Episode 1738 Scott Adams： Elon Musk Worries About Being Murdered, Supply Chain Mysteries, And More
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Scott Adams talks about a new kind of airship, Elon Musk, the war in Ukraine, climate change, and much, much more. It's the perfect Sunday morning caffeine hit, and you're going to love it.
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La-da-da-da, ra-ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba, la-da-da-da.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the Highlight of Civilization.
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and today we will be talking about 2,000 mules.
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We will be talking about the war in Ukraine and all things interesting, and some other
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It's going to be the best time you ever had while you're exercising or getting ready for
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And all you need to make it extra special is a cup or mug or a glass, a tinkered shell,
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a stein, a canteen, a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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So apparently Lockheed Martin is building these hybrid airships that are part lighter than
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So they fill them with a gas, but they're actually heavier than air.
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So now they've got orders for these hybrid airships that are the size of a football field.
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And they can carry 20 tons of cargo to remote spaces, which is a pretty big deal.
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Because a lot of remote spaces are where you drill for oil or you need resources or, you know,
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So I can't imagine what would be cooler than traveling by a gigantic airship.
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I would just think it would be a cool way to travel in luxury.
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By the way, here's a cool little related factoid.
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When I was testing virtual reality goggles, I think it was HTC's goggles.
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One of the contents that you could explore was you could go into the Hindenburg, the airship
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You could go to the control area where the pilot is.
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You could walk into the back area and see stuff scattered around.
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But the funniest thing was that on the airship that caught fire and blew up, they had a smoking
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They asked people, among other things, how likely is it that climate change will be a
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And half of the people who asked, about 50%, thought that it was a good chance or at least
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So half of the country thinks there's a catastrophe coming in the next hundred years.
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If you looked at the half of the country that believes that everything's going to go to
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hell versus the half that thinks everything will be okay, do they have the same amount
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In theory, they would have fewer children, right?
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But I do wonder if scaring one side has a difference in who ultimately survives.
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Because the ones who are not afraid will be the ones who have children.
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If the left is in favor of abortion and maybe less in favor of traditional marriage and
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traditional children having, it wouldn't make sense that they would be in favor of immigration
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because it would be the only way to repopulate the country.
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And now I have to think about it a little more.
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Is it a coincidence that the people who want to create their own humans don't want as many
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to come from the outside, but the ones who can't or won't think they need some more outside
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Rasmussen also asked who's in favor of drilling, doing more drilling.
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60% of the country was leaning in that direction, which makes sense.
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You know, that's basically most Republicans and you pick up a few independents and stuff,
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And 52% said Biden should focus on oil and gas prices, which I don't know how you could
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do much about them except for drilling more and building more pipelines.
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And 34% say he should focus more on limiting carbon dioxide emissions.
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Now, what would the country look like if half of the country were not convinced that we had
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I feel as though the news has really changed the entire nature of innovation and technology.
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In fact, the direction of civilization itself is really kind of dependent on what we think
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So climate change is kind of the macro thing that's guiding everything, all the smaller
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It would mean that the news basically trimmed $50 trillion off the GDP for no good reason.
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But I do think that fighting against climate change, even if it's not going to be a catastrophe,
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which I think it won't be, because I think we'll respond to it.
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Not because it isn't a problem, just to be clear.
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I just think we'll figure out how to respond to it adequately.
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Everybody says, Scott, why don't you go watch Dinesh D'Souza's big hit movie,
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2,000 mules, which refers to the mules being humans who allegedly ballot harvested and brought
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ballots to boxes and maybe stuffed them with people who weren't going to vote on their own.
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So we don't know that exactly what crimes may or may not have been perpetrated there.
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It goes like this, Scott, Scott, Scott, do not form an opinion on this movie unless you've watched it.
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Do you think it's reasonable that I should not form my opinion until I watch the movie?
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How many think that that's a reasonable thing to say?
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To have an opinion on a movie without watching it?
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What would you think of me if I had a strong opinion about the movie, or didn't have any opinion,
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You could not be more wrong than the answers you're giving me right now.
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And I'm going to change your mind, and you won't believe how easily I'll do it.
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Because right now, the most obvious, clear, smart thing that anybody could say is that you have to watch the movie before forming an opinion.
