I like writing and all, but there are some things AI can do better – or at least faster – than me.
I’m a Creative Carbon but a little help from the Speeders of Silicon gets me to breakfast a lot faster. Here’s the first “Lazy George” tasking of the day:
For Friday, May 1, 2026 — May Day / Labour Day, major closures include:
Closed
Euronext Europe: Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Lisbon, Milan, Oslo, Dublin.
Germany: Xetra / Frankfurt.
India: NSE and BSE.
China A-shares: Shanghai and Shenzhen, closed May 1–5.
Hong Kong: HKEX.
Singapore: SGX.
Much of Asia: South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia also observe Labour Day closures.
Brazil: B3.
Mexico: BMV.
Open / not May 1 closed
U.S.: NYSE / Nasdaq open; May Day is not a U.S. market holiday.
Canada: TSX generally open.
UK: London Stock Exchange is open May 1, but closed Monday May 4 for the Early May Bank Holiday. (What, they working too hard? Poor little darlings…)
Japan and Australia traded today, per market reports.
Bottom lines: Europe ex-UK, China/HK/Singapore/India and much of SE Asia, plus Brazil and Mexico are the big May Day closures.
The S&P along with Dow futures were up, but the Russell and NASDAQ were sobering up. The smart reader will study the latest drop from The Economic Fractalist and the still-delusional will be thrilled with BTC hitting $77,673 earlier. To us? It’s just more proof (like we needed it?) that hysteria is contagious.
PMI numbers mid-morning will be worth noticing on a coffee break.
Mayday!
You’ll be able to use today as a social sieve, if you will: for sorting out the independent-minded people from the “joiners and followers”. May Day protest organizers call for boycott of work, school and shopping.
Which would be a terrible thing – to be locked into following – but you do know where the term brown-nosing came from?
The Trump of Triumph
Still waiting, huh? Us too… Here’s how the national distraction is rolling now:
The reason today matters is the requirement that if the U.S. goes marching off to war somewhere, it needs congressional approval. Checks and balances are good things.
Which gets us to this: Trump faces Friday deadline to end US-Israel war on Iran or seek Congress extension. Which has turned into a political football on the Hill because midterms are on the horizon. Republicans defer to Trump on Iran war despite deadline.
To mark the occasion, did you expect? Peace or something? (Silly you.) CENTCOM chief briefs Trump on possible ‘final blow’ against Iran: Report. Trump weighs ‘Swift Strikes’ on Iran as Tehran signals defiance over Hormuz
The Commander in Chief isn’t done shaking things up in the .mil world yet, either. Nor is he taking kindly to the NATO self-centeredness which has kept them out of the Iran cluster. Now Trump threatens to withdraw US troops from Italy and ‘horrible’ Spain.
If you’re keeping track, the way we figure it is this: Trump looks at numbers (he’s a Developer, right?). So, he sees the massive U.S. commitment of troops and support to Europe at some level as underwriting our own competition. How much underwriting?
EU Punishment
Let’s think this through: If Trump really pulls the economic plug on Europe, this is not just a Pentagon reshuffle — it is a local depression machine aimed at selected host economies. Germany, Italy, and Spain together host about 53,000 active-duty U.S. personnel, and once DoD civilians, base staffs, contractors, spouses, and children are included, the American footprint likely runs on the order of 130,000–160,000 people.
That is payroll, rent, groceries, schools, restaurants, fuel, local hires, and supplier contracts. Pull that plug and Washington is not merely moving soldiers; it is yanking a U.S.-funded demand stream out of European towns that have quietly built whole local economies around the American presence.
Hand me a pencil? Let’s take the high-end number (160,000) because I didn’t research contractors like the folks who train the NATO forces on how to drive American war products. And let’s use $50,000 per person because they’re not coming home to pick up bargains at Best Buy on weekends.
$8 billion.
Not enough to shutter the EU, but it’s also not budget dust.
