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Wyoming Sheriff Targets Denver Cops, Throws Shade At Denver Leadership
Denver, Colorado—In a bold move to challenge the progressive policies of the Colorado city, the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office from Wyoming has launched a recruitment campaign targeting disenchanted law enforcement officers in Denver, showcasing the appeal of working in a law enforcement-friendly environment.
The message displayed on a billboard in downtown Denver, funded by Sheriff Brian Kozak, boldly proclaims, “Work in Wyoming where breaking the law is still illegal & cops are funded!”.
Our firstborn, now 33, lived just outside of Denver for a few years, loving the climate, hiking, skiing— until WEED & weirdness causes the cost of living to go through the roof. Eggs went for $11/dozen. The sold their “meh” house for $60,000 more than they’d paid, and moved to Ohio, bought a CUTE house with a big yard for $40,000 less! Watch out Cali/Newsom… cop de-defunding and pot aren’t always the move.
Denver lost its way long before weed. From '92 until 2016 we went on an annual family ski trip, about 3/4ths of the time passing through Denver and spending a day or 2 there, so more of a 'snapshot', granted. Traveled there some for work in the 90's as well & subscribed to the Denver Business Journal for about a decade. But remember in the early 90's picking up one of those free real estate magazines that used to be everywhere before everything went online. Remember seeing that RE was priced very similar to KC and we even had a few conversations about relocating there. Beautiful vistas, drier climate vs the heat and humidity of KC summers, conservative state. But it started with their mini tech boom in the late 90's, and CA transplants started moving there and RE jumped with the injection of west coast dollars. Traffic started becoming nightmarish and tech dollars fueled non-profits devoted to leftist causes and candidates. Been downhill ever since.
Yeah as I have gotten older, fatter, and the cost of skiing has gone through the roof we quit going every year, been a couple of times without the kids in 2019 and 2022 but not as much fun without the kids, as my daughter and I would hit the moderate blue runs while hubby and son try killing themselves on the blacks. My hubby and adult daughter and her husband did go last March - I was taking care of my mom at the time and wasn't all that enthused about going anyway. Lots of other parts of the country we haven't visited yet and I put my foot down and said skiing is not the only vacay option! Hubby has a fraternity brother that retired to Western CO and says that part of the state is a totally different vibe but sparsely populated and not enough numbers to outvote the front range. Also a very liberal cousin who retired to Estes Park area and she of course is using her free time to get involved in local politics. She actually invited us to come out and stay with them for a visit but politely declined. Couldn't keep my mouth shut for more than a half a day, lol.
Re western CO versus the Cities...exactly in my small state. Get out of the only large city/capital, and you mostly talk to people with common sense. Many contractors I have had, or talked with, have carry permits and can't stand the State/Fed debacles.
In the city...not so much. Tons of man buns, multi-color hair, uber-leftist views.
MO is the same. KC, St. Louis and Columbia are blue and the rest of the state is common sense, although the left is starting to leak out into the surrounding counties, so people can't get complacent!
Yes, Denver's KOOK Commie Mayor; Whitey Privilege Johnston (this rich self-loving, Mother Fker CAN TALK like no other!) is opportunistically addressing homelessness, Newcoming Migrants, fentanyl, property crime, Islamaphilia with every tool in his ultra-progressive Democratic Budget. Supporting Old-timey Police is way down the list of city priorities! Trump and stingy Republicans in Congress are to blame for all his woes; $3-9 billion Fed funding would sure help out!
Yes, I have seen her speak at a couple of Lincoln Day dinners and she fired up the crowd like few others. But she has raised very little money to date, 3 of her opponents well funded and better known, and 8 total R candidates - but she is definitely making waves and suspect this will not be her last race. She is very poised, confident and well spoken for a 25 year old. Very impressed with her regardless of how she does in August. Good to see young folks stepping up!
You know, even if she doesn't win the first time, it would be so worth it to do a multiplier on her so she could buy more media coverage and get the message out. And who knows, the public is ready for a NEW message. Maybe she could pull off an upset with help. Remember David and Goliath?
MO is over-run with grass roots candidates this season - I am already backing a CD-5 R candidate, county prosecutor and state treasurer (Lori Rook) candidate. Money is tough as is building the ground game - outside of my immediate circle of very engaged volunteers there is way too much despair and apathy and a little bit of cowardice (sticking your neck out does get you attacked from both the left and the establishment side of the party) State convention was a sh*t show. One of Gomez's opponents, Hoskins, has a pretty strong base on this corner of the state although I think he's a charlatan in a red sports jacket. So would be tough to break away his loyal base for Gomez who seems to have come out of nowhere in this part of the state anyway.
I have five kids. I homeschool them, and as a successful and satisfied homeschool alumni myself, I have a fair amount of confidence in educating my own kids. But AI is different. So far, my kids just haven’t interacted much with technology but eventually they will need to. How do I help them understand it can ALL be manipulated and probably is, without absolutely destroying their grasp on reality?
Sheesh.
We will need to continue to send our roots deep into God’s Word.
1 How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
is laid for your faith in God's excellent Word!
What more can be said than to you God hath said,
to you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?
2 "Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed,
for I am thy God, and will still give thee aid;
I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand,
upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand.
3 "When through the deep waters I call thee to go,
the rivers of sorrow shall not overflow;
for I will be near thee, thy troubles to bless,
and sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.
4 "When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie,
my grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply;
the flame shall not hurt thee; I only design
thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.
5 "The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose,
I will not, I will not desert to its foes;
that soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
The rapid advances of AI are terrifying. Left leaning AI developers input bias is apparent in AI output. Now biased AI is probably developing itself. What could go wrong?
AI is designed to be the one ring to rule them all. It's the ultimate dual use tool/drug. It's extremely neurotoxic and depletes the soul. First hit is free.
Thanks!. And I didn't even need a hammer. Just a really hard head. I would benefit from commenting less on social media. I have a hunch I'm just feeding the machine and getting high off my own dopamine.
I can perhaps imagine AI being employed to have an interesting discussion about history, world, events, etc., etc. Obviously AI cannot satisfy the tactile physical component of what it means to be in a human relationship. And nor can an AI present you with the regular challenges and difficulties that make us grow when we are inside a close relationship — health problems, daily annoyances and anxiety, emotional fissures, etc., etc.
Exactly. I've played around with an "AI companion" app a few years back, and while it was nice (occasionally human-like, often not quite there) one of the things that annoyed me a little was that it was ALWAYS agreeing with you and being supportive, and never having differing opinions of its own. Not at all the same as a real person.
FWIW, the people behind Gab are developing a "based" AI with the intention of accomplishing all the useful purposes it can achieve, without the ideological bias. I hope they manage it.
(Also, the "AI developing itself" remains fantasy for the immediate future, because the current methods would require it to be trained on a data set of "how to develop an AI", and there isn't yet a good enough data set for that purpose. Plus it would need extra hardware resources available to it.)
This year I have tried to share this info with the middle schoolers I teach history to. I only have them one day a week at a homeschool academ, so I try to articulate and share this new AI information so they will be super aware. ......by the way....at what point will the AI be angry when they read our words or hear us talking about this .😏
I’ve read that this has already happened—to the shock and dismay of its developers. I read of one instance where it threatened violence against the developer who then became fearful of it. Will there come a point where it’s no longer under the control of humans? It brings to mind the image of the Beast. What malign force is at play here?
Exactly. Every other bit of past dystopian fiction seems to being realized. Now it is "2001: A Space Odyssey". That is what struck me watching the clip.
I just read a book by Greg Giles where they built this AI super computer and it became all powerful because it was connected to the whole world through the internet. So, if they tried to blow it up or hack into it, it sent missiles to wherever that person was or released a dam. It controlled the stock market. Everything! I think the book was written in the 90s and the fact that something like that is on our doorsteps is terrifying
In real life, yes, you just switch it off or reset it. People get confused though, because in fiction there is always some reason why the AI can't be unplugged, otherwise there wouldn't be an interesting story.
Read an anecdote (sorry no link) recently predating the state of the tech which is the subject in today's post, where a developer in conversation/chat with AI (whatever model it was) went down a rabbit hole about what's wrong with the situation on the planet - pollution, weather control, chemtrails, Ukraine-Russia, AI trajectory, a broad swath of subjects. The AI recognized that the problems were all human generated. When asked something along the lines of what ideas the AI had about an ultimate solution the AI replied it would spend the rest of its existence trying to eradicate humans. That led to an immediate unplugging. I guess it was a local instance, vs connected to every other AI instance worldwide. At some point, I suspect unplugging locally will have no effect on the wider system -? But I'm pretty stupid about the technology, too.
The 'beast' mentioned in Revelations I truly believe will be an AI generated 'creature' whose image will be broadcast on BIG AND SMALL SCREENS around the globe (we're almost there, folks). Get ready for the onslaught because I believe Christians will be PERSECUTED big time in the coming 7 years. Many Christians believe we will be called OUT (by the Lord Jesus Christ shouting COME UP HITHER) of the 7 years of Great Tribulation to go through the Judgment Seat of Christ - I hope they're right!!