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That is the cleanest, most obvious thing anybody could ever tell you.
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Watch the Michael Jackson documentary that says he absolutely, definitely molested a bunch of children.
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When you watch that documentary, you will be convinced that he definitely did those crimes.
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Then watch the documentary that came out later that says that the accusations are bullshit and there's no way he did any of that stuff.
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You will walk away completely convinced that he did nothing and that he was set up.
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If you think watching one documentary tells you something, you don't know anything.
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So if you think that watching the documentary will give me an opinion that will tell me that either there was fraud or there was not, you're so wrong.
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I will not form an opinion after watching the movie.
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Why will I not form an opinion after watching it?
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Because you haven't seen the opposite documentary, have you?
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If somebody made another documentary whose only purpose was to debunk this documentary, do you think it would be persuasive?
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It might all be lies, but it would be persuasive, right?
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I'm not saying that to debunk would be the accurate one and this is not accurate.
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But if you don't understand that any good documentary will convince you it's true, you haven't learned a fucking thing.
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Let me say that again, because I want to insult you a little bit, because I want you to feel this.
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If you think that watching any documentary gives you information, you're fucking wrong.
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You could not be more wrong about anything than that.
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Now, but let me say clearly, I do have my suspicions about the election.
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And I do imagine, while I'm quite sure of it, I'm sure if I watched the documentary, I would be even more certain at the end of it that something sketchy happened.
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Those of you who have seen it, would you agree with that assessment?
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That if I watch it, I will certainly come away with the impression that something sketchy happened.
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Now, why do I have to watch it since I already know what will happen?
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There's a 100% chance that I know what will happen if I watch it without even knowing what the content is.
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So that's the reason that I'm telling you that if you were convinced by the documentary, the only thing you learned is that documentaries are persuasive.
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If you think you learned that an election was sketchy because you watched a documentary, and this is not about Dinesh D'Souza.
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This is about thinking you learned something from a fucking documentary.
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If you don't see the other side, you know absolutely fucking nothing.
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Like, okay, I'm being too much of an asshole about this.
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But how many of you are bothered and persuaded at the same time?
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If you feel certainty because you watched a documentary, no matter how well done,
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no matter how accurate, no matter how credible, no matter how correct,
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if you formed a certain opinion by watching one side, you've learned nothing.
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Do you not see that you're being fed exactly what you wanted to believe?
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How hard is it to convince you of something you already believed?
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So just be a little bit more critical about this movie.
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In fact, what I've heard of it sounds like a reasonable approach.
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And by the way, I've looked at the debunk, and the debunk looks like bullshit.
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So I haven't seen the movie, but I've seen the debunk, and I read the debunk.
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I was like, that's the best you can do for a debunk?
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That maybe the cell phone data isn't as accurate as it should be, to know that somebody actually
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That's where you're going to bank your argument on?
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We've got zillions of videos of people putting multiple things in boxes.
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Then add the cell phone data that says the same people went to multiple boxes lots of times.
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And you're telling me, you know, that, well, first of all, that doesn't prove that there's
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So if you believe the debunk, you're a fucking idiot.
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If you believed any debunk of the movie, you're a fucking idiot.
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If you believe the movie because it agrees with what you believed, and you think that
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watching a documentary tells you something, you're a fucking idiot.
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I don't mean to offend, but I am trying to get your blood boiling a little bit, right?
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Because I'm honestly concerned, like genuinely, I'm concerned if you believe documentaries.
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If you think, you know, you learn to not believe the news, right?
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Don't you feel better that you don't believe the news?
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And again, this has nothing to do with this documentary.
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How many of you tried to watch 2,000 Mules, as I did, several times, and were thwarted each
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I did a little poll because I was wondering, am I just having some kind of massive boomer
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That every time I go to watch this fucking movie, I can't figure out how to do it?
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And 30% of the people who responded said they couldn't figure out how to watch the movie.
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Let me tell you, so this is a subset of my discussion the other day.
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I didn't mean to call you stupid Hugh, so I apologize for that.
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Oh, so I've said before that streaming movies has become impossible to do because you can
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never remember which platform you wanted to watch, and your password's always wrong, and
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your credit card expired, and you can't find the thing, and it's not out yet, and there's
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So I've tried now, I think, five times to purchase or watch the movie.
