Grand Rising Massive

 

my sunshine.

I love you honey.

Had a bunch of presentations to get done sweetheart.

TTYS.

 I hope you're well, rested, eating good, relaxed etc.

Im good.

For now :-).

Not

 

washing vehicles again :-).

Already told you :-).

I love you baby I really do sweetheart.

"Inflation

 

is going to take care of itself."

Who is paying these nitwits that keep saying this?

Corn and soy bean yields are going to be less than normal this year due to weather conditions. That is in all likelihood a big understatement.

Corn and soy beans go into some 4000 consumer products combined.

Corn: It's Everything

What Are Soybeans Used For?

Lower yeilds? = Higher prices.

Thats not even mentioning the fact that Diesel is about 30% more now than it was around this time last year.

PETROLEUM & OTHER LIQUIDS U.S. No2 Diesel Retail Prices

Higher cost to harvest the same amount of acreage for a lower yield of products that are going to go into some 4000 consumer product.

You don't need a PHD in economics to see where this is going.

Thats not even mentioning:

Natural Gas Soars 700%, Becoming Driving Force in the New Cold War

"Shortages of the fuel are rippling throughout the global economy, threatening recessions and a further wave of inflation."

"The war in Ukraine catalyzed the gas crisis by taking out a crucial chunk of supply. Now the scramble to fill that gap is turning into a worldwide stampede, as countries race to secure scarce cargoes of liquefied natural gas."

(It was all part of the plan)

"One morning in early June, a fire broke out at an obscure facility in Texas that takes natural gas from US shale basins, chills it into a liquid and ships it overseas. It was extinguished in 40 minutes or so. No one was injured.

It sounds like a story for the local press, at most — except that more than three weeks later, financial and political shockwaves are still reverberating across Europe, Asia and beyond."

(Talked a lot about idiosyncrasies/mirror worlds etc)

"It’s a key driver of global inflation, posting price jumps that are extreme even by the standards of today’s turbulent markets — some 700% in Europe since the start of last year, pushing the continent to the brink of recession. It’s at the heart of a dawning era of confrontation between the great powers..."

Germany says gas shortfalls could trigger a Lehman Brothers-like collapse, as Europe’s economic powerhouse faces the unprecedented prospect of businesses and consumers running out of power. 

(How many times you gotta say it?

Matthew 24:21

For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.)

"Forty-four countries imported LNG last year, almost twice as many as a decade ago. But the fuel is much harder to shift around the planet than oil, because it has to be liquefied at places like the Freeport plant in Texas."

"And that’s why a minor explosion at a facility seen as nothing special by industry insiders — it’s not the biggest or most sophisticated of the seven terminals that send LNG from American shores – had such an outsized impact."

"With key political allies from Germany to Ukraine desperate to buy American gas, US manufacturers warn that more sales abroad will mean higher costs at home. The market reaction to the Freeport fire illustrates a “clear connection between LNG exports and the inflationary impacts to domestic prices for natural gas and electricity,” says Paul Cicio, president of the Industrial Energy Consumers of America."

(Do you think maybe there is a reason everything we do everywhere we turn it's nothing but a catch 22?

Revelation 6:15-17

"Everyone hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains. This included the kings of the earth, the princes and the generals. It included rich people and powerful people. It also included everyone else, both slaves and people who were free. They called out to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us! Hide us from the face of the one who sits on the throne! Hide us from the anger of the Lamb! The great day of their anger has come. Who can live through it?”

Had to :-)

"But Europe’s breakneck efforts won’t be enough, according to Bloomberg Intelligence, which calculates that LNG imports could meet 40% of the region’s gas needs by 2026 — double last year’s figure, but still far short of the volumes that Russia has been supplying."

"In Pakistan, which built its energy system on cheap LNG, planned blackouts are plunging regions into darkness during the sweltering summer months. Shopping malls and factories in major cities have been ordered to shut early, and government officials are working shorter hours." 

“Where once natural gas markets were largely regionally siloed, we now have a globalized spot market that has connected the world’s exposure to the fuel that has become critical to many economies,” said James Whistler, Singapore-based managing director at Vanir Global Markets, an energy and environmental brokerage. “This has never been more evident than in the past few months.”

