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Just when I thought of an actually useful task for Google's AI, things got complicated right off the bat.

First, I heard the news via DW that 190 countries recognized #Palestine as a state. Okay, so I don't need to click on any specific website to answer the question "how many countries are there?".

When #AIOverview popped right up it said 195, as recognized by the #UN, it also had a fine print disclaimer that it does make mistakes. Never saw THAT one before today. But lower on the page there was cited a website that claimed there were 248. Then Reddit said that there were at least 193 but as many as 206. Uhhhhhh....

It took another link on that page to sort all of this out so I guess I really did need to click on a link to a website after all: Wikipedia's page on "United Nations geoscheme" and got the info that the number 248 covered non-sovereign dependencies, while the number 193 covered nations that were UN members, to which one would add 2 observer nations: Vatican and Palestine.

Bottom line is that 190 of whatever the number now recognize the State of Palestine.

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I was trying to use Google's online AI assistant (whatever it is) to help me install and configure an Openstep/Nextstep GUI on an OpenBSD box I have. It was not very helpful, at all - giving only redundant and partial answers. I had to do the serious work myself.









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NOW. On with lawrence o’donnell, Bradley Edwards , attorney for Epstein victims, says the Birthday Book can easily be subpoenaed. He said the lawyers would quickly turn over the book. He was furious over the way the victims have been ignored, not consulted re grand jury BS by DOJ.

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