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crime. 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, w…
← Previous segment →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, that's stupid. My source for news, opinion, and world. Do you need to get a gallon of world? I know what it means to get news and I know what it means to consume someone's opinion. What does it mean to get some world? Man, I wouldn't mind getting some world right now. Wait, did I just make it dirty? It sounds totally dirty when you say it if you say it that way. Hey, you wouldn't mind giving me a little world, would you? Yeah, it's disgusting.
Anyway, so the first two letters, MS, this stands for my source. I don't know why that has to have a space between that and the rest of the letters. Doesn't make any sense to me, but it looks like Ms. Now. Apparently they're not going to have a mister now. So it's just going to be a women-run organization. Ms. Now. And everything I saw about it was people mocking the new logo and the new name and everybody's wondering, I wonder how much they paid to have somebody come up with t
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he worst idea that any of us have ever seen. Now, if I could soften it a little bit, I will give you an observation that I've made because I've been involved in designing logos and catchphrases and stuff for most of my career. A lot of licensed stuff needs to have some kind of catchy name. So over the Dilbert career, I've had to work with lots of people on various logos for licensed materials and…
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