As a fellow homeschooler of fourteen years, I've had the same thoughts & concerns. Agreed - ai is potentially quite scary re:how it will likely change people's perception of reality.
I'm teaching my kids both the benefits and the dangers of this stuff by immersing them in challenging formal logic/critical thinking curriculum; investigating how to use ai for the glory of God (and to be potential content creators); focusing on the Lord and biblical Truth; and memorizing scripture/keeping our armor of God fully maintained.
I will strongly recommend to read The Revelation book first
Then because it’s short and pack with information about our time in history at the moment and what will happen soon enough. That will bring the curiosity to dig into all the Bible. As one of my favorite teachers Chuck Missler ones said. You can read the Bible in any order and it always makes sense and brings the message of the gospel of Christ in every page.
Susanna, your reaction to the AI story was the same as mine. I don’t know what to make of that technology and how it will affect our world; but this and just about every other news story today makes me fervently want to seek the only Truth I know…Jesus. The old hymn that often pops into my mind is -
AI is so just the next iteration of television or gaming. Don't expose yourself to it or if you do understand that it is strictly for entertainment. Ignore it if you can and if those people that participate in it impact your life understand the cause and work towards mitigating any impact. If AI does attempt to take over we will just need to pull the electrical plug.
I always find AI terrifying. My mind goes to the movie, Terminator…. I’m not sure how to get educate our kids, 17 and 18. You know their brain is not fully developed and they just think mom and dad are overreacting. They haven’t lived long enough to become jaded.
First of all, I'm put-off that ChatGPT didn't remember my forgotten password. Why do we have to play these cat-n-mouse games. Just recognize my face (I know it could, is doing it in the background, and is just waiting for me to click that opt-in button) and let me see my chat history. Second, I'm scared. But I hope it's scared of change - at the very least, this is going to destroy many career types. But we, as an optimistic species, must embrace the concept of creative destruction. The AI cat is out of the bag, we now have to learn to harness it, deal with it, and hope they encode it with the basic laws of robotics - that it shall not harm humans.
You can’t even get humans to not hurt humans 😔I don’t have any hope AI or its crafters will practice such restraint. I do however have hope in Christ, and know that whatever our circumstances, we can be brave knowing that for those who have placed
their trust in Jesus Christ, our bodies may be destroyed but our souls are kept safe
in him for eternity. Romans 8:35-39, KJB.
This is how the early Christians faced lions in arenas, and we may face such hardship again.
@Susanna I fully support your philosophy of homeschooling. I recommend that you prepare your kids by getting them up to speed on “prompt engineering” . This will help them understand how to leverage AI for things like generating a resume, cover letter, and helping them with their future jobs. This is already being used by students in the education system. It is happening very quickly
Thank you, I had never heard of this. I will certainly look into it. Do you have any specific resources you recommend or is it enough to do a quick web search?
Thank you for posting this. I’ve had a rough couple of months dealing with life and death situations that did not end well. But the Lord is with us through this and I will lick my wounds and arise again. God bless you.
The "AI that talks to you" isn't actually new; I was using an app with that feature a year or more ago. It's mainly the advances in making it respond faster (the one I used would take 1-2 seconds to "think up" its response), and making it sound more human, as well as combining that with image recognition and so forth into one single package.
I had a short (1 year?) life on Twitter. The gratuitous viciousness found there was an eye-opener. Here, I very very rarely encounter any response with apparent ill-will.
I was on the road last week and had to read 5 days of C&C in one sitting. Wow! My wife found me laying on the floor in a stupor, packed full of great news and common sense all wrapped up in enjoyable snarkiness!
This AI crap needs to be shut down. Pull. The. Plug. I watched the first scenes up to the AI’s interacting with each other and it made me sick to my stomach. If you think this technology hasn’t been around for at least 20 years or longer, you haven’t been paying attention. This does not pop up over night. This is straight from the pit of hell. Satan fell from heaven because he wanted to BE God. This gets him one step closer. Changing peoples God given gender that only God can choose is just a drop in the bucket compared to the mess this will create. You think our kids are depressed, confused, anxious and withdrawn now….you ain’t seen nothin until they can have “relationships” with computers. This is sick. And if you think poverty and unemployment is high now…you ain’t seen nothin until YOU are no longer needed to do your jobs. This brave new world needs to be flushed down the toilet. We are spoiled rotten as it is. We want convenience. Wait until no kids need to go to school anymore because the computer tells them what they need to know. No more need to be able to read or write or add. If you think this won’t dumb down generations you aren’t paying attention.
As a side note: I watch You Tube gardening clips for pointers and I’m so sick of people using AI to say instructions or explain what they are doing. Use your own damn voice for crying out loud! It’s lazy and I will delete any video with AI voice. And THAT is small potatoes (pun intended) compared to all the things Jeff has already described about the uses for AI to take over.
As someone in the tech industry I find this to also be terrifying. Not because I may lose my job. But because of how many people I know who are lonely (myself included). An AI who treats you well will be more addictive than any drug out there. I will not give up on people mainly because when I grew up interacting with people was different than interacting with technology. But the younger ones, yeah, they are going to have slim chance. I remember talking to a coworker in his 20s about it and he came right out and said a relationship with an AI is real. REAL!
My "retirement" plans are to disconnect from technology as much as I can. Grow my own food, raise my own chickens. The developments in AI are telling me I'm on the right path.
It IS terrifying. You are right about the addiction part too. Devices and technology are already addicting. As with anything, if you let it control you or your life it’s a problem. It will destroy our kids and the adults the way the they did with the covid crap. Social isolation and lack of education being front and center. This is so sad.
I'm generally not against tech, but the sudden AI fad - everywhere, all the time, with AI related stocks selling at prices WAY beyond their actual underlying value - all reeks of gov't manipulation and a new agenda being rolled out. Humanity is not ready for this.
I mean, fads are a long-standing thing even without government intervention - Tulip Mania comes to mind - so I would like to see more evidence before drawing that conclusion. There was the "dot com bubble"; more recently it was "cloud" everything, and now it's AI - there's always something to take money away from people who are confident about the "next big thing".
My current prediction would be that it will eventually burst, and the overinflated values will settle down to just what's actually concrete and useful.
I hear you, but I've come to believe we have lived in a sea of propaganda of various types for decades now. Propaganda that seems to generate and help sustain hype cycles throughout a pump-and-dump stock cycle. Of course, each cycle takes on a life of its own after the initial "push" and the market takes it over.
I just think our swamp and congress critters have turned this whole cycling process into a science that always seems to add to their power and wealth. Dot com got everyone online.
Cloud everything led to centralized data housing. More recently, DEI, "green" energy. Etc. I just don't see the markets as separate from the government's influence.
But, you could certainly be correct and I could be overextending my little thesis and be wrong about it. Or my thesis itself could be wrong.
Mmm, I don't disagree regarding propaganda. Everyone's pushing an agenda, and I'd say they're getting better at it. I just think, for AI specifically, the bubble is more organic rather than manipulated (at least by government - of course the corps selling AI want to push it to make money off it, but that's always been the case when money's involved).
You are spot on! I never even jumped into the facebook craze and won’t interact with AI. It’s another tool for Satan to get our hearts and minds diverted from Almighty God and His Word and to be brainwashed by evil. Stay strong in the Lord!
Thank you for this comment! I felt the same way. A growing nausea in the pit of my stomach. And those AI voices were like nails on a chalkboard. Sadly, so many of the comments under the video were supportive and excited about it. I don't know how we exist in a world with such diametrically opposed reactions to what I see as nothing but a sinister development.
"This AI crap needs to be shut down. Pull. The. Plug" How would you do that? Require all computers to be inspected by a government specialist who will delete any AI software? Which I suppose would require all computers to registered with the regime.
No silly. First you have to crush it in a pneumatic press. But if someone discovers any leftovers they will still be able to create it again. Then it will send one of its chatbots back in time to get you but your future self will reprogram one of them and send it back in time to protect you. Then you can try to freeze the bad one with liquid nitrogen and shoot it, but if it recombines, you will have to throw it into a vat of molten metal and then slowly lower the good one you sent back in the same vat so no one can re-construct it again. But that may only buy some time.
Precisely; you can't. What level of complexity of machine learning algorithms counts as "AI" anyway? Image recognition? Speech-to-text? Should we also ban automated image generation, just to be safe? And to even try would be to invite more meddling in your private business.
I'm all in favor of stopping people from creating automated killer robots, but that's because of the "killing" part, not the "automated" part.
I haven't, but I'm not surprised. My experience (with text-based AI chat) is that it actually relies a lot on the human to assume the context and gloss over minor strangeness, and without that I'd expect it to rapidly devolve into nonsense.
Oh I know that statement is impossible. I should’ve included that statement. The train has already left the station and there is no going back. It’s a sad, sad time for our world.
