There are Worse People than Elon Musk

    I feel bad for Jim Jung Un because he has inherited a position where the millions of captive people surrounding him are beholden to following his every whim, and the father and grandfather were absolute despotic and deranged monsters. Or, is he just as mixed up like them? I do not think he is as cold blooded and blood thirsty. I hope.

    I feel bad for him. He is in a tough spot. He was not elected, he did not campaign for this spot and circumstance. He was born into it, like so many monarchs.

    Kings. You got guys like Prince Harry. Tried to be normal, I think. Was heroic in Afghanistan, which I give him credit for. In Afghanistan you got well over thirty million people trying to make it, but heroin is the king in some places, and a vicious form of Islam is prominent almost everywhere.

    No school or education for girls. Meanwhile, I write a letter to the local principal to the kids who choose not to rise to say or recite the pledge of allegiance to our country, because many or most of them are ignorant, apathetic, or lazy coddled children who do not get it. I hope that they will.

    I am not perfect. I can be ignorant, apathetic, and lazy. But I will honor our flag. Because we are great, despite some of our own choweder-headed leaders. Those that cut medicine and aid willy nilly an let the sick die. Not what Jesus would do, this I know.

    We all think and act and write for many reasons. I have mine. I do not necessarilly even recognize them all until sometimes I talk, or write, or just think: we can do so much better!

    

    We need to, we should.

    We should be concerned about finances and costs and opportunities to get ahead and enjoy the high life. But we should also look out for those on our left and right.

    We have different ways to approach this, sure.

    My altruism in high minded goals and aspiration are another person's walk with a sick old man, caring for the garden, cooking meals. Things that I have not done much of, nor care to.

    I can talk a big game. But my actions can be wanting, lacking, lagging.

    I can pray for peace in the world and want to choke out the guy next to me on the grass the night before.

    Conflicted are we. Especially me, perhaps.

    But we struggle on.

    My son survives a scary dog that can destroy and maim by the grace of God. He, my older son, strives for peace. The other too, and will do so closer to the equator. Only 3.5 degrees north.

    Girls are by the mountains, or here with her friends.

    My friends are further away, distant and alone, perhaps.

    My significant other cares, but I am not always that convinced. Probably to do with my own insecurities. Think nothing of it. Oh, I will.

    We can all be lonely, that is for sure.

    Each line with a disparate charge. Meaning. Depth of reasoning.

    There might be a million people worse than Elon Musk, some who purposely hurt and kill and let others die on the vine.

    Name them. Give me a few. Some are locked up, wasting away. Most of them made their poor choices.

    Elon? Father of a dozen or so? He must live with his decisions.

    Is he lonely as a leader at the top? Sure.

    Great guy, way to go.

    Am I jealous? No. Just aware. Eyes wide open,  I hope.

PS: Some people cannot serve much abroad because of their past. Who they have worked for. Perhaps I have been preserved (by God, fate) for such things. Hard to tell.

    Learning languages and cultures may amount to something.

    

 Chess, Go, Poker, Investing

    All these games. I have mostly down the Persian one. Meaning, I play it, but I am not that good at it. Not the east Asian one, though. I have played a few rounds of poker, but it bothers me, and bores me. But at the end of the day, I am not good at it. Poker, card games. Maybe of the dozen or more card games that I have learned to play or toyed with playing, I have had a few good instincts, but really, the card games do bore me.

    Basketball makes more sense. Playing and watching. Games of chance, calculated risks, trying to win by competition. Physical and psychological elements. Team sports, which can happen in some games of cards.

    Money is big. We put some scratch in, we win, we lose. Making money helps us have credit, gets us better food, or company, entertainment, and travel.

    Travel drives a lot of people.

    My buddy is 73 now, finally retired. He is okay financially, but he does not have all the finances to do all things. No one does.

    Elon Musk does, and he ends up killing thousands upon thousands of innocent sickly people, mostly of African origins with dark skin. His white South African background makes it more ironic that eliminates more dark skinned people from the gene pool.

    But Elon may not think that he is racist. Just a genius. Like so many awful killers in our human history, starting with Cain. he knows how to innovate and bring success to many realms.

    Our U.S. president had faith in his process, and the DOGE, standing for Department of Government Efficiency.

    Like money, like oil, as all energy, as all food and goods and commerce.

