Episode 2693 CWSA 12⧸18⧸24
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1 hour and 16 minutes
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143.0901
Summary
This morning, Scott Adams talks about AI and climate change, and the new Ray-Bans, and why you should wear them. Plus, a new invention that could change the way we live forever, and a new kind of virtual reality glasses.
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According to Steve Newman on X, he says, someone needs to try this.
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Pick a thousand published scientific papers at random and then have AI look at them for
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What would happen if you took a thousand published peer-reviewed scientific papers and then just
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Well, I think I told you that there was a study about black ladles and black kitchen utensils.
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And then it turns out they just made a calculation error.
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Well, it turns out that AI could have spotted that.
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So if they had run it through AI, it would have spotted it right away.
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And then Mark Andreessen, seeing Steve Newman's comment about that, said he would, if somebody wanted
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to do this at a scale, he would fund it at a scale.
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In other words, instead of testing a thousand random scientific papers, why don't you do all
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Just find out how many mistakes there are in the whole thing.
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Yeah, it would be far more interesting to know the entire situation than to know that
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I'd rather know which half, at least in terms of the calculations.
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So I think the only thing you would find would be errors in calculations or something like that.
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According to the atmospheric chemistry and physics, whatever that is, did you know that
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back in 2020, there was regulations, regulations were introduced to remove the sulfur content
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And I guess it worked out because now there's way less sulfur being spewed into the air.
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It turns out that removing the sulfur from the air is going to greatly contribute to global
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We have all this sulfur coming out of the fuel from the ships at sea.
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What if we had some regulations to reduce that sulfur?
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Except that it had a, looks like it might have a big effect on climate change and kill
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But here's what I ask every time I see something like this.
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So are you telling me that this was not in the climate models?
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And if it wasn't in the climate models, what assumption do you make?
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Do you assume that sulfur is removed from the fleet fuel?
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And if you assume that it gets removed, what did you assume about how much that would change
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And if these assumptions are big and they change the result enough that it matters, why
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did we think the models were good before we made these changes?
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The Wall Street Journal has a story that I can't believe is real.
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Like, I can't believe that they really ran this story.
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So it's a story about how the, I guess you'd call them not virtual reality, but enhanced
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reality, where you put the glasses on and they look sort of like real glasses.
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So there are these Ray-Bans that Meta, Facebook, now has.
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And one of their journalists, Joanna Stern, I guess, tried them out and said they're sleek,
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they're stylish, and something you'd actually want to wear, except they ran a picture with
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the words, they're sleek and stylish, and finally something you'd want to wear.
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And I'm no fashion expert, but my take was they were not as sleek, they were not as stylish,
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and it's definitely something you wouldn't want to wear, except for me.
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Because I already wear glasses, so nobody would know.
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So if you already wear glasses, and you know, I've tried LASIK, looked into LASIK, but it
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isn't for me, doesn't work, wouldn't work on my particular situation.
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So if I can't get rid of my glasses, the next best thing is to put all of you in glasses.
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This is almost as good as when I was in, what, my 20s or maybe my 30s, and I was prematurely
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balding, and then suddenly cool people were shaving their heads, and I was like, wait a
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minute, are you telling me that I could just shave my head, cut it short, and it wouldn't
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look so terrible because famous people are doing it?
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And sure enough, maybe it'll happen with glasses.
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Did you know that Florida has some kind of law that goes into effect January 1st, where
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porn purveyors would have to ask for your driver's license to be uploaded in order to
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So if you live in Florida, you're not going to be able to get Pornhub anymore, because
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Pornhub didn't want to make that change just for Florida.
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And I ask you, how many of you, well, it's the wrong crowd, because obviously nobody who's
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watching this has ever even looked at porn even once, but if you know anybody, like a
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family member or something who looks at porn, how many people would be willing to upload
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their driver's license minutes before they were going to look at porn?
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So that your driver's license could be definitively linked with every image that you look at.
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Well, here's something that they don't report in the news.
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I don't know if any of you have noticed, but porn has practically been eliminated from the
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So little by little, you know, companies are trying to clamp down.
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You know, my guess is that the only porn that you'll ever see is virtual reality.
