ferrett @ 19:21 re: NPR
That’s exactly how I saw it. Their “getting things done” was anything in support of the globalist agenda. Cutting their funding seems to be the right thing to do. If they wanted to stay in business then they should have been neutral and not gone full commie!
Maya
What a name lol The hippy twins. Must be a relief to walk free of pain. He must of did a good job of getting the length of the leg as even as he could with the other so you won’t have uneven or limping gait. That’s one thing that needs more attention by PT post surgery. They can and should refer to a shoe insert to the shorter leg to keep that weight burden off that leg. Sounds like all went really well. To help fade scaring if allowed you can take vita E and also open a capsule and put it directly on the now healing scar. Fading won’t happen over night but even using it for a few weeks should have future effects. It’s one of the few things that will absorb deeper down. That’s just a FYI.
Goldie
Yep. Only spent two nights in hospital for observation while the IV pumped us full of lactated Ringers for blood loss. Or just to get us up to pee every hour! 🙂 My roommate was also a left hip replacement, second surgery after mine. So the nurses were calling us the hippie-peepee twins. We did everything together on schedule! LOL!
Went home and used the walker for over a week. Had my 2 week followup with the Dr. on Thur. and all is good. Scar healing nicely. After that I went shopping and got lunch, walking with no mechanical support. Muscles still gimpy, but I’m supporting weight and walking with minimal ache. Nice not to have the old bone-grinding pain! Rehab evaluation in two weeks, dunno what they can do except log my progress. Been doing the exercises for the muscle recovery. Full muscle recovery can take up to 8 weeks… like a bad sprain. But I’m coping OK.
Ferrett
AI is still computers. The first time I saw them being used in hospitals it terrified me. They weren’t just computers for general data. It wasn’t too long after a big quake in 71 I was in the middle of and brought three hospitals down. I took some time off with child care and came back to float around till I could find a place with hours that could coordinate with child care. They like to change things. They got this bright Idea in ICU and a step down unit of it at one hospital to record report to the next shift and you can’t ask questions to a recording. Instead of charts they had computers in the desks with all the patients information including medications. Yes even back then in S Calif before it got bad there. That’s all fine as long as there’s no power out or quake. Where’s the paper charts. There was none. There was units of blood and meds to give and no back up plan. Then about 30 yrs later about 10 yrs back from then it’s everywhere but now on individual laptops. They need to print out at least a MAR and current orders to have on hand. Computers can make things easier but it’s like digital currency compared to phyzz. With just digital too many things can go wrong real fast. People shouldn’t only rely on it.
Maya
How’s it going? I’m guessing your home now.
Be very, very careful.
Here’s How Everyone is Using AI in 2025
People are using AI for support (both professional and personal) in 2025
In fact, the top three use cases (therapy, life organization, and finding purpose) all show that AI can assist humans in managing both emotions and their life.
| 2024 | Use Case | Category | 2025 | Use Case | Category |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Generate Ideas | Content Creation |
1 | Therapy & Companionship | Support |
| 2 | Therapy & Companionship | Support | 2 | Organize Life | Support |
| 3 | Specific Search | Research & Analysis |
3 | Find Purpose | Support |
https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/these-are-all-things-people-use-ai-2025
No, “In fact, the top three use cases (therapy, life organization, and finding purpose) all show that AI can assist humans in managing both emotions and their life.” is NOT a fact at all. If the data is correct, the only fact you can draw from the table is that humans are asking for help in managing their emotions and life. Bearing in mind that human psychologists and psychiatrists get this sort of stuff so wrong so much of the time, and that the LLM derive their “advice” from these peoples’ resources and are giving it without any consideration for an individual’s circumstances, be ready for much more depression, school shootings, social instability, Tesla burners etc. Ferret’s free advice for the three categories:
- Get a dog. Walk it at least twice a day. Great therapy and companionship.
- Get a job. That’ll organise a third of your day. You sleep another third. You’re allowed to be disorganised for your time off, except you must walk the dog.
- Read Ecclesiastes. “Eat drink and be merry”. Even Solomon says that a living dog is better than a dead lion, and Ferret is definitely not advocating getting a dead lion.
ipso 15:27,
apart from the complete ridiculousness of such a statement, when did a radio station actually “get things done”, let alone “getting important things done”?
Somebody brought up with me yesterday how disgusting it was that Trump wore a blue suit to the Pope’s funeral. He had seen it on SBS (Australia’s govt funded ultra-woke leftist TV ‘truth’ channel). I showed him the photos of half the attendees wearing blue, Prince of Wales in blue, and asking him what Zelensky was wearing. Of course, he didn’t know.
“Getting important things done” = spreading lies, hate and dissension.
Ipso Banks of the west
I watched part of a video on a young American man who married a Russian woman he met while in college. I didn’t need to watch all of it because I got the message. They started out here moving to a couple of states to find a good place to raise a family which having their first child health care costs were astronomical.
I didn’t see all of it but they wound up in Russia and that’s where they’ll stay. They didn’t move there looking to get rich like people coming to Europe or US think their coming for till they see the hype it’s just poverty in another level.
