that was just television. That wasn't really my life. It was just a thing I did. But if your life is mostly online, your friends are online, everybody's online. Are those people real? Kind of. I mean you know that they're real people but do they have the same effect on you in terms of let's say gratitude and empathy as somebody in the real world? My guess is no. My guess is that our social life has turned into a social life in which gratitude and empathy are hard to express because you're just people on screens. The people who are in the room with you, you can have gratitude and empathy just naturally and easily. So it could be something about how much we see people in person that makes sense. And we know that loneliness of course works against your happiness. So a lot of it is just very obviously screens. You can see that the graph of mental illness spikes exactly when smartphones came into the market. It's pretty obvious at this point that's what it is.

But more generally having a good attitude about life is good for your health and your mental well-being. So no surprises there.

Well it's almost one year ago. God it seems longer since Elon Musk bought the Twitter platform and now turned it into X. Think about what people said when he bought it. It's the last day of Twitter. Twitter's going to fail. He's destroyed this valuable asset. What's the latest update? The latest update is it might be cash positive in 2024 and the engagement is higher than ever. And he's driven out the government oversight on the platform which was essentially, not essentially, it was directly government blocking your free speech. And when Musk talks casually about how bad Twitter was when he bought it and that basically it was a government organ. And he says that the other entities, at least the social media, he says they're just government organs. That they can only do what the government tells them they can do. There's no free speech there. So he claims, and I think this is true, that the only place free speech exists is on X. I think that's exactly true. The only place free speech exists is on X. And you know that's limited by you can't go too far but I don't think that's hurting us.

All right so that's kind of amazing. And I like to take a little bit every day to just thank Elon Musk for what I believe was primarily an unselfish act. You know you could always make some argument well you know you could always say with rich people well loser for their ego or whatever. I don't know. He's a different kind of cat. It does look like he did this for the world and it worked and I do believe that. So well you know history is strange because the winners write it and all that but I think this is one of the biggest events in American history. Musk getting