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t seems like it worked the first time. Why wouldn't it work again? So good job, Trump. Meanwhile the FCC is demanding that CBS turn over the tape from, I guess it was 60 Minutes, when they interviewed Kamala Harris. Now the FCC would get involved, I guess, to make sure that people got equal time and that an interview was not so biased that maybe it turned into a campaign ad. So the accusation is…

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and more pro-Trump but still have to look balanced. So he's got to come up with some anti-Trump stuff to balance the pro-Trump stuff and it's really hard to come up with the anti stuff because the anti stuff is about stuff he hasn't done. Well he might steal your democracy but has he stolen your democracy? No, no, but I think he might. So the things he does you kind of like. Yeah, yeah, I liked it when he closed up the border. But the things he hasn't done are your entire problem. Are the things he hasn't done, says he won't do, and nobody in his party would support, which is becoming a dictator. So I think Bill Maher might get there someday.

I don't know if you've seen it yet but there's a photo of the Mars surface that includes some kind of an image that looks to be perfectly square, meaning it looks like the broken-down walls of a square city or a building. But when they say perfectly square, you know what I see in the picture that's perfectly square and it's big. It's not like a small object. So for a large object to be perfectly square that does suggest that there was some life up on Mars.

Now here's how these things usually go, because this is sort of a repeat of, there used to be, remember there was a face on Mars and you look at the photo and you'd say to yourself that's definitely a face, I see it. There's this giant face like a statue had fallen over and gotten partially covered by the dust but it sure looked like a face. And then the photography experts say okay here's that same spot but from a different angle and it's just a rock. So there was something unique about an exact camera angle that cast some shadows that made it look like it was a face, but from every other angle it was just a rock.

Now I think if, well, so I have two competing thoughts when I look at the photo. I say to myself that's got to be some sign of life that used to be on Mars. But when I check my common sense and my context I know that this is one of the most common stories about the moon. You don't think this is just going to be one of those, well it's not really square but if you look at it from this angle it's the angle that makes it look like it's square and there's something about the light. And I would bet against it. If you said you've got to put a million dollar bet down that it's really a sign of life or there's something about the way the photo was taken, the angle, whatever, I don't know what kind of angle could make something look huge and perfectly square. Like I'm not aware of anything that a camera can do that would turn a non-square thing into a perfect square. So my brain is not accepting that it's anything but a sign of life. But my rational part of my brain, which is operating at the same time sort of in parallel, says you know but if you get a bet on it with real money you should bet against it because if you bet against every other claim of this type through the decades you would have won every bet.

So yeah, then there's also the question

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of whether it's a real photo but apparently the database with the photos is available for others to check. Yeah, and there's at least one version where it's not so square at all. So I'm going to bet against it but it's fun. So the LA Times wrote an article saying essentially that Trump was right about the water problems in California, that they were essentially self-caused. Yeah, somebody showing…

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