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Three years away from no human porn on the internet.
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So in three years, you'll be able to just say, hey, AI, I have these interests.
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So yeah, Pornhub is basically dead in the long run.
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The company that makes robots called Figure, they now have their Figure version 02.
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And they've got one that's operational on a BMW production line.
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So this is an actual humanoid robot that already has a job.
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Now, I think it's more prototype and they're making sure that they can tweak it to make
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You know how I always tease the AI and robot business?
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Because for my entire life, robots were always slow.
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Even if you just saw them in a fictional movie where it wasn't even a real robot, they would
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It's not up to human speed yet, but getting close.
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That does suggest that it can get to human speed at some point.
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So apparently, you know, if you want to mark the data on your calendar, this is just about
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the day in history that a humanoid robot went to work.
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So you know how you imagined this all your life?
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You imagine someday, is it just going to be a humanoid robot on that assembly line?
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Did you know that a Chinese company seems to be the dominant manufacturer of home internet
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routers that have been linked to cyber attacks?
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So there's a worry that the dominant, you know, the primary home internet router in the United
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States is susceptible to hackers or China's control.
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And according to the Wall Street Journal, there's some talk about banning them.
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It's the top recommended choice, I guess, on Amazon.
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How in the world did we get to this point where the majority of internet connections in the
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United States run through Chinese equipment that isn't secure?
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I was reading a seemingly well-informed post on X.
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Um, was it the something squirrel guy who reports a lot about Ukraine, but he was talking about
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how the United States has no, um, defense for any airborne attacks and couldn't possibly
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Basically, we're totally vulnerable for anything that comes in the air.
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And I don't think we have really anything that would stop drones or missiles or almost anything.
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I'm not sure I knew that as much as I know it now.
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Well, you may have heard that a top aide, former top aide to the Harris campaign, um, said that
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it doesn't make sense for Democrats to do interviews with the New York Times and the Washington Post.
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And the reason is that there are, that the readers of those magazines are already going
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So somehow, the New York Times and the Washington Post made themselves, uh, irrelevant to national
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politics because you already know what they're, so they've already hypnotized and brainwashed
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their audience to the point where talking to them doesn't add anything because they've
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Well, how could you even call these publications the news if, if a major candidate for president
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thinks, ah, uh, you know, their, their readers are so brainwashed that new information won't
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So I'm certainly glad I'm not associated with the newspaper business anymore.
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And then related to that, there's a scoop in Axios is talking about this, that, uh, they're
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trying to get a new, you know, new bosses, top editors at the Washington Post and people
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Cause they don't trust that Bezos is going to be sufficiently anti-Trump.
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So the Washington Post is having trouble hiring anybody good because the people who are good
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and experienced at publications don't want to work anywhere where it might be balanced.
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That's a real thing that you can't get the best people in the business to work at a publication
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It's not even balanced now, but they're worried it might become, um, somebody says that, that
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Um, yes, the account that I referred to is pro-Ukrainian, but probably doesn't matter to
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the question of whether the United States has a workable air defense.
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So, um, now here's a little story that I don't know enough about, but it's suggestive of things
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to come, uh, there's some reporting on social media that, uh, Tim Poole and his, his, uh,
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Tim cast operation, uh, might be doing some kind of a deal or selling the operation to
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So I don't know if that means they would continue operating, but have some kind of operational
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Um, but, uh, so whether or not that happens or we, we noticed any difference there, I'm
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not sure if it's anything we'll even notice, but somebody, uh, mentioned in the comments
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before the show, cause I do a little show before the show, um, just for the local subscribers.
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Somebody mentioned the idea that the mainstream media might start buying up podcasts.
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And I thought, Oh my God, that's probably going to happen.
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So at the moment, podcasting is, you know, the, the new shiny thing.
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And if you work for the old, that old mainstream media, you feel like you're with the dinosaur
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technology, where else all the cool new podcasters are moving the needle and controlling the country.
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But if those mainstream media companies are owned by billionaires, which they largely
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are, the billionaire can just buy the podcasters.
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So they can just say, uh, all right, I'll buy these top six podcasters.
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I'll put them together and make it some kind of a podcasting network and maybe put them on TV.
