Death of Hypatia®

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  • WIBCI Post #161

    WIBCI we APPRECIATED HISTORY

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If there was more GUMPTION in our Government?

    Had you heard of The Saturday Night Massacre? I hadn’t until recently. The full Wikipedia link and main description are below, but in a nutshell….

    • In 1973 amidst a scandal the President requests that the special prosecutor drop a subpoena for audio tapes intended as evidence in possible impeachment proceedings
    • The special prosecutor refuses
    • The President orders the Attorney General to fire the special prosecutor
    • The Attorney General refuses and resigns
    • The President orders the Deputy Attorney to fire the special prosecutor
    • The Deputy Attorney refuses and resigns
    • The President orders the Solicitor General to fire the special prosecutor
    • The Solicitor General fires the special prosecutor and intends to resign but per the Ex-Attorney General and the Ex-Deputy Attorney General is persuaded to stay on
    • The American public does not dig this
    • Congress does not dig this
    • Congress initiates impeachment process 10 days later
    • 5 days later the US district judge rules the dismissal of the special prosecutor illegal
    • The President resigns

    I mention appreciation and gumption at the top because in comparison….I’m impressed.

    Think about it, WIBCI if TODAY we had: DC Men with Power who did what’s right as opposed to what’s right for them, Civil Servants who put standards before personal security, Politicians who put country ahead of party, a World where the Public was listened to, A Justice System that was just, and Our Government did what was BETTER FOR THE MOST?

    I think that Would Be Cool……If.

     

    Per Wikipedia: The Saturday Night Massacre was:

    a series of resignations over the dismissal of special prosecutor Archibald Cox that took place in the United States Department of Justice during the Watergate scandal in 1973. The events followed the refusal by Cox to drop a subpoena for the Nixon White House tapes at President Richard Nixon’s request.

    During a single evening on Saturday, October 20, Richard Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Archibald Cox; Richardson refused and resigned effective immediately. Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox; Ruckelshaus refused, and also resigned. Nixon then ordered the third-most-senior official at the Justice Department, Solicitor General Robert Bork, to fire Cox. Bork carried out the dismissal as Nixon asked. Bork stated that he intended to resign afterward, but was persuaded by Richardson and Ruckelshaus to stay on for the good of the Justice Department.

    The political and public reactions to Nixon’s actions were negative and highly damaging to the president. The impeachment process against Nixon began ten days later, on October 30, 1973. Leon Jaworski was appointed as the new special prosecutor on November 1, 1973, and on November 14, 1973, United States district judge Gerhard Gesell ruled that the dismissal had been illegal.

    The Saturday Night Massacre marked the turning point of the Watergate scandal. The public, while increasingly uncertain about Nixon’s actions in Watergate, were incensed by Nixon’s seemingly blatant attempt to end the Watergate probe. Congress, having largely taken a wait-and-see approach regarding Nixon’s role in the scandal, quickly turned on Nixon and initiated impeachment proceedings that would end in Nixon’s resignation.

    … more “WIBCI Post #161”

  • WIBCI Post #160

    WIBCI we listened to LARRY DAVID?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we learned from comedy?

    Comedy has to be based on the truth. You take the truth and put a little curlicue at the end.

    -Sid Ceasar

    If you don’t know who Sid Caesar is, look him up. He knows what he is talking about. His comedy career spanned 60 years on television and the big screen; from ‘Your Show of Shows‘, to ‘Cannonball Run II’, to ‘Vegas Vacation’.

    Recently I watched Larry David’s new show called ‘Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness‘. In this show American history is given a comic edge, Larry David style. I found it hilarious, ambitious, and ballsy. I like that there are still artists in this country who are willing to put their necks on the line to shine a comic light on what is unwell in our country.

    Below is a GREAT example:

     

    Narrator (Samuel L. Jackson):

    ‘George Washington was nearing the end of his second term. and though the Constitution allowed for unlimited re-election, Washington thought that it was best for the country that he step aside, proving to his fellow citizens that his commitment was to democracy instead of power. Washington also warned against the rise of political factions. He feared that if people voted in line with party loyalty instead of the common interest of the nation (Better For The Most), it could promote a spirit of revenge, leading to the rise of cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men who would take the reins of government… 

    but that could never happen.’

    Next we pan down to a reenactment of Washington’s concession speech. The part of George Washington is played to perfection by the late, great, Rob Reiner:

    ‘My fellow citizens, I stand before you today as your President to announce that I shall not be seeking a third term.’

