Episode 2953 CWSA 09⧸09⧸25
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In this week's episode of Coffee with Scott Adams, Scott and I discuss some allegedly true and fake tech news stories, including a new wearable device that can read your thoughts, and a company that could be making a feature-length animated movie.
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well it looks like everything's working the sound etc i've been tinkering with my setup so
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you never know what could happen well here's a uh tech story that i don't know if i believe it
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it looks like a prank but allegedly there's a company called alter ego that's a uh little wearable
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that you put around like sort of like headphones except doesn't cover your ears sort of like the uh
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you know the kind that just wrap around the back of your head anyway they allege that that that thing
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can read your thoughts uh well enough to know what you would like to be sending to a screen
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with almost you know perfect precision and happens kind of quickly and they showed this demo of a guy who
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is you know wearing one and he was writing an email by thinking what he wants in the email now
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how in the world can they pick out the words in your head that you want to send from the words in
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your head that you don't want to send and i thought to myself how does that work with people who have a
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conversation in your head all the time the way i organize my thoughts to make sure that they make
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sense is i put them in sentences and i think of them as full spoken sentences and i'll keep rearranging
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them until until they make sense when i hear them because it's sort of like i'm listening to myself
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now how in the world and they allege that they can uh they can detect they allege that they can detect
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um the the thoughts if i can say it right i'm probably not saying it right but something like
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just when you're going to verbalize a thought so they get it when you've decided to verbalize it
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but they won't get it prior to you deciding to verbalize it but in this case you don't actually
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verbalize it it just picks up your intention to verbalize it do you believe that there's a thing
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that can attach to the outside your head you know like little headphone things little sensors that would
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be currently sensitive enough and smart enough to determine what you intend to say
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does that sound even a little bit likely that that's true i would love i would love to know that
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it is true that'd be kind of cool but i'm gonna go with nope yeah let's let's let's grade that one nope
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um but like i say yeah i would love to be wrong so if that's a real thing really cool but nope all right
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um allegedly open ai is uh planning to make a feature-length animated movie that would debut at
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the can film festival and it'd be done in nine months and a budget of 30 million dollars
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um do you believe that they'll be able to do that and if they can do it does that mean that the tool
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would allow you to do it because seems like there'd be a massive storage element you know we're asked to
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store what it's already done to make sure that what it does next is compatible with all that
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do you think that will be available to the average person or or are they going to demonstrate that if
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you want the studio model oh that's the studio model is 10 million dollars a year because you're
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going to make so much money making movies maybe i i am uh skeptical that you'll be able to use the
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the off-the-shelf open ai to make yourself a movie anytime soon someday but no time soon so we'll see
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that's pretty ambitious i like it well uh elon musk has decided to make the uh the code on x for
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recommending what it recommends to you uh open source so people who know how to look at code can look at
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it and say hey now i know why it doesn't show me james wood or whatever it's allegedly hiding from people
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and why does it show me other things so i love that let's say uh that is a solid elon musk play
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that uh feels sort of uniquely him you know something you wouldn't expect from other people
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and i like it so speaking of tesla yesterday they had a big announcement about what's called the mega pack
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which is there are big battery structures that they sell into power utility grids so it'd be become
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part of an existing grid and it would store power when it was cheap to make or possible to make and use
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it when it was needed later so apparently i didn't know this but um
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apparently they're making billions of dollars on this line of business
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and that's part of tesla so i remember hearing adam or saying adam townsend he did a post
