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FLiRT - Feeling Like I'm Really Tired..... of Covid Baloney. At least the ads they're running for shingles are moderately scary. Volcanic eruptions on your skin, agonizing pain, etc..."The shingles virus is lying dormant inside you....ALL of you...ready to attack....!" Step it up! FLirt? Might as well call it HuGS. This is embarrassing. Did they even run this by Gates? I sense a snap meeting with PDR. (Profit and Disease Relations).
(Note: Not to downplay shingles. It looks awful....although it only became a recent phenomenon AFTER the Rockefeller Experimental Disease Foundation started "tinkering" with the genome.)
Sometimes when I'm doing stuff around the house I'll put on a baseball game from the 70's or 80's (YouTube) that includes all of the commercials. Not once did Pharma remind me of how sick I was supposed to be. (Though I did get propagandized into buying an AMC Gremlin - sans mandates, strong armed coercion or threats of any kind). Glorious times, the 80's.
The fact that drugs are marketed like Laundry Detergent should make it obvious that the point is not to cure (or even treat) people but sell stuff. Drugs are poisons that if used judiciously then the benefits may outweigh the risks. But using things judiciously doesn't move product.
Was surprised to find the father of drug marketing was Raymond Sackler back in the 1950's. And yes it's the same Sackler family. He applied Edward Bernays' marketing techniques (the guy who got women hooked on cigarettes in the 1920's by marketing them as "Freedom Torches" - true story) to drugs. Just like the rest of his family he was a complete POS.
No ethics or concern for the welfare of others, just sociopathically manipulated people's emotions to make himself rich selling poison. Yet people accept this as normal rather than stringing these people up from lampposts. IMO any drug with an advertising budget or non-scientific name is almost certain to be at best a waste of money and likely harmful. Yet people hound their doctor for a prescription because the TV told them too.
We truly are a stupid country and frankly deserve God's coming punishment.
They sure do. The beauty of it is that once one is aware of it and understands it, then one becomes completely immune to it. It loses all of its power.
Bernays, Sackler, and Madison Avenue in general are contemptible.
I just hope he won't have the same fate as his uncle and father - especially since he is being denied secret service protection... yet that didn't help his uncle and father
Confession: Haven’t listened to RFK, because I’m afraid he might try to convince me to vote for him. He cannot possibly win 270 EVs. Impossible. I’m not willing to have our esteemed (insert POS) House negotiate (insert bribe, threaten, entice, offer lagniappe, or other word of your choice) the result.
Perot had huge popular support (over 20%, previously unheard of for a third party candidate). Made it on all 50 ballots. Not one electoral vote. Not a single State. And don’t forget that at least some States DO NOT have to follow their voter’s preferences.
Knowledge is power. It gives us the power to SEE clearly the lies and resist the evil. I have never been stronger or more aware than I am now. If nothing else this whole disgusting swamp of dirty roots all tied together which has come to light the last 4 years in a big way have forced many people to wake up. Hopefully they will wake up and do good things, even if it is just writing one little Substack.
I fear the average Joe is sleeping and listening to the Soros bought propaganda to see things clearly. I have a friend who tells me that he listens to all news (basically the Main Stream Media which is to say Soros propaganda) and anything I tell him about pro republican or Trump is effectively conspiracy theory.
Red/blue, Democrat/Republican, both sides of the same coin -- the coin that the global elite control. I voted for Trump in 2016, was completely dismayed in 2020, see the truth more clearly now, and am boycotting corrupt politics in 2024. If everyone refused to play the game and boycotted the election, what would happen???
Or maybe just taking responsibility for their own health: get some exercise, take a probiotic, load vitamin C and D. Just stop looking to someone else to have answers for your wellbeing.
Natural resources, valance diet and home remedies, I don’t deny that there is a big amount of good medicines, their problem is that don’t make money for them. Example ivermectin.
Absolutely. Antibiotics are a gift from God as they completely cure people from bacterial infections that used to routinely kill people. (Of course they were overused causing resistance, but that's another issue.)
But there's no money in curing people of a rare infection by taking a pill for seven days, which is why there's been no significant antibiotic development in decades. The money is in "treating" people for life for alleged maladies (e.g. statins for high cholesterol) or in drugs that everyone must take for them to supposedly work (vaccines).
Better than antibiotics are many herbal tinctures and other plant medicines that treat with far fewer side effects.
Also better - usually - are homeopathic medicines that don’t obliterate gut microbiome along with the unwanted bacteria. In fact, MOST bacterial infections are just overgrowth of normal flora. Yep. True. And if you kill them, other bacteria arrive to take their place.
And how about the terrain theory which posits that most infections are the result of host susceptibility more than presence of the bug.
I hear you, but when someone has a life-threatening infection time is critical. Antibiotics cure them within days regardless of how they got there (poor terrain or not). They truly are a modern miracle.
The problem, as with everything drug related, is that zero discretion was exercised and they were handed out like candy, added to livestock feed, and all sorts of other foolish things.
I delivered food to a house bound Senior,94, the other day. She invited me in and we talked a long time. She’s hooked up to oxygen. Told me she had a heart issue and the meds they put her on destroyed her lungs. It’s all so evil. She is healthy otherwise and sharp as a tack!
While it is difficult not to use them sometimes, multiple cancer books site an inverse relationship between how many antibiotics you have taken in your life to longevity.
Yep. Notice that during the decades that the villain Fauci was responsible for "public health", chronic illness SKY ROCKETED. Chronic illness is big business.
I wish RFK Jr runs successfully again in 2028, he will take care of that. I don't think that Trump cares about all this stuff. We need Trump now, but I am willing to give Kennedy a shot in 4 years to see; it can't be any worse than any demoncrat who will inevitably come in again otherwise.
