Naval Ravikant has a funny exchange on the internet, and some random guy thinks it's a good time to be alive. Tesla stock is doing well, and a new breakthrough in food production is being developed that turns CO2 into protein-rich food.
00:04:15.100Meanwhile, according to Clarence Oxford of Biofuel Daily, you all read that, right?
00:04:22.100There's a new breakthrough, scientific breakthrough that converts CO2 using electricity into protein rich food.
00:04:32.100So this is something I've been thinking about for years.
00:04:38.100I've been thinking, what would happen if somebody figured out how to take the CO2 out of the air and turn it into a commercial product?
00:04:47.100Now, that's already happening, but the commercial products are kind of, you know, weird little industrial places where you use some derivative of CO2.
00:04:56.100But it's not like something that you and I would be using.
00:05:00.100But what if somebody really does commercialize this and there's a way to make a protein like a healthy protein you could eat just out of the sky?
00:05:14.100Well, I'd like to take a moment to do the sign language for the NPCs.
00:05:20.100Don't you know that the CO2 is really plant food?
00:05:26.100And if you take the plant food out, the entire world will die because the plant food is not there to eat the plants, which would be growing from the CO2.
00:05:39.100So, yeah, all we have to do is make a way to eat the air and somebody will suck all of the air out of the sky until there's no CO2 left and all our plants will die.
00:06:56.100And, you know, if the United States planned to make a gigantic solar thing in space, wouldn't you worry that that's a little too easy to shoot down and a little too easy to get hit by some debris?
00:07:49.100If you were creating so much energy from this space-based thing and you had to beam it with some kind of, I don't know, energy beam down to Earth,
00:08:00.100wouldn't that energy beam be configurable to be a space laser and destroy anything they want?
00:10:17.100Is there any doubt that this guy was associated either with some other country that we don't, that our people don't want to mention yet for whatever reason?
00:10:31.100Or there was just obviously an insider job, meaning somebody in our government and or intelligence agency and or Democrat was behind it.
00:10:40.100Do you really think we don't know anything about this?
00:17:46.100The president does not have the authority to declare amendments to the U.S. Constitution,
00:17:51.100and the National Archivist is not ratifying it.
00:17:55.100Now, how do you explain that the staffs for both Biden and Kamala Harris,
00:18:03.100there was not anybody on the staff willing to say,
00:18:06.100you can't change the Constitution with an executive order, that literally everybody knew?
00:18:13.100How did they not say, oh, don't post that or don't say that or don't sign that executive order?
00:18:22.100The only explanation I have is that they hate Joe Biden and they hate Kamala Harris.
00:18:28.100Because I've got a feeling that, you know, relations have soured between the, you know, the campaign and the staff and the, you know, the politicians.
00:18:38.100So it seems to me that their staff just totally threw them under the bus and may have actually been laughing about it.
00:18:45.100It's like, yeah, I just let them say that you can change the Constitution with an executive order.
00:18:52.100Now, maybe it's because all those people are looking for jobs and that there was nobody around to ask because they're all looking for jobs.
00:19:24.100Did we see for the first time a genuine peek behind the curtain?
00:19:29.100Because you think, you know, if you're using some common sense, you kind of think, well, you know, they're all they're all up to speed behind the curtain.
00:19:37.100But, you know, Biden is a little slow and Kamala doesn't communicate that well.
00:20:17.100We heard yesterday that Schumer was one of the active ones trying to get Biden to drop out.
00:20:23.100I guess he went all the way to Biden's house and told them that his legacy would be better if he dropped out and blah, blah, blah.
00:20:32.100But allegedly and reportedly, Schumer actually told Biden that his own pollsters, the internal polls that you and I don't get to see, gave him only a 5% chance of beating Trump.
00:20:44.100So that was about the time they were talking about getting rid of him.
00:20:47.100And I'm told by the news that Biden was unaware that his own internal polling only gave him 5%.
00:20:58.100Now, if I told you that out of the context, you'd say, well, that's not true.
00:21:04.100Of course, he knows what the polling says.
00:21:11.100But now that you've heard that they think they, they think they changed the Constitution with a executive order, I feel like anything's possible.
00:22:15.100Now that's, that's coming from somebody who's a four-time murderer.
00:22:19.100So I'm not sure you can trust him, but I think he was an ex cop.
00:22:24.100And I, and they, and apparently this is, again, this is hearsay.
00:22:29.100So I don't know how much credibility to put it, but according to the cellmate, Epstein told them, he says, but the government told me, I don't have to prove what I say about Trump.
00:22:40.100As long as Trump's people can't disprove it.
00:22:43.100And that Epstein considered, quote, making stuff up to save his skin.
00:23:54.100Well, here's a story that blew my mind.
