evidence

If anyone else had even 1/10 of this material—underage photos, coded filenames, flight logs—they’d be under a prison.

But here?

Crickets.

No prosecutions. No answers.

That’s the real scandal.

5. Our Institutions Are On Trial

This is bigger than Epstein.

It’s about media complicity.

Justice deferred.

Power protected.

Truth buried.

Until this case is fully revealed, every elite institution carries a stench they can’t wash off.

To dismiss this as “conspiracy” is to admit you no longer believe in accountability.

Truth about Epstein is not morbid curiosity.

It’s a civic test.

And every day we fail to demand answers, we normalize elite immunity.

If we don’t confront what’s in those files…

We’ve declared that truth in America is now negotiable.

That justice is a luxury of the unimportant.

That power is a shield for the perverse.

The Epstein case isn’t over.

It’s the Rosetta Stone of public trust.

And if we don’t get to the bottom of it,

we’ll never restore what’s already been lost.

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AND

Michael Weaver ✡︎ 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 @MichaelGWeaver

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@TheJusticeDept claims there’s no “list”, this is simply not true. The faces of the perpetrators on those videos as well as the 20,000 images from Epstein’s mansion in Manhattan that’s on multiple hard drives is a list. The flight logs to pedo Island is a list. The bank accounts of the individuals that paid for “services” to the bank account that Epstein had (which was later seized and became the Epstein Compensation Fund) is a list. I don’t believe for an instant that the @FBI couldn’t cross reference these three sources together and come up with a definitive list of individuals to, at the very least, indict and bring in for questioning. So if @FBIDDBongino and @FBIDirectorKash are going to double down, then make sure the sick, evil pedophiles who were associated with Epstein never see the light of day again.

https://x.com/FBIDDBongino/status/1942373596589965618

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My Luddite friend responded: “Anyone think Epstein was stupid enough to keep a client list?

I replied: “Yes!”

I’m often accused of having a “tin foil hat” and will believe any assertion of a conspiracy by the elite.  

“Just because you’re not paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” — Andy Grove

I should have been keeping a better list.  Because it’s a moral certainty in my mind that “We, The Sheeple” are being defrauded, killed, and kept in the dark by a cabal of “powerful elite”.  The Dead Old White Guys were rightly afraid that the American Revolution would devolve in a French inspired “Reign of Terror”.  And rightly so, imho. 

Here we have the spark that could set it off in the USA.

Like many other Conspiracy Theories, I deem this one checking the Conspiracy Theorist “thermometer”  — Conspiracy Theory Taxonomy and Ruler (Type and Veracity)  — 

Type: Political

Class 2. Likely

Bottom line: What is “We, The Sheeple” going to do about it?   Probably nothing.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? . . .” — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

We may have reached that point!

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SURVIVAL: Disney Cruise passengers – father and daughter – went overboard

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

https://nypost.com/2025/07/01/us-news/disney-cruise-passenger-describes-terrifying-moment-a-father-and-daughter-went-overboard/

Disney Cruise passenger describes terrifying moment a father and daughter went overboard

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​I don’t know if I would jump over. It’s probably one of those “reaction” to stimuli — in USAF survival skrule, we were taught that in a crisis, 80% of people will “freeze”, 15% will “panic”, and 5% (or less) will immediately take effective personal action due to prior planning or training. We had to tread water for 60 minutes although we were allowed to use our pants as a life jacket as we were trained. Not sure I could do that now. Kudos to the crew and cruise line for being prepared for an accident or a drunken fool.

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PARADIGM: Just do it now

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Just do it now.

Seems simple.

Nike says “Do it” but that seems too simple.

Wife says “do it NOW!” But that seems impossible.

So I’ve come up with a new “heuristic”  — heuristic (rule of thumb)  — for myself.

Have a thought?

Estimate time to complete!

If less than a minute, be NIKE and “just do it”.

If less than FIVE minutes AND time permits, listen to wife and “do it NOW!”

For all other ideas, tasks, dikw (i.e., data, information, knowledge, wisdom), just “capture it”!

When “capturing”: first option is use GOOGLE TASKS, second option is write it in my Little Black Book in my back pocket, third is scribleit somewhere to be transcribed later, fourth is dictate to Siri or any such tool.

Let’s see how that works?

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TECHNOLOGY: “Mail Send Delay” universal option?

Monday, July 7, 2025

AN ORIGINAL THOUGHT

After sending an email to the wrong list of people, I wondered why I couldn’t have a “Mail Send Delay” universal option?

Can’t do it in GMAIL!

Can’t do it in APPLE MAIL!!

Can’t seem to find it in ANY EMAIL Client! ! !

Argh!

It’s as if every time you sealed an envelope, then you immediately had to run to the Post Office and send it out.

Argh!

Where are the User Interface coders getting their specs?

Certainly not from this User!

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NEWJERSEY: Toms River school district faces bankruptcy amid funding cuts

Sunday, July 6, 2025

https://nj1015.com/toms-river-schools-budget-bankruptcy/?lh_aid=84349&lh_cid=avnwclefpx&utm_campaign=major_school_district_going_bankrupt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=letterhead&utm_term=nj1015&di=ca6ddcd42fe88d809a7b373af906834f

Facing bankruptcy, Toms River schools defy New Jersey education officials
Rick Rickman
Published: July 2, 2025

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  • Toms River refuses to pass budget amid $175 million in state cuts
  • School officials won’t follow orders to stop programs
  • Taxes would need to go up by nearly 13%

TOMS RIVER — The largest school district in Ocean County, on the verge of declaring bankruptcy due to funding cuts, is slamming the Murphy administration for demanding that it stop student services.