Kennedy is a far left Democrat. Check out his positions on his website. He even supports reparations. If you are truly conservative, you'll likely find that the only common ground you share with Kennedy is a disdain for vaccines.
Yes, it's difficult to watch our country in decline. When even Victor Davis Hanson (brilliant historian) sees the end coming, it's best to wake up and pay attention.
Okay, no way this one is lasting much longer, that is blatantly obvious.
That is why we are using Ukraine, out of our desperation for hegemony..it is the pathetic, sinful, desperation of evil neocon minds. We could have negotiated peace and then we would have commanded respect, but no, we prefer the position of bully.
And those who are bullied into following us out of fear will one day revolt.
100% correct. We could have had Russia as an ally but the neocons chose to make her an enemy and longed for her destruction. And our endless wars have made us despised by the whole world now. We are bullies and what we are doing in Gaza is disgusting. But the whole world sees.
Catastrophes occur every 138 years. The next reset event is predicted for 2040. See Archaix.com on YouTube for chronological details and books and 100s of video backup.
had Brandon and his cronies not put such a stranglehold on the Democratic Party RFK should have logically run as a democrat. Unfortunately that is not the case. Lets see if they will release it after this election
Oh my . I have a laminated poster from 30's? Has a female on it and the slogan about doctors recommending light cigarettes for health. It was in a family trunk.
The whole Torches of Freedom campaign was tied to woman's suffrage in the 1920's. Women rarely smoked and the cigarette makers saw that as a missed opportunity. Bernays' campaign was to associate cigarettes with women's freedom and liberation and the push for voting rights. It worked as women took up smoking in huge numbers to show their "independence".
One of the most cynical and manipulative marketing campaigns in history was a huge success. Most men already had the disgusting, unhealthy, and addictive habit, and Bernays figured out how to manipulate women and toy with their emotions to get them hooked too.
Now his methods are taught in universities as a noble profession. In a just country he would have been thrown in jail and discredited for life.
Not so subtle connection to weight control. Historically used as an excuse to smoke - “But, but I’ll gain weight!” Until you wish you could…just sayin’.
Unfortunately not, I spent 15 years in Europe. Pharma commercials are all over the TV. Although they do have to list all the possible side effects and to listen to 3 minutes of the fastest speech rambling in foreign languages is somewhat humorous. I am old enough to remember them not being allowed to promote them in the good old USA!
And when the cereal companies got hammered by consumers for all the preservatives they simply took them out of the cereal and put them in the packaging. And they looked benevolent.....WIN WIN for the company.
When Prime wanted an additional $3/month to keep ads off of movies, I cancelled. They keep trying to get me back, touting the free shipping, blahblahblah. It's been 5 months and I STILL have not paid shipping with $35 or more purchased. Keep your ads, Bezos!
Ozempic falls into this category. I know of 2 people who are having horrible gastroparesis from taking this. Dr. Carolyn Swain (former professor from Vanderbilt) posted on her Twitter account that she ended up in the hospital after she was put on this medication.The way the drug works is that it literally stops your stomach from working which makes you full. Doctors are just automatically putting people on this drug if you have diabetes or you are overweight. Literally, the manufacturers are having difficulty making the pills fast enough. Doctors no longer suggest you change your eating habits and exercise. They automatically put you on a pill and never tell you the potentially life threatening side effects.
My doctor asked me yesterday if I had heard the ads /looked into using Ozempic for weight loss. I told him that losing weight would happen if I stopped stuffing my face with more calories than I needed in a given day and I had to learn to control myself. Also I thought it was wrong to use this medicine when I would just have to be on it for life to keep the weight from being eaten back on. I'm not diabetic, I just have poor impulse control and I like to cook. I was taken aback that he would even bring it up...
I guess they want as many people on Ozempic as statins.Glad you stuck up for yourself. Some people would have just said, "Is it covered by my insurance." By the way, it costs a fortune. It's a gold mine for the Pharma companies. My husband finally decided he had enough of being obese and he started Keto. He did strict Keto/no carbs for the first 3 weeks and lost 30 pounds. Retraining your body to burn stored fat rather than living off carbs is the key. You also have to drink lots of water and cut the carbonated soft drinks full of sugar. I also love food and I love to cook and have to watch myself. I can easily indulge especially on dark chocolate or chips.
Heh. My Optometrist and his wife are currently taking Ozempic, because “I’m a Diabetic!” They have both become addicted to “losing weight”. This does not bode well.
A formerly obese friend has been on Ozempic for about 9 months. She has lost a lot of weight but still continues to eat as much of whatever she craves. I fear she will never go off of it.
While I agree there's a money making aspect to the bevy of bogus big pharma adverts, I think it's more about having financial control of the networks. Negative commentary, and your millions in ad revenue go poof! It's just another means of controlling the narative.
Lol lol I know I'm terrible, but as a community pharmacist, I've resorted to recommending whatever OTC product is being advertised the most when asked for cough and cold remedies. Because I've recommended the BEST symptom-relievers for years, but almost invariably they come back to me with a package of "product x", asking well what about this?
I'm just like "use whatever you want".
Oh and BTW they didn't listen to me about the jabs either. . .
Disease marketing is ludicrous, and the impact is as lethal if not worse than tobacco ads. So what prevents luring little vax consumers to viral brands of breakfast cereal? “Wake up to genetically fortified Corn Pops, your president’s favorite cartoon character. Now with reduced symptoms.”
" Yet people accept this as normal rather than stringing these people up from lampposts". Lamppost Stringing...sadly, a form of entertainment that has fallen out of favour. I think it's time it's brought back? What about you?
