Episode 1531 Scott Adams： Now!
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Summary
What's funnier than one of your favorite podcasts? A podcast where you get to listen to it on your commute or in your car, when you don't have time to make it to the office on time. Or when you can't get to the gym on time because you're running late and you're tired and you just want to take a nap?
Transcript
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, I'm running a little bit late this morning, so you've seen
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Watch me print my notes and close my blackout shutters and pull up my comments without even
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I'm not going to be able to do what I want to do.
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I'm going to make a quick adjustment here, and then everything will be cool.
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Well, people on YouTube, you're seeing the show before the show.
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It's the one that usually only the local subscribers see.
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Yeah, I could try to make this a quality program, but who would want to watch that, really?
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I think you'd rather watch me struggle and fail.
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In one moment, I'm going to be up and running here.
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Weirdly, if I can't tweet, I can't see your comments.
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Well, I'm going to have to keep this on, this perspective.
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And something that has to do with the simultaneous sip,
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and all you need is a cup or a mug, a glass of tank, a chalice, a canteen, a jug, a flash, a vessel of any kind,
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Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine of the day,
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the thing that makes everything better except my punctuality.
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and watch it improve your antibodies.
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My favorite story of the day was in the Huffington Post.
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And the Huffington Post reports that, uh, this is the headline.
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Daniel Craig, you know him, he plays James Bond,
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prefers going to gay bars, and you probably can't guess why.
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Daniel Craig, he prefers going to gay bars, and you probably can't guess why.
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I'm going to take that challenge, and I think I'm going to guess why he goes to gay bars.
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But I've got a, I've got a hypothesis why a good-looking actor would go to a gay bar time and time again with his gay friend often.
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Um, the article was written by, in Huffington Post, by Ron Dicker.
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So, I don't know, maybe you could meet this challenge, too.
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I assume it's because the drinks were low-cost?
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Have I told you that following the money always predicts?
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Now, here's, everybody knows that if you follow the money, people tend to do whatever is in their financial interest, right?
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But it also works, and I don't know why, where it shouldn't work.
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Uh, remember the story about the elk that had a tire that somehow had got a tire around its neck, but then its antlers grew, so it couldn't get the tire off?
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So, after years of people sighting this elk, they, I guess they tranquilized it, and they removed the tire.
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But the way they removed the tire is by removing the elk's antlers.
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Now, that's not a big deal, because antlers regrow every season.
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But, people asked, well, wouldn't it make more sense to cut the tire?
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And, I got the best, the best answer to that from, uh, Grover Norquist.
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So, he's, uh, he's most famous for, uh, being against extra taxes.
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So, we follow each other on Twitter, and, uh, Grover saw that story.
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And, in answer to the question why the tire was removed instead of the, no, why the antlers were removed instead of the tires, Grover tweets,
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they could not sell the tire for as much as antlers.
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They could not sell the tire for as much as antlers.
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And, I thought to myself, well, that's probably true.
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They probably didn't throw away the antlers, did they?
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I don't personally believe that that had anything to do with why they removed it the way they did.
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You'll see a situation in which there's no way the money makes any difference.
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It's like a big psychological decision, or it's political, or it's health-related.
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But, coincidentally, the decisions will always be in the same direction as the money.
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Even if it's not much, and even if the other decisions or other variables are way bigger.
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It's just something to watch for, let's say, for fun.
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I will not assert that it works in some statistically meaningful way.
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I just know that my observation is it always works.
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I mean, it's hard to find any, maybe you just don't notice the exceptions.
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Maybe the exceptions are just boring, and they don't make you even notice.
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Last night, I'm told, Tucker Carlson had a segment about the Auckland, I think he was a professor,
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who did a study and determined that the Havana Syndrome, the so-called secret microwave-slash-sonic weapon
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that was injuring diplomats in our embassies, probably was nothing but mass hysteria.
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How many of you watched Tucker's episode about the Havana Syndrome possibly not being real?
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You know, I just, I have an app that works with my Comcast slash Xfinity.
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And I record that show every night, as well as, you know, Gutfeld and The Five.
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So, so those are the three shows that I record every day.
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The only show that doesn't have audio on my recordings is this one.
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And in fact, the show before Tucker's was fine.
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Like, it has a little lead-in, it records like a minute before the show starts, and that has audio.
