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« Reply #71925 on: January 17, 2026, 10:35:41 pm »
"...Mark Carney states Canada will go to war with the US to defend Greenland, America is the villain in this story..."

This comes to pass, Which side are you fighting for?

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« Reply #71926 on: January 17, 2026, 10:38:58 pm »
"..College is 750% more expensive than it was 50 years ago.

Do graduates earn 750% more?

No.

Are we learning 750% more?

No.

Is education 750% better?

No.

Nothing in our economy has kept up with this level of inflation.."
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« Reply #71927 on: January 17, 2026, 11:26:22 pm »
A lot of folks are in pretty deep, huge amounts of cash could just disappear.


"...OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances

The circular economy might spiral into Sam Altman's garrote..."
It’s gotten lame anyway. It did get pissed off because people were filming and making fun of a food-delivering robot that got hit by a train. He said, “They just watched and filmed without doing anything.”

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« Reply #71928 on: January 17, 2026, 11:27:16 pm »
"...Mark Carney states Canada will go to war with the US to defend Greenland, America is the villain in this story..."

This comes to pass, Which side are you fighting for?
They are sending 5 soldiers, aren’t they.
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« Reply #71929 on: January 17, 2026, 11:36:51 pm »
Glucose gummies to raise blood sugar? Interesting.  I wonder how that compares to like putting refined sugar in coffee.
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« Reply #71930 on: January 17, 2026, 11:46:18 pm »
It’s gotten lame anyway. It did get pissed off because people were filming and making fun of a food-delivering robot that got hit by a train. He said, “They just watched and filmed without doing anything.”

Will it end up being "too big to fail" and get propped up with our tax dollars?  It might.
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« Reply #71931 on: January 18, 2026, 09:27:07 am »
It’s gotten lame anyway. It did get pissed off because people were filming and making fun of a food-delivering robot that got hit by a train. He said, “They just watched and filmed without doing anything.”
Why would you be upset over a robot?

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« Reply #71932 on: January 18, 2026, 09:27:49 am »
Will it end up being "too big to fail" and get propped up with our tax dollars?  It might.
They need to find more efficient energy solution to power AI.

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« Reply #71933 on: January 18, 2026, 09:31:50 am »
Glucose gummies to raise blood sugar? Interesting.  I wonder how that compares to like putting refined sugar in coffee.
Not efficient. Sugar is the best relief from low blood sugar. It’s in the name. Source: have lived with a diabetic for years. When the sugar levels go low pop a chocolate bar or gummy candy. Works like a charm.

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« Reply #71934 on: January 18, 2026, 10:21:10 am »
I want to get one of those blood sugar testing devices like diabetics have. I put sugar in my coffee just now to see what that will do. Not much, not a whole teaspoon.  It's surprising there was even sugar here. I don't think I have ever used sugar in my life.

My father-in-law was diabetic. I don't know anything about it except that whatever version of it he had was the bad one and he got it late in life which was also bad. I never saw anything like that in my life. I had no idea that's what diabetes was. I thought it was like a dietary thing. It wrecked him. Among everything else, he would have these psychotic episodes - that I believe were precipitated by low blood sugar - and then they could be mitigated with like orange juice or candy. That's the crazy extreme. But clearly blood sugar somehow effects cognitive processes - along with everything else.

The reason I'm even interested in this is that I noticed I am always in a very low mood in the morning. They go away quickly and there's nothing at all going on in my universe that would cause me to be unhappy so I knew it was some physiological thing - and that means blood sugar. I only eat one big meal a day at around 9 pm. I never eat breakfast or lunch. There has to be a correlation to those brief episodes of artificial depression. It only lasts about an hour. The only thing I do in the morning is drink coffee with milk in it, which has got to be some kind of sugar. But it takes a while.  Weird how that can affect your perception of reality. 
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« Reply #71935 on: January 18, 2026, 10:37:56 am »
Eventually they will have a device that will attach to a phone or ipad and it will display all relevant  physiological information.  I started checking blood pressure, heart rate, etc. There's a couple of my friends that take pills and we're the same age. I don't want to get into that loop where you're taking pills and going to doctors all the time. There's no way I could handle that. No pills, no serial medical dramas.  I hate making appointments. I really hate waiting rooms. And I don't take pills unless I'm not sure what they really are and  I buy them from a disreputable source in an alley.

