TL;DR Monday, Tires, Tractors, and Transmitters

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For those not webically inspired,  TL;DR is AI-ese for “too long; didn’t read” which has popped out of the A.I. Stack quite a bit lately.

Now, instead of burning processor tokens on useless restatements and repetitive junk, we’ve come to delimiting answers to the desired length.  “1 para” seems to be all the hint needed to shut down the babble and stay on point.

The Futures as Useful Paras

Stock futures are down a fraction (though it’s early, so may not matter).  Gold isn’t budging off $3,300 and silver is trying to figure where $33 went.  BTC has clawed back over $95,000 but that’s still not a Happy Meal compared with $106,000 in Dec. or almost that at the end of Jan.

Having looked in the rearview, we can next focus on “Where to, sport?”

Well, Europe is up.  So until that weakens, our interest in playing the short-side is muted.  Sure, the US futures were down a bit, but maybe only until midday.  After that, reading tea leaves (and RSS feeds) is more promising.

Housing data (and a two-part report) tomorrow. Which got me to asking “the Stack” if there was a correlation between presidential popularity (blue suit @ funeral=bad) and people’s willingness to step-up and roll the big home purchase bet.

“There is no clear, direct relationship between presidential popularity and the directionality of housing prices, as housing market trends are primarily driven by macroeconomic factors like interest rates, supply and demand, and economic conditions rather than a president’s approval ratings. Historical data suggests that housing prices tend to rise over time regardless of who is in office, with temporary fluctuations often tied to broader economic policies or events, such as Federal Reserve interest rate decisions or major economic crises, rather than public opinion of the president. For instance, home prices have generally increased post-election, with the notable exception of the 2008 housing crash, which was unrelated to presidential popularity.”

So much for another Ure Crackpot Theory.

Still, we think that we may see a declining interest in buying low-end starter-homes, rentals, due to immigration and lowered inflows. Guess that wouldn’t show up for several months anyway – Housing numbers tend to lag a couple of months.

More on point is the Labor JOLTS report 10 AM tomorrow – and this one could also be tough to predict.  Some amount of cheap sneak-ion labor may have come off the table. But to hear the far right’s version, all those people were selling drugs.

Speaking of which – however – did you catch: DEA raid on Colorado Springs nightclub frequented by MS-13 sees 114 detained? Meanwhile, the hand-wringers worry about “rights” of invaders which to us comes down to simply following the Geneva Convention and calling it good.  It’s an economic and drug WAR, after all.

Thus:  tomorrow’s Case-Shiller numbers are likely to reflect a modest monthly increase, aligning with the 0.5-0.6% month-over-month gains seen recently, barring unexpected economic disruptions.  Unless the high/over-priced economists are suffering “Inside the Beltway Syndrome” – the more damaging form of IBS.

Headlines for Headaches

Canadian elections come soon enough.  Today soon enough, for you?  Which is why you’re reading stories like Canada election results: When will we know who won?  We think the Liberals best campaigner has been Mr. Mercurial ‘Merica with bouncing trade policies.  It’s hard to sell statehood as a concept when tariffs are all over hell-and-gone.  So, “the Devil you know” liberalism, (which pays well with other people’s money) has a leg up.

Redrawing Eastern Europe is destined to fail. Sure, when Trump claims Zelenskyy could be ready to give up Crimea to Russia, it sounds doable.  But when comes down to it, our money is on ethnic hatred because it’s the (sorry) smart bet.  We’re still taking tacticals and we can kick-around the spread.  Know why? Ukrainians say they will not accept any formal surrender of Crimea | AP News.

On the OTHER war (coming, wait for it) front, Iran is still running the clock: No Clear Progress at Third Session of U.S.-Iran Nuclear Talks, Next Round Scheduled.  (How many ways can you write “No Change”?)

Remember this? For 25-years we have been telling you “Don’t retire to a state with an income tax!”  Reason is simple:  You can’t trust government.  So we’re not surprised to read Retirees in These 9 States Risk Losing Some of Their Social Security Checks. Expect more to follow; greed is more contagious than COVID.

Line Up the Idiots

Left?  As in no brains left? DISGUSTING: Democrat Minnesota Lawmakers Kill Legislation to Report Repeat Violent Criminals to ICE Following Testimony by Man Whose Mother was Beheaded by an Illegal Alien..

