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Kimmel claimed that we are “desperately” trying to evade the “fact” that the murderer was MAGA.

Well, guess what! that is a provable lie intended to damage us as a class.

What precludes us from filing a class action libel lawsuit against the bum????

The 8-0 1964 New York Times Co. v Sullivan decision was disgraceful.

This took some planning.

More than anything else, what it took was a satanic impulse to kill a prominent Christian.

Our minister call for peace and unity as opposed to division.

It is one thing to call the congregation to peace. It is another thing to call for unity when anyone claims that being unashamed of the gospel is “divisive.”

Nothing in the Constitution calls the gospel divisive. The clear historical precedents of the First Amendment say otherwise. Any Christian should reject the conceit that christianity is evil, and any Christian who shrinks from condemning harshly anti christian rhetoric needs to look hard in the mirror.

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth - Romans 1:16, KJV

Charlie Kirk’s public words are those of a man who was not ashamed of the gospel.

I would be satisfied, lacking the ability of ressurecting Charlie Kirk, with a congressional resolution to the effect that Kirk, while he labored to always be respectful, believed that his words reflected truth - and that, protestations of atheists to the contrary notwithstanding, he had the right to express his beliefs.

The main trick would be to deputize census takers as ICE agents. They wouldn’t find many illegal aliens . . . but that’s the point, isn’t it?

I drive a Tesla - say rather, my Tesla drives me. Tesla “Full Self Driving” isn’t perfect, but it’s getting close. Most excursions I don’t have to intervene and take control - except in parking lots. It is great for long trips, because at my age I get completely worn out if I try to drive as long at one sitting as I used to. But running under FSD the “driver” is just a safety monitor.

And Tesla’s intention now is to be able to lift the driver supervision requirement. That would theoretically allow me to start my trip at night, and wake up at my destination in the morning. Even if that becomes legal, it might take awhile for me to trust it that much, but . . .

In discussing battery charging it’s easy to overlook the chargers that Tesla owners typically have in their garages. The one I have only cost about $400, and will operate on either 110 or 220, plugging into a wall socket. My routine use doesn’t even require me to be assiduous about always having the charger plugged into 110 v when the car is in the garage. There is also such a thing as varying electric rates with the time of day/night.

But on trips the fast chargers are obviously needed. The problem with having the “Biden Administration” paying for fast chargers was that they were hostile to Tesla, and wouldn’t accept its bid which would always have been a much better deal for the government and the public. My batteries are good, nominally, for just over 300 miles if fully charged. I emphasize that because the recommendation is not to charge above 80% routinely for best battery life. And the “fast” chargers slow down when approaching, let alone exceeding, 80%. So what you want to do is drive for roughly 180 miles, Stop at a charger and for a cup of coffee, wait another ten minutes or so, and proceed on your way. Not a huge inconvenience, unless you really get out in the boondocks. Then it is possible to have difficulty. In Tennessee I had to hold down my speed on an Interstate once, to nurste the battery so as to reach the next charger. Because the friends I had visited really were living in the boonies.

Any increase in population will require more C02 to increase food supply.

. . . but countries worldwide are experiencing sub-replacement level birth rates.

My kids history books lied about the 60’s, war on poverty, vietnam. When AI does the same thing what will we say?

Elon Musk made an honest web site of Twitter, and I have some confidence that his Grok will, as he loudly mandates, make AI “maximally truth-seeking,"

Agreed

Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Programming.

I submit that the ideal educator is a mentor who challenges the (actually a single ) student to think. And to correct his/her own errors. An individual mentor for each student doesn’t scale. But it very well could be possible for AI to synthesize a mentor for each student; that would scale. Especially in a home school setting. But then, if there are multiple children in a given home, a single AI teacher might synthesize a salutary one-room-schoolhouse effect.

“Students and our country need to be in relationship with other human beings,” said Randi Weingarten, the president of . . . a teachers’ union. “When you have a school that is strictly A.I., it is violating that core precept of the human endeavor and of education.”

I come from a line of teachers - Mother, Father, both grandfathers, and one grandmother taught. Dad did switch to a more remunerative line of work, but . . .

