Episode 2262 Scott Adams： CWSA 10⧸15⧸23
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Summary
I had a really good day and a really bad day yesterday, and I'm here to tell you why it was good and why it wasn't good, and why you should be grateful that you had a good day, too.
Transcript
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the greatest thing that's ever happened to you, probably.
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And if you'd like your experience today, which is already phenomenal,
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to go up to levels that I just can't even explain it's so good,
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well, all you need to do that is a cup or mug or a glass,
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a tanker, chels, or stein, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind,
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fill it with your favorite liquid I like, coffee,
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the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better,
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So yesterday I had a really good, terrible day.
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I don't know if any of you experienced anything like this.
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It was very good and terrible at the same time.
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It was very good in the sense that everything that happened yesterday was good.
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I mean, everything was just clicking, just clicking.
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Because there are two major wars in the world right now
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you know, one more than the other at the moment.
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I mean, whatever it is, it's, you know, maximum hell.
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The experience of feeling literally guilty that you had a good day?
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Because when you watch people who are in such dire straits,
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I mean, it's not like people haven't been in dire straits
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You know, our media is feeding it to us in a different way.
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I mean, I felt, you know, the normal amount of empathy.
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But there's something about Gaza that's just a little extra.
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Could be it's just the combined weight of things.
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Well, as you know, my famous story that I say way too often,
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but I've come to the conclusion that I can't say it enough
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because it might be the most important thing in at least America.
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And I tell you that a few, just, I don't know, several months ago,
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and for a few years during the pandemic especially,
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I was so sore all the time that life just was barely worth living, honestly.
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So I made some changes to my diet, and it just completely stopped.
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So yesterday, long walk, full, you know, full exercise,
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not a single bit of inflammation, full exercise, not a sore, not anything,
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Now, I don't want to throw anybody under the bus,
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but one of the habits I changed was, you know, famously,
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I would always eat a bagel right after the show.
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I would always talk about waiting for my bagel because it's so good.
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But I decided to, you know, I gained a few pounds,
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and usually I have a trigger at about five pounds, right?
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If I creep up five pounds, which I usually do in the winter,
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then I'll reverse things and, you know, try to slowly come down.
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So I stopped eating bread and started with not eating the bagels.
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And I started to suspect that maybe bread was my problem because not long after
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And so I Googled, do bagels cause inflammation?
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Some people say it's the, some kind of preservatives.
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Because they say it doesn't, it's not the same in Europe because the preservatives are different.
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But some say it's something to do with the pesticides that are put on the wheat
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I will just tell you that when I started looking into what foods cause inflammation,
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That takes away a third of your diet right there.
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So this is not, I'm not expressing this as fact.
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I'm telling you that if you look on the internet or listen to other people who seem to know
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what they're talking about, they'll tell you don't eat sugar, any kind of grains, bread,
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pasta, oatmeal, any kind of pre-made packaged foods, anything with vegetable oil, that's almost
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everything, anything with preservatives, almost every kind of sauce or liquid that isn't
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And then my favorite category, the so-called nightshade foods, nightshade.
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If you're not familiar with that term, that's stuff like tomatoes, potatoes, and eggplants.
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I've got a feeling it's more like a solution than a problem.
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And I'm a vegetarian, so I'm speaking against my own diet.
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If you were going to try to have, you know, no inflammation in your diet, that would give
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you some vegetables, but you'd have to stay away from the, you know, potatoes and eggplants.
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Most fruit, but you'd have to stay away from tomatoes, I guess.
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You could do some clean forms of meat, probably, eggs maybe, and that's about it.
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So I experimented eating a lot of, you know, strawberries and blueberries that are supposed
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I don't recommend nuts because I think maybe enough people have nut allergies that I wouldn't
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And when I ate completely clean, I had two observations.
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I mean, everything felt better from my mind to my body in every way, felt better.
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And I was super unhappy because I didn't enjoy eating.
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You want to just enjoy the feeling, but man, you don't really get much of that if you eat
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So that's my suggestion is that all grocery stores should be reorganized and the grocery
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Now, some people said incorrectly, but Scott, it already is.
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What you do is you go in the store and you only go around the perimeter because the perimeter
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That would include all of your nightshade that allegedly causes inflammation.
