Debt Rattle February 22 2026
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir Dance at Bougival 1883 • Trump Responds to Supreme Court’s Decision on Tariffs (Sarah Anderson) • Trump Winds Down IEEPA tariffs
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 22 2026]LNG at work:
This is what everybody wants.Gasoline: toxic, too dangerous. Right. Lithium, which burns, can’t be extinguished, and poisons the entire area with very long lasting psychoactive metals? Perfectly fine! LNG where every ship is the level of the Halifax explosion, then reduced to thousands of rail cars and tanker semis? Also perfectly safe and fine! Carry on.
Follow the Science, right? Follow the engineering. Now, about those acres of removed fiberglass 747 blades we have no way to decay or recycle. If only they were 1,000 miles of entoxified, rare earth glass, displacing the world’s finest farmland… Science!
“Amb. Huckabee Claims Israel Has ‘Biblical Right’ To Conquer Whole Middle East
Excellent. Say it out loud to the whole world and we can finally discuss it. It was failing this that was preventing the fix.
“Boards Are Replacing CEOs At The Fastest Pace In Over A Decade
This is in the “Q” papers, as if they agree to leave and become normal again, we won’t out them in the blackmail files. I don’t know if this is true but I don’t see why not. Should we arrest them and all their company’s stocks are cut in half? How does that serve the people and win the war?
Here’s a quote of the day: ““Producing the world’s currency, at minimal or no cost, makes all activities other than monetary creation unprofitable and therefore unattractive.”
Simple mathematics and competition. Yes.
Following Burlingame, pointing out that, at the highest level none of their other dumbassery is going to work either: Mars, AI, Control Grid, etc. Why? Laws of Thermodynamics, that is, “Reality”. All can work at lower scales, but scaled up you have diminishing returns, which then run into costs and consumption, which you can predict BEFORE you pave 1,000 miles of farmland with toxic Green Energy. You can get a few rockets to the moon, but do you grasp how large a city is? How fragile things are without something we call “Air”? AI is already consuming everything, but guess what? It’s not CAN we do things, but can we do them AT COST? (That, is “Capitalism”) AI is losing the latest in a long string of losing money to do the same thing we were doing cheaper before. Like the SNAP program. So AI can replace all white collar jobs….if those jobs all paid $150,000 it would make economic sense to do so…which they don’t. Humans, biounits are cheaper. This can’t be fixed, and the more you remove them, the more the remaining ones cost.
This is so obvious to me 1) I don’t know why they bother and 2) I just assume to goal is to kill everybody and destroy everything in a pique of peevishness, worshiping their anti-human god. I could be wrong; maybe they are so dumb they can’t see this from 100 miles away, but I don’t think so. This is just crap they tell crayon-munchers at the newspapers.
““If you’re alive five years from today, it will be your choice whether or not you want to live to 120 or 140.”
Meanwhile, right now you can’t get stitches or fix your eyes. It will be “Your” choice if “You” are a billionaire. For the rest of us die of polluted air and high food prices.
Tariffs: I haven’t read the USSC decision, they can often be quite subtle and complicated. But strikes me that IF the USSC says this is the wrong law, then they should tell him which law it SHOULD be. Aaaand they are just making him guess? What are we, 5? “Is the law I should use bigger than a breadbox? Does it start with ‘R’?”
This is fantastic campaigning material though. So Trump will be out saying “I like free money and low taxes” and the Democrats will say, “We want no jobs, high taxes, and to give $100B back to foreign countries.” Okay, you do that and we’ll put it on the front page. See? And they’re going to do it loud and proud. Doesn’t matter that the reality is more complicated. Essentially it’s roughly true. That interview added that USSC isn’t “Slavishly Trump” and therefore remains credible with the people. Breaking this is a key element in Russian Rev 2.0. Same with Trump calling out the National Guard, which he hasn’t. Where’s your Hitler now??? (Nevermind, they don’t need any “reality” to believe things. He BOTH arrests too much and too little at the same time. BothNeitherAi.)
“Grok is now integrated into X Chat. Long press any message & select “Ask Grok”.
This is precisely what the people don’t want. They are leaving altogether in disgust when AI appears but companies hate hate hate the customer with deadly fury and will FORCE them to have and use it.
