Episode 1489 Scott Adams： Lots of Coffee-Sipping-Worthy Headlines Today
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A high school biology teacher is accused of having sex with her 14-year-old student. And a woman in Florida was forced to shut down her restaurant because she refused to serve anyone who supports President Joe Biden.
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It's time for Coffee with Scott Adams, and I don't have to tell you, it's the best thing
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And if you'd like to take it up to heretofore unknown levels of pleasure, and I know you
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do, all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or chelsea, a canteen jug or a flask,
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a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid.
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It's the thing that makes everything better, as long as you do it with me.
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Now, some of you are wondering, Scott, why is it that you are streaming on YouTube?
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YouTube, and also the Locals platform, but you are not streaming on the Rumble platform.
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Well, let me describe the Rumble onboarding process.
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If you'd like to be a creator, click this button, and somebody will help you become a creator
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And then you click that button, and the next part is easy.
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Apparently, you asked to be a creator on Rumble, and then there's a thing called nothing that
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I've also been contacted by Rumble employees, and they've offered help.
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Just make me a creator account, and I'll be live streaming like crazy.
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And then the process that happens after that is nothing.
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So I've tried three or four times to live stream on Rumble, and each time, I can't.
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Apparently, I'm the only person who's not allowed to live stream on Rumble.
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But should I ever be allowed, I might try to do that.
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Here's a tragic story of a diner, small business, a diner in central Florida, who announced that
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it would not be serving anyone who supports President Biden.
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And I guess this is over the botched and disgraceful Afghan pullout.
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If you say that you will not serve more than half of the public in your town, and you depend
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on the public for your income, it's pretty obvious that if you're a small business and
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barely struggling to get by as it is, it's pretty obvious that if you tell half of your
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potential customers that they can't eat there, you're pretty much going to have to, you're
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She was forced to shutter her business because she said that she wouldn't even sell to half
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She was forced to shutter her business, but it was because there were so many customers,
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they ate all the food, and she didn't have any food left to serve.
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Okay, so that's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be.
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It turns out that when you tell half of your customers to fuck off, you really, it's good
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Yeah, if I'd known that, I think I would have tried it.
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There was a woman, a high school biology teacher, age 34, who was accused of having sex with a
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Apparently, this biology teacher had sex with this 14-year-old boy during at least three
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Now, I think we have to dig a little deeper into the story.
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Now, of course, it's tragic, and I feel sorry for this poor 14-year-old boy who was a victim
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of this horrible crime, sex with a hot teacher.
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I hope this isn't a permanent problem for the rest of his life.
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But the victim, they talked to the victim, the 14-year-old boy who had sex with his teacher
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three times, and he was quoted as saying it was, quote, the best three days of his life
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He doesn't think you'll need therapy, but he said he'd agreed to get therapy under the following
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condition, quote, if the therapist is super hot.
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So the child will be treated, probably with therapy.
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Now, I'm just going to put this out there because I don't know if the news is good at context.
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Because you have to consider everything, right?
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We've talked about the tragedy to the 14-year-old boy, and I don't know if he'll ever be the same.
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But we should also say that when that 14-year-old boy took his biology exams, it turns out he
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knew more about biology than all of the other kids in the class.
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Because he had three independent study sessions on biology that you just can't get everywhere,
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Most of you are savvy and well-informed people.
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And I know that you know that Elon Musk recently had been critical of Bitcoin because it requires
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Now, if you don't know cryptocurrency, let me explain that in order to create a new Bitcoin,
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it's created by massive computers crunching things algorithmically.
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But by formula, and only once in a while can it discover, or mine, as they say, a new combination
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So without getting too technical, to create a Bitcoin, you need a computer.
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And there were very few Bitcoins in production.
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You could use just your own little computer and it could maybe find a Bitcoin for you.
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But as the number of Bitcoins continue to get mined, they are harder and harder to find.
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So you need bigger and bigger computers to find the increasingly rare Bitcoins that are left.
