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what you should be doing, even if it doesn't look like this specific date is working out. You're chasing meaning. That's still good. If you're chasing meaning 80% of the time and then 20% of the time you're chasing pleasure, you're going to be fine. If you chased pleasure 80% of the time, you're going to be Dan Bilzerian and eventually say, you know what, turns out that sleeping with five women a…

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others couldn't. But here's one possibility: that the aliens from Mars or somewhere else who were very advanced got stranded on Earth. So they didn't have the technology to get off of Earth and get home, but they thought that someday they'd like to be found. So they used the technology they had to build the pyramids, because the pyramids are the proof that high intelligence existed on Earth a long time ago, and you could see them from a very long distance.

So if they wanted to say, well, if somebody can find me someday, I will arrange these pyramids in the shape of the star system I came from. And then if somebody looks and goes, say hey, wait, there's three artificial things. Oh, hold on, they're in the shape of the star system from us. There's no way. These must be our people. Let's go get them. So it could be that the pyramids are a help signal, you know, just something that can be seen from a very far distance from a very advanced civilization to say, whoa, we better go pick those guys up. Of course they're long dead, so it's too late. Just speculation.

All right. Here's something I liked hearing from Vivek Ramaswamy. He's saying that health care is a critical frontier for DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency. And he met with some of the other incoming appointees from the Trump administration. He says they're serious about reducing cost. And here's the important part. He said they understand innovation is a key part of the solution. Innovation is a key part of the solution. That's what I want to hear. Because if you tell me you're just going to cut my costs, I don't want to hear that, because you probably can't do it. If you tell me you can restructure it, re-engineer it, rethink it in a way that you could almost make your assumptions from scratch and build it up, and that you could do it at a far lower cost, I think you could. I'll bet you could.

You know, I spend a lot of time, just way too much time, thinking about ways you could lower health care costs. And it turns out that the hard part is that 90% of the health care costs come in your last year of life. And if you don't fix that, you can't really fix health care costs. And I don't know if anybody has any great idea for that except for, you know, doctor assisted suicide, and I don't think we're going to go big for that. So I don't have any ideas, but I hope somebody does.

Here's a question in the publication in Red State. Ward Clark is writing about how there are these Soros-backed charities that are really working hard to help illegal immigrants get into the United States. And here's my question. How could it be that there are public entities that are backed by Soros that are not hiding, you know, there's no secret about it, that are aiding and abetting illegal acts in the United States, specifically illegal entry as a non-citizen?

Now my first question is, is there not some normal mechanism by which this could be shut down? How is it not illegal to aid and abet a

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crime? Is there some kind of crime you can help somebody do and you're not in trouble? Does operating from another soil make you safe if you're doing it from another country? Is that enough to not be illegal? And if it's legal, why is our CIA not having them assassinated? Because isn't that what we pay them to do? If there was some entity that was not in the United States, or even if they were, an…

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