Episode 2207 Scott Adams： Fit To Sip To News. Bring A Beverage But Don't Use A Listless Vessel
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Summary
Scott Adams talks about a hurricane that has destroyed 30,000 of Hillary Clinton's emails, and how California has become self-cleaning. He also talks about micro-schools and why you should have more kids.
Transcript
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the next highlight of human civilization.
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And today, today I had to rewrite the simultaneous sip.
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So it'll be a little different today, and it's not my fault.
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It's not my fault. Events in the world caught up.
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But if you'd like to participate, all you need is a cup or mug or a glass, a tank or chalice or a stein, a canteen jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind.
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But otherwise, a vessel of any kind, except a listless one.
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And fill it with your favorite liquid I like, coffee.
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It's the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes you and everybody you know better.
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If I added beer to this, no, I'm not going to do that.
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As you know, the tropical storm Hillary smashed into California, Southern California, yesterday.
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The Babylon Bee reports that Hurricane Hillary destroyed 30,000 emails.
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So there's already been 30,000 emails destroyed by Hillary.
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And we hope that there will be not more damage.
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Now, I'm going to reuse a joke that I used on Breitbart Radio with Joel Pollack last night,
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which you can hear in replay if you go to my Twitter account, or Joel Pollack's Twitter account.
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But as I said on the radio, is it just a coincidence that there was an earthquake
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at the same time the rainstorm hit, at the same time that Los Angeles is becoming filthy
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with human excrement and all kinds of outdoor living?
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Now, did anybody think that there would have been a good time to just pour a little laundry detergent on the street?
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Just put a little bleach on there and just wait.
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Here's an update on my book, Reframe Your Brain, which is getting amazing reviews.
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But still not approved by Amazon for this off-cover.
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But we do now have a reason that it was so far not approved.
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The reason is something that their automatic system should have told me, told us the moment we submitted it.
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It was, you know, one little box that needs to be checked differently.
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So, in theory, once we make this change, I doubt it will automatically be approved.
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I suspect it will go back into a, well, we'll take several days to look at it and see if there's anything else we don't like.
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But in theory, it would be available tomorrow-ish.
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The Threads app, you know, Threads from Meta, it's the ex-competitor.
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Apparently, it's down 85% in traffic since its launch.
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So, before you could only access it with the app.
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So, now there are two ways to get to the thing you don't want.
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When there was only one way to get to the thing you don't want, that's not enough.
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Now, Zuckerberg finishes the job by giving you two ways to get to the thing you don't want to get to.
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Apparently, there's a whole bunch of them popping up.
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These are usually tuition-based private schools.
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If you've ever had a teen, can you back me on this statement?
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The biggest problem that kids have regarding school is what?
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What's the biggest problem kids have regarding public school?
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So, if you put anybody in any group, a big group of humans, terrible things happen.
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Have you ever talked to a teen about how hard it is to make friends in school?
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Because if you just walk in, you know, if you're not part of a team or something, you can't just make a friend.
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But imagine you were in a school where the whole school was 25 people who probably lived almost within walking distance.
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If you had a school of 25 people, you would almost certainly know all 25.
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You would almost certainly get invited to at least half of their birthday parties.
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It would really, I would think that that's almost the perfect size for a school.
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It seems like you'd always have somebody that you could hang around with because you'd know them better than you knew anybody.
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There's your free market working the way it was supposed to.
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Apparently, Trump is not going to debate, maybe at all, certainly during the primaries, but maybe he doesn't need to debate anybody.
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And I don't think there's anybody that less needs to debate than Trump.
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Is there anything about Trump's opinion you don't already know?
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Or anything about the way he operates that you don't already know?
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Do you suspect that if he gave a, if he did a debate, do you suspect it would be a fact-checking?
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Do you think he'd come out really good on the fact-checking?
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Well, history suggests that that might be a problem.
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I've heard people say it would be an insult to his supporters if he doesn't debate.
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But, you know, I'm backing Vivek Ramaswamy, but it seems to me that not debating would be the smartest thing to do.
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Why would his supporters want him to do something that would degrade his chances of winning?
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That's the least, the least reasonable take on this, is that his supporters will be unhappy if he does the smartest strategic thing that everybody can see.
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You don't have to be a genius to know that it creates a reason for him to get in trouble, because they take something out of context.
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You know, the primary's going to go the way it goes.