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And so it takes entire data centers now to just find some Bitcoins.
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And it's a pretty big drag on climate change, say the experts.
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I mean, it could be like half of 1% of all the energy used.
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Someday a billionaire will build a Gen 4 nuclear power plant just to mine Bitcoins.
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Now, this said billionaire would have to find a country that was willing to allow a more experimental nuclear power plant.
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But because you're using it to bit to mine Bitcoin, you can put it anywhere, right?
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Your nuclear power plant doesn't need to be near a population center.
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In fact, that would be the worst place to put it.
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The best place to put it, if you're only going to use it for your own Bitcoin mining operation,
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the best place to put it would be as far from humans as possible.
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Now, the Generation 4 nuclear plants are built such that nothing big can go wrong.
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If everything fails, here's the idiot's definition of Generation 3 versus Generation 4.
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Generation 3, which would be the kind of power plant you would build today, you know, kind of a traditional one,
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if you have a major problem, it could lead to some kind of a meltdown situation that would be bad.
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But Generation 4 would be designed such that the problem itself would cause the power plant to shut down.
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So instead of a design where a problem causes a massive potential problem,
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Generation 4, the same problem, or let's say conceptually the same kind of problem, would cause it just to turn off.
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Major, you know, Chernobyl meltdown versus, oh, it's off now.
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So yeah, I suspect that Bitcoin could become a huge driver of Generation 4 nuclear power.
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So Bitcoin could actually become the financial incentive to have a robust Generation 4 nuclear industry.
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Let me start this story by saying, when people die, there's nothing funny about that.
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And if you laugh at a story in which people die, well, you're a bad person,
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and you're going to have to deal with that for the rest of your life.
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Live in shame if you laugh at this following story, which is tragic.
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Turns out that the Taliban tried to celebrate a victory against some rebels in the Panjshir Valley.
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It turns out that they did not have a victory yet.
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But they decided to celebrate anyway, as the Taliban do, by firing their weapons in the air.
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So many Taliban fired their weapons in the air, falsely believing that they'd won a war against the rebels.
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And when the Taliban fired all their weapons in the air, they didn't count on gravity.
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Gravity kind of snuck them and bit them in the ass.
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And a lot of those bullets fell down after they went up, resulting in the death of 17 people and injuring 41.
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Now, if you're laughing about that, you're a bad, bad person.
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Don't be laughing at death, even if it's the Taliban.
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Well, first of all, we don't know if it was the Taliban who were the 17 people killed.
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Is it possible that Joe Biden was this close, for those of you listening, I'm putting my finger and my thumb in a very short distance from each other.
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Is it possible that Joe Biden was this close from a major victory against the Taliban?
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The Taliban, you think, won an unexpected 11-day victory and took over Afghanistan with almost no resistance.
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Because if the Taliban took over really quickly, and they still had a lot of ammo left over because they didn't need to use it because they took over so quickly,
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what would the Taliban do with all of that ammo left over to celebrate their victory over Afghanistan, which they've tried 20 years to take back?
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And would they have so much ammo, because they didn't have any resistance in the actual war,
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that those bullets would come down and wipe out the Taliban?
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Again, if you're listening to this, Adams is putting his finger and his thumb within a close distance to each other.
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Now, you say to yourself, Scott, that was a bad plan.
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You're going to coax them into shooting in the air and hoping that enough bullets fall down to wipe out the Taliban without hitting any innocent people?
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If you compare it to the right alternative, which is what we did, cut and run, looks pretty smart.
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Well, it turns out that artificial intelligence is super racist.
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Do not laugh at this joke, because you would be labeling yourself as a racist.
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Don't be a racist and don't laugh at this joke.
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But Facebook recently apologized after an AI program, Facebook AI, mistakenly labeled a video featuring black men interacting with the police as, quote, about primates.
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Now, apparently an automatic prompt came up and it says, do you want to keep seeing videos about primates?
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Despite the video clearly featuring no primates whatsoever.
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Because the story says there were, quote, black men in the videos.