Some people are stupid in our country and most people, worldwide, are completely brainwashed. And, The Medical Mafia, The Technocracy and Big Agra are all responsible.
Highly recommended: Painkiller - Netflix 6-part series about Sackler family 👍👍👍👍👍.
What's really maddening is that the increase in shingles in adults was caused by the chicken pox vaccine introduced twenty five years ago.
Adults used to be exposed to chicken pox routinely as it was a normal childhood illness (I had as did probably most here). This would periodically boost the immune system of adults which kept shingles at bay. When the chicken pox vaccine was first introduced many people in the US warned this would happen but were ignored. In Britain the vax was delayed for many years because of this concern.
Then look at how the chicken pox vax was marketed. Everyone knew chicken pox was harmless in kids as we all had it and were fine. So they marketed it directly at working parents saying the vax would prevent the inconvenience of taking time off work to care for a sick kid. That powerpoint isn't going to prepare itself after all.
After that, Pharma got it added to school requirements in most (if not all) states so all kids get the vax and people have forgotten just how harmless the disease was. The consequence being that now adults get shingles. But there's a vax for that, (not) coincidentally made by the same people that make the chicken pox vax.
Very true. Resistance to shingles wanes over time, and it’s the exposure to children with chickenpox, usually for most a harmless inconvenience, that acts as an immune booster. I dug into the details of the FDA approval of the first shingles vaccine. They cited a fifty percent reduction in recurrence over a four-year period. Of course, that’s the relative risk reduction trick. In absolute risk reduction terms, one in approximately 159 people would get that fifty percent reduction.
The relative vs absolute risk thing is about as basic as it gets, but most people still don't know any better. Basic statistical literacy should be a required for high school graduation IMO. But the system likes them foolish and easily swayed by emotion.
They really abused this on statins, the Number Needed to Treat (NNT) was in the hundreds IIRC.
Yup no more natural boosting to our immune system. Funny that. Vaccines destroy and cause havoc all over our health status. I’m never getting the shingles shot. My hubs had shingles before the 2 shot one in 2021. He was extremely miserable but then he eats junk and lots of PUFAS. He did eventually get them. He also spends too much time in a darkened room on the computer. His D level is minimal and barely over the minimum level. l I try to get him to change but not very successful.
Interestingly enough I got them after being in a room full of special needs adults who I can guarantee are 95% all vaxxed and boosted. There were about 75 of them. Wierd? YUP!
I take all natural and organic elderberry immune booster from time to time. I upped the dosage and times per day. I got them in my mouth! Ugh. 😩 Had nerve pain in my head that made me appear to have Tourette’s every time the stabbing pain happened. My special needs daughter can now imitate my nerve pain stabs. 😂 The sores in my mouth opened and healed up. The two on my face never opened. The worst lasted maybe a week although I was told I was contagious for a lot longer. Overall, the nerve pain was the worst. I did take an anti-viral right away, for 5 days as I had someone with cancer coming from out of state to stay with us and needed it to go away quickly. Why didn’t I get it horrible like others? Good immune system? Catching it early? Probably both. Really only been sick once this past 4 years. What I can say is that my bout was very minor. Those getting it super bad now are fully jabbed and boosted. I laugh when I hear a radio commercial trying to play scary music to make us scared of the shingles killer and manipulate everyone to get the shot. 🤦🏼♀️ NOPE. Liars.
Never took a shingles shot and know for sure because I didn’t take their covid crap shot I lived to tell about the killer shingles. 😱
I think we are being lied to about the common severity of shingles. Not saying it can’t be serious but my unvaxxed not-on-any-medications mid-70s mom got it (shortly after my sister who lived with her got the Covid shot 😑). She had a small rash and was tired for a few days.
Totally different geographical area, time frame and social circle, my also unvaxxed, not on-any-medications, mid 70s mother in law got shingles, had a small rash, and felt tired and achy for about a week.
Both were doctor diagnosed with shingles.
Soooo…? Not seeing the need for a vaccine in either of their cases. I’m wondering if shingles is actually most severe in people with serious pre-existing conditions and on medications.
I’ll take my chances since I will never take any of their killer jabs. I talked to a gal at the TSC store today who is fully in our camp. Her workmate also. Encouraging.
All the adults I know with chronic shingles are fully jabbed and boosted. None of them will,listen when I suggest that Ivermectin could help and they have all had the agonising nerve pain for over a year. These are good, kind, trusting people who believe everything the medical profession tells them. It breaks my heart
It is heartbreaking isn't it? I was overly broad in my original comment that we are a stupid country. I didn't really mean that the people are stupid but that a system that allows sociopaths to take advantage of trusting people is stupid. Yet that is exactly what we have allowed, and God will judge us for it.
Yep, started early, stops shingles in its tracks…well, at least in the immunocompetent. Probably helps prevent the disabling post-shingles neuropathy too.
What were the anti-virals you took so I can make sure I have some on hand just in case. I do have quercitin on hand from the C but not sure if it's an anti-viral. Kept me from catching anything. Thsnks
Ivermectin is supposed to work, too. I found a pre-COVID paper that listed a bunch of viruses that ivermectin is effective on. Chicken pox / Shingles was on that list.
Shingles IS awful! I had Chicken Pox in grade school - that was nothing! Shingles pain is intense. The doctor I saw told me the the infection resides in the sheath of the nerves. It propagates from the point of infection back to the spine. If you get the infection in your eye, the boils will cover your skin from that eye back to the back of your neck at the top of the your spine. If you get infected somewhere on your foot or leg, the boils break out from that point on your skin to your back at the bottom of your spine. Meanwhile, the infected nerve is stinging with intense pain. I was able to sleep, but not well. Eventually I slept, but only because I was so tired.