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And more generally, I would say, here's something I learned a long time ago.
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If you're the star, you don't share the stage with seven people who are not the star.
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If you could avoid it, you'd never, ever do it.
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Now, when Trump was first running, let's say, 2015, 16, he wasn't really the star yet.
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I mean, in a sense he was, but, you know, the other candidates were equal, you know, at least equal weight.
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But once you're the gigantic one, you don't hang around with the seven dwarves.
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So, every part about this is the right decision.
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If there's one thing that Trump gets right consistently, it's the show.
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You know, it's separate from the politics and the managing and the governing.
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So, he'll be counter-programming that, which is the smart play.
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All right, I'd like to call out some fake news from Fox News, I think.
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Do you remember the news that when Biden was on vacation and he was riding his bike with the other people,
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and as he rode his bike, somewhat at a little bit of a distance from the press,
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and the press were yelling questions, presumably,
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but one of the questions was, do you have a comment about the Maui fires?
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And the news reported that on the question about Maui, when Maui was burning,
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I saw somebody saying no comment in a general way, without regard to what the question was.
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Because that's what you would do in that situation.
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You would not choose one thing to give a no comment to as you're riding your bicycle by.
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You would simply see reporters, you're on vacation, they're going blah, blah, blah, and you say no comment, and you keep riding your bike.
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See, the trouble is that the no is too on the nose.
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If I haven't taught you the on the nose trick yet, what have I done?
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Yeah, it's a little too on the nose that the President of the United States would say no comment about a natural disaster.
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That's not really a thing that happens anywhere in the world ever.
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So when you see something that doesn't happen anywhere in the world ever, and the news says it just happened, that's too on the nose.
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Because that would be bad for one team in a really unusual way.
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Because that would require mind reading, right?
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I would actually have to know what was in Biden's mind when he said it.
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But you know what else would require mind reading?
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To imagine that he meant the no comment only about Maui.
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So I'm saying, if it would be mind reading in either interpretation,
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it's absurd that he would have said no comment about a national disaster that was in the making.
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So you have to accept something absurd to accept that that's a true story.
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Now, I haven't even looked it up to see what the Democrats say, but I'm sure it's that.
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I don't have to look it up to know that that's what they would say.
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All right, so, by the way, the reason I do this kind of content
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is so when I say something that you, you know, this sounds like I'm a team player,
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then you can at least say, okay, he doesn't always just back that one side.
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Because I call out the fake news on CNN and MSNBC just all the time.
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There are reports that he'll be bringing his beach chair and sunscreen,
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and he'll be on the beach enjoying the weather.
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Anyway, I saw Jason Chaffetz, also on Fox News.
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He had an article, the five signs that Biden is not really running.
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So one of the signs is his campaign is way understaffed for what you would expect for a presidential campaign for this time of the cycle.
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So he's not even staffing the way you would staff.
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The very thing you would absolutely be doing right now, go to battleground states and staff up, and then Kamala Harris is nowhere.
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You know, you could probably add five things to this list yourself.
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But at what point does it become super glaringly obvious that, and there's a little uncertainty here, because I'm sure that he's been told he's not running.
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And when I say he's been told, I mean he's been told.
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I mean that Jill told him he's not running, and he can't do it with ever.
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Now, again, that would be, you know, mind-reading, I'm not a psychic, I wasn't in the room.
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But all signals are pointing in the same direction.
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That this vacationing he's doing probably has a lot to do with transitioning him out of the office.
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There's a technology now, there's a paper published and a device built, an electrolyzer device that can turn CO2 into propane.
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And apparently it's somewhat existing technology that could be scaled.
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In other words, you don't have to invent anything else.
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It uses materials that exist that look scalable.
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If we could make energy out of CO2, and apparently it would be economical and doable.
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Again, I say, which climate model, which climate model anticipated turning CO2 into energy?
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There's some thought that video games, if they were optimized a little differently, could replace Adderall.
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So the people who have HD, well, ADD, HD, so that if there's an Adderall shortage, or they just didn't want to use a pill,
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that they could use a video game that had the qualities that would cause them to focus and maybe learn to focus,
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So in a sense, the experts are saying that a video game can operate the same way as a drug,
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meaning that whatever chemical change happens within the person,
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you could chemically change it with the video experience in a way that might be similar,
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you know, not the same, but similar to how a drug might help.
