The odds of humanity reaching 2050 are about half the odds that we will blow-up the planet first. That’s one of the most troubling takeout’s from a major project around here that involves historical research, A.I. modeling, and someone’s modest writing skills.
In the first of what’s likely to be a multi-part series, we consider the Big Picture first: does the world need to “get global” in order to find the resources and brainpower to become a space-faring culture?
First, though, the mid-week madness as we go through the latest Trump-bashings, fresh jobs data and a new GDP reading.
And then a detour into our stock chart collection as the marker smelled a bit “toppy Tuesday” at yesterday’s close.
Then we get into it. With a “TL;DR” summary for the time-challenged and 7-thousand words for those thoughtful enough to wade through it. And this is only Part 1?
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I would say keep doing what is best for you. You’re driving this bus. I’m sure everyone will stick around no matter what you decide.
I spend at least 3 hours a day working in the hoops and the rest of the time out working the ranch. What precious free time we have, Diana and I spend chasing each other around or cooking up some new project or scheme. The last meeting with our financial advisor pointed out, for me at least, that they have me ending at age 92. Poppycock and Balderdash!
Stay safe. 73
“Amazon… Display Tariff-Related Import Charges.”
Why not – what’s the secret? Some fuel pumps will show the fuel taxes.
Instead of sending flowers I now send pies using grocery delivery services. Some fees include the shopper/goods/tax/delivery.
Auction houses break out fees – hammer bid/buyer’s premium/sales tax/shipping and handling.
$AMZN should break out the tariffs in a separate field on a long receipt vs short receipt – wholesale cost/tariff/seller’s mark-up/tax/shipping and handling/etc, etc. on the long receipt.
It’s all gimmicks anyway. Instead of F and GM building new factories they are getting tariff concessions. What a joke. But people at it up.
The “secret” (actually two secrets) is the tariff on that $10 dohickey being sold on Amazon is 14.5¢ because the seller purchased 10,000 of them for 13¢ each from an importer who bought them for a dime.
The first secret is the tariff is applied to that 10¢ wholesale export price, not the retail price.
The second secret is the seller doesn’t want you to know how badly he’s screwing you on that retail price and he’s looking forward to screwing you much harder, so he’s desperate for you to think he’s going to have to raise the price on his dohickey to $24.50 to break even on it. That way when he sells it to you for $20, you’ll appreciate how incredibly nice he is, and he’ll make “buy an island and retire” money off you and the other saps who buy his ChiComCrap…
Remember 6 months ago tariffs were going to create all the new factories, but now they won’t. The tariffs are a scam controlled by a excel cell.
“U.S. automakers have gotten a break on some of the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump is imposing. ”
“Trump’s 25% tariff on foreign auto parts goes into effect on Saturday and automakers will also be reimbursed for those tariffs up to an amount equal to 3.75% of the value of a U.S.-made car for one year. Reimbursement would fall to 2.5% of the car’s value in a second year, and then completely phased out altogether.”
“The officials also said automakers manufacturing in the U.S., including foreign-owned ones, will be eligible for a 15% “offset” on the cost of the tariffs on foreign-made auto parts, which are set to go into effect Saturday. ”
Wheres DOGE when the American taxpayers need it/them?
Trying to work side hustles at a car co. and in crypto land?
Again, the idea with these tariffs is to get the F150 into the Cortina market and the Malibu into the Vauxhall market while, at the same time getting the Cadillac factory that’s in China replaced by one that’s in Saginaw. Unlike China, we have a myriad of building codes and regulations so factories don’t get built up and out in a month.
The train wreck that is our economy has been happening daily for 56 years. It’s gonna take a little more than a hundred days to fix…
Tariffs to drive higher prices which reinforce the debt system. Debt is what .gov wants to create.
“An administration official confirmed that the 25% tariff on finished foreign-made cars and parts will remain — but today’s announcement will prevent tariffs from stacking on top of other tariffs he’s imposed, such as duties on steel and aluminum.”
Tariffs are beginning to look like a rebate system for Big Auto.
First 100 days……..WOW!!
Second 100 days..OUCH!!
The bigger they are, ……………!!!!
