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Jake:

If it’s any assurance, (and I say this as someone who has had off-grid fantasies and who is ambivalent about AI):

The prognostication of the Criswellian can only accurately be a trade-off Sowellian,
But with volitional cogitation and mastication, the trade-off need not be Cromwellian nor Orwellian.

Perhaps the AI could be programmed to direct cameras and sensors only where the human eye can legally go and only read records in the public domain.

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Jake and Strega:

Of course, back in the day of the Luddites, people lived multiple generations, and with multiple species of farm animals, under one roof, with everyone sharing the same dressing, eating, sleeping, and (where available) hygienic space. Urination and defecation were done in outdoor Water Closets (again, where available) or otherwise they were done everywhere inside or outside, even in luxurious palaces like La Versailles. Messages sent by passenger pidgeon or footman or diplomat didn’t have encryption unless you used invisible ink. And while there was no one Big Brother watching, everyone else was watching, including a Karen, Mrs Grundy, or Gladys Kravitz who could whip up a mob or lynching bee if you didn’t walk, talk, love, believe, or exist right.

As Paul Harvey always observed: “The ‘Good Old Days’…weren’t always good!”

For more to give a proper perspective on then and now, there’s always some great reading at:

Human Progress

Home

Granted, surveillance by Wi-Fi is a real concern, but in the meantime, wave and say “hi!” once in a while to let “them” know you know and just keep your streaming on one channel and bore the snoops to death.

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Fellow Unbelievers:

Lots more antennae raised over this story:

Experts raise eyebrows over ‘Swiss cheese’ NY Times report claiming US, Israel eyed freeing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be Iran’s new leader
https://www.aol.com/news/experts-raise-eyebrows-over-swiss-212205094.html

A comedian on, I think The Daily Show, pointed out that they could have just freed Ahmadinejad with a locksmith and a clothes hamper sneaking him out instead of bombing his residence.

So evidently this is more “flooding the zone with shit” from someone other than Steve “The Incredible Hulk” Bannon.

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Reg and Jake:

Switching the Ayatollahs with Ahmadinejad is decidedly not regime change, it’s just cutting off a few heads of the hydra while leaving the beast alive to grow yet more heads and to sharpen it’s claws and gargle some more gasoline. If Trump doesn’t comprehend that, Bibi definitely should.

Hoping I’m proven wrong and this story is like the old Psy-War broadcasts of Lord Haw-Haw, Axis Sally, and Tokyo Rose in WWII Da Big One.

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Jake and Reg:

I hope the NYT story is just an AI hallucination, but knowing Trump’s delusional behavior especially in his second term, and how so called “Realpolitik” make people do strange things, I can’t help but wonder.

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Jake and Fellow Unbelievers:

A object lesson in the rarety of intelligence and critical thinking. I wish this wasn’t true but it appears it is:

Trump and Netanyahu and minion followers are literally the gang that can’t shoot straight or even aim correct. I do not think that “regime change” means what they think it means.

So we’re paying up to $6 or more a gallon for gas… so that Trump and Netanyahu could install a Hitler with a 5 O’Clock Shadow to head the Persian people… and perhaps later fulfil a death wish to wipe the U.S.A. and Israel and the whole Dar Al-Harb off the Planet…with the Uranium and guided missiles still in place!

Somebody make it stop!

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Reg:

Enco,

I meant broadly speaking a reflection of the electorate and more to the point of the zeitgeist. Reg had a good article on the flowering of Jew hatred and differences between far right and far left in contemporary world. Far left and far right come at it a little differently.

A great article, though I wouldn’t call it flowering. More like metastisizing.

In terms of overall Zeitgeist this would be correct nowadays. And if Galino didn’t win votes with “Zionist Colonial-Settler” talk, she could just switch to old-fashioned “Christ-Killer Usury-Charger” talk without much trouble editing.

Of course, if someone asked her to use her Astrological Woo to accurately prognosticate the results of the Election, it might help knock down her credibility a few pegs.

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Jake:

She is a reflection of the electorate.

Zionism is the code word for Filthy Jew and its associations.

I don’t know how much she reflects the sentiments of her electorate. I may be wrong, but except for Austin, Texas never looked conspicuously Progressive.

Also, Galindo is running in a newly Re-Gerrymandered, Re-Jury-Rigged, District. She claims that the “Zionists Billionaires” back her opponent Johnny Garcia.

Moreover, there is talk of a Republican group WinRed funding a Florida PAC called LeadLeft that distributed flyers and mailers supporting Galindo to make the Republican opposition look sane.

