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too dynamic, too strong to be a vice president. Would you ever consider getting married again? Asking for a girlfriend. Well I don't think marriage works. That's my experience. Now I could go into a long explanation but I think in 2023 it just sort of doesn't work. Now I still think it's the best model for raising kids but it doesn't work for the couple so much. It's too much pressure on life. So…

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married day — and by the way this was less true with Christina — but an average married husband day is you work all day and then you come home and your wife who sort of knows the schedule of the kids and stuff like that, who might have also worked but she tends to know the most about who needs to do what, and so then your wife says all right you drive the kids here and I'll do this and you do this. And then you're just taking instructions from somebody. So all day long you work for somebody else and then you come home and you work for somebody else. And it's really hard to find your own peace in that situation unless you're such a giving person that your enjoyment is making the kids and the spouse happy. But if you try to make your spouse happy your spouse will hate you because the last thing they want to be is happy anyway. So no, I don't think in a modern world with ordinary people that marriage makes sense anymore. It doesn't make sense financially for sure.

Have we passed the below average IQ tipping point where human civilization can no longer avoid its own destruction? I don't know that we're getting dumber but the world is getting more complicated. So if the world keeps getting more complicated then the IQs that we have will be insufficient and I think that's what's happening.

Long-term relationships work for emotionally available people. Let me say this. I do think that marriage or any long-term relationship works when you have two compatible people who are complete people. In other words they know how to talk to each other, they're not abusive, they're in it for the right reasons, they're both contributing, they've got a reciprocity mindset. That sort of, yeah, under those conditions marriage might be exactly what you want whether you want kids or not. However, how many people do you know where both of them are functional? How many couples do you know where both of them are functional? Both of them. It's almost unheard of. You could find one person who seems pretty functional. That's not impossible. But to find two people who are both functional and they like each other is so rare it's like a five percent situation, maybe a five to ten percent situation tops. When I see it I'm always impressed because I've seen a few situations where from the outside it looks like, "Oh man those are two functional people and they got together. How lucky is that?" But it's so rare.

Lots of negative media about Bitcoin. Yeah I don't have a Bitcoin suggestion.

All right I think that's all I want to do on questions for today. Did you notice that nobody asked me a question about race? Nobody asked me a question about race. That's like the fastest Overton window in the history of Overton windows. Well you just went away. Do you think it went away or people are afraid of me now? I feel like there's a little bit of fear that my message is a little bit too dangerous at this point. Yeah I think I will be ignored for being too dangerous.

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ave for you today. If you haven't seen my pinned tweet, those of you on YouTube maybe you didn't, but my pinned tweet explains everything you need to know about my dramatic situation of recent days. So if the Cuomo interview would take you an hour to get through but the tweet thread is a five minute read that will change your life. It will change everything. Yeah, Matthew says your reputation is…

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