    The gathered crowd in 1790’s garb gasp in astonishment and someone yells:

    ‘Your country needs you!’

    The President continues:

    ‘No, in order to assure the success of our fledgling democracy, I believe that no man should serve more than two terms as president. And I hope that future presidents will follow my lead.

    A spectator of the seeming merchant class (Larry David) speaks up:

    ‘What if some future President doesn’t follow your lead and runs for a third term?’

    The President responds:

    ‘There are remedies for that. The Congress can pass a constitutional amendment that would prohibit that’

    Merchant counters:

    ‘What if there was some asshole in office, some narcissistic prick, who doesn’t follow the Constitution?’

    After some grunts and ‘yeahs’ from the crowd, George retorts:

    ‘I understand your fervor sir but perhaps you could temper your language.’ 

    Merchant:

    ‘My apologies Mr. President. You know, I…this really gets up my dander, this stuff.’

    President:

    ‘I understand, but rest assured, even if this future president violated the Constitution, then the Congress of the United States and the United States Supreme Court would not allow it.

    Merchant:

    But what if the Supreme Court is a bunch of yes-men and Congress is a bunch of pussies who care more about party than country?!’ 

    President:

    ‘I can’t even fathom the existence of such men but to further ensure the success of this grand experiment, I would suggest that after every presidential election, there be a peaceful transfer of power….where the loser accepts the results of the election and full-throatedly endorses the victor.’

    Merchant:

    ‘Anyone who wouldn’t accept the results of a free and fair election is a sociopath, a madman. A man like that could even foment an insurrection rather than just admit that he lost.’

    The crowd is riled up by this and one of the men yells:

    ‘What a cocksucker!’

    Merchant continues:

    ‘He could use the presidency to enrich himself and his family. He could send troops into American cities to terrorize and even kill American citizens, all to distract from the fact that he’s friends with a pedophile! He could attack universities, even the free press, silencing anyone who dares to criticize him.’

    Here the Merchant is interrupted by another onlooker (Jimmy Kimmel):

    ‘Ah Come on. That could never happen.’ 

    Merchant:

    ‘That’s what you think.’

    On-Looker:

    ‘Are you suggesting that the President would taketh the time to challenge anyone who dare make fun of him, as if he were a big baby?’

    Merchant agreeing:

    ‘A big baby!’

    On-Looker:

    ‘I don’t see it.’

    President:

    ‘No! What duly elected president would do such a thing!’

    Merchant:

    ‘An insecure, lying asshole! He would cheat at golf!’

    Crowd murmurs:

    ‘That’s sick!’ & ‘That’s vile!’

    President:

    ‘What is golf?’

    Merchant:

    ‘It’s a game they invented in Scotland. It’s a lot of fun’ 

    President:

    ‘What kind of man would cheat at this golf?’

    Crowd:

    ‘A sick man!’ & ‘An Asshole!’

    Merchant:

    ‘And did I mention that he’s best friends with a pedophile?’

    President:

    ‘Please citizens, be calm. He is only talking hypothetically. In reality a man of such poor character would never be elected president in the first place.’

    Merchant:

    ‘I’m just spitballing here, Mr. President, but what if he was a deeply corrupt con man, a pathological liar who preys on people’s prejudices?’

    President:

    ‘Are you positing that our electorate is a collection of dupes that would be swayed by such a scoundrel?’

    Merchant:

    ‘Yes Mr. President! That’s exactly what I’m positing!’

    … more “WIBCI Post #160”

  • WIBCI Post #159

    WIBCI you NOTICED WHAT THEY WERE SELLING?

    Picture a commercial where a young woman is pictured in a montage:  bored out of her head in the dreariest of offices and dispiritedly watching the spin cycle at a laundromat too dull for color, self hair-cutting in a bathroom, and a cup-o-noodles rip-off rotating in a microwave oven.  The sheer volume of toothbrushes points to multiple roommate habitation and the noodles in styrofoam are an obvious nod to a frugal lifestyle. The narrator says:

    You work hard. You save your money…

    so you can have all this…

    by the time you are like….. 87?!

    Then it hits you.

    This final three lines above are narrated over rapid fire images of: a very white wedding on the beach at sunset, a very white woman watering the roses in front of her twin swan topiaries (she appears to be wearing curlers and borrowed a dress from Mrs. Cleaver), a family photo of mom, dad, eldest bro, little sis, and a non-binary infant, an elderly couple NOT very white holding hands and running on the beach, cuddling, and laying a loving head upon husband #3’s shoulder. The dream crashes to reality at the word ’87 when the young woman standing on a metropolitan intersection regains her footing after a death defying brush with a speeding city bus and noticing the guy across the street spinning a life insurance policy placard in a scream mask/costume. the Narrator continues:

     

    Life is short.

