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. Well I love this no tax on tips idea because today I learned that it will include digital content creators. Do you see the opportunity for abuse of the no tax on tips? You know I was wondering are people gonna pretend that they're being tipped instead of paid in just a whole bunch of regular jobs? You know when the plumber comes, I think plumbers are included actually, but suppose the plumber c…

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ld 35% of your face be showing? Because wouldn't you usually have a hat? I mean it's just your eyes right? It's the only thing. So maybe it doesn't work every time or maybe it works for some people.

But here's my related question. Was it not a really big thing recently that there were some apps before AI, so these were not AI apps, that would do facial recognition like Clearview was one and it was a big old scandal and you know where did they get their data and who were they scraping it from blah blah blah and I was wondering if that's just one of the first things that will just be driven out of business by AI because AI is probably, don't you think you could put, I haven't tested this maybe some of you have, could you put a picture of a non-famous person into let's say ChatGPT or Grok and have it tell you who it is if they had a social media presence which almost everybody does? So if they had ever had a social media post with their name attached to it or they're part of any local news story. Would AI be able to do facial recognition with no real training? You just put in a picture and say what do you think? It's probably close to that. I don't know. The claim is kind of maybe too spectacular to be true but it might be true.

So here's some Trump news that's always funny. Have you ever noticed that no matter what the story is, no matter what the topic is, if Trump is part of it there's something that's a little bit funny about it? Is it just me? Because I don't think that's true of any other politician ever. That it's just there's always something that's like one degree off of how the world is supposed to work. And that one degree of difference is what triggers your laugh response. You're like no that's not supposed to be like that. And Trump just continually does things that you didn't really expect to happen. You didn't really expect somebody would say that. It's not the end of the world stuff. It's just that he does things that nobody expects anybody to do which is part of his magic.

So here's what he's done now. He's moved Space Command headquarters to Huntsville, Alabama. And here's the funny part. I don't know how serious this is but he says that Huntsville, Alabama because Space Command headquarters will be there, he said we'll be known as Rocket City. And the first thing I asked myself was does Huntsville, Alabama know that Trump just renamed their city to Rocket City? Or did he just make that up which is just as funny? Or does he just think that that will be his nickname? Did he like Detroit was Motor City. So maybe he's just trying to make it a thing but it would be funnier if he was proposing renaming Huntsville without asking Huntsville about it. But there's just something funny about that. He's great at branding. So instead of making you think about the big rockets and everything and the jobs that are created he's immediately making you think Rocket City huh? It's kind of catchy.

Anyway in other Trump news Ryan Routh, the would-be assassin of Trump, you know he's the one who hid in the bushes at the golf course but they caught him. So he's going to trial and he's decided to represent himself at an attempted murder trial. Is it attempted murder? I don't know what the charges are. I assume it's attempted murder. But he's sort of a crazy guy but he might be smart enough to play extra crazy because it might affect his sentence or how he gets treated or something. So the question I'm asking myself is is he smart enough to know that if he represents himself because they have him obviously dead to rights, it's not like there's any chance he was innocent of what he was doing, so if he represent

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s himself he gets a sort of a theater and a stage to prove to the world that he's way crazier than you thought. And to that point he just did some kind of official court motion to challenge Trump to a round of golf. And he said quote about Trump, he goes, "If he wins he can execute me. I win I get his job." Now if he keeps doing that kind of stuff in his defense I'm going to conclude that he's not…

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