One vacation, a friend had to take care of the Hosts' pets! She always had to leave very early from the get togethers!

If you are going to eat fast food, drink coffee or order out, know from the get go, it is probably not going to taste as good as it costs. I spent entirely too much on a fancy coffee and now I want justice. Why are we paying so much for store bought convenience if we can do this at home?

WRU4? Food that tastes great, is good for you and fast. You also shouldn't have to pawn a gold fiddle to get a good bite to eat! Oh and...

Getting down off this soapbox to go make a cup of coffee...

WRU4? Accountability. Please tell the People, what actually happens to these criminals? This world seems like a stage with actors coming and going - no one seems affected. Billions change hands and the victims of banks get nothing?

Getting down off this soapbox...

Real rock history:

The rock group King Crimson traveled to Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas during their Summer 1974 US tour to have their hands undergo Kirlian photography. According to Dr. Joseph Pizzo, who supervised the photography, this was the first time to his knowledge that a Kirlian photograph had ever been taken of an entire hand or face. Wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirlian_photography

Touch tech is also REBORN silicone which makes these baby (dolls) feel like the real:

See how these dolls are made in this video Inside China's Reborn Doll Factory.

They also have a haptic hydro gel that simulates touch in VR and AR! The future is definitely in wearables, but also touchable like this article on the invention of Hydrogel adaptive skin wearable!

Are you into the tech of touch? Do you think it can one day touch tech will be indistinguishable from touching for real?

WRU4? I'm 4 a PANIC FREE HUMANITY! "War of Wealth" is a War on Economic Equality

Too many Panics! The "Panic of 1893" and the RUN ON THE BANKS caused

A bank run or run on the bank occurs when many clients withdraw their money from a bank, because they believe the bank may fail in the near future. It may occur when, in a fractional-reserve banking system (where banks normally only keep a small proportion of their assets as cash), a large volume of customers seek to withdraw a greater amount of cash from deposit accounts with a financial institution in a short space of time than the institution has cash on-hand, because the customers believe that the institution is, or might become, insolvent. When they transfer funds to another institution, it may be characterized as a capital flight. As a bank run progresses, it may become a self-fulfilling prophecy: as more people withdraw cash, the likelihood of default increases, triggering further withdrawals. This can destabilize the bank to the point where it runs out of cash and thus faces sudden bankruptcy. To combat a bank run, a bank may acquire more cash from other banks or from the central bank, or limit the amount of cash customers may withdraw, either by imposing a hard limit or by scheduling quick deliveries of cash, encouraging high-return term deposits to reduce on-demand withdrawals, or suspending withdrawals altogether.

Thanks Wikipedia.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_run

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_runs There have been thousands throughout the decades.

The reason bank runs can occur is because of a fractional-reserve banking system where banks normally only keep a small a fraction of a deposit on hand and lends out the rest.

Fractional banking explained:

You can deposit a 1000.00 and the bank keeps 100.00 and lends out the other 900.00. If you try to take out your 1000.00, the bank has to have the money on hand. If many people do this, the bank may not have the money on hand and cause a panic.

Corruption, rumors, bad banks and fractional banking are some of the reasons why Panics are started. Do you think we will ever be free of economic Panics?

World’s First Fully Implanted Cochlear Implant Reaches Patients

Cochlear Implants are finally hearing the kudos for their technology. These are fully implanted cochlear type implants which allows the deaf to hear. This article courtesy of NIH.gov What are Cochlear Implants for Hearing?

Link to Article "World’s First Fully Implanted Cochlear Implant Reaches Patients" https://spectrum.ieee.org/fully-implantable-cochlear-implant Credit Spectrum.IEEE.org and courtesy of r/technology Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/s/aruR1d1FXp

Let's discuss... Are you for fully implanted inner ear hearing devices? Why or why not?

Pink Slime is not like that friendly green slime goo that is made from coloring and starch like you see on those kid shows and in Ghostbusters II (Image above), it is:

Lean finely textured beef (LFTB)—also called finely textured beef, boneless lean beef trimmings (BLBT), and colloquially known as pink slime—is a meat *by-product* used as a food additive to ground beef and beef-based processed meats, as a filler, or to reduce the overall fat content of ground beef. As part of the production process, heat and centrifuges remove the fat from the meat in beef trimmings. The resulting paste, without the fat, is exposed to ammonium hydroxide or citric acid to kill bacteria. In 2001, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved the product for limited human consumption. The product, when prepared using ammonia gas, is banned for human consumption in Canada, and production of all mechanically separated meat from ruminants, including cattle, is prohibited in the European Union.

