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Now that's not the weird part. You know what the weird part is? His first name. No vax. Novax. I mean it's, you know, Novak, but really his name is Novax and he didn't get vaccinated and he won the Australian Open. You tell me that's not the best story, right? Could you not have predicted that? I did. I did actually predict that in advance but privately, so I should have said it out loud. But every time you see one of these where the best story is really obvious, you're like, well that would be the best story. Then it happens. And I think that there's actually a mechanism for it. You know, it could be the simulation is causing our intentions to make it happen, but I feel as if everybody collectively knows the best story, including the competitors. And I think it actually suppresses the competitors. You know, there's like a psychological mechanism where they too want the best story to happen because the best story is just, it holds on your mind because you used to seeing the best story, you know, in fiction. So that's just a theory.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that restaurants are retooling to be more takeout oriented. Some of them will be purely takeout. So you're going to have purely takeout restaurants. More of them coming. I mean it's not like that was just invented, but there'll be more of them coming.

Now here's what I always thought was the best part about the pandemic, if you can even say that the best part about the pandemic is, do you remember Naval Ravikant said early in the pandemic he predicted that what the pandemic would change was mostly the rate of change. That the things that were going to happen in the long run were still going to happen, just that it would happen more quickly because we would be scrambling to re-engineer everything. And one of the things I think was badly in need of re-engineering is food.

Have you ever thought about the inefficiency of the food process? From the moment, let's say, a seed is planted in a farmer's field, do you know how many people touch your food before it gets to your mouth? It's like all kinds of steps to get it to some distribution place, and then it gets to the food distribution place, I guess the grocery store. Then it gets on the shelf. You put it into your cart. You take it out of the cart. You put it on the cashier thing. You pay for it. You put it back in the cart. You take it out of the cart. You put it in your car. You take it out of your car. You put it on your counter. You take it out of your bag and put it in the refrigerator. You take it out of the refrigerator. You take it out of the package. Put it in the oven. Take it out of the oven. Put it on a plate. Take it from the plate and put it in your mouth. The whole thing is a complete mess. Nobody would design the system from scratch. It just sort of evolved that way with a free market.

So for a long