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ock photos that you could use with a license approval. And every now and then I'll use one of those for my posting on social media. So I wanted to look for a picture of a dumb person. You know, would be a good picture for it. So I went there and I searched within iStock, and this is a Getty company, they own it. And I looked for... Do you think there were any issues with the diversity, the way th…

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ot a smart expression, well dressed. The difference is hilarious. I mean this, if I had to guess, I would say almost certainly college educated, looks like he's doing pretty well, good looking, smart looking guy, smart eyes, smart face.

All right, well just pointing that out. I don't think iStock images is going to last more than a year because AI should pretty much put them out of business. And maybe it should.

There's a school district in Aurora, Colorado. The superintendent says that you may not implement or adopt any program that does not prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion. Now what does prioritize mean in your worldview? So what does it mean to prioritize DEI? Wouldn't that mean that you sort of had to put it in front of, I don't know, everything? That's what it means, right? If you prioritize it, you push it above other considerations.

What would be the other considerations? Good ideas, things that work, things that are good for the world. As soon as you throw in "prioritize," it's just racist. There's no other way to look at it. There's no second way to look at this. If you say in writing it's our policy to prioritize it, there isn't any way to prioritize it unless you give up other things. So what are you giving up? They should tell us what they're de-emphasizing. What are you giving up?

All right, so as I told you, our food supply is very dangerous but getting more dangerous every day. Apparently there was a food airdrop in Gaza in which one of the parachutes didn't open and five people were killed by falling food. Big pallet of food. Now I don't know how you get five people with one pallet of food. That's like the worst luck I've ever seen in my life.

Not only, as Glenn Greenwald points out, not only did these poor people survive the bombing and the famine and God knows what disease and deprivation they're going through, and then they get killed with a pallet of food. Now that's just about the worst thing I've ever heard. But it certainly gives you this weird feeling that if your time has come, your time has come. You ever feel that?

This is like the reverse of that joke, you know the old joke I tell too many times about the flood. And God says I sent you a car, I sent you a boat, I sent you a helicopter. You just didn't take them. But it's like the bad evil backwards version of that. It's like God, I tried to kill you with the bombs, I tried to kill you with the starvation, and none of that worked. So I'm just going to drop a pallet of food right on your heads and kill you all.

So yes, it's just the worst thing I've ever heard in my life in terms of bad luck. Geez. So I do believe that you can hold two thoughts in your head, which is that what's happening over there is horrific on a scale that we hope we would never see again in modern society. At the same time, what else are you going to do? If somebody had a better idea I'm sure they would have suggested it.

There's a study that says that a lot of Americans can't buy cars. So you need an annual income of $100,000 to purchase a car. I assume that means a new car. So on average if you don't make $100,000 you can't get a car. But the average American household is closer to $80,000. So buying a car in today's world, pretty hard.

What they don't say is that even if you have money you can't buy a car. It's almost impossible to buy a car. Has anybody tried to buy a car? I won't bore you with my whole story but let me tell you my quick version of buying a Toyota truck.

So I wanted to get a Tacoma. So I go to the Toyota dealer. I look around. I think oh they mus

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t have closed this dealership. There's no trucks, no Toyotas. But I go inside because they're actually open. And it turns out they don't have almost any inventory. And the reason they don't have any inventory is that it gets purchased before it arrives at the lot. They can't make them fast enough. So if you want to buy a truck you could buy one that's in the pipeline. But the pipeline ones are al…

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