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several years back in which he said that tesla was actually a energy company uh in disguise as a car
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company and i don't know if i buy that a hundred percent or that he even meant it a hundred percent but
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um how big could that business be i mean if they're if they're the top or even number two
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in the business of putting in enormous battery packs then the interesting thing is that he's got a company
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the mega pack battery the mega pack battery thing that would be benefiting from ai because ai is gonna
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require that you know every form of energy and saving energy and storing energy becomes super
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valuable because we're valuable because we can't get enough of it ai will be sucking up all that energy
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so he's got a very compatible company there and at the same time speaking of compatible companies
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um his uh spacex company is doing a deal to buy a whole bunch of spectrum from echo star
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which apparently will be key to turning their satellites because spacex is a very compatible
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company with starlink you know the network of elon musk satellites that are around the earth already
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they were launched by spacex so those are the two most compatible companies you can imagine except if
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you if you could have a satellite company what would be the the best thing you could introduce next
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a phone that happens to work or you work with somebody else on phone service all over the globe and
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it looks like that's what he's gonna do so he's gonna have batteries all over the globe and ai is gonna
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drive that demand he's got he's gonna have uh uh or he has he's already got satellites all over the world
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and they're not far away from turning that into um worldwide phone service that would compete with
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everybody apparently the speeds would be great the latency would be low and uh he's really he's looking
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to take cell phones i mean just just even imagine the enormity of that business and and musk is sort of
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you know year after year he's just building these assets they can walk right up to the the domain of
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cell phone industry and possibly take over the entire industry because he's built exactly the right
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compatible assets from rockets to satellites um to batteries you know which you need for phones so
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and then of course he's have access to the best engineers and it all kind of kind of comes together doesn't it
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anyway um there's a ex-engineer at meta where he was at meta who claims that uh whatsapp the app that's
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owned by meta um had some privacy problems and specifically what he said was um there were about 1500
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which listen to this he claims that there were 1500 whatsapp engineers that had full access to private
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user data with no logs no audits and no way to know if anything was taken
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now user data would include their messages right so there were 1500 people who all they had to do
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as want to and they could look at all your private messages and what you thought was your super private
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message thing remember what i tell you about privacy the only protection you have is to be uninteresting
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that's it so there were yeah presumably you know most of the millions of people who used whatsapp had
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nobody looked at their messages because there were no reason to they're not very interesting
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but if they had any reason at all to look at your messages and let me let me just put you into the room
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let's say you're one of those engineers and if this allegation is true i'm not sure it is right so i'm not going to take it at face value
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but what if it is what if it's true that there were 1500 people who could anytime they want look into
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everybody's messages on whatsapp and nobody would catch them and they knew that what would happen when they
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get a divorce what would happen when you know they get into a relationship that breaks up
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do you think all 1500 of those engineers said to themselves you know i could just look at all of
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her messages back as long as i wanted to but uh nah nah i'm not going to do that i'm not the kind of guy
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who would find out something really really useful and have no risk whatsoever of ever getting caught i'm
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not that kind of guy or am i so yeah if these allegations are true i would say that would be
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something to worry about um apparently there was some massive power outage in berlin this morning
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50 000 homes without electricity there are two high voltage masts you know big artificial towers that
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caught on fire uh it's a suspected arson attacked well i would think so if there are two of them
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unless they were right next to each other you know you would think it would be a pretty big coincidence