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And I thought to myself, oh, darn, it's my device.
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The app is called Stream, and it's part of the Xfinity, the cable company where I live.
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There is nothing I've wanted to see more than that episode.
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So yesterday, you know, I heard that Tucker had something that doubted that there was a weapon.
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Now, most of you know, I think I'm the only public figure who said on day one of that whole embassy Havana syndrome thing,
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So the fact that there would be a major segment on a major news channel, even an opinion show, was really, really interesting to me because I have skin in the game.
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No, I looked for it on YouTube, and I looked for the clips, and it doesn't exist.
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Part of the story, and I don't know if Tucker talked about this, but part of the story, whether Tucker talked about it or not,
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is that the media has been reporting this as true, that there's some kind of weapon, maybe, probably, allegedly.
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And NBC and CNN, as NBC has been part of that reporting,
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and as you know, if you follow Glenn Greenwald especially, NBC is often accused of being the CIA's captured network,
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meaning that NBC News basically reports what the CIA wants them to report.
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And you see people like Glenn Greenwald back up the allegation quite well.
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So I'm saying it's an allegation with a lot of evidence.
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So you've got NBC still trying to sell this thing as maybe some kind of a Russian weapon,
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which sounds exactly like something the CIA would want you to believe if they want to put pressure on Russia
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What are the odds that that one thing that the CIA doesn't want you to see, allegedly, right?
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But what are the odds that the one thing that the CIA doesn't want you to see
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just that segment of the Auckland professor talking about the Havana syndrome,
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I wonder if it's already been scrubbed from the Internet.
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is the one thing that you know the CIA doesn't want you to see,
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So certainly any absolute confidence of anything is ridiculous in 2021.
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But the fact that I have to even ask the question is very disturbing, isn't it?
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Like, why do I even have to doubt that that happened naturally?
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How many of you think Taiwan is at real risk of China attacking militarily?
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In the comments, in the comments, how many of you think there's a real risk of a military attack?
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I'm seeing some yeses and some low percentages, like 5%.
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Somebody here pedantically is saying, yes, there's a risk.
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Okay, technically, technically there's a risk, right?
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So I would say that's a given, that there's a risk.
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But the point of it is that there's not really any indication that China is too serious about a military attack.
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And I saw a map of the incursions, which was very interesting, because I'd never seen it before.
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It was some context about all these military planes that China is putting into Taiwan's airspace.
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Now, when you heard that, what did your mind give you as a picture?
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When you heard that Chinese warplanes, lots of them, were suddenly penetrating Taiwan airspace,
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what did your brain give you as a picture for that?
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Like, what was the little, the visual that you got?
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You gave it to yourself, because you didn't see a visual.
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Did it look like planes flying directly over Taiwan?
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Probably not, because you're sophisticated viewers of the news.
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And you said to yourself, no, no, not over the land.
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They were over the airspace, meaning that over the ocean around Taiwan that China claims as their own.
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Now, my picture is not to scale, and it's not the same dimensions, but I'll give you the idea.
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Imagine, if you will, that this napkin is the space that Taiwan claims for their airspace.
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And let's say Taiwan is right in the middle and occupies maybe, I don't know, 20% of the space,
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Where do you think all the Chinese incursions were?
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It was in this weird little corner, which Taiwan, when it draws its airspace around itself,
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So I don't think it's an international standard.
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It's just Taiwan saying, hey, this is our space.
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And China just flies directly out, and they cross this little corner of the ocean that Taiwan claims as their airspace.
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How many of the flights were in all of this other area?
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All China did was clip this corner, but they did a lot.
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If they had flown here, like just outside this little corner, we wouldn't be talking about it.
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But because they clipped the corner, we're talking about it.
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Now, what gives Taiwan the right to this little piece right here?
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And I looked at, you know, my example is bad because it's symmetrical.
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But the actual airspace is more, I don't know, it's more like weird shaped.
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So the corner that China is clipping off is sort of the extended corner.
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It's the one that looks a little furthest from the island itself.
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Am I wrong that if you had seen that picture from the start and known that the violation is the most trivial violation that they could get away with?
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China is violating their airspace, of course, but in the most trivial way, according to the picture.
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But the people who seem to be smart on this topic don't think there's any real risk.
