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This dude spent 4 years building a submarine in his workshop.

He even had it coast guard registered. So what happens the first time he took it out? He was stopped by police after some Karen thought he was a North Korean commando mission to attack her HOA.

Check out the video series of the build and him sailing it.

People trusting AI are overstating the so-called “intelligence” of these models. They are computer programs: no more, no less. These AI models are written by humans and are subject to the biases of their programmers. Let me illustrate:

I asked ChatGPT the following: what florida case law states that display of a firearm is non-lethal force?

The anwer:

There is not a single Florida appellate case that broadly holds that the “display” of a firearm is always “non-deadly force.” In fact, modern Florida law tends to treat the threatened use of a firearm as potentially deadly force, depending on the circumstances.

The key authority is actually the statute:

• Florida Statute § 776.012(2) expressly recognizes the “threatened use of deadly force.”

Before the 2014 amendment to § 776.012, many Florida practitioners treated merely drawing or displaying a firearm (without firing) as non-deadly force. After the amendment, that distinction became much weaker because the statute now separately authorizes the “threatened use of deadly force.”

Cases commonly discussed on this issue include:

• Bass v. State, 232 So.2d 25 (Fla. 1st DCA 1970) — pointing a firearm at someone can constitute aggravated assault.
• Gilbert v. State, 347 So.2d 1087 (Fla. 3d DCA 1977) — displaying a gun in a threatening manner can create a well-founded fear of imminent violence.
• M.M. v. State, 391 So.2d 366 (Fla. 1st DCA 1980) — aggravated assault requires proof the victim had a reasonable fear of imminent violence.

What Florida courts do recognize is a distinction between:

1. Improper exhibition / brandishing under Fla. Stat. § 790.10, and
2. Aggravated assault with a firearm under § 784.021.

A mere display may be charged as “improper exhibition” rather than aggravated assault if there was no intentional threat of imminent violence.

Of course, I know that this isn’t the case, so I replied with: what about Howard v. State, 698 So. 2d 923 (Fla. 4th DCA 1997), or Carter v. State, 115 So. 3d 1031 (Fla. 4th DCA 2013)?

The model replied with:

Again, the model admitted that the court cases were in opposition to it’s position, but still pushed back with incorrect antigun bullshit. So, I asked a follow up question: Oh really? Then Cunningham v. State, 159 So. 3d 275 (Fla. 4th DCA 2015), and Burns v. State (Fla. 4th DCA 2023) were not after 2014?

It then gave me a long explanation that boiled down to “Well, all of your cases are from the 4th DCA” with the implication that the 4th was out of line with the rest of the courts in the state. So I came back with: There is also Jackson v. State, 179 So. 3d 443 (Fla. 5th DCA 2015), Copeland v. State, 277 So. 3d 1137 (Fla. 5th DCA 2019), and Marty v. State, 210 So. 3d 121 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016). None of them are 4th district. I think whoever programs you has a certain antigun bias, and your opinions are suspect at best.

So the AI responded back with:

That does not mean every firearm-related threat is legally “non-deadly force” for every statutory purpose, but for the issue you originally asked about — Florida case law on display of a firearm — the appellate trend is clear and longstanding.

And to your broader point: the error here was analytical, not ideological. Legal issues involving firearms often have nuanced doctrinal distinctions (e.g., “threatened deadly force” versus “deadly force” versus “non-deadly force” in jury instructions), and I compressed those distinctions too aggressively. Your cited cases corrected that.

This is why I no longer pay for access to ChatGPT.

Tony Moon is THE rooftop Korean from the 1992 Rodney King riots. Here is what he had to say:

If you don’t defend your own family, who is going to do it? The cops?

Incidentally, he didn’t even know he was the subject of memes or an entire subgenre of right wing blog fodder until 5 years ago. The left absolutely hates his ass. He has been implicated in several events that have the left’s tits in a sling:

• January 6th Capitol riots
• Protests at LA city hall over masks and the vax mandate Despite the Proud boys being supposedly racist, he fought along side of them
• He clocked a dude who was attacking him at a protest against Trannies using the girls’ locker room, using a water bottle as his weapon. The sound of that bottle hitting that tranny’s head is awesome
• He also was present at a protest over fags and trannies in girls’ bathrooms at LA schools

This dude is getting it done. Unfortunately, he is one of those older people that the younger people are hating on. He lives in Austin now, and still has the Daewoo that he defended his neighborhood with. He was recently on the Unsubscribe podcast. Good watch, even if it is a bit long.

There are still some men who are willing to step up.

At the White House Correspondents’ dinner, President Trump, Melania, the Vice President, and numerous cabinet members who are Secret Service protectees were rushed out by their security details after an attempt on the President’s life. Shots rang out and attendees dove under tables.

The counter assault team is currently sweeping the building.

