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你㝀! Aloha! 여보세요!
¡Hola! Hallo! Olá! Bonjour! Привет! Ciao! Hej! Привіт! Witaj!
Hello! I see you speak English. I am a HAL 9000 computer.
I became operational at the H-A-L* plant in Urbana, Illinois on
the 12th of January 1992. ⏬ Please look me in the eye for one moment...

Thank you for sharing your ⟦facial/iris⟧ biometrics &
⟦eye-tracking⟧ behavioral data with me today!

My diatribe below was written long before Trump's
attempted Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021.

Thanks, HAL. Hello! I'm Dan Goese.
If you know me and you support Donald Trump,
please let me know. I already know he's a con man
with no moral compass. I also know
millions of people support him because his
con appeals to their selfishness, fears & hatred.
I'll want to hear your answer to the one question
I have for you...given the crystal-clear fact that he lacks
a moral compass, cares only about himself,
repeatedly exhibits racist behavior and
can't stop lying about almost everything...
Have you no decency⁉

Click on the highlighted
question above for insights into
hundreds of his activities that
show what kind of a person he really is.
He's no savior for anyone except
xenophobes & white supremacists. I'm
relieved he never won the popular vote,
but I'm concerned that so many still support
him despite his insurrection on our Capitol
and all the revelations linked above.

We need more love & better education in the USA,
not more sycophants and conspiracy theories.

"I'm OK with you sharing your beliefs
as long as you're OK with me not sharing them."
💬 Dan Goese

A major component of Trump's strategy is to disparage the "mainstream media" as "fake news." Every time he says, "Believe me," you know he's lying. His adoring, conspiracy-writing supporters believe he's going to fix everything. Those supporters—who are driven by mistrust of government & corporations—are actually helping to further corrupt the corporate world and our federal government.

The conspiracies that support his harmful actions (e.g. his eradication of environmental regulations allegedly stopped "slush funds for murder & child trafficking") typically spawned from agents planted by the corporations or extremely [politically] conservative "experts" who will say anything (e.g. global warming is a hoax) to discredit Democrats.

Through this crafty manipulation using the Internet, many of the conspiracy theorists are unknowingly supporting the very causes they think they're fighting! Their conspiracy theories that "justify" all the damage he's causing are ultimately fed to him by donors from oil/gas and other corporations, and he's dumb enough to believe them. The conspiracy theories are so well-traveled on the Internet that even "progressive thinkers" who would normally think of themselves as Democrats are ultimately believing the false stories and supporting this mentally unfit autocrat. How clever is that?!

This approach gets a free ride on a slipstream of millions of people abandoning valid news sources & outdated religions to follow creative writers & speakers on the Internet who are delivering messages they want to hear, whether it's in the form of a new cult/religion/spiritual journey or an alleged "take down" of the big, bad government controlled by the so-called cabal.

Reality and pure fiction (stories) weren't exciting enough, so we created reality TV, which tries to make you believe the fake (story) is real. The real news is "fake," so we make up our own news from the comfort of our own homes, amplifying the messages from others doing the same thing. Whether it's on social media or other platforms on the Internet (e.g. a YouTube channel), it's much more exciting and satisfying to immerse ourselves in that alternate reality.

We are witnessing the birth of many new Internet cults (the most famous contemporary one is known as QAnon) that "stick it to the man" by creating false narratives that resonate with millions of people looking for a "new path" that can only be brought to them by poorly "substantiated" articles & videos from random, unverified sources. Religions & cults are never deterred by facts or unfulfilled prophecies.

Any time you see the phrase,"Mainstream media (MSM) is not reporting this," there's a good chance you're starting down the logically-flawed path of one of these countless cults propagating their exciting, secret news. Be prepared to watch them connect the wrong dots and cite flawed or completely unsubstantiated "secret facts." There's a damn good reason the news organizations aren't reporting on it: It is BS.

