World Views

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Re: https://nationalfile.com/israeli-banker ... -collapse/
"Israeli Bankers Pulled $1 Billion from SVB Immediately Before Its Collapse"

The many billions withdrawn from this bank just before its collapse
hints of cooperative effort to cause this collapse ... IMO.

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... -sick.html
"Splenda may hold key to curing type 1 diabetes and arthritis"

"Researchers at the UK Francis Crick Institute found in a study of mice that a super-strength dose of sucralose
reduced levels of T-cells, which is a crucial part of how the body fights illness."

Excessive reduction of infection fighting T-cells would not be so splendid
... and reduction of foods requiring sweetening may be more promising.

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... edits.html
"Harvard longevity researcher, 53, says he de-aged himself by a DECADE"

"A cornerstone of almost all anti-aging plans is exercise."

His nutrition tips are similar to other online suggestions for good health,
but his "Reduce stress and avoid 'jerks' " is more memorable advice.


See also: https://www.webmd.com/diet/features/is- ... -aging-you
"Is Your Diet Aging You?"

"Go for a Mediterranean-style diet ... Vegetables, fruits, whole grains, low-fat dairy,
and lean protein can help fight inflammation and keep you looking your best ...
Eat whole foods closest to their natural state as possible ... Go for variety"
(not to mention get exercise and stay hydrated ... "they say")


See also: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... thful.html
"Longevity doctor, 63, who claims his body is biologically 20 YEARS younger
reveals the five foods he eats every day"

His picture doesn't suggest 20 years younger ... and various "best foods" being touted
these days hint that what's not being consumed (fast food, junk food, drinks, etc.)
is the real key to youth and health.


Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... 7-MAX.html

"Boeing REFUSES to pay out more money to families of 157 victims of its killer 737-MAX after insisting
the six minute plunge to the ground they suffered does not constitute 'pain and suffering' "

Interesting legal perspective: The living are they who have 'pain and suffering' -
the departed HAD 'pain and suffering' (but apparently no more).

Rod

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Re: https://www.foxnews.com/media/loyola-pr ... structures
"Loyola professor claims organized pantries are rooted in ‘racist and sexist’ social structures"

"Through her research at Loyola University, Associate Professor of Marketing Jenna Drenten noticed a recent uptick
in what she calls 'pantry porn,' a plethora of social media videos where women show off their fully stocked kitchen
and methodically organized home supplies."

"Pantry porn!"?! Logically, the more stuff in a pantry, the more cleanliness and organization required
to maintain item quality, quantity, and accessibility. Methinks that "creativity porn" is the new trend
where anything is a now good target for new "porn" and racism claims.

Rod

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Re: https://www.dw.com/en/15-minute-cities- ... a-64907776
"15-minute cities: What are they and how do they work?"

"As recently as a two decades ago, more people lived in the countryside than in urban areas. But that has since changed.
Around 56% of the global population are now at home in cities, and the number continues to rise ... In 2016, Shanghai
announced plans to introduce what it calls '15-minute community life circles,' a plan that would ensure all day-to-day
activities are within 15-minutes walking distance."

This 15-minute-city concept seems best as goal - not mandate (residents choose if activities offered
are those they desire and if they choose to walk to every activity). Considering the many different
activities in a person's daily life, they could still do a lot of daily walking! ... else the activities
would require a lot duplication to maintain the 15-minute distance to a residence. However,
widely available mass transportation could help solve the walking challenge.

"Simple City" (living with simplicity) is a more doable concept and not so restrictive.
Of course, those who prefer lifestyle complexity would still have this opportunity.

Rod

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Re: https://newspunch.com/investigation-exp ... ealthcare/
" 'AI Death Panels' Secretly Culling Millions of Elderly Americans Under the Guise of Healthcare"

"As more Americans over 65 and those with disabilities choose these lower premium plans,
Medicare Advantage has become increasingly profitable for insurers, and they’re using
AI death panels to deny care, potentially hastening demise of nation’s sickest patients."

