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t flowers in the last year and then you compared them to the people who bought no flowers in the past year, what could you say about the person who bought the flowers that probably is true? Number one, they're probably in a relationship. That's why you bought the flowers. So that would be better than not being in a relationship, probably. Number two, the people who bought flowers had enough mone…
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You know, I believe Trump announced that they had something like a verbal agreement or something for TikTok, meaning that some US billionaire would buy it and take it away from China.
But the things I'm hearing, and I would say you should believe none of these things yet. So one of the things we're hearing is that Andreessen Horowitz, that would be Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, they own a venture capital firm. So they have a lot of resources and it was rumored that they would be the ones who would take at least partial ownership of TikTok so that Americans would own maybe a controlling interest.
But I also heard and again remember this is fog of war. So I don't know that you can believe any of the TikTok reporting, but there was also a report that the way the agreement was reached is that China would still control the algorithm.
Do you believe that? Would we agree to use TikTok and let China completely control the algorithm of who sees what and how much? Wouldn't that be the opposite of the whole point of it all?
So that's why I don't necessarily believe that is true. But it's possible because here I'm using my knowledge of Marc Andreessen. There's zero chance that he would be involved in a deal that would be that stupid. So either that's not the deal or he's found some way with his partners to work around that in a way that he would be happy. I don't know what that would be.
So I would say don't
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believe anything about TikTok yet. Speaking of Elon Musk, he also noted on X that he was boosting somebody else's post who said that the left, the political left has no debate person like Charlie Kirk. So there's nobody on the left doing what Charlie did, which is go to lots of places and say, "All right, ask me anything. You know, debate me. I'll do it right in public." But I'm not sure that's…
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