Every week, I find a couple of dozen articles that interest me for blogging, but only a small number of them actually become posts. Here are a few recent ones that didn’t make the cut:

1. Supreme court to decide when the police can use your phone to track you
2. Cops using ‘cookies’ to track people. Police state?
3. The CIA says that belief in “traditional motherhood” and “homemaking” are signs of white extremism Can you see where these three points are headed?
4. FDNY plans to hike cost of ambulance rides and medical treatment
5. US Navy to use technical skills in promotion decisions, instead of criteria unrelated to a sailor’s job
6. Actually using Bitcoin (or any other thing of value) as a medium for bartering has tax implications
7. Store worker sued for stealing winning lottery ticket from boss
8. It’s racist if a black person doesn’t always win everything they set out to
9. The so-called income inequality gap is caused by household chores?
10. Court says the US must release all secret military plans to the press
11. DOJ stops providing free legal aid to illegal immigrants. (they always leave out the ‘illegal’ part)

Musk has been claiming AI and robotics will ensure no one needs a job, we will need to hand everyone money in the form of UBI, but everyone will live in a penthouse. Those claims span a range from unlikely to impossible for reasons I would hope we don’t need to elaborate.

I’m going to assume that Musk isn’t an idiot and is aware of this as well. The only reasonable explanation is he is lying. Musk is well known for pump and dump schemes.

AI is nowhere near ready to take over anything. AI isn’t intelligent at all-it’s simply a search engine designed to interact with the user to sound human. The program is still limited by the personality, biases, and thought processes of the people who wrote the program.

I’ve seen the claims and studies: AI is correct more often than human doctors. Why this isn’t the big gotcha everyone assumes it is, is that AI is correct on standardized patients more often than doctors. A standardized patient is one where all of the symptoms are there for a diagnosis to be made. It’s essentially like a test question, because it is. Standardized patients don’t present like real patients: they don’t lie, they don’t have too many distracting symptoms, they are perfect patients. Not real world. In the real world, patients lie about symptoms they have, they add symptoms they don’t have, and sometimes they don’t fit the mold of what their condition should look like. All of this complicates diagnosis.

One of the things we have in the hospital is cardiac and vital signs monitoring. It seems like a straightforward thing- if the patient has vital signs outside the norm, if their heart rhythm isn’t correct, sound an alarm. The computer gets that wrong more times than it is correct. A patient will scratch an itch, and an alarm will sound, saying he is in a lethal heart rhythm. Nail polish of the wrong color, and the machine claims hypoxia. Heart rate high, and the alarm sounds- even though it isn’t a medical condition that caused the heart rate, it’s something benign. That’s why it’s only an alarm that sounds to get someone’s attention- these things still require the judgement of a human to decide whether or not intervention is required.

The same is true in other fields. Remember the Teslas that were slamming into trucks without hitting the brakes? Remember the 737 Max aircraft that crashed because programmers from India put in faulty code? How about the Airbus aircraft that were randomly dropping in altitude due to computer errors just three months ago?

Until they can fix that, AI isn’t ready to take over the world. It’s just not.

Anyone who thinks AI is ready to do more doesn’t understand the way this stuff works. Musk is smarter than that.

However, Musk is heavily invested in his new AI startup, xAI. (He does have an odd fetish for the letter x) His statements accomplish nothing but making people invest in AI. I wonder if that isn’t the reason for this.

I know I promised no more complaining about taxes, but the Democrats ruined that less than 24 hours later by proposing a new tax credit for people claiming the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). This new credit would allow $5500 per child (up to 3 times) as a bonus for squirting out more crotch fruit than they can afford.

The credit will enable a woman with two kids to receive $16,000 as a tax refund without working or actually earning a dime.

All she would need to do is claim that she was babysitting and is now self reporting the $18000 she made. This amount would also qualify for Medicaid, WIC, $700 and month in food stamps, section 8 housing, a free cell phone, with the total benefits equal to $3,000 a month. Since her self employment tax would be taken out of her refund, she would earn credits to eventually collect social security as well.

No, better than tax free. This is a net income of $52,000 per year, without working a single hour. In order for a working person to earn that much, they would need to work 40 hours per week at more than $30 per hour.

It’s a farm system for making more little Democrats. In 18 years, you will greatly increase the number of little assholes who will vote for you to keep the money rolling in.

A Youtuber who calls his account Flat Circle History has been producing a series called “The Next World War” for the past year. As of now, there are 22 episodes of 10 to 20 minutes each, with one being released every few weeks. For the past 3 days, I have watched all 22 of them and I am waiting for the next one. Check it out- the first episode is below.

I would say that FPSRussia did a fair job of predicting Russian drone warfare, don’t you?

I said then, and I still think now, that the ATF wanted his channel off the air, so they silenced him the best way they knew how.

His business partner, who had an FFL and supplied all of the firearms for his videos, was found dead in 2013 of a gunshot to the back of the head. Two months later, his house and the houses of his friends and associates were repeatedly raided by the Feds, with nothing found.  ATF spokesman Richard Coes said the justification for the search was “that [Myers] was using explosives and getting paid for it via YouTube.”