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Now, I would like to add to that to say that all forms of art are drugs.
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Music can motivate you, make you work out harder.
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So basically, the best way to think of all art is that it's a useful drug.
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But like every drug, every legal drug, let's just talk about legal ones,
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like every legal drug, if you used it for the wrong purpose, you would get a bad result.
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So if you match your music with the wrong kind of mood to whatever you're trying to accomplish,
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Now, this is something I've been saying forever, but I don't think I've ever gotten through.
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I think people say, yeah, yeah, yeah, some people like music.
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And if you treat it as a drug, you can use it in its most useful form to cheer you up,
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to make you happy, make you think differently, maybe concentrate better in this case.
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So it's just a good reframe to think of all art as a medicinal thing or something that could
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But if you use it wrong, playing sad music when you're sad, for example, don't do it.
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You know, the word from Maui is that the governors, there's a, I guess there's a head of Maui and
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then the governor of Hawaii, and neither of them are willing to say the number of missing
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They say it's going to be bad, it's a big number, but they're very, very vague.
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And at this point, we've all figured out that they know the answer.
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It's very clear that they're not telling us what they know, because, and in case there's
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anybody here who's got a low IQ, let's say under 80, let me explain this.
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That has nothing to do with not giving you the information.
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Counting and identifying bodies is not how you find out what the death count is.
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They have to do that because they have to do that, right?
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We have to treat the remains with respect and handle them, you know, in the most, in the
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So everything's about respect, so that don't confuse our knowledge of who died with the
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It's a small island, and the people who live there are the locals, right?
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There were probably very few tourists who died in the fire.
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I'm speculating that Lahaina was mostly locals, because if you were a tourist, you just drove
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So I think most of the tourists probably got out.
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I think probably the locals had the toughest time.
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Now, clearly there were vacationers who were victims.
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By now, the number of missing is a full list with actual full names, their ages, and even
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If it's been a week and you're still missing on Maui, you can't explain that by cell phones
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On Maui, you can walk from one side of the island to the other in a week.
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If the 1,000-ish people, I think they're saying 1,050, if those people are all on a physical
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list, we know their names and ages, and who the contact is when we find remains.
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So if the governor is not telling you what percentage are children, it's not because
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You all get that they do know, you know, within probably just a few, you know, within a few
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And they're very pointedly telling you they're not going to tell you the answer to the question.
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I don't believe the locals could handle the news.
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And I don't want to say that something kinetic would happen if they heard the news.
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But you would certainly have to worry about that.
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So I don't want to, you know, I don't want to say as directly as I could that this is
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Now, when you say to me, Scott, they're acting like we can't handle the truth.
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Let me say as clearly as possible, you can't handle this truth.
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If it's what I think it is, and every sign says it's going to be bad, the locals are not
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Now, maybe you and I can, because we have some distance, perhaps.
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But let me tell you, if it was your kid, and you hear what you don't want to hear, that's
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a very dangerous situation when people are working as hard as they can to remediate the
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So I'm not going to say that I agree with them not telling you.
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But if you think that it would be safe to tell the public right away, I would disagree
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It's definitely not safe to tell the public what they know.
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Would it be better if they waited a little bit?
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Because if they wait a little bit, they're going to get a better feel for the locals.
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Because the locals are absolutely dangerous at this point.
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That, presumably, the locals are completely weaponized at this point.
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And I think we've reached the point where the locals, I don't know if we can even generate
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enough empathy for what this situation is going to deserve.
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I think this is going to be beyond our imagination, unfortunately.
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You need to start getting your brain ready for what's coming.
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It's sort of the cats-on-the-roof situation, breaking it to you slowly.
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Sometimes it makes sense to break it to you slowly.
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They're making sure that they tell you when it's the right time to tell you.
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I think we should give everybody a little bit of consideration here.
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People are trying to do the best they can, certainly now.
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And I think this is a super tough situation for the authorities.
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So I think that they might want the energy to come down a little bit
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I hate it, but I don't know that it's the worst situation.
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He's got another video saying awesome, amusing, interesting things you want to hear.
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Funniest thing was, he was asked about the WEF.
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And he had this hilarious routine in which he hypothesizes that everything with an acronym is bad.
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And he goes through the list, and it just gets funnier and funnier because you're agreeing with him.
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He's like, well, you know, you get everything from the WEF to the FBI.
