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Rights and Duties, Privileges and Obligations

Blog Thoughts, Current News, politics

[Warning: this is a polemic. I use generalizations and trends. To any who think “but not all X are like that,” yes, I know, and this doesn’t apply to those people. This could likely be turned into a really great sermon. Few preachers would, because he fears what his wife will say… Onward!]

Back in the Old Testament days,  God and His people had a deal. An arrangement. A covenant. We worshipped Him, He saved our souls. We had duties and obligations, which came with perks and privileges. There was order and hierarchy. When we did our duty to God and each other, life was good, and when we didn’t, things got pretty rocky. After a while, we’d “pull our head out,” and beg for forgiveness, He’d bail us out, and things would get better for a while. Then we’d forget our duties and obligations God and each other and things would fall apart. Wash, rinse, repeat. Again and again. That is the cyclical story in the OT. Believing, falling away, getting warnings, crashing and burning (cue Sodom and Gomora, Noah, etc.),  repenting, and getting back on track with tradition.  Continue reading Rights and Duties, Privileges and Obligations →

Rapidly Advancing AI, and some problems

Current News, Education, politics, science

Artificial Intelligence, AI, such as the LLMs Grok, Claude, Chat-GPT, etc., are now advancing at an incredible rate.

I’ve seen several people post references to this, Something Big Is Happening, recently, and related AI-disruptions in business like Bro-Bots at the bottom of this Coffee and Covid blog post. Related to this with specific examples in video, Claude Opus 4.6: The Biggest AI Jump I’ve Covered–It’s Not Close. (Here’s What You Need to Know) Given the predicate of my first novel is AI gone wrong, and redeeming itself, commenting on developments is quite appropriate and in-theme for this blog.

Right off the top of my head, there are several things to address, aside from all the military applications (a huge topic on its own).  We have the economics of the AI industry itself, confidentiality / privacy / privilege of the queries and output, marriage-market and social disruption from job losses, legal liability for decision / actions taken because of AI outputs, raising up the next generation of leaders who know enough on their own without AI to sanity-check AI output, socioeconomic disruption from job losses due to AI replacement, electrical power and cooling demands (more electricity and/or lots of water).

Military applications, and disruptions that come from new tech advances brought about by AI are huge and complex and speculative, worthy of long essays in their own rights.
Continue reading Rapidly Advancing AI, and some problems →

Medical NAxALT

Current News, Disease, politics

The NAxALT Fallacy (Not All [x] Are Like That) is the idea that because you can point to an exception to a generalization, it fails. Some people think that finding a specific counter-example of some item (the “x”), that the general statement about that group is not only not a useful generalization, it is likely totally invalid and  baseless, erroneous, biased, counterproductive, and maybe even racist, bigoted, and saying it is a potential hate-crime. It’s often used, either with good intent or ill, to derail or side-track an argument rather than try to understand the core issue. This is especially true of personally uncomfortable topics. Yes, yes, we KNOW that we are making a generalization, and there are exceptions. Yes, sure, of course there are marginal and messy cases. That doesn’t invalidate the general statement as a useful heuristic to understanding what’s going in in the world. Continue reading Medical NAxALT →

Sending your kids to die for ZOG

Current News, History, politics

“The US will have to send their sons and daughters… and they will have to fight, because it’s NATO we’re talking about.” – Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
gab.com/Dissidentsoaps/posts/109945042140176028

The RUS-UKR war is a meat grinder, particularly on the UKR side. The more I learn about the last 1.5 centuries of military and political history, the more I think that is actually one of the main goals. Kill off young men, particularly healthy, creative, Christian, disciplined and honorable white men. Not the only goal, to be sure, but a significant one. “War is a racket,” said Smedley Butler long ago in the book of that title, and a very profitable one. But what can make it even more profitable is if you can kill off your domestic competition in the trenches, too. Continue reading Sending your kids to die for ZOG →

How and why education “suddenly” went Marxist

Conspiracy, Current News, Education, History, politics

Sometimes you watch events happen in real time and it looks absolutely insane and inexplicable, totally at odds with any sort of reasonable and observable reality. You search in vain for any sort of coherent explanation that doesn’t sound to a normie like a total wingnut conspiracy theory, even if you think you have the broad strokes correct. Such is the case with modern “education” in America, where it’s got totally off the rails and deep into a bizarre inverted funhouse-mirror world of Marxist dysfunction, where the teachers and admins appear normal in some ways, but act like total blind cult devotees in others. Continue reading How and why education “suddenly” went Marxist →

Happy 4th, I guess

Current News, Home life, politics

Another anniversary of the declaration of independence. We’ve made some progress on the freedom front in the last week or two, with court cases like WV v EPA  and NY v Bruen.

But the world is still upside down, vax mandates are still killing people, woke is corrupting everything it touches, conservatives can’t keep Guido “Vivian” VanCreeper out of the girls locker room or from reading to the kids at Drag Queen story hour where the word of the day is “grooming.” Taxes are up, inflation is up, gas is up, the economy is imploding, shortages are everywhere, deflation is queued up to whipsaw things in a few months, and the Biden admin and his handlers are hell-bent on starting WWIII (nuclear edition) in UKR, while importing the entire 3rd world here to collect welfare bennies.

Other nations are spiraling the drain. Sharing vax memes on social media can get your midwife license pulled in Australia, for example. Totalitarianism is not creeping, it’s at full charge in many places.

As one person commented at Gab, “the 4th day of the 7th month just doesn’t hit any more. Feels more like a mom who invites everyone over to celebrate the birthday of her dead child.”

Yeah. Kind’a like that.

There are many specific things to be seriously bummed about. World, hell, handbasket, some assembly required. On the flip side, there are only vague and shadowy rumors of what might be going well in the dim shadows of the clandestine war to take the country back from the usurpers and cons and compromised and traitorous.

In spite of all that, I’m actually rather hopeful that a whole lot of things will sort themselves out. Things didn’t look too rosy on December 8th, 1941, either. There is actually a lot of good in the world, and a lot of good people, people are slowly waking up to some of the evils of the world that have been hidden and festering for a long time. The country and the world has a rocky few years ahead. Maybe a rough few decades. But hard times make strong men. Times have been soft here for generations. We’ll muddle through.

Well. Happy 4th.

That was (relatively) fast

Current News, Guns, politics

The Supreme court has directed district courts to reconsider some cases in light of the Bruen decision.
SUPREME COURT REVERSES LOWER COURT RULINGS ON MAG BAN, “ASSAULT WEAPONS” BAN, CARRY BAN

One of these, the 9th Circuit item, will directly affect the WA state mag limit law. They said:

Petition GRANTED. Judgment VACATED and case REMANDED for further consideration in light of New York State Rifle & Pistol Assn., Inc. v. Bruen, 597 U. S. ___ (2022).

It should be a pretty much immediate “that law isn’t legal, it’s struck down” this week. I think Joe’s take is more realistic, quote:

My prediction:

  1. They will initially say it doesn’t apply to them because the case remanded was in California and Washington is “different”.
  2. They should be prosecuted, but nothing will happen in that direction.
  3. SAF’s lawsuit will have to go to the judge which will respond to a petition for summary judgement.
  4. The judge will delay because the 9th Circuit is taking their time responding to reality.
  5. The 9th Circuit will delay at least a few months.
  6. The Washington case will be resolved a month or more after the 9th decides.

So… we will be deprived of our rights until the end of the year or maybe the first quarter of 2023. And none of the criminals who deprived us of our rights will even be considered for prosecution.

End quote.

Sadly, he’s likely correct. Maybe it can be made a winning issue in the election.