I recommend avoiding the Shingles vaccine - it will give you Shingles.
After the Shingrix "vaccination" and my bad reaction to it in late 2019, I decided to not get any more "vaccinations" without thorough investigation. Just in time to refuse the Wuhan Red Death shot.
OMGosh......I OWNED A GREMLIN!!!! $1600. It was green, no carpet, no A/C, no radio. A friend of mine installed an 8-track player on the hump in the front. I could release a latch and remove it....so nobody would steal it.....like anyone would. ROFL
Shingles is no fun though. My Mom used to get them once or twice a year when I was a kid. I remember that sometimes they were so bad she could do anything for a day or two. She would just go in her room and suffer.
Are they trying to say, Flirt with Death? Don’t take the shot and you’re flirting with death? Or subliminally, Do take the shot and Flirt with Death Anyway.
I actually owned an AMC Gremlin back in the day. Bright yellow. Weird little car!
And I had shingles a couple of years ago and it's no fun at all. Not being jabbed, I may have gotten shed upon in some public place, or maybe it really was the chickenpox I had when I was eight. Antivirals and sunburn lotion (stored in the fridge) got me through it. Then a Dr scared me into taking Gabapentin to prevent possible post-herpatic nerve pain - big mistake! Horrible side effects, and two years later my urine still tests positive for it - it concentrates in fatty tissue and takes a long long time to clear.
Shingles became common only after the chicken pox vaccine was introduced…turns out kids getting chicken pox actually helps grandma not get shingles. Who knew? 🤦🏻♀️
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.
FLiRT - Feeling Like I'm Really Tired..... of Covid Baloney. At least the ads they're running for shingles are moderately scary. Volcanic eruptions on your skin, agonizing pain, etc..."The shingles virus is lying dormant inside you....ALL of you...ready to attack....!" Step it up! FLirt? Might as well call it HuGS. This is embarrassing. Did they even run this by Gates? I sense a snap meeting with PDR. (Profit and Disease Relations).
(Note: Not to downplay shingles. It looks awful....although it only became a recent phenomenon AFTER the Rockefeller Experimental Disease Foundation started "tinkering" with the genome.)
Sometimes when I'm doing stuff around the house I'll put on a baseball game from the 70's or 80's (YouTube) that includes all of the commercials. Not once did Pharma remind me of how sick I was supposed to be. (Though I did get propagandized into buying an AMC Gremlin - sans mandates, strong armed coercion or threats of any kind). Glorious times, the 80's.
The fact that drugs are marketed like Laundry Detergent should make it obvious that the point is not to cure (or even treat) people but sell stuff. Drugs are poisons that if used judiciously then the benefits may outweigh the risks. But using things judiciously doesn't move product.
Was surprised to find the father of drug marketing was Raymond Sackler back in the 1950's. And yes it's the same Sackler family. He applied Edward Bernays' marketing techniques (the guy who got women hooked on cigarettes in the 1920's by marketing them as "Freedom Torches" - true story) to drugs. Just like the rest of his family he was a complete POS.
No ethics or concern for the welfare of others, just sociopathically manipulated people's emotions to make himself rich selling poison. Yet people accept this as normal rather than stringing these people up from lampposts. IMO any drug with an advertising budget or non-scientific name is almost certain to be at best a waste of money and likely harmful. Yet people hound their doctor for a prescription because the TV told them too.
We truly are a stupid country and frankly deserve God's coming punishment.
Jeff you’re spot on with the idea of laundry chemicals being used as medicine. You’re spot on again calling out Bernays! Corporations nowadays use his tactics on us daily: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/how-corporations-influence-you-and
Regarding medicine, I think it’s time for an overhaul. The pandemic opened our eyes to how corrupt medicine is and it’s time for a makeover: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/reimagining-medicine
They sure do. The beauty of it is that once one is aware of it and understands it, then one becomes completely immune to it. It loses all of its power.
Bernays, Sackler, and Madison Avenue in general are contemptible.
FACT: most of the FDA 's budget comes from the Pharmaceutical companies!
RFKJR has SUED all these now corrupted bureaucratic agencies!
Here is what he has to say.
(I am not advocating to vote for him, but I have learned so much about what is really going on in this country from him. )
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7A4i-WLxVJ/?igsh=MTZscTV4eTVwaG1ydw==
One of his young interviewers asks him: "Are you not nervous about speaking about your country like this? "
His response is ""What's the purpose of us being here?"
I just hope he won't have the same fate as his uncle and father - especially since he is being denied secret service protection... yet that didn't help his uncle and father
Confession: Haven’t listened to RFK, because I’m afraid he might try to convince me to vote for him. He cannot possibly win 270 EVs. Impossible. I’m not willing to have our esteemed (insert POS) House negotiate (insert bribe, threaten, entice, offer lagniappe, or other word of your choice) the result.
I get it. I listened to him *before* his run and continue to learn things.
I do love his integrity and statesman style.
Perot had huge popular support (over 20%, previously unheard of for a third party candidate). Made it on all 50 ballots. Not one electoral vote. Not a single State. And don’t forget that at least some States DO NOT have to follow their voter’s preferences.
Knowledge is power. It gives us the power to SEE clearly the lies and resist the evil. I have never been stronger or more aware than I am now. If nothing else this whole disgusting swamp of dirty roots all tied together which has come to light the last 4 years in a big way have forced many people to wake up. Hopefully they will wake up and do good things, even if it is just writing one little Substack.
That's one good thing that happened with COVID. People were awakened to the propaganda and the lies and the corruption.
