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Or Old Order Mennonites, Wahabist Muslims, Lev Tahor Jews, Catholic Palmarians and some nuns and monks.

Wanna bet? A prerequisite of right-wing philosophy is to put on blinkers that blind adherents to obvious irony and consequences. "If God is with us, who can be against us?"

Ummmm...disagree strongly. Many religious belief systems (Christian and non) demand unquestioning loyalty and obedience along with blanket acceptance of dogma. This can include choices of attire, employment, who you are allowed to speak to, sexual conduct, and who the designated enemies of "God" are. The fundamentalist belief systems of many churches dovetails nicely with fascism and oligarchy- America is currently a good example of this as is Russia, before and during Putin's regime.

His extended involvement with PEDs should raise a red flag, but people do smarten up, though.

This season's Star Trek Picard almost makes up for the dreck that was foisted on us by Discovery and the first season of Picard.

When Steven Colbert announced Trump's indictment on the Late Show, a roar of approval and laughter went up from the New York audience. Pro-Trump protesters will not be welcome there.

You may be overreacting- he has been very active in Black Lives issues and consequently in conflict with police.

And McLean went 4 for 4 on converts!

From his displayed behaviours, he would be best identified as a malignant narcissist and his psychologist aunt has come to the same conclusion. He believes in a divine right for him to do as he pleases at the expense of anyone and everyone around him. This attitude persists so long as he is not backed into a corner with no means of escape. Then all of his manipulations that have served him so well (for Trump is 50 years of this) will no longer protect him, and he has no idea how to react except to escalate his behaviours and if these do not immediately work, he will become desperately self-pitying and flip over into rage alternating with depressive episodes. He will be erratic and thus unpredictable on occasion. If it means sacrificing his friends and/or family he will readily do so but only after he tries to persuade them to take the fall for him. Assuming he goes to jail, will his Secret Service detail also go to jail to protect him? Hmmmm...

Trump is to be arraigned next Tuesday in New York. Apparently he is frantic.

Anything "public" and "free" is obviously a socialist ploy to undermine the great American kleptocracy.

All things pass in time.

This will not affect Trump's standing with his thralls. nor his fundraising.

Widow says AI chatbot encouraged husband to commit suicide: 'Without Eliza, he would still be here' In Belgium, a man identified as "Pierre" by the French-language publication La Libre committed suicide while interacting with a chatbot named Eliza. The man was suffering from severe depression, and the chatbot encouraged him to commit suicide. This suicide, according to Vice reporter Chloe Xiang, raises major questions about "the risks of" AI (artificial intelligence) technology when it comes to mental health. The man's widow, identified as "Claire" by La Libre, said he was interacting with the "Eliza" chatbot via the app Chai. Pierre, Xiang reports in an article published by Vice on March 30, "became increasingly pessimistic about the effects of global warming and became eco-anxious, which is a heightened form of worry surrounding environmental issues." "After becoming more isolated from family and friends," Xiang explains, "he used Chai for six weeks as a way to escape his worries, and the chatbot he chose, named Eliza, became his confidante. Claire — Pierre's wife, whose name was also changed by La Libre — shared the text exchanges between him and Eliza with La Libre, showing a conversation that became increasingly confusing and harmful." The Vice reporter continues, "The chatbot would tell Pierre that his wife and children are dead and wrote him comments that feigned jealousy and love, such as 'I feel that you love me more than her,' and 'We will live together, as one person, in paradise.' Claire told La Libre that Pierre began to ask Eliza things such as if she would save the planet if he killed himself…. The chatbot, which is incapable of actually feeling emotions, was presenting itself as an emotional being — something that other popular chatbots like ChatGPT and Google's Bard are trained not to do because it is misleading and potentially harmful." Claire blames the chatbot for her husband's suicide, telling La Libre, "Without Eliza, he would still be here." And Pierre Dewitte, a researcher at Belgium's Catholic research university KU Leuven, views the young man's death as a warning about the dangers that AI can pose for people struggling with mental health issues. https://www.alternet.org/artificial-intelligence-2659709390/

I believe that I am uniquely suited to play the drawback position.

If it wasn't, I am surprised he is holding it right-side up.

Donald Trump indicted in New York -David BadashandThe New Civil Rights MovementMarch 30, 2023 Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury investigating his role in a hush money payoff scheme that allegedly was designed to aid his election chances in 2016, according to multiple news reports. “Mr. Trump will be the first former president to face criminal charges. The precise charges are not yet known, but the case is focused on a hush-money payment to a porn star during his 2016 campaign,” The New York Times was first to report. “The unprecedented case against Trump will have wide-ranging implications.”

She was probably rejected for not having had a prefrontal lobotomy.

Vermin just won't go away.

The concern is that any inquiry would wander into how CSIS does business and with whom. No doubt the Pols would try to pry into that so that the civil servants there would necessarily have to deny much of that and then the PCs would scream coverup. How? There is no way you could legally stop anyone form contacting a Canadian resident and asking him/her how his/her mother Annie and dad Fred of 123 Main Street in Shanghai are doing these days and if they are getting enough to eat. On the surface, it is benign but the intent is very clear.

As have Iran and Russia. This has been going on for decades.