And there is a way he could (theoretically) further screw with the EU. How?
About 136,000 U.S. retired-worker Social Security recipients live in the EU, using SSA’s Dec. 2024 foreign-country table and summing EU countries listed separately. The true number is likely a bit higher because several smaller EU states are not broken out individually; SSA only lists countries with 500+ beneficiaries separately. Europe overall has 174,407 retired-worker beneficiaries.
All the administration would need to do is to limit the “payout countries” for Social Security and that would be another, what, $5 billion hit to the EU. To paraphrase the late senator Everett Dirksen, “A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money.”
This was from my younger days – back when the Republican party actually possessed accounting skills.
This is Not a Dust Bowl
But be patient and watch the brown spots as we roll into summer:
A shout-out to Google. (No, not for Gemma 4 models…) For the Google Trends interest in the word drought:
We’ve seen this coming in our “future sensing” for how long? The correct answer is here. That’s about when we started eyeing the problems of year-round, on-site food production.
Voice Mode Activated
You may be interested to learn that I have removed SuperGrok from my AI stack here. Wondering why?
My experience with xAI billing has been a straight-up operational failure — a $300 charge showing on the card in February, no “Year of SuperGrok” showing up on the account dashboard.
And because there was no timely human response (or machine resolution — I don’t care how…) despite screenshots and documentation, that’s not a minor glitch; that’s a trust breach. When you’re running paid tools in a production workflow, billing has to be auditable, transparent, and responsive. My first note to Billing was March 4.
Time’s up. If I can’t reconcile what I’ve been charged against what the system says I paid, the platform doesn’t belong in the stack — period. If my bank can sort it out and get me access, great. I love the product — but the Support chain? (What support chain?)
Love the product – it rocks. (Or, Groks.) Don’t like how it overwrote something (like my $300 annual account).
Home-Growing AI
If you have been shying away from AI, it’s getting easier than ever to build a machine at home.
For Windows you can drop in LM Studio from here. Think of this as a “shell program.”
At the end of setup, then you get to “model shop.” The latest builds are gushed over (and ranked) in their Models section.
The only hiccups (compared with Grok, which codes Python nicely and Chat-GPT which spellchecks and works with Word docs better) revolve around how good your computer is.
Suddenly, Gaming Computers Make Sense
That’s because AI models don’t really care about your CPU — they live and die by GPU (graphics processor unit) muscle. The more VRAM (video memory) you’ve got, the larger and smarter the models you can run locally. What used to be “overkill” for gamers — big video cards, fast memory, serious cooling — is now exactly what a home AI lab wants.
In plain English: that “big-ass gaming rig” isn’t about games anymore — it’s about owning your compute, your models, and your data.
And once you’ve tasted that?
Cloud AI starts to feel a lot like renting your own brain back… at retail prices. (Is more me worth $300/year?)
Oh, and AI offline may be trending toward a “not poor” person’s tool: Samsung has an ominous warning for your tech purchase plans leading into 2027 – Digital Trends. Chip purchase prices and time to maintain the system versus online…hmm.
Around the Ranch: The B Cluster
The personal Kanban (Brisqi) today – for whatever reason – has my day being very “B”-centric.
Not as big a deal as, oh, all the molecules of air going to one side of the room, but it does remind me of an important rule in statistics. Which is?
Breakfast. That’s really the first “B” project of the day.
Write when you get rich,
George@Ure.net
Hegseth terminated military involvement yesterday which of course means any new activity restarts the 60 day clock.
Hey, someone had to learn something ifrom lawfaring, right?
Nice!!!
…Or Mr. Trump could’ve followed the precedent set by past Presidents this century, and just ignored the 60-day line. Actually, I believe we’re at Day-46, and holding, because of the ceasefire.
When I read that yesterday I sat back and smiled. I knew there had to be a way to beat the deadline – I just didn’t know what it was.
A rather brilliant chess move.
