3 March 2023

Probably the strangest things you'll see today.  A Kim Jong Un impersonator and a Putin impersonator helping a Zelensky impersonator.

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Burned by taking investment advice from Jim Cramer?  Well burn no more.  Use his negative energy to your advantage!

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Replika users fell in love with their chatbot companion.  Then the company did a software update, and poof, they were gone.

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This is a joke, right?
"If you come across a bear, never push a slower friend down...even if you feel the friendship has run its course⁣," the NPS tweeted.
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The homeless don't want shelters and tiny homes, and we shouldn't be wasting money building them.  Clearly they run the show.  We pay the taxes and they enjoy the benefits.  We've done it their way, and it's not working.  Time to change the rules.

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Well this changes things a bit, doesn't it?  Having the second largest lithium deposit in the world is not a thing to ignore.  What will Biden do?

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What GenZ wants may not be financially worthwhile.  A GenZ ETF based on their buying habits and interests has fizzled.

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California is dropping mask AND vaccine mandates for healthcare workers.  Oregon is only dropping mask requirements.  Kate Brown had always waited to get her direction from California.  I guess Tina Kotek is doing the same thing.

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Yes, the world would like to see what secret agreements were made between Pfizer and the EU.  I'd bet someone got rich from the agreement, and that person wouldn't want it known.

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There's this piece (and the video) with Jon Stewart debating OK congressman Nathan Dahm that's going around right now.  Dahm may not be the most articulate guy around, and that's maybe why he was picked, but someone needs to point out some things to Stewart.  Until the past few years, motor vehicles were by far the highest cause of death in children.  I didn't see Stewart advocating for eliminating cars.  They serve a greater purpose, just like guns.

But look at the data.  You can see that firearm deaths sharply overtook motor vehicle deaths in 2020.  What happened in 2020?  Hmmm.  Was there some pandemic?  Was there some rioting as a protest against some political figure?  And the New England Journal of Medicine published some statistics about gun violence in children, and take a look:
It may not be convenient for Stewart to note that if you consider gun deaths in Asians, Whites and Hispanics, the firearm mortality rate was still less than that from motor vehicles.  But in the Black population, the firearm mortality rate was so high in 2020 that it was off the scale in the first chart above.  So I don't care what Stewart thinks - I'm not in support of taking away guns just because of irresponsible gun use in a particular demographic.  It's difficult to find updated FBI statistics that include the recent few years.  This report from 1999 showed that gun violence in Black males aged 18 to 24 was 28x of their population representation.  If Stewart wants to advocate for something, he should campaign to take away guns from young Blacks, but that wouldn't fly would it?   This isn't racism - this is just going by the numbers and facts. 

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