Misc thoughts and rambelins

SO?

I think I got the numbers right...

Maybe lol.

Watched a guy doing a presentation on AI the other day.

He said if the average person started reading as soon as they were born

and did NOTHING but read their entire lives and they read at just an average pace

and they lived to be 80 years old they would read somewhere in the neighborhood of 

8 Billion words in their lifetime.

ONE AI on the other hand

would read about 8 TRILLION words in just one month. 

Thats 1000x more than a person reading their entire lives in just one month.

So there's about 8 billion people on the planet 

and ONE AI can read what 1000 of them would 

if they read their entire lives and do it in just one month.

So 8 billion people divided by 

ONE AI reading what 1000 people could in a month 

= 8 million.

Divide 8 million by /12 = 666666.666667

Thats 11 sixes, six is the number right before completion 

followed by a seven, 

and seven IS completion 

and that's 12 digits in total.

Talked about 12 yesterday a lil bit, 12 disciples, 12 tribes etc.

But why did you divide by 12?

Cause I do what Im told.

ITS SIMPLY NOT GOING TO GO BACK IN THE BOTTLE 

OR GET ANY BETTER ANY TIME SOON FOLKS. 

Been saying that a while now 

and all you have to do is look around to see that it is true.

Then?

Then there was an article on the Washington Post 

which I can not find today for some reason and the title of the piece was

"Lets get real about what AI can do."

I don't even bother to read this kinda garbage any more.

Who told the author of the piece what it can and cant do is my question.

Here is all you need to know.

From the onset? AI was doing things that the people who invented/developed it didn't know why it was doing so. Multiple experts in the field have quit their jobs to warn of its dangers and other researchers in the field were saying it was sentient years ago.

So what else do you really need to know?

"Well what did you think about the debate Drew?"

"I didn't."

"Huh?"

"When these are your choices?

Its over for this country one way or another."

Its like some kafkaesque soap opera for geriatric men at this point.

Be mad all you want, my position is this:

Who cares who pilots this turd down the crapper at this point?

What difference is it really gonna make in the end?

TBH? Id be more worried about my and my families eternal salvation than anything else at this point.

My son used to get on me cause I voted for Clinton when it was him vs Bush.

I ask him, "what was my choice?"

He said, "Well you could have done something."

Okay then, your generations turn.

Good luck.

And?

Proverbs 16:18-19

Pride goeth before destruction, 

And an haughty spirit before a fall. 

Better it is to be of an humble spirit with the lowly, 

Than to divide the spoil with the proud.

I did not take this picture upside down.

Nor did I rotate it.

We have seen this before 

with picture of multiple bibles 

that ended up turned upside down.

(I got a lil tired of managing four necklaces all the time so I consolidated.)

Who is the Prince of the air again?

Ephesians 2:2

Wherein in time past 

ye walked according 

to the course of this world, 

according to 

the prince of the power of the air, 

the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

What was between the camera lens and the necklace?

Air.

Here are some others that turned out right-side up.

And when honey wants here "Saddle" Birdhouse mounted on a post and put in the ground?

Honey gets her "Saddle" bird house mounted and put in the ground.

I think it turned out pretty good. 

Were pretty big fans of JB Weld around here these days lol :-)

Yu cant hardly see them but there are two feeders on the far right.

Then the saddle birdhouse, hopper feeder and a birdbath.

Last count?

15 feeders, 3 bird baths, and two houses.

What good is creation if you cant enjoy it indeed.

I love you babe.

TTYS everybody.

Love all yall too.

So yeah...

 

YEAH...

"You can fool some people sometimes

but you cant fool 

all the people all the time

so now you see the light

(John 8:12

"I am the light of the world")

So watcha gonna do?"

You already know who...

Interpreters Bible Exegesis on Revelation 7

 Not saying I agree with all that is presented, 

just offering up some insight from 1957.

(Any print in bold red, 

was in bold in the original hardcopy. 