If you are a stanch Hindu and Muslims hate you only fix is hate them and christians…so europe and arabia…
We are flooding again due to extreme rain. School is closed. An emergency alert whent out early this morning saying to stay home and off the roads. At least a dozen roads are closed in the city due to high levels of impassable water. When I got mail yesterday the ground was squishy, like walking on the tundra in Alaska. There’s nowhere for the water to go. When the dam released water last weekend many fish came with it. A friend with two overflowing ponds said that people are pulling over on the side of the road next to her farm and fishing with nets in the ditches along her road. They are catching snakes, fish (carp mostly) and turtles and putting them in their freezers Her husband killed a 2 foot wide , angry and aggressive turtle who was threatening his dog.
George,
Please ask Eleanor if she would please send that rain to us in New Mexico, as we are experiencing another drought, this time a serious one. Thanks
“angry aggressive Turtle who was threatening his dog” – that Eleanor is hilarious. I’m still laughing…I have to ask..What kind of Dog does friend have , a 3- legged Mexican Jumping Chihuahua ?
Turtles dont move very fast on land, but I digress, my ofc back in my WCO (WaterwaysConservationOfficer) days called me once to report a Snapping Turtle had injured a Cat. The owner called Fish&Boat , who in turn called me, to go RESCUE that Snapping Turtle!
Fish & Game No Likey Cats, and treat them with extreme prejudice when encountered in the field.. like Invasives’, someones gotta feed the Worms.
* Turtles are ancient symbols of LONGevity in several ancient cultures including Chinese.
Do NOT like the long AI generated reports.
Maybe leave them as a link but don’t clutter up the site with them. A short one paragraph summary of what they are attempting to talk about should be enough for people to decide if they want to read the entire AI report.
I’m there with that. Reading the missives of a cogent machine should have a choice button. Even a scan read is usually too much extra if you read in a time block. Then do other useful things.
Love you George. Your new buddy… not as much.
What do you call it when an otherwise human mind reads and then digests/translates from the machine? Wetword?
Stiks
Not sure it’s all that different than a smell-checker of sintaxity whizzy, but I will go light and use it for the calculations and modeling and less so for the lingo…
Same here. I ignore the AI gobbledygook. I come to this site for George’s unique and often humorous perspective on the incredible number of issues he writes about. A software program (or whatever AI is) can’t duplicate his originality.
The writer Issac Asimov was a strong advocate for a one world government., for one very specific reason. Getting mankind off this planet and into space exploration – to start with colonies on the Moon and Mars. Individually, as a single nation, we won’t do it. Or, to be more precise, can’t do it. We can’t do it because we are so busy trying to destroy each other.
As prolific a thinker and writer as he was, he could never come up with a way to get everyone around the camp fire, hold hands and sing kum-by-yah. “I do not pretend to see that happening any time soon.”
And he was right. It will not happen in our life time., nor our childrens’. We are not at that stage of evolution., or development. The odds are magnitude higher that we as a species will destroy ourselves, before we can gain that “Oneness” which will be needed, required to achieve a unifying one mission goal of getting mankind off this sphere.
As history has shown us, advanced civilizations have a routine destiny to self-destruct. “Shit happens”, whether it be social or environmental and they just can’t seem to hold it together. And with the advancement in modern technology that “self-destruct” could easily go global and take-out most of the population. Unification at that level is rather improbable.
One “Space Theory” is based on this same thought. That throughout our local galaxy there have been many technological civilizations, but as they advanced, just like we are doing., they blow themselves up., killing themselves and their dreams off. They never achieve space exploration due to the same reason that we won’t.
Earthbloom is, I will admit, a catchy little phrase. But it is a dream., a possibility that will, sadly, remain unrealized., at least for now.
Hope is not a strategy.
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If you keep the longer reports / ideas into the clickable PDF format – then all is well. This gives the audience a choice to opt-out., or download and read when time allows.
That was an experiment – I may do more of that – the tl;dr summary and then the deep drill in. Even so, 7-thousand words (not counting a 40 page ChartPack twice a week, is a little stupid on my part for $40 a year, lol
No.. It is not ‘stupid’. You have something to say. Something worth saying. Money has very little to do with that.
– Keep ‘saying’.., there are those of us who will listen.
I’m struggling in a writing a current SF novel, with the difficulty of achieving a united Earth government, even with an external threat that could exterminate most of our civilization. I think the only way it could work is with a benevolent dictatorship.
