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The real irony is that he is right but for the wrong reason. Jan 6 was a response to the vandalized election process that produced an uncertifiable and unconstitutional electoral outcome.

Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated over $400 million to two nonprofit organizations, the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) and the Center for Election Innovation and Research (CEIR), to provide grants to local election offices across the country in 2020. This money was used to fund the placement of “unmonitored private drop boxes” in some areas that were stuffed with harvested ballots.

I’ve been using Claude 3 as a junior writer to help me complete my screenplays much faster and with more control. I come up with the beginning, middle, and end paragraphs of a story and feed this to Claude to generate a four-page treatment, character descriptions, logline, and other screenplay essentials.

After some editing, I send the treatment back to Claude to generate a three-act outline with plot points. This is then edited and fed to Claude to generate detailed story beats. I then edit the story beats to clear up any mistakes and misunderstandings and have Clause generate the scenes for a complete 115-page formatted script from the story beats.

Although the premise can take weeks to refine, the rest of the process takes about 8 hours rather than four months. Once I have a script in Claude’s voice, I need to polish it into a final draft script in my voice which can take several weeks.

My point is that AI is a game-changing productivity tool for creative writers. I look forward to the day when I can drop my script in an AI tool like Sora and have it generate a feature movie from it without bothering Hollywood producers.

Money is just a medium of exchange and has no intrinsic value. It is meaningless to say that the world is bankrupt because sovereign nations can create all the money they want. That is not the problem. The real problem is that there is no agreement on what real-world productive steps humans can take to change what are essentially cosmic events. If there were a consensus on what needed to be done, there would be a path to progress, but such a consensus does not exist. Any money spent in such an environment will be wasted, contributing to unproductive inflations.

I consider myself a rational, science-oriented person who never belonged to any organized religion. I do practice secular Buddhism because it has proven to be useful in gaining awareness of the conditioned, reactive mind that clouds our consciousness and leads to suffering.

That said, if you study the earliest religious traditions including the earliest Christians prior to the Roman Catholic Church canonization, you find a universal belief in the influence of a spiritual world with material human existence. The psychiatrist, Carl Jung, identified this as the collective unconscious plane that combines with our personal unconscious mind to direct our actions.

Humans are a gateway between this spiritual plane and the material world. The future crosses over this bridge on its journey to the past. Our human purpose is to realize the spiritual world through our living. As Jung said, we are what is.

I don’t understand how this is antisemitic. All the poster said (rather clumsily) is that they don’t care that Jews would be upset that the minorities that are flooding over their border might also not like them.
This is the same as saying they don’t care that Republicans would be upset that minorities coming from Mexico might also not like them.
To be antisemitic a statement would need to denigrate or insult Jews for some intrinsic quality like greed or clannishness or because they were responsible for some evil. The fact the poster doesn’t care how Jews feel is just a statement of their own lack of compassion but is not antisemitic.
The whole fake news cycle is just more of the left trying to take down Elon Musk because he is smarter, richer, and more powerful than any of the tiny, weak, pissants that attack him. Does anyone think he cares about their pathetic attempt at power using their lies and resentment tactics?

The only reason the FTX debacle was a fraud is because SBF didn’t have the federal government insurance like the FDIC banks do.

FTX investors deposited their BTC and ETH assets into FTX just like ordinary bank customers do with their paychecks. FTX turned around and pledged these deposits with dodgy high yield banks to get loans in dollars that SPF spent on political donations, luxury properties, and living large.

Ordinary banks take their deposits and make risky commercial loans and buy CMOs and bonds that lose value during inflationary periods. Both SBF and ordinary banks take people’s money to acquire loans and make stupid investment decisions that lose value and cause their lenders to call their loans and take ownership of the depositor’s assets.

The fraud is called fractional reserve banking. When you put your money or BTC in a bank it becomes the bank’s money. The antidote for this is to only deposit your assets into brokerage accounts that use independent custodians to hold your funds.
If the FTX investors understood what a custodian account was, they would still have their BTC and ETH.

Nature injects foreign genetic material into our bodies all the time and has since the first eukaryotic cells evolved on the planet. Its called a virus. The reason our body produces antibodies is because foreign genetic material is detected and eliminated by the immune system. The mRNA vaccines simply exploit this basic biological process in the same way that flu vaccines, pneumonia vaccines, and shingles vaccines do. They are safer than these because they don’t contain other genetic material that could trigger the actual disease.
This article is, with all do respect, misinformation used to a achieve a political effect and not science. There are issues of safety and efficacy with any novel medical technology, but the premise of this article is contradicted by the life saving history of vaccination since the time of Pasteur.

Oppenheimer is a great movie because its story was well crafted from the book, “American Prometheus”. Nolan had a great and complex character to work with, a perfect goal (build the bomb to end the war), and a tragic aftermath when Oppie’s leftist sympathies opposing racism and fascism in the ‘30s, became grist for his political enemies in the McCarthy era.

It wasn’t brought out in the film, but he realized he had been a useful idiot regarding the Russians when they totally dismissed his efforts to negotiate nuclear arms controls after the war.

What I didn’t see was the purpose of using 70mm. It was interesting for some of the bomb test scenes, but superfluous for most of the lab dialog and the clearance hearing scenes. It may have been something Nolan likes to work with, but it didn’t add to the great story enough to justify its expense or complexity.

Why the pilot said he “lost it in the bad weather” is a mystery. It has nothing to do with the fuel tank flight restrictions.

