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[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

The quantum batteries that upend the rules of charging.…..The important thing is that “bigger” means more coherently participating quantum units, not simply a physically larger battery. Adding more cells appears to reduce the charging time. But remember that nuclear fusion is still only 10 years away, since we began waiting for it 60 years ago 🙂

[TheEncogitationer]

Jake:

Enco i never thought about the bicycle gender apartheid. I am not sure why. Usually i look junk up. Not this time. I may die never knowing why.

It’s not gender apartheid per se, since presumably it is mostly men who manufacture bicycles. It’s more lack of situational awareness by bicycle manufacturers and sales reps.

You may never ask the question, but you and your “junk” will find out why the question needs answering if you slip off of your bicycle seat. Then you might wish for the sting of death to end the pain of misplaced bars. Personally, I say recreational transportation that doesn’t systemicly threaten and injure delicate parts is best.

You should not make fun of Ben. Soon all Bens will be replaced by Benbots. They can’t be contained. Sandboxes are futile as you have probably read or heard.

Neither Bens nor anyone else nor Benbots should have a surgery implement in their hands or grips if they do not have an understanding and acceptance of the fundamental tenet of Biology known as Evolution. Also, not having violent urges that can only be calmed by scripture verses is a must. Otherwise Bens and anyone else and Benbots should remain in the sandbox.

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BTW how soon can i expect the brave new world of AI when it is causing us pain to be pinned on Jews?

Mr. Owl has not licked and crunched Antisemitism, Racism, or any other form of Collectivism or Irrationalism, so the world may only know when that happens. Until then, keeping AI from doing harm and eternal vigilance of an owl is the best practice.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

The quantum batteries that upend the rules of charging.…..The important thing is that “bigger” means more coherently participating quantum units, not simply a physically larger battery. Adding more cells appears to reduce the charging time. But remember that nuclear fusion is still only 10 years away, since we began waiting for it 60 years ago 🙂

So why couldn’t the Quantum Physicists use the particles that travel backwards in time to create a drive that makes the release date for fission and quantum batteries (not to mention other upcoming technologies) even quicker? I’m sure some collector somewhere still has a DeLorean “Snow-Mobile” and a Flux Capacitor. 🤔😁

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

We could solve the charging-time problem by sending the fully charged battery backwards in time to before it was plugged in? No engineering deadlines required. Why is the patent office always closed when I go there?

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

We could solve the charging-time problem by sending the fully charged battery backwards in time to before it was plugged in? No engineering deadlines required. Why is the patent office always closed when I go there?

Naturally, you’d have to time your going back in time to coincide with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) business hours. 😁

Also, be very careful to not claim you could go back in time in perpetuity.

Prima Facie, Ipso Facto, A Priori, Res Ipsa Loquitur the U.S. PTO will not approve patent applications for perpetual motion machines.
♾️🚫

(This has nothing to do with actual government bureaucracy or with “Lizard People” or “Small Hats” conspiracies against “suppressed technology,” but the Laws of Thermodynamics, which have never been known to bend to anyone.)

Then again, come to think of it, if time reversal really were effective, it could also reverse Entropy, which would put it against The Laws of Thermodynamics.

So, I guess we’ve got no choice but to shut up and enjoy our Nickel Cadmium and Nickel Metal Hydride cells. They still provide hours of enjoyment in toys for all ages. And nanotech will eventually come up with better ways to recycle the material of dead batteries.

And somewhere Thomas Sowell is tut-tutting and saying: “‘Told you so…”

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

An interesting opinion piece on ethics and moral identity.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

An interesting opinion piece on ethics and moral identity.

Problem is, The New York Times is so concerned about it’s paywall while shilling for Mamdani and not wanting anyone else to make money. Kinda undermines any talk of ethics and morality, especially the Reciprocity Ethic.

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

Inflaming Anti-Muslim bigotry is the GOP’s desperate distraction strategy from MAGA failures.

Forget it, Reg; It’s Tater-Town (‘Cuz, ya know, his name is Tommy Tuberville. Sounds like a friend of The Toy Formerly Known As Mr. Potatohead.)