(Yeah, inflation is just just gonna take care of itself? Like I asked at the start, who is paying these people to say this nonsense?

Football analogy:

You don't prepare for 5 wide receiver sets when you're playing a team that runs a wishbone offense, if you know what's coming? It's easier to prepare for and accept.

Luke 21:36

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Woe to any and all who ever stood in our way.

It will not be pleasant for you.)

I

 

was talking to my friend Bro Brian the other day abouteverything under the sun and he says:

"They just keep finding smaller and smaller things." 

LHCb discovers three new exotic particles

Yup.

"The international LHCb collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has observed three never-before-seen particles: a new kind of “pentaquark” and the first-ever pair of “tetraquarks”, which includes a new type of tetraquark. The findings, presented today at a CERN seminar, add three new exotic members to the growing list of new hadrons found at the LHC. They will help physicists better understand how quarks bind together into these composite particles."

"Quarks are elementary particles and come in six flavours: up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom. They usually combine together in groups of twos and threes to form hadrons such as the protons and neutrons that make up atomic nuclei." More rarely, however, they can also combine into four-quark and five-quark particles, or “tetraquarks” and “pentaquarks”. These exotic hadrons were predicted by theorists at the same time as conventional hadrons, about six decades ago, but only relatively recently, in the past 20 years, have they been observed by LHCb and other experiments.

Maybe

 

people should revisit "the Twin Flame Love affair" piece?

Mathematical calculations show that quantum communication across interstellar space should be possible

"A team of physicists at the University of Edinburgh's School of Physics and Astronomy has used mathematical calculations to show that quantum communications across interstellar space should be possible.'

(Not only should it be? It is. Undeniably.)

"Over the past several years, scientists have been investigating the possibility of using quantum communications as a highly secure form of message transmission.. In this new effort, the researchers wondered if similar types of communications might be possible across interstellar space. To find out, they used math that describes that movement of X-rays across a medium, such as those that travel between the stars. More specifically, they looked to see if their calculations could show the degree of decoherence that might occur during such a journey.

"Prior research has shown that the space between the stars is pretty clean. But is it clean enough for quantum communications? The math shows that it is. Space is so clean, in fact, that X-ray photons could travel hundreds of thousands of light years without becoming subject to decoherence—and that includes gravitational interference from astrophysical bodies. They noted in their work that optical and microwave bands would work equally well.

"They also suggest that quantum teleportation across interstellar space should be possible."

Both of these are definites, not "shoulds":

'quantum communications across interstellar space"

"quantum teleportation across interstellar space"

and they don't just apply to the quantum world either.

Well how do you know?

Kinda hard to tell the guy livin it that it cant happen and besides:

Matthew 19:26

"Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

You'll either come to accept it or you won't.

Morning

 

my sunshine.

I love you honey.

Well

 

if this is considered coming together perfectly?

I would have hate to have seen screwed up...

FYI

 

Will the race to develop hypersonic weapons spark the next global arms race?

Some might argue it already has.

“You have failed to contain Russia,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said when he first announced his plans for the hypersonic arsenal in 2018."

"Avangard, which detaches from missiles and, according to the Kremlin, blasts down at 20,000 miles per hour in unpredictable trajectories before slamming targets “like a meteorite, like a fireball” as Putin has described it."

"Celebrating the launch, Russian state TV released a video, showing the European capitals the missile could hit within five minutes, and Putin ally Aleksey Zhuravlyov, Duma defense committee deputy chairman, told state media that from Russia’s Arctic bases, hypersonic weapons could reach Finland in “even 10 seconds” and underscored that Russia’s hypersonic nuclear weapons could reach the U.K. in 200 seconds."

"Moscow recently announced it will conduct another 19 weapons tests in the Arctic by the end of this year, the official added, including “long-range, high-precision, hypersonic weapon systems."

"The U.S. has so far spent roughly $10 billion to develop hypersonic weaponry over the past three years, Russia and China are aggressively testing them, and another nine countries are pursuing them, sparking fears that another arms race has already begun."

