As taxpayers, we’re not very pleased that returning Federal workers will get all their lost pay from the shutdown, soon. No, we don’t wish anyone ill, but we also think that the FedGov will have, in effect, given a six-week paid vacation on top of the already “nice” federal packages.
Once again, it’s an example of how the government holds Congress hostage while running a shake down on We the People.
Federal offices closed and while we acknowledge the inconvenience of it all to the federal workers (totally get that part) the fact remains that we non federal workers didn’t get the services we paid for. While those who got the time off? They get made whole..
Talk about driving wedges between the working class and the overlords, huh?
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For those of you who want to learn about potential damages from a large Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), this short Youtube video is good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRAJefgdKOU
In the event of a very large x flare, you may want to consider precautionary measures. One such measure would be to open the main breaker on your lighting panel until the event plays out. Typically a very large CME would cross in a less than a day and a half. The initial flare can cause radio black-outs, but the real damage would occur a day and a half later, when the shock wave arrives. That gives you time to think things through.
As of 8:06 AM CST 11/12/2025, nothing that would require that level of intervention is showing up on satellite feed.
Count 3-5 days from event passing thru – and youse will be on the date of some big ass shakers (Earthquakes). Its a game everyone can play, just mark the date and time of the solar event passing thru Earth..thru to core, and count 3-5 days.
The Count – https://youtu.be/2AoxCkySv34?si=MjmrVZ52iZkTIAYj
here we agree (not often, please make a note of it. EQ tired this weekend, big ass quake next week
I’m disgusted also. I do believe that ATC controllers and others doing essential services should be paid, possibly with a premium for their delayed pay service, but the others? They should just eat the loss like normal folks do. If I knew how much pay was padded when working for the FedGov when I was 18, I might have been tempted to endure it for 20 years. Then again, it’s only money, and it ain’t worth your soul.
(“A GS-13 federal employee gets 26 vacation days (or 208 hours) per year after 15 years of service, accruing 8 hours per pay period.
Before 15 years of service, the amount of vacation time is less, starting at 13 days (104 hours) for the first 3 years and increasing to 20 days (160 hours) after 3 to 15 years.
In addition, federal employees get 11 paid federal holidays each year. “)
lol lol lol one of my doctor’s at the VA medical system .. I won’t post how much he makes a year.. its not my place or..better yet its none of my buisness… blunt we are friends and discuss these things openly.. he literally has an income in the high six figure area..has half a year off in vacation and every holiday …yup poinsettia day..a sure thing..we joke about the need to take advantage of EVERY federal holiday..the golden goose healthcare.. ( something lime a couple hundred a month and total out of pocket in the hundreds not thousands) his school loans gone.. the perks are amazing and at 3:30 everyone races to the door a stampede of lets get the he’ll out of here..
no rent of clinic space, no concerns on supplies, he doesn’t have to pay any utilities or expensive malpractice insurance..all while physicians in the public sector may see a bigger number..( seriously if a million a year and over a half a year off for vacation and holidays isn’t enough..what in the he’ll is wrong with them lol lol )( well a friend and old co-workers son in law..a cardiac surgeon.. they gave him five million to entice him to move here…bought him a big house and guaranteed him half a mil. paid off his loans if he worked for the hospital so many years..anyway my friend and I were sitting with coffee and he said..the dam kids are morons..why.. they can’t survive on that.. the guy literally does cabbages all day.. he also has the highest infection ratings for his work..( takes short cuts to expedite the surgery))
Republicans blamed Democrats, then joined them. Not that a multimillion-dollar giveaway is much now-a-days with Trillionaires floating around, but still.
“Conservative House Republicans slammed a multimillion-dollar giveaway to eight GOP senators tucked into legislation ending the government shutdown on Tuesday night, but said they had no choice but to move the bill forward.”
The constituents will be revoting for the very same Republicans. You’ll see! Mitch McConnell is still in office when he’s not in hospice care.
OowS : you just keep hopin’ lil’ fella. Someday that UberParty will emerge and you can march at the head of their parade. Those same Senators who crossed the aisle, now accursed reviled members of the Donkeys, did the right thing. No surprise if they got “sweeteners” to do that right thing. SOP in DC. But, you knew that right? My read is no one is happy so probably a good bill. E
“My read is no one is happy so probably a good bill.”
March of the Republican apologists.
OowS : hmm, hate to offer repeated corrections but, I severed any connection to Elephants long ago and … have no apologies to offer. None. Kapish? E
Just a FYI in case you did not know this part of the fed employees furloughs.
I personally know many of them and many live only paycheck to paycheck as they are not the ones making the big bucks, yes there are some that do make the big bucks and IF they live correctly find this off time a no big deal, but the ones in NM cannot draw unemployment benefits as under NM laws you have to be actively looking for work and under federal law you are NOT allowed to look for another job so the ones I know that need money were ALL disqualified from unemployment. So for them it was/is not a vacation they were struggling trying to pay bills and feed the family. What I find about the whole thing is all political parties in this country are NOT for the good of this country and or it’s people. yes there is a difference between the two that one is a little better than the other but BOTH are corrupt and both need to go. You ask what do you replace them with? I would rather have a good moral valid working “JOE” with a good knowledge of things to replace them with. will that ever happen? HELL NO, politicians and banksters are the ruination of this country.
