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I get no popups either. I use firefox with ad blocker, and also do not use my phone.

Feefiphobia is Hilarious!
Liked the Mark Twain quote -
The wreck at the no kings rally -
Secretary Mullins -

These are all great Dobrien - thanks so much for the post. Some are thought provoking and some are just a riot!

Thanks, FFA, as I did not know the Gulch was Google from the start. In the beginning and for a long while it wasn't obvious. My main entry into the Gulch is via Mac desktop or Mac laptop using Firefox and rarely iPhone using Safari. Same results. The most annoying screen stealing pop up ads are recent. The ads along the side or bottom that don't interfere are not the problem. I have to say some of those are interesting or offer a product I may actually use, so I have clicked on those. Maybe I need a Mac equivalent to something like AdGuard.

The greatest guilt of today is that of people who accept collectivism by moral default; the people who seek protection from the necessity of taking a stand, by refusing to admit to themselves the nature of that which they are accepting; the people who support plans specifically designed to achieve serfdom, but hide behind the empty assertion that they are lovers of freedom, with no concrete meaning attached to the word; the people who believe that the content of ideas need not be examined, that principles need not be defined, and that facts can be eliminated by keeping one's eyes shut. They expect, when they find themselves in a world of bloody ruins and concentration camps, to escape moral responsibility by wailing: "But I didn't mean this!”
― Ayn Rand

Yes! Yes! Yes!
Wash those useless for cowardly clinging clods off!
Can't do your share? Get out of our hair!

Is there something wrong with me? I don't get a lot of those. Pictures of people I don't recognize? Something about baseball on fire? Apparently I can't know the players without a scorecard.

Not to minimize Trump's accomplishments, but I'd say Putin rates as a bigger dictator than any of those Trump has removed.

The ads go away when I log in, if I can log in, since they obscure much of the screen. However, ID hack sites? Really? I don’t care as much about ads, but “Your Apple Account Just-prepaid for an iWatch”? That is ridiculous!

I suspect the 3d printer is used to create some vital parts without exposing the builder's intentions.
3d printers are not very expensive and are ubiquitous in the marketplace around the world with no special restrictions on their sales.
imo

Your article makes good sense, Walter. Thanks for the rational explanation. 👍
I also heard that some central banks have had to sell gold in response to needing to pay higher oil prices. That would remove another support from the gold price.

The Gulch was built with Google tools from the start. I doubt the site has been modified in years and that may affect using your cellphones on the site.
I don't know why you guys are getting popups while on the Gulch site, but I'm not getting any popups at all from the Gulch site. None.
I do not use my phone to visit the Gulch; I use a Win10 pc.
I don't use the browsers from MSFT or Goog and I DO block ads using AdGuard browser extension in addition to the built in ad-blocker of the browser.
The above is just my experience and I'm no expert on cellphone browsing.

I agree! The site is degrading into a popup mess. I can't even move my pointer anymore without an ad that has to be dismissed to continue. My guess is Google now owns the Gulch and, as usual, has to get into everyone's face. I've been contemplating leaving this Gulch and looking for another. OK, I have to admit monetarily I'm a freeloader here, but hope to make enough interesting or humorous contributions to earn my keep. However, carpet bombing me with useless ads turns the experience into total waste of time.

Why the phuck are their ID hack site links on on this god damn site?!??! WTF! Popping up on my mobile web page.

To be picky " 7. But an AI runs on a distributed network of processors. The NVIDIA A100 GPU “can perform 300 trillion operations per second.” 300 trillion is roughly equivalent to the number of stars in three Milky Way galaxies...."


According to an

AI Overview
"The best estimate for the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy is between 100 billion and 400 billion. While 100 billion is a common, conservative figure, many researchers now favor a range of 200–250 billion, accounting for the high number of faint, low-mass red dwarfs." This latter number comports to the best estimate I recall from a college course in Astronomy.

It raises a concern about AI, namely, was the overstatement of 100000000 human generated error? Or did AI provide the number?

When I first heard that I was very glad we finally had a president that speaks the truth to those freeloaders. This line, "You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us." may be a message of things to come. We'll see. MAGA!

Maduro who? LOL

Nice batch, Dobrien.
Me dino does not get the "message" supposedly behind the No Kings scooter pile-up with three libtarded old farts playing dead in the foreground.
I don't think the onlooking No Kings protestors do either. That also goes for whoever thought this silly Schiff up.

He’s doing everything I wrote above. Please elaborate on your accusations. A stupid war is when we don’t try to win like all of Clinton Bush and Obama wars. If you can’t see the difference , you are like the looney left. Brainwashed to react emotionally.

The excursion is virtually complete. In a week or 2 this will be forgotten like Maduro’s extraction.

Oh he has many agendas with this excursion. Another one is President Trump has shown how feckless NATO and our so called western allies are.
In Trumps own words:
All of those countries that can’t get jet fuel because of the Strait of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom, which refused to get involved in the decapitation of Iran, I have a suggestion for you: Number 1, buy from the U.S., we have plenty, and Number 2, build up some delayed courage, go to the Strait, and just TAKE IT. You’ll have to start learning how to fight for yourself, the U.S.A. won’t be there to help you anymore, just like you weren’t there for us. Iran has been, essentially, decimated. The hard part is done. Go get your own oil! President DJT

Bravo, Dobrien. Extremely well done. Thank you.

I have mixed thoughts on a protracted war with Iran, but allowing such a regime to virtually strap on a nuclear suicide vest is out of the question. Death means very little to such fanatics. Trump finally did what should have been done a long time ago. Let them have the death they crave so much, but prevent them from exporting it to the rest of us.

Many ex-pats are using it now. It does work for US citizens.
https://www.irs.gov/individuals/inter...
"If you are a U.S. citizen or a resident alien of the United States and you live abroad, you are taxed on your worldwide income. However, you may qualify to exclude your foreign earnings from income up to an amount that is adjusted annually for inflation ($107,600 for 2020, $108,700 for 2021, $112,000 for 2022, and $120,000 for 2023). In addition, you can exclude or deduct certain foreign housing amounts.
Foreign-earned income: Foreign-earned income means wages, salaries, professional fees, or other amounts paid to you for personal services rendered by you."

I seriously doubt the recipients of such largess will be us taxpayers. [I'd do an "LOL" here, but it's really not funny.] Oh heck, LOL at the BOHICA of the whole thing.

It would be great if that were true. Trump's cabinet is as corrupt as the Dems, and he is getting us into stupid wars.