Scott Adams talks about the latest in science and technology, including a breakthrough in electron science, a study on sperm quality, and a new investment in U.S. manufacturing by a company called Siemens. Plus, a new kind of shipping infrastructure investment from the Trump administration.
00:03:46.320I didn't realize I put these two stories together.
00:03:48.480But Siemens, the company, not this sperm, announced a $285 million investment in U.S. manufacturing.
00:03:57.540Now, some years ago, I bought a tiny little bit of stock in Siemens because I thought we were going to stop Huawei from selling this kind of equipment in the U.S.
00:04:10.320And I thought, hmm, who is the competition to Huawei?
00:04:14.520So I thought, Siemens might be Zooming.
00:04:17.440But I eventually sold that tiny little investment and never made money on it because Siemens just sort of languished for a long time.
00:04:26.180But if they're coming into the U.S., good news.
00:04:30.580And Trump's also announced some kind of major shipping infrastructure investment, $20 billion.
00:04:37.200Thomas Stevenson, the Post Millennial, is writing about this.
00:04:42.300And I guess there's a big shipping company called CMA, CGM that's going to invest this.
00:04:51.020So I think that means ports, you know, beefing up the ports.
00:04:55.080This could be related, I would assume, to the fact that Trump wants to beef up all of the shipbuilding capabilities in the United States, commercial and military.
00:05:10.800I mean, if you just look at the size of the ocean and you look at the threats that are going to be coming at us from other shipbuilding countries.
00:05:20.500And it just seems to me also that the technology to just live on the ocean is finally completely here.
00:05:30.520Because if you had, like, if you built your own little, you know, seafaring island that had a motor that could get out of the storms and stuff.
00:05:38.360And you had a tiny little nuclear reactor, you could desalinate all day long.
00:05:45.620You could probably, you know, fish like crazy.
00:05:49.740I feel like all the technology is here now to make the ocean just the place that people live.
00:06:25.000But apparently people thought it could have been worse because of all the doge and tariff and all the other uncertainties in the world right now.
00:06:36.360I think people were just happy to see that it doesn't seem like yet it's making a huge difference, at least a huge negative difference.
00:06:45.220Meanwhile, Elon Musk's latest starship, I guess you'd call it a test.
00:06:55.380Part of it blew up, but the, I think it's the, I don't know anything about rockets.
00:07:01.440Would it be the booster that was successfully caught by the chopsticks again?
00:07:07.700And every time it happens, how many times has it happened?
00:07:44.500Now, when I tell you it was a trans extremist that shot up a car company, is your first thought, hmm, it's somebody who was born as a biological woman, but then transitioned to a man?
00:07:59.700Or do you say to yourself, hmm, that sounds like somebody who was born a biological male and transitioned to a woman, but still had at least one habit that men seem to have more than women, which is shooting stuff up?
00:08:14.920Well, if you guess the latter, you'd be right.
00:09:54.920Speaking of the good stuff, so Trump is teasing that he's going to release some information or talk about the two assassination attempts against them.
00:10:06.240And he's as perplexed as we are about why we don't know more about this.
00:10:13.500And he was talking about the number of devices and apps.
00:10:16.240He said, you had one of them, one of the attempted shooter people, you had one who had three apps, two of which were foreign, supposedly, and was the biggest white shoe law firm in Pennsylvania, even though they don't live in necessarily a white shoe area.
00:10:32.700And he said, what's that all about, is law, what?
00:10:38.880And Trump seemed to agree that he thinks there's something bigger might be behind everything.
00:11:42.500You might get a story, but you won't know.
00:11:48.100Meanwhile, there's a story, the University of California researchers, they say there's a paralyzed man who's been using a robotic arm for months,
00:11:58.420and he can move the arm just by imagining what he wants it to do.
00:12:05.640So apparently he can, you know, pour himself a glass of water just by imagining the arm pouring itself a glass of water.
00:12:14.480Now, they seem to think that this is the beginning of something big and that, you know, maybe they'll be able to adapt this to lots of other people.
00:12:52.160So what would happen if you have ADHD and you can't concentrate on the glass of water, but your mind drifts to other things you could imagine that arm doing?
00:13:06.820Again, can we agree that all the men got to the joke before I finished?
00:14:19.420In other medical news, Washington University of Medicine is trying to harness this chemical that makes cannabis a good pain reliever because they don't want to use opioids because they have lots of downside.
00:14:35.000But they've developed a compound that mimics a natural molecule found in cannabis, and it seems pretty good at pain relief without the side effects, and also doesn't make you high.
00:14:50.060So I'll just say this, which I've said before.
00:14:53.920I can't even imagine my life without cannabis as a pain reliever.
00:16:37.300You know, you don't want to be operating a vehicle or doing it around kids.