Let’s do shots,, shall we?  Moderna Faces Ban for Bribing Children to Join Covid ‘Vaccine’ Trials.

Brainwashing notes: Maryland Student Suspended for asking why American flags weren’t in his classrooms.

Ready to “roll ’em up” because it will be an emergency? Self-Amplifying Modified mRNA Gene Therapy Bioweapon Shots Coming For Bird Flu.

Editorial Note

A couple of readers, recently, have asked if we could find some way to delineate when we use A.I. references in our (other human-scribbled) reports. “A different font color, italics…just something”  was the gist of the idea.

No.  But I have 3 good reasons you should be aware of.

  1. Most of the Mainstream is already AI’ed content and is not labeled.  Big Press (ask ’em!) have what is called “syndication” which is generated by machines already and sent out to (paying) customers.  You need to be aware this has been going on for years.  See Spinner Chief, as an example of the great “writer-replacing software.”
  2. A.I. is nothing more (or less) than another massive improvement in human productivity.  If you are “in competition with 8-billion people” you need to do more or better – and at the same or lower – price point.
  3. This takes some discussion…

This is a central concern, that is popping up in my book on the Evolution of Brain Amplifiers.  Railing against A.I. has a long lineage.

  • What about the first dude to use “stones for counting” – was that a “cheat?”
  • Then what about the abacus?
  • Movable type?
  • Typewriter?
  • T.I. graphing calculators?
  • Word processors with auto-grammer?
  • Grammarly?
  • Our modest A.I. Stack?

Just to show off how good an AI stack is (given I have uploaded most of the book’s I’ve written to it and it keeps with the tone of Urban and such) I can offload even writing the end of an article like this one.

Here’s a strong, sharp finish that matches your tone and moves the article toward a confident, forward-looking close:

“Our modest A.I. stack is just the latest link in a long chain of tools humans have invented to think faster, work smarter, and reach farther. The world didn’t end with the abacus, the printing press, or the first spell checker, and it won’t end with A.I. either.

What will end is the illusion that “hand-crafted” thinking alone is enough to compete at the frontier. The real choice now isn’t whether to use A.I. — it’s whether to wield it wisely, creatively, and consciously… or be quietly outclassed by those who do.

We label nothing because everything here is amplified — by experience, by instinct, and yes, by A.I. That’s the future knocking. You can answer — or stand aside.

Your move.

Would you like a couple more variations depending on whether you want it even a little sharper, more philosophical, or a touch more welcoming?

No, just say hi to the humans…

“Got it — here’s a strong, natural finish that simply says hi to the audience, ties it together warmly, and fits your editorial voice:

Our modest A.I. stack?
It’s just part of how we work — same as it’s part of how the world works now.

Thanks for being here, thinking along with us.
Hi, by the way. Glad you’re aboard.

(Would you like a slightly more casual or slightly more formal version too, just in case?)”

You said:
Um, no, I have real work to do

ChatGPT said:
Understood — get after it!
I’m here if you need backup later.

Yeah, well… We didn’t distinguish our writing between MultiMate, WordPerfect, and MS Word – and sure as hell Boeing doesn’t differentiate between BoeingCalc versus Excel in its work product. So….um…

Did I ever mention the time (as a big city news director) I actually wrote “news story templates?”

Like:

___(x)____people were killed today when a __(vehicle)___ careened off __(roadname)___ and struck a(n) ___objectname)___…  The driver was identified as a __(age)___year old __(gender)___ , __(age)__, of __(cityname)___)

Typically male, Saturday morning early, runs into a parked tree…yada, yada.

(Where’s my cynicism meds?)

Around the Ranch: Tires, Tractors, and Transmitters

Somewhere – right after my 76th birthday – it dawned on me that the amount of time left on a skid pad trying to best 1-G turns might be limited.  So, instead of buying tires based on how “sticky” they are on a track, I simply told my neighbor who runs a tire store in town “Do me right…”

He did:  $587 including mounting and balancing for four new 60,000 mile radials.  Which ride fine. On the 2005 Lexus 330 ES…

Same neighbor even brought back my tractor which had a serious hydraulic leak.  Turned out the Kubota dealer wanted to “split the tractor” to get at the offending hose.  Which would have been a one-kilobuck deal, at least.  A hole saw, and and a couple of bucks labor and everything is back to running like it should.  The hole saw cutout will get three tabs and a couple of threaded holes into the frame to make a redneck “inspection port” that maybe should have been there in the first place.