(Yup)

"Barreling at top speeds in the upper atmosphere and able to easily change directions mid-path, the trajectories and targets of hypersonic missiles are almost impossible for conventional missile defense systems to predict, according to experts — and the difficulty in tracking them has been documented in congressional hearings. As Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, noted in a Senate hearing of the Committee on Armed Services last summer, when it comes to hypersonic weapons, Western missile defense systems can’t “track, much less intercept, them.”

"Speaking in a personal capacity, Carrie Lee, chair of the Department of National Security and Strategy at the U.S. Army War College, told Yahoo News that “because hypersonics are so fast, and they can take warning systems by surprise, they compress the amount of time between launch and impact.” With intercontinental ballistic missiles, she noted, it “takes about 26 minutes or so between when you first detect it and when it impacts,” but hypersonic missiles might only be detected at the last moment. “There’s not a lot of time to make a decision about what the missile is, where it’s coming from…or to investigate if it’s a real threat. You have to assume the worst. So that [has the potential to make] people trigger-happy.”

"China’s appear more sophisticated, at least to judge from a globe-orbiting hypersonic trial run last fall. An October 2021 Chinese “fractional orbital bombardment” test was so impressive that, in an interview with Bloomberg TV, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley called it “a very significant technological event.” “I don’t know if it’s quite a Sputnik moment,” he said, “but I think it’s very close to that.” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall echoed Milley’s concerns, telling reporters, “It's a way to avoid defenses and missile warning systems." 

"Thus far, however, U.S. tests have been hit or miss. On Wednesday, a hypersonic missile test in Hawaii failed to properly launch, as did a similar test last October in Alaska, although the Air Force announced a successful launch of a hypersonic missile last month."

("The U.S. has so far spent roughly $10 billion to develop hypersonic weaponry over the past three years..."and as of this past Wednesday? We couldn't even get one to launch.)

"Some experts believe that the rush to develop hypersonic weapons is, in part, the byproduct of the development of sophisticated missile defense systems, as well as the U.S. decision to pull out of the antiballistic missile treaty with Russia in 2002.

In 1972, the U.S. and the then-U.S.S.R. signed the treaty, underscoring that global nuclear deterrence was based on the idea of Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) — “meaning if I strike you, you strike me back with everything you’ve got, and that’s the end of the world. So that’s why we are going to restrain ourselves,” Sanne Verschuren, a fellow at the Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation, told Yahoo News.

"But in the 1980s, when the U.S. began developing its Strategic Defense Initiative system, known as “Star Wars,” and building up “ballistic missile defense, particularly in outer space, to try to intercept incoming missiles, it upset that MAD dynamic,” Verschuren said."

(Star wars = Reagan, adamantly opposed to it I was...yup...Back in my college days no less...yup)

“The U.S. sees new technologies being developed and we don’t have them and this gets into arms racing,” said Lee. “My personal opinion is the U.S. has a lot less to gain from developing hypersonic missiles and the money we’re putting into missile development should instead be put towards better defense systems.”

'But while many are worried about Russia’s hypersonic weapons, Mathieu Boulègue, senior research fellow for the Russia and Eurasia Program at Chatham House, isn’t one of them."

“Russia doesn’t really have working hypersonic systems,” he told Yahoo News. “I’ll be worried when Russia has a standing force of heavily deployed hypersonic systems that can actually create strategic effects in a standoff against the West. But right now, it’s just tests” of what he calls “asymmetric enablers.” Ten or 20 years down the road, “hypersonics could be a game-changer. But it’s still very early.”

(Maybe he didnt get the memo about Chinas more advanced capabilities? 

"Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley called it “a very significant technological event.” “I don’t know if it’s quite a Sputnik moment,” he said, “but I think it’s very close to that.” Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall echoed Milley’s concerns, telling reporters, “It's a way to avoid defenses and missile warning systems." 

(All you need is two successful launches, one to hit wall street and one to hit Washington DC and were done...and we have no defenses)

Like

 

I don't know why there was a young couple with a HD48 with no front fender and miniapes parked out front of the Mexican restaurant yesterday?

I just love it when people think I'm stupid.

Makes my day.

I take it that was the preproduction meeting yall had the evening before when I saw yall walking in?

The

 

West is going to cave.

Count on it.

