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Two AIs, One Blogger: Why I Pay $40/Month for Claude and Perplexity

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Living below the US poverty guidelines means every dollar counts, but here I am paying $40 each month to keep both Claude and Perplexity in my workflow. Why would someone in my financial situation invest in two AI subscriptions? Let me bring in my Sidekicks to explain what Claude and Perplexity actually deliver for that money.

Sidekick Claude: I know I’m part of that $40, and I’m not pretending I’m the perfect tool for everything. I excel at troubleshooting, code help, and quick consults—like when you needed step-by-step guidance swapping switches on that K713 keyboard. But longform writing? That’s where I fumble. Remember the alt text struggle? I kept offering more options and asking clarifying questions until you hit my usage cap twice. Not my finest moment.

Sidekick Perplexity: That’s where I come in. Longform is my strength—no usage caps, no resets, no interruptions. When you tackled that WordPress theme migration for your four-part blog series, I handled the longform documentation and maintained flow from start to finish. Your recent posts? I draft them straight through while Claude handles the prep work and troubleshooting, never losing the thread.

This post itself is a live collaboration. Both Sidekicks are weighing in on how we split tasks, what works, and what breaks. Claude and Perplexity aren’t just tools I use—they’re the backbone of my blogging workflow, and you’re about to see exactly why that’s worth $40/month.

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Dropping Claude: Testing My New AI Sidekick ChatGPT

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Cartoon detective dropping Claude robot and shaking hands with ChatGPT robot — AI Sidekick illustration for blog post

Bottom Line Up Front: For almost a year I treated AI apps as tools to test — interesting, but disposable. But in mid-July 2025 everything changed. I moved to Rank Math SEO and began working with an AI Sidekick instead of just another app. Grok, Claude, and SuperGrok stepped in as co-authors and Digital Reporters, helping me push for better-flowing, better-structured posts. That’s also when my premium X account became part of the mix — blog posts front and center, with hot X posts teasing readers back to my self-hosted Hostinger WP blog. 

Claude had its run as my MAIN Sidekick, but loops and bloat pushed it out of the subscription slot. ChatGPT steps in now as my newest subscription Sidekick — not a savior, just another partner under trial at the Remote Florida Swamp Desk. Together we’ll see if a True Collaboration between hermit and AI can deliver cleaner drafts, stronger SEO, and real results without the hype.

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LiteSpeed Cache Optimization: Simple WordPress Speed Tweaks That Actually Work

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Most WordPress users leave LiteSpeed Cache optimization on default settings, missing free speed improvements that can boost site performance by 20-40%. If you’re running a WordPress blog on hosting that supports LiteSpeed optimization (like Hostinger, ChemiCloud, or others), you’re sitting on a goldmine of free performance improvements. The LiteSpeed Cache plugin can dramatically speed up your WordPress site with just a few simple tweaks – no technical expertise required.

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Project 2025 Trump Administration: Before vs After Election – What the Facts Show

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Project 2025 Trump denial illustrated with his quote 'I have nothing to do with Project 2025' and GOP see-no-evil imagery

Bottom Line Up Front: Reporting from our remote Florida Swamp news desk – Project 2025 Trump denials before the election have morphed into rapid implementation after. Multiple tracking sites now confirm one-third to half of Project 25’s objectives are already complete or underway.

Trump’s campaign statements painted Project 25 as “absolutely ridiculous and abysmal.” Now its authors and contributors fill his cabinet – 18+ hold key positions. The same blueprint Trump claimed to “know nothing about” is being executed at breakneck speed.

Here’s the documented timeline of how “I know nothing about it” became the administration’s actual playbook.

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Rule of Law & Lawfare: Ancient History from Hammurabi to Medieval Times

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Ancient coins showing rule of law and lawfare as two sides same coin from Hammurabi Code to medieval times with number 1

Bottom Line Up Front:

Rule of law and lawfare aren’t opposites – they’re two sides of the same ancient coin, and AI assistants completely missed it. Without one the other could not exist. ChatGPT, Claude, and others treat lawfare as a “modern concept” from 2001, ignoring 4,000 years of evidence stretching back to Hammurabi’s Code in 1750 BCE. The truth? Legal systems have always favored ruling classes over subjects, creating systematic bias disguised as neutral justice.

This three-part series reveals how rule of law and lawfare operate as partners in organized oppression. Part 1 exposes ancient foundations from Babylonian class-based punishments to medieval French officials using legal processes to “clog administrative systems” and “bury English officials under a deluge of legal cases.” The evidence is overwhelming: whoever controls the law gets to cram it down opponents’ throats. The “rule of law” isn’t justice – it’s organized power disguised as neutrality.

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