Trump rants about his enemies and haters in his Christmas message, and then finishes it with, "May they rot in hell." Also, AI is going to change the world, and a guy wants a sex toy that can talk to him.
00:13:00.660Because the mortality rate would be the same.
00:13:02.080Now, they'd adjust for maybe inflation or maybe competitive forces, but basically, if it's based on how many people are dying, flat, right?
00:13:12.840Now, if you're an insurance company, what would your economic interest suggest?
00:13:20.960Would it suggest that if you said, I think in the future and in the past, recently, there's a lot of excess deaths.
00:13:28.400Hey, all those excess deaths, what are we going to do with our rates?
00:13:35.320Why don't we substantially raise our rates because of all the excess deaths?
00:13:39.720Because we're going to have to pay these people when they die for their life insurance, right?
00:13:44.900So, how many of you fell for believing the people who have the greatest incentive to lie to you, the insurance companies, the greatest economic incentive to lie to you?
00:13:56.380How many of you said to yourself, well, that's a good source?
00:15:50.540Another study shows us what I think we all suspected, that loneliness may increase your risk of death.
00:15:57.740So there's a new study about this, Lindsay Kobayashi, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, something out of the University of Michigan.
00:16:08.400And it basically says that loneliness seems strongly implicated in dying.
00:16:14.580Now, while there are certainly questions about the safety of the vaccinations, always good to have those questions.
00:16:23.820And there are questions about any long COVID.
00:16:26.880And we certainly know about obesity and maybe we're a little less active.
00:16:33.940We know that there are more suicides and there's more fentanyl and all that.
00:16:38.560But if I had to pick one variable that's been underappreciated, it's the loneliness thing.
00:16:44.580How many of you have experienced bad health that was instantly solved by having somebody just come over and say hi?
00:16:58.740I've actually experienced that lately.
00:17:01.160I've actually experienced my body like just feeling terrible.
00:17:06.060And then you have some social interaction that's positive and your entire physicality changes instantly.
00:17:18.500Now, I would be amazed if loneliness doesn't kill people.
00:17:24.840Because the way I actually feel when I have that feeling of loneliness is like there's a weight on my chest and every part of my vital systems is starting to shut down.
00:17:37.080Because I think when you're lonely, you don't feel any reason to live.
00:17:42.360Now, lots of people like being alone, which is different.
00:17:45.460I'm not talking about people like being alone.
00:19:46.520Every time the government gets in the way of the free market, and that's obviously what's happening here, it's all bad.
00:19:55.420So I'm going to say it for the billionth time.
00:19:59.420I think robots will be big, and AI will be big, of course.
00:20:04.600But one of the biggest sources of economic activity is going to be completely rebuilding homes, putting these little pre-made factory ADUs, you know, the little backyard in-law homes.
00:21:03.560I think you pour some concrete over it or something.
00:21:05.300So now you can make your own bricks without electricity, no electricity needed, and the bricks are, you know, just fit together so anybody can be a bricklayer, basically.
00:21:17.960So I think that and about a million other things are going to have us not only, so here's the key to my prediction.
00:21:26.660It won't be just that we'll build new homes in, let's say, new cities, but we will have to completely tear down and rebuild existing homes to make them as good as the new ones.
00:21:41.400Because the existing ones are going to look like garbage once new ones are doing what they need to do.
00:21:46.680They're going to be so much less expensive to maintain and all that.
00:21:49.720So I think there's going to be a remodeling surge like you've never seen before, and it will be good for employment for probably 10 years.
00:25:03.840If you're going to attack us, we'll keep your land.
00:25:06.300Oh, if you're going to attack us again, I guess we'll keep your land again.
00:25:09.560So Israel has this strategy where if they just allow the Palestinians to do what the Palestinians apparently want to do, which is elect militaristic leaders and have them threaten Israel, that Israel will just do the obvious natural thing, which is use those provocations to their advantage.
00:25:34.860And if you were to fast forward 100 years into the future, and you were to look back at this period, you would say to yourself, I hate to tell you, that Netanyahu is going to be like Thomas Jefferson.
00:25:49.080Thomas Jefferson doing the Louisiana Purchase, increasing the size of the United States.
00:25:56.740Netanyahu is going to look like that in 100 years.
00:26:00.200I mean, there will always be two stories about him.
00:26:02.220There will be the good one and the bad one.
00:26:03.520But if he succeeds in basically completely controlling Gaza and completely filling the West Bank with settlements until it's a de facto Israeli country, then it's going to look like it was one of the biggest successes of a country in the history of countries in 100 years.
00:26:26.900At the moment, it just looks like, hey, why can't you get along?
00:26:31.780We don't understand why you can't get along.
00:26:34.080Well, why you can't get along is that Israel benefits from taking advantage of the bad stuff.
00:26:41.500Now, Glenn Greenwald tells us provocatively that it's always been the Israelis who turned down the two-state peace deals.
00:26:51.180Have you always been told that it was the PLO and the Palestinians who were always turning down the great peace deals?
00:27:01.600Is that your understanding of what's happened?
00:28:21.360You've heard of Schrodinger's cat, right?
00:28:23.640It's a famous experiment in physics where the cat, if the cat's in the sealed box, and there's some poison there that will randomly be either revealed,
00:28:35.840poison will either be active or not, that it's random.
00:28:41.640If you're outside the box, the physicists argue, well, you don't know if the cat is alive or dead, but until it's observed or measured, it's both.
00:28:53.000That the cat exists in the transposition of being both alive and dead.
00:28:59.040Now, as far as I can tell, that's the only way to solve peace in the Middle East.
00:29:05.260Because it turns out that too many of the Palestinians, not all of them, of course, but too many of them, would only be happy when the Jews are all dead.
00:29:16.300Now, the Jews, I haven't asked them, but I'm almost positive that they'd be happier if they lived.
00:29:23.000So you have two unsolvable things here.
00:29:27.900One is you must all be dead, and the other is, well, we'd prefer to live.
00:29:32.960So I think that the only way you can have a peace deal is Schrodinger's Jews, where the Palestinians believe that they've killed all the Jews,
00:29:42.500and yet the Jews are living happily, completely alive and safe.
00:29:47.840So, yeah, in other words, it's impossible.
00:29:53.000So every minute you spend wasted talking about a two-state solution is just a waste of time.
00:29:59.900There is no two-state solution, except for the absurd, you know, that the Jews are both alive and dead so that everybody can get what they want.
00:31:48.640You can turn them on and you can turn them off just as fast.
00:31:52.800So yes, if you put the right kind of effort into it, you can change a kid into any belief you want.
00:32:00.320And I'm not talking about six-year-old kids.
00:32:04.220I'm talking about 19-year-olds, 20-year-olds, 25.
00:32:08.840It starts falling off really quickly after their brains are formed.
00:32:13.680Up to 25, they're still a little flexible.
00:32:17.280After that, the flexibility goes away pretty quickly.
00:32:19.680Now, if you can keep weapons away from the older, you know, militants, you know, make them unable to do what they might want to do, and you can retrain the younger people in the teens, there is a way forward.