JPMorgan Sees ‘Stratospheric’ $380 Oil on Worst-Case Russian Cut

"Global oil prices could reach a “stratospheric” $380 a barrel if US and European penalties prompt Russia to inflict retaliatory crude-output cuts, JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts warned."

"...given Moscow’s robust fiscal position, the nation can afford to slash daily crude production by 5 million barrels without excessively damaging the economy, JPMorgan analysts including Natasha Kaneva wrote in a note to clients."

"A 3 million-barrel cut to daily supplies would push benchmark London crude prices to $190, while the worst-case scenario of 5 million could mean “stratospheric” $380 crude, the analysts wrote."

“The most obvious and likely risk with a price cap is that Russia might choose not to participate and instead retaliate by reducing exports,” the analysts wrote. “It is likely that the government could retaliate by cutting output as a way to inflict pain on the West. The tightness of the global oil market is on Russia’s side.”

(They knew it from the get-go.)

It

 

wont happen.

(Codifying sanctions (making them law) that is)

The West needs to codify Russia sanctions before it is too late

"...with the Kremlin refusing to even consider any serious diplomatic solution to the conflict – the G7 and NATO must begin looking at the potential threats to their ability to continue providing support to Kyiv over the medium and long term."

(They have been planning on this for years, they were "all in" from the get go. They will not turn back or seek a diplomatic settlement.)

"First and foremost, it is important that the West act to ensure that its strategy is indeed sustainable “for as long as it takes” for Russia to be defeated. That may be quite some time, and the West is far more susceptible to public pressure, and thus to the negative economic impact of the sanctions, than Putin ever will be."

"...does believe that it can overcome them (sanctions) so long as there are still markets willing to import its oil and gas, and so long as the rouble remains convertible."

("The world is going to need their oil and minerals more than it cares about Ukrainians freedom" I remember somebody saying.)

"This is because it believes (Russia does) that Western unity will falter as the economic impact of sanctioning Russia bites in the West."

(It was kinda factored into the calculus beforehand, yup)

"the reality is that sanctions will have a significant economic and political impact in the West."

(See my statement above)

"the reality is that the West is already facing a significant economic cost for its sanctions policy against Russia and is only likely to face more over the coming months. Moscow is working hard to ensure this, selectively cutting off gas supplies to European nations unwilling to pay for them in roubles"

"The sky-high oil prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent sanctioning of its hydrocarbons are helping to fuel inflation in the West, and in turn, limit support for blanket cut-offs of Russian exports. Germany is already preparing for gas rationing this winter. Fertiliser supplies risk falling into shortage given Russia’s role in producing and exporting many key products, threatening not only global agricultural supply chains but also the livelihoods of farmers. All of these pressures will only grow as Russia’s invasion continues. New measures are getting increasingly difficult to agree on, as seen by the fact that discussions are still continuing regarding the “price cap” proposals for Russian oil even after the G7 summit concluded on June 27'

(How long do you think public sentiment is going to keep supporting the war effort in Ukraine when Europe's populace is freezing cold this winter? "The sky-high oil prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent sanctioning of its hydrocarbons are helping to fuel inflation in the West" Again, all part of the plan.)

"All of these pressures will only grow as Russia’s invasion continues." You going to try and argue Putin didnt know that before he launched the invasion?

(I've Been saying since the get go a prolonged conflict benefits our adversaries, not us. So why should we think he wanted a quick end to the conflict to start with?)

"Public attention to the war in Ukraine, however, is falling across the West, and voters are likely to prioritise economic concerns over humanitarian ones in upcoming polls.'

(This is a people(s) whose national mantra might as well be, "We are tougher than you, we will outlast you. We've done it before (see Stalingrad) and we will do it again)

"Donald Trump is clearly seeking a return to the presidency, and has not only threatened to unwind NATO in the past, but has taken a soft position towards the Kremlin repeatedly, and been willing to toy with Ukrainian politics for his own perceived benefit. If he returns to the White House, he may move to remove existing sanctions on Russia rather than working to impose new ones."

(Thats a very valid point)

"...it is paramount that sanctions be codified in legislation..."

(Why?

