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To: Openurmind

Is there a way you could start a thread about this issue for discussion? One that takes from this thread and also links to it?

As a conversation starter. Pinging to the tech ping list of dayglored? And others?

A discussion about how to reformat would be important. This is a small but significant website and there are many others

Have you thought of providing seminars on how to walk through the mindset and change protocols?


68 posted on 10/13/2025 8:13:23 AM PDT by Chickensoup
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To: Chickensoup

Thank you for the compliment and respect for my knowledge. All the tech guys here, dayglored, Shadowace, and several others are already hip to it. We have discussed it here several times over the last few years. We all saw it coming because we work with tech. I have been sharing it here when threads warrant it many many times over the last several years. And I have written quite a few articles about it and shared them around the net and on our own forum. I have copied and pasted a few of them in threads here with all the supporting links.

But what I have found is I am pretty much wasting my time trying to warn folks. There are some psychological firewalls that are hard to crack. Just as an example observe the situation with Windows. Folks have locked out “change”. They will let themselves be abused by a product rather than even consider “Change” and use Linux. Then there is the “never happen here, you are crazy” mindset. I have dumped link lists here to prove the direction it is going and still no one would even take a few minutes to go and check them out. I guess they think that if they ignore it then the problem will just go away.

And then there is the “show off” element. Folks like to say “look at me!” in a public square. Close it up to the public so that I can’t show off? No WAY! That is why many are even here. Quite a few could care less about the “causes”. They are only here to boast and show off to the world how more intelligent they are than everyone else. Well there is Artificial Intelligence and Actual intelligence... lol So if the FR closed up the front from the public these will be the first go. Their spotlight will be gone... Like I say owning a domain and site is a double edged Sword right now and hard decisions and changes are going to have to be made.

But if I see the opportunity to share concepts I will still keep trying as I always have. I like having online friends. And for a whole lot of folks here we are all they got. There are a whole bunch of single lonely folks here who really do not have much else in their lives. The FR is pretty much their only connection to the outside world. THAT I really do care about... :)

So here we are, we are down to the wire and no one seems to care and become proactive. Tomorrow support for windows 10 expires, and from what I am seeing the latest update is killing Windows machines. Just happened to Paul R. And probably some we don’t even know about because they can’t get online anymore. The OS is slowly self-destructing to force everyone onto Win 11 or buy another computer and still no one will make a “change” to help themselves. The FR is going to lose a bunch of folks pretty soon. So it will be the same with this new issue with AI and the internet. They will just let it dwindle away rather than make the effort to make a change before it does.


69 posted on 10/13/2025 11:21:44 AM PDT by Openurmind (AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
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