The Supremes have not been bending over backwards to accommodate the administration testing limits of sundry types. I would anticipate a court challenge of some sort.
I think that stalling long enough to trash the Persian oil infrastructure would be the short term goal. I don’t see anything getting in the way of that objective at this point, other than the Ayatollah publicly rolling over for the Don, which the planners don’t appear to be anticipating. I think the Persians are betting on due process prevailing, when something more opposite is already baked in.
They won’t dare challenge it in Court.
The “War Powers Act” is clearly unconstitutional and an infringement on the absolute power of the President, as “Commander In-Chief” to conduct the business of the Military. Congress can cut off funding, AFTER SIX MONTHS, but they can not interfere otherwise, up to that point.
However, as long as WPA exists, it can be used as a political talking point — a particularly powerful lever, especially in the ramp-up to an election, since few voters are cognizant of the law, or of Article-II (Article two of the Constitution, unless you’re Ilhan Omar, then it’s Article eleven…)
“The smart reader will study the latest drop from The Economic Fractalist and the still-delusional will be thrilled with BTC hitting $77,673 earlier.
Why thats just Bananas, Apeman.
– You “blind ass Squirrels” will eventually find another “nut”, but for now we bee squeezing higher. Thats not say tbs is not holding some LT Index Puts in all accts, but insurance aint cheap and usually does Not payoff..cept for Peace of mind, as opposed to a Piece of Ass.
Now I ask youse all, if you had to choose, which would you prefer this weekend, a piece of Mind or a piece of Ass?
Unfortunately for the tbs – there will be nothing but High Anxiety this weekend..https://youtu.be/emKogBBdbHE?
Flyers Vs Hurricanes – Game 1 , second rd
Sixers vs Celtics – Game 7 ! in Boston
Kentucky Derby – renegade, chief wallabee, further ado..long shot jap horse entry Danon Bourbon. Gotta root root root Ure winners Home!
* Write when youse got Ureself some them there Blue Bananas..supposedly taste like ice creams..
All my crypto was/is purchased with money that I would have otherwise blown on lunch out at work.
It goes to zippo? It was just lunch. That’s psychology has allowed me to HODL. The research further reinforced my conviction. And I’ve lost weight in the process (health =wealth=health). Win win win.
Not advice. I don’t make menu recommendations .
I dunno George. The US – EU force drawdown that’s being floated is rhyming with the Soviet drawdown from Eastern Europe and cessation of the Brezhnev Doctrine. All that was part of the ruble collapse and dissolution of the USSR…. Seems like a “temporal marker” as uncle Cliff would say.
https://quizlet.com/study-guides/collapse-of-communism-in-eastern-europe-key-events-and-leade-f67ac104-8590-4d55-92ae-8cd8db53be11
Of course there’s no signs of any of that coming for US.
https://youtu.be/LUnVA63M37c
https://www.independentsentinel.com/mamdanis-nyc-is-bankrupt-he-wants-state-taxpayers-to-pony-up/
https://pix11.com/news/local-news/nyc-sees-population-decline-new-study-shows/
No signs of fourth turning anywhere Mr Ure. Kudos !
Here’s another signpost home gamers:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-devised-crypto-scheme-erase-060136000.html
Notice anything Weinmar like here???
That’s right homies, in less than one year from the publishing date of September 2025, ~7 months along, the article starts at $35T in debt, bumps it up to $37T , and says here at the debt clock we are >$39T. About a half a trillie FRN’s per month…. About $6T is piling on every 12 months. (That’s Acceleration).
https://www.usdebtclock.org/
Times like these, select assets are going to be the safe haven.
Not advice. Roll your own.
When you are broke it really no longer matters how much more you pile on the end result is the same ……..
Ah yes Clawsy, when the FRN$ goes bust, the new RLUSD$ digital stable coin will take its placeIMHO
Having fungible assets with finality of supply will be the escape tool.