00:23:57.100Robbie Starbuck, as you know, he's been really successful in getting companies to roll back their DEI programs.
00:24:04.100But he looked into the U.S. State Department and they've got a whole DEI group.
00:24:11.100And so you say to yourself, well, you know, a lot of places have DEI groups and they're just making sure that diversity is, is handled appropriately.
00:24:21.100So on paper, it sounds pretty good, doesn't it?
00:24:24.100If you want diversity, hire some people to make sure it got done, start measuring it.
00:25:16.100They made DEI part of all civil service and performance evaluations so that advancing the DEI stuff became the responsibility of all civil and foreign service employees.
00:25:27.100And they had lots of training on something they call allyship, allyship, which I think means white people, white men helping everybody else discriminate against white men.
00:25:56.100We also paid for the career development of women in Gambia, because that's what you thought you got when you funded DEI in the State Department, was career development for women in Gambia.
00:26:10.100Also, there was inclusive language training in Panama, because people were not using inclusive language about the LGBTQ stuff, the Panamanians.
00:26:23.100Panamanians were just using all the wrong words.
00:26:25.100So I'm glad we stepped in and got them to use the right words.
00:26:50.100They changed the name of the Foreign Services, which used to be called Oral Assessment, to Officer Assessment, because the term Oral Assessment may have excluded nonverbal people.
00:27:03.100Oh, I thought it was only excluding heterosexuals, but my head was in a totally different place.
00:27:15.100Stayed in the state amidst the focusing recruitment efforts to paid internships on, quote, minority serving institutions and women's colleges, which is probably illegal.
00:27:28.100Created a new racial equity framework for how the State Department works overseas.
00:29:42.100But if it's even close to being true, that would certainly be shocking.
00:29:49.100The Wall Street Journal reports that the reason that Los Angeles had not prepared properly for the fires was that it was a mishmash of government agencies failed to keep public lands in and around LA safe from wildfires.
00:30:11.100You know, I remember when I was a kid and I thought that the government of the United States was some kind of a democratic republic kind of a situation.
00:30:25.100And then I reached my current age only to find out that our government is a, quote, mishmash of government agencies.
00:32:30.100I think the people that go into these jobs do it to make money.
00:32:36.100I think sometimes maybe people are interested in, I don't know, helping the community or it's a, it's a launching board to a higher office or something.
00:32:44.100But I feel like the majority of them just know that if they can get elected and they get in the right place, they can skim money off of all the, all the public funds that need to be going to different vendors.
00:32:58.100So they just send it to their favorite vendor who then sends them a little gift that you can't tell is related.
00:33:05.100So I think that it's systemic, meaning that if we keep thinking, oh, we got a bad egg here.
00:33:55.100If the, if the larger purpose of even running for office in the first place is to get in on the graft gravy train, you almost need, you almost need to have local management that doesn't live there.
00:34:11.100So they don't have all the criminal connections they need to skim.
00:34:16.100It's almost like you need the Swiss to come in and run your cities and say, all right, Swiss are going to run the city, but don't contact them.
00:34:28.100But yeah, we need a new way to run our local cities because I think the system just guarantees that they become corrupt over time, which would be now.
00:35:32.100If I made it like a paragraph long, what you should say instead, you wouldn't remember it and you wouldn't use it.
00:35:38.100So I'm trying to boil it down so everybody who reads this once will go, oh yeah, that is the right answer.
00:35:44.100Here's the correct answer to did Joe Biden win the 2020 election?
00:35:48.100Joe Biden won the election based on our current system.
00:35:52.100But our election systems are not transparent enough to detect all forms of cheating.
00:35:57.100That's why half the country is skeptical of the results if it doesn't go their way.
00:36:02.100So that last part, half the country is skeptical if it doesn't go their way.
00:36:07.100Kind of says both sides question every election, which is our current situation.
00:36:12.100So and if you say Joe Biden won, according to our current system, that that that gives you an escape from all the individual claims.
00:36:24.100And it also gives you some some freedom from being connected to Trump says he won.
00:36:31.100The instead of saying Trump was right or Trump was wrong, you say in our country, the losing side always thinks is rigged.
00:36:41.100Joy Reid was saying that Trump's victory this time was rigged by not things in terms of the vote, but rigged in terms of some kind of public stuff.
00:37:18.100But you start by saying Joe Biden won the election.
00:37:23.100But you limit it to the election the way it's designed.
00:37:26.100And then you say we don't have an election where you could tell for sure who won.
00:37:31.100That's why no matter who wins, half of the country thinks it's not credible.
00:37:37.100So if Trump also thought it wasn't credible, he would be in the same category with half of the country.
00:37:44.100And if somebody some Democrat thinks that an election is not credible, they would be in good company with lots of people who believe the same thing.
