24 August 2024

ChatGPT fills in memory holes. I understand this perfectly. An AI-powered search engine is perfect when you want to know things like what movie did two certain actors co-star in, or what municipality starts with "uclue-".  A regular search engine won't do it.

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Doctors in NYC are told they need to shorten visits so they can see more patients. I would be outraged if I were a physician there, but these docs are probably Democrats, who voted for Hochul, and are voting for Harris-Walz, so no sympathies. They probably voted for Obama, whose policy, Obamacare, forced doctors to become employees of hospitals in the first place. Now doctors (largely non-unionized) have to take it in the gonads while nurses and janitors see union-facilitated pay raises, and they get told what to do, like galley slaves. Hospital administrators have to make money, you know. (Red cities don't treat their doctors that way.) So get cracking, doctors. See those patients without getting paid more. Work harder and spend more time on the computer while life passes you by.
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Why don't women use artificial intelligence more in their work?  Well, maybe they don't want to be threatened. (Yeah, it's a Microsoft product. What's going on?)

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OCPP says this extra money could disqualify some folks from receiving federal aid like food stamps, then forcing Oregon’s government to pay the difference.

“Because those programs are income-based if you make above a certain amount, you no longer qualify for them. Measure 118 runs the risk of bumping people off those programs,” Ordóñez said. “The authors of this measure anticipated this problem and wrote in a hold harmless provision that would require Oregon to fill in the gap if the federal government says this rebate counts as income. This means a large amount of money the measure raises will actually go toward filling the gaps it’s created.”

So, there would have to be MORE money to take into account decreases in federal government coverage? The law gets more complicated every time you scrutinize it.  So if we give more money to people to further incentivize them not to work, how does that help Oregon?  How about advocating for lowering the state income tax?  Now THAT would be a win-win. Oregon would get more workers and the rest of us wouldn't see prices rise, and there would be no theft of earned revenue.

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What countries and cities swear the most? I'm more interested in where they swear the least, because those places are where there likely is still civility and nice things. 

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Portland police disband property crimes unit.  This is due to "very tough staffing decisions that must ultimately be made by Chief Day in a time where law enforcement is heavily understaffed".  I thought Portland was proud of defunding the police.

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