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Gemini Can Be A Great Wordsmith

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I gave Gemini the prompt: “Take the following sentence and turn it into a catchy memorable phrase.

Don’t waste money on travel to Mars. Instead, give more money to medical research.”

and it gave me back the following.

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Here are a few ways to rewrite that, depending on the “vibe” you’re going for:

The Punchy One-Liner

“Fix the humans before we find the Martians.”

Short & Rhythmic

“Better lives, not better rockets.”

Action-Oriented

“Invest in the breath of life, not the vacuum of space.”

A Bit Witty

“Let’s cure the Earth before we colonize the stars.”

My Personal Favorite:

“Don’t fund a flight to a dead planet—fund the fight for a living one.”

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Rejuvenating Your Brain

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  1. Don’t retire. Don’t stop being engaged with meaningful work.
  2. Look forward. Don’t look back. (Reminiscing doesn’t promote health).
  3. Exercise. Get your heart rate going. Preferably in nature.
  4. Embrace a moderated lifestyle with healthy practices.
  5. Keep your social circle exciting and new.
  6. Spend time with people younger than you.
  7. See your doctor regularly, but not obsessively.
  8. Don’t think of yourself as old (other than taking prudent precautions).
  9. Appreciate your cognitive strengths — pattern recognition, crystallized intelligence, wisdom, accumulated knowledge.
  10. Promote cognitive health through experimental learning: traveling, spending time with grandchildren, and immersing yourself in a new activities and situations. Do new things.

from the book “Successful Aging” by Daniel J. Levitin

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NEW WAY

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His quips are so dry they’re easy to miss.

Farming subsidies
we don’t need farmers who are so inefficient that they need the government to subsidize them.

Small Businesses
we don’t need small businesses who feel they need government support and who are unwilling to pay taxes at the same rate as anyone they employ

Tariffs are taxes and should be illegal

Tax

  1. tax everyone at the same rate; aka flat tax
  2. “use tax” is a good idea.
  3. profits from businesses should be taxed at a high rate,
  4. not-for-profit companies are good

A corporation is not a person and should not have legal and constitutional rights.

AI Agents/Bots should not be allowed to converse with people without identifying itselfs. Similarly to photos, communications in social media should be tagged if computerized.

AI or any other computer agent should not be allowed to incorporate a business or LLC.

Social Security is a self funded annuity administrated by the federal government designed to be paid for by the individual according to their means.

  1. There should be NO cap on the SS % taxed
  2. Congress should not be able to take money from SS
  3. SS income should not be taxed.

the Framers of our constitution understood the necessity of a citizen militia to resist a potentially oppressive military if constitutional order broke down. The Second Amendment codified the individual right to firearm possession to combat this fear.

Government is a good thing.

The purpose of government is to ensure the protection of our natural rights to life, liberty, health and property. These rights are inalienable.

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Protect Our California Coast

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Urgent request to ALL friends before Jan 23, 2026:
Please provide a public comment to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management proposal (BOEM-2025-0483-0001) urging them to NOT grant new offshore drilling licenses along the California coast. There are SO many reasons why we want to stop this: it is illegal as the areas are Marine Protected Areas, they would threaten our sensitive marine ecosystems, impact local fishing and tourism industries, go the opposite direction from growing renewable energy AND, we don’t need to provide additional licenses as there are many currently not used. This is another method of retribution from this administration towards our BLUE state of CA.

We attended a seminar hosted by local government officials and others (including MBA) last night. They have banded together to work to block any proposal through ordinances, etc. BUT, with a TON of comments to the current proposal, hopefully we can get the California areas taken off the proposal in this round of public comment (which ends Jan 23).

Go to SaveMyCoast.org, the organization created by the group of local government officials, to learn more. When ready, go to Get Involved -> Comment on the National OCS Leasing Program and leave your comment. They make it easy by providing text you can use/modify. You can remain anonymous with your text, if you wish. I just put in initials…

JAN 23 is the deadline!! Do it NOW! And share the information freely.

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Our Mafia Federal Government

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On social media, Jon Collins, a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio, shared video of ICE agents in Minneapolis being surrounded and confronted by protesters in the immediate aftermath of Wednesday’s shooting. In the clip, regular Americans, bundled up against the midwestern winter, surround the armed agents in a tight, angry circle. “Are you going to shoot someone else and kill them? Are you going to murder someone else?” one man taunts. It’s not an idle question: the protesters, civilians and ordinary people, are facing down armed men who have shown themselves capable of bigotry, brazenness, and murder. A moment later, someone shouts: “You can’t kill us all, Nazis. You can’t kill us all.”