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Enco,

Fauda is a good series. Another one in that genre is Lioness. I am really enjoying that one. I think it is just Paramount though with a few episodes on Prime.

Jake and Reg:

I’m going to say something that’s gonna floor you!: I never heard of the series Fauda until now, much less that it had 5 seasons!

Netflix has had problem of affordability since even before Trump. It doubled in price when I had to drop it a few years ago (that’s a 100% rise in price translated to MAGA mathematicians.). The quality…[Read more]

Didn’t see Inglorious but i thought she played that archetype of a European woman whose beliefs lead her to a man with whom she’d otherwise be horrified. That flat affect much of the time and her ambivalence seeping through at various times was good writing and good acting.

Reg:

My discussion with my friend hasn’t turned to weeks yet and he has said that Vaccines are among the greatest boons to mankind, so he may not be too deep in the rabbit hole, but he has indicated in the past a like of listening to Art Bell and Alex Jones. (I have too, but with a very comedic funny bone on my eardrum.)

We’ll see how things…[Read more]

I also thought the casting of Melanie Laurent was clever, given her role in ‘Inglorious Basterds’.

Yes, just finished Fauda S5 this evening. All 5 seasons are worth watching. I will watch it again for E7 and E8. I was guessing it would go there but I was still surprised. I will leave my comments at that for now.

Leaders of lefty propaganda in re to Palestinianism are scum filth degenerates. Is that too harsh? Too judgmental for the guy always pushing a narrative about how humans are tabula rasa swept off feet by whatever the contemporary rivers no matter how cruel or how stupid?

If ya have not watched Fauda season 5 it is a pretty good watch. And i would…[Read more]

A non-confrontational approach is the only way. Some pointers….

How to Address Vaccine Hesitancy: A Compassionate Approach

https://gillings-projects.unc.edu/cph-articles/how-do-i-talk-about-vaccines

Reg:

…..and a 40-year-old female resident of Jefferson County died on Saturday, September 12, 2026, from complications associated with measles.

I’m doing my small part to see that there are no more victims of fully preventable killers.

I heard there was a flu season coming too, so I decided not to participate this past Labor Day weekend, as a…[Read more]

…..and a 40-year-old female resident of Jefferson County died on Saturday, September 12, 2026, from complications associated with measles.

Reg:

World of Woo: Pete Hegseth.

Pete Keg’s-Breath and Bobby Brainworm are the kind of idiots who say: “Welp! Ye go to war with the military you have!”

Uh, no! Not if you want to win that war!

During the last war the U.S. won–World War II, it’s been that long–we didn’t fight with the Military we had! We took the Military we had and made…[Read more]

Thanks Reg!!

Have a great week!!

Secularism protects everybody from somebody else’s certainty. RTFF

Man oh man are the algos bringing me doom and gloom. Beginning of end times. I reserve judgment. Hell if i know. And yet i have to say that if AI is doing all of these unexpected things and changes are exponential and superintelligence is unavoidable with recursive learning then….

Then what? Then scenarios involving our dystopia or extinction…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers:

This thread also needs re-reading 25 years after 9/11/2001 and one year after Charlie Kirk’s murder.

Although my assessments of Charlie Kirk’s views have gone down, especially after platforming Christian Nationalist lunatic Victor Marx, I still say he and no one else deserves murder for mere words.

And as always, in this…[Read more]

Jake:

Ferguson says a borderline contradictory and stupid statement at end of vid in which he asserts something like ‘if we maintain our faith in god and uphold the values of a free society’.

You are indeed right here and it’s more than borderline contradictory. Like I said earlier:

Leaving aside insidental God-talk at the end, he has cha…

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I oughtn’t quibble when i see the ocean as it is and except a dribble.

Good stuff Reg. And now the dribble. If it is rebel with too many causes that seems inapposite when the predicate is algorithms driving the soon to be drowned in belief to one cause. And that susceptibility to that particular cause results in more of the same and therefore…[Read more]

Reg and Jake:

“Rebels with too many causes.”. That is genius! May I borrow that when suitable?

Perhaps what social media and AI need is an algorithm that detects and mines for opposing viewpoints and fallacies as well as provides fact-checking. It couldn’t save everyone from the rabbit hole, but could guide users to watch their step.

I think that Ferguson has characterized the mechanism correctly. Social Media rarely creates extremism from nothing. I like the term “activating” and it is aptly used. The algorithm finds susceptible people and supplies them with validating material  and then connects them to communities in which their prejudice is normalized. “You have found…[Read more]

That’s a good vid Enco.

Humans are impossibly stupid. Bark like a dog. Woof. Woof. Evil Zionists. Woof. Woof.