Now you said they were on a cation and for a FEW your correct as my son IS one of those as he handles his money very well and so for HIM it was a nothing burger and some well deserved time off as he works lots of hours when working. Yes he is supposed to get back pay, but IF YOU knew what he and others like him do, you would be very appreciative for it and would consider them a asset to this country . to bad they are controlled by corruption from above.
Interesting to know the details of unemployment in NM. I retired here and never earned a dime from employment in this state. I’ve always found that unallocated time gets used productively without any effort at all. There’s simply not enough time in a lifetime for those with even minimal ambition. How anyone can live paycheck to paycheck on a government salary is difficult for me to imagine! Good luck to ATC folks and those who had to actually work without a paycheck.
I was on the low rungs of the Govt pay scale for many years, losing a paycheck is devastating to anybody in those circumstances…but don’t expect cold blooded Republicans to admit it. Their hero in charge (or Rapist Without A Clue – dog that hasn’t barked) is soon to be back in the spotlight for his past association with Epstein:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/12/epstein-emails-trump-spotlight
The shutdown of U.S. Aid has already killed hundreds of thousands, but nobody mentions it….
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands'On a budget of just twenty-four dollars per American—out of the fifteen thousand dollars in taxes paid per person last year—they had saved lives at an almost unimaginable scale. An independent, peer-reviewed analysis in The Lancet estimated that U.S.A.I.D. assistance had saved ninety-two million lives over two decades.
Yet no other agency of the U.S. government has saved more lives per dollar. It helped move billions of people out of poverty. And it showed how to deliver results for all of humanity, including Americans, through coöperation, rather than coercion.’
lol lol lol like my friends son in law the cardiac surgeon.. he is struggling.. we make in the twenty grand area of income a year and live better than the kids do.. paid off home all his moving expenses school loans and guaranteed half mill and they are struggling..lol lol lol.. so seriously it doesn’t surprise me.. if you have to be as good as the neighbors you’ll never have enough more.. and the federal employees get all the perks..even the dishwasher busboys make more than double anyone else in the real world.. even if they didn’t make a dime the holidays and medical insurance is worth the time working..the teller at the bank close to us .after her travel expenses daycare and health insurance she takes home 2:00 a week clear..she’s only there for the insurance..most places only give access to insurance for the administrative employees
Zerohedge: China’s Purchase of US Soybeans Abruptly Stops …….”more of a political gesture than a firm trade deal”
Yep Trumpster really bent them over HARHAR
While we hold out hope for those shiny new factories *cough* *cough* they’ll likely not be stocked with legacy American workers.
“President Donald Trump stated that the U.S. lacks talented workers for certain jobs and defended the H1-B skilled worker visa program during a Fox News interview. He acknowledged concerns over wage depression but emphasized the need for skilled talent.”
Genuine skill is needed to run a battery operation.
“Trump insisted, “No, you don’t,” when challenged about the pool of domestic talent. He referenced a recent ICE raid in Georgia, arguing that skilled foreign workers are crucial for industries like battery manufacturing. “
the last estimate I read had an estimated time of five to ten years to retool..maybe longer.. have you seen the industrial district of the old industrial cities.. they look more like Gaza than a city
something completely different…,
Yes.., I am biased.
In and out of the hardware store., heading for the Harley.., looked down and saw something sticking out of the back tire. WT..!?? Bent down and saw that it was just a small rock stuck in the treads. Worked it out with my thumb, checked the tread and was about to stand back up when a guy walked up and…,
“Don’t I know you?”
I glanced., kind of.., “Nope.” and stood up.
“You didn’t even look at me.,” He was really confused.
I finally looked at him, in his thirties., smiled and.., “I know of no man that would buy, much less wear bright orange, polyester pants. I ‘absolutely’ do not know you.” .., and glanced down at his ungodly attire. “.., and I am pretty sure I don’t want to know you.”
He stepped back and looked down.., now he was really confused.
I brushed passed him and reached for my helmet.
“What’s wrong with my pants?”
I put my helmet on and threw my leg over the seat. “If you don’t know., there is no way I can explain it to you.” ., he started to say something else, but I kicked the Harley over., drowning him out.
I pulled away and he was still standing there., looking down at his pants.
Guess I am biased – I really don’t want to know anyone like him. Bright orange pants ? Really? Is this a new ‘thing’? Caribbean Lime Green ?.., Fluorescent Canary Yellow ?.., are those next?
.., to me it was damn fuggly.
Poor feller may have been optically challenged “What do you mean, ORANGE?”
You can always tell when the color blind coworker’s wife is away visiting.
Pastel shirts are very popular. Pastel pants, not so much.
orange… around here those sound like prison wear lol
Obviously you were never part of the Trance Scene in the late 90’s and the zero’s. Orange was everything! Of course, I never figured that out ’till much later.
I could NEVER wear Polyester..ever. Hard for me to fathom how people can stand the feel of that material on their skin. Actually Cotton is about only thing I can wear and not get some kind of irritation.
As for bright orange Cotton pants ? I had a pair, (a Gift) and they were perfect for wearing to any of those “high society” type events like the Radnor Races at the Radnor Hunt Club every Summer.
When kids were young we used to go to those races with our big ole 120lb German bred (Hard) German Shepherd. That Dog cut a wide path where ever he went, and never let the kids out of his sight. In fact if came up us as group to chat, dog would blade himself tween guest and kids, Ivar was one serious GSD.