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if two of them caught on fire i would even say it's weird if one of them catches on fire because how
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much burnable material is in a is in a cell phone tower i don't know or high voltage tower either way it
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can't be much it's not it's not like it's made of wood so yeah i believe they all need a tesla powerwall
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to get past that kind of risk well you know that greta tunberg is now an activist about uh the
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palestinian cause and uh she's uh she's on her second uh cruise if you can call it that she's on a flotilla
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uh they're going over there to protest israel's treatment of the gazans or something like that
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but apparently she got to tunisia in the in tunisian waters she may have and uh this is disputed so we
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don't know if this is true but allegedly um a drone uh attacked her boat now i think it caused something
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on fire they say but it didn't uh didn't kill anybody nobody was injured so that's good but there is
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some dispute the tunisian authorities say there was no drone hitting your boat somebody dropped a
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cigarette on some life life preservers so so they were either one of two things they were either
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attacked by by another country in a bold raid in which they sent a drone from a long distance or
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they had somebody stationed there waiting for greta and then they tried to assassinate her
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without leaving a trace by using their sophisticated drones so that's one possibility
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the other possibility is that greta was taking a smoke break
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and she was she was just out by the life preservers
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you know uh i'm having a real good time protesting this gaza situation
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flick and then she flicks her lit cigarette into the life preservers and the next thing you know
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uh we better tell people that was a drone so we don't know what happened my point is
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the fog of war makes it impossible to know how much of that story is true if any of it
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well you know the story about anthropic the ai company that got sued by a bunch of
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a bunch of uh authors and the authors you know banded together as a class and sued and uh
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they won and so the authors were going to split up 1.5 billion dollars that was the judgment and
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who knows how much their lawyers were going to get but what would be typical class action does the lawyer
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get or the lawyer firm do they get a third um what what is typical so if it had been let's say
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1.5 billion and the lawyers get a third you know they'd be looking at half a billion dollars for some
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lawyering but apparently it was had to be overseen by a judge and the federal judge that was going to
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oversee it looked at the deal that the lawyers made and said uh really this doesn't even look like you did
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this deal for the benefit of the authors it looks like maybe you did the deal for the benefit of the
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lawyers because it would not be irrational for a lawyer to say seriously they're offering us 1.5
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billion i don't know if you guys done the math that's a hundred million dollars a piece all we have
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to do is say yes and we will get a hundred million dollars a piece we will never have to worry about money
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again all you have to do is say yes or you could fight that case for months and maybe it would get
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appealed and maybe they'd win you know maybe the other side to win but but you'd fight to try to get
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more for the authors because if the authors win with this measly 1.5 billion dollar award
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um it might first of all set the price low for other lawsuits for other entities but
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uh it doesn't work out too much per author so an author would lose you know their their entire
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intellectual property for all practical purposes and in return they would get i don't know a thousand
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dollars if they were well established so the judge just said nope and put a pause on it i don't know where
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it goes next but the federal judge didn't think it looked like a proper deal i don't know maybe
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um so you know you've noticed that i've been ignoring the story about the um the ukrainian refugee
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woman who got stabbed to death in charlotte when she was on the light rail train well it turns out that
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now it's it's morphed from a crime story um no gary off the keyboard uh it's morphed from a crime story
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into a big political story because now the uh let's call it the anti-trump press of the world has
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decided that the way the people on the right the mega supporters are uh talking about it somewhat
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obsessively is that uh it's obviously kind of racist and so uh cnn had a big hit piece on that and
