$1.32 is a good price for watermelon. It makes me wonder what year the picture was taken
Pictures of the aurora bourealis were posted on Cedar Point’s home page from Sandusky, Ohio. I have never seen the northern lights before. Is the recent solar flare activity really leading to them being seen that far south?
I’ve been pondering the stupid human tricks required to sign into many websites and contrasting this against the AI can do everything better than you narrative the Magnificent 7 has boasted. If the AI is smart enough to pass the bar exam or self drive a car, say, then why can’t it tell which image is upright or drag a puzzle piece into place or select all of the squares with traffic lights? If it can’t identify traffic lights why do we assume that it can safely drive a car?
I have been following the sad story of the airplane crash in Brazil which killed all 62 onboard including 8 oncologists. That was an ATR 72, not a Boeing, which can carry up to 78 passengers. I am not a pilot but I found video of the airplane falling from the sky in a flat spiral strange. It did not seem that the pilots had any control over the aircraft. Icing on one of the wings is the official explanation provided.
The conspiracy theorists have come out on this one. The plane looks like it is being remote controlled. There were no distress calls and the plane lost contact with radar. There is the idea that the oncologists onboard were set to reveal the link between turbo cancers and mRNA vaccines at the conference they were set to attend in Sau Paulo. There’s the myseterious back and forth change from either 61 or 62 people who died in the crash. There’s also the other doctors who were supposed to be on this flight but who took an earlier scheduled trip. And then there’s the miracle of the 10 people stuck in the gate mixup:
“One man, who did not give his name, told news channel CNN: 'The monitor was showing the wrong gate and there were ten of us sitting there and we realised we were in the wrong place.
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Pictured: Experienced pilot killed in Brazilian plane crash which left 61 others dead
'We ran to the right gate and I asked one of the agents, "Girl, put me on this plane, I have to go, I have to go", but she said: "No, you are too late and I can only reschedule your flight".'
Presumably 20 seats were empty for the flight if the ATR could hold 78 passengers. I’d love a pilot to weigh in on the unusual circling out of the sky. Do you think the plane was sabataged? My thoughts and prayers to the victims…
How many jobs would be left without the administrative state? Is the parasitic class still affordable? Government only seeks to expand, but could the siphoning of productive class assets be nearing a breaking point? I can’t imagine that most these jobs are very fulfilling:
Car insurance rates have risen very fast. It has risen every six months for us in Las Vegas despite no tickets or accidents. Officially this is due to a rise in traffic accidents, which may be true. But how much is uninsured and sometimes illegal immigrant drivers being free riders on the system? Is that sustainable?
My newest painting is not finished as I haven’t even really started on the boats or the reflection in the water of them. But it’s coming along well enough that I’ll share a work in progress photo of it:
I don’t know if this is considered productive, as nobody pays me to paint. But it is certainly more fulfilling than siphoning off of the system…
Yep, those Northern lights showing up so far South sure are a treat to the eye. But implications of this strange phenomenon are somewhat concerning, to say the least, in terms of the causes and consequential effects.
Here's a slightly edited, updated version of a posting of mine, published just a few days ago on a social media platform, which may spread a little enlightenment - and, I suspect, not a little bewildermant at the failure of the mass media to even acknowledge a potential existential threat to our futures arguably more prescient than the side-effects of climate change.
"You may not have noticed, but the Earth's magnetic poles are in the process of changing places, something that happens as frequently as every 12,000 years. As they do so, the protective magnetic shield which saves us from the worst effects of the sun's harmful radiation degrades and weakens.
"The worrying process has been in progress for many decades, but is currently accelerating to the point where over the next ten or 15 years we could find ourselves exposed to an unprecedented bombardment of unhealthy solar rays and particles.
"When (not if,) this eventually happens, we will face a veritable cascade of catastrophe. Cancer rates are likely to soar, numerous species which rely on fixed poles for navigation could be decimated, and climate change crises of the kind that would give Al Gore nightmares would become commonplace, displacing entire populations.
"One of the sun-watchers' biggest fears is of a solar storm knocking out the global electricity grid on which every aspect of our hi-tech society depends. Life as we know it would be over - not least for Northern Hemisphere populations literally left out in the cold with no means to heat their homes.
"The worst-case scenario is for one of those coyly-classified extinction events, of which there have historically been many already, with only a relative handful of humans left to repopulate the stricken planet. Don't take my word for it. Experts have been predicting this pole-axing event for years, in articles published in prestigious scientific journals most of us have probably never even heard of.
Yet for some strange reason, those who surely must be in the know - governments and a mass media which thrives on fear porn - are staying schtum and not even bothering to tell us what we must do to "save the planet". Could this possibly be because, unlike th climate crisis we are all supposed to be so worried about, this is just another elaborate hoax. Or because they know it isn't - and that we are screwed. "
Here's a link for anybody wishing to learn more:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzEs4HJssfo&t=1s
"and we ain't in it!"
Great memes, Amy!