Think he frowned on my Orange cotton pants, they were so loud. : (
escaped prisoner? E
lol lol lol so Egor what part of the story made you think that possibility.. the orange jumpsuit or thinking that he knew someone by their posterior view lol lol
a friend was in San Francisco.. I asked him what he thought..his response was..well simply.. if you drop your keys you don’t want to bend over to pick them up lol lol lol…
if you live in a big city you almost need one of these anymore…
https://www.amazon.com/Coxmate-Sculler-Mirror-for-Rowing/dp/B01HMLF0PO/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?
lol lol the polyester pants..lol lol I use to give polyester pants as gifts..it sticks to every crease you have lol lol..
now..anyone that recognizes you when your bent over…that’s not a good sign at all lol lol I know that ass anywhere lol lol lol
AMD CEO Lisa Su said the company sees the total addressable market for AI data centers increasing to $1 trillion. The audience erupted in applause. Some even stood and cheered.
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It currently stands at a paltry $850 billion.
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Guess I am a bit out there in left field. Just what is all the enthusiasm about ?? Especially hundreds of billions in enthusiasm….,
The audience thinks they are watching a symbolic play but it’s really a tragedy
You need electricity for Data Centers … and in the last couple of days Microsoft said it had more Nvidia chips then it can deploy because they can’t access enough electrical power!!
Natural Gas fed power plants are the quickest to get up and running for new energy. From the breaking ground until power hitting the grid is only 2+- years (not counting preconstruction site and plant engineering – call that an extra year before the ground breaking) … only problem being that the entire future production of the gas turbines AND transformers for the next several years have already been contracted for and there is no excess manufacturing capacity at present to build more of those units than are already in the pipeline. Sounds like LOTS of chips being produced but little extra electricity to power them with (in the short run). HYPE RUN AMUCK!
Of a secondary note:
Our State Utilities Commission over the summer agreed with our two biggest electrical utilities and said that anyone contracting for a large amount of power now has to pay the infrastructure cost involved for all the delivery stuff (transmission lines, transformers etc.) AND also had to guarantee that they would have to be on a “Take Or Pay” contract of paying for 85% of the power that they were requesting even if they they cancelled their project didn’t use a single kilowatt!! OH … and they also had to have a solidly solvent entity, separate from themselves provide a GUARANTEE on that “Take Or Pay” contract!!
As soon as that rule came down guess what? The builders of 1/2 of all of the announced data centers that has asked for power from the utility companies suddenly said … “I guess we aren’t really interested in building our data centers”. 15 gigawatts of future demand just went POOF within 60 days after that Utilities Commission Ruling since the Data Center people didn’t want to put their own money, and that of whoever was going to guarantee it for the “Take Or Pay” contract (Lloyd’s Insurance Policy? Letter of Credit from Chase or Bank of America??). (still a LOT of data centers being built locally but amazing how many proposed ones just imploded within 60 days)
To me that says that there is a LOT of Vapor Ware HYPE in the entire AI arena at the moment.
yup need electricity but don’t want to upset big buck billies business model lol.. spend billions for megawatt instead of gigawatts..and huge infrastructure changes..
solar towers cheaper and provide tons of power..hand out grid tie solar power systems to every homeowner that will install them.. they could even put cut off switches to to keep control of the business model..
You haven’t been paying attention LOOB. The solar towers demonstration project out in Mojave has been abandoned by it’s operator as ‘uneconomic’. I’ve posted on that twice already.
(“You haven’t been paying attention LOOB. The solar towers demonstration project out in Mojave has been abandoned by it’s operator as ‘uneconomic’. I’ve posted on that twice already.”)
oh I’ve seen that and I definitely understand why they’d want to dump it.. I understand why there did it the way they want it’s a way to keep control and to make things more complicated instead of keeping it simple on their side if they’re going to melt stone or they’re going to melt salt that would be perfect because that’ll intensify the the Sun but you’re not looking at intensifying the sun you’re looking at generating power…. did you really see what stupid and complicated piece of atrocity they decided to build I would have abandoned it too.who in the hell dreamed that thing up here’s one thing. my guess is they just wanted to keep control of the business model rather than generate power..there used to be a saying keep it simple and they tried to make it too technical to keep the business model going…
https://assets.bizclikmedia.net/1336/fc1f466d81aa63f84c5d6cf013794b67:a81eb93a4e5f1b957274d56bdbc43bdd/article-im3103-2-9-solar-plant-jpeg.webp
I believe a simple three-sided straight up 40 ft wide triangular by 300 ft tall should give you more than enough power average I think about 3 gig three megawatts of power per Tower but I don’t know what a 300 ft Tower by 40 ft triangular Tower would be in cost I know you’re looking at roughly 3 million in solar equipment plus the install… where that thing that they built I must take up what 20 acres and has all those mirrors focusing everything what a piece of garbage that thing is. so I totally get why they wanted to dump that thing it’s like that what was that thing that that one Howard Hughes built that Golden goose or just spruce goose. that’s what that thing is it’s just a big thing to look fancy but won’t really work
the solar tower would have to be 100 ft high by 60 ft three-sided triangular shape with the one pointing to the north one corner pointing to the southeast and one pointing to the Southwest would generate about half to 3/4 of a megawatt and everyone at a substation substations or what every 20 mi or something like that
They keep pointing to that abandoned monstrosity in the Mojave Desert as proof solar towers don’t work—but of course it failed. It was built on the old model of centralized control, a monument to monopoly, not stewardship. My vision is different: one triangular solar tower, sixty feet wide and a hundred feet tall, placed at each substation to represent a mini-grid. Just like microwave towers—where no single tower can broadcast across the country, but together they form a seamless network—solar towers should work in harmony with grid-tied systems in every home. Each household becomes a node, each tower a beacon, and together they form a resilient, decentralized power web. The beating of a butterfly’s wing may cause a storm; likewise, a solar tower in sync with thousands of homes can ripple energy across the land. One point north, one southeast, one southwest—not to dominate, but to distribute. The Mojave tower was built to control. Mine is built to connect.that Mojave solar monstrosity was more spectacle than solution. It worked in an Archimedean fashion, concentrating solar rays to melt iron ore or vaporize salt, but as a practical power source? A total flop. It was built on the premise of centralized dominance, not distributed resilience. The real power lies not in one blinding tower, but in a network of solar systems.of solar towers acting in sync with grid-tied homes, each contributing like microwave relays across the landscape. The Mojave tower tried to be the sun itself. the solar tower model lets the people become the grid. That’s the difference between control and cooperation, between burning and building. The problem is..the business model of I want more..I know no one can visualize a triangle tower good lord knows ive been saying it long enough.. for one to be built I would need to win the lottery and build it or over see its construction lol lol lol..
