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t die and he might not. You never know. It's a comic. I can kill him anytime I want. Well, you'll be amazed to learn, according to a publication called Nutrients, coffee intake makes males more sociable and women more attractive according to studies of mice. How do they know that the mice think each other is more attractive? I don't know. But I don't care. If it says coffee is good for you, I'm a…
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Did we really need a study when you can kind of just look around and the people who exercise every day are clearly happier than the people who don't? Is that not screamingly obvious in your own life? That if you see somebody who's really fit because they exercise every day, they're almost always in a reasonably good mental health. Now some of this is cause and effect being reversed. If you're depressed it's pretty hard to work out. Impossible, really. If you have actual real mental depression, getting out of bed is almost impossible. So some of it is the correlation is backwards. But some of it is clearly causation. You know, if you've been exercising since you were a kid you're almost certainly going to be better off mentally.
The TikTok ban has gone into action and the TikTok lovers are hoping that Trump will save them when he's officially in power tomorrow. And I think he will, but at least with a 90-day presidential extension. I don't know if you knew this, but the ban has built into it that the sitting president, whoever it is, can extend it for 90 days, extend the pause before the ban. So he can put off the ban for 90 days, which would be reversing it for 90 days. And he can do that under the condition that there's some kind of deal or sale being worked on and it's not complete.
Now it's not exactly true that anybody's maybe getting close to negotiating a deal to buy
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it. But there are two possibilities out there. The Perplexity app, which is an AI app and a search engine. It's the best thing ever. I recommend it all the time. Jeff Bezos is one of the backers of that and they've offered to somehow merge with TikTok but not take the algorithm. So some think the algorithm is the expensive part and so they would pay less. They'd build the algorithm themselves. I d…
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