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is that the first two appraisals, I think we do know this was during the depths of the coronavirus problem when nothing looked like it was worth anything and then the third appraisal happened when things were picking up. The stock market was up by 50 percent or whatever the number was and home values were zooming. So but still doubled? Do you think your home doubled? No. I don't know what the real…

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massive mental health problems, right?

Now here's my question. If the news created massive mental health problems for profit, you know they're not trying to give you mental health problems but it's an outcome of all the fake news, who would report it if it were happening? That's a problem isn't it? If the problem was, you know, imagine hypothetically it's a massive mental health problem directly caused by fake news, who would report it? Who would report it? There's nobody to report it, right? It's one of the biggest problems in the country by far but the news can't report it.

This is one where even Fox News can't even report it about CNN. CNN can't even report that about Fox News and they fight all the time. But reporting it would require accepting that you're both at least a little bit part of that process. So the news can't report on what might be the biggest story in the country right now, massive mental health problems from the news.

Now is there any science to support that? Apparently yes. Apparently there's plenty of science. Are we following the science and reporting that the news is creating massive mental health problems? Nope, nope. We don't follow the science in that case.

Will climate change become a precursor for war under the Bush doctrine? Well that's interesting. I feel as if climate change and racism have the same overall quality that you can apply them to every other topic. Everything could be something about racism. Everything could be something about climate change. You can make those fit anything. So will somebody use it to justify a war? Definitely yeah. We don't know the details but we know climate change will be used to justify everything.

All right, now how about, I just saw a mention of the New York Times article. Ben, was it Ben Smith? Yeah, Ben Smith was writing in the New York Times about the story about the Jeopardy contestant who won three times in a row. But when he, the first time he held up one finger, the second time he won he held up two to show he'd won twice. And the third time when he held up three fingers he unfortunately decided not to do these three fingers but to do the, these, I can't do it without, I can't give you an example but he used like a catcher in baseball uses these three fingers to say three.

And apparently there was a big organization of past participants on Jeopardy. It's a thriving sub community on the internet. And they decided that he was really sending the secret white supremacist hand gesture. Now Ben Smith just rips that apart and essentially just treats it like nonsense. And the tone of Ben's article is that all of these past Jeopardy contestants who are by definition way smarter abo

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ut facts than the average person were completely bamboozled by the belief that they could see a white supremacist right in front of them. Now UFOs, some people believe exist because so many people saw it with their own eyes. With their own eyes they saw it. They saw the UFOs so therefore they must exist, right? Well several million people saw this poor Jeopardy contestant look like a white suprem…

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