On Monday, the Toms River school board refused to pass a budget for the upcoming fiscal year.

The district, which serves over 14,600 students, has lost $175 million in recent years due to changes in the state funding formula.

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Local lawmakers say the problem is Toms River’s spending, it’s Gov. Murphy’s cuts.

In a statement, a group of Republican lawmakers representing parts of Ocean County condemned changes to New Jersey’s school funding formula.

“Toms River is one of the most efficient and fiscally responsible districts in the state. This is a revenue problem, created entirely by a deeply flawed and politically driven funding formula, implemented with zero transparency and even less accountability,” the group of state lawmakers said.

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Ahhh, Gooferment Skrules, the flash point of Taxpayer unrest.

Putting mytin foil hat on, might the “State” currently in the hands of the Democrats be seen as punishing Ocean County for its continued Republican support?  I’m sure that thought NEVER entered the “good” politicians and bureaucrats, who only want the best for the State, its “subjects”, and the Taxpayer aka slaves who pay for “good Gooferment”.  Argh!

Sorry but it all goes to the core of several issues (imho):  

  • Should we have Gooferment Skrules with the “Teachers’ Union” controlling State politics?
  • Should “taxes” be collected at the State level or should they only be collected at the lowest local level? (Remember the Golden Rule  —  he or she, who has the gold, makes the rules.)
  • Shouldn’t the Taxpayers’ have a representative body that can veto taxes? (When I has a house in Seaside Heights, I paid taxes but had no voice in objecting to tax hikes or intrusive regulations.)

Yesterday, I proposed my plan to end State funded Gooferment Skrules over 20, 40, or 60 years.  I was getting traction until the “leadership” of the Hands Across New Jersey tax revolt group sold out to the Republican Party establishment.

Maybe some young conservative can pick up that “flag” and advance it over the goal line.

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NEWJERSEY: Unfortunately, the New Jersey taxpayers have to live in the real world.

Saturday, July 5, 2025

https://savejersey.com/2025/06/this-isnt-leadership/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-isnt-leadership&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=this-isnt-leadership

This isn’t leadership
June 28, 2025
Dawn Fantasia

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My heart is breaking for the state of New Jersey — and I am furious.

The Democrats push preschool expansion for 3- and 4-year-olds while ignoring the crumbling schools we already have — schools with no busing, failing test scores, stripped extracurriculars, and students forced to pay to participate in basic activities. All while their parents are crushed by obscene taxes.

Meanwhile, irresponsible school districts are using our tax dollars to go on lavish trips to Honolulu, hold open bar events, and spend $225,000 on balloon decorations — while holding their hands out claiming there’s no money for teachers, programs, or transportation.

They’re seizing a multi-generational family farm through eminent domain to force mandated “affordable” housing that our communities can’t afford and our infrastructure can’t support.

They’ve turned their backs on clean, affordable natural gas and shut down reliable power sources — chasing green energy fantasies that don’t exist — while we import energy from fossil fuels and coal-burning states and pretend it’s progress.

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 About Dawn Fantasia 8 Articles

Dawn Fantasia (R) represents New Jersey’s 24th Legislative District in the General Assembly. 

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The Pepuls Republik of Nu Jerzee has been “fiscally raped” by the Democrat party, the “Teachers’ Union”, and all sorts of leftist liberal midwest with dreams of an “ideal world”.

Unfortunately, the New Jersey taxpayers have to live in the real world.

All the economics are headed in the wrong direction.

Dismal results, escalating costs, and a complete utter failure of any type of political supervision or will to address the problem.

When faced with an utter collapse, I suggest we “declare victory” and let the parent do what they want.

In the HANDS ACROSS NEW JERSEY tax revolt, I proposed a 60 year “solution’ to migrate from the current system to a radial solution.  It was simple:

  • Recognize that for what the Taxpayer spends on “education”, all students could go to the Princeton Hun Academy (obviously absurd)
  • All schools would be “gifted” to the schools’ staff to organize (subject to some restictions on selling the real estate)
  • All students would be giver “red vouchers” representing the State’s contribution to their education.
  • For the next 20 years, each year 5% of the red vouchers would turn “green” meaning the parents and guardians could “spend” them at any accredited school (meaning there would be a few rules around it)
  • For the following 20 years, 5% of all “red vouchers” would turn “green”.
  • For the final 20 years, the State would reduce the gross voucher amount by 5%
  • At the conclusion of 60 years, “public education” would no longer exist
  • I had a lot of details that (1) schools would have to post a bond to guarantee that they would stay in business; (2) School share holders would be locked in for some period of time; and (3) anyone moving in state would be “green”,

And, we could finally be free of the Gooferment Skrules, the Teachers’ Union (influence in politics), and the Prussian Model of “School” (making cannon fodder for the Army, willing morons for the factories, and useful idiots to vote for and be led by the elite).

Unfortunately, I wasn’t up to the task of selling the idea.   The R’s (republicans as opposed to the Democans) infiltrated the HANJ organization and destroyed any hope.

Sigh!

Imagine the Gooferment took over the shoe industry and only made average one-size-fits-all size 8½ shoes. How would that work out?  Yup, just like today’s education “system”. 

Argh!

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INSPIRATIONAL: Red Skelton’s Pledge of Allegiance

Friday, July 4, 2025

https://youtu.be/pGcwRnQUmUw?si=fcL2zf6rcYMx9CQc

Red Skelton’s Pledge of Allegiance

In 1969, Red Skelton performed … a salute to Old Glory, we revisit an all-time classic rendition of the Pledge of Allegiance.

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I remember that on TV.  Who would miss Red Skelton?  Like Johnny Carson, unmissable!

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