" Trying to remove a board member accused of mortgage fraud ", and who accused her of mortgage fraud? Why, el Bunko and his "justice" department. It's another made up court suit like all of his other attempts. Jesus, learn to have some discernment before you spout bullshit.

And in the U.S., the DOGE maggots have already siphoned off your SS data to Peter Thiel and Palantir.

"It's pretty well understood that current "let's get everything under the same umbrella so activists can claim they have more support" has been modus operandi for far left activists for a while now. "

Bull, that was the right wingnuts what did that so they could claim anything they didn't like was a "Conspiracy".

Even though I supported Biden, he didn't create jobs. The U.S. economy created jobs. He merely didn't construct the clusterfuck that el Bunko has created. The U.S. economy sort of runs along just fine without screwing with it. Naturally U.S. companies decided to pull in their plans because they can never figure out what that idiot it going to do them next. The tariffs are enough to drive many small business out of business because they cannot source the parts they need reliably or cost effectively.

Add to that, el Bunko totally screwed the farmers. They deserved it as group for voting for that bozo and getting their panties in a twist over transsexuals and their bathrooms. You'd have thought they'd have learned their lesson in el Bunko I with tariffs and China and the knock on effects of China cutting the U.S. out of their soy bean market. After el Bunko I, they never got their markets back to the pre el Bunko level because now China learned they could depend on Brazil and Argentina. el Bunko pulled the same stunt this time around (he never learns because it has never cost him not to) and so did China. Except this time around, el Bunko outdid himself and promised Argentina (recently) $40 Billion in U.S. aid, $20 Billion up front. Argentina's Milei said, why thank you, and then undercut U.S. soy prices. Why did el Bunko do it? Because Milei got Argentina's tail caught in a cyptocrack, unsurprisingly the same cryptocrack el Bunko has been plumbing. So el Bunko needed bail him out.

I'm sure you are jesting, but this idiot theory comes up too damn often. The "simulation" is merely a mathematical isomorphism between a physics theory of the bulk (where we live) and a physics conformal field theory on the "boundary". There's no proof of a boundary to the Universe. Be that as it may, it is merely a mathematical isomorphism, nothing more. Mathematics is not physics nor real, unless you take off your clothes, stand under a purple crystal, and go all Max Tegmark. Be sure the crystal is purple or I cannot guarantee any insights you may think you have.

You haven't met the Prosperity Preachers. el Bunko had one as his "spiritual advisor" during el Bunko I, some blond telegenic thing (as anyone would have guessed).

The scene, la Presidenta goes tits up and reaches the Pearly Gates:

St. Pete: Who the Hell are you?

la Presidenta: But you know me!! I'm the Baby Christian, or whatever that gormless preacher creature called me. Surely he told you I was coming?

St. Pete: Hang on a minute.

St. Pete ducks behind the Gates, pulls out iPhone, and dials God.

God (Na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey, Goodbye!): God here, what can I do you for?

St. Pete: Guy here says he's the Baby Christian. Know'im?

God: Errrr....no, can't say as I do.

St. Pete: I thought you knew everything, Einstein.

God: Well, some things are better left unknown lest they disturb one’s savoir faire. Give Beelz a ringy-dingy, maybe he knows him.

St. Pete dials Beelzebub.

Beelzebub....(I want some hot stuff baby this evening, hot stuff baby tonight...). Beelz here, waddya want?

St. Pete: Hey Beelz, how are they hanging?

Beelz: Like two Balls-O-Fire orbiting in a frenetic two-step to Jerry Lee Lewis. Wanna see?

St. Pete: Wow!! Sure, but maybe later. Say, we got a guy calling himself the Baby Christian, know'im?

Beelz: Oh him, I couldn't figure out where we left him. How'd he get up there?

St. Pete: The usual way.

Beelz: Well, keep him. We don't want his sort down here.

St. Pete: You do know you are running Hell, right?

Beelz: No, damnit, we don't want him, he gives the nuns the collywobbles. They think he'll introduce them to Jeffrey Epstein.

St. Pete: He cannot stay here, we gotta send him somewhere.

Beelz: Send him back!

St. Pete: Can’t! The Earthlings would take it as evidence there is no God.

Beelz: Look it, I gotta run, the nuns just lit up another bong. They strip off when they get loaded.

Jesus strolls by..

