#36

'I don't doubt your sincerity.
I doubt your relevance'... and the relevance of your question.

Double evasion is still evasion.

Information of all sorts can be useful... there are actually several Christians on this site, including as I noted, the Owner, who might enjoy perusing the vid and the links.

But the info on the topics at the thread link and the comments on Chinese, soon to be US Surveillance, in post #2, are self explanatory.

Of course, you not having seen the thread link video, or even the Times links... what you might gain from me describing my take would seem to be... infinitesimal.

Perhaps you'd like to review them and give us your take rather than asking for mine first?

Then it might seem a relevant question.

Note to self:

Send JP'whipped Definitions of 'Arguments' vs 'Assertions'.

- religious garbage

Fundie Agnostics! They Know because they Know... pretty nice werk if you can get it!

#33

Never happened.

But this is happening now:

I'm sure you'll want to 'nostic-'splain to us how DJT doesn't fit ALL these examples, which are only some of many:

#30

The number to ID the Beast, 666, matches the name of Nero:

#28

He's doing the same to this country, and to whatever other parts of the rest of the world he can manage.

In the meantime, the first part of the thread video is the creators and movers in AI pointing out that they aren't in control of AI.

And we have China taking DNA samples of their population for surveillance purposes, setting up an AI-based economic control sof their population, and exporting said control to other countries, including the US via Tic-Toc...

... as the post and Time articles in #2 documents.

#26

Yet another common assertion... merely rhetorical.

#23

Now, see? There's a spectacular Argument!

That's just another weak assertion, not an argument of anything... most like a non sequitur, or just another strawman.

So, yeah, I might as well be arguing with myself as you have none.

"The U.S. committed roughly 80% of its JASSM-ER stealth cruise missile inventory to the Iran fight, pulling stockpiles from the Pacific to feed it. The conflict significantly depleted U.S. supplies of Tomahawk and Patriot missiles, THAAD interceptors and drones.

Beijing got a free masterclass in modern American warfighting: how we use AI to target, how we rotate carrier groups, how cheap Iranian drones drain our most expensive interceptors.

For Chinese war planners gaming out a Taiwan invasion, it was better than any simulation.

On energy, China emerged as a huge winner of the ongoing Hormuz shockwaves.

As Ian Bremmer points out, America's allies saw the U.S. pull missile defense assets from South Korea, leave allies in Asia without Patriot coverage, and shift naval power from the Pacific to the Gulf.

The message received in Seoul, Tokyo, Canberra and Taipei: American security commitments have an asterisk.

China's AI push got a clear boost from the war's second-order financial consequences."

Many more pluses for China at the Axios thread link.

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Historians will likely be calling this, "Trump's Folly".

Assigning a fact not in evidence is a straw man.... yours is an opinion, not a fact.

Earlier on Sunday, US President Donald Trump said that Iran has committed a "serious violation" of the ceasefire, but still thinks he can get a peace deal, ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl posted on X/Twitter.

On Sunday afternoon, Trump told Axios that he is optimistic about the talks with Iran. "I feel fine about it. The concept of the deal is done. I think we have a very good chance to get it completed," he said."

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Why would anyone negotiate with the World's Greatest Liar?

- something you love perceiving in yourself.

This is assigning a position aka a strawman fallacy.

My arguments here have been in response to mostly attacks for having different opinions than the majority here, rather than to arguments.

S'ok, the site owner is a Christian; actually a very Universalist Christian.

He must be a laughable lying dumbass who should go F himself, too, right?

At least I can spell.... lol!

- You see what you want to see, not what is.

Nice self-description.

- argument from authority.

Only becomes a logical fallacy when the authority lacks expertise in that field.... see the definition.

The authorities I cited argue from their own expertise in their own fields.

#15

Amazing how people, having not watched the thread video, know the subject matter well enough to tell anyone who disagrees with their OPINIONS to F off.

I know what I say are my opinions and beliefs... you guys seem to know THE TRUTH of these matters... just like any Fundie Faux-Christian.

Fundie Atheists are nothing new, though Fundie Agnostics are... hilarious!

#11

You fail to address the accuracy of the predictions, which you previously snickered at above.

Failing to do so, you answer a question with a question; an evasion.

How knowing the results of the next horse race could be actionable is... a nonsense question.

#9

Not at all... here he is at the Oxford Union in a room of mostly atheists and agnostics briefly addressing the famed Oxford Union:

Yes, because as an Gnostic Atheist, you KNOW THE TRUTH!

So naturally you laugh at anything outside your self-perceived knowledge.

I mean, obviously these Oxford and Harvard Profs of Pure Mathematics and Astrophysics are intellectual pikers in comparison.

More non-argument, more ad hominem.

So telling.

#3

Posts like that put you in the same league as... everyone else who substitutes ad hominem for argument.

biblical prophecies fulfilled

#12

Only in TrumpWorld, where Jeffy is VP of Propaganda.

"The face recognition and CCTV cameras that are used to catch criminals can be used for social control and surveillance.

In England at the moment, there are more closed circuit TV cameras than in the whole of North America.

China is putting 600 million CCTV cameras into its country this year and
they are developing social control. It's already operating in 13 cities.

And the
basic idea, they will probably modify it a little, is that each citizen is given 300 points. And people are tracked.

They're observed. And if they're seen buying something that the authorities think might be a waste of time or going to a questionable place, they lose points.

And then they begin to discover that their credit card won't be accepted or that they can't get onto a train or they can't go to their favorite restaurant or they do things that are regarded as good and their point score goes up and they may be able to buy a new car and there's been a time argument a Time article about it that's makes really scary reading.

It's saying it's setting the stage for the most thorough form of surveillance the world has ever seen. This point system in China is welcomed by people.

The amazing thing is they think it's marvelous and they go around saying to people to their friends, "I've pushed my points up by 50.
How are you doing?"

that's from the reasonably short thread video, here's the Time article with a full description of the Surveillance and Point system.

Bootsy Collins - Munchies for Your Love | Soul Sunday

No way... 1Nut swears that CA is beneath Mississippi in value investments.

- "Why does being transgender bother anyone?"

Fear... of, 'the Other'. And a Judgement of them based upon that fear.

A sort of self-righteousness that doesn't even require a religious belief.