llious and power-hungry than you think.

I would have known that. And the reason is that you're starting with a group of people who are willing to buck one of society's strongest cultural norms, which is eating meat. It is hard to be a vegetarian. I'm a pescatarian at the moment, but when I was a vegetarian, it meant that if you got invited to somebody's house, you had to tell them you can't eat whatever it is they were planning on serving. So if you simply started with the people who were willing to buck one of the most inconvenient things you could ever buck because your friends wanted to go to this restaurant but there's nothing you can eat there, you have to be a certain kind of person to be willing to take on the vegetarian lifestyle.

So if you had asked me, are vegetarians more rebellious? I would have said yeah, obviously. I mean, you're starting with a rebellious group. You'd be surprised. It's not like it's limited to that one thing. I'm not sure I would have known the power-hungry part, but it applies to me. I'm definitely power-hungry, but I see power as a tool like money. If you have power and you have money, then you can do good things and you can do good things for other people. So yeah, very power-hungry.

According to Bloomberg, McDonald's has decided it's going to stick with DEI, but it's going to change the words. So now it's only called inclusion. Actually Bloomberg was reporting that. And they say they're not going to change anything in the way they operate. It's also keeping its internal affinity groups where employees with similar backgrounds, I guess demographics, can share ideas. And I wonder how is that legal because they're saying it right out loud. I mean they're not hiding it. They're saying we're just changing the words but we're going to operate exactly the same.

Well, I will add one thing that I know from personal experience, well, semi-personal, one level away from personal, is that if you were to apply for a job at McDonald's, you probably will get it. So I don't know how much work they have to put into being diverse because where I live, if you were 16 or 20 and you wanted a job at McDonald's, if you applied, it might take a few weeks, but there's such a high turnover in fast food that you'd probably get the job and it wouldn't matter what color you were. So this might be the one area where DEI is not such a big deal. It's neither helping anybody a lot because everybody can get a job. And I think they're very merit-based. So McDonald's might be one of those rare exceptions where all they have to do is keep doing what they're doing. It is one of the best places you could ever have your first experience as a job.

The Wall Street Journal has a big article about the redesign of self-driving cars. And the idea is that a self-driving vehicle in the very near future doesn't need a steering wheel or a dashboard. So what if you just started from scratch and tried to make a self-driving environment that wasn't limited to what a car can do. And the first thing you'll notice is that all of the interesting ideas would not be practical because they wouldn't be safe.

So it shows a picture of this amazing little van-sized environment that you say to yourself, oh man, I wouldn't mind taking a trip if I could just hang around in that cool little well-lit room with good windows and seats. Those seats look comfortable. And then you realize they're walking around and you say to yourself, oh well, they're still going to have to wear seat belts. It's not like you're going to be walking around in your car while it's driving. So I suspect everything except having a big screen where you can all watch the same show. But b