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ng his RV around St. Petersburg? No, no, he's not driving his RV around. If he's alive, he's certainly controlled by Putin at this point. Did you read in the news that it was the warmest summer? How many of you think we had the warmest summer because of climate change? The news said so. Well, it may be. It might actually be the warmest summer, but I'd like to give you a counterpoint which doesn't…

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warm. Now this is my problem with averages. If somebody told you that the average temperature of the Earth was going up, that's pretty scary, right? But what if they told you that it's warming up in the places that are too cold and the places that are already hot? Nobody lives there because it's a desert anyway, for example. Now that's the extreme. I'm exaggerating the effect here, but that's your counterargument. So I'm not saying that the warming is not a problem. I don't know. Might be. But we're pretty good at dealing with that kind of problem.

All right, here's a quiz for you, and the answer is not 25 percent. All right, I'm going to see if you can get this right. You know, put on your thinking caps. All right, there was an article by Katie Mogg in the Wall Street Journal, and apparently there's a trend called the hashtag lazy girl job. And a lazy girl job would be defined as a job, often you could work at home, you don't put in too many hours. It might be an online kind of thing. You don't make that much money, but you make enough, especially if you live with your boyfriend or something. So apparently it's this big old trend to have a job that you can just sort of pay the rent but you're not looking to kill it. This would be the opposite of leaning in. This would be like sleeping in. So apparently leaning in has turned into sleeping in. But that's not the question. Here's the question. This phenomenon has been growing lately, and it's racked up close to 18 million views on a particular social media network. Go. Which social media network? Well, just a hypothetical. What would be a social media network that would encourage working-age humans in the United States to

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not work hard but maybe not send that same message to, let's say, China? What would be a platform that would do that? I mean, who would tell Americans to be lazier because it's awesome while not telling Chinese citizens to be lazy because it's not awesome? Who would do that? The answer is TikTok. Are you surprised? Oh, big surprise. A trend that's really bad for Americans seems to be running on Ti…

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