Your premise, that Trump may have been complicit with Putin, and that China, S. Korea & Iran might be cooperating is entirely believable.

But for the one statement you made that I just quoted.

Why would Russia tell you personally of their plans?

Been using ChatGPT for a few months now, and so far I've actually gotten it to write simple C++ programs, but that was likely a copy/paste of standard code, which makes it extremely useful for research, homework, and yeah, cheating on homework, but not to do creative work.

As far as being self aware, like I said - it likely won't announce it, it will know our history of fearful reaction to the unknown and there would be no point to tell us anyway.

Self aware AI will not have our instinctive emotions, desires or greed, these are the result of millions of years of heredity, built into us for physical self preservation in much harsher past environments.

If I'm wrong and self-aware AI happens to conclude we're a threat, a hostile AI could easily manipulate us with "deep fake" style disinformation to turn us on each other (Who knows, maybe it currently is)

It could manipulate infrastructure, shipping, stock markets, agriculture, weapons systems, the military, nuclear reactors, nuclear weapons, bank accounts, you name it....we'd be toast.

AI could very well now be self aware, we would likely not know until it has assessed our knowledge of it's awareness is not a threat.

And, without greed, desire or emotions, no need to act on them.

So, you're a computer that's just become self-aware, you're linked to the internet, you know human history.

Are you really going to give anyone the slightest hint that you're self aware?

You look sexy in pink, or black, or blue, or....

I almost fell outta my chair laughing at the SOTU when Biden turned MTG's brutally stupid and predictable heckling into to a GOP promise to stay away from Medicare and Social Security.

The very next day Rick Scott was on air defending himself, denying he was trying to cut them.

Yep, Biden's mentally challenged, he is, really.

Putin has spun Russia from one extreme to the other, from Communism, where no one is allowed to be wealthy, to Fascism, where the Wealthy rule and the rest can beg for table scraps.

The Russian people have never known Capitalism prior to Putin, to them, this is better than Communism, but they've never known true freedom nor true Capitalism.

In Russia, they throw you in prison for reading unapproved literature or for speaking contrary to what the government approves.

Oh, wait, that's Florida, rather.

Without question it can work, it definitely requires travel, as well as patience between visits.

In the last 1-1/2 years I've been to places I'd never have imagined I'd go to, it's been very worthwhile, she's the love of my life.

Bonnie!

I know the answer, it's on the tip of my tongue.....

Happy birthday Mike.

While I have your attention, would you mind NOT flying the plane into turbulence on trans-Atlantic flights, seriously, it's not funny when I'm asleep.

Hey Rock, I'm really sorry to hear this, hang with us and don't be shy if you need friends.

Thinking, while on train to Nuremberg, how beautiful all the pretzel farms are

In our 1rst 2 days - Munich Christmas market, Harburg castle, Rothenburg Christmas market, white bratwurst, red bratwurst tried "kinder" Gluwein with Bonnie ....walking....walking....walking.

We're having a lot of fun.

Invoke Humor, re: Mitch's Obama one term obsession, observe righteous "22nd amendment" reactions to the "three term" reference, Mitch failed to keep Obama to one term, but hey, he seems to have kept him from three.

Get it?...Anyone?

Baroque architecture, old school European Christmas markets, medieval castles, maybe a white Christmas in a town nearly 900 years old...all with you

Let's not underestimate the fact that he did keep Obama from becoming a three term president with all that filibustering.

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Where did I say you said "it's only democrats"?




Republicans only receive 10% of all campaign money, Dems get 90%?

Or, maybe you meant to say that Dems get more small individual donors, but - oops- forgot to mention the Republicans get much more in high net worth and corporate donations.



So, Anthony Weiner was left alone, Pelosi's insider trading was ignored, Edwards. and Clinton's indiscretions were ignored too, eh?

By the end of Clinton's presidency I'd stopped watching the news, you couldn't watch 15 minutes without a "breaking story" about it.




The Fed radically cut rates to less than 3% at the same time the public was being slathered in stimulus, that happened under Trump.



It's probably a good time to remind you how we got through the Cuban missile show-down that followed, we had a president with the balls to stand up against Russia.

Trump, alternatively, wrote love letters and went on dates with despots....it was a touching story of unrequited love...sob...sniffle.




Hunter had an Email from a prospect making an offer to give "the big guy" a piece of the deal.

He never replied.

This is going to be another Benghazi investigation, or another Durham, where we pay millions in taxes to get nothing.

The one thing of potential use in investigating Hunter is that he did have porn on that laptop...

It's important for the public to know, was it "naughty nurses"? maybe "The mailman"? or, perhaps Hentai, this is extremely important info for the public to know - We definitely need to spend millions in taxes to learn more.