Any other larger print, bold, italicized, links, etc are my additions for additional emphasis. )

Revelation 7

King James Version

7 And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

2 And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,

3 Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

4 And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.

5 Of the tribe of Juda were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.

6 Of the tribe of Aser were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Nephthalim were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Manasses were sealed twelve thousand.

7 Of the tribe of Simeon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Levi were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Issachar were sealed twelve thousand.

8 Of the tribe of Zabulon were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Joseph were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Benjamin were sealed twelve thousand.

9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands;

10 And cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation to our God which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.

11 And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,

12 Saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.

13 And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?

14 And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

15 Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

G. INTERLUDE: 

SEALING OF THE MARTYRS 

(7:1-8)

7:1. 

Before the end of this age actually arrives, a great persecution will bring the number of the martyrs to the necessary total (cf. 6:11). Consequently there is a cessation of woes until those who are to become martyrs are sealed. For this reason the four angels at the four corners of the earth hold back the four winds, causing a temporary pause in the infliction of plagues on the peoples of the world.

According to a cosmology probably derived from the Babylonians, the earth was considered to be a square, with an angelic watcher of each of the four winds stationed at each corner. The idea of these four winds as destructive agents of God is found in a number of the apocalypses: e.g., in Dan. 7:2-3 the four winds of heaven broke upon the sea, causing the four fearful beasts of destruction to appear; in the Syriac Apocalypse of Peter, God warns that when he looses the four winds, brimstone will go before the sea wind, a flaming fire before the south wind, and mountains and rocks will be broken in two by the west wind (the effects of the fourth wind are not mentioned). According to the Apocalypse of Pseudo-John 15, God promises that he will permit four great winds to sweep the face of the earth from one end to the other so as to cleanse it from sin. In another source, the Questions of Bartholomew 4:31-34, four angels are set over the four winds to restrain them lest they destroy the earth. Nor should we forget that the archetypes of the four destroying horses with their riders in 6:1-8 are the four chariots of Zech. 6:1-8, which are identified with the four winds. The probable relationship of the four living creatures to the four winds should also be recalled (cf. 4:6).

2-3. 

While the winds are being restrained, another angel appears from the rising of the sun, bearing the seal of the living God. He orders the angels restraining the four winds not to permit them to do any harm until the servants, or slaves, of God have been sealed on their foreheads. This scene is similar to one in II Baruch 6:4-8:1. Four angels were about to set fire to the city of Jerusalem to keep it from falling into the idolatrous hands of the Babylonians (i.e., the Romans), when a fifth angel appeared and stayed their hands until the sacred objects of the temple were removed and safely hidden. When

this had been accomplished, he ordered them to set fire to the city. However, in Revelation though we are led to believe from the statement in vs. 3 that the angels will be permitted to release the four destroying winds when the sealing is accomplished, this is not done (but cf. 9:15). This is but one of the several loose ends which are not caught and tied up by the author.

Neither the sealing nor the seal is described, However, some assistance in understanding this scene may be obtained from similar ones in other sources: e.g., we read in Isa. 44:5 that converts to Judaists will inscribe the name of Yahweh upon their hands as a sign that they are his. We are also reminded of the blood of the Passover lamb which was sprinkled on the doorpost of the Jews so that their first born would not be killed by de destroyer (Exod. 12) A brief statement in 11 Esdras 6:5 indicates that the faithful were sealed before creation to ensure their bliss in messianic times. A closer parallel is provided by the incident in Ezek.9:1-8 Six men (angels) are prepared to destroy the inhabitants of Jerusalem for their sins, but before they begin their work of destruction, a seventh marks the foreheads of the righteous and the repentant with ink ss that they will not be slain. Similarly, in Pss. Sol. 15:8 the righteous receive a mark their foreheads to preserve them from the plagues of famine, sword, and pestilence, which God is to inflicts upon the wicked who are also marked so that they can be identified. In a Talmudic version the righteous are to be marked with ink, the wicked with blood (Shabbath 55a). Also, according to II Esdras 2:38, the predetermined number of

"confessors" had been sealed before the end. 

