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Illegal Immigration and Technology

 Our current population here in the US of A is 300 million.  Illegal immigrants, captured and gotaways, total about 2 million which is a very small % of our overal population and fairly insignificant.

ABOUT 60% of our population work.

This is 180,000 people.

The 2023 World Economic Forum predicts that 90,000 people in USA will loose their jobs due to ROBOT REPLACEMENT.

These robots are replacing NON SKILLED JOBS.

Illegal Immigrants are NON SKILLED LABOR.

Only SKILLED LABOR will be used to BUILD ROBOTS.

Let's just forget a minute about what these 90,000 Americans are going to do when they lose their jobs...  let's think about what these ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS are going to do because they are theoretically coming to the USA for FRIGGING JOBS.

Some of these American Workers are married and will be using their spouse's health insurance...  but these ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS will have no health insurance...  do you think they might DRAIN our medical supplies, clog our ER rooms, and generally screw up our healthcare system?

If they cannot work???  will they steal to feed themselves?

Will they live on the streets and become homeless?

Will they sell drugs?

NOW, let's look at our own people...  what the hell are we going to do with them???

Spend more money to take care of them, INCREASING INFLATION and causing supply shortages???

We cannot stop TECHNOLOGY and our society is bound and determined to push technology as far as it can be pushed...  and then try to push it further.

What will technology replace next?

Robots can perform surgeries...

Robots can replicate the skills of dentists...

Robots can build robots...

Robots can replace the military soldier and sailor...

Robots can drive military vehicles...

Robots can fly military jets...

Robots can cook and serve food...

Robots can manufacture anything as long as they are programmed...

Robots can teach classes...

Robots can be architects and draftsmen...

Robots can perform nursing duties...

A BETTER QUESTION IS WHAT CAN ROBOTS NOT DO???

Nothing Else To Do But BITCH

 When one reaches my age of 75, one realizes that one has lived 3/4 of a century...  and, while that does not make me that special, it puts me into a club of elders.  At 80, that club dwindles and at 90, that club dwindles even more and at 100, that club is damn near non-existent.  But, at 75. there are many of us...

• I don't smoke cigarettes
• I don't drink alcohol
• I don't use illegal drugs
• I exercise and eat healthy

I retired at 67 and am damn thankful, I had the ability to get out of the business marketplace as it is full of assholes who don't give a damn about who they hurt or step on, in order to get ahead.  Looking back, it seems that Native Americans are the ones who in general, are living the best life, as all they have to do is worry about cashing their gambling money checks, fishing, planting crops, and harvesting.

Americans don't know now to live this simple life as we depend more and more on technology to define our society, way of life, and quality of life.

BUT TONIGHT...  I AM BITCHING...

The USA is divided like an 8 section pizza pie:

1. Conservatives
2. Liberals
3. Blacks 
4. Whites
5. Hispanics/Asians
6. Religous
7. Non Religious
8. Wealthy/Poor

There are other sections obviously but that is simply another pizza pie.

My concerns relate to politics, law enforcement, and government agencies.

All my life, my Democratic Party taught me that government was ineffective and inefficient when it came to getting things done...  The problem was related to all the various levels of government referred to as a bureaucracy. 

What I find amazing is that the new Democrats (Biden's democrats) also called Liberals, Progressives, and Socialists, who obviously know that government is ineffective and inefficient want to create a bigger government.

For me, that just does not make sense...  and yet, that is our current reality.

It also bothers me that these Biden Democrats hate Donald Trump so much that they would spend over 6 years and millions of tax-payer dollars to try and destroy this man, resulting in FAILURES or FAILED OUTCOMES every time...  are these Democrats not intelligent enough to see they have wasted time and money for 6 years?

The odds are this hatred will continue another 2 years, making 8 years...  then, if Trump wins in 2024, we will have another 4 years of hate, making a total of 12 years HATING ONE MAN.

What a waste of intelligence.

The average American spends 12 years in school before they graduate and go to work or continue their education.

Can you imagine that DEMOCRATS have HATED TRUMP for as long as a person goes to school?

