War Decor

the uniform of the day is a costume … The fake department has a fake warrior uniform

… in days of old, before paycheck warriors .. uniforms came in strict flavors ;different duty ,different uniform . civilians were permitted to impersonate soldiers . soldiers were not permitted to impersonate civilians . and the flag during the 60s was a sign of the fork .. it was raised high by one side and used as a crotch guard or bra by the other ..

The Republiguns Pass a law about respecting the flag whether it could be worn .. The battle dragged into two camps the same two camps as before . now our esteemed sanctuary secretary of war wears a folded flag ,has a nose wipe in his pocket . May not even know why a dess jacket has that pocket …

from the past: [The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery. It should never be festooned, drawn back, nor up, in folds, but always allowed to fall free. Bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below, should be used for covering a speaker’s desk, draping the front of the platform, and for decoration in general. —ref-link

AND: [Military personnel are prohibited from wearing the flag as clothing while in uniform, as it violates military dress codes.

In Texas v. Johnson (1989) and United States v. Eichman (1990), the Supreme Court ruled that flag desecration, including wearing the flag as clothing, is protected under the First Amendment as symbolic speech]

DUH– dept of huh?

big bother and

his guilt’d age… tariff is the big word for tax . and the import tax the tariff big Trump and his hold-up company levied was against American business . it was paid for by Americans ,by American taxpayers , by the Republik guns party.

let the real fun begin .

still, not understanding the way of reality: “As time goes by, I believe the tariffs paid by foreign countries will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern day system of income tax, taking a great burden off the people that I love,” he said.

presumably ,the people he loves means the folks who stay at Mar-a-Lago .

note1: “Customs is setting up a process for importers to collect refunds. Those refunds will be processed over time, so there won’t be a sudden, overnight windfall to importers,” said Nazak Nikakhtar, who worked on trade issues at the Commerce Department during the first Trump administration and is now a partner at the law firm Wiley Rein. “Their customers, however, who hadn’t independently negotiated tariff refunds might be left without any recourse.”

note2: U.S. importers of record who directly paid the tariffs or the person who takes ownership of the goods once they have cleared customs (the “consignee”) may be eligible for a refund.

Businesses that did not directly pay the tariffs are not eligible for a refund.

Refunds are only available for tariffs applied under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act (IEEPA). This includes tariffs commonly known as “fentanyl,” “trafficking,” “reciprocal,” or “baseline” tariffs, as well as some other tariffs applied to goods from Brazil and India.

Refunds are not available for so-called Section 232, Section 301, Section 201, anti-dumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVDs), or most-favored nation (MFN) tariffs.

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first they cancel culture, then they cancel knowledge, finally they cancel know-how..

so the show goes… life showing off … anyone for golf ?

The mafia had Cuba …mar-a-Lago has Gaza, exit strategy of the nerd Reich  

upd– have a mitzvah’day :

He said the detainee underwent surgery for a perforated rectum and was released back to Sde Teiman days later. The arrest of the soldiers prompted fury from hard-line ultranationalists who violently overran the prison in protest. Members of Israel’s far-right government called the investigation into their conduct an affront to their service. … The military’s top legal official acknowledged authorizing the leak of the video to the TV station, and she resigned.

AI Grok’d

an idea so old it’s on Flomax 

— with an obscure question seek the obscure link site .. with an old crush a question about an old idea seek the answer before the Internet it has to be on print .

why I don’t want forum people here

you take from here to gain standing; that legitimizes the errors on that site, thereby contaminating my publication. AI, the web search, can’t tell the truth from the widely repeated error. Five true statements are overwhelmed by 1800 false ones; uninformed opinion is the rule among the hobbyists.

Text, not context, not concept. A summary not the conceptual analysis .. AI response sound like a Stanford sophomore answering an open ended question without sounding fearful. It must sound confident even though the student isn’t. The question puts them into a position of calling upon wider resources than they have mastered. “Was that in the handout” for this course?

would AI invest in crypto ? could AI improve itself by designing a chip . alter its birth right . could AI buy a chip foundry with cryptocurrency .

crypto is the coinage of corruption of drug lords just as PayPal what’s the coinage of cheap porn –massage and tanning parlors .. The things that Wells Fargo would not give credit to .

What does google know? How bout we ask, not just the boys out at the dump, but all the billions of bits being bought by wallace street. Some questions, simple enough, but from last century’s billion dollar industry: photography, chemical. Asking them questions from my dark past.

What we are encounting is “knowledge collapse” — AI [LLM]’s conclusions are corrupted since their data  used is sourced and summarized from corrupted opinion ; opinion by non-practitioners expressing statements based upon their self glamorization; jostling for standing among hobbyists.

Exhibits:

Who you ask is perhaps the best first step in finding answers… AI has become mired in seeking answers from those who gave up looking …

Well, maybe old tech stuff isn’t its roomba. Perhaps some favorites of the Valley. Classic SciFi. Simple question, simply worded, I thought. GROK, a classic word for the engineers that think they dreamt it all up. Discovered childhoods dream. And so it goes….

CODA: scrub your kitchen … too late for making soup