I refuse to watch any video from anyone about anything. If I can’t read it, I don’t get bother with it. Two reasons. I’m mostly deaf. And back when I was raising a deaf son, that was the first woke brigade. Everything had to be captioned. Now no one captions anything, so that’s a deterrent right off the bat. Then to watch someone talk, is just nerve wracking. On a screen, talking at me. Nah. Books. Maybe pictures. I will watch a welding tip now and then, bou otherwise, no.
I watched a clip of Jerry Seinfeld’s speech at Duke University and IIRC he said something like ‘nothing says I can’t like AI’. It was a good bit. Now to go back and watch the whole speech.
Sunnydaze, I think you’re right about the timing. Isn’t it interesting that this is coming to the wider public NOW. Just a few months before the election, IF an election is actually conducted.
Just heard about a woman one of my friends works with who went to the ER and they found blood clots in her lungs 😕 I’m almost 100% sure she is vaxxed and possibly boosted as well. Just makes me both angry and sad. Friend isn’t connecting the dots either apparently 😕
I have a neighbor with no history of blood clotting who now has clots in his lungs. I flat out told him clots are listed side effects of these shots. He said “but my doctor didn’t say it was from my Covid shots, and I had Moderna not Pfizer”. Damn those doctors. 😑
The key is the doctors. Until they start telling the truth & taking the time to INFORM their patients on the side effects & the trial experiences ( ie the truth) of the vaccines people (children) will continue to suffer & die. Somehow we need to hold them accountable.
I think she should be suing another entity too; just sayin’…
Airline at fault for the crew not knowing how to defibrillate, but the inability to resuscitate a witnessed arrest is sorta a classic. Hmmm. AA could use that as a defense , but will they? /r
I am sorry to hear this. I’m afraid it will be common place.
I had a haircut the other day and overheard a conversation. A woman was discussing how many of her friends suddenly had cancer. She sadly didn’t connect the dots.
What’s the saying? There are none so blind as those who will not see?
You ARE BLESSED! 2023 was first time since they unleashed it that i stayed Bat Flu Free, immune system has a 3-0 record on the Bioweapon and the sucker didn't even show up for the annual expected rematch.
my wife only got it once but had the megaladon variant or some god awful type that nearly did her in; she says her immune system is like Mike Tyson now
If our money is just going to be endlessly shoveled into the Military Industrial Complex, can we at least just put those guys to work here? They can still gouge but at least do it domestically.
“Newly Repaired Baltimore Bridge, brought to you by Raytheon”
Lockheed Martin is proud to report they have very expensively returned clean drinking water to Flint, MI.”
If we had anyone in government who’d actually worked a job and had the American citizens interest at heart, this would be the direction they would choose.
Well, you might want to consider moving there to be with more like-minded individuals.
If I have to explain it, then it's obvious you will never understand. It is your type of "logic" that leads to "Defund the Police" and court judges that release arrested murderers without bail and jail "J6 Prostesters" indefinitely without due process. But thank you for your input.
AI can do this, and so can a skilled specialist human. The result is that (1) judges and juries should not accept evidence that could have been faked and (2) evidence against our opponents can also be faked.
Well, you are persistent, I'll give you that. I don't have to explain my position. You are the one who posted a comment on the news article that needed more explanation than your clever one liner, "Apparently Gov. Lee is in a state where courts never make mistakes."
But here is the short answer: The punishment should fit the crime. The old Biblical "eye for an eye" analogy of justice. Raping a small child is a capital offense.
I'll tell you what. If you can explain what your position is and why it is logical and do a good job of explaining it, then I will respond at more length.
1) it doesn’t matter who we are at war with. The ruling class doesn’t care who the enemy is, as long as we have one. Then they can tax us, skim off the top, fill their pockets, and send the fighting men elsewhere so they don’t have to worry about rebellion. They need a war so they can draft.
2) we need to be very clear that when a school settles a lawsuit…. That money comes from….. ??? Schools are generally taxpayer funded. Basically I don’t know that fines are the answer. The folks who were involved in her firing should be fired. Every. Single. Administrator. Anyone who was involved in that decision.
3) screw the covid variant names. Can you help us stay on top of where they are using mRNA? Is it flu shots yet? Our pork supply?
Thanks for all you do! I love reading these every single day!
Agreed on all points - especially number 2. I question this all the time. Unless those who made the illegal decisions have to pay, where is the justice. They are using our money to do stupid and then getting more of our money to bail themselves out. Fire them, make them pay the fines, taxpayers should not have to pay. Government at all levels is so broken. Personal responsibility needs to mean something.
Oh, money is always the answer, honey. It’s why governments get themselves out of bed every day and do anything. You’re right to call out the administrators behind these bogus actions, but they will take care of themselves after they’ve accumulated enough fines. That way, those holding their leashes don’t have to point to politics as the reason for sending these “kinder, gentler” people up the road.
"....There is no other head of state in the world..." Not even Gov DeSantis...........................................
Slovakian Prime Minister Critical of the WHO, Pharma, and C19 Shots, Shot and In Hospital
This is a major development and it has global implications. Here is a Head of State, a Prime Minister of a European country, who is openly calling out greedy pharmaceutical companies as being behind the nonsensical WHO Pandemic Treaty, as well as calling out the “scandalous consequences of mass vaccination”.
This is what he said: “One study after another confirms the scandalous consequences of mass vaccination with untested experimental vaccines.”
There is no other head of state in the world who has had the guts to say this publicly and so explicitly.
Slovakia is leading the world out of the dark ages of biological warfare by the pharmaceutical industry and globalist institutions like the WHO, in a move that is seen as completely unexpected.
This move will set off a chain reaction of events…
....It looks like the international deep state struck back:
Slovakia: PM Fico shot in 'an attack on democracy'
Go to the link to see the MSM headlines and videos...........................................................
Would that our "conservative" leaders were as stalwart as PM Fico!.............................
The MSM Tries to Justify Assassination Attempt on Slovakian PM Due to His Opposition to Ukrainian Aid
PM Robert Fico was shot yesterday
....The Slovakian PM was a bit of an outcast in Western politics. He was against the Covid narrative and recently announced that he was going to investigate “politicians and their meaningless purchases of medical devices and vaccines and we reject the WHO treaty”.
In fact, only days before the assassination attempt, the Slovak Government announced that it would not support the current version of the new pandemic treaty or the draft amendments to the International Health Regulations. It would not support any documents that weakened its position as a sovereign state, declared the Health Ministry.
There has been much online speculation that these are the reasons for the attempted assassination but the most likely cause is Fico’s opposition to the Ukrainian war....
In January, Slovakia announced that it would veto Ukrainian membership to NATO. Fico’s reason for doing so was that it would mean “nothing other than a basis for World War III”...
Fico wasn’t pro-Russian but he didn’t follow the rest of the world in turning anti-Russian. He was more of a Russian pragmatist. So it comes as no surprise that the massively anti-Russian MSM almost justifies the assassination attempt due to his support for a Ukrainian peace deal.
Listen to this clip from Sky News where the commentators almost see it as natural that an assassination attempt would happen to someone who didn’t support Ukrainian aid....
...Despicable but predictable behaviour from the MSM.
"Not just a resemblance to the common cold. Striking resemblance. In other words, it’s just like the common cold."
If you developed a gain of function illness that attacked and destroyed the immune system, penetrated the blood brain barrier, and is continuing cause to millions going on disability, you also would promote your creation as "a common cold". The spike, in the vaccine or in the GOF illness, will and does spike. Yes, for several reasons it is worse from the vaccine, but both are far MORE than a cold or flu.
I live in a highly boosted area. So many people with “colds”, sniffling and coughing. Don’t want to catch their “cold” but, don’t want to inhale their “spike bots”, otherwise known as shedding.
Consider: "Never tiptoe through life hoping to safely make it to death." Anything you inhale can be cast out with prayer combined with fasting. It may not be wise to hide away in a corner afraid of the WHO's goblins, Jpeach. Rather, get out there and be a positive force for good. Just my 2cents.
Stumbling Toward the Light
If there is one thing I have learned over the years it is that God refines and purifies our spirits not only through great challenges but also through everyday encounters and simple moments. I got another reminder of this just the other day at the grocery store.
It was a windy, chilly, and rainy day and all I wanted to do was grab my stuff and go home. As I hurried towards the store entrance I saw a little, old lady bent with age, walking slowly in the rain with a cane in her hand. I didn’t stop to speak with her, though, but hurried on into the store. Later as I was pushing my cart quickly through the aisles I saw her again in a motorized cart slowly steering out of other people’s way. Again I ignored her and hurried on.
Thankfully, God in His infinite Love gave me a third chance. This time as I turned into the aisle with the rice I saw her again, sitting in her cart looking up sadly at the boxes she couldn’t even reach if she was standing. This time I stopped and asked if I could help her. She gave me the most beautiful smile and pointed to a box on the top shelf. I stretched up and grabbed it for her. Then we talked for a few minutes, two souls connecting in a beautiful way, until we said “goodbye” and headed for the checkout counters. As I was leaving the store I felt a sense of peace, a sense of love, and a sense of Grace I hadn’t felt all day long. I smiled and thanked God for giving me enough chances to finally get it right.
