Looks like China is going to cut us off because we are too stupid to mine, refine, produce, and manufacture key "Critical Infrastructure" and medicine here in the US.

https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/20...for-chips/

Quote:China has implemented export limits on two metals utilized in the manufacturing of computer chips and other valuable technological devices, according to an announcement by the country’s Ministry of Commerce on Monday.


The export restrictions on gallium, germanium and their corresponding chemical compounds will officially take effect at the beginning of August, according to the announcement.  The controls may increase expenses for hardware producers and exacerbate geopolitical tensions surrounding the competition for groundbreaking computing technology, according to Bloomberg.

In addition to computer chips, manufacturers use gallium and germanium for a vast array of devices including solar panels, lasers and night vision goggles, according to Bloomberg. China is the primary producer of these metals based on its portion of worldwide mining and exporters will require a license to export them, according to the announcement.

The U.S. also relies on China for medical supply chains and the CEO of U.S. defense contractor Raytheon technologies told the Financial Times it would be impossible to break all ties with China.
President Joe Biden’s administration is weighing limits on U.S. exports of artificial intelligence chips to China, The Wall Street Journal reported. Similarly, they would require exporters to have a license.
This move would follow measures the Biden administration implemented in October to curb U.S. chip sales to China that could  benefit the Chinese military, according to the WSJ.

The China Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP), the country’s primary nuclear weapons research institute, obtained American chips despite the export restrictions, the WSJ reported in January. CAEP has purchased the technology at least 12 times over the past two and a half years.

Appears Army standards no longer exist. I saw this story and my jaw dropped. 

Obviously Obese, In a role that requires a TS/SBI clearance and there is no way that could be achieved with the mental health issues talked about. Neck is way to small to even think about passing a tape test. I would highly doubt that they could pass a PT test. Hell, I would drop a K to bet they could not pass a PT test.

This is today's Army? 

I would be pissed if I were one of those who got chaptered for being a weight lifter for not passing weight / tape test.

https://www.army.mil/article/267818/livi...diers_life

I found myself the guest of the Saudi Kings Khalid and Fahd back in '82. I got to see what the Before People were able to create (at their expense) in Egypt. Later, I got myself a job that came with paid vacations to anywhere and traveled extensively in Central and South America for as much as a month at a time. I maybe regret not being formally trained in Archeology, but if I had, maybe my mind wouldn't have been so open to the things I was seeing with my own eyes.

I'd tell you the Pyramids are just shocking to see the first time. When you look at the Sphinx, there's no doubt some bastard ruined what it had been to have his tiny little head carved onto it. But, it's the other 'attractions' there that are the most fascinating. There's so much more going on there.

If someone asks, "Who do you think built that?" My answer most always comes back, "People who could."

We want to believe people could do it again, but we can't. I don't think we've achieved as much during this cycle of civilization as the last one (or the ones before) were able to come up with.

I remember reading once that if almost every human on the planet died tonight ... in about a thousand years ... if another group of humans came together and organized, they wouldn't be able to see what we've managed to do in 'our time'. That the erosion would leave behind so little, the only things that would indicate an advanced society had existed before them would be radioactive piles that don't naturally occur.

So what if ... the demises of mankind are not strictly based on climatological change (ice ages or meteor strikes or solar phenomena)? What if we share this planet with a more advanced intelligent life? And, what if that intelligence periodically wipes us out, as we become a threat to it?

I started to put this in the "Tucker is no Longer at Fox" but this is one of the harder hitting discussions on vaccines, government, and the hit pieces that have come out on JFK Jr. along with wire taps by NSA and others in this pitiful excuse for the land of the free home of the roll over for your master. He also covers some of the UFO stuff and traumatic brain injury by some of our service members who have had a close encounter with a UFO. Of course the government does not want to acknowledge the event even happened.

I am watching part one and thought others might enjoy a story about an invasion of the bug people. It starts slow for the ubiquitous character development but comes to a head in the last 10 minutes of Part 1... Now off to view part 2

Shitty Blue states want your wood stoves and forced air furnaces and they are suing the EPA to make standards "stricter". 

Will they make you a felon with your contraband wood stove?

https://ktvz.com/news/ap-oregon-northwes...ng-stoves/

Quote:Attorneys general from 10 states plan to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, saying its failure to review and ensure emissions standards for residential wood-burning stoves has allowed the continued sale of appliances that could worsen pollution.


That means programs that encourage people to trade in older stoves and other wood-burning appliances, such as forced-air furnaces, haven’t necessarily improved air quality, the states say.
“If newer wood heaters do not meet cleaner standards, then programs to change out old wood heaters may provide little health benefits at significant public cost,” the states wrote Thursday in a 60-day notice of intent to sue.

The states involved are Alaska, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington, as well as the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency.
They allege that the EPA’s current standards aren’t good enough and that even if they were, the agency’s testing and certification program is so ineffective that it has failed to ensure those standards.

The states allege that the EPA’s current standards must be reviewed and that its testing and certification program is so ineffective, it has failed to ensure the existing standards.

The EPA’s Office of Inspector General, in a report released in February, found the EPA’s 2015 performance standards for residential wood heaters was flawed and said the agency has “approved methods that lack clarity and allow too much flexibility.”

“As a result, certification tests may not be accurate, do not reflect real-world conditions, and may result in some wood heaters being certified for sale that emit too much particulate-matter pollution,” the report said.

I've been on YubNub Social since it was recommended on the old Rouge Nation 3 board and it has been buggy as hell for me from day one. There is little content I like and many of the basic features don't work. I do like the format and it was cool getting in on the ground floor, but it really does suck IMO.

