random 3am title (who cares?)

A magazine article starts with this term.

 It's a word.

It shows the sad state of political affairs, when one side (the solippy people) talk like that, endlessly, and the other side goes for the gut.🤠

Are we juryrigged (jerry-rigged?) enough yet for them? https://www.npr.org/2025/09/20/nx-s1-5545948/what-does-the-cdc-panel-vote-on-childhood-vaccine-changes-mean
I can't spell. I don't have persuasive videos that try to hypnotize you into belief.
They look better.

(random link)

sad puppies and cowboy hats (hats, anyway)

IDK. (But I've got lotsa random thoughts)
Battle hymn.
Ya know, every time I try to make a list or refer to something,
the AI in my head goes,
"That's been Banned" 
"That's forbidden"
"You can't say that"
Jury-jerry-weaponization whatever.

A random 3AM link 

Another link (IDK, it was there so I clicked on it)

https://www.npr.org/2022/05/16/1099034094/what-is-the-great-replacement-theory

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/08/15/racist-buffalo-shooting-payton-gendron/85674941007/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Tucson_shooting

Can I interrupt this train to talk about "Pink Salt"??
It's a trendy diet ingredient inside sexy videos.
Pink salt has trace amounts of whatever that, in order to do much good,
You'd have to eat too much salt to collect the precious traces....
Stuff can be true but bloviated all out of proportion....but nevermind, please let the train continue.

This article, long buried, came up on a search, not walled at all.
I doubt people read it much.

Catch-up reading (it's old but has a lot of inside stuff)

"When Ashli Babbit was killed by Capitol Hill police during the January 6 attack, she was promoted as a martyr, with even the former US president Donald Trump calling her parents. “Women make better martyrs in the ‘alt-right’,” Jeppesen said about Babbit’s lingering effect."

Actually this article is more updated, I guess.

Yeahbutt...

People LIKE bloviated speeches, and hats.
And flags, gotta have flags.

convoy

I have no politically correct words.
I did, but I erased them.
oooooooo

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I never really noticed before,

 how I buy food from AMazon.
I just figured that they were like any other market delivering stuff.

Well, I was totally wrong.

• They have "Prime" food,
• "Fresh" food.
• and "Whole" foods.

Ordering from one is fine, but when you order from another, it gets complicated.
(For example, "Prime" then "Fresh".)

But this could change in a week; I'm only writing what happened to me.

This tiny journal entry is not done.
They either haven't charged me yet, or, something.

I figured (total guessing) that I should not order from different food departments.

Well, for one thing, They start different "carts" for the order.

So I chose "Prime" and hoped that it was the right department to choose.

wedding caterers use less personnel.

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Regardless of the formula used by USG to calculate COLA increase for social security,

and it's a complicated formula....

Makes me want to go look it up 

2.8

Anyway, my insurance-plan was letting me bask in the glory of $14 extra dollars per month.

No More! 

The $14 dollar gravy-train stops next year.

OTC benefits do not roll over to another benefit-period.
Trips to the doctor have been reduced from 20 to 2.

(They're kidding, right?)

10 Trips vs 1 trip, per year.

There are a huge amount of bombastic commercials upcoming, trying to get me to change.

But all the commercials are vague and extremely pedantic, and no, I don't have "Dual" whatever.

 When it's real serious and time to make a decision, better to call the paid insurance broker who refers you to whatever. 
Unless you really enjoy reading miles of fine print.

"Fine Print"

If you, uh, can trundle yourself across town(s) to see specialists,
You are UNqualified for most discounted plans and people that come to (eg) change lightbulbs.

The plans are there, in gigantic print, but unless the insurance broker has a clue, you might pick the wrong plan, get hauled before a judge, get stuck in a home.....

My current plan "ax² + bx + c = 0 " is ok. 
A competitor offers cheaper drugs but what else is in their fine print, I wouldn't know.

Bloggily-speaking....A doctor I saw briefly didn't have nice things to say about one insurance company I belonged to, but (damn) they seemed cheaper and had WAY more discounted stuff.
I think.

Maybe.
Or I just keep choosing the wrong plans
There's a slick sales page,,,,

If x is $10,000, what is Y (where Y is 0 to X*20%)?