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And I thought that feels like it's inevitable because although I would definitely not want
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to be bought by any kind of mainstream media, I'm kind of a special case, but, um, you can
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imagine if they backed up the truck, you know, or if I were in a different place in my life,
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you can imagine if they backed up the money truck that I might say, Oh, I wasn't really planning
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on working for ABC news, but how much were you willing to pay me?
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So I think we're going to see, um, I think we're going to see podcasters moving to mainstream
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media if they've done well and they want that big paycheck.
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So that could ruin the entire podcasting, uh, atmosphere.
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Uh, Keith Olbermann, according to Fox news, Keith Olbermann wrote some article in which,
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Now the funniest thing to me is a Keith Olbermann's giving advice to MSNBC and I would love for
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MSNBC to take all of his advice because it's so good.
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Um, he, uh, he, he wants the network to stay committed to its anti-Trump content and he
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thinks the network should fire, uh, Mika and Joe, the morning Joe hosts because they met
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Um, and he says, change the damn name of the network.
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Yeah, I guess he doesn't like the Microsoft part of that.
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Um, yeah, he wants the network to be called the self-explanatory F Trump TV.
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Like you can't even tell if he's necessarily serious, but he probably is.
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I like the fact that MSNBC needs advice from Keith Olbermann.
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Meanwhile, the Department of Defense is, uh, giving out some money to bioindustry, bioindustrial
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firms and asking them to see if they can create some kind of, uh, fungi related protein that
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they can use that's sustainable, that they can use for the military.
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Now, I wonder if you can make fungi related protein that would work in home, um, indoor
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Cause you know, the, the hard part about indoor gardening is you can't grow.
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Usually when they have a gardens, it's like, Hey, look at the lettuce we can grow.
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Well, well, not much else sufficiently, but we got lots of lettuce and herbs.
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So if we can figure out things that would grow in indoor gardens that would actually have
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protein and be good for you, that'd be amazing.
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Well, Joe Biden hates Nancy Pelosi, we assume, because he did an interview and he says that
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Congress should not be allowed to trade stocks because they have insider trading privileges
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Now, why would Joe Biden suddenly care about that?
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It sounds like somebody is trying to get back at some of the members of Congress who are making
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And Joe is just like, well, if you're going to stop me from making money, maybe I'll stop
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We don't know if that's why he said he should be banned.
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A lot of people think he should be banned, but it's fun to talk about the drama.
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Meanwhile, there is a one foot tall pile of papers called the Omnibus, or maybe it's a
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continued resolution that looks like an Omnibus.
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So it's basically a budget for Congress to pass.
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And as Thomas Massey warned long ago, that Congress is so worthless and they can't make
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decisions on individual spending things that they would put it all together in one giant
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bill that nobody would have time to read before Christmas vacation.
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So now the pressure will be on to vote for something that they haven't read and don't
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agree with, or miss Christmas with their families.
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So our system devolved to the point where our Congress people will be hectored by their own
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I've got to vote on a bunch of things, and this big continued resolution isn't good,
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But Daddy, you'll be here for New Year's, right?
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It's going to take a month at least to work through this, maybe two months.
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Given that Congress are mostly human beings, if you put Christmas between them and doing
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And I'd love to tell you, if I had that job, oh, if you put me in that job, I would not say
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I would let my children have Christmas by themselves, because I would stay there and do a good job.
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I'd probably vote on the damn thing and go home for Christmas, because Christmas matters.
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It's like it's a higher priority to most people.
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So I don't think our Congress could be any more broken than to do this right in front
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of us when everybody knew they were going to do it, everybody knew they didn't need to
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do it, everybody knows they're doing it because they can't do their real job, and it's basically
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a way to say, well, we couldn't really do our job, so I hope you'll be happy with us doing
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Instead of doing what you elected us for and what you pay us for, just work with me.
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Suppose we didn't do any work to get a good budget.
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We just signed it so we could go home for Christmas.
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Yes, let's do that instead, the opposite of what we pay you for.
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And they do it right in front of us, because there's nothing we can do about it.
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Because every single person in Congress seems to be on the same page except Massey and Paul
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Well, somebody ran the gigantic pile of crap through one of the AIs, and I think it was Grok, and it summarized in plain language what was in there and what the problems were.
