, plus genetics. If you take the kid's genetic propensities, their peer pressure, and just the stuff that they're observing on TV and everywhere else, that's 90 percent of their socialization. And the parents might be 10 percent about pick up, you know, clean your room and show up on time. That's about it.

But despite the minimal impact that I think parents actually have on that specific kind of a question, I think the system works better when the parents have that power and not the state, whenever you can make that happen. Because one of the choices that the parent could make is oh, let the school do it. So maybe that's just choice. Or you know, wait a few years when the kid is older and the school could do it. But really I guess the question is more about the age it's happening, isn't it? It's not even so much—was your gay teacher an ideologue? Doesn't matter to the story. And he was, by the way. He had a big impact on me, obviously, since I'm in art. So I would say he was one of my teachers who probably had one of the biggest positive impacts on me.

All right. And let's talk about Ukraine. Have you noticed that the Ukraine story is starting to turn into, well, those Ukrainians might be able to destroy enough Soviet-era weapons that the Russians are using that the Ukrainians could actually win. So the major media is starting to suggest that those Ukrainians have pretty good weapons and they're getting trained in new weapon systems that maybe we don't know all the details about. And that the Russians are being at least stopped or repelled.

Now here's the interesting thing about the Ukraine situation to me. And I hate the fact that war is interesting, but I can't help it. The outcome is going to depend on tipping points. Meaning that there's going to be a whole bunch of stuff in the context of war that gets really close to a failure point but doesn't necessarily fail. But if any one of those things that is coming right to the failure point fails, then you have a result.

For example, how much equipment could Russia lose as a percentage of its big equipment before it wouldn't be functional? 25 percent? Because it might have lost 25 percent already. 40 percent? If they lost 40 percent of their big equipment, would they say oh, we're gonna lose all of it if we just keep doing this? Like at what point would they say we have not gained any territory and we're now down to only 60 percent of our army or whatever. So Ukraine might actually be close to some kind of a tipping point militarily, maybe.

Now what about supply lines? We never hear about the Ukrainian supply lines, do we? We only hear that there are problems with the Russian supply lines. Could be because the locals are providing food and channels to get it, etc. Who knows? But both of those are near a tipping point. There's got to be a tipping point where one of the armies will run out of fuel, one of them runs out of bullets, runs out of—probably not bullets—but runs out of food. There's got to be a tipping point, right?

And how many drones would it take before Ukraine is clearly going to win? Well, they've got several hundred coming. Is that enough? I actually think several hundred could be close to a tipping point. If it were ten thousand I'd say okay, that's enough, they're gonna win if they were trained to use them and you know they were deployed. It's not going to be 10,000 but it might be a thousand. If you had a thousand good drones and let's say 50 percent of them were reusable types, not suicide types, I feel like that would push it over the tipping point.

So anyone who says that there's some obvious way that this is going to go, I think that's the worst prediction. The worst prediction is that anything obvious is going to happen because it's all about these little tipping points. And none of those are predictable. Any one of those could go and just collapse the whole situation.

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If you get the big stuff right, the flirting is just hi, smile, make eye contact. Do you know how a woman can flirt? Let me tell you.