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reciate you if I don't say it enough. Well, if you are watching the Dilbert Reborn comic that's only available to subscribers on X or people who subscribe to ScottAdamsLocals.com where they get lots more, Wally is using artificial intelligence for his own healthcare. Doesn't go well. Doesn't go well anyway. How many of you knew this historical fact that John Adams, President John Adams, and Thom…

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ight have fudged it a little bit to make it sound a little better to the public. What do you think? I don't know. I'm just saying I'd bet against it. I'd bet against it being real.

Well, let's play could have asked Scott and saved a bunch of money in science. Turns out there's a new study. Amazingly, you won't believe this, but less than two minutes of looking at water outdoors, such as a lake or an ocean, is enough to activate your parasympathetic nervous system and lower your blood pressure and heart rate. Science, let me talk to you for a minute, science. The rest of you, I'm just going to take a moment. I'm going to talk to science directly.

Science, you know there's a reason that people vacation at the beach, right? You know that lakes are a recreational destination. What do you think that was? Is it because going to the lake makes you feel bad? Is it because walking on the beach in the sun with the water lapping up against the beach, is it because people do that because it makes them feel bad? No, no. You could have saved a little bit of time. I've been to the beach. Has anybody ever been on a beach? And did you instantly feel like, oh, this is relaxing? But you didn't know if it was relaxing until this study. Turns out that what you were seeing with your own eyes and feeling with your own feet and every experience you had is exactly what you thought it was.

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s, I feel like we're in the age of Biden's brain where science can tell us things that we all knew forever and then we're supposed to act surprised. No, we knew Biden was gone, okay? We knew going to the beach is relaxing and we knew that relaxing is good for all those things like high blood pressure and such. Yeah, we knew that. Could have asked me. Save a little money. The University of Cambrid…

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