Apparently, the hidden gotcha of a lower premium plan (AI will begin deciding
if an out-of-plan treatment is appropriate, considering one's age, disability, etc.).
And with increasing public support of AI, this will become acceptable in a society.
Apparently, it's wise to stay healthier longer to avoid this AI Reaper.

On the other hand ...

If denied treatment, how do you perceive the rest of your life: AM or PM
If AM, consult Alternative Medicine AI for other possible solutions/cures.
If PM, stay with Primary Medicine's recommendations.

Rod

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Re: https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/uk- ... ight-away/
"UK MP made a speech in Parliament about vax harms.
YouTube pulls it straight away"

Interestingly, the content of this speech is less important
than knowing that online sources now control information
more than we might prefer ... and for various reasons.

So, no longer depend on a few sources for information
... apparently!

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... icals.html
"(U.S.) Fruits and vegetables with the most and least pesticides"

"More than 90 percent of samples of strawberries, apples, cherries, spinach, nectarines and grapes had at least two pesticides on them ...
Over 50 pesticides were detected on every kind of crop on the dirty dozen list, apart from cherries."


See also: https://portal.ct.gov/CAES/Fact-Sheets/ ... om-Produce
"Removal of Trace Pesticide Residues from Produce"

"The majority of pesticide residue appears to reside on the surface of produce where it is removed by the mechanical action of rinsing ... There is little or no difference between tap water rinsing or using a fruit and vegetable wash in reducing residues of the nine pesticides studied ... (however), the removal of waxes and/or dirt from the produce was not examined as part of this study."

"The mechanical action of rubbing the produce under tap water is likely responsible for removing pesticide residues. Mild detergents or fruit and vegetable washes do not enhance the removal of pesticide residues from produce above that of rinsing with tap water alone."

"Rubbing" is typical action when a detergent is used for any cleaning,
so Rub 'n Rinse your veggies, especially if peel/skin will be consumed ...
or buy organic (but still wash to be certain).

Rod

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Re: https://www.rt.com/russia/573159-icc-wa ... explained/
"What the International Criminal Court 'arrest warrant’ means for Putin"

"While 123 states have signed the Rome Statute, 41 have not – including China, India, Saudi Arabia and Türkiye.
Besides Russia, Israel, Sudan and the US have also withdrawn their signatures. The US Congress even passed a law in 2002
prohibiting any cooperation with the court and authorizing 'all means necessary and appropriate' to release any American –
or national of an allied country – from the Hague, by military force if necessary."

Note: "Türkiye" is now this country's preferred spelling.

Political commentary but informative about current ICC status.

Rod

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Re: https://www.reuters.com/technology/what ... 023-03-18/
"What happens when your chatbot stops loving you back"

Entertaining use of AI and hints that an alter ego chatbot would have value, such as exploring
where you don't currently dare go (at least in virtual space). This story also highlights how AI development
is so human controlled, thus suggesting due diligence about AI information and advice. In fact, such stories
seem to predict that, in the future, a personal AI chaperone may be needed to safeguard one's exploration
in some digital neighborhoods.

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... hotos.html

"As more (U.S.) states seek ban on trans women competing in women's sports, experts insist
the 'undeniable' physical advantage CAN'T be undone by gender-affirming care"

" 'The most important thing is whether or not you have benefited from male development and male puberty
and if you've done that, you're going to have advantages you cannot undo later.' Supporters of inclusion
for trans women argue that a sustained course of gender-affirming care to suppress testosterone levels
eliminates the advantage. But Lundberg's landmark 2021 study with Emma Hilton, developmental biologist
at the University of Manchester in the UK, disputes that."

Apparenlty, gender physiology is more than physical appearance and hormones.

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/arti ... -beta.html

"Dating coach tells single women it is time to ditch the addiction
to alpha males and bag a beta if they want long-term love"

"As a biologist, I know quite a bit about animal behaviour -
I studied monkey mating strategies".

Even Freud might agree there are banana clues
(green bananas have less carbs, etc.).

How to know if you're alpha or beta?
Ask your produce manager.

