“We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error undetected will flourish and subvert.” –J. Robert Oppenheimer
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
Another collection of TEMU TRINKETS. Don’t worship any of them – for all worldly things are IDOLS! But ordered here with increasing Godliness, enjoy these seven!
(1) Speaking of idols, this demonstration is straight outta CHURCH LADY 101. This song is oozing with downfall. Great beat and guitar, though! I loved this song back in the day. Get your “wise as serpents” on as you read the lyrics.
(2) Let’s move on to a quick and nostalgic review of SuSE musical parodies. A mixed bag of originals, spiritually, dissected by examination as cover versions with techie lyrics.
(3) Gonna go all “Steve” on y’all with an astronomy video. Turns out that neutron stars have a lot of interesting structure that’s requiring a lot of work to understand.
The AI narration is somewhat annoying, becoming more repetitive after the half-way point, but it’s still very educational, whether you stick it out or not.
(4) Let us transition [COUGH] away slowly from the idolatrous and the divinely created but nonetheless fully material toward [but not yet to] the divine, with this rendering of a still somewhat worldly song [watch the end of the video and check out this link].
(5) A nice, brief (2 minute) discussion of one of my favorite hymns. No music, just theology.
(6) And now the music – with the vocal part only as written lyrics – to aid in studying them. Consider these words in light of what is currently being launched against Trump and MAGA. Trump, who has done so much to return this nation to its Godly roots. Fortify thyself against the demons who attack!
(7) Now enjoy the music with vocals – a version I had not heard before. I found it worth going to YouTube to read the channel’s take on the song and its history.
This Rejoice & Praise God Sunday Open Thread, with full respect to those who worship God on the Sabbath, is a place to reaffirm our worship of our Creator, our Father, our King Eternal.
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God is in Control . . . and His Grace is Sufficient, so . . . Keep Looking Up
Hopefully, every Sunday, we can find something here that will build us up a little . . . give us a smile . . . and add some joy or peace, very much needed in all our lives.
“This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn nor weep.” . . . “Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to those for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Do not sorrow, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.”
Unity in Christ
Unity is a state of oneness and harmony. All believers in Christ are united in Christ. We are in a relationship that unites us with Him and with every other believer.
Jesus prayed for His disciples—all who would believe in Him for all the ages—“that all of them may be one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you” (John 17:21). Some look at the great divisions among Christian denominations and refer to this as Christ’s great “unanswered prayer.” However, Scripture is clear that all believers are united with Christ because of our relationship with Him and with all other believers. We are all in the same family, even it at times we do not act like it. Therefore, unity in Christ has two aspects—one is objective fact, and one is subjective experience.
Objective and subjective unity can be true for any number of groups, teams, or even families. All the members of a football team are unified by their membership in the group. They do not win or lose games individually. The individuals contribute to the group, but it is the group that wins or loses—that is the objective fact. However, there may be times that the team does not act in a unified way. Selfishness and rivalry may creep up, and, when it does, it is impossible for the team to act as a unit—this is the subjective aspect. The behavior of individuals on the team is not matching the fact of their unity with every other member of the team.
All who believe in Christ are part of His body, the church. The New Testament is clear on this. Ephesians 5:30 says it plainly: “For we are members of his body.” Whether a Christian feels like it or not, he or she is part of Christ’s body and therefore unified with every other believer. Paul uses the analogy of the body in 1 Corinthians 12:12–21:
“Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.
“Now if the foot should say, ‘Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,’ it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. And if the ear should say, ‘Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,’ it would not for that reason stop being part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has placed the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.
“The eye cannot say to the hand, ‘I don’t need you!’ And the head cannot say to the feet, ‘I don’t need you!’”
The human body is a unified whole. If one part does not work right, the whole body suffers. If a person smashes his thumb with a hammer, it is not just the thumb in isolation that hurts. Other parts of the body may hurt, too, and the functioning of the whole body is impaired. This is true even when a person does not know about the malfunctioning part. If an internal organ is not functioning properly, damage may be done to the body before any pain or obvious illness is present.
In the same way, the church has unity in Christ. As part of His body, each member has a particular job to do and a place to belong. When any individual member is not fulfilling his or her purpose in the body, the whole body suffers. All the members are united, and because of that unity, when one acts in an individualistic or selfish manner (i.e., acts as if he is not part of the body), the whole body suffers because, regardless of his actions, the individual member is still in unity with all the others in the body.
Many of the commands in the New Testament direct Christians to live up to their position and demonstrate their unity in Christ. Christians are not commanded to become one in Christ—that is already an objective reality. Christians are told to make their subjective experience match the objective fact. Paul pleads with the Philippians for this kind of unity: “Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others” (Philippians 2:1–4). If Christians, who are members of the same team, see themselves in competition with each other, then they are not playing as teammates. They are not living in light of the unity that exists.
