These tech giants might well be in league with each other and have a sinister agenda--surveillance, propaganda, digital currency, social credit score, and the sort.

I have an explanation: Manuchurian Candidate 2025 - The President. Elon convinced Trump to get a Neuralink device and he's controlling him via a Starlink connection. The plan is working. As for the Koch Brothers: When some of the biggest donors to conservative causes made explicit their electoral opposition to a second Trump term way back in February of 2023, it came as something of a shock to the Republican orbit. After all, the powerful network organized under the auspices of billionaire industrialist Charles Koch had officially remained neutral in Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns, a sign of how uncomfortable his allies were with a candidate whose positions were so far afoul from their own on so many issues. But by the time the network gathered at the start of 2023, their position on Trump was not really a point of discussion. The deadly Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, was finally a step too far. The chief of the network’s main political arm, Americans For Prosperity, told her patrons that they were ready to back an alternative Republican who showed promise of winning. The group ultimately plowed more than $32 million into former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, and another $10 million in broader anti-Trump efforts before throwing in the towel. The hopes of reclaiming the party from this gatecrasher were dashed and they had to live with Trump as their standard bearer. https://time.com/7018266/trump-republicans-koch-network-2024/

Thanks @pique !!

She also wrote this: https://www.smerconish.com/exclusive-content/living-to-serve-living-as-myself-a-transgender-service-members-perspective/

Butte is a really interesting place.

@Mark - how are you doing? Are you in Florida?

I too have been wondering what is going on with you at the office. Thanks for checking in. Glad you are sticking it out. Please keep us posted.

But gotta give credit when it's due!

The average person has no clue this is happening. Or what it could mean. We have tariffs that are certain to increase the price of food. We are losing/will lose agricultural workers either through deportation or because they won't go to work because they're afraid. And someone who wants to make a name for himself is ordering the release of water out of reservoirs so he can catch a soundbite. "See, I said I'd get water flowing to LA". Wonder what he'll say this summer if the farmers don't have water for crops. Can't wait to see who he blames for the results.

@Piano-Dad said in Tariffs (and other stuff), or hey @PianoDad: The latest bit of lunacy, courtesy of Piano*Son ... https://bsky.app/profile/dhfeldman.bsky.social/post/3lh36mewzps2r Once again, I'm speechless.

The SHOKZ OpenRun SE is on sale again in Costco. Now I am seeing it listed at $75 on Costco website.

I have trouble too, sometimes. So frustrating. I like that old Lithuanian saying.

@wtg said in "Make peace or die" deepfake: how Trump might try for a third term Anyone who thinks this isn't his intention is absolutely fooling themselves.

oh thanks for this!

wtg, no worries.

I need one for the local burro races in Colorado. Each runner has a donkey they he/she takes over a mountain pass and back. There are rocky, gravel passes, not the paved ones. The cheering crowd always uses the same cheer, "Get your *** over the pass!!!