Credit Wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime

Please take the time to read this article and watch this video on how this slimy pink goo (photo #2) is dripping into our food supply. Credit Wbez.org https://www.wbez.org/afternoon-shift/2013/10/18/preventing-the-next-pink-slime

WRU4? The complete dissolution of the word "A.I." which is an inspiration of this archived Reddit post in r/scifi and especially this Reddit post in r/aiwars entitled "Why even call it AI when there's no non-human intelligence involved?" Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/scifi/s/FWPE2sFGh9

So why call it "artificial intelligence" when it can at best crudely mimic a handful of very specific functions associated with intelligence? Why not just call it "machine learning"? Because as crude and oversimplified as the learning process is with such models, it at least resembles learning on a superficial level.

I do apologize for any apparent hostility in my tone, but it frustrates me that something so self-evident is being missed so consistently. It's not intelligent, it's just a tool that people have an annoying habit of projecting human traits onto.

Also, let's dive deeper into it with an article Credit Joshworth.com entitled: Stop Calling it Artificial Intelligence Credit Joshworth.com https://www.joshworth.com/posts/stop-calling-in-artificial-intelligence where the article states:

When designing an interface that promises a taste of "artificial intelligence," we're basically screwed from the get-go. I'm convinced that a big reason why the average person is uncomfortable with, or unsatisfied by applications that tout themselves as artificially intelligent has to do with the fact that no one is quite sure what the phrase even means.

How about CG - Computer Generated? What would you call it?

Image of Intergalactic - Beastie Boys Official video

The image of an apple in this post has been digitally altered.

Apple juice with Lead and Arsenic bites!

Many people feel fruit and juices are healthy, but they can be dangerous to your health if you do not know what is in them! There can be high amounts of lead and arsenic in juices and they cannot be given to small children:

Infants under 1 year of age should not drink juice

Credit Article: FDA.gov What You Can Do to Limit Exposure to Arsenic and Lead from Juices https://www.fda.gov/food/environmental-contaminants-food/what-you-can-do-limit-exposure-arsenic-and-lead-juices

Do we want to know what water they are using for these juices on the shelf? Are they that bad, too? See this r/WRU4 original post about what they pass off as water...

https://www.reddit.com/r/WRU4/s/4sikOuGemj

Soapboxers, do you see or know something that you don't agree with about juices? Let us know in the comments! We must share our information to help benefit the whole!

WRU4? The truth about U.S. History. If you are for this too, get on this soapbox. Answer at the end.

How many U.S. Cities are named after Ancient Egyptian Cities?

Not just once a thriving city in Egypt...

Alexandria is a city in these US States:

1. Alabama
2. Indiana
3. Kentucky
4. Louisiana
5. Minnesota
6. Missouri
7. Nebraska
8. Ohio
9. Pennsylvania
10. South Dakota
11. Tennessee
12. Virginia

Running total: 12

Cairo is a city in these US States:

1. Alabama
2. Arkansas
3. Florida
4. Georgia
5. Illinois
6. Indiana
7. Iowa
8. Kansas
9. Kentucky
10. Mississippi
11. Missouri
12. Nebraska
13. New York
14. North Carolina
15. Ohio
16. Oklahoma
17. Oregon
18. Tennessee
19. West Virginia

Running total: 31

Memphis is a city in these US States:

1. Alabama
2. Florida
3. Indiana
4. Michigan
5. Mississippi
6. Missouri
7. Nebraska
8. New York
9. Ohio
10. Tennessee
11. Texas

Running total: 42

Goshen is a city in these US States:

1. Alabama
2. Arkansas
3. California
4. Connecticut
5. Georgia
6. Idaho
7. Indiana
8. Kentucky
9. Maryland
10. Massachusetts
11. Mississippi
12. Missouri
13. New Hampshire
14. New Jersey
15. New York
16. Ohio
17. Oregon
18. Pennsylvania
19. South Carolina
20. Tennessee
21. Texas
22. Utah
23. Vermont
24. Virginia
25. Washington
26. West Virginia

Running total: 68

Nile is a city in these US States:

1. Mississippi
2. Missouri
3. New York
4. Washington
5. West Virginia

Running total: 73

Thebes is a city in these US States:

1. Arkansas
2. Illinois

Running total: 75

Luxor is a city in this US State:

1. Pennsylvania

WRU4? The truth about U.S. History.

