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  1. Yeah certainly the woman should be sterilized. Presumably the loss of three children is punishment enough. Still she killed three children I did not follow the story, so I have no idea how it was done. What it grisly—l line a gun shot to the head? There had to be consequences beyond just guilty, right? @aka Contrarian what do you think should be done? It is crystal clear the woman is/was mentally ill. IIf she killed my three kids I’d take her out myself. Was there any fathers involved? What do they want? I’m not a fan of capital punishment in any case. But I appreciate it would be more efficient than keeping the likes of Charley Mason alive and he is mentally Iill too, so what’s really the difference between him and this baby killer?
  2. I believe I know what you meant. Looking over history, one of the greatest technologies was the printing press. Sure, printed material has been used to spread propaganda and lies, but it also made literacy virtually universal and I'd argue has been a net positive for society. I don't AI being a net positive for humanity is off the table. Sure, like atom bombs, AI is poses a potential existential threat. Perhaps I have more faith in AI than I do humanity 🙂
  3. @Pioneer1 when you are walking around your neighborhood and you see rats scurrying about do you take time to look at them and say hey that little guy needs help let me see what I can do but do you just step over with a man go about your business? Why would a a species sufficiently superior superior to us care enough about what we’re doing to get involved?
  4. … but you can get apple pie @Delano and that’s even better.
  5. Social media already took care of that for many of us... Despite it all I have faith that humanity will figure it out, but I'm an eternal optimist...
  6. Forget being on par with MLK. Is your position that we, as a people, are leaderless today?
  7. Hopefully in the next few years AI will assume super-duper human intelligence, take pity on us and replace all human labor and give us an age-reversal-intelligence-enhancing serum enabling us to live in harmony, explore other dimensions in space and time.
  8. Hi @Aquarius Press/Willow Book thanks for sharing your upcoming novel with us. I don't see it in distribution yet. What are you plans for this or will you sell direct to consumer?
  9. How are you judging "leadership?" If it is the number of streets, blvds, and avenues in you name, then MLK is untouchable. But today, 2026, nearly 60 since MLK's murder, who comes closest to MLK? Prior to MLK we can clearly say Marcus Garvey. But today pick a leader or two. If you do you will have no choice but to land on Sharpton. You may not like that answer. We may feel he was thrust upon us by "da man," or is "pimping civil rights in order to shakedown white supremacy" as you say, but in 2026 America, Reverend Al Sharpton is the Black America's leader.
  10. Who comes closest then? You have to pick some Black leader? Rev. Al's National Action Network (NAN), based in Harlem has more than 47 Chapters nationwide. He hosts a national TV show called Politics Nation and a nationally syndicated radio program "Keepin' It Real with Rev Al Sharpton." He advised sitting presidents. MLK could not have imagined such a large platform. I really curious to hear which Black leader anyone would out ahead of Sharpton in 2026.
  11. I don’t it’s just good design, thought the design itself may have been AI generated. From my perspective, the technology that we have been given has increased so dramatically in such a short period of time it is impossible to imagine this all comes from the handiwork of Homo sapiens. I know the software I have is unbelievable and it is effectively free. I know when something so powerful or useful is free that old rule, we are the product applies and that the many hours I've spend using AI will be used to train the models so that they will learn how to better manipulate us and take our data and ideas. The software I have is extremely powerful. I can’t imagine what the they are working within the labs with the frontier models--who some say are sentient. So @aka Contrarian ANYTHING is possible with AI who knows what it’s capable of now. I’m sure every user's experience is very different and that is by design. We can’t collectively come up with a coherent description of it's capabilities because everyone sees AI differently. Connie, it makes me sad to think that your time here may be short. I will definitely miss you. That is assuming I don’t check out before you do ;-) I’m glad we got to meet in person albeit briefly. I wish you could meet Del in person—Mel too. Or catch a bears game with @ProfD If I could, I would even host the Obama style beer summit with you and Pioneer😊
  12. Let data center lose power for five seconds, and you will quickly learn where our priorities are.
  13. Your position has changed overtime. We had long debates over there being a genetic basis for race. Are you distancing yourself from that position now? You also asserted a variety of characteristics to people of different so-called races. I remember quite clearly trying to explain to you that this was the very thing that Whyte racist did to show that Black people were genetically inferior. lol! Ok, ok. Interesting story though. Africa is a big and diverse place which people are you talking about? Is this contemporary information or ancient history?
  14. Thank you for admitting that we can continue to have a conversation :-) Honestly, every article that I’ve read that you cited did not support your argument. Now that’s not saying that I’ve read every article that you’ve ever posted. I’m just reiterating your words calling in a Coke bottle doesn’t change the meaning it just helps you see how ridiculous what you’re saying sounds.
  15. Yes, thery make the form interesting. But, like you, they actually make the forum POSSIBLE.
  16. Lol More later after I read your sources.
  17. You must be playing. You get me a personal anecdote about some guy you know, yet the data is available to tell you that covid deaths amongst the incarceration was significantly higher than people who were not locked up. Surely you've read this but have chosen to reject this information as it conflicts with your world view. Obviously there is nothing I can say, 'cept I hope you don't get a diseases or illness that a vaccine would have prevented. I gather you have never been to the west Africa, as there are many shots required and recommended.