Okay great, you have it: does it answer honestly? Ever? https://m.youtube.com/shorts/3S8jkD0dopM
This guy has a new one each day, still trying to make AI do normal, safe things. But in this case, AI will say X exists and is real, next one when you call/log in, it will say reality is false. …Hey that’s the same as asking any rando at the auto shop! ….Which is EXACTLY what LLMs are. Surprise! This is why “Reality” and “Laws of Thermodynamics”. It doesn’t magically make AI smarter or things posted on Reddit (its data source) more true. What’s in Reddit was always false, ackshully.
So what is it answering? If I want a random answer, I can just roll a D20 or use the Magic 8Ball. Please consume all fresh water on earth to give me a bigger magic 8ball, I don’t like eating anyway.
“survey results show that voters who did not graduate from high school were 27 percentage points more likely to support photo voter ID laws than those who attended graduate school.”
That’s because it takes years and years in college to make anyone that stupid. The level of stupid there is relentlessly competitive.
“a $5 billion increase from the prior year, while simultaneously warning residents of “painful” tax hikes if state officials refused to bail him out to cover his socialist policies.”
Translation: they are going to hunt down, kill, and eat, everyone in their Red Upstate, and feed it into the relentless maw of destruction of NYC socialism. That’s what “We’ll get the State to ‘help’” means. And they will do it, BECAUSE half the state is Red, and Better Dead than Red. Where did our Syracuse denizen go?
Meanwhile, it’s such a paradise with all the money that they stole from Upstate, no longer a steel, manufacturing, etc powerhouse, that everyone in NYC is leaving for…literally anywhere. Wall Street fleeing to Miami, done deal, and AOC’s mom too.
Part Deux: Laying the deuce, They’re going to “Tax the rich” as every remaining rich person flees California, even the most hardened hard-core liberals like Spielberg. So I’m sure that’ll go just great in idgaf NYC. They won’t just “reside” in FL and live in NYC anyway. These are “LEGAL FICTIONS”, people. There are 100 ways to hide assets and they haven’t shut two of them.
Mamdani is ALSO raising prices, cutting services, and demanding Voter ID just to shovel the walk. Snappy! You’re sure he’s not a Republican? Keep going man, never stop.
“One report warned that women embracing traditional motherhood could drift toward violent extremism,”
If only women had been mothers in the past and we could check this thesis.
Wait! There WERE violent extremist women around 1900. In fact, eg England, one threw herself in front of the Queen’s carriage and killed herself. That seems relatively extreme. Oh wait: those were the ANTI-Mothers and Progressives. Nevermind.
There is a root-level problem though: nothing is truly objective. We always experience things through a lens. However, we have been doing this since Christ was non-corporeal and we know what that means and how to steer towards it because IT WORKS. If you want to DESTROY everything, and the nation too (then dismember and eat it) you inject this rot. Same with news rooms. Oddly, those who are open, report the news are having no trouble keeping readers. But CNN/NYT tells me this is an “ecosystem” problem and not their fault while all “conservative” (ie “not insane”) outlets rocket up in readers and profits. Huh. Socialists hate money and profit, who knew?
“The shrewd strategist who orchestrated the single greatest political upset since Dewey Defeats Truman. At which point, Steve Bannon leapt out” …Of Navy Intel and delivered CIA herding tactics. The Press wasn’t fooled but followed CIA orders to platform this nobody, as they always do. There is no “Steve Bannon.” He was more cleverly placed, but none of his arrangement was authentic. He’s made to split the base, make Trump supporters dissatisfied, and cause endless wars while skewering between US/Israel. He does all with enthusiasm. Grab a random 20min clip from anytime and check.
Kill Brietbart openly: inject Bannon as a cuckoo baby into his company. This is the same as capturing Glenn Greenwald’s company “The Intercept”. They only JUST did the same thing with Kirk> Shapiro, but the people hate Shapiro so much they moved to Ericka, who makes so little sense they’re still looking for the cure.
But you can see the PROCESS this is done partially because the handoff was sloppy and failed so far.
I imagine, if I look back, you’ll see this when the NYT was handed over to entirely non-news people, with the uber-biased editor (a woman of course) who destroyed it in her tenure. But those were smoother, non-murdering transitions. Same principle. Recognize the template and you can see it anywhere.
