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Chapter 1: What are the highlights of today's episode?
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization, Doge and all. If you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen jug, a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee.
Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Thank you, Paul. I know you don't like it when I say thank you, but I always appreciate it. It's not trivial. So thank you. Well, so there was this morning, Jeff Bezos sent a letter to his Washington Post team
And this is just about one of the most interesting things I've seen in a long time. So as you know, the Washington Post gets accused of being sort of a leftist tool. And then Bezos is not really super political. He's more about just making stuff work. So here's what he wrote to his team, and then he's posting it so we can see it too. And I thought I would
Chapter 2: What did Jeff Bezos announce regarding the Washington Post?
Because it's the sort of thing, if you paraphrase it, you're not going to get it right. Because there's some nuance here. So let me just read it. All right, it's Jeff Bezos. He says, I shared this note with the Washington Post team this morning. I'm writing to let you know about a change coming to our opinion pages. Now, the opinion pages are where you get the real biased stuff.
He says, excuse me. He says, we're going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars, personal liberties and free markets. Good so far. We'll cover other topics too, of course, but viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.
So if there's anybody who is opposed to personal liberty or free markets, they're just not going to have an opinion in the Washington Post. Okay. Okay. He goes, there was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader's doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views.
Today, the Internet does that job. So he's basically saying we're not going to try to cover all views. And he says, here's the fun part. I am of America and for America and proud to be so. Our country did not get here by being typical. And a big part of America's success has been freedom in the economic realm and everywhere else. Freedom is ethical. It minimizes coercion and practical.
It drives creativity, invention, and prosperity. All true. And then just listen to this. He said, I offered David Shipley, so I guess he is the editor of the opinion page. He goes, I offered David Shipley, whom I greatly admire, the opportunity to lead this new chapter of I suggested to him that if the answer wasn't, quote, hell yes, then it had to be no.
After careful consideration, David decided to step away. He didn't like this new editorial direction. And he said, this is a significant shift. It won't be easy, and it will require 100% commitment. I respect this decision. We'll be searching for a new opinion editor to own this new direction. Oh, my God. I'm confident that free markets and personal liberties are right for America.
I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas. Yup, they are underserved in the news and opinion stuff. I'm excited for us together, blah, blah, blah, Jeff. Now, does that feel like a big deal to you? Because it kind of does to me. I mean, Bezos' voice is bigger than most people's.
and uh that doesn't mean that the washington post is completely reformed but wow i'm gonna i've got this weird tickle in my nose you ever ever have a nose tickle what's up with that just tickles all right did you know that the legal agent uh the legal age of marriage in china is 22 for men. In China, you have to be 22 before you can get married. And 20 for women. How sexist.
But now one of their political leaders, a member of the National Committee, the CPPCC, is trying to put a proposal together that would lower it to 18 because they're having a childbirth problem. And Does that surprise you? How many of you knew that you couldn't get married in China until you're 22 if you're a guy? So that's one small thing they can do.
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