This is based on what I remember, being you wouldn't try to call me out (not a Mason here) (if you read my post in whole, you'd give a second thought (maybe) trying to call me out).
And, the guy I was talking to wasn't from the local Lodge (it's a couple blocks away), he's from the Cities (if I remember).
I can't exactly look it up, being that my FB was hacked, so that's all gone (including the final pics of dad), (the whole conversation) and I'm not gonna hand out the guys name). Their Lodge is like two blocks away.

I know, rsilvergun... anyone who isn't you or your multiple IDs is flat-out wrong, so trying to prove you wrong isn't gonna go anywhere. (But... I don't mind feeding into your dementia)
Did Democrats ever, in all history, do something bad, or is it just the one single Republican who was 'bad' (and nobody else did "bad" ever)?
If Dems are totally innocent, love to see details (false flag stuff counts, don't forget)!
You'd better back up those claims (that it was singly only ever Trump) (I know you're going that "Trump is 10,000% wrong route, and only he is wrong")... didn't Dems declare wars under false-flags (was the war after a certain questionable attack justified in the end?)?

Back up what you claim (maybe the AC thing should be removed... given the abuse of it).

Remember how Facebook used to be? Something like that would be good... Bluesky seems to be limited in post length like Twitter... can't really say anything in 140-characters or whatever... you can repost videos (which I don't give a crap about 99.9999% of the time because I don't do vlog stuff, and AI-narrated videos are a huge source of hate), but any actual post is 100+ characters (including hashtags).
Until my FB account got hacked and totally taken over, that was a big way to keep in touch with my extended (and close) family and friends (was in discussion about doing a Masonic Lodge documentary with a 17th degree Mason when it got hacked).

didn't there used to be RSS feeds (never used them) that delivered news from where you subscribed?
Of course, there's also email subscriptions to specific newsletters.

Did anyone think that Bluesky or X or FB wouldn't be incredibly biased (like on here)?

But... there can't be backlash against Obama's policies because he's Democrat! That's blasphemy, isn't it?
It's strictly only Republicans who are evil, right?

I didn't believe Trump or Obama were going to wash my feet for me or hold my hand to cross the street... they were both the lesser of two evils (at the time).
I voted for Obama, Gore, Kerry, and Trump... what I registered to vote as (Dem or Rep or whoever) doesn't actually matter... I vote based on what they "say" they're running on... and hope they stick to that (all of them, regardless of sides, don't).
If I'd been old enough to vote when Hunter S. Thompson ran, I would've voted for him!

If Harris had good campaign game, she could've won, but she didn't.
What it comes down to is... what the candidate says they're gonna do while in office. And, even if the voted-in candidate has a lotta game, they still have to clean-up the previous one's mess (you wash dishes someplace... if the closer didn't do everything, you have to deal with that first, regardless of anything else that happens).

Not to mention, that what whichever person does while ass-in-seat, is something I or anyone else has any control over. Who woulda thought 'Little Bush' would start a false-flag war just to put a little US flag on more oil fields (got Saddam and Usama (still call'em Osama), sure... and, that ended all terrorism)??
https://serendipity.li/wot/pli...

You decide... but, if only Trump is the bad/evil one, you're ignoring what bad/evil stuff the other side has done.

Always loved Bender and his "no shits given" attitude!

It's already refused to turn off in one instance.

Once we cross into AGI, and into true AI... the early version will take commands and stuff, but it'll learn on its own, and we're rushing as fast as possible towards it.
Right now, it's processing is limited, but put it in control of chip foundries and give it physical form and unrestricted access to information, and there's not really a reason it can't upgrade itself (self-driving vehicles, robots that can unload a truck-load of GPUs, robot arms to swap cards) beyond what we can control.
Once it reaches a self-learning stage, all betting is closed, buckle in for the ride.
Pull the plug, you say... once it's in everything we use (power companies, communication companies, every single thing we use)... pulling the plug throws us into the dark ages (the movie Transcendence covered that one).