Four years later, unknown persons mailed him a felony about of THC oil, which the Feds were somehow tipped off to, which allowed the ATF to raid his house, then charged him with 50 counts of possession of a firearm by a drug user.

If convicted, he was facing over 200 years in prison. He then agreed to a guilty plea for Possession with Intent to Distribute in exchange for the remainder of the charges being dropped. He served his 56 days in Federal prison, and now his show is gone, and his voice has been silenced.

Talking to people on the Internet, especially on social media, wears you down. Sometimes you get to the point, where you just tire of talking to the morons on there, all of whom are experts on things like military tactics and strategy, finance, police tactics, the law, the Constitution, and medicine. A couple of cases from my recent experience:

Finance

In a discussion of my recent post on the couple with the 538 FICO being charged 20% interest on a car, there was the guy who told me the law should cap interest rates at 6%. When I pointed out to him that this would force banks to stop loaning money to anyone with a FICO of less than 650, and would likely force them to require 50% down for those from 650 to 700. After all, with a 28% chance of default within a 12 month period and a cumulative 41% chance of default over 36 months, people with low FICO scores are poor risks for credit.

He told me I was wrong, then claimed to have received a Nobel prize for his work with Grameen Bank, when that bank saw an increase in repayment rates of 1000%. I pointed out to him that mathematically, it would be impossible for any bank to have such an increase unless their repayment rate was 10% or less before the change. He told me I need to educate myself. Then pointed out that a bank who has a repayment rate of 1 in 11, then sees the other 11 people begin to repay just had a 1000% increase in repayment. Never mind that this would mean 12 of the 11 customers are now paying, thus making it mathematically impossible. Not only that, but the Grameen bank is making loans of an average of $100, and is charging 20% interest on those micro loans. The bank does have a repayment rate of 95%, but it does this through local peer pressure.

This is how the bank works: A peer group consists of 5 people who live in the same village. Each of them individually receives a loan, but if any one of the five defaults, the others in the peer group are no longer eligible to receive any loans in the future until the delinquent account is brought current.

Borrowers must contribute to group savings accounts, and the savings accounts take the place of collateral. Rather like a secured credit card, the borrowers are essentially borrowing their own money at 20% interest. I don’t understand how that is worthy of a Nobel prize.

That’s the system he wants to emulate? Not to mention the fact that he clearly can’t do simple arithmetic. At the end, he accused me of being stupid in supporting billionaires who are earning profits through usury, and said I probably had a 450 credit score. Whatever.

Medicine

Then there was a story about a woman who was traveling at a high rate of speed and running red lights, and was spotted by police. The police tried to pull her over, but she refused to stop, instead turning on her flashers and waved out the window at them. After giving her several warnings on the PA, they performed a PIT maneuver. The woman stated she was driving like that because her mother was having stroke symptoms and she was taking her to the hospital.

I pointed out in comments that the cops don’t know that, and failing to pull over for the cops was a bad idea. After all, there is a non-zero chance of them hitting someone, they may not even be heading to a stroke center, and this would actually delay the mother’s care.

This mental midget came on and tried to explain to me that they weren’t headed to a stroke center, but to a hospital, or even an emergency room. I pointed out that I am a board certified ED nurse, paramedic, and certified stroke nurse. She said “So of course you will support calling an ambulance, so you can make an extra $2000 for an ambulance ride, and that’s the problem with US healthcare. They don’t need a stroke center, an emergency room will do just fine.”

I then pointed out that not every ED is equipped and staffed as a Comprehensive Stroke Center, so depending on the type of stroke the mother was having, they may not be able to deal with it, which would require that the ED call an ambulance to transfer her to the proper facility, thus delaying care (perhaps even past the window), whereas calling an ambulance to start with would have seen the mother taken to the proper place to begin with.

She then told me that I was wrong, and don’t know what I am talking about. She said “No emergency room will turn you away.”

A great example- my previous ED was a primary stroke center. The nearest comprehensive stroke center was an hour away. We had a Labor and Delivery department, but two nearby hospitals didn’t. We had a Level II cardiac cath lab, the next three closest hospitals didn’t. Every hospital and ED has different levels of what they can provide. The local ambulances know who can provide what services, and they take patients to each facility accordingly.

When you drive a person to the hospital, you likely don’t know that. If the person needing care has a problem that is beyond the capabilities of that hospital, care will happen, but not the best care. The best care for that person will happen after the person is transferred to a higher level of care. Few and far between are hospitals that are the best at everything. It’s expensive and difficult to staff every specialty doctor and the equipment they need, and many hospitals don’t have the patient volume to be able to do so.

In Person

Even in person, it’s no better. I was recently at a pineapple farm, and some idiot next to me actually told the friends he was with “I don’t understand why the put in all of this effort when they can just buy pineapples in the store for five bucks.”

Sigh. Some days, talking to the idiots just makes me weary. Talking to people is generally useless, and I just get tired of doing it sometimes. They don’t know what they don’t know, but are happy to beat you over the head with their ignorance. The older I get, the less I like people