State A and B Story

 I noticed this Twitter item today, from the NY Times.....worth viewing.  Topic?  They wanted you to know (the Times) that California has the lowest death rate from guns per proportion of the state population.  You can read the piece here. 

I read through this for a minute....then I stopped.  I went back to the original statement....'lowest death rate from guns per population'.

So, here's the blunt side of this.

California is basically two states.  You go forty miles north of SF, over to forty miles east of Sacramento, down to Victorville/Barstow area, and then to Campo at the border.  That's 'SAFE' California where marginal drug trafficking occurs, almost no gang stuff, and it's fairly clear.  

The other state?  Well...there's a fair amount of guns, crime and drugs.....but they've got four star hospitals, with great emergency room capability.  You could associate it as a Army unit.....where you bring in a gunshot wound, and there's pretty good odds you will survive.  It's not the odds that you'd get in Jackson, Mississippi, or in Philly.  

Poorly analyzed article by the Times?  They want to brand a message, but if you look at this....you'd say it's state A versus state B.  

Disinformation?  Well....yeah, it's what you'd create to fake people out.   

Quiz Question

 So this is a formula:  Add high potency cannabis to poor mental health, poor parent behavior, computer gaming to the extreme, ADHD type drugs, heavy metal/RAP music......to a 16 to 18 year old kid.

What do you get as a result?

Just Some Things You Notice

 If you had stood up in 1922 (hundred years ago) and said that the nation was firmly attached to baby formula (not booby-milk).....and that some massive shortage had occurred....threatening the survivability of American kids, no one would believe you.

If you had stood up in 1922 and said that responsible adults could not stand up in a group setting and explain what a woman was or give at least a 2-line answer....no one would have believed you.

If you had stood up in 1922 and said a state like Pennsylvania could hold a primary, and a week later....still not know the true results....no one would have believed you.

Our problem is that as much as we have advanced in society.....we are evolving backwards.  It's like that episode of Star Trek where Picard and crew meet up with dimwitted folks in space....who shouldn't be there, but they've kidnapped a crew member or two....to keep their vessel (society) functioning.   

The sad thing here.....those of us over sixty, and still retaining intelligence....are having to drag the under-30 crowd to safety and reality.  

Five Things We Might Want To Explore And Put Into Effecct

 1.  Start a 'red-flag' program.....only on young men (ages 13-to-21).  You do X or Y....the authorities come to your house and take you for a weekend sand-bag event....where you fill 1,000 sandbags over the weekend, and get a lecture that you accomplish a second 'red-flag'.....we up the weekend number to 2,000 on the second visit.  

2.  Shutdown all social media and cable-TV for 48 consecutive hours once a month.  

3.  Force all high school students to write a mathematical formula on the cost projection, the borrowed money, and how many months are required on paying the money back.....before you can sign any paperwork for a student loan.

4.  As quick as this baby formula crisis occurred....it just stands to reason that a paper diaper crisis is next, and we ought to have plans to haul in Brazilian diapers...if necessary.

5.  One of the selling points of the AR-15 is the light-weight situation.  Perhaps to make the anti-gun folks happy.....lets make it slightly more than the M-1 (the choice rifle of WW II).....at 11.6 points.  Yes, basically doubling the weight.  You'd be required to take your AR down to the gunsmith and a lead weight (say 10 lbs) would be 'welded' upon the weapon. 

What Is Heaven Banning?

 I had to look it up and it's fairly complicated.....so I'll try to simplify this.

Hypothetically-speaking.....no one is saying it's real or existing presently, but the odds are in favor of it's existence.....you take a regular guy who says a lot of brilliant things on social media.  

Yeah, like that Elon guy.

Then you insert this AI 'bots' who follow the guy, and they inject commentary (negative in some way) to reshape others (real people) to feel less so about the guy talking/chatting.

So the AI bots would remove the significance of the real person?  Yeah.  

Presenting decent arguments?  Well....no one is really suggesting that.  In fact, I'd question how you present debate with quality material....out of thin air.  

A lot of code writing?  Tons of it.

So this is all hypothetical in nature?  Yeah, that's the general idea.