@Lookout There is a blessing to being busy. Mind and body get a workout, and the sense of accomplishment when the task is done is emotionally rewarding.
That is why I haven't retired, or even pegged a future retirement date.
The nation is focused on the 27 deaths and 23 missing children in Texas. The girls at the camp had their pictures posted. Just the prettiest little girls around.
The nation sees photos of Palestinian kids being starved to death or being blown apart, in similar numbers, every day. If any anger or criticism is expressed, there will be punishment and possible prosecution for antisemitism, the newest hate crime.
We pick and choose when to pray, it seems.
Oh, well, dear friend, we do what we can do.
Enjoy your day in the Holler!

Hope everyone had a good 4th. It was hot here, but we got a shower about dusk that cooled things down.

Sorry to hear about the TX flooding. Seems that it is too much or not enough rain from year to year.

Have to prep for some plumbing repairs next week. Always something, but I like having tasks to keep me occupied.

Hope every one has a great weekend. Thanks for the OT.

PS Has there been any news of snoopy?

@humphrey I am glad you posted something, as I was worried about you, too!
Check your pms to get the current status of the search.

my recent commenting.

I am sending you a message and await your response.

@soryang I know Trump/Doge slimmed down NOAA and other weather services. The people in that area should have had warnings ahead of time.
As for Corbett and Theil and AI, I thought this was Corbett's example of the billionaire techie with government contracts and contacts, may rise to the top of the New World Order and control we plebes by the magical AI tech.
Please give us some links to Ms. Hao. I am always looking for new and reputable sources. We would appreciate it.
Enjoy your evening, friend, and thanks for dropping in.

I don't understand why there was no warning. Still haven't heard a plausible explanation. Sure does look like a total government failure to perform. (but the B-2s performed perfectly)

This will be just as with the carnival barker, until one is personally victimized by tech "philosophers," anyone who distrusts them has some kind of psych problem. "Oh you see threats everywhere." Corbett's bugaboo is world government? I stopped listening to him many years ago.

I prefer Karen Hao's perspective on these people, it's less ideologically charged, more fact based. She's been interviewed on DN a few times. Since she wrote her book The Empire of AI, she's had a lot of interviews which are posted online. The truth is the tech billionaire's, the alleged know it alls, are a threat. I personally could care less what mr. surveillance on everyone thinks. These people want total control, they want everything. The threat is compounded by their ties to the pentagon, intelligence agencies, and bankers and similar agencies elsewhere around the world.

Did they get their 10 year waiver from any kind of government regulation in the big badass bill? If so, this would be a total abdication of responsibility and political legitimacy. The failure to regulate their total invasion of privacy rights is the government laying down for the new private government of billionaires. It's shocking really. One doesn't need to be pandora or a catastrophic millenarian to be concerned.

You know when I meet someone who really knows something about nuclear war, we don't even have to talk about it. His measuring of the impact of weapons technology was crude to say the least.