Sky-Net World?

 I sat and read the text today: "The Pentagon is currently moving toward allowing AI weapons to autonomously make decisions to kill humans."

So the jest of this?  Hank and Jimmy....contractors for some company, are simply writing code that says under these conditions....if some Army or Marine unit comes under fire....'master-control' without any human input will seek to use all assets under it's control....to save the unit....without a human mind/authority connected.  It'll just be automatic.

Problems?  I just can't see any President allowing such a mechanism to exist, and making decisions without White House 'voting'.

Good thing or bad thing?  I tend to think it's a positive thing....removing some stupid Army or Air Force general....from making a crappy decision.  If you say such-and-such unit is taking heavy-fire, and you have ten drones in the air that could bring massive firepower to the situation within twenty minutes....let the AI do its job.

If AI had been active on 9-11?  It would have sorted scenarios in sixty seconds, then gone to using drones to intercept all passenger planes and damaged each craft enough that they would have crashed well before they came within range of the towers, the Pentagon, or that field in Penn.

Yeah, I'm probably one of the few who completely trust AI to do the right thing, and make logical assumptions based on the situation.  

Six Consequences I Expect To Occur

 1.  At some point shortly, I expect 3,000-plus teachers a year to be hauled off by police to face charges of some type sexual situation with high school students.  Each of them, with some of college loan debt, and never able to teach again.  This will turn into national crisis.

2.  The Bible will be turned into a banned book because of accusations of racism.  

3.  We will reach a point by 2030, where fifty-percent of the people we are around (the church, work, neighbors)....are people we deem as 'NOT-CLEVER'.

4.  At some point short....the trans-community will wake and realize that only gay guys or lesbians are willing to date/develop relationships, and that straight guys/women....have zero interest in them.

5.  By 2030, I expect one out of three guys to be so disenchanted with women (ages 21 to 45)....that they don't hesitate to journey to Thailand or the Philippines to hook-up with the 'right' women.

6.  The phrase of 'could threaten humanity' will be uttered 15 to 20 times a day, as you drive to work....listening to talk-radio or the news.  

Three Interesting Things

 1.  If you go individual polls of the Democratic Party....Joe Biden is pulling generally around 65-to-70 percent. The rest?  Undecided...meaning they aren't really 'hot' for Biden.

I looked at ten polls since 1 October....all rate Biden in the same pattern.  Oddly, none list him in the Democratic Primary, with RFK Jr.  I would imagine if they had allowed RFK in....he'd probably be higher than 50-percent pulling for him.

2.  The VA is pressing for a pause on eviction notices for veterans who can't pay their monthly mortgage.  

The obvious problem?  They bought houses at a price-level that they could never afford to cover. 

3.  I sat and watched a video this morning of a water pump being operated by the Israeli Army.  They were pumping sea-water....into the tunnel network of the Palestinians.  The idea was.....if you were in the tunnels....you would react and exit.  

Not a single bullet being fired?  Yeah, and that was the impressive side of this strategy.  Effective?  Well....you have no idea if this is a good idea, or how much water would be required.  

This Talk of Michelle Obama Picked At the Democratic Convention in 2024?

 I sat and watched two podcasts over the past week, which openly discussed that they see Joe Biden coming to the Convention in August charged-up, then finding the super-delegates unable to support him. The odds of this scenario?  The super-delegates make up around 16-percent of the representation at the convention, so without 'other' participants....I don't see how this would occur.

However, their suggestion is that Joe would find a way to step out....leaving it open, and that Michelle Obama would be the candidate.....with Newsom likely as her VP (this idea in my mind is crazy).

So the question is...if you had Obama (Ms), RFK Jr, and Trump....how would this type election occur?

I think in deep-blue states....like Oregon or Washington....it'd be possible for RFK Jr to win.  I could see him walking away with fifteen state wins.  

Obama?  Maybe she could get a solid win out of California and New York, but probably not get past ten state wins.  

Trump wins?  In this scenario....yeah.

Creating a five-to-ten year disaster where people are skeptical of the national party strategy?  Yeah, and that's the long-term damage done.  

Ten Observations

1.  Is there really anything you can do about stupid people?  

No....just establish a minimum space between you and them....mute their conversation as much as possible, and limit your responses to their questions.  It's not like you can banish them to California or send them to some enclosed park.