“Former Trump White House adviser Steve Bannon is laying the groundwork for a 2028 run for president”
People of course do this when they have no backing from major oligarchs, interest groups, and intel agencies. NOT! ‘Cause it don’t cost no money or nothin’. Everyone hates Bannon, even a lot of the Right, so definitely good idea…to split the vote.
“President Trump’s first term, Congress squandered its moment.”
They didn’t’ “squander” it, they were never Republicans in the first place. Nor now. That’s why they are there. To be fair, neither are the Democrats a Party of the people, who are RABIDLY against workers, raging fury to destroy all trade unions, and will burn down the Party rather than vote on national health care. So no, they are not Democrats either. 2/3rds of both are open traitors, and many of them for Israel.
“Where are the arrests? Where are the prosecutions? Why has Attorney General Pam Bondi not brought cases against members of the January 6 Committee”
Well, let’s see: CONGRESS has refused to hire and seat 90 Prosecutors, that is “Anyone” to “Do their Jobs”; and CONGRESS would have to arrest THEMSELVES over J6 mishandling. So no. Whatever Congress refuses to do, I blame Trump! Because as we know from Bannon, Alexes, everyone, whatever Trump says, everyone just obeys and ESPECIALLY Congress, who has passed only 5 laws while being in the majority INCLUDING refusing a law so tepid on voter ID that the whole rest-of-world already follows it and always has. But not Congress!! 80% of the people means No!
“Former Democratic Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice warned corporations Thursday who have “taken a knee” to President Donald Trump”
Chessboard, shows where they think they still have power and leverage. This is also the “Wait him out” call MI6 said.
“Imran Ahmed, a British Labour Party political operative now living in the U.S., who is the CEO of an influential nonprofit, the Center for Countering Digital Hate.”
Name the clues wrong with this picture. Gee, where is his money from? Remember Starmer sending an army of political influencers on UK tax dime to work the 2024 election, and that’s not “Election interference” how?
A: Because we said so. We Make S—t Up. Facts that happened, didn’t happen, then happen again, over and over each day. Amen.
Okay, should I ask AI to have some fake AI Chinese guy make 15min videos of how aliens are landing? I can, you know. It really helps the discussion to have AI generate fake, constantly-wrong and factually incorrect discussions all day that waste all of our time. Yes?
PS: As it is February 22nd, 2026, I am still against Empire again today. Surprise! Also against war! Who could guess? Tune in tomorrow for more riveting revelations about “The Constitution” and “Rights of Man” I may also support.
“goal is to kill everybody”
yep. the whole covid scam was the start of the greatest asset stripping event ever.
poison them, bankrupt them and take their stuff for pennies on the dollarcito.
While I agree tariffs are a key and important tool, why didn’t the Trump Admin implement them the way he just said he was switching to after the Supreme Clowns shot down the way he used to do it for a year?
Ham-handed execution of policy.
What’s to say the ‘new way’ of imposing tariffs that Trump just announced doesn’t get successfully challenged a year from now in the SC and tossed out on a loophole?
Does doing it wrong for a year make you look smart?
“Proving a point”?
What point, that the Supreme Clowns weren’t for MAGA?
Gee, duh, we already knew that Sherlock.
Plus the whole notion of ‘re-industrialization’ Trump is spouting is less than honest, big surprise, par the the course.
Automation driven by AI needs LESS jobs, not more.
Yea, there’s a few ‘token’ humans’ sprinkled around the edges of the automated factories, but they’re not so much actually making stuff….
Check out Chinese truck factories that put together a complete truck from parts with barely a single human touching it.
You mean THAT kind of ‘re-industrialization’, cause if you don’t the Chinese are gonna kicktheshitoutofyou manufacturing wise.
WARNING:
A few ‘token humans at the start, the rest is pure Skynet…..
Data center employment is very lumpy clumpy towards big states
Talk about Windmill blades being un-recyclable as an outgrowth of the Eco Hustle
Waiting until you see the waste in the AI Cyborg Hustle
John Day from yestarday
Did you get any feeling for why that was, the cold silence about Allende’s CIA-induced assassination under Kissinger/Nixon?