I fear the average Joe is sleeping and listening to the Soros bought propaganda to see things clearly. I have a friend who tells me that he listens to all news (basically the Main Stream Media which is to say Soros propaganda) and anything I tell him about pro republican or Trump is effectively conspiracy theory.
I think more and more truth will be coming out and there will be no place to hide. Time to pick a side and there are only two!
Sadly, not uncommon. "I trust the legacy media," say the most ignorant people. Amazing.
Red/blue, Democrat/Republican, both sides of the same coin -- the coin that the global elite control. I voted for Trump in 2016, was completely dismayed in 2020, see the truth more clearly now, and am boycotting corrupt politics in 2024. If everyone refused to play the game and boycotted the election, what would happen???
Or maybe just taking responsibility for their own health: get some exercise, take a probiotic, load vitamin C and D. Just stop looking to someone else to have answers for your wellbeing.
Yes!
The door has always been open for us
Natural resources, valance diet and home remedies, I don’t deny that there is a big amount of good medicines, their problem is that don’t make money for them. Example ivermectin.
Absolutely. Antibiotics are a gift from God as they completely cure people from bacterial infections that used to routinely kill people. (Of course they were overused causing resistance, but that's another issue.)
But there's no money in curing people of a rare infection by taking a pill for seven days, which is why there's been no significant antibiotic development in decades. The money is in "treating" people for life for alleged maladies (e.g. statins for high cholesterol) or in drugs that everyone must take for them to supposedly work (vaccines).
Better than antibiotics are many herbal tinctures and other plant medicines that treat with far fewer side effects.
Also better - usually - are homeopathic medicines that don’t obliterate gut microbiome along with the unwanted bacteria. In fact, MOST bacterial infections are just overgrowth of normal flora. Yep. True. And if you kill them, other bacteria arrive to take their place.
And how about the terrain theory which posits that most infections are the result of host susceptibility more than presence of the bug.
I hear you, but when someone has a life-threatening infection time is critical. Antibiotics cure them within days regardless of how they got there (poor terrain or not). They truly are a modern miracle.
The problem, as with everything drug related, is that zero discretion was exercised and they were handed out like candy, added to livestock feed, and all sorts of other foolish things.
I delivered food to a house bound Senior,94, the other day. She invited me in and we talked a long time. She’s hooked up to oxygen. Told me she had a heart issue and the meds they put her on destroyed her lungs. It’s all so evil. She is healthy otherwise and sharp as a tack!
While it is difficult not to use them sometimes, multiple cancer books site an inverse relationship between how many antibiotics you have taken in your life to longevity.
Yep. Notice that during the decades that the villain Fauci was responsible for "public health", chronic illness SKY ROCKETED. Chronic illness is big business.
Exactly.
I wish RFK Jr runs successfully again in 2028, he will take care of that. I don't think that Trump cares about all this stuff. We need Trump now, but I am willing to give Kennedy a shot in 4 years to see; it can't be any worse than any demoncrat who will inevitably come in again otherwise.
Kennedy is a far left Democrat. Check out his positions on his website. He even supports reparations. If you are truly conservative, you'll likely find that the only common ground you share with Kennedy is a disdain for vaccines.
And some other interesting ideas which may or may not be positive, but one thing I know, this country is in bad shape all around. 🤔 Just saying. https://www.usatoday.com/elections/voter-guide/2024-11-05/candidate/robert-f-kennedy
Yes, it's difficult to watch our country in decline. When even Victor Davis Hanson (brilliant historian) sees the end coming, it's best to wake up and pay attention.
Having trouble posting and deleting.
Hope we have 4 years. Supposedly, Empires and nations usually only last around 250 years. US is 248 years old.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/mqgm9s/the_average_age_of_empires_is_250_years_or_10/
Byzantine Empire: 1000 years!
Ottoman Empire: 800 years!
Okay, no way this one is lasting much longer, that is blatantly obvious.
That is why we are using Ukraine, out of our desperation for hegemony..it is the pathetic, sinful, desperation of evil neocon minds. We could have negotiated peace and then we would have commanded respect, but no, we prefer the position of bully.
And those who are bullied into following us out of fear will one day revolt.
Another biggy is that "they" want to push the whole world into "Nationless" and "Borderless".
Maybe that is why Europe now has around 49 million Muslims?
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/241278288_Muslim_Population_in_Europe_1950_-_2020#:~:text=The%20presented%20data%20show%20that,total%20of%20about%2049%20million
20 million Biden's Walk-Ins ?
https://vdare.com/posts/biden-enfranchising-11-million-20-million-or-thirty-million-illegals-we-need-to-know
100% correct. We could have had Russia as an ally but the neocons chose to make her an enemy and longed for her destruction. And our endless wars have made us despised by the whole world now. We are bullies and what we are doing in Gaza is disgusting. But the whole world sees.
Catastrophes occur every 138 years. The next reset event is predicted for 2040. See Archaix.com on YouTube for chronological details and books and 100s of video backup.
I decided today to vote for someone denied the ability to be in the debates.
They are scared of RFKjr
They should be, he knows where the bodies are.
Zero path to 270, just sayin’ again. You want the House to negotiate??? Think, man! (or woman 😁)
Not that I trust polls, but isn’t the bar set at 15%? Perot had over 20%. Not one single electoral vote… Zero path to 270.
had Brandon and his cronies not put such a stranglehold on the Democratic Party RFK should have logically run as a democrat. Unfortunately that is not the case. Lets see if they will release it after this election
How can we fix our own country while eliminating genocide in the Middle East? All candidates seem to ignore. Am I mistaken?
Are you aware that Bernay's book, named Propaganda, was about advertising?
