10/07 Open Thread - National Inner Beauty Day
I do get what they're trying to do here, but the language just doesn't do it. Perhaps because beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or perhaps because it is only skin deep, but it is something more than that. As you go through life, now and then beauty happens and it is wonderful, but we have fetishized beauty to such an extent that nothing else counts or matters. So sure, everything is beautiful in its own way, and, hence so is everybody, but now and then I'd be happy if certain things and leaders simply were not dysfunctional, but such is life; so, for me:
You know, just normal, everyday, people, Monday morning people, even.
Being aware that I am a crotchety old fart, and being completely inexperienced at using AI, I decided that this was a perfect opportunity to address both imperfections and use chatgpt.com to get a second opinion.
Moi: What is inner beauty?
chatbot: Inner beauty refers to the qualities and traits that make a person truly admirable and attractive beyond physical appearance. This often includes attributes like kindness, compassion, empathy, integrity, and a positive attitude. Inner beauty reflects how a person treats others, their values, and their character. It emphasizes the importance of what’s on the inside, suggesting that true beauty comes from how we connect with and uplift those around us.
Moi: Do androids, robots, chatbots and AI devices and programs have inner beauty?
chatbot: That’s an interesting question! Androids, robots, chatbots, and AI don’t have inner beauty in the same way humans do because they lack emotions, consciousness, and personal values. However, they can exhibit traits that might be considered "beautiful" in a different sense, like being helpful, efficient, or user-friendly. The way they interact with people—like being kind, understanding, or supportive—can create a sense of "inner beauty" in their functionality and design. Ultimately, it’s more about how they enhance human experiences rather than possessing beauty themselves.
MOI: Why do humans have a National Inner Beauty Day?
chatbot: National Inner Beauty Day, celebrated on March 4th, aims to promote the idea that true beauty comes from within. The day encourages people to appreciate qualities like kindness, compassion, and self-acceptance, rather than focusing solely on physical appearance. It serves as a reminder to cultivate inner qualities that contribute to positive relationships and a healthier self-image. By celebrating inner beauty, the day helps foster a culture of acceptance and encourages people to support and uplift one another.
Moi: Thanks.
chatbot: You’re welcome! If you have any more questions or need further information, feel free to ask!
So there you have it. Damned thing writes better than I do, but I don't know where it got that date. Checkiday.com says it's today, the duck refers me to checkiday, google says October 7, and Yandex agrees as well.
On this day in history:
The equivalent of October 7, 3761 BCE is purportedly the epoch reference date for or beginning of the Modern Hebrew Calendar. As a goy, I'm not remotely up to speed on such matters, and that is a largely lunar calendar that uses intercalary days and other such features to be also a quasi-solar calendar and is seemingly not the first iteration and so I'm just putting this factoid out there and stand ready to be corrected by anybody who is certain and/or really groks it.
This is of course, day zero of "The Book". Sordid Assorted Romans and others up to and including the umpteenth Pope Gregory took a shot at creating the modern Western European calendar This, however, didn't really change The Book. Every jot and tittle of the first 3761 years of Western and Christian history, including an overwhelming number of begats, are as told in The Book, except, arguably, those that never seem to have happened. In this respect, it should be noted that this is pretty much an old world thing seemingly having no impact on those residing in The New World and likewise seemingly unaffected by things that happened in The New World back in those days.
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October 7, 1477 was the inaugural date for Uppsala University which, for reasons unbeknownst to me, had to get a permit from the Pope in order to exist. It's still there, and a good one too, so I assume that their permit is still valid.
October 7, 1571, was the Battle of Lepanto. This is pretty universally held to be an earth shaker even though it was fought on water. The Ottoman Empire was moving into Europe, seemingly an unstoppable juggernaut, and then their fleet got seriously clobbered by the fleet of the Holy League. The battle is often compared to Salamis in many respects, starting with the fact that both fleets were composed almost exclusively of rowed vessels, in this case galleys and galleases, though some did possess gunpowder based artillery. It was, in fact, the last major naval battle fought almost entirely with such vessels. Interestingly enough, the Holy League's fleet was largely financed by Phillip II of España, who also gave the world the magnificent Spanish Armada, which was not nearly so victorious, so to speak.
On October 7, 1763, King George III of Britain, issued the Royal Proclamation of 1763. This proclamation prohibited all settlement in North America west of a line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains. Everything west of this line was set aside as an Indian Reserve. Generally, all land with rivers flowing into the Atlantic Ocean were set aside for the colonies and all lands with rivers flowing into the Mississippi River was reserved for the Indians. This seriously angered colonial land speculators (surprise, surprise), especially in Virginia and Pennsylvania. (and here you thought that the American Revolution was all about quartering of troops, taxes, the slave trade, and the Stamp Act, didn't you?)