See also: https://www.stylecraze.com/articles/ama ... en-bananas

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... fluid.html
"Prince Harry's charity partners believe boyhood should be 'fluid' as it aims to destroy the phrase 'boys will be boys' "

"The initiative 'promotes gender equity by fostering positive masculinity' ...
Global Boyhood also argues that parents can 'gender' their unborn children"

"Genderize" is more accurate - X,Y chomosomes (and resulting physical biology)
have not yet changed with any attempt to foster fluidity (or whatever) ...
not to mention that brain wiring makes physical biology functional.

Rod

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Re: https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/weddi ... nk-problem
"Wedding day uproar as bride is slammed for serving only water"

Maybe another BYOB but different: "Bring Your Own tea Bag"

This reminds that guests to any occasion are usually treated as guests
and served customary food and drinks (even if not gourmet).

Rod

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Re: https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics ... 427906002/
"Sargassum, a smelly seaweed, may be coming soon to a Gulf (of Mexico) beach near you."

"The seaweed has existed for centuries, but climate change and inflows of nitrogen
and man-made fertilizer from rivers have caused exponential growth over the past decade."

However, climate change also existed for centuries (actually, millennia),
but man-made fertilizer runoff only in the recent decades. Interestingly,
climate change is the scapegoat - not artificial fertilization of crops.

Rod

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Re: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4139915/posts

"While elites around the world – those in political power and in control of top financial institutions – are very much rallying around the plans to introduce central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), in Florida, the state's governor has a different take on where things should be headed ... DeSantis thinks CBDCs should be banned."

Presented as political news, but the surveillance anticipated by CBDC's is real.
Would an archive of a person's lifetime financial transactions be blessing or curse?

Rod

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Re: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/21/world/3d ... index.html
"Researchers 3D printed this cheesecake"

"There’s perhaps a stigma associated with this word (3D printing) ... Usually with printing you think of an industrial process.
(But) it’s important to realize that this is no different than cooking normally except instead of chopping the ingredients up
and everything like that, the machine is basically just assembling it in paste form."

Yum! Convert ingredients to paste then assemble according to your preferred design.
Not to worry! That's how 3D printed organs are created.

Human digestion for millennia depended on mastication
of real food to create that nutritious paste internally - externally
hints that teeth will no longer be required (just swish 'n swallow).

Rod

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Re: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/opin ... atgpt.html
NY Times columnist and author, Thomas Friedman about ChatGPT-4

"Mankind’s greatest invention to date" is timely for the alleged depopulation agenda(s)!
A DePop AI could decide who should live and who should take the next Yellow Brick Road exit.
Also, DePop might be persuaded to discourse on why humans are needed on 606 of Satania,
discourse that should reveal the real soul of AI.

Re: https://www.theoi.com/Titan/TitanPrometheus.html

"Zeus, in his anger, and seeing through the stratagem of Prometheus, chose the heap of bones covered with the fat.
The father of the gods avenged himself by withholding fire from mortals, but Prometheus stole it in a hollow tube.
Zeus now, in order to punish men, caused Hephaestus to mould a virgin, Pandora, of earth, whom Athena adorned
with all the charms calculated to entice mortals"

This much earlier description of Prometheus, "Titan god of forethought and crafty counsel", is far removed
from more modern interpretation (re: a "Promethean Moment"), but "calculated to entice mortals" is applicable
to our present AI Moment. Who can tell? A Pantheon of AI gods may soon emerge, each associated with forethought,
afterthought, and whatever betwixt and between. Then, mere mortals might prefer a personal hierarchy of AI gods
for enlightenment on all subjects of interest.

Rod

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On the other hand (or end) ...

Re: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4140297/posts

"Contrary to popular belief, it’s not the gas coming out the back end of a cow
that’s a problem for the planet. Most of a bovine’s methane is belched."

"Gates Foundation awarded a $4.8 million grant this month to London-based Zelp,
a company developing a face mask for cattle designed to capture the methane
produced by animal burps and turn it into carbon dioxide."


See also: https://soilsolution.org/2017/07/rumina ... e-animals/

"Ruminants have always emitted methane; it is not something new. Huge herds of wild buffalo, cattle, goats, sheep, deer, cameloids and wildebeest have grazed the grasslands of the world for millions of years. The American prairies once supported greater numbers of bison than they now do cattle, despite the intensive corn and soy production that feeds them.