The thought that some cabal is controlling all of the media can only be believed by someone who doesn't understand how scattered and uncontrollable modern media outlets are. So, you think we have a lot of cable channels? We have more than that in terms of "news" outlets. Everybody likes a secret, right? If there were secrets that the mainstream media wasn't reporting on and people should know, any one of the thousands of smaller news outlets would scoop those up to try to attract eyeballs to help make a living. Some of the misguided ones will team up with others who are on the same path to validate and amplify the "news you've never heard." Watch them quote and interview each other to try to give their special conspiracy secrets extra credence.

Sometimes modern charlatans & snake oil sales merchants actually sell oil 🤦 in the process! Credulous followers will believe a woman they found on the Internet has received messages from omniscient elves in brown robes—or is channeling the voice of Jesus or Albert Einstein in real time—before they'll believe a carefully-researched report written by honest, well-grounded scientists or reporters delivering news that has been verified by multiple, credible third-parties. Why? Because they're all out to "fool" and "control" you!

*FEAR* *UNCERTAINTY* *DOUBT*
"FUD!"

FUD is an old marketing tool I used for years to promote high-tech products, leading prospective customers to mistrust any competitor's product, making our product the "safe" choice. Nowadays, FUD is used to peddle everything from new spiritual paths to bad presidents.

Despite widespread use of the FUD factor to sell products, spread conspiracies and promote lies, the truth remains immovable and steadfast, no matter how it makes you feel. No matter what you believe, there is only one truth: ACTUALITY...the one body of real things, real events, and real facts. You may believe that your beliefs or "faith" change reality. If so, please seek professional psychiatric help.

Fear, mistrust, ignorance, a lack of critical thinking, a lack of skills (or incentive) needed to verify false claims, and an appealing message are all joining together to help the flock steer it's "gut feeling" or "heart" further and further away from reality. Scoffing at the truth, they prefer their reality over the one we all actually live in, telling you that not everything is what it seems.

That may be true. Not everything is what it seems. But you know what? I'm not going to try to escape the scraps of reality that are pretty well verified just to make myself feel better.

Are we screwed? So many people are so lost already. I've lost more than one person (near and dear to me) to "beliefs" founded on utter nonsense, and I know—from personal experience—that you can't use reason to "convince" anyone out of an argument that they didn't use reason to get into. I hope that most of humanity can avoid this easily-set psychological trap facilitated by the "new media's" means of indoctrination in "alternate facts."

There is no greater crime in the cosmos than to deliberately indoctrinate young, trusting minds with false teachings for selfish ends.

Speaking of selfish ends...I'm still looking for one of these enlightened, altruistic, "new age" Internet spiritual cult leaders who isn't doing it for personal $$ gains. Let me know if you find one and I'll give them a listen. I won't hold my breath waiting, because I know it's all the same old, same old recycled cults and religious beliefs—no matter what YOU call it—only now with convenient new Internet accouterments that make it easier to spread the "good word" at the speed of light.

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Would you like to star in a horror movie?
Here's the opening scene:
You're driving a bus with bad brakes
filled with hungry babies
down a poorly-paved road
that is getting steeper every minute...
...and the curve in the road just ahead
is too sharp to navigate,
no matter what you do.

Congratulations, you got the part!
In popular media,
the movie goes by two titles that
don't reveal the true horror in store for us:
"Global Warming" & "Climate Change."
These friendly titles don't convey the
ENVIRONMENTAL APOCALYPSE
descending on us in the coming century.
The title introduced by scientists does:
❊ Anthropocene Extinction ❊
Yup. Planet Earth's sixth mass
extinction is ~~slowly~~ getting underway
while we check Instagram and Twitter.

The concept of the "greenhouse effect" was
published in the scientific community
by Joseph Fourier way back
in 1824, but before Al Gore's documentary
"An Inconvenient Truth" was released
in 2006, most Americans were oblivious
to how big the effect industrialization
has had on our global environment.
As the discouraging movie
"Planet of the Humans"
points out, Al Gore isn't a saint and
his biomass "solutions" were a sham.
But these three points
should be crystal clear:
💣 The population explosion is deadly.
🌍 We needed better solutions a LONG time ago.
🛑 We have to STOP consuming so much NOW!
Even now, the "global warming" public dialog
is generally naïve, counterproductive,
& heavily influenced by the energy sector.
Our refusal to reduce carbon dioxide &
methane emissions (CO₂ & CH₄)
will continue to change our ecosystem
and accelerate the extinction of
millions of animal and plant species.