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It looks like it may be for internal politics because there's some big Chinese meeting coming up.
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So I think you can stop worrying about that one right away.
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Well, finally, the country is coming together because the people who are against vaccination mandates are gloriously, gloriously all over the map.
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So you've got your Black Lives Matter, you've got your Christian conservatives, you've got your police officers, you've got your teachers.
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So you've got your Democrats, you've got your Republicans.
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I can't think of another issue that unified the country this much.
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I want to join the rest of you and feel anxious and bad about the division in the country because we're all talking about it.
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I'm just saying that a lot of this stuff looks like the normal and maybe even preferred evolution of thought.
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Meaning the fact that the government took control during the emergency.
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Don't you want the government to take a firm control, even if they make mistakes, it's your best bet, during an emergency?
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I don't want the government to ever take control in any situation.
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I feel that's a legitimate opinion and I won't criticize it because it's consistent.
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I imagine that those saying that just always say that.
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In my opinion, because obviously a lot of you disagree, in my opinion, the government needs to take control in military matters and maybe a big crisis like this.
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Now, I'll accept that you disagree with me on that.
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But it's only good if the people can take it back.
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The people need to regain, you know, grab it back.
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And of course, the government, when it takes power, it doesn't like to give it up at all.
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But we have plenty of examples of, let's say, hurricanes where the government took power during the hurricane as an emergency.
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And as soon as they were done, they got out of there as soon as they could because they didn't want to be there grabbing any power.
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And what I see as this anti-vax coalition, which isn't organized in any sense, but sort of an informally natural coalition without organization, I feel good about it.
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But I thought, well, it was our best bet, even if it's not ideal.
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But I love the fact that the country is starting to push back.
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And I'm not even, you know, it doesn't even matter that I'm on the side of the pushback people or not.
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It's a good reminder to the government who's in charge.
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So the more people who resist and the more actively they resist, I'm not saying I'm on their side or not on their side.
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What I say is I like living in a country where it's happening.
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I like living in a country where the government can take control and then the people can say, you know, just about now is when you need to be giving it back.
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But I like that our system allows this constructive tension between government and the people.
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And so far, I still see the people having the power.
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But I think the people will get what they want.
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But I don't imagine that the people will let them stand for long.
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Yeah, I think there'll be too much pushback eventually.
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So I've got this question whether we have a supply chain problem or the simulation has been proven.
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When I go to the local grocery store where I live, the shelves are basically full, right?
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If you look down the row of shelves, it looks full with one exception.
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You'll see this long row of products, and then there'll be this little hole in the shelf.
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In a gigantic line, everything's full, but just this little big.
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That little hole represents the product I came for.
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The one thing I want is the only thing missing.
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So I go to the next aisle to look for the other thing I'm looking for.
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Christina asked me for some very specific things.
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A specific brand of soda, which literally disappeared during the pandemic.
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As soon as she started saying, this is the only soda I want, it just disappeared.
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And likewise, she had a food product that was on a shelf with all the food products were there,
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That one food just disappeared and never came back.
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Now, am I supposed to believe that the one thing I look for is the thing that's missing?
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So one is that it's just a coincidence, and it's confirmation bias,
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and I don't notice the other things that are missing.
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You know, just normal psychological phenomenon.
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But it's also very consistent with us being in a simulation.
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If this is a simulation, I'm the only one buying food.
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But as soon as you leave, they empty the carts and put it all back on the shelves.
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If the simulation has a bug, the only thing that's going to be missing is the food that you buy.
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The generic food that's the background food that you'll never buy is just there to create scenery.
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So the only thing changed was your specific food.
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Jen says, oh my God, Scott, where is your brain going?
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Now, Jen, do you know that Elon Musk has the same opinion I do about the simulation?
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And the actual scientists and philosophers who know what they're talking about do?
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It's accepted science in the sense that it's accepted as a serious alternative understanding of reality.
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It doesn't mean it's true, but it is completely accepted by smart people as, well, maybe.
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I'm not too serious about the supply chain thing.
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Trump has said some new provocative things about Arizona, which I will not tell you are true.
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So I'm going to tell you a bunch of things that Trump says, but don't imagine that I say any of this is true.
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I don't have an opinion on it, true or untrue, but we'll talk about it in a moment.
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Talking about a couple of precincts in Pima, Arizona.
