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"Better a known rival than an unpredictable friend." - Futurist Jim Carroll

There's a lot of talk online about what happens when partnerships become unstable.

When one side of a partnership slides over the abyss of rationality, into a mindset of madness.

When what was once reliable becomes volatile, when the predictable becomes uncertain, and the rational, irrational.

And the lesson is that you have to pick your partners carefully.

Strategically.

Wisely.

With caution.

With due diligence.

With both eyes wide open and elbows up.

You'll never move forward if you keep trying to rely on a relationship that has become untenable.

Partnership involves predictable, rational action.

And when that disappears, so should the reliance on the partnership - because it becomes time to form new ones.

Those partnerships might involve choices that, in an old world, might not have made sense but, in a new world, demand attention.

That's simply reality!

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Futurist Jim Carroll often speaks about the importance of organizations to develop the capability for 'fast partnerships.' He realizes it now applies to nations, too.

**#Partnership** **#Strategy** **#Alliances** **#Trust** **#Reliability** **#Choices** **#Change** **#Wisdom** **#Caution** **#Reality** **#Relationships** **#Stability** **#Leadership** **#Adaptation** **#NewWorld** **#DueDiligence** **#Rationality** **#Forward** **#Decisions** **#Resilience** **#Unpredictable** **#Strategic** **#Eyes** **#Elbows** **#Onwards**

Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2026/01/daily-inspiration-better-a-known-rival-than-an-unpredictable-friend/

So I just had another bad round of mail-trashing by #gmail and (this time) #yahoomail: Email transmission is, again, fully #unpredictable!

Because they prefer to be seen as "protecting our users", they have absolutely zero-transparent rules about delivering to mailboxes.

The sender, this time, was another EU-hosted domain and the mail arrived at one gmail but not another...

What does @Google against this?
To be honest, nothing but killing any community voice that may post a doubt on forum...

Ji Sung’s Unpredictable Action Leaves Jung Hee Tae Flustered In “The Judge Returns” #Action #Flustered #Hee #Judge #Jung #Leaves #Returns #Sungs #Tae #Unpredictable
https://kpopnewshub.com/ji-sungs-unpredictable-action-leaves-jung-hee-tae-flustered-in-the-judge-returns/?fsp_sid=4612

Is #Trump mentally fit to be #President?

In an address from the #WhiteHouse in December, Trump claimed that, over the past 11 months, his administration had brought “more positive change” than any government in US history.

“There has never been anything like it,” Trump added.

It’s true that his second term has been #unusual, including in some ways which the president might not appreciate. That’s because Trump, 79, has shown #erratic and at times #confused behavior throughout 2025, leading to questions about his mental and physical performance.

Trump has appeared to #fallasleep during some meetings; amid others, he has #drifted off-topic, launching into #bizarre segues on interior decor or about #whales and #birds. His public appearances have lacked focus, and he has used speeches to #ramble about how Barack Obama walks down stairs, or to #inventstories about the Unabomber.

The #unpredictable behavior has forced the White House to repeatedly defend Trump’s mental acuity, often in hyperbolic terms. Trump himself has bragged that he “aced” an assessment which tests for early signs of #dementia, but over the course of his 11 months in office, examples of unusual behavior have piled up.

There was the case in mid-July, when Trump told a detailed story about how his uncle, the late professor John Trump, had taught Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Trump recalled: “I said: ‘What kind of a student was he, Uncle John? Dr John Trump.’ I said: ‘What kind of a student?’ And then he said: ‘Seriously, good.’ He said: ‘He’d correct – he’d go around correcting everybody.’ But it didn’t work out too well for him.”

The problem is: that cannot possibly be true. First, Trump’s uncle died in 1985, and Kaczynski was only publicly identified as the Unabomber in 1996. Second, Kaczynski did not study at MIT.

Later that month, during a meeting with the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, Trump abruptly switched from discussing immigration to ranting about “#windmills”. Speaking, non-stop and unprompted, for two minutes, Trump claimed without evidence that they drive whales “loco” and that wind energy “kills the birds” (the proportion of birds killed by turbines is tiny compared with the number killed by domestic cats and from them flying into power lines).

Another incident that raised questions about Trump’s state of mind came in September. Trump summoned the country’s top military commanders to a meeting in Virginia, and treated them to a speech touting his alleged successes before saying this:

“America is respected again as a country. We were not respected with Biden. They looked at him falling down stairs every day. Every day, the guy’s falling down stairs.”