00:16:42.200So there's a million reasons why you wouldn't do it.
00:16:45.200But if those don't apply, it's a real good painkiller.
00:16:48.640So Tulsi Gabbard says that the Biden administration knowingly let hundreds of illegal migrants come into the country who had known connections, known connections to ISIS.
00:17:06.640And now those people, hundreds of them, the ISIS-connected people are in the United States.
00:17:16.040And she said that in the Laura Ingram show.
00:17:30.120But what was the thinking behind that?
00:17:35.780You know, if you're not a Democrat, there's a whole bunch of stuff that Democrats do from hiring these district attorneys, these Soros district attorneys, to opening the borders, to this.
00:17:49.920You know, knowingly letting ISIS-related people into the country.
00:17:53.400It doesn't look like they had any plan other than destroying the country.
00:17:59.320I can't even think of what the alternative explanation would be.
00:18:03.480Was it, well, they were connected to ISIS, but, you know, everybody in that region was maybe a little connected to ISIS.
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00:36:53.860I've never seen this situation where I literally, if I'm clicking through the news and I see Scott Jennings sitting there at a panel, oh, I stop.
00:37:11.120And sure enough, he'll just be mocking these idiots.
00:37:17.160And it's just hilarious that they can't put a glove on him.
00:37:21.840And he just eviscerates them, in my opinion, of course.
00:37:25.600If you're a Democrat, you probably think the opposite is happening.
00:37:28.440But then there were a number of Democrat women in Congress, I guess, who created this video game dancing kind of attempt at a viral video where they would all look like they had just appeared, like they had just cloned as video game players.
00:37:49.880And they would dance like they're ready to fight.
00:38:04.000And then I saw also on that same panel that Scott Jennings was on, one of the panelists was saying, oh, but, you know, it worked because we've got all these eyeballs and we're talking about it on the news.
00:38:15.980And even Abby Phillip, the host, who generally is, you know, pretty much in the tank for the Democrats, even she said, to what end?
00:40:03.620What's happening in America is roughly equivalent to the yearbook committee and the theater kid types getting rocked by the football team and chess club alliance.
00:40:13.780Now, you have to think about this for a minute.
00:40:15.700The Republicans here are a combination of the chess club, that's Doge, and a football team.
00:40:24.460Yes, they're absolutely a combination of a football team plus a chess club.
00:40:30.380Now, I would say that maybe it was only a football team in the past.
00:40:33.860But once you add, you know, you're David Sachs and you're, you know, you're Scott Bessant and you're, you know, Lutnick, what's his name?
00:41:10.500Meanwhile, New York Times is reporting that Act Blue, that is allegedly a group which collects small donations for Democrats, is in turmoil, they say.
00:41:23.900So apparently, without explanation, seven top executives of Act Blue have left in the past three weeks.
00:41:31.420And several of them have been there for more than a decade.
00:41:34.580And none of them will say why they're leaving.
00:41:55.260And according to the New York Times, the last remaining lawyer at Act Blue's general counsel's office has been locked out of his email and put on leave after sending internal messages that we have whistleblower policies.
00:42:09.700For a reason, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh, there's a whistleblower.
00:43:01.540Yeah, it does seem like everything Democrats are involved in at an organizational level is doing a little bit of good stuff and maybe a lot more of something else.
00:43:50.160Do you think that Harvard graduates are just not considered necessary?
00:43:57.040You know, it used to be everybody who could get one would get one.
00:44:01.500Could it be that all of the DEI stuff has made people look at college graduates and say,
00:44:09.060I'm not so sure I know why you got into Harvard.
00:44:13.960What is missing from the story is the demographic groups that are still looking for jobs.
00:44:20.160It does make me wonder if the DEI thing has now backfired such that if you were any member of a, you know, so-called disadvantaged group and you had a Harvard degree and you walk into the office for a job,
00:44:37.440what does the person interviewing you think?
00:44:40.320Do they think you, you did everything that everybody else did and you earned your Harvard degree?
00:44:47.320Or do they think, hmm, sounds like you went in through the DEI side door and maybe it's a little bit risky to bring you on.
00:44:56.600How many of them show up looking like activists and looking like they're DEI activists and looking like maybe their social media gave away a little bit too much about their opinions?
00:45:10.320How many of them do you think got turned down because of something they said on social media?
00:45:21.820Meanwhile, according to the Western Journal, Ben Zizloft, Trump's agricultural secretary, Brooke Rollins, is suggesting that maybe Americans raise their own chickens to help deal with the soaring price of eggs.
00:45:37.040I would like to weigh in on the other side of that recommendation.
00:45:42.140I do think there are some situations and maybe some states and some rural areas and some families that owning chickens would be awesome.