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Now, I'm still going to do it, because that's actually my normal amount of failing to watch
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So once I clicked a link to go to Rumble, and the page never opened.
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So one time Rumble just, I don't know, the server didn't work, or I don't know.
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I've clicked on several links that purport to be the movie but aren't.
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I've clicked on several links that purport to be the movie but are really the trailer.
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I've clicked on several links to places where it used to be, but it's canceled.
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I went to Locals, and there was a page I didn't recognize.
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I couldn't tell if it was telling me to subscribe for a year or it was just buying the movie.
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So I thought, I don't know, is there some place I could watch it for free?
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Because I didn't want to put in my credit card information unless I had to.
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So then I looked for it for free, and then I go to Rumble.
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And Rumble, again, I got a trailer instead of the movie.
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And then I finally went back to Locals and tried to buy it there,
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because I figured, oh, it looks like some kind of special page just for content buying.
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The page was so unclear, I didn't know if I was buying a subscription to Locals
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And then finally I got to the point where I said, all right, I guess this is how I buy it.
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So I started putting in my credit card information,
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And where I have it written down, I have the old one.
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And so I thought, I have a rule that I won't get up and go get my wallet.
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I'll just cancel what I'm doing and do something else.
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So the next time I try, maybe I'll not try unless I have my credit card near me and everything.
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So, by the way, so how many of you have a similar experience
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where you went to watch the movie and you just got thwarted time and time again?
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Now, again, this has almost nothing to do with a specific movie.
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Streaming is now so hard, you just can't do it.
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30% of the time you're going to do it, you just don't.
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You don't hear anybody who's 30 years old arguing, you know, even talking about this stuff.
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But there are a lot of boomers and we're trying to watch this thing.
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Because it seemed to me that the supply chain was a, you know, end of civilization size problem.
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That's the exception that proves the rule, right?
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The fact that we're only talking about baby formula and microchips now and then,
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But in terms of everybody, and even the baby formula thing, probably we'll figure it out, I imagine.
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Could it be that the supply chain is making enough corrections that the important stuff is getting through?
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And that the things we're waiting for, we were sort of used to waiting for?
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Prior to a supply chain problem, have you ever tried to buy furniture?
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Buy a piece of furniture with no supply chain problems whatsoever.
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How about ordering a car with no supply chain problems?
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So the things that I'm waiting for are things that I thought I would wait for anyway.
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You know, so maybe they say, well, if your ship has electronic drum sets on it, you can wait.
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And if you've got something important on it, like a microchip, well, go to the front of the line.
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So I'm guessing that there was an 80-20 thing that happened, where instead of just first come, first serve, they just do the 20% that's the 80% important.
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And so we don't notice that things are 20% degraded because we're getting our important stuff.
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So I feel like that must be what's happening, where it's not being reported, but I'm assuming that the Adams Law of Slow-Moving Disasters is in play.
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That there are millions of people making millions of small adjustments to get the important stuff to us faster and maybe slow the less important stuff.
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So, but I also don't know if we're near some kind of breaking point.
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At this point, I would say my grocery stores have more things than they did during the pandemic.
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So I have more things, and I would say that the weight for goods that I order by mail is not too bad.
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I've probably ordered, I don't know, 25 things by Amazon in the past, maybe a month.
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I think one of them is, and it's a trivial product, delayed a month.
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There's no reason you couldn't put the important ones to the front of the line.
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I don't see any physical reason you couldn't do that.
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That's probably what's going on, that the food is mostly U.S. food.
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But we've got massive droughts, and we've got problems with fertilizers and all kinds of things.
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If I die under mysterious circumstances, it's been nice knowing you.
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If I die under suspicious circumstances, or mysterious.
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Do you think he's seriously concerned that somebody will kill him?
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Now, I don't think the odds are very high, but I think that's absolutely real.
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Now, do you think that if you're the richest person in the world, you have access to, presumably, politicians and power brokers and the people who really can see behind the curtain?
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Aren't you a little worried that somebody who can see behind the curtain way better than you can thinks that there's somebody back there who might murder him for what?
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Buying Twitter and finding out what the deal was there?
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I feel as if he already knows he's going to find something at Twitter that will be really, really bad for somebody who has power.