00:40:03.100Anyway, so Vivek Ramaswamy is, all the smart people say, he's going to announce a run for Ohio governor, but not until he gets some accomplishments at Doge.
00:40:18.100I'm going to say I'm not thrilled with this.
00:40:22.100I do think Vivek would be a good governor, and I think he'd be a good senator if he ever got a chance of that.
00:40:28.100But I feel like, and it's also a perfect stepping stone to the presidency.
00:41:09.100I mean, I like it for him that that looks like a good plan for him.
00:41:13.100But I'll tell you, everything about my optimism is based on Doge.
00:41:19.100It's the only thing I think we absolutely have to get right.
00:41:23.100I mean, obviously, some national security stuff like the border.
00:41:28.100But in terms of the biggest threat to the country, it's the debt by far.
00:41:33.100And anything that causes Vivek to work on that less or have his attention divided or, you know, not spend four years working on it because it's going to take a while.
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00:43:47.100Meanwhile, speaking of the fires in LA, million dollar listing TV show star Josh Altman has been talking to a lot of people because they're calling him about real estate.
00:43:58.100And he says up to 70% of the Palisades residents will not return because they're deeply underinsured.
00:44:07.100So even the ones who had what you could call full insurance, it's not going to cover, you know, building a new foundation and clean up and all that.
00:44:20.100So he's thinking that people have just decided it doesn't make sense to spend five years mucking around just in case it works out.
00:44:30.100My guess is the people whose houses survive may be forced to stay because that's their best play.
00:44:37.100So it's going to be a different place.
00:44:40.100According to Ars Technica, the European Union is ordering the X platform to hand over its algorithm documents.
00:44:53.100So Javier Espinoza and Andy Bounds are writing about this.
00:44:57.100Now, the EC European Commission has also requested access to the information on how X moderates and amplifies content.
00:45:09.100Now, on one hand, it does seem like a national priority to know how these social media things are influencing the public.
00:45:19.100And on the other hand, it doesn't seem like social media is going to work in other countries.
00:45:28.100So the TikTok ban, which goes into effect tomorrow unless something suddenly changes, is the platform or it's the template.
00:45:39.100Once you know that TikTok can be banned in one country, even if its origin country still runs it, doesn't that mean it's going to happen everywhere?
00:45:49.100How in the world is Europe going to let American platforms operate in Europe?
00:45:56.100America just got rid of a Chinese platform.
00:46:00.100Do the Europeans think that we wouldn't try to influence them?
00:46:04.100Now, I don't think the X is doing that.
00:46:07.100I don't think it's trying to influence them in any kind of algorithmic way.
00:46:13.100If the head of the X, who has the most attention and the most posts or the most retweets and everything,
00:46:21.100if the biggest account is absolutely definitely being political and absolutely definitely showing his opinion on things and absolutely definitely moves the needle because the size of his reach,
00:46:35.100how in the world is anybody going to allow that in their country?
00:46:40.100I want it to succeed and I want it to succeed in every country, but I don't see a path.
00:46:45.100I feel like every country is going to say, hey, if the U.S. banned TikTok, how in the world are they going to complain if we ban their platform for the same reason?
00:46:55.100That we think it might be too persuasive or give up too much of our information.
00:47:00.100So I hate to say it, but I think the long term of social media networks is that there'll be countries specific.
00:47:07.100And it will be the country that invented it because then the intelligence people in that country can feel that they have enough control over the platform to get what they want.
00:47:28.100Argentina allegedly has reached its first budget surplus in 14 years, thanks to their new leader, who is an economist and what would you call him?
00:51:00.100And all of us who are more, let's say, traditionally minded, we say, well, there can't be many people who think that, right?
00:51:10.100There can't be a lot of people who would have the same opinion that it was good that somebody got murdered.
00:51:15.100And the longer you go, you realize there are a lot of people with that opinion.
00:51:20.100Now, I don't think they're serious people in the sense that it's easy to say you support something that already happened.
00:51:27.100I don't think they would support doing more of it if you ask them.
00:51:33.100But I wonder if this is the first indication that the public is done.
00:51:39.100Now, that's why it's being reported that he was just a, you know, a patriot and he was just done with all the corruption or whatever it was, fundamentalism or something.
00:55:22.100You know, the problem with the a lot of the political stories is there's so many duplicates like I can't keep any of the law affairs straight.
00:55:32.100All the law affairs sound the same to me.
00:55:34.100And then it's starting to be that the assassination attempts are starting to sound the same.
00:55:38.100So it's like, oh, there's a white guy.
00:55:41.100He had a gun, tried to kill the president.
00:55:56.100As soon as I saw the comment, which I didn't see until just now, as soon as I saw the comment that he was killed, I thought, oh, that's funny.