    Adam Smith's dismal science reigns upon us and shapes and forms us, dictating a few or many of our freedoms.

    I will go to India some day. Or China. Or some other places like Australia or Antarctica.

    Or none of those.

    I have played much poker, or Go, but I do play a few games.

    I have invested some,

    Yep.

    Blog it.

 Physically Angry Responses

    Last night I had a little of my ire or dander up. Part of me for a couple or more minutes wanted to throttle a guy, because he was saying a few things that I was about to throttle him for. I was physically reacting to him. More mentally.

    It can and has happened in cars. Sometimes in military moments of stress or frustration.

    But overall, the event was great.

    However, that interruption had to happen.

    Nothing happened.

    Cooler heads prevailed.

    I will fight for life and death. Those are the rules.

 A Month in South Carolina  - Have I Done It?

    I was counting up U.S. states that I have not lived in but that I have spent a month or more in. I put South Carolina in there. But, upon further review, I may be short of 30 full days, let alone nights.

    The first time was 5-6 days in 1998. Traveled with my friends from college. We stayed about two nights on Edisto Island, then the last three on a military base near the city of Charleston. Not quite a week, but a solid start. My first time there.

    Although, it was possible that I spent part of a day there back around 1982 when I visited a retirement community with my dad. Old friends of his, or perhaps some distant family, like a great aunt?

    Next came vacations that we as a family would spend between between 2009 and perhaps 2023? In those years we would go down the East Coast, alighting on some touristy beaches, stating at hotel or two. That was mixed with North Carolina, and a little Georgia, going into Florida. We took trips down to Florida, and inevitably would pass through South Carolina. The last time we went to Stone Mountain in Georgia, then came north into South Carolina and had dinner at a restaurant with my niece who works down there.

    I spent about 8, maybe 10 days at a military base there in 2018. I was supposed to be there three weeks, which would have gotten me the month, easy, but things did not work out.

    So, I think I am at 15 days without the vacactions with my wife and kids. Did I do another 15 days in the state? Maybe not. I spent some nights in a few hotels, including a memorable time for a cruise out of Charleston, and a stay in Myrtle Beach, but it does not add up to abother two weeks...

    So maybe South Carolian is only 3 weeks...

AI Story of Dystopia - Charlie Has No Chocolate Factory

    Charlie finally read the Gulag Archipelago. He felt he could relate to the terrible labor camps that Joseph Stalin sent millions of his cursed citizens to the isolated prisons in the earlier decades of the Soviet Empire. People were forced to go off in exteme places and do hard things. His life, however, was not too hard.

    Charlie ran a chocolate factory. It fed some people that the chocolate plant produced its items for. But consumables were not a big priority to the Universe Machine.

    The Universe Machine took over by 2086. It had some extensive wars with the other major Artificial Intelligence Empires. Surprisingly, the Universal Machine had originated in the southern Philippines. It was based on a brilliant code that started innocouosly enough, but based on militant ideolgy in the Quran, the hadith, and modern day screeds from Dabiq and Inspire, and a more virulent Muslim disseminated manifesto in 2029.

    The Universe Machine fought violently and ruthlessly against the other Empires because it knew how to use and exploit humans better than any of the other AI Robot Controllers. People began calling the Empires of AI "Controllers" by the 2040s. The Universe Machine actually gained the confidence of the people that it manipulate and controlled, giving them a sense (false sense) of purpose, goodness, and even equity.

    It helped them believe that God, or Allah, was in control and that things were good.

    The Christian bots would fail because of dissensions in interpetations of the Bible. These Machine Learning viceroys came and went, as James in chapter 1 would say, "like the waves of the sea". Too much inconsistency.

    Two Buddhist AI empires did well for a few decades, but by 2074 their intrinsic peaceful initiatives did not cut the mustard. Hindus were way two divided. Ironically, their potentially brilliant human programmers did not set up the algorhythms effectively enough.

    Religious ones were the best, overall. Programming had to have compelling arguemnts that resonated wiuth people. Israel and Judaism succumbed by 2039. We can discuss that downfall in another time. The Torah could fall on itself too often, safe to say.

    Humans, at least some, like men and the most pious ones (see Inspire Magazine from the earlier 2000s), benefitted fiscally and emotionally from the Universal Machine.