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Now, he's being ambiguous here, so we don't know what topic he's even referring to.
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We don't know if it's based on some specific information or just a general fear.
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But I'm worried about it because he knows more than you do about how stuff works in the real world.
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I know a little bit and maybe more than some of you just because I have access to some stuff.
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But he has way more access than just about anybody, right?
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And he probably is already getting, here's my guess.
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Can you see any possibility that Twitter insiders are not already talking to Musk?
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Don't you think there's somebody who wanted to suck up to him in the technical world and said,
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look, before you get complete control of the company, let me tell you what's going on here and where to look.
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There's got to be somebody who thinks it's in their best interest to do exactly that.
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There's got to be at least one secret conservative or patriot or just free speech person.
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They don't even have to be Republican or anything.
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But there has to be at least one person at Twitter who knows how to reach Musk and knows what the deal is.
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By now, he's probably heard at least rumors of what he might find.
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And if the rumors about what he might find or how he might control Twitter also is enough to make him worried about being murdered,
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So after he tweets, if I die under mysterious circumstances, it's been nice knowing you,
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Elon tweets, sorry, I will do my best to stay alive.
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How small the world gets when, you know, you feel like you're talking directly to Elon Musk
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and then he's talking to his mom and you're part of the conversation.
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It just makes the whole world seem so small and personal.
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And then some Saudi person with a lot of followers was saying that if he,
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And Elon Musk replied, I'm okay going to hell if I die
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because the vast majority of all humans ever born will be there.
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Now, remember when you thought that Trump was the best tweeter of all times?
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But you can't get much better at tweeting than this.
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And sure enough, his tweeting to replace all marketing is working again.
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I mean, I could not be more interested in Twitter right now because of his involvement.
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And I'm sure that my Twitter numbers are probably still going up.
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I think it has more to do with him buying the company.
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Because a lot of the conservative-leaning folks had big bumps.
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So the day before Elon Musk was announcing things,
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my numbers were anywhere from under 100 new followers a day to 300 would be a good day.
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As soon as he bought it, these are the number of new followers.
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So on the day that he bought it, I got 10 times the number of new followers.
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The next day 20 times, next day 10 times, next day 15 times, next day about 8 times.
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And we're still at, today or yesterday was 856 new followers.
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So it's some kind of a multiple or two or three or something or 10 of number of followers.
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And I don't feel that that's just the shadow banning thing being loosened.
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I feel like it might be just more people coming to the platform.
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He says it's just people coming to the platform.
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Anyway, I've noticed that Elon has responded directly to Mike Cernovich at least several times.
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And it's interesting to see how much he's on, that Cernovich is on Musk's radar.
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They clearly have, you know, some commonality of thinking about some of these important things.
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And one of the most interesting ways to watch the news is to watch who knows who, to know who's influencing whom and, you know, what alliances are being formed.
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And so Mike Cernovich printed out a left-wing account that was talking violently and noting that that person had not been banned by Twitter.
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And Elon Musk responded to that tweet from Cernovich saying that Twitter obviously has a strong left-wing bias.
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So there's no doubt about what Elon Musk intends, nor about what he thinks about this whole situation, which I love.
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Are you following this whole situation with Steve Schmidt?
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He was one of the Lincoln Project anti-Trumper famous people.
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And he went on this tweeting tirade, where for somebody followed it and said for 24 hours, he just kept tweeting like crazy and hardly took any time off from tweeting.
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And it takes a minute and a half just to scroll through all of his tweets for that one day.
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And people are asking, is there something wrong with him?
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You know, does he have a mental issue or is there some kind of drug he's on?
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But as someone smart said, the only times they've ever seen this kind of a change in behavior wasn't because of mental health.
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It wasn't because of a sudden mental health problem.
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But people have seen sudden changes like this when some kind of drug was involved.
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I'm just saying his behavior looks unusual for his past behavior.
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So, again, I'm not making that allegation because we're just observers.
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And I think that we have to, and somebody says he's a narcissist and that's what's going on.
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But the Amber Heard or Amber Turd trial has definitely alerted us to how a certain group of people act.
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You know, with projection and gaslighting and, you know, lying about everything and blah, blah, blah, blah.
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And it seems to me that this looks exactly like something's going on there.
