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ould fit into that. So I would say the system's kind of broken if it takes you a day to get the thing that you need to get right away. Now last night I would say that I was, the best phrase would be, writhing in pain. So if you're wondering what it's like to get Omicron after you've had a couple of vaccinations: writhing in pain for I don't know, 10 hours or so. My temperature was dysregulated, s…
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So I've got a feeling that the supply chain thing maybe isn't that big a problem. You know, in the end we'll see. And not that it isn't a big problem, but that we're so good at making adjustments in a trillion different ways and everywhere in the system, I think we'll just get past it.
All right, does everybody like the optimism yet?
So I've been talking about these small homes that you can put up for thirty, forty thousand dollars. You know, a little home that's got a bathroom and a kitchen and a bedroom, and you could just ship it to the site and assemble it. Well, one of them is called Boxabl. And Dave Rubin was informing me by tweet today that Elon Musk has an investment in Boxabl. So he's one of the investors. So even Elon Musk is in this growing field of the homes that you can just slap together from kits, basically.
So you know I've been telling you that this is going to be the big thing. They won't look exactly like these version 1.0, you know, in the same way that your automobile today does not look like a Model T. But when you see how popular these are. Poorly made — now when I say poorly made, I only mean compared to what they will evolve to. They're not poorly made for today's technology and stuff. But what they will evolve to will be amazing. They'll be way better than what you're living in now.
If I haven't mentioned this before, there's a planned community, a neighborhood that's built to be free from cars so you can walk everywhere. So if they design it so that all the stuff you need is in walking distance, and they have like electric scooters and electric bikes and stuff you can just grab and go. Free public transportation. So it's Culdesac Tempe, Tempe, Arizona. And the organization is
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called culdesac.com. So they're actually designing communities to make them more livable, car-free. But is that enough? I mean, that's — I love the fact that it's a car-free community, sort of like college. That was kind of a car-free community. But I feel like that's just one variable. Like what about making us less lonely? What about making us safer? I mean, it might do those too, but they don'…
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