On the length of your posts. I’ll enjoy whatever you choose to share with us.
Thanks for all you do.
problem is most of those hypothetical plot adjuncts bringing more dick than benevolent to their parts… good luck – I’ve see the “wirtten yourself into a corner more than oncce… Tuesday’s are particularly bad for that…
It is a dictatorship of the self that is required. Each of us contains the reward of unity but it can only be obtained one mind at a time. Sadly there are other self interests to fog the mirror, so we seldom get to see who we are, not just the reflection presented by our societies. The single mind to keep it all in line, sweet and simple, blessed with all, is just us, each one of us.
There is a single mind. SEE that as being the root of you, and we will be there. Lemuria comes to mind.
Stiks
i was hopeful that the global pandemic would bring all people together to realize we are all on spaceship earth. alas, the powers that be saw it as another opportunity to divide the people. i’m convinced that there is no drama out there that will make earthlings unite.
as long as you accept the scamdemic as a pandemic, you are under the woke mind virus,,, maybe a little voltage would shock you in to reality,,,
Is pedophilia like the other addicts? they lie about their addiction to themselves and to others
UNITE and DRAMA are the words you used ,,
Q said,,,
“Sometimes you can’t TELL the public the truth.
YOU MUST SHOW THEM.
ONLY THEN WILL PEOPLE FIND THE WILL TO CHANGE.
Crimes against children ‘UNITE’ all humanity [cross party lines]?
Difficult truths.
Q”
https://qalerts.app/?q=%23%234908
Headline,,, “RFK Jr. Drops Bombshell — Accuses Biden’s HHS of Being COMPLICIT in Child Trafficking Scheme (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/rfk-jr-drops-bombshell-accuses-bidens-hhs-being/
Clif High’s recent reports of Pirates of the Materium suggest that mankind needs a whole new outlook of reality, not based on the present ‘grit’ of solid matter, space & time. Suggests this is something the alien presence has, and keeps demonstrating to us with their UAP capabilities. No, we will not advance to space with our present understanding. But what if space/time did not exist as we think it does . What if we could just ‘flash’ to Mars in zero time… or anywhere else for that matter. Keyword: Ontology. The universe guides, the universe provides.
We have much to unlearn, and relearn. But it can be done.
Foundation is probably Asimov’s seminal work WRT “Mankind, populating the universe.”
The political structure of the planets is essentially benign fascism. Currency is digital and cloud-based. Trantor is the ruling planet and is run by an omniscient android. Everything is tightly-regulated and controlled. Yet there are still a few free people — pirates and miners, wildcatters, and all manner of independent, individual explorers and exploiters who skirt or break laws, but are too insignificant to the State to be brought to justice.
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Getting mankind off this planet and into space exploration – to start with colonies on the Moon and Mars. Individually, as a single nation, we won’t do it.
Correct. But Elon Musk, as a private individual, WILL do it, and I’d bet it not only happens in his lifetime, but in most of ours, as well. He will do it because he knows that if he doesn’t, Jeff Bezos or Richard Branson will.
There are two things which drive incredible feats of human accomplishment:
Competition,
and War.
Theoretically, The U.S. can compete with Russia, China, India, and whomever else to build a space station or a planetary settlement. However, in reality, even in a communist autocracy like China, there are miles of red tape that the government has to go through, to get things done. SpaceX, Virgin, and Blue Origin don’t have those constraints…
Oddity
– For the last three nights in a row I have woken up at three in morning. Sound asleep to wide awake – right at 3:00
– Anyone else having their sleep disrupted lately?
Yes. Especially last night.
3:00am for what feels like at least a month.
Between 3 and 330 for the last 6 months for me. Starting to think I have a health problem. Maybe its my smoking problem. Any tips on the best way to quit or atleast cut down substantially, its a real problem lately. Too much stress hear that I can’t seem to control.
the patch. you won’t have any urges. keep yourself busy. if you get an urge do 30 pushups.
just scratching the surface…been a wild week or so. Today – Bluetooth dropping off all morning from iphone to truck stereo.
Stopped at grocery store(ACME) for allergy meds..flonase, saline spray, mucinex.
Get cash back to feed lottery machine, proceed to feeding machine – got a couple of scratchers, then pick numbers for MEGA Mil. and poof -SCREEN of DEATH!