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So there's either, you know, personality disorder or mental illness, which are sort of cousins,
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or some kind of change in medication or drug situation.
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But watching somebody at this level of, I guess, you know, what do we call it, prominence,
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I hate to use that meltdown because people use that about me whenever I get on a rant.
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And I think that we have to be careful about knowing what is a political opinion and what is a health problem.
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I feel like we should be a little smarter about knowing what's a health problem.
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Wall Street Journal has an article in which they talk about a study that said kids who have healthy early attachments to a caregiver,
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such as a parent, so if they have a good, loving, protected relationship with a parent, at least one,
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they'll be in better shape to withstand the, let's see, the lure of social media.
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And the social media won't bother them as much because they've had some love and care from a parent.
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Now, that's one interpretation, is that the kids who had early good associations with parents can resist social media better.
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How about some kids are born the kind of kid who will easily form an attachment to an adult?
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Do you think every kid is capable of forming a strong attachment to an adult?
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Have you not been around enough kids to know that some form attachments with adults and some don't?
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The kid decides if they have an attachment to you.
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It's not your decision how attached a kid is going to be to you.
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And have you ever seen, you know, three kids raise the same, but one of them has an attachment and one doesn't?
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I mean, you know, this is such an obviously bullshit study.
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Because to me, the biggest part of this is just that the kids are biologically, genetically, they have different impulses.
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Some of them have an impulse to be close to a parent.
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Maybe they have the same desire, but they act differently to get it.
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So I would say this is yet another study that you shouldn't put any credibility in whatsoever.
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Well, here's the story that I find most interesting today.
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So Russia had its May 9th Victory Day celebration.
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And normally they parade their military stuff and they talk about how awesome they are.
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And people were expecting Biden, or not Biden, they were expecting Putin to say something like they were having victories in Ukraine, but he didn't.
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So he claimed no victory in Ukraine, even partial victory.
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He said that the Russian soldiers are fighting bravely in Ukraine.
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Now here is the linguistic path that this has taken.
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At the beginning of the war, all the smart people said, and of course, I don't think any real smart people said this.
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Let's say the media was saying that Russia would just conquer Ukraine in two days and in and out.
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Now, then they went from, they'll crush them in 48 hours to, okay, it's not going to be 48 hours.
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You know, even the United States took longer than that to conquer Iraq.
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It really meant that Russia is so much stronger military that they will definitely win.
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Yeah, it just might take a little longer, but they're definitely, definitely going to win.
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So we went from two days they're going to win to, well, they're going to win.
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And then the next step we have achieved, in which Putin says that his team is fighting bravely.
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Nobody who's winning is called fighting bravely.
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I'm saying that the linguistic path went all the way from easy win to tough win to, oh, shit, at least we're fighting bravely.
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To me, that sounds like Russia feels they're losing.
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Now, you could say, Scott, you're reading too much into this.
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I mean, you could look at the coverage yourself.
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It did go from two days to, oh, they'll get it done.
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And suddenly the news coverage from there seems to be all the same.
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Tomorrow, let me predict the headlines tomorrow.
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The Ukrainians have pushed back the Russians in some places that probably aren't important.
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Still having trouble getting weapons to Ukraine.
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How hard would it be for me to tell you the news tomorrow?
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The Poland ambassador from Russia, so Russia's Poland ambassador, one of them,
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was at an event to mark, I guess, the Victory Day, and he was hit with red paint at a Poland Victory Day event.
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So the ambassador's standing there, and the interesting thing is he's not trying to clean the paint off his face.
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He went full of Jussie Smollett and left the paint on and just made sure everybody got a good picture of it.
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And I thought to myself, that's a pretty good diplomat.
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That he didn't get angry when he was covered with paint, and he didn't even take it off.
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I use them as a mocking source, if you haven't watched my content.
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Well, I think there's going to be a lot more of that.
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I think it's going to be real tough for any kind of Russian diplomat to feel safe in any country anywhere.
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I think Russian diplomats are, unfortunately, going to be targeted.
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I don't endorse that, but I think it's going to happen.
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It was in the New York Post, an article by Melanie Notkin.
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And she's talking about the wage gap and the trouble that women will have finding a partner.
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Now, the good news is that women's incomes are up.
