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minute. It's about five minutes. Somebody says a few minutes I guess. And you use the power of first impressions basically because first impressions are weirdly reliable in terms of attraction. So here's my prediction. I don't think that online dating can be a viable long-term solution. And you know that's been well discussed. You know that the most attractive guys get 100% of the female interest…
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If you had some serious health problem would your dating life be as good as if you didn't? I mean to me it looks like healthy people are happier. That's all it is. And are you surprised that healthier people are happier? That feels like you haven't learned anything. I mean there's nothing in the information that's telling you anything. So I feel like this study, first of all it's not that many people. Secondly they came from Harvard so that's a weird sample. But to me it's obvious that good relationships make people happier. You know, no question about that.
But I don't think the 400-pound person can say, oh I know how to be happy now. I'll just go have good relationships. No, there's something about the 400-pounder that they need to change before the good relationships are going to be coming in quantity. So I think it's basically just a health impact that they confuse with causation again.
Well, Alex Berenson is catching up to me finally. Finally. So he's got a pretty provocative and interesting piece in Substack and he allowed everybody to see this one so it's not behind the paywall. And I recommend it. Looks like it's well written and interesting. And he starts out by saying that the regular seasonal flu shots are closer to a placebo than an a
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ctual useful thing. Who told you that first? Who's the first person who told you that the regular annual flu shot was... well I've been saying it. I've been saying it since the beginning of the pandemic because I never believed that people were dying from regular flu at least 50,000 a year. Yeah, whoever believed that 30,000 or 50,000 people a year were dying from the regular flu and then therefo…
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