It is possible that John was thinking along similar lines in connection with the sealing of the prospective martyrs, indicating that these who are sealed belong to God, that they are his slaves. Consequently this sealing acts  as as a phylactery, 

or supernatural protection, against the series of plagues which are to devastate the world, in conformity with the promise is 3:10. As an additional feature, not apparent in the parallels, it may serve to guard the faithful against the demonic forces (cf. 9:4), particularly during the reign of the Antichrist which is to come.

Does it have any connection with baptism, which was also called sealing? Certain resembelences are to be seen other than the use of the same terms. Baptism not only marked the recipient as belonging to God, but it also protected him from Satan and his demons. In addition, as a sacrament is ensured immorality to the baptized, or at least it was a prerequisite to eternal life. It is quite probable that the sealing in Revelation, although it is not the same as Baptism performed this same important function. While it could not and did not keep the Christian from suffering or from a martyr's death, it would  secure a blessed immortality for these who were sealed, i.e., for the martyrs-designate.

The seal itself may have been a sacred name, like that inscribed on the white stone which was to be given to the martyrs (2:17) or like those on the pillars in the temple which symbolize the martyrs (3:12). This surmise is reinforced by one of the final scenes in which the martyrs receive the divine name on their foreheads (22:4). To be sure, John represents the sealing as occurring in the present age, and the inscribing of the divine name on their foreheads in the next; but since John frequently is indifferent to the details of chronology, it could be that the former is thought of as being, in a sense, an anticipation of the latter.

4-8.

 

The number of those sealed is given as a hundred and forty-four thousand, with twelve thousand from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. This is the total number of martyrs that must be completed before the prayers of those in heaven can be answered (cf. 6:11). More than likely John has used a Jewish source in which the saints are members of the Jewish nation from each of the twelve tribes. Whatever the source, he has allegorized the twelve tribes to signify the Christians, composed of every people and nation (cf vs. 9; 5:9), who are the true Israel (cf. Jas. 1:1; 1 Pet. 1:1); more specifically. they symbolize the whole company of martyrs, as in 14:1, where the identification seems certain.

The exact order of the tribes in this list is not of great significance. In the O.T. there are at least nineteen different arrangements; that in Revelation does not agree with any one of them. There may be some symbolism involved in the heading of this roll by Judah, since the Christ was from this tribe (cf. 5:5). Although in all save possibly one of the O.T. lists the tribe of Dan is included, it is omitted from this one. Irenaeus, writing near the end of the second century, observed that this omission was due to the belief that the Antichrist was to come from the tribe of Dan (Against Heresies V. 30. 2). That such a tradition was current earlier is evident from a statement in Test. Dan 5:6 that Beliar, a form of the Antichrist, will come from this tribe. Furthermore, in Jewish tradition Dan came to be associated with that greatest of sins, idolatry, which was one of the marks of the Antichrist (cf. Judg. 18:30; Genesis Rabbah 45:2; Targ. Jer. I on Exod. 17:8).

H. INTERLUDE: THE GLORIFIED MARTYRS IN HEAVEN (7:9-17)

9-12. 

The scene shifts rapidly from the sealing of the martyrs to become a proleptic tableau of the entire company of the glorified and victorious martyrs in heaven, where they await the consummation soon to occur. They are not only from the twelve tribes of Israel, which have been used allegorically, but are from all nations and tongues (cf 5:9). They are no longer under the altar, praying for vengeance, but are in the blessed presence of God who sits upon the throne and of the Lamb. They have their white robes of immortality which had been promised them (cf. 3:5); they carry palm branches, the symbol of victory and thanksgiving (cf. 1 Macc. 13:51; 11 Macc. 10:7; John 12:13, Leviticus Rabbah 30:2), and they sing a victorious song of praise. The scene is practically duplicated in II Esdras 2:42-48. Ezra is shown a multitude of confessors, who had previously been sealed in Mount Zion, the heavenly Jerusalem, before God and his Son. They were dressed in their garments of immortality, were given crowns and palms, and praised the Lord with songs. The song sung by the martyrs in Revelation is one of praise to God and the Lamb for the salvation and glorious victory which they are to enjoy soon. Whereupon the heavenly choir, consisting of the angels, the four living creatures, and the twenty-four elders, falling on their faces before the throne and worshiping God, respond with a highly liturgical sevenfold doxology beginning and ending with Amen. The power and might which God possesses are now to be openly displayed. The Lamb is not specifically included in this doxology, but this is doubtless an unintentional omission, since for John God and the Lamb are essentially one in power.

