My Odyssey: where have I been these past 10 years?

It’s been a while… I’ve stopped in to my website due to an e-mail stating that some files had been changed and perhaps I should check things out to see if everything is as I had left it. Everything seems to be in order. I made some security changes as security has improved since I last logged in (Or has it? These days AI seems like it could make quick work of commandeering my hosting credentials if it set its mind to it). I think it’s time to get back to sharing ideas with others. There’s so much to ponder and discuss, yes? If I had written some forecast or predictions as to what the next ten years would hold back in 2016, I don’t think I could have come close to predicting much of what has occurred in the past decade (2016 – 2026): Taco Bell played a role in people having explosive diarrhea? Who could have guessed? But more seriously; Measles is back with a vengeance; they’re finding Polio in the waste water of large municipal waste water treatment facilities; war has moved to the front burner in the Middle East with one country vowing to wipe an entire civilization off the face of the Earth; there was a global pandemic that resulted in over 7 million deaths with the wealthiest, most advanced country in the world (debatable) suffering about 15% of those deaths due to gross mismanagement of the situation – put into perspective, the U.S. has 4.2% of the world population but our COVID losses were 15% of the total losses; a single human being has accumulated $1 Trillion of personal wealth (most of that is on paper); that same human being thinks we should colonize Mars rather than fix the broken systems on our own planet before we venture into outer space to spread our dysfunction; electric cars are all the rage – although our electric grid is NOT prepared for the switch from I.C.E vehicles to battery-electric vehicles; a major foreign power has attacked its neighbor in a modern land grab reminiscent of the World Wars of the 20th Century – and is kind of getting its ass handed to them by their much smaller, less wealthy, less equipped victim; Truth is no longer relevant – alternative facts have replaced verifiable experiential evidence; the most powerful nation in the world has somehow elected – twice! – a mean-spirited, narcissistic, buffoon, and notorious con-man with the unwavering support of Evangelical Christians; we’ve released Artificial Intelligence upon the world which was in no way ready for it nor did we install any guard rails or significant protections for when the folks that created it can...

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