    So you start spending on today.

    More gentler montage of images of the young woman making purchases such as: a bougie fruity drink, a green and red cocktail for two with a sparkler in it, boxing lessons, a tuba, a washing machine (still in its box), and face and hand masks shown off masterfully, boxes that pile up from floor to ceiling swallowing what seems to be a doorman, and head banging like you just don’t care at a concert. Narrator continues:

    Which means you need a bank that was actually built for life today instead of,

    you know, then….

    At the word ‘then‘ we once again see the now ironical 1950’s curlers lady and the swan topiaries. The final image is of the young woman who obviously took this commercials advice and frivolously started spending like there really was no tomorrow at the peak of an endorphin high while running in a marathon.  The Narrator ends with:

    (bank name) Do it right.

     

    Um…what was said/shown that was ‘right’?! Is piling up a massive mound of debt ‘enjoying life’ that this target demographic is unlikely to ever shovel their way out of, really a responsible life plan to be angling to our youth? The same youth who may have incurred outrageous debt for an education that wasn’t really designed to employ them in a world that doesn’t have jobs for them. The same youth who have less cognitive abilities than all generations before them, not enough life skills, and will most likely be living with their parents for far longer than welcomed… you think this reckless, thoughtless, selfish campaign is the way to go?

    Sorry youth, the world sucks, be smarter.

     

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  • WIBCI Post #158

    WIBCI we IMPROVED in a year?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If I looked back and felt BETTER about something I posted?

     

    On May 17, 2025 I posted my second in the Wouldn’t It Be Cool If vein…. here it is:

    • WIBCI Post #2

      Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we learned from LITERATURE?:

      WIBCI: AI only did things AI is better than humans at?

      AI should be doing computation and calculation, but that’s about it in my opinion.

      AI could be compared to Big Brother from George Orwell’s 1984, no? When all creativity and individuality was sucked out of human existence and everything was grey, how did that work out?

      I think it would be Better for the Most if we left some things to the humans, forever:

      • Art: REALLY? Art is pain, sweat, tears and emotions. It is the way someone screamed out what was going on inside them. Computers can not do this. If AI creating anything that ‘represents’ you, please replace it with something that came from the mind/fingers/soul of a person. AI will definitely end up charging you down the line, just wait and see….
      • Music: I can’t even.
      • Writing Books: Kill me. Books are the only thing out there uninterrupted by the rest of the world’s opinions, that you can start and stop at any time without commercial interruption. Where YOU picture the characters, admire who YOU want and learn more about yourself, unabated. Can you imagine what a world would be like if only computers wrote books?!
      • Communicating FOR YOU?: Are you, for real, so lazy that you can’t write emails by yourself, take notes in a meeting, or write your own resume/paper/blog post? It is YOU that you are offering the world, correct? Aren’t YOU the best representative of you? If AI is writing/reading/taking notes on anything FOR you, how do you get better at these essential life skills? Do you have to act like and become ‘AI You’ more and more…..that sounds sucky.
      • Customer Service: Humans BARELY do this job well, bots BLOW.
        • COMPANIES, I’m speaking directly to you: I believe it would be Better for the Most, that, if you provide the public a service, you use a human to support that service. AI is very terrible at customer service. It is like companies have a new toy….’AI! Wow, I have no idea really what it is, nor understand the repercussions to humanity and it actually makes my company’s customer experience worse….WOO HOO….sign me up!’

      Please stop, or at least show on your website the % of your customer service that is represented by AI.

      AI is Stupid.

      What do YOU think?

       

    Well one year + and I still think AI is Stupid, but in 2026 I now have even more reason.

    I wish to add a bullet to the above list. One that honestly, didn’t occur to me. An art form that to me IS human. It is someone’s words, emotions, and physical existence that they molded into a visual story so you may consider your words, emotions and physical existence. I never thought AI would create MOVIES?!

    The trailer for the ‘World’s First Fully AI-Generated film dropped, and per Petapixel.com:

    TCLtv+ Studios is a brand new production team and its first release will be a short AI-generated romcom featuring professional voice actors and an original script but the imagery will be generated with AI tools.

