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"Off the record" meaning you cannot publicly discuss them later? Seems odd, especially for this topic.

There are too many real problems in our cities right now to be spending public money on massively overpriced outdoor cell phone chargers.

Had to check. 1960: 5.7 years of minimum wage work to reach value of median home. 2025: 30 years of minimum wage work to reach value of median home. (However I doubt very much this change was mainly due to immigration.)

You know we got a scopas tang for our saltwater aquarium. Spends most of the time just relaxedly floating along, but impressively fast (even shooting through rocks) when it senses danger. (There is no real danger, just me walking by. All the same.)

He seems to be well-spoken on this topic, I'll give him that.

Be very careful what you name your child. Destiny.

If you were a future historian looking at this graph and you were working without familiarity or context, you'd wonder what kind of large-scale war happened in 2020 to set off this wave of mass migration.

Is interesting that these are almost all wild caught. So some guy off the cost of Indonesia at some point snagged this critter in a net. It flew across the ocean, ended up in a pet store in Michigan, and then in our aquarium. Quite the trip.

Bradbury would be fun.

They all have their styles and biases, so asking the same question of Grok, ChatGPT, and Gemini (especially if it's just something you want to learn more about), ain't terrible and it's kind of interesting to compare the responses, actually.

I do want them in Lansing. Probably be a while.

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PS, woke is not dead. MSU student newspaper here, giving away logo stickers... with the logo in rainbow as if that, just, is their logo. Journalism will be just about the last profession to admit any mistakes were made, sadly.

For serious academic inquiries, Grok by far outperforms the other two, in my experience.

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Book review in the latest FirstThings suggests that the postwar ecumenical flowering (between Catholics and Protestants) was possible because (in Vatican II) Rome gave so much ground in embracing principles of liberalism, pluralism, and democracy, which things it had formerly

Especially when I was adjunct at LCC, I never complained, but you sometimes do this mental math of, OK, all these students paid this much to take this class, I am getting this much... golly, what happened to all the rest?