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It would include the entire bread and bakery department.
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And I'm not entirely positive that the frozen foods are all bad.
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I mean, I don't, I don't, I try to avoid them, but I'm not sure they're all bad.
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So imagine if you organized a store by inflammation.
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I've got another theory that I'm going to trot out.
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You know how, when you get old, you could die from a whole variety of things that are
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associated with age more than just about anything else they're associated with.
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There's a bunch of old people things that don't bother other people.
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Is it my imagination or are all of those old people problems related to inflammation?
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I feel like old people have primarily one problem.
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This is my new hypothesis, is that some percent of age-related problems you would not die from
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if not for the fact your food source had caused you to be so inflamed that you couldn't protect
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And I've got a theory that with age and maybe less activity, especially, you're just less
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And the inflammation is just the whole story, you know, or, or let's say 80% of the story.
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And that if you got rid of your inflammation, you'd sort of cruise into the age 90, you
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I'm always telling you about this, but who knows if this will become real.
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Toyota has got some new technology that'll allow you to go over 900 miles on a 10-minute
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Now, apparently they're making this operational.
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And then we have to ask some questions about, you know, how many sleeves do you need to mine
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the materials and how many wars will we have to get more of it?
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I say with quotes, economist, who said that the odds of a recession were not that high.
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And I, I said it was either going to be mild or none.
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And now the experts have turned in that direction.
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Not completely, but more than half of the experts, according to the Wall Street Journal, are saying
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At the same time, the world is falling apart in every single way.
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How is it that we have two critical wars and inflation through the roof and debt we have
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And the experts just said, yeah, it's looking good.
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I mean, I said the same thing, but it's pretty hard to predict, isn't it?
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Then I saw also in the Wall Street Journal that the price of gas is starting to trend down,
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mostly because summer is over, but it will help.
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I mean, if you're still commuting to work, wouldn't it be nice if your prices were down?
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And I looked at the prices, and I thought I was misreading it.
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So I said over the past month, some prices, let's say in Athens, Georgia, are down to $2.92
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In Georgia, that would be a state in the United States?
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There's a place in the United States in the year 2023 that you can buy a gallon of gas
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So I said to myself, what does it cost me in California?
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Because I added a number in my mind, but I thought I must be crazy if I just not noticed.
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So I Googled it, and it was the same number I had in my mind, $5.50.
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So a number of you are saying you're paying sub $3.
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God, if I ever saw a gallon of gas under $3, I would think I'd go into heaven.
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I don't think I'll ever see it again in California.
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But anyway, there might be some relief on that side of things.
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And a lot of it is because people aren't commuting.
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And a lot of people are choosing to travel less.
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There are two things going on in my life that would influence me to travel less.
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I want to see if this is influencing anybody else.
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But is anybody traveling less because of the cost of gas?
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Oh, interestingly, I'm saying mostly no's, but there are a lot of yes's.
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All right, so there are quite a few of you who are traveling less because of the cost of gas.
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How many of you are traveling less because your social network got destroyed during the pandemic
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and or you became less social because you just got trained not to see people?
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I feel like the pandemic permanently changed me.
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My ability to socialize is kind of almost gone.
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There's something different in my brain because I just have a discomfort socializing outside my small, small little group of people.
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So imagine, if you will, a advanced alien species came to Earth and said, could you explain to us your political system here in America?
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And I'd try to do it and it would look like this.
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I'd go, well, we've got this republic democracy kind of situation, which is a system which tries to give the public what the public wants, you know, by a majority.
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We elect people to represent us, you know, our majority opinion for the most part.
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And so the alien would say, ah, OK, so how do your politicians know what it is you want?
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There are some situations where they won't go with the polling.
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But generally, the point of the system is that, for the most part, what the public wants, their representatives will vote for.
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And so then the alien would say, ah, polling, polling.
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So the polling, so once they've separated the people who are paying attention and they poll the people who are smart and know the topic, and I go, oh, no, don't make an assumption.
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And then the alien says, wait a minute, the way you decide whose opinion to listen to is who answers the phone?
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So then the alien would say, I have more questions.
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Would that include people who don't understand the topic you're asking about whatsoever?
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So only 5% of the people actually understand the topic?
