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Discussing medicine, culture, and the joys of cooking Pansit.Nancy Reyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14910134058143426327noreply@blogger.comBlogger18805110tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10197326.post-84598821173926121582024-03-19T08:08:00.000+08:002024-03-19T08:08:11.154+08:00No. AI can't think (and the NYTimes can't use google).<span style="font-size: large;">So Elon Musk has released a code about his version of AI/chatbot, which he calls Grok.</span><p><a href="https://instapundit.com/637391/#disqus_thread"><span style="font-size: large;">Instapundit link</span></a></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">NYTimes article is behind a paywall but <a href="https://archive.is/20240318174546/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/technology/chatbot-xai-code-musk.html">IArchives</a> had it on the wayback machine, and the <a href="https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/18/grok_chatbot_code_released/">Register discsuses the issue HERE</a>..</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;">By opening the code up for everyone to view and use — known as open sourcing — Mr. Musk waded further into a heated debate in the A.I. world over whether doing so could help make the technology safer, or simply open it up to misuse....</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The move to open-source chatbot code is the latest volley between Mr. Musk and ChatGPT’s creator, OpenAI, which the mercurial billionaire sued recently over breaking its promise to do the same. </span></p></blockquote><blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;">Mr. Musk, who was a founder and helped fund OpenAI before departing several years later, has argued such an important technology should not be controlled solely by tech giants like Google and Microsoft, which is a close partner of OpenAI.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The discussion is a bit technical for grannies like myself: I have had a computer since the early 1980s but am still stuck in the past with things like blogger. But my granddaughter says all the high school kids she teaches use chat bot etc to write papers.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I believe the danger is twoford: One: the left leaning bias of their informaion and Two: they can lie.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> But the big issue:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Letting only tech giants to use it gives them a huge control over the internet. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Letting every high school sophmore get hold of the code sort of messes that idea up.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">and of course, by posting the code, it undermines the idea that the computer is a thinking machine, instead of just something that searches and juggles information out there. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I posted a video on this before: by saying the machine is an independent thinker, those with the agenda to demolish the idea of God and free will and the importance of humanity can manipulate people</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AcxAYo4QyeQ" title="Elon Musk STUNNING Reveal of Grok | NOT aligned, MUCH Bigger, Open Source. There is no doubt left..." width="640"></iframe>................</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">.background about the power fight: interview with Altman. I post it to listen to it later.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jvqFAi7vkBc" title="Sam Altman: OpenAI, GPT-5, Sora, Board Saga, Elon Musk, Ilya, Power & AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #419" width="640"></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">fast forward to 1:38 where he asks Altman if he wants that much power.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Don't ask me: I'm a doctor, not a computer expert.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">...................</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">However, unlike the NYTimes, I do read science fiction and geeky stuff.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> I had to laugh at the ignorance of the expert reports at the NYTimes when they write this:</span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">Grok, which is designed to give snarky replies styled after the science-fiction novel “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” is a product from xAI, the company Mr. Musk founded last year.</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">silly me. Anyone around in the 1980s know that<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok"> Grok comes from Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange land.</a>and means to understand intuitively, but the term has been picked up by computer geeks to explain how they intuitively understand code and programs. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Being a partial geek, I understand that part: it is how I do math, and sometimes diagnose patients: the pattern behind things appear without a logical path to figure it out. Which is why I am not a good teacher: teachers have to teach step by step, and I just intuitively grasp what is going on.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">but you know: If the writers don't even know this basic fact, you wonder how much of the article is accurate.</span></p><p>
</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>Nancy Reyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14910134058143426327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10197326.post-30352088858481957512024-03-19T05:16:00.003+08:002024-03-19T17:15:05.615+08:00the world turns upside down<span style="font-size: large;">the Pope preaches global warming and preaches as if all Christians were affluent elites from European countries where no one goes to church, instead of preaching to the poor. Indeed, for him the poor are like pets, for him to care for, not humans whose lives might be made better with a factory job instead of handouts from a rich outsider.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br />And instead of pointing out the importance of motherhood for women and that women should use their feminine/maternal gifts in their work (for example, women doctors approach patients differently, in a motherly way: something well documented in the medical literature), he thinks making the activist feminists into female deacons is the answer: which of course is his stealth way to let women be priests .</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">This is not about equality of course: it is to impose a world view that women and men are interchangable and identical in their biology, and all that leads to. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">But of course we catholics know that letting uberfeminist often lesbian nuns to influence the church