On October 7, 1864, the USS Wachussett attacked and captured the CSS Florida in Bahia Harbor, Brazil. When some of the Confederate sailors jumped overboard, the crew of the Wachussett shot them in the water as they tried to escape. This event seriously outraged the government of Brazil, who correctly asserted that it was a violation of Brazilian neutrality, so the US had a show trial in which the captain of the Wachussett was court-martialed and convicted, but the sentence was never carried out and he was later promoted for his glorious surprise attack victory over a largely unmanned ship (most of the crew being ashore) in a neutral port. Brazil also demanded that the CSS Florida be handed over to them for return to the surviving Confederate crew, but we accidently sunk it instead. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Even then, the US did whatever it damn well pleased and ignored "international law", applying its own "rules based order" instead.
On October 7, 1913, Ford Motor Company introduce the first moving vehicle assembly line.
On October 7, 1870, in the midst of the Franco-Prussian War, one Léon Gambetta escaped the siege of Paris in a hot air balloon. Heh.
On October 7, 1963, JFK signed the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Shockingly enough, it appears that the US has thus far abided by both the letter and spirit of this treaty.
On October 7, 2001, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, the graveyard of empires, began.
Today, after 20 years of seemingly unrestricted war upon the civilian populace of Afghanistan, punctuated by sporadic successful attacks on suspected members of Al Qada, the Taliban and assorted warlords, the war is well over. In the end, we bailed; hiya Tommy, howdy Ivan. Though some say it was the US's longest war, it was only the US's longest shooting war. The US has been waging economic and covert war against Iran since they overthrew the US backed tyrant, Shah Reza Pahlavi, in 1979, and Cuba since they overthrew he US backed tyrant dictator, Fulgencio Batista, in 1958.
Some people who were born on this day:
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
~~ Neils Bohr
1819 – Ann Eliza Smith, author and US Civil War hero
1870 – Uncle Dave Macon, singer, songwriter, banjo player, and comedian
1879 – Joe Hill, labor activist, songwriter, and poet.
1885 – Niels Bohr, physicist
1888 – Henry A. Wallace, agronomist and politician
1907 – Helen MacInnes, librarian and author
1911 – Vaughn Monroe, singer, trumpet player, and band-leader
1919 – Henriette Avram, computer scientist
1927 – Al Martino, singer and actor
1928 – Lorna Wing, (real) autism researcher
1934 – Amiri Baraka, (LeRoi Jones ) poet, playwright, and academic
1937 – Chet Powers, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1939 – Harry Kroto, chemist
1944 – Judee Sill, singer, songwriter, and musician
1949 – Dave Hope, bass player not in Kansas anymore, Toto
1951 – John Mellencamp, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1953 – Tico Torres, drummer
1964 – Sam Brown, singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer
1967 – Toni Braxton, singer, songwriter, producer, and actress
1968 – Thom Yorke, singer, songwriter and guitarist.
1975 – Tim Minchin, comedian, actor, and singer
1978 – Alison Balsom, trumpet player and educator
Some people who died on this day:
There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion
~~ Edgar Allen Poe
1849 – Edgar Allan Poe, short story writer and poet
1950 – Willis Haviland Carrier, engineer, invented electrical air conditioner
1959 – Mario Lanza, tenor and actor
1983 – George O. Abell, astronomer, professor, science popularizer, and skeptic
1990 – Grim Natwick, animator, drew Betty Boop
2001 – Herblock, editorial cartoonist and author
2012 – Wiley Reed, singer, songwriter, and pianist
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
National Frappe Day
National Flower Day
National Inner Beauty Day
Wold Architecture Day
World Habitat Day
Today's Tunes
Inner Beauty
The Bahia Incident
Léon Gambetta
Uncle Dave Macon
Joe Hill
Vaughn Monroe
Al Martino
Chet Powers
Judee Sill
Dave Hope
John Mellencamp
Sam Brown
Toni Braxton
Thom Yorke
Tim Minchin
Alison Balsom
Mario Lanza
Wiley Reed
I won't be here when this posts
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
Open Thread, Inner Beauty Day, Battle of Lepanto, Proclamation of 1763, Bahia Affair, Léon Gambetta, Joe Hill, Tim Minchin
Comments
Good morning...
Got home last night from a rewarding trip to the gulf and Tensaw River Delta. Saw some great birds which I'll download and share next Sunday in the WW.
