First of all, I would like to commend you on your calm and respectful demeanor. I comprised a few in a comment below. I am interested in information on the approval process and what goes into that. On the outside, it appears that it's just a sign off sheet and popularity contest so I'd like to educate myself on that process more.

Ok fair enough but how does something like that get through the competitive process then? On the surface it sounds frivolous which would mean it wouldn't be competitive?

The cost of some of these are insane too.

https://stacker.com/stories/business-economy/some-strangest-projects-funded-taxpayer-dollars

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/13-bizarre-scientific-experiments-that-somehow-got-government-funding/ss-AA1KJLys

I personally don't understand gain of function and why we would ever do that.

https://osp.od.nih.gov/policies/national-science-advisory-board-for-biosecurity-nsabb/gain-of-function-research/

There was one person that was searching for parasitic snails....for some reason.

Again, I think the pendulum swung too far for this admin however some of these grants, in my opinion, are frivolous and we could all probably agree WAY too expensive for the work that is being done.

While I agree this administration went too far in not funding stuff, there were A LOT of grants that were useless and frivolous.

Wouldn't this influx of lithium dilute your investments?

I would argue to say black Friday is dead. The deals were definitely not that great this year and there is no time crunch anymore since it's like a whole weekend or week and nobody has money to do that anymore.

This is a great point. A couple possible holes in the conspiracy, I don't think it was as predetermined as charlie Kirk and I think there was a lot of people around when it happened.

They have been very quiet on the deets

It's absolutely the worst. I have one in my car and I don't really use it at all and when I do I gotta like stable my hand in order to touch the right spots it's awful. I am glad the industry is going back to buttons.

Except Mazda. They have a dial design that is fantastic to use. However they are doubling down on the touch screen in new designs. It makes no sense. They say there is a market for it but I'm not sure where they are getting their market days from....

Oh no your HVAC controls are on the touch screen?

Good maybe we will finally have some market correction and colleges realize they are not a staple for the American dream anymore.

It's getting crazy. Or I'm just becoming more aware of them.

I agree with this one hundred percent. Obama drone strikes took out a lot of civies