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offee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Oh man, so good I can barely stand it. Well, here's some more science that could have saved a lot of money just by asking me. You didn't need to do a study, but they did a study to find out that if you keep your brain ch…

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ns, and this is true by the way, one of the reasons that I don't like not working any given day is if I take a day off from working, I actually find it harder to work the next day. Meaning that if I take a few days off from writing a comic, it's hard. Two days off and suddenly you just forget. That little muscle, it's almost like taking time off from exercise. So yes, you should be looking for something that keeps your brain active in your older years. It'll make a big difference. I feel as if I can feel the difference. It's such a difference that you can actually feel it. It's not just hypothetical.

Well, according to Science Alert, there's a study that found that omega-3 supplements reduce aggression by up to 28 percent, and fairly immediately. So if you give somebody omega-3, which is a common supplement, one that I use actually, it will reduce your aggression.

Now my question to you is this. How many times will science need to prove to you that free will is an illusion before you're going to believe me? What does it say about free will if you can take a common supplement and it changes your behavior radically? Where's your free will? If you had free will, a supplement wouldn't make any difference. It's the supplement that's making the decision for you. It's not you. You're just an observer.

Once you realize you're just an observer in life, it does take a lot of pressure off. One of my favorite reframes is to tell myself I'm just an observer and I can't control anything. Because sometimes when things are going wrong you think, oh, I must do things differently to fix this. But maybe there's nothing you can do. So I just tell myself I'm an observer. My body is just going where I observe it, and it's almost like a hobby to watch what happens.

All right, just calling up my comments here. Nope, that's not it. I want to make sure I'm looking at the locals comments. Now it would be great if locals put the content in the order that it happens instead of completely out of order. Don't know why it does that. Probably because I think I'm pinning things. I'm wrong.

All right, we won't have an argument about free will. I know you love that one.

According to Zero Hedge, food prices might be jumping up again because of supply chain problems and conflicts in the world and everything else. But apparently the biggest increase is in sugar, which is in a lot of things, and certain oils. I'm sure this sugar is just Satan at this point. Do you think if you just said all right, sugar is Satan, everything would make sense? I think that sugar is why we have every health problem, probably every chronic health problem that's not caused

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by maybe fertilizer or something or weed killers or something. I think sugar is just the thing that's making all the other chronic problems worse. So now it's making your inflation worse too. Sugar is the devil. All right, here's another one you should have asked me. So Psychology Today says there's a new study that says when kids play with dogs it releases the hormone oxytocin. Oxytocin is that…

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