St. Pete: Hey Jesus, how’s Mr. and Mrs. Christ?

Jesus: They are doing fine. You look a bit out of sorts, anything I can do?

St. Pete: Well, see that guy out there? Says he’s the Baby Christian. Know’im?

Jesus (swearing under his breath): Uh.hummina hummina hummina.may be..what does he want?

St. Pete: He’s just gone tits up. I gotta stash him somewhere. God says he doesn’t know him.

Jesus: Likely story from Einstein. Errrrrmmm..How about Purgatory?

St. Pete: I thought that was full of Christians, you got room for one more?

Jesus: We will find a seat next to the toilets.

Jesus walks out to the Baby Christian.

Jesus: Follow me, Baby. I’ll take you to your final destination.. and lose the bags.

la Presidenta: But, but, but, I need all this, they are my security blankies.

Jesus: Okay, take them with you. You'll enter Heaven when you pass your dementia test.

la Presidenta: Hot damn! I’m good at those! Let's go!!

Jesus leads him off, deposits him, and comes back.

St. Pete: What's his test?

Jesus: He has to give all the loot he brought with him to the poor.

St. Pete: Bwahhahahaha.....You are a cruel man, Jesus. Well, I guess we won't be seeing him for a while.

Jesus: Ya, I've made a reservation for him in the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.* 5 bucks says he's late.

St. Pete: I'm not betting you. You rooked me on Billy Graham. Has he found a way to love his fellow man yet?

Jesus: Not exactly. He's still working on L of LGBTQ.

*Thanks Douglas Adams

Regardless, Mac software (not the OS so much but I'm not impressed with Tahoe) will get the shaft yet again. Putting new skins on software is not innovation. See MS for case-in-point.

They are right when AI is consulted about them.

I think it is just the CCP is really just a headless multiarmed leech at this point. The arms do things but they get in each other's way.

Thomas Friedman had a good anecdote in one of his recent columns. People in Europe quizzed him saying doesn't el Bunko realize that Russia, China, et. al. are playing 4-D chess? His response, el Bunko is playing Monopoly.

Yes but the basic punter is does not think like that. They go through life believing something is true unless they have information that it isn't. A lack of contradictory information is treated as the current information is true. And we all do that to some extent or even living would be impossible.

"What could be worse than mRNA that tells your ribosomes to make the S1 spike?" Over a million dead Americans because they were stupid enough to listen to people like you who know nothing about how mRNA vaccines work?

"it's only the U.S. operations they are buying." You mean it is only the U.S. users data that they are buying, the rest is merely to allow them access to the data.

There are kids with one parent who's busy working, kids with no parents, etc. There are a lot of edge cases.

One thing my parents did when I was knee high to a grasshopper is they bought the World Book Encyclopedia. They also got an add-on. I don't quite know what to call the add-on. It was a big slab with a circular top edge. You put a disk of questions in there and a smaller disk of white paper. When you closed it, a question would appear in one cut out and the white paper in the other. You wrote your answer, push a lever, and another question and white space would appear. I spent hours with it.

Another thing they bought, dunno if it was connect to World Book, but it was a series of science books about 1/2-3/4 in. thick each. They had biology, chemistry, physics, math, etc. I loved reading those books and sometime would just pull out, say, the P volume of the encyclopedia and page through, reading any article that caught my fancy.

I think that somehow gave me a never-ending need to read and learn science. One thing I noticed from my parents that at first confused me, they never once told me to read that stuff or use the machine.

This is all anecdotal, but I believe if I had an iPhone or a laptop, it would not have the same effect. Those devices encourage a short attention span. Even now I find it incredibly annoying to see a news site and have panes with dancing, popping, jumping crap. When you do analog, you are free, even encouraged, to move slowly at your pace, not one induced on you by marketing professionals.

One cannot learn mathematics by dancing, popping, jumping web pages. It requires slow careful work and you must do the exercises. Spend two weeks whacking a problem into shape if you need to, but spend the time if that is what it takes you to solve the problem. Only then will you develop any depth of reasoning for the subject.

That scheme won't stop the wrong people or government (more likely) from putting together several different proteins for something really bad. I don't think there is a fix for this as it becomes an arms race. Put another way, there is no closed world hypothesis for these compounds. We can only guard for what we know, what we do not know is still out there.