Fusion's Future in USA

Fusion energy is often hailed as a limitless source of clean energy, but new research from Princeton University suggests that may only be true if the price is right.

In a study led by fusion expert Egemen Kolemen, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, and energy systems expert Jesse Jenkins, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton researchers modeled the cost targets that a fusion reactor might have to meet to gain traction in a future U.S. energy grid.

The findings, published in Joule on Mar. 16, illustrated that the engineering challenges of fusion energy are only part of the problem—the other part lies in economics.

"People will not pay an unlimited amount of money for fusion energy if they could spend that money to generate clean energy more cost-effectively," said Jacob Schwartz, a former postdoc with Kolemen and Jenkins who led the modeling for the study and currently works as a research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. "Above a certain cost, even if we can engineer them, not many developers will want to build them."

The model results demonstrated that the niche for fusion in the U.S. depends not only on the price of building a reactor but hinges greatly on the energy mix of the future grid and the cost of competing technologies like nuclear fission.

If the market for fusion is favorable, then even with capital costs as high as around $7,000 per kilowatt, fusion could still reach 100 GW capacity—about the current capacity of U.S. nuclear power plants, which supply about a fifth of today's electricity needs. But supposing alternative technologies like nuclear fission, hydrogen, carbon capture and storage, or long-duration battery storage successfully take root, capital costs might have to be less than half that price for fusion to reach the same 100 GW capacity.

"Fusion developers need to keep an eye on the competition," Jenkins explained. "If successfully commercialized, fusion power plants are likely to look a lot like classic nuclear fission plants from the perspective of electricity markets and grids. Both resources are complex technologies with tight engineering margins for safety reasons, which translates to high upfront investment costs. If the variable costs of fusion power plants end up low, fusion plants will likely compete head-to-head with new fission power plants."  READ MORE...

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Probably Not Thinking About Retirement, Are You?

As I have mentioned hundreds of times before, you may think that your life will take a long time to end...  but, the fact of the matter is that, time flies by faster that you are willing to admit right now...  before long, you will be facing retirement totally UNPREPARED...

If you are under 50, by the time you are eligible to retire the age will be 70 and Social Security may or may not be there, despite what politicians say today.  Our national debt is huge and SS is the biggest culprit and as long as medical science keeps finding ways to extend life, the SS is on the losing end of the deal...

1. How much money will you need at age 70 in order to pay your bills?
2. How many more years will you live?
3. Will you be in good to excellent health?
4. Will you be debt free?
5. Will you be married or single?
6. Will your children be willing to take care of you?
7. Will you need to arrange transportation?
8. Will you need assistance with daily chores?

In some areas of the USA, $500,000 TODAY is enough to pay your bills with Social Security and a partner and debt free.

In some areas of the USA, you will need twice that much.

If you are 50 years old and only need $500,000 then you will need to save $25,000 each year or roughly $2,000 each month.

Using SS and estimating your monthly expenses at $4,000, you will need to withdraw $24,000 each year or $240,000 each decade or $480,000 for two decades, assuming you will not live past 90 years of age.  This allows for minimal frills and extras. But, you can live a reasonable enjoyable retirement.

If you health is bad, then the odds are you will not make it to 90 years of age.

Most Medicare Supplements will cost you right around $500/month which includes Medicare's share that is taken out of your SS.  Certain med are not covered 100% by your supplement.

For instance, my monthly cancer pills are $1,000/month out of my pocket.  I have been fortunate enough to get a grant...  but, grants may not be available when you get there.

Should you start worrying because of my comments???   HELL NO!!!

What you should do is START PLANNING...

 

Living The Good Life

If one wants to live the good life, what does that mean?

• Free of illnesses...
• Becoming wealthy or extrememely wealthy...
• Dying at age 90...  or age 100...
• Having children...  and grandchildren..,.
• Never being married...
• Never being divorced...
• Never wanting to retire...
• Having a job you really, really like...
• Making and keeping many friends...
• Having just enough money to do whatever you want...

