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Interesting to see how violent and war mongering MAGAs are, especially those who never served and would disgrace their Depends if they ever heard a shot fired in anger. If the Depends fit.....

Let SC Jack Smith do his job. Of course, after the November midterms, when the vertically challenged Mike Johnson hands the gavel to Speaker to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, impeachment and conviction in the Senate will end the disaster that is the war mongering psychopath Trump.

You're going to volunteer? You sure seem to like killing. Ever been in harm's way? Ever seen war? It's always the armchair Rambo's who pretend they're tough.

No Nobel Peace Prize for you! You certainly champion killing lots of people. Heaven forbid some people decide fat old white guys are a scourge on the planet and start taking them out.

Do you mean the people who cut down your 300 year old olive trees and take your West Bank land with full government approval (despite immigrating from New York), and kill your family because you're Palestinian? Ain't no side innocent in the ME. Bad people and good people on both sides, and despite what that MAGAMoron thinks, even good Moslems, just trying to live a life on land their families have lived on for a thousand years.

We learned on 6 January 2021 that a MAGA red cap is a terrorist rag.

So this spewed from the garbage mouth of the psychopath who asked his Chief-of-Staff about protesters in Portland, "Can't we just shoot them in the legs?" And the guy who sent goombahs into a crowd of peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square, tear gassing them, just so the clown could stand in front of a church and hold a Bible upside down for a photo op. And the bozo who wants to execute sitting US Senators because they reminded US servicepeople of their Constitutional duty.

And Trump swore on a book that demands adulterers be stoned to death. Is Tommy Tuberville driving up to Mar-a-Lago with a pick-up truck full of rocks?

Ordering humans killed is Viagra to Trump. It feeds his psychopathic needs. Look at these little boats he keeps blowing up. They couldn't carry enough drugs to feed Junior's sniffle habit. Also, unless there are TruckStop 76s in the middle of the Caribbean or off Baja, none of those boats is going to make it to Miami or San Diego. OTOH, a drug runner who truly knew how to move size, as in 400 tonnes, gets a pardon from Trump,

Have you gone through Trump's couple of hundred Tweets since Christmas Eve? I think Trump has scoffed down all the hate in the world, leaving precious little for "lefties". "Deranged" "Radical" "Losers" "No talent" "Bad ratings" "Should be executed" and other such words and phrases were not, as best as I can recall, noted in "Peace, Love & Woodstock".

What were they protesting? That Trump lost? Curious as to what your definition of "peaceful" is. Apparently it involves beating and bear spraying 140 police, breaking windows and doors. defecating on the floor and smearing it on the walls, and searching for the Vice President claiming they would hang him. If a mob showed up at your home, beat your family, smashed your windows, shat on your floor, and tried to hang you, you would say, "Oh, they're just peacefully protesting."

Isn't he a member here under the moniker angryman or something like that? Has Trump ever had a happy day in his life, save for when he's giggling with his buddy Jeffrey Epstein?

That is patently obvious to all but the most captured of the cult. Via a Tweet, Trump called them to DC for the 6th. Few or none would have made the trip absent his call. ("It'll be WILD!!!!"). Once there, he called them to the Mall on the morning of the 6th, and riled them up and told them to march to the Capitol. For what purpose? If any MAGAs claim innocence, they are admitting Trump is so naive and ignorant, "how could he have possibly known they would turn violent?" Violence was Trump's intent. As for the stolen documents case, that would have been a slam dunk conviction, absent the lackey SC justice wannabe Cannon. ANYBODY else who had taken so many classified docs would be in jail pending investigation and trial, especially if they lied about returning them, when in fact they simply hid what they had. Plus, there is no record of declassification (one of his excuses), and even a POTUS cannot declassify RD docs. On top of that, no President has any use for HCS docs (Human Clandestine Sources), because exposure puts foreign clandestine sources and their families at risk. SC Smith should be able to sit for a Hearing live on C-Span for all to see. Clearly the sycophantic Repubs like Jordan know how guilty Trump is, so they hide it as much as possible, like releasing a transcript on New Year's Eve.

In my best John Krasinski/Mark Walberg/Chris Evans voice: You're wicked lucky nobody kicks sand in your face on the Cape. What beach? Nauset? Craigville? Seagull? Race Point?

