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ul. Everything's working today. Good to know.

I wonder if there's any science that they could have saved some money by asking me. According to PsyPost, Bianca Cedeno is writing that there was a study published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology and they found that simply imagining natural environments can reduce your stress and promote relaxation more so than imagining an urban setting.

That's right. Imagining nature can make you feel better than imagining an urban setting. I wonder if there's any way they could have gotten to that result faster and with less expense. Anyway.

You could have asked me or you could have asked anybody who's ever been trained as a hypnotist because it's lesson number one. I think it's literally the first thing we learned, that if you make somebody close their eyes and imagine a nature scene, that their body will relax. That literally I think is the first thing you learn. So yeah, you could have just asked me about that next time. Next time do that.

According to Zero Hedge, the House has passed a bill, which means it hasn't passed the Senate yet, requiring proof of citizenship to vote. It's called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act or SAVE and it passed with a little bit of margin. Yeah, even four Democrats joined in. Interesting.

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Chip Roy is the sponsor for this and it would amend the National Voter Registration Act to require states to obtain proof of citizenship in person from people registering to vote. So you better bring your ID. But it even goes further and it requires states to establish programs to remove illegal immigrants from existing voter rolls and allows U.S. citizens to sue election officials who don't adher…

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