    The studio is a brand of TCL ( which stands for Technology Group Corp.), a partially state-owned Chinese company that predominantly sells consumer electronics including televisions, mobile phones, air conditioners, and more.

    Next Stop Paris appears to be a romantic story between a woman called Claire who meets a man while on a train to the City of Light and is described as an “AI-powered love story.” 

    Ick. I tried to successfully watch the 1min trailer but could only make it through 43 seconds. I couldn’t continue after the robot girl in the fuzzy lighting with the dead emotion-free mask was sitting as her ‘man’ recklessly rides off into the blurry Champs-Elysees traffic when he is clearly 4 times the size of the other ‘humans’ and their vehicles. She ‘yells’

    “Wait! Don’t Go!“

    It isn’t said like a first time brokenhearted white girl losing the love of her life would say. It is said like a HauseWife ordering a latte. Ugh.

    This can be no kids first movie…. I like movies just the way they were, can we just leave this quadrant alone?

    The fakey fakey atmosphere, the thoughtless dialogue, the pandering narrator telling you what to think, the lifeless ‘actors’….. you have to suffer through all this to hear a story that computers created?! Why would I give a flying fig about what metal, wires, chips, and electricity creates? How would a machines take on story telling ever have anything to do with the life I’m living?

    Not to mention MAKING A LIVING! Look at this from AcademicJobs.com:

    ASPECT HUMAN PRODUCTION AI PRODUCTION (NEXT STOP PARIS)
    Cost $50M+ $100K
    Time 2-3 years 3 months
    Team Size 200+ 5 engineers
    Creativity Human intuition Prompt engineering

    I’m cool with 200+ people having a job creating art from a human’s life experiences. I’m cool with all the locations that were compensated for, all the extras, the caterers, the make-up artists, interns, and best boy grips that were or were not accounted for in that 200+. I’m cool with restaurants and hotels at off studio locations making some money.

    And that final row in the above chart:

    ASPECT HUMAN PRODUCTION AI PRODUCTION (NEXT STOP PARIS)
    Creativity Human intuition Prompt engineering

    Maybe from a business aspect ‘Prompt engineering’ is a plus over ‘Human Intuition’, but the ASPECT for this row is: CREATIVITY.

    Where does CREATIVITY come from when Humans produce the film? It sprouts from Human Intuition.

    Where does CREATIVITY come from when AI produces a film? Well….it lists ‘Prompt Engineering’ which is less like a where and more like … more “WIBCI Post #158”

  • WIBCI Post #157

    WIBCI we learned from Death of Hypatia® moments?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we learned from our mistakes?

    The documentary The American Experiment, per Netflick’s website is described as :  the United States approaches its 250th anniversary, a five-part historical documentary, released on June 24, reexamines the improbable achievement that was the nation’s founding, and the radical question at the center of the American Revolution: Can a people govern themselves? The American Experiment, now streaming, features a wide range of voices, including former vice presidents and cabinet officials, current and former members of Congress, a former Supreme Court justice, leading historians, tribal chiefs, military experts, and thought leaders across the political spectrum to present uniquely bipartisan and deeply informed conversations about the origins and future of American democracy.

    In one part Jelani Cobb the Dean of Columbia’s School of Journalism says:

    History is interred in the shallowest of graves. It is always closer to the surface than we recognize.

    What do YOU think he means by this? If true, what should we do about it, how do we learn from what is just under what is outward facing, waiting to bubble up again? Shouldn’t we analyze, anticipate, and proactively engage with the recurring mold, or ignore, cover it with a rug, and let it be someone else’s problem?… more “WIBCI Post #157”

  • WIBCI Post #155

    WIBCI if we could do MATH?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If there were more PROOFREADERS?

    I found myself recently baffled by a Lunchaballs commercial. Picture a middle school cafeteria, a boy takes out one of the aforementioned Lunchaballs and makes an offer,

    ‘I’ll give you 1/5 of my cookies for 1/3 of your pizza.’

    The obviously hard-nosed girl at his table counters with a jab,

    ‘Don’t lowball me Harold, 2/10.’

    Harold looks to a nerdy kid with glasses across the cafeteria, whom, apparently, is good enough to get advice from, but not cool enough to sit with. Friendless Poindexter shakes his head in an emphatic ‘No’ advising his client to counter the counter.

    ‘3/10.’

    Without hesitation, sassy girl in the overhauls accepts with a handshake and one word:

    ‘deal.’

    The commercial’s tagline is:

    ‘Willingly doing fractions, that’s the Lunchaballs effect.’

