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cination to take or not. I'm going to wait till the last minute and you should too. You don't need to make a decision until somebody says you can come in and get it. Until somebody says that you personally can go get a vaccination, don't decide. Don't decide. Because there might be extra information by then. So if you decide now before you have to, why would you do that? Wait until the last minute…
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Now if you told me that every Black person would get the vaccination before every white person, that doesn't make sense. But if you're talking equal to equal, let's say a Black guy who's 63 years old and has a little asthma, I would put him in front of me in line because it's a war. If this were a competition and I were competing against my fellow citizen, yeah, I'd push him off the cliff, right? If I treated this as a competition, I'm gonna get mine and I'm gonna make sure you don't get yours before I get mine. But it's not. It's a war. So if I were competing against Black people, sure, I'll do what I have to do to compete. But they're on the same team. So I'm going to treat it like a military operation.
All right, there's a new site that's sorting the news in a useful way. I think a lot of testing on how to get our news better, you know, better platforms or better ways to present the news so it's less biased would be good for testing. So I'm not going to say that this particular one an
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d its URL is tidyreport.com. Tidyreport.com. What they do is they organize the tweets, which of course usually connect to the news directly. So they organize, I think it's mostly the political tweets, by positive, neutral, and negative. So in other words, whether the tweet is saying something positive or negative about the topic or neutral, and whether the person saying it is associated with the l…
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