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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…

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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 know. So I had lost too much weight. So I was just trying to gain it back as quickly as possible. And I said to myself, I'll bet you I could eat ice cream, which I hadn't had in 25 years. And I thought, well, I'll just eat some ice cream. And I ended up, I probably had a quart. I think a container about this big. I just ate it right to the bottom. And I could not stop. It was addictive.

Because I don't normally eat food that is processed or highly processed, I'm not really exposed to addictive foods. I just avoid them. Hey there, Gary. Come on up.

After avoiding all the sugary addictive foods for years, really, I don't even keep them in the house. When I finally let myself experience the ultra-processed foods, I was so aware that my body had been taken over that the experience was like being in a robot and watching the arms and the legs and the mouth and stuff. I couldn't stop it. It was every bit an addiction. It totally took over my b

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rain. So the only way that I can avoid stuff like that is I can't have it in the house, otherwise it is just too strong. Twenty-one states, I assume these are the red states, have warned JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, the head of JP Morgan, and BlackRock's Larry Fink that both of those banker types, those money guys, need to get rid of their woke environmental requirements. A letter was signed by 26 sta…

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