He was flying at a very low altitude with no civil or military transponder turned on. This is very suspicious. I don’t believe the military can do this within civil airspace (not a MOA Military Operations Area). If he was flying straight and level with a good engine, I don’t know what “lost it in bad weather” means. This doesn’t sound like a typical eject scenario due to loss of flight control or compressor stall (flame out) at low altitude.

The F35 can fly in bad weather near thunderstorms just fine. No plane can fly through a thunderstorm without extreme risk of loss of flight control or structural failure.

If you read the Forbes article, the problem is that the system that protects the fuel tank from static explosions has shown some wear on its tubing that might lead to failure. Until this safety flight restriction is lifted, the F35’s need to avoid lightning strikes which occur up to 25 miles away from the thunderstorm cell. Once they determine why the tubing is wearing and replace it, the F35 can be certified to return to normal operational status including flying anywhere they damn well need to fly.

If President Trump is not restored to the Presidency in the next election, the American experiment in republican government will officially be over. Whatever your personal feeling about his qualifications, the injustice of his martyrdom and persecution must be defeated or we will become the Rome of proscription purges and political murders that preceded the Imperial rule of the Caesars.

This is essentially what we have worldwide right now. The only difference is that human tellers won’t have to worry about being killed or taken hostage by a bank robbery. Its a security decision, not the mark of the beast.

The real looming controversy is the planned transition from paper currency to digital currency like the CBDC stable coin pegged to the US dollar and under test by the Federal Reserve.

The theory is that this will eliminate the multi-step clearing procedure that now takes place when purchases are made and accounts are debited and credited in a secure way. In an ideal world, all validation of transactions would be handled by AI agents in milliseconds eliminating the 31 current processing steps needed to clear checks and credit card transactions.

The chief opposition to this is from the middle men processing businesses that make billions skimming off the flow of trillions of dollars in transactions every day.

The story of Oppenheimer’s rise, fall, and resurrection is, like the man, extremely complex. The film compresses the voluminous American Prometheus book reasonably well, but Nolan had to jam a lot of short dialog lines over Goransson’s score and it would have helped to have closed captions.

The use of IMAX and the use of black and white for the Strauss storyline didn’t really add much to the film and seemed to be superfluous.

It is clear from the book that American Communism was a naive club for useful idiots including Oppenheimer until he tried to negotiate with Stalin’s reps on a nuclear treaty and they gave him the finger.

Communism was a proxy for liberal causes like civil rights, labor rights, and the anti-Fascist Spanish Republic. Russia was viewed as our ally against Hitler in WWII rather than the murderous gulag that Stalin was actually running.

Most, but not all, of the true believers realized how stupid they had been to join the party, but when the Cold War started, they were caught on the wrong side of history and paid a terrible price.

And every left wing group will be filing lawsuits against anyone working for them for election fraud and voter suppression.

They don’t get it. There are two systems of justice in America, one for Republicans and the other for Democrats. They’re all going to end up in court and going to jail if they try this.

Actually, it will take a google (10^100) years for a black hole to evaporate which is literally unimaginable. I’m not going to get worried about real matter going anywhere until they see a proton decay somewhere. So far, this has to take longer than 10^34 years based on the most recent experiments.

The problem with senescent cells is that they stop dividing because they have accumulated epigenetic errors and telomere shortening and the transcriptase enzymes can’t read the code reliably any more. The epigenetic errors cause the cell factory to produce erroneous proteins that cause inflamation and in some cases produce cancers.
Senolytic suppliments like resveratrol and quercetin are a better way signal the cell to repair DNA damage and reduce the negative influences of senescent cells.

When the Treasury originally gave the certificate to the Fed, the Fed gave them $42 billion in dollars. That means the Fed owns the gold, not the Treasury. The Treasury may have stored the gold and not transported it to the Fed, but they can’t sell the same gold twice in this world. Unless the Treasury has another stash of gold to sell, they are out of luck.

The Fed has no use for gold because they control the money supply machine. They can create whatever amount of dollars they need on a computer. The gold trick was pure public relations to make people think that the Treasury was “paying” to exceed the debt ceiling.

Legally, all the Treasury ever does is ask the Fed to create what funds they need to meet the government’s obligations and transfer them into the Treasury accounts. The debt ceiling law technically violates the Constitution by preventing the Treasury from paying its bill. It should be repealed or reversed by the SCOTUS.

Noooobody expects the SPANISH INQUISITION!!!

The study used the Horvath clock measurement to determine biological age. It is based on the information theory of ageing. As cells divide in the body, they have to preserve epigenetic controls on the genes in the cell so that they only produce the proteins they’re supposed to and not erroneous ones that can cause inflammation and promote cancer cell growth.
When cells are very old and are no longer dividing, they are called senescent. These cells can no longer repair DNA damage and can pump out harmful erroneous proteins in mature animals including humans.

The Horvath clock looks at these control points, called DNA methylation sites, in different tissues to see if their methylation pattern matches that of new cells that have just divided. The better the match between old and new, the younger the tissue is, and the younger the biological age of the person.

This is total nonsense. Why are there no forecasts for Medicare to go bankrupt? Because they don’t have a stupid law with a stupid fake trust fund that is supposed to be where the money comes from.

Everyone knew in 1935 that the trust fund was a ploy by Roosevelt to get the FICA law passed by Republicans. By paying into Social Security, it made people believe they had a stake in a retirement plan.

It is an entitlement program like Medicare that should simply be paid like every other Federal expenditure by having the funds transferred from the Federal Reserve. How do we fix SS and not cut benefits? Eliminate the trust fund and the stupid 75-year Board projections from the law and just pay the damn bill.