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ago. Right. I mean, 45 years ago we were having the same conversation. White guy over 40 was being sort of discriminated against. Nothing changed. But it's shocking to me that anybody would be surprised by it or believe that you don't know what's happening and that you need to know. Oh, I better tell people about this. 45 years unbroken every year and it's never been better an

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d it's never been worse. It's always been the same. 45 years. So glad you noticed.

Well, now according to the Brighter Side News, they can stimulate your brain in very specific places but in a different way for different people depending on what that one person needs to keep their concentration. So you know how your brain goes all over the place? It's hard to concentrate on boring stuff. Well, apparently now researchers have figured out how to put a little electrical stimulation to your brain but make it customized for your brain specifically. So it really, really can get in there. And there's a suggestion that they already know how to make you concentrate better.

Now, what does that say about your free will or what I like to call your illusion of free will? Because free will is absurd. But a lot of people think they have it. So if they can put a little electricity into your brain and cause you to act differently, does that mean that free will doesn't exist? Because if you had free will, it wouldn't matter what's happening electrically or chemically in your brain. You'd just be able to override it with your free will. But there is

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no free will. There is just chemical interactions. And then your impression is that you were part of it. Well, you were more an observer who was trying to explain it to yourself in a way that didn't make you crazy. And you didn't have any choice about that either. So that's your two-state wisdom right there. So apparently the Trump administration, according to Reuters, is thinking about putting s…

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