will lead to teachings that men and women are the same, not men and women are yin/yang and both needed in the world and that people are not isolated individuals doing their thing but part of a family, and that family, not job success, should be the basis of one's life.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Of course, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin_and_yang">Yin/yang is an Asian concept,</a> but hey, don't go to Asia for wisdom, or ask Africans about the importance of the family: listen to openly gay rich European experts from countries where no one goes to church.<br />
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;">in the meanwhile, who dares to preach the gospel?<br /><br />well, a quick look on youtube reminds one of Christ's saying that if you (i.e. the church authorities of his day) remain silent, then the stones will cry out.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">so an agnostic <a href="https://youtu.be/_2V8nKqLkFg">Jordan Peterson</a> leads the anti woke brigade who discusses the need to help people rebuild their life, and people like <a href="https://youtube.com/shorts/X9Bn29DZy2g?si=dAwv8FXxZdKrvpuR">Jim Carey</a> are preaching that God died for our sins.
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">heh. Who wudda thot?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">....................</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">update: The synodality people didn't go along with the Pope's agenda, so he is revising the meeting to make sure they approve of his heresies.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/myuzfgzjWsQ" title="Pope Francis Changes Structure of the Synod on Synodality | EWTN News Nightly" width="640"></iframe></p></div><span style="font-size: large;"> or as <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/00357168852208499013">EcclesIsSaved</a> blog explains:
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.</p><span style="font-size: large;"><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">The May 2021 conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas generated headlines around the world. </blockquote><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">However, much of the reporting ignored the history, funding, political dynamics, and other key components of the story. </blockquote><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">Hamas initiates conflict every few years, but the reporting rarely improves. </blockquote><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">Social media has only further clouded the picture. Hamas is rarely held responsible for its use of "human shields," blindly firing rockets at civilian areas in Israel, or diverting aid that should benefit the people of Gaza.
</blockquote><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">The Islamic Republic of Iran, a state sponsor of terrorism, has been the primary patron of Hamas since the group's inception in the late 1980s.</blockquote><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">Hamas has received additional assistance over the years from Qatar, Turkey and Malaysia. These countries are fomenting conflict, while others, such as Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, have tried to minimize it. Gaza is therefore ground zero in a struggle for the future stability of the Middle East.
</blockquote><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">The Biden administration has important choices to make. Its intent to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal could have significant consequences, given that sanctions relief to Iran will likely yield a financial boon for Hamas, along with other Iranian proxies. </blockquote><blockquote style="font-style: italic;">The Biden administration must also come to terms with "The Squad," a small but loud faction of the Democratic Party that seeks to undermine US-Israel relations.</blockquote><p style="font-style: italic;"> </p><p>The propaganda of showing the wounded civilians, and the high number of casualties that stress civilians not soldiers killed, is being used to undermine the backstory: That if Hamas is not stopped, it is not just a threat to Israel but to the Arab countries in the Middle East.</p><p>Iran's used of the Houthis to bomb Saudi has been going on for years, and now is being used against shipping, which is threatening not only to raise prices for the west, but is a direct threat to Egypt's economy.</p><p>Yet none of this is being discussed, and as to the press: if it bleeds, it leads.</p><p>Israel did not release photos of the dead and mutilated by Hamas in their attack against civilians, out of respect for their families. Yet the MSM has ignored what happened then, since that story is now "old"... too often the press and the social media prefer to just repeat press reports from Hamas propaganda outlets, often echoed by tainted UN reports, or reports from the clueless left, who has decided to turn on Israel and promote gangsters.</p><p>Sigh.</p><p>This is a war of civilizations: Not Islam vs the West, but of a radical form of Islam that has more in common with the Nazis and Marxism than with the beliefs of the majority of Muslims.</p><p>And the propaganda war is more about persuading these Muslims that they are victims of the west and need to join them.</p><p>The fact that Iran is the puppetmaster behind all of this is ignored of course.</p><p>By the way: Did you read that the <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/iran-s-repression-of-protesters-and-women-amounts-to-crimes-against-humanity-un-report-says/ar-BB1jAiyO">UN just condemned Iran </a>for their human rights violations against women?</p><p></p><blockquote>Iran’s “repression of peaceful protests” and “institutional discrimination against women and girls” has led to human rights violations, some of which amount to “crimes against humanity,” according to a United Nations’ report.