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Do we have confirmation that the AI was confused by the, quote, black men in the video?
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Or was it confused by the police officers who wore uniforms that were the same color all over?
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Because police officers were the ones the AI thought were the primates.
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Because they might have had, you know, full uniforms that were all this.
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I mean, if you were to look at, let's say, a gorilla, what would be the distinguishing characteristics of a gorilla?
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I don't know if the AI was looking at faces and making a racist kind of conclusion.
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Why do you automatically think that the AI thought that the black men were the primates as opposed to the police officers?
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Because you can't tell which ones the AI was looking at.
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Well, so you would have to be a racist yourself.
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You'd have to be a racist yourself to assume that the AI was looking at the black men in the video.
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All we know is that the AI thought there were some primates in the video.
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So why are you so racist that you think it was the black people in the video?
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Well, I think you should be ashamed of yourself.
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Nothing in the things look like other things and remind me of other things have any meaning.
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Like, even if you said to yourself, hey, I think some person's reminding me of a primate, it doesn't mean anything.
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It just means that you were reminded of something.
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Like, to give that any importance would be ridiculous.
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Jonathan Turley tweets, and you should be following Jonathan Turley on Twitter, one of the best follows.
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He says there's a program at Boulder University, I guess, that encourages faculty to, quote, shed the, quote, cultural norms of white supremacy.
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So what are these cultural norms of white supremacy?
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Well, among them, in your attempt to, quote, decolonize the classes, you should be rejecting neoliberal concepts.
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So what are some neoliberal concepts we would like to reject?
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Well, among them, perfectionism and a sense of urgency.
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Now, when I was coming up in the business world, I was told literally and continuously that a sense of urgency was exactly what I wanted to develop if I didn't have it already.
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The phone company would use the sense of urgency to tell you you should be working hard and act like everything's important.
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But it turns out that that sense of urgency, the very qualities in perfectionism, the very kinds of qualities which might lead one to success,
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Let's say we accept the premise that we should not be living in a white supremacist cultural norm.
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I think we can reject white supremacy as a cultural norm.
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I mean, if you could get rid of it, that would be fair.
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So, of course, we'd like to get rid of any cultural norms of white supremacy, if they were real.
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If you could damn perfectionism and damn a sense of urgency as white supremacist, couldn't you damn success itself?
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Isn't success, the way we define it in economic terms in the West, isn't that white supremacist?
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And shouldn't we, and shouldn't the Boulder program, try to get rid of success entirely?
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If nobody succeeded, you wouldn't have to worry about income distribution.
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I see a comic, Eric, calling that uniquely white.
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I'm just trying to get in the heads of other people, right?
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And then some asshole tells you that you should get rid of your sense of urgency and your perfectionism
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But I feel like if you put me in that situation, I'd be pretty angry about this.
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And if trying to succeed made me look like I was trying too hard to be white,
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It's like, oh, the only way you can succeed is by acting white?
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How about I was able to succeed by doing the things that everybody who succeeds does?
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You pretty much do the same basket of stuff to succeed.
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Recently, several of Dan Ariely's, I hope I'm pronouncing his last name right.
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And he's been writing books about behavioral science.
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But it turns out that a lot of behavioral science studies don't hold up.
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And one of them was a study that said that if you ask people to declare that they're going
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to be honest at the end of a form, they're more likely to lie and then at the end say,
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yeah, sure, I'll be honest, than if you put their declaration at the front.
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And the thinking was that if you make people say, yes, I'll be honest, before they answer
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the questions, they'll be biased toward being more honest because they committed to it.
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So that would be just another example of behavioral science that just, it's bullshit.
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Now, I also have my questions about why that wouldn't work.
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Because everything I know about persuasion and brains and hypnosis suggests that it would
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work, that putting it first would make a difference.
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Should I doubt the studies that couldn't reproduce it?
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Or should I doubt, I don't know, I guess I doubt everything.
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So behavioral science comes pretty close to guessing, it turns out.