     

    Now I have some issue with this commercial. Let’s start with the fact the math is wrong.

    Harold offered her 1/5 of his cookies and she countered with 2/10…which IS 1/5, a fact that eluded Harold’s brilliant phone-a-friend. Then she accepts 3/10ths?! Show me 3/10ths of cookies please. Now let’s play devils advocate and say that overhauls was countering 1/3 of her pizza down to 2/10ths. But that doesn’t work either because after some intense bargaining, she accepts 3/10ths, which is basically the same as 1/3rd, which is where they started.

    What I’m most mad at is that this commercial totes that eating their processed food will promote doing math at lunch. Do we not care that the math is wrong? Did none of the many adults that this copy passed in front of notice or question the maths? AI probably would have actually caught this one. I tried to watch it thinking that they knew the math was wrong, but was going an ironical, quirky route, but gave up on this as they never took the opportunity to do the wink-wink they would never pass up on. So did just no one think to think about the math? This failure failed to be noticed by anyone in pre, production, or post?

    huh. I feel It Would Be Cooler If someone noticed and stopped airing this one.… more “WIBCI Post #155”

  • WIBCI Post #154

    WIBCI we learned from HISTORY?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If today were more like 1975?

    Netflicks is airing a Documentary called: Breakdown: 1975 ‘ Wikipedia which has a disturbing lack of info describes that it: explores the year 1975 through the lens of American arts and culture, directed and produced by (Oscar winner) Morgan Neville.’  In IMDB’s snippet it describes the documentary as: ‘America, 1975. An era of social and political upheaval inspires a wave of groundbreaking movies in this documentary from Oscar winner Morgan Neville.’

    Weirdly neither site really talked about the movie, not the guts of it. It is as if all the copy was written by AI, whom of course could not be expected to get the point of the movie. You need blood flowing through your veins to be able to feel the vibe of what 1975 blood must have felt like through 1975 veins.

    This was a crazy bananas time for the United States. 1975 included a recession involving the worst financial slump and the highest unemployment of the post‐World War II era and April 30th marked the end of American involvement in Vietnam due to the humiliating collapse of South Vietnam as the North Vietnamese captured Saigon.

    10 years of war and over 58,000 lives….for what?

    But in the bi-centennial of our country, when it came to the movies, the post-war-happy-ending-escape was no longer palatable or profitable. It was a time for renegades and mavericks to be let loose behind and infant of cameras. A time when the studios released reigns to filmmakers like Spielberg, Lumet and Scorsese, people who might not have expressed themselves so bluntly otherwise. But, to me, what was even better was that the people wanted to be told the ugly truth and wanted to think about it, discuss it, and rail against it. I find the vibe of the people of 1975 to mirror the melancholy of today, but we don’t quite have the awareness, the focus, and the willingness to be uncomfortable enough to work at changing it.

    In one part the Senator Frank Church, the Chairman of the of the Senate Select Committee says:

    ‘If this government ever became a tyranny, if a dictator ever took charge of this country, the technological capacity that the intelligence community has given the government could enable it to impose total tyranny.’

    This was in 1975….eeesh

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  • WIBCI Post #153

    WIBCI women weren’t historically persecuted for their CUNNING?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If people were celebrated equally independent of sexual organs?

    Throughout history successful, intelligent, and ingenious women have been oppressed for being better than men.

    If a woman uses the resources available to her to stand out, help others, earn excessive amounts of money, to have (dare I say it?) power = she must be destroyed. If this powerhouse also imbibes empathy and/or inspires the underprivileged to improve their lot in life = she and her memory must be annihilated.

    According to one website I found: “In the Bible, “cunning women” typically refers to those who use deception or manipulative skills to achieve their ends, often found in contexts highlighting moral corruption or societal decay. For example, in Ezekiel 13:17-23, they are depicted as false prophets leading others astray through their enchanting but deceitful practices.”

    So women who achieve ends must be considered, I mean, they can’t have just used their brains, there must be evil magic involved.

    This website is called Death of Hypatia® and is based on the coverup of her murder, one of the biggest snow jobs in history.

    Hypatia of Alexandria

    Her ideas of inclusion and equality got her killed, and killed in the most horrible of fashion because her ideas flew in the face of the end goal of Christianity. Cyril, the man most believe responsible for her assassination, became a saint. They said she was a witch. If you want to learn more about Hypatia, you are at the right website….