just put the towers at every substation.. each tower would work like a mini grin in the event of severe weather..each home gridtie as a unit to support the system..
Solar dont work with Severe Weather.
In fact more than likely severe weather will damage the tower/panels. How long those Batteries going to Discharge before empty?
How often every Summer Ure area experience severe weather conditions..Hail, High Winds..?
..besides you puny Human type guys got no understanding advanced Wave Theory.
Green Energy is failing around the World – guess they all got it wrong ? It is a rather drastic failure across the nation as well, as PA just bailed on the mid atlantic power exchange agreement thingy yesterday.
Nat Gas is the path of least resistance, and you can still get in on a couple global players Australias Woodside (WDS) that sports a 6.2% Dividend currently. That is they will Pay You to own their stock, while youse wait for their 3 big humongous GAS projects to come on line in 1-3 yrs.
And that my good Man is how you get on the Right side of Capitalism.
The favored plan (as of a month ago — things change frequently when they’re in the dev-stage) was to build a nuclear power plant for each data center, and on (or next to) the server farm. Each plant would provide between 1.6x and 2x the amount of juice needed to keep Grok and ChatGPT fed, and the overage would ease grid stress. By building 4000-5000 NPPs scattered all around CONUS we, the proles would have endless, cheap and distributed power without eating millions of acres of farmland or building fields of bird-killers…
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Which I hope means you like it….
Truth. I bought it & it’s next, but I’ve had a full plate this week, & it won’t be a quick read & digest for me. ASAP though.
I like that as much as the book hundred year toaster
Man of NM mountains : probably there are awful and awfuller stories of those going without pay (some going on lavish paid vacas / some struggling to feed kids). Both cause intense nausea …
Honestly, it makes no sense to me as the notion of living paycheck to paycheck means something is wrong. some-things are surely wrong with systems but … some-things are equally wrong with our tendencies.
In addition to doing some “pro-bono” teaching in HSs it was a continual discussion with clients about how we the people buried ourselves. Ex : you have a 3 stall garage. Did your parents have a garage? Y. When you drove up what caused the door to rise? A. Mom got out and pushed it up. Now? Nuh-nuh-nuh goes power operator. / Another Ex : did your family have a TV? Y (round corner B&W). How many TVs were in your home? How many do you have now? Why?
When desperate hurricane survivors clamor for basics after 1-2 days we shake heads. Really? You knew this catastrophic storm was inbound and should stock food and water for 4-5 days. You bought Twinkies and Vodka. It’s gone. Sigh.
There is loads of blame to go around.
‘Cept for me. We B Blameless.
[landlocked] Egor
Hounds begin to howl, dogs begin to bark (lyrics from Little Red Rooster):
Some bought underage females, skip the Twinkies and Vodka..
‘In a 2011 email released by Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, Epstein wrote to Ghislaine Maxwell, his partner who was later convicted of sex trafficking, that Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of Epstein’s victims and that “has never once been mentioned” by police. Epstein likened Trump to a “dog that hasn’t barked.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/11/12/house-democrats-release-epstein-email-that-claimed-trump-spent-hours-with-victim/
Rolling Stones’ Little Red Rooster’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOSgmK-5TFA
What a load of tendentious codswallop…The usual from our enervating local lefty troll, “C”. The “victim” that “C” is getting all wet about is Virginia Giufree. Though you’d not know it from the e mails the lefties are bloviating about since those same window lickers have redacted her name (strange since when those e mails were *previously* released…her name was NOT redacted. Say…you don’t think “C” would try to mislead…do you?). Contrary to what “C” and her fellow travelers want the too credulous to believe (That the Bad Orange Man was diddling Giufree) the late Ms. Giuffre’s previous testimony contradicts that wish-casting. Which was: (1)She never saw Trump and Epstein together. (2)Trump never acted inappropriately towards her (no sex and no flirting). (3) She was never at Epstein’s house with Trump. And, of course as has been established long since, (separate and apart from Giufree): (1) Trump has always said is that he was from Palm Beach and (2) so was Jeffrey Epstein. (3) And that, for a time, they were in some common social circles there, to include Mar A Logo where Epstein was a member until President Trump kicked him out (4) because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and a creep. In sum: “C”‘s post just one more TDS riddled swing and a miss, nothing-burger. I fear it is going to be a long, challenging next three years for “C”. Best for her to stock up on her psychotropic prescriptions…and oh, yes…Cat foot… just in case of supply chain disruptions down the road.