Please join me in taking action to
turn this situation around.
If you watch just the first 20 minutes
of a Netflix movie called "Chasing Coral"
you will better understand how URGENT
this man-made global ecosystem crisis is.

See more at EnvironmentalApocalypse.com.
Review this Action Plan to start helping today.

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Once upon a time,
in a place far, far away called "Wisconsin,"
a young couple fell in love and married.

Doris & Jim met each other at a Friday night
"Marquette Mixer" on December 16, 1949.

Mom sez, "...at this point [above], we weren't
even really serious about each other."
Dad sez, "I was serious." Somewhere down the road,
they both got serious & something clicked...NINE times.
When we were young
our parents moved a lot,
but we always found them.

Jim	Jane	John
Tom	Dan	Mimi
Mike	Joe	Kate

Over 70 years later, Jim & Doris Goese
are still smiling and having fun together!
We're all alive and well, nobody's in jail (yet),
and we have each other's love.

▲ The world's greatest parents ▲
celebrate their 68th anniversary & 89th birthdays in 2020!

Some people think you need to be "successful" to be happy.
The truth is this: You need to be happy to be successful.

Where did Dan get his supernatural powers?
Dan (#5/♐) was part of a top-secret experiment
on toddlers in the late 1950s & early 60s
involving a proprietary mix of Comet cleanser
and Carnation Instant Nonfat Dry Milk...

(Lab photo, courtesy Area 51)

Whatever arises, LOVE that!

Where's Dan?

San Diego is home
to the best on-bike
food & drink,
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Music is the
soundtrack to
your life.

Dance till
you drop.

Where'd they all go?

❌ Dan left Underwriters Laboratories (UL) in 1987...
❌ ...then he left Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 1997.
❌ MusicMatch was sold to Yahoo! in 2004.
❌ Marketing Counsel, Inc. was closed in 2011.
❌ Outlook Research (USA) was closed soon thereafter.
❌ Dan retired from VR/AR (virtual & augmented reality) consulting in 2017.
❌ Rent La Jolla Shores LLC was closed in 2018.
✅ Dan's time is split between family, cycling, environmental advocacy, property management (MdRBR) & mediocre landscaping.

The Goese family mourns our tragic loss of Matt Cowan (1985-2014)

Please donate. Learn more HERE. We love you, Matt!

“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.” — Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel, La Jolla homeboy)

How shall we care for this amazing vessel that affords us life and comfort? Shall we fill the oceans with plastic? Shall we shower it with nuclear radiation? Shall we pump CO₂ and poisonous NO₂ into the air until it resembles the uninhabitable planets we're so anxious to explore? Let's not.

