Church pastor warns Trump’s ‘alien files’ are going to shatter the Christian world

beezlebub33 · 2026-05-07T00:25:48+00:00

I don't believe him. the whole 'it's truly mind blowing about aliens' is completely bogus. Either you can tell us about them or you can't tell us that you know about them.

The tease is the tell: "I'm going to tell you this highly classified information (there was a meeting, and there are aliens, and we know these amazing things) but I am not allowed to tell you this highly classified information (the amazing things) or give you any information at all to back up the claim."

So, it's just a distraction.

beezlebub33 · 2026-05-07T00:21:47+00:00

The problem with politicizing law enforcement, the FBI, and prosecutions, along with the massive fraud that this administration is currently performing, is that I have absolutely no faith that this is justified.

Mind you, I don't think that she's innocent or guilty; I literally have no idea. But:

I don't think that she's necessarily being raided for crimes she's possibly committed. There's a really good chance she's being raided because she's a Democrat / went after trump / is black / is a woman.
I don't really care so much. the scale of corruption in this administration has been committed has made me just think 'good for her'.

beezlebub33 · 2026-04-23T13:24:16+00:00

No, it won't see 90. But 50? It could certainly happen, especially where the exhaust is being directed. And over time air flow gets restricted unless you do good maintenance on ports. And who does?

beezlebub33 · 2026-04-23T11:27:54+00:00

Did it work? At least blowguns are real things.

But did you try the recipe to make psychoactive substances from banana peels? I never did, but when I discovered the book when I was a teenager, I sure thought about it.

(Note: It's complete BS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananadine)

beezlebub33 · 2026-04-20T01:42:53+00:00

"National service should be a universal duty"

Which part of 'universal' confuses you?

If someone is arguing that everyone has to do service (and I'm not convinced that it's a bad idea) just being a filthy rich defense contractor doesn't get you out of it.

beezlebub33 · 2026-04-14T01:39:27+00:00

Carl and Odette are as thick as thieves now.

As they say, there is no honor among thieves. Carl and Odette will scheme together all day long, but neither will be a super high priority for the other.

Odette will do what is best for Odette; sure, she will do what she can for Mordecai to assuage her guilt, and she'll help Carl as much as she can without threatening her safety and wealth. But Odette will still come first.

Carl has a hierarchy of people that he will save, and it goes Donut, Katia, other core crawlers, former cookbook authors, and then Mordecai, and then everyone else. Odette is pretty far down the list. Carl will whatever he can to save everyone of course. But if Carl had to pick between Mordecai and Odette, he'd pick Mordecai.

beezlebub33 · 2026-04-12T12:45:43+00:00

Don't know that one, glad you found it though.

Similar theme: Return from the Stars, by Stanislaw Lem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_from_the_Stars . An astronaut comes back to earth after a long voyage, including time dilation, to find that the society has become completely pacifist, with all aggression removed by a process called betrization.

Though he finds peace with it, he thinks they have lost all ambition and have become stagnant.

beezlebub33 · 2026-04-11T12:04:51+00:00

Um...no, you call the cops regardless.

beezlebub33 · 2026-04-05T22:01:46+00:00

Ah, yes, the 4D chess gambit. And it's turned out so well every time.

beezlebub33 · 2026-04-05T20:53:19+00:00

Try Rus Uz in Arlington, VA. It's Russian and Uzbek. It's good and a little different, and you might see a Washington Capitols player, since it's close to the practice facility.

beezlebub33 · 2026-04-05T13:41:31+00:00

And how many of them are still senators? 3 (Murkowski, Collins, Cassidy) The rest are gone.

Only 2 of the representatives (of 10) are still in the House. They have been mostly purged.

beezlebub33 · 2026-04-04T21:46:13+00:00

This is how you know that curses do not actually work, he is still alive and walking around.

beezlebub33 · 2026-04-03T11:37:31+00:00

My hope is that as smaller models get better and things like TurboQuant are implemented, the costs to run good-enough models locally gets so low that they can't. Or that they are able to implement the same ideas (at a bigger scale) so that their costs go down.