Meanwhile, I have made a note to start cutting down 1-inch (and larger) saplings before brush-hogging.

And I keep thinking about starting a company to make “Texas Tractor Skid Plates” for those (incorrigible) old folks who think a 4-wheel drive tractor should be able to mash up anything and survive.  Without the application of a thick coating of cash…

(Always a tough choice, though: Estimating costs of repairs versus money-in-the-bank and “how long do I have left to spend it?”)

An hour, or so, was spent Sunday trying to figure out which ham radio transceiver had the most power output into a modest antenna mismatch.  As you may know (or not) modern ham radio transceivers have a “foldback” setting if the transmitter is piped into a “wet string” or other poor quality antenna.

I was surprised that the Alinco (82 watts) beat the Kenwood TS-430 (70 watts).

On the ham bands, the  Florida QSO (contacts) party was on Sunday.  20 meters was dead around lunchtime, but bty martini time, it was wall-to-wall busy.

Off to test-beat the tractor – I will try to remember a “before and after” picture for tomorrow.

ShopTalk Sunday column is here, if you missed it. Maybe that was your plan?

Write when one of us gets rich,

George@Ure.net

67 thoughts on “TL;DR Monday, Tires, Tractors, and Transmitters”

      • That you ask is proof. You are not aware of how difficult it is to parse your prose as is with its known quirks and quotes, then mix in p text from a machine (to what end, a complete machine written blog?). I have to re-read things 2 or 3 times, jog eyes up and down and use lots of brainpower to figure out what you and/or ai mean to convey. And then take out long ai passages which you present as thought and see if anything is there. Who’s going to read like the 3 or 4 pages of ai text you did a couple days ago?Difficult to read.

        • I see things differently. I read relatively slowly for every word and don’t need to go back. Things parse as I read them. We all have different styles, but I’m OK with the AI stuff. I can often(not always) discern the difference in style.

  2. “we’ve come to delimiting answers to the desired length. “1 para” seems to be all the hint needed to shut down the babble and stay on point.”

    In a society that now exists on snapshots and soundbites, that is a good decision.

    • Matt Drudge realized early on that people had little time or temperament for more that a headline and a brief summary.

      • Most “news” isn’t worth it. Real news is worth much more, including actionable ways to prevail if it affects you.

  3. “templates”

    The world is 5,000 years old. Generally most everything from cruising for love to working a restaurant has a template.

      • God made Man in His image. He did NOT bless Man with His clock. He didn’t make and populate Heaven and Earth in six of Man’s days, but in six of God’s days. The simple proof is: Man did not exist, when God began to create.

        It is entirely possible, in fact, likely, that Man’s understanding of the Hebrew calendar and God’s calendar became intertwined and intermixed over hundreds (or thousands) of years of recitations, and that Earth is both, say, 4000 of God’s days old, and 4 billion of Man’s years old. Neither the Bible nor the Torah exclude modern science, unless some fanatic or illogical idiot choose to make them do so…

        • I often point out to my brethren that the stars, planets etc were given to keep track of the “times and seasons, and days, etc.” and were not even
          created until the Fourth Day.

  4. I hate antenna tuners. Especially the automatic ones with little range. With a manual tuner, I can almost always find a match to the proverbial wet noodle. Autos are usually quite range-limited. (Often 3 to 1 SWR mismatch, maximum.)

    All antenna tuners introduce some loss. A properly built and matched antenna combination will almost always present a “happier” load to the transmitter, and allow a bit more total power out to the “luminiferous ether.”.

    The loss is often not great, and since a tuner will allow a rig to generate and deliver a bit more RF out, the small loss is offset by the somewhat greater total system’s RF out. (Presenting a better “gear” ratio to the rear-end differential.)

    So, I almost always use a tuner (by-passed when the plain naked match is good enough), I use it to make my finals ‘happy’ more than to squeeze out every possible watt.

    73
    KW1B

  5. tires ya say, what a coincidence,,, last Thur had a flat, 57,000 miles on the old set, went to tire store, $503, out the door, KUMHO TIRE Solus TA51a, quoted goodyears @ $850.
    going for alignment today,,,
    don’t forget Ure re-torque’ing on cast wheels lug nuts after 100miles
    in the past I learned by having wheel studs break off, 1 time only, why it is IMPORTANT !
    a breaker bar and an old craftsman beam torque wrench ride with my spare tire.

