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Looking at our wonderful Daily Mail, and this headline really says it all. "Looters take to Venezuela's streets as blackout enters its FIFTH day killing 15 kidney patients as under-pressure president Maduro claims the power cut was caused by an 'imperialist' electromagnetic attack from the US" dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6793585/Venezuelans-turn-looting-Caracas-fourth-day-power-outages.html

Very poor leadership ability by Crazed & corrupt Nick Maduro (I don't call him the President), and others in the Food Starved Venezuela regime, who are not able to get their workers to turn the electric on.

Puerto Rico, they had a big Black Out there, right? And then, so many hurricanes came through, that turned into a whole problem in itself (big worry for folks like myself that own property in the Caribbean). But, what happened after was so different. Because Puerto Rico is not Socialist. They hired Whitefish Energy. From beautiful Whitefish Montana -- home of my former Secretary, Ryan Z. And home of Richard Spencer. Big fan of mine, I'm not such a big fan of him. Can we call that one a coincidence? Doesn't matter, they got the job done. Very quickly, for very little money. Because of me. It's called leadership. Something Nick Maduro has none of. ZERO. And his country is suffering, very badly, because of it. Not just the Black Out, it's many things. Somebody tried to whack the guy with a Drone. Which you didn't hear about on Soylent News -- censored, or Rejected story. They failed very badly.

But, we're not going to fail. We're sending "aid." I hired Elliot Abrams. Very smart, and famous guy. He knows all about sending "aid" from when he worked for Ronnie Reagan. And he also worked for Baby Bush, he was in charge of spreading "democracy." He spread it to Iraq, he did so much of the planning for the Iraq War & Invasion. He tried to spread it to Venezuela, he got President Chavez (RIP!!) out of office for a couple of days. That one was a failure, we're not going to fail again. Because Donald J. Trump is running the show now!!!!

Comma.ai founder George Hotz wants to free humanity from the AI simulation

What keeps George Hotz, the enigmatic hacker and founder of self-driving startup Comma.ai, up at night is not whether his autonomous car company will be successful or what other entrepreneurial venture he might embark on next. No, instead, Hotz says he’s tortured by the possibility that all of us are in an advanced simulation observed by either an omnipotent extraterrestrial or supernatural being, or an artificial intelligence far beyond the realm of human conception and understanding.

“There’s no evidence this is not true,” an animated Hotz told a crowd at his SXSW talk on Friday, aptly titled “Jailbrealing the Simulation” and billed on the festival’s website as an exploration of whether breaking out of a simulated universe means we can “meet God” and kill him. “It’s easy to imagine things that are so much smarter than you and they could build a cage you wouldn’t even recognize.”

[...] It’s hard to know seriously to take Hotz sometimes; he strikes me as someone who often says something to get a reaction or to verbalize his inner monologue as a way of making sense of it. And he said as much onstage. “Do I actually believe it? Some days yes,” he said. “Sometimes I don’t know how I feel about something until I say it out loud.”

The crowd didn’t much care either way. During the Q&A, an audience member asked Hotz if he would consider partnering with transhumanists — people who believe in humanity’s eventual evolution by way of merging the body and mind with robotics and AI — to found his church. Hotz was rather ambivalent to the idea; perhaps he didn’t think people would take him at his word. But if he does a start a church, the sermon he gave at SXSW yesterday was delivered to a room of would-be believers.

Smoke weed everyday.

Related: George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One

I doubt there is anyone at Soylent who doesn't purchase anything online. I do, pretty regularly, because I can find things that aren't available in my local area. Things that might be available, I can find for a fraction of the price online. So, I shop online.

Tracking packages is usually pretty straightforward. The vendor sends you a tracking number, which is often a live link to the carrier's tracking site. If it isn't a live link, well, we probably all recognize a USPS, UPS, or Fedex number, so we go to the appropriate tracking site, and copy/paste the number in. Unless the shipper used not-so-Smartpost, we generally know within a day when our package will arrive.

But, overseas shipping? That isn't so very straightforward. Over time, I've learned to recognize some of those numbers, but new ones pop out of nowhere. How do you keep up with all of them?

You no longer have to keep up with all of them. Or, any of them, if you don't want to.

http://parcelsapp.com/en/tracking/SYBAA52472888

Guy named Pavel Tisunov has done all the work, and created a web page, as well as apps for Android and iPhone to track almost everything, it seems. The list of carriers tracked can be found http://parcelsapp.com/en/carriers

Those of you who are multilingual might be interested in his blog - http://parcelsapp.com/blog/

I wish I had found Pavel a couple years ago! It appears that his earliest blog posts were in April 2017. If I could read his entries, I might have a better idea how long he's been around.