AYFKM ! !@#%$E^T&*()_^&%$#@@%$! sonofabitch! Lost 10 bucks in machine, didnt stick around to file claim – as brain deads drive me to distraction interacting with em…arggghhh. So I got loooong sheeet of blank lottery tickets with one extra CODE printed on it in addition to 1 mega mil ticket.
Will enter extra code in system and see whats cooking.
Only need 1 chance to win megas, so F-it.
TV – turns on to a “halfway” screen past 2 weeks in early morning sometime. I see the light from it under bedroom door when the 330 wakeup comes.
Networked fire alarms went wonky Saturady – iso’d it to unit in basement manufactured in 2017. We clean and blow out the detectors annually – ??
Scheisse keeps up much longer, may have to unretire..in mean time was notified yesterday by PLCB that in fact did not win anything in recent Bourbon lottery. booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Sounds like my normal mid-sleep period break. The real trick is if you can go back to sleep immediately. Don’t turn on lights or do anything that requires cerebral activity.
I’m thinking it was just my pain meds from the surgery wearing off at 3am and making me ache… and sometimes taking an Oxy for the pain. As I heal, it is less about the pain in recent days, but I have to get up and move my legs and get things circulating again. But it’s always at 3am like clockwork.
For years I have awakened at 3 AM almost on the nose almost every night.
It doesn’t make any difference as to what time I go to bed, 10 PM or 1 AM, I SNAP AWAKE at 3 AM.
I used to worry about it, now I just assume my internal clock is just a precise little muthr fukr and I only worry if I go two night in a row withOUT that happening.
fwiw I had what others call Earthquake Tired’s last Thursday, almost posted it here. In great health and was well rested for the several days before. In the morning sitting in my home office BEFORE breakfast, so no food digestion involved, I just fell asleep sitting straight up in my office chair which has never happened to me EVER. Only second time that I can recall that the earthquake tireds ever happening to me (so tired could barely function all day, was almost afraid to make the 20 minute drive to the office). Wonder what was up.
“So factor those into Ure sanity checks”
Dude, G-Pops, Eyes already got a Santity Claus in my Life contract.
Besides that mofo comes barging into my house & life every f-ing year around November 27th or thereabouts. Tis the main reason why I used to take family vacations over the holidaze, hated it.
? Do you mind if I strangle this mkt..Long & Short sides, blowout loser, doubledown on winning side.
* South Atlantic Ocean Magnetic anomaly – growing in size, allowing more and more NRGs from space to come on in ? – whats the jist physicist?
Folks,
Apparently the last day of April has seen the internet welcome a previously unpublished book-like document from the original, late epstein accuser.
Hold those requests to DJ George for that “Simpson’s” electric chair scene where Ralph tells Bart “It smells like hot dogs”.
No, DJ George has the inside Seattle track on a grunge scene performed in front of a Little St. James Island temple mock up. Here we go with one from Nirvana at the following Youtube link: “In Bloom”.
https://youtu.be/PbgKEjNBHqM
I am slightly different. With me it’s +/- three minutes of 3:23 AM, almost every night, with the strangest memorable dreams. A couple of nights ago, I kept dreaming that I had to get a drywall factory to open here in GA, and I woke up and researched where gypsum can be mined in GA. That has absolutely nothing to do with my present or past activities, and it sure makes me wonder what the source of such dreams is. GF
Yep, my 3 am wake up usually is after a dream and usually involves a beauty I lost years ago. She was a gem of a lifetime and I really effed it up big-time. Guilt is a powerful emotion and is best to fight it as there is no going back.
George.
Current Fractal Model.
The peak valuation for the SPX was 19 Feb 2025, which represented a 27 October 2023 55/139/136 day :: x/2.5x/2.5x maximum fractal growth series. The primary decay series started on 12 February 2025 and is a 19/36 of 40/24 day :: x/2-2.5x/1.5x’ 3-phase fractal decay series, The 40 day 2nd should end in 4 more trading days (6 May) and is composed of a 7 April 2025 3/8/8 of 8/5 day 4-phase fractal series which was preceded by an 11 Mar 3/7/8/5 day 4-phase series. There should substantial devaluation nonlinearity on 5 and 6 May.