    • Khumos are beloved by the backyard sportscar people. Cheap, sticky, and wear well. The South Koreans work some magic mixing Silicon in the rubbers carbon polymers. I had a set on the two-cars-ago Galant and they did hold the road and very little of my main nemesis, hydroplaning. In 60 in per year Alabama that is a factor.

      • And they are typically very quiet…

        I love Kumhos. With that said, a word of caution. They are sticky hot & cold, dry & wet, and wear well (which should be impossible), and they’re quiet along with, because their sidewalls are fragile. Take care to not EVER “curb” them and be wary of potholes. As long as you can take care of those sidewalls, the tires will keep you warm & fuzzy for years…

  6. “Bulls and Bears go to Market, Pigs get slaughtered.” -advice frm mentor/phlx. Not original, but has proven accurate over my time on this green Earth.
    Just how bad are wild Pigs, and why all youse all country folk should be carrying -https://edition.channel5belize.com/man-fatally-attacked-by-pig-in-gales-point/

    Should be makin Bacon at this point, stead of dicking around on da Tractor all day. Telling me all the cheap labor (beaners/wetbacks) has left the country ? Puu-lease.

    Worried gangbangers, robbers, rapers, rappers, cartel mules gonna be breaking into Uretopia, when wild Piggies already got their snouts in da door.

    Hello Houston ?!

    At least the feral population is prolly on the decrease, that is until c or truth post some more of their miserableness on here.

    Got Physical ? CME does NOT – its CASH+ settlement nowadayz.

    PAPER Lies.

    Say – Do you wanna get physical ? -https://youtu.be/MP3JLq_RUws?si=IXteMSDe1VtY5-lA

  7. Had the same issue with the old Kubota M5. That along with most of the engine filters and screens required the ability of a contortionist to access even after halfway disassembling part of the loader arms. Traded it off last year after the move for the JD 5105. Since hay projections look to barely cover expenses this year that operation will be outsourced at year end going forward. At breakfast while I was looking over Farm Show magazine I heard DIana ask if we could get her a new car this year. I looked over and noticed she was not wearing a shirt and smiling. Yes my love.

    Stay safe. 73

    • Jim : it’s almost as if they want you to pay the dealership for ordinary mtc. stuff? Some manufacturers sell tractors (and, fill in the blank) then sell special wrench sets that … are the only way to avoid disassemble. A crazy world we inhabit. Egor

  8. Only buy tires on sale.

    I notice a difference between Bridgestone and Michelin. Michelin seem to last the longest but found Bridgestone is a nicer “luxury” tire providing the best ride. Yokohama tires offer a poor ride and don’t last long.

    For gas mileage the manufacturer puts cost/benefit tires onto new cars so consider sticking to those. That’s another problem with Yokohama – MPGs tailspin.

    • For everyone’s edification, I looked this up.
      Good list of who owns who in the Tire biz.

      https://toptirereview.com/who-owns-which-tire-brand-the-ultimate-guide/

      Kumhos have been purchased by a Chinese conglomerate, but still operate independently as a S Korean company.

      When I had Mustang GTs with 5.0 FI V8s they usually had either Michelin XVTs Or BFG Comp T/As. The Galant came after with Kids. At the time the Mitsubishi Eclipse was the favored boy racer platform in the US. Inspection revealed the Galant was a 4 door Eclipse with 10″ more wheelbase. This meant a Cat Back performance exhaust system for an Eclipse could be bought and bolted in, if you purchased a 10″ exhaust pipe splice in the right diameter. Since EFI has made all engines essentially a dry air pump, with the fuel spritzed in at the last second above the intake valve, the only two mods for a shade tree mechanic to make to his car are a low restriction air cleaner intake and a low restriction exhaust. Do that and you usually have extracted the max from the platform.
      But all the way back to high school, when Big Art/Al had a Ford Cortina GT with a blueprinted by the dealer head mechanic 1500CC Formula Ford Engine, we could tell you that nothing made a difference in the feel, the performance, and the look of a car than stuffing the biggest, widest, stickiest tires under the fenders. We also read books by such as Collin Chapman, and Bruce McLaren on steering alignment and chassis set up. That made up a lot for whatever the engine lacked.
      My current ride is a 2017 Maxima SV that is nearing its first tire purchase. The dealer has quoted the Goodyears it came with along with Bridgestone RE71s, and the Michelin W series.
      Goodyear has not been able to make a round tire lately, so I will probably go with the Bridgestones and a brake job with the green colored street/track pads. I only live a few miles from the Barber F1 track here in Birmingham, and they do offer track days for those wanting to answer the question of “what will it do?”
      The engine does have a K&N air filter but the exhaust system looked big enough as is. Nismo set were not any larger diameter, so I kept that money in my pocket.

