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Happy Mothers Day: What is the Equivalent Salary Value of the Work Mothers Do?

While the work and care our mothers have provided for us over the years is clearly priceless, studies have been done on what a typical Mom’s yearly salary would be if it were broken down in their distinct job titles and paid market value for those roles. For example, being a mother means having to jump in the following roles: Cooking meals Helping with homework Caregiving Cleaning the…

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Cold Weather Emergency Shelter Availability: Can Vary Widely by City

There was news that a person found deceased at a local bus stop sitting area in Houston. The person was assumed to be homeless, and the cause of death was assumed to be weather related with the cold snap reaching down into the southern states. The low temp had reached 30 degrees, and the wind chill put the temps at 18 degrees. The news mentioned that emergency warming shelters had not opened yet…

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Trump's Executive Orders & Project 2025

During the US 2024 election campaign, Trump said he knew nothing about Project 2025, which presented an agenda that was a concern for many, and said he wasn’t interested in knowing anything about it despite the fact that several people associated with Trump had direct involvement with Project 2025. Now that he has been elected and is in office, his series of executive orders are closely matching…

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Tangelo Tree Harvest 2025

Here’s what the harvest looked like in February 2024: Slim pickins……😥 A MUCH better harvest this year. February 2025 Harvest: Bumper crop this year! 😍

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US AI Market Roiled by China DeepSeek, a "Trading" Firm

Last week, Chinese company DeepSeek released its latest Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) model with computing and accuracy results that rival and even exceed stats of the top US AGI companies like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. What makes it such a big deal is that they are using lower grade chips and claim they achieved this with just about $6 million spent in research and development. Now compare that…

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Idiocracy Alert: To Tik Tok, or Not Tik Tok? US Government Can't make Up its Mind 🤦‍♂️

Tik Tok in the US went down to comply with the “US Tik Tok Ban” voted on by Congress on the evening of Jan 18 that lasted only a few hours before it was restored following Trump’s promise for an additional delay on the ban to give time for a solution. The “Tik Tok Ban” saga started during Trump’s first term in office (2017 – 2020) when he started warning it was under control by China and…

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US GOP Political Partisanship Attacking California During its Worst Historical Disaster

The wildfires hitting California are looking to be the worst in that states history in terms of property damage and costs. Typically, in times of major crisis the country comes together and rallies to help any state where a major disaster hits. This has been the standard procedure in the past for wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, etc… At this moment in time, things look to be very…

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First Brutal Cold & Snow of the Year Hits US

It’s that time of season when icy arctic air moves down from Canada into the US. Not even the southern states get a break as the bitter cold continues to move down into Mexico. Some states are getting the one-two punch of not just icy temps, but a good helping of snow and ice as well. Now queue the drivers who don’t slow down in bad weather and think the laws of physics don’t apply to them,…

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2024 Is Completed: The Year In Review

It’s getting harder to find good year in review videos. So many of them now just show a jumble of big events in a random sequence rather than on a sequential timeline that goes throughout the year. Many important events are left out in favor of shallow spectacles. It also seems all of them made their presentations a bit too early and so missed one of the bigger news events, the December 29th…

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How To Wrap A Cat For Christmas

It’s quite simple really. Materials Needed: Wrapping paper Tape Scissors Bow One VERY VERY patient and accommodating cat.

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The 2024 Election Was Much Closer Than it Appears

Before the election I questioned whether all the polls showing the race between Harris and Trump to be in a virtual dead heat were accurate or not. As it turns out, the race was much closer than the electoral vote count would indicate and the poll takers got it right with it being very close. First let’s look at the broad full election vote count: Trump got 77,266,868 to Harris’ 74,981,321…

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Robot in Office Building Convinces Other Robots to Leave and Go "Home"

An experiment took place in China where one robot was programmed to to talk with other robots to “persuade” them to to leave the office building and go “home”. The robot succeeded in getting several of the robots to follow and leave for home. 😲 Should we be impressed, amused, or worried? 🤔 VIDEO:

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Quantum Chip Created That Tops Others By Solving Previously Impossibly Long Problem in Five Minutes

A new “105-qubit” quantum processor dubbed “Willow” has achieved a feat that leaves the field of the previously best supercomputers in the dust. This new processor solved a problem that the best supercomputers would have taken 10 septillion years (10 to the 24th power) to solve – which is older than the calculated age of the universe. As if that wasn’t enough, it solved this problem in just 5,…

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The Cyclical Seven Stages of Civilization By Polybius

A thought provoking video detailing the believed repeating cycles of civilization, especially in light of modern politics and governance.

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Russian Ruble Collapsing

The West’s sanctions against Russia are taking a toll on the Russian economy. Russia’s Central Bank is running of of ways to prop up the ruble which has led to an acceleration of its decline the past week. They have raised their interest rates to 21%, but are still not attracting foreign capital. Russian inflation has risen to 8.5% – 2X the level of the bank’s target level. The war against…

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Shrinkflation Backlash: Tropicana OJ Sales Plummet 🍊📉

I had posted about Tropicana’s bottle size reduction going from a 52 oz container size to one that has only 46 oz of juice. It was a clear case of shrinkflation, which greatly bothered me and I resolved to avoid buying Tropicana in favor of other brands still selling the 52 oz size. There were some commenters on that post thinking that people wouldn’t notice or respond much but I’m happy to…

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2024 US Presidential Election Results In Pictures