Episode 2141 Scott Adams: Trump Sock Drawer Argument, Fox News Chyron Hero, Canadian Arsonists, More
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Summary
A new kind of hydrogel could solve the world's water problem, and a bunch of other problems, including climate change, AI, and the burning of forests. Plus, a conspiracy theory about what would you do if you woke up one day and realized that your life had a limit.
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For those of you in a different time zone, just wait.
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This one's sort of a repeat, but I like it so much I'm going to tell you.
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Researchers at MIT have developed this absorbent hydrogel.
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And what it does is it sucks moisture out of the air.
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So you could put this hydrogel in the desert, and it would create drinking water.
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It just continues sucking water out of the air, and then you have clean water.
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Oh, and also, apparently it's easy to mass produce it.
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Did we just solve the entire water problem of the world?
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But would this allow people to live on the ocean?
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Because this isn't the biggest problem of living in the ocean, getting water, right?
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So if you didn't need to use any of your energy to desalinate, could you not live on the ocean?
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The entire nature of how human beings live in the world could be changed by this little hydrogel.
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Because now you're not bound by water supplies.
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Humans have been bound by water, access to water forever.
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Because it always takes 10 years for anything to get big.
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But suppose we had fusion energy, effectively almost free and infinite.
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At the same time, we had free and infinite water.
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The two things that a civilization needs the most to thrive.
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By the way, in the Dilbert Reborn comic that you can only see if you're a subscriber on Twitter,
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to my Twitter feed, or if you're on the Locals platform, scottadams.locals.com,
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you would see that Dilbert's CEO is now testifying to Congress
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So if you want to see Dilbert's CEO testifying to Congress about the dangers of AI,
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Apparently, these Canadian wildfires seem to have been set by arsonists.
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And it appears they have an ongoing Canadian arson problem.
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And, of course, the question is, is somebody paying these people?
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Are they environmentalists who are kind of warped,
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and they think this will make people do something about climate change?
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Because the news is covering it as a climate change story.
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It doesn't even seem a little bit like a climate change story.
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But do you think that individuals just sort of wake up one day
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and a bunch of completely different people say,
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Has anybody ever thought of burning down a forest?
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I don't necessarily see a grand Chinese plot behind any of it,
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I mean, if I were China and I were trying to destroy North America,
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So I don't know if they've figured that out yet,
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That wokeness, like everything else, has a limit.
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because Biden's, you know, mentally gone, basically.
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It's people you wouldn't hire to run a Ben and Jerry's.
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if it's those two, I'm going to vote for Trump
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I don't think you could say that a year ago.
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But then he goes after the diversity hires in the cabinet.
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the diversity hires are destroying the country?
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By the way, I have no reason to believe they are.
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Does anybody take cabinet members seriously?
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of putting political cronies in cabinet positions?
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because of all of his transportation experience?