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And apparently there are great irregularities there, Trump and others have claimed.
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And Trump says they overplayed their hand and got caught.
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Two precincts in Pima had over 100% turnout for mail-in ballots, which is impossible.
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And 40 precincts had over 97% returned, which is basically impossible.
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And that if you add these things together, the irregularities is more than enough margin to win.
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Turnout rates of 99% and 100% is what you get in a third world country.
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Now, the graph that he showed to demonstrate that there was a certain time of night when all the ballots turned in a different direction,
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Why is Trump complaining about Arizona irregularities and not using information that came from the Arizona audit?
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How could it be that Dr. Shiva has this solid, incontrovertible evidence that Trump is putting forward now?
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How could Dr. Shiva have that, but the people who were certainly looking for that, the Arizona audit, they didn't have that?
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Or they didn't believe it enough to put that forward as a claim.
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Remember I was telling you yesterday that this model that we have, where I talk out loud and you correct me in real time?
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It is effectively like a different form of intelligence.
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Because in real time, you just basically fixed my brain, because I couldn't connect why there was a disconnect there.
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Now, if you didn't know anything except what I just told you, and that describes most of us.
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If you didn't know anything but what I just told you, Trump makes these claims.
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Dr. Shiva seems to be the source of some part of it.
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And it claims more than, you know, something close to 100% turnout, which would be impossible.
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Don't tell me whether they're true or false, because you don't know.
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We don't know if true or false had changed the election.
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Meaning, is it the kind of thing you would be inclined to believe because of its nature and maybe the source and everything you know about life?
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I'm just looking at your answers, and I see not, interestingly.
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So I think most of you are good with the difference between what is credible versus what is true.
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Often you can't know what's true, but you can tell if the claim is credible.
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I told you at the beginning of the process of the election and the audits that 95% of everything you see about a claim of irregularity,
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without even knowing what the claims would be, before they even happened, I told you 95% would be bunk.
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How was my prediction that 95% of the specific claims, not the general idea that there was a fraud,
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I said 95% of them would be false, maybe 100, but at least 95% of them would be false.
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Because no matter what you think about whether the election was fair or not overall,
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would you agree with me at this point that the specific claims have 95%, well, you could say 100% been debunked?
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I think that's one of my best predictions of all time.
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Because again, I'm the only person saying it that I know of.
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I can't think of anybody else who said, no, 95% of everything you hear is going to be wrong.
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I'm just saying that I haven't seen any claims that have been confirmed yet.
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So predicting that 95% of them or more would not be confirmed seems to be pretty close to the mark.
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There's something happening here that's really interesting.
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Now, I might, I think some of you are going to imagine I've changed my opinion when you hear this next part.
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Because on Twitter today, I think I saw at least three people hallucinating my opinion
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and telling me that, you know, it's about time I came to the right opinion.
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Because I was so wrong before, to which I say, I never had that opinion you thought I had.
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So some of you are going to have that experience in a moment.
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You're going to have an experience that you think I changed an opinion.
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Tell me in the comments if it feels like I changed my opinion.
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I've told you before that one way I judge the truth of things in the news
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is I look for a correspondence between what the science says
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Now, if my direct observation conflicts with what the science says,
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For example, science says that smoking cigarettes can give you cancer.
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My observation is that people who have lung cancer almost always smoke cigarettes.
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your bacterial infection will probably go away.
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But science is also telling us that very few people are being injured by vaccinations.
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Yes, people can be injured by any kind of vaccination,
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At least compared to the number of people who are having COVID problems.
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But I asked on Twitter, because people keep telling me anecdotally
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that they know people who are injured by vaccinations.
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Does anybody know that somebody in their circle was injured by the vaccination?
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Or is it just that they got the vaccination and then a very unusual health problem
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So strong that they speak of it as if it's obvious.
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Now, could be, and you also know that in a big country, there would be coincidences like that
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that would look exactly like people were being injured, even if they weren't.
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Don't give me the VAERS database, because that's a different story.
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So here's my opinion that you're going to think is a change of opinion, but it isn't.
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So I asked on Twitter how many people personally know people who are injured by the vaccination.
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The people who say, I personally know people or multiple people that they believe were injured
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I've got the science telling me one thing, that the side effects are rare, and then I've
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got personal observation, but it's really a third-hand personal observation.