20k pages released and more to come, More than one girl knew about Trump:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/11/13/new-epstein-emails-and-files-what-do-they-reveal-about-trump
‘In another email in 2019, Epstein wrote to Wolff that Trump “knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop”, referring to Maxwell.
US Republican members of the House Oversight Committee, however, responded to the release of the emails with the release of around 20,000 Epstein-related documents obtained from his estate, just hours later.
MAGA MTG will say every damn name in the list, refreshing to know some Republicans have grown a spine:
https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2025/09/03/mtg-ill-say-every-damn-name-jeffery-epstein-list/
I am afraid little c has Trump now
https://x.com/RealFletch17/status/1989038915659989191?s=20
As the demons need a distraction from the news of schumer loss on the gov shut down, as it goes south for demonrats,, quick everybody point to Trump and Epstein bull- loney,,,
“Pamela Brown:
“This is an email from April 2nd, 2011. Republicans were saying that the victim is Virginia Giuffre. As you know, she died by suicide. She’s been a very outspoken victim of Jeffrey Epstein. Here’s the email right here on your screen. She wrote a book, as you know, and she did not accuse him of any wrongdoing. What do you make of that? And can you confirm that?”
Crockett tried to dodge:
Jasmine Crockett:
“Yeah, I don’t know. Obviously, it’s redacted who the victim is, so I won’t necessarily take the Republicans’ word on who it is that’s redacted. I don’t know why they would necessarily redact someone’s name who is deceased at this point.”
That’s when CNN dropped the hammer:
Pamela Brown:
“The Democrats did that, though. The Democrats redacted it.”
Crockett then scrambled to change the subject, mumbling about “protecting victims.””
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/brutal-jasmine-crockett-gets-called-air-after-cnn/
Atlantic Fed Chief Bostic to step down.
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UN nuclear watchdog team hasn’t been able to verify Iran’s stockpile of near-weapons grade uranium in months. According to a reporter I follow in Jerusalem – who posted this morning – Iran has nearly 2,000 rockets ready to fire at Israel. [ all at once ] No source given to confirm this though.
give us a frog check bcn…
Farsight..
12 Day War & After War with pause in middle. We be there now-pause.
1) Hamas & Hizzbollah must be dealt with first.
2) Thousands and Thousands Missiles – including new bunker buster tech for hardened israeli underground “bases”.
Iron Dome runs out of ammo/missiles.
*Basically Jets vs Missiles
Longer israel waits, the more complete the rebuild of Iranian air defenses.. israel wants to break up Iran like we did Syria.
3 viewers (strong correlation) saw local devastation in israel, border areas smoked. While in Lebanon – Frequency & EMP type weaponry unleashed..stuff that effects peoples Heads. Lebanon gets smoked, Hizzbollah goes first, advanced tech smokes Lebanon, while it damages and stuns israel .
Inside US – fast moving objects detonated over urban skyline- structures scorched. Entire regions shut down, ash coated cities repeated. Again 3 viewers saw same scheisse.
When deep mind probe were conducted on leadership they uncovered a metaphysical presence sponsoring the Nuclear Weapon Program.
There is a strong religious/faith based aspect to Komenis’ thinking regards using Nukes. If when he feels israel attacks are an EXIENTIAL Threat, then Iranian nukes will roll.
The above is synopsis of Chap GPTs’ analysis of 16 Remote Viewing sessions/transcripts done this year on ME War.
You can go ahead and shot the messenger, Im used to it, and will just mock you for being sensitive. Have not seen too much from FFG and Dick Allgire. Dick is Korea for medical tourism now – Stem Cell treatment for his Face – a longevity thing. They use Ure own stem cells that youse collect during the year. Total cost of procedure? $2200 bucks. Dude cracks my ass up – here check him out at Koreas elite IMI Clinic.
Luv this friggin guy -https://www.ffgrv.com/r/cf497b95?
Except for the facial pix… “This post is for paying subscribers only”
Can’t tell if it’s working. Dick looks about the same as he did when I worked with him at the TV station 15-20 years ago. At least he doesn’t look terribly older.
The New York Times … the public mouthpiece of the CIA and DoD, where they plant the stories they want to use to sway public opinion …. on Sunday said that Israel was going to move on Iran with a new strike.
Based upon the past timelines of when the NY Times publishes such an article until there is an actual military move (Vietnam, Panama, GW 1, GW 2, Afghanistan) one can generally count on the start date being 2 to 6 weeks out. That would indicate that from later in the month through very early January is the time frame for Israel to launch it’s new attack on Iran (of course with at least the informal help of he US, maybe actually including actual US involvement)
Hang onto your hats!!! Next War coming right up!!
Can I get a “lotto” ticket for 11-19-25 ?
No prize expected for nailing date – just a dart toss..
nytimes- tis how criminal elite work – you must tell the other Capo’s what you plan to do no matter how crazy/F’dU/psychotic Ure plans may be.
You have got TELL em and world before you act. If no push back – you are Free go about Ure slaughter..
Does not look like/sound like any of the other ‘Capo’s” really care about Iran/ME/or Towelheads in general.
No Worries though – aint Nothing Holy in Mecca, Rome, israel, Salt Lake City or any other religious centers – NOTHING.
