China Builds Warships

If there’s an arms race at sea, China currently is winning.

The U.S. Defense Department’s own numbers support that view. It estimates China has around 340 warships, while the U.S. number is below 300.

On top of that, the Defense Department warns that China is building new ships faster than the U.S. is.

Beijing could have 400 warships by 2025, an increase of 60. But the U.S. may need more than 20 years to build 50 more ships.

In other words, according to CNN, the Chinese can build three warships in the time it takes the U.S. to build one.

If that’s not enough, the Global Firepower website says Russia and North Korea also have stronger Navy fleets than the U.S.

For the West to keep up with China, military experts say Japan and South Korea may have to increase production.

Japan’s warships currently “are among the world’s best,” former U.S. Pacific Command operations director Carl Schuster told Britain’s Daily Star.

South Korea reportedly has a destroyer that possesses more firepower than its Chinese counterpart.

But the U.S. cannot buy Asian warships. It’s against federal law. Warship construction in other countries for the U.S. Navy also is banned.  READ MORE...

Making Omelets

 

USA is Divided Big Time

This theme of division has been on my mind a long time, ever since it began to manifest itself in 2016 with the election of Donald Trump.  Six years later, the Dems are still trying to ruin Trump's life and his chances for election...  except in 2024, the Dems have mainstream media, DOJ, FBI, and several businesses on their side.

Unfortunately, this is pisses off a lot of parents who are opposed to WOKE, opposed to CRT being taught in schools, and opposed to Trans females competing in female sports.

In addition to this political division of Dems and the GOP, the USA is divided:

• Racially
• By Gender
• By Age
• By Education
• By Religious Beliefs
• By Wealth
• By Illegal Immigration
• By Having a Strong Military
• By Having a Large National Debt

The only way that division is good for a country is when they enemies take advantage of their division.  The economy in the USA is fragile since it no longer is supported by petroleum crude oil.  This weakness will be exploited by China and if China does what it is threatening, the USA will not longer be a global superpower economically in a couple of years.

It is true that the USA has the largest stockpile of nuclear weapons and can completely destroy the world if it wants to.  But, do you think this is what the DEMS really want with all their social programs and concerns about the climate?

This Land is Our Land

 

House Illegal Immigrants in Private Homes

New York City Mayor Eric Adams proposed his vision to house illegal immigrants in "faith-based locales" and private residences on Monday.

"There are residents who are suffering right now because of economic challenges," Adams, a Democrat, said. "They have spare rooms. They have locales, and if we can find a way to get over the 30-day rule and other rules that government has in place, we can take their $4.2 billion, $4.3 [billion]. It may be now that we potentially have to spend."

Adams's call to action comes as New York City battles a rise in illegal immigrants flooding the city.

The city has helped support at least 72,000 immigrants, and over 46,000 still remain under the care of the city, according to a statement from the mayor's office.   READ MORE...

Before the Internet

 

Saudi Arabia

 

ChatGPT Taking Jobs

Tech jobs (Coders, computer programmers, software engineers, data analysts)

Coding and computer programming are in-demand skills, but it's possible that ChatGPT and similar AI tools may fill in some of the gaps in the near future.

Tech jobs such as software developers, web developers, computer programmers, coders, and data scientists are "pretty amenable" to AI technologies "displacing more of their work," Madgavkar said.

That's because AI like ChatGPT is good at crunching numbers with relative accuracy.

In fact, advanced technologies like ChatGPT could produce code faster than humans, which means that work can be completed with fewer employees, Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute who has researched AI's impact on the American workforce, told Insider.

"What took a team of software developers might only take some of them," he added.

Tech companies like ChatGPT maker's OpenAI are already considering replacing software engineers with AI.

Still, Oded Netzer, a Columbia Business School professor, thinks that AI will help coders rather than replace them.

"In terms of jobs, I think it's primarily an enhancer than full replacement of jobs," Netzer told CBS MoneyWatch. "Coding and programming is a good example of that. It actually can write code quite well."  READ MORE...

Bike Rider

 

The Trans Community Controls

Blacks in America comprised 12% of the population and the Trans Community is probably only 1% and yet they are exercising more control than the blacks over the rest of society.  While they may be realizing short term gains, the long term implication is that HALF OF THIS COUNTRY is going to turn against them to the point that the only thing left to feel is HATE...

There was a news story the other day about a high school senior could not walk across the stage to receive his diploma because he said MALES ARE MALES AND FEMALES ARE FEMALES...  The summer job that he had already been hired for was rescinded because of his comment as well.  That boy will grow up with HATRED FOR THE TRANS COMMUNITY and this experience will never be forgotten.