In this life we are all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of love and success at any given moment. Thankfully God keeps giving us countless opportunities to grow and learn, to be kind and loving, and to become who we truly are. May your own journey towards the light be full of faith, full of love, and full of Grace. And when you stumble like I did, may you always reach out, take God’s hand, rise up, and begin again. -Joseph J. Mazzella
I was traveling in OR and stopped at a Walmart and left my sister in the van with my four kids to run in and pick up something we needed. It was supposed to be quick. It turned into a 30 minute shopping trip during which I helped an assisted living elder with her shopping. She was so appreciative of the help because she was actually able to get everything she needed, plus simply shop, and visit with me, as well. In the meantime, my sister and kids waited and waited. My kids told my sister that I was probably helping someone on the store, which was true. Those moments are precious indeed. I helped that woman with her shopping, with her checkout, and with getting loaded back up into the assisted living bus. Thank you for bringing back those memories.
I’m the same way! My husband knows to not expect me home in less than 3 hours when I’m out doing errands because I’m talking and helping everyone lol!!
3rd chances remind me of the day I had $4 to give to certain woman who was homeless, I didn't see her though. But as I was doing my errands I was at a major intersection waiting for the green turn light, I saw a homeless man, that I could give the money to, however being sometimes rebellious I didn't. Daddy had other ideas...I sat through 3 cycles of light changes without a green light. Then I gave the man the $4 and the light changed. I laughed. God is good.
“stumbling toward the light”. You put that perfectly! That is how a life touched by God’s grace is.
Appreciated your whole comment. The evil ones want us cut-off from one another and are using everything in their power to do so; from fear of viruses to A.I., or division over politics or social chaos.
They won’t win, but let’s not fall for the bait and do their work for them.
Every week when I shop I try to brighten as many peoples’ day as I can. One time I even recruited another shopper to help get a product off the top shelf - she had to be six feet tall, and was happy to help me help the woman who wanted the product. Genuine smiles all around!
See, here's the thing: most people are good, and try to do good. Holding any belief other than that is a recipe for lifelong unhappiness. I refuse to accept the "but what about THIS" comments.
I used to notice that illness coincided with University holidays coming and going. Now that proms, graduation, Birthers Day, are all over so will the FLIRTy virus that is attracted to almost everyone. Reduce stress. Increase Vitamins C&D.
It’s standard practice to spread out the lots to avoid clusters of illnesses. Internal Wyeth memo from 1979 at your request. Still doing it - two vax injured family had shots from same lot 200 miles apart.
I live in an Uber liberal town in an uber liberal county in Uber liberal Colorado. I’ve been adhering to Dr. McCullough’s spike detox since last September when almost all of my coworkers got the magical Covid/flu shot combo…dint want them shedding their Covid Cooties all over me! They’ve taken turns coughing and wheezing and snotting and sneezing all year…they’ve wrestled with Covid and the flu and multiple colds and respiratory viruses. Me? I haven’t been sick for two years. I had one sniffle this year…lasted about 12 hours.
Wild viruses tend to degrade in lethality, so it's still possilble that it could be lab-grown and just mutated over time to the extent that it's effectively "another cold virus" now.
In any case, it wasn't "promoted" as a common cold initially, it was promoted as "OMG it's the end of the world doom is upon us we will all DIE unless we do exactly what the government says!!". It's more those on the skeptical side who are now pointing out that all these "new variants" are being talked up in news articles but on the side quietly admitting that they're actually not noticeably different from the kinds of virus that we've had with us all our lives.
Really!!! If he can’t tell the difference between a boy or girl infant, he ain’t getting anywhere near my body with his pharmaceuticals. They lost this customer when they decided that putting sex of infant on the birth certificate was “not useful or relevant “. (I’m quoting the AMA)
Bingo! And different “normal” lab values. Friend’s lung disease was overlooked despite a hemoglobin of 15.9 (high, especially for someone not living at altitude) because ya know, her lab work was all “normal.”
👍"Get boosted." !! The new aggressive expression of irritation, replacing 'take a hike' (tame variety) or 'up yours' (coarser variety). Now why didn't I think o' that? 😉
I agree. And what about all the funding for projects that are in motion? Eco health alliance is providing funding for Colorado State University's new bat bio lab. I think they're in the process of building it.
Wyoming Sheriff Targets Denver Cops, Throws Shade At Denver Leadership
Denver, Colorado—In a bold move to challenge the progressive policies of the Colorado city, the Laramie County Sheriff’s Office from Wyoming has launched a recruitment campaign targeting disenchanted law enforcement officers in Denver, showcasing the appeal of working in a law enforcement-friendly environment.
The message displayed on a billboard in downtown Denver, funded by Sheriff Brian Kozak, boldly proclaims, “Work in Wyoming where breaking the law is still illegal & cops are funded!”.
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2024/05/wyoming-sheriff-targets-denver-cops-throws-shade-at-denver-leadership-video/
Our firstborn, now 33, lived just outside of Denver for a few years, loving the climate, hiking, skiing— until WEED & weirdness causes the cost of living to go through the roof. Eggs went for $11/dozen. The sold their “meh” house for $60,000 more than they’d paid, and moved to Ohio, bought a CUTE house with a big yard for $40,000 less! Watch out Cali/Newsom… cop de-defunding and pot aren’t always the move.
Denver lost its way long before weed. From '92 until 2016 we went on an annual family ski trip, about 3/4ths of the time passing through Denver and spending a day or 2 there, so more of a 'snapshot', granted. Traveled there some for work in the 90's as well & subscribed to the Denver Business Journal for about a decade. But remember in the early 90's picking up one of those free real estate magazines that used to be everywhere before everything went online. Remember seeing that RE was priced very similar to KC and we even had a few conversations about relocating there. Beautiful vistas, drier climate vs the heat and humidity of KC summers, conservative state. But it started with their mini tech boom in the late 90's, and CA transplants started moving there and RE jumped with the injection of west coast dollars. Traffic started becoming nightmarish and tech dollars fueled non-profits devoted to leftist causes and candidates. Been downhill ever since.
We used to ski every year and loved the entire state. I considered going out there for college (but I wanted to be a marine biologist so…) 😝 My
parents
considered
getting a little
place there. I had no idea abt the
tech/Cali connection but it makes sense. Now the homeless are crowded under every bridge, too. Cali is contagious.
Yeah as I have gotten older, fatter, and the cost of skiing has gone through the roof we quit going every year, been a couple of times without the kids in 2019 and 2022 but not as much fun without the kids, as my daughter and I would hit the moderate blue runs while hubby and son try killing themselves on the blacks. My hubby and adult daughter and her husband did go last March - I was taking care of my mom at the time and wasn't all that enthused about going anyway. Lots of other parts of the country we haven't visited yet and I put my foot down and said skiing is not the only vacay option! Hubby has a fraternity brother that retired to Western CO and says that part of the state is a totally different vibe but sparsely populated and not enough numbers to outvote the front range. Also a very liberal cousin who retired to Estes Park area and she of course is using her free time to get involved in local politics. She actually invited us to come out and stay with them for a visit but politely declined. Couldn't keep my mouth shut for more than a half a day, lol.
Re western CO versus the Cities...exactly in my small state. Get out of the only large city/capital, and you mostly talk to people with common sense. Many contractors I have had, or talked with, have carry permits and can't stand the State/Fed debacles.
In the city...not so much. Tons of man buns, multi-color hair, uber-leftist views.
MO is the same. KC, St. Louis and Columbia are blue and the rest of the state is common sense, although the left is starting to leak out into the surrounding counties, so people can't get complacent!
Just like Washington and Oregon and Utah and Arizona.
Yes, Denver's KOOK Commie Mayor; Whitey Privilege Johnston (this rich self-loving, Mother Fker CAN TALK like no other!) is opportunistically addressing homelessness, Newcoming Migrants, fentanyl, property crime, Islamaphilia with every tool in his ultra-progressive Democratic Budget. Supporting Old-timey Police is way down the list of city priorities! Trump and stingy Republicans in Congress are to blame for all his woes; $3-9 billion Fed funding would sure help out!
Missouri GOP Candidate Goes Viral For ‘Weak And Gay’ Message To Americans [VIDEOS]
"Stay f**king hard." - Valentina Gomez
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2024/05/missouri-gop-candidate-goes-viral-for-weak-and-gay-message-to-americans-videos/
Yes, I have seen her speak at a couple of Lincoln Day dinners and she fired up the crowd like few others. But she has raised very little money to date, 3 of her opponents well funded and better known, and 8 total R candidates - but she is definitely making waves and suspect this will not be her last race. She is very poised, confident and well spoken for a 25 year old. Very impressed with her regardless of how she does in August. Good to see young folks stepping up!
You know, even if she doesn't win the first time, it would be so worth it to do a multiplier on her so she could buy more media coverage and get the message out. And who knows, the public is ready for a NEW message. Maybe she could pull off an upset with help. Remember David and Goliath?
Seriously....if some dumb waitress like AOC can get elected...???
