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ed the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. That's good stuff. Well, let's start with the ridiculous and get to the sublime. According to News Nation, a UFO hit a US fighter jet. Pilots flying over Arizona said they saw swarms of weird flying objects, and one of them smashed into an F-16. I guess the pilot's okay. But the FAA confirmed it, and a former Pentagon UFO guy says Arizona's been buzzi…

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male version of politics. I can't judge for women, but for men it's kind of testosterone. The Republicans are high testosterone, the Democrats are low testosterone, and everything else is just rationalization. That's what I think.

Did you know that the weight loss drugs liraglutide and semaglutide make a huge difference in reducing your alcohol consumption without any extra effort? The patients say it doesn't take any effort. They just don't want as much alcohol. So that's good. This is more evidence that willpower is fake and imaginary. That's the hypnotist frame. If you're a hypnotist, you learn that people make decisions based on whatever hormonal soup is bubbling up in their bodies. An

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d then after they've made the decision, they layer over it with a rationalization. "Oh yeah, the reason I did that was this." But it's really just a chemical reaction. So once you learn that willpower is fake and that some people just like things more than others, how hard is it for me to avoid alcohol? It's easy because I didn't like it that much. How hard was it when I was more active to exerci…

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