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He had an old list of acronym places that sound bad.
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But he, of course, is railing against the WEF and about ESG in particular.
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And I couldn't love him more for going against ESG directly and hard and effectively the way he is.
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But when I tweet anything about him, there's a type of comment I get from people who are clearly identified with the right.
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So I want to see if you have some insight for me.
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I still have a bad feeling about him with nothing else.
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He, quote, came out of nowhere, so I don't trust him.
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Despite the fact that his brand is talking out, is speaking against them.
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It's the most basic part of his campaign is that he's against these things.
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And people are saying, I think he's working for them.
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And then somebody today, just a few moments ago, said, I smell a fink.
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So there's some number of people on the right who suspect he's some kind of a trick or a puppet or something like that.
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Now, let's talk about this one where he came out of nowhere.
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And he's already done more than almost all of you.
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He's already a successful author, entrepreneur.
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And he's a candidate who went from 1% to 11%, whatever the numbers are.
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Now, does anybody think that I work for the WEF?
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So, and then somebody said that there's no way he could be doing this well unless he was backed by powerful forces.
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Vivek Ramaswamy, is he backed by powerful forces?
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But there are people that other people take seriously,
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For example, Elon Musk recently tweeted that, you know,
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he's a candidate with a lot of potential or something like that.
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And I think you're going to slowly see some other crop of internet dads at least say, take a look at him.
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My bottom line is the people saying, I've got a bad feeling.
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So as a feeling, it feels like it's coming from someplace unpleasant.
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I don't feel like it's coming from this part of your head.
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So I'm not going to blame you all for being racist if you've got these vague concerns about him.
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But you need to push back a little with a little more meat.
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But this whole there's something wrong with him situation is not feeling comfortable to me.
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Speaking of coming from the wrong place, Andy McCarthy.
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And generally one of the people that you'll see quoted as is good takes.
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Even if you disagree with him, he has like really well thought out takes.
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So it's important to know that he's very credible when I tell you this.
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That's before the Dems launch barrage after getting him nominated.
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If we finally grasp that, his support will collapse.
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And Dems use majorities to remake Supreme Court.
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I hadn't heard the 65% number before, but it's at least 50.
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Trump's negatives were so negative that there's no way he could win.
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Do you remember what I said when people said his negatives are way too high?
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So all he had to do was make Hillary look worse.
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So when you say that there's this huge negative against Trump, that ignores the fact that whoever
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gets nominated to run against him has to deal with Trump.
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I don't think Biden could have won in a non-pandemic, weird, hoax-filled year.
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But Trump is the ultimate insulter and brander and minimizer of other people.
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Once it becomes a choice between this Trump guy that so many people don't like versus any
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Democrat, what do you think Republicans are going to do?
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Stay home and let Gavin Newsom or Kamala Harris become president?
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Republicans would be like, ah, definitely I'd rather Trump over these other ones, but
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It sounds like they would see complete danger if Trump didn't win.
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So they would act like they're actually at risk.
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There would be actual fear that Democrat control is literally dangerous.
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I just give you the 2015 caution that we've been here before with Trump.
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Doesn't mean it will repeat, because you know what I say.
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It can't repeat, because you're always starting from a different place.
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If you're saying that you always get the same result, no matter what the situation when
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Follow the money is probably going to work in the future.
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But you can't know exactly what the outcome is of the weaselness.
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I'm getting now the Amazon reviews for my new book, Reframe Your Brain.
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And there's always a few types of reviews that I look for.
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My favorites are the I'm smarter than the author review.
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I always get them, and they always look the same.
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It's somebody saying, oh, when I read this book, there were so many things that I already
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knew that for me it was a three out of five stars because of the already knowing everything
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But if I may, if you were young, let's say you were 13, this might be quite a book for
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you because you, unlike me, would not know everything in the book before I read it.
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There's always that guy who knows more than the author.
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And the important thing is, the important thing is, not the review of the book, but that
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this person tells you they know more than the author.
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The other one you always get, I saw Tim Ferriss doing a reel about this recently.
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I used to like Scott for the other things he did.
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And the used to like him guy is just, you wouldn't want to run into this one at a party.
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Like you don't want to be their friend in real life.
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The people who use reviews just to get revenge because there's something I did once that they didn't like.
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For example, somebody called my current book Advice.
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It literally, and he said it was like common sense.
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It literally is a book that says this is not advice.