Oh my . I have a laminated poster from 30's? Has a female on it and the slogan about doctors recommending light cigarettes for health. It was in a family trunk.
The whole Torches of Freedom campaign was tied to woman's suffrage in the 1920's. Women rarely smoked and the cigarette makers saw that as a missed opportunity. Bernays' campaign was to associate cigarettes with women's freedom and liberation and the push for voting rights. It worked as women took up smoking in huge numbers to show their "independence".
One of the most cynical and manipulative marketing campaigns in history was a huge success. Most men already had the disgusting, unhealthy, and addictive habit, and Bernays figured out how to manipulate women and toy with their emotions to get them hooked too.
Now his methods are taught in universities as a noble profession. In a just country he would have been thrown in jail and discredited for life.
Virginia Slims anyone? 😑
“You’ve come a long way, baby”
Yes you now can be equally at risk of cancer and emphysema as men are!! Such progress! /s
Not so subtle connection to weight control. Historically used as an excuse to smoke - “But, but I’ll gain weight!” Until you wish you could…just sayin’.
Oh yes good point. And the more slender cigarettes also seemed more “feminine” i guess 😕
Steve Martin commented on Virginia Slims cigarettes back in the 70’s in one of his comedy routines. He asked if they had little breasts on them.
🤣😆
Exactly!
A treasure! Hold on to it!
they used to be a slogan "more doctors smoke Camels than any other cigarette
Wow.
Extraordinary documentary (Part 1) focusing on Ed Bernays: The Century of the Self.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
You can check this, but I believe that New Zealand and the U.S. are the only countries allowed to advertise pharmaceuticals to consumers.
And boy is it pathetic! That is the only kind of commercial I see anymore..all those happy, lovely people enjoying life and 'health'! 🙄😡
There's a medical ad on the radio that says.... "You can trust Big Lou, he's on meds too." It makes me yell F YOU at the radio every time I hear it...
Yes!
YES!! 😆 I have heard it!!!!
Yep - and then the version about the current trophy wife....
Its amazing what make-up can do to appearances........
Unfortunately not, I spent 15 years in Europe. Pharma commercials are all over the TV. Although they do have to list all the possible side effects and to listen to 3 minutes of the fastest speech rambling in foreign languages is somewhat humorous. I am old enough to remember them not being allowed to promote them in the good old USA!
I stand corrected.😔
Seems to me like the 80’s had a lot of cereal commercials. But that was also poison, so … 🤔
I long for the simpler times.
hey Mikey, he likes it!
Agree!
And when the cereal companies got hammered by consumers for all the preservatives they simply took them out of the cereal and put them in the packaging. And they looked benevolent.....WIN WIN for the company.
When Prime wanted an additional $3/month to keep ads off of movies, I cancelled. They keep trying to get me back, touting the free shipping, blahblahblah. It's been 5 months and I STILL have not paid shipping with $35 or more purchased. Keep your ads, Bezos!
Really?!? I thought they were only allowed to advertise OTC
Hmmm … I guess that is possible, but it didn’t seem like it was for regular meds. 🤔
You lived there so you would know. I had no idea they were peddling scrips
Seriously? Then you have to let Google know.
True
We need to apply Edward Bernays' marketing techniques for our side.
With a dash of Alinsky.
Ozempic falls into this category. I know of 2 people who are having horrible gastroparesis from taking this. Dr. Carolyn Swain (former professor from Vanderbilt) posted on her Twitter account that she ended up in the hospital after she was put on this medication.The way the drug works is that it literally stops your stomach from working which makes you full. Doctors are just automatically putting people on this drug if you have diabetes or you are overweight. Literally, the manufacturers are having difficulty making the pills fast enough. Doctors no longer suggest you change your eating habits and exercise. They automatically put you on a pill and never tell you the potentially life threatening side effects.
My doctor asked me yesterday if I had heard the ads /looked into using Ozempic for weight loss. I told him that losing weight would happen if I stopped stuffing my face with more calories than I needed in a given day and I had to learn to control myself. Also I thought it was wrong to use this medicine when I would just have to be on it for life to keep the weight from being eaten back on. I'm not diabetic, I just have poor impulse control and I like to cook. I was taken aback that he would even bring it up...
I guess they want as many people on Ozempic as statins.Glad you stuck up for yourself. Some people would have just said, "Is it covered by my insurance." By the way, it costs a fortune. It's a gold mine for the Pharma companies. My husband finally decided he had enough of being obese and he started Keto. He did strict Keto/no carbs for the first 3 weeks and lost 30 pounds. Retraining your body to burn stored fat rather than living off carbs is the key. You also have to drink lots of water and cut the carbonated soft drinks full of sugar. I also love food and I love to cook and have to watch myself. I can easily indulge especially on dark chocolate or chips.
Well this was after he recognized that I had lost weight (because I had been working on making better choices).
Great 👏 👏 👏. I need to do better. Some days are better than others with me.
Heh. My Optometrist and his wife are currently taking Ozempic, because “I’m a Diabetic!” They have both become addicted to “losing weight”. This does not bode well.
A formerly obese friend has been on Ozempic for about 9 months. She has lost a lot of weight but still continues to eat as much of whatever she craves. I fear she will never go off of it.
Yep
While I agree there's a money making aspect to the bevy of bogus big pharma adverts, I think it's more about having financial control of the networks. Negative commentary, and your millions in ad revenue go poof! It's just another means of controlling the narative.
Lol lol I know I'm terrible, but as a community pharmacist, I've resorted to recommending whatever OTC product is being advertised the most when asked for cough and cold remedies. Because I've recommended the BEST symptom-relievers for years, but almost invariably they come back to me with a package of "product x", asking well what about this?