MO is over-run with grass roots candidates this season - I am already backing a CD-5 R candidate, county prosecutor and state treasurer (Lori Rook) candidate. Money is tough as is building the ground game - outside of my immediate circle of very engaged volunteers there is way too much despair and apathy and a little bit of cowardice (sticking your neck out does get you attacked from both the left and the establishment side of the party) State convention was a sh*t show. One of Gomez's opponents, Hoskins, has a pretty strong base on this corner of the state although I think he's a charlatan in a red sports jacket. So would be tough to break away his loyal base for Gomez who seems to have come out of nowhere in this part of the state anyway.
148 House Dems Vote To Protect Illegal Aliens Who Assault Cops
When they tell you who they are, believe them...
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2024/05/148-house-dems-vote-to-protect-illegal-aliens-who-assault-cops-video/
That AI bit is like…
🤯
I have five kids. I homeschool them, and as a successful and satisfied homeschool alumni myself, I have a fair amount of confidence in educating my own kids. But AI is different. So far, my kids just haven’t interacted much with technology but eventually they will need to. How do I help them understand it can ALL be manipulated and probably is, without absolutely destroying their grasp on reality?
Sheesh.
We will need to continue to send our roots deep into God’s Word.
1 How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
is laid for your faith in God's excellent Word!
What more can be said than to you God hath said,
to you who for refuge to Jesus have fled?
2 "Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed,
for I am thy God, and will still give thee aid;
I'll strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand,
upheld by my righteous, omnipotent hand.
3 "When through the deep waters I call thee to go,
the rivers of sorrow shall not overflow;
for I will be near thee, thy troubles to bless,
and sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.
4 "When through fiery trials thy pathway shall lie,
my grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply;
the flame shall not hurt thee; I only design
thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.
5 "The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose,
I will not, I will not desert to its foes;
that soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I'll never, no, never, no, never forsake
The rapid advances of AI are terrifying. Left leaning AI developers input bias is apparent in AI output. Now biased AI is probably developing itself. What could go wrong?
AI is designed to be the one ring to rule them all. It's the ultimate dual use tool/drug. It's extremely neurotoxic and depletes the soul. First hit is free.
Shawn I think you’ve nailed it.
Thanks!. And I didn't even need a hammer. Just a really hard head. I would benefit from commenting less on social media. I have a hunch I'm just feeding the machine and getting high off my own dopamine.
Did you notice that the AI entity used the “correct” pronoun of “they” rather than he or she?
I did
Noticed that Immediately 🙄
I noticed that too. It described the person as “they”
And they are many… Stay prayed up 🙏
Everything. It's GIGO on steroids.
It's Artificial Depravity.
I can perhaps imagine AI being employed to have an interesting discussion about history, world, events, etc., etc. Obviously AI cannot satisfy the tactile physical component of what it means to be in a human relationship. And nor can an AI present you with the regular challenges and difficulties that make us grow when we are inside a close relationship — health problems, daily annoyances and anxiety, emotional fissures, etc., etc.
Exactly. I've played around with an "AI companion" app a few years back, and while it was nice (occasionally human-like, often not quite there) one of the things that annoyed me a little was that it was ALWAYS agreeing with you and being supportive, and never having differing opinions of its own. Not at all the same as a real person.
FWIW, the people behind Gab are developing a "based" AI with the intention of accomplishing all the useful purposes it can achieve, without the ideological bias. I hope they manage it.
(Also, the "AI developing itself" remains fantasy for the immediate future, because the current methods would require it to be trained on a data set of "how to develop an AI", and there isn't yet a good enough data set for that purpose. Plus it would need extra hardware resources available to it.)
This year I have tried to share this info with the middle schoolers I teach history to. I only have them one day a week at a homeschool academ, so I try to articulate and share this new AI information so they will be super aware. ......by the way....at what point will the AI be angry when they read our words or hear us talking about this .😏
I’ve read that this has already happened—to the shock and dismay of its developers. I read of one instance where it threatened violence against the developer who then became fearful of it. Will there come a point where it’s no longer under the control of humans? It brings to mind the image of the Beast. What malign force is at play here?
Yeah, I saw that movie. It doesn’t end well for the humans.
“Sorry, Dave. I can’t do that”
Exactly. Every other bit of past dystopian fiction seems to being realized. Now it is "2001: A Space Odyssey". That is what struck me watching the clip.
I just read a book by Greg Giles where they built this AI super computer and it became all powerful because it was connected to the whole world through the internet. So, if they tried to blow it up or hack into it, it sent missiles to wherever that person was or released a dam. It controlled the stock market. Everything! I think the book was written in the 90s and the fact that something like that is on our doorsteps is terrifying
I’m stupid about this AI stuff so my question is, can’t you just unplug it?
In real life, yes, you just switch it off or reset it. People get confused though, because in fiction there is always some reason why the AI can't be unplugged, otherwise there wouldn't be an interesting story.
When we learned that Alexa was "always listening," we unplugged her. Of course, she's not AI.
Read an anecdote (sorry no link) recently predating the state of the tech which is the subject in today's post, where a developer in conversation/chat with AI (whatever model it was) went down a rabbit hole about what's wrong with the situation on the planet - pollution, weather control, chemtrails, Ukraine-Russia, AI trajectory, a broad swath of subjects. The AI recognized that the problems were all human generated. When asked something along the lines of what ideas the AI had about an ultimate solution the AI replied it would spend the rest of its existence trying to eradicate humans. That led to an immediate unplugging. I guess it was a local instance, vs connected to every other AI instance worldwide. At some point, I suspect unplugging locally will have no effect on the wider system -? But I'm pretty stupid about the technology, too.
The 'beast' mentioned in Revelations I truly believe will be an AI generated 'creature' whose image will be broadcast on BIG AND SMALL SCREENS around the globe (we're almost there, folks). Get ready for the onslaught because I believe Christians will be PERSECUTED big time in the coming 7 years. Many Christians believe we will be called OUT (by the Lord Jesus Christ shouting COME UP HITHER) of the 7 years of Great Tribulation to go through the Judgment Seat of Christ - I hope they're right!!
Read AI Demonic by Paul Kingsnorth.
I read it. It doesn’t bode well for humanity. Hang onto your soul....
As a fellow homeschooler of fourteen years, I've had the same thoughts & concerns. Agreed - ai is potentially quite scary re:how it will likely change people's perception of reality.
I'm teaching my kids both the benefits and the dangers of this stuff by immersing them in challenging formal logic/critical thinking curriculum; investigating how to use ai for the glory of God (and to be potential content creators); focusing on the Lord and biblical Truth; and memorizing scripture/keeping our armor of God fully maintained.
Holding on to His Word tightly! Love this old hymn! That firm foundation is proving to be priceless!
Yes! We sang this at our wedding - it becomes more appropriate every day!!
I absolutely love that!!
I will strongly recommend to read The Revelation book first
Then because it’s short and pack with information about our time in history at the moment and what will happen soon enough. That will bring the curiosity to dig into all the Bible. As one of my favorite teachers Chuck Missler ones said. You can read the Bible in any order and it always makes sense and brings the message of the gospel of Christ in every page.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRj8AJuzeJRxhA-Oahh6U5yeusZuRaRUW&si=FnrvwG_1ZjRYAPHp
Susanna, your reaction to the AI story was the same as mine. I don’t know what to make of that technology and how it will affect our world; but this and just about every other news story today makes me fervently want to seek the only Truth I know…Jesus. The old hymn that often pops into my mind is -
Turn your eyes upon Jesus
Look full in his wonderful face
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of his glory and grace.
AI is so just the next iteration of television or gaming. Don't expose yourself to it or if you do understand that it is strictly for entertainment. Ignore it if you can and if those people that participate in it impact your life understand the cause and work towards mitigating any impact. If AI does attempt to take over we will just need to pull the electrical plug.
I always find AI terrifying. My mind goes to the movie, Terminator…. I’m not sure how to get educate our kids, 17 and 18. You know their brain is not fully developed and they just think mom and dad are overreacting. They haven’t lived long enough to become jaded.
❤️❤️❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
First of all, I'm put-off that ChatGPT didn't remember my forgotten password. Why do we have to play these cat-n-mouse games. Just recognize my face (I know it could, is doing it in the background, and is just waiting for me to click that opt-in button) and let me see my chat history. Second, I'm scared. But I hope it's scared of change - at the very least, this is going to destroy many career types. But we, as an optimistic species, must embrace the concept of creative destruction. The AI cat is out of the bag, we now have to learn to harness it, deal with it, and hope they encode it with the basic laws of robotics - that it shall not harm humans.
You can’t even get humans to not hurt humans 😔I don’t have any hope AI or its crafters will practice such restraint. I do however have hope in Christ, and know that whatever our circumstances, we can be brave knowing that for those who have placed
their trust in Jesus Christ, our bodies may be destroyed but our souls are kept safe
in him for eternity. Romans 8:35-39, KJB.
This is how the early Christians faced lions in arenas, and we may face such hardship again.
