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First, among the burning issues of our time is this: should illegal migrants be given Medicaid, thus free medical care. The Republicans have worked to remove illegals from the Medicaid roles. Democrats have demagogued the issue by complaining that everyone was going to lose Medicaid.
Jeffery Mead comments:
Giving free healthcare to illegal immigrants isn’t compassion, it’s suicidal empathy.
A woman running for Congress just said everyone should get it, even those here illegally.
This is what happens when feelings override structure and virtue signaling outweighs logic.
It rewards lawbreaking and dumps the cost on taxpayers.
You don’t save your house by setting it on fire to keep the neighbors warm.
Second, by now you know that the illegal immigration issue is working for President Trump.
Wesley Yang reports the more stunning fact. Trump’s approach is most popular among Hispanics.
The racial group with which Trump has the highest approval rating, at 63 percent, is...Hispanics. It's ceasing to be a narrative violation that as the salience of deportations increases, his popularity with Hispanics grows. This is just what they want.
Third, if the image did not warm your heart, you don’t have a heart. There she was, our postmodern Joan of Arc, Swedish useless idiot, Greta Thunberg, strapped to her seat in the airplane that was going to deport to her native Sweden.
It was only yesterday that Thunberg was declaiming, for all the world to see, that the Israeli forces had kidnapped her. It was preventing her from going to Gaza where she and her band of merry idiots were going to provide supplies to Hamas.
Now, when the group was interdicted by Israeli forces, these latter offered to show the activists films of the October 7 attack. As it happened, they refused to watch it. They did not want reality to challenge their illusions.
Fourth, you recall the anti-Semitic violence from Boulder. Now, the Congressman from the district introduced a resolution to condemn the attack. All Republicans and many Democrats voted for the resolution. Yet, many Democrats found a reason to vote against it.
The New York Post reports:
More than 100 House Democrats voted against a Republican resolution condemning the antisemitic terrorist attack in Boulder and Colorado’s sanctuary state laws on Monday.
The resolution, introduced by Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Colo.), cleared the lower chamber 280-113, with 75 Democrats joining Republicans to pass the measure.
Democrats fumed over language in the resolution expressing “gratitude to law enforcement, including US Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel, for protecting the homeland.”
Fifth, and now we know. What would happen if Chat GPT went down. People would have to relearn how to write emails. Students would have to start writing their own papers. The horror of it all.
The Daily Mail has the story:
ChatGPT has been hit by a worldwide outage, sparking chaos in the corporate world.
The AI has gained popularity in the workforce, helping employees draft the perfect email, research information and provide customer support.
Students have also been left in the dark as they harness the intelligence to take exams and craft reports.
Sixth, Sarah Connor looks at the aging human brain for the Financial Times. She asks, reasonably, whether the brain deteriorates with age. Some of us care about such things. Others do not.
She suggests that different brains age differently:
What makes the difference? Unsurprisingly, a whole range of things, including genes, diet, work, socio-economic background and health. How much you keep using your brain matters, too, as the German study suggests. But Rowe told me that doing a daily “brain training” puzzle doesn’t do much. “If you do a lot of crosswords, you know what’s going to happen? You’re going to get very good at crosswords, but it doesn’t generalise.”
He said three things have much wider benefits for cognition: exercise, learning a language and learning a musical instrument.
On a sabbatical a decade ago, he went to a language centre and asked if he could study a language intensively, five days a week. “She said ‘what language?’ and I said ‘I don’t care!’”
Strangely, not a word about the multitude of dietary supplements that promise to revive your old brain.
3 comments:
Using Chat GPT means using your brain less. What could possibly go wrong?
Cloward-Piven.
"Using Chat GPT means using your brain less. What could possibly go wrong?"
A podcast today pointed out, that as more and more people default to AI, and as AI scrapes the 'Net for human data and "inputs"...AI will eventually be a copy of a copy of a copy of itself.
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