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There's people who don't know anything about the topic because they're not paying attention and it's complicated.
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But then there's this little group who seems to know a lot about the topic, but they actually have been just brainwashed by their preferred source of media.
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And then the alien says, wow, that's an interesting system.
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And then he says, but at least they exclude the people who have mental illness because you're not going to pull people with mental illness to find out how you should run things.
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We don't exclude anybody for any kind of mental illness.
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And then the alien says, well, that's probably not that bad.
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I mean, like what percentage of people have mental illness?
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On one side of the political aisle, it's not terrible.
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But on the other side, 50% of the women have been seeking mental health, professional help.
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And then the alien says, well, obviously the group of people with the fewest crazy people are in charge.
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No, as it turns out, the group with 50% of the women who are seeking mental health, they're actually, they have more of a majority at the moment.
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And then the alien says, all right, so let me put this all together.
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You take the average opinion of 95% of the people who are not paying attention to each topic, the 5% who are just brainwashed and are not even exposed to the other side.
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And then about half of them on the dominant side have mental illness.
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And then our politicians that we've elected, using that group of people, they try to look at our average, you know, the majority opinion.
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And then they take that opinion and then they make laws based on it.
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No, what the politicians do is they find ways to suck money out of the system to keep themselves in power and enrich themselves sometimes on the side.
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And then the alien says, all right, well, okay, I hear what you're saying.
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But in addition to that, they make laws that the public wants.
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More often, the public is wondering why it doesn't go that way and we never really hear.
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For example, have you heard of something called TikTok?
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They go, well, I don't have time to explain it in detail, but I can give you a sort of a demonstration.
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TikTok would be a whole bunch of videos that are roughly like this.
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It's basically people look at people acting like that all day long.
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And then the alien says, well, why would anybody look at that?
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And I would say, because the people doing it are attractive.
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You know, when I did the imitation, you know, maybe it wasn't a good representation because I've not had any surgery.
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And then the alien says, but everybody loves it, right?
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But, you know, it's our enemies are using it to brainwash us and take over the country.
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But the alien says, but at least your leaders will ban it in your country.
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And then the alien would say, you know, we had plans to give you our advanced technology to cure all the physical and mental problems and make you a spacefaring nation.
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But honestly, I think we're just going to kill you motherfuckers because you're crazy.
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And then a gigantic beam of energy hits the Earth, goes to the core, and then we all die.
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And that's why if aliens ever land on Earth and you happen to be the first one there, and they ask you about our political system, lie.
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It's the only way you're going to save the world.
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So I suggested that a good solution for Gaza would be, since you can't really just put the Palestinians back in charge, because you would imagine it would just turn into Hamas too.
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And you can't let Israel forever just own this area that's, you know, pretty much entirely just Palestinians.
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And so I suggested, why don't you let or make an offer?
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The Saudi Arabia could administer it, so they'd be sort of like a professional leadership class.
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But there would be a umbrella of Israeli security, because, you know, Israel would have the last say if anything got out of control.
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And then use the Israeli military to protect a small nuclear power plant that would do desalinization and power and modernize everything and make it basically Switzerland with sand.
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Because at least it gives you some kind of brainstorming of, you know, what could be.
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So you don't have to focus entirely on the horror that's happening at the moment.
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Now, so I was waiting with great interest to see what Saudi Arabia would say about the whole situation.
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And I was encouraged because they finally did talk, you know, MBS, the crown prince.
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And they put out what I would call the most generic anti-war statement you could possibly do.
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It's like, uh, it's really bad to hurt civilians.
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I sure wish, I sure wish no innocent people got killed.
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It would be really, really easy for, you know, anybody who was, say, could benefit from looking like an enemy of Israel.
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It'd be really easy for them to pile up and just say, you're perpetuating, you know, war crimes.
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China said that, uh, they called it, uh, collective punishment, which technically is not, I guess.
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Um, they called it that and said it's basically a war crime.
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Now, that's rich coming from the country that has the Uyghurs in prison camps.
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Now, my point is Saudi Arabia could have responded like that as well.
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And you could easily imagine sometime in the distant past, maybe they would have.
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But they do have more of an interest in making peace with Israel if they can get past this.
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So I was encouraged by the fact that their statement was so generic.