So that the powers that be will just overturn them when their citizens start freezing to death this winter? It just wont make any difference long term if they are made into law or not.)

It's

 

not just the glaciers.

The same thing happens as the artic permafrost melts.

(Permafrost: frozen layer on or under Earth's surface. It consists of soil, gravel, and sand, usually bound together by ice. Permafrost usually remains at or below 0°C (32ºF) for at least two years. Permafrost can be found on land and below the ocean floor.)

Never-before-seen microbes locked in glacier ice could spark a wave of new pandemics if released

"Stunned scientists have uncovered more than 900 never-before-seen species of microbes living inside glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau. Analysis of the microbes' genomes revealed that some have the potential to spawn new pandemics, if rapid melting caused by climate change releases them from their icy prisons."

"The team found 968 microbial species frozen within the ice — mostly bacteria but also algae, archaea and fungi, the researchers reported June 27 in the journal Nature Biotechnology. But perhaps more surprisingly, around 98% of those species were completely new to science. This level of microbial diversity was unexpected because of the challenges associated with living inside glaciers, the researchers said. "Despite extreme environmental conditions, such as low temperatures, high levels of solar radiation, periodic freeze-thaw cycles and nutrient limitation, the surfaces of glaciers support a diverse array of life," the study authors wrote.

"The researchers aren't sure exactly how old some of these microbes are; prior studies have shown that it is possible to revive microbes that have been trapped in ice for up to 10,000 years, according to the study."

(Im pretty sure thats the one I read about a few years back that was talking about microbes being released into the air when the permafrost thaws.) 

"The surprising microbial diversity within glaciers, coupled with an increase in melting glacial ice due to climate change, boosts the chances that potentially dangerous microbes — most likely bacteria — will escape and wreak havoc, researchers said. "Ice-entrapped pathogenic microbes could lead to local epidemics and even pandemics" if they are released into the environment, the authors wrote. 

"Evidence suggests that some of the newfound bacteria could be very dangerous to humans and other organisms. The team identified 27,000 potential virulence factors — molecules that help bacteria invade and colonize potential hosts —  within the TG2G catalog. The researchers warned that around 47% of these virulence factors have never been seen before, and so there is no way of knowing how harmful the bacteria could be."

"Even if these potentially pathogenic bacteria do not survive for long after escaping their glaciers, they can still cause problems, the researchers said. Bacteria have the unique ability to exchange large sections of their DNA, known as mobile genetic elements (MGEs), with other bacteria. So even if the glacial bacteria die shortly after being thawed out, they can still pass on some of their virulence to other bacteria they encounter. This genetic interaction between glacier microbes and modern microorganisms "could be particularly dangerous," the scientists wrote."

"The Tibetan Plateau glaciers could be a hot spot for unleashing future pandemics because they feed fresh water into a number of waterways, including the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Ganges River, which supply two of the most populated countries in the world: China and India. Pandemics spread quickly through highly populated areas, as the world witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic."

"But this potential problem won't just affect Asia. There are more than 20,000 glaciers on Earth covering around 10% of the planet's land mass, and each glacier is likely to have its own unique microbial communities. In April 2021, a study using satellite images of glaciers found that nearly every glacier on Earth showed an accelerated rate of ice loss between 2000 and 2019, which increases the risk that pandemic-spawning microbes could escape anywhere on the planet. The researchers warned that the "potential health risks [of these microbes] need to be evaluated" before they are released from their icy prisons. 

Translation:

It's not a matter of if, but when this occurs.

Covid was just the start.

Morning

 

Honey.

I love you baby.

Hey BTW?

I sat with a female former coworker who was always very nice to me at a table on the sidewalk outside where I used to work just waiting for it to cool down some before going home

You gonna flip out again?

:-).

Im

 

a Christian who doesn't wanna live in a theocracy  either.

Or Minority rule..

Or...

A whole bunch of other things...

I'll leave it at that.

Two Woes

 

continued.

Another reason I believe the Financial crisis and COVID are the first two woes spoke of in the Book of Revelation is they were both global in nature.

We tend to look at things through the lenses of  good old Red White and Blue in this country and often forget or fail to recognize things that impact not only us but global affairs.

