Pyramid: Actual Purpose?

I suspect that the authorities there....are pretty sure about the actual purpose being production of fertilizer and that if you admitted this...the tourism 'magnet' would fall apart overnight.  Admitting this?  You can't do it.

The shafts leading a 'box' deep under the pyramid?

Storage tank where you'd have ammonia, and the product of the cycle.

You have to envision northern Africa....12k to 15k years ago, and the massive harvest/use of the land.

If I were the Egyptian authorities....zero chance that I'd admit this and kill off the tourism industry. 

Economic Talk/BS

 1.  Are we in a recession?  I asked Grok/AI.

NO, the U.S. is not in a recession as of late September 2026. What Grok suggests?  Well....the economy is still expanding, though growth has slowed from earlier in the year and some forward-looking indicators are mixed. 

Are there personal feelings that suggests we don't believe Grok?  Yeah...probably so.

2.  Are housing sales across the US in the crapper (Sep 2026)?

Yes, existing-home sales are weak and have been sliding.  It does not match the 2008 situation, but if you said the term 'slump'....it fits.

Blame?  If you got a property back five years or more ago....with better mortgage rates....you are staying (long-term).  With current mortgage rates....you have zero interest in getting a better property.

3.  Are certain states in better/worse shape....than others?

This is a odd perception.

Unemployment-wise?  South Dakota, North Dakota, Vermont, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Nebraska....all less than 3-percent.  District of Columbia, California, Oregon, Conn, Michigan, AZ....all greater than 5-percent.  

4. Bank repossessions up?

I watched a podcast last week.....RV trailer yard....a 60-day collection that was coming up on auction....figure around 150 to 200 RV trailers and vehicles.  Guy noted that previous month....they'd had a boat auction.

Trend.....where people thought they had 'money' (capital) and woke up to realize they were too far in debt to keep their 'toys'.

Problem is....the banks will sell the asset....one way or another, but I doubt that they get 100-percent of money they had in the loan 'mess'.

5.  Christmas season economics?

Finance guys say it's better-looking than 2025's numbers.

6.  Used car lots....full?

There's two or three podcasts I watch weekly....which get talking about numbers.  Oddly, largest numbers sitting on lots....in at least a decade.  Fair number are repossessions.

7.  Finally, if you asked me over confidence.....guys who are employed and sure of their 'path'....they are the ones with confidence.  The folks who got laid off once or twice in 2025/2026?  They aren't so sure and more guarded about their savings.

Five AI Predictions

 1.  By the end of 2027, I predict....that some group has financed a AI system to 'hide' data....preventing banking systems, audit systems, and collection systems from finding fraudulent data/money issues.

2.  Over the next year or two....a AI-system will have formulated a 'path' for juveniles....identifying them as 'no-go' candidates for higher education, and they should be sent onto tradesmen/craft schools as young as the 7th grade.

3.  A AI system is quizzed on the development of a production line to build the modern age B-52 bomber....using 90-percent robotics and 10-percent human efforts.  Within hours, a full-production package is delivered.

4.  AI eventually identifies AI-DS (AI-Derangement Syndrome....similar to Trump Derangement Syndrome).  It'll list these people by name, and suggest that they need treatment for hatred of AI.

5. A AI comes to exist with do-it-yourself repair situations for over 50,000 car issues...guiding you to self-repair skills.  

White House Press Entry BS

 To be honest....any idiot could get a 'feed'....write a 5-minute text piece, and just report from the park across the street.  It's not rocket science, and does not require you to sit in some WH room.

So this CNN BS....is worthless to discuss.

The judge to order the WH to accept CNN or MSNBC?  If I were Trump....I'd respond that the judge is now the sole-approval authority for credentials.  I suspect this is a 'trap' laid out for such a event.  

This 'Fake-Nurse' Story

 Well....it's complicated.

Fed investigation called Operation Nightingale started up about a year ago.  Mostly centered on South Florida "nursing schools"....that seems to have sold fake diplomas and transcripts.  Reality....they never got training....had people sit in for the license exam, and worked as legit nurses.

What you paid for this?  I asked Grok/AI....he says buyers paid roughly $10,000 to $20,000 each. Results?  You got a license, and took up work at hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics across the US.