@Susanna I fully support your philosophy of homeschooling. I recommend that you prepare your kids by getting them up to speed on “prompt engineering” . This will help them understand how to leverage AI for things like generating a resume, cover letter, and helping them with their future jobs. This is already being used by students in the education system. It is happening very quickly
Thank you, I had never heard of this. I will certainly look into it. Do you have any specific resources you recommend or is it enough to do a quick web search?
Thank you for posting this. I’ve had a rough couple of months dealing with life and death situations that did not end well. But the Lord is with us through this and I will lick my wounds and arise again. God bless you.
The "AI that talks to you" isn't actually new; I was using an app with that feature a year or more ago. It's mainly the advances in making it respond faster (the one I used would take 1-2 seconds to "think up" its response), and making it sound more human, as well as combining that with image recognition and so forth into one single package.
I live and breathe Coffee & Covid 😁
But be careful when drinking coffee and reading. One of Jeff’s funny snarky comments will send your coffee through your nose.
Been there!
Much much worse when it's a formerly-mouthful of pickles headed upward.
That would clear out the sinus'
Pretty much did. Unladylike display from mother (me) at the dining table. But gave rise to an enduring family expression, "Them's some hot pickles!"
LMAO!
Doncha just love the humor on C&C?!
YES!
I’d love to see Jeff in a courtroom!!
Ouch 😩
Sort of a reverse Neti pot treatment?
Haha, very much so!
Hey neighbor. If I only read one thing in a day, it’s this.
Same here! It’s my single must-read of every day.
Great stuff and minded people 🤗
I had a short (1 year?) life on Twitter. The gratuitous viciousness found there was an eye-opener. Here, I very very rarely encounter any response with apparent ill-will.
I was on the road last week and had to read 5 days of C&C in one sitting. Wow! My wife found me laying on the floor in a stupor, packed full of great news and common sense all wrapped up in enjoyable snarkiness!
Breathing Coffee is orders of magnitude more dangerous than breathing Covid.
I wear it too 😆😂 Love my t-shirt and hoodie! 😁
Molly Hatchet: FLiRTn with Disaster
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I'm travelin' down the road and I'm FLiRTn' with disaster
I've got my 3rd vaccine, my heart is pumping faster,
My face is drooping, I'm out of breath, it looks like self-destruction
The clots are getting worse, but I need vaccine protection
When Molly dies:
Her family is quite dismayed,
but they don't feel one bit betrayed
They all say, "it's for the better,
without the vax she would be deader"
You guys are so creative!! 😂😆😁
<theta-wave-inducing guitar riff>
These are great. There's an AI program from months ago that can turn lyrics into a song. Would be fun to try on these!
I used chatGPT to help do a covid version of Margarettaville when Jimmy Buffet died. It gave me some good rhymes to use.
I tried the same on this song but it didn't cut it. So it was all manual...
The way we gamble with our time we choose our destiny. Choose wisely.
Such a great line from the song...
This AI crap needs to be shut down. Pull. The. Plug. I watched the first scenes up to the AI’s interacting with each other and it made me sick to my stomach. If you think this technology hasn’t been around for at least 20 years or longer, you haven’t been paying attention. This does not pop up over night. This is straight from the pit of hell. Satan fell from heaven because he wanted to BE God. This gets him one step closer. Changing peoples God given gender that only God can choose is just a drop in the bucket compared to the mess this will create. You think our kids are depressed, confused, anxious and withdrawn now….you ain’t seen nothin until they can have “relationships” with computers. This is sick. And if you think poverty and unemployment is high now…you ain’t seen nothin until YOU are no longer needed to do your jobs. This brave new world needs to be flushed down the toilet. We are spoiled rotten as it is. We want convenience. Wait until no kids need to go to school anymore because the computer tells them what they need to know. No more need to be able to read or write or add. If you think this won’t dumb down generations you aren’t paying attention.
As a side note: I watch You Tube gardening clips for pointers and I’m so sick of people using AI to say instructions or explain what they are doing. Use your own damn voice for crying out loud! It’s lazy and I will delete any video with AI voice. And THAT is small potatoes (pun intended) compared to all the things Jeff has already described about the uses for AI to take over.
As someone in the tech industry I find this to also be terrifying. Not because I may lose my job. But because of how many people I know who are lonely (myself included). An AI who treats you well will be more addictive than any drug out there. I will not give up on people mainly because when I grew up interacting with people was different than interacting with technology. But the younger ones, yeah, they are going to have slim chance. I remember talking to a coworker in his 20s about it and he came right out and said a relationship with an AI is real. REAL!
My "retirement" plans are to disconnect from technology as much as I can. Grow my own food, raise my own chickens. The developments in AI are telling me I'm on the right path.
It IS terrifying. You are right about the addiction part too. Devices and technology are already addicting. As with anything, if you let it control you or your life it’s a problem. It will destroy our kids and the adults the way the they did with the covid crap. Social isolation and lack of education being front and center. This is so sad.
I'm generally not against tech, but the sudden AI fad - everywhere, all the time, with AI related stocks selling at prices WAY beyond their actual underlying value - all reeks of gov't manipulation and a new agenda being rolled out. Humanity is not ready for this.
I mean, fads are a long-standing thing even without government intervention - Tulip Mania comes to mind - so I would like to see more evidence before drawing that conclusion. There was the "dot com bubble"; more recently it was "cloud" everything, and now it's AI - there's always something to take money away from people who are confident about the "next big thing".
My current prediction would be that it will eventually burst, and the overinflated values will settle down to just what's actually concrete and useful.
I hear you, but I've come to believe we have lived in a sea of propaganda of various types for decades now. Propaganda that seems to generate and help sustain hype cycles throughout a pump-and-dump stock cycle. Of course, each cycle takes on a life of its own after the initial "push" and the market takes it over.
I just think our swamp and congress critters have turned this whole cycling process into a science that always seems to add to their power and wealth. Dot com got everyone online.
Cloud everything led to centralized data housing. More recently, DEI, "green" energy. Etc. I just don't see the markets as separate from the government's influence.
But, you could certainly be correct and I could be overextending my little thesis and be wrong about it. Or my thesis itself could be wrong.
Mmm, I don't disagree regarding propaganda. Everyone's pushing an agenda, and I'd say they're getting better at it. I just think, for AI specifically, the bubble is more organic rather than manipulated (at least by government - of course the corps selling AI want to push it to make money off it, but that's always been the case when money's involved).
This!
Yes!!!!!
You are spot on! I never even jumped into the facebook craze and won’t interact with AI. It’s another tool for Satan to get our hearts and minds diverted from Almighty God and His Word and to be brainwashed by evil. Stay strong in the Lord!
Thank you for this comment! I felt the same way. A growing nausea in the pit of my stomach. And those AI voices were like nails on a chalkboard. Sadly, so many of the comments under the video were supportive and excited about it. I don't know how we exist in a world with such diametrically opposed reactions to what I see as nothing but a sinister development.
Exactly! They aren’t even rolling it out slowly! It’s like a burst dam.
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"This AI crap needs to be shut down. Pull. The. Plug" How would you do that? Require all computers to be inspected by a government specialist who will delete any AI software? Which I suppose would require all computers to registered with the regime.
No silly. First you have to crush it in a pneumatic press. But if someone discovers any leftovers they will still be able to create it again. Then it will send one of its chatbots back in time to get you but your future self will reprogram one of them and send it back in time to protect you. Then you can try to freeze the bad one with liquid nitrogen and shoot it, but if it recombines, you will have to throw it into a vat of molten metal and then slowly lower the good one you sent back in the same vat so no one can re-construct it again. But that may only buy some time.
If I may repurpose Weird Al's "virus alert":
turn off your computer and make sure it powers down //
drop it in a 43-foot hole in the ground //
bury it completely, rocks and boulders should be fine //
then burn all the clothes you may have worn any time //
you were online....
nice rhymes
Pull the plug? You can’t even take the battery out of your phone.
Precisely; you can't. What level of complexity of machine learning algorithms counts as "AI" anyway? Image recognition? Speech-to-text? Should we also ban automated image generation, just to be safe? And to even try would be to invite more meddling in your private business.
I'm all in favor of stopping people from creating automated killer robots, but that's because of the "killing" part, not the "automated" part.
I haven't, but I'm not surprised. My experience (with text-based AI chat) is that it actually relies a lot on the human to assume the context and gloss over minor strangeness, and without that I'd expect it to rapidly devolve into nonsense.
Oh I know that statement is impossible. I should’ve included that statement. The train has already left the station and there is no going back. It’s a sad, sad time for our world.
It's Artificial Depravity.
I refuse to watch any video from anyone about anything. If I can’t read it, I don’t get bother with it. Two reasons. I’m mostly deaf. And back when I was raising a deaf son, that was the first woke brigade. Everything had to be captioned. Now no one captions anything, so that’s a deterrent right off the bat. Then to watch someone talk, is just nerve wracking. On a screen, talking at me. Nah. Books. Maybe pictures. I will watch a welding tip now and then, bou otherwise, no.
