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There was an article in the Seattle Times today about how Kids can solve easy abstract and reasoning puzzles. Spoiler alert - the kids were much better both in solving the puzzle and explaining how. https://www.washington.edu/news/2025/07/01/this-puzzle-game-shows-kids-how-theyre-smarter-than-ai/ You can try it yourself here: https://www.ai-puzzlers.com/

Maybe they're both to blame. Problems can and often have multiple causes.

I too believe there is a lot hype and BS of the leftys take on some of this. Personally I'm really tired of hearing what all we local schmucks must do to save the planet. I do my part by recycling, driving a 13 year old car with less than 40,000 miles on it which has polluted less in 13 years than all those people in their new electric cars, etc. Meanwhile those with the bucks and power do stuff like flying cross country on taxpayers dime for a 90 minute meeting, or 1/2 way across the world to attend Hunter's trial or The Blue Angels coming to town dumping 600 tons of carbon or Building massive data centers polluting out the wazoo. So why bother? That was a minor point of my post. The $200,000 per hour is only to fly the airplane (how is the refurbishing big beautiful airplane going?). There's also the cost of bringing the secret service and the beast and all their other paraphanalia. President Trump's big campaign pledge was to stop fraud, waste, and abuse for every else except him and his staff I guess.

This is good. I was going to react with a laugh but as the post went on it got very dark and the laughing emoji didn't really fit anymore. PS I can tell you put time and effort into your posts. Keep up the good work.

I find this part of the story interesting. They had been friends for years and then Trump rats him out. Your theory is plausible I guess . Trump didn't know about the shenanigans. Found out. And then did his civic duty to report it to authorities and help. Or, knowing President Trump's need for revenge in all things big or small, makes me wonder if maybe Jeffrey double crossed him somewhere so President Trump got some sweet revenge.

Luigi is a punk. Chuck on the other hand was a genius fluegal horn player, band leader, and composer. RIP Chuck. Thankfully he will live on in his recordings.

They both are. Two things can be true. How are the Dems and media in a "total panic"? The people trying to play stall ball and kick the can down the road (grand jury testimony) seem more panicked. Media and D's look like they're having fun with this.

True. I'm saying 15% (a wild guess) of your income for health care. Between premiums, co pays, inflated Rx prices I'm guessing we already pay that or close. What do you think it should be? 15% (or whatever) above federal and state income taxes. you no longer pay for health premiums. Many other government health assistance programs would no longer he needed. In my state we have Apple Care as a state funded low income assistance program. That would no longer be needed for example. I'm not married to this idea and admittedly don't have all the details. But the current model is inefficient and over priced. Do you disagree?

I agree with you on all this. But how does this give any justification to what's going on NOW. I hate this new trend in the presidency where whenever something they do is questioned the response is, yeah my predecessor did stuff too. President Trump and the Republicans are doing it now and last 4 years was President Biden and the Democrats. Come on man, President Biden stunk and hid his dementia or whatever it is. He pardoned his son after he said he wouldn't. That was bad stuff. So why would any of that justify what President Trump does? Why would President Trump want to do anything like president did? If President Trump is your guy and you think he's right, justify his decisions on their merit, not how he compares to a very bad President. Can yo do that?

Yes and no. In the interview he first says yes and then crawfishes and says he'd have to look at it first, lot of fake stuff. Ok. That's the yes part. The no part is that he did campaign on "draining the swamp" and dismantling the "deep state". You know, no more powerful rich people breaking laws and with the help of the deep state getting away with it. Now not releasing info about a pedophile because he was your friend and some powerful people could go down so he punts sounds very swampy and deep statey to me and many others including many Republicans. Does it not to you?

Thanks for your response. You raise some interesting points. As to #1, this is a really tough question. My original point with this primarily that since the passage of ACA prices for medical care have continued to rise a lot for people not on Medicaid or get a subsidy. Do you think I'm wrong about this? Didn't mean everyone should pay more. The average American is already paying quite a bit. Especially if you throw in the employer contribution to health insurance. We all pitch in for paying for roads, social security, military, snow plows etc. so when we need it we have it and everyone can take advantage. Why not the same for healthcare? Everyone goes into the world's largest insurance pool. And no, it should not be free. Would be funded by income tax or something. I'll take a stab at it even though it would be low for some and high for others. 15% #2 I don't care about this. If rich people want to pay their taxes AND their health care costs out of pocket let 'em. They'd be paying premiums (taxes) and taking nothing out. Win. Win.

