So much of our current world view is fantasy that it boggles the mind and prompts the concern that truth is being rendered an archaic concept.
Consider the online artificial intelligence exercise ChatGBT, which obviously has been programmed to have a strong left-wing bent.
As reported by Forbes, the AI site refused a request to write a positive poem regarding Donald Trump, but quickly was able to praise poetically Clueless Joe Biden, he of the ongoing classified information scandal and the inability to process or communicate information in general. Just this week the Clueless One said “more than half the women in my administration are women.”
Some might argue it was a moment of unusual candor, or a Freudian slip considering Biden’s penchant for appointing sexually confused people. But I’m going with Clueless Joe often speaks like English is a second language for him.
Still on the Biden front, another source, a tech writer posting on youtube, went to ChatGBT to try it out for a poem on Clueless Joe’s feckless son Hunter. You know Hunter, drug user, laptop loser, rider of daddy’s coat-tails at every opportunity.
Sure enough, ChatGBT praised Hunter with “through it all, he stands tall.”
ChatGBT, however, had nothing to offer on outspoken Republican Congress member Marjorie Taylor Greene because it said it cannot take a partisan stance.
Yeah, right. Or should I say, left?
Lest you tend to nod affirmatively about this, not surprised based on your life experience, but wonder why you should care. Here’s why.
Fantasy such as this can and does affect you. Other fantasies have more immediate impact on your life.
Refer to the past Friday’s “blockbuster” January payrolls number offered to you by government bean counters.
Understand this is not a partisan issue. It occurs during Republican and Democratic administrations. But that doesn’t make it right.
These releases are short on actual numbers and very long on backward-looking revisions, projections spit out by computer models and a thing called seasonal adjustments that factor heavily in those models.
The expected January increase was 188,000 jobs added. But, push the button, listen to the computer whir as it factors in its programming (sort of like the tilted programming for that AI site) and you get, voila, 517,000 jobs added and an unemployment rate of just an historically low 3.4 percent.
The number would have been a decline of about 2.5 million jobs. But the seasonal adjustment was more than 3 million jobs, the largest such tweak in history.
This report, released early in the day, supposedly will make the Federal Reserve more determined to raise and maintain high interest rates for longer, which sent stock market indices into frantic back-and-forth action, with all three major averages here closing lower.
Precious metals were hammered relentlessly because of this report and its supposed impact on The Fed.
Government numbers, in general, tend to be fantasy, as is the typical reporting from Lamestream media.
It has become almost a full-time job to try to sort through the propaganda and, sadly, too few members of the citizenry are willing to make the effort.
This makes the job easier for those who would treat us as mushrooms, perennially kept in the dark and fed manure.
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