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So here's a mystery that I think I've got, I'm going to try to explain this as best I can.
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I like to think that one of my superpowers is explaining complicated things in simple ways.
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Here's a complicated thing, and I'll see if I can explain it to you for the first time in a simple way.
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But I got some help from Andres Backhaus on Twitter and some other tweets.
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So Israel is reporting that most of their new infections are of vaccinated people.
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So that makes some people say, wait a minute, if most of the people getting a new infection
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are vaccinated, doesn't that tell you the vaccinations don't work?
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And the answer is no, it's not telling you that at all.
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Apparently Israel is very happy with how well the vaccinations work.
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But it's also true, simultaneously, that infections among the vaccinated apparently are higher than the unvaccinated.
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So does that tell you that the vaccinations are making it worse?
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Children are still mostly not vaccinated and still mostly don't get it.
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So children are mostly not vaccinated and also mostly don't get it for whatever reason.
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Whereas older people, or at least they're not getting hospitalized.
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Whereas older people, whether they're vaccinated or not, if they're old enough and you get it,
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well, there's a good chance you get hospitalized anyway.
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So you've got this situation where you're looking at very different groups with different risk profiles.
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So any imbalance in the size of those groups just changes your whole average and makes your average ridiculous.
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So if on average, the people who are vaccinated are more likely to be infected, am I saying that wrong?
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If on average, most of the infections are with vaccinated people, that has everything to do with the size of the population of vaccinated people
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with the size of the population of the kids who are unvaccinated.
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So as long as you know that the average doesn't mean anything, because you're averaging two things that are just like an apple and an orange,
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Is there anybody who knows what I should have said to know if I'm even close?
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But the basic idea is that there's nothing wrong with the Israeli vaccinations,
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that they're actually super effective for keeping you out of the hospital and keeping you alive.
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But it might not look that way, and it's just because of how numbers work.
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Apparently, Trump said recently that he wouldn't get a booster.
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Now, it was reported that when Trump said he was thinking about not getting a booster,
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He said, I'm not against it, but it probably isn't for me.
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And I saw CNN say, oh, you know, that's not so good,
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because then all the Trump people will say, hey, if he's not getting a booster, then why should I get one?
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Yeah, I'll just let the comments, what did CNN leave out of the story?
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The most important fact that he had already had COVID, and that gives him a kind of immunity,
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which science says is way better than a booster.
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But if I had had the, if I had it recovered, I know, if I'd recovered, and maybe I had the wherewithal to test my antibodies anyway,
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I think I would think twice about a booster, wouldn't you?
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So they're treating it as if Trump is being unscientific or giving bad advice,
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when, as far as I can tell, he's completely compatible with the science and is giving good advice for himself.
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So last night, this will just tell you how weird my life is.
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I believe it will air this coming week, probably Wednesday-ish, tentatively.
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But so Greg Goffeld was with Trump yesterday for the interview.
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And I think they got something to eat after with a bunch of other people.
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Scott, there's a man here that wants to say hello to you.
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I want to tell you, you're a man of great common sense.
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And you've been, generally speaking, a fan for a long time.
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I swear to God, I wake up and I don't know what's going to happen any freaking day.
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So, yeah, that was Trump giving me a little personal video message.
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So, anyway, I guess one of the advantages of having the number one evening show, which Greg
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Goffeld has, is that you get a lot of good interviews.
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So, I would encourage you all to watch that interview.
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Is there any chance that this isn't a good interview?
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It could be a website where there's just some programming to do it.
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But I think there should always be some kind of government-blessed thing with the odds.
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And that would change, of course, as we learn new things about what the odds are.
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But you should be able to just fill in your own situation.
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You know, stuff like, you know, can you socially distance?
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And then put in stuff like, what is the known risk of getting vaccinated?
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And then make some guesses about the long-term unknown risk.
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And, you know, you'd have to put in your own assumptions so people would get different results
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based on their own assumptions plus the official scientific assumptions.
