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y big city, but if you could arrest 300 people without trying that hard. Now, did they go to their homes because they knew that they should arrest them for something that they knew about, or did they actually observe 300 crimes in action? Don't you wonder which one it is? Did they just walk around and say, "Oh, there's another one. Well, pull them in. Well, there's another one." I don't really kno…
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Well, here's a data point. I'm not sure I believe it. There's a study published in Nature Mental Health that said that globally suicide rates have fallen nearly 30% since the '90s. Do you believe that suicide rates are down 30% globally? And apparently it's not just in a few places that are making the difference. There's some kind of universal force that has greatly reduced suicide. Now, what would that be? I have my hypothesis. Since the change comes from 1990, I feel like it's the internet because one of the things that would cause you to take your own life besides being in pain would be if you didn't have anything going on and you had no connections in the world and you didn't have any source of dopamine. But as long as you have your phone and the internet, you can have some kind of connection. You could play a video game and chat with all the gamers. You could flirt with s
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omebody. You could use a dating app. You could use social media. And you would at least feel connected to the real world. So that's my guess. Social media reduced people taking their own life. Just a guess. Well, you may have seen that MSNBC is changing its name, and boy are they getting mocked. Their new name will be MS Now. So, it's my source for news, opinion, and world. Okay, first of all, th…
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