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Really, all I can observe is people telling me they observed something.
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But if I had observed it myself, I would likewise be subject to confirmation bias.
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So the fact that other people are telling me, and maybe they have confirmation bias, probably
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Because if I had directly seen it myself, I'd probably have the same confirmation bias.
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So, let me say this as clearly as possible, and tell me if you think this is a change of
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There is clearly a disconnect between observation and science.
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How many of you have been beating me up saying, Scott, Scott, Scott, there's so many people,
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you know, I hear all these reports, it's in the VAERS database, which is not confirmed
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Meaning that it is clear to me there is a disconnect between the science and the observation.
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So all of you who keep telling me, Scott, Scott, Scott, why are you missing the big red flag?
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But just be aware that confirmation bias is still the most likely explanation.
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Just like I can't be sure that the reports are real.
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But yes, I am completely on the side that says, there's something going on here, and I
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That's different from saying you shouldn't take a vaccination, right?
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I'm not saying you shouldn't get vaccinated, and I'm not saying you should.
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I'm saying that this is one of those perfectly crafted situations, accidentally crafted, in
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which your science and your observation, they've got some disconnect.
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I still think it's probably confirmation bias, plus probably these vaccinations have more
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But Chris Vickers, a Blue Check Mark fellow on Twitter, you've probably never heard of
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him, but he's a Blue Check, he tweeted this today.
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After that date, no hospital services for the willingly unvaccinated.
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So it's a Blue Check Twitter person calling for unvaccinated people to not have medical care
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after a certain date, because, you know, they've been warned.
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To which I tweeted back, if we didn't need to treat citizens who injured themselves by
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their own choices, one way or another, we could close 90% of our hospitals and still have
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So Chris, have you not noticed that most of the reasons people are in the hospital are
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So I'll recognize that people disagree whether vaccination is a good or bad choice.
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But that's mostly what the medical community does.
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The entire medical community is correcting for your dumbass mistakes.
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I mean, of course people are dying from natural causes.
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But when was the last time you saw somebody in the hospital waiting room or the emergency room
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And if they do, it's a broken leg because they did something dumb.
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It seems to me that a tremendous amount of our entire health care budget is correcting
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So why would you call this one out to be special?
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We're making a bad choice every time we wake up.
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Is it just a coincidence that everything I try to influence goes my way?
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That whenever I'm persuading on a particular topic, it seems to go my way?
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Well, today we learned that Great Britain has decided that nuclear energy will be the cornerstone
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Now, Adam Townsend had a podcast, I think it was yesterday, in which he had an expert from
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Oklo, I think, O-K-L-O, a new generation nuclear startup, and asked this question on my behalf.
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So Adam had solicited questions to ask these experts, and one of my questions got asked.
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And it was, if America can't get nuclear, if we can't get nuclear in America, how can we get it in space?
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Now, the expert explained that because it's space, the type of energy you can use up there is not every kind of energy.
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You couldn't burn oil, or you can't use coal in space.
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You know, you can't run an extension cord for electricity.
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So there's lots of things you can't do to get energy in space, but the one thing you can do is nuclear.
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And Adam asks, on my behalf, can there be a space force without that?
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And the expert said, basically, you need nuclear for space.
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Now, once you know that you need a domestic nuclear program, a good one, a robust nuclear program,
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because otherwise you give up space, it's over, isn't it?
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The question of whether America needs to go hard into nuclear energy for domestic use is completely answered by just that one fact.
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That's basically putting a timer on the United States to no longer be an important power.
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You know, it might be 50 years in the future, but it definitely puts the timer on.
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And it says, okay, if you're not going nuclear, you're not in space.
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If you're not in space, you're not going to rule anything on Earth either.
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So I think this only could go one way, and also climate change, et cetera, was screaming for an answer.
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So when people like Michael Schellenberger testified to the American Congress
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and gave them information for the first time, a lot of them were under-informed.
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But once they were informed, you saw that the United States Congress, both parties, are like, yeah, nuclear.
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So just being informed and brought up to date on what the real risks are with the newer technologies, et cetera, was enough, probably.
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But did you know that Michael Schellenberger also did the same thing in Great Britain?
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And also brought his expertise to Great Britain in 2019, and was asked, you know, what to do about climate change, et cetera,
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Yeah, Apocalypse Nefer was Michael Schellenberger's book that talked about that.
