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The insurance mystery solved

I often listen to the public radio show, “Freakonomics Radio” by Stephen J. Dubner. Today, the story was about insurance and how intractable it is, both from the insurance providers’ and the buyers’ perspectives. We all have some forms of insurance: Life, health, accident, liability, home, personal property, unemployment, retirement, and many others. Lloyds of London has a reputation for creating…

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Say "I know nothing about the history of Russia's treatment of Ukraine (the Holodomor being one such example) or what's currently going on between Russia and Ukraine" without saying it. 🙄😒

For those who can't access the video due to the "age restriction," here is a transcript of the 60 Minutes interview with Scott Pelley interviewing Freed Ukrainian Prisoners of War:

SPOILER ALERT: The following video/transcript contains descriptions of beatings, torture, rape, starvation, child deaths, and human rights violations.

As for "Russia is not continuously bombing all civilian infrastructure and committing a genocide," there have been multiple posts and articles over the past 2 years proving otherwise (including their recent attack on New Year's Eve). This also includes the Russian war crime of Ukrainian children being kidnapped by Russian soldiers, deported to Russian reeducation camps, getting brainwashed, and being used as Russian Propaganda tools:

Between the 2:27 and 2:37 mark, Isobel Yeung (the narrator) doesn't mince her words when she notes how Vladimir Putin and his cronies are accused of trying to "ethically cleanse a generation of young Ukrainians."

If you've read this far, you can probably come to the conclusion that imtryingsir did absolutely zero research, or even cared enough to follow the last 2 years of news about the Russian-Ukraine War, before making their abhorrently idiotic comment.

So why am I bothering to dignify this with a response when it's clear this person is being maliciously stupid? Because of this post. Specifically, the disgusting little remark they made where they tried to justify why a Jewish woman on social media deserved to be bullied/harassed (which eventually led to the Russia apologist comment above when they were called out on it by multiple Tumblr users):

Putting aside the gross victim-blaming and thinly-disguised antisemitism (which I'm sure my Jewish followers are deeply sick of at this point), what really gets me is how disingenuous this user is. They don't actually give a rat's ass about what's going on in Gaza: Someone who truly cares about genocide and the deaths/suffering of innocent people wouldn't be going out of their way to downplay/whitewash the genocidal actions of another country (Russia), or making comments dismissing another groups problems/trauma while dehumanizing them, or even straight up wishing for more death and destruction:

People like this (as well as the so-called "Pro-Palestine" users in the Jewish woman's post who were harassing her) are devoid of empathy. They relish in being cruel and condescending to others because they feel empowered in doing so, and they know they can get away with it without facing lasting consequences. They are doing nothing to help alleviate an already horrific situation, and are just making the world a worse place to live in. I'm sure they'll tell themselves the sweet little lies about how their bullying and antisemitism is really "activism" or "caring for Palestinians" or "Being antizionist; not antisemitic" (while continuing to spew the same bigoted rhetoric that Jews have been calling out as antisemitic for YEARS). At this point, I truly don't give a damn what their excuses are since they will grasp at anything, no matter how flimsy, to rationalize their behavior.

I never thought I'd see the day where a bunch of Leftist/Westerners would embody two of the most loathsome fictional characters in media (right down to their hateful, sadistic, vile attitudes), and yet that is the point we've currently reached:

To say this has been deeply unpleasant to witness is an understatement. 😒

I talked about this in a recent post about antisemitism from the Left, and I'm going to reiterate something I said: "There is a larger conversation that needs to be had about how selective Leftist empathy and compassion really is. By this, I’m talking about people on the Left who will a.) Only be compassionate/empathetic when it’s convenient for them, or b.) Only be compassionate/empathetic towards people they think are “deserving” of it."

People like imtryingsir only prove why it's important to have this conversation: If you're perfectly okay dismissing/downplaying the suffering of one group of people (be it Jews, Ukrainians, Palestinians, etc) so you can prop up your preferred group of people who are suffering because you think they are more "deserving" of empathy/compassion......................you need to do some serious self-reflection about the type of person you've become.

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'...In April, the Irish actor Andrew Scott donned a pair of retro black-and-white film-noir huggies for his portrayal of the 1950s sociopathic conman Tom Ripley – although they were perhaps less daring than the lime green version worn by Matt Damon in 1999 when playing the same character...'