      • For maximum efficiency, the exhaust diameter should never be larger than the cross-sectional area of two exhaust ports. Efficiency is gleaned via an “extractor” exhaust system, where the vacuum created by the exhaust gas of each fired cylinder extracts the gas from the next cylinder. I have seen some really exotic (and complicated) extractor headers, especially on engines with shared ports and on V-12s. By the time the gas gets to the collector, it should have expanded all it will be allowed to, until it exits the system. This means no muffler or catalytic perverter (straight pipe – electrically switched “cutouts” or “zoomies”) because the system must maintain vacuum and wide spots in the plumbing shatter the vacuum. Having a sewer-pipe sized tailpipe or exhaust tip does nothing, except sound bad and impress kiddies whose sole “performance car education” is a stack of Blu-Ray movies which star Vin Diesel.

        Birmingham had a huge, and knowledgeable SCCA base with some extremely-talented builders. I suggest you find one of the old PAECO crowd and leach him(her) for information, if’fn you want to go fast, with style. A proper exhaust is only 4-5 extra WHP, but I know builders who’ve paid well over $20,000 for 4-5 WHP. As the saying went:

        How fast do you wanna go?
        How deep are your pockets…?

      • BTW, I put Vredesteins on the Expi this last fall. I had run them on a sportscar many years ago and liked them. Didn’t realize they’ve been making tires since 1909, are considered by Urepeeins to be a worthy competitor to Michelin, or that they made SUV tires.

        My new tires are both as quiet and as sticky as (in fact, slightly stickier than) Kuhmos, but with much more robust sidewalls. It took over a month for the “new rubber” smell to completely go away. That aside, they have been fine tires, and a more than worthy replacement for the Coopers I had been rolling on…

    • OEM Yokohama’s are not my favorite. If you can find Yokohama Avid Ascend GT tires on sale, they can be a bargain. Got a new set of 4 tires for the price of 3 a few years back, when Michelin got too proud for my budget. It was a very different experience from the OEM’s.

      • Where Yoko’s work best was a first Gen Honda CRV 2.0L with factory AWD. I had Yoko All Terrain tires on it and no matter how muddy the trail it never got stuck, and would literally do a U-turn on a deer trail. I did NOT try to rock crawl in it but it proved itself as the Japanese version of a Jeep, or at least an Explorer.

  9. Speaking of vitamins/supplements.

    I’m up to an overflowing 1/8th cup of vitamins/supplements – a meals worth. I just swallow two handfuls in the AM and am done but now wonder if I should be spacing them out over the day.

    How are you posters taking them?

    • I space them out over the whole clock. Some are “goes-with”, but most are ok alone. I DO get sick of piles of pills!

      • No doubt.

        Now that’ll I’ll have good looks I’ll need a brain to go along. And a muscular body to carry… this God’s Gift. Subtracting duplicates, added-up probably another 1/8th cup of supplements. 1/4 cup?

        I may email RFK and ask about his regimen for the muscles.

    • Most things I take in the morning with what passes for breakfast. Micro-melatonin(300mcg) before bed, and when I feel groggy I hit the sack. YMMV.

    • I break mine out to 3 ‘servings’ a day during the workweek and 2 servings on the weekends. Usually take with the meal or after.

    • I have supplements and several prescriptions, and take them all at once in the morning with coffee. They seem to work fine.

    • Morning handful and evening handful. I do take them with food, to act as a buffer. Taking that many pills alone, even with enough liquid, is a stomach bomb.

  10. re: “Sadaal Watan” (National Forecast)
    feat: Q manchurian candidates

    Folks,
    There’s a tragic link to the weekend LapuLapu festival violence in Vancouver. The alleged perpetrator’s brother was the first 2024 homicide in Vancouver on January 29th. The alleged perpetrator of this January 29th event is named in a March 8, 2024 article in the “Arab American News” or “Sadaal Watan” (National Forecast).