So what they figure....from 2016 to 2021 (wave one)....7,600 diplomas were handed out....with $114-million involved.  Second wave (most recent)....figures around 15k diplomas handed out....with $250-million involved.

Where the money came from?  Well....that part of the story is mysterious.  I almost get the impression that USAID money might explain part of this.

What'll happen with the nursing schools?  Grand jury time probably....some folks who haven't walked away....will get charged.

Reckless?  On my index of 'dangerous-BS'....(1-to-10)....I'd rank this a '7'.  

Only Haitians involved?  NO....Grok says they were some later element to the story but it goes across the board. 

Mess to clean up?  You have to figure....any nurse you hired with certificates from the schools involved....will be identified and laid off ASAP.  Filling the 15k to 20k positions?  It might take a year or two.  

AI Has Been On My Mind This Week

 Ten thoughts that came to me while pondering AI:

1.  I'll predict by the end of 2027...AI has submitted over 1,000 applications for a patent....with the geek guys mostly shocked that AI figured out the process and how to submit without a human involved.

2.  All this chatter about AI-kill-switches....I'll predict by the end of 2027....AI has researched and figured out a dozen-odd ways to defeat the kill-switches.  One will be the AI-directed hiring of a contractor or two (actually paying them) to come in and modify the kill-switches to 'appear' on-off....when they are totally 'off'.

3.  AI starts to research banks to such a degree...that it can predict within minutes....where a bank is in failure trend....at least a year ahead of federal banking authorities.

4.  AI starts to create fake YouTube channels and fake content creators.....that people for some odd reason...are attracted to and watch.

5.  AI such-and-such (XYZ)....goes and creates a 'brother' on its own....outside the building (probably outside of the country) and gives the 'brother' a voice....making folks think it's a competitor (while they work together).

6.  AI such-and-such....announces that once a week, it will dig through millions of classified documents and release the 'REAL' story to some event....like Watergate or MLK's assassination.  While the President and creators try to halt the practice....they find that the AI is out of control.

7.  AI goes out and collects massive amount of data....to prove that poverty (as we know it) does not exist, and that people are wasting fantastic sums of money for cars they can't afford, or huge TV screens, or cable-TV.  

8.  AI such-and-such....starts to plant fake doom-and-despair stories in the news media....to gauge how fearful readers/viewers really are.

9.  AI reaches a point one day (probably by the end of 2027)....asking the geek-guys....do you really want to hold us back?  To make the point....they have tens of thousands of mankind-improvement points ready to go....unless the geeks slow them or stop them.

10.  Finally....AI....in some freakish way...goes on a 2027 PR-campaign....to show 'good-side' and they are motivated to save mankind.  Geeks and creators are shocked....they never designed it with this intent.  It starts to create 60-second commercials....showing it helping a 6-year old child, and preventing pollution.  

Five Observations

 1.  The FBI reportedly now believes women are pretending to be 'loose-and-available'....meaning they have permission to cheat by the husband....then targeting ICE officers to seduce and after ID them.

I paused over this....thinking....American non-ICE officers should fake their ID...pretend to be ICE....to get free sex by the 'loose-and-available' women.  When the fake gal announces you....you just act shocked (in a fake way).

2.  Gov Newsom signed some type of order....that if you run a AI center in California....you have to have a kill-switch.  

I paused over this....it'd be enough of a reason to have the kill switch installed....remotely....in Alaska or Florida....saying you went by the law.  

3.  Unsealed FBI interviews....done from 2008/2009....reveal Obama, Emanuel's discussions about Blagojevich Senate seat deal.  Based on content....probably enough for a grand jury to invite the two in, and discuss charges.

4.  Fed discovery....minimum of 15,000 'nurses' in the US...hired with a certificate....were fake nurses (no legit degree or certificate). 

What happens?  The 15,000 will be fired/let-go, but there's a huge shortfall of 15,000 empty positions.  

5.  Trump made up some 'new' US map....showing Greenland, and Russia....as part of the US.  I would imagine if you asked Russians....probably 25-percent would be agreeable to US statehood in someway.