Lately, the word “unprecedented” has been bantered about, concerning the legal problems of the former president. Now, after 234 years, you people want to consider allowing a potentially convicted felon to serve as president of the United States.
How about this. Let us restore the voting rights of all convicted felons so that we can see an unprecedented electoral butt whipping.
INGLEWOOD
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It may be too radical, so I don’t want to associate the word “evangelist” with chatGPT, so I will stop short and invoke the word “puritan”.
Artificial intelligence is minding the shop and functioning as our new defacto mortality police. There is no union protecting our rights. Use of certain words and or images may cause your entire post to be blocked, simply because A.I. misunderstands the context that you intended, and since A.I. lacks the abilty to reason, and is programmed to make snap, unjustified steps to protect, what “it” has been programmed to view as “community standards.”
A.I. controlled social media enforcement invites users to dig deeper into various subjects inside newly designed group chats, and then scolds us or denies aspects of the post. Sometimes the ban is based on word selection or context. Often an entire post can be blocked if artificial intelligence’s vast data base determines that an image that accompanied your post has been overused by others or is otherwise not an original image. Sometimes the image is rightfully identified as licensed material, stolen from A.I’s own photo gallery of search responses.
I personally have had content blocked 🚫 because I suggested the extermination of a rodent, using the harsh term K*LL
I have a social media group, that invites and allows members to RANT and in some cases RAVE about any damned thing that p*sses us off. Recently one of the regulars – let’s call him Scot was blocked because he posted an image depicting an arial view of crowded urban squall. (a city). It was presented in black and white, and reminded me of a scene from the movie where King Kong attacks Fay Wray. Another SM/social media friend of mine, let’s call him – Stan, reported having a post denied because… Hecky darned if we can figure this one out. He was trying to make a connection with a potential business partner, but maybe A.I. thought he was trying to make some kind of TINDER connection. 😆
It seems that A.I. may want us to take and attach our own photos to each individual post. These photos would of course become subject to addition to google’s own photo gallery, and presumably google will pay you a streaming fee, as a DIGITAL CREATOR. That is now your official designation on SM, whether you know it or not. My friend, Scot considers that to be too transactional and distasteful, prefering not to be paid for the friendly excange of information.
Like it or not, you are an unpaid employee.
Sada Tay.
If you look closely at your, mine and everyone’s profile, you will see a message, informing you that you are a digital creator and that your pages are or are not monetized. Facebook is monetizing your posts in the same way that the Dodgers collect money for havng butts in the stadium seats.
After the 1990s when the Soviet Union collapsed, the China Cuban relationship has gotten stronger to the point. Now, where both sides vote similarly in International fora, China, has become one of Cuba’s largest trading partners and both sides support dictatorial regimes in Venezuela, Nicaragua, and there’s even recent talk about cuba potentially joining the bricks. And so this gives a sense of the comprehensive nature of the China Cuban relationship beyond politics beyond ideology into economics as well.
The present debate concerning reparations for slavery has hit the expected wall.
“It would be wrong to single out one race of people over the rest, when so many groups have suffered,” is the present answer to the question. 
Americans have been totally fine with reparations, just not for slavery.
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Japanese were inconvienced in camps for 3 years during world war 2.
The Office of Redress Administration (ORA) was established in 1988 and was charged with administering a ten-year program to provide a tax-free restitution payment of $20,000 to eligible individuals of Japanese ancestry for the fundamental injustices of the evacuation, relocation, and internment during World War II.
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The US has supported reparations as a form of restorative justice. After World War II, it supported Jewish victims of the Holocaust in their demands for reparations from Germany and Austria. As recently as 2016, the US Department of State helped Holocaust survivors access the payment owed to them by a French railways company that was an accomplice in deportations.
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The U.S. government paid Mexico $15 million “in consideration of the extension acquired by the boundaries of the United States” and agreed to pay American citizens debts owed to them by the Mexican government.