Guess away. We have a secret ballot in this country. Suck on it.

It's as obvious as the nose on your face. Democrats didn't want to release any information for the same reason Republicans don't. High profile politicians of their party and donors would be implicated as well. I keep saying this, but it's Heidi Fleiss' client list 2.0. That thing never saw the light of day and neither will this.

Did I say that? Read much?

I didn't vote for President Trump but I would have been 100% cool if he had lowered the price of gas on day 1. As would I have been if he had stopped the Russia Ukraine War on day 1. Do you really think if someone votes for the losing candidate they have to be against EVERYTHING they do? How dumb is that? As an American I want what's best for America no matter who delivers it.

It irritates me because why in heavens name does Vice President Vance need to fly that big a$$ jet that costs $200,000 an hour to operate to call on a private businessman for a 1 1/2 hour meeting? Not to mention all the tons and tons of carbon he dropped on us little people. Wether it had to do with the WSJ story or not I don't know or care. Vice President Vance likes to portray himself as Joe Tech and a champion of AI. Surely the White House has the capability of a secure Zoom type meeting. Use it instead like the rest of us schmucks do. I can sum it up in 3 words. WASTE FRAUD ABUSE

All that dark money is going to come in so they can elect that white boy they're getting ready to run.

Thanks for your insight. As someone who isn't in the medical field although I did work with insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Seems to me ACA is good deal if you're poor and get either Medicaid or a subsidy. Everyone else has just been made to pay more with no real improvement in services and in a lot of cases you couldn't keep the Dr. you like. If you're going to try to sell Medicare for all,you at least need to make sure everyone understands Medicare is not free. You gotta pay $250 or so that comes out of Social Security and there are co pays. Bernie never mentioned this and thus many young people believe it to be free. Maybe we could get there if we started to lower the Medicare eligibility age incrementally. ie, now it is 65. Next year it could be say 62. The 3 years after that we drop it 60. 3 years later drop it to 55. Slowly move into it and build up the infrastructure along the way until everyone is covered. Of course this would require a government that can think and act past the next election. A commitment that future leaders might stick to as opposed to throwing out all the old President's stuff with a large stack of Presidential Proclamations on inauguration day. So good luck.

https://time.com/5379164/mccain-health-care-legacy-aca/ That was to repeal it in 2017 after it had been law for 8 years. So you like the ACA I take it since McCain killed the chance of killing it which you seem to think is heroic. Serious question: You were a doctor pre and post ACA. On a scale of 1 (sucked and hurt) to 10 (fixed health care for everyone), how much do you think it helped/hurt medical care in America all politics aside?

@Joe Ferguson forever - Was also going to add the ACA passed 243-173 in the House of Representatives and 60-39 in the Senate. All yes votes by Democrats. They could have passed whatever they wanted and the ACA is what they chose to pass.

I knew as soon as congress while working on the ACA decided to invite insurance companies to testify and help we were screwed. And we still are.

Bill Clinton? Are yall still talking about him? He's a creep.

Cancelling congress for the summer so they don't have to vote on releasing Epstein files? Grab 'em by the republican.

I disagree. President Trump is a major league troll and is trolling. He did all through his first term. He says something outlandish to get a reaction and change the subject. Here's an article about it: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/donald-trump-is-the-worlds-greatest-troll/ I don't know , was there any on topic discussions President Trump might want to disrupt when the message was tweeted? And he seems to have provoked you into an emotional response. However, I do agree with you El Presidente should absolutely not be acting in this gross, petty, childish way. But we get to choose the reaction. He wants us to wig out and get mad and act crazy. Instead, on something like this, I prefer the reaction to laugh or shake my head or something and declare "there goes Trump again" and move on. I wish nore people and especially the news media and Democrat elected officials would do this. After much lefty consternation after a few days all is forgotten and we're on the next troll. At this point, It's a pattern one can smell from a mile away. Don't be a sucker. And then toss in President Trump's decades long grudge with the NFL back to his $3 settlement in regards to NFL collusion or what it was. If he wants to change a team name he shoulda bought one (if he had enough money).

I don't miss him either. Once the clown we have now is gone I won't miss him either.