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g a lot. So much. Just so much. Let's talk about the news. Apparently around Chernobyl, which I guess was 38 years ago, was a disaster at Chernobyl. Some of the wolves have evolved into mutant wolves who are resistant to cancer, at least cancer that comes from radiation. So you didn't see that coming, did you? That's right. Super radioactive wolves could be our future. Might be the only thing tha…

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tion. And yet the US is emitting something like 40% of their CO2. When you look at it that way, it's the reverse. If you look at it on a per person basis, the US is much worse.

So what's the point? Is China worse than the US or is the US worse than China? Which way is the fair way to say it? Well, some say China is a country and the US is a country, so you just compare them. They're doing worse things to the world than we are, so they're a bigger deal. They're doing worse things to the world. That is correct. They are. But you don't think it matters that they have more people? Don't we naturally expect that the more people there are, the more CO2, if you live in any kind of a modernizing society? So if you did your own research and stopped at the raw number, did you do a good job of doing your own research? Or do you think it really matters the per person? Because if you try to figure out who's the good people, I would say it's the people who have the smallest per person CO2. That's how I'd see it. So why would you see it the other way? Could you see it the other way? You could. You could see it the other way. So that's my point.

Doing your own research will more often mislead you than illuminate you, and you don't know the difference. Sometimes doing your own research gets you exactly the right answer, might even save your life. The trouble is you don't know when that's happening and when you're just being misled but you're pretty sure you're right this time.

I see in the comments that you want me to note that CO

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2 can feed plants such as Joe Biden and vegetables. I get it. I see your joke. I will steal your joke. All right. There's a Kentucky state senator who wants a constitutional amendment to ban non-citizens from voting. Can you believe this is even a question that we are seriously talking about not just letting a few of those non-citizens vote? I mean, it's just going to get lost in the noise anyway…

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