Unity in Christ means that all believers are in a relationship with Christ and, by extension, to every other believer. All believers are united with each other whether they know it or not, like it or not, or feel like it or not. The challenge of Christian unity is to live up to the truth of that reality. Since we are all members of one body, we need to live like it. This means subordinating our individual needs to the needs of the body at large and using our individual gifts for the good of the whole body.
Unity in Christ does not mean that all differences between churches or denominations need to be abolished. Individual churches and denominations can keep their individual distinctives and emphases while still working together in areas where they agree. For instance, an evangelical Baptist church and an evangelical Presbyterian church will be in agreement on the gospel and the essentials of the faith, but because of different beliefs about baptism, it would be impossible for these two churches to simply unite as one church. It might be possible for a church to take a neutral position on infant baptism; however, it is hard to see how a church could teach that parents should baptize their babies (as do Presbyterian churches) and simultaneously teach that parents should not baptize their babies (as in Baptist churches). While these two groups could never unite as a single local church or denomination, they can still cooperate in other ministry endeavors, and individuals within each local body can fellowship with and love each other. xhttps://www.gotquestions.org/unity-in-Christ.html
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
Ready for a new box of chocolates? You never know what’s in them…… well, not really!
(1) More chess – including a weak opening and a mistake leading to checkmate.
(2) More firearms – namely the 30-06, multiple rounds, including armor-piercing, against plain old steel 1/2″, 5/8″, 3/4″ and 1″. It’s SPICY.
(3) – More physics magnets – specifically, an explanation of how they work. Bottom line – line up those electrons, buddy – whether it’s in the tiny, or in the big – because it’s a LAZY UNIVERSE and the universe wants to get all LOW ENERGY JEB on things!
(4) More chemistry and bad jokes – as a zany chemist facetiously documents all the laboratory errors he made, in an effort to turn a piece of plumbing pipe into the simple, cheap, metal salt that you can buy at the hardware store to kill roots in your sewer lines.
This is what real YouTube Science was, before AI and big money ruined everything!
(5) More YouTube ChiCom ClickBait FakeTech! How to turn an old microwave oven into clicks and cash (and not actually a laser-aimed, directed energy, flame-thrower).
I do wish Steve was here to critique, but just read the comments on YouTube.
Whatever you do, don’t do any of this stuff at home!
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
Very nice that Thanksgiving will always be on Thank God Thursdays!
You know what I’m thankful for?
We are STILL HERE, and TRUMP IS PRESIDENT!
For this Thanksgiving, I’m going to post links to every prior Thanksgiving post we’ve had here.
A trip down Memory Lane!
2018 – 11/22 – Wolf Moon – Our First Thanksgiving – Midterm Escape – Sessions is GONE – Q is Posting!
This SPECIAL THANKSGIVING open thread is VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA world. We ask that people NOT duplicate material posted to the Treehouse open threads, unless it’s REALLY IMPORTANT. We expect things that are …
2019 – 11/28 – trumpismine – Impeachment & Ukraine BS Almost Over – COVID Coming…..
This Happy Thanksgiving Night before Daughn Thursday 20191128 Open Thread is officially Open – VERY OPEN – a place for everybody to post whatever they feel they would like to tell the White Hats, and the rest of the MAGA / KAG! / KMAG world (KMAG being a bit of both MAGA and KAG! You …
Sorry for the delay. Here’s a REALLY quick and dirty daily. Since the Center for Disease Control went all Footloose on us, and decided that we needed to tone down the singing, dancing and drinking this Thanksgiving, how about some good old fashioned defiance. Seriously, my mom always says if it’s not sinful, immoral or …
Followed on Friday by a message from Wolf Moon, after we moved off WordPress.com, after CTH was kicked off WordPress.com after Trump “lost” the election.
NOTE: Although this after-dinner well-wishing was delayed due to a long list of post-Thanksgiving-dinner chores and duties, performed meticulously and faithfully, it’s still Thanksgiving in California, so here we go. I just wanted to take this opportunity, after a great Thanksgiving dinner, [Trump supporters all, complete with two pilgrims, an Indian of friendly but mysterious …
2021 – 11/25 – Back from J6, We’re FIGHTING BACK! – This is a repeat (PS – Note the error in the date!)
WOLF HERE! This one is a little different. I’m going to REPLAY last Thanksgiving, Thursday, 20201124, which was also one of DePat’s best, getting over 1000 comments at the time. Enjoy the repeat, followed by an addendum by the Wolf! W [DePat RePat begins here] Sorry for the delay. Here’s a REALLY quick and dirty …
2022 – 11/24 – Deplorable Patriot – Still Fighting!