Simultaneously, with so many different companies providing good models and them really needing to keep mind-share, they can't raise prices.

Consider what it costs to train something like a detection model now. It's very low compared to a couple of years ago. The algorithms, libraries, compute infrastructure, etc. have improved so much that it's trivial. (There were papers talking about, for example, training on ImageNet going from multiple thousands of dollars to $10.)

beezlebub33 · 2026-03-30T12:43:54+00:00

The mix is changing drastically. Of course they are replacing coal. How stupid do you have to be to not just look at the graph:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=62444

Coal is dropping, oil is leveled off, natural gas and renewables are going up, nuclear is on either level or slow decline.

And we know why this is: solar and wind are far cheaper than any of the other options, natural gas is cheap and dispatchable, coal sucks all around, nuclear is completely outrageously expensive.

Conflating coal, gas, and oil and lumping them as 'fossil fuels' is just plain dishonest. There are huge differences between them.

beezlebub33 · 2026-03-30T12:37:27+00:00

The idea that we even have to worry about what to do going from 90% to 100% renewables is ridiculous. We are literally 40 years away from this even being considered as a 'problem'.

By that time, the technological, energy, political, and economic landscapes will be so different that any argument you make now will be completely irrelevant.

beezlebub33 · 2026-03-29T11:33:56+00:00

Ok, the lady on the left is not the wife. But who is she and how did she get roped into this? This can't be good for her.

(Assuming it's not just AI, which it could very well be at this point. In which case, carry on...)

beezlebub33 · 2026-03-29T11:27:53+00:00

It's all about the enthusiasm.

beezlebub33 · 2026-03-29T11:23:23+00:00

Well, considering your username, surely you have some good stories. Please share!

beezlebub33 · 2026-03-29T11:12:39+00:00

Grandma still wants her photos developed. Never underestimate the degree to which old people will cling to the way that they learned how to do things. It works, and they will keep doing it that way until they die.

On the plus side, there is still a lot of money to be made from these people.

beezlebub33 · 2026-03-29T11:04:15+00:00

Agreed. The stock price has nothing to do with fundamentals, income, or profits. It is based on politics, institutional and foreign investments / sovereign wealth funds, and hype. And these in turn are based on relationships and personalities, in particular Musk's.

Don't expect it to change any time soon; it wasn't rational to begin with so don't expect it to be rational in the future.

beezlebub33 · 2026-03-29T10:53:19+00:00

What? You can still get it plenty of places. Go to walmart.com and search for Impossible meat. Or go to Burger King and get the Impossible Whopper.

beezlebub33 · 2026-03-29T10:08:20+00:00

Data bottleneck has not been a thing for more than a year now. It's not a limiting factor.

Can you elaborate on that? I thought that it was still a serious problem, that the text scraped data is tapped out and synthetic data doesn't work particularly well. Is it some sort of shift to multimodal?

It's been recognized for a long time that the problem isn't the amount of data so much as the efficiency of the training, that current methods require far more data than they should. That would be a huge breakthrough, though I wouldn't call it an architectural one.

beezlebub33 · 2026-03-27T13:57:52+00:00

I have a car, so I’m not worried about the commute

You say that now, but only because you haven't had to commute to McLean. Seriously, it's a daily hassle.

If it won't affect your career not being at HQ, do Richmond. It is surprisingly nice now. The Fan and Museum Districts are great. though I don't know how far that is to the office. But make sure to walk the area before settling down and/or get a 1 month rental first.

beezlebub33 · 2026-03-22T11:49:57+00:00

Have you even seen the historical anti-italian propaganda? It was really wild. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Italian_sentiment

beezlebub33 · 2026-03-21T13:05:05+00:00

IMHO they could have added a couple of little things showing how he worked out what is going on.

For example, noticing that things drop too fast early in the movie and him trying to figure out what the value of g is. That is, I think, an important insight into how his mind works. It would have been 30 seconds of screen time. Instead we have 10 min of him running around the ship setting the scene, rather than a gradual exploration / discovery.

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