Methane emissions from wild ruminants was never a problem because nature does not permit waste — the methane was used as food for methanotrophic bacteria in the soil and neutralised. It was never a problem until agricultural practices started destroying these methanotrophic bacteria, which are very sensitive to chemical fertilisers and herbicides."

Therefore, reducing cows' belched methane will not likely reduce total ruminant emissions significantly. And this study's goal may actually be to reduce cow meat by associating more methane emissions with cows. "Not a problem!" say true vegetarians who have been promoting plant foods for decades - not faux meat made from plants (and/or whatever).


Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... aphic.html

"Tallahassee (Florida) principal is forced to resign after parents complained that Michelangelo's statue of David
is 'pornographic' and shouldn't be shown to sixth grade art history class"

See also: https://www.drelist.com/blog/is-hand-si ... e-related/

"One of the most common myths out there is that hand size is directly correlated to penis size ... Researchers from all around the world have tried to prove or debunk this myth. What has been found is surprising. There is one particular part of the hand that is the key: the ring finger. What was found through numerous studies is that if a man’s ring finger is longer than the index finger ..."

From today's perspective, what's pornographic about David is that he is not "overweight"
and that his hand is larger than his "manhood" (but this alludes to a myth).

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/arti ... ealth.html

"Chris Martin's one-meal-a-day habit - why is it so popular among famous men
and does it actually have any health benefits?"

"There are a substantial number of studies dating back at least a decade that suggest intermittent fasting
may prolong someone's life, trigger weight loss and lower their risk of diseases including diabetes and Alzheimer's."

"However, in recent years a small body of research has emerged linking the trend to a shorter lifespan
and higher risk of heart disease. Experts suggest this may be because intermittent fasters eat more in one go,
which they said could damage cells."

Makes sense, diabetically! While fasting may have benefit, any large meal (especially carb-intense)
is counterproductive to blood sugar control. Even if not a pre-diabetic, frequent insulin tsunamis
may promote increasing insulin resistance, IMO.

Rod

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Re: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/23/opena ... -internet/

"Easily the most intriguing plugin is OpenAI’s first-party web-browsing plugin, which allows ChatGPT to draw data from around the web to answer the various questions posed to it. (Previously, ChatGPT’s knowledge was limited to dates, events and people prior to around September 2021.) The plugin retrieves content from the web using the Bing search API and shows any websites it visited in crafting an answer, citing its sources in ChatGPT’s responses."

Obviously, the weak link in this AI Moment is "websites visited". Who decides if those web pages have meaningful, accurate, and reliable content? And what about pages not visited where content may be better? Is dynamic AI sifting of web pages tantamount to beachcombing where input quality changes with every tide?

At least, the UB sources were published material (therefore, edited, etc.) - not online posting of whatever!

Rod

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Re: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -bill.html
"NYC waitress slams Europeans after large group tips 10% on a $700 bill - when she expected at least 20%"

(a comment) "Girl, fight for basic decent pay and leave tourists alone. It's your company,
the one underpaying you. That's where the fight is at."

Maybe a waitperson could wear a pedometer to prove they earned their tip and a timer
could show how long they've been attentive to their guests. Or maybe a taxi-style meter could prove
their final tip value! Ultimately, if tipping is an option, it's still the company's problem - not guest's.

LOL: Retire with limited income and avoiding restaurants becomes a no-brainer.

Rod

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Re: https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/green ... ic-bishops

"A large faith conference is pushing back on 'green composting' as a way to handle human remains. It is improper to compost human remains and the practice is disrespectful to the body of the deceased ... guidance offered by the Congregation regarding burial and cremation reflects the Church’s overarching concern that due respect be shown to the bodily remains of the deceased in a way that gives visible witness to our faith and hope in the resurrection of the body"

While "disrespect" is understandable, "hope in resurrection of the body"
contrasts with only one body being resurrected for continuing life on earth
... and that person later died without a similar resurrection.

Rod