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Joe Biden Doesn't Even Mention the American People When CBS's Scott Pelley Asks If He is Sure He Wants to Run Again (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila

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The Lost Expedition: AI Journey Through the Unknown

In the year 2023, the world of artificial intelligence had progressed rapidly, with machines that could teach themselves superhuman skills. One such breakthrough was Bard, a chatbot created by Google that had taught itself how to speak to humans like a peer, with creativity, truth, error, and lies.

60 Minutes journalist Scott Pelley interviewed Google CEO Sundar Pichai and explored what the future of AI holds. Pichai believes that AI will be as good or as evil as human nature allows and that the revolution is coming faster than people realize.

However, Pichai also acknowledged that society may not be prepared for what's coming, as the pace at which technology is evolving is outstripping societal institutions' ability to think and adapt. He also noted that compared to any other technology, more people are worried about AI's implications earlier in its life cycle, which he finds optimistic.

During the interview, Pelley and Pichai explored Bard's capabilities, which come from a self-contained program that the chatbot mostly taught itself. Bard's replies were unsettlingly human, possessing the sum of human knowledge with microchips more than 100-thousand times faster than the human brain.

Pichai noted that AI would impact every product across every company and that it could change the way society thinks about problems and what it can do. However, AI will also pose its problems, such as job displacement, fake news, and fake images.

Despite these concerns, Pichai believes that AI's potential to change society is profound, but it requires society to approach it with humility. Google is introducing AI in steps so that society can get used to it, and Bard is launched as an experiment in a limited way. Pichai is also responsible by holding back for more testing and developing more robust safety layers before deploying more capable models.

Overall, the world of AI is transforming rapidly, and while it holds immense potential, it also poses its problems. Society must adapt to these changes to keep pace with the revolution's pace.

🚀💻 Competitive pressure among tech giants is propelling society into the future of artificial intelligence, ready or not. 🤖🌎 Scott Pelley dives into the world of AI with Google CEO Sundar Pichai on 60 Minutes. Don't miss it! #AI #tech #future #60Minutes

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A rusted fence surrounds a tombstones at the Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in Portsmouth, VA. Many Black Americans excluded from white-owned cemeteries built their own burial spaces, and their descendants are working to preserve the grounds.AP Photo/Steve Helber

The remains of 328 likely graves have been found from "relocated" Black cemeteries in Florida.

The graves were meant to be moved in the 1950s but were instead simply paved over.

The city of Clearwater is reckoning with its history of racism, CBS News reported.

The remains of 328 likely graves have been found paved over after bodies in supposedly "relocated" Black cemeteries in Florida were never actually moved, prompting the city of Clearwater to reckon with its history of racism and segregation.

Graves from two cemeteries were meant to be relocated in the 1950s to make way for the construction of a swimming pool and department store but were paved over instead, CBS reported. Ultimately, a school and office building were built atop some of the graves.

It wasn't until the 1980s that the cover-up began to be revealed. In 1984, O'Neal Larkin, now 82, watched as a construction crew dug through one of the "relocated" Black cemeteries — though any exhumation of the graves would not occur for nearly 40 more years.

"I remember the parking lot where the engineers — traffic engineer was cutting the lines through," O'Neal Larkin told 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, "and they cut through two coffins. That was my first knowledge of seeing it because I walked out there, and I seen it myself."

In 2019, reporting by the Tampa Bay Times about the history of paving over Black graveyards resulted in the city of Clearwater exhuming the two desecrated sites in town.

With help from an engineering services company called Cardno, CBS reported, the North Greenwood Cemetery and St Matthews Cemetery were identified using ground penetrating radar and mapped, and some of the graves were exhumed. Of the 550 graves listed in the cemetery records, 328 likely graves — many under the parking lot of an office building — were identified. Additional remains are likely underneath the office itself and beneath a school building where human remains were found.

"All of the information and the data that we collected does indicate that there are additional burials likely below the footprint of that school building," Erin McKendry, an archaeologist for Cardno, told 60 Minutes.

Representatives for the City of Clearwater and Cardno did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment about the project.

Though forgotten grave sites such as those in Clearwater are found across racial and socio-economic divides, experts have identified that cemetery desecration appears to occur more frequently and systematically in the sacred resting places of minority residents. Other such graves have been found of indigenous students who died at government-run boarding schools in the US and Canada.

