They don't want to create youth awareness, they want to train the next generation of climate crazies and eco-freakos, in the sense that would make funny little moustache man proud; they won't be peaceful.

I love the internet. I'm retired and I keep learning, anything, everything I randomly decide to but, after I get my exam and new glasses next month it's time to pick up some books and start reading for fun [my UPS guy just gave me the Stephen King novel 11/22/63 for my birthday].

In Jr High I studied Fortran, COBOL, Pascal, Basic and Assembly, so I sort of grew up with tech even though I switched to spoken languages in High School, but I have always kept current. I would hate to go back back to pre-internet.

It is SO very easy to disconnect; the last time I checked my cellphone usage it showed an average of 3 minutes per week.

It's all about self-reliance, self-sufficiency, and self-confidence; the internet shouldn't be your first go-to in life, but it's one hell of a resource.

I'm hoping, but not holding my breath, that as a stand-alone app it will be OPTIONAL on a clean install, and an update will allow us to COMPLETELY remove it from current install; without affecting search functions.

Also I want stand-alone AI apps that can run completely within a sand-boxed environment with no data collection. And for God's sake, browser companies, make all AI opt-in; even just sitting in the side bar is sus to me.

Did I mention Apple USERS? No.
Did I brag about my computer? No; for all you know I have a 10 year old PC with loud-ass exhaust fans. A tower is nothing more than the PC case, whether it be full, mid, or mini.

Very compelling video, had to watch the whole thing.

Exactly. This was first thought. Fuck everything Apple anyways [my beef with Apple/Mac goes back to the mid 80s], but why in the hell would ANY company think people will sacrifice their battery time for this?

Well, I suppose all that people whose very existence seems to depend on being connected 24/7 without interruption. That addiction is what Apple is counting on though; they know these people will pick up their phone every damn time it chimes or twitches, and watch the ads even if they don't want to, because it's on the screen and they can't look away.

I keep my phone in my desk drawer, or face down on top of my PC tower so it can listen to my exhaust fans.

"Montana has no authority to enact laws advancing what it believes should be the United States' foreign policy or its national security interests..."

Ok, how about we do away with sanctuary states and cities; make aiding and abetting illegal aliens punishable by prison for the governors, mayors, NGOs, et al; I'd say fine them heavily, but then us tax-payers would foot the bill adding to the immense drain on our economy due to illegal aliens even worse?

Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution, commonly referred to as the Naturalization Clause. It states that Congress has the power to "establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization."
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Congress has primary authority over immigration laws, the executive branch, particularly the president, has some discretion in enforcing and implementing those laws. So, while the president can selectively enforce or not, there is NOTHING giving the rights to states and cities to create their own laws; that's why these states go after police funding making laws and regulation prohibiting law enforcement agencies from spending money to do anything about if. Fucking Democrats.

At least that's the site that's been in all the memes, and from what the memes say...not for me lol.

Too bad browser side-bar app isn't up to date.

ME: Is it possible that gravity can become so powerful or dense enough to create visible light?

ChatGPT: No, it is not possible for gravity to become so powerful or dense that it creates visible light. Gravity is a fundamental force of nature that causes objects with mass to attract each other. The strength of gravity depends on the mass and distance between objects.

Light, on the other hand, is an electromagnetic radiation that travels in waves and does not have mass. It is not affected by gravity in the same way that matter is. While gravity can bend the path of light, it cannot create or generate light.

There are some extreme astrophysical objects like black holes or neutron stars which have incredibly strong gravitational fields, but they still cannot create visible light. Instead, they emit other forms of radiation such as X-rays or gamma rays due to the extreme conditions present in their vicinity.

ME: How about during the creation of the universe?

During the creation of the universe, there was a period known as the "recombination epoch" that occurred about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. During this epoch, the universe had cooled enough for neutral atoms to form from ionized particles. This allowed photons (light particles) to travel freely through space without being scattered by other charged particles.

As the universe continued to expand and cool, the photons underwent a process known as cosmic microwave background radiation (CMBR), which is the remnant radiation from the Big Bang. This radiation is in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum and was discovered in 1964 by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson.