On a more serious note, even though Islam is making some sinister in-roads into U.S. Society, we already have laws against Sha’ria Law. First, there’s Article VI, Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution–The Supremacy Clause–combined with the First Amendment, as well as the Fifth, Ninth, and Fourteenth Amendments. To quote the Supremacy Clause:

This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

This Supremacy Clause was made abundantly clear 161 years ago, at the cost of around 655,000 lives and 1,129,418+ wounded on both sides of the Civil War.

Also, there’s the prohibition on Religious Tests for Public Office in Article 3, Clause 3:

Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

And there is the prohibition on titles of royalty Article I, Section 9, Clause 8:

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

All of these provisions of the U.S. Constitution make either Sha’ria-by-vote or Sha’ria-by-dictate of Ayatollahs, Mullahs, Visiers, Sultans, Kings, or Caliphs all thoroughly illegal.

It says something sad about the proud ignorance of both our government officials and our media that no one brings these up in response to Islamic enclaves in our midst and Islamic takeovers of Dearborn and Hamatramck, Michigan.

[Simon Paynton]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

An interesting opinion piece on ethics and moral identity.

That’s a brilliant article that I agree with.  The author is saying that in order to get people to behave ethically, you have to teach them about ethics in general, or in other words, remind them of what they might already have known.  In any given situation, you can appeal to someone’s sense of ethics, if they have one, or at least, the appearance of ethics if they don’t.

[TheEncogitationer]

Fellow Unbelievers:

I may have found someone who is just as delusional as Jewish Voice for Peace and Queers for Palestine:

How We Won the War on Terror
by
Tod Lindberg

https://www.commentary.org/articles/tod-lindberg/global-war-on-terror-successes/?__cf_chl_tk=W3UAOTenbVMUfBP.m716e0vptjSeve1RE8VPWNvU93Q-1787859807-1.0.1.1-2x_B9sqbyXSO699xmsaPidRkN4VQDB2FDwJagIIsXyM

Lemme get this straight: 2977 victims of 9/11, 40 percent of them unidentified (I just yesterday learned the latter figure,) over 7000 U.S. fatalities from the Global War On Terror (GWOT), untold thousands more wounded, thousands more deaths and injuries in The Coalition of the Willing, yet The Taliban is still in place, Al-Qaeda still exists and has branched out into Boko Haram and the Islamic State, an Al-Qaeda operative heads Syria, Axis of Evil members Iran and North Korea remain and are appeased by Trump…and this Yutz says we won!!!

Oh, and we’re still pals with the bankroller of 9/11 the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and this Yutz writer ntradicts himself in the last paragraph. What a waste of electrons!

[TheEncogitationer]

Fellow Unbelievers:

He contradicts himself. Can’t forget the “con” part. Someone at the Editor’s office of Commentary must be asleep. That, or maybe the office is being held hostage by Antisemitic activists and somebody’s trying to “blink” a distress signal.

[TheEncogitationer]

Fellow Unbelievers:

Well, I found video of Tod Lindberg with Jon Podhoretz and Abe Greenwald on this very article above. No signs of distress, just a bunch of oblivious drivel with the sense of awareness and urgency of chitter-chatter about schmatta, schmatta, schmatta like you find over the corned beef at a deli.

Mission Accomplished? (8/17/26)

The funniest comment was Daniel Barber who said: “With the exception of Afghanistan and Iraq, the War on Terror was won by the United States. Aside from the assassination Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?”

Commentary, Do better!🙄

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I think Lindberg is correct when he is talking about the success of intelligence led counterterrorism at the domestic level. He is entitled to ask, “if preventing another mass-casualty foreign attack was one of the principal objectives, how can that result simply be called failure?”  Yes, there have been jihadist attacks since 9/11 but overall America has been successful in counterterrorism institution-building over the blast 25 years.

So Lindberg saying “there was no second 9/11” is powerful evidence that counterterrorism worked. But that is not, by itself, evidence that invading Iraq or sustaining a twenty-year Afghan war was necessary to produce that result. The Global War on Terror is something different. He is bundling those two very different instruments together and letting the success of one rehabilitate the other. That is a sleight of hand by Lindberg, but I will assume it’s unintentional.

The large-scale military occupations (boots-on-the-ground) and state-building projects are much harder to defend on the same ledger. They were vastly more expensive, produced major second-order effects, and in Iraq arguably helped generate the very jihadist ecosystem later used to justify further intervention.