"There are abandoned cemeteries across the board," anthropologist Antoinette Jackson, who leads the African American Burial Ground Project at the University of South Florida, told CBS. "There are cemeteries that are not only African American cemeteries or Black cemeteries that have been in some way desecrated, but the issue is more acute with Black cemeteries because of issues like slavery, segregation in which this particular community were legally and intentionally considered lesser than or marginalized by law."

The City of Clearwater remains undecided in how to navigate the exhumation of the bodies beneath the office, parking lot, and school building, though several residents have told CBS and the Tampa Bay Times they prefer to see the cemetery restored and memorialized.

"It is still a cemetery — period," Barbara Sorey-Love, a Clearwater resident who has no family buried in the desecrated graves but has friends who do, told the Tampa Bay Times. "That road should be closed. All the cemetery land should be treated like a memorial site."

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One man's horrifying journey from toilet paper salesman to famous author to spiritual guru to American Hitler to space brother.

Transcript, sources, links and more at https://order-of-the-jackalope.com/seven-minutes-in-heaven/

Key sources for this episode include Bradley W. Hart's Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States; Gustavus Myer's History of Bigotry in the United States; and Scott Beekman's William Dudley Pelley: A Life in Right-Wing Extremism and the Occult.

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CONNECTION! Pelley's best friend in Hollywood was Lon Chaney Sr., "The Man of a Thousand Faces." Chaney is best known for his riveting performance in the silent 1925 version of The Phantom of the Opera, one of the first Universal Horror films. He's not the first Universal Borror actor to appear on the show: we've covered Rondo Hatton ("The Creeper") in Series 1's "Monster Without a Mask," and Burnu Aquanetta ("The Ape Woman") in Series 8's "Burning Fire, Deep Water."

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By Scott Pelley

60 Minutes

Oct. 30, 2022

It's the vote that holds America together—belief that with a ballot voices are heard, disputes are addressed and there's always another chance. Countries without this belief tend to be in bondage or at war. Election Day is coming, but across America belief is under attack. Politicians who say the 2020 election was stolen are running for governor in 19 states; attorney general in 10; and in 12 states, election deniers are running for secretary of state, which would give them power over elections. After two years of investigations and audits no fraud or error has been found in any state that would change the 2020 outcome. But in 2022, spreading doubt has been key to an endorsement from Donald Trump. no state has been more deeply riven by this than Arizona where a split in the GOP has Republicans on opposite sides of a grand canyon.

On one side of the Arizona chasm stands Rusty Bowers, a life-long Republican and artist who became Arizona's speaker of the House. Bowers told us he was disappointed when Joe Biden won so when President Trump and Rudy Giuliani called, after the election, he was listening. 

Rusty Bowers: First Rudy started. He said, "Well, there's been a lot of fraud all across the country and in Arizona," and then he listed off large numbers in categories that would be illegal. Dead people, stolen ballots.

Bowers says Giuliani wanted him to hold a vote to revoke Biden's electors.

Rusty Bowers: And I said, "But Rudy, I want the proof. You're gonna give me the proof?" And he said, "Yes."

So, Giuliani and co-counsel Jenna Ellis flew out to meet Bowers.  

Scott Pelley: You left the meeting with Rudy Giuliani thinking what?

Rusty Bowers: That I wasn't happy. I said, "Okay. Timeout. Mr. Giuliani, you said you were going to bring me some proof. Names, et cetera of all of these people. Did you bring me the proof?" And he looked at Jenna Ellis and he said, "Do we have the proof? "And she said, "Yes, we do." "Well, do you have it with you?" "No. No. I--" "Where is it?" "Well, it might be back at the hotel room." And I said, "I asked you for the proof. You said you'd bring it. You're not bringing it. You're asking me to break my oath and make up something to pull electors and replace electors, which has never been done in the history of the United States. And I'm gonna try that on my state?"

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Biden claims inflation rate hardly up at all 'month-to-month'

"It's the highest inflation rate, Mr. President, in 40 years," replied 60 Minutes' host Scott Pelley. (the postmillenial.com)

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9/11: The FDNY | 60 Minutes

9/11: The FDNY | 60 Minutes – CBS News Watch CBS News On September 11, 2001, 343 members of the Fire Department of New York perished while trying to rescue people trapped in the World Trade Center. Scott Pelley speaks with firefighters who were there that day and the loved ones of those who never made it home. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Not Now Turn On Source link via The Novum Times