I'm just like "use whatever you want".
Oh and BTW they didn't listen to me about the jabs either. . .
“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good.”
Psalm 14:1
There used to be a law that American citizens could not be propagandized. Obama made it go away. We need to bring it back.
Agree
Yup, the HULU series “Dope Sick” was extremely telling and the Sackler family had no mercy 🤑
Disease marketing is ludicrous, and the impact is as lethal if not worse than tobacco ads. So what prevents luring little vax consumers to viral brands of breakfast cereal? “Wake up to genetically fortified Corn Pops, your president’s favorite cartoon character. Now with reduced symptoms.”
Jeff watch the 6 part docudrama “Painkiller” about the Sackler family role in creating the OxyContin epidemic. Generations of evil Sackler.
Also the HULU series “Dope Sick”!!!!🤑🤢
" Yet people accept this as normal rather than stringing these people up from lampposts". Lamppost Stringing...sadly, a form of entertainment that has fallen out of favour. I think it's time it's brought back? What about you?
I'm sure the comment above will get me added to some List.
“We truly are a stupid country and frankly deserve God's coming punishment.”
Yes
Right on target Jeff C.
Some people are stupid in our country and most people, worldwide, are completely brainwashed. And, The Medical Mafia, The Technocracy and Big Agra are all responsible.
Highly recommended: Painkiller - Netflix 6-part series about Sackler family 👍👍👍👍👍.
Yeah! Deep jazzy voice over, “Shingles don’t care”. Give me a break. Our PHARMA overlords sure do care about something. Begins with M and ends with Y.
What's really maddening is that the increase in shingles in adults was caused by the chicken pox vaccine introduced twenty five years ago.
Adults used to be exposed to chicken pox routinely as it was a normal childhood illness (I had as did probably most here). This would periodically boost the immune system of adults which kept shingles at bay. When the chicken pox vaccine was first introduced many people in the US warned this would happen but were ignored. In Britain the vax was delayed for many years because of this concern.
Then look at how the chicken pox vax was marketed. Everyone knew chicken pox was harmless in kids as we all had it and were fine. So they marketed it directly at working parents saying the vax would prevent the inconvenience of taking time off work to care for a sick kid. That powerpoint isn't going to prepare itself after all.
After that, Pharma got it added to school requirements in most (if not all) states so all kids get the vax and people have forgotten just how harmless the disease was. The consequence being that now adults get shingles. But there's a vax for that, (not) coincidentally made by the same people that make the chicken pox vax.
Very true. Resistance to shingles wanes over time, and it’s the exposure to children with chickenpox, usually for most a harmless inconvenience, that acts as an immune booster. I dug into the details of the FDA approval of the first shingles vaccine. They cited a fifty percent reduction in recurrence over a four-year period. Of course, that’s the relative risk reduction trick. In absolute risk reduction terms, one in approximately 159 people would get that fifty percent reduction.
The relative vs absolute risk thing is about as basic as it gets, but most people still don't know any better. Basic statistical literacy should be a required for high school graduation IMO. But the system likes them foolish and easily swayed by emotion.
They really abused this on statins, the Number Needed to Treat (NNT) was in the hundreds IIRC.
Yup no more natural boosting to our immune system. Funny that. Vaccines destroy and cause havoc all over our health status. I’m never getting the shingles shot. My hubs had shingles before the 2 shot one in 2021. He was extremely miserable but then he eats junk and lots of PUFAS. He did eventually get them. He also spends too much time in a darkened room on the computer. His D level is minimal and barely over the minimum level. l I try to get him to change but not very successful.
I won’t get that shot either! I have a lot I made ready when supplements and ointments just in case.
And the chicken pox shot is one of the very worst. Made with aborted baby's cells.
Love that mute button!! But it wasn’t until I had that catchy “lowering my A1C” song stuck in my head!! Never learned the dance moves.
“The little pill with a big story to tell”. I have to mute the volume or change the channel to avoid getting that disgusting ditty stuck in my head.
💯%!!
So I just got over shingles. 🙄
Interestingly enough I got them after being in a room full of special needs adults who I can guarantee are 95% all vaxxed and boosted. There were about 75 of them. Wierd? YUP!
I take all natural and organic elderberry immune booster from time to time. I upped the dosage and times per day. I got them in my mouth! Ugh. 😩 Had nerve pain in my head that made me appear to have Tourette’s every time the stabbing pain happened. My special needs daughter can now imitate my nerve pain stabs. 😂 The sores in my mouth opened and healed up. The two on my face never opened. The worst lasted maybe a week although I was told I was contagious for a lot longer. Overall, the nerve pain was the worst. I did take an anti-viral right away, for 5 days as I had someone with cancer coming from out of state to stay with us and needed it to go away quickly. Why didn’t I get it horrible like others? Good immune system? Catching it early? Probably both. Really only been sick once this past 4 years. What I can say is that my bout was very minor. Those getting it super bad now are fully jabbed and boosted. I laugh when I hear a radio commercial trying to play scary music to make us scared of the shingles killer and manipulate everyone to get the shot. 🤦🏼♀️ NOPE. Liars.
Never took a shingles shot and know for sure because I didn’t take their covid crap shot I lived to tell about the killer shingles. 😱
I think we are being lied to about the common severity of shingles. Not saying it can’t be serious but my unvaxxed not-on-any-medications mid-70s mom got it (shortly after my sister who lived with her got the Covid shot 😑). She had a small rash and was tired for a few days.
Totally different geographical area, time frame and social circle, my also unvaxxed, not on-any-medications, mid 70s mother in law got shingles, had a small rash, and felt tired and achy for about a week.
