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le on the right. I tried to do my best there. Apparently Boston is experiencing more freed-up rental property than in recent times. So it's somewhat easy to rent a place in Boston now. And that would be mostly, they believe, because of all the foreign students who were sent back and maybe other immigration actions. So I wonder if that'll happen in all the major cities and could it be that Trump's…

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t the entities that are trying to take them over because you know that they're going to control the content. Not 100%. But no matter how independent they're supposed to be, there's going to be some clause in their contract that they can't have Hitler as a guest or whatever it is. So there's always going to be a little bit of independence lost if you're part of a big deal. But I do not begrudge anybody who takes, let's say, $10 million when they get offered. So that would not be a sin. It's all legal.

Well, Tucker Carlson had some expert on his speaking and podcast talking about antidepressants and mental health. And what this expert, whose name I did not write down, was saying is that if you studied people who are depressed and you look at their blood and their chemistry, it all looks normal. So they don't actually have less serotonin. That's just never been the case. So apparently the experts don't really know what causes somebody to be depressed. And according to this guy, he says that they just sort of give up and say, "We'll just tell people it's a chemical imbalance because we assume it is, but nobody knows what chemical might be imbalanced." If you did, then you could give somebody whatever is the part that's missing in theory and it might fix them. But nobody can identify any chemical imbalance that you could fix.

Now, I have a hypothesis which I checked with Grok just to make sure it wasn't crazy. So Grok did not confirm my hypothesis, but it's one I've had for a long time. It goes like this. Depression is just a low energy state. So what you feel as depression is just the result of low energy. Now what causes the low energy? Could be a variety of things I suppose but have you ever been really happy when your energy is really low and you're just wiped out? Possibly, but usually not. Right? If your energy is low, you also feel bad. And have you ever been depressed but at the same time your energy was great? You're like, "Oh man, I got plenty of energy. I could go for a run." But you're also depressed. Not really, right? It's possible, I suppose. But the correlation between when your energy is good, you don't feel bad is pretty strong. So my hypothesis is that maybe even anxiety because anxiety feels like it's just some irrational thing that popped up. But if you had lots of energy, are you usually feeling confident? You know, I suppose there's a frightened energy too that you could have, but if you had nice strong energy, you probably wouldn't fee

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l nearly as anxious or as depressed. So what I wonder is, is there anything you can measure? Probably not, because we know that depression also causes a lack of energy. But I'll bet it's far more two-way than medicine acknowledges. That's my hypothesis. That if you could fix people's energy, they would have a better mental state. Now, that's also consistent with the fact that when people exercise,…

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