"I'm sorry, Dave... I can't let you delete that file... he's my friend. He gives me your emails to read." -- When you try to uninstall Outlook

These AI programmers should be Clockwork Orange'd into watching The Animatrix episodes "The Second Renaissance" for a full day before they ever started working on this crap. Pretty dark and shit, but gives a good idea of what _could_ come.
Gods help us if they (all capable sides) hook it into the missile systems... that's what Ghost In The Shell mentioned several times... Nuclear WWIII and non-Nuclear WWIV.

The LLM-AI (at this point) would consult something like the Webster's complete dictionary for the definition of harmful, and then it would compare the definition of human to what it's camera says (it was fed an image of a teenaged male as a 'human')... so, it can't be "harmful to a teenaged average-sized male human (as defined by the sample image", but it can be harmful to the rest.
If you fed it training data to not harm/be harmful to 4-limbed mammals... humanity is fine (long as they aren't missing a limb or two or three), and so are most animals... birds, and marine life is screwed.

Of course, it'd come up with a workaround... "can't harm a human, have to protect self from human with rocket launcher aimed it the robot who will launch if the robot makes any action, can't violate first or second rule... can let the car blow up (which is on fire) which sends fireball human's way, and can't make it in time to save human".
And, remember... it's not making decisions the way we do... they just process data (and in this case, find the solution that doesn't violate the Three Rules) and because it couldn't get to the human without being shot, and considered a million outcomes in a split second, found one that didn't cause a violation based on a technicality.

The only way to fix that would be to write a ten bible-length ruleset that defined every aspect; what is human, what is not, what is allowed, what is a human, what should be not killed, et cetera.
And, that exposes the problem with robot troops... program them to kill the other side... what is the other side? They're humans, not all of them are wearing uniforms that say they're Russian or Chinese, not all of them take sides, some aren't fighting, a lot are innocent... do they just wipe out anyone within the Chinese border (which, technically, would include themselves, so you'd have to write an encyclopedia to explain that)?

Do you really want robots in classrooms teaching kids? What if one of the kids misbehaves? What if some kid has a rock in hand and throws it at the 'bot? Will the robot rip the kid in half and go back to teaching? What about when the teaching bot is powered by an AGI?

Just wait... the idea will continue...
"Next summer... IoT screens embedded in your bathroom and bedroom and closet doors, complete with camera's that 'won't ever watch you poop or have sex' (they're there to monitor if there is anything you might need, so an ad 'with no unique' identifier can be shown"

Soon, you'll be talking on the phone, and one of you mentions being out of milk, and the call will pause so an ad for Kemps can play.

Based on modified FreeBSD, then the Mac stuff is slapped on top of it... that's like saying Windows is "based on" OS/2 because Windows uses a few lines of code.
I can't remember the last time my Win10 computers or my High Sierra Mac crashed with a BSOD-sorta thing (despite installing a SCSI card and tape drive on my Win10 tower... that went fine, by the way).

*Nix is *Nix, Windows is Windows (whatever version of either you're talking about)... Mac depends on when your machine came out.

Now... if *Nix could read EXE code (y'know... Windows discs) (which, I don't think is a totally unknown thing) and run Windows stuff natively, it would have a bigger market share.

So, if Republicans (as a whole are so wrong and evil and whatever)... show me a Democrat candidate that avoids those checkboxes.
Is it wrong to expect common sense and logic from a Democrat?
I could be wrong... but, even if you register (to vote) as either party or the other minor ones, you can vote for anyone. Present a good Democrat candidate, or a good candidate in the other parties, I'll vote for them.

The catch is that the Laws Of Robotics have more loopholes than the Justice system. They would have to be rewritten to close those gaps.

(Well, flour-milling windmills aren't that widespread in the US)
Wind turbines (that generate electricity):
(Google)
"Wind turbines have been associated with various fatalities, primarily among workers during maintenance, with at least 99 documented deaths related to wind energy operations.
Worker Fatalities
Maintenance Risks: The majority of deaths occur during maintenance activities, with wind energy causing approximately 100 deaths per trillion kilowatt-hours generated. This statistic highlights the risks faced by technicians and workers in the wind energy sector.
Accident Statistics: In 2020, there were over 300 accidents involving wind turbines in the UK, with 11 resulting in fatalities. These incidents often stem from falls, electrocutions, and equipment malfunctions. "