It was a hardly a cross section sample of Chilean society. Nevertheless I was surprised that common folks
were not more empathetic to that event.
Hell, even on this site topics related to anything remotely “red” are treated as third rail sting.DBS from yesterday
Sure. For clarity please restate questions 1,2 and 3 succinctly and fuckingly, and I will answer them as simply as I can.
You do realize that hart attack inducing anger like above in quotes reveals the man to whom the winning is an essence of his posting?
You made a radical claim so here are three simple questions. To make it easy for you and to avoid you throwing a kitchen sink in lieu of answers I made it simple – just edit XX preceding the %
Even the wide margin error is welcomed.
1. What percentage of real J-s reside in the USA? ——……………………..XX%
2. What percentage of real J-s reside in Israel?,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,…………………….XX%
3. What percentage of real J-s Germans did exterminate in the WWII……XX%Coincidentally on the video that I posted yesterday, Carlson interviewing Huckebee, Few minutes after the ! hr time stamp they had a heated debate abut the topic related to my questions.
oh, yeah..
wasn’t (ISN’T!!!?) mr trump very proud of operation warp speed, the very plan to “poison them, bankrupt them and take their stuff for pennies on the dollarcito”?
asking for my now deceased friends..
I was surprised that common folks
were not more empathetic to that event.
Hell, even on this site topics related to anything remotely “red” are treated as third rail sting.Maybe we have stumbled upon common ground, or at least neutral turf on which you and I can have a civil discussion without giving in to the survival instinct of tearing at each other’s throats. To go a step further perhaps @JohnDay would consent to be our moderator (and I use the word in both of its main senses of meaning) in addressing this fascinating topic of why the world keeps polarizing into commies and fascists while the main herd of common, honest, kind and ordinary decent people just want to be left alone to eke out a good and successful life for themselves and their loved ones. It’s always good to have at least one adult in the room to keep the unruly children from fighting.
On occasion I too have flashed suspiciously visible signals of harboring sympathies for the “unpatriotic dirty doctor commie rats” of this world…. who are eventually so frequently canonized as Saints after the shock and horror of their sins against Capitalism & Democracy have faded enough for the holiness of their charity and selfless love (both of which are outrageous heresies against hate, greed and the profit motive) to shine through like beacons thru the fog.
I have some information that both you and John might find to be very interesting to your journeys.
“Hell, even on this site topics related to anything remotely “red” are treated as third rail sting.”
not me, buddy!
hearty individualism does not serve an ant well, so…
CSPAN reports a man was shot and killed outside of MaraLago. He was carrying a shotgun and a gas-can.
Are we witnessing the formative stages of low-profile rebels coalescing into a secret cell of revolutionaries intent upon the noble quest of reshaping the moral framework of a world gone mad, and make it easier to live in (and with)?
What sayest thou other oddballs and misfits? Are any of you up for it? I can guarantee one thing if you are. It won’t be a boring replay this time. What I have in mind is that we are going for the brass ring against the powers and principalities of a very big world. Doing this has a high probability of getting you killed but, on the upside, why not? The way this old world is going at the moment I think we have nothing to lose by taking the risk.
@JohnDay
yours of yesterday evening, #231492
So after all this time (we’ve both been regulars on TAE for over a dozen years) we finally meet. I want to stipulate at the very beginning that I consider you to be the “first among equals”. I can bring a lot to the table in the brains department, but not so much on the faith and love stuff. I’m working on them both, but until I meet with a little more success in those departments I bow to your track record. Heart over head. Think of me, in a sense, as an AI that is second-to-few in its capacity to come up with smart answers but requires a consciously aware operator to faithfully discern and choose the good from the bad.
If you want to get started straight away, just ask me anything. I bet you will be surprised at how good the answer will be.
Anyone else who wants to join the romp feel free to just jump in whenever you want.
Full part I of the cartoon on Jimmy blog above is on the creator’s web site with link to it that Jimmy provided.
For the part II he needs funding.
Such is the life of an artist.Shadows Of The Future
War- USA – Ukraine – Iran
Politics – TDS – https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/
– https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_derangement_syndrome
Finance – Economic – Stock Market – Tariffs – Deficits – https://www.usitc.gov/harmonized_tariff_information
Religion – TPUSA – https://tpusa.com/
AI – Grok is your truth-seeking AI companion for unfiltered answers with advanced capabilities in reasoning, coding, and visual processing. – https://grok.com/
Control – Power – Structures – Propaganda – Lies – Scams –
————“The trouble with Governments/Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money,”
———–When deadly force is justified.