I watched a clip of Jerry Seinfeld’s speech at Duke University and IIRC he said something like ‘nothing says I can’t like AI’. It was a good bit. Now to go back and watch the whole speech.
Sunnydaze, I think you’re right about the timing. Isn’t it interesting that this is coming to the wider public NOW. Just a few months before the election, IF an election is actually conducted.
Holy moly. 2024.
“Can Existing COVID-19 Vaccines Protect You”
That’s hysterical! What a great way to start the morning. The clot shot never, ever protected anyone.
Just heard about a woman one of my friends works with who went to the ER and they found blood clots in her lungs 😕 I’m almost 100% sure she is vaxxed and possibly boosted as well. Just makes me both angry and sad. Friend isn’t connecting the dots either apparently 😕
I have a neighbor with no history of blood clotting who now has clots in his lungs. I flat out told him clots are listed side effects of these shots. He said “but my doctor didn’t say it was from my Covid shots, and I had Moderna not Pfizer”. Damn those doctors. 😑
The key is the doctors. Until they start telling the truth & taking the time to INFORM their patients on the side effects & the trial experiences ( ie the truth) of the vaccines people (children) will continue to suffer & die. Somehow we need to hold them accountable.
I want answers from American Airlines,' says mother suing carrier after her 14-year-old son died on a flight
https://www.businessinsider.com/american-airlines-facing-lawsuit-14-year-old-died-on-board-2024-5
I think she should be suing another entity too; just sayin’…
Airline at fault for the crew not knowing how to defibrillate, but the inability to resuscitate a witnessed arrest is sorta a classic. Hmmm. AA could use that as a defense , but will they? /r
They just don’t want to even consider it 😕
Amen
Dumb dumb :(
I am sorry to hear this. I’m afraid it will be common place.
I had a haircut the other day and overheard a conversation. A woman was discussing how many of her friends suddenly had cancer. She sadly didn’t connect the dots.
What’s the saying? There are none so blind as those who will not see?
Yes I agree, so many are getting these diseases and conditions and even dying but nothing to see here … 😕
Can your 3 times infected immune system protect you?
My never-infected, never-vaxxed immune system seems to be protecting me from covid just fine.
You ARE BLESSED! 2023 was first time since they unleashed it that i stayed Bat Flu Free, immune system has a 3-0 record on the Bioweapon and the sucker didn't even show up for the annual expected rematch.
That’s the way to do it! Knock it down. Every time.
my wife only got it once but had the megaladon variant or some god awful type that nearly did her in; she says her immune system is like Mike Tyson now
Biting the ear off of the Covid virus 😆😂 Glad she recovered and is doing great now 🙏
If you stay away from shedding.
Hey Dr. Linda, Dr. Denis Rancourt argues if there was ever a novel virus to begin with: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-it-does-matter
I’m familiar, thanks
Congratulations Jessica in So Cal—-a voice of reason
WOMAN of the YEAR!
If only people knew the power they have when they stand up for their beliefs.
seriously!!
Yes! What I found almost as remarkable is that there is still PE!
Is there a multiplier for Jessica's ongoing work?
If our money is just going to be endlessly shoveled into the Military Industrial Complex, can we at least just put those guys to work here? They can still gouge but at least do it domestically.
“Newly Repaired Baltimore Bridge, brought to you by Raytheon”
Lockheed Martin is proud to report they have very expensively returned clean drinking water to Flint, MI.”
That sort of thing.
"Halliburton welcomes Maui residents back into their newly built/restored homes & community."
If we had anyone in government who’d actually worked a job and had the American citizens interest at heart, this would be the direction they would choose.
"General Dynamics Corp, after extensive cleanup efforts, welcomes East Palestine, Ohio residents back into their community."
I could do this all day. 🤣
I love these!! Have them actually do something useful for a change!
Along with the other bridge that went down in TX
Wouldn’t another label for the MIC be fascism?
Just to emphasize......
Death Penalty For Child Rapists Bill Signed By Governor Bill Lee [VIDEO]
Every single person who voted against this bill was a Democrat.
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/2024/05/death-penalty-for-child-rapists-bill-signed-by-governor-bill-lee-video/
If laws like this are instituted, and used, then pedophiles will move to states without them.
Then parents will move their children to the states with those laws.--and the pedos will have created their own ghetto. What's not to love?
What a great sorting method then.
Apparently Gov. Lee is in a state where courts never make mistakes.
That is the most illogical statement I have ever heard. Tell me, do you live in NY or CA?
No.
Would you be so kind as to explain why, if courts do make mistakes, death penalty is a good idea?
Ooops...I deleted my reply by accident:
Well, you might want to consider moving there to be with more like-minded individuals.
If I have to explain it, then it's obvious you will never understand. It is your type of "logic" that leads to "Defund the Police" and court judges that release arrested murderers without bail and jail "J6 Prostesters" indefinitely without due process. But thank you for your input.
And AI can now implicate you with false data!
A skilled specialist can do the same.
AI can do this, and so can a skilled specialist human. The result is that (1) judges and juries should not accept evidence that could have been faked and (2) evidence against our opponents can also be faked.
Which I guess means "I am not capable of explaining it to someone who does not already understand it." You are most welcome.
Well, you are persistent, I'll give you that. I don't have to explain my position. You are the one who posted a comment on the news article that needed more explanation than your clever one liner, "Apparently Gov. Lee is in a state where courts never make mistakes."
But here is the short answer: The punishment should fit the crime. The old Biblical "eye for an eye" analogy of justice. Raping a small child is a capital offense.
I'll tell you what. If you can explain what your position is and why it is logical and do a good job of explaining it, then I will respond at more length.
1) it doesn’t matter who we are at war with. The ruling class doesn’t care who the enemy is, as long as we have one. Then they can tax us, skim off the top, fill their pockets, and send the fighting men elsewhere so they don’t have to worry about rebellion. They need a war so they can draft.
2) we need to be very clear that when a school settles a lawsuit…. That money comes from….. ??? Schools are generally taxpayer funded. Basically I don’t know that fines are the answer. The folks who were involved in her firing should be fired. Every. Single. Administrator. Anyone who was involved in that decision.
3) screw the covid variant names. Can you help us stay on top of where they are using mRNA? Is it flu shots yet? Our pork supply?
Thanks for all you do! I love reading these every single day!
Agreed on all points - especially number 2. I question this all the time. Unless those who made the illegal decisions have to pay, where is the justice. They are using our money to do stupid and then getting more of our money to bail themselves out. Fire them, make them pay the fines, taxpayers should not have to pay. Government at all levels is so broken. Personal responsibility needs to mean something.
Oh, money is always the answer, honey. It’s why governments get themselves out of bed every day and do anything. You’re right to call out the administrators behind these bogus actions, but they will take care of themselves after they’ve accumulated enough fines. That way, those holding their leashes don’t have to point to politics as the reason for sending these “kinder, gentler” people up the road.
"....There is no other head of state in the world..." Not even Gov DeSantis...........................................
Slovakian Prime Minister Critical of the WHO, Pharma, and C19 Shots, Shot and In Hospital
This is a major development and it has global implications. Here is a Head of State, a Prime Minister of a European country, who is openly calling out greedy pharmaceutical companies as being behind the nonsensical WHO Pandemic Treaty, as well as calling out the “scandalous consequences of mass vaccination”.
This is what he said: “One study after another confirms the scandalous consequences of mass vaccination with untested experimental vaccines.”
There is no other head of state in the world who has had the guts to say this publicly and so explicitly.
Slovakia is leading the world out of the dark ages of biological warfare by the pharmaceutical industry and globalist institutions like the WHO, in a move that is seen as completely unexpected.
This move will set off a chain reaction of events…
....It looks like the international deep state struck back:
Slovakia: PM Fico shot in 'an attack on democracy'
https://josephsansone.substack.com/p/slovakian-prime-minister-critical
I was wondering what were the implications of his getting shot, thanks.
Go to the link to see the MSM headlines and videos...........................................................
Would that our "conservative" leaders were as stalwart as PM Fico!.............................
The MSM Tries to Justify Assassination Attempt on Slovakian PM Due to His Opposition to Ukrainian Aid
PM Robert Fico was shot yesterday
....The Slovakian PM was a bit of an outcast in Western politics. He was against the Covid narrative and recently announced that he was going to investigate “politicians and their meaningless purchases of medical devices and vaccines and we reject the WHO treaty”.
In fact, only days before the assassination attempt, the Slovak Government announced that it would not support the current version of the new pandemic treaty or the draft amendments to the International Health Regulations. It would not support any documents that weakened its position as a sovereign state, declared the Health Ministry.
There has been much online speculation that these are the reasons for the attempted assassination but the most likely cause is Fico’s opposition to the Ukrainian war....
In January, Slovakia announced that it would veto Ukrainian membership to NATO. Fico’s reason for doing so was that it would mean “nothing other than a basis for World War III”...
Fico wasn’t pro-Russian but he didn’t follow the rest of the world in turning anti-Russian. He was more of a Russian pragmatist. So it comes as no surprise that the massively anti-Russian MSM almost justifies the assassination attempt due to his support for a Ukrainian peace deal.