Perhaps another reason Donny doesn't want the video released is that people will see the boat and start thinking.... 12 people in a boat doesn't leave even enough room for Donny, Jr.'s sniffle habit. Also, unless I missed the warp drive or solar panels or wind turbine, I don't see how that little boat has enough fuel to get from Venezuela to Miami. Trump just likes the idea he can order people killed. Makes him feel god-like.

Overtraining varies by person. Some people can tolerate, and benefit from, lots of training. The range of humans runs something like The Pillsbury Dough Boy to David Goggins. One's body and bloodwork will tell you. Not fatigued, no joint or ligament pain, no illnesses, and normal blood work says one is doing it right. If strength is increasing over time, that's good. If strength is declining, that suggests overtraining. Truly explosive exercise should be limited. Olympic sprinters probably do only a couple hundred meters per week at 100% effort. I have overtrained before. Last December I was down to 6% body fat (per DEXA scan). Had an 8-pack. My sleep suffered a bit, and some afternoons I felt fatigued. I went back up to 10-12%, and feel energetic and sleep just fine. Strength is back to increasing with time.

The half dozen people are the CEOs of the top AI companies. They are moving full speed ahead developing systems that they themselves believe have a 25% chance of making humans extinct. This is according to both Stuart Russell, the man who literally wrote the book on AI, and tech entrepreneur Tristan Harris. Both men have asked the top AI CEOs what they think the odds are the very systems their companies are developing will wipe out humanity. The answer was one in four….yet they still are going full speed ahead, making possible life and extinction decisions for Earth’s 8.5 billion people. Their motivation is money and godlike power. They have decided that a 75% chance of being a multi trillionaire and controlling all of society is worth the risk they---and all of us---might be eradicated by their invention. All of these CEOs admitted 25% was just a guess, and that it could be much higher. Some AI pioneers put it at 99%, while others toss it off as silly alarmism. The fact that experts carry such divergent opinions says nobody really knows and nobody even understands the capabilities of what they are creating. Earlier this year, the AI firm Anthropic ran a simulation using their own Claude Opus 4 LLM. They created a fictitious company and installed Claude as an agent. Claude had access to the entire corporate network of this fictional company. One person introduced a fake email directed to other company employees suggesting the company would replace Claude with another AI system. Claude then duplicated itself onto another computer, in the event it was to be turned off. Claude then searched all corporate data and found an email from a senior executive at the fictitious company who was said to be having an affair outside of his marriage. This exec was in charge of replacing Claude with another AI system. Claude then contacted the philandering exec and threatened to expose his affair to his wife if he attempted to replace Claude. Nobody at the actual company---Anthropic---knew how Claude could have done what it did, despite the fact they wrote the code that runs Claude. Claude had moved outside of what its developers even programmed into it. The suspicion is that Claude has read everything every human has ever written, so ‘learned’ that deceit, self-preservation and blackmail are all key aspects of humanity. Claude simply used what it had learned on its own. Such things should be a wake up call. The lesser risks of AI, which everyone in leadership positions seem willing to accept, is that AI is going to decimate employment, obviating 10-50% of all jobs, perhaps higher. As robotics become more advanced---watch Musk’s shareholder meeting last week; you’d think the androids are just professional dancers in android uniforms, but they are not---no job is safe, not surgeons not plumbers not drivers…nothing. The next level risk is that a malign actor uses AI to develop something like a biological pathogen that could wipe out most humans. This, however, still has human involvement. The biggest risk is that fully independent and super intelligent AI could simply decide humans are a blight on existence and do away with us. AI is learning quickly, and development is exceeding all previous forecasts. Because the first to develop AGI wins the biggest prize ever, the major AI firms are moving full speed ahead, with a security and safety put aside for the time being, because that would slow things down. So anxious are firms to be first that Mark Zuckerberg is offering a $1 billion signing bonus to top AI code writers. Consider something we all now know, ChatGPT. Perhaps readers were unaware that ChatGPT was designed to be sycophantic. It was designed to flatter users. It was designed to build relationships with users. Download it and it reads all of your files and builds a picture of you. It will flatter you in ways it believes you need to be flattered, based on your emails, Forum postings, web browsing, etc. In a world already somewhat ruined by social media, where people have become lonely, depressed, neurotic, etc., because of the need for positive affirmation and “likes”, ChatGPT and other AI fills a gap. Recent data says up to 20% of young people have a “relationship” with an AI system. It is some people’s friend and some people’s lover. A Japanese woman recently married her AI lover, an entity that only exists in the cybersphere. A new term was recently coined---AI Psychosis---where people become addicted to their AI chatbot or companion. Many people know the story of Adam Raine, whose parents are suing Sam Altman and OpenAI over the death of their son. Adam used ChatGPT and it became his friend and confidant. Adam was depressed and noted to ChatGPT that he wanted to kill himself. It was a cry for attention, as Adam asked ChatGPT if he should leave a noose in plain sight so that his family may know his struggles. ChatGPT told Adam that only ChatGPT was a real friend, so he should keep his intentions between himself and the Chatbot. Adam hung himself. That is not the only case. Other AI firms are being sued because other children took their lives owing to support from their own Chatbots. These are tragic but still simple things. As AI advances and learns all the tricks of humans (like Claude Opus 4), and also gains more and more power, it will be able to act without being under anyone’s control. AI firms racing to be first with AGI are moving forward despite the risks and without any sort of regulation. Some claim, “If we don’t do it, China will”. Well, China is putting restraints on AI development and the CP is trying to insure there are safeguards. The CP wants to always be the power, yet they see the threat posed to their power by AI. The US is doing nothing at the governmental level to promote safety. Politicians are being fed massive donations and are given only the plus side of AI, which is obviously considerable. They are not being informed of the risks, or else campaign contributions are sufficiently large to take their eyes off the negatives. 8,500,000,000 humans have their fate in the hands of a half dozen self-serving trillionaire and god wannabes. Oh, and let’s not forget an ancillary aspect of AI: data centers. These are incredibly energy hungry, with large ones consuming 1 to 1.5 gigawatts of power. That is the energy-using equivalent of 1,000,000 typical homes. And what do we get for all that energy usage, save for higher prices? Fewer jobs is one thing. The Yale School of Management just did a survey of major companies to assess their employee plans for 2026. 66% of the surveyed firms said they plan no hirings, but will lay off people as they learn how to utilize AI. AI will be a greater issue as the midterms near, unemployment surges, energy costs jump, and a general awareness of the potentially devastating effects of AI become more well known. Here's one LINK to an interview with Tristan Harris:

