e cities that are red states or red local government, the Republicans I think probably are good on crime. So if you were moving into an office building that had been converted in a red city, it might be a great thing. Imagine living in a high-rise in the middle of the city, the city you want to live in, and you've got a full gym — like not just a little crappy one like they have with some apartment buildings. They'll give you a little crappy gym but like a serious full gym. And then you've got all these windows looking out at the scenery. You've got security because it's probably security in the lobby. I feel like it would be a really good lifestyle.

You can imagine one floor being food and Starbucks and places where people can take their laptop and stuff and meet other people. I think it'd be kind of awesome. But it's got to be the right city. So apparently that will be the thing that these commercial properties are going to do to try to save themselves. Now the good news is support local coffee shops. Well it would be a local coffee shop. It would be right in your building. It could literally be Starbucks. Or you're saying you don't want it. All right I get it. I love Starbucks too much to be on your side of that.

All right. You've probably heard the story from before. There's a Palestinian Mickey Mouse. So they've got some kind of character that does a TV show for kids that's just a knockoff of Mickey Mouse but it's the Palestinian version. And this was the story from today. The Hamas TV on Friday did the last episode of the show called Farfour. And their Mickey Mouse character, who is now called Farfour, preaches Islamic domination and armed struggle to youngsters. In the final skit the Farfour was beaten to death by an actor posing as an Israeli official trying to buy Farfour's land. Laughs. The Palestinian children's programming needs some work. Palestinian children are watching a giant mouse being beaten to death by an Israeli official who tried to buy his land. And at one point the giant mouse called Farfour calls the Israeli a terrorist and then he was martyred defending his land.

Oh man, it must be tough to be a kid over there. Oh, they grow up so fast. All right, I'm only laughing because it's so horrible, right? Like somebody says it's not funny. No it is funny. It's funny because it's so beyond the realm of appropriate behavior or acceptable behavior. It's just crazy. All the news is just people going too far. That's too far. The Bride magazine with the hairy bride, that's too far. You know if they just stuck with a trans woman who did a great job of looking like a biologically born woman, well that wouldn't be too far in 2023. That'd be sort of ordinary actually. But Bride magazine had to go too far. They had to put a yeti on the cover. And this is too far too.

Back in 2014 San Francisco schools dropped eighth grade algebra because they wanted to reduce inequities. Because apparently some people weren't doing well in algebra. So their solution was to just stop it. Just stop doing that. And it turns out that the parents are organizing to get it back. Do you know why they're organizing to get algebra back into eighth grade? Because they thought the school went too far. Too far now. It's just too far taking it away frankly. So we're trying to get it back. They don't want to be the laughingstock for being one of the places that doesn't teach a basic course to kids.

Now personally I don't know how much algebra helps you unless you're going on to STEM and some other high-end stuff. So I don't know. I'm somewhere in the middle of this. I think the highest achieving students should have access to it but I don't think algebra helps the average person. Do you? Now I can honestly say I have used algebra as an adult. How many of you could say that? I've used algebra in my day job. I think I've used it in my cartooning work. Yeah, yeah. Usually just simple stuff, you know, solving for a variable, right? Yeah, just solve for a variable usually. So I would say I do use it. But if I'd never learned it, it wouldn't have made that much of a difference. I mean it didn't really change the course of my life or anything. It was just sort of a handy little tool to have. I'm sure AI could have done it for me.

Do you think you would need algebra in a world of AI? Nope. No, you'll never use basic algebra in a world of AI because you'll just pick up your phone and you'll say, "Solve for x with 2x equals three y and y equals this." You'll just tell the machine to do it. Of course you'd have to be smart enough to know it's