    A common practice for white men throughout history. The native Americans celebrated the healers and truth sayers of their tribes, they did not think they produced or were propelled by evil. It wasn’t until the Colonists came that ‘witches’ were burned at the stake on this continent.

    Leonora Dori of France was deemed a witch when this once courtier fell out of favor with the new man on the throne and was executed. She had way too much power and epilepsy and therefore ruined and killed.

    Joan of Arc:  ‘is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years’ War. Stating that she acted under divine guidance, she became a military leader who gained recognition as a savior of France.’

    later she:

    ‘was put on trial by Bishop Pierre Cauchon on accusations of heresy, which included blaspheming by wearing men’s clothes, acting upon visions that were demonic, and refusing to submit her words and deeds to the judgment of the church. She was declared guilty and burned at the stake on 30 May 1431, aged about nineteen.’

    When she worked for the government, she was invincible, when she proved mortal, she was expendable.

    Think of all the women murdered throughout history for being better.

    Imagine all the better women who stayed in the shadows.

    Think of all we lost since we have yet to learn the lesson provided by the Death of Hypatia®

    WIBCI if the concept of Better For the Most was taken up by the ladies? Imagine allowing these glorious beasts off the bridal, of the places we would go.

     

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  • WIBCI Post #152

    WIBCI our Country STOOD FOR its EMBLEMS?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If our SYMBOLS gave the RIGHT impression?

    Per Wikipedia: The Great Seal of the United States: 

    is the seal of the United States of America. The phrase is used both for the impression device itself, which is kept by the United States secretary of state, and more generally for the impression it produces. The obverse of the Great Seal depicts the national coat of arms of the United States while the reverse features a truncated pyramid topped by an Eye of Providence. The year of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, 1776, is noted in Roman numerals at the base of the pyramid. The seal contains three Latin phrases: E Pluribus Unum (“Out of many, one“), Annuit cœptis (“He has favored our undertakings”), and Novus ordo seclorum (“A new order of the ages”).

    Largely designed by Charles Thomson, then secretary of the Continental Congress, and William Barton, and first used in 1782, the seal is used to authenticate certain documents issued by the federal government of the United States. Since 1935, both sides of the Great Seal have appeared on the reverse of the one-dollar bill. The coat of arms is used on official documents—including United States passports—military insignia, embassy placards, and various flags. The seal of the president is directly based on the Great Seal, and its elements are used in numerous government agency and state seals.

    ‘Out of many, one’, this is in direct reference to our basis in immigration. The fact that this symbol that should represent what is best about us is what the seal of the Pressie is based off of.

    We are this symbol and the impression it gave, gives, and will continue to give in the future. Think about the words, symbol, emblem, and impression. What does this seal embody? Does our current administration embody these traits?

    We should be accountable when we stray from this keystone of our country, at least that’s how I feel. YOU?… more “WIBCI Post #152”

  • WIBCI Post #151

    WIBCI the advertisements (we are constantly bombarded with) weren’t created for the lowest common denominator?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool if everything weren’t dripping with condescension and they understood we are not as stupid as they think we are/wish we were?

    I personally found the following ‘commercial’ insulting. I do not believe Americans need to the services provided by the following ‘firm’, nor do I believe vast swaths of Americans are unintelligent enough to find comfort and wish to employ anything shrouded in such patronizing language. You decide:

    This commercial for a ‘law firm’ is one continuous shot of a man that purposely speaks and looks very much like a parody version of Johnnie Cochran on some uppers with an unsettling mustache and hostile arm gestures. He is standing in-front of a poorly executed courtroom Greenscreen with red captioned lists that continue to aggressively splash across the screen.

    He begins:

    ‘If you were in an accident that wasn’t your fault, your favorite attorney has a message for you…” (red arrow on screen points to the caption stating the obvious that ‘the speaker is not a lawyer.’)

    “Collision? Calamity? Catastrophe?” (I believe I once thought alliteration a good thing, read on and you will see why this is no longer a conviction of mine)

    “Are you: innocent? Faultless? Above reproach? (the redundancy hurts my educated brain and anyone who believes they are, ever were, or will be above reproach is not good people, so let’s stop reinforcing entitlement, no?)

    “If you want money, you need an attorney.” (not justice, financial relief, or morale redemption…..no….just money)

    “You need a bulldog, but finding an attorney is: laborious, strenuous, stupefying.” (now you are pissing me off, please stop talking to all people)

    “That’s why you need to call the # on your screen now. They’ll connect you with a legal expert. You have questions, they have answers. They know: the legaleeze, the lingo, the jargon, and the argo.” (if they meant ergo, which means therefore, than they should have explained the pronunciation better to the actor and the closed caption writer. Alternatively, giving them no credit, I believe they just made up the word ‘argo’ which Webster only believes is a large former constellation in the southern hemisphere.)