Due to Q-Treeper poll results, this is a lighter fare Thanksgiving thread. If anything important happens, or if a skunk moves in under your she shed, please post in the comments. Anti-Thanksgiving? UnAmerican at best, treason more likely. So, what REALLY happened to bring about Thanksgiving here in the former colonies of England, France and …
2023 – 11/23 – Deplorable Patriot – The G.O.A.T.!!! Seriously, this was one of her best!
Being full of Chinese take-out and having started Thanksgiving cooking without the matriarch, I’m digging up an old opener with some current items. Anti-Thanksgiving? UnAmerican at best, treason more likely. So, what REALLY happened to bring about Thanksgiving here in the former colonies of England, France and Spain????? The Great Thanksgiving Hoax This official story …
2024 – 11/28 – Deplorable Patriot – Her Final TGITG
And yet, again, I am resurrecting the old Thanksgiving thread as cooking takes center stage in the Depat household. Being full of Chinese take-out and having started Thanksgiving cooking without the matriarch, I’m digging up an old opener. Since Twitter/X is being tempermental, not many current items. Anti-Thanksgiving? UnAmerican at best, treason more likely. So, …
2025 – 11/27 – Wolf Moon – I am thankful for every post we had from Deplorable Patriot, and especially her Thanksgiving posts. God bless her, and her family and friends!
I also thank God for President Trump, Vice President Marine Corps Dude (apparently another VSG), and every White Hat who is working to restore integrity to our government. I am thankful to Q – whoever he is, and wherever he is – and to all the anons who helped Q help President Trump. I am thankful to Sundance and the Treepers who brought us here, and to the patriots at Tea Party Connection, including Dixie, who brought me to CTH.
It has been a long road, but it has been a good road.
God bless you all – each and every one of you. To you – and to all our fallen fellow Treepers and QTreepers – a special thank you, for sacrificing some of the best parts of your golden years to help President Trump Make America Great Again.
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
More STUFF……
(1) Hardware babe Anastasia back with more clickbait tech news, backhandedly praising Tesla and Samsung! File under “Disaster!/Miracle!” See if you can spot Trump’s invisible cameo!
(2) More Titan submersible “doom porn” – this time with an annoying Indian American smart girl twist that manages to (at the end) badly attack Elon Musk for MDS attagrlz. Nevertheless, the Titan data is good, and worth the watch time.
(3) A different kind of doom porn – about “backwards life” – that is worth watching and thinking about – especially about why this particular take is probably WRONG. There are not only theological reasons – the scientific reasons are significant.
My bottom line – “loss of function” research is still possible, useful, and will almost certainly show that “nature” (COUGH) got there already. Nonetheless, a good warning, and I agree that no form of highly divergent “synthetic life” should be created, now or in the foreseeable future. Call it “due diligence”!
(4) Interested in modern sniper technology? Here ya go!
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
More Temu trinkets from video world. Skip over as many as you must!
(1) Explosives. Instantly reducing people to…… crumbs? Not vapor? Or is this “AND logic”?
(2) Have you ever wanted to go back to high school biology class? You won’t after this video! It’s CRINGE vs. CRINGE! Skip if you don’t want to enjoy the CRINGE!
(3) Try a different chess brain from my usual guy. This one does a deep dive into a SCANDAL of the chess world during this fascinating analysis of psychological war between top chess players.
The TL;DR – the world’s best player TOYS with the guy who made bogus accusations of computer-backed cheating at the top of chess world, by making a bunch of TROLL moves that a computer would NEVER recommend, and still beating him bloody!
(4) How about a TREEHOUSE DUDE who’s not Sundance? Check out “Mystery Treehouse” on the topic of the band Boston / the nerd Tom Scholz.
(5) Wanna talk back to those douchebags and cat-ladies who say that the Southwest UNITED STATES was stolen from MEH-HE-CO? Here you go – some fascinating history.
OK – that’s enough! Have a great weekend!
W
BUT WAIT – THERE’S MOAR!
I saw this at the last minute! Must report immediately! A damned AI country song hit NUMBER ONE!!!
[No – don’t skip over it – click the video and WAIT FOR IT!]
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
Another selection for your post-election Thursday!
(1) One of the best SCIENCE STORIES I have ever heard. How a merchant marine cook’s crucial observation during a submarine attack in WWII, and persistence in making it known to the military, changed the course of the naval battle against German wolf-packs in the North Atlantic.
The only problem? It appears to be another AI FAKE STORY.
YES – AI is now creating very compelling FAKE HISTORY. The ultimate in FAKE VALOR.
I’m calling it THE BLUMENTHAL EFFECT.
(2) Let’s follow that up with some light entertainment! Also fictional. I kid you not!
(3) Watch some top-level chess, where the cunning “offense by evasion” of Magnus Carlsen edges out the patience of the defending champion until the champ makes enough mistakes.