Bud Light has already lost a lot of sales because of the advertisement they ran with a trans female...  Males and females alike resent all this focus on the trans community and the backlash will be nothing less dramatic.

Trans females are getting into female sports and winning all the competitions...  sooner or later females will simply stop competing and it becomes pointless and they lose athletic scholarships to college.  Female sports will become full of trans females competing against each other and who wants to attend a competition like that?

BUT...  since the USA has changed to open the door for these trans females, it will be a while before the actually see the damage they have done.  They will never admit that they were wrong, but life will eventually go back to the way it was...  however, there will be a lot of pain on both side before that happens.
 

Two Waterfalls

 

Restrictions on Solar

The Texas legislature is currently considering a bill to heavily restrict the generation of wind and solar energy, University of Texas at Austin research scientist Joshua D. Rhodes revealed in a tweet.

The bill in question is Texas SB 624, co-sponsored by Senators Lois Kolkhorst, Mayes Middleton, and Bryan Hughes. It establishes new permit requirements for affordable “renewable energy” — not for dirty energy sources, such as coal. If passed, it would take effect this September.

According to the latest version of the bill (as of late May), any Texas resident with a large solar or wind system who wants to connect to the grid would need a permit. The lengthy permitting process requires a public meeting to allow comments, multiple surveys and assessments, and a website with information about the project.

SB 624 also requires that wind turbines be placed a whole 3,000 feet — more than half a mile — away from the property line, except with the permission of neighboring property owners.

“Texas #SB624 would turn all of Texas into an HOA where your neighbors are now going to be able to tell you what you can and can’t do on your own property,” tweeted Rhodes.

As it’s currently written, the bill applies to facilities with a capacity of 10 megawatts or higher to connect “with a transmission facility.” That wouldn’t include small residential systems, which are usually between one and four kilowatts (0.001 to 0.004 megawatts), according to Yes Energy Solutions.  READ MORE...

Castaway

 

BUC-EE'S

 

Classic Sunday Morning Newspaper Cartoons

 

Existence - Reality - Truth

"I think therefore I am..."  Rene Descartes 

"The body cannot live without the mind..."   Morpheus, The Matrix

Therein lies our problem...  the mind...  the reality that the mind thinks it sees, may not be the reality that is.  And, how then do we disprove that concept or for that matter, prove it?  We cannot.

However, death may finally bring us to the authentic reality that we have never seen before.

On the other side of the coin, this reality in which we live, could be the authentic reality after all; but, if it is our authentic reality, it seems pointless because we only live 80-100 years.  The authentic reality (in the present state) lives forever.

I say this because there is no evidence to suggest that the our past lives very long at all, nor is there any evidence indicating that our future is being created before we get there.  That is to say, it our future instantaneous or is it being lived out 12 hours ahead, 24 hours ahead, or a lifetime ahead?  That last thought will boggle your mind.

There is a seamless transition between the present and the future.  It happens so quick that we have no way of realizing the transition has taken place from one nanosecond to the next.

That is to say, assuming this is the AUTHENTIC REALITY in which we are living...  not a reality of The Matrix.  And, according to Descartes, the fact that you think at all, means that you exist.

The fact that we exist means that we have a creator...  or a creator of sorts.  That is to say, what if, we were created by an ALIEN RACE?  That Alien Race would then be our GOD.  So, the fact that there is a God, in TRUE!!!  It is just not the God that we were expecting...  or, lead to believe that we should be expecting.

Now that would be a very interesting TRUTH...

Sunday Pic

 

Human Life on Earth Has Passed 7 of 9 Thresholds

Back in 2009, a large group of scientists identified nine limits that humans should not cross if they want the earth to remain hospitable to civilization. These included, among others, the availability of fresh water, the conservation of natural areas, pollution levels, the ozone layer and, of course, climate change. 

Now, a new report just published in the journal Nature quantifies – for the first time – the thresholds for each of these problems that should not be exceeded, in order for the earth’s system to be safe and just, not only for humans today, but for future generations. However, seven of these thresholds have already been crossed in all or in large swaths of the planet. 

The apocalyptic picture is softened by the fact that the growing hole in the tropospheric ozone layer has fallen from the list: humanity was able to solve the problem in the nick of time.


The 2009 report identified the limits required for the global ecosystem to be sustainable and secure. It was written that, if these limits were to be greatly surpassed, a series of catastrophic changes would follow. 

But since then, security has been joined by another idea: that the earth’s system will not be secure so long as it is also not fair. The latest report includes this consideration, quantifying the notion of justice between humans, the rest of living beings, as well as future generations.  READ MORE...

Peace of Mind

 

Life's Principles