Why nobody's stopping Grok

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neilai Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. Today's episode is about X, Grok, and Elon Musk. So I'd like to take a moment and pre-reply to all of the people who are going to send us emails before actually listening to this episode.

Thank you. We really do read all the emails. Please share this episode in outrage with five to seven of your friends if you can. It will really upset me personally. And you will have won.

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