I, No-Bot promise you that today's entry is in no way created by artificial intelligence. In fact, I can proudly assert that it IS being created by a human of far less intelligence than many other humans. If this sounds nuts, just wait a few years when you'll be begging for anything still available with a human touch.
The barrage of happy, happy, happy TV and radio commercials surrounding Thanksgiving this year seem phonier than last year's crop, and I urge you to remember my advice: If you like something advertised, find the same product produced by a less obvious competitor, because that item is probably cheaper, better and produced by well-paid employees whose paychecks won't be diminished by the high cost of media-drenched advertising.
But I, No-Bot digress. As 2025 draws to a close, a cesspool of brain-damaged issues rattle around in my head, where plenty of vacant space remains to take in even more. For instance -- why are we still here? Why is our species not extinct? We've had our time and what future remains for us consists of running out of landfills, poisoning every good water source on the planet, ruining food sources and a continuation of killing off animals and plants as we forge ahead to our own destruction. I mean, sooner or later the only things left to decimate will be us, and that should be relatively easy the way weaponry, international tensions and basic human attachment to war exemplify us as a species.
The implications of artificial general intelligence and its truly dangerous successor, artificial super intelligence, currently fall on clusters of ears which will not hear the warnings. We hope somebody is making a collection of news clips and TV videos where experts assure us that AI will always be our friend -- you know, a little something the next generation can play as its basics of life are commandeered or forbidden by the AI in charge of human existence and obliteration. And who gets to use energy? Why, AI of course.
Another thing bothering me about this whole AI business is these kids who suicide themselves on the advice of AI -- or, for that matter, at the urging of a girlfriend or boyfriend. When these felo-de-se actions occur, instead of putting the blame (and, oh yes, the multi-million dollar lawsuits to kiss and make better something) on Internet AI companies, why not just acknowledge that the victim is a victim of his or her own troubled mind? In other words, there was already plenty of something wrong in that brain long before the Internet scooped it up.
Speaking of taking one's own life -- who wouldn't think it these days? College students sign for debt they can never pay off and AI is already taking away a good share of the jobs young people are supposedly training for (joke's on you). Social Security's future is far from certain and far beyond that should be the realization that the products AI will be making instead of previously fired humans won't be purchased because people without jobs can't buy anything. It's no wonder that young people in uncomfortable numbers feel, albeit wrongly, that socialism is their ticket to freedom.
The holy book thumpers among us in particular scream panic because the international population is decreasing, unable to keep up the growing numbers. I believe part of this event, in addition to Internet alternatives to baby-making, is related to people simply stepping back and realizing the cost and trouble as opposed to benefits just don't seem worthwhile. Anybody still believing the world can be harnessed in layers of love, sex and proliferation of baby production is full of shit. Consider the escalation of child abuse. With the world of high tech working overtime to keep every human alive forever while most religions and governments do their best to champion additions to the arsenal of babies, the enterprise of infant supplementation becomes meaningless to potential parents and modern society. How many people is too many? We understand why heterosexual relationships have taken such a dive. Our ecosystem is trashed and there simply is no interest in actual romantic encounters which range from awkward to, yes, injurious or murderous.
If there's a bright spot -- and there isn't really -- there are people still making lots of babies every day: Radical Islamists around the world and right here in the good old used-to-be USA. That is, we don't seem very united as states anymore, but we do tend to agree and disagree a lot as Americans, which is our cherished right.
Nobody living faithfully under the American Constitution should want the slightest anything to do with radical Islam and Sharia Law. Sharia is popping up around the U.S. as fast as mosques occupied by ??? and government officials need to make certain that Sharia never gets a foothold in the country (as it has in other nations devoid of a firewall constitution). When Texas declared the organization C.A.I.R. essentially terrorists this year, of course the complicit media went wild with cries of unfairness. Truth is, C.A.I.R is an American derivative of the Muslim Brotherhood, declared as criminals by Egypt years ago. What does Egypt know that we do not?
Islamists get off rather easily in American society, as so many fear their wrath and will say nothing controversial. Me? I wish every high school, college, university, club and TV station in the USA would sponsor a "Draw the Prophet Mohammad" contest in which all participants throughout the country are encouraged to draw their impression of Mohammad's brutal, child-abusing pedophile face, the more insane looking the better so we may at least establish some modicum of reality. It is, you see, against Islamic law to produce any image of Mohammad. The man must remain absolutely invisible. Is that because of his crimes, or is blind reverence so important that one must hide the object of one's crazed affections away from public scrutiny? Don't, please, give me that old, old, old time religion!
I think we are in a kind of trouble that may not abate. Sunday night's "60 Minutes" (CBS-TV) showed us brilliant high school students using CRISPR (we have mentioned this previously) to produce cures for illness. One student did mention something about the ethics which must be ascribed to such technology -- which is a valid point because any dog on the street should be smart enough by now to know that CRISPR will also be implemented by those who wish to produce viruses able to kill off segments of human society, if not all.
American society seems to believe all ills can be cured by flooding our lives with sports. One can hardly get away from football alone on TV. Then again, athletics have a long tradition of high school and college coaches steering players in the right direction and -- oops, until that coach who was downloading and trading child porn left his house with a gun after discovery by the cops. And then there's the sports gambling scandal with the Mafia. Mafia? They still around?
Not to forget UFOs. Right now, government officials of merit are wrestling with "disclosure" of information indicating that yes, they are real. I wish Trump would just come out and say it. Get it over with. We have plenty of other things to panic in the streets about. Of course, the major problem here is that religion and UFOs don't always go hand in hand, to say the least. Many among The Faithful won't cater kindly to being told a choice must be made based upon evidence. God is this or God is that or God. . .may not be what they think or. . .may not have been. Period. This is the sort of thing to bring trouble in the streets of, especially, the Third World. Or until religion's officials can prop up some absurd explanation that suits the revelations about these enigmas that claim the skies, lakes, rivers and oceans at will.
My final proof that we hover on the brink of annihilation? The new season of NBC-TV's "Saturday Night Live." Horrible writing, just infantile and unwatchable for the very most part. Maybe they'll cancel it and substitute more football. It really doesn't matter. Just keep on licking that lollipop and hope the next lick releases a calming sedative.