13. 

Lest the reader fail to identify this glorious multitude in heaven before the throne, John introduces a dialogue. This is characteristic of apocalypses (cf. II Esdras 2:42-48 for a very similar situation). John writes that one of the elders asked him the identity of those who were clothed in white robes. When John professed ignorance, the elder replied in what may be termed a martyrological hymn of four strophes, or stanzas, each strophe consisting of one long and two shorter lines. In the RSV vss. 15-17 are arranged in poetic form in three stanzas of this character, but vs. 14 should have been treated by the typographer in the same fashion, for it is an integral part of the whole. 

14. 

In this first stanza the elder identified this group as the persons who had come out of the great tribulation, i.e., here in an anticipatory presentation is the total group of martyrs whose predestined number is to be completed in the last and greatest persecution. John envisaged this final tribulation as occurring in the immediate future during the reign of the Antichrist

These glorified saints are the faithful who have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. This statement is a reiteration of the theme that the salvation and victory of the martyrs are made possible because Christ, the first martyr, had been victorious through his death (cf. 1:5). It should also be remembered that the martyrs are saved to some degree by the shedding of their own blood-a baptism by blood, as it were.

15. 

Some of the eternal blessings which the martyrs are to enjoy are described in poetic language in the three remaining stanzas. They will be permitted to stand before the throne of God and will be a company of priests who serve him day and night in his temple, a repetition of an earlier promise in 1:6 and 5:10 that they would become priests. This is somewhat inconsistent with the later statement that there would become priest is the New Jerusalem (21:22). God in turn will shelter them with his presence; ie, his Shekinah, his divine presence, will overshadow and protect them (cf. Ezek. 37:27). This prospect reaches fulfillment in 21:3, when God makes his dwelling with men.

16-17. 

The last two stanzas are largely an obvious adaptation of a prediction made in Isa. 49:10, "They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them," with an allusion made, perhaps, to Ps. 23. In keeping, therefore, with this alluring expectation in Isaiah, the martyrs will never hunger nor thirst; they will never be stricken again by the sun, nor with blazing heat. By a curious shift in symbolism, the Lamb... will be their shepherd, leading them to springs of living water. Finally, they shall have no more sorrow, for the elder (vs. 13), echoing Isa. 25:8, assures them that God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.

Someday I'll post the exegesis on Rev 14, the "other" 144,000 

and we will see what it says...

well...you'll see what it says...

Ive already read it.

:-).

The sealing as it relates to a type of phylactery 

I found very interesting in this chapter.

Yeah...

 were going here...

One more time.

Psalm 32:2

King James Version

Blessed is the man 

unto whom the Lord 

imputeth not iniquity, 

and in whose spirit 

there is no guile.

"imputeth not iniquity"

=

His sins are not counted against him.

"in whose spirit 

there is no guile."

Guile 

= 

Cunning

deceit.

Cunning implies

forethought

planning

laying a trap, 

a snare etc.

Plain deceit doesn't include that.

Here is how the NIV words it:

Psalm 32:2

New International Version

Blessed is the one

    whose sin the Lord 

does not 

count against them

    and in whose spirit 

is no deceit.

(I like the King James better in this instance because guile

(cunning deceit, planning to be deceitful)

, is quite a bit different from just plain everyday deceit.)

