Five Things That Stand Out About The Trump/Butler Shooting

 First....there were two command posts.  You can't find anyone who can detail how this is possible, and who gave the order.

In the Air Force.....no idiot would order up two command posts on a base...it'd make no sense.

Second, somewhere around 3:50 PM and 4:00 PM....this guy (Crooks) launches his own personal drone, and is noted....but no one takes action.  Action taken by the protective detail?  Zero.

Third, after Crooks is declared dead....he lays there on the roof for 12 hours.  No one can explain this detail....it's like they forgot he was there.

Fourth, Crooks had two bombs and remote device to blow them up....in the vehicle.  Why wasn't that part of the plan activated?  Unknown.

Fifth, communication between the local cops and Secret Service?  Marginally existing.  

Trump's 'Deal'? $5,000 Per Person?

 I paused over it this AM....reading the situation.

To be honest....at this point in my life....I really don't need the $5k. Yeah....it's hard to admit that.

Maybe in the 1990s....in the Air Force, with a limit pay situation....it would have mattered.  Today?  I have zero debt, and can't think of any 'toy' I'd really like to purchase.  I'd probably buy a new set of tires....take the wife to some expensive restaurant....but I don't need the money.

About forty-percent of folks....probably need the cash urgently and it would matter.  

Timing of this?  Well....some might bulk-up on Christmas gifts.  But I don't think you'd get the check until May of 2027.

To be honest, I'd rather see it paying down US debt.

Humble Jury View (Lindsay Clancy) After 72 Hours

I've come to three humble thoughts of the Lindsay Clancy jury business.

First....eleven of them seem not that bright or intelligent....to the level that I'd probably not conclude a deal or agreement with them in business.

Second, their behavior did not form overnight.  I'd go and suggest this path goes back to the 1980s/1990s, and that they were 'trained' in some way to think/react this way.

Finally....on my index of 'liviability'.....trusting in the state mechanism to function as advertised...probably matters a good bit now.

Social Security Chatter

 The temp-boss of SSA (our Social Security) gave notice and left today.  Reason?  Well....she said that she wasn't going to give review ability to the DOGE folks.  

What's going on?  Folks have figured....in excess of 20-million folks are on Social Security and over the age of 100.  If you dig into the story....there's one gal/guy....around 360 years old.

My wife (German in nature) asked me about this.

I responded...either it's good clean living (no booze or smokes)....the person is a vampire....or some idiot opened a file decades ago for a fictious person (non-existent) and they never died.  I added....the person could be a alien (one of the Greys).  

I asked Grok....AI....about this.  He said on average....there's about 120,000 Americans in the age group of 100-to-120.  

The billion-odd dollars going out for 20-odd million folks?  Well...it might be going into an account that some SSA employee runs, and he/she has financed a retirement home in the Bahamas with the six to eight non-existent guys.

Algebra

This AM.....I read that Tucker Carlson now claims that algebra is fake, and that those people...who "add letters into numbers" are in some kind of made-up matrix.

Around the 6th grade...I was introduced to algebra.  It was a dismal failure (for year one).  The teacher kept dumping out problems as home-work....with the next day being a opportunity to stand at the board to detail how 4(x plus y) would equal 4xy.  Nothing made sense.

7th grade....basically went the same way.

8th grade....same way.

9th grade....the same way.

It was a waste of time/effort.

In the 10th grade....the teacher handed out the book, and simply said to use it...pace-yourself.  It all made sense at that point.

In this case with Carlson....I think he is suggesting that you will get into something that you will never use again.  In this case....from the group of 24....at least 15 of us never used algebra ever again after high school.

Tracking The Trackee

I watched a NewsMax piece this AM.....kids are now increasingly turning family location-tracking apps.....back onto the parents.

In the space of ten years....it's surprising how much tracking is taking place today.

By 2036?  I expect the vast number of adults and kids in America to be tracked....as well as most of their pets (horses, dogs and cats). 

I expect almost all new cars sold by 2036....to be tracked and on a national database.  

I expect nearly half of all luggage sold by 2036....to be tracked.

I expect most purchases you make....to be tracked.

AI Chatter

 This AM....I noted a comment by OpenAI's top guru.  He basically came to suggest/warn....that AI is advancing at such a rate....that it's increasingly difficult for humans to understand what's going on, and how to sustain some type of control.

I watched a podcast last year....where the science-guy suggested that 'shortly' (meaning in a year or two)....for each day of AI computing....it was advancing a full-year into 24 hours.  If you did the crazy-math here....by 2030....AI would be dragging us to some level where 'it' was 1,000 years in advanced knowledge.

Something about this....reminds me of the movie where AI has taken over the human race.

Trying to limit or control this?  How?

Three things I expect shortly:

1.  With census-data and legit license data....AI will determine that 40-odd million Americans are 'faked-up' (non-existent).

2.  Some AI will be able design and run a MLB baseball club.  Another AI will take over umpire-duty....entirely.

3.  AI will shortly start producing new Gilligan's Island, Gunsmoke and Adam-12 episodes.