A question about your access to my Perplexity searches

 UPDATE: A couple of responses indicate that my links to Perplexity searches don't work. So here's the deal. I'll post the text of my searches in my posts. You can go to perplexity.ai and run searches for free. That includes 5 free pro searches per day. All of my searches are pro because I bought an account. To get the same or nearly the same results I get, you need to do one or maybe more pro searches using the same question I submitted to Perplexity.

This question, Can people still use Perplexity without paying for a pro-account?, gave this response.

This info is for people who want to see the sources I am drawing content from. The searches provide the links that Perplexity gets its responses from.

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ORIGINAL POST

I often post links to Perplexity (artificial intelligence) questions I use to ferret out information. Some comments here indicate that the links I post don't work or the response doesn't appear. Is that true?

I am working on a post now about comparing democratic conservatism to MAGA authoritarianism. 

Here is the link embedded in text and not embedded: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-are-the-main-similarities-t1.qb3pBTeyKwaOIo83y_A .

Can you access some or all of what is there, which is a heck of a lot?

Frames of mind…

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So, at any given moment in time, one’s frame of mind not only influences, but is the ultimate controller of one’s current beliefs and subsequent actions based on those beliefs.  That sounds right to me.  Would you agree with that?  If not, start here by making your case against that claim.  Give your reasoning.

Now, let’s turn to politics.  When it comes to our political views, let’s follow the breadcrumbs that lay the path to how and why people vote as they do.  

A few weeks ago, Axios came up with an interesting chart that categorizes the current major political influences on our voting frames of mind:

Task 1: Give a one-sentence or even a one-word description of each of these influential categories, the way you see them. Do you see any one category as being the most influential of all, on the populace-at-large?

Task 2: What category(ies) do you belong to?  And if more than one, which one do you believe is in ultimate control of you, when casting your vote?  Why?  

Task 2a: If none, if you don’t believe your voting is influenced by any of these categories, what does influence you?  “Just the facts, ma’am,” you may say?  Okay, but where/who provides you with such facts?

(by PrimalSoup)

Incoming/Outgoing

News bits: Dem self-introspecting; Whitewashing very ugly

Blog note: I was at my dentist this morning, 7 am. I'm starting to feel semi-normal. Ouch, ouch ouch . . . . . 

The Hegseth hearing was what one would expect. Repubs toss soft, cottonball "questions", Dems point out what an unqualified scumbag he is, he deflects and then Repubs will vote to confirm him. It's a gigantic exercise in shameless gaslighting and truth falling to bullshit.

Introspecting:

“I think Senator Sanders has somewhat of a point.”

In defeat, Democrats, like longtime political strategist James Carville, are finally admitting that the independent senator from Vermont just might get it. “There are things Sanders favored that we could have put more front and center," Carville acknowledged in a post-election interview.

The comment itself was not shocking, but the messenger was. After all, Carville had been a leading voice in the news media’s efforts to diminish Sanders’ influence on the Democratic Party during his 2016 and 2020 campaigns. In 2020, after referring to the senator as a “communist,” Carville warned it would be the “end of days” if Sanders secured the 2020 Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. After 2024, Carville was not the only person in legacy media to move from critiquing to entertaining Sanders-style politics. 

In a widely circulated post-election op-ed for Boston Globe titled “Democrats must choose: The elites or the working class,” Sanders reiterated this point that the Democratic Party had failed to attract or energize the working class, and lost the election as a result.

One can only wonder what the Dem Party will be like once it decides what it wants to be. One can also wonder how important authoritarian radical right MAGA demagoguery was in causing the failure of Dem messaging to attract or energize the working class. I think it was highly important. Can honest speech stand up to dark free speech? That is the core question. 

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The WaPo reports on the failure of the FBI to vet DJT's morally rotted pick for Sec. of Defense, Pete Hegseth:

The FBI did not interview a woman who accused Pete Hegseth of sexual assault in 2017 as part of the agency’s background investigation into him, according to two people with knowledge of the FBI report’s contents who spoke on the condition of anonymity to disclose private discussions. Democratic senators on the Senate Armed Services Committee are now slamming the report as inadequate as they prepare to question the candidate picked to lead the Defense Department at Tuesday’s public confirmation hearing.

All nominees are typically subjected to a standard background check by the FBI after they are tapped for roles, and the results are shared with the committees tasked with processing them. The FBI is under no obligation to interview accusers, whistleblowers or naysayers in the course of a background check, unless they are directed to by the transition team that requested it, according to Senate aides with knowledge of the process who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly.

Hegseth’s accuser, whose identity has not been made public, filed a complaint with the police alleging she was sexually assaulted days after the Oct. 7, 2017, encounter at a Republican women’s conference in Monterey, California, but the local district attorney did not bring charges. Police confirmed that they investigated the incident. After she threatened litigation in 2020, Hegseth made the payment, and she signed the nondisclosure agreement, his attorney said in November.

Once again, we see the American rule of law in full-blown failure mode. The Sec. of Defense is not a minor government position. We are once again betrayed by our broken government. This is just like the whitewashing of the nomination of Brett "The Beer Boofer" Kavanaugh for his supreme court gig. In that case, the FBI just ignored hundreds of allegations against Boofer.

When you know politics has taken over your life...............

 When there is no new posting today, yet, by Germaine.

When Susan, who is usually very verbose both here and on Snowy's hasn't shown up yet.

When traffic of any kind on Disqus is low right now.

Can you guess?

Everyone is watching the confirmation hearings. Just a guess, but betting my guess is close.

That is when you know people have become obsessed with politics. When they HAVE TO watch the confirmation hearings.

So, here is a summary, all of Trump's choices will be confirmed.

Now you can stop watching them.

On the other hand, if I am way off base and traffic is down or folks who usually post a lot are absent, maybe it's because they finally figured out life is more than just being online. 

Nah. 

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Cheers from your local SNOWFLAKE.