    “They will tell you how much money your case could be worth: $300,000? $2,000,000, $86,491? All sorts of numbers.” (yeah, I know those are numbers, patronizing dick.)

    “Slips and fall, work accidents, car, truck, bus, motorcycle, motorbike, e-bike, tandem bike; these bulldogs will make sure people pay, and if you don’t get paid, the attorneys don’t get paid, and I don’t get paid. So I compel you, I implore you, I beseech you to pick up that phone and call now to see what your case could be worth.”

    Grrrr-oooosssss I’m insulted and feel dirty, what your case is WORTH?! Does this shit actually resonate with the American public at large? Can’t you see that they are aggressively making fun of the very people they wish to call and employ them?

     

    Can you?

     

     … more “WIBCI Post #151”

  • WIBCI Post #150

    WIBCI we had ENOUGH?

    Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life.

    It turns what we have into enough.

                                               -Melody Beatrice

    enough /ĭ-nŭf′/ adj:

    Sufficient to meet a need or satisfy a desire; adequate: synonym: sufficient.

    This word is important to all things associated with Death of Hypatia® and the cornerstone to everything I would like people to think about.

    What do YOU have ENOUGH of right here, right now, in this moment in time.

    … more “WIBCI Post #150”

  • WIBCI Post #149

    WIBCI if HUMANS wrote all the magazine articles?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If AI stuck to calculating and quantifying and left human expression to the humans?

    On Jeopardy there was a category entitled: Two Word Magazine Names the ‘answer’ that appeared for 300 involved the naming of two supermodels, which of course gave away the ‘question’. While reflecting on how smart I am, I had one of those….wait, what was that moments and rewound. Listening to the entire ‘answer’ I found it quite disturbing, the part that said: ‘This magazine has been creating AI generated articles since 2023….’

    Um, come again?

    Sports Illustrated has been around since 1954. I would imagine its most important commodity are its journalists, those individuals who get personal, truly know the athletes, agents, family, friends, trainers, coaches, etc. The humans who have spoken with the greats in the sports world one-on-one over beers off the record, people who know what grandma’s meatballs taste like, people who were once athletes themselves and know why sports are important and need to be promoted, those with blood in their veins and thoughts in their head.

    We do not need computers to write magazine articles.… more “WIBCI Post #149”

  • WIBCI Post #148

    WIBCI Americans had more BALLS?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If more people were like Bruce Springsteen?

    The Boss was the musical guest on Stephen Colbert’s 2nd to last show (whose contract, after over a decade of ‘success’, was not renewed, allegedly due to political pressure aka people not having balls nor a sense of humor).

    “I am here in support tonight for Stephen, because you are the first guy in America who’s lost his show because we got a President who can’t take a joke. And because Larry and David Ellison feel they need to kiss his ass to get what they want. Anyway Stephen, these are small-minded people, they hot no idea what the freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about.

    This is for you.”

    Then Bruce Springsteen sang the only main stream fight song anyone of any generation has had enough balls to write under the current monarchal administration:

    The Streets of Minneapolis

    Through the winter’s ice and cold, down Nicollet Avenue
    A city aflame fought fire and ice ‘neath an occupier’s boots
    King Trump’s private army from the DHS, guns belted to their coats
    Came to Minneapolis to enforce the law or so their story goes

    Against smoke and rubber bullets, in the dawn’s early light
    Citizens stood for justice, their voices ringing through the night
    And there were bloody footprints where mercy should have stood
    And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets, Alex Pretti and Renee Good

    Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice singing through the bloody mist
    We’ll take our stand for this land and the stranger in our midst
    Here in our home they killed and roamed in the winter of ’26
    We’ll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis

    Trump’s federal thugs beat up on his face and his chest
    Then we heard the gunshots and Alex Pretti lay in the snow dead
    Their claim was self-defense, sir, just don’t believe your eyes
    It’s our blood and bones and these whistles and phones against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies

    Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice crying through the bloody mist
    We’ll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis

    Now they say they’re here to uphold the law but they trample on our rights
    If your skin is black or brown my friend you can be questioned or deported on sight
    In our chants of “ICE out now!” our city’s heart and soul persists
    Through broken glass and bloody tears on the streets of Minneapolis

    Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice singing through the bloody mist
    Here in our home they killed and roamed in the winter of ’26
    We’ll take our stand for this land and the stranger in our midst
    We’ll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis
    We’ll remember the names of those who died on the streets of Minneapolis

    I don’t see anything in these lyrics a reasonable adult could disagree with, let alone argue against.

