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@thomasfuchs life expectancy is down significantly in the US since 2020, yet people ignore the problem. Now we have vaccine hesitancy across the board here in the US.

@thomasfuchs

Ah, it does save the query. I copied the wrong link: https://sl.bing.net/biQu2EicYuW

Recent queries are listed on the right and you use the three does to copy a link.

@thomasfuchs It does that with parameters in the link. Once you ask, you can use that as the link. It doesn't save your chat but would rebuild it.

@thomasfuchs It's kind of cool

https://www.bing.com/search?q=what+is+the+meaning+of+life&form=QBLH&sp=-1&ghc=2&lq=0&pq=what+is+the+meaning+of+life&sc=11-27&qs=n&sk=&cvid=46E8F057FA92471990CE4D06FC275B47&ghsh=0&ghacc=0&ghpl=&showconv=1

@thomasfuchs It's bing chat, brings up gpt4 prompt give it a try and see if that's what you want.

@thomasfuchs

Doesn't Bing do that?

@mnl Yes, and code bloat has been caused by thinking memory will expand exponentially forever.

@breiter @thomasfuchs Just being a state gets 3 EC votes, and two in the Senate. It's an outrageous left over mess from the founding.

@emilygorcenski And often reset to the default when the phone's OS is updated. Or new sneaky features are enabled.

@thomasfuchs When I was a kid, I had Bortle 3 in central NJ, between NYC and Philly. My backyard was often dark enough to unaided eye pick out 8-10 stars in Pleiades. Late 1960s...those were the days. And I complained about a few street lights.

@thomasfuchs And a nice dark sky. I'm in Bortle 6-7 land here.

@thomasfuchs That with the RedCat 51? Wow.

@thomasfuchs Honestly, I wouldn't even know how to respond to the mess in the Middle East right now. The situation in Ukraine, and watching so many people's lives being upended with no way for me to have one tiny bit of say that will make a damn bit of difference. It's frustrating. I'm in my late-60s and have watched too many wars for my whole life. None in my lifetime has yielded anything of value.

@Sobieck @thomasfuchs

So what do you say or do to make a difference? To have an impact? What can be said that won't be incendiary?

In my youth, we had over 500,000 troops in Vietnam. As I got older I watched friends get sucked into that endless revolving door of a war. We protested we waited our turn to go and have our lives ruined. I got lucky, unlike some of my friends. Almost no one came back intact.

We have to stop fighting useless battles. That's the answer.

@thomasfuchs What are your post-processing tools?

@emilygorcenski When I compare the education I got in the 1960s to 1974 when I graduated HS to what is taught today, it most certainly is in a shambles. In grade school, we learned about current events and how it was shaping our society. The riots after MLK Jr. was assassinated were all covered. We learned about Jim Crow and the post-reconstruction South. We have dismantled that and given it away to private schools via vouchers and whiney parents who don't want their kids to learn the truth.

@sidereal @emilygorcenski

I've heard that. Vietnam War was barely mentioned and only a footnote as I've learned from others in your cohort.

By now people think Civil, Voting, Womens' rights are all just part of the mix and unfortunately giving them up as we go. Yet they were all fought for during my lifetime.

Certainly, my education wasn't perfect by any stretch, but far more complete in its breadth than what happens now.

@Angle This is how SS works. You can earn a maximum dollar amount a year. For each $2 over that, you lose $1 of your SS.

@sofia @irina @wellingtonrock

How can you compare unemployment to compensation to a doctor who spent a minimum of seven years in school to get their degree, then three years in hospital as intern and resident? Nothing in that meme suggested no one makes money or that they shouldn't be compensated for their skill, education, and work. Just that the hospital is not taking advantage of sick people to make money for investors.