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for the unparalleled pleasure. It's the dopamine. The other day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. But it happens now. Scott, would you be so kind to start the YouTube stream about 30 seconds early, meaning before the start time? I don't know about that. Is that because you missed a simultaneous sip? Because the recorded version has it all. Is it when you l…
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Well, here's some good news potentially. I always like to follow Machiavelli's Underbelly, a good Twitter account. Yeah, it was fun. Interesting positive things happening in the technology. So there's some scientists at the University of Birmingham in the UK and they figured out how to use laser light treatment to improve your memory by up to 25 percent. Your short-term memory anyway. They don't know if it lasts, but they think they could also use this light treatment for ADHD. Now apparently it's non-invasive. So I don't know exactly where do they shine the light? It's a laser and it's non-invasive, but what exactly is a non-invasive laser? Do you shoot a laser in somebody's eyes? I guess so, probably.
But as you know, if Trump supported this it would be reported as Trump favors injecting bleach into people's eyes to improve their ADHD. That would be the story. Well, you know it would. You know it would. So maybe that'll be cool. Maybe they can treat ADHD now.
Let me tell you my experience with light as a professional writer. I put great care into the physical environment in which I try to write. A huge difference. I like to have both of my feet on the ground, not crossed. If I cross my legs or put my feet up I tend to sleep. I also have to have the right kind of distraction and physical environment. But the light I've discovered is one of the biggest factors. If you get the light right you can write for a long time. If you get the light wrong that puts you in a whole different physical mode. So I do think that it could be that we will unlock all kinds of benefits with light treatments. Or bleach.
There's also a potential obesity treatment in which they can give you some kind of a compound that will change the nature of the fat in your body so that it still does whatever fat needs to do in your body that's good for you but it doesn't get bigger. What do you think of that? I feel like there could be an accidental impact of that. Do you know how much I would eat if I didn't get fat? The only thing that keeps me from eating all day long is that I don't want to be overweight. If I could eat and not get fat, oh my God, I'd just be eating and pooping all day long. I'd be as happy as hell. Well, it doesn't take much to keep me happy I guess.
How many of you saw the prankster who talked at the Austin city council meeting and he did what I call embrace and amplify? Oh thank you John, sunlight is good. So this prankster pretends to be a real person and he's wearing a communist shirt, pro-communism, and he gets up and he does a whole thing about how Elon Musk taking over Twitter is the w
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orst thing. But I wasn't sure it was a prank until some other people confirmed it because the reality and parody are so similar. So here's the first thing that the prankster said that made me say, huh, that does sound ridiculous but not more ridiculous than what actual real people say. So see if you think this is way too ridiculous or something that an average person if you stopped him on the str…
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