He said he wouldn’t of been able to afford his second child his son so a boy and a girl, in the US. Not just affordability, but nature all around in the absence of mass immigration, the streets safe to walk day and night pretty much like the 1950s here, no school shootings to worry about by some guy who doesn’t know who he or she is or fear of kids playing outside, no 72 genders or messing with their kids minds by normalizing mental health issues in their kids schools and getting a normal education and no DEI hires. Traditional family values are not under threat but the norm. In comparison, there’s no reason for them to go back to the west.
As far as Swift banking there are other alternatives and had no problem getting money and using crypto is one of them.
The actions of bankers like Spain are going to push money right out of their banks. There could be a agenda behind it but the people world wide will rebuke any attempt for them or gov to eliminate cash or control their money. Still good for both crypto and PMs.
The Truth … who needs it! Not the commies evidently.
“I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.”
— Katherine Maher (NPR CEO)
Buygold HL
It’s one of the stocks I remember after doing research about 20 years ago on the highs in PM stocks of the 1980s which got wiped out in a computer virus a few years later when a company change took my virus protection with it. Att bought it.
Some are no longer there or were bought up. From what I remember HL intraday reached as high a 50 dollars and end of day about 35 dollars. Production or sympathy on all PM stocks I don’t know because they moved up significantly from their lows. HL average was about 5 dollars before the move.
deer79 @ 13:53
Exactly … if you think that deal with China was an accident today, I have a bridge in China to sell you.
The status quo/index markets are dominating today. It shouldn’t last long.
Comex open interest is at the lows. They had to do something.
Next week should be interesting with the Fed and China back in the markets.
The Fed will probably hold the line now.
The markets might freak on that.
We will see.
Cheers
Buygold
I know I’ve said this before, as well, but it’s a PERCEPTION thing for the cartel.
If they can continue to dissuade people from investing in the mining stocks, they can continue to play their games with these stocks ( i.e. take out all of the stop orders in one fell swoop, and create their “waterfall.”)
HL
Outside of Hecla, whose earnings actually didn’t look too bad, the volume in the miners is anemic again. Same with SLV and GLD.
I know I keep harping on this, and we’ll find out if it matters, but these shares are cheap.
What’s happening with Hecla is criminal. Their sales were 5% higher over last quarter and they had all-time high EBITDA of over $90 million. The sellers are looking at the fact that they missed estimates by $.01.
I’m not advocating for HL and I don’t own it, but what’s happening is pretty ridiculous. What’s happening in the metals at least today is non-sensical but just part of a vanilla pullback. The scum is taking advantage of some weak hands, and it doesn’t seem like this is any more than that. Part of the E-Wave pullback? Who knows, but we’re going higher, and I don’t think we’re going to have to wait much longer.
The DOW is sitting on its 50 dma, but below the 200. QQQ’s are sitting on the 200 dma above the 50. I’m not a chart guy, but we’ll see what happens. Hard to believe we’re done with the correction just yet.
Great weekend to all!
The HUI/Bitcon Ratio …
… has hit the 50% retrace so if PMs are really in a bull market PM stocks should not lose much more ground to bitcon …

It could go to the two thirds retrace considering how stupid people are these days.
Chuckle
Perfect day for the scum…..
Back to our regularly scheduled program…..
Hook 10.55
As a Canadian it is fake news.
Dog
Captain Hook @ 11:05
Yes that’s just it! … and keep not drinking that tap water! It might even make you question some of the moves being made on our behalf! Chuckle
I’m sure you’re aware of the reasons why this is happening.
Florida passes bill banning fluoride in water, now heads to governor
https://www.yahoo.com/news/florida-passes-bill-banning-fluoride-223523659.html
ipso facto @ 10:03
Exactly … no emotion … just the law … don’t you dare break the law (we can but you can’t – think Animal Farm).
Law breakers will be terminated … but don’t worry it’s just another movie … you are just watching another movie … this will never affect you … have another glass of tap water (fluoride) … go outside and breath air (heavy metals in chemtrails) … you are just fine.
No really … we will be just fine … the commies (Nazis) are really nice people.
Was this the kind of response (rant) you were looking for because you know I can’t control myself (because I drink too much tap water).
Chuckle
Stupid is as stupid does …
… and Canadians are really good at that …
Unbelievable
To look at the share price I guess people were expecting more …
Hecla Mining (HL) Q1 Earnings and Revenues Beat Estimates
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/hecla-mining-hl-q1-earnings-222004644.html
Captain Hook
How long before they are programmed killers used on the battlefield or in civilian insurgencies? I think it’s nightmarishly inevitable!
ipso facto @ 9:23
Not soon enough.
Chuckle
Per the attacks on the Druze
Willem Middelkoop
@wmiddelkoop
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‘it seems like a possible outcome could be Syria losing more territory to Israel, under the pretext of “protection” of Druze community’
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MenchOsint
@MenchOsint
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Israeli minister of defense Katz said that he will take action if Jolani’s attacks against the Druzes don’t stop.
Attacks have not stopped, it seems like a possible outcome could be Syria losing more territory to Israel, under the pretext of “protection” of