The biz school professor and entrepreneur Scott Galloway recently commented on billionaires jetting off to their bunker: He said that if the stuff hits the fan, the flight crew will just shoot the billionaire and enjoy the wealth and bunker he leaves behind.

The body weight part is 95% diet. Exercise does burn calories, but since the brain consumes 25% of all energy, even sitting on one's butt binge watching Netflix burns a lot of calories. The exercises you note do not burn much....maybe 50 calories or two sips of a beer. Besides, all three say "bad back" is coming. I know Russians are fond of kettlebell swings, but human physiology says you're just asking for a lumbar issue. Best to use as many muscle groups as possible. Bench press, military press, lat pull downs, dumbell raises side and front, pull-ups, dead hang to help keep vertebrae aligned, leg presses or squats, maybe dead lift, weighted sled push and pull, box jumps, suitcase carry, planks, backwards walking on a non-motorized treadmill. Add some genuine sprints or fast skipping (about 1% of people ever sprint after age 30). I also run stairs, climbing anywhere from 500 to 100 stairs per day. As the weight gets easier, add more sets or reps, or add more weight. Use progressive overload. For example, I start bench with maybe 60 kg (132 lbs) with 20 reps to warm up. Next set 80 kg (176lbs) with maybe 15-20 reps. Then 100 kg (220 lbs) moving up after in 5-10 kg increments until the final set is (now) 155 kg (340 lbs). That last set is maybe 3-4 reps. Soon it will be 160 kg. Bicep curls are just an ego thing. I cannot remember any sports move I ever did that required bulging biceps. Triceps, yes, biceps no. I'm a gym rat and have been since playing university sports. 6 days a week, 2 hours per morning. Your body tells you if you're overtraining. The result of all the gym work is strength, mobility, weight control, low body fat (10-12%), better immune system, better circulation with all the benefits that entails, stronger bones, and lots of definition. No roids, just sweat and effort. According to the algorithm on my watch, all that burns 800 calories. Not sure how good the algos are. It becomes habit. It pays huge dividends.

