Posts Tagged ‘reality’

Under the Fedora: Investigating Voter Fraud now illegal in Michigan, a WNBA Trend up, A Doctor Who Trend Down, The Dear School of Reality and 19th Century Punishment for Just Stop Oil please

Posted: June 20, 2024 by datechguy in doctor who, election 2020, election 2024, elections, middle east, Sports, under the fedora
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You know maybe it’s just me but if I wanted to convince people that election 2020 was on the up and up I likely would pass a law making it illegal for the canvasing boards from investigating election fraud.

Of course if my goal was to win at all costs and didn’t have a problem with people knowing I was cheating I might think otherwise.

One of the side effects of Caitlin Clark joining the WNBA has been on X / twitter.

Every time her Indiana team plays the WNBA and her team trend on X / twitter

I’ve been on twitter for a while and I don’t remember seeing the WNBA trending before, now it trends every few days.

Still not breaking even though, at least not yet.

Last week’s Doctor Who was one of the best of the season in terms of writing and plot. A real barn burner of an episode.

Which makes it such a shame that so few people saw it as Doctor Who is setting records for the lowest viewership in its history.

Davies has tried to bring back classic villains and classic characters to bring old fans home, however he also gave us the previous week’s episode Rogue which was described by my son who watched it as “below the level of the Chibnall years” as it seemed the only point of the episode was to generate a gay make out scene that Davies wanted to have with Capt. Jack but didn’t do before.

I skipped that one myself as I don’t watch shows with guys making out.

Bottom line when you tell established fans to get lost that you don’t want them, they tend to grant your wish and the Disney+ money won’t last forever.

There are a lot of sad stories from the war against Hamas but one of the saddest is this one:

The sad thing here is that it took her being taken hostage to believe what has been plain to many of us for decades. The Palestinians wants Jews dead and no amount

Reality never cares what your beliefs are

Finally the “Just stop Oil” crowd decided that damaging Stonehenge was an appropriate action for their group and it appears that they might have actually crossed a line red enough to generate real punishment for their crimes.

I have a simple suggestion myself, if they are so dedicated to forcing people back to the 18th century sentence them to an 18th century prison.

No Electricity, no plastics, no internet of course, no modern toilets, no pesticides to keep out vermin, hot in summer, freezing in winter with only whatever they can set afire for heat.

Give them the life they desire for others, then go after the backers who have paid for all this nonsense.

Until there are consequence it won’t stop.

Four years ago, in Fact even 1 Year ago this would have been considered an April Fools Post…

Posted: April 1, 2024 by datechguy in culture, middle east, official oppression
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…alas this is reality in the west in 2024:

This is an example of actual “islamophobia” that exists is among governments like England and colleges in the US who are terrified that if they stand up to those who support the mass murder of Jews, people that they’ve lionized and protected as “oppressed” they would face violence themselves from those very same people.

It’s is that fear that illustrates they know the actual reality and are too cowed to deal with it.

As a person who enjoys the study of history it’s rather fascinating to watch a society decaying and falling due to suicide which is the cause of the fall of every republic in history.

It’s in fact a lot less interesting when you are watching it happen while living within it.

Some Israel Gaza Tweets Worth Seeing

Posted: February 28, 2024 by datechguy in Israel, Israel vs Hamas, middle east
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With the league Draft a few days away ( and a 2nd league draft one week farther out) let’s turn to twitter for some updates on the war between Israel & Hamas:

A really big roundup here

Check out #7 from the above tweet:

7. Mid and upper-level Hamas government administrators, political members, and families of senior Qassam Brigade fighters & commanders are super set with access to all the tents, aid, food, supplies, medicine, and resources needed to sit the rest of the war out.

Cue my shocked face

What’s that old saying? Familiarity breeds contempt.

Well in fairness none of the leaders in the middle east jobs are at stake over this war.

Perhaps he should be called an anti-social worker

However bad you think the UN in general and UNRWA in particular are, it’s not enough.

A tragic reminder of the dangers of delusions:

Reality doesn’t care what positive attributes you assign to those trying to kill you.

Although some people are capable of learning after the fact:

Help Help I’m being repressed!

Do you really want to live in a society where you can’t hijack planes and throw Molotov cocktails? If you don’t the US won’t stop you from leaving.

And finally in response to the insane lionization of the fellow who burned himself to death.

That fellow was the ultimate useful idiot.

So Google AI Knew Col Lawson was right all along!

Posted: February 22, 2024 by datechguy in culture, tech
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Col. Tad Lawson: [drunkenly] There are no Nazis in Germany. Didn’t you know that, Judge? The Eskimos invaded Germany and took over. That’s how all those terrible things happened. It wasn’t the fault of the Germans. It was the fault of those damn Eskimos!

Sometimes we let our myths get ahead of us.

Decades of TV and Movies depicting computers and AI as something sentient, capable of independent thought or even beyond humans in terms of humanity or right and wrong has corrupted public perception in the same way that 60 years of Disney movies full of talking animals has made some people forget that animals are dangerous and if given the chance will kill and eat you.

Thus we see the shock SHOCK that Google’s AI seems to be incapable of showing a white person thus the Vikings, the founding fathers and all the popes become people of color.

As far as the AI is concerning Col Lawson was right. Given the choice between showing the Nazi’s of 1944 as Caucasians or Eskimos they’ll give them that Inuit look every time.

Why? For the same reason that it doesn’t dare show an image of Tiananmen Square…Because it’s a computer program doing what it’s been ordered to do by the people who wrote it.

The reality that Google AI is just a computer program, a complex computer program, with access to all kinds of data, but a computer program that operators under the parameters that the programmers have given it and if people understood that this is what it is then all of this stuff would be no big deal.

But folks have been sold by language and culture to convince you that it’s something it’s not.

Just like “The cloud” People upload all kinds of things to “The Cloud” not thinking that what they’re doing is uploading things to large server farms run by various companies.

If people thought of their data being freely to these folks they might think twice, but because it’s called “the cloud” that thought doesn’t hit them.

Anyone who trusts AI to do anything other than what it’s been told by the people who programmed it and thus the people who paid the people who programmed it are fools.

Don’t be a fool, no matter what Google Gemini tells you, it wasn’t the Eskimos.

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