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Cruelty Is the Point, Not a Side Effect
USDA emailed grocery stores around the country telling them not to offer special discounts or deals to SNAP recipients amid the freeze, warning that doing so would violate the program’s “Equal Treatment Rule.” That rule requires stores to sell eligible food items to SNAP-EBT customers at the same prices and under the same conditions as…
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LLMs
A friend of mine, an experienced circuit design engineer, told me the other day that one of his managees had recently submitted a paper to a well-respected conference on signal processing. The paper was apparently on a novel modification to a commonly used signal processing algorithm and the resulting simplifications and savings in its hardware…
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A Modern Scientific Approach
On Thursday, Oct. 9, the Health and Human Services Secretary spoke during a cabinet meeting and shared a story about a pregnant woman “gobbling” Tylenol. “This morning before I came in here, somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman, eight months pregnant. She is an associate professor at Columbia Medical School, and…
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Lawmaker, Prosecutor, Judge, and Jury in One
“To ICE, Border Patrol, Law Enforcement, and all U.S. Military: As per my August 25, 2025 Executive Order, please be advised that, from this point forward, anybody burning the American Flag will be subject to one year in prison,” Trump posted on Truth Social Friday evening. “You will be immediately arrested. Thank you for your…
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Government Shutdown, 2025
By now, the second day after the government shutdown of 2025, we all must have heard about it, and especially the Republican talking points that the Democrats are not going along with their “clean continuation funding bill” so that they can provide trillion dollar funding for healthcare for illegal immigrants using taxpayer money. It is…
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Breaking: New Discovery on the Causes of Autism
Disclaimer: this is by no means an attempt to deny the problem of autism or minimize the pain experienced by those who suffer from it and their families. Instead, it is my attempt at highlighting how abhorrent it sounds to make light of a serious medical problem in such an insensitive manner, just to score…
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Trump’s Assaults on the First Amendment Are Nothing New
The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, while being quite short, covers several very important fundamental rights. It states that Congress cannot make a law that Of these, probably the most well-known right is the freedom of speech, so much so that in many contexts, the First Amendment and freedom of speech…