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South Africans have taken to the streets across the country today, demanding that foreigners leave the country.
WOW - it just got worse... OANN just reported on air that Justice Alito is retiring. For the love of God - someone stop POTUS from using whatever thinktank(s) he used to nominate his other 3 Justices. We can't afford another ACB - and the others haven't done great either.
As long as he doesn’t retire under a D president. You’re 100% guaranteed to get a left wing nutjob if that happens. It feels like we just need to start over as bad as it currently is.
Maybe it isn't true - yet. Looks like NPR published an article saying he is retiring, but they have removed their article. Other news agencies picked it up right away, and are now removing them once NPR released this:
I thought NPR was gone?
Did Alito just flush out the supreme court leaker?
Citizen vigilante in mexico duct tapes criminals to telephone poles!
😃😃😃😃😃
It's over - Thanks ACB and Roberts. Birthright Citizenship is UPHELD. Here comes the flood of illegals...
Anyone else having upvote and reply issues on PDW? Not sure where to post that since they dont have a daily thread over there. Is this a bug or am I being being shadow blocked somehow?
The platform has been taking a lot of hits lately (that or the devs have been busy trying to add new code) - we have been facing all kinds of random issues like unable to post replies, unable to upvote etc
I was a couple of days ago. Also, was unable to send modmail at the same time.
Yes, I've been having trouble where the "edit" and "reply" and the search function don't work for a few hours, but here on GAW, not PDW.
I think it's a JavaScript problem on their (win communities) end.
Same. Its strange but not good at all. This will make it seem like our upvotes and replies are lower than they should be leading folks to thinking the site is losing popularity. And now not showing down votes either. Its ripe for manipulating our site with claims and ideas not all of us agree with.
Talking about bubbles bursting...
Currently listening to Podcast: The Dark Truth of Nikola Tesla Part 1.
A few juicy stuffs:
One, Tesla's 'best friend' (according to Tesla and something all his biographers confirm) was Hitler's official spokesperson in Washington (before arrested in 1941). This guy was a Nazi propagandist and Aleister Crowley (noted Satanic occultist) collaborator.
Two, Tesla expressed opinions that he totally supported mandatory eugenics.
Three, other Tesla views: humans are soulless automatons. Martians exist and they are more advanced than humanity.
And more.
It's curious stuff, and requires a bit of skeptical objectivity, inasmuch as Tesla has been characterized in our (propaganda dominated) modern era as a persecuted genius who was virtually a savior-like figure.
Hmmm....
People tend to view the past, and certain historical people, with rose colored glasses.
They'll form some sort of connection with them, based on whatever personal characteristics they share/value, and then just go overboard with it. There's a ton of projection involved.
There's also the issue with people thinking that just because a person shares a characteristic or viewpoint with them that ALL of their values align as well. For example, thinking because someone who is MAGA, they can't be capable of things like voter fraud or abusing social services like welfare/foodstamps. It really boils down to a tribal mentality.
u/#ridetofreedom
For the greatest of these is Love.
A Song: https://youtu.be/5xtT9F5fDMw
The Obama Library is so ugly, Kenya now claims that he was born in the United States.
A lot of my online friends are absolutely freaking out about the KIDS Act that just passed Congress today. (Correction: It only passed the House, and now heads to the Senate. But they're still worried sick.)
They're calling it the end of online anonymity, akin to the UK's Online Safety Act that started this whole mess.
And yet, no one here is bothered. No one on GAW talked about it today, and on PDW discussion didn't gain much traction at all. It did with the complete doomers at KotakuInAction2, though.
What do I say to my friends? It sounds like Trump is all for this, and I have no idea why.
Is this all much ado about nothing?
"They can just delete the data once we win." You can't un-ring a bell. You can't just make the public un-learn info you gave them.
Very few of us watch fox news i guess. Or wear ever else they got this programing.
I run into people all the time that are worried about this and that. Their are so many things that pass the house and die in the senate,that I don't worry ahead of time myself.
Eh, you can just chalk it up to 3/7/12/whatever- D Chess, or "It's a trap for <insert whoever here>", "disinformation is necessary" and the other standard lines we heard from other times where he's diverged from us on various things like taking/promoting/defending the Covid vaccine, red flag laws where he said things like "I like taking the guns early....Take the guns first, go through due process second", bump stock bans, the First Step Act, pushing hard for AI development, etc...
Basically, we don't have to agree with every single thing he does. He's the President and often knows things we don't. If you were able to rationalize his positon on all the other stuff, then this shouldn't overly bother you either.
Ultimately, none of these Acts are the problem. It is the reaction from people when they try to abuse any data. These data abuses have been going on for decades and no one made a peep.
If you (not you personally, but whoever is freaking out) didnt freak out during Covid when they were forcing everyone to get experimental vaccines, but you are freaking out now when we are trying to stop kids from being groomed, you can just f*ck off.
So the slippery slope is real?
And yes, they did freak out. One did his best to resist, but eventually caved to getting at least one shot thanks to massive pressure and leverage from his leftist mother, who is STILL paranoid about that virus to this day. Sometimes I wonder if he became a conservative as an act of rebellion. For the record, I myself have no COVID shots.