    Thank you Bruce.… more “WIBCI Post #148”

  • WIBCI Post #147

    WIBCI we celebrated our own MILESTONES

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If we recognized not just where we are, but where we started?

    It is one year today since I began blogging, this was the official launch of Deathofhypatia.com, and I have since successfully trademarked both the name and the logo since its online inception.

    Therefore I’m going to try something new in year 2, this year’s blog posts MAY include a look back at last years, aka year 1’s posts. Of course this will only be in practice if A) I do not have a new and burning subject to blog about and/or B) last year’s post was leaning towards lame. *Note, I of course can only do this because the world, without the aid of social media, has yet to become acquainted with this website and therefore no one will tire of a recap of what wasn’t read to begin with:)

    Therefore in honor of our anniversary, below are the first posts for both WIBCI and Know Thyself:

    • Know Thyself Post #1

      Know Thyself through PHILOSOPHY:

      I believe Focus is Key.

      Try this: Take a walk. Go outside if possible. Focus on consciously utilizing all five of your toes with each step you take.

      How is YOUR posture? Are YOUR shoulders up and scrunched or down and back like your shoulder blades could almost touch?

      If not, try and correct this consciously…. have you noticed how you can actually just tell your body what to do? You can actually make yourself taller, try it.

      Do YOU feel more in control?

      Imagine focusing like this on everything YOU do. What do YOU Think?

      Multi-tasking sucks.… more “Know Thyself Post #1”

     

    • WIBCI post #1

      Wouldn’t It Be Cool If BILLIONAIRES had souls?:

      WIBCI: The Billionaire that owns the largest online retailer and shipping outfit in the US (the fourth richest man in the world), partnered with the Billionaire that owns a US electric car company (the richest man in the world) – and converted the largest US shipping fleet of vehicles to ones that didn’t pollute our environment, you know the kind the richest man in the world makes?

      I think that would be Better for the Most.

      What do YOU Think?… more “WIBCI post #1”

    … more “WIBCI Post #147”

  • WIBCI Post #146

    WIBCI celebrities stopped SELLING OUT?

    Wouldn’t It Be Cool If they were going to use up/ruin their clout, why couldn’t it be for a cause, not KahShield.

    There once was the Golden Age of Hollywood, described by scroller.net as:

    ..more than just a glamorous era; it was a revolution in storytelling, star power, and silver screen magic. Between the late 1920s and early 1960s, a wave of iconic actors and actresses captivated the world with unforgettable performances and timeless style. These stars weren’t just famous, they defined fame as we know it today.

    Humphrey Bogart, Marilyn Monroe, Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, James Stewart, Bette Davis, Charlie Chaplin, Grace Kelley, Marlon Brando, and Elizabeth Taylor were icons. Katherine Hepburn was a humanitarian ambassador for UNICEF, Jimmy Stewart served in WWII, and Elizabeth Taylor was a pioneering activist for HIV/AIDS. Grace Kelley was an actual royal princess. They had class, were looked up to for good reason (for the most part), they made a difference with their fame, they made art.

    Oh how times have changed….

    Billy Bob Thornton, I don’t wish to guess where you are, who your carrier is, nor the strength of your signal. I don’t care, weren’t you a bad boy at one point, please go away.

    Samuel L. Jackson cheapening himself for Dice Dreams? The SNL Weekend Update guys AND Jason Alexander also partaking of the gambling app bandwagon. Don’t you guys invest?

    Ludicrous hawking vitamins! Busta Rhymes handing over his soul to Walmaht! Christopher Walken…. oh Mr. Walken…Mr. ‘More Cowbell’…..light beer….. why?

    Kevin Hart and Shaq….YOU ARE OVER EXPOSED.

    The guys from Scrubs whose commercial campaign has lasted longer than the show, its going away, and its comeback; STOP IT.

    Tom Brady, YOU AREN’T FUNNY, you are never going to be funny, please stop trying; watching you try and appear human with emotions is as painful as watching people dance on Beverly Hills 90210.

    Liberty Biberty was funny for a hot second….. you killed it…..happy now?

     … more “WIBCI Post #146”

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