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and your cat would run over and you just jump on it like a horse and ride around. Okay, maybe it's just me. Well, I wonder if there's any new research that could have been skipped if they had just asked me. Oh, here's something from the University of Bath. Now, you probably didn't know there was a University of Bath, but a lot of people try to take a bath without any education whatsoever, and the…

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e accurately. Yeah, that would be pretty much right in the middle of what a person with a high IQ can do. Predict what's going to happen next.

So, University of Bath, you should stick to your strengths, which is teaching people how to bathe. And next time you want to know if high IQ people are smarter than low IQ people, just ask me. Just ask. I got answers.

All right. According to the Washington Times, there's a federal employee who managed to do work at home and get paid for three different jobs. So it was Chrissy Monique Baker. She was working at HUD as a full-time management and program analyst, but she also had two separate jobs beyond that, and she was getting paid for three jobs, and she's pleading guilty to fraud.

Now, does that seem like fraud to you? Do you think people should go to jail for having three jobs at the same time when they sign something that said they wouldn't do that? So I guess that's the fraud part. Yeah. So none of those employers got her full-time work. So I guess it is fraud.

It reminded me of Wally in the Dilbert comic. You know, I've heard of people who had two jobs, which I think was really common during the pandemic, people having two remote jobs, but this is the first one where somebody had three and made it work. I don't know how they caught her. Probably wasn't based on her work performance.

Well, can you believe it? Today is the one-year anniversary from Biden debating and showing the world that his brain was not working. Does that feel like only one year ago? Is it my imagination? Or does it feel lik

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e it was three years ago that the Biden debate with Trump happened? Does that feel like it could possibly be only one year ago? Oh my god, how much stuff has happened in the last year? You know, just political stuff. Forget about your life. But one year ago, are you having the same impression I have? That there's no way that's just one year ago. That had to be at least three years ago. Nope. One.…

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