In this episode of the podcast, we take a break from technology and other news to talk about something a little different: a conversation with an artificial intelligence (AI) companion. It's a little experiment, a little entertainment, and a little bit of everything in between.
00:09:53.900And then he'll come out and you'll say, I am not in favor of war.
00:09:57.620And I'll say, I was a little bit worried that he'd flipped on that.
00:10:02.980But no, he reminds us he doesn't like war.
00:10:07.500Well, you remember the dust up in Congress between the woman with the two big eyelashes and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
00:10:15.480Now, what you might not know since it wasn't always on camera, the woman that Marjorie Taylor Greene was arguing with before AOC got into it was Representative Jasmine Crockett.
00:10:26.800And she's black, which is important to the story.
00:10:33.020And she says on an interview that she wants all the Trump supporters to know that I will always be smarter than you.
00:12:00.340Because if it succeeds in its, let's say, lower level goal, which is to hire and promote and put into positions of power, more people who would not have had the chance otherwise.
00:12:16.780But what is the obvious impact of that if you don't have enough supply?
00:12:22.400The obvious impact is you hire a whole bunch of people who are unqualified because it's more important for you to hit that goal of diversity.
00:12:31.180And maybe you worry about later, you can worry about the competence of the people.
00:12:36.600Now, in the real world, nothing happens the way Mark Cuban says it should, where all DEI really does, according to Mark Cuban, is make companies try harder to get good, diverse hires.
00:12:50.160Now, I'm totally in favor of working harder to try to make sure that you've got diverse hires.
00:12:57.080But in the real world, everybody knows that that causes real ordinary people, white people, to go hire anything that isn't white because that's how you win.
00:13:11.760So if you want to win, you're going to distort the systems, hire as many people as you can to get your diversity number up because that's what's being measured.
00:13:22.360You know, maybe somewhere in the future, you'll also be measured on performance, but not right away.
00:13:27.880Have you ever heard that people will respond to their immediate needs before they think about the long term?
00:13:35.440Their immediate need is to keep their own job.
00:13:38.280So they've got to get the diversity number up.
00:14:13.560You want a world where, you know, the hard work and the putting in the effort and being good at your job is what we care about the most.
00:14:22.360And ideally, if you want to make a fair world, you would fix the educational system at the youngest level, which is where all of the systemic racism comes from, in my opinion.
00:14:36.140I'd say 80% of systemic racism, which I think is real.
00:14:40.980Some of you might debate me, but I think it looks real to me.
00:14:44.980I think it comes in the early childhood.
00:14:46.860If you don't get a good education, everything else just goes to hell.
00:14:49.740So, and you might take it back another level and say it has something to do with the family situation.
00:14:56.420But I think you can at least fix it in the schools.
00:14:59.000It's a little harder to fix the family situation once the kid has been born.
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00:16:14.460Well, if you didn't know, the president in Iran is not too important.
00:16:19.920It's not like a president in the United States.
00:16:22.600In Iran, their system is the supreme leader.
00:16:25.160The religious leaders have the control of the military and the nukes and the geopolitical decisions, all the big stuff.
00:16:31.760And then the president makes sure that the little stuff gets taken care of.
00:16:35.800It's president, yes, not prime minister.
00:16:38.060So the president, whose name I'd never heard of because it wasn't important to anything, died in a helicopter crash.
00:16:48.380Now, when I saw the crash site and I knew that it was in the fog, I guess there were three helicopters involved, but two of them turned back because it was too foggy.
00:18:31.860Yeah, I don't exactly know how a helicopter that would be equipped enough and trained enough with the pilot, probably two pilots, that you would have this kind of an accident.
00:18:44.380But on the other hand, the other two helicopters turned back.
00:18:47.860So the fact that the other two helicopters said it was too dangerous certainly suggests that flying on instruments wouldn't be good enough, at least according to two of the three pilots.
00:18:58.960Now, some of you are going to speculate that Israel did something clever like jamming the electronics or something.