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And now informed, Great Britain's not just on board with nuclear, but aggressively, aggressively on board.
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I said, you know, is it a coincidence that everything I persuade on goes my way?
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It's because I could tell which way things are going to go.
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Now, I did, of course, try to influence as much as possible.
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Mark Schneider was a big part of informing me so that I could inform others.
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And I don't know if you know, but a number of people in Congress followed me on Twitter.
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There are quite a few people in the news business and in Congress who followed me on Twitter.
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And so I've been, you know, informing, basically, using what I knew from Mark Schneider, from Michael Schellenberger, to communicate the safety and the necessity of nuclear.
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But I don't think it was my power of persuasion that made the difference.
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Obviously, it was, you know, Schellenberger made a big difference.
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Mark Schneider, I think, made a big difference.
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I basically predicted something that couldn't go any other way.
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But as soon as people were brought up to speed, information-wise, there was only one way it was going to go.
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So when I cheekily say, is it a coincidence that everything I try to influence goes my way?
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It's because I'm good at picking things that are going to go that way anyway.
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One of my earliest efforts for influence was getting smoking out of public places and out of offices and stuff.
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You know, do you think that smoking was always going to be allowed indoors?
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I just knew it was obvious which way it was going to go.
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Likewise, other persuasion that I've been very involved in was the right to die, to have a doctor-assisted death.
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But again, wasn't it going to go that way anyway?
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I feel like I just picked the topic that was going in the right direction.
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But I like putting that out there because it's provocative.
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I'm going to quiz you to see your general knowledge of a very important fact about COVID.
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If you get this fact right, if you get the right answer, then I would say that your opinion about vaccinations might be credible because it means that you know more than other people.
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We're going to see if you know enough to have a good opinion about vaccinations.
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Do vaccinations cause more variants like the Delta?
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But do the vaccinations cause more or could they cause more variants?
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Look at the answers that are streaming by on each of your platforms.
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Seeing a lot of yes's, but seeing a lot of no's.
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Now, how could you have an opinion on vaccinations unless you know this?
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How many of you have heard of the chicken vaccinations, which there is a study that shows that the vaccinations for the chickens, for some chicken disease,
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actually did, according to a study, did increase the variants?
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Are you aware of the study about the chickens and how their vaccinations increased the number of variants?
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Because that's what is always tweeted to me when I bring up the topic.
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OK, so if you're not on Twitter, maybe you've never seen it.
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And the study says that where they vaccinated the chickens, it increased the variants.
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You'd want to see some more studies and et cetera.
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Does that, if it's true, does it tell you something about the coronavirus vaccine?
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If it's true for chickens, oh, and I'll add something.
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The chicken vaccination is also leaky, just like the coronavirus one.
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Leaky meaning that even when you're vaccinated, you can still get it.
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Does the fact that you know the chicken vaccination, let's say you do know that,
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cause more variants, does that mean that you have the same risk with the coronavirus?
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I'm looking for something else, but that is a good comment.
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They're just different technologies, et cetera.
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But remember, we're talking about the logic of it.
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Is the logic that if your vaccine stops most of the virus,
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that the only ones that can get out are the bad ones,
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the variants that escape the vaccination's coverage?
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This paid comment says, selecting for a specific protein to target,
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increases the probability it could cause mutations.
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But I don't know if that's true, but add that to your questions.
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What I believed is that the more virus, the more variants.
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To me, if you had a billion times more viruses,
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they'd be just naturally mutating all over the place,
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and some of them would be stronger, like the Delta,
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But suppose only one person in the world was ever infected.
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Only one person in the world has ever been infected.
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Would that one person create just as many variants
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No, a billion people infected create more variants
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Well, let me tell you about the chicken vaccination.
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Except that it tells you the opposite of what you think.
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What is the thing everybody says about coronavirus?
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It only kills less than 1% of the people who get it,
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So coronavirus is a virus that kills almost nobody percentage-wise.
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The chicken virus would have killed all the chickens fairly quickly.
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the chicken virus basically just takes out the chicken.
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than the people who are sending it to me think.
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because these vaccinated chickens are just full of virus,
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Is it the vaccination that causes you to live longer?
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whereas the chicken virus created more infected chickens.