Now, I was asked in YubNub messenger by Clouds and Wind if I was one of the members that came from Rouge Nation and we conversed a bit about things going on here. He or she didn't have much of an opinion of Rouge Nation so I kind of told him/her how much I thought it sucked on Yubnub. How they were the last network I'd go to, even after Facebook.

I tried to say it as nicely as possible, but you don't go disrespecting the Rouges when you're on such a shitty platform it makes Facebook seem great. I'll go to Gab long before I bother with YubNub anymore. I was going to try to end my membership somehow, but it's too buggy to do much of anything much less try to quit.

I like it here along with The Patriot Hangout on Tapatalk as well as TOS, except TOS is hanging by a thread for me lately.

So have any of the Rouges continued on YubNub? I'd like to hear some bitching if possible.

ETA:I do like Hans Schultz, he's a good guy.

Mainly posting this here so I can reference later as sometimes it is very difficult to find statistics and articles again months later.

This is a graphical and mathematical analysis of the "AM Hours" where suddenly "strange irregularities happened" such as Vote total additions of 24 to 1 Biden/Trump suddenly added to the tally in the dead of the night.


24 to 1.... I wonder what the polling on that area looked like "before" the so called vote... LOL

https://votepatternanalysis.substack.com...alies-2020

Quote:Executive Summary


In the early hours of November 4th, 2020, Democratic candidate Joe Biden received several major “vote spikes” that substantially — and decisively — improved his electoral position in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Georgia. Much skepticism and uncertainty surrounds these “vote spikes.” Critics point to suspicious vote counting practices, extreme differences between the two major candidates’ vote counts, and the timing of the vote updates, among other factors, to cast doubt on the legitimacy of some of these spikes. While data analysis cannot on its own demonstrate fraud or systemic issues, it can point us to statistically anomalous cases that invite further scrutiny. 

This is one such case: Our analysis finds that a few key vote updates in competitive states were unusually large in size and had an unusually high Biden-to-Trump ratio. We demonstrate the results differ enough from expected results to be cause for concern.

With this report, we rely only on publicly available data from the New York Times to identify and analyze statistical anomalies in key states. Looking at 8,954 individual vote updates (differences in vote totals for each candidate between successive changes to the running vote totals, colloquially also referred to as “dumps” or “batches”), we discover a remarkably consistent mathematical property: there is a clear inverse relationship between difference in candidates’ vote counts and and the ratio of the vote counts. (In other words, it's not surprising to see vote updates with large margins, and it's not surprising to see vote updates with very large ratios of support between the candidates, but it is surprising to see vote updates which are both). 

The significance of this property will be further explained in later sections of this report. Nearly every vote update, across states of all sizes and political leanings follow this statistical pattern. A very small number, however, are especially aberrant. Of the seven vote updates which follow the pattern the least, four individual vote updates — two in Michigan, one in Wisconsin, and one in Georgia — were particularly anomalous and influential with respect to this property and all occurred within the same five hour window.

Less than 50 years ago most could not imagine a world with the internet. Today most can't imagine a world without it. But the internet is dying.

I strongly encourage parents to be very careful in assisting their children in choosing their future careers because many careers have no future. Computers have been around for much longer than many people realize, and the future they have planned, does not include us useless eaters.

We need to think outside of self. It is clear that they see us as parasites to the planet. They believe the planet will only survive if there are less of us. A lot less of us. So who will be the chosen of TPTB?

I have never used ChatGPT but it is becoming all the rage among the masses and among big businesses, now it is projected that by next year the internet will no longer be needed to operate ChatGPT.

What else will be obsolete?

This is just one of those family drama stories that make your head spin..... Are You Serious???


https://www.mlive.com/news/2023/06/ask-a...-dave.html

Quote:[b]Dear Amy: [/b]Four months before my daughter’s wedding, she told me that her uncle (my brother, “Dave”) would make her feel unsafe if he was a guest. She asked me not to invite him.

My daughter is very politically progressive, as are many of her friends, and although she and Dave have always had a good relationship (I thought), he is a conservative voter and has supported candidates we all abhor.

Dave has always been very nice, so my daughter’s request surprised me.

I wrote Dave a very nice note, telling him that we would not be comfortable with him at the wedding and that he would not be invited.

Dave did not respond and did not attend.

Afterward, I sent him a card and pictures from the wedding, all in an effort to make him feel like he was not being totally left out.

I have not heard from Dave since then. When my siblings found out what I had done they were angry with me.

That is just one problem.

Another problem is that Dave has not sent my daughter and son-in-law a wedding gift.

In the past, Dave has given family members wedding checks in excess of $1,000.

She says she was counting on receiving the same type of gift.

My husband says I should drop it – but I can’t. Dave’s behavior is upsetting and embarrassing to me.

How can I get my brother to recognize and change his petty behavior?

Please don’t tell me that I’m the one who started this by not inviting my brother to the wedding. After all, he’s a grown man, while my daughter is young and just starting out.

– Angry in Philadelphia

[b]Dear Angry:[/b] Let’s recap: Your delicate daughter is too frightened to be near a conservative voter to allow her uncle “Dave” to attend her wedding.

She then asks you to do her dirty work for her, and (of course) you do!

Fine – so far, we have only a bride’s prerogative to create her own guest list, and her mother’s choice to protect her from any consequences, which is your prerogative.

You then rub the excluded guest’s nose in this wedding by sending him photos of the event to which he has pointedly not been invited.

But it’s your second “problem” which I believe will enter the Bridezilla Hall of Infamy.

In short: Brides who are too afraid of family members to invite them to a family wedding don’t then get the pleasure of receiving their money.

You seem almost as afraid of your daughter as she is of your brother, but I hope you’ll find a way to courageously tell her that the Bank of Uncle Dave is closed, at least to your branch of the family.

So far, your silent brother is the only family member who is behaving appropriately. He’s steering clear, which is exactly what you have asked him to do.