2.  When folks start talking about 'cognitive ability'.....if you really dug down into the details....more than one-third of Americans would be identified as having some 'problem'.

3.  The current to run a chaotic Joe Biden-for-President-campaign-for-2024?  It would appear to be lackluster in details, and simply putting the party message into a spiral.

4.  You just see a lot of attempts to sell 'fake-genius' status these days.  Print-media, news-media, social-media....all contribute to this creation.   

5.  Once you tell me that two plus two can equal something other than four....I mute you entirely.  Nothing personal.....it's just that I see you as a imbecile.  

6.  Someone reminded me the other day....that once we get public viewing of Trump's tax returns.....he'd be finished off.  That moment....kinda came and went.  On the drama-scale....one to ten....I'd rank it a marginal '2' at this point.

7.  You ever noticed about once a day now....the White House staff has to correct something that Joe Biden said the previous day?

8.  In the old days (up to the past year)....most local TV station news programs (your 6 PM local BS)....were mostly sponsored by car sales lots (Chevy, Toyota, Ford).  If people aren't watching that much news, and the car sales folks aren't making any real income (repossessions on the rise), then there's minimum cash flow to the TV station to cover news cost.

You will reach a point where you realize that the news seems less and less...because they won't have the funds to have 15-odd reporters for the station.  

9.  I had to look up the meaning of 'polysexual' this morning (being 65 and not clear what it meant).  

Meaning?  You apparently get physical with both primary genders (male/female) but not with all of the other 62 genders.  So out of the 64 total genders.....you might be real entertained by 63 of them, in theory, and just have a 'no-go' on one single gender.

Yeah, it'd typically take a bottle of whiskey to reach this level of reality....in the old days.

10.  Numbers on polls say over 50-percent of Americans now say they are worse-off financially....since election day of 2020.  Even Democrats admit it, but are 'lost' on explaining how it reached this state of reality.  

Air Travel

 Back in the late 1990s (still in the Air Force), we (in the vault business) got in a chat one day on the topic of air travel.  There were four of us....mid-30s to mid-50....two AF, two contractors.  

Air travel, for those who weren't in the era....in the 1960s/1970s...was special.  Customers were respected....airline folks were respected.  

Nothing ever ran on-time....no one cared.

Bags rarely got lost.

The food on the plane was crap, but you didn't really care.

Guys carried two or three shot bottles with them on the plane...mixing up their own drinks.

The Dallas Airport was regarded as state-of-the art, and some discussed marvel of society.

Then we came to airline travel there by the late 1990s.

Nothing ever ran on-time, but we seemed to count every lost minute.

Bags were a one-in-three-hundred situation...where as a minimum they were delayed two days or more.  One of the contractors had lost three bags on three separate trips (single year).

Guys consumed a fair amount of booze in the airport lounges at crazy prices for cocktails.

The Dallas Airport was considered old and antique-like.  JFK Airport was considered a disaster.  Denver and Atlanta were noted as Taj Mahal-like.

But we came to this odd aspect at the end.....there were so many people traveling by plane....cooked-up on medication....that you could never be sure of behavior or attitude.  Maybe they were mixing medication with booze, but the end result was becoming a problem.  

It's an odd perception.  Before Covid, I traveled a good bit...mostly internationally (avoiding the US), and you rarely (if ever) ran into medicated people.  

Strictly a US thing?  I often wonder about that.  

Five Things I Believe

 1.  At this point, Ron DeSantis has burned several hundred bridges....so when November of 2024 comes around and he's not the winner or 'valued-material' for a cabinet job....what happens in November 2026 when his governor term runs out?  Replacing Rubio in the 2028 Florida Senate election?  I just don't see it happening.

2.  The odds of a serious audit into the FBI selection of Maryland (over Virginia) for it's new headquarters building?  I would speculate by spring of 2024, this has snowballed into a piece of crap for the White House, and a whole new selection process has to occur.  

3.  Within three years....American kids as young as eight and nine will be under treatment for anxiety and panic attacks over global warming.  Medication and rehab will be prescribed.

4.  At least 1,000,000 pro-Hamas-Americans can be asked to identify Israel and Palestine on a map, and 98-percent would fail miserably.

5.  By the end of 2025, over 10,000 Americans will declare themselves to be 'demons' and self-identify as such.