That’s true Clawsy, and those who were paying attention will be buying distressed assets using what was once considered green bananas, and purchased many years ago for the price of green bananas….
That’s how the global 0.5% operate.
Choose your decorrelated assets accordingly. I agree that if you are just starting, select $ de correlated assets are already getting pricey. I’m still DCA’ing because I got an earlier start and incremental adds are icing on the cake that doesn’t materially raise my overall cost basis using lunch money . That’s the magic of practicing strategic acquisition and ownership. Buffett says people need to practice ownership. I
https://youtu.be/2ZrvY09HAN4
Did anyone listen years ago?
I wish I saw this man’s Tweet back in 2013 to buy bitcoin at $1, but regardless, starting in 2017/18 things were still (relatively) cheap(when my research stumbled across this) also had I ignored the MtGox FUD (2014) and continued with my acquisition and mining plans I would not be here now.
They still are cheap today if you have a 10 year outlook and chose correctly (the not chosen ones will have their black swan moment, frozen) . IMHO 99% will die. Not advice just sharing my hallucinations.lol
https://youtu.be/-FvwX70H1kg
Magic carpets indeed.
I’ll buy more bullion when the Lummis bottom is in (which will look and act like a top in medium term).
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trumps-gold-bitcoin-shock-plan-183108538.html
The last turning brought you wireless, the automobile, the airplane, mass production and pharmaceutical.
This turning is disrupted by AI, hyperscaled Chips, web3.0 and digital twin technology.
https://act-global.com/en/default/insight/web3-edge-da-digital-twins-konvergentsia-platformebis-akhali-era
Art imitates life, they’re dropping clues for you all the time if you know what to look for(in plain sight).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_Player_One_(film)
Was iran ‘spanking’ coupled with loss of asian oil enough to dump Chinese economy so brics is on hold? Ai ?
B=BRICS
V= Venezuela
I = Iran
Let’s look at the equation:
B = V + I
The Chinese economy had already tanked. What Trump did by taking away all that oil China was buying from Venezuela and Iran at (something like) 40 bucks under the going rate, is, he neutered the Chinese military. Xi can’t take Taiwan now, because planes and boats don’t run on hopium.
China has (as of two weeks ago) 39 nuclear power plants under construction and they’ve been building two coal plants per week for years. (They get their coal from the U.S. and Canada.) Their AI will soonly be in fine shape. However, like I said, planes and boats don’t run on hopium. They also don’t run on electricity…
“They also don’t run on electricity…”
Sure they do…Wanna Bet ?
Hell Raymondo – youse might wanna brush up on Ure battery tech..I was SURFING on an Electric Surfboard this Winter past, on the lagoon side.
Think the USN even has an electric or two – some super advanced Spec Op/littoral combat boat that never worked..like ever, and they are still trying to dump $$$down that hole..Same ole thing, different day.
I know there are plenty of electric boats on the civie side of things.
Yeah, maybe crawl outta the bronze age…oh yeah, never mind..carry on..
All subs in the US inventory are electric
Did you surf to Turks and Caicos?
Please, take an electric aircraft the next time you travel to Belize, then let me know how that worked for you.
Technically, every “nuclear” ship is electric. So are some diesels (diesel-electric like train locomotives.) The “hundred thousand” ships the Chicoms have allegedly outfitted to function as landing craft are not electric. Neither is anything in their air cover or air assault fleet. I suspect they could build electric one-way drones, but to breach a 125 mile wide moat, they’d be highly limited in the materiel they could carry.
Perhaps you should read more “Janes” and “Stratfor” and less from your Jew-hating Icelandic nutjob friends?
Just sayin…
@Steevo
“All subs in the US inventory are electric”
Yes, I know. I assumed (obviously wrongly) that the bitcoin nazi would have sufficient intellect to know they also generate all their electricity onboard, using either an atomic pile or a big diesel engine, burning Bunker-B.
