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it would just put you at parity with your biggest competitor who has access to it now but wouldn't if it got knocked down. But now we can make those chips in the US. So now you're China and you think, "Aha, I can totally overthrow Taiwan now because the US won't have to fight." If they don't want to and they don't want to be in a war, a world war, they don't have to. But before we kind of would ha…

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with the food because it won't be regulated, but it's coming right from the farm and we'll give you all the information you want about the farm, but it's up to the farm. And we're going to hold the farm possibly blameless even if somebody gets sick from the food." So you'd have to handle sort of the insurance risk of providing food to people and a government could just say, "Yeah, you can't sue. Some people are going to die from the farm food. You can't sue." So if you did all of those things, you reduced the choice, you figured out how to get the footprint really low, maybe you even got some free rent, maybe you figured out how to use robots instead of employees. Maybe you squeeze the big food producers for a little taste of something to help pay for it. Maybe you had your own vertical so you owned the farm but you also owned the grocery store. So my point is if you started from scratch and said how would we build an alternative place to get food, could you do it? Is it even doable? I've always thought that the ideal would be that there would be like a cafeteria that you could go to that would be close enough everybody could get to it. You know, maybe there would be multiple, but the cafeteria model would have less waste than individuals. You know, if you shop for yourself and cook for yourself, it's just so wasteful the amount of time you spend and that you have to drive somewhere and pick something up. You got to store it. Some of it goes bad. You got to negotiate who gets what. Compare that to just everybody walks over to the buffet and you just get what you want. So I do not rule out that there could be a government grocery store. I think if you rule it out because it's never worked, that's a good starting point. But that's just the starting point for the analysis. You have to go past it never worked. You have to go to what has never been tried. If you get to what's never been tried, well now it's interesting.

You were not surprised to know that the Gaza ceasefire is not holding as well as people would like, but it's unclear whether the leadership of Hamas has anything to do with it or is it rogue elements within Hamas. But there is some firing, there are some deaths. Israel is responding to the encroachments by cutting food, I guess, and aid. We hope that's temporary. So humanitarian aid is stopped or paused, I guess. Mostly paused. And I feel like that'll get worked out. So as I said yes

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terday, I'm not worried about the ceasefire as long as both sides have dramatically drawn down their military presence. There's definitely going to be violations of the ceasefire. You know, every single person who's been alive more than 10 minutes knows the ceasefire is going to get violated. So you can't say we're going to change everything if the ceasefire gets violated because we know it's goin…

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