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It was almost like they went out of their way to make it just blend into the background of other people's comments.
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So that's a good sign, because it means that they haven't rejected some kind of peace with Israel, you know, when we get past this.
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Um, and I did see when I put this idea on the X platform, I believe I saw nobody disagree.
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Why would you give a nuclear power plant to Hamas?
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Because they'll just dismantle it and make a nuclear bomb.
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Okay, did anybody think that was part of my plan, to give a nuclear power plant to Hamas?
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No, no, you would have to have the Israelis completely control the nuclear power plant.
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And I think, am I wrong that the Saudis were looking for nuclear power too?
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So I think Saudi Arabia has an interest in, you know, building up some skills in that area as well.
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And I'd be less worried about them having a nuclear bomb.
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Because, you know, probably they could if they wanted one.
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Um, so the fact that I got, I think I got no pushback except dumb pushback.
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The only pushback was people said, what, you know, why would you do that when Hamas is there?
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But I'm assuming Hamas is gone under all scenarios.
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There's no scenario where anybody who identifies as Hamas is still going to be in charge or have, you know, access to, you know, organizing much.
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Though obviously it's impossible to get rid of it totally, but there won't be much left.
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So, um, I had a little, uh, back and forth with the comic, Dave Smith.
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Many of you know, comic, Dave Smith talks a lot about politics as well.
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And I asked him, uh, he had some, he had some comments about the, uh, uh, how brutal it's going to be in Gaza, which we all, I think we all have a similar amount of empathy.
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I hope, um, but I asked him, what was the alternative?
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Because I get a little tired of the people saying Israel should not be doing what it's doing.
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We could all hate it, but what's the alternative?
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Because they can't just let Hamas stay there and regrow.
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And so I asked that, and comic, Dave Smith said, uh, among other things that, uh, instead of going in, he would fortify the borders.
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To make sure that they couldn't run over and do it again.
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Is it my imagination or is that the worst idea you've ever heard?
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Now I get that we're trying to fortify our borders and it's hard, right?
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So do I think that they should fortify their borders?
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Do you think they didn't try to fortify their borders?
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Or, or is it just that now we've learned more so we could do it better?
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You know, we meaning the Israelis in this case.
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I don't think you could make a border wall good enough to keep people from getting in.
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Because there were a thousand people and a number of them were hang gliders.
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I mean, if you had a machine gun turret on every, you know, every hundred foot of fence and it was, you know, a person was in charge.
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Well, you could machine gun anybody you tried to paraglide in, I suppose.
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But to me, it just seems like getting a thousand people across the border is the easiest thing in the world.
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And it wouldn't stop them from making missiles, would it?
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Wouldn't they just improve their missiles and improve their drones?
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Wouldn't Hamas just end up building a drone army that blackens the sky above Tel Aviv?
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Is there any alternative to what Israel is doing at the moment, as gruesome as it is?
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I don't think fortifying the walls and hoping it doesn't happen again.
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Okay, let's talk about the Gaza water situation.
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As you know, in the fog of war, everything is a lie.
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So you should not believe anything you hear from a war zone.
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At some point, you'll probably, you know, collapse on one interpretation or another because we sort of have to.
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Our brains, our brains need to get things settled.
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So you'll probably come to some opinion about what's happening or has happened.
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Because nobody has an incentive to tell the truth in a time of war.
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But here are some of the conflicting things I'm hearing about the water supply.
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In my opinion, the water supply should be one of the biggest variables to predict what's going to happen and how bad it will be.
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One is that the water that Israel cut off from Gaza was only about 11% of all the water supply.
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And that there's actually an aquifer below Gaza that is their primary, as in 90% or so, of all their water comes from underground.
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And they still have pumps, and they're still pumping it.
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Now, okay, here's the second part, as you're prompting me.
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There's also word that the aquifer is polluted from poor management.
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It either has wastewater in there or seawater plus both.
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Next question is, in the context of an emergency, could you boil it?
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I mean, it wouldn't be a good workaround, but is it even possible?
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So these are all the things we don't really know.
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We've heard that Gaza has been out of water for two days.
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But does that really mean that what they're out of is the Israeli 11% of the water?
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Because I'm getting conflicting reports that they have plenty of water.
