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couldn't possibly have board games and cats in the same place. Those cats are going to scatter your board pieces. It might literally be the best idea and the worst idea of all time. It sounds so good on paper. It's like, "Wow, I can go and play games and pet cats." And then the cats come in and say, "How's your chess game?" Whap. As you may know, and we won't talk about this at length, the intern…

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very domain, whether it's your marriage or your co-workers or anything else? What happens next when you prove somebody wrong with documentation that's irrefutable? They always change the topic and pretend they were always talking about something else. And that's what happened.

So already this morning, some of the commenters are coming in saying, "Well, it wasn't really about the question of whether you were promoting the vax. It was, oh, I know what it was. It was that you weren't fighting against mandates hard enough." And I thought, what? So that was always the question. So it was people who thought that if I didn't fight against the mandates hard enough, that was sort of kind of almost the same as promoting the vaccines. So that's what happens when you prove you're right. Somebody will say, "Well, you're not right because the topic was something related but different." That'll happen every time.

YouTube is on track to bring in $40 billion in ad revenue in 2025, according to a user called Dexerto. And they say their revenue is so high because of AI making shorts. I don't mean the kind that you wear to cover up your naughty bits. I mean a short video.

Now, if you have not been hooked yet on YouTube's short video product, it's really good because it knows exactly what you want very quickly and it starts feeding you just pure dopamine or, you know, whatever the chemical is that makes you happy. I have been battling an addiction to that that's pretty bad. On the other hand, I also tell myself, well, why would I want to quit something that feels good? Because it's not like it's preventing me from working or falling in love

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or something. It's really not preventing anything. It's just filling in some hours. So I'm not sure if I'm addicted or I just found a new hobby that I like. But in related news, the co-founder of YouTube, one of the people who invented the thing and launched it, Steve Chen, he says he doesn't want his own kids watching YouTube shorts or even TikTok or any of that kind of content because he says t…

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