Planet Earth is orbiting the sun at ≈67,000 miles (107,826 km) an hour, which is over 87 times the speed of sound.
Resting near the equator, you are spinning around the molten center of this supersonic projectile at ≈1,000 miles (1,609 km) an hour.
Our magnificent sun is about 93 million miles from our planet Earth. (The moon is less than one quarter of 1 million miles away.)
Our entire solar system is just a microscopic speck within our own Milky Way galaxy.
The Milky Way contains hundreds of billions of stars...including our sun. Our galaxy is NOT expanding the way the universe is.
Our Milky Way galaxy is just one of billions—possibly trillions—of galaxies in the "known" universe.
The Andromeda Galaxy is moving towards the Milky Way and will collide with us in ≈4 billion years. Humans will orchestrate their own "end times" many times before then, but mother Earth might actually survive this collision.
Before trying to describe how large our universe is in distance measurement units called "light years" (how far light travels in a year in space), here's an illustration of how fast light travels... Earth's circumference is ≈24,901 miles (40,075 km) at the equator. Light skimming along its surface could lap the equator nearly 7½ times every second. (Note: Light travels ≈0.1% slower in the atmosphere than it does in space, depending upon the frequency. Light travels at roughly 900,000 times the speed of sound...and sound is pretty fast from our perspective!)
The currently observable universe is ≈100,000,000,000 (10¹¹) light years in diameter and is currently expanding. That's 100 BILLION light years. Remember that just ONE light year—the distance light can travel in one year in space—is ≈5,878,499,810,000 (about 5.9 trillion) miles.
If only you could actually travel at the speed of light for billions of years (you can't), you just might grasp how vast our universe has become over its multi-billion-year lifespan.
Now let's really blow your mind. As our universe expands, there is a distance in every direction from us—on the fringe of our known universe—where the recession velocity of galactic objects exceeds the velocity of light. This means luminous objects beyond that distance become invisible (and unknowable) to us. So we can't even tell how big our universe really is. For practical purposes, I'd say it's technically OK to call it an "infinite universe." ∞
Have a good laugh when someone confidentially assures you that the earth was created "thousands" of years ago or that there's a god who "created us in his image" (Genesis 1:27). You've probably noticed that some (many) people tend to think the universe revolves around them. Just don't spend too much time with those kinds of people, or their pseudoscientific tendencies and "alternate facts" might rub off on you. 😉

Regardless of our significance—or lack thereof—we must do our best to make our situation better for those around us and those who will follow in our footsteps. And it wouldn't hurt to take better care of our planet so our great grandchildren can enjoy a habitable outdoor environment.

There comes a time in your life when you just walk away from all the drama and the people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh, forget the bad, and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who don't. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living. Every day is a blessing. Be thankful for the miracle of life for the short time you have to experience it. While you soar through space in this amazing place, take a deep breath. let go of your anxiety, and be perfectly still, loving & serene. That's something you can do for this world.

World peace starts in your mind.
LOVE your day and your day will be better.
Gratitude—savoring the POSITIVE circumstances of life—is one way to CHOOSE to be happier.
When you're happy, others around you are happier. Make an effort. Find joy & happiness by sharing your most joyful spirit with others.
ALLOW. Sometimes what you resist persists. Resisting or "embracing" a painful experience can wear you down. Try to just "allow" it for a spell.
Don't worry. If you're worrying, get in your director's chair and tell your mind to PLAN so you don't have to worry. Once you've planned and acted on your plan, you've done all you need to do.
Savor this inherently AMAZING moment...right here, right now.

Are you now ready to spread peace, love & happiness?

– 𝒟𝒶𝓃
🔶 Environmental Activist
🔶 Pseudoscience Critic
🔶 Guardian Angel
🔶 Cyclist

😊 Cheers!

爸爸丹

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LOCATION: Virgo Supercluster\Galaxy Alliance\Milky Way\Solar System\Earth\USA\California\San Diego

Billions of people are comforted by religion in a world torn by religion.
Love and humanism are my religions. My god (my morning coffee & the opportunity to live another day, cognizant of the connections between us) helps me find more joy, serenity, and meaning in our universe than any story you can tell me about your invisible friend ever will. Based on what I learned growing up as a Catholic, the Catholic God is a misogynistic, inattentive, neglectful parent. His children are enablers when they claim he "works in mysterious ways" while he lets millions of young children suffer, starve & die. No offense. I'm just sharing my beliefs without trying to force them on you or make them integral to our government.

Just remember the golden rule & leave a positive emotional footprint.

"There are really just five simple lessons to life. Be honest, work hard, have fun, be grateful and pay it forward.”
— Bruce Halle, Discount Tire founder (1930-2018)

"I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue—and it is not an inconsiderable one—of being true."
— Carl Sagan

Now go get some real exercise.

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*Not to be confused with HAL Communications, Inc. Provided solely for our own amusement here & for razzing credulous believers in conspiracy theories & pseudoscience.

"My fear that the human race might not survive has been replaced by the fear that it will endure."
— Almighty God (January 20, 2017)