Lindberg argues, reasonably imo,  that the jihadist threat to America has been greatly reduced. But he slides from that into suggesting that global jihadism itself has been substantially defeated. That’s much less convincing. The 2026 Global Terrorism Index still identifies Islamic State and its affiliates as the world’s deadliest terrorist organization, while the Sahel (North Africa) has become an extraordinary concentration of jihadist violence.

Yes, he is correct in saying  “we substantially reduced the capacity for transnational terrorism against us” but that is not winning the War of Terror. He also omits the costs in terms of dollars and deaths of the GWOT from his post. Or the impact of the mass surveillance of Americans in everyday life of which he seems to approve of. But the absence of an event cannot tell you how much surveillance was necessary to prevent it.

If Lindberg titled the post “The War on Terror wasn’t a Failure: We learned which parts actually Worked.”, then it would be less ‘counterfactual’.

I could do several more paragraphs, but I will finish with this. I vividly remember Gerry Adams warning about the IRA that “They haven’t gone away, you know?” It is a very good warning against mistaking suppression for disappearance. The jihadists have not gone away.

Al-Qaeda and ISIS are weaker than at their peaks, but they are still there, still adaptive, and increasingly dispersed. The 2026 US threat assessment says al-Qaeda probably still has roughly 15,000–28,000 members worldwide, with ISIS around 12,000–18,000. The UN said earlier this month that Da’esh and its affiliates remain a persistent international security threat and continue to adapt under counterterrorism pressure. Earlier this year it specifically noted their growing use of AI, virtual assets and unmanned aircraft systems. They are entering the same technological revolution as the people hunting them.

 

[TheEncogitationer]

Reg:

To put it succinctly, if Jihadis are attacking the U.S. and our allies, and if we are fighting back, The War On Terror is not over and we haven’t won.

No matter what accomplishments we made against the Jihadis, nothing less than total victory is acceptable against Jihadis seeking totalitarian rule of the entire Planet.

The Afghan War was definitely the prime theater of this War On Terrorism, since it’s aim should have been destroying Al-Qaeda who attacked the U.S. and destroying the Taliban regime who harbored them. We failed both tasks and spent far too much time, blood, treasure, and freedom doing it.

The Iraq War was a diversion from The War On Terrorism falsely sold by George W. Bush as part of The War On Terror.

In World War II terms, it would have been like responding to Pearl Harbor and the Axis Powers declaring War on the U.S. by invading Argentina. Maybe tangentially related, maybe a future threat, but not fighting the known, immediate threat. Again, too much time, blood, treasure and freedom wasted over Iraq.

Also, the Iraq War gave both Al-Qaeda and Iran a big playground for attacking us and recovered no “Weapons of mass destruction” unless you use the BATFE definition of sawed-off shotguns with less than 12-Inch barrels, grenades, mortar, and conventional explosives. Iraq was a diversion and a step backward in The War On Terror.

And since the Mullahs in Iran are part of the Axis of Evil and have attacked U.S. and Western targets before and since 9/11, I say The Hamas-Israeli War, The Iran-Israeli War and Trump’s Operation Epic Fury are also theaters in The War On Terror.

Israel has only partially won the war against Iran and it proxies Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis. And despite Trump’s declaring victory every time he changes his diapers, Trump hasn’t achieved any of his delerious goals.

In summary, Tod Lindberg and Commentary have lost all situational awareness to claim we won The War On Terror. They need to step aside and let the thinking adults continue to deal with the unfinished war to uphold civilization.

• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 1 day ago by TheEncogitationer. Reason: Double-checking everything

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

The makers of the BioCharger claim that is it “Backed by Science” and explicitly state that  “The BioCharger is not a medical device”. So that is reassuring. It uses 12 gas plasma tubes and (wait for it….) “frequencies & harmonics”. Amazing!! But the best thing is that its toroidal electric fields improve cellular function through better nutrient uptake and the “elimination of toxicity”. And yours can be had starting at only $16,990 plus shipping. Great value when you consider that it will remove any nasty dihydrogen monoxide chemicals from your water.

When priests want to let off steam they make holy water by boiling the hell out of ordinary water and the congregation gets the condensed version. It’s part of their new Cloud Service.

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