</blockquote><blockquote>Such violations and crimes include “extrajudicial and unlawful killings and murder, unnecessary and disproportionate use of force, arbitrary deprivation of liberty, torture, rape, enforced disappearances, and gender persecution,” the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) said in a press release Friday.</blockquote><p>Sigh. </p><p>.....................</p><p>update:</p><p></p></span><iframe width="873" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dHcPO7ckaVU" title="LIVE: Holton and Mitchell Discuss US Intel Report on Israel" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Nancy Reyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14910134058143426327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10197326.post-77896637040556204042024-03-16T23:17:00.001+08:002024-03-16T23:17:10.663+08:00Haiti<span style="font-size: large;">BBC article on what is going on in Haiti:</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PkzR-jFR45E" title="Haiti: Gang violence crisis: BBC News Review" width="640"></iframe>
</span><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">the<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/hunger-soars-and-aid-dwindles-as-gangs-in-haiti-suffocate-the-country/ar-BB1jZbV4"> AP article on the hunger and anarchy </a>in Haiti. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span></span><span></span></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><span><br /></span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><span>some 1.4 million Haitians are on the verge of famine, and more than 4 million require food aid, sometimes eating only once a day or nothing at all, aid groups say.
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“Haiti is facing a protractive and mass hunger,” Jean-Martin Bauer, Haiti director for the United Nation’s World Food Program, told The Associated Press. He noted that Croix-des-Bouquets, in the eastern part of Haiti’s capital, “has malnutrition rates comparable with any war zone in the world.”</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This is a long analysis of Haiti: and he is very blunt about the problem.</span></p><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/r9Jl2YxKiNc" title="LIVE: Failed State - Haiti in Flames" width="640"></iframe><p><span style="font-size: large;">Fetal and neonatal malnutrition is the cause of the low IQ. I saw this a lot in Liberia, and in the US, immigrants from Ireland and Poland in the past had the same problem for the same reason. <br />A lot of the analysis is very hard line, but alas it is true.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Just throwing in money just makes the corrupt rich. Something to remember when you read about the UN planning to send money to poor countries because of global warming. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><span style="font-size: large;">this <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/11/haiti-and-the-failed-promise-of-us-aid">2019 article from the UK Guardian</a> gives an analysis of the failure of aid before and after the earthquake ten years earlier.</span><p></p></div></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">No, I have never been in Haiti, but our church in Pennsylvania had a sister church there. And I know doctors who worked in clinics there. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">But although this is very bad, there are dozens of countries that have slightly less problems, and yes I have worked in some of those countries.</span></div>Nancy Reyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14910134058143426327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10197326.post-59418664234727122472024-03-14T09:02:00.006+08:002024-03-14T09:04:03.728+08:00the good news for today: more kids alive<a href="https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1918340/childhood-deaths-at-record-low-un?utm_source=(direct)&utm_medium=gallery"><span style="font-size: large;">Childhood deaths are down.</span></a><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">
“Behind these numbers lie the stories of midwives and skilled health personnel helping mothers safely deliver their newborns… vaccinating… children against deadly diseases, and (making) home visits to support families,” Unicef Executive Director Catherine Russell said in a statement. </span></blockquote><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdEmGJ5ptshgv5ULopBrtBA4wv5qUZ_6IrfPD44BVg_KjGtoLYS-TOd8gfQLxGrDSG0FGHVLPX7Sy2MGbJpdBBnCnwFgGbTHJ3vIT5UiUl8WqiqX-P8BCTHwPJIKtExHLNILpZN5cEJJmj6rbPVmiPVRsDofhPUZkBgU307YqlkJnoFyw0_mV/s662/child-mortality.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="" border="0" data-original-height="662" data-original-width="596" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdEmGJ5ptshgv5ULopBrtBA4wv5qUZ_6IrfPD44BVg_KjGtoLYS-TOd8gfQLxGrDSG0FGHVLPX7Sy2MGbJpdBBnCnwFgGbTHJ3vIT5UiUl8WqiqX-P8BCTHwPJIKtExHLNILpZN5cEJJmj6rbPVmiPVRsDofhPUZkBgU307YqlkJnoFyw0_mV/w576-h640/child-mortality.jpg" width="576" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdEmGJ5ptshgv5ULopBrtBA4wv5qUZ_6IrfPD44BVg_KjGtoLYS-TOd8gfQLxGrDSG0FGHVLPX7Sy2MGbJpdBBnCnwFgGbTHJ3vIT5UiUl8WqiqX-P8BCTHwPJIKtExHLNILpZN5cEJJmj6rbPVmiPVRsDofhPUZkBgU307YqlkJnoFyw0_mV/s662/child-mortality.