Both were doctor diagnosed with shingles.
Soooo…? Not seeing the need for a vaccine in either of their cases. I’m wondering if shingles is actually most severe in people with serious pre-existing conditions and on medications.
I’ll take my chances since I will never take any of their killer jabs. I talked to a gal at the TSC store today who is fully in our camp. Her workmate also. Encouraging.
All the adults I know with chronic shingles are fully jabbed and boosted. None of them will,listen when I suggest that Ivermectin could help and they have all had the agonising nerve pain for over a year. These are good, kind, trusting people who believe everything the medical profession tells them. It breaks my heart
It is heartbreaking isn't it? I was overly broad in my original comment that we are a stupid country. I didn't really mean that the people are stupid but that a system that allows sociopaths to take advantage of trusting people is stupid. Yet that is exactly what we have allowed, and God will judge us for it.
Lol! That was the only one I thought had some creativity atleast!!
Ok. I see it. From couples looking at the sunset in separate bathtubs, to jazzy. I suppose that is progress. 🤣🤣🤣🤔🤷🏼♀️
🎯🎯🎯
From Covid to HiV, we’re tried of all these viral diseases that Fauci keeps cooking up: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/why-it-does-matter
Is that what the shingles commercial really says? Ready to attack? LOL! I mute every commercial and walk away so I never hear them.
" Going on vacation? Shingles don't care"!!!
(and a postscript of a possible side effect of the vaxx actually being shingles, among other unfortunate health consequences).
So shingles identifies as “they/them” apparently? 😆😑
Lol. Speaking of that, I wrote to the WH about that WHO treaty, and the form asks what your 'preferred pronoun is'! 😡😡😡
Am I dreaming? The lunatics have been left out of the asylum to wreak their insanity everywhere!
THIS is yet another sign of the empire's demise.
You should’ve put something like “Biden is a brain dead turnip” for the pronouns question 😆😬
I would love to insert any number of things but usually these are dropdowns without option to write in.
it does say the virus lies inside you….
I am tired of them passing off their GOF illness as a common cold. It is not.
https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/chatty-thursday-may-16-2024-c-and/comment/56517540
& the folks are still shedding (? Nano bio tech?) on me. It’s tiring and draining. I didn’t consent!
C does indeed have a unique skill set, at least in many.
Anti-virals made my shingles very mild. Interesting doctors don’t mention that option. Just the jabs. 🙄
Yep, started early, stops shingles in its tracks…well, at least in the immunocompetent. Probably helps prevent the disabling post-shingles neuropathy too.
PS: Remember that the pain proceeds the rash. Be aware. Your doc may not catch it early.
What were the anti-virals you took so I can make sure I have some on hand just in case. I do have quercitin on hand from the C but not sure if it's an anti-viral. Kept me from catching anything. Thsnks
Ivermectin is supposed to work, too. I found a pre-COVID paper that listed a bunch of viruses that ivermectin is effective on. Chicken pox / Shingles was on that list.
Acyclovir is the usual prescription antiviral for shingles.
Shingles IS awful! I had Chicken Pox in grade school - that was nothing! Shingles pain is intense. The doctor I saw told me the the infection resides in the sheath of the nerves. It propagates from the point of infection back to the spine. If you get the infection in your eye, the boils will cover your skin from that eye back to the back of your neck at the top of the your spine. If you get infected somewhere on your foot or leg, the boils break out from that point on your skin to your back at the bottom of your spine. Meanwhile, the infected nerve is stinging with intense pain. I was able to sleep, but not well. Eventually I slept, but only because I was so tired.
I recommend avoiding the Shingles vaccine - it will give you Shingles.
Sorry to hear about your experience, Carl!
After the Shingrix "vaccination" and my bad reaction to it in late 2019, I decided to not get any more "vaccinations" without thorough investigation. Just in time to refuse the Wuhan Red Death shot.
Re: AMC Gremlin
OMGosh......I OWNED A GREMLIN!!!! $1600. It was green, no carpet, no A/C, no radio. A friend of mine installed an 8-track player on the hump in the front. I could release a latch and remove it....so nobody would steal it.....like anyone would. ROFL
I wish I still had it.
I had one. Fun car.
Gates probably came up with the name in remembrance of his trips to Epstien Island...
Shingles is no fun though. My Mom used to get them once or twice a year when I was a kid. I remember that sometimes they were so bad she could do anything for a day or two. She would just go in her room and suffer.
Man, I miss those Gremlins!
Amazing stuff really. I love it how they admit openly that they are in the business of manufacturing diseases or market the “cures”…
Are they trying to say, Flirt with Death? Don’t take the shot and you’re flirting with death? Or subliminally, Do take the shot and Flirt with Death Anyway.
I think it was named to appeal to Taylor Swift fans
I actually owned an AMC Gremlin back in the day. Bright yellow. Weird little car!
And I had shingles a couple of years ago and it's no fun at all. Not being jabbed, I may have gotten shed upon in some public place, or maybe it really was the chickenpox I had when I was eight. Antivirals and sunburn lotion (stored in the fridge) got me through it. Then a Dr scared me into taking Gabapentin to prevent possible post-herpatic nerve pain - big mistake! Horrible side effects, and two years later my urine still tests positive for it - it concentrates in fatty tissue and takes a long long time to clear.
Shingles became common only after the chicken pox vaccine was introduced…turns out kids getting chicken pox actually helps grandma not get shingles. Who knew? 🤦🏻♀️
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?
Its name is Legion.
And they are many… Stay prayed up 🙏
I did
Noticed that Immediately 🙄
I noticed that too. It described the person as “they”
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.