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i wasn't going to talk about it because i don't do crime but now that it's sort of a political thing
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and a persuasion thing and you know it's now slopped into my domain uh i'll give you my thoughts on it
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number one if she had not been a hot blonde would we be talking about it you tell me if she had not
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been a hot blonde literally some kind of a model i think would we even be talking about this don't people
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get stabbed and murdered kind of often you know way more than you know because it's not somebody pretty
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and they're not from ukraine and it's not a black attacker and a white victim but if she is pretty
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and we've got video that that makes a big difference um and it fits into a narrative that a lot of
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people are seeing in the larger world you know beyond this one one thing there's a lot of discussion
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about the crime rate and who's committing the crimes and you know this has something that needs to be
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addressed so it kind of fits their rights narrative perfectly and it's it's just made for memeing and
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um it's just made to be viral because of her looks so the uh you know the anti-magic people they're
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doing their best to try to figure out how it can be racist and i do believe i've seen it myself
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that in the comments not so much what the big influencers are saying that's that doesn't sound
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racist to me but a lot of the comments are flat out as racist as you could possibly be
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now you could argue whether that needs to be stopped or not and you could also argue um is it racist
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if you're talking statistical right so that that's what people would say it's like well if i'm just
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talking about the statistical risk that's not that racist does it but there are other people who are
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using certain language that you would most of you i think we would agree is over the line so but that's
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the real world in the real world there are people who are going to go over every line and you see that
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online so i would imagine that your feed would be different from mine which should be different from
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everybody else's i may see more of it than you do um we believe but i'm not positive this is true so
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there's still a little fog of war in this story but is it true because i haven't seen it and i wouldn't
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know if it was real if i saw it that there was a video that came out after the main murder video on the
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train that showed the murderer saying quote uh they got that white girl which would um strongly suggest
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that he had a racial motive even if he's a crazy person so you know that's that's good enough to
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throw it in that uh you know does it prove something about the bigger world box um personally
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uh i saw this as more like a crazy person situation but i saw uh greg gotfeld's uh monologue i was
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watching that and he points out that for a crazy person he certainly made a lot of uh let's say sane
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judgments about how to get away and you know how to plan it and you know that so so it's it's always a
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mixed bag it's not so crazy that you're running around naked throwing your feces but you know
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they're they're pockets of non-crazyness um so what do you do with that so obviously race was part of the
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story and remains part of the story um and then trump trump seizing uh on the situation because he
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he's uh anti-crime as you know and uh so now cnn says he's seizing on the moment
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because it's you know it's getting a lot of attention so he wants to maybe get in front of it um
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anyway he's i guess he's threatening to withhold federal dollars from the city of charlotte
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because of that murder and uh i don't know who said this i saw a quote online but the quote
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might have been trump but somebody said i guarantee that if i find what i think i'm going to find they're
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not going to have your federal tax dollars going to their public transportation system zero none so
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there's some allegation but i'm not entirely sure who's making it unless it's trump um that that
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they know something about charlotte that's corrupt or dirty now have you noticed the pattern yet that
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every local government is corrupt where it seems that way except correct me if i'm wrong
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it feels like it's just always democrat government yeah every story i know it's not literally true
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there they're obviously republicans who have been arrested and indicted and stuff for for crimes it's
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not like it doesn't exist but the news that i see isn't something like 10 to 1 in one direction
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and what do you do about that it's like 10 to 1 isn't it all right
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um and then the then that murder is bringing into the larger conversation
