@ShawnOL said:

@OutdoorsSmoke_21191 said:

@silvermouse said:
2,000 years and still nobody listens...
Matthew 26:52 ...
"Put your sword back in its place," Jesus said to him, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword."

Psalm 64:3 😉 and many others regarding the tongue and spoken words.

It’s challenging to try and convey emotions, feelings and internal viewpoints typed out for the intended recipient and/or the world. I have yet to see anyone change another’s views with typed words on the internet, no matter the intent of the author.

Not so. I thought you were normal until I read what these guys said about you.

Far from normal my friend. 😉

@silvermouse said:
My retirement savings has dropped 10% in value in the last 2 days. Thanks.

You should just go to Florida for three day weekend and watch a golf tournament......That should help

Artificial general intelligence could arrive far sooner than expected and will utterly transform human society, leading researchers argued. Google DeepMind released a report on AGI safety this week, noting that AI that outperforms humans could arrive before 2030, accelerated by AI’s own improvement at automating R&D. It argued that if AI’s values do not match humanity’s — or if the technology is misused — AI could have “catastrophic outcomes.” Meanwhile a former OpenAI researcher behind a prescient post in 2021 which foresaw much of AI development up to now published a major piece suggesting that superintelligence could arrive within three years, with a China-US arms race imperiling human civilization.
https://semafor.com/s/yZ9p5AX0Q4

https://semafor.com/s/CnxfggsTbP

You are probably right, @genareddog, the folks who manage my investments said the same thing. The smartest thing I ever did, financially, was put it in their hands. I am typical in that I can't entirely divorce emotions from decision-making.

@genareddog said:

@silvermouse said:
My retirement savings has dropped 10% in value in the last 2 days. Thanks.

Try to think positive Edward, it’s a great time to invest 😀

This is correct. There's no reason to even look when the market drops, other than to put yourself in a bad mood.

Six month graph:

Now let's zoom out to five years:

It will come back, it always does.

@CharlieHeis said:

@genareddog said:

@silvermouse said:
My retirement savings has dropped 10% in value in the last 2 days. Thanks.

Six month graph:

Now let's zoom out to five years:

It will come back, it always does.

That really hurt people were who invested diligently and then planned to retire in 2021. Many of them had to push off retirement plans and then cash out their retirement savings for less money that they had 3 years ago, forcing them to live with a smaller overall income. It's not all roses it's all I'm saying.

Can't make an argument with either of you. One's age definitely comes into play. I will say mine came back a lot faster than I thought it would and I hope we're all as lucky this time.

Good points. In my humble opinion, the market is a gamble. Unless you have knowledge (insider trading) buy good quality companies or funds. I like Edward have a financial advisor who through the years has done really good for me. I am not smart enough to do it by myself.

@Amos_Umwhat said:
https://www.foxnews.com/media/flashback-30-years-ago-nancy-pelosi-demanded-congress-confront-chinese-tariffs-american-goods

One for the Democrats, I guess it's true, what goes around comes around

That was when the Chinese weren't giving money to the dems. Now that they are, they're our best friends, right?

Pete made a good point above, all this has gone on for a long time, and little or nothing has changed. At least, until now. For most of my life the two controlling parties have relied on batting back and forth the same ole tired strategies:

1 Print more money
2 Raise taxes
3 Borrow money against your kids / grandkids / great grandkids futures
4 Make sure the onus of the tax burden remains on the middle class
5 Enrich greed head CEO's
6 Raise taxes
7 Print more money
8 Lie about the other side, to make them look bad
9 Lie about your own side, to make you look good
10 Bullshidt the people about what you're going to do for them
11 Terrorize the people about what the other side will do to them

and on and on and on

There have been very few "good guys" in Washington D.C., and those who went there with the intention of being a good guy were quickly corrupted, or sidelined, slandered, destroyed, and sent packing.

Neither Republican nor Democrat are innocent, or generally helpful in any way.

Just my uneducated opinion. I'm sure someone will quickly try to prove me wrong. Again.

Flag! I win!

😂🤣😂

^^If that was the administration's intent it is nothing short of disgraceful. History should be taught in its entirety, and that's going to include some things that make various groups look bad, and there's no way to get around that, because what they were doing was bad. Let it be what it was.

In a recent discussion about Jackie Robinson I heard two things that I'd never thought of, and never would have thought of.

One was that when the orders in question were acted on, someone simply typed in something along the lines of "delete all first-african-american" into the website and many things that should have remained, had never really been ordered to be removed, were suddenly gone.

The second was a descriptive term for what may be going on with this, oppositional compliance. It's like when a child thinks "I'll show You", and carries out an absurd interpretation of their parent's instruction.

At any rate, put Harriet back where she belongs. I've seen those displays, and anyone who was offended by them needs to grow up and get over themselves. Same goes for anyone engaging in oppositional compliance.

Pretty soon that nasty Civil War will just fade from history.

Dumbest thread ever 🤔😩😩

@VegasFrank said:

@Amos_Umwhat said:
The second was a descriptive term for what may be going on with this, oppositional compliance. It's like when a child thinks "I'll show You", and carries out an absurd interpretation of their parent's instruction.

I don't know about the other agencies, but Peter hegseth explicitly told all of his four-star generals that he they were not to use any of the banned words on the bandwid list. Amongst those words are the terms black, segregation, and equality, racial inequity, racism, racial equality, Men, exclusion, diversity, cultural heritage, Anti-Racism, and belong.

Those are all words that we are not to use in the government.

Tell me exactly how you would tell the story of the Tuskegee airmen without using any of those words. Of course they deleted the page. What else were they going to do? Of course they deleted the Jackie Robinson page. How do you tell his story?

Never mind the fact that it is apparently grounds for firing to mention any " topics that have received widespread or critical media," topics that have received recent attention from Congress," and "topics of federal investigations."

But yeah, opposition compliance is the real problem. ✅

Thank you, Frank. By carefully cherry picking portions of the post, and ignoring the overall sentiment and then assuming a disdainful demeanor you have aptly demonstrated in real time the very concepts I was discussing. This is indeed what it looks like.

I couldn't have done it better myself.

The message ignored, the reaction inflammatory. Perfect.

Oppostional compliance in action.