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Why in the world do you and I have a dumbass conversation about whether or not it's a good idea for you to get vaccinated?
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That's like the dumbest conversation that any two humans can have.
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Because your situation and mine aren't even close.
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And what are the odds that you're in the same situation I am risk-wise and everything else?
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So I should be making my decision, you should be making your decision, and that's it.
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Your decision and my decision don't need to be compatible.
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And if the worksheet comes out and says, yeah, you know, in your situation, let's say you were already infected, like Trump.
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If Trump did the worksheet, would it tell him to get a booster?
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If Trump did a worksheet to figure out the odds, his best odds, of what would be the biggest risk and reward,
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in his specific case, because he already had the infection, and he can probably monitor his antibody level,
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I'd be surprised if they're not doing that once a month, right?
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If you're an ex-president, you've got all the money in the world, yeah, you're probably looking at your antibodies every month or so.
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So in his special case, different than other people, right?
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All right, I'd just like to put that out there, because we're arguing about stuff that should just be math.
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It should just be on a worksheet, you know, with your assumptions, of course.
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Now, here's what I thought was a CNN typo or error, and I still believe it is.
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So here's something that CNN says on its website, that I tell you in advance, I think they're saying the opposite of what is true, right?
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So I'll tell you what they're saying, but I believe it's the opposite of truth.
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Of the 10 states with the worst COVID-19 case rate, now this is not deaths, and this is not hospitalization,
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Over the past week, seven of them, so seven out of 10, also had among the 10 best vaccination rates.
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So this would suggest that the highest vaccinated states are also having the most infections.
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Well, Andres Bekos looked at the data, and he said it looks like it's the opposite of true.
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That, in fact, the least vaccinated states are the ones with the most infections.
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So I'm not sure what CNN was trying to say, but that's a pretty gigantic error if it's an error, which it looks like.
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So it could be I'm reading it wrong, or maybe I'm interpreting it wrong or something.
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It looks the opposite of what I believe to be true.
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So let's say that it's been fact-checked by Andres.
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But again, I think either one of us could be wrong about what they thought they meant.
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I'm also in the middle of this Matt Gaetz story.
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So you know that Matt Gaetz now has been semi-vindicated, meaning that there were two parts of the story.
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One is that he was being charged with allegations about something with a 17-year-old girl.
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We have no actual victim come forward, no details, no evidence.
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But the other part of it was that he claimed he was being blackmailed in some weird scheme for $25 million, or his dad was,
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and that he would end up with some kind of immunity for his alleged other problems that don't have any evidence that I've seen.
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But you might know that I was also sort of part of it, accidentally.
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Because as Matt Gaetz forwarded on Twitter some private messages between Jake Novak,
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who works at the moment at the Israeli consulate.
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He's American, but he works at the Israeli consulate.
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how does Matt Gaetz have a private message from Jake Novak to me?
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I can think of at least four ways he could have it.
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I will tell you I showed it to one person who has experience in the law enforcement intel world.
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Doesn't work there, but has experience with that world.
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Because when I saw it, all of my spider senses tingled.
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There was just something wrong with it that felt like a national security problem or not.
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But on top of that, and then I don't know what happened after that.
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But on top of that, I assume that because we're talking about a foreign nation,
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I assume that my communication is all compromised.
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And I assume that probably Jake Novak's communications are probably compromised.
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And I would think that various intel agencies are probably watching everything I do.
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Now, without getting into any details, I do know for sure that at least three to four intelligence agencies have been curious about me.
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Let's just say they've been scot-curious, and part of the question was who I worked for.
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So apparently I was a little too influential, and it caused people to wonder who I was really working for.
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And I think it's weird that people even have to ask the question.
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Is everybody so bought off that you can't have somebody who literally just wants what's best for the country?
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Now, everybody, of course, wants what's best for themselves and their family, and that's just normal.
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But can't you, beyond that, just want what's best for your country?