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um the following statistics that i see literally every day on social media i don't know if these are
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exactly true or true enough but it's what people are saying so that's the important part um but
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i keep seeing on social media people saying black people make up 13 of the u.s population but they
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claim and i don't know if this is true that that black people commit 56 of the murders
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now is that true and then do you um do you further calculate how many of them were uh other black
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people who were the victims because it would be mostly right like would it be three quarters of their
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victims would also be black or more more than three quarters right um then there's a whole bunch of
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other statistics uh the murder rate among black people is six to eight times higher than among white
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people blah blah so that's the sort of stuff that's going around social media
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and uh elon musk is getting into it by saying that a small group of criminals
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are the repeat violent offenders now that is a far less racial way to approach this
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so i think elon musk is probably the you know going on the most productive path because as soon as it
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gets into a race nothing happens you everybody just hates everybody so you can just forget that
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but if you were to focus on the repeat offenders um that's purely a you know behavioral thing and it
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it only kicks in if objectively speaking somebody's been you know convicted a certain number of times
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for a certain number of things certain type of things so but the vast majority of all crime
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is committed by people who have at least three prior arrests so these are you know pretty measurable things
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um so elon saying if we look at that and lock up the repeat criminals our crime situation would be
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vastly improved um i remember when that was a that was a thing in california i think it got reversed but
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for a time there was that three strikes thing and people argued before that was implemented
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that if you locked up the people who did the vast majority of the crimes you know that the three strike
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people they they actually argued that if you locked up in jail and kept them there forever
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the people who did eighty percent of all the crimes that it wouldn't change the crime rate
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that was actually what smart people were saying in public in their arguments well it's not going to change
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the crime rate just because you put the people who do all the crimes in jail forever
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and i used to jokingly say so let me see if i understand your hypothesis your hypothesis is that if they lock up
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a hundred percent of the people who are doing eighty percent of the crimes that the crime rate won't go
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down but rather the people who were not planning to do any crimes would increase the number of crimes they
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were committing beyond what they had planned to make up for the repeat criminals being in jail that's
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that's how you would get a balance and nothing would change right and
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that the conversation would quickly turn into insult because when people realize how dumb their opinion
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is that's that's not really an opinion opinion is it that's really just somebody's a dumb
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fuck people who are in jail don't commit crimes outside of jail i mean unless they have access to a
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telephone i guess or a henchman to do their work like a crime boss but generally speaking if you're in
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dangerous than others and you don't have enough of a racist opinion about why let me give you a
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a lesser a lesser racist opinion about why some places are more dangerous
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apparently according to neuro science news aggression is contagious meaning that if you observe your
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parents in particular so it's more of a family thing observing strangers doesn't have the same
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effect it must have some but if you observe family members being physical yeah you're more likely to be
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that way yourself but i went immediately to grok and i said uh can you tell me grok is uh violence and
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aggression are those things ever hereditary because it would make sense to me that if they were hereditary
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you know not 100 percent but at least in any way that uh it might not be because you're watching your
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family be aggressive it might be because you all have the aggressive gene so it seems to you that
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maybe the cause is that you're observing it or you're around it but it could be according to grok
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that uh there are some people who think that aggression is about 50 percent um inherited