A consequence was that when we were taught grammar in class it seemed redundant to me - if a statement were ungrammatical it would sound wrong to me, and if it weren’t it wouldn’t. Pretty much that was it.

My mother was in the National Education Association long before it became a union, and I was saddened when she said she had to walk a picket line. I would have felt worse yet, had I foreseen the depravity - practicing on the vulnerability of immature, confused children and adolescents to gull them into transgenderism, teaching them contempt for the founders of America, etc.

I remember when solar panel cost-effectiveness was so bad that it was not sensible to use it when any other option was any good at all. Eg, powering satellites.

But there is a very important “law” to take into account: Wright’s Law, which states that when you double the total quantity ever produced of a given thing again and again, you will concomitantly improve your production methods to achieve that - with the result that unit cost of production will, with each doubling, decline by the same the same percentage.

This means that if you plot unit cost on a log scale against total quantity produced, also on a log scale you will find that a straight line fits the data quite well.

You’ve heard of Moore’s Law, about the unit cost of transistors in computer chips falling in half every year or two? You can get the same prediction by Wright’s Law if you assume that the rate of production of such transistors happens to increase at a geometrical rate.

The thing that has snuck up on the general public (and here I have to include my own self) is that for many decades the production of solar panels has been mounting up - with the result that the cost-effectiveness of solar panels has been improved drastically since the time solar panels got the bad rap most of us grew up associating with them.

. . . and it is that dramatic improvement which accounts for an engineering wunderkind such as Elon Musk declaring that the way to harness nuclear fusion is to use solar panels to get the energy from the nuclear fusion reactor in the sky. And to use rechargeable batteries (note that the production of such batteries has likewise gone ballistic in recent decades) to store solar energy for when the sun isn’t shining.

. . . and the value of batteries is not restricted to their use in conjunction w/ solar panels; anywhere electric rates vary w/ time of day is a potential application. Note that solar panels are now cheap enough to make it practical to install more than the minimum required by the best case - such that cloudy weather still can produce enough energy.

Hi, rlmorel.

The Dems know that anything that isn’t their policy record is ‘way better than anything that is about their policy record.

Democrats and other anti-Trump factions are hot on the extremely cold trail what they like to suppose Donald Trump might, just might have done evil in his private life before he was a politician and before he was a Republican.

Nothing can be said according to them, however, of the political crimes of Obama (and his minions in the intel community) or of Biden. Not just of Biden's Afghanistan debacle costing many lives and vast treasure, but just the average day in which people with any and every possible motive were allowed, encouraged and aided to infiltrate the country - in numbers past counting.

if AI tool is provided with federal Constitution, Supreme Court case opinions, federal laws, also writings of respected constitutional experts, then it should be able to throw out 99+ percent of unconstitutionally big federal government imo.

In fact, its drafters never intended for lawmaker job of the constitutionally limited power (hint) federal government to be a full time job

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The central misapprehension, IMHO, which infected constitutional law was the passage and implementation of the amendment mandating direct election of senators. The original constitution states that no state can be denied its equal representation in the senate w/o its consent, but in actuality no state government is now represented in the senate . . . and representation in the senate of the state governments was always the intention of the framers of the Constitution. Without that, the states are neutered by people such as those who infested the Warren Court. Who had scant respect for the state governments and no fear of their influence in the senate.

The trouble with expecting AI to fix the anomalies produced by that is that the people take for granted that direct election of senators is a good thing. And no computer program is likely to disabuse them of that notion

which gets back, btw, to my point about what AI needs to be constructed to do: not only to figure out the answer to a given question but to present it in a powerfully persuasive way. Achieve that, and what you then have is an educator. We won’t need no stinking’ teachers then.

First Doge subjects government departments to actual audits.

Now they assay to use AI to identify regulations no longer required by law.

I could learn to like those guys . . .

(I actually have been an Elon fan ever since he made an honest web site out of Twitter - not that I identify with the concept of a “third” - really umpteenth - party)

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. . . and one revelation after another, in reality, worse than Watergate.