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The commission, which was active until 1978, paid out $1.3 billion, according to the New York Times, which amounted to about $1,000 for each tribal member. In 1980, the Supreme Court ordered the United States to pay the Sioux nation over $105 million for the illegal government seizure of its land.
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I suspect that on Harvey Milk’s birthday, we will see reparations paid to the LBGTQ community, in abstention of any requests by the black community.
Over the last 50 years I have driven cabs, tour buses, shuttle vans, and city buses. The focus on driverless cars ignores the thousands of vehicle versus pedestrians, cycles and other vehicles every day. Contrary to what their mothers taught them, 
people step into the street from between parked cars, all day. I see them because I expet them to do dumb stuff, and I know to look for their pinheads above the top of the cars. The self driving cars just need more cameras that scan the environment beyond the double yellow lines, with no expectation that pedestrians know or will not only observe the rules, but “common sense”
There was a fire truck in ‘Frisco that T-boned a driverless car – not because the car ignored the fire truck, but because the truck driver was cocky and insisted on his right of way. What if the car had been driven by someone hard of hearing – the results would have been the same. Check out the picture 
below. Same situation, except the car was being driven by a human.
Sure the Self driving cars will need to be programmed to recognize the sound of approaching emergency equipment. Perhaps the equipment should be equipped to broadcast a tone that is outside of our range of hearing, but will allow the A.I. in a self-driving vehicle to distinguish the tone and probably triangulate the speed and direction.
This is the difference in me and them. As an independent, I browse sites and pages from both sides of the aisle, and I post and repost information and memes from both sides.
Some of you probably already saw this MEME that appeared on the Social Media Group, memes & things. I shared it with a right wing MEME provider and their admin rejected it. They claim to be Politicaly Incorrect, but apparently that only applies when the joke is on the left. They cannot or will not expose their visitors to any diverse ideas or opinions. My re-post did not deny that Hunter Biden has commited crimes, it only confirms that Trumpelthinskin is exposed “biggly” Anyway, here is a screenshot of their disgraceful response. Snowflakes. 👇
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When I first spotted this ad, I was predictably insensitive to it, but then, because I am consistently on the fence when it comes to what freedom of speech truly means in a melting pot, I was forced to face this alternative.
If you’re cool with one and not the other then you have some soul searching to do, because as Jeff Foxworthy might say. You might be a racist. We haven’t even touched on your sensibilities concerning LGBTQ.
Before y’all start crying about body shaming, that is not what this is about…
This is from an entertainment perspective We recently saw pictures from a Janet Jackson concert. She sounded great, but there was some concern that she was not in tip top Rhythm Nation shape. Of course. None of us are, or will be when we reach 56 years old.
Still that is not the point of the story. My concern is her slovenly attire. Her ticket price, in LA starts at $200±. I’m gonna need to see her dressed in something better than a T-Shirt. Too often today’s youngns hit the stage in dress clothes. As an entertainer myself, I attest to the importance of “SHOW CLOTHES“, and demand it from anyone asking me for cash.
Charles Jackson – Alan Foster’s Redemption
I admit that I have not been on stage in over five years, but when I was performing as a teenager well into the ripe old age I am now (LOL), I always dressed in Show Clothes – at the very least, a well fitting suit, tie, or sports coat if I was slumming.
Reggie Crutcher – Lakeside
Coming from an entertainment dynasty, I know that Janet knows better. One of my collaborative home boys, who is still out there touring, pointed out that we are all subjected to the laws of gravity. To that I certainly agree BUT we do not have to succumb to it, especially in the presence of the fans.
Photo by Michelle Webster-Martin
Pattie LaBelle – age 78
Look at the difference in attire in these two, Janet and Pattie. Both consummate entertaining performers, but Janet is out of uniform.
All I’m saying is: “If it’s hanging, bind it and if its drooping, prop it up.”
As my homie put it, “You have to understand the assignment”. That is all.
