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January 8, 2025

Right and General George Washington led the US airforce to victory over the British.



I've noticed on the internet that AI is starting to state the wrong dates and the wrong places on posts. That is the degradation of space and time. Maybe Fox is into it too. People will not be able to fact check history at all if they have no sense of year or place.
January 7, 2025

Someone said a few months ago nude calendar girls

in mechanics garages have been replaced by Trump photos. He is their ultimate fantasy.

January 6, 2025

Trump Claims Biden Is Making Transition 'Difficult'

Trump Claims Biden Is Making Transition ‘Difficult’

January 6, 2025 at 6:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 5 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/01/06/trump-claims-biden-is-making-transition-difficult/

"SNIP..........

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday accused President Biden of making the presidential transition difficult, citing recent executive orders on climate and other official acts Biden has taken in his last weeks as president, The Hill reports.

...............SNIP"

Applegrove:

Like Trump made it so easy for the Biden transition in 2020 with an insurrection.

January 6, 2025

The MAGA oligarchs are being called sociopaths

these days so they find a target to redirect the sense of being manipulated danger in their base and George Soros is it (even though he is in no way a sociopath or evil, they have built him up to be considered so by the GOP/MAGA base by the GOP and now MAGA).

December 29, 2024

Went to visit my grandmother's family in the old villages

in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. My grandmother was in her late 80s. She had been a farmer, a country doctor's wife and a nurse. People put on at 'At Home' for her where everyone in the community came to say hi. It was like a tea we thought. So my sister and I put on our best cocktail/tea dresses with flowers on them. We had on fancy "flats" shoes. There was some time before the event so my sister and I decided to go for a walk along the rural highway..... like a couple of urban idiots from a yuppie family. One of my grandmother's nieces recognized it must be us on the highway and got us to come into their house to meet 2nd cousins. They were lovely. Interested if we were in university. We tried to figure out the four generations in their family. Then we went to the 'At Home'. We were so overdressed. People were lovely and adored my grandmother. Most of them were delivered by my grandfather, a country doctor. Basically fashion and formal dress is a con meant to sell new clothes every year. There is something called the colour lobby that changes the colour of cars and household appliances every year, just like the designers in fashion. It is a way to make money. The people we met that day looked great without any of the high tea fashion my sister and I indulged in. They were better than all our nonsense.

That being said I love fashion. I loved watching Sex and The City and fashion runway shows. Some fashion truly is art.

December 23, 2024

Applegrove: Now Trump wants the guardrails on who can be President to hold.

Political Wire:

Trump Addresses Elon Musk’s Growing Influence

December 22, 2024 at 8:21 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 109 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/12/22/trump-addresses-musks-growing-influence/

"SNIP................

President-elect Donald Trump said the notion that he has “ceded the presidency” to Elon Musk is a fiction and that even if Musk wanted the job, he couldn’t get it because of the Constitution’s requirement that the U.S. president be a natural-born citizen, NBC News reports.

Said Trump: “No, he’s not going to be president, that I can tell you. And I’m safe. You know why he can’t be? He wasn’t born in this country.”

............SNIP"

December 19, 2024

But how much efficiency is a good thing. It is a word CEOs

use to imply profits and value to shareholders. But if refusing a coffee break to your workers, so they can't have a cup of coffee on their way to work any day, makes you efficient so you can give the wealthy stock buybacks. A good thing? The ceo is saying we have nowhere to invest so take your money. Then the rich get into private equity with that money and where does private equity go? Into the housing market and warp that so people can not get into the housing market as it is to expensive. And the person has no coffee and no housing. So how much efficiency is really a good thing? The goal of housing used to be providing a home through the markets. Now the goal is efficiency. Were things really that bad in all the markets including housing when ceos were not high on efficiencies' fumes in say the 1990s? Did the world fall apart?

December 16, 2024

Yes. It will not make any sense soon. Unfortunately it will be hard

to get all that slop off the internet so it will keep feeding itself. Maybe people will actually become more discerning instead as their senses are assaulted. Sure is a new world.

December 16, 2024

Is it purposeful to turn our minds to mush? I see AI mistakes in time and geography too.

https://bsky.app/profile/slothropsmap.bsky.social/post/3ldfdeaelws2j

"It is worth communicating that there is not currently a known technical fix for removing AI slop imagery and web content from search results, so we’re headed for an information crisis of unprecedented proportions. Really."

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