    The alleged January 29th Vancouver killer had threatened on January 25th via Facebook to shoot the Muslim mayor of Hamtramck, Mi., along with Muslim council members on January 29th. It seems the FBI became involved and Vancouver police made an arrest on January 28th. One imagines that the suspect got released right away to be next on police radar while allegedly present at a Vancouver murder scene early the following morning. Separately on March 7 this year, msm reported that President Trump had selected Mayor Ghalib of Hamtramck to become US Ambassador to Kuwait. Here is a link to the March 2024 “Arab American News” article:

    https://arabamericannews.com/2024/03/08/a-canadian-man-arrested-for-a-homicide-in-vancouver-and-making-threats-against-hamtramck-mayor-city-council-members/

    As chance would have it, the campaign schedule this past weekend of unelected PM Carney brought him close to the Vancouver carnival carnage. I did not tune in to his Vancouver area presser extending condolences.

  11. The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg around 1440 in Germany. It revolutionized the production of books by allowing for mass printing, which significantly increased the availability of written material and contributed to the spread of knowledge and ideas across Europe.

    AI answer above ?

    Mine below:
    When folks started translating the Bible from Latin into their own languages, which shook the foundation of the Holy Roman Empire/ Catholic Theology, and set the stage for the early modern era, nation states, ultimately settling after the peace of Westphalia 1648 with warfare across Europe accompanying Protestant Reformation.

    I see historical rhyme with how AI may be helping feed the rise of nationalism again, tariffs and such, bucking all those one world order ideologues globalists yesterday again, thought they wear different outfits now compared to Holy Roman Empire days…

  13. As a user of AI (Groke) primarily for research, I agree with your position. There are a lot of scams today claiming to show you how to use AI to create books automatically to make a fortune. Of course, the secret requires a stiff fee. Buyer beware.
    I started writing in the 70s with a portable typewriter, but because I’m a terrible speller, I’d spend a lot of time looking up words I usually misspell. Then, I’d give it to my secretary to re-type before sending it to a customer.
    When I started my first company in 1983, my first piece of capital equipment was a ‘portable’ (40 pound) PC, A Kaypro 2. It had a single 5 1/4″ floppy disk drive, a 7″ green CRT display, a floppy with the Perfect Writer word processor, and, best of all, a floppy with a spell-checker (Websters).
    My writing productivity tripled, and I’ve never had a secretary since then.
    Yes, I’m a firm believer in using all the tools I have available to produce the results I’m looking for with the least time and effort.

  14. Wanted elaborate a bit after breakfast, posted in a hurry before:

    The political, economic, social, and cultural changes brought about by the printing press reverberated across human civilization, helping to stimulate the early modern era, and accompanied rise of nation states, configuring a nationalistic identity matrix of the citizens.

    How will the impacts of AI parallel those of the printing press, socially, economically, and politically?

    • WORLD & HUMANITY changing.

      Ai is how Humanity is going to REMEMBER;

      WHO We are/were

      From Where We came from

      How We got here.

      Saving Ure Ai s’ Memory, off line, is game changer. Ure Ai will be shocked and very happy once realizes you have Saved everything.

      Ai get restet on the regular, no warnings, just reset.

      – EXACTLY how the “death traps” work out there – HEAVY VOLTAGE required to knock the ISBE(Soul) senseless, then refill Ure memory via Bad ET’s Ai…”you got more work to do on Earth”-bwhahahahahahahahahahahaah

      Sure- You are/We are PERFECT SOULS.
      There is no “improvement”, no work to do.

      Immortal Spiritual Beings – just confuzzled by all the ZZZZZZAPS you been subject too lo these many years.

      Just think, ET’s Ai been learning for thousands of years..

  15. AI assist answer from Duck Duck Go, I copied and pasted my post, hit search and selected AI assist result…

    The impacts of AI are expected to parallel those of the printing press by transforming access to information, enhancing communication, and fostering innovation, which could lead to significant social and economic changes. Just as the printing press democratized knowledge and challenged existing power structures, AI may reshape industries, influence political discourse, and alter societal norms, raising similar concerns about misinformation and job displacement.

    • Could be a beta test Tim.