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdEmGJ5ptshgv5ULopBrtBA4wv5qUZ_6IrfPD44BVg_KjGtoLYS-TOd8gfQLxGrDSG0FGHVLPX7Sy2MGbJpdBBnCnwFgGbTHJ3vIT5UiUl8WqiqX-P8BCTHwPJIKtExHLNILpZN5cEJJmj6rbPVmiPVRsDofhPUZkBgU307YqlkJnoFyw0_mV/s662/child-mortality.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdEmGJ5ptshgv5ULopBrtBA4wv5qUZ_6IrfPD44BVg_KjGtoLYS-TOd8gfQLxGrDSG0FGHVLPX7Sy2MGbJpdBBnCnwFgGbTHJ3vIT5UiUl8WqiqX-P8BCTHwPJIKtExHLNILpZN5cEJJmj6rbPVmiPVRsDofhPUZkBgU307YqlkJnoFyw0_mV/s662/child-mortality.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></a></div><p></p><span style="font-size: large;">For example, after throwing out the Taliban, midwife training led to a huge decrease in maternal/child deaths. </span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Routine vaccinations also lowered the death rate from measles and whooping cough.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">and encouraging family planning that enables spacing of children, along with encouraging prolonged breast feeding, also helps.<br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span><p><span style="font-size: large;">and the general lowering of the poverty rate led to better food so the kids had better immune systems. That is why the covid shutdown was a disaster here in the third world.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">the resurgence of an obsolete form of Islamic fanaticism will reverse these trends in many countries.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> And the anti vax types will ignore the good of the vaccines leading to deaths.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">and the green movement to ban fossil fuels will make the economy worse by raising food prices and by subtle things like making LGP gas to cook with too expensive, so back to using wood (causing indoor pollution and asthma in kids, not to mention deforestation).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Sigh.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p></p></div>Nancy Reyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14910134058143426327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10197326.post-55762007193113190412024-03-14T08:23:00.003+08:002024-03-14T09:16:41.283+08:00Headlines we got um<span style="font-size: large;">a follow up of my previous rant about Iran being the puppetmaster behind the latest war against Israel and the west:</span><p><iframe allow="autoplay" allowtransparency="allowtransparency" frameborder="0" height="95" sandbox="allow-downloads allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation" scrolling="no" src="https://embeds.audioboom.com/posts/8472873/embed?v=202301" style="background-color: transparent; display: block; padding: 0; width: 100%;" title="Audioboom player" width="100%"></iframe></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">all the stuff on Gaza casualties is of course exaggerated and much of it is violence porn and sophisticated so that it makes you want to hate Israel. but never mind. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">............</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">and then there is this. </span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: large;">BREAKING INSIDE THE PENTAGON: Associate Director in the Office of the Secretary of Defense says, “Why not just have an open border?” “Tear down the wall.”<br /><br />“I think we should repeal the Second Amendment and take the guns all away!” says Jason Beck, who has a classified security… <a href="https://t.co/QSuXmgQAPz">pic.twitter.com/QSuXmgQAPz</a></span></p><span style="font-size: large;">— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1768009862963728480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2024</a></span></blockquote> <span style="font-size: large;"><script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span><p><span style="font-size: large;">remember this guy has a secret clearance, showing you that all that any nincompoop can get a security clearance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">and a virus experts explains why <a href="https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/109112?xid=nl_secondopinion_2024-03-12&eun=g1881947d0r">banning gain of function research is like silencing Galileo. </a>But unlike Galileo, he didn't kill a couple million folks with a lab leak.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">most biolabs are about identifying illnesses in animals: an example would be when Ebola Reston infected a bunch of pigs in a nearby farm. But a year ago there was a story here about EcoHealth trying to fund a lab here, not to help with these needed investigations, but to investigate illnesses in wild animals that might evolve to hurt humans. Luckily the Senate stopped it because they found the<a href="https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_HDTRA12310006_9761"> US Dept of Defence was funding it</a>. But nothing in the news since then, so I hope the gov't stopped them from doing germ warfare stuff here.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">and <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/multimedia/harvards-unscientific-consensus">another story of how an expert who opposed some of the covid </a>shutdown policies was punished.