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There is no doubt that thousands of people have seen aerial phenomena that were inexplicable by ordinary standards. The disappointing fact is that, based on the fundamental laws of physics, it is impossible for a massive body to attain the speeds or acquire the energy to travel any appreciable distance within or between any galaxy in the Universe.

Whatever may be out there, it will forever be the speculation of science fiction writers. We will never have contact or receive information about the existence of other intelligent beings in our Universe. No civilization sufficiently aware of the distances and times required to travel between star systems would attempt such a futile and uncertain voyage.

The only possible exception would be if we detected light from one or more stars indicating their energy was being diverted within a Dyson sphere or some other advanced technological device with no natural explanation. It would be interesting, but not very useful information.

Peace is better than war, but war is better than slavery. The majority of people are sheep who would rather live on their knees as slaves to Islamic fascists then stand and fight for liberty and freedom. They rely on the bravery and courage of a small minority to secure their rights at great cost, and are too stupid to show gratitude for their sacrifice.

“[A]ll digital information—such as ballot definitions, voter choice records, vote tallies, or voter registration lists—is subject to malicious alteration; there is no technical mechanism currently available that can ensure that a computer application—such as one used to record or count votes—will produce accurate results; testing alone cannot ensure that systems have not been compromised; and any computer system used for elections—such as a voting machine or e-pollbook—can be rendered inoperable.”

If everyone, including the Secretaries of State and Board of Elections officials, knew this, how could they in all honesty certify the official vote count for their respective states? Isn’t that perjury?

What does the car being a Tesla have to do with the story? These are plant stories from stock traders who are shorting Tesla.

But all those Secretaries of State certified that the vote count was true and accurate! They told us the 2020 election was the most secure election ever. Are you suggesting that they committed purjury and validated a chaotic process that lacked integrity?

Why, if that were true, the election would need to be voted on by the Congress on January 6th, since the popular vote was unreliable. I guess it was just a coincidence that the only legitimate process that could have decided the vote count was sabotaged by morons that were let into the Capitol building by the Capitol police.

How is that “operating in the public interest”? Shouldn’t the FCC revoke their broadcast licenses?

Our fascination with unexplained aerial phenomena is an interesting story. The belief that they are piloted by beings from another galaxy is impossible science fiction. Whether life evolved on some other planet in some other galaxy is speculation based on probabilities, but, in the end, it’s irrelevant.

No massive sentient being could traverse the distances between galaxies in any conceivable time that would make the journey useful. The laws of physics are clear; this is impossible.

The intellectual, highly educated, progressive left resents anyone who is better off than they are without having their “bona fides” of moral superiority. One of the most important beliefs of the low self-esteem progressive class is their obsession with guilt. Like priests, they must always feel guilty that their lives are not filled with the same level of suffering as other people, known collectively as “the Oppressed.” The ultimate sin for a progressive is not to feel guilty about everything.

Donald Trump rejects their belief in guilt and thereby becomes immune to it as a weapon for attacking his morality. Trump is optimistic, self-assured, and utterly without guilt in anything he does or says. This is his sin, and why they hate him. He puts a lie to their deepest moral principle of feeling guilty.

Tesla records and reports every data point for every sensor in the car, just like a Flight Data Recorder in commercial airlines. This makes it the perfect witness to any accident or system failure. They are the safest cars on the road, and with FSD, they drive better than 98% of the humans on the road.

The Democrats are the party of vandals. They vandalize cities with graffiti and homeless encampments. They vandalize the courts with lawfare. They vandalize politics with TDS witch hunts. They vandalize elections with illegal, unconstitutional processes to allow them to cheat. They vandalize everything they touch. Why should we be surprised when they vandalize national monuments?

You can rent Citizen Vigilante on Fandango At Home, but I’ll save you the $5.99. It’s a terrible movie unless you like seeing SWAT officers slaughtered for doing their job. This movie is pure Antifa propaganda, a nihilist fever dream where the only instinct is “kill them all” and never get caught.

Hopefully, Penn will answer the two burning question about the J6 event. Who pulled security and took down the baricade? Who opened the Capitol building doors from the inside?

