https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/07/07/1442228/alphabets-loon-launches-its-balloon-powered-kenyan-internet-service
Alphabet's Loon has officially begun operating its commercial internet service in Kenya. This is the first large-scale commercial offering that makes use of Loon's high-altitude balloons, which essentially work as cell service towers that drift on currents in the Earth's upper atmosphere
Thank you God, through Jesus Christ, for allowing me to witness this! It is so glorious, to be able to see information with "eyes that see"!
Yesterday I asked during prayers, "what's the next challenge?" and this morning upon awakening, I see it: my sister replied to my email sharing the one-minute video about how the guidelines for counting cases increased from 1 to 16 per "infected person", which explains why there's a "second wave" during summertime when that never happened before, and she's fully convinced that this lie is reality.
She believes a lot of lies, and also, murdered her firstborn through ritual child sacrifice (short version: had an abortion). She has had panic attacks throughout her adult life, and I don't want to harm her; but cognitive dissonance causes physical trauma, so I am not sure how or whether to respond.
I've written up a draft addressing her concerns, and "raising it to the next level" (like moving from one electron shell to another, I tend to envision) -- telling her it's about the election, it's about mail-in voting, and giving a lot of detail as to why.
I think I might change it and make it short and sweet: "Sister, this is about the next election, and stealing it through mail-in voting. Pause, and let that sink in. We are at war, they are trying to steal another election and with 'my God what is that thing' as a candidate?" She has seen Princess Bride so will get that reference.
But even that, I'm not sure I want to send it.
Was thinking about our potential communication while sunning, after writing up the response I have so far, and was thinking about "the balance between good and evil", and that even that is a lie! That we were told that there exists 50% of each, equally, and that any "good act" that we may take will be balanced out by an "evil act" somewhere else in the world.
This is not only incredibly false, it's intimately related to the lie the evil one is selling via the democrats! They keep showing polls that "we're neck-and-neck, get out and vote!" -- that it's a 51%/49% race between good and evil.
No, that's not it at all! Good is overwhelming. Most people's stories will be written into the Book of Life. Very few of us terrorize children then tear them apart and eat them (and this is something that is going to be especially horrifying for her; that she participated in that market, and that my potential-but-now-dead niece or nephew became a dollar amount on some accountant's page, somewhere; and also, perhaps, made into facial cream).
So I have to dance carefully around this; I don't want to lose her forever, either to suicide from remorse/guilt, or turning away because she "can't handle the truth" like that movie projected at us decades ago, "A Few Good Men"; and, that is not a good thing to say at all (most people can't handle lies!), so there's some lying in the title but why should I be surprised. :)
Anyway. There's an eye in the sky over Kenya now, good luck running, Forrest!
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[–] 24632725? [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Yeah -- did you see that today Pompeo announced we're likely to ban TikTok?
I love this timeline! "Tick Tock" and it's also the name of a Chinese spying app!
If this was a book it'd be "that's going too far." We're going too far, kek! God bless.