This individual?

is the other half of my soul.

(Reference The Apocalypse of Elijah 

for all of that if you want, 

Tabitha, Elijah, 

the two witnesses 

fighting the antichrist etc.)

We both knew 

something very special happened 

when we had dinner here.

almost 12 years ago.

(Interesting number 12

12 tribes of Israel, 

12 disciples ect...

(We didn't know what 

was so special at the time

we just both knew 

it was very special.)

I have text her phone for over 12 years, with limited responses

(Till lately :-)

About a year ago I accidentally saw a text that 

(I wasnt trying to pry, the phone was laying there and it went off and when it did the previous text showed up (mine) and I had confirmation of what I already knew well ahead of that moment.)

I had sent her

come through on somebodys phone.

Somebody that I knew who they were 

every time I ever saw them 

in the community 

no matter what disguise they were wearing 

or what character they chose to be playing.

I have been laughing inside 

at everybody involved in this

ever since.

"Why do yawl even bother any more?"

I have asked numerous times.

Seen right through everything the entire time.

So my question to all involved is this:

Do you have any

"GUILE"

(cunning deceit)

in your spirit?

I think its a question worth asking.

Ithink the events of the past few days

(last night in particular)

served to let me ask this question and make this point.

I am the most wretched of the wrectched

nobody deserves heaven, not one, least of all me.

But one thing you can be sure of with me?

What you see is what you get.

I don't bother to hide anything

(My Sins) 

from anybody

ask me 

and Ill look you in the face 

and tell you. 

No matter how painful it hurts

no matter how bad 

I dont wanna tell you

what you are asking about.

It seems like people are so scared/intimated 

these days that they are scared to even ask me anything.

But I figured out a long time ago 

eventually everything comes to light.

So why even bother to try and conceal it?

Luke 8:17

For there is nothing hidden 

that will not be disclosed, 

and nothing concealed 

that will not be known 

or brought out into the open.

So?

I'll ask again:

Do you have any

"GUILE"

(cunning deceit)

in your spirit?

And?

Do you wish

 to share your sins 

publicly?

And always remember this:

Romans 8:33-34

Who will bring any charge 

against those whom God has chosen? 

(You wanna go tell God 

he picked the wrong team? 

You Go right ahead, be my guest,

good luck with that.)

It is God who justifies. 

(Wipes their slate clean) 

Who then is the one who condemns? 

No one...

NO ONE.

Least of all those with

guile in their spirit

Queue Brother Brain somebody:

"IT AINT COMPLICATED!"

I suggest you figure it out.

Do you honestly think I don't know?

Why the locks were changed?

Why two people 

made comments 

about me leading singing?

Have you learned nothing?

"You see, 

you tell me,

sort of inadvertently."

Same with the error codes on the Toyota, cleaning houses etc.

I was never concerned about them.

I simply knew better.

How is that possible 

might be a question 

you wanna try and answer.

I love you babe.

TTYS.

Cause you know...

 

Everything else we have done 

has worked out great so far.

This is always the first step to putting soldiers in harms way.

And remember, there were more private military contractors in Iraq 2.0,

than there were regularly military.

Biden administration moves toward allowing American military contractors to deploy to Ukraine

This is always how it starts.

"The Biden administration is moving toward lifting a de facto ban on American military contractors deploying to Ukraine, four US officials familiar with the matter told CNN, to help the country’s military maintain and repair US-provided weapons systems."

And who makes the $?

Private military contractors.

Who do you think really 

runs the show in this country?

("Alert and knowledgeable citizenry"

what a joke we have become

and that was 1961

and we have seen everything 

he was warning about 

come to fruition already.)

The parties in power change.

The people "elected" change.

But this nonsensical bull shit to make $ for a few?

Somehow always remains.

(Call me a Putin apologist, 

call me whatever

I dont give a shit.

Fact is?

Its the truth.)

Might wanna ask yourself:

WHY?

