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. So how do you stop that? So even though he stopped shipments from Venezuela, some people say that wasn't fentanyl anyway, but he did stop traffic coming in from Mexico. And I can't believe that the smugglers can't figure out how to just throw a bag of fentanyl over the fence. So they must be doing something right. But we'll give him credit for that. And I don't think another president could have…

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e radical left wins, they will open the floodgates to illegal immigration and fraud and won't be America anymore. That feels fair. That does feel fair, doesn't it? That we're so close to fixing a lot of stuff, but at the same time all it would take is one election, especially if the election is rigged. It would only take one election to reverse everything. We are really teetering on the edge here, people.

And I saw the argument, I forgot who made it, somebody famous made the argument that if the Republicans don't get rid of the filibuster, getting rid of it would allow them to pass lots of legislation. But if they don't get rid of it, someday the Democrats will get in power and they will get rid of it. And when they get rid of it, there's going to be a whole bunch of laws that get passed that you're not going to like at all. So what do you think? Would it be smarter for the Republicans to get ahead of it and say, all right, we know that you would get rid of the filibuster so we're going to get rid of it first. And then you've got a few years, maybe less than a few years, to do a bunch of stuff. I'm kind of mixed on this because you can't really predict the future that well. So I don't know exactly if getting rid of the filibuster would be the best we could do or would be the biggest mistake we ever made. It could easily go either way. Don't know.

Well, according to scientist Sabine Hossenfelder, who's a fun follow on X, let

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me take a step and get back to that. I'm massively dehydrated but intentionally. So according to Sabine Hossenfelder, there's a new paper that has just dropped that says that scientists are 40% more productive when they use AI and increase their paper output. And for non-native English speakers, it's even more, up to 80%. So apparently this only applies to the writing part. So it doesn't apply to…

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