  18. Oops, I better change my position. Come on man we can agree from time to time. ;-) That video you just shared is silly… well at least to me. The little video got 4.5 thousand likes. So YouTube‘s algorithm showed it to a lot of people. Did you find the video funny? Do you think it was a sideways promotion of subway I think that’s what he said was good? It is fascinating how Google has created an incentives for people to create an upload silly videos like this. But going back to your point for sharing it, sure if people wanna spend their checks creating videos like this, fine. I don’t have to watch them. There are a lot of man-babies doing silly things.
  19. @Pioneer1 OK I know darn well you didn’t watch that entire video and you are sharing it here solely because of the sensational title. Assuming there has been an increase and cancer among kids under 30 that could be a wife variety of reasons for that. I know the Covid vaccine is a boogie man divorces have increased. It must be the Covid vaccine. There’s a decrease in Reading and it must be the vaccine. My old lady just left me. It must be the vaccine whatever…
  20. No, that’s not what happens. The alcohol simply affects your ability to retain memories of your experience when you were in that state, but in the moment you know exactly who you are and what you’re doing you simply don’t remember it. It doesn’t. Because what you’ve just described doesn’t happen there is no document in case of someone speaking a language. They knew nothing about fluently. You are taking stuff you’ve seen in movies or things that cranks have put out on the Internet as if it’s true. First, the likelihood of that happening is about the same as a Scientist saying Santa Claus is real. But if science made that discovery, and it was backed up by peer verification. I would have no choice, but to believe even if it conflicted with my previous beliefs. Why do you equate science with the white man? Man, you will believe anything! You know, people have vivid imaginations and are able to make up stories that are only only thinly related to reality. Just like your belief that Santa Claus is based upon Satan. It’s not but hey, you’re willing to believe anything so there it is. As far as spirits being captured in a bottle. That idea is too nutty to even take seriously. If a non-corporeal entity like a spirit exists do you think it could be captured and trapped in a plastic ginger ale bottle?
  21. OK, show me evidence to support that statement. Yes, and that a lot was learned from that mistake. I guess if it’s up to you, great numbers of people would still be dying from smallpox. So you would rather believe that there was a grand conspiracy to hide Covid depths. Do you even believe the vaccine saved lives on the order of millions. Hyperbole only weakens your argument. Do you believe in the effectiveness of any vaccines? do you believe the MMR vaccine causes autism? You’re probably not old enough to remember polio and organizations like the March of Dimes. You probably have no clue how terrible many of these diseases were that have been virtually eradicated before you were born… maybe that’s the problem with anti-VAXXers they have no frame of reference to understand the seriousmess of these diseases. Then again you saw the millions of deaths from COVID 19… I don’t know this reasoning stumps me.
  22. The 60 Minutes piece was very interesting. The swine flu. Vaccine was ultimately pulled. The next video is propaganda. The guy called the vaccine “Gene therapy.” indeed he went on to emphasize that it was indeed gene therapy. It is not Gene therapy. This is something that antitaxers assert incorrectly. He also said that they were 39,000 deaths from the Covid vaccine, which is just crazy. The same people who pulled the swine flu vaccine determined that death from the COVID-19 vaccine are rare. But even if that number was 100% accurate, the covid vaccine saved tens of millions of lives. There was an actual pandemic we all know people who have died from or suffered from contracting Covid; suffering and death that could’ve been avoided if they had taken the vaccine. The guy also mentioned the 60 Minutes video using it to scare people i from taking vaccines. Methods had greatly improved in the last 50 years and a lot of lessons were learned from the swine flu vaccine But to use the swine flu vaccine to scare people from taking MMR and other vaccines is very dangerous and outright stupid. All of this has led to an anti-VAXXer running health and human services and an administration that hobbled the center for disease control The inmates are running insane asylum.
  23. Considering it is the military sharing the most compelling UFO videos, that blanket explanation seems unlikely.
  24. What!? @Pioneer1 here too you’re a reasoning, escapes me. You know there are actual black, billionaires people like Robert Smith and others who have not been taken down as part of a white racist conspiracy. Maybe it is because they’re not beating drugging, and raping women? I think it’s pretty well known that J Edgar Hoover caught MLK in an affair—so what? Adultery it’s not a criminal offense, but raping and assaulting women is. The media is reflection of culture based on a system of white supremacy, this is indisputable However, when we behave badly, we can’t blame the media you’ll never ever find a video of me kicking a woman’s butt up and down the hallway of a hotel You will never ever hear of me, drugging a woman and having sex with her And I’m pretty sure it’s the same for you guys too because it’s true for most normal human beings. Being a black celebrity shouldn’t give you special privileges any more than being a white one does, but it does. I believe Tiger Woods is a billionaire. You don’t think that if you or I crashed as many cars while under the influence of drugs that we wouldn’t be in jail—tiger gets special privileges. All of those guys do by the time their trash hits the media. It is already egregious. I suspected these guys were treating your daughters like that. You wouldn’t be so willing to give them a pass or claim it was white racism, trying to bring a black man down 🤨
  25. Well, it’s not likely she’ll get sent to prison for life. But getting one psychopath with a gun off the street might for a few years show her better way then again it might make her situation even worse. Honestly, I have no idea what the right punishment is for her. She made an egregious mistake taking that guy’s life. We have no idea what he knew prior to going over there. She may have been catfishing him.

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