On 2024-10-02 8:52 a.m., RonB wrote:
> On 2024-10-01, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>> On 2024-10-01 2:41 a.m., RonB wrote:
>>> On 2024-09-30, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>> On 2024-09-30 2:50 a.m., RonB wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-09-30, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>>> On 2024-09-29 1:54 p.m., RonB wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2024-09-29, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2024-09-28 5:09 p.m., DFS wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On 9/27/2024 7:27 PM, Joel wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Use your ad-infested, back-door infested Windows crap and enjoy it. I'll
>>>>>>>>>>> keep using Linux, thank you.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I got Copilot PLUS!*  Kidding of course, this is why I'm feeling so
>>>>>>>>>> great about openSUSE.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> * https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/copilot-plus-pcs
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You want Windows 11/12/13 and CoPilot+ running on an ARM CPU so bad you
>>>>>>>>> can taste it.  No need to deny it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Joel needs AI to tell him that he's one sexy motherfucker. So far, AI
>>>>>>>> has preferred to commit suicide rather than say such a thing.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have absolutely NO desire to have anything AI anywhere near my computer. I
>>>>>>> just read today that AI server farms each require more electricity than
>>>>>>> whole cities. So much for the "green revolution." Wonder why the Climate
>>>>>>> Screechers aren't screeching up a storm about this?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This is not the article I saw, but it's all I could find with a quick
>>>>>>> Internet search...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/09/18/energy-ai-use-electricity-water-data-centers/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Even the Woke should like this article as it's printed the Washington Woke
>>>>>>> Post.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In case you're not already aware, Microsoft is looking to relaunch the
>>>>>> Three Mile Island nuclear reactor to power their data center... but you
>>>>>> should definitely trust them when they tell you that they're not
>>>>>> gathering data on you.
>>>>>> <https://www.npr.org/2024/09/20/nx-s1-5120581/three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-microsoft-ai>
>>>>>
>>>>> I became aware of this because of all the AI server farms they're building
>>>>> in northern Virginia rural areas. Apparently they think they have the right
>>>>> to claim eminent domain on farmland to build the power lines across
>>>>> Maryland to power these server farms. The reason this bothers me is because
>>>>> part of my childhood was spent in that farmland in Maryland. Beautiful
>>>>> country.
>>>>>
>>>>> It pisses me off that they find a remote area to build these AI server farms
>>>>> and then demand that the states bend over backwards to supply power to them
>>>>> — which will cause the price of electricity to rise all over Maryland. And,
>>>>> of course, the worthless politicians bend over backwards to give them what
>>>>> they want, despite what it costs to the average Marylander.
>>>>>
>>>>> What should be done is that these AI server farms should be built in the old
>>>>> rust-belt zones of crumbling cities, like Baltimore. Where the
>>>>> infrastructure is already nearby, and it wouldn't require miles and miles of
>>>>> new high voltage electric lines. But I guess that's not good enough for
>>>>> these entitled bastards who are building these damned AI server farms.
>>>>
>>>> I guess now we know why it was that Bill Gates bought all that farmland
>>>> in the United States. We figured it was to kill off the local farmer,
>>>> but it looks like that will just be a secondary consequence. I'll be
>>>> honest, finding out that Gates was looking to revive Three Mile Island
>>>> and create such massive data centers was enough for me to abandon
>>>> Microsoft's software entirely, but I've said that before and I know that
>>>> I will eventually come running back. Sadly, I'm getting the impression
>>>> that like me, people will eventually swallow this crap and adopt it
>>>> rather than fight what is obviously an operating to obliterate privacy
>>>> once and for all.
>>>
>>> I'm glad I'm old. This world is going to hell in hand-basket. But Microsoft
>>> is definitely in my rear-view mirror.
>>
>> I'm not yet that old and I have a son who will have to live in a world
>> where this kind of stuff is the norm. I fear that people like him are
>> not going to know what freedom is.
>
> Yeah, I know. I have children and grand-children. And it bothers me every
> day thinking about the evil Woke world they may be living in. That's why
> Russia (and BRICS) MUST defeat the Rothschild ghouls and the so-called
> "West" and their sick, anti-family values.
>
> Our Blessed Lady warned us about this time, centuries ago (about 1630) at
> Quito, Ecuador.
>
> As for the Sacrament of Matrimony, which symbolizes the union of Christ
> with His Church, it will be attacked and profaned in the fullest sense of
> the word. Masonry, which will then be in power, will enact iniquitous
> laws with the objective of doing away with this Sacrament, making it easy
> for everyone to live in sin, encouraging the procreation of illegitimate
> children born without the blessing of the Church. The Christian spirit
> will rapidly decay, extinguishing the precious light of Faith until it
> reaches the point that there will be an almost total and general
> corruption of customs. The effects of secular education will increase,
> which will be one reason for the lack of priestly and religious
> vocations.
>
> The Sacred Sacrament of Holy Orders will be ridiculed, oppressed and
> despised. …The demon will try to persecute the Ministers of the Lord in
> every possible way and he will labor with cruel and subtle astuteness to
> deviate them from the spirit of their vocation, corrupting many of them.
> These corrupted priests, who will scandalize the Christian people, will
> incite the hatred of the bad Christians and the enemies of the Roman,
> Catholic and Apostolic Church to fall upon all priests. This apparent
> triumph of Satan will bring enormous sufferings to the good Pastors of
> the Church.
>
> Moreover, in these unhappy times, there will be unbridled luxury which,
> acting thus to snare the rest into sin, will conquer innumerable
> frivolous souls who will be lost. Innocence will almost no longer be
> found in children, nor modesty in women. In this supreme moment of need
> of the Church, those who should speak will fall silent.
>
> Therefore, clamor insistently without tiring and weep with bitter tears
> in the privacy of your heart, imploring our Celestial Father that, for
> love of the Eucharistic Heart of my Most Holy Son and His Precious Blood
> shed with such generosity and the profound bitterness and sufferings of
> His cruel Passion and Death, He might take pity on His ministers and
> bring to an end those Ominous times, sending to this Church the Prelate
> who will restore the spirit of its priests.
>
> https://www.virgosacrata.com/our-lady-of-good-success-prophecies-for-our-times.html
>
> In another apparition in Italy, by the Virgin of Revelation, Our Lady
> spoke of a time after Russia is converted back to Christianity (this
> prophecy happened in 1947, right after WWII), when a Pope will clean up the
> mess created by bad popes. And our Lady of Fatima said that Russia will be
> used to "chastise the world" if it wasn't consecrated to the Immaculate
> Heart of Mary, which it wasn't.
>
> At any rate, from a human point of view, the "West" is screwed and we will
> be chastised (and I believe Russia will deliver that chastisement). But this
> chastisement may result in the rebirth of a Christendom in the West, as the
> Soviet chastisement of the Russian people by the Soviet government (also
> controlled by the Rothschilds and their ilk) resulted in the rebirth of
> Christianity there.
>
> So all is not hopeless for my kids.

Well, it seems that the new generation of kids is a lot more interested
in conservatism and spirituality than the one that's been corrupted by
the hippies, so there is hope. Whether that actually results in a
restoration of traditional ideas which would make people like vallor and
Chris Ahlstrom anomalies rather than the norm remains to be seen.

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CrudeSausage
Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king