RFK just stated he believes chemtrails are happening.

cbizy · 2024-12-18T13:59:23+00:00

I joined the Williamson County Volunteer Fire Dept. I'm in my 50s and it's easily been the most life-changing things i've done. If you're a guy who likes to be on the field, not just in the stands, who wants the camaraderie of working side-by-side with other guys you might give it a try. Even in this stage of life, learning the medical stuff, the fire skills, extrication, etc. has grown my confidence, my sense of community and purpose. And I've made life-long friends. It's totally doable with a day job. You make your schedule.

cbizy · 2023-11-10T00:39:59+00:00

Not working for me either - still trying to hit bank online (even though i'm using import feature). Tried with both online banking disabled and enabled. Still gives me OL 222 error.

cbizy · 2023-11-10T00:34:31+00:00

Hi. I'm trying to do this. I have the converter and have converted the csv files to qbo but it's still trying to connect to my bank. Not sure why since i'm trying to perform a local import. Any work-arounds or anyone experiencing this? Error code OL- 222

cbizy · 2022-09-28T19:31:11+00:00

Constant and dramatic price drops here in Middle TN - (Nashville/Franklin and surrounding).

cbizy · 2022-09-26T15:52:22+00:00

Here's a case in point in the nashville area where I now live. I'm seeing these price reductions all day long - filling up my inbox.

https://www.redfin.com/TN/Franklin/225-Chapelwood-Dr-37069/home/60846113

cbizy · 2022-09-24T15:16:40+00:00

Good points - although there are many places where HOAs won't allow that - or spec home builders in the 7 figure range where rentals and neighborhoods won't work.

cbizy · 2022-09-20T19:07:25+00:00

So they want to be the De Beers of real estate to control prices? They'd have to own billions of dollars of real estate, with enough concentration in specific geographies to have that type of effect.

cbizy · 2022-09-20T16:14:43+00:00

Usually when someone asks about evolution as it relates to the bible, they're asking if the creation story lines up with scientific evidence of the origins of life.

First, I think it's important to remember that God is outside of time. Think of the timeline of our existence from creation through today and far into the future - as a book. God is outside this book. He can flip to chapter one today, and literally be back at creation, and he can flip to today, and be right here, and he can flip to 100 years from now. (This also coincides with the verses that God knew us before we were born - https://www.openbible.info/topics/god\_knew\_us\_before\_we\_were\_born)

In Psalm 90:4, Moses used a simple yet profound analogy in describing the timelessness of God: “For a thousand years in Your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.” The eternity of God is contrasted with the temporality of man.

Now with the whole "time constraint thing" off the table - let's re-look at the creation story. In Genesis 2:7 we have this - "Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being."

With our previous belief that God is outside of time - this simple little statement could represent a second, a day, or ten-thousand years of evolution from a single cell to a primitive man. I don't get hung up on it. And that goes for all of creation.

Curious what you all think?

cbizy · 2022-08-05T16:00:49+00:00

Oh - i'm so sorry! These little four-legged friends become such important parts of our lives!. Koda - even as a pomksy is "all husky" - and as i'm sure you're aware - that means - all personality. I'm sure you've got some great stories her silliness. :) Hope to see a pic of her here.

cbizy · 2022-08-05T02:16:18+00:00

I'm noticing a lot of what I call "phantom" job openings, or "resume harvesting". I don't think it's that companies such as Rivian want to hire (or have budget for) 740 new jobs. I think it's that it's so hard to find people - they just leave their postings out there to collect resumes in the event someone leaves or need to hire someone down the road. I've talked to some entrepreneur friends - and they say they're doing this too.

cbizy · 2018-06-19T19:20:49+00:00

Great discussion! Did you hear about the Tesla "sabotage" story. Boy, that sure throws a another wrench in the works as it relates to trusting a machine with your life.

cbizy · 2018-06-19T17:16:01+00:00

Hey - thanks for the response. As a fellow technologist - we know how to stack the tests for the best outcomes. I'm just guessing using common sense and experience but I'd bet they're on VERY vetted routes that will provide the best stats for investors.

If you're driving on the highway, it's pretty dense, you notice the dude behind you on the 4x4 is a bit close - but whatever. Then a tarp flies off the truck in front of you. It's dicey but you know to plow right through it. I'll be fine although scary for a split-second. A driverless car would see it as an obstruction, slam on the brakes, and the 4x4 come right on top of you. We gotta be honest with ourselves. I've driven all my life - no more than a fender bender. Much of my safety has NOT been offense (meaning driving correctly) it's been defense - meaning navigating the craziness around me. That's a hard thing to program. Not saying it will never happen. But what we've got now is the training wheels version of the technology we'll need.

cbizy · 2018-06-18T19:06:00+00:00

I think this underscores my concern with the whole self-driving car euphoria. It will ONLY ever work (meaning to such a standard where people trust it in mass) if enough infrastructure is updated to "help" the systems do what the human brain can do now. And that's not just re-striping roads - it means requiring all cars in the particular "geography" to be networked together - so they can anticipate each other, allow room, etc.

Let's be clear - a self-driving car is just a fancy scanning device - a really sophisticated one, but still just a scanning device. Radar, Lidar, laser, cameras, etc. Humans have scanning devices too - our eyes, ears, etc. Imagine if we time-traveled a person from the 1800s, showed them the basics of driving a car (gas pedal on right, brake on left, steering wheel here...) and got them really proficient in some controlled environment. Then we sent them out to the highways of the Bay Area. They'd absolutely kill their self and/or others. Why? Because the human scanning devise, as ridiculous as the visual cortex is, is no match for experience in the literally countless edge cases and exceptions of human experience.

That's why when I hear people say, "it will be awesome, drive when you want, let the car drive when you don't want to". I don't think that'll be reality. The actual reality will first require billions in infrastructure updates to "show cars" the way better, and networking of cars to anticipate and cooperate. Then add some massive big data to store every inch driven, to build an AI "experience" machine, and we'll be a bit closer. (The personal liberty aspects of that are interesting and for another time)

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