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The summary is so big that that's useless, too.
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But even the summary is more than you could handle.
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I mean, I looked at it and said, I don't have time for that.
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So Apple Lamps, that's the name of the account on X that put it through Grok.
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And then there's a section in there, according to John Harreld, who found this.
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So some people are actually looking through this continued resolution, looking for problems.
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So John Harreld found this, that the continued resolution has a section in it that you probably wouldn't know unless you really dug into it.
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And it's to, quote, quash or modify any legal process if compliance with the legal process would require the disclosure of house data.
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Now, house data would be defined as any electronic mail or electronic data communications.
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And they're also applying it to pending things, things that are already in process.
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So the basic idea here is if somebody was putting pressure on Congress, they could quash it, any legal process, they could quash it if it required them to show any of their communications, which is what pretty much most of your legal processes do, in fact, require.
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So they would make sure that the public couldn't know exactly what they were doing, even in the context of a legal process.
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Now, they stuck that into the bill that everybody would have to sign before they go on vacation for Christmas.
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It also includes, according to Gabe Kaminsky, who writes for the D.C. Examiner, so this funding bill also includes a short-term funding bill to avert government shutdown, but it also has an extension on the State Department's Global Engagement Center.
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Have you ever heard of the Global Engagement Center?
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If you look through a document that was one foot tall printed out, it's a foot tall.
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And you found this one thing about funding the State Department's Global Engagement Center.
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Would you know what that was or why they want to fund it or what kind of work it does?
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Well, Matt Taibbi reported in the past that it's one of the entities that funds the speech suppression efforts in the United States.
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It's a free speech suppression in the United States.
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And it's being funded, and they're asking Congress to vote for free speech suppression tools.
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The reason that a funding bill like this would be put before Congress right before Christmas is to make it impossible for them to say no.
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The only way you can fix this is you have to break the government.
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So although everything will stop working, presumably there would be gigantic repercussions for voting no.
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And we should experience gigantic repercussions.
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If it means that the country is temporarily defenseless against their enemies, okay, we'll do it anyway.
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If it means that the government can't get any of its important work done for months, yes, do it anyway.
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Don't ever, ever let us be in this situation again.
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And anybody who votes for this, I would lose all respect for him, honestly.
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I have no respect for anybody who will vote for this.
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If your government says these words, quote, we have not seen anything to worry about.
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If they say we haven't seen anything to worry about, it probably means that the government
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If they say there's no danger to the public, that means they do know what's going on.
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Otherwise, as many people have noted, how do you know there's no danger if you also don't
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So, obviously, super obviously, the government knows more than we do about what's going on
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So, one of the things I learned when I was in hypnosis class is you can look for the overly
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Well, it's true because it's overly specific, but it's a way to lie without lying.
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In other words, they worded things in a way that you will leap to a conclusion that they're
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So, if they say we have not seen anything to worry about, then you just know that they
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But if they say there is no danger to the public, well, then they're definitely lying about
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If it hasn't started already, I'm expecting a huge decrease in what were called the drones
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Now, I don't think there'll be a decrease in the commercial-sized regular drones, of which
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And I don't think there'll be a decrease in commercial flights.
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So, you're going to see as many stars, helicopters, commercial flights, and your normal commercial
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But there were some that were not in those category, reportedly.
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And, you know, pretty credible people are reporting that.
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So, I think that the ones that are the size of a vehicle may have been military, and it
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may have been training, and they may be getting ready for some kind of operation.
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And so, my prediction is that the number of drones that are the size of a car are, if
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not already, will soon be shipped over to the Middle East for at least making it easier
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Now, it doesn't mean that war has been decided.
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But you can certainly see that a conversation with Iran might go differently if, you know,
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So, it might be to threaten, it might be for Ukraine.
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You know, maybe they were testing some new stuff for Ukraine.
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Speaking of Ukraine, I wasn't going to talk about this, but I will.
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So, somebody very arrogant said something about one of my posts about the drones, suggesting
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that I don't know anything about drones, or what's happening in Ukraine with drones.