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Are you smarter than an immigrant?

mmmm, no

Twilight-Zone, Google News

000000000000000000

They sent a posse to examine the swamp. No, that's no allegory.

And I've been told, the insurance approved a settlement.
Another posse was sent, "banishers of swamps"(inc) And they set up many expensive NOISY

machines, all drawing precious electricity,
 which someone decided months ago that I should pay for.

Yeahbutt(?)
Shouldn't the swamp-busters cover the electricity bill, shouldn't the insurance??
And the plumber drilling, with much power?
This isn't over.
The rug wets itself every couple days. I await the next swampy disaster.
The insurance covers the posses and the plumber and the head honcho, but not the rent or the 
Electricity bill.

So I write, nervously and with distractions, about trivia, and these entries might look more disjointed, than usual.

Do you think, with all this commotion, someone will get it into their head to raise the rent?
To cover supply chains, the rotting front door, Obamacare, and Tariffs?

You (anyone) might explain a complicated thing by bringing up a less complicated thing to compare it to.
Here: A less complicated thing, "Risk Premium"

alternatives of similar risk (o....k ?)
Risk Premium
The rent
Shit like what happened affects the rent (omg)

9:20AM

CLUNK!!

oshit

Actually, I want to ponder living in very stark ("stark," right?) conditions while they "remodel" the place.
My uncle went through this exact thing.
Reassuring words being said, they threw out absolutely everything in his hovel.
payChecks, gold-coins, receipts.

Well I have no coins (otg)

but I doubt I'll have access to my computer which might be dumpster-food soon.

I'll (prolly) be in some motel (or would it be a "Home"?)

OMG.

I've gotten very used to climbing into my 24"-high bed.
I've researched heights of beds...18" might be all right.
I have to choose real quick, what I can keep and what they will throw away.

USB?

 This could be a pictorial that would take a very long time to set up, but no one reads this stuff 
(no one but the snarky)

I'll abbreviate

a new cable to replace one that is loyal and true but is literally falling apart.

new cable, connected to my phone

An old cable I had laying around to write this

The longer part:
I already knew that this cable was in the slow class, and I didn't care.
I did NOT know it wouldn't work at ALL with the phone, except as a charging cable.

A link (I'm not contradicting anyone, out-loud anyway, but it seems to me that pinouts of phones and cables are important. "Charging" cables must be missing a wire to a pin, or deliberately miswiring that wire over to power?)

according to the AI summary of reddit

So (hoary advice from the elderly) buy the highest power/speed, unless you reeeelly know what you're doing.

As a general-purpose USB cable, this new one totally sucks.
As an Xbox cable, it works great, so far.
The old cable-emeritus is there to help when needed.
(Let us bid a fond farewell....)

I just browsed usb compatibility, wondering if maybe the new cable had some futuristic design.

No, the official usb 4 (for example only) is compatible all the way back to USB 2

(it says.)

*I* think people tweak the damn wiring. 

And, if they have a long list of stuff their cable is compatible with, walk away.

My cable must not be a generic 3.xvx (3.0, 3.1 gen 1 or 2)

But I really wouldn't know; I glossed over their long list.

My new cable is "480mbps" so it isn't really usb3-anything.
It's a charging cable. Which is maybe OK, 

but I haven't learned to read between lines of USB cables.

In fact, if it didn't look so slim and trim and drop-proof, I'd send it back.
The beefy cables I already have, look down on it.

One reviewer claims it will break easily.
I'll try to be careful.
OTOH it's WAY overpriced (geez)

(insert "sheepish" emoji here)

Greedy bastards inventing different ways to make USB-shaped connectors incompatible.

What was it, "micro-usb," "Lightning," "USB-C" (but noooo, they had to tweek usb C, see above)

So you grab a suitcase of usb cables to take on a damn trip...

non-standard USB C must be the cause of many strokes, hmmm

AI

 

Nvidia "Thor" train of thought

So Intel and AMD flail in the Pit of despair (I've heard)
because they didn't build an AI golden-cow.
Apple apparently rose above all this; the press canonizes them as the best ever.
But some thoughts are just thoughts...if you don't own stock, if you hang around Best-Buy in the withering heat /freezing rain, life is pointless and you're a tool (of the stockholding overlords)
This needs editing ("overlords?")