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so the studies of twins i guess 50 percent of variance in aggressive behavior might be genetic
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so here's my suggestion for fixing things if the if the people who are who are being violent
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um are being perpetuated by seeing their family being violent and it becomes this this cycle
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maybe the best thing you could do because it's hard to fix that directly i mean you know what are you
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going to do uh people spend time with their family how are you going to stop that so if you can't do
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anything about it i've often wondered if the best solution isn't for people to apply for let's call
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it a grant or a scholarship to move out of whatever bad place has a bad example that's being set for
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them not just in this regard but someplace safe where they can you know really concentrate on school or
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whatever don't you think that that would be one way to save a failing neighborhood literally to let
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people say all right give me your best argument if you're really serious about you know having a
00:34:33.140
successful honest life write us a little thing or send us a video and you know maybe we'll sponsor
00:34:40.980
you or a number of people will sponsor you to get enough money to move to a place that's lower crime
00:34:47.060
better schools so it would be great if the people who have the ability to thrive in a different
00:34:54.900
atmosphere had the opportunity to get there and they wouldn't always be able to do it themselves
00:35:02.100
so just an idea well there's a chicago alderman who was uh ripping into um both the governor and the
00:35:12.580
mayor johnson and prisker um about the topic of uh trump offering aid to chicago newsmax is reporting
00:35:22.580
this michael cats and uh it but he's basically saying and he's obviously a democrat as well but he's on
00:35:32.420
their team and if he's even he's saying um no we got a little bit too much crime here maybe maybe you
00:35:40.580
should accept his help so if you're wondering if uh reasonable common sense people would agree with
00:35:49.300
trump well there you go sounds like he's a very reasonable alderman
00:35:56.420
but uh here's a question that i ask that you might be asking yourself how much should i care about crime
00:36:04.740
in chicago in chicago if i don't live in chicago and the people who do live there are electing people
00:36:12.900
who allow this much crime and probably could do something i.e let trump come in with some extra help
00:36:21.940
they probably could do something to lower it but for whatever reason their priorities are not that
00:36:28.740
um so am i supposed to care a lot i mean i i i very much wanted trump to move the national garden to
00:36:40.180
washington dc even though i don't live there because it's my capital right it's my capital of course i want
00:36:47.860
that cleaned up of course that that represents me but if the people in chicago um don't want the help
00:36:56.020
should we really force it upon them i mean they do have the ability to vote in people who would
00:37:03.940
change that and they apparently are not choosing that path at what point does it just mean their problem
00:37:13.220
so i don't know how much of my tax dollars i want to spend sending the military or any form of the
00:37:19.300
military into chicago uh it's not that it wouldn't work i think it would work and i think politically
00:37:27.060
probably be a total winner um but uh i don't know if it's because of my empathy um don't ask me to have
00:37:38.020
more empathy than they have for themselves that doesn't make sense i i should have maybe equal to
00:37:45.460
but not more empathy than they have for themselves anyway uh i guess trump's trump and the team
00:37:57.060
won another court victory so now a judge is going to allow the uh the ice i guess to sweep up immigrants
00:38:06.100
and raids um and partially they can use the race of the people as part of their decision making but it
00:38:14.420
can't be all of it so if the only reason they stopped somebody to find out their status was
00:38:20.660
because they looked like they were um hispanic that would not be allowed that would be pure racism but
00:38:28.340
um the court has allowed the supreme court has now allowed that it would be one of the elements you
00:38:35.380
might look at so for example if they were hispanic uh and standing at the home depot i'm making that up
00:38:44.660
and speaking only spanish uh i don't know there might be some other elements but you could use it as
00:38:53.300
one variable but not the variable um i don't know how i feel about that um so moving on
00:39:06.500
apparently uh nepal is having some issues the parliament building is on fire
00:39:19.060
and the public had revolted um except there's there's something a little bit weird about this nepal
00:39:35.860
so so i guess it started because the country was trying to ban some fake social media accounts
00:39:42.660
but the issue of banning some fake fake right fake social media accounts that turned into
00:39:54.100
the public being mad about corruption and digital censorship that turned into riots in the street
00:40:00.100
and then the um it looks like you know maybe the country has fallen i can't tell but here's the thing
00:40:09.060
when you hear that nepal has uh you know done this street protest against the government and burned down
00:40:17.380
the building and dragged down some of the politicians i don't know what happened to them but some of them got
00:40:22.820
dragged out um do you assume that that happens spontaneously or do you believe that there's just no such thing
00:40:32.660
anywhere of a you know this kind of organized thing unless there's some external source maybe a color
00:40:41.620
revolution kind of a situation some foreign country maybe maybe some intelligence people within the country
00:40:49.940
you know who knows but uh i'm way beyond imagining that this kind of stuff happens on its own
00:40:58.980
so i would have some questions about who might have been who might have been involved behind the scenes if you know what i mean
00:41:11.780
so according to a post i saw on x by wall street apes there's some independent uh investigation
00:41:24.260
about uh gavin newsom's association to some ngos which allegedly
00:41:35.380
all these uh uh democrat conspiracies and alleged corruption things were also
00:41:41.300