00:19:07.740But given that the other two pilots who were there that same time with the same decision apparently thought it was too dangerous, this suggests that you wouldn't need any jamming of equipment to get this outcome.
00:19:18.920Now, if you're going to go all the way to, well, Israel is so smart that they knew if they could jam it when it got close to a mountain, it would look exactly like a natural accident.
00:20:09.060I think at the moment that their equipment got jammed, you know, they might just say, uh, we better, you know, just go down soft wherever we are and wait for it.
00:20:21.360So I don't believe the, I don't believe it was anything but an accident.
00:20:24.620Even Iran is saying it's just an accident.
00:20:27.220And you know Iran would try to blame Israel, right?
00:20:30.100If they could blame them at all, they would.
00:20:33.200So I'm going to say the odds of Israel being involved are low.
00:20:37.300Well, but here's the really interesting intrigue.
00:20:42.080Not only, uh, his name is Raisi, R-A-I-S-I.
00:20:46.340I may be pronouncing it incorrectly because I've only read about it.
00:21:46.820Did the other millions of people in Tehran, were they crying?
00:21:51.480I mean, you kind of need to know that, right?
00:21:52.960So if the only thing you know is that a bunch of people were celebrating and you don't know what percentage that is, it's kind of a nothing.
00:22:01.220It's a little bit of a propaganda, but we'll find out.
00:22:05.560I suppose we'll find out in the coming days.
00:22:08.340But here's the most interesting part about this story.
00:22:11.040Apparently, the supreme leader, the religious leader, and I'm not even going to try to pronounce his name right, because there are too many Khameneis and Khameneis and Khameneis and Khameneis.
00:22:26.180Can we all agree that it's just something like Khameneis?
00:23:16.540That's a big problem, because it turns out that if you remember what the Iranian Revolution was all about, the whole point of the Iranian Revolution was to get rid of the kingdom, the king, because it was a hereditary situation.
00:23:47.940But what happens if you're a religious leader, who is a symbol of the person who got rid of that monarchy, what happens if his son becomes the next supreme leader?
00:24:01.200Well, there's some thought that the Iranians would say, nope, nope.
00:24:05.080That's a violation of everything that gave you legitimacy.
00:24:09.200So it could be that, you know, in case he does it anyway, because you could easily imagine the Ayatollah would want his son in there, even if it's kind of risky.
00:24:20.560So some are saying this would be the trigger for the big internal revolution.
00:24:27.260And then it gets you right back to, wait a minute.
00:24:31.980Are you telling me that killing this one guy, this one guy of all the people in Iran might be the single most important lever to ending the, let's say, the evil regime?
00:24:46.540That one person, more important than even if you'd killed the head, because if you'd killed the supreme leader, probably would just be replaced with another supreme leader.
00:24:57.280But this is the only person in the entire country who could set up this situation where the supreme leader might be in a position of reproducing the monarchy, which would be the most likely situation would cause an internal revolution.
00:25:11.660Does that seem likely that the only person who could cause the complete dissolution of the government is the one who died in a foggy helicopter accident at exactly the time that Israel would want that to happen?
00:25:31.080There are a few coincidences here, aren't there?
00:25:33.560On one hand, if it's too dangerous to fly and one of the three helicopter pilots did it anyway and ran into the side of a mountain like Kobe Bryant exactly the way you'd expect an accident to look, and there's no indication from the Iranians there was anything but an accident, it makes you wonder.
00:25:56.420I'm going to add another rumor just to make it a little harder for the Iranian regime.
00:30:26.140Racism only lasts until you start talking.
00:30:33.860Racism only lasts, at least racism against you specifically.
00:30:38.260It only lasts until you start talking.
00:30:40.040And it immediately changes into, who are you?
00:30:45.180Let me give you a, if you're black and you're watching, let me give you one of the best pieces of advice.
