Episode 2624 CWSA 10⧸10⧸24
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 30 minutes
Words per Minute
145.10902
Summary
A new study says that caffeine might be a good thing for your brain, and that if you drink a lot of it, you have a better chance of beating Alzheimer s. Plus, Elon Musk and his ex-platform, Tesla, are trying to get a lot more people to interact with them in the comments.
Transcript
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We're the best thing you've ever seen in your life.
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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization.
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It's called Coffee with Scott Adams, and I'm pretty sure you've never had a better time
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But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand
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with their tiny human shiny brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a
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tank or chalice, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind, fill it with your favorite liquid,
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I like coffee, and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine, the end of the day
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A lot of people ask me, Scott, what is the proper way to consume your podcast?
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Are you taking a run on the beach in the morning?
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Alternately, and just as good, you could have a cup of coffee, a blanket on your lap, and
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So, alternately, if you have a dog, the dog can be sitting at your feet while you sip your
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So, those are three ways to watch the show, all of them recommended.
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SciPost is reporting part of the Balthazar cohort.
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I was worried that it might be data that was unrelated to the Balthazar cohort, but it
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looks like we're in good shape here on this one.
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And the data says that caffeine might have a protective role against Alzheimer's.
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Well, again, you could have asked Scott, because I would not have forgotten.
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I drink so much coffee that not only does it cure my Alzheimer's, it cures yours, too.
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Reportedly, the ex-platform that has been paying people for the interaction in the comments.
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So, if you were a large enough account and you qualified, you would get money from Elon Musk's
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ex-platform if a lot of people interacted with your posts.
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But apparently, that caused people to game the system and create troll accounts that were
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making it look like they were getting interactions so they could get fake paid, but based on fakes.
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So, now it looks like they're going to change it, so the only interaction that you will get paid for
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So, all the trolls would have to either buy an account, which they won't do, or go away,
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or at least not be included in the calculation.
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Well, there's another study, according to the Medical Express, they're reporting on it,
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that loneliness can increase your dementia odds by 31%.
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So, putting it all together, drink more coffee, and be less lonely, and what will happen?
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You have the best odds of keeping your brain healthy.
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Well, many of you are drinking a little extra coffee because you're here with me,
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the simultaneous sip, and you're also less lonely because we get to hang out.
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So, this is why, in the evening, for the people who are subscribers to the locals community,
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we hang out pretty much every night, sometime around dinnertime in the California time,
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And because it's interactive and there are comments going both ways, it kind of feels like a friend.
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So, I literally sort of drifted into a situation where I'm lots of people's virtual friend.
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Now, I wrote a book some years ago in which I offered to be anybody's invisible friend.
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So, I said, if you need an invisible friend, pick me.
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If anybody asks, hey, are you Bob's invisible friend?
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But are you also, you know, Alice's invisible friend?
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But now I can be your virtual digital friend as well as your invisible friend.
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So, if you don't have enough friends, get an invisible one or get a digital one.
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And there's another study that says people with dyslexia and dyscalculia,
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which is like dyslexia but for numbers, show less bias.
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It's never been diagnosed, but it's so obvious and extreme that it's hard to miss.
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And in those pre-computer days or pre-small computer days, when a customer would come in,
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you would have to write every transaction down on a little side note.
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So, you'd write down like the long string of numbers for their account number or whatever.
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So, you'd have a paper record of everything you did.
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And how many times do you think I got those numbers reversed on my little paper record?
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But instead of firing me, they decided to promote me.
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I was on the verge of being fired because I couldn't write down numbers in the same order in which they appeared.
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And so, I'd gotten a couple of warnings because my bank never balanced at the end of the night.
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But at the same time that I was just about ready to get fired, another part of the bank was looking for management trainees.
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According to Neuroscience News, people are confident even if they only know half of the story.
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Guess how they could have saved a little money?
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They could have just asked me, or you, really, or really whoever was around.
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Instead of doing the study, you could have just said, hey, stranger, stranger, I got a question for you.
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But I'm wondering if you could answer the question instead, stranger.
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Do you find that people who are under-informed are still very confident about their opinions?
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Every single person in the entire world knows that people are confident while being stupid and uninformed.
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But apparently there was a study to make sure, just to make sure.
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Well, the good news is the study agrees with every one of you.
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And I think the key learning from this study is I wouldn't go to Ohio State University.
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Apparently, they need to study things that everybody else already knew.
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So I don't know what you're going to learn there, if it's the college or the university for things that everybody already knew.
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Now, of course, the big, big news is that Hurricane Milton is slapping the country's penis.
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You call it Florida, but, you know, live with it.
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Number one, I would hate to be in a disaster that was caused by a nerdy named hurricane.
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We need scarier names for these hurricanes if they're going to be dangerous.
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Don't name it after the guy you lock in your school locker.
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Well, Kamala Harris had some comments about the hurricane.
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She was on one of the morning shows she called in, and she said, I quote, the significance of the passage of wind, unburdened by what has blown before.
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It's not more stupid than the thing she actually says.
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Meanwhile, there's a report from the Florida's fire marshal that if salt water gets in your batteries, your lithium-ion batteries, it could cause an either immediate or slow ticking time bomb.
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So apparently salt water is very bad for lithium-ion battery situations.
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So regular water, not so bad, but salt water will make your electric car explode.