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk%27s_Tesla_Roadster

AI says that the 1964 movie "Failsafe" had nothing to do with AI, even though the movie warned us against computers that think too fast for us to keep up.
It's part of the train.
COnsider (just for a second)

That Nvidia "Thor" needs to be cooled.
What if it was too hot?

Would it nuke NY?

"Checks and Balances"? ROFL they were fired.
Since I was a teeny kid and had "Danny Dunn" books to read, I knew/know computers can fail spectacularly if they're too hot.

This train could go, oh, so many ways.

We're the AI

Fallout 3, "Replicated Man" quest. I wouldn't mention the bombastic little quest but it fits into the whole AI zeitgeist. 

Imagine a back-seat driver for your life, "It's time for your pill"

"Don't you think it needs a little salt?"
and the ever popular "You spelled that wrong! Here, let me rephrase"

I was the tool for a corporation, trying to better myself.
In point of fact, 

they saw my work as profitable and wanted to keep me there, 

working like some AI robot, forever.
A science-tech who needed to perform simple commands on our mainframe,

needed to do it himself and got highly pissed when I did it for him!!

In other words....AI needs tact (more tact than I ever had, apparently)

"Press the E key...Oh, here, let me do it"
He's prolly a CEO now

Nag or (disembodied pissant ruler) unpaid caretaker?
Please see "Twilight zone" series, about robot abuse.
O. Let's have an AI debate!! 
"what is truth?" could be the topic

Profligate owners of slave-driving AI are an imminent reality.

Snotty representatives will become snotty AI.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/19/meta-cto-explains-why-the-smart-glasses-demos-failed-at-meta-connect-and-it-wasnt-the-wi-fi/ They don't explain what those AI glasses do, exactly, 
but they failed bigtime. 

For whatever explainable reason.

Lucky they were only glasses, not spaceships at war.

(eg, "wifi vs wifi" on a very crowded battlefield with an overworked AI server)

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It's a hoary meme, look it up

(what) mean

 I'm playing this game (Fallout) where the outcasts (that's their name) are super mean.

And the scientists are snotty.

"Stay away from me, mutt"|
"Keep your hands to yourself"
while demanding help.

""Emailed-receipts are fine"

Fucket, you wouldn't unnerstand.
"Get out of my country" says the lady on TV.

But the game has nice people too.
One guy sits there for the whole gargantuan game, asking for water.
The tied-up people like it when you kill their captors and release them
(No supply-offerings necessary, ma'am) 
And a lady keeps bringing me gifts next to my hovel in the metal-ghetto (I fixed her bomb)

I don't know the underlying message here....99.9% mean, with nice.

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And after napping through a hot afternoon, dreaming of game-puzzles, I looked outside to see leaves moving very slightly on the plants.
"Someone must know why air can be so gentle at low speed, so destructive at high speed," I thought.
Not a philosophical discussion, not showing off at mathematics, just a plain reason.

No.

Air is a "gas" and it can be transparent just sitting there, but blow down houses when it really moves.

Why?

This subject brings up topics that are probably related but too annoying to learn about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao_-OjDQwfk&t=85s
Apparently (before I completely forget) "pressure" and "Heat" (andthesunandthewaterandgradients)

yeahbutt

what makes the leaves move so gently or topples trees?

You can stop reading now; I'm note-taking.

Yeah, well, I tried.
It must be "God"

You can talk around and around with computers, but the exact answer is not forthcoming.

At this point (right this second), I do not CARE about the weather and air pressure and the sun and water.

A guy needs a atmosphere-dictionary to get through to these people.
The word "resistance" looks promising, if you can avoid all the math.

Speed and resistance must be related.
I'm afraid to ask.

"vortices," whutever

A molecule or three of air are weak and hit up against a leaf and are turned away.

But many thousands of molecules travelling in gangs (armies?) hitting the poor leaf 

would blow the leaf away and possibly even damage the tree.
There.

Can you explain it like that?

Unfortunately they start bombasting about Bernoulli and airplanes.
Air gets denser (more dense?) when pushed (doesn't it?)
(gawd)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q0UTFq-o-o (The first 10 or 15 seconds) my "MAGA" train of thought for the day

(I was wrong, "OOGA SHAKA" sounds nothing like "MAGA"