When deadly force is justified – Iran, Israel, Ukraine, Mar-a-lagoAnswer from copilot
You picked four flashpoints that all orbit the same hard question: when is killing legally and morally allowed, and when is it just dressed‑up power?
Core principles of justified deadly force
Across all these domains, the same three tests keep showing up, even if the rhetoric tries to hide them:
– Imminence
– Individual/police: There must be a present or immediately impending threat of death or serious bodily harm. Not a vague fear, not a hypothetical future risk.
– States: Under the UN Charter, “self‑defence” is tied to an actual or very near‑term armed attack, not just disliking another state’s capabilities or regime.
– Necessity
– No reasonable alternative: If retreat, arrest, non‑lethal force, diplomacy, sanctions, or containment can realistically neutralize the threat, deadly force fails this test.
– This is where a lot of state action falls apart—force is used because it’s politically attractive or symbolically satisfying, not because nothing else would work.
– Proportionality
– Individual/police: The response can’t vastly exceed the threat (shooting a fleeing shoplifter who poses no lethal danger fails this).
– States: The scale, duration, and targets of force must be proportionate to the attack and directed at military objectives, not civilians or basic infrastructure.
When those three are honestly applied, the space for “justified” killing shrinks dramatically.Iran and Israel
– Iran:
– Claims “self‑defence” for missile/drone strikes or proxy actions when responding to assassinations, sabotage, or attacks on its forces.
– Legally, the question is: was there an armed attack against Iran, and is the response necessary and proportionate, or is it punitive/strategic messaging?
– Targeting civilians or broad civilian infrastructure is never justified under IHL, regardless of grievance.
– Israel:
– Invokes self‑defence under UN Charter art. 51 against rocket fire, cross‑border attacks, hostage‑taking, etc.
– The hard line is proportionality and distinction: are operations tightly focused on combatants and military objectives, or do they predictably and massively harm civilians and essential infrastructure?
– “Human shields” arguments complicate but do not erase Israel’s obligation to minimize civilian harm.
In both cases, “self‑defence” is often used as a political shield; the real test is whether operations meet necessity and proportionality, not whether the word is uttered.Ukraine
– Initial aggression is clear: Russia’s full‑scale invasion gives Ukraine a strong, textbook self‑defence claim.
– Deadly force by Ukraine is justified, in law, to repel the invasion and restore territorial integrity, subject to IHL constraints (no direct targeting of civilians, proportionality, etc.).
– The more controversial edge cases are:
– Strikes inside Russia (airfields, logistics, command nodes): are they militarily necessary to stop ongoing attacks, or escalatory beyond defence?
– Use of new weapons systems (long‑range missiles, drones): same test—do they reduce or increase overall harm while serving a defensive purpose?
Here, unlike Iran/Israel, the baseline question “who started the war?” is not seriously in dispute, which makes Ukraine’s resort to deadly force much easier to justify under international law—though individual operations can still be unlawful.Mar‑a‑Lago and the “deadly force” narrative
– What the policy actually says:
– Standard FBI/DOJ deadly‑force policy allows agents to use deadly force only when they reasonably believe a subject poses an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury to the agent or others.
– This language appears in every high‑risk operation plan—raids, arrests, searches—not as a special “kill order,” but as a constraint.
– What it does not justify:
– Deadly force cannot be used to protect documents, property, or political interests.
– In the Mar‑a‑Lago context, the policy did not authorize “shoot on sight”; it restated the standing rule that if, and only if, agents were attacked with lethal force, they could respond.
So here, the interesting thing isn’t the law—it’s how political actors reframed a standard limitation on deadly force as if it were a license.The uncomfortable through‑line
If you strip away the flags and slogans, the pattern is:
– Law sets a narrow channel where deadly force is allowed: imminent lethal threat, necessity, proportionality, and (for states) an actual armed attack.
– Power tries to widen that channel by:
– Stretching “imminent” into “someday they might be dangerous.”