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And good news for women, anyway, is that in 2021, nearly 60% of college students were women.
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So that means that men are moving into more labor types of jobs, which would be lower paying, typically.
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And women are moving into what could be, at least if they take the right majors, higher paying jobs.
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And the article goes on, Melanie Notkin's article, reporting that it's really hard to find a woman.
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And one of the speculative reasons, I'm sorry, it's really hard for the women to find a man that they're willing to, let's say, marry,
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And traditionally, from an evolutionary perspective, women have been attracted to men who have resources.
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Because you need resources to stay alive and raise babies and stuff like that.
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So what happens if women are the ones making the money and having the babies, which looks like what's happening?
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Then men are sort of, kind of don't have a purpose.
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And so, what happens when women just can't find men, the kind of men they want to marry,
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because the kind of men they can find are just, they're not killing it?
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Somebody's complaining that I made his penis obsolete.
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And so I think that there is a, definitely a big shift going on.
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I think the women are becoming men and the men are becoming women.
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And I mean that in a hyperbolic but also in a literal sense,
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that the women are becoming more masculine, the men are becoming more feminine.
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I don't know if that's social media or that's diet or lifestyle or, I don't know what that is.
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But it's definitely happening, wouldn't you say?
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Wouldn't you say that that is a very, it might be soy.
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I do know that our system of traditional marriage will probably become just one option.
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But I think the non-traditional marriage area is going to explode.
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I do not see a trend back toward traditional marriage.
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There will always be plenty of people who want them.
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But as a percentage of the total, I think it will continue to decrease.
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I'm just saying that it looks like that's an obvious trend.
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Imagine 200 years ago, there was nothing to do but work and try to survive.
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If you married the neighbor's daughter, well, you were lucky and that probably worked out.
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But imagine you're in this world where you have infinite choices, it seems like, for everything.
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And you could shop for a new mate anywhere in the world and ship him in if things click.
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I feel like our pickiness is through the roof because we can be picky.
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If you couldn't be picky, then you get over it and you just, all right, I guess I'll marry the neighbor's daughter.
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And if we are picky in all of our other decisions, from what app to use to what clothes to wear to everything,
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if we become super, super picky, I think marriage is doomed.
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Because you're going to get married and then you get real picky about your spouse and then it's over.
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So I think our pickiness and the explosion of choices and options makes marriage essentially obsolete.
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It'll always be the right solution for some group of people.
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But it's mostly obsolete for most people pretty soon, I think.
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Yeah, try getting off the Internet and joining the club.
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You know, if I did not do this for work, I'm pretty sure I would just get off of social media.
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But I don't find value in any social media beyond the fact that I have a functional value right here.
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But if I were not doing this and I were only just trying to have a job and a family or whatever,
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I wouldn't pay attention to anything except that I do it professionally.
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That means that the important part of our presentation is over.
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You've never had a biological family, so your understanding is less.
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All right, I'm going to try not to go off on you for that comment, but I really want to.
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Well, I'll try to do it without going off on you.
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It is true that if you don't have a biological family, you can't understand it.
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But the concept is people who have not had a biological family.
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So everybody I'm talking about is people who have the same situation as me,
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And I would acknowledge that if they did experience it,
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they would be addicted to it and they would like it.
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Because when you have a kid, you're pretty happy you had a kid most of the time.
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Most of the time, you're pretty happy you did it.
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that I would have a different appreciation of it if I had a biological child,
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and decide not to because it doesn't work for them.
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But I agree that if they went ahead and did it anyway,
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Do you think me blocking somebody is a question of censorship?
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How many think that me blocking trolls is censorship?
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I feel like that's just me deciding what I want to look at.
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My reasons for not having kids are the same as AOCs.
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Does AOC say she doesn't want to bring somebody into the world
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Oh, those Virginity Rocks t-shirts have nothing to do with preferring virginity.
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So, yeah, that's a big brand for the young kids, the teens.
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or I don't know if it's a brand or it's a saying,
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Oh, somebody's asking if I could father AOC's baby.
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Do I think that Elon has people doing his tweets for him
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It would be impossible for someone else to write Trump's good tweets.
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But the good tweets that Trump did, those were Trump.
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and designed the tweet as I was standing there.