Enjoy!

And, thank God for diversity, and for Russians, huh?

There seems to be a major controversy in Maryland right now. The gun grabbers are attempting to - well - to grab guns. I stumbled over the story on this site: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/03/daniel-zimmerman/maryland-gun-owners-will-not-comply-gun-grabbers-and-legislators-freak-out/

Admittedly, this is a biased site. I happen to agree with the aims of The Truth, but it is biased. So, I did a search for articles on the subject, "We will not comply". I found one "mainstream" media mention of it: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/ac-cn-wicomico-not-comply-20190226-story.html

I've scrolled three pages into my search results, and have not found another mainstream media story. I've found infowars, callmegav, conservativefiringline, rallyforourrights, a related story at investmentwatchblog, dcclothesline, unclesamsmisguidedchildren - in short, hit after hit after hit, page after page of hits. But, mainstream media isn't covering the story at all.

Let me change search terms, and see if MSM is even covering the vote on the bill - - -

Search term used, "Maryland HOUSE BILL 786" Results for MSM stories after scanning two pages of hits = ZERO Are they trying to pass this bill without any publicity at all? Keeping it hidden from voters? WTF?

Several small time news sources located inside of Maryland carry stories. I thought I found a hit at the Washington Post - but that was a false hit, on an entirely different subject.

Odd - if all the rest of MSM is refusing to cover a story, we might expect Fox to carry it. I don't even see a Foxnews hit.

Go ahead, do your own searches. If you can find liberal media stories on the house bill in general, let us know what search terms you used.

If you can find liberal media stories on the We Will Not Comply opposition to HOUSE BILL 786, please, PLEASE let us know how you found them.

It's this sort of apparent coverup that lends credence to the likes of infowars.

Folks, I'm making today a very special day. For the beautiful Boardroom Babes. For the Government Gals. The Housekeeping Honies. And the Family Females. The smart -- and the sexy.

By the way, women’s unemployment rate is down to 3.6%. It was 7.9% in January, 2011 before I took office. And we(me& House/Senate GOP) did Historic Tax Cut, you ladies have that extra money in your pockets, because of me. So go ahead and buy yourself something nice. You're welcome!!!

Lenovo Unveils ThinkStation P520 & P920 ‘AI Workstations’: Xeon Plus Quadro RTX 6000

Ubuntu Linux based systems shipping with 10 or 24 cores, 128 GB or 384 GB of RAM.

Maybe that will be the new minimum in 15 years.

R. Kelly

R. Kelly denies sexual abuse allegations in explosive interview

R. Kelly was "unhinged" in interview with Gayle King, columnist says (12m36s)

Gayle King talks about her explosive R. Kelly interview on CBSN (7m18s)

Full interview is apparently around 80 minutes and has not been released in its entirety yet. Even Oprah wants the full video.

Turmoil or manipulation?

Previously: R. Kelly Contracts Ligma
R. Kelly Exposes Himself

President Donald J. Trump participates in the first meeting of the American Workforce Policy Advisory Board! Watch the meeting here: 45.wh.gov/RtVRmD

VERY SPECIAL tweet from President Bolsonaro of Brazil. About what goes on at Carnival. I'll tell you, it's something no decent person should see -- especially not at work. But, I looked anyway. It's very sad. And we had a lot of those goings-on in New York City.

Especially in Times Square. When I was a boy, I would sneak out of the house. Hop on the Long Island Rail Road with my friend. And go to Times Square to watch movies. It was a tremendous place to be a kid in. But it turned into something horrible -- so filthy. If you've ever seen Midnight Cowboy or Taxi Driver, it was exactly like that. Until we cleaned it up, very successfully. Took a long time and Mayor Giuliani deserves a lot of the credit for that. And we have a Disney Store there now. Jair's working very hard, he's cleaning up Brazil. 🧼🚿 And I think we'll see Disney coming in Rio de Janeiro! pic.twitter.com/u0qbPu9sie

Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras: The most fun you'll have with a history lesson

Patricia Clarkson on leading the Mardi Gras group breaking with tradition

In New Orleans, The Fight Over Blackface Renews Scrutiny Of A Mardi Gras Tradition

Mobile mom says shoes thrown from Mardi Gras float sent her kid to the ER

Popeyes might be onto something with chicken-tender-cradlin’ Mardi Gras beads

Sounds like a great way to get grease all over your shirt on Fat Tuesday.