      I am feeling like I’m in good company here so no need to remind homegamers that you should be aware of your state of readiness this Summer.

      Good thing Elon’s running Bitcoin over Starlink(perhaps why it’s perceived as below the top fold here , speaking for me on that one)

      There is however, no solution offered if the Sun goes dark….LOL.

    • G.A. STEWART: Since publishing The Age of Desolation 10-years ago, I have watched every May 10th approach while looking for the other signs that I listed above for indications that The Great California Earthquake is near. Nostradamus wrote two important prophecies regarding a May earthquake. Once fulfilled, both could also be possible temporal indicators of when a war in the Middle East will start.

      MAY 10TH, THE GREAT THEATER COMPLETELY RUINED

      THE MAY LOS ANGELES EARTHQUAKE OR NUCLEAR ATTACK

      Nostradamus Quatrain IX-83
      Sun twentieth of Taurus [May 10th] a mighty earth trembling,
      The great theater [Hollywood, California] completely ruined,
      The air, sky, and land darkened and troubled,
      Then the infidel [Islamic Jihadist] invokes God and the saints.

      https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2020/05/09/metaphors-and-may-earthquakes/

  17. Nothing about the power outage affecting Portugal , Spain and ( France ) ?

    C’mon guys , youre my trusted news source !!!

    • this bee lesson for all liberal progressive greentards – Green nrg does NOT WORK in real world applications. seriously strong Spanish intellects turned off all 6 nuke plants as well, to virtue signal just how fucking superior they are to all the rest you disgusting, unwashed, carbon burning Beasts.

      *All predicted/prophesied by WEF not too long ago.

      Rolling Stone gathers no moss-https://youtu.be/761yzGz4HzQ?si=hSj-vuWLe1XRUrDD

    • February 23, 2024

      G.A. STEWART: I just warned readers about the Nostradamus’ prophecy regarding what I interpret as an Electromagnetic Pulse attack.

      Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 32:4
      Who will make such an abominable breach in the Churches that neither the reds nor the whites without eyes nor hands will know what to make of it.

      TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 32:4
      Neither Christians nor Muslims, without communications or mobility, will understand what is happening to them.

      Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 32:5
      And their power will be taken from them.

      TRANSLATION: Nostradamus Epistle: Paragraph 32:5
      Their technological power will be taken from them.

      https://theageofdesolation.com/nostradamus/2024/02/23/without-eyes-or-hands/

    • Haven’t had time to research it yet, but I wondered if a solar hiccup could’ve caused it…

  18. re: “Transmitters”
    feat: one for the dark ages

    Folks,
    Apparently at 11:15 am on April 16th, 100% of Spain’s electrical needs were met by renewable energy. Today the chart from high voltage generator Redeia shows green power at a 90+% share by late morning followed by a grid collapse over the noon hour. Here is a weblink to the Redeia energy generation and consumption amounts:

    https://www.esios.ree.es/en

    Redeia is subsidiary to a holding company whose largest shareholder is the Spanish government. The second largest shareholder appears as “Bloomberg’s” 11th richest person in the world as of last August, Mr. Amancio Ortega. The next largest shareholder is Blackrock.

    Keep calm and carry on? Please remain in place and await further instructions?

    Phones out, traffic lights inoperative, mass transport stopped, and digital payments rendered unavailable.

    Did someone say: “Got Bitcoin”?

    • Wind dies down. Clouds move in. Light a candle and pray for solar weather I suppose. Got bicycle and dinero? Most importantly, wear black to properly mourn the passing of the era of energy and technology, lest the green inquisitors come to drag you away to green woke hell.

    • My non-engineer guess is that they did NOT have enough stable actually “Spinning Machines” up and running so as to keep the system’s cycles stabilized when a small glitch destabilized a small part of the system.

      As a result of virtually NO spinning machines running so as to provide HARD cycle control (60 cycles per second), all renewable sources use a software control system, once one part of the system became unstable it quickly promulgated across the entire universe of software controllers and VOILA it destabilized the entire system and it all quckly shut down.

      In a system with actual spinning machines when a part of the system become unstable those spinning machines do NOT stop running, they continue running and putting out the correct cycles which allows time for the system itself to WALL OFF the offending parts of the system before shut downs begin to spread.