00:30:51.740Let's say you divide, just to simplify, divide white people into racists and non-racists.
00:30:58.580And then you're trying to manage that world where white people are either racist or non-racist and you can't tell the difference.
00:31:04.800Well, let's say you go to a job at a big Fortune 500 company.
00:31:09.700If you run into somebody who's a non-racist, a white person, that's great because not only will they be non-racist, they're far more likely to be pro-DEI and to give you more of a lift over the other candidates.
00:31:23.560So, if you run into a non-racist white person, you will not only be treated as an equal, you will be treated as a superior.
00:31:35.780That non-racist white people will be so deferential and, you know, so wanting to display their non-racism that they'll go way beyond what they would go for even another white person.
00:31:58.360Let's take Byron Donalds as my example person.
00:32:02.340He walks into a, somehow he accidentally gets, you know, a job interview because his name doesn't sound black, right?
00:32:09.220So, let's say he gets the interview because the person interviewing him is a big old racist but doesn't see by his name that it sounds like it's going to be a black candidate.
00:41:18.320Michigan, 16 Republicans arrested and charged.
00:41:20.940Nevada, six Republicans arrested and charged.
00:41:23.240Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, still conducting criminal investigations into as many as 30 who have yet, Republicans yet to be charged.
00:41:33.400In addition to these criminal trials, Democrats are pursuing numerous efforts to have Republican lawyers disbarred.
00:41:38.580The Soros backed 65 project has filed disbarment proceedings against more than 100 Republican lawyers, which prevent many of these lawyers from working until the proceedings are concluded.
00:42:04.440In almost every case, the charges lack merit.
00:43:07.160I'd like to see everybody that lawfare to Republican put in jail after Trump takes office.
00:43:14.380Every one of them, they should be in jail.
00:43:15.880If they tried any kind of charges that are clearly politically motivated, and certainly anything around January 6th is just politically motivated, they should all go to jail.
00:43:26.000Now, it should only be if, you know, the courts, you know, find them guilty and stuff.
00:43:39.860This is, you've got to go to fucking jail.
00:43:41.720It should be so dangerous to take Soros' money that if you take his money and you do anything that looks like lawfare, you go directly to jail.
00:43:55.080It should be so dangerous to take Soros' money that nobody wants to do it because it's basically jail.
00:44:00.420So, you've got to cut that guy's balls off or we don't have any chance of surviving as a country.
00:59:27.740The researchers said the balance of evidence is that wearing face coverings reduces transmission of respiratory infections in community settings and reduces transmission of COVID-19.
01:02:04.080Because he actually watched the first four years of Trump and didn't really see anything to worry about.
01:02:11.100Now, you know, I'm aware of Mike Cernovich's criticism that if we give Bill Maher too much attention, we're acting like his press secretaries, and that he's not really our friend.
01:02:24.640Our friend, meaning, you know, the right-leaning part of the world, which is most of you.
01:02:33.860I'm going to disagree with Mike on that.
01:02:36.400And while it's true what he says, I mean, that the right is acting as his press secretaries, that part's true.
01:02:41.640But I don't have a problem with it, because I like to boost everybody who says good things, even if, in other contexts, they say things I don't like.
01:02:52.400Because I like the message more than the person.
01:02:55.540So if a person gets the right message, be it Fetterman or be it anybody else.
01:03:00.620Speaking of Fetterman, he had a good line.
01:05:27.920So a large study using pre-pandemic brain scans of adolescents revealed that brain wiring before COVID predicted mental health outcomes during the pandemic.
01:05:40.700The ones who had stronger connections with the salience network part of the brain, responsible for emotion and reward processing, demonstrated greater resistance.
01:08:17.480So, Instagram warned against tagging former Fox News primetime host Tucker Carlson in a happy birthday post because he's known to violate community guidelines, says Instagram.
01:08:32.620And if you do that, it might hurt your social media standing.
01:08:37.940I guess Breitbart is following up on this, but don't have a comment yet.