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he thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Ah, spectacular. That's good stuff. Well, I wonder if there's any science studies that didn't need to happen. Oh, here's one. According to PsyPost, Eric Dolan is writing there's a new study in the British Journal of Psychology that says that entertainment is a key to populist political success. So if…

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would bet that 80 to 90 percent of the companies or organizations that say they're getting rid of DEI are lying. Just lying. And violating the law like crazy, because DEI is racism and it's non-constitutional. And I've got a fear that even though it looks like Trump got rid of DEI, I'm not so sure. I think maybe he made a 10 percent dent in it, and the moment he's gone it will just come back stronger than ever. That's what it looks like.

ABC News has a cool story about 3D-printed houses. Now, you know that there have been 3D-printed houses for a while, but the ones you've seen probably look like cement. You know, some big machine that's making cement walls. Well, there's a new type that uses just waste wood. So all the sawdust that's created from real wood — they take all that sawdust and they put it together with corn and resin, and they make a 3D printer and they make a bio home. I guess it takes a week to create a home, and it's made of material that's stronger than concrete and is completely recyclable. So if you take the appliances out of the house, you can recycle the whole house and turn it back into 3D-printer material. That's wild. So that's kind of cool.

At the same time, there's another company that's got 3D-printed houses, but the way they're doing it is they make the blocks. They're interconnecting like Legos. So instead of printing the whole house, they print the parts and you can snap it together yourself.

Now I would like to reiterate my idea for 3D-printed houses. Whichever kind of technology you use to get your cheap little house, the real secret would be how you organize the homes. This is something I learned in college. I've used this example before. In college I had the worst physical room of my life, which was shared with another person. It was just a little cinder block room with one window, and the bathroom was down the hall. But it was probably my best lifestyle because I was surrounded b

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y people like me who had stuff to do — sports and classes — and it was a great experience. Now if you imagine you take some federal land and you started building some of these 3D homes, the important part would be that you make little units within a community where the people have a lot in common. So one would be people with kids. So you'd make one little neighborhood where everybody just has a k…

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