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 Wait, let's see if I have the train-cars in order...Christmas was for kids and buying stuff. 
New year's is for ... who? Drinkers and sports fans? 
Cold wintery layoff notices and rent increases (So I guess landlords and employers are happy)

Tv shows (lotsa them) bidding goodbye to this shit-year, but the year keeps on going.
Someone somewhere has made a cheezy site with cats dancing. 
New Yorkers flock like pigeons to a gigantic ball while their betters with rifles and radar worry about evildoers killing everyone.
(And then it got depressing and I forgot a lot)

https://www.cbc.ca/arts/the-oral-history-of-the-hampsterdance-the-twisted-true-story-of-one-of-the-world-s-first-memes-1.4958325

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Microscopic pictures on Google's front page make you want to click to see what the bigger picture looks like, just like the headline that says "WHATEVER YOU DO, DON'T ..." to see the rest of the headline.
The picture turns out to be a stock photo of meaninglessness that they almost never show the larger version of, and the headline finishes weak ("...don't miss the sale")
So my hopes for AI are not strong.
Better advertising?
More targeted advertising?
Juicier clickbait pictures?

What the hell does AI do that advertising executives don't? (Darren Stevens?)

I read an article yesterday that says, mid-1800's experts (people living back then) determined that a painting by Raphael wasn't entirely painted by Raphael.

These experts had sharp eyes, and they were right, but not as right as the AI people coming years and billions of dollars later, cuz NOW the AI has given its blessing to the theory. Yes! Score one for AI.

(Geez)

Prognosticating sports scores and possible lottery numbers.
But probing your brain for ways to make Donald Trump the Leader, and getting your money,
are prolly much more glamorous ways of selling investors on the AI Boom.

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I could really use an AI for stuff like, "Am I eligible for any state benefits,"

Bbbeeecause, They only tax you on half your social security income, and if that income is less than 25000, you don't get taxed (you don't have to file.)

So yeah, not accounting for your oil well in another state, your apple stock, your rental income, and those jellied-preserves you sell, 
No, it isn't taxable.
But...

WHEN they ask, how much you make, dew yew report HALF your social security, or ALL of it?
WHEN they start bombarding you with line numbers ("32a" e.g.) instead of just ASKING you what the hell you make, it gets confusing.

A fluffy space filler from CBS news.

the phraseology would warm the heart of any Lawyer.
(See cuz you need a lawyer to file the damn taxes, o nvm)

DEW YEW mean, 25,000-threshold on HALF your Social Security, or, half your social security is taxable beeecause it's a hair over 25,000...or...?

 

AGI isn't good enough. !@#$!!

Stuff you wouldn't get taxed on ("Tax exempt") counts as income.

Slaving away over hot stoves making gazpacho and cookies so's you can live rent-free in your hovel is NOT income.
(No cookies here)

So it behooves my state to pay me lots less than most of my neighbors.

The bottom line, hire yourself out as a live-in cook.
Be a dependent. (A tax-deduction)

No tax for you!

But I'm back to the damn state, which wants (I think) ALL your SSA-income, not half.