I guess that makes me an “ass” on this thread, but at least I’m not a dumb one…
Let’s be a bit more specific. The onshore grid doesn’t provide power for ordinance bearing boats, ships and aircraft larger than a smallish drone.
Gunships of all sort derive energy from nuclear or hydrocarbon sources. Electrics in the drive system are just a detail.
@n___
“Let’s be a bit more specific. The onshore grid doesn’t provide power for ordinance bearing boats, ships and aircraft larger than a smallish drone.”
[This is] absolutely, exactly correct. For some reason I thought it was also intuitively obvious, and therefore, unnecessary to state. I guess I give too much credit for possession of intelligence by people here, simply because they are George’s readership. ‘Tis a shame.
Mea culpa…
We do have transient readers – which is surprising. SJW’s or worse?
i understand what you meant
Ray.
i would only add, almost all of the small tactical drones are electric.
it has been a eye opener this trip. when i think of drones, i think preditor airplane drones.
but there is a whole big world of submarine drones i never knew existed. until now. some of them are fully atonomous robots that can go many many hundreds upon hundreds of miles, and never surface to be charged. they are just down there doing their thing. some of them can carry a payload and just be roaming around the deep ocean taking readings and called to action when ever they are needed.
that is the kind of stuff we are doing here. setting up geothermal engines that work as docking statIons to charge these atonomous drone submarines. so they dont have to ever surface unless they need a tune up. lol.
there isnt just drones in the sky. lol
you know its like what one of the scientists said to me. oceans cover 71% of the earths surface.
while the whole world watches the war for land and oil. the bankers, the shoppers, the price of gas, the cost of a loaf of bread, people getting married and divorced and black lives matter and all the other theme park rides and while social media memes its self to oblivian and the news is always a constant fight over 29% of the earth.
us, here? we are dominating the rest of the planet. we are not the same as they are.
i have never even considered that. i loved that he said that.
I Win with God within.
Ray & Andy: Looking at the time stamp on responses, I was making a response to earlier comments, not to Rays.
I find that most people don’t really understand where the energy comes from. For grid power in Texas, the ERCOT website is very informative.
For off-grid systems, it can be a little more confusing. Note that grid-charged battery operated transport ships aren’t really a thing at all, and battery operated aircraft are generally severely cargo and range limited. And Ray knows and understands that. Not sure how many others readers really understand with any level of depth.
China is giving up the oil, coal addiction, U.S. falling behind thx to T..
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-5525934/as-china-becomes-the-global-leader-in-renewable-energy-the-u-s-is-falling-behind
‘China is expanding renewable energy exponentially while the U.S. is going backward. How China became the global leader, why the U.S. falling behind and what it means for these countries’ economies.’
“The Commander in Chief isn’t done shaking things up in the .mil world yet, either. Nor is he taking kindly to the NATO self-centeredness which has kept them out of the Iran cluster. Now Trump threatens to withdraw US troops from Italy and ‘horrible’ Spain.”
I’m pretty sure I mentioned, (back when I mentioned the anti-American / pro-ChinaNK administration getting elected into office in South Korea), that Mr. Trump intended to relocate ALL U.S. troops from everyplace not American (except Okinawa and Diego Garcia) to CONUS border States, because I’m pretty sure I commented on how easy political hacks in places like Germany and Korea were making it for us to do so. I KNOW I mentioned that Trump intended to get us out of NATO before the insane Uroweenies could get us into a shooting war with Russia. AFAIK those are still end goals of this Administration.
“For Windows you can drop in LM Studio from here. Think of this as a “shell program.” ”
Yes, but does this then, make everything you use your AI to create, “Property of Microsoft?” ‘Might want to read the Win-11 TOS before you answer…
I have Win 11 on an SSD and never installed it on anything. It came with a product that currently runs Linux. I can think of no reason at all to run Windows unless you’re stuck working with another institution’s ecosystem.
I simple way to install a powerful self-contained, no guardrail LLM on Linux would be very useful. I’ve not had time to research it myself. Public AI guardrails make it all but unusable except for simple explorations of conventional ideas.