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But what does it mean to have plenty of water, again, if some of it's polluted?
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It could be that they have plenty of water in the areas that weren't hit hard because all they needed there was a pump, you know, a pump that they could manually pump.
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So could it be that there are portions of Gaza where they definitely don't have water, but could they walk to where there's water?
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Because most of Gaza is so small, you know, it would be hard, but you could almost walk to anywhere.
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And then the next question is, is Hamas preventing anybody from relocating from where there's no food and water to where there is?
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What's probably true is that everything is happening.
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What's probably true is that everything is true, but you don't know how true.
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For example, I'm sure it's true that somebody is out of water.
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I don't know if that's most people or just some people.
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It's almost certainly true that Hamas is limiting travel.
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It would probably depend on who they think would get blamed.
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If they thought the attackers would get blamed, they might just let the residents starve.
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If they think they'll get blamed, they might be a little flexible on it.
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Oh, and the other thing is that there's this miles-long convoy of trucks with food and presumably water in Egypt that just needs to go ahead to get into Gaza.
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But does it help if they're sitting there in Egypt and not allowed in?
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My assumption is this, is that Israel is going to try as hard as possible to make sure that there's food and water however you have to do it, whatever it takes.
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I feel like that they're going to try as hard as they can to make sure the citizens are fed because it would be terrible for Israel to lose a huge number of people to starvation.
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Yeah, that doesn't work well with anything that they want to accomplish.
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Hammered, the president of Harvard made a statement that was not well-received by everybody.
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Now, I'm going to talk about the president of Harvard, but I will not assign a pronoun because I did not see the president of Harvard assign a pronoun, so I don't know.
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Now, I can only know, I'm just basing on physical look.
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If you can imagine Don Lemon with gigantic glasses, that's what we're talking about.
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So they, they's name, they's, they name is Claudia Gay.
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Anyway, Harvard president, Claudia Gay, they said, our university embraces a commitment to free expression.
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That commitment extends to views that many of us find objectionable or outrageous.
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We do not punish or sanction people for expressing such views.
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So Harvard president says that they're a bastion of free speech.
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She says, you literally scored last out of all colleges on FIRE's free speech evaluation.
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FIRE must be some organization that evaluates free speech.
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Now that it's terrorist sympathizers doing the talking, you're a free speech champion?
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So in the real world, there's a rank, there's a rating organization that rated Harvard dead last in free speech.
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I feel so sorry for the, the people who went there.
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So, uh, anyway, uh, New Zealand had an election in which the, uh, the past ruling party that had been the labor party of Jacinda Ardern.
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So she was a notable left-leaning pro-lockdown vaccination kind of a person, but has been replaced with a, uh, by a crushing, crushing victory, they say, by a conservative party in a national election.
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So some are saying, oh, it's the sign of things changing.
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And I know, I don't know if it's a big sign, but it's a, oh, Peter Zayn says both past and new governments are centrist.
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I was, I was going to say it's probably not a big deal.
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So that's two people who say, don't make too much of it.
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There's a big question of where will the Gaza refugees go?
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Some say there could be as many as a million of them.
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And you would not be surprised to know that, uh, some members of the squad want them to come here.
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Uh, representative Jamal Bowman, for example, um, wants them to come here.
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Now you're probably saying to yourself, Scott, Scott, it wouldn't be so bad to help the children.
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Because, you know, we care more about children and, you know, the children are not, are not fighters.
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I would say that the children are the most dangerous and the ones you definitely shouldn't let in because I assume that they've been propagandized by their schools to a mindset that would be almost impossible to get rid of.
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So you should consider them as infected with a propaganda virus that, unless you could eradicate it somehow, would be super dangerous to mix them in with people who do not have that virus.
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Now, did I make a comment about anybody's genes?
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These are very specific situation of specific messages that were trained to specific people.
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Has everything to do with propaganda and nothing to do with anybody's ethnic or religious, um, inclinations.
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Joel Pollack was reporting that, uh, the Israel, the Israeli military has probably the oddest problem any military ever had, uh, too many soldiers.
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360,000 showed up and are, and are refusing to leave.
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Um, is anybody else, does anybody else know that, um, is anybody else getting demonetized on YouTube for talking about the war?
