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e. I've been noticing that. I'm wondering — so this is a hypothesis. You see that look when people are either trying to — well here's where you see that look. The wide-eyed look. It's the Cory Booker look. The Adam Schiff look. The Ocasio-Cortez look. You know if you see the photos of the pro-Clinton people screaming at the sky they often have the big googly eyes. And it looks like it means someth…
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Somebody says Adderall could be. But I swear it's not my imagination, right? That at the moment that look, that wide-eyed look seems to be exclusively on the left. And I don't know if it's because Democrats have wide eyes. I don't think it's that. I think it's because they've been triggered into the Trump derangement syndrome and that those eyes are part of the tells for Trump derangement syndrome or part of a tell for any kind of a hallucination, any kind of a delusional look. People are saying Adderall but I don't know. I have no reason to believe that's true.
So NPCs. Yeah so the NPC meme that's really taken off. I have to say it amuses me. It's starting to get a little overplayed. If you don't know what that means it means non-player characters. So within a multiplayer video game you will see some characters in the game that are other real people controlling those characters. But then there are characters that are just background characters. They're not players. They are non-player characters or NPCs. So the joke, the meme, is that if we're
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in a simulation — and of course we probably are, you know about a trillion to one odds of that — that there may be characters who are not players and that there are some people who don't have anything like a soul or an actual intelligence or any kind of free will or something. They're just sort of background but they walk and talk. So I don't think that's literally true but it sure feels like it'
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