Sure Yep – and paying IRAN BbbbbBBBillions to open the straight is another genius master stroke , huh Zio-Ray ?
What Seymour Hersch aint reliable ? Jimmy Dore as well..huh what a cowinkydink..
https://youtu.be/RYuIBI2YZVs?
Thats billions with a B, warhawks, and you have not seen the HALF of the US casualties of Men and Equipment..yet. That kinda shit has way of finding the Light of day..
Ozzy – calling all You warhawks out – Yeah rah rah USA – Fucking KILL EM ALL! https://youtu.be/LQUXuQ6Zd9w?
Cluster B is a term used for Personality Disorders that include Borderline and Narcissist. Since I recently took a Cluster B person on a week long trip by accident/deceit, I perked up when I read that. Best to avoid them and don’t communicate with them.
You’re right – they can wait until tomorrow!
The sad thing is that Cluster B people of the opposite sex can be totally scintillating and massively entrancing – when THEY want to be. After capturing your heart and imagination, they drop the facade.
I seem to remember something about the commies here in the USA trying to stir up the ILLEGALS for a “day without illegals day” , not that it would make a difference. Unless the illegals didn’t get free money or services on that day , just saying.
I was wrong, it was communists protesting billionaires. But they want the billionaire’s money without working for it.
“You may be interested to learn that I have removed SuperGrok from my AI stack here.”
Interesting. I’ve always liked openclaw with Claude a very dangerous (which means capable) combination. However, it looks like Anthropic has throttled that combo.
https://www.how2shout.com/news/anthropic-claude-openclaw-subscription-blocked-pay-as-you-go.html
Time to revisit the open source options, glad I paused my vibe coding project last month, that means less re work for me lol.
https://huggingface.co/blog/daya-shankar/open-source-llms
Not advice get your own ai .
George : first and foremast (OBSCON) it’s entirely fubar to call Mayday! unless in dire straights. Oh, we are all sorta in dem Straights? Green flag, sail on.
The dry / drought conditions are making news. It’s an awful irony in farming. You do well enough. Then, some year the other guys nationwide experience low yield while you grow a bumper bunker buster crop. Won the lottery.
Current US Drought Map
https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/
Note breadbasket of the US, including the Great Mississippi River valley are well. Some zones, like ours, is awash. The lake is so high new rainfall isn’t perking through so leaving standing water. We easily got another 3″ this week.
Extra Credit : see the pretty blue lakes center of the “not in drought” zone? They are the Great Lakes mateys. Storehouse to the *greatest* supply of fresh water on the planet. No, it’s not for sale. Want some? Migrate here.
Farm production estimates ebb and flow. A Missouri thing : show me. Game on.
[inane musings, not FA follow] The markets are in perpetual nose bleed territory. Pure speculation, not on my part but in every direction shows to those who look. Check the recent run in CAR. Kids piled in circa pandemic gambling wave. Ran it up then moved on. Check the crazy on/off/on ETF ticker MEME. The kids have entered the casino. Tax refunds creating fix? Methinks so.
Beyond nutty penny stock games, look at another darling, ticker PLTR. Disclosure : I have no position nor bone to pick with this company. I just believe it’s a poster child and I have seen this movie before. The ending wasn’t pretty. Here we have a co trading in the lower band of it’s 52 week, at $144 (a gross?) with 17 million shares traded (real time, as I type).
Peel the onion, shall we? PE of 108.85. That’s a lot. And … it’s FWD PE (based on guidance leading to improved revenue). The TTM (trailing 12 month) PE is an eye watering 227.46. See anything wrong here? Std. stodgey PE might sport a 17:1 at the high. Tech used to be awarded a 30 multiple. North of 200:1 is at dotcom levels. And there are many high fliers.