"The change would mark another significant shift in the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy, as the US looks for ways to give Ukraine’s military an upper hand against Russia.

(NEWSFLASH, UKRAINE DOES NOT HAVE AN ARMY LEFT TO FIGHT WITH ANYMORE YO. IT AINT GONNA MATTER WHAT WE DO ANYMORE. BEFORE PUTIN LAUNCHED HIS INVASION HE SAID WE NEED TO HAVE TALKS ABOUT A "NEW SECURITY ARCHITECTURE IN EUROPE" AND WE LAUGHED AT HIM.
WERE NOT LAUGHING ANY MORE.)

"The policy is still being worked on by administration officials and has not received final sign-off yet from President Joe Biden, officials said."

(Matter of time

I can never remember a time when we said we were gonna consider putting in military contractors that we didn't. Its a matter of time before they start up the draft folks, count on it.)

“We have not made any decisions and any discussion of this is premature,” said one administration official. 

(Yeah right)

“The president is absolutely firm that he will not be sending US troops to Ukraine.”

(Well?

 We have been 

"absolutely firm"

about everything else we said we weren't gonna do 

and then turned right around 

and did it anyway 

so what makes this any different?)

"Once approved, the change would likely be enacted this year, officials said, and would allow the Pentagon to provide contracts to American companies for work inside Ukraine for the first time since Russia invaded in 2022. Officials said they hope it will speed up the maintenance and repairs of weapons systems being used by the Ukrainian military.'

(Who makes the $ again?)

"Administration officials began to seriously reconsider those restrictions over the last several months, officials said, as Russia continued to make gains on the battlefield and US funding for Ukraine stalled in Congress. Allowing experienced, US government-funded American contractors to maintain a presence in Ukraine means they will be able to help fix damaged, high-value equipment much faster, officials said. One advanced system that officials say will likely require regular maintenance is the F-16 fighter jet, which Ukraine is set to receive later this year."

("US government-funded American contractors"

They are making $ off your tax dollars

you ought to be outraged

but go ahead, keep scrolling Tic Toc till the draft notice comes

and it aint gonna matter with Trump,

or anybody else

this is our country

this is what we have done

this is what we do.)

"Current and former officials familiar with the discussions about deploying contractors to Ukraine emphasized that the policy change will not result in the kind of overwhelming American contractor presence there that existed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, it would likely result in anywhere from a few dozen to a couple hundred contractors working in Ukraine at a time."

(Ill believe it when I see it.

This world is about to get out of hand yall.)

"In late-May, Biden gave Ukraine permission to strike targets inside Russia, near the border with the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, with US weapons—a request the US had repeatedly denied in the past. Last week, that policy appeared to expand once again, when National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said Ukraine could counterstrike anywhere along the Ukraine-Russia border using US weapons."

(Like I was saying

those policies have expanded

but this one isn't going to?

Some of us are old enough

 to have seen this TV show 

a few times before.

This simply isnt

 how things go.)

This

 

nonsense has been here a while already.

I saw it in use over 4 years ago 

so its development 

had to be well before that.

It's just like Worldcoin wants to make sure 

you are a human 

and not a bot?

Cause they know how many bots 

are already out there.

This species of life 

isn't supposed to be here.

Stephen Hawking nailed it, 

they are self-replicating at 

ever increasing exponential rates

and continually improving themselves.

When you cannot tell 

real from fake?

Human from robotics?

Truth from fiction?

"Do not be deceived"

Mathew 24:4

DECEPTION

Is THE sign

of the end of an age

(End of the Church age/the age of grace, 

a favor you didn't deserve and can not repay)

How much longer?

Seriously, 

how much longer?

Decision time folks.

Self-healing 'living skin' can make robots more humanlike — and it looks just as creepy as you'd expect

"A combination of cultured cells and silicone could help robots appear more human in future thanks to "realistic skin elasticity. And they can smile like us too."

(Aint no future to it

been here a minute already.)