There are 7 Ancient Egyptian Cities and 76 U.S. cities named after them.

Is this the answer you were looking for?

There is no justice in wars. War doesn't show who is right, only who is left.

Wars are fought by men who do not have financial investment in wars.

Lives are lost and those lives left are destroyed, homes demolished or burned.

No wars is what we should all be for...

WRU4? No powdered problems with kittah litter.

“Where is that information going? Is it being sold to other third parties? Can it be used to harm than do more good?”

Credit NBC CT Flock Safety

Cameras in parked cars on lonely roads, flock cameras on solar carts in the middle of store parking lots, cameras on signs, cameras on traffic posts, highway cameras... GOOD FLOCKING SAKES you cannot escape them now!

Even doorbells will find you and your little dog 'Toto' too!

Add these new camera "flocks" to all the other myriads of cameras on businesses, residences, vehicles, police and pet collars... and now our last shred of privacy is really ^flocked since 2017!

So, what the flock is a "Flock (Safety)"?

Flock Group Inc., doing business as Flock Safety is a privately held American manufacturer and operator of security hardware and software, particularly automated license plate recognition (ALPR), video surveillance, gunfire locator systems, and supporting software...

Credit Wikipedia on Flock Safety

What do you think about these new flocking technologies and the news stories that come out and WRU4 Flocks or Not?

CALCIUM ATE MY HOT WATER TANK! True story...

Brand new filters clogged shut after a month of use and damage to hot water plumbing ensued. So far 3 appliances of ours fell victim due to this chalky rock like scale mainly the hot water heater. The scale buildup on the tanks' metal connections caused it to sadly, boil its last bubble. What a world... what... a world.

It wasn't until the painful calcified shards of glass-like build-up on/in the gums of a family member, prompted a test of the water. This lead to a distiller (#1) which would coat our water distiller insides with with metallic rainbows and a rock-like metal (calcium) stucco that requires steel wool and a mild acid to get off (#2).

A family member requested to be put on calcium channel blockers after heavy chalk lines appeared in a slow tap water death of a 13-year-old Monstera (#3) event.

Extensively filtered water looked clear and seemed to taste good, but it still clouded a glass pot with chalky calcium after boiling this water for only 7 minutes (#4).

The Case of the Carbonation Water Caper

What is this in my bathroom tap water? Fizzy water nightmare as seen in this Reddit post on r/whatisit makes us all beg:

"Miss, I'll have just pure water with no lime and no flocculants, please!"

Filtration and Water Treatment Highlights

Filters can only filter out particulates that cannot pass through it. Liquid contaminants or substances that are water soluble (like calcium carbonate and lime)) cannot be filtered out by even the smallest filtration membranes, so boiling the water and creating steam/vapor which collects and drips out as water as seen in this Reddit post on r/whatisit

Water Treatment uses flocculants that causes sedimentation to drop to the bottom so the cleaned water can be skimmed off the top.

"In water treatment facilities, calcium carbonate is naturally basic and increases the alkalinity of water. Acidic waters, which are on the increase due to acid rain, are neutralized with the addition of calcium carbonate. When combined with other chemicals to form calcium polysulphide or calcium hydroxide, these chemicals act as flocculants to adhere waste materials, creating a much heavier material that drifts to the bottom of tanks to be more easily removed."

Credit: https://www.bellchem.com/news/understanding-how-calcium-carbonate-is-used-in-water-purification

Evaporators (aka Distiller) 101

Distillers (also called 'evaporators') heat water so it gives off steam which is collected as water vapor as it condenses, killing disease-causing microbes and leaving most chemical contaminants behind like in this on r/chemistry archive Reddit post on cleaning distillers.

EPA.gov Water filtration and distillation for health https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-11/documents/2005_11_17_faq_fs_healthseries_filtration.pdf More on water filtration at CDC.gov Water filtration basics https://www.cdc.gov/drinking-water/prevention/about-choosing-home-water-filters.html and Choosing a Filtration Method https://www.cdc.gov/drinking-water/about/about-home-water-treatment-systems.html