The reason Tesla doesn’t advertise its cars is that once people see that a Tesla isn’t a car but a Personal Transportation System (PTS), and that every other car in the world is obsolete, demand will exceed production capacity, and prices will skyrocket.

I’ve had my Model Y for 6 months, traveled about 3500 miles, and have not hand-driven it more than a mile or two, mostly just to park where I preferred. I charge it on solar from my Tesla Powerwall and drive on sunshine in a state where the average price of gas is almost $6.00/gal.

Talk about a no-brainer.

Social Darwinism was a misreading of Decent of Man to support racist beliefs and ideologies. “Fitness” is determined by the ecological niche for a human population. White skinned Germans would be at a substantial disadvantage living in sub-Saharan Africa without the survival skills and adaptations of the locals in Namibia. There is no universal form of “fitness.”

In a state of nature without laws or moral constraints those with a “strong will” domininate those with a “weak will.” This was accepted even in advanced societies like Greece and Rome that considered slavery to be moral.

Modern civil society evolved to constrain those with a strong will through laws, customs, and moral traditions to maintain a semblance of peace rather than living in the perpetual “parabellum,” of all against all.

What ultimately stopped WWI was the stronger will of Great Britain, France, and the USA to defeat the weaker will of the Second Reich military cult and restore a state of peace.

This holds true even today with test of will between Radical Islam and the Enlightened Western democracies. Islam is banking on the West preferring to live on their knees as slaves rather than standing and fighting (once again) for individual freedom.

Reily wrote, “When that happens, the social consequences will be enormous! Particularly so for our ill-educated, indifferently educated by K12 workforce!”

When robotics and recursive AI reach this level, human labor will have no value. The successful class of people will be those who can do what only humans can do: innovate from new ideas. Jobs that determine “truth” and “beauty” will be all that is left. These require educated, aware, and skilled innovators.

This will result in a completely new class division of people: Those who can create and those who can’t. Labor capital value will approach zero, while the financial capital value that can be invested in the surviving companies will go parabolic. At some point, this division will result in a revolution.

The video is an AI channel that generates the video from a script and uses text-to-voice software like ElevenLabs for the audio. The video uses an avatar from HeyGen to lip-sync the audio. At least 80% of YouTube headless channels are now created this way.

As for losing our reserve currency status, China accepts USD payments because it depends on our huge market. They have to convert that to Yuan through FX to pay workers and invest in their own stocks and bonds rather than turning around and buying US assets in dollars.

When the Yuan is undervalued relative to the USD, this works to their advantage, but over time, it brings the currencies into parity. This makes its products less competitive, and it loses exports to countries like Vietnam and Malaysia. As long as China depends on large trade surpluses, it will be forced to periodically devalue its currency, as it has in the past. This is a huge risk to anyone who trades in Yuan.

The people who fear AI are mostly people who don’t use it or experience its personal benefits in their lives. It would be hard for me to list all the ways AI has improved my life, but a few include: screenwriting and video production, Legal contract analysis, medical analysis, technical research, and fully self-driving cars. My son and daughter are also deeply involved with AI research and deployment, both academically and in software system production.

As for not curing cancer, I would refer readers to this video on the MAMMAL AI model that has analyzed existing already approved cancer drugs and identified other cancers that could be cured by them, leading to very promising clinical trials at a fraction of the cost of the existing RCT process.

https://youtu.be/s3rNDndvav0

Sorry, Jessie has jumped the shark with this nonsense. I knew he was a lightweight, but this is the nail in the coffin.

I assume Trump has been briefed on the ground truth about Xi’s power in China and is speaking at the strategic level. Xi has effectively been removed from command of the PLA and the CMC following his purging of Gen. Zhang and Gen. Liu. The Central Committee agrees with Gen. Zhang’s position that an invasion of Taiwan would be too costly for China, and would not enact any orders from Xi to the contrary.

Their real strategy is to undermine the political structure in Taiwan as they did in Hong Kong, with the goal of tricking them into voting for reunification without a shot being fired.

Trump understands that the battle is not about bullets, but ballots. If he appears to side with the Taiwan independence movement, it will be interpreted as foreign interference domestically, and could jeopardize the political battle to keep them from voting for reunification.

Does anyone still believe that Great Britain’s MI6 is a significant intelligence presence in today’s world? RIP JB.