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">it was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration">the Great Barrington Declaratio</a>n.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">see above post about Galileo. But hey, it's okay to use a 400 year old mistake to destroy Catholicism, but don't dare criticize Pope Fauci.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">and the rot isn't limited to the medical leaders in the CDC and medical societies/journals that should have published these questions.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.popsci.com/technology/boeing-faa-audit/">Audit of Boeing's practices</a> suggests a sloppiness that is dangerous and might sink that company's ability to sell airplanes. And the "suicide" of a whistleblower right before he was scheduled to testify makes things worse.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: large;">and a lot of people are now willing to stand up and say: Wait a second. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">
<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k7ra7s-NYe0" title="Your Employees' Fear Is Costing You A Lot" width="640"></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">-------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">
I thought Dr Phil was a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Phil_%28talk_show%29"> new age guru in Oprah's religion</a>. But now he is talking to Jordan Peterson?!</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M1ieymZMs5g" title="Are We Silently Allowing Society's Downfall?" width="640"></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">.................</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">years ago, an Irish friend told me the press was very anti Catholic because they saw the church standing in the way of modern policies of what we call woke. So far they have succeeded, but last week's vote suggested push back.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5rHPOZgHrrw" title="Western society mainstream ‘rejecting overtures’ of ‘political class and elites’" width="640"></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">of course this is the spin by the experts that give you an idea of how this is being reframed to explain why those deplorables didn't do it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VJ8kDZst4to" title="Irish voters reject referendum to remove 'sexist' language from the constitution | SBS News" width="640"></iframe></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">reminds one how they pushed a hysterical narrative about a death of a woman from sepsis from a botched and illegal second trimester abortion into the need to legalize abortion.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">
The bad news is that after Ireland rejected the Mastrict treaty, they simply started a propaganda campaign and promises of prosperity and it squeaked through in a revote.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">so expect the same thing here.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">finally, I know nothing about tiktok, but the addiction to social media was made worse by the isolation during the covid quarantines. It is not good for one's mental health, and you can be quickly sucked into a rabbit hole of the latest thing. But heck, talk radio has done that for years. The difference? The kids are more vulnerable to being groomed/brainwashed.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b0Fxzsco7oU" title="What Will Happen If TikTok Is Banned in the US | EWTN News Nightly" width="640"></iframe> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">.....</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Rand Paul's take on the issue:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-size: large;">🧵1/2<br /><br />Reactionaries who want to ban TikTok claim the data can’t be secured because the “algorithm” is in China. <br /><br />Not true. <br /><br />The truth is the Algorithm runs in the U.S. in oracle cloud with their review of the code. (NOT in China). <br /><br />Maybe we should examine the facts before…</span></p><span style="font-size: large;">— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) <a href="https://twitter.com/RandPaul/status/1767886220451824097?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2024</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script>
<p> As to China mining data: heck, the FBI is doing that already from Facebook, </p><p></p><p></p><p></p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">and of course Chinese hackers stole my OPM file a couple years ago, along with the OPM files of over a million military and gov't employees. We were told it was criminals, but hey it was the Chinese gov't who now knows all about us.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> The answer might be to take cellphones away from vulnerable kids. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">My sister in law forbad facebook years ago because her daughter's skating team was ridiculed so much it was putting her into a deep depression. I should note that since then, she has skated with a professional ice skating company for one season, but now has switched to being a physical therapist instead of a PhysEd teacher for team skating.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I stopped going to facebook about four years ago because it was full of hate stuff posted by friends and relativesm, and have had to limit my tweeting viewership because of this extreme partisanship distorts reality.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And hey, with the election coming, it will get worse.</span></p><p></p><p>
