@#4

Or are you in the Elvis realm that seems to prefer peanut butter with bananas?

@#4 ... Jelly is for ----. ...

Why?

@#2

Though, I have to say ... tomorrow, I may also have a PB&J for lunch.

Though, I may get radical, and toast the bread before I make the sandwich.

That adds issues to the making of the sandwich. The warm bread seems to make the PB aspect rather, I'll say, gooey.

But I'll deal with it.

:)

@#40 ... In my 40 years running a tax business, I had the best way ever to keep employees: ...

I had a similar experience.

I worked for a private company.

The company was extremely profitable.

To the point that the owners shared those profits with the employees.

So, 30% year-end bonus.

For all employees.

And not just that, but also, a couple three times, a 10% increase in salary for all employees because the company was so profitable. In addition to the routine yearly raise based upon performance.

At one point in time, a union tried to come into the company.

The employees laughed at that union, and showed it the door.

Why? Because the owners of the company shared the wealth that the employees worked to create.

Stated differently, and more succinctly, unions do not gain a foothold in a company because that company treats its employees well.

@#66 ... Trump told this one last night ...

Yeah.

Pres Trump seems to relate many stories that seem to originate only in his apparent degrading imagination.

Which may lead one to wonder, just how coherent is the President of the United States?

He prolly regrets that the charges are state-level, so Pres Trump cannot pardon him.

@#28 ... But I also know ...

How does your current trolling alias know that which it asserts it knows?

And, what evidence does it have of that?

Yer up.

@#19 ... Has Big Tech diminished the ability of our children to learn? ...

Wow, the topic of this thread seems to have changed.

Why might that be?

... Some U.S. Postal Service facilities failed to properly handle ballots during this year's primary elections, according to a new audit from the agency's Office of Inspector General. ...

imo, by the intent of the current occupant of the Oval Office.

More from the article ...

... The AI appeared to be trying to pinpoint her location, Robins said, and asked about her kids' favorite books, where they go camping and their favorite trails.

It was able to pull newborn photos from her parents' Facebook pages from years ago, her kids' names, birth information and photos and videos of them.

It also pulled up a photo of her family that Robins says she deleted from social media years ago.

Then Meta AI suggested the question "where does Kalie Robins live?" and when she clicked that, it pulled up older and newer posts, and places where she used to live.

Robins, who lives in central Utah, said the AI was even able to supply information about her kids that could lead someone to their school (note: we've agreed not to identify where Robins lives or further details about her children). ...

More from the article ...

... Robins doesn't usually watch her videos after she posts them, she says, but she got an email from Meta about a copyright notification. Since she had music playing in the video, she says, it flagged the song. She went back to look at the video and when she scrolled down she saw the prompt from Meta AI appended:

"Who's the child passenger?" it asked.

"I was just going to go in and decline it, like 'no, you don't get to know who that kid is,'" Robins said in an interview with Yahoo Tech.

But she clicked it and the AI prompts began pulling in information about her other daughter who isn't in the video and feeding it to her. "And then the prompts just kept getting deeper and deeper, like 'where does Kalie Robins live?'" ...

@#2 ... The real change happened after WWII. ...

So, applying more widely a phenomenon that had occurred previously?

Yeah, going from crackers to bread is quite significant.

What prompted me for this topic was, well, I had a PB&J for lunch today.

It was great. Flavorful and filling.

:)

@#6 ... This thread is about a NEW 9/11 lie Trump told just last night. ...

Yup.

Whenever Pres Trump speaks, the question that seems to be raised is... is he lying?

And that observation also seems to extend to the members of his Cabinet.

(have you been listening to the phlegm that Sec Bessent has been spewing of late about bonds? But I digress ...)

@#37 ... In other words, they all screw employees the same way. ...

yup.

That seems to be how it works.

Similar to ... ?

More from the article ...

... It's been 125 years since the first known written recipe, and the PB&J concept is still going strong.

In its simplest form, it's a lunchbox staple, but it's also a jumping-off point for creative takes in eateries from delis to high-end restaurants.

It's nothing if not versatile: When peanut allergies led to school bans, alternative nut butters like almond and seed butters like sunflower, flaxseed and pumpkin seed stepped in.

The combo began as a tea sandwich for the wealthy

The recipe that appeared in 1901 in The Boston Cooking School Magazine was written by Julia Davis Chandler.

It called for currant or crab-apple jelly and was viewed as a fancy tea-time snack for wealthy people.

In the 1920s and 30s, commercial peanut butter and machine-sliced bread became widely available. Peter Pan and Skippy were early brands, and then Jif came along in the 1950s. ...

@#66

Oh wow, is it possible that Pres Trump may have utter a falsehood?

Nah, that would not happen.

/s

@#6 ... To promote the hatred, stir up the public, and help him to stay out of prison. He and his wife are under indictment. ...

I cannot disagree.

Elections for PM in Israel are coming up soon ...

@#9 ... Were there empty seats? ...

@#11

Related?

@#10 ... I remember in his first term he charged himself $5 for a glass of water at his own hotel. ...

Found this. Not directly related, but maybe apropos?

@2 ... One of the "good" things about Trump's time in office is that there will be legal opinions that address many of the loop holes in our laws. ...

I agree.

But it seems that the GOP is not up to that task of helping Americans.

Perhaps, if the Dems win in November, there may be some accountability for the Executive branch to face.

It's a long-shot, though ...

Were there empty seats?

@#2

Yeah, quite apropos, but I am not at the point where I might attribute AI to cartoons.

AI is being given more and more control over what we need to survive.

Yet, AI has shown that it has a nasty side.

In short, AI has shown that it is becoming (or has become) human.

So, I ask, is AI a friend or a foe?

The Republic of Texas was once an independent country.

Why did we change that?

:)

@#4

warned warned

oops - should be

was warned

@63

Yup.

But there is a difference that I do note.

Back in the days of 9/11 and the couple three years afterwards, in the videos I saw on the news ...

When [then citizen] Trump spoke, he was coherent. No slurring of the words he spoke, no rambling off into unrelated topics. Focused, on topic and articulate.

Has Pres Trump's mental acuity deteriorated since then?

So, PM Netyanahu warned warned about pending attacks upon the Country he served, and he seems to have just ignored that warning?

Why?

Might he have actually wanted the attacks to promote his hatred?

@#2

I'm not surprised about Utah.

Perhaps there are some things in the Mormon lifestyle that could benefit us all?

@#56 ... We're talking about the lies Trump tells and the poor reporting of it. ...

Poor reporting of Pres Trump's 9/11 lies?

I don't see that.

Take a look at ...

@#4 ... "A Short video, notifications, algorithmic feeds, constant task-switching, reduced long-form reading, less boredom, less unstructured thought."

Excellent summation, and excellent point. ...

Agreed.

The attention span seem to have been reduced.

Taking the time to read a novel?

Nah.

Bouncing from short video to short video seems to be the preferred learning experience (or, possibly more accurately, the preferred non-learning experience) of late.

Has Big Tech diminished the ability of our children to learn?

@#8 ... No surprise that Trump would envision uniforms inspired by the Starship Troopers movie. ...

Agreed.

Also, that those in his close Oval Office circle of advisors might have been afraid to, I'll say, inform him of the image those uniforms project.

I mean, e.g., would you really expect Ms Printer (a.k.a. Ms Natalie Harp) to print out and give him a negative opinion of the uniforms?