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Back to episode — Episode 2715 CWSA 01/09/25

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Well, of course I'm going to be talking about the LA fires, but I'll wait just a minute for people to stream in before that. I would like to note, do any of you remember, I can't remember how long ago it was, so we're going to test your long-term memory. It was a long time ago, but there were these two terror attacks, one in New Orleans and one in Vegas. Any of that sound familiar? It was so long ago, right?

Trump is doing it again. He's doing that thing where time is completely distorted. So when the Vegas terrorism thing was the headline story, I said to myself, oh, this is going to be in the news for a while. So I'm going to do a Dilbert comic in which Dilbert's boss's secretary suggests that he takes a vacation in Vegas because he didn't know where to go on his vacation. So she suggests that he buy a Cybertruck and drive it to Vegas and stay at the Trump Hotel. And well, anyway, you'd have to see the comic. It's pretty darn funny. But it's running today only for the subscribers. You'd have to be subscribing on X or Locals to see it. But you know, I was prepping it to publish it this morning, and I thought, oh my God, that feels so long ago. So long ago. So Trump time distortion happening again.

All right, just one more thing, then we'll talk about the fires. I tried to use ChatG

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PT last night to digest a big legal document that I was asked to review. And I thought to myself, oh, perfect application for AI. I'm going to upload the document, and then I will query it to say, okay, is this handled? You know, what about this? What's it say about this? And it would summarize it for me, and I'd save a bunch of time. I was so happy to be in the age of AI. So I took my PDF file a…

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