Billie M Jones
@billiejones
Active 8 years, 3 months ago-
PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum
Politics 1 year, 3 months agoTheEncogitationer wrote:
PopeBeanie, Bernie Sanders supported the Soviet Union that created Vladamir Putin and the Putineers, and Bernie still wants their saw-bones health care system for Americans. And lest we forget, Elon Musk was embraced by the Left when the Eco Wackos thought that cars powered by Lead, acid, and Heavy Metal batteries but… -
PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum
Politics 1 year, 3 months agoOne of my best friend’s housing is suddenly at stake now, as he’s a veteran living in the Presidio in San Francisco.
I’m sure everyone’s seen Ezra Klein’s video by now about this administration’s strategy to hit all American’s hard, daily, with news about this or that disruption of government services and entitlement funding. What’s stuck in my…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum
Politics 1 year, 3 months agoBernie’s been on top of presenting the right topics in this new Trumpian era:
Is Musk’s behavior obviously oligarchic?
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School February 16th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 3 months agoGreat link, Reg
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School February 16th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 3 months agoYes Jake, we have a small break to allow the iced rain to plunge down and glaze the snow, so when the snow returns this evening, it will have a nice new platform to settle on.
I’m leaning towards The Shining, Reg
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School February 16th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 3 months agoThank you, Reg!
I’m in a 24 hour snowstorm in a cabin in the woods. What could possibly go wrong? 😑
(I’m actually caretaking this property, so technically I’m more like Jack Nicholson in The Shining)
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School February 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 3 months agoIf we are talking democratic elections, then no, the USA does not have them, due to the existence of the electoral college system.
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School February 9th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 3 months agoThanks x 3!! Reg you spoil us 🙂
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School February 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 3 months agoRe the ‘starting point’ comment. This seems absurd to me, having been born and brought up in Europe, in a country that has thousands of years of history both good and bad. History moves in waves, each ‘starting point’ having been triggered by earlier event crescendoes. You can’t just pick a reference point in history and call it the ‘starting…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School February 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 3 months agoUnseen wrote:
The strategy is one of overloading the defenses along the lines drone swarm attacks.You guys beat me to post this insightful video. I’ll just add, Scientology cult creator L Ron Hubbard taught “The best defense is an offense”.
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School February 2nd 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 3 months agoHey Reg, thank you. Happy Groundhog Day!
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum
Politics 1 year, 3 months ago2-1/2 minutes, I think from 1996:
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum
Politics 1 year, 3 months agoIs Thom Hartmann wrong? I keep thinking an oligarchy is in the making. It’s Trump U postdoc time.
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic China just won the AI wars. Wall Street panics! in the forum Science 1 year, 4 months ago
This is a good time to mention a kind of “pollution of AI” that’s been said to be possible. That is, when one AI gets all its data from other AI, errors and hallucinations can compound.
I wish I had the time to get into these stories (and add to the AI group), but I’m in the middle of big life change.
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic China just won the AI wars. Wall Street panics! in the forum Science 1 year, 4 months ago
Here’s a new, potential twist.
Thanks to Reg for telling me about this website. I signed up for their newsletter.
Please let me know if the link doesn’t work for you.From article:
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data
OpenAI Stole From UsThe narrative that OpenAI, Microsoft, and freshly minted White House “AI czar” David Sac…
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic China just won the AI wars. Wall Street panics! in the forum Science 1 year, 4 months ago
I’m not so sure the “AI war” is over so soon. DeepSeek being open source, i.e. not proprietary code, competitors can learn from its design. The story, other than about stock market realignment is about a realignment of how LLMs can be developed and marketed because of the sudden drop in development prices. So in my opinion, the lower costs of…[Read more]
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Did the movie Annihilation get it right? in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 4 months ago
I’ll bet you’ve seen this one before. In case you’re feeling down recently, this might help? (I did a search to see if it’s been linked to here before, but I didn’t see one.)
Turn on captions, and set translation to Auto, English.
And then from a mature therapist’s perspective…
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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Did the movie Annihilation get it right? in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 4 months ago
I think I watched the trailer before because of Natalie being in it, but didn’t follow through. The audio effects alone were “manipulative”, and I mean it sets people up for dread. Very effectively, IMO. I’m just not into that. But I do generally like dark movies, especially dark comedies.
So “no” to your question again. This movie is obvious…[Read more]
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 4 months agoThat was a powerful poem, Reg. The last three lines contrasting the fluffy precedent ones is quite dramatic. Thanks!
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Strega replied to the topic Sunday School January 26th 2025 in the forum
Sunday School 1 year, 4 months agoThanks, Reg!
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