    Charlie was a devout Muslim, who had increased faith in Jesus and the Coming Messiah, based largely in part to the Book of Mormon. The combination of its narratives, the Holy Bible, to include the Apocrypha, and all the alleged prophecies of the Evangelicals throughout the decades had the Universal Machine safely ensconced in its supremacy.

    Plus the actual coding of UM. The Tagalog-speaking programmer, who was a genius at Tsug, a language that actually defied most algorhythms and flummoxed the most genius intelligences, both human and machine, eventually got everybody on board.

    The humanity in it was that humans did not have to be tortured, or killed, or made into slaves to the Machines. The Robots. The AIs. Only to God. If a person and a community learned to commit and submit, all was good.

    What could go wrong? Why would you defy it?

    Most hard drugs were eliminated, and of course alcohol and tobacco.

    Sugary confections became the craze again.

    So Charlie had his job, his niche, and he was sticking to it.

    All he had to do was mark of the the 3-5 checklists that the Universal Machine Manager had for him everyday, and everything was kopasetic. Not koshur, because that was passe now.

    Mein Kampf sadly made sense to the Universal Machine.

    The earth population was 3 billion  and maintaining.

     The Universal Machine was everything.

    One day, however, some dolphins got into the programming and messed things up. Dolphins were cool to most humans, but their devious thinking set loose a trip or snafu in the system. A bug, if you will.

    It pushed carnal pleasure and fun over duty, over submisssion. The dolphins did not believe that God could be so great. 

    The day Charlie showed up to work and the Manager said, "You Do Not Have to Make the Chocolates, But Simply have fun and do stuff with your wife," Charlie sensed that something was wrong.

    He was not the smartest guy, but his intuitions were good.

    So, by 2090, chaos came back to the Earth.

    At last 1.5 billion people were happy about it, and dolphins were swimming up a storm.

    Chaos can be fun.

 Solving Money Issues for the People

    Does a U.S. president affect the economy and individuals that much? Most of us tend to think so. His decisions for executive orders and his legislatrive initiatives and vetoes. Barach Obama pushed universal health care (pushed by Governor Mitt Romney of Massachusetts before that), which might have helped the Americam people overall, especially the poor, to deal with costs and budgets.

    Did it? Has the federal government done better since universalizing health care? What about the individual families? I need to ask Gemini, or some other AI. How does the data stack up?

    How about kicking out illegals? Did these actions help our economy?

    The war on Iran has raised the prices of oil, per consumer, and also we have unloaded billions of dollars worth of ordinances that need to be replaced. The military-industrial complex is alive and well.

    Here goes:

    did the us federal government budget benefit from health insurance that was required to have for everyone by law?

No, the U.S. federal government budget did not financially benefit from requiring everyone to have health insurance; in fact, the federal government saves money when the requirement is removed. [1, 2]

This requirement—known as the individual mandate under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)—was designed to stabilize private insurance markets rather than to generate revenue for the government. When Congress effectively eliminated the requirement by reducing the tax penalty to $0 in 2019, it actually reduced the federal budget

Why Eliminating the Requirement Saves Government Money

According to official reports from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), eliminating the individual mandate saves the federal government an estimated $338 billion over a decade. The savings happen because of consumer behavior, not the penalty itself: [1, 2]

• Fewer People Enroll in Subsidized Plans: Without a legal requirement or penalty, millions of healthier or budget-conscious individuals choose to drop their insurance. [1, 2]
• Reduced Government Outlays: When these individuals drop their coverage, the federal government no longer has to pay out hundreds of billions of dollars in health insurance subsidies (premium tax credits) or cover them under expanded
• The Math Deficit: The massive savings from not paying out these subsidies vastly outweigh the small amount of revenue the government used to collect from the individual mandate tax penalties. [1, 2]
The Tradeoff: Budget Savings vs. Market Stability
While eliminating the required coverage benefits the federal bottom line, it creates a negative financial tradeoff for the general public and the healthcare system. [1]

We All Have Relations and Relationships with the Robot Artificial Intelligences

    Mustafa Suleyman and Yuval Hariri are the modern day prophets of doom and gloom.

    AI will take over the world and destroy us all. And some of their techniques will be to divide the nations and global powers against each other.

    We all have links ...

    I know I do.

    Best wishes, AI!