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Jim Wetzel's avatar

Full disclosure: I don't like watermelon. I don't like to admit it, either, as I live in Indiana -- have for nearly all my life -- and, if word gets out, my fellow Hoosiers are apt to banish me.

That said, though, how in the hell can you have a watermelon seed spitting contest at the annual Grabill Country Fair, if the watermelons don't have seeds?

AndyinBC's avatar

Good one Lass. One has to admire your fortitude in cozying up to Claude, (or his/it's ilk).

As an exercise, last winter I wasted a few of my remaining days attempting to match my personally witnessed recollections of some of the events of recent decades with various AI versions of the same.

How do you think that went? Anybody?

Lillia Gajewski's avatar

I’m guessing it wasn’t all that accurate. AI is still computing: garbage in; garbage out.

AndyinBC's avatar

GIGO - succinctly sums up most of history.

Libertarian's avatar

Excellent question and exercise, Andy.

First, I think the time and effort was well wasted. You were likely going to use it to get in other trouble anyway.

Second, if you’re like me (no offense intended), you noticed a wide disparity between the AI version and your own. This is likely due to;

- my versions tend to center around me and my superlative sense of self

- AI doesn’t always account for the softer aspects of contributing factors to an event and thus misses my recollections of how I contributed to historical events (eg moon landing just my being in the studio where it was filmed).

AndyinBC's avatar

First - Yeah, my bride claims the computer keeps me out of trouble. (And she's always right).

Second - Agree - my view of any event is going to by from my perspective. Has to be.

One of my AI excursions was a trip into the past - my misspent youth. To the Pendleton Round-Up and Calgary Stampede, in 1966. (That was the year I went to both!)

None of the three AIs I tried came up with anything that matched my recall of those events. At all.

Another was the Canadian Truckers convoy fiasco. (I was peripherally involved in that I financed a cousin who participated.) Again, the AI versions were mutually contradictory, and very emphatically did not match events I personally witnessed.

Libertarian's avatar

As you might guess, I was very much rooting for the Canadian Truckers also. I am reminded that honor and love of country are despised by those with neither.

Libertarian's avatar

Excellent research and compelling arguments that certainly challenge the narrative being sold by the rich and powerful. I admire your professionalism and care for Americans and people in general. Hopefully some record of it will survive so that future historians can’t truthfully conclude that there was no opposition from journalists and writers.

An Observer (Teresa L)'s avatar

Good research supporting your conclusions.

However, just have to note this: Those "gas chambers" were used for disinfection, and not killing. Please look into all that. Start with the Institute for Historical Review website.

Heyjude's avatar

Weird that they needed crematoriums, and still ended up with stacks of bodies to be buried. I wonder why they held the Wannsee Conference to address the final solution to the Jewish question? I’m sure they decided disinfection was the answer.

Libertarian's avatar

What the Jews who support Zionism have done to the children of Gaza is a crime against humanity and evil in its most obvious form. The Jews who support Zionism, as well as anyone who supports Zionist Israel, are guilty of torturing, raping, wounding and slaughtering over 100,000 defenseless women and children. Those who support them and don’t speak out against the Gaza Genocide Holocaust will forever be remembered as the ZioNazis. Thank-you for revealing more of their hypocrisy, theft and corruption. All part of their undeniable record and history now.

Heyjude's avatar

Do you spend all your time looking for ways to justify your I hate Israel routine? Sounds like you really had to push to get the pre-determined conclusion you were looking for.

Lillia Gajewski's avatar

You were just waiting there to make a snide remark on a substack with 200 subscribers nearly as the post went up. I’d be more worried about what you’re spending all your time on, rather than what anyone else is spending their time on.

Heyjude's avatar

Nah, it just popped up in my Substack notes feed. No searching required.

Lillia Gajewski's avatar

And yet you immediately read it and commented. I don’t have that kind of time, especially for people I obviously disagree with and think are despicable. You need a life, Mr. Jude, desperately.

Heyjude's avatar

It took all of 5 minutes. A real investment.

Lillia Gajewski's avatar

People with lives don’t have that five minutes to spare. I know I don’t have five minutes to spare. But then you didn’t actually read it if it only took you “five minutes,” and you just commented, which makes you even more pathetic.