If you take the time, which you won’t, and read deeper into the quarterly GDP report released this morning, you will see that the economy is not has bad off as the head-lines are reporting.
[ Scare tactic reporting is rather disgusting, isn’t it?]
If you eliminate the sizable trade imbalance., which was caused by corporations forward- buying because of the imposed tariffs, the GDP was actually over 4.2 %. Wages are up over 4%. Consumer spending has slowed, but is still rather ‘robust’., though mainly due to March and April panic buying by the scared sheep believing the sky is falling. [ 80% of the panic buying was on credit – which is actually bad.] And consumer spending is the back bone of the economy / GDP. [ When consumer spending slows to a stops, wages drop, unemployment ticks up and GDP goes negative – that’s when you have a major “problem”.., and none of those are in this report. ]
So., for now, this report is not a potent of a mushroom cloud rising over your city. [ Three separate reports this morning, asking “Did we just go into a recession?”] However, if the tariffs continue and the economy slows, lay-offs grow, and spending slows – it is the next quarterly GDP report – out in July – which will tell the story. There is a caveat to that statement – We have to get there first and I am not personally convinced that the stock / bond markets will remain stable and solvent for another 90 days.
[ I would not want to be on the Federal Reserve Board right now., as they just got hit a with some sobering stagflation numbers., tariff induced, or not. It may be time for them to readjust their policies – but then, they didn’t ask me. ]
Fred, beloved, well-mannered, sleeper at my feet on the bed, dignified cat of fourteen years, flew West today.
Nothing else seems of any importance, somehow…
He never lost his dignity.
Our sincere condolences – terrible thing to lose a loved animal, but a foot warmer, doubly so.
He was a truly great Heater Cat. Delightfully so,
-but only in winter. He always knew just where to Be to apply max thermal sharing.
Sorry to hear that. Losing a best buddy can be hard.
I am SO sorry. I lost my baby a few days ago, so I know…
I read a few articles that probiotics can reduce inflammation and improve my rhumatoid arthritis. Does anybody have any suggestions on a good brand? Do I need one that stays in the refrigerator? I’m nit eating dairy so please don’t recommend yogurt. Thanks.
I thought it was over-hyped but Bioma has worked well for me. Took care of general inflammation, reflux and made my celiacs easier to bear. Expensive though
Life Extension Foundation (lef.org) has a ‘GI’ probiotic that is a capsule within a capsule so it bypasses the stomach and releases in the lower GI tract where it lives. Excellent stuff I have taken for years.
AG/AU still so near 100:1 GSR.
Spain/Portugal black… true net zero. Had that gone a few milliseconds more it might have been even more permanent. They are doing the restoration with LNG generators, spinners they call them. Like drinking too much pure beautiful water, it can kill you.
We live totally solar dependent. Have had long rainy periods daily for a week, quite unusual for this time of year. Waterfall level floods from the sky. We float so it is meaningless, but the shore is suffering heavy flooding. And our solar is barely enough to keep the tiny fridge going. All switches off. The charge controllers make the other side possible. Whole days of blinding sun need control. Without that the batteries couldn’t take it. I relate the Spain thing to their charge controllers perhaps being never expected to handle the total drain it took to be at 100% of supply?
Horses, candles, kerosene, blankets, etc., may be looking good if we/us keeps on keepin’ on as is.
Stiks
Hope you have ready access to a ‘fraid cellar… Not sure thing but appears you may have heavy weather inbound. Stay safe!
CTM
10 4
Does anyone have insight of potential bail-ins at non banks like Fidelity.
Just another buy the low, jam it higher, end of month ending for stocks today … wow ……. as rigged as it gets
The Crossings..how ironic.
moving averages crossing; as in Golden Cross – where the 50 Day crosses Up and Over the 200 Day Moving Average.
Death Cross is opposite, where 200 DMA crosses Up and Over the 50 DMA.
as luck would have home gamerz there have been 2 golden crosses this week in Gold Equities; BTG and NEM.
NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE-EVER..just nues U can use if so inclined to the shine..
re: “Earthbloom” Rising Son
feat: messages from Ra
Folks,
Google AI notes that The “Jap to Go” restaurant in Greater Manchester has attracted negative press for its perceived insensitive name. The “Daily Mail” has issued a report. The long-form name of the Asian dining establishment is “Japanese Authentic Perfection” according to owner Mr. Karim Mansour. The article offers no background concerning Mr. Mansour. However the gentleman lately of Cheadle Hulme identifies as “Egyptian” at the following UK government company registry link:
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/15295260/officers
Curiously the “Daily Mail” takes opportunity to launch into a lengthy recounting of a Japanese slur made 10 years ago by a White star player of the football club, Leicester City. Here is a link to the “Daily Mail” article:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14663817/
One may recall that the remains of the ill-fated King Richard III were exhumed from beneath a Leicester City parking lot 13 years ago. Nowadays a King Richard III Visitor Centre graces the space. From there travellers may depart on a 5 minute #22 bus ride alighting at stand “CJ” on Charles Street, adjacent to King Power Stadium, home pitch of Leicester City F.C.
Football club ownership as well as the King Power brand has been inherited by a multi-billionaire son of the Thai conglomerate’s father. Although Thai by birth, his family roots are in Fujian province, bordering the Straits of Taiwan. The son received a Chinese name Xu Chengyuan which might translate as “brilliant rising sun member of the city/fortress”.
re: Bountiful, Ut. harvest
Folks,
Today I went shopping for rv water filters packaged in pairs. There were two choices on the shelf: made in the USA (North Carolina) for $50 or made in China for $35. The exterior filter appearance and documented specs were identical.
Curiously the Chinese originating product website offered only a Salt Lake City phone number but no address. Its American representative resolved via publicly available information to be a company entity providing manufacturing assistance from conceptual idea through to production and delivery. Curiously the company’s stated office address is on the 12th floor of a Google-mapped modest single story building situated close by an adjacent running I-15 in North Salt Lake City.
Ignoring the above, in other publicly available information, the building serves sole purpose as a community resource centre with a multi-million dollar civic budget employing a dozen plus civil servants. The centre’s website alleged good works in progress for the benefit of homeless, recently released from incarceration, or mentally ill persons. Apparently the centre is one of six across the USA connected since 2010 to a special arm of the US Department of Justice. Their website page whose link follows has perhaps recently been updated by the Doge Crew:
https://bja.ojp.gov/
Yesterday I was speaking to a technophobe about ChatGPT.
She tried ChatGPT over the weekend and went all-in. Now she goes on and on about how it’s like chatting with a person, blah, blah, blah. A huge change in attitude toward technology.
The Chat boxes are optimized to gain Ure trust. I get tired of the yes-bots pretty quick.
George, I just finished typing 736 pages of the stuff I wanted to type. Thanks so much for the information on the typing program . I would have given up doing it all by hand, one finger typing. And it would have cost me hundreds of dollars to have someone else type it. Thanks, Thanks, Thanks. Off to Staples tomorrow to get copies printed and later mailed. Who knows if they will want to print any of it, but I can at least send my old Quaker Meeting a copy of what I was doing in prayer. My kids said they would burn it all when I die. Now it has a chance to live on after me.
That is really cool/ Jusdt be aware that we live in the TL;DR world – too long; didn’t read is the new way of being amongst the Jung uns…
Speaking of supplements I pulled the following forward on my order because $AMZN won’t tell me about potential tariff impacts.
“HumanN SuperBerine Berberine Supplement – Cholesterol & Metabolic Clinically Researched Support – High Absorbency Formula with Olive Leaf Extract – 30 Capsules ”
Separately, I should buy a few home cholesterol tests to monitor.
$AMZN has “FDA approved home cholesterol test kits” for about 2 for $22.99. I would need several to track if the supplement is working. Or buy a machine w/test strips that takes up counter space. Life is so hard in the 1st world.
Or go to the doc free with a good medicare advantage plan – and get some drugs while there…
“We were struck today when Axios – already leaning left as scored by groups like Media Bias Fact Check ran the story Most Americans now see Trump as “a dangerous dictator,” poll says.”
First of all, “Media Bias Fact Check” is a Leftist organization, and a dishonest one, at that, so they’re not going to paint an honest picture of anybody. Axios is far-Left. They began as a neo-communist propaganda pit and have walked themselves back about one step toward the middle, but they’re still highly-biased toward hard Stalinist socialism.
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“The problem with the survey? Three major concerns.
“First: In the U.S. there is supposed to be a clear separation of Church and State.”
