When I Start To Regret Artificial Intelligence (AI)

 1.  The day AI starts to monitor my calorie intake and cuts me off at 2,000.

2.  The day when AI generates a email to suggest my consumption of alcohol has reached a threshold.

3.  The day when AI uses some satellite imagery to determine my grass in the backyard is a problem, and demands I need to resolve this.

4.  The day when AI activates Alexa in the house to monitor my snoring levels at night.

5.  The day when AI cuts all my streaming video services and tells me that I don't need that much entertainment.

6.  The day when AI starts to discuss Bonanza episodes, asks me about the necessity of Hop-Sing being in the show.

7.  The day when AI starts to assign a rating for each episode of Baywatch, and urge me to go back and watch all the episodes.

8.  The day when AI has ordered on it's own....some kind of bathroom scent device....to detect if I have a bowl  disease or not.

9.  The day when AI senses some frustration on my part, and recommends some type of relaxation course....out in the wilderness of Alaska.  

10.  The day when AI tells me that it's gleaned the 500,000 potential scenarios, and only Biden makes sense in the 2024 election.  

'Nothing Understandable'

 NASA came up yesterday with a UFO hearing.  Chief comment?  'Many sightings reported....unusual activity....nothing understandable'.

This will continue this way until you end up with some department guy admitting they have some crashed craft from fifty years ago.  

When Dealing With Juvenile-Like Adults

 When you have a young person in front of you.....in some mental-health type crisis....where the slightest existence of people with differing opinions....triggers them to either collapse into a 'heap' or act-out like a 4-year old 'brat'....it's probably time to assess your involvement with them as a 'zero'.  

What you are talking about...is dealing with people who can't handle crisis episodes, reality, or regular people. 

You need to treat them as if this were a open-air mental asylum, and they are a patient.  Offer encouragement to recover, but don't play games or involve yourself with their insane chatter.

Shopping Today

 I spent this AM over in Mainz (Germany) at three clothing shops.  So the shock?

As you entered all three....NO 'pride' posters' or 'pride' clothing items.  What you had was bright colored clothing, sandals, and normal summer attire.  

Then I walked to each men's department (note, these are premier top shops).....all clothing?  Summer attire....nothing gay, lez, or trans.

Just for the heck of it, I walked through the kid's department....same story.....regular summer attire.  No demon stuff, no satanic stuff,  Weirdest stuff?  Tom and Jerry shirts, Marvel figures t-shirts, etc.

So, one of the shops feature a kid's toy area.....I walk through it.  Big 'hot' item?  Barbie/Mermaid stuff, or regular Mermaid (plain white) stuff, and games/cards.  

Why no satanic/demonic stuff, or trans 'pride' stuff?  Well....I go to three reasons:

1.  If you did put some fantasy lifestyle thing and came to school wearing 'pride' stuff in the German atmosphere.....these bad-ass German kids would be brutal and say pretty hyped-up negative things.  

2.  German shops suffered greatly during Covid.....they would now not be stupid to order 3,000 satanic/demon items or 'pride-trans' items, and be stuck with half of it not being sold.

3.  A number of German shops went under during Covid and they marginally exist now....so the last thing on their mind is to invent some bogus cause and think that it'd sell well to the general public.  

It is a strange prospective to think about.

Can Biden Win Re-Election With Zero Debates?

 I paused over this idea two months ago. 

If he had zero competition in the primary period.....he could probably get away with this idea.

With RFK gaining in popularity?  I'd say by November....Biden will have to shuffle up or arrange some type of debate before the primary season starts.

Just my belief....this would trigger a massive problem if he craps up the debate and looks 'poor'.

Presently, I would suggest among independents and Democrats who lean toward the center....RFK is attracting a lot of attention.  If you had one single debate, and Biden screwed up?  I think RFK could lock down 25 of the 50 state primaries as a win.  

Maybe his team is happy with zero debates, but reality demands otherwise.

Three Things Likely To Happen

 I've come to three things that I believe will happen in the next five years:

1.  All high school and university sports will end....as the trans-business is impossible to control or resolve.  Both mens and womens sports....ended.

2.  The US government will officially audit all cattle operations in the US....to identify the exact number of cattle in existence, then discuss the necessity of saving mankind by limiting the number of cattle.

3.  More than 1-million small business owners in California currently.....will give up and leave the state.  

An Ancestor Story

Somewhere around 700 years ago....near the 1360 era, I had this ancestor named Thomas.  We will call him 'Tom' for short.

Tom grew up on the eastern side of England, in a small farming community of Levenham, UK (about an hour's drive north of London).  To be honest, in today's environment....there's just not much there.  In the 1200 to 1400 era?  Well....oddly enough, it was regarded as one of the dozen-odd spots on the whole isle with wealth.  Several families with status....lived in the local area.  Tom?  He was a 'clan-member' of one of these families.

At some point, around age twenty to thirty (no one knows the precise story)....Tom ends up on a trip that takes him to the northeastern end of Turkey (on the Black Sea....NOT the Med).  This is 200 years after the crusades and has nothing to do with the crusades.  The period?  This is really the Marco Polo-era, when trade routes are being developed and people are trading off into China, and routes end up going through Persia, Armenia, and Georgia....onto Turkey, the Black Sea, and the Med.

My humble guess is that Tom ended up on one of these sea adventures, and a trading expedition of sorts. 

Along the north coast of Turkey, near the end....lies the port city of Trabzon.  Today?  It has roughly 750,000 residents.  In those days, it probably numbered at least 50,000.  It would have been a major port for trade activity coming out of the Silk Road.

At some point, Tom ends up with a Countess wife (Cycely of Alcel).  Tom?  He likely holds a title of 'Sir' at this point.  Most royalty in England is ending, and even getting the title of the 3rd Duke of Madison....really didn't mean much of anything. 

Who was the Countess Cycely of Alcel?  It is a real unknown.  It's an odd spelling.  If this were English or Irish...it'd be Cecily.  Alcel?  Non-existent today.  It might have been a hilltop, or a courtyard on the outskirts of Trabzon.  Perhaps it's not even around Trabzon but of another area in the distance. 

So you start to look around this region of northeastern Turkey, and its neighbors.  To the east, you have Georgia, and in the middle....the major trading city in the 1300's of Tbilisi.  Tbilisi is fairly well known in this era for prosperity, trade, and capital.  Interestingly enough, it's also known for a fairly large population of Ashkenazi Jews.   Around a hundred years prior to Tom's adventure....the Mongols arrive in the Georgia region, and a fair number of folks evacuated....left....relocated, with some of the wealthy clans ending up in Turkey. 

My suspicion, to this odd feature in this recent DNA test I took....I have .5-percent of Ashkenazi Jewish DNA....is that the Countess here (Cycely of Alcel) is more or less a descent of the Ashkenazi Jews of Tbilisi, and the family had become traders in the Trabzon port region.

A dowry of sorts is offered up to guys of this era, and I'm guessing that Tom was standing at the right place and right time....and ended up with a Countess by this circumstance.  And thus explains to some degree the .5-percent of Ashkenazi Jewish DNA that I have.

What happens after this event?  Tom and Cycely return to England.  Tom passes away at age 49 (we never know the circumstance to this).  Cycely lives on for another forty-odd years. 

Oddly enough, this is the end of any royalty or status claims to the family tree.  No one after this point ever mentions Lord, Duke, Sir, or Countess.