None of the above is financial advice [from my lawyer to yours]
None of the above is for Navigational purposes [from my lawyer to yours]
None of the above is for Navigational porpoises [from my lawyer to yours]
That, above, ends the weather forecast for today.
Wet / more wet. Water everywhere …
Got water? Great Lakes?
Egor ~ __|_ ~~
Trump vows to maintain the naval blockade on Iran -as Iran sends new peace talk proposal. Trump reiterated that there will be one and only one subject at the top of any peace talks – Iran’s nuclear program – and Iran’s Supreme Leader has made it quite clear that is not negotiable. This morning the disfigured Supreme Leader stated that Iran will send the U.S. Navy to bottom of the seas. Of course we do now know that the Supreme Leader actually said that – as no one has seen, nor heard him for months. – Mossad has stated that his face has been disfigured and horribly burned.
– Stu.., JC.., anything in Nostradamus writings about a disfigured leader?
“Stay Frosty !”
Phew… I had a long lucid dream last night.. I was building a shed with earthcrete.. with a twist… instead of five parts sand, three parts clay and two parts Portland cement it was five parts sand , three parts clay, two parts calcium ground shells then using lye water in it.. poured it in a form then sprayed it not with water but with vinegar water.. dam it was a strange dream..I don’t know if that would even work ..
From ChatGPT:
It would probably *hold together like dried mud*, but it wouldn’t behave like real concrete or strong earthcrete.
Key issues:
* **Sand + clay** alone is basically adobe—strong only when dry and well compacted, weak with water.
* **Ground shells (calcium carbonate)** don’t act like cement; they’re mostly just filler unless processed into lime or fired.
* **Lye (NaOH)** makes the mix highly alkaline but doesn’t create a stable cement binder on its own.
* **Vinegar spray neutralizes the lye**, essentially canceling the chemical conditions you just created.
Net result: you’re mixing systems that don’t chemically lock together, so it would likely dry, crack, and remain weak or crumbly over time rather than hardening into concrete.
———————————————
Interesting dream. It might work on the other side.
Uno de Mayo!
The below rhymes with Nixon cracking open China. But better w/0% tariffs.
“China has launched a zero-tariff policy for all 53 African countries with diplomatic ties. This initiative aims to enhance cooperation amid growing global protectionism. It will reduce costs for African products entering China, giving them a competitive edge and promoting diversification. ”
Spirit Airlines is flat spinning. They handle a lot of vacation traffic.
“Trump says he’ll place 25% tariff on autos from EU, accusing bloc of not complying with trade deal”
Oh, man. LOL But this explains the nostalgic retro Chevy commercials.
Today, Hollywood released an animated version of Animal Farm, which has been whitewashed to eliminate all violence and show Communism in an extremely positive light. I’m sure the Teachers Union will encourage all their students to go see it.
Please read that book in its un-perverted form & encourage your kids to also read it. 1984 should also be on your reading list.
Again, the left never sleeps.
Worth a listen: https://youtu.be/fXj7lLJZi10?si=CYLvOOzndmzmoB1M
We have new index highs, but Gransville’s o.b.v. is not following, a divergence!
We do have an activist president that asks how the markets are doing about six times a day! An obliging Treasury Secretary, A CIA that runs its own hedge fund. Years ago, I read a news article about the US government made a deal with the Chicago Merchintile which could result in a seat. A midterm election that the republicans would like to win. An age where moral hazard doesn’t seem to matter! A news media, that doesn’t ask hard questions.
Our government will soon own an airline, that it will resell.
Correct reasoning may not be enough….
G.C.
On the Math Forum this morning – the resident whacko made an utterly ridiculous statement about Chaos Theory – I don’t know where I pulled this from., but I typed in response:
“You know, Charlie., if the Catholic Church knew of your existence, they’d immediately endorse abortions.”
Scientific decorum was completely destroyed and for the next hour there was nothing, but lame jokes aimed at poor ole Charlie.
