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Back to episode — Episode 2679 CWSA 12/04/24

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just could have asked me probably, they found that high blood sugar in healthy adults is linked to lower brain activity. In other words, sugar makes you dumb even if you don't have diabetes. So if your sugar is high, just higher than it should be but not diabetes, it's going to take a few points off your IQ. Now, did all of you know that? Because I feel like I've known that for a long time, that…

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tising groups and entities of the world, when they coordinate to, let's say, put X out of business because they don't like the politics or the messaging, that he's thinking maybe that should be illegal. What part of illegal would that be? I guess it would be for being a cartel and suppressing competition and free speech. So I don't know exactly what count you would get them on, but yes, this is exactly what we need. We need our FTC to say that you can't put somebody out of business with their advertising model just because you don't like their editorial thing.

Now, I always thought it would be a big advantage to the advertising companies if all the advertising was blind, meaning

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that nobody could select what advertising is associated with their content. Wouldn't it be better? Because once you got used to it and you knew, oh, here's that terrible advertisement but it's associated with this content I want to see, but you would know that the person who made the content had nothing to do with the advertising. It was just an unrelated coincidence. I feel like we'd be better of…

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