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or to closer to, what, 65 percent? I'm not even sure what the odds are of missing your flight these days or at least being a day late or something like that. I mean, I don't know how you plan to do anything these days. Anyway, get your flight insurance or something, because if you plan a big vacation, you don't want to blow it. I saw the best suggestion I've seen from a tweet by David Boxenhorn,…

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re it's heading generally speaking. Maybe you need to arrange the letters a little differently.

Now somebody mentioned that this had already been done with the letter Z, like calling people "Z" instead of he or she. Yes, he did that, and I said to myself, almost there. I mean, I can see what you're doing there. It's a brand-new word, so that's good, right? But here's what I suggested. Could we have a word that sounds less like a Nazi invasion? That's all. I'm not asking a lot. I'd like a pronoun that's not being used for a completely different purpose already, is clear. I mean, I'm not asking a lot. It doesn't make you sound like a Nazi stormtrooper. Is that a high bar? I didn't think it was, but nobody's crossed it yet. So let's see if somebody can do that.

As you know, reality and parody merged sometime in the 2021 period, I think is when historians will call it. And that's a period where you really can't tell the difference between a joke and something serious, because the serious stuff became so ridiculous that the jokes stayed where they were, and then they just merged.

You want another example of that? Does that sound like hyperbole? Does it sound ridiculous that parody and reality have merged to the point where you just can't tell the difference? Well, here's a little story from today. Apparently the Atlantic magazine, this is fake news, so somebody did a fake headline that made it seem as if the Atlantic magazine had done it, and the fake headline was "The Heroism of Biden's Bike Fall," and then the subtitle was "The president gracefully illustrated an important lesson for all Americans: when we fall, we must get back up."

Now, how many of you thought that probably was a real headline in a real magazine? I'll bet you well over 90 percent of the people who sa

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w it probably thought it was real. Wouldn't you say, before you knew it was fake, wouldn't you say that that sounds real? It actually does, because as absurd as it sounds, it's not more absurd than the news that you'll see today. Somewhere there will be more absurd things in the real news today. No difference. As part of our understanding of why things aren't the way they used to be, Adam Dopamin…

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