MKSutherland
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Well, would you look at this? Super Majority of SNAP recipients are White, “native born” & majority have a HS or GED education. Sounds a lot like the majority of white Trump voters. WHO KNEW???
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Rep. Eric Burlison dismisses the "No Kings" rallies by claiming that most of the protesters "are dependent in some way, shape, or form [on] the federal government": "They're not taxpayers, they're tax recipients."
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Every $1 invested in SNAP generates $1.80 in local economic activity. Without SNAP, that will mean a loss of $15 billion to the US economy just in November alone.
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.