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he subscribers to the Dilbert comic, which would mean you were either an ex-subscriber or on Locals, you would know that Wally has done the impossible. He figured out how to not work at work, but then he got a Tesla self-driving car so that he doesn't have to work at his commute. And then he doesn't have to work at his job. And then when he goes home, he doesn't have to work on

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his commute again. Wally finally figured out how to do no effort whatsoever all day long thanks to Tesla.

I wonder if there's any scientific news about studies that you didn't need to do because you could have just asked me. Here's one. According to Science News, Simon Makin is writing that if you show people sick faces, it primes the immune system to repel invaders. So all you need to do is show people pictures of sick-looking faces and it will cause your immune system to kick in so that you don't become one of those sick-looking people.

How did I know that that was probably going to be true? It's a hypnosis thing. A hypnotist would know that your body works in two directions. One, if you're happy, it might make you smile. But if you smile when you're not happy, it might help make you happy. So your body is sort of a two-way system. It does make sense to me that if your body recognized a threat by looking at somebody who looked unhealthy and you think to yourself, "Oo, I could catch that," maybe I could see how your body would have evolved to automatically go to defensive mode. So next time just ask me.

There's a new article from the University of Michigan, a ne

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w study that ultra-processed foods trigger addictive behaviors and that it meets clinical criteria. So we might be approaching the time when addiction includes more than alcohol and illicit drugs. It might include ultra-processed foods. I told some of you about my experience several days ago, which is I was trying to gain some weight because I lost too much weight. I'm battling this, well, you kn…

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