So I am curious. What kinda data do these people worry will get collected?
Consider that the moment you sign up with your ISP, they already have a list of every single website you visit. Even with SSL, they will know the IP addresses of every site you visit and hence what you are visiting.
If you use VPNs, then the VPN company has the exact same list.
And by ad aggregation, a lot of companies like Google etc already know not only what you like to buy, but what kind of content you consume in addition to what sites you visit.
So, what exactly are they worried will happen with the new data collected - the act does not even force check IDs, they can simply use AI and scan your face for example.
Keep in mind the other aspects of the KIDS Act:
Did you have a post about it here?
No, I didn't think it warranted one, seeing as I'd never heard of the bill until less than 24 hours ago.
I didn't want to speak from ignorance. I admit most of you guys can make far more sense of the Rubik's Cube of the political world than I can, so I end up deferring to you bunch.
Plus, this is the optimists' board. I didn't want to come off like a doomer. I already saw PDW fall to the doomer shills.
Hmmm ... I'll look into it. I'd expect that to come up here, too, even though the gamer contingent here is relatively small. It would be yet another pointed irony if the Senate requires ID for games but still refuses to require ID for voting.
Confirmed New Record for Most Distant Galaxy BY JAKE HEBERT, PH.D.
https://www.icr.org/article/new-record-most-distant-galaxy/
A galaxy with the designation MoM-z14 has recently been confirmed as the most distant galaxy ever detected.1,2 By Big Bang reckoning, we are seeing this galaxy as it was just 280 million years after the supposed Big Bang. This shocked conventional scientists, because slow, gradual, evolutionary processes should not have been able to form such a “remarkably luminous”2 galaxy in such a short time.
Big Bang scientists have been greatly surprised by the number of “surprisingly bright” distant galaxies revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which seems to be about a hundred times greater than predicted by theoretical models.1 Such data from JWST has greatly exacerbated the “mature distant galaxy problem” that has long plagued Big Bang cosmologists.3 The most distant galaxies are billions of light-years away, so Big Bang cosmologists assume that light from those galaxies took billions of years to reach Earth. Although this may seem reasonable, this assumption is open to serious challenge.4 Nevertheless, according to Big Bang cosmology, we should be seeing these very distant galaxies, not as they are now, but as they were shortly after the Big Bang. Since star and galaxy formation should take many millions of years, theorists were not expecting to see many galaxies in the “early” universe, and those that did exist were expected to be unevolved and immature. Yet data from the James Webb Space Telescope have been shattering these Big Bang expectations.5,6
The existence of these “early mature” galaxies is so surprising that astronomers designed the Mirage or Miracle (MoM) survey to test whether these galaxies really are as distant as they appear. Hence, this most distant galaxy is designated MoM-z14, with the “z14” referring to its apparent high redshift of 14. Astronomers recently confirmed that this galaxy’s very high redshift is real, and this implies that it is indeed very, very far away. This is why the title of their paper declares MoM-z14 to be a “cosmic miracle.”2 Thus, Big Bang scientists must now attempt to explain how such a bright galaxy can exist just 280 million years after the Big Bang, when until just very recently, it was mainstream dogma that the first stars—let alone galaxies—did not appear until 400 million years after the Big Bang.6
It should also be noted that MoM-z14’s nearby surroundings seem to be partly ionized, with atoms that have gained or lost electrons. Yet, virtually every Big Bang reionization model predicted very little ionization 280 million years after the Big Bang.2
Despite popular hype, the Big Bang model is in tatters, with a “growing chasm between theory and observation.”1,7 Bible-believing Christians should be encouraged by this. The existence of mature distant galaxies is better explained by biblical creation than the Big Bang, since the Lord Jesus could create whatever kind of galaxies He wished, wherever He desired. He created our universe and continues to “[uphold] all things by the word of His power” (Hebrews 1:3), and, despite the misguided assertions of some Christian apologists, He did not need the help of the Big Bang to do so!
References
Downer, B. Webb Pushes Boundaries of Observable Universe Closer to Big Bang. Phys.org. Posted on phys.org January 28, 2026, accessed January 30, 2026. Naidu, R. P. et al. 2026. A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at zspec = 14.44 Confirmed with JWST. Open Journal of Astrophysics. Preprint. Posted on arxiv.org January 28, 2026, accessed January 30, 2026. Hebert, J. ‘Early’ Spiral Galaxy Surprise. Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org May 1, 2020, accessed August 22, 2022. Dennis, P. W. 2018. Consistent Young Earth Relativistic Cosmology. Proceedings of the International Conference on Creationism. 8: 14–35. Hebert, J. 2022. James Webb Telescope vs. the Big Bang. Acts & Facts. 51 (11): 14–17. Hebert, J. Webb Telescope Continues to Challenge Big Bang. Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org January 26, 2023, accessed June 6, 2025. Hebert, J. New York Times Editorial: Big Bang Unraveling? Creation Science Update. Posted on ICR.org September 14, 2023, accessed January 30, 2026.
57.48 spot shiny.
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Very nice.
I hadn't checked yet today.