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…How do you measure very online? Let me give you an example. I was in a major city, not too long ago, and I was asking the chief to tell me kind of what's going on. This is a couple of years ago during COVID. And she was like, "Garrett, these kids are just killing each other." I was like, "What?" She's like, "Yeah, they're literally getting in their car and just shooting each other." I'm like, "Why? " I'm like, "Because this guy posted a picture of him with that guy's girl on Instagram." And I think in a normal situation you might have called that person and been like, "Hey, bro, that's my girl. " And in other cases, they're getting in a car and shooting someone. And that's not normal, that's not normal behavior. And it wasn't normal before COVID, and it happened a lot during COVID, and then it's largely gone away. But it was a very specific social phenomena where the race to violence was so dramatic, it was so scary. And I don't think society's necessarily gone fully back to normal, but if you look at the data, it's hard to articulate. That's the most obvious explanation to me. And I guess there are other empirical measures like air rage incidents, road rage incidents, all that kind of stuff went up during COVID?…

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