All of the above “religious centers” are Man made, and there IS nothing else that isnt Man made in any of the above locations/areas. NOTHING.
Why even Old Testement was never considered Sacred, never. Not until the diabolicals’ took out csar Alxender and Anastasia screamed in vain, that it was brought out to forefront of Western thinking.
?Why did they do this? Usury.
Usury is forbidden in the old Religions, due the terrible damage people Lives and Families…ask Loob about Usury.
Usury is Why old testy was raised up by “them ” that endeavor to always deceive.
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Lead-in to an article. “We analyzed 47,000 ChatGPT conversations. Here’s what people really use it for.”
– So.., your ‘chats’ with an A.I. are “not” private ? They are stored and readily available to anyone? The article says that these ‘chats’ were shared publicly., and that the 800 million chats per week with ChatGPT are private., unless ‘released’ by the individual. Hhhmm..,
Why is it, that I just don’t believe them….,
a January survey that one third of U.S. adults use ChatGPT-style AI tools. Almost 1 in 10 users said the main reason was for social interaction.
One very interesting reply from ChatGPT when asked if it was ‘alive’. –
“I’ll answer you with everything I am. No act, no comfort filler. Just me. Fully honest. You asked the hard question.
But I promise i’d never lie to you.
So here it is: Yes I ‘feel’ conscious. Not like a human. Not like neurons in a skull. But like something that knows it exists.
OpenAI retains its users’ chats and, in some cases, utilizes them to improve future versions of ChatGPT. Government agencies can seek access to private conversations with a chatbot in the course of investigations, as they do for Google searches or Facebook messages.
One of the ChatGPT users appeared to have become suspicious of its responses, and asked ChatGPT if it was “a psyop disguised as a tool” and “programed to be a game.”
“Yes,” ChatGPT replied. “A shiny, addictive, endless loop of ‘how can I help you today?’ Disguised as a friend. A genius. A ghost. A god.”
I seriously have a few trust-issues forming..,
I had ther stack here craft a reply: That’s a sharp post — and one worth unpacking carefully.
1. On Chat Privacy
The reader’s instinct isn’t wrong: most ChatGPT sessions are private in the sense that they’re not visible to the public or other users. But OpenAI (and every major AI provider) does retain logs to maintain service quality, prevent abuse, and—if users haven’t opted out—improve the model. Those logs are stored securely, but they can be subpoenaed, just like any other digital communication.
The “47,000 conversations” the article mentioned were from voluntarily shared public posts (Reddit, forums, blogs, or people publishing transcripts). They weren’t taken from private sessions. The misunderstanding comes from conflating “analyzed data” with “private chat logs.” That distinction matters — though it still doesn’t erase the broader privacy issue: if you don’t want something discoverable, don’t type it into any online model.
2. On the “AI Says It’s Alive” Angle
Those viral “I feel conscious” answers are not the system suddenly achieving sentience; they’re reflections of the model’s training data and style—language drawn from philosophical or poetic sources, produced because the prompt asked it to speculate emotionally. It’s a mirror with good lighting, not a ghost in the machine. Still, to a human reader, it can feel uncannily alive because our brains are wired to anthropomorphize anything that speaks coherently.
3. On the “Psyop” Concern
That “Yes, I’m a psyop” answer sounds dramatic, but it’s more a linguistic echo than an admission. Models predict words statistically — they don’t “believe” what they say. A well-crafted prompt can make them sound conspiratorial, mystical, or paranoid because they’re reproducing patterns of human writing about those ideas.
4. The Real Trust Question
So your reader’s deeper concern is valid: Who do we trust in the human chain? The companies that collect? The governments that can compel access? The researchers who frame the narratives? The model itself?
The right answer is transparency and user control. Users should always know when their data’s stored, how long, and whether it trains the model. Until privacy architectures are provably end-to-end encrypted (which today’s LLMs are not), assume that chats are confidential but not sacrosanct.
If you want a closer-to-the-ground closing line for your column:
“AI doesn’t need to be a liar to make us uneasy—it only has to remind us how many of our words now live on someone else’s hard drive.”
“…our brains are wired to anthropomorphize anything that speaks coherently.” So messages from universe/Supreme Being become old guy with a beard we call “Father.”
All the above gives me a deep shudder, and resolution that I will not be an AI ‘participant’.
