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some of it might be that when marijuana became legal, old people like me started doing it and it became super uncool to do what your grandfather was doing. Could be that. Could be that. It could be that they're getting their dopamine from another source. Maybe they're just getting it from their phones instead. It's sort of a dopamine replacement. But I will tell you that locally I was impressed a…

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rson to take the pictures, but they got the pictures remotely.

And how wild is it that there's a tribe that doesn't know there are things like computers and phones and airplanes? Just think about that. So you're this tribe in Brazil. You've never seen any civilization outside of your little tribe. They're all just running around naked with sticks and bows and arrows, and you see an airplane fly over. What are you going to think that is? But here's the thing that blows my mind. Logically you would think it's impossible that they couldn't have contact. Like how in the world does the rest of the world keep them from contact with civilization? Like civilization's everywhere except where they are, I guess. And it makes me wonder, you know, the

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theories that the drones are really UFOs and it might be from another planet, or maybe it's early humans who have an advanced civilization but they hide in the core of the Earth or under the water or something. And I usually reject that because I think, what are the odds? I mean seriously, what are the odds that I grew up in a world and I'm sort of a primitive and there's this advanced civilizatio…

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