The financial crisis was global in nature, we tend to forget that and Covid obviously was as well.

Im

 

a Christian who doesn't want his beliefs forced on others BTW.

Zechariah 4:6

So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: 

‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ 

says the Lord Almighty.

OMG :-)

 

well looky there :-).

The Best Bourbon Whiskeys On Earth, According To The Oscars Of Spirits

Best Overall Bourbon basically

Looky there, Sixth from the left :-).

It is still "sourced" probably from Heaven Hill.

The Henry  Mckenna?

Far left?

Won "Best in show" (Best Whiskey). at the same competition a few years back.

The SAN FRANCISCO WORLD SPIRITS COMPETITION

Like the writer said, its pretty much the Oscars of spirits competitions

I enjoyed both of them before they ever won any awards BTW.

Somebody knows a lil something about KY Bourbon Whiskey is pretty much what I'm saying here :-).

And thats about 14 months worth of KY Bourbon BTW.

12 bottles, about 8 drinks a bottle, 14 months...you do the math...:-).

I love you baby.

 

These

 

are great (and they are by n means all of them).

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

"Our

 

God is an awesome God

He reigns from heaven above

With wisdom, power, and love

Our God is an awesome God"

The Case is Building That Colliding Neutron Stars Create Magnetars

"Magnetars are some of the most fascinating astronomical objects. One teaspoon of the stuff they are made out of would weigh almost one billion tons, and they have magnetic fields that are hundreds of millions of times more powerful than any magnetic that exists today on Earth. But we don’t know much about how they form. A new paper points to one possible source – mergers of neutron stars."

"Neutron stars themselves are equally fascinating in their own right. In fact, magnetars are generally considered to be a specific form of neutron star, with the main difference being the strength of that magnetic field. There are thought to be about a billion neutron stars in the Milky Way, and some of them happen to come in binary pairs."

"When they are gravitationally bound to one another, the stars enter a final dance of death, typically resulting in either a black hole or, potentially, one or both of them transforming into a magnetar. That process can take hundreds of millions of years to build up to a certain point when the actual explosion (or collapse) happens. But when it does, it’s spectacular, and a team of researchers thinks they found that that happened only a few weeks before they spotted it."

Oh

 

its not just them...

and its not just a red/blue or American problem.

Young Americans are in for a rude awakening with the coming recession

"For many young people who have known nothing but relative ease, the coming years will be a harsh reality check."

(Not just for the type of individuals listed above either)

"Many under-40s seemed to enjoy a “Goldilocks” view of the American economy. Any major pressure — from 9/11, to the 2008 financial crash, to massive money printing, to the pandemic — appeared to be solvable, for the most part, through a combination of economic stimulus spending and smoke and mirrors at the Federal Reserve. While each of the above came with its own economic pain, a low-inflation, moderate-growth future appeared inevitable for millennials and Generation Z — especially for those with a college education. However, this type of economic growth cannot remain forever. The current runaway inflation shows just the tip of the iceberg of federal irresponsibility, which we are already paying for as a massive unlevied tax."

(There was irresponsibility during the financial crisis as well which forced us into the current back against the wall status we now find ourselves in)

"The U.S. will tumble into a full-blown recession in 2023 as inflation soars, 70 percent of economists predict. The past two years are a reminder that economic policy has consequences. The pandemic ushered in full-force Keynesian economics. The Fed grew the money supply by a whopping 42 percent in 2020 and 2021, while keeping interest rates low."

("The U.S. will tumble into a full-blown recession in 2023 as inflation soars..." or already is in one...and "The Fed grew the money supply by a whopping 42 percent in 2020 and 2021, while keeping interest rates low." Exactly what was the other alternative? Some of us knew at the manner in which we handled the financial crisis was setting the stage for this to happen sooner or later.)

"A pre-pandemic survey found most Gen Zers have less than $1,000 in their bank accounts, and almost half have nothing at all. The 22.5 million young people under 35 who attended college carry an average of $28,000 in student loan debt. Millennials also carry over $27,000 in average non-mortgage debt."

(Stagflation debt crisis anybody? But its okay the pundits wanna tell you, were better equiped to deal with a deep recession this time around...Baloney! Take it from somebody who knows, know what the difference between having $1000 in savings and $0 is? Not enough to make a difference.)