Not many people think about this...  they just live their life at whatever level their income allows...  not worrying about what they have or don't have...  in that sense, ignorance is BLISS...

I remember my dad saying either at Thanksgiving dinner or Christmas dinner that we were living "high on the hog tonight..."  and, I never really asked him what that meant, I always just assumed that it meant we were well off.

I have spent my entire life, living life exactly as I wanted to live it, not necessarily as I should have lived it, could have lived it, or as someone else wanted me to live it...

• was I living the good life
• was I happy
• was I content

When I was diagnosed with cancer, heart issues, and had back surgery to fuse disks together, did that mean I stopped living the GOOD LIFE?

When my daughter decided she no longer wanted to have an association with me, did I stop living the GOOD LIFE?

When my brother and sister no longer wanted to deal with me, did that mean I stopped living the GOOD LIFE?

I DON'T THINK SO...  I think the GOOD LIFE for me (not necessarily others) is accepting and living the life that I have in front of me, without regrets, without looking back, and without looking forward...  although looking forward is somewhat necessary as we age.

• I need to make sure I eat healthy
• I need to make sure I exercise
• I need to make sure that I keep busy
• I need to make sure I take my pills
• I need to make sure I self-examine
• I need to make sure I can pay my bills
• I need to make sure someone can drive when I cannot

FOR ME...

the rest of my life should unfold in such a way that I consistently keep busy...  keeping busy is the GOOD LIFE for me...

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A Touch of Reality

Here is an Interesting Eight Question Survey with interesting National Results.

Before you see the Survey Results, answer the questions, and see how you score against the Nation & against the Facts:

• What percentage of the country is black?
• What percentage of marriages are mixed race?
• What percentage is "Latino"?
• How many families make over $500,000 a year?
• What percent of Americans are vegetarians?
• What percent of Americans live in NY city?
• What percentage of Americans are 'transgender?

The Poll Results
This should be a wake-up call if you don’t already know this… A recent poll was conducted by a national polling outfit. Names don't matter.

They are all the same. This one was "YouGov”. Results to these questions asked of average people on the street:

• What percentage of the country is black? Answers 41%... Actual 12%. If you watch commercials, you will think it is 90%.
• What percentage of marriages are mixed race? Answer 50%... Actual 1%. If you watch commercials, you will think it is 90%.
• What percentage is "Latino"? Answers 39%... Actual numbers 17%.
• How many families make over $500,000 a year? Answers 26%... Actual figure 1%. We think a quarter of the country is rich.
• What percent of Americans are vegetarians? Response? 30%… Actual 5%.
• What percent of Americans live in NY city? Answers? 30%... Actual 3%.
• What percentage of Americans are 'transgender? 22%... Actual number 1%

So why do people have such inaccurate thoughts on these counts? THE MEDIA! The media run race, gender, and wealth stories constantly. Result? You are being brainwashed by the national left with the media. Hitler’s propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels would be proud if he had half the success.

Disney just went full-on "gender" They will no longer welcome guests with the traditional "Welcome ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls" Why? Because 1% of the population dictates to the other 99% (that would be the vast majority) and corporate America falls for it.

Regardless of what you think. Less than 20% of Americans use "Twitter" yet Twitter controls 80% of public opinion, why? The Media.

Next time you are thinking Americans have changed and not in a good way, remember, it's fake. It's all a lie. Most people think just like you do but the media has brainwashed Americans with constant broadcasting of “LIES". 

Its called social engineeering!...

Unintended Consequences of Monumental Inventions

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It was said that Thomas Midgley Jr. had the finest lawn in America. Golf-club chairmen from across the Midwest would visit his estate on the outskirts of Columbus, Ohio, purely to admire the grounds; the Scott Seed Company eventually put an image of Midgley’s lawn on its letterhead. Midgley cultivated his acres of grass with the same compulsive innovation that characterized his entire career. 

He installed a wind gauge on the roof that would sound an alarm in his bedroom, alerting him whenever the lawn risked being desiccated by a breeze. Fifty years before the arrival of smart-home devices, Midgley wired up the rotary telephone in his bedroom so that a few spins of the dial would operate the sprinklers.

