. All I had was a really bad stomach ache that lasted 24 hours. Could be just stale. Yeah, maybe. Who knows.

So I don't think—I think that there was something else going on. And two people had the same experience at the same time, so I doubt that both had exactly the same unusual experience. So anyway, there's not much to say about that because I don't have enough information about what it was that I ingested. It wasn't microdosing. So those of you who think I didn't take enough, I followed the directions. I definitely took it all. But if this doesn't tell you to not do drugs, nothing will.

It's interesting, the variety of experiences people have had. It's really interesting. Yeah, so apparently people have had experiences all over the place. But I suspect it's because I think we're thinking that the difference is in us. And I think that's probably an illusion because there's no quality control for this particular illegal drug. So if there's no quality control, it probably has more to do with the product than some state you're in. So my guess is that you could be in a bad state and it would put you in a good mood if you got the good stuff. And if you were in a bad mood and you got the bad stuff, you'd think it was because your mood. But maybe it was just a bad bag of stuff. Who knows? Who knows?

What do you think of woke corporations? Well, isn't today's wokeness tomorrow's, let's say, on the same side of history? It's hard to look at stuff in the present because all that matters is how we're going to look at it in a year or 10 years. And you know, I try to take myself back and say okay, what would it have been like when corporations were saying we're going to try to make sure we have more diversity? Today that sounds pretty routine, doesn't it? That sounds pretty, well that's just normal. Why wouldn't they? It's good for them, good for the public. Yeah, they should put some effort into that. Let's give us some diversity.

Now if you go too hard on that, you know, you can—it's just discrimination. But there's probably some way to do it that's only a little bit discriminatory but gets you some benefits maybe. So if you look at that, if you looked at it when it was happening, it just looked like, oh, it has gone too far. Because I was in the middle of it when it did happen. I lost two jobs because I was a white male. So when that happened I said to myself, well that's terrible. It's an overreaction. Why are these companies being forced to be so woke? And you know, why can't I just do a good job and get promoted for my abilities? You know, why did my ethnicity have to even be an issue?

So that's what I thought at the time. But because of those and other efforts, corporations are more diverse than they used to be. And so you look at it now with a historical view of it. And even I, who as I said lost two jobs for being a white guy—and I was told that directly by my bosses, by the way, at a large bank and then at the phone company. So I'm not guessing. You know, it's not a conspiracy theory. My boss in both places said, sorry, we won't be able to promote you because you're white and male. I hated it.

But now I look at it, you know, 30 years of distance in the past, and I say to myself, you know, I don't know if that's the only way you could have gotten here. And things do look better in that one sense. Diversity has improved. I don't know. It's hard for me to judge it as harshly as I judged it when it was literally screwing me.

So the first thing you have to do is say what would it look like in a few years. And one possibility is that in 10 years you're gonna say oh yeah, what Disney was fighting for was mischaracterized. Because don't you think both sides are mischaracterized when you look at the Disney thing and DeSantis and the "Don't Say Gay"? Both sides mischaracterize the other one's point, right? That's why it's just a stupid debate. It's really just power. You know, it's people doing what they can because they can, because it feels like power and it gives them a dopamine hit. But basically it's just two liars facing off with each other. It's hard for me to take sides with liars. Sometimes you have to, I know what you're going to say. Sometimes you have to. But I don't like to do it if I could avoid it. Like even if the liar is on my side, I don't really want to side with a liar. Not really.

But it's entirely possible that the only way DeSantis can prevail and the people on their side is to, let's say, exaggerate what's going on. Exaggeration is persuasion. And I'm always in favor of persuasion for a good point. So you know, there's this line where you go from hyperbole to just flat-out lying. And this whole topic is just to me it looks like people lying to each other. So I feel a little bit like the only part I want to talk about is freedom of speech. And that's why people keep getting mad at me because I'm not dealing with the issue. And the reason I'm not is because it's just two sides lying. What am I going to add to that? There's nothing to add to that. Just stay away from it. Run away.

Now but the only thing I would add is that if you think that Disney is trying to hurt your children, what the hell? They're not trying to hurt. I think I can say this with great certainty. Disney's intention is not to hurt children. They have a different opinion of what it looks like to help them, I guess, and help everybody else. It's just a difference of opinion.

Now conservatives consistently say that the family should be in charge of stuff like that. And if you have a—see, here's why I think there's a difference. Conservatives are so strong family-oriented that once you start with the assumption, okay, start with a strong family, and then does it make sense that the family has more decision-making and influence than the school? Yes, it does. If you start with the assumption of a strong family, then other assumptions follow from that.

But if you're, let's say, on the left and you don't have an assumption that strong families are necessary or even needed, then it doesn't make sense that families have the power. Because if you're a weak family structure, there's sort of nobody to make the right decision, no way to make it stick. You might as well let the school do it.

Now, second question is if the school's going to do it, whatever it is, how do they do it right as opposed to making things worse? So here's where I think you need to just understand the decision. If you think there's a right and a wrong decision on this—families deciding versus the schools deciding what to tell kids—there's no right or wrong. There's only what's right for some types of families.

If you have a strong family structure and two capable parents, then it's absolutely better for the family to inform the kids. Would everybody agree with that statement so far? So far, if you have a capable parental structure, they should have the maximum amount of control over the children. That's the best outcome because they're really capable. By definition that's the setup.

But now let me change it. Let's say you've got one parent, doesn't matter the gender. You've got one parent. It wasn't anybody's fault. Maybe, you know, things happen. Parent is overworked, isn't good at communicating, isn't comfortable with some topics, maybe doesn't even understand some topics and really can't educate the kid. Can't educate them right, can't educate them wrong. Just can't. Just doesn't have the capability. What is the best situation for that person? Is it the best situation for that kid to be educated by that one parent who doesn't have any ability to get it right? No. I'm not judging right. This is not—don't interpret this as racial or anything else. Just some parents are better than other parents across all types.

So in a situation where you have a completely useless parent, I don't know, would the school do a worse job of raising the kid? Who's ever studied that? And how do you know if that parent is so bad? So when I say I agree with conservatives about the parents making the choice, I do. But you have to understand that's only good for people with strong family belief structures and willing to really make that work. It's definitely better for them. But one size doesn't fit all.

So you can see why people who have seen the other kind of life where the family structure is just broken everywhere, you can see why they say you don't let the school do it because there's no family to do anything here. I can see that. But as a system, which is better? And the system that's better is that the parents do it if they demand it. That's the better system.

So you know, ultimately it's going to be down to power. So whoever has the most power will win. And it