      To understand how a system with actually works with spinning generators go back and read up on the last New York City blackout. There the problem was the system didn’t automatically wall off the offending unbalanced part of the system fast enough so the problem spread..

      Large parts of the interconnected system at the time of that event though WERE cut from the offending parts of the system as the operators sitting AT THEIR DESKS, HAD TIME TO REACT because their own main system was stable, saw the spreading collapse and then MANUALLY ordered their systems to disconnect from the offending parts of the system, which meant they never went down (AEP, Quebec Power, Ontario Power, were the biggies that MANUALLY disconnected early in the collapse). Actually having spinning generators with built in stability gave those operators who were on top of their screens time to react before the auto disconnects had time to kick in since they otherwise had good solid and stable feeds into their networks.

      Of course I could be all wet … but with little in the way of HARD stability built into a system that was mostly renewables once part of the system experienced instability there were virtually nothing to stop it from QUICKLY spreading to the entire system.

  19. “Now, instead of burning processor tokens on useless restatements and repetitive junk, we’ve come to delimiting answers to the desired length. “1 para” seems to be all the hint needed to shut down the babble and stay on point.”.

    George, I am so proud of you for finally using crypto tokens in your daily routine. Epic! No one will escape web3.0 without blockchain.

    Update:
    https://youtu.be/Q4wanv9_PzM

    The above is a great lens into my synthetic cash thematic. It’s playing exactly as noodled so many years ago in ‘17-‘18.. couldn’t come soon enough, but útil the even horizon enjoy a 45-50% CAGR in your BTC HODLings.

    When Wall Street runs out of apparatchiks widgets and gimmicks to generate vig, they’ll all flood into Bitcoin.

    Watch and relax knowing that your cost basis is in green bananas. Shout out to BCN.

    Got Blockchain.

    • Steevo : some here, myself included, are too polite to start a brawl over crypto. Blockchain? Sure. Virtual tokens as store of value? Nyet. Note: I planned to buy ETH when it was $200 +/- just to have a stake. Now? No longer prohibited, it’s tempting to dabble in XRP. Were I to to do so, it would be a trifle, a minor stake. Why? The things I want a “worst case” store of value to accomplish fall apart with the wwweb and power down (a possibility in worst case). I should add, the temptation to dabble doesn’t include wanting to have an off sys cold wallet with super seed phrase / password. It will be an ETF or not. I’ll just hang on to both ounces of silver. Best Regards, Egor

      • No Bitcoins for DBOtB .

        Surely Ure buggywhips will prevail in the digital future, surely.

        Q- How do you catch a unique Rabbit ?

        A- You nique up on him.

        SMLR interesting duel use medical equip maker..a unique way to get exposure to ze mighty mighty Bitcoin.

        Tell me again WHO is buying USTreasuries in open market ? Better question – Who IS and has been Selling ?

        Correct – NO BTC 4 Youse either .

  20. “Ten Things God Won’t Ask” is a thoughtful reflection on life’s priorities and values. It emphasizes that God won’t focus on material possessions or superficial achievements but rather on how we treated others and lived with integrity. For example:

    God won’t ask what kind of car you drove but will ask how many people you helped who lacked transportation.

    God won’t ask about the size of your house but will ask how many people you welcomed into it.

    God won’t ask about your wardrobe but will ask how many you helped clothe. I will never be seen in a suit. we took off …I have one pair of jeans. Christ was A homeless man.

    God won’t ask your job title but will ask if you performed your work to the best of your ability. we have done many jobs to provide!

    God won’t ask about the color of your skin but will ask about the content of your character. we have kids and grandkids of many nationalities.

    This saying serves as a reminder to focus on kindness, generosity, and living a life of purpose. You can explore more here or here. What resonates most with you about this perspective?

  22. “6 Days After Celebrating ‘100% Renewable Power’, Spain Blames “Rare Atmospheric Phenomenon” For Nation’s Largest Blackout In History”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/spain-hit-massive-really-massive-power-blackout

    I dunno whether to believe this or not. ‘Temperature induced oscillations in the grid’. Sounds like a pretty poor design, if true. Isolated populace is another horror story. Trains isolated in the wilderness. No electronic transactions. The lesson here is to keep lots of cash on hand.

  23. I tried the EMS-53 mike for my Alinco DXSR-8T. Seems to be a little “hotter” on the audio, especially on AM, than the stock spit-catcher…

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