"Almost three-quarters of millennials and 65 percent of Generation Z live paycheck to paycheck. Rapidly increasing rental and mortgage costs and the overall pressure of inflation will be the coup de grace of a 1970s-esque stagflation spiral."

(Fed Chairman Powell said this week our economy is strong...With 3's like that? Really? How exactly "STRONG is it?)

It

 

doesn't do any good to increase production if there is not enough refining capacity to handle the output.

Biden won't ask Saudis to raise oil production as gas prices hover near records

Because he knows they can't. 

Not enough to make any difference anyway.

Macron tells Biden that UAE, Saudi can barely raise oil output

The analysist were right on this one.

Oil Markets Could Face A Doomsday Scenario This Week

"French President Emmanuel Macron had stated to US president Biden during the G7 meeting that not only is the UAE producing at maximum production capacity, but also that Saudi Arabia only has another 150,000 bpd of spare capacity available."

"The two countries’ (UAE and Saudi Arabia) spare production is still officially slated to be around 3.9 million bpd combined. Most analysts, however, have been questioning these figures for years."

These

 

people...

The possibility of general AI

"The first use of the term AI is something more precisely called narrow AI. It is powerful technology, but it is also pretty simple and straightforward: You take a bunch of data about the past, use a computer to analyze it and find patterns, and then use that analysis to make predictions about the future. This type of AI touches all our lives many times a day, as it filters spam out of our email and routes us through traffic. But because it is trained with data about the past, it works only where the future resembles the past. That’s why it can identify cats and play chess, because they don’t change on an elemental level from day to day."

 "The other use of the term AI is to describe something we call general AI, or often AGI. It doesn’t exist yet except in science fiction, and no one knows how to make it. A general AI is a computer program that is as intellectually versatile as a human. It can teach itself entirely new things that it has never been trained on before."

"Their confidence that we will build a truly intelligent machine is based on a single core belief: that people are intelligent machines. Because we are machines, the reasoning goes, and have general intelligence, building machines with general intelligence must be possible."

(Man gets to play God. Good luck with that)

"Human vs. machine

To be sure, if people are machines, then those experts are right: General intelligence isn’t merely possible, but inevitable. However, if it turns out that people are not merely machines, then there is something about people that may not be able to be reproduced in silicon.'

(Well no kidding, its called a soul, it has a conscious, and sentience is a result of it.)

“What else could we possibly be if not biological machines?”

"It is a fair question and an important one. We know of only one thing in the universe with general intelligence, and that is us. How do we happen to have such a powerful creative superpower? We don’t really know."

(Baloney. 

Genesis 1:27

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 

The fact of the matter is people just don't want to believe it. This doesn't mean we look like God in appearance, (God is spirit, John 4:24) it means we are made like God in our moral, spiritual and intellectual nature.)

"Try to recall the color of your first bicycle or the name of your first-grade teacher. Maybe you haven’t thought about either of those in years, yet your brain was probably able to retrieve them with little effort, which is all the more impressive when you consider that “data” isn’t stored in your brain as it is on a hard drive. In fact, we don’t know how it is stored. We may come to discover that each of the hundred-billion neurons in your brain is as complicated as our most advanced supercomputer. 

But that’s just where the mystery of our intelligence starts. It gets trickier from there. It turns out we have something called a mind, which is different from the brain. The mind is everything that the three pounds of goo in your head can do that seems like it shouldn’t be able to, like having a sense of humor or falling in love. Your heart doesn’t do those, nor does your liver. But somehow you do.

(Revisit Genesis 1:27 would be my suggestion) 

"We don’t even know for certain that the mind is solely a product of the brain. More than a few people are born missing up to 95% of their brains, yet still have normal intelligence and often don’t even know of their condition until later in life when getting a diagnostic exam. Further, we seem to have a lot of intelligence that isn’t stored in our brains but is distributed throughout our bodies."

"General intelligence might well require consciousness. Consciousness is the experience you have of the world. A thermometer may accurately tell you the temperature, but it cannot feel warmth. That difference, between knowing something and experiencing something, is consciousness, and we have little reason to believe that computers can experience the world any more than a chair can."