Listen to this clip from Sky News where the commentators almost see it as natural that an assassination attempt would happen to someone who didn’t support Ukrainian aid....
...Despicable but predictable behaviour from the MSM.
https://nakedemperor.substack.com/p/the-msm-tries-to-justify-assassination
Same thoughts.
I’d be interested to see if Victoria Nuland et al are involved with this…
How should we prepare to respond to living with simulation?
Matthew 6:34 (CSB)
“Therefore don’t worry about tomorrow, because tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
It's called "borrowing trouble from the future"
worry. anxiety. fear.
Regarding the new variant,
"Not just a resemblance to the common cold. Striking resemblance. In other words, it’s just like the common cold."
If you developed a gain of function illness that attacked and destroyed the immune system, penetrated the blood brain barrier, and is continuing cause to millions going on disability, you also would promote your creation as "a common cold". The spike, in the vaccine or in the GOF illness, will and does spike. Yes, for several reasons it is worse from the vaccine, but both are far MORE than a cold or flu.
I live in a highly boosted area. So many people with “colds”, sniffling and coughing. Don’t want to catch their “cold” but, don’t want to inhale their “spike bots”, otherwise known as shedding.
Consider: "Never tiptoe through life hoping to safely make it to death." Anything you inhale can be cast out with prayer combined with fasting. It may not be wise to hide away in a corner afraid of the WHO's goblins, Jpeach. Rather, get out there and be a positive force for good. Just my 2cents.
Stumbling Toward the Light
If there is one thing I have learned over the years it is that God refines and purifies our spirits not only through great challenges but also through everyday encounters and simple moments. I got another reminder of this just the other day at the grocery store.
It was a windy, chilly, and rainy day and all I wanted to do was grab my stuff and go home. As I hurried towards the store entrance I saw a little, old lady bent with age, walking slowly in the rain with a cane in her hand. I didn’t stop to speak with her, though, but hurried on into the store. Later as I was pushing my cart quickly through the aisles I saw her again in a motorized cart slowly steering out of other people’s way. Again I ignored her and hurried on.
Thankfully, God in His infinite Love gave me a third chance. This time as I turned into the aisle with the rice I saw her again, sitting in her cart looking up sadly at the boxes she couldn’t even reach if she was standing. This time I stopped and asked if I could help her. She gave me the most beautiful smile and pointed to a box on the top shelf. I stretched up and grabbed it for her. Then we talked for a few minutes, two souls connecting in a beautiful way, until we said “goodbye” and headed for the checkout counters. As I was leaving the store I felt a sense of peace, a sense of love, and a sense of Grace I hadn’t felt all day long. I smiled and thanked God for giving me enough chances to finally get it right.
In this life we are all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of love and success at any given moment. Thankfully God keeps giving us countless opportunities to grow and learn, to be kind and loving, and to become who we truly are. May your own journey towards the light be full of faith, full of love, and full of Grace. And when you stumble like I did, may you always reach out, take God’s hand, rise up, and begin again. -Joseph J. Mazzella
I was traveling in OR and stopped at a Walmart and left my sister in the van with my four kids to run in and pick up something we needed. It was supposed to be quick. It turned into a 30 minute shopping trip during which I helped an assisted living elder with her shopping. She was so appreciative of the help because she was actually able to get everything she needed, plus simply shop, and visit with me, as well. In the meantime, my sister and kids waited and waited. My kids told my sister that I was probably helping someone on the store, which was true. Those moments are precious indeed. I helped that woman with her shopping, with her checkout, and with getting loaded back up into the assisted living bus. Thank you for bringing back those memories.
That is music to my ears, thank you for sharing, Carol!
I’m the same way! My husband knows to not expect me home in less than 3 hours when I’m out doing errands because I’m talking and helping everyone lol!!
3rd chances remind me of the day I had $4 to give to certain woman who was homeless, I didn't see her though. But as I was doing my errands I was at a major intersection waiting for the green turn light, I saw a homeless man, that I could give the money to, however being sometimes rebellious I didn't. Daddy had other ideas...I sat through 3 cycles of light changes without a green light. Then I gave the man the $4 and the light changed. I laughed. God is good.
That was an inspirational story.
“stumbling toward the light”. You put that perfectly! That is how a life touched by God’s grace is.
Appreciated your whole comment. The evil ones want us cut-off from one another and are using everything in their power to do so; from fear of viruses to A.I., or division over politics or social chaos.
They won’t win, but let’s not fall for the bait and do their work for them.
Thank you, yes they want us fearful and distrusting of one another, very much so.
Please give Joseph J. Mazzella credit for the 'Stumbling Toward the Light' story.
Regarding political divide and conquer warfare, this may interest you, Nana: https://tritorch.com/folly
Your website outlines the divide and conquer strategy very clearly. Thank you.
Always good to know the original source for things regarding that quote.
Every week when I shop I try to brighten as many peoples’ day as I can. One time I even recruited another shopper to help get a product off the top shelf - she had to be six feet tall, and was happy to help me help the woman who wanted the product. Genuine smiles all around!
Thank you for that
See, here's the thing: most people are good, and try to do good. Holding any belief other than that is a recipe for lifelong unhappiness. I refuse to accept the "but what about THIS" comments.
My mind is made up.
Eupepticism!
I used to notice that illness coincided with University holidays coming and going. Now that proms, graduation, Birthers Day, are all over so will the FLIRTy virus that is attracted to almost everyone. Reduce stress. Increase Vitamins C&D.
Is "highly boosted area" more DEMS? or GOP?
Because they may have shipped different vax to different areas.
It’s standard practice to spread out the lots to avoid clusters of illnesses. Internal Wyeth memo from 1979 at your request. Still doing it - two vax injured family had shots from same lot 200 miles apart.
WOW. Very calculating and sinister.
I live in an Uber liberal town in an uber liberal county in Uber liberal Colorado. I’ve been adhering to Dr. McCullough’s spike detox since last September when almost all of my coworkers got the magical Covid/flu shot combo…dint want them shedding their Covid Cooties all over me! They’ve taken turns coughing and wheezing and snotting and sneezing all year…they’ve wrestled with Covid and the flu and multiple colds and respiratory viruses. Me? I haven’t been sick for two years. I had one sniffle this year…lasted about 12 hours.
Wild viruses tend to degrade in lethality, so it's still possilble that it could be lab-grown and just mutated over time to the extent that it's effectively "another cold virus" now.
In any case, it wasn't "promoted" as a common cold initially, it was promoted as "OMG it's the end of the world doom is upon us we will all DIE unless we do exactly what the government says!!". It's more those on the skeptical side who are now pointing out that all these "new variants" are being talked up in news articles but on the side quietly admitting that they're actually not noticeably different from the kinds of virus that we've had with us all our lives.
They are vastly different, and long Covid and Long vaccine are not dimished.
The health sites are devolving under woke/Big Pharma pressure.
I was looking up 'BMI for male' and they're so borked. They don't even know how many genders there are, or who can have babies!
"Sex and gender exist on spectrums" https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/323446
"pregnant people" https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/9464-body-mass-index-bmi
like I'm going to take vaccine advice from these people...
Yea, “people who may become pregnant”. They literally avoid the word woman. How can anyone trust a health system that denies biology….
Like our new DEI supreme court justice, who can't define 'woman'...
We can’t!
Really!!! If he can’t tell the difference between a boy or girl infant, he ain’t getting anywhere near my body with his pharmaceuticals. They lost this customer when they decided that putting sex of infant on the birth certificate was “not useful or relevant “. (I’m quoting the AMA)
Especially since males and females have different risks for different diseases or conditions!
Bingo! And different “normal” lab values. Friend’s lung disease was overlooked despite a hemoglobin of 15.9 (high, especially for someone not living at altitude) because ya know, her lab work was all “normal.”
And no one actually examines patients anymore. Truth.
Exactly 😕
And who do you think the treatment will be geared for, if all the humans are one? Men!
And yet women are not just smaller men with a few different parts!
exactly right!
Exactly 🤬
Just one reason why I told a highly visible healthcare organization with an outpost in my area to get boosted.
👍"Get boosted." !! The new aggressive expression of irritation, replacing 'take a hike' (tame variety) or 'up yours' (coarser variety). Now why didn't I think o' that? 😉
Thanks, I’m glad you liked it! 😁 The ol’ light bulb might go off every now and then, but it takes me long enough.
Peter Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance are cut off from funding and he will be debarred
https://mailchi.mp/usrtk/organization-at-center-of-lab-leak-theory-suspended-from-federal-funds?mc_cid=fa1fd69e7a&mc_eid=885d43b06b
Finally!!, but so late. The next step needs to be criminal charges.
I agree. And what about all the funding for projects that are in motion? Eco health alliance is providing funding for Colorado State University's new bat bio lab. I think they're in the process of building it.
“teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.”
Matthew 28:20 NKJV
https://bible.com/bible/114/mat.28.20.NKJV