(4) If you can stand to listen to a woman with pale purple hair, a shaky “inhaling laughter” voice, and a quasi-Brit American accent, but with an excellent knowledge of science fiction, then here is everything that is lovable but wrong with Star Trek’s warp drive in reality universe.
(5) AI companions. Get totally caught up with the subject in 35 minutes of fascinating and surprisingly non-exploitative video (this, despite the clickbait cover image “thumbnail” you see below, complete with trendy pale purple blonde hair and WGTTs).
OK – that’s enough. You have faithfully endured the trials of YouTube ClickBait. Your reward is NO MAS. And Thank You for your attention to this matter!
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
Another assortment of interesting tidbits!
(1) Lithium ion batteries. A great explanation.
(2) Sodium ion batteries. Made without CHINA. Interesting.
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
Another mixed bag of TREATS! Three ladies who are NOT Obama’s “Furies”! And a small subterranean mammal that is NOT a rodent!
(1) I remember when I first heard this stuff, too! “Who is this band? Where have they BEEN?”
(2) Human anthropology. Complicated. Again. Even when it’s not really THE NEXT BIG THING.
(3) This may seems complicated, but it boils down to “chicken and egg” – and you know the rest!
(4) It’s MOLE DAY. October 23. And Mole Minute is 6:02 AM. Enjoy the moment!
A mole is basically the ratio between number of atoms and the weight of stuff. The units are “per mole” or /mole.
6.02 x 10^23 (six point zero two times 10 to the 23rd power), or……
The mole number is arbitrary – it is not set by nature. It was chosen to make our chosen units of laboratory weights (grams) align with the numbers of protons and neutrons in the various atoms. E.g., so that one mole of hydrogen atoms weighed roughly a gram, and one mole of carbon atoms weighs roughly 12 grams. We could have English moles, Imperial moles, or even Star Trek Federation moles using some different standard of weight.
One way to think about this, is that a few grams of stuff (say, 56 grams of iron) is a little over a mole of it, meaning just over six hundred sextillion atoms.
Given that there are an estimated 10^80 atoms in the universe, a mere 10^23 atoms is just ONE 10^57th of it.
That’s 1/1000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000th of the universe. That’s not much.
That’s enough for today. Have a great weekend!
W
Professor Molenium, a plush toy from the American Chemical Society
This man, making Christmas calls from the White House, believes the world is a sphere. And he has even flown around it! So has our beautiful FLOTUS, who happens to be his wife!
Truth and common sense must be valued by us, as individuals, in order to lastingly disempower the authoritarian fake news media. This includes the perniciously smarmy science media, which never answers for its errors and lies. I believe that the media has been responsible not only for leftist pathologies like scientism, medical fascism, and radical gender ideology, but also for reactionary movements like modern flat Earth, rejection of all medicine, and Biblical geological literalism.
Just as Wheatie’s Stormwatch Monday Open Thread was created as a place for people to openly express their thoughts and opinions, so, too, is this Thank God Thursday Open Thread, where honest but civil discussion of all topics is encouraged. This thread is also to be known as Theistic Evolution Thursdays, due to the author’s expected “pontification” about his scientific, religious, and political opinions. You are welcome to pontificate back! Free speech matters!
Please label all AI-generated content as being such, unless it is patently obvious (e.g., humorous AI images). It is important that we as individuals not begin to pretend that socially derived artificial intelligence is actually our own, as this form of stealthy social information averaging and feedback would be one more pretense and deception between people, in service of stupid Marxist socialism, and of those who wish to substitute their communally protected lies for actual truth.
The source of alleged truth matters, not for the truth itself, but for validation.
And yes, it’s THURSDAY…again.
And that’s it. We’re done stealing from Wheatie.
OK – maybe her rules need to be posted.
No food fights.
No running with scissors.
If you bring snacks, bring enough for everyone.
Other rules may be derivable from these, and that conjecture is left for discussion.
If there is nothing beyond the “W” below, then this is a placeholder. For health reasons, I can’t always post a timely opinion before each Thursday, but I will try. Otherwise, you have this placeholder post, where YOU provide the content. Enjoy!
W
A selection of interesting tidbits!
(1) Check out our sister planet! She’s HOT!
(2) And speaking of HOT, so is Alexandra Botez Magnus Carlsen in this heavily handicapped chess match!
(3) What happens when you take a “Grumpy Cat” subject (evolution) and a “Suspicious Cat” subject (artificial intelligence), mix them together, and put them under both a clickbait / narcissist title and a slightly misleading caption?
Well, just turn up the patience and discernment, and listen past all that stuff.
The basic point – evolution is an intelligent process that learns and remembers, and adapts life to whatever circumstances it can.
Or as I would put it, not only is the universe pro-life and pro-intelligence – mathematics itself and reality itself are, too.
