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Could it be because of the 77% decline in migrant entrances into the country?

If you already exist in the venn diagram that enjoys this post, I’m pretty sure this is what the Internet is for

I have lived in many states, including California. California has by far the best information pre-election to make informed decisions. Booklet with bios on every candidate, every issue, statements for and against, detailed descriptions about what a yes vote means and what a no vote means, sample ballot to make your decisions ahead of time - and this is just the info from the state/county/local municipality. All of this right to every voters’ mailbox. Then there’s the guides from the Union of Concerned Scientists, League of Women Voters, and a few others that might be more niche. In California at least, there’s no excuse not to be an informed voter. After I moved away from California and only received my voting location in the mail, I called the election office to check to see if my sample ballot or booklet of bios or any other information was on the way or if it had gotten lost in the mail or something. They had no idea what I was talking about and were so confused. So I asked if I could get information about the candidates or the issues from the election website or something to inform myself about them. Nope! I had to find out who each candidate was and then look up if they had their own website to find out more about them and what they stood for - if they didn’t have a website, that was it. For the issues, all I had to go on was the wording itself and what people were shouting about it in local media.

I wish all states would do what California does. But, I’m pretty sure that’s partly by design - make it confusing and you can get people to vote for things they probably wouldn’t want if they truly understood it.

Please don’t use the phrase “fake ballots” though, especially in the current climate of people still thinking 2020 utilized fake ballots. The term you are looking for is “sample ballots”.

It’s not that they “do better”. As the article is saying, the AI are parrots that are combining information in different ways, and using “threatening” language in the prompt leads it to combine information in a different way than if using a non-threatening prompt. Just because you receive a different response doesn’t make it better. If 10 people were asked to retrieve information from an AI by coming up with prompt, and 9 of them obtained basically the same information because they had a neutral prompt but 1 person threatened the AI and got something different, that doesn’t make his info necessarily better. Sergey’s definition is that he’s getting the unique response, but if it’s inaccurate or incorrect, is it better?

Even though you technically can purchase this over the counter - this should not be used without a doctor’s advice. The intricacies of jaw placement and how it impacts important nerves and arteries around one’s brain and heart , in addition to tooth placement for long term issues like dental wear and tooth decay patterns leading to infections that can impact the heart and brain, are fast to important to play with willy nilly.

Given the financial situation (and the fact that it takes months to get a sleep study approved), you can try ear plugs or a sound machine. When I was in my younger years and would share hotel rooms with friends, I would preemptively bring these for them, which they say helped

As other people are saying, being tested for and treating sleep apnea is a good first step - IF IT IS SLEEP APNEA. What many people don’t realize it’s that loud snoring is not exclusive to apnea. It is an indicator of it, but one can indeed be a loud snorer and not have apnea. Additionally, there are multiple kinds of apnea that cannot all be treated in the same way. There’s the CPAP machine, the nose guard, wedge cushions to lay in your side, surgery, implantable device, weight loss of overweight, and so many more. When the snoring is not due to a one if the apneas or another easily identifiable cause, the are tongue and throat exercises that have become popular recently to a certain degree of anecdotal success. Drinking a certain beverage right before bed. Medications/supplements. Weird stuff

Because there are hundreds of potential causes (and even more potential solutions, more than half of which only kind of work with some people) and the only thing we know is that he snores - there’s no answer that can be given except to say a doctor needs to pinpoint the cause. My guess is your dad is an adult and know he snores, and still doesn’t feel the need to go to a doctor, you are asking because it bothers you? If it’s not leading to an effect in his health, then there’s not much to worry about (eg, he not waking up still exhausted, or waking himself in the middle of the night by gasping for breath, waking up with a sore throat or headache, etc) and going through those tests is going to be crazy expensive even with insurance (assuming you are in the US)

With the family I grew up in, it be hard to convince you the house wasn’t a sawmill with how many logs all of us were sawing every night. My sister was the only one between my parents and my siblings and I that didn’t snore. She used to complain about it, but now she sees it as reassuring because she can keep track of where we all are in the house and that we’re all still alive (this is mostly for our parents who are now much older - them snoring at least means they aren’t dead), if we’re still awake or if she can sneak Christmas presents down to the tree, in the morning she can tell whose woken up and whose still asleep. And yes - every single one of us has spent multiple thousands of dollars (after insurance) to found out there’s literally nothing we can do, there’s no position we can sleep in to change the fact that we snore, there’s no tongue exercises that will fix it, no magic pill. That’s not to say that will be the case with your dad, but trying to give you realistic expectations.

I hate velvet. Everyone says to save space in your closet you should get those slim velvet hangers. Not a chance. Over my dead body will those velvet hangers ever see the light of day in my closet. I don’t want to even think about any of my clothes touching those hangers, let alone myself. You wouldn’t believe the effort I put into finding non-velvet hangers just as slim as the velvet ones to prove to family and friends I wasn’t wasting space in my closet.