Land line was out upon return, but the DSL is still working. None the less, it is fun to travel but great to return home. Had to water the garden first thing yesterday evening. It hung in there pretty well.
Curious the AI got the gist of inner beauty day, but missed the date. Ain't that just like high level tech?
I've been catching up on the 'Helene on Earth' in NC. Had one friend barely able to get out of Ashe County in the Apex of NC. Two different bridges washed out, but he had a longer third way to escape. And now I'm concerned about my FL friends with Milton expected mid week. Hope soryang doesn't have issues after revamping his house just last year from a hurricane.
Thanks for the OT and all the music!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
It was one year ago
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the Palestine resistance pulled off a jail break.
thanks for the OT EL where ever you are.
Things are getting very ugly.
Which means the interviewers are going to keep Alastair Crooke busy. Here's an example:
Instead of winning, the West has settled for pretending it's winning. At some point, then, the public relations bubbles will all be popped and everyone will suddenly know they've lost. This was how the Hillary Clinton for President campaign was handled in 2016, no?
PS Listen to the end. Apparently Iran is a nuclear power now.
“One of the things I love about the American people is that we can hold many thoughts at once” - Kamala Harris
Ritter doesn’t think so
He said that the seismic activity was 10 miles down and that the nuclear agency would know if Iran had used it. The video is in the blues.
But he said that they could make one in a few days.
Heh…I’ll enjoy Netanyahu splitting a brick if they do make one.
Their Islamic doctrine has forbidden it for decades, but things change. Self defense has been the acceptable doctrine lately right?
There were problems with running a campaign of Joy while committing a genocide? Who could have guessed?
It would be very much in Iran's interest to
let everyone think they have The Bomb, whether or not they actually do. Best strategy is probably to sit tight, say nothing, and look smug.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
Beautiful photo, El!
I suggest in the future, beauty contests be conducted by audio exclusively.
My thoughts go out to Floridians. I have several friends who are gonna get kicked hard.
Bon voyage, dear friend!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I saw this wonderful poster in Eugene, Oregon
That's right! You, too, can vote for:
1) A party that has rigged its last three Presidential primaries
2) A party that wants to imprison you for spreading "misinformation" or publicizing "state secrets"
3) A party that creates billionaires
4) A party that supports vast increases in oil drilling
5) A party that does nothing while Roe v. Wade is overturned
There it is, folks! A party that practices none of what it preaches!
“One of the things I love about the American people is that we can hold many thoughts at once” - Kamala Harris
What is inside may be pretty or rough
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pretty rough anyway
thanks to external distractions
most only compare the internal
state of affairs to others' images
I'm watching
the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists very closely, to see what the seismographers conclude about the seismological activity under the central Iranian desert on Saturday night. The area is seismically active, but apparently the initial analysis shows that magnitude 4.5 occurrence to be more impulsive in nature, and less like a more ordinary strike-slip occurrence. Initial reports are that the depth was ~10km, which is shallow enough that it could indeed have been a test.
If so, that puts a rather different light on the whole Israel-versus-everybody shitshow. Between that, and the fact that the Indian navy now has 3 of their vessels moored up in Bandar Abbas, suddenly
Israelthe Zionist entity might find themselves with quite a bit of nuclear company on the block- much of which is not on their side.Hug your loved ones.
https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/detail/summary-of-report-project-mi...
Twice bitten, permanently shy.
Per Jill Stein
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Ah'yup.
speaking of beauties
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got this beauty of a text:
I've been invited to an exclusive virtual
"Camp Kamala" training this week!!
I'm picturing a bunch of zombies in tents
eating Popeyes and learning to laugh like
lunatics. Oh the joy!
Eating McDonald's cheeseburgers
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
passage of ...
It is the thought of the moment of passage of a McDonald's cheeseburger, that keeps me out of there.
Fortunately mysdys worked at one as a teen and is a french fry and onion ring whiz.
take care!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
LOL!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Monday Monday
Hi all, Hey EL!
Hope yer seein' lots of roadside birds EL! I listen to the Eastern Sierra weather and daily highs were 90 at Bishop and 70 at Mammoth Lakes. 30 miles and 3-4000' altitude apart. A little elevation goes a long way. You can always go up or down hill a bit to find spring or fall.
World Habitat Day eh? I would have never known to look at it! It seems we are on a rampage hellbent on destroying it as fast as we can.
Inner beauty is all that beautiful we can't see on the outside. And even though we can't see it on the outside, it can outshine virtually any external beauty. So, is therefore far more important. Unlike the superficial external type of beauty, ANYONE can acquire inner beauty if they choose, beautiful people.
happy trails all!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein