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Update 03/05/2025
Useless fact of the day: Canadians eat more donuts per capita than people from any country in the world. …………………………………………….. To put something in perspective: Wages and benefits for the federal workforce equal about $270 billion. That seems like a lot of money, but when one considers that the total federal budget last year was Continue reading
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Update 03/02/2025
Time mag: AI chess devices will cheat: “When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, they don’t always concede, instead sometimes opting to cheat by hacking their opponent so that the bot automatically forfeits the game.” Gee, kinda like Trump at golf. …………………………………………………… Despite promoting debunked far-right conspiracy theories popular with movements Continue reading
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Update 02/26/2025
The U.S. is — and should be — the largest donor to help children in the world. Yet, with the latest announced cuts in federal spending, many of the programs that have helped people in need across the globe are at risk, such as the AIDS relief effort credited with saving 25 million lives, mostly Continue reading
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Update 02/23/2025
Disinformation: It must be difficult to raise kids these days and teach them how to figure out what is true or not, at least once they start using the internet. I have found three websites over the years that do a good job of helping. They are: Truthorfiction.com Snopes.com Factcheck.org Some of these are Continue reading
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Update 02/16/2025
Violence is down overall but not on the road: Road rage incidents increased most in states that have enacted laws that allow people to carry concealed handguns without a permit, meaning they don’t have to go through the application for a license to carry a weapon. — Gee, when it is easier to get a Continue reading
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