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So I guess I don't know enough about the details of what's happening in this story,
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but I will just tell you one thing, that if you look at those messages that are now in the public domain,
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you can see that I was deeply skeptical of the blackmail story, the alleged blackmail story.
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And it appears that, based on the indictment, my skepticism was on point.
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So the only thing I want to add to the story is, from the first moment I heard it, it sounded like it was sketchy.
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And it turns out there is something sketchy about it, or at least enough to get an indictment.
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But we don't know exactly the whole story, so we'll still wait for that.
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George Soros is tweeting about the Taliban, and he makes a good point.
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He says, the Taliban's behavior raises serious concerns about their commitment to respecting human rights.
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I'm going to read it again, because you're probably thinking, wait, did I hear that right?
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Yes, according to George Soros, he's a little bit concerned,
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because the Taliban's behavior raises serious concerns about their commitment to respecting human rights.
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We found out the point at which George Soros would say,
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wait a minute, I'm not so sure this is going in the right direction.
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You might not be as cool as I thought at first.
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So, George Soros, having little second thoughts about the awesomeness of the Taliban?
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George Soros is being very anti-China at the moment,
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and he's warning us that China has big trouble coming,
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one of the most legendary best investors of all times,
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tells you to keep your investments away from China,
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Because if George Soros tells you not to invest in China,
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or at least that there's, you know, bigger danger than it looks like,
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And he doesn't seem to be a fan of President Xi.
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So, hate to tell you this, but enemy of my enemy.
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So, I'm going to be pro-George Soros when he's anti-China.
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Anything else, he's going to have to defend a little bit better,
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But, it's kind of interesting to see that Soros is going after China.
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Oh, Stephan says that Soros is probably shorting China.
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You can shorten something and then talk it down.
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As long as everything's transparent, it's legal.
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I'm just looking at some of your comments as they go by.
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Boo has little health problems, but I don't know what it is yet.
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She's a little unstable on her feet, and I think she has a concussion, actually.
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So I didn't see anything happen, but she's not walking right at the moment.
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She's got one eye dilated and one not, and it's not good.
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Well, yeah, but one eye is dilated more than the other.
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It could be any one of those, but I'll get that checked out.
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I don't think there's anything I can do about it.
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Could be an ear infection, but an ear infection would resolve itself faster, I believe.
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Oh, so Christina's, today's her first day of actual aerobatic flying competition.
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So she's in Redlands, California, where they're having an aerial show, and it's her first competition.
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I don't know the exact schedule of the flights.
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But, you know, analyzing risk is sort of a weird thing.
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If you hear that your spouse wants to fly airplanes upside down and do tricks in the air, what's the first thing you think?
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One is that the height that you are in the air is the biggest factor for whether you're safe.
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So when they do the air shows, they do them high enough up that if you were to, let's say, lose your, I don't know, balance or lose your control of the airplane,
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and you're 3,000 feet in the air, and you're a trained aerobatics pilot, it's actually not that dangerous.
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Because if you're a trained aerobatics pilot, for fun, you put your plane into a spin.
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So the most dangerous thing a plane can do is to get into a spin, heading down.
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But aerobatic pilots do that just for practice.
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They'll just kill their engine, put it into a spin, thousands of feet in the air, and see if they can recover before they hit the ground.
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Now, generally, they're trained well enough that they can recover almost immediately, so they don't get close to the ground.
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They can recover the moment they lose their control.
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If you're a trained aerobatics pilot, but you happen to be flying some other kind of plane one day, and you get into a spin, an aerobatics pilot can get out of it.
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And their reflexes won't necessarily lead them in the right direction.
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There's something sort of non-obvious about getting out of a spin.
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To be an aerobatics pilot adds some risk while you're doing the aerobatics.
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But to be a trained aerobatics pilot makes your other flying way safer.
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I can't remember the last time an aerobatics pilot died.
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When was the last time you heard an aerobatics pilot died?
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Because as long as they stay high enough in the air, they can pretty much recover anything.
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They find a road, flat field, they can pretty much land anywhere.