Google created a video short imagining how AI would have been used by America's founding fathers. Infuriating? I thought it was quite amusing.
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Here's more on that Scientific American editor-in-chief who led to downfall of that august journal. SciAm has become the Bud Light of science journals. Remember when she went on a nutty anti-Trump rant? Here's more of her social media rants. She represent all that was wrong during the Biden era. Good riddance. Will SciAm be resurrected? That would be nice, but I suspect that today's readership is not as sophisticated as those of the 1970s.
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1 in 5 adults make health decisions based on what they see on social media despite widespread mistrust. Someone opined that many people were against the mRNA vax, but now they eagerly embrace injecting peptides from China. I don't know if it's the same group of people, but no one is forcing them to inject on the threat of losing their jobs.
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Of course, it's NPR. 5 million have dropped ACA insurance after Trump and the GOP let prices skyrocket. Such biased reporting. They call it the ACA, not Obamacare, because it's failing. The federal government really has no business being America's medical insurance provider. Obamacare only worked because the federal government was underwriting it, and since the fed has deep pockets, prices of everything went up accordingly, because the market could bear it. So it wasn't Trump that let prices skyrocket. It was the fact that taxpayers were paying for everything, so prices jacked up. What the Trump administration needs to do is to convince insurance companies to compete with each other for the individual's business, instead of what he have now. Where employers select the health plan for their employees, who have to take it or leave it.
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MacBook Pro overhaul. One will have to pay more to get less than expected. Or wait until next year for the real upgrade, which will cost about as much as an economy car.
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Two economists have sharply different takes on the recommendations by Gov. Tina Kotek’s Prosperity Council. I think Eric Fruits is right on the money. Oregon is in a doom loop.
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