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soup, but soup in general seems to be mildly indicated for helping you recover from things faster. One study found that people who ate soup recovered up to two and a half days faster from normal respiratory problems than people who didn't. It was just one study. So get your soup. Well, you didn't know that the Department of Homeland Security, when they're not keeping your country safe, are also v…

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tell us how to fix our immigration system.

So what did the Department of Homeland Security say about that? Well, they reposted it on X, the cover to the article, and the Department of Homeland Security just added this sarcasm: "I was Humpty Dumpty. Here's how to sit on a wall." I don't know how often the Department of Homeland Security tries to be funny, but that was pretty good. Pretty good. I think it's the Trump effect. Does it seem to you that the Department of Homeland Security would go on social media and say something that's just purely a joke before Trump was president? I feel like Trump makes it safe for everybody else to joke around a little bit more in the government. So I like that.

According to Pirate Wires, GbRango is writing that this is weird. So this is a real business that already exists. It's a startup that is so exactly what I've been imagining for the cities of the future that it looks like it came right out of my head. It's called Pipe Stream Labs. And what they're doing is they're trying to put underground robot delivery systems. So it would be a big pipe underground and a robot would deliver things that are up to like 40 pounds. But it would be so efficient because there would be

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no traffic on the roads. It would just be robots zipping around underneath the ground. Then you could order stuff that you wouldn't normally even bother ordering, like you could order a candy bar and maybe pay 25 or 50 cents to have it delivered. So anything you wanted would just sort of appear. Now at the moment, since they don't have pipes underneath everybody's house, the delivery goes to some…

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