oing to have dodo barbecue and there's no dodos so my life is ruined because of the animals that have gone extinct? Now I'm not in favor of animals going extinct. If you could stop it that'd be great. But I just want to point out you have not missed any animals. There's not a single animal that you've said to yourself, "If only those specific animals were still here." You know that bird with the funny head? Things were good when we had that bird but not anymore. No, it's like that. You would never miss movies if they stopped forever today. You would miss the habit. You would miss the habit but then you would replace it with something healthier. You would not be worse off with no movies.

And by the way I can say that about myself. I don't believe that getting canceled in newspapers globally is desperately injuring the people who would have been reading it otherwise. The entertainment's pretty optional turns out if you have other sources.

All right, the funniest news from yesterday which is kind of awesome is that Twitter had started mailing out checks to people who were not expecting any checks. So it's the bigger accounts that were getting lots of engagement. Musk had promised that he would start paying people for engagement because they could run ads in your comments which is a much better place to put an ad because you're not going to see it unless you're interested in that comment. Well some people, I saw one tweet of somebody who got over nine hundred thousand dollars. Matt Wallace, I don't know who Matt Wallace is but is that true? Maybe it was like, it doesn't seem possible. I don't think the math works because how much engagement would you have to have to get that? Other people were getting I think ten thousand and he got five thousand dollars. Krassenstein's got twenty five thousand dollars. I didn't get any notice that I noticed. They were all tweeting this little notice getting paid. I don't think I have but it might also be because I didn't start my subscription service as soon as they did so maybe I get paid. Allegedly I would.

So here's the funniest thing about this. So just when people were going to Threads, you know the competition to Twitter, Elon Musk comes up with a plan to monetize your critics. That's right. The more trolls that come into my tweet now and they yell at me and call me a r