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ntleman who's trying to live forever figuring out how to maximize human life, but he mentions in a post today that alcohol is the highest margin product that restaurants sell. According to his numbers, he said food has a 28 to 35% margin, beer 75 to 80, wine 65 to 75, and cocktails and spirits have an 80 to 90% margin. So that would mean that supply and demand doesn't work, right? All right. I us…

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ding boots on the ground. Nobody's talking about Russia running out of military stuff, right? The only thing that I could think of that's a variable that could change that much that fast would be how many drones and robots we can deliver to the front line. And I've got a feeling there's a big batch of that coming. So we'll see.

And then Russian fuel exports are dropping. And apparently 16 of Russia's 38 refineries have been hit since the start of August. Now, that doesn't mean that they're offline, but they're taking hits on the regular, including the biggest one. And so strikes have disrupted more than a million barrels a day of Russia's refining capacity. All right. Again, I don't know what percentage that is. And this is something Zelensky said. Quote, once the number of drones matches the Russians, they will feel the fuel shortage and losses. We already see this increasingly. More drones are reaching the targets.

Okay. So Zelensky is talking about the number of drones they have. Maybe that's it. It could be the world's biggest drone force is coming online in Ukraine, and we might not hear about it until after they attack, but I've got a feeling the size of the drone force will be bigger than anything we've ever seen.

Well, there are 22 Republican attorney generals for 22 states. They're calling on Trump to fight European Union's DEI and ESG regulations. Breitbart News is reporting this. And I'm you know I almost forgot that DEI and ESG are still a thing because it dissipated so quickly in the United States. You know, nobody wants to talk about it because it puts a target on your back. But the Europeans apparently are still requiring it. And yeah, the United States has to go hard at that. We have to do whatever it takes to disable that. If we're required to do DEI and ESG just to do business with Europe, we should stop doing business with Europe. That's just a bar that we should not even try to cross. You know, I mean, I don't know how easily we could disengage from Europe, but if they really require us to do DEI, in other words, if they require us to be racist in order to do business with them, I say no. I say, "No, we're not going to be racist just to do business with you racists. So pack it up. Good luck. Sorry about NATO. We're taking our funding away." I would take NATO funding away before I would agree to this ESG and DEI stuff. That's way too far. Yeah.

In other news, Obama, I guess in Obama's administration, they put $2.2 billion into a solar plant. But it wasn't the regular solar panel kind. It was the kind that uses mirrors and reflects the light up to a super hot tower. And so they superheat the tower and I think that heats some steam that causes some electricity. But the problem is it causes essentially a super hot beam of light to

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go from the mirror that's on the ground to the tower in a bunch of different directions. If a bird flies through that invisible, I mean you can't see it. It's just invisible. Flies through it. It just fries immediately. So apparently 6,000 birds are fried annually through that one thing. And I'm thinking maybe they're going to move that to the front line of Ukraine and say, "Oh, no. It's just don'…

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