Charlie is quite brilliant in quantum mechanics – but in real life anything more complicated than buttering a piece of toast is beyond his grasp of understanding.
Wasn’t Ted Kaczynski a mathematician? He was known for having less than mainstream opinions, and holding grudges. It’s always the ones you underestimate and disregard that you don’t see coming.
re: “A New Era of Thought”, Hinton, 1888
feat: tesselating the tesseract
Yesterday the King and Queen stopped by the White House, again in their German BMW limo, bidding adieu to the First Couple. Meanwhile back home their heir formally introduced Otto the cocker spaniel, a breed once employed in the hunting of 8 types of sandpipers. Otto (ger: “wealth, prosperity”) may mean “8” in some quarters. Otto also points to Octavian, an adopted son of Julius Caesar, and the first Roman Emperor.
Happy International Workers’ Day! Paris can keep its “Triumphal Arc of the Star” because Washington will have a Trump Ballroom! Cue Lady Liberty on Ozempic? Listen as DJ George dials up a Floydian cubic prism with “Interstellar Overdrive”.
The “Daily Mail” has weighed in with an article mentioning Hollywood’s 2014 film “Interstellar”. Their report lightly touched on theoretical quantum messaging across time research by Cornell University’s Dr. Ji and colleagues. Their onward link connected to a $49 “New Scientist” magazine paywall. The magazine is owned by the parent company of the “Daily Mail”.
I asked ChatGPT to locate a publicly available link about the quantum message time travel research. It offered the following weblink on the “arXiv” website to a paper titled “Retrocausal Capacity of a Quantum Channel”:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08965
For some reason I was reminded of this – because of this mornings’ Math Forum:
Years ago –
Sitting on a park bench chowing down on a big Po’ Boy sandwich made with Louisiana hot sausage and being true Louisiana HOT sausage, I required a fire extinguisher and was sipping a Full Sail Ale – waiting for “The Mrs” to get out of her advanced first aid class when two guys walking by ran into each other – one quickly snapped – “Can you watch were you’re going? Can’t you see I am blind!? ” The other guy immediately responded – “No., I can’t.., I’m blind too !” I chuckled., but they both laughed so hard they had tears running down their face. They walked-off together, arm-n-arm. laughing and talking up a storm.
Made my day.
Robot Dives 1.5 Miles, Maps French Shipwreck With 86,000 Images And Recovers Artifacts
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/robot-dives-15-miles-maps-french-shipwreck-86000-images-and-recovers-artifacts
hmmmmmmm. The Shape of things to come????
we find out if we are stopping in Samoa on May 4th for a few days. then back to Fiji.
having the time of my life. soooo fun. everyone works hard, everyone is super cool.
the indianapolis came up today durring convesation.
“i have changed my course, but the ship is still on the same trajectory” has been stuck in my mind for over a week meow!
life is Good!
i Win with God within!
Speaking of ” Followers and Brown-Nosers ” , you have plenty of them right here George ( don’t forget your Ass Kissers too ) .
“i have changed my course, but the ship is still on the same trajectory”
Learning to fly back in the 70’s I was navigating cross-country in a little Cessna 152 towards Rochester, MN. There was a strong crosswind to my intended course, so the plane was ‘Headed’ about 50 degrees left of the true course along the ground. Upon making radar contact with Rochester, the tower asked for my heading. I gave it to him… a full 50 degrees off my course. Long pause from the tower, and I guessed his confusion and then volunteered my true course, which was directly toward Rochester for a touch-and-go landing. I could hear the grin cracking his voice as he gave me the wind & weather.
Here at the Volcano ranch I have no AI… only NI….’Natural Intelligence’, and it is likely to outlive the defective chatbots. Wheeee…
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/hawaii-has-highest-life-expectancy-us-west-virginia-lowest
Hawaii also has the highest consumption of Spam than any other state.
Think there’s a correlation?
Preservatives? Quite possibly! :-). Canned meats were popular before refrigeration and during the war.