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PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum Politics 1 year, 3 months ago

TheEncogitationer wrote:
I’m not character assasinating the Left. The Left is already nihilisticly suicidal. I’m just providing them the cigarettes, Jagermeister, and fat back to do it to themselves.

Character assassination is trending, alongside digression from the original or most productive topic. It’s a Bannon/Trump political (and aut…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum Politics 1 year, 4 months ago

TheEncogitationer 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…

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PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum Politics 1 year, 4 months ago

One 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]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum Politics 1 year, 4 months ago

Bernie’s been on top of presenting the right topics in this new Trumpian era:

Is Musk’s behavior obviously oligarchic?
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School February 2nd 2025 in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 4 months ago

Unseen 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”.
PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum Politics 1 year, 4 months ago

2-1/2 minutes, I think from 1996:
PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum Politics 1 year, 4 months ago

Is Thom Hartmann wrong? I keep thinking an oligarchy is in the making. It’s Trump U postdoc time.
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.
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 Us

The 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]
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…
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.

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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

Not for me. But maybe people who often suffer from panic attacks? Many people’s normal condition is to never feel like they’re in control. Plus loss of control can be kinda contagious at times, contributing to mass hysteria. I think people like Trump know how to trigger it.

Can we count people prone to psychosis?

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PopeBeanie replied to the topic The Mathematical proof for Dracula, The ONE! in the forum Random Posts 1 year, 4 months ago

Your work on this research is appreciated!
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Sunday School January 19th 2025. in the forum Sunday School 1 year, 4 months ago

Unseen wrote:
We’re all women whether we like it or don’t.

That is good.

Sidenote, and revealing my geeky side, the mechanism they’re talking about whereby a fertilized egg (aka zygote) eventually becomes male or female is governed by epigenetics.

Genes determine the basic design of the organism and are inherited in the next generation, but epi…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Our Curated List of News Sources in the forum NEWS NEWS NEWS!! Current Events and Favorite News Sources 1 year, 5 months ago

Google inks deal with The Associated Press to bring more real-time info to Gemini

In a bid to make its Gemini chatbot app more of a one-stop shop, Google says it’s working with The Associated Press to build “a feed of real-time information” in Gemini.

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Google, which has a longstanding partnership with The Associated Press, is but one of man…

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PopeBeanie replied to the topic Our Curated List of News Sources in the forum NEWS NEWS NEWS!! Current Events and Favorite News Sources 1 year, 5 months ago

I like SAN because of their attempt to give unbiased news, and sometimes point out biased “news” as in the following video. I think the biases are obvious to most of us, so it seems to me the question is, why do people keep watching and supporting these news orgs?

In any case, I avoid watching news more these days, and rely more on either short…[Read more]
PopeBeanie replied to the topic The new powers that be in the forum Politics 1 year, 5 months ago

I wonder if Trump is a wannabe redneck and/or cowboy, but I know for sure he’s a natural born prick when it comes to how he treats people and fantasizes how to MAGA his way to infamy.

Here’s one of the well grounded guys he should have kept around.

11 minutes long
PopeBeanie replied to the topic Cunk in the forum Small Talk 1 year, 5 months ago

Nice, I hadn’t even thought about the similarity to Colbert. The Colbert Report was a big favorite of mine, watching his interviews, and it was always surprising how so few of those interviewed even knew they were being played, or that it was the thing he does every show.
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