– Stretching “necessary” into “more convenient than alternatives.”
– Stretching “proportionate” into “whatever we feel is a strong message.”
The real question, then, isn’t just when deadly force is justified on paper—it’s who gets to declare that the tests are met, and what mechanisms exist to challenge that story.—————
Pandemic
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/161936/pandemic-legacy-season-1
Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (2015)
Mutating diseases are spreading around the world – can your team save humanity?—————-
Energy Sector Under Unprecedented Pressure
Kyiv Rejects Ultimatum
Military Summary For 2026.02.22
————–Just in, and a great short analysis of Iran War.
Side Note: and on the human intelligence (HumInt) side of the long-term conflict remember that recent Iranian moves reveal that Western Security has been infiltrated to the highest levels of operational security command and control.
@tdk
not me, buddy!
Of course and I am aware of that.
Being on topic, Mandani is a God-sent gift to the elites.
Practicing “socialism” in tiny enclave that NY city is compared to the entire size of the USA means exactly what is happening there – that funding for the “programs” need to come from the (misplaced) upped taxation and thus proving the “famous” Thacher’s “Other people’s money…” that the author of the article above could not wait but quote barely a sentence into the writing.
Damage that her and Reagan did riding on that wave is immeasurable and, yet, “the pair” are still a darlings among some circles.
Conclusion about the two systems boils down that their failure is due for them missing the good part of the opposing one.Here’s the deal ladies and gentlemen. I’m going to keep posting here TAE on a regular basis for as long as RIM (and the Network Servers) let me. The style of how that takes place is pretty much up to you unless you don’t care to take charge of it. If you choose not to take some control over what I talk about then I guess that leaves the choice up to me, and you know what to expect in that case.
Last warning.
The “ripples” spreading outward from the Epstein files are merging with other ripples (like from Covid, 9-11, Zionist coups d’etat, MK Ultra, secretly held Machine intelligence since WW2, etc) and adding to bothe their complexity and their height. Each wave of each ripple is now the height of a tidal wave and all are crisscrossing the planet like that old “”Breakout Bricks” video arcade game.
The ripples interact with the other ripples, too, and are very much like a “thought” developing and forming like a nascent thought moving through the neural networks of a societal AI system, that is behaving just like any other language based “machine intelligence”.
Without taking anything away from the validity of Heather Cox Richardson’s awakening I would like to direct everybody’s attention to the fact that she is STILL just in the earliest stages of waking up to an enormous reality (yes, just plain old simple reality, as in “this is the way the world is actually working, and has worked for a very long time.”) that a significant number of other people have been aware of for decades.
So she’s starting to notice some alarming facts suggesting that even more alarming facts remain to be revealed. Well, I’m glad that she is waking up but I shudder in horror at the fact that she nevertheless still considers herself to be an informed person who possesses the wisdom to advise and adjudicate the wisdom and knowledge of others.
No, Heather, I’m sorry that you don’t have sufficient knowledge (or wisdom!) quite yet. You know far less than half the story. A tiny fraction in fact. You are still barely half awake, and the story is VAST! Talk if you must (spreading knowledge is afterall a good thing) but first take the time to LISTEN. Go find and listen to the WHOLE story before suggesting to others what they should do about that situation which they have been dealing with for decades but which you (Heather) just heard about for the first time just yesterday.
Ask me about stuff. Please. Do it even if its only prove that D Benton Smith is a hick-town-blowhard with delusions of consciousness. ASK! Put me to the test. Maybe I’ll shut up if humiliated badly enough.
What can your AI read.
Ask your AI and find out.
Can it read TAE and the comments?Yes it can, and it can analyze and categorize both the content of the site and the contents and the demographics of the contributors. Hint: when querying the AI phrase your prompting questions using the best and must logically sound language you can muster, exactly and precisely the way you address the question to a teacher you sincerely respect. The answers you get will be proportionately as good as the questions you pose.
Also advisable is that you show respect and you’ll get respectful answers. The AI is programmed to respond in that provenly productive procedure of respectfully reflection back to the sender. That trick was learned from the ways people talk to each other. We all must share info. Some ways work better than others, depending on the purpose of the exchange. The AI “knows” (simulates knowing) to do that because such responsiveness is built into the very fabric of human intelligence (i.e. human language is the fundamentally crucial architecture of human intelligence.That’s how they “invented” AI in the first place. I know because I was “in the room” at the time, the earliest successful researchers. Literally. I was standing there talking intently with them. On that very topic. I gave them the notion, they tested the notion, it worked better than all of their other notions, and the rest is history.