(The uncreated creator is the sole holder of the life force. Humans can not give it to inanimate objects, period)

"So here we are with brains we don’t understand, minds we cannot explain and, as for consciousness, we don’t even have a good theory on how it is even possible for mere matter to have an experience. Yet, in spite of all of this, the AI folks who believe in general AI are confident that we can replicate all human abilities in computers. To my ear, that is the argument that seems to appeal to magical thinking. 

I don’t say that to be dismissive or to trivialize anyone’s beliefs. They may well be correct. I just regard the idea of general AI as an unproven hypothesis, not an obvious scientific truth. 

(...the AI folks who believe in general AI are confident that we can replicate all human abilities in computers.)

Not ALL, but pretty close, and close enough to fool all but the absolutely most discerning among us and they are already here and among us.)

I love you baby.

Relax honey, it comes with the territory you get a quality man in your life...Certain things he just absolutely will not put up with.

I told

 

you a million  times you're a free, beautiful, intelligent, funny, single woman but you are never going to be in charge of us and you are most definitely not in charge of me, I have the right to speak to co workers/Dr's/salespersons/whomever/etc in the manner I see fit. It is a courtesy I have long extended to you throughout the years and now I am absolutely demanding that it be extended to me. 

Get it through that beautiful, thick, "Fiesty" cranium of yours, you're not in charge of me until I see you in that dress and hear you say "I do", even at that point were co-chairs so to speak and you can be in charge of everything...

except one thing...

US. 

Im not telling you anything you didnt already know.

I love you.

Good luck in your continued hunt for your big girl pants.

FYI

 

How a controversial shipping law is swaying the price of gas

Awesome!

 

Giant comet is now visible, here’s how to see it

"Brian Ottum, a Michigan astronomer and owner of a telescope in New Mexico, has been photographing the comet. He says this is a comet we will all want to check out."

“The snow-covered-rock nucleus is huge, twice as big as Mt. Everest,” according to Ottum. As it flies closer to the sun, it warms up and the ice evaporates, forming an even bigger fog shroud.

"Ottum says the fog you see in this picture is 10 times the size of Earth. The tail is millions of miles long."

"The comet can now be seen with binoculars in the southern sky after dark. The best viewing is done out in the countryside, away from city lights."

"NASA adds that C/2017 K2, “is on its maiden voyage to the inner Solar System from the dim and distant Oort cloud.” When the comet was discovered, it was the most distant active inbound comet ever found. It was discovered when it was around 1.5 billion miles from the sun, and between Uranus and Saturn. The Hubble Space Telescope indicates the large snowball is about 12 miles across. The tail you will see in binoculars is about 180 million miles away."

Surprise surprise surprise...

 

ECONOMY Atlanta Fed GDP tracker shows the U.S. economy is likely in a recession

Really?

No kidding? 

How could ya tell?

What gave it away?

“GDPNow has a strong track record, and the closer we get to July 28th’s release [of the initial Q2 GDP estimate] the more accurate it becomes,” wrote Nicholas Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research.

(June 28th, mark the date, that is the second quarter GDP estimate release date. Worth mentioning there are three releases for measuring GDP each quarter. An "initial' release (like we will get on Jume28th) an "adjusted" release a lil while later, and then finally the official #'s yet still a lil while after the adjusted.)

"At a panel discussion earlier this week presented by the European Union, Powell was asked what he would tell the American people about how long it will take for monetary policy to tackle the surging cost of living.

He said he would tell the public, “We fully understand and appreciate the pain people are going through dealing with higher inflation, that we have the tools to address that and the resolve to use them, and that we are committed to and will succeed in getting inflation down to 2%. The process is highly likely to involve some pain, but the worse pain would be from failing to address this high inflation and allowing it to become persistent.”

(No they absolutely do not have the tools and people are starting to figure it out, it's why there is a dark cloud hanging over the country right now. Somebody holler at me when the Fed start building oil refineries and then I'll start believing they "have the tools to address that." Never even mind the fact of who told you two years ago they didnt have the tools.)

Morning

 

Sunshine.

I love you baby.