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And he went on this extended multi-thread explanation of all the amazing things that Ukraine is doing
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with drones, said that the United States drones are useless, because they're just easy to jam,
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but that somehow the Ukrainians have figured out, you know, the best drones, and, you know,
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all the great drones are being made in Ukraine, and Ukraine is becoming the world headquarters
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for the best drone-making and innovation, and it just went on and on and on.
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And all it looked like to me is, you know that drug that makes you go to war, the October 7th people?
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It's basically a speed that makes you invulnerable to things that would normally bother you,
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So, it just looked to me like the person I was talking to was on Captagon,
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because it didn't look like you would write that much if you were just trying to make a point,
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because the point was as easy as what I just said.
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Oh, maybe you don't know that Ukraine has done amazing advances in drones,
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and that, you know, drone warfare is the primary war now.
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So, that's all I needed to say, but it makes me wonder that one of the biggest things that the news
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mentions, but doesn't work into every story, and maybe it should, is that the people involved are
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on Captagon, and they're on a specific drug that creates a specific change in personality,
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meaning that you will do horrible things, and you do things for longer,
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and things that are harder than you normally would.
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So, if you've got a bunch of people who are all hopped up on Captagon,
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it's going to be hard to, you know, walk away from that,
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Anyway, I don't know that he's on Captagon, but he acted like somebody who's got a little extra going on.
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So, I think there might be something going on with our drones being tested,
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Now, the frustrating thing about the drones, which is just fascinating to me from the perspective
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of psychology, is that there are some things in this world that are impossible to communicate.
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So, you all remember the story of the boy who cried wolf?
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You know, he kept saying there was a wolf coming, but because he was lying.
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When a wolf finally did come, and the little boy said, wolf, wolf,
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and everybody said, well, that little boy is lying again.
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So, that's an example of something that can't be communicated.
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The little boy saw a wolf, wanted to tell somebody,
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but it created a situation where you can't communicate it.
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There's something similar to that with these drones,
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because the way that people communicate what they're seeing
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So far, I haven't seen any picture that looks convincing
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that there's some dangerous, anomalous drones in the air.
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However, the people who are taking the pictures are very credible.
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So, you have the human is saying, I'm standing here,
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and I'm seeing something I've never seen before, and there's a lot of it.
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And then you see the picture, and you go, maybe,
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See, at this point, I would expect the sky in New Jersey would be full
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of just people's ordinary commercial or hobby drones,
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So, there should be tons of things in the air that are drones,
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So, when the government tells you there's nothing dangerous or anomalous,
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what they haven't said is, we have no idea of anything being tested that's new.
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I feel like the press is not asking the right question.
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The question they should ask would be something like,
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can you tell us, yes or no, is the government doing increased,
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is the military, doing any increased testing and or evaluation or training
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of drones in New Jersey or other areas around the United States?
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Are you doing anything with drones of any way that you're doing more of it
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Because if you just let them say there's nothing anomalous,
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There's nothing anomalous about a little extra drone testing
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So, yeah, it gives them a little bit too much of an out.
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Well, Trump, as you know, Trump said that the government definitely knows
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about what the drones are and what they're up to
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And then he was asked if he had been briefed, a security briefing,
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Now, is Trump smart enough that he would answer any question
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about a security briefing by saying, I don't want to talk about it?
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Because that might be, like, strategically, that might be what Trump always says.
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He just doesn't want to tell you, maybe until he's in office.
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He doesn't want to tell you what he knows and doesn't know,
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But the way it comes off, the way it comes off,
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the way it comes off is that he knows exactly what they are.
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And he doesn't want to tell you because he can't,
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Now, that would suggest there's something happening,
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but maybe anomalous isn't the right word, like I said.
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If it's things we always do, but we're just doing a little extra of it,
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And the Pentagon press secretary doesn't want to explain
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why the CIA and FBI drone briefing remains classified.
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So I guess the CIA and the FBI are giving some kind of briefing
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what exactly are they going to talk about drones over New Jersey
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that's classified when the public would like to know?
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Maybe it's just automatic that they classify anything like that.
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who's the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman,
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Because wouldn't China just buy a commercial drone like everybody else,
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if you were somehow to get their electronic signal,