Here’s another story with all the details, where Galindo sports the Skeletor look shared by Jennifer Welch, Angie “Pumps” Sullivan, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Laura Loomer:

San Antonio congressional candidate Maureen Galindo faces antisemitism accusations

I remember the first time i argued with a gal about zionism. I was gobsmacked at her antipathy. None of the rational things i raised seemed to make a dent. A welcoming to progressivism…

Since the Ninth and Tenth Amendments are ignored nowadays, there needs to be a clause added to the Fifteenth, Nineteenth, and Twenty-Sixth Amendements:

“The right to vote shall not be construed as a right to vote away the rights of any other individual in the United States or Territories or Protectorates. Any Elections, Initiatives, or Referenda called for such a purpose will be considered null and void.”

With this clause, Progressivism, as well as the Religious Right, would be rendered politically toothless.

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Jake and Fellow Unbelievers:

A Sex Quack and Astrologist gives a prescription that is a turn-off and a Horoscope that is howling at the Moon.

House candidate Maureen Galindo pledges to send ‘American zionists’ to internment camp
Despite a growing storm of criticism, including from members of her own party, the San Antonio Democrat insists she’s not antisemitic.

House candidate Maureen Galindo pledges to send ‘American zionists’ to internment camp

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Jake:

One shouldn’t presume to know how they swing just because they are willing to fight.

If they can pass muster with all the training told of in the article, they deserve all the support they can get.

However, I am disturbed that Israel has this obsession with Iron. Iron Dome. Iron Swords. ‘Arad’ doesn’t sound too strong either if it dates from Biblical times before they knew about Platinum or Uranium or even the process of making Steel.

Does Netanyahu coat everything with rust like Trump coats everything with Gold spray paint?

Using Iron is just not a good look for exemplars of modernity standing against superstitious savages.

“לעשות טוב יותר” (la’asot tov yoter). (That’s “Do better!” for the Goyim and Un-Orthodox.)

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Reg:

All that, ‘cept The Trump Phone doesn’t exist:

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Reg:

Mushrooms and blue cheese vodka are part of the MAHA formulary, especially if the blue cheese is unpasteurized. Licking the Giant Gila Monster would also be a prescribed MAHA regimen. All of these make for vivid hallucinations.

“That was nice, but it didn’t help my legs!”

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Reg:

Here is what the future of MAHA could mean for healthcare, although we have also experienced it too many times in the past. Fast forward to 49:45 and watch to 54:20:

Mystery Science Theater 3000 never got real deep into riffing on religion, but when they did, they really hit home! Joel and the Bots could barely take the scene!

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Reg:

Nudge theory was all about taking responsibility, but it allowed big business to look the other way. See also Book Club below.

First, a couple of definitions:

A Shareholder is someone who invests money or capital in a corporate venture and have a say in the running of the venture. The best shareholders who do well for themselves study their investments and have both stock certificates and profit receipts to show for it.

A Stakeholder is just some nobody who wants a say in things without having an investment or without even knowing shit about the venture. See also Busybody, Concerned Citizen, Felicia, Gladys Kravitz, Karen, Influencer, Inquisitor, Mrs Grundy, Punch-Bowl Pisser, SJW, Straight-Edger, and other epithets.

With all that said, somethings don’t need nudging and shareholding is the reason.

Take smoking. Owners of Bakeries, Gourmet Coffee Houses, and Restaurants, don’t want tobacco smoke tainting the smell and taste of their products. They either partition smokers away from everyone or don’t allow smoking at all.

Owners of Apartments, Conominiums, and Lodging don’t want the smell and stain of tobacco in the walls of their properties. Removing such requires expensive stain-removing chemicals like KILZ (which lives up to it’s name in enclosed spaces faster than tobacco smoke) and the smell in carpets requires replacing the carpet. Again no indoor smoking is the rule for such places.

Owners of Textile, Medical, Chemical, and Fuel businesses all prohibit smoking because they don’t want their money-making ventures going up in flames.

Then, of course, there are some things that shouldn’t be nudged, encouraged, coerced, or even given a second thought, like “the current thing” of subjectively defined “Ultra-Processed Foods,” which looks, feels, and smells like a Red Herring to scare people off their appetite and distract from real health problems and their causes.

Oh, and The Conversation needs to be changed to The Yammering if this is standard offerings.

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Jake:

OH MY GOD.

They found fossils of the original Palestinians. The genocidal Zionists in their diabolical ways formerly known as Australopithekike were trying to eradicate our cherished paradigms of goodness.

As it was in the beginning..

Just a bit of pedant punnery to add here for added annoyance, but ackshuyally, all of Ethiopia is Afar from either the Levant or New York City.

The Nakba crowd doesn’t know their Anthropology from Adam er, Lucy.

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