Would you, or anyone please show me where this exists in our contractual founding documents?
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“The study was issued by a Christian Nationalist group, the “Public Religion Research Institute.” Our main beef is when tax-exempt organizations enter the political arena. ”
PRRI is a socialist influence peddler which takes Judeo-Christian writings and teachings out of context and uses them to promote communist (and sometimes fascist) socialist ideology by (ab)using (mostly) Christian platitudes to shove fake Christianity into the heads of lazy thumpers, religion-haters, and “fair-minded” people, alike. PRRI’s principal funding comes from Soros, Haas, Carnegie, and a half-dozen other far-left and neo-comm foundations I can’t remember, right now.
The problem isn’t religion in politics (which is both legal and was encouraged by the Founders.) The problem is that organizations like this can both lie about who they are and what they intend, and receive C-3 status while doing so.
The Earthbloom hypothesis posits that humanity’s survival and potential as a spacefaring species hinge on a global convergence of unity, diversity, and innovation—a singular moment when 8 billion people, connected by technology and shared purpose, transcend the collapse cycles that doomed past civilizations
Wayfarers, whether on land or sea, have never exceeded 2% of any given population, unless driven by a famine or disaster caused diaspora. The same will be true of space exploration and exploitation.
The “Earthbloom Hypothesis” is just that — A hypothesis. It is neither more, nor less valid than any other hypothesis.
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Drawing on Joseph Tainter’s framework, the paper argues that isolated, complex societies fail due to diminishing returns and lack of resilience, while a globally integrated “monoculture” respecting diverse roots could distribute risks and harness collective genius, as exemplified by the Apollo program or modern AI and space ventures.
A “globally integrated monoculture” would be more-accurately described as “one-world communism.” It would be the death of our species, because it would leave no one an incentive to live.
In what part of AI is any government (outside Bejing) involved? AI is being developed by small groups of very-talented and highly-intelligent individuals. These geniuses are collaborative because they want to be, not because some government has their parents (figuratively) staged on a gallows.
Does anyone REALLY want to compare the Apollo Program with Mr. Musk’s “rocket catcher…” really?
Space exploration will only be accomplished via private competition or as a necessary condition of species survival.
Governments govern (which means “manage”), they don’t solve problems and they don’t excel.
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“However, risks like climate change”
We have had over a million years to figure out how to work within the parameters of local climates. This statement makes me think the AI has been polluted with climate derangement syndrome.
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“Do I need to keep the length of Peoplenomics reports shorter? Or, is the long-form version like the PDF acceptable if there’s a summary at the top so you can prioritize it into your life?”
My opinion on the long and short of it:
I believe what you did with today’s Report is ideal. For a basic couple thousand word PN report, just post. For a report that’s significantly authored or augmented via AI and over 3000 words, do the *.pdf and have your AI create a condensed version of its augmentation.
Would like to know what AI says about.
Did we really walk on the moon?
I don’t do AI on my devices because I know it would be a huge time sink for me and just don’t have the time.
Any takers out there?
ChatGPT said Yes, humans really walked on the Moon. Between 1969 and 1972, NASA’s Apollo missions successfully landed 12 astronauts on the lunar surface, beginning with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on Apollo 11. Extensive evidence supports this, including rock samples, thousands of photographs, seismic data, and retroreflectors still used by scientists today. Claims of a hoax have been thoroughly debunked by experts in physics, photography, and aerospace engineering.
Gork said Yes, humans walked on the moon during NASA’s Apollo program, with the first landing on July 20, 1969, during Apollo 11. Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent about two and a half hours on the lunar surface, collecting samples, conducting experiments, and leaving scientific instruments. Five more successful manned missions followed, with the last, Apollo 17, in 1972. Evidence includes lunar rocks, photos, videos, telemetry data, and Soviet confirmation, despite persistent conspiracy theories.
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Unfortunately the deniers have some valid questions. Could be a full column or 3 with many differing veiw points. Both my parents worked for McDonnell Douglas during the Apollo missions and I had access to a lot of documents regarding the missions which I shared in my grade school classes at the time. I never questioned the issue until later in life. Valid questions still remain unanswered. Maybe a full post on urban would be fun for the wise ones here.
I believe both of our space telescopes have proffered views of the LLM bases and the LEM, at one time or another…