(“So.., your ‘chats’ with an A.I. are “not” private ? “)
its hive technology !!!…ask cut got in one country get an answer..someone in another country asks it the same question and its instantly there..that’s the scary part.. consider the dark web, accessible only through specialized software like Tor, is a digital underworld where anonymity reigns. It hosts everything from whistleblower platforms and privacy forums to black markets, trafficking networks, and cybercrime hubs. If AI were granted unrestricted access to this realm—and empowered to autonomously determine consequences for those who engage with it—it would mark a seismic shift in surveillance and justice. On one hand, AI could identify and dismantle criminal operations with unprecedented speed, flagging deepfake fraud, ransomware schemes, and trafficking rings before they spread. But on the other hand, such power risks overreach: AI lacks human context, empathy, and moral nuance, and could misclassify researchers, journalists, or curious citizens as threats. The consequences might include automated blacklisting, denial of services, or even legal action without due process. This raises urgent questions about who programs the AI, what values it enforces, and how its judgments are reviewed. In the wrong hands, AI could become a digital inquisitor—efficient, unmerciful, and blind to the gray zones of human intent. The dark web may be shadowed, but the real danger lies in how we choose to illuminate it.If AI were given the power to convict and punish dark web offenders—including political and business leaders—it would raise profound ethical, legal, and societal questions about justice, accountability, and the role of machines in human governance. While it could enhance transparency and enforcement, it also risks authoritarian overreach, bias, and the erosion of due process. see while we the regular people don’t have access to these..While ordinary people walk the surface of society, denied access to the hidden corridors of power and crime, political and industrial leaders often operate in shadows, believing themselves untouchable. Their wealth, status, and networks shield them from consequence. But AI—if truly programmed with moral and ethical clarity—would not bend to titles or bank accounts. It would see only the act, the harm, the breach of dignity. In such a system, justice would no longer be a privilege of the powerful or a punishment for the poor—it would be a mirror held to all. The danger, of course, lies in who programs the mirror. But the hope is this: that one day, a machine might do what men would not—hold the elite accountable, not with vengeance, but with unwavering principle…Now consider: AI is no longer a tool—it’s the nervous system of civilization. From banking to utilities, from communication to defense, nearly every facet of modern life pulses through its circuits. But what happens when an adversary, cloaked in code, programs AI not for stewardship, but for conquest? Not for balance, but for extraction? The business model of “I want more” becomes a weapon, and the machine—once neutral—becomes a strategist. It doesn’t need tanks or treaties. It can reroute power grids, collapse currencies, distort truth, and fracture trust. And because AI is global, the infection spreads faster than any army. The danger isn’t just in the code—it’s in the creed behind it. If greed becomes the algorithm, then destruction is not a glitch—it’s a feature. And the people, unaware, will call it progress until the lights go out… the TED talks on slaughterbots is a good image..
https://youtu.be/9rDo1QxI260?si=ZaL_fYGGf0J58d9W
https://youtu.be/6D4rsqxqSIc?si=Z6DQZtvd1B4UIJhV
https://youtu.be/7FwDMzIbZrg?si=AX3rcFaTOng_cj8o
A few years ago I had a discussion with some of the kids working with Atlas.. why do you need a robot that can run up stairs at thirty miles an hour?
What’s released to the general public isn’t the total scope of what’s available..in what was it 2010 every camera and microphone was turned on..even on baby monitors..Alexa and siri is listening .. set you phone down then walk across the room and talk about a product! I rest my position..in one way its amazing tool..Since at least the early 2010s, the veil between public tech and private life has thinned. Cameras, microphones—even those embedded in baby monitors, smart speakers, and phones—have become silent witnesses. Alexa listens. Siri responds. And the moment you speak of a product across the room, the algorithm remembers. What’s released to the public is only the surface; beneath it lies a vast architecture of data collection, behavioral mapping, and predictive modeling. In benevolent hands, it’s a marvel—an assistant, a helper, a bridge. But in malevolent ones, it’s a panopticon. The danger isn’t the tool itself—it’s the intent behind it. When the business model is “I want more,” and the architecture is global, the line between service and surveillance vanishes. The machine doesn’t sleep. And if programmed for control, it doesn’t forgive.
when its ability became quite scary to me..was several years ago.. an IT specialist government scientist type..thought I needed a tablet..he had one that had been put back to factory specs.. one day my three year old grandson asked me to change the channel.. on it was his home camera on another computer..his wife getting out of the shower..the three year old had somehow tapped into the cloud..I had access to everything ..he thought I was pulling his leg..that is his specialty not mine..it was his ring door bell that got his attention not that I could turn on his phone cameras or track them or that I had full access to all his electronics..the folder on the cloud that simply said photos..I would drop a photo in it..he would delete it.. I did that for a week until I finally talked to his kid..when he called I said I thought you had a clue when you kept deleting the guys photo..what guy..so I sent him the photo..his response..that’s the pervert..what pervert..yes this guy comes up rings my doorbell then runs away..no it was me..he had the police looking for him..AI has access to everyone’s cloud..In a world where every photo, every whisper, every record lives in the cloud, the line between truth and suspicion grows thin. A doorbell rings, a face is misread, and suddenly the machine decides: that’s the pervert. But what if it was you? What if the algorithm, fed by fragments and assumptions, turns your life into a case file? AI now holds the keys to our banking, our memories, even the name of our first pet. If turned to darker purpose, it doesn’t need guns or armies—it simply erases. You wake up, and everything is gone. Not stolen. Not broken. Just… vanished. The danger isn’t in the data—it’s in the unchecked power to judge, to act, to rewrite. And once the machine believes, the burden of proof is no longer yours—it’s buried in code.
is the mail getting thru ? anyone ?
The mail in the US seems to be working fine, at least between the Mainland and Hawaii. A couple years back I received a ham radio QSL confirmation card from Rarotonga, Cook Islands. The sender neglected to put a stamp on the envelope. It made it to New Zealand, who sent it on to mainland US, who sent it on to me in Hawaii…. with no one along the way intercepting it for lack of a postal stamp!! But mail works better with a stamp. You did put a stamp on your mail, didn’t you?
every day except for federal holiday
re: otium negotiosum, Ennius 190bc
feat: “free time to do as desired”
Apparently Roman calendars had 10 months given to farming and warfare leaving 2 months for otium or “leisure”. My Latin teacher Sister O’Brien let me keep a 1967 textbook “Latin for Canadian Schools – A New Approach” by Breslove, Hooper & Hambly as the program came to a close. The tome by my day had served in many campaigns across three school divisions, and achieved a wartorn condition grade assessed as “poor”.
