akes the box like everything that you think about people and power and racism and who thinks what and does what. This just shakes it all up. It just makes you think. And it gets you mad or excited or you put yourself in the place. But the trick of this is if you have enough people, there's always somebody who's willing to do anything. If you have a million people you can get somebody out of the million people to do literally anything. You can get them to do harm to themselves, just anything, if you have enough people. So when you're watching some small number of people do something that you wouldn't do, it doesn't mean anything. It just means that you're seeing a small number of people do something you wouldn't do. That's it. So it doesn't have any meaning beyond the fact it really shakes up your head.

So persuasion-wise I give it an A-plus because the more upset you are about it, the better it works. That is its power. Its power is that it upsets you. So if I'm just looking at it from a persuasion as a technique, A-plus. Yeah, if it disgusted you, if it angered you, if you couldn't turn away, that's what makes it work. So I wouldn't worry about it becoming a trend. You don't have to worry about it being a trend. You know it's never going to be guaranteed. It'll never be required. It'll always be optional. So this is the power that the media has. They can take something that's unusual and give it a lot of attention until you think it's some kind of a normal thing or it's the beginning of a trend or it's happening everywhere. It's the smallest little thing that some very unique people could do but you couldn't do. Nobody's gonna ask you to do it. It just doesn't matter. But persuasion-wise it was strong.

I swear to God almost all of our problems in society are because we can't calculate percentages right. Am I wrong about that? Like if we could calculate percentages, meaning that we knew the right numerator and the right denominator, if we could always get that right and then calculate it right and know which one is the one that matters, I don't think we'd have nearly as many problems in the world. It's like we can't calculate anything right.

I'll give you some specifics on that. For example, a guy who follows me on Twitter, which is no way to describe a person because that's the least important part of his personality is following me on Twitter, but I don't know anything else about him, so other than his name is Leonidas Johnson. He may or may not be watching this Periscope and he's African-American, which you need to know for the purpose of the story. And he tweeted this, and I presume he leans conservative. He says for every ten thousand Black people arrested for violent crimes, three are killed. For every ten thousand white people arrested for violent crime, four are killed. And then Leonidas goes on, he says I'm going to keep tweeting this until someone can explain to me how this is possible if there is truly pervasive racial bias in policing.

So he's a Black man so he can tweet this. Do you know what I can't do? Tweet that. I can't tweet that. I don't have freedom of speech in a practical sense. I have freedom of speech in a legal sense. I can say anything I want. But in a practical sense my life would just be worse if I had been the one who tweeted this. But because Leonidas is Black he can tweet it and then I can retweet it. I'm okay. So I did that. But I certainly don't have freedom of speech the way Black people do. Let me just say that directly. I have less freedom of speech than Black people. Would you agree? Is that even controversial? Because it's true that Black people can say more things in public with less repercussions than I can. It's not even close really. And now regardless of whether I'm right or wrong, which is a separate question, there are just whole classes of things, including data. I wouldn't even be able to talk about data in public. Think about that. That I can't talk about data in public.

Now I've told you before that one of my advantages is that I have, I wasn't going to swear today so I'll give you the PG version, that I have FU money. Meaning that the worst thing that could happen to me is I retire and live on the money I already made. But because I'm still in the workforce and I would still like to have an actual j