In the fall of 1940, at age 51, Midgley contracted polio, and the dashing, charismatic inventor soon found himself in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down. At first he took on his disability with the same ingenuity that he applied to maintaining his legendary lawn, analyzing the problem and devising a novel solution to it — in this case, a mechanized harness with pulleys attached to his bed, allowing him to clamber into his wheelchair each morning without assistance. At the time, the contraption seemed emblematic of everything Midgley had stood for in his career as an inventor: determined, innovative thinking that took on a seemingly intractable challenge and somehow found a way around it.

Or at least it seemed like that until the morning of Nov. 2, 1944, when Midgley was found dead in his bedroom. The public was told he had been accidentally strangled to death by his own invention. Privately, his death was ruled a suicide. Either way, the machine he designed had become the instrument of his death.

Midgley was laid to rest as a brilliant American maverick of the first order. Newspapers ran eulogies recounting the heroic inventions he brought into the world, breakthroughs that advanced two of the most important technological revolutions of the age: automobiles and refrigeration. “The world has lost a truly great citizen in Mr. Midgley’s death,” Orville Wright declared. “I have been proud to call him friend.” But the dark story line of Midgley’s demise — the inventor killed by his own invention! — would take an even darker turn in the decades that followed. 

While The Times praised him as “one of the nation’s outstanding chemists” in its obituary, today Midgley is best known for the terrible consequences of that chemistry, thanks to the stretch of his career from 1922 to 1928, during which he managed to invent leaded gasoline and also develop the first commercial use of the chlorofluorocarbons that would create a hole in the ozone layer.  READ MORE...

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Humanoid Robots

Human-shaped robots with dexterous hands will be staffing warehouses and retail stores, tending to the elderly and performing household chores within a decade or so, according to a Silicon Valley startup working toward that vision.

Why it matters: Demographic trends — such as a persistent labor shortage and the growing elder care crisis — make fully-functioning, AI-driven humanoid robots look tantalizingly appealing.

• Companies such as Amazon are reportedly worried about running out of warehouse workers, whose jobs are physically and mentally demanding with high attrition.

Driving the news: A heavy-hitting startup called Figure, which just emerged from stealth mode, is building a prototype of a humanoid robot that the company says will eventually be able to walk, climb stairs, open doors, use tools and lift boxes — perhaps even make dinner.

• The company is the brainchild of Brett Adcock, a tech entrepreneur who previously founded Archer Aviation (a "flying taxi" maker that went public) and Vettery (an online hiring marketplace that he and a partner sold for $100 million).
• He's assembled an all-star team of 40, including leading roboticists from Boston Dynamics and Tesla.
• They've moved into a 30,000-square-foot facility in Sunnyvale, California, where they plan to set up a mock warehouse to test their prototype.
• "We just got done in December with our full-scale humanoid," Adcock tells Axios. "We'll be walking that in the next 30 days."

Where it stands: The prototype — called Figure 01 — stands about 5'6" and weighs 130 pounds.

• It'll be fully electric, run for five hours on a charge and is intended for warehouse use.
• "We think we can get into commercial operation within a few years," Adcock tells Axios. "We should be able to do most jobs — physical labor jobs that humans don't want to do."

Yes, but: Humanoid robots are staggeringly difficult to build and engineer to perform reliably.

• There are a host of design challenges, from simple balance to replicating human movements.
• "We need to be able to push it and have it not fall down," says Adcock about the Figure 01. (Boston Dynamics has plenty of robot blooper videos on YouTube.)
• From there, programming a robot to move boxes in a warehouse is a lot easier than, say, engineering it to cook a meal.

What they're saying: "We face high risk and extremely low chances of success," Adcock wrote in a mission statement.

• But he exuded optimism in an interview: "This stuff just wasn't possible 10 years ago — I think it's possible now."
• A decade ago, "you just didn’t have the energy or the power density to make this work."

Reality check: Engineering robots is expensive. Adcock says he is self-financing Figure: "I put in $10 million last year."  READ MORE...

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