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ere's the best part. This is pure Elon Musk. He just bought, allegedly, although Grok says it's not true, but I think Grok might be a little behind. So I'll take a fact check on this if this turns out to be fake news. But I did see that Elon allegedly bought a billion dollars of Tesla shares on Friday. Now that would be sort of an unusual thing to do. You know, it's not sort of the time when peopl…

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a few years.

So anyway, in case you don't know, I do own some Tesla stock. So when I talk about the stock price and the future of Tesla, you should know that I have a monetary incentive. I don't think it's affecting what I say, but you know, people are biased people. So in all likelihood, it's biasing what I say about Tesla.

I saw a post from an X user, Ryan Long, who showed a picture where he turned his garage into a pub, kind of a pub hangout place for the neighbors with a pool table in the middle and all kinds of cool bar-like decorations on the wall and stuff. And he said, "I had some people over last night to play pool in my garage. One of the best things I ever did was create a space that's easy to invite people to." And it looks like it's working. And I thought to myself, that feels like the most comfortable way you could ever get together. What would be more comfortable than being in your own neighborhood and the garage is open so you don't have to wonder what it looks like in there? You know, I'm always a little hesitant to go into a house behind a closed door because you can't see what's in there until you're in there, and then you might be stuck. You might be stuck with people you don't want to be with or something. But if the garage is open, if the weather's good, and you could see your friends are in there, you would just be drawn in. I mean, the door is open. Why wouldn't you? So I love that idea. I'd love to see that become a thing. You know, it would r

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uin your garage and then there would be cars parked where you don't want them. But I like the man-cave idea that's open to the street. Kind of cool. Well, the Wall Street Journal tells us that the reason our government data is so bad is that people are not responding to surveys as much as they did. So whenever the government says did you get a job or not get a job or whatever they're surveying, t…

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