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at you can't hear the dialogue? I swear to God, every movie starts out fine and about five minutes in it all turns into British mumbling. What is all that Charlie Brown teacher talk? One of the people in the comments said he downloads the movie and then runs it through some kind of an audio normalizer. If you made a movie that has such bad sound that people are downloading it and correcting the s…

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if it's a fake image, so it's not something that happened in the real world, let's say it's AI generated, makes people believe it's real. So let me say that again. The more you see an image that's fake, the more you think it's real.

Now I assume that the people looking at the images did not know that they were seeing real ones or fake ones. They probably didn't know. But the more you see a thing, the more you think it's true. That's basically hypnosis right there. A lot of Trump's success with persuasion is that he knows this. If you just repeat the statement or repeat the image, it looks believable. That's all you have to do. You have to just keep doing it. And Trump does that better than anybody.

I wonder if there's any science that would suggest that exercise is good for your health. Oh yeah. Dr. Rhonda Patrick tells us on X about a study that says th

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at exercise, which they describe as moderate intensity exercise, can cut diabetes risk more than the diabetes drugs. Now I'm assuming that doctors would tell you to do both, but exercise is more effective treating diabetes than the diabetes drug. Yeah, you could have asked me that one too. I would have told you it's probably as good as drugs, but it might be better. But talk to your doctor. Don't…

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