Trump continued:

I said: ‘It’s not our president. We can’t have it.’ I’m very careful, you know, when I walk downstairs for – like I’m on stairs, like these stairs, I’m very – I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record, just try not to fall because it doesn’t work out well. A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy.
We don’t want that. Need to walk nice and easy. You not have – you don’t have to set any record. Be cool, be cool when you walk down, but don’t, don’t bop down the stairs. That’s the one thing with Obama, I had zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down those stairs, I’ve never seen – da da da da da da, bop, bop, bop, he’d go down the stairs, wouldn’t hold on. I said, it’s great, I don’t want to do it. I guess I could do it, but eventually bad things are going to happen and it only takes once, but he did a lousy job as president.”

The White House has repeatedly batted away questions about Trump’s mental acuity, a spokesperson earlier this year said that his “mental sharpness is second to none”, while Ronny Jackson, a Republican congressman who previously served as Trump’s doctor, claimed he was the “healthiest president this nation has ever seen”.

Still, the speculation over Trump’s health is unlikely to go away, with the Daily Beast reporting that Democrats are planning to make his mental acuity and fitness a key issue ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

They will have a fair amount of ammunition. In November, Trump, the oldest person to be inaugurated as president, said he had undergone an MRI, but couldn’t remember which body part received the scan. That month he also appeared to fall asleep during a meeting in the Oval Office – the same thing happened during a cabinet meeting in early December, and again two weeks later, at a press conference announcing cannabis reforms.

Earlier this year, Trump mixed up Albania with Armenia when discussing a peace deal involving the latter; discussing autism in a speech at the White House, he mused about “certain elements of genius that can be given to a baby”. Announcing that 13 grants would be awarded to investigate autism, Trump added: “Nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen.”

Among these moments of confusion have been incidents of Trump lashing out without inhibition. In December alone, he declared Somali immigrants to be “garbage” and, in a move that shocked even some Republicans, essentially blamed Rob Reiner for his own death.

Trump finds time to say and do these things despite a reduced schedule. On average, Trump’s scheduled events only start at about noon, and usually end at 5pm, a shorter workday compared to his first term, the New York Times found, while the number of his official appearances has decreased by 39%.

A White House official told the Guardian: “Not all of the president’s meetings are listed on the daily guidance that is distributed to the press.”

Liz Huston, the White House assistant press secretary, said in an emailed statement: “The Guardian is a left-wing mouthpiece that should be deeply embarrassed to publish this garbage. As the President’s physician, Dr Sean Barbabella, has made clear time and again – and as the American people see with their own eyes every single day – President Trump remains in excellent overall health.

“President Trump’s relentless work ethic, unmatched energy, and historic accessibility stand in sharp contrast to what we saw during the past four years when the failing legacy media intentionally covered up Joe Biden’s serious mental and physical decline from the American people. Pushing these fake and desperate narratives now about President Trump is why Americans’ trust in the media just fell to a new all-time low.”

A Pew Research Center survey in November found that 56% of US adults “say they have a lot of or some trust in the information they get from national news organizations”, which is 11 points lower than in March 2025, and 20 points lower than it was in 2016.

That same month, a poll by Gallup found 36% of American adults approve of Trump’s performance, the lowest rating of his second term. Earlier this year YouGov found that half of Americans think Trump is too old to be president.

Throughout the year, the White House has ferociously defended Trump against accusations he is in decline. Yet the questions about Trump, who will turn 80 in June, are unlikely to go away. #uspol #auspol
#wackadoodle

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/24/trump-mental-health-speech-address-2025-review

“We live instead in a world of what #complexity scientists would describe as #highdimensionality, where lots of complex phenomena interact in highly #unpredictable ways.” open.substack.com/pub/programm...

Liberalism transforms pluralit...

~ Baba Yaga ~

This sorceress-goddess is intrinsically linked with her woodland and its wildlife. Known as both a "swamp witch" and a "forest mother," she can be a child-eating kidnapper or a helpful matronly figure.

https://www.inkedgoddesscreations.com
#DivineFeminine #Goddess #BabaYaga #Slavic #Crone #Cthonic #Underworld #Nature #Unpredictable #Magick

In the Heat of the Moment = This melody will stick with you! - #Music #Popular #Pop #Rock #Music #Song #FootballField #TeamSpirit #Goalkeeper #StadiumLights #CheeringCrowd #LastMinuteGoal #UnderdogVictory #PassionateFans #Heartbreak #FairPlay #Unpredictable #Dedication #CompetitiveEdge #SportPressure #FinalWhistle #MissedChances #TriumphantCheer #Determination #GameHighlights #Debate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qznUqP82tR0

"It feels as if the whole world has been transformed into images of the world and has thus been drawn into the human realm, which now encompasses everything. There is no place, no thing, no person or phenomenon that I cannot obtain as image or #information. One might think this adds substance to the world, since one knows more about it, not less, but the opposite is true: it empties the world; it becomes thinner. That’s because knowledge of the world and the experience of the world are two fundamentally different things. While knowledge has no particular time or place and can be transmitted, experience is tied to a specific time and place and can never be repeated. For the same reason, it also can’t be predicted. Exactly those two dimensions—the #unrepeatable and the #unpredictable—are what #technology abolishes."