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Now, I wasn't going to tell you this story because I have some stock in Tesla.
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But I feel like, you know, I can't ignore this one.
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This is why I tell you what my investments are in, or I try to.
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I try to make sure you know what I've invested in because it does bias you.
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There was a moment when I looked at the story and I said to myself, huh, this story will be very bad for my investment.
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So I don't know how much of a problem that is, but if you've got a Tesla, I would drive it out of the salt water zone if I were you, if you can get it out of there.
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I would think most people would have known that, wouldn't they?
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If you had a Tesla and you knew the salt water was going to be up to the car level, wouldn't you have made sure that the way you left was in that?
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But I suppose it would ruin all of everything else you have to.
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Meanwhile, there's a video of CNN's Anderson Cooper.
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And there was a piece of debris that got blown at him and whacked him.
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I don't know why that's important, but apparently it went viral because a huge part of the public was quite delighted to see a CNN, CNN's Anderson Cooper gets slapped with garbage.
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It didn't look like it was anything very heavy.
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You know, maybe something like cardboardy-ish, but he got slapped with garbage.
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There is the consumer price index numbers are out.
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I looked at the news and then I wrote them down and I was going to tell you.
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And then I saw that the news reported it in two opposite ways.
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One was that it was down and one was that it was up.
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Well, I literally saw both this morning, but I was in a hurry, so I didn't get a chance to run it down.
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But some specific things went up a lot, like jewelry and watches are up 5%.
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Can anybody tell me why jewelry and watches went up in price?
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Now, I don't care about that one because you don't have to buy jewelry and watches.
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College textbooks, right before college, up 4%.
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I certainly understand why individual things will move up and down because there are different forces for different industries.
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But can somebody explain to me how our inflation level didn't change much even though our national debt changed a lot?
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Everybody smart says the same thing about inflation.
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The thing that causes inflation is the government borrowing money and basically creating money out of nothing.
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So the government created a whole bunch of extra money out of nothing, like over a trillion dollars just this year.
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And we're up to like 36 trillion we're approaching.
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So if it's true that increasing the money supply increases inflation, how could it be true that the money supply was vastly increased and inflation did not go up?
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Because the time lag should be all adjusted by now.
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Well, you know, there shouldn't be a time lag at the moment because we've been adding a trillion dollars of debt every year.
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So it's not like this is the first time we added a trillion dollars in debt.
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So how can we add trillions of dollars in debt and our inflation rate stayed about the same?
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Unless there's something going on that would make adding a trillion dollars in debt not have any effect on your inflation, which would be what?
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So I guess my bottom line is that all data that matters is fake.
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So somebody did a study to find out, they found out that, that women who applied for assistant professor positions in North America were more likely to get job offers than men.
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Do you think they could have saved some time and some money just by asking us?
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Who do you think is going to get the job for an assistant professorship in North America?
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Who in the world thinks there was any doubt about that?
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And just hypothetically, we haven't studied this.
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But suppose it was a choice between a white man and a black man.
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Let's do a study to find out which one will be preferred in 2024.
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Here's the title for the article that found out that women are preferred for assistant professor jobs in North America.
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Women are better than men at science job interviews.
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The writer of the article has a male name, Gris.
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Do you think that there's a human male who believes that the story for why the women were preferred was because they interview better?
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Do you think that the author who wrote this really believes that, or is he just fucking with us?
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It looks like somebody wrote that headline because they know it's funny.
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Now, by the way, it might actually be true that women interview better than men.
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That's really the beginning and the end of the story.
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There's no evidence whatsoever that the interviewing better is any part of the decision making.
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You know that the Internet has this Internet Archive.
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It's called the Internet Archive, or the Wayback Machine.
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And it basically tries to store everything that had been on the Internet historically and now isn't.
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Apparently, they had some catastrophic security breach.
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And at least this morning, the site was still down.
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And according to The Verge, they've got a note there that says they were hacked.
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You know, I'm not a cybersecurity expert, but I don't think you have to be to know this.
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Why in the world would the Internet Archive be using some cheap, crappy cybersecurity
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when all they had to do was use the same cybersecurity that we used for all of our election systems?
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Searchlight Pictures presents The Roses, only in theaters August 29th.
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From the director of Meet the Parents and the writer of Poor Things comes The Roses,
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starring Academy Award winner Olivia Colman, Academy Award nominee Benedict Cumberbatch,
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Andy Samberg, Kate McKinnon, and Allison Janney.
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A hilarious new comedy filled with drama, excitement, and a little bit of hatred,
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proving that marriage isn't always a bed of roses.
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He didn't like the fact that Marjorie Taylor Greene has a theory that the government might
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be manipulating the hurricanes and that the government might be behind the North Carolina
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Hurricane Helene, at least making it worse or directing it.
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And Mike Barnacle says, you have people in this country who actually listen to her
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and find some credibility, perhaps, in something she says.
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You've got MSNBC that believes the government can control the climate
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And they're going against the people who think you can't control the climate,
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So it's the people who think that the government can control the weather,
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versus the people who think the government can control the climate,
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I do not buy into the thought that the government is controlling the weather.
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I did happen to look at the sky yesterday where I live.
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that the temperature where I live has been over 100
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because California is always sort of on the edge
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the clouds just sort of suddenly changed one day.
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doesn't look like it normally looks in California.