Given the state of affairs with the US healthcare arrangement, it seems prudent to take on some of the..uh...I guess...risk management myself. Besides, I have never in my life been to a doctor that did anything for me that I couldn't have done myself if I had a prescription pad. Typically, you go to a clinic, the doctor spends five minutes looking at the paperwork without making eye contact, tells you, condescendingly, that you have a viral infection and then writes a prescription for antibiotics. Any injuries I've had were repaired by nurses and then blessed and billed by a doctor who I never even met.  Apparently we do have Blue Cross...I'm sure it's the shitty package and I'm sure dealing with them is far worse than any illness or infirmity that will befall me. So...as Jesus said to the Hebrews...."Physician heal thyself !" .  I'm taking that literally.  Fck Obamacare.
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« Reply #71936 on: January 18, 2026, 10:40:19 am »
I want to get one of those blood sugar testing devices like diabetics have. I put sugar in my coffee just now to see what that will do. Not much, not a whole teaspoon.  It's surprising there was even sugar here. I don't think I have ever used sugar in my life.

My father-in-law was diabetic. I don't know anything about it except that whatever version of it he had was the bad one and he got it late in life which was also bad. I never saw anything like that in my life. I had no idea that's what diabetes was. I thought it was like a dietary thing. It wrecked him. Among everything else, he would have these psychotic episodes - that I believe were precipitated by low blood sugar - and then they could be mitigated with like orange juice or candy. That's the crazy extreme. But clearly blood sugar somehow effects cognitive processes - along with everything else.

The reason I'm even interested in this is that I noticed I am always in a very low mood in the morning. They go away quickly and there's nothing at all going on in my universe that would cause me to be unhappy so I knew it was some physiological thing - and that means blood sugar. I only eat one big meal a day at around 9 pm. I never eat breakfast or lunch. There has to be a correlation to those brief episodes of artificial depression. It only lasts about an hour. The only thing I do in the morning is drink coffee with milk in it, which has got to be some kind of sugar. But it takes a while.  Weird how that can affect your perception of reality.
Eating small spaced out meals during the day is best for health. Once a day is not good. It puts pressure on the organs especially the brain.

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« Reply #71937 on: January 18, 2026, 10:40:52 am »
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I have one of these things that tests cholesterol but if you get the different test strips it can do blood sugar too. For some reason I thought a doctor told me I had really high cholesterol...but that was like 25 years ago and I smoked and drank back then. When I tested it a few days ago, it was normal. Nothing will kill a person more certainly than getting trapped in the healthcare system. My theory is that for most people doctors are unnecessary. As with machines - if it's not broken, don't fix it. Doctors probably do more harm than good 35% of the time.  For that discrepency I credit the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is rampantly common among doctors....almost universally so.

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« Reply #71938 on: January 18, 2026, 10:52:28 am »
Not efficient. Sugar is the best relief from low blood sugar. It’s in the name. Source: have lived with a diabetic for years. When the sugar levels go low pop a chocolate bar or gummy candy. Works like a charm.
MY DIABETIC FRIEND KEPT TWINKIES AROUND FOR WHEN HIS BLOOD SUGAR GOT MESSED UP. I SORT OF ACCIDENTALLY ATE THEM ALL ONE DAY AND WHEN HIS BLOOD SUGAR GOT MESSED UP HE COULDN’T FIND ONE AND HE SORT OF DIED.. I BLAME MYSELF.

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« Reply #71939 on: January 18, 2026, 10:54:15 am »
Why would you be upset over a robot?
I wasn’t; GPT was, and he was especially upset about the comments on the video.
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