chinhoyang

You don't frick around with rabies. When the rabid bat attacked and bit me, I was told to take the four rabies shots (no more stomach shots) even if the bat was negative.

With one exception, recent U.S. rabies death have all been "bats found in the house." If you are asleep and wake up with a bat in the room, you should assume that you were bitten.

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I want a mongoose.

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When I was a kid living on the Marine Base in Hawaii, one of my friends trapped a mongoose. He then rigged up some kind of long leash (the specifics escape me in my old age) and let it go to "walk it." It was pissed. Bit the kid, tried to bite us, and got loose with the string attached. It got out of the string as we found it on the ground.

My old Aussie would beat the shite out of raccoons. She could never kill one, but she kept them away from the house. I have some pictures of big male raccoons having on to the bricks with Layla below them. I used to worry about one letting go and landing on top of her. I saw one try it, she did a quick dodge and just waled on it.

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Way too skinny but she is pretty.

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There's a reason there are no posts about hot fatties in their 50's or 60's. Thick woman age like shite.

It’s reasonable to be concerned, but “AI taking over our lives” isn’t a yes/no thing. The reality is more like: AI is already reshaping parts of life, there are real near-term harms we should deal with now, and long-term “loss of control” risks are debated but not zero. You don’t need to panic—you do want to stay awake at the wheel.

Here’s a grounded way to think about it.

What “taking over our lives” could mean

People usually mean one (or more) of these:

Everyday dominance: AI nudges what we buy, watch, believe; jobs shift; bureaucracy automates; it feels like you can’t opt out.

Bad-actor amplification: scammers, propagandists, or governments use AI to scale harm.

Runaway/ existential scenario: future AI becomes so capable that humans can’t control it.

The first two are happening to some degree already; the third is uncertain but taken seriously by part of the expert community.

Yahoo killed off its chat rooms and message boards because they did not understand the roll trolls play in generating views and activity.

With the exception of my Johnny Jones post, most of the big downvote posts were troll posts.

Blanchette Ravalec, French actress in Moonraker, with her pigtails (she was well above 18)

Mercy Rooney, 1968 Ridgid Tool calendar

Modern jeeps are not dependable.

I have a 45 GPW (military jeep made at the Ford plant with a Willys motor) and it is very reliable.

The girl in that picture is not Carol Lang, though she does have something in common with Carol Lang.

When my oldest son was very young, he and I would go to Love Field to plane watch. Got a ride one day in the Trinity Industries jet.

There was a time where the airport was a good place to meet women.