"One of the main benefits of this new skin is that it would allow robots to operate alongside humans without experiencing undue wear and tear. Small tears or similar defacements could be repaired without needing to manually repair the robots, the team said. They did not, however, measure how quickly the artificial skin healed after sustaining damage."

WHY DID WE EVER THINK WE NEEDED THIS CRAP AGAIN?

What

 else do you think they would tell you?

That a US carrier group 

couldn't take out a rag tag bunch of stone age rebels 

in a civil war torn country?

Might have wanted to save 

some of those armaments for the Pacific yo,

Falling right into their trap.

Pentagon Confident 

It Can Still Defend Against Houthi Attacks 

Without a Carrier in the Region

"The Pentagon said Monday it remains confident that it will be able to respond to ongoing Houthi attacks in the Red Sea after a Navy aircraft carrier strike group departed the region and it was unclear when another carrier group might arrive."

"We still have capability in the region," Pentagon spokesman Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder told reporters. 

"On Saturday, Ryder announced that the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower strike group, which has been deployed for more than seven months after two extensions, left the area where Houthi rebels have for months attacked commercial shipping and sailed into the Mediterranean Sea. The USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group will eventually take its place in the region."

(Think its an accident he announced that on a Saturday?)

"However, the Theodore Roosevelt, which is currently deployed in the Pacific, will not begin its journey west until next week, after it completes an exercise, Ryder said, leaving the Navy's presence in the Red Sea at reduced levels – just two destroyers – until its arrival."

(The article doesn't say anything about it

but 

how many armaments 

do you think

the carrier group thats leaving 

had left?

After:

"has been deployed 

for more than seven months 

after two extensions"?

You already know the answer.

Point is?

Our adversaries have been gearing up for this

moment a lot longer than we have.)

"The gap comes as Houthi attacks, which began last November following Israel's bombardment of Gaza in response to a Hamas terrorist attack on Oct. 7, have become increasingly effective."

(This is after?

All we did to:

"degrade their capabilities"?

How many billions did we spend already?

How many armaments have we used so that:

"Houthi attacks...have become increasingly effective."

Why do you think 

he made 

this announcement 

on Saturday again?)

"In the last several weeks, Houthis used a drone vessel to successfully strike a commercial ship. The U.S. Navy had to evacuate the ship's crew and the vessel later sank. One merchant mariner from the crew went missing amid the attacks.

The Houthis also struck another cargo ship with two separate missile attacks that caused fires and serious injuries to a crew member. That crew also abandoned ship after they lost the ability to control the fires, and they were picked up by another merchant vessel.

As a result, maritime analysts have noted that the attacks are expected to not only increase the cost of shipping goods through the Red Sea but have also resulted in a sharp drop in the amount of merchant traffic in the region.

(Translation?

Shipping cost are going up.

Translation?

Prices are gonna go up.)

"Earlier in June, a Defense Intelligence Agency report on the Houthi attacks found that they had "harmful impacts" on at least 65 countries and 29 major energy and shipping companies, and also "endangered crews, damaged regional security, impeded international humanitarian relief efforts, threatened freedom of navigation, and increased the cost and transit times for commercial shipping."

(He made his announcement 

of the carrier group 

leaving on Saturday)

"With the Eisenhower and its three-ship strike group in the Mediterranean, the Navy's presence in the Red Sea is now down to two destroyers, the USS Laboon and USS Cole, a service official said."

"Ryder noted that the Navy also has destroyers deployed in the European theater that "have been very active in providing those kinds of defenses, as well as other capabilities to include aircraft and [surveillance and reconnaissance] capabilities."

(Well whoopie shit)

"When the Roosevelt arrives in the Middle East, the carrier will bring four other ships with it, a Navy official said. However, neither the Navy nor Ryder were able to say when that would happen."

"I'm not going to get into specific days," Ryder told reporters.

How you think this type of scenario 

plays out w China in the pacific?

Having to travel half way around the world 

to get armaments?

Did I mention the announcement was made on a Saturday with no reason given as to why it was leaving?