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So I've been getting demonetized for my recent podcasts.
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What is your best guess of what I've said that would be different from what other people have said that would get me demonetized?
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Because I haven't violated any terms of service.
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I've got no notices and I'm not even, I'm nowhere near violating any terms of service.
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I have a theory what it is, but I don't think I'm going to say it so I can test my theory.
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I think there's one word I use that I haven't used today.
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And I'm going to see if that makes a difference.
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And I would remind you that all data is, uh, non-credible.
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We just live in a world where you can't believe any data, but I'll tell you what it is.
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Because it's a story that the data exists, even if the data isn't exactly right.
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But what it was is a study by some American national election studies group.
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And they tried to see, um, they looked at four, uh, demographic groups in the U S, um, black,
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And they said, what do you think about your own group?
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And then what's your, you know, how positively or negatively do you feel about the other three
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And when they, when they talked to white people, it turns out that their opinion of all four
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groups, including their own, was about the same.
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A little bit, a little bit advantage to their own group.
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So the white people were a little more positive about white people, but it was in a narrow band
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The other three groups were wildly different, meaning that they had wildly better opinions
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And the, in each case, the white group was ranked the lowest.
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And would that be a place that white people should hang around if it were true?
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Now you have the same problem with the, um, the Rasmussen poll that had similar kinds of
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directionally, it was a similar kind of thing, but added a small sample group.
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So some people said, Scott, you cannot judge the whole country by fewer than 200.
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It's called an 8% degree of, uh, uh, uh, 8%, uh, uh, what do you call it?
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Now, ideally you'd want to do thousands of people and get your margin of error down to
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one or two, but if the point of the survey says something like half of the people believe
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something and you would be alarmed if even 10% of the people thought something, it's plenty
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If you selected them right in the first place, the selection matters, but the 140 or whatever
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As long as you're looking for gigantic differences, it's, it's plenty.
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If you're looking for a small difference, you'd want more than a thousand people.
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If you're looking for a very broad, you know, general sense of things, yeah.
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140 people, if they're correctly chosen within 8% of the correct answer, probably.
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Now, again, I wouldn't trust any specific poll and I wouldn't trust any data at all in the,
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And, but if there are enough things that point in the same direction and it agrees with your
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observation, then you start taking it seriously.
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And what we have here, the indications are, if it's true, a real big mental virus that could
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Meaning that there's some kind of educational process, whether it's the media or the schools
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or both, there's an educational process that is setting up the country for cataclysm.
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And it's, it's based on how people are trained to see the other.
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So we've clearly left the melting pot behind and we're now into the oppressor repressed model,
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Now we still have time to change the design, but our current design is for the end of the
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Very clearly, very clearly the end of the United States.
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Now I do have confidence that we'll adjust, but we're not going to adjust unless we understand
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Our current country's design is a guaranteed destruction, guaranteed open borders and promotion
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of people based on characteristics, which are not related directly to capability.
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And then the, the othering of one group, which almost certainly causes massive disruption.
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But I do have confidence that the Adam's law of slow moving disasters will adjust.
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But you might all have to move to New Zealand or something.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I needed to say.
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Soviet purges were the end result of a slow moving disaster.
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No, there's a specific word I'm avoiding saying that I think is the thing.
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If you have not seen my Dilbert Reborn comic for today, you are missing what most people are saying is the funniest one I've ever written.
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Because it does use some profanity in a colorful way.
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And you would have to be a subscriber on the X platform and subscribe to me with that little subscribe button up in the profile.
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Or to be on the Scott Adams dot locals dot com platform where you get the comic plus a whole bunch else.
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And if you didn't already know, my book, reframe your brain is changing the world.
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So pick that up because I know you want a copy.
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And if you look at the other comments, you can see the comments are tremendous.
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It's the book that for the least amount of effort reading it, because it's written to be real easy to read, you'll get the biggest change in your life.
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You know, you won't have to do any crazy stuff.
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All it does is change the software in your head.
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And all you need to do that is just be exposed to it.
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Just read it once and it will update the software in your head.
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So thanks for joining me on the X and YouTube platforms.
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I'm going to talk to the people on Locals a little extra because they are awesome and they deserve a little extra today.