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It says that much of the reframes are nonsense, but they work.
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It's literally how to rearrange the structure of your brain.
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And his take was, I've heard this advice before.
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How do you read the whole book and miss the biggest part of the book, which everybody else seemed to see pretty easily?
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It's a negative review of somebody who picked up the book.
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Here I will use Greg Gottfeld's new book as my example.
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Oh, yeah, he's saying that people don't succeed every time.
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Oh, I knew that people didn't succeed every time.
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So I guess this is a book full of things that I don't need.
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I saw Adam Kinzinger tweeted that Tucker is a traitor to the U.S.
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So Adam Kinzinger, he's in Congress and says Tucker is a traitor to the U.S.
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because Tucker was going to talk to some Serbians for an interview.
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If you want to call somebody a traitor, there's a way to do it.
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A way not to call somebody a traitor is if your profile has a Ukrainian flag sitting equally to an American flag.
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If you're going to call somebody else a traitor, you should at least temporarily remove the Ukrainian flag.
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And if that's not good enough, you should also get rid of the phrase that he has that I believe is Slava Ukraine.
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You might want to put in like a God bless America, something like that, and then just temporarily get rid of the Ukrainian flag and then the praise for Ukraine.
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Just only for the purpose of calling other people traitors.
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But don't do it at the same time that you're promoting another country while you're sitting in Congress in the United States.
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I saw this comment from Glenn Greenwald who was looking at somebody else's tweet.
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And I had never considered this, and therefore, I feel myself lacking.
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So I'm chastising myself for not understanding this take.
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The group that by far most supports U.S. fueling of the war in Ukraine is self-identified liberal Democrats.
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Even as Western media admits the counter-offensive is failing.
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One major reason is that they loathe Russia due to 2016 and are thus willing to destroy Ukraine to harm Moscow.
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To the left, it looks like Russia got Trump elected.
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To the left, Trump and Russia are the same orange monster.
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Which, you know, I actually am apologizing for, because it's kind of obvious after you hear it.
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It wasn't until I read it that my brain said, what?
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Now, I'm not saying every person is having this, you know, specific thought.
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But if you ask Democrats, they'll say that Russia got Trump elected.
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And, you know, Russia and Trump are good buddies.
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Because their news has abused them to the degree that they actually believe that.
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Now, my blind spot is that, since I know that's baloney, it never occurred to me that anybody would see Trump and Russia as somehow connected in 2023.
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They get the zombie news that never gets debunked.
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It's like, well, we said it, so I guess we'll just keep saying it.
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And even though people are debunking it outside your bubble, you'll never know.
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But how many agree that Russia may look like the big bad enemy to the left because they think it's Trump.
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And they don't even know that it's all, that they think it's all one big thing.
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But it also makes me wonder if there's some way to fix that.
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And I doubt it because the hoaxes that drive it, they all believe.
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Now, I saw some speculation that one of the reasons that Elon Musk wants to get rid of blocking
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is that it would disable mass blocking lists, which apparently exist.
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I've never seen one or participated in one, but I might be on one.
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And I know, could somebody fill in the new guy on Locals?
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So if I'm in the middle of talking something and you tell me about the lighting being inadequate,
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the sound being inadequate, where I haven't hit the private button,
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If my mind is in process, then I can't do the show.
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So I'd ask the other locals, people, just to let the other people know,
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I mean, if you do it during the man cave or something, then that's different.
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But don't do it right in the middle of the show.
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Now, so the question I have is I heard that you've seen studies that the people on the left
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don't see tweets from people on the right and vice versa.
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All right, well, I have a question on fact about that.
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To me, it seems like the division or the, you know, the silos of information have more
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to do with the fact that you don't follow people you don't want to follow.
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It seems like if you don't follow the other side, you're not going to see their stuff.
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So I don't think that has anything to do with the blocking stuff.
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Now, and then keep in mind, it's not just about blocking and muting.
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is saying that they're working on something that would be better than blocking and muting.
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I'm in favor of any kind of experimenting that can be reversed.
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But, like I've said before, I would not want X to base its policy on what's good for a thin slice of specific kind of users
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I hate to say it, but my personal preferences should not have anything to do with policy at X.
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But, you know, some of the people I follow are just flamethrowers.
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You know, George Takai is like a really interesting leftist.
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If there are Democrats you think that I should follow, let me know.