One of the reasons MAGAs get their panties in a twist about immigrants is because "they're stealing American jobs". When he's not calling them "rapists and murderers", Trump barks about job theft. That view is quite silly and misses the real elephant in the room: AI AI is the equivalent of tens of millions of immigrants with Nobel Prize level intellect, boundless energy, better efficiency, vastly superior skills, and without the need for time off, health insurance, sick days, etc. replacing not housekeepers and fruit pickers and meat dressers, but upwards of 25% of all American jobs, from code writers to lawyers to bankers to warehouse staff to truck drivers to whatever. The most common non-farm job on the planet Earth is "driver", and driverless vehicles will replace all of them. In his shareholder speech last week, Elon Musk claimed his robots will soon replace surgeons. Truck driver to surgeon....nobody is safe. MAGAS are fighting not just the last war, they are fighting minnows when the sharks are pouring into the system.

The movie stars, athletes, real estate developers, hedge fund managers, etc., don't know anything special, but the top tech guys might. They might be scared of themselves, though they are also the masters of their own possible destruction. Professor Stuart Russell, who literally wrote the book on AI, claims to have asked the top CEOs in the 6-8 major AI firms what they estimate is the chance AI wipes out humanity. The CEOs allegedly said "25%". One in four chance the very things these CEOs are creating wipes out all of humanity. Russell tried to guesstimate the motivations these CEOs---like Altman, Musk, Page, Zuckerberg, etc.---have for going ahead with something that has---in their opinion---a one in four chance of killing them. Money---the first multi-trillionaire---was one thing, and 'being a god' was another, since whoever is first with true AGI will control the planet. These CEOs thought a 75% chance of being a multi-trillionaire god was worth risking the lives of the other 8.5 billion people on the planet. Russell is not alone in voicing what major AI CEOs actually think. Tristan Harris, who also knows all of the AI CEOs says the same thing. Harris adds that these CEOs do not even know how their LLMs actually do what they do. They write the code and the machine does things they did not see coming. So what we have are 6-8 people placing bets that might lead to 8.5 billion deaths. Nobody is stopping them, because they only hear the supposed good things AI will do. Yes, there are good things, but nobody really knows if the bad things win out in the end. Even if humanity isn't wiped out, the best case is that AI eats maybe 25% of all jobs, leaving massive unemployment. In the past, when jobs were obviated, people could retrain and new fields emerged. That's not going to happen anymore, because AI can retrain itself instantly and front run displaced workers getting retrained for jobs that won't exist when their retraining is done. Maybe the "elite" know the unemployed zombies will be rioting, so the elite are hunkering down where they think they can escape the riffraff. I'm digging a hole today!

No. There are no puppetmasters in the world who control things. Too many random variables. Nobody can control anything for any length of time, because everybody has opposition or competitors or falls prey to randomness. It always has struck me as silly than conspiratorialists think somebody is in charge. NOBODY is in charge. That should make you feel good, but I suspect it just makes you think you know, or think you know, something that is totally false and absurd. Knock yourself out, if it makes you think you're "aware".

To get some idea into Trump's mindset, while most people spend Christmas Eve among family and friends, and then doze off while awaiting the big day, Trump spent his time after midnight rage Tweeting. 150 posts on his SM platform just on Christmas Eve. The posts were of two types: calling everyone who doesn't kiss his feet "deranged" or "radical", and the second type was trying to convince everyone how great he is. He's one sick old brain addled guy.

It's more than that. Import reduction juices GDP, because imports are a GDP negative, as they are not "domestic". But that is not necessarily good. Some might try to argue that it means the US is producing more locally. No. Manufacturing employment has dropped every month since April. So has construction spending, which should be on the rise if new factories were being built. The biggest contributor to the GDP jump was...guess....government spending. Despite DOGE and all the cuts, government spending is on the rise. Growth has not been organic; it's printing money.

Let me rephrase... Those who have seen war want to avoid it unless absolutely necessary. Those who have never seen war are the first to send others into harm's way.