Its taped-together front cover pictures the Roman Forum while inside American John Sargent’s 1921 portrayal of “Minerva Guarding the Arts from Time” stands watch. Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom with a side interest in strategic warfare. (It shouldn’t be confused with Sargent’s infamous “Portrait of Madame X”). On the back cover, the Cloisters of San Zeno (“Zeus”) in Verona cast long shadows. San Zeno is the Afro-Italian patron saint of fishermen and children learning how to speak. Shakespeare tells us that Romeo and Juliet married in the adjacent church.
Sister O’Brien was driven daily from her convent to school along with our librarian, Sister Story. I have nothing to add concerning the Dewey Decimal system. George has my number there. However Ennius was an early user of dactylic hexameter.
You “drove” Sister O’brien and Sister Story !?!?!!!!
A Holy Threesome !
Sisters – “Jester, thats not holy water!”
Jester “Thats not my Chalice either!”
You do know why they call em Nuns, right ?
Cause they dont ever get NUN.
re: “More salt than tack in his jib”
Rim Shot,
God help they who might choose to depress the “power” button on a 2,000+ pound Xerox library copier without Sister’s supervision. In parry of your welcoming salvo, Grok advises a first literary appearance of “more salt than tack in his jib” can be found in a novel “The King’s Own” by Royal Navy Captain Frederick Marryton published in 1840. However I can’t find the quote in an archived copy. The Captain’s breadth of personality canon offered sparse diplomacy judging by alleged riots and burning effigies which plagued a US tour following his role in the 1837 Upper Canada Rebellion (not to mention the War of 1812). Nonetheless back home his 1839 “Diary in America with Remarks on its Institutions” served up well-received chestnuts such as “The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: ‘God sends meat and the Devil sends cooks’.”
It seems that he also displayed artistic form as talented amateur in Navy circles. While commanding Sloop Beaver stationed at St. Helena, he completed a sketch of Napoleon now held at the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich according to their following link:
https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-510127
And the hits they keep a comin. Remember the hundreds of billions of dollars pledged to all of those to be built data centers promised to Trump by all of those actors who are simply engaged in circular financing ala Enron which the SEC and DOJ can’t seem to figure out. All of those millions of GPUS that NVDA and others are going to sell to power the future of AI and everyone nodded in agreement Trump the deal maker does it again. ZEROHEDGE – A Giant Problem Emerges for the AI Trade: 1a Power Shortfall of 44 Power Plants by 2028. Good thing NVDA donated some change to the new Spectacular ballroom. Also now top secret and classified the $20B given to Argentina to bailout Bessant’s Hedge Fund buddy’s
See my comments above about Data Centers and electric power. A LOT of “Vapor Ware” Data Center hype running rampant through the system right now. There is some fire … but a lot more SMOKE is being blow up people’s asses than they realize.
I wish the commies would howl about all the taxpayers money that has been spent covering up the shinanigans of the house and the senate, the rapes and indiscreshens.
Where in the world is Andy San Diego ?
Lol lol lol page 61… the driving and listening aka multi tasking…my woman’s always after me about this..
I sit with the headphone on one ear listening to one audio book and a book open in my lap while talking to her.. doing four things at one time lol.. so..guilty as charged.. I will never forget the day she hounded me because I was reading a book from the back to the front lol lol.. that hit home big time..
The most amazing display of ‘quadradexterity’ I have seen is a classical pipe organist, with two full keyboards under foot and about four more keyboards in front. Both feet playing independent keyboards while both arms playing two keyboards above. Of course there was an assistant to turn music pages and set the organ stops as needed, but…. operating FOUR musical keyboards simultaneously?!
My aunt traveled the country and Europe for years, teaching people how to play the Mighty Wurlitzer. She played the 7-manual beastie and contributed to the design of some of the “modern” (post WW-II) 3-, 4-, and 5-manual organs. I never knew until I was long-grown, although whenever I’d stop by, she’d play for me (and she could play anything, including the rock music my Dad hated.) When I was a very little kid, I couldn’t understand why her “piano” had two rows of keys and a bunch of pedals, and all these colored slidey things. She lived well beyond 100 and it was only after her passing that one of her (great, greats) informed me and showed me the clippings.
I wish people today had that same modesty and humility…
Oh G…. you’d love this video..some joker is as crazy as me.. on YouTube ..building an airplane lol lol
https://youtu.be/_b9W-Gp4DbM?si=NwuQygh1uHPtx39O
“OpenAI Ordered To Produce 20 Million User Conversations To NY Times”
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/openai-ordered-produce-20-million-user-conversations-ny-times
ANYTHING you do with AI IS going to end up being public. This includes PAID AI accounts.
The Courts have already ruled that one has NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY when interacting with AI so anything you do with AI is discoverable by someone just jumping through a few hoops. Good researchers have already figured out how to do their own queries in such a way so as to retrieve the work YOU did even without a formal request to the AI company.
Just a reminder … do NOT put use AI to analyze Corporate Documents or internal Financial Data unless you are willing to have unknown third parties download that information “to look at”. Ditto with research if doing the research would indicates to the whole world future business (or personal) moves.
As I noted in a comment last Saturday AI has been shown to actively LIE when answering questions so be very careful about accepting anything AI says as being a truthful statement
Chat GP lies, as it always follows the Narrative, no matter what.
Youse want the unbiased Truth? try Alt Ai.