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l of any kind, and fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Enjoy. Me now for the dopamine hit of the day, the unparalleled pleasure, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and I know you came here for it. Join me now for that delight. Go. Wow, I guess the day is going, doesn't it? Everything's starting to turn u

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p, look a little better. You started out a little bit slow today, but look how much better things are already. It happens quickly.

I saw today that the company Ring that makes the home security, they have a new prototype of an indoor drone for security. And apparently they'll be, they've already made it but they're not selling it yet. A little drone that will pop up from its little charging station and do a predetermined route through the air through your home and send you back pictures so you can look at what's going on. Now if that's not cool, I guess I don't know what cool is, because that got me all excited.

Here's another little positive trend that is unexpected positivity from the coronavirus tragedy. Hydroponic farms are doing great. I have a tiny, tiny little investment in a desktop hydroponic company and their revenue just went crazy because of coronavirus. And what they make is called Click and Grow, if you're looking for it. And they make these little desktop garden things that have their own light source and pods and seeds and stuff. They're pretty cool.

But apparently the full-size farms, hydroponic farms, just went from, well that's a good idea, I suppose you could make an indoor farm if you really needed to. It apparently has completely shifted to we need some hydroponic farms because if our food source gets cut off like it sort of almost did with coronavirus, we need a backup plan. And having local hydroponic farms is a pretty good way to go. So that's good news.

There's some fake news about Joe Biden today. Of course he's the gaffe maker, so when Joe Biden makes a joke intentionally in the context of so many gaffes, sometimes you can't tell. But this one is being reported as a gaffe. This was clearly him making a joke in which he said in one of his Zoom appearances, he said, I got to the Senate 180 years ago. And the Trump campaign tweeted that as a gaffe. I don't think it was a gaffe. I'm willing to place a sizable bet that even Joe Biden knows that he's less than 180 years old. So I think he was just joking about how long ago it was. But things are so crazy that it's reported as, well maybe, you know, he's doing so poorly that maybe he doesn't know he's less than 180 years old. Maybe. But I think that was a joke.

Here's the funniest tweet I saw yesterday, and I'm going to read you the punchline before I read you the setup that wouldn't make sense until you hear it. Okay? And it's because it's the way I consumed it, because Twitter shows the retweet message before the thing that got retweeted. So I'm looking through the Twitter feed yesterday and I see a Ted Cruz tweet. And like you, I don't know what he's referring to yet, so just consume it the same way I did. He said, you know there are decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty. And I read that and I was like, what? What kind of message is that? A reply to "you know there are decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty." And then I read what he was retweeting and it was Elizabeth Warren. And listen to this word salad that she tweeted: This sleazy Supreme Court double dealing is the last gasp of a corrupt Republican leadership numb to its own hypocrisy. The last gasp of the billionaire-fueled party that's undemocratically over-represented and desperately clinging to power in order to impose its extremist agenda. Ted Cruz: You know there are decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty. You have to admit that's one of the all-time great tweets.

Here's some good news. You know all these protests are happening and you're thinking to yourself, well what good is coming out of all these protests? You know, you'd like to think that with all that disruption there's something good coming out of it. And I'm here to report finally serious progress against systemic racism. And this comes courtesy of Seattle. So Seattle has voted in and approved the following changes. Th

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ank God, because our long nightmare of systemic racism is finally coming to a close, at least in Seattle. I would imagine a lot of places are going to copy this model because once you hear it, what they've done to eliminate systemic racism, you're going to say to yourself it's obvious. Once you hear it, until you hear it you say to yourself I don't know, it feels like such a big problem, I don't e…

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