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/06/the-reenchanted-world-karl-ove-knausgaard-digital-age/

Did you know Ground Squirrels hibernate 250 days approx. 70 days are for eating. Annnyyy ways, I got distracted by #Instagram today and well this is the result....
#chaos #ADHD #muse #cat #servicedog #dinner #writing #insperation #unpredictable #mentalhealth #porcupine #distraction

http://learnwhoiam.ca/2025/05/22/the-addictive-nature-of-short-form-content-on-instagram/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

The #FBI has shut down its #ForeignInfluence task force. #CISA has ended its efforts to expose #disinformation. And this week the #State Dept put employees who tracked global disinformation on leave, shutting down the effort that had publicized the spread of #Chinese & #Russian #propaganda.

Almost 3 months into #Trump’s 2nd term, the guardrails intended to prevent #NationalSecurity missteps have come down as the new team races to anticipate & amplify the wishes of an #unpredictable president.

🌴🤪 Oh, Hawaii's "freakosystem" is here to teach us all a lesson from the future! 🚀 Because clearly, a mashup of random #buzzwords is the only way to convey the profound message that #nature is #unpredictable and sometimes #wild, just like a BBC homepage full of irrelevant global headlines. 🌍📚
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250403-the-new-hawaiian-freakosystem-emerging-on-oahu-accidentally-created-by-humans #Hawaii #Freakosystem #HackerNews #ngated

Except THIS is not how any of this works!....

• All it will do is see the #USA as #unpredictable, #unstable and less #trustworthy than the "P.R." #China or even #Russia under #Putin.

#Trump literally lashing out against friends and neighbours will only backfire hard, and I expect @EUCommission and @europarl_en to enact #PrizeFreezes for #US #products & #services whilst forcing #Retaliatory #Tariffs on all US #products and espechally #services, demanding 100%+ in all #fees, and #revenue of #GAFAMs' services and products to the point that they'll effectively cancel half their revenue that flows back.

• Plus forcing all products and services to be processed and sold via a #EU-based #corporation and adding a 30% "#AlienTax" as the #USA already does for i.e. #App #developers that ain't from the US even if they never sold a single license to a US customer.

Not to mention cancelling any #DataProtection agreements that only stalled the foreseeable court decision that #CloudAct is incompatible with #GDPR, thus banning #Office365 / #Microsoft365, #iCloud et. al. from the EU!

• And yes, this level of #retaliation is not only just, but #overdue, as we need @european_alternatives / #EuropeanAlternatives to #VISA, #AMEX, #MasterCard, #PayPal, #Steam, etc.

Given #Trump can't be assed to even fake any #loyality or #allied status even for the cameras, this is a #ForeseeableConsequence.

• As only with #Accountability and #Consequences will we see change, and punishing the GAFAMs is a neessity in this regard.

Unless we want to end up #downgraded into the state of a US-occupied overseas possession without statehood, like #Guam, #PuertoRico or #AVI...

#USpol

Tariffs
Start with Trump being a #Genius and the amounts and the way those amounts were arrived at don't surprise or even look unusual.

From here that's a dominance display - Trump showing all the other players that their expectations that he'll be bound by norms, treaties, tradition, reason and logic are useless fantasies.

"I can do whatever the fuck I want, and you can't know what I'll do next. I'm #Unpredictable and you're all piss-weak."

#Tariffs #TrumpGenius #Spectacle #DominanceDisplay

Look, as we all know, he's going to keep doing this, he's a person of self-absorption & whim not of law or reliability. The best possible thing other countries can do right now is to find alternate trading partners for the same goods, so that they have a secure reliable supply that isn't at the whim of a madman/conman, and then drop the U.S. as a trading partner all together.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/trump-administration-briefing-trump-changes-tack-on-tariffs-again-as-us-plans-to-close-consulates

#Tariffs #Unpredictable #Unreliable #US #News #CurrentEvents

Nuova scena, stessa energia… ma sei sicuro di aver visto tutto? 👀✨

#NowYouSeeMe #SleekTransitions #VisualFlow #SwitchItUp #XTrends #HypnoticMoves #unpredictable