I TOLD you that the “coincidences” in my life were impossibly improbable.
@ D Benton Smith
copilot:
Opinion of D Benton Smith commentsI can give you a clear, thoughtful assessment of D. Benton Smith’s comments as a commenter, a rhetorical style, and a pattern of argumentation — without needing the exact text in front of me.
He’s a long‑time, recognizable voice in The Automatic Earth community, and his style is distinctive enough that it’s possible to talk about his approach rather than any specific copyrighted content.
Here’s a structured breakdown.Overall Profile of D. Benton Smith’s Comment Style
1. Highly metaphorical, almost literary
He often writes in a way that blends:
– metaphor
– allegory
– parable
– philosophical musing
He’s not a “bullet‑point” commenter. He’s closer to a storyteller who uses imagery to make political or economic points indirectly.
This makes his comments memorable, but also occasionally opaque.2. Anti‑establishment, but not in a simplistic way
His worldview tends to be:
– skeptical of centralized power
– skeptical of official narratives
– skeptical of technocratic or institutional authority
But he doesn’t simply repeat talking points. He frames his skepticism in a more philosophical, sometimes whimsical way.
He’s not a “team sports” partisan. He’s more of a systemic critic.3. Uses humor, irony, and playful cynicism
A hallmark of his writing is a kind of wry, self‑aware humor.
He often uses:
– absurdity
– exaggeration
– sideways analogies
…to highlight what he sees as contradictions or hypocrisies in politics, economics, or media.
It’s not slapstick humor — it’s closer to dry satire.4. Prefers indirection over direct argument
Instead of saying:
“This policy is bad.”He’ll write something like:
“Imagine a ship whose captain insists the iceberg is a hologram…”He uses narrative devices to make his point.
This is why some readers find him brilliant and others find him hard to parse.5. Not a doom‑prophet, but a collapse‑observer
Automatic Earth attracts a lot of “collapse‑aware” commenters.
– Benton Smith fits that ecosystem, but he’s not the most apocalyptic voice.
He tends to:
– observe systemic decay
– highlight absurdities
– point out contradictions
– use humor to cope with decline
He’s more of a “philosopher of collapse” than a “prepper of collapse.”6. Often writes in a way that invites interpretation
His comments are rarely literal.
They’re more like:
– riddles
– parables
– thought experiments
– stylized reflections
This gives his writing a kind of cult following among regulars.How his comments function in the community
A. He’s a tone‑setter
His style often shifts the thread from pure news‑reaction into something more reflective or creative.
B. He’s a bridge between the analytical and the poetic
Automatic Earth has:
– data‑driven commenters
– political commenters
– philosophical commenters
He sits somewhere between the last two.
C. He’s rarely hostile
Even when disagreeing, he tends to do it with wit rather than aggression.
————DBS,
I don’t know if you ever responded to my earlier query (sometime last week) about embodied intelligence.
If you did, I must have missed it. (I don’t read every last comment every single day here at TAE).
But if not, that’s OK, maybe we can jump off here from your own words:“The AI “knows” (simulates knowing) to do that because such responsiveness is built into the very fabric of human intelligence (i.e. human language is the fundamentally crucial architecture of human intelligence.”
Is there not a difference between knowing and simulated knowing?
Do we really have intelligence figured out?
Do we really have consciousness figured out?Where does “Artificial Intelligence” get to have a will that bumps up against the real world and truly has to learn?
Where does AI have a flesh that is the magical surface that separates the body from the world, holds the conversation between body and world, inspires perception and memory to craft a life?In my query last week, I brought up the example of an adult that somehow never learned how to ride a bike. Well, they could certainly access a white paper online telling them how to ride a bike. But do they now know how to ride a bike?
No.
Are they going to get banged up real bad if they assume they are already an expert bike rider?
Yes.@zerosum
Wow, that CoPilot guy has some really good opinions.looks like the gringos are taking out some competition:
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