However, it is important to note that the photons from the CMBR were not generated by gravity but were the result of the early universe's incredibly high temperatures and densities. So, while gravity played a role in shaping the evolution of the universe, it did not directly create visible light during the creation of the universe.

Off Topic

This is from the ChatGPT sidebar app included in the latest version of the Opera browser. I am going to start using complete conversations to show what it can, and can not do [without telling it to STFU and giving it more specifics]. All data provided to it was between 2010-2021 and it has a heavy liberal agenda bias on most Socio-political topics that I tried. Even when presenting it factual information between 2012 and now it refused to believe it or accept it.

When I asked it several times about a specific topic and asked for a specific piece of information, it just came up empty every time, until I told it that I was, in fact, involved, then it believed me without question and answered correctly [although the best part of capabilities is probably still classified so it didn't have that info] . Why, without proof, did it believe me about it but not about socio-political topics??? Here is what it finally said [I removed hull number and boat name, and added emphasis in caps in one spot]:

"I apologize for my previous answers. Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

To answer your question, it appears that the Nessie periscope system was indeed installed on the USS ******* (SSN-***) for testing during the 1990s. ACCORDING TO SOME SOURCES, the Nessie system was installed on the USS ******* as part of a joint French-US program called "PAP" (Periscope Anti-Piracy) to evaluate its performance in real-world missions. The program aimed to test and demonstrate the system's ability to detect, classify, and track surface targets and to provide intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to the submarine.

The Nessie system was designed to be adaptable and can be integrated into various types of submarines, depending on their requirements and capabilities. Therefore, it is possible that the system was installed on the USS ******* and used during your service on the submarine."

Makes me chuckle to do the math, "What, me worry?". HEAD FOR THE HILLS!

Sea level has been rising approximately 10cm/4" per 50 years. At the current average rise it would take ~1850 more years for the sea level to raise enough cover 1% more land or ~77K square miles. That is roughly the size of Nebraska or South Dakota.

The Tempest - The Real McKenzies suits me as a sailor, USN SQUID

We are all born free but forever live in chains
And we battle through existence on and on
We'll take whatever comes to be while keeping hopeful melody
And we'll cruise through the darkness until the warmth of dawn

So, row, row you bastards you never can tell
Through water like glass above a briney hell
So, row and a-hollar come give her all you can
Or the sea she will best us, we'll never see the land

We carry on the burden and we hide our grimace well
For the day will come for us to mutiny
But as long as we survive our hope and pride they can't deprive
And we'll carry on our melody to sing in harmony

So, row, row you bastards you never can tell
Over water like glass above a briney hell
So, row and a-hollar come give her all you can
Or the sea she will best us, we'll never see the land

So, row, row you bastards you never can tell
The ocean a tempest or the land a stormy hell
So, row a litlle harder 'til bloodied on the hand
Or the sea she will best us, we'll never see the land

We are wracked from the hardships
Exhausted by the years we can still escape this barren misery
But even with our shackled wrists we can fight our way through this
And we'll power all aboard the ship to total liberty

So, row, row you bastards you never can tell
The ocean a tempest or the land a stormy hell
So, row a litlle harder 'til bloodied on the hand
Or the sea she will best us, we'll never see the land

So, row, row you bastards you never can tell
The ocean a tempest or the land a stormy hell
So, row a litlle harder 'til bloodied on the hand

Or the sea she will best us, we'll never see the land
Or the sea she will best us, we'll never see the land
Or the sea she will best us, we'll never see the land

I do not want my computer to 'guess' what I want; I want my computer to do exactly what I tell it to. They've been dumbing down too much so the 'educated' people can use it like they use their cellphones, completely ignorant of how technology works and what it's capable of in its hidden programming, and not questioning what machines tell them.

I am sure many of the most popular modules will be subscription based, maybe even commercially unavailable [like modules that would actually let you control your own OS functionality].

This could have made the Depp v Heard case even more epic!

Lol, you beat me to it...taking gaslighting to a whole new level.

Imagine whole organizations, NGOs, AND governmental agencies/administrations trying whatever it take to make us eat, and be, less healthy.

If they are THAT concerned about how much potential crop land is used by livestock then they would stop growing corn for fuel...and just grow edible corn/wheat/whatever grows in that soil that can be eaten; no brainer.