</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>Nancy Reyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14910134058143426327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10197326.post-14616513787043414542024-03-13T17:47:00.001+08:002024-03-13T17:47:09.431+08:00A film of Chinese overfishing in the west Philippine sea<p><br /></p><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hEgWtoUI2M0" title="AFP: Over 50 Chinese ships, fishing boats spotted in West PH Sea | ANC" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe>Nancy Reyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14910134058143426327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10197326.post-34145545029050571112024-03-13T01:59:00.005+08:002024-03-13T01:59:41.166+08:00Iran will push violence in the proxies for Ramadan<p><span style="font-size: large;"> Everyone assumes that the Hamas attacks against Israel was about the Palestinians.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Uh, wait a second: Hamas is run by Iran.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">and what about all those stories about Israel bombing Lebanon for no reason?</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The 100 thousand rockets in southern Lebanon are owned and operated by Hezbollah, which again is an Iranian proxy, and they have indeed sent a few to bomb Israel, but that part didn't get in the press. Why haven't they gone fully into the war? Because there are a lot of Sunni Muslims and Christians there who could restart that country's civil war, and hey if they want to plunder money from the country they need peace. Money is more important than religion you know.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://strategypage.com/qnd/syria/articles/20240308.aspx">Hezbollah is using Syria </a>as a center to attack Israel too. That is why you read every now and then about Israeli airstrikes into that country.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Then there are the Houthis. These rebels don't run the place, only part of it, but they have been bombing Saudi for years (and don't even ask feminists why they haven't noticed their mistreatment of women there). And yes, they are funded by Iran.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The Houthis are against Israel and are using this as an excuse for using expensive missiles to hit civilian ships (and killing a few Filipino seamen while they are at it). What does this have to do with Israel? Nothing. But it is a twofer: They make the west look weak, and by <a href="https://strategypage.com/htmw/htseamo/articles/20240303.aspx">diverting shipping from the Suez canal, they can hurt the Egyptian economy,</a> and maybe have the Muslim brotherhood stage a rebellion there too. After all, Egypt, which had owned Gaza for 3000 years, but now refuses to allow the refugees (read a few civilians and lots of terrorists) enter into Egyptian territory is also the enemy.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">and now, of course, when Israel goes into the west bank to arrest terrorists there, you won't read why they did this.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">If you believe the propaganda that this is the poor Palestinians, you are wrong. It is Iran trying to intimidate the local Arab countries into letting them reestablish their Persian empire. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But hey, <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-health-ministry-fakes-casualty-numbers">inflating casualties</a> and filling the press with violence porn works.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And Ramadan, the season of fasting that is supposed to let you be humble before God, is now here.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">But the Crazies/Islamoterrorists think Ramadan is about killing their enemies. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">So the news are full of Gaza violence porn propaganda against Israel, with the press obediently reporting what Hamas says as if they never lied.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Sigh. </span></p>Nancy Reyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14910134058143426327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10197326.post-11066642399942135702024-03-12T16:57:00.006+08:002024-03-12T16:57:36.328+08:00family news<span style="font-size: large;">The house has been chaotic an noisy for the last two weeks, and the dogs barking on and off at night have interfered with my sleep.</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">The problem? Both female dogs went into heat: First Blanche, the dog in the business center, and now Baby who lives in my house. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> The male dogs are crazy and fighting each other all day and night, and I have had to put two of them on amoxicillin for dogbites so the wounds don't get infected.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;">Baby is the worst, since she is related to the male dogs in my house and refused to mate with them... She prefers to mate with the brown dog down the street, and if left alone she is small enough to sneak out in the space between the two garage doors to meet him. That makes the two male dogs who are too large to fit through the hole angry, and they attack one another, or sometimes one of the younger half grown puppies.</span></div><div><p><span style="font-size: large;">Ruby didn't get her job in HongKong because she doesn't have enough work experience, so will probably teach in Manila for another year.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Me? One of these days I want to see a doctor to find why my exercize tolerance, which was recovering after my dengue attack, is now down again.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">And the bad news? Hot season has arrived. It will hit the 90s until the monsoon arrives in June. Which means to exercize one has to get up at 5 am before the heat hits.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOewQau87mMR4RJ7vy2hzNJ6nEeWssSn888V7AHhNyFqK2MKpr5Zq1r5vFdsb51m-D1fQoOYahvsxDS95vWrUrYXx78ZPE3pc7BW2E9auqqyweD7c5sAL3-poqw_8Q5ywDAi7hG8wZU--LZgLlLWjltqTUCkx6AJfcNvV915q0pl-Kdj4RpS1H" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="361" data-original-width="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjOewQau87mMR4RJ7vy2hzNJ6nEeWssSn888V7AHhNyFqK2MKpr5Zq1r5vFdsb51m-D1fQoOYahvsxDS95vWrUrYXx78ZPE3pc7BW2E9auqqyweD7c5sAL3-poqw_8Q5ywDAi7hG8wZU--LZgLlLWjltqTUCkx6AJfcNvV915q0pl-Kdj4RpS1H=s16000" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p></div>Nancy Reyeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14910134058143426327noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10197326.post-18567988972301755422024-03-10T13:46:00.005+08:002024-03-10T13:58:25.941+08:00China destroys the ecosystem of the West Philippine Sea. Envoronmentowackos silent.<p><span style="font-size: large;"> from <a href="https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1915430/irreparable-harm-china-intrusions-impact-on-west-philippine-sea-ecosystem?utm=inqfocus">the Inquirer:</a></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">According to the report “Deep Blue Scars: Environmental Threats to the South China Sea,” (according to a report from the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative (AMTI) of Center for Strategic and International Studies )</span><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"> increased fishing, dredging, land fill and giant clam harvesting have taken a “devastating toll,” especially on the biodiversity’s main foundation—coral reefs.
</span></div></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;"> yup. they blame every country, but ignore the real cause: China is doing this, and they don't care.</span></p><div><p><span style="font-size: large;">Indeed, China's overfishing is harming a lot of other countries too.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/09/26/world/asia/china-fishing-south-america.html">NYTimes report 2022 about CHinese overfishing</a> (behind paywall)..</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">With its own coastal waters depleted, China has builta global fishing operation unmatched by any other country... </span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">
Chinese fishing in ⬤ 2020 and ⬤ 2021.
The Galápagos are part of Ecuador. And yet each year growing numbers of Chinese commercial ships, thousands of miles from home, fish here, at times right on the edge of Ecuador’s exclusive economic zone </span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">
The Chinese ships since 2016 have operated off South America virtually all day, all year, moving with the seasons from the coasts of Ecuador to Peru … and eventually to Argentina, where they have fished for what amounts collectively to more than 16,000 days already this year. </span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">
The scale has raised alarms about the harm to the local economies and the environment, as well as the commercial sustainability of tuna, squid and other species.... </span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">
Over the last two decades, China has built the world’s largest deep-water fishing fleet, by far, with nearly 3,000 ships. <i><b>Having severely depleted stocks in its own coastal waters, </b></i></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: large;">italics mine </span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;">China now fishes in any ocean in the world, and on a scale that dwarfs some countries’ entire fleets near their own waters.
The impact is increasingly being felt from the Indian Ocean to the South Pacific, from the coasts of Africa to those off South America — a manifestation on the high seas of China’s global economic might.
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