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'From the North the French Voortrekkers'. Never heard of the French trekking from Canada into the United States being called voortrekkers. https://youtu.be/1GKUzGTZWj0

'“Am I investing in the right activities?” There are far more activities and opportunities in the world than we have time and resources to invest in.' Mckeown, Greg . Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (p. 5).

If you are flooded with AI generated posts then I think curation will become valuable in the future. Curation would be a human with the aid of AI.

Wait what?

I usually have to hold back. Not on Nostr. Nobody sees my posts anyway. ;)

Reformed theology on predestination brings me peace of mind and also prohibit me from thinking I deserve to be saved. It gives you boldness while keeping you humble.

I don't know that much about the Jesuits, but that they were formed during the Reformation as a Catholic Counter-Reformation. Most Protestants don't know much about them either. Since I am from French Huguenot descent I do know about their involvement during the French religious wars. The current anti-semitism is coming from two other Catholic groups. The integralist and ethnonationalist. They are really well funded and organized. 'the replacement of evangelical Protestant political theology with a Catholic integralist or ethnonationalist framework that views Jews, Israel and Protestants not as covenant partners but as adversaries of Christian civilization.' Source: https://x.com/DefiyantlyFree/status/2029681200189636717 So in essence it is a fight to remove the Protestant world-view from the Republican party and America. At the founding of the USA the population was 99% Protestant and the first Amendment was created to prohibit the Federal from choosing one Protestant denomination over the other (even though it wasn't prohibited on state level). For the Catholics to live in this world-view they were relegated to being just another denomination. This is one of the major objections of the integralist see this as a Protestant error to be corrected. They basically want to return to a pre-Vatican II era.

Exactly. Stupid is as stupid does indeed.

The irony of this war is that Iran sold their drones to Russia. Russia shoots it at Ukraine. Ukraine shared the drones with USA. USA improves the drone and makes it cheaper to manufacture. USA is now using these drones to attack Iran. I have concluded that the department of war has already adapted to this new type of warfare and it seems like they are having great success. Nothing has been able to penetrate their defenses yet, which is indeed surprising. But to me the strategy is clear. Keep on killing leadership until you get to somebody that is less fanatical.

The humans (oracles) building the model. 'In an extension of Gödel’s incompleteness theorem—where the axioms of a system cannot be proved within that system—Turing showed the limits of computation: All computers are dependent on outside programmers that he called “oracles.” He wrote, “We shall not go any further into the nature of this oracle apart from saying that it cannot be a machine.”' George, Gilder. Gaming AI: Why AI Can't Think but Can Transform Jobs (p. 21)

This is so well said. 'This is what you get from a spirit obsessed with finding common ground where none exist. He has to revert to the oldest trick in the book. If you can't find it manufacture it.' https://youtu.be/NW54c9tAHHU

Do yourself a favor and read Raymond Ibrahim. https://youtu.be/zdUsXwQX7gI