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have vitamins and minerals in anywhere near the minimum requirement that you need. So we had to supplement. There was no way around it. But it didn't work as a supplement. It just made it too hard anyway. So part of that story is we sold into 7-Eleven. Imagine being a startup company that gets a contract with 7-Eleven. Now it's a contract to test it. So they would say we're going to test it in th…

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an army of people to say, hey, have you moved that onto the shelf yet? Can we help you move it to the shelf? And that probably would have worked. But I didn't know that we needed to do that.

So Kraft Lunchables — the reason that your kids are eating lead and cadmium in part is because they covered up one of the products that would have maybe been very fart-filled but didn't have lead and cadmium in it, as far as I know. Probably had too much sodium in it. I will admit that everything has too much sodium in it. I think if you believe the sodium is bad for you. I'm not entirely convinced.

All right. There's an Arizona mom who pled guilty to poisoning her Air Force husband with bleach. So she was putting bleach into his coffee maker and he caught her on video and she's in trouble now. Do you know why she put bleach in his coffee to try to kill him? Does anybody know why she used bleach? It was cheaper than Lunchables.

Does it sound like I'm bitter? Oh yeah, today is my revenge. Oh, I waited, Kraft. You Lunchables. I waited. Good luck, Lunchables. Good luck. Good luck.

Have I mentioned that our food supply is poison and that Kraft Lunchables apparently is part of that too? Bad. Yeah. So next time you want to kill somebody, either put bleach in their coffee — no, don't do that. Don't ever do that. Or you could give them Lunchables. Don't do that. Don't ever do that. Not to somebody you love anyway.

All of London is reporting that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner — I guess Jennifer Garner's daughter came out as trans during her grandfather's funeral this week, which is really the best time to do it, you know. If there's ever a funeral of a beloved member of your family, the best thing to do is to make it all about you. You know, Grandpa's dead, but what really matters is I'm transitioning. I'd like to announce that at the funeral. So maybe timing. Work on the timing.

But turns out that there's more than that because not only is Jennifer Garner's daughter coming out as trans, but Ben Affleck has a non-binary kid. And as the Redheaded Libertarian pointed out on X, the chances of Ben Affleck having — oh well, between the two of them they've got a trans kid and a non-binary are about one in N million. I don't know if she made up that number, one in N million, but it's very unlikely that a couple would combine families and there would be both a trans and a non-binary, which strongly suggests that there's a social contagion element to it.

Now I ask you this question. Do you think that either those kids of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner — do you think that they use TikTok? Just take a guess. I don't know the answer, but do you think they use TikTok? I'm going to say that would be a safe bet. Do you think TikTok has the ability to turn off our reproductive urges? Yes, yes it does.

And in fact the Ben Affleck Jennifer Garner family — oh I guess that's right because they were married at one point, so it must be both of their kids. I was thinking it was a blended family, but I think it's their two kids that they had together. I think we've reached a point where we could calculate the reduction in American reproduction based on TikTok alone. And how you would do it is you would just look at TikTok users versus non-TikTok users and try to balance everything else out the same.

And my guess now, this is just a hypnotist guess. This is not based on any data. This is just my knowledge of persuasion and how it affects children and how it would be effective if it came to them through their phones and was repeated over and over. So it's just my knowledge of the field, not any data whatsoever. In my opinion TikTok will reduce the reproductive urge of 20 to 40% of its users. Something like 20 to 40% of TikTok users will be far less likely to reproduce because the things they're learning are that they could be a gender preference or a sex that is very difficult to reproduce. You know, it's less likely than your standard hetero couple. They might have kids but they're going to have lower reproduction rates than, you know, the standard traditional Christian family or Muslim family.

So I'd love to see that estimate. I'd love to see somebody just say, okay, what percentage of TikTok people are trans and non-binary compared to the public at large? And then just make an estimate that says, okay, the trans community has a reproduction rate of 0.1, the hetero community has something closer to two, you know, two for two like a one-for-one replacement. And then you just project it forward and you could actually find out how many people are being denied life by being in a situation in which it's unlikely they'll ever be born.

If you were to look at the total number of grandkids that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner will have collectively, knowing that they have a non-binary and a trans in the family, don't you think they'll have fewer grandkids than if all of the kids identified as hetero?

Now this is not any kind of knock on any hetero or trans or non-binary. If you're new to me, I'm very pro adults doing whatever they need. It's not up to me. I'm definitely not the one judging you. I don't have a judgmental bone in my body. Do what you need to do. You're an adult. The fact that I think it won't work, I don't get a vote. You didn't get a vote on my COVID shot and I'm not going to let you debate it. Like I'll let you debate what I said about anybody in public, which is nothing. I say make up your own decisions. But you don't get to vote on my personal health decisions and I don't get to vote on whether you're binary or trans. It's up to you.

So this is not being judgmental. I'm just doing the math. The math suggests that the more trans there are, the fewer repr

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oduction possibilities there are. So you could actually calculate what TikTok is doing to our population. Meanwhile in the Dilbert Reborn comic, which you could see if you're subscribing here on X, or if you want to see more than just the comic, a lot more on the Locals platform. But if you were watching that you'd see that Asok the intern has become non-binary from using TikTok and things aren't…

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