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hat I think this is true that ADP revised its job numbers from plus 54,000 for the month to -3,000. So, have I ever mentioned that all data is fake? If it matters, if the data matters, somebody's faking it. If the data doesn't matter or nobody else is looking into it except, you know, maybe one scientist who surprisingly doesn't make any money from it.

Oh, is something missing? Did I forget to do something? What could it be? What could it be? That's right, people. It's time for the simultaneous sip. I would never forget.

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That should make angry everybody who fast forwards through the sip. Oh, I know you do. I know you fast forward me, too. Which is approved.

Well, Zero Hedge is reporting that Walmart is removing artificial dyes from its US brands and maybe 30 other ingredients that are sketchy, too. Another win for MAHA. I'll tell you, MAHA is one of the brightest lights in the entire country. There are very few things that make me happier than watching MAHA succeed because we're doing all the right things. We got the right people. We're having the right fights, the right disagreements, the right debates, and things are happening like real legitimate things.

Now, will some of them have to be reversed at some point? You know, probably not the food additive part, but maybe something about, I don't know, vaccination schedules and something maybe, maybe. But we should still be doing everything we're doing to challenge the accepted standards for all that stuff.

Here's some more possibly backward science. According to the University of Liverpool, leisure activities boost self-esteem and well-being in teens. So if they're doing sports or hobbies or something that boosts their self-esteem back up. Is it possible that people with high self-esteem are more likely to engage in things which they might not do great at at least at the beginning? Yes, it is.

Let me speak anecdotally about one experience and see if you can generalize from that. When I was young, I participated in almost every sport. You know, there'd be days when you do five sports a day. Now, why did I participate in five sports a day? Was it because I knew I would be awesome at all of those things on day one? And the answer was no. I was born with high self-esteem. And I didn't give a shit if you thought I did good at that sport or not. I just thought I needed the experience or the exercise and I just did it.

And then of course if I eventually got good at something, you know, like ping-pong, I got pretty good at. Not what you saw on video the other day, but when I was younger, I was quite good at it. So there were some things, tennis for example, that I got better than average and I suppose that helped my self-esteem but the self-esteem was there first. Maybe my mother put it into me. Maybe I was born that way. I feel like I was born that way. I don't feel that somebody else's opinion of me was making me happier or less happy or more motivated or less. I never felt any of that. From the minute I was born, I just knew that I was going to go get what I needed to get and nothing was going to stop me. And so I was just born with self-esteem. So, of course, I participated in whatever was happening. Oh, we're playing this today. Handball, sure. Never done that. You'll beat me, you know, 21 to zero, but I'm all in. Racquetball. Yep. Sure. Ev

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erything. So, no, I think that some of the science is backwards. Having good self-esteem might get you on the field. But then being on the field, if you did well, or maybe even if you don't, might boost your self-esteem. So, it's sort of a two-way situation is my guess. DoorDash has been testing for a few years now some autonomous devices. One of them it looks like they'll have something for aut…

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