complicated where he allegedly was doing something called behested payments so this would be legal
00:41:50.660
so so allegedly somebody like newsom could go to a bunch of rich donors and say hey uh i behest you to
00:42:00.900
put a bunch of money into these ngos it's a charity it's really good and then the rich people go oh
00:42:07.460
got it wink wink so if i put a bunch of money into the charities then you'll be good to me when i need a
00:42:15.460
favor well i can't say that but if you put a bunch of money in these charities i sure would be good for
00:42:20.660
those charities and then you work it out with the charities or you've chosen them because they're working
00:42:28.260
with you where they say if you can get us a bunch of money from a bunch of rich people
00:42:33.460
in return for you giving them favors we'll make sure that a bunch of this money benefits you directly or indirectly
00:42:44.420
so um the allegation is that the 400 million dollars have flowed through this process
00:42:51.300
and uh it's hard to imagine that governor newsom didn't give anybody any favors for being a conduit
00:43:01.860
allegedly don't know if any of this is true but uh if he if he really were the conduit for 400 million
00:43:08.900
dollars flowing through it's hard to believe he didn't get a taste of that maybe not directly but
00:43:16.260
through circuitous routes which is how they do it that's how they do it um so again i remind you that
00:43:26.900
all local government and maybe all government is corrupt um so health and human services is going to
00:43:37.220
release a report that uh seems to tie tylenol use in pregnant women with autism
00:43:46.500
but there is apparently uh there's some conflict in the science there's some science that suggests
00:43:54.420
there is a link and some some science that suggests there's not so what would you and i assume about
00:44:02.660
that we should assume that we don't know anything because there's some science that says there's a link
00:44:09.780
some says it isn't we don't really trust either one of them so i don't trust any data and certainly
00:44:17.300
any study like that i'm way beyond being able to trust them but at the same time
00:44:29.700
at the same time let's see what else is happening uh president trump i guess he reposted a video on social
00:44:36.100
media that uh linked vaccines to autism so according to modernity is reporting that
00:44:45.940
so it looks like if you read the tea leaves the government is going to suggest that there
00:44:54.580
you know more than one thing that might be behind autism and uh maybe they're not going to say we know
00:45:00.740
100 100 sure what it is or how much each of these contribute they might say well as far as we can
00:45:08.340
narrow it down it might be these things so um but i do believe i do trust
00:45:18.020
that if any big decisions are made about vaccines i do trust that that would be based on data that we
00:45:24.980
can all see so people who have a chance to say you read that data wrong or they collected that data
00:45:38.660
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00:46:08.740
know is running for mayor of new york against mayor adams and the communist guy mamdami um and uh
00:46:17.540
carissa sliwa so andrew cuomo i just watched him on a video and he said democrats want someone to
00:46:25.780
defend them against president trump i am that person because i have done that now is it my imagination
00:46:34.900
or does andrew cuomo have the easiest job in the world which would be to become mayor of new york
00:46:43.540
given who he's running against shouldn't he easily be able to win this it feels like he should but
00:46:52.500
here's what he's doing wrong mamdami comes in and he talks about affordability and people go oh you have
00:47:00.980
my attention that's exactly what i'm worrying about cuomo comes in and he's making it about attacking trump
00:47:08.180
now i don't argue that people are asking him to attack trump i'm sure they are but really he doesn't
00:47:16.340
see that that's not the winning message the winning message is what mom donnie is doing he says you got
00:47:22.660
a problem i will i i have a magic plan to deal with your biggest problem so it's just it's just jaw
00:47:32.340
dropping and head shaking that when he's talking about why you should you know make him the mayor
00:47:38.260
it's to fight trump that that's that's just the worst reason anybody ever had to run for mayor
00:47:45.700
well there's a rumor going around that scott basant treasury secretary and bill pulte
00:47:55.060
um who is head of the federal housing finance whatever it is i can never remember the name of
00:48:03.140
the organization freddie and fanny and uh apparently they went to a dinner and uh scott basant threatened
00:48:13.140
to punch pulte in the face and he wanted to step outside and and fight him so uh and then reportedly
00:48:24.820
but i don't believe anything about this story at this point we never know the real context of these things
00:48:29.860
um reportedly bill wasn't sure if he was serious but he said he was serious about punching him and uh
00:48:41.860
so i don't know how the dinner ended or who picked up the check but uh that sounds pretty bad i guess uh
00:48:49.460
basant was complaining because he believed that uh bill pulte had said something negative to him about
00:48:57.220
to trump uh i don't know what that was allegedly but i don't know how to feel about it because
00:49:04.580
it would depend entirely upon what it was he may or may not have said to trump you could certainly imagine
00:49:12.020
that it could have been something really important that trump would need to know
00:49:16.740
in which case you know bulte had to do it that would just be part of his job
00:49:22.100
um but you could you could imagine that uh basant wouldn't like it no matter what it was so um
00:49:32.340
i like bill too much to have an opinion on this so i'm just gonna say that uh we'll never know
00:49:39.860
exactly what happened in that situation but i don't think bill's gonna be talking to anybody
00:49:45.460
about anything important unless it's important so we'll never know what that's about
00:49:52.100
um so there's a new uh laser defense weapon to shoot down drones and it's uh better than ever
00:50:04.180
before it can kill 50 drones a minute which actually doesn't sound like that many 50 drones a minute
00:50:10.820
if they're sending a swarm of a thousand drones um unless it's the really big ones
00:50:15.860
that don't come that don't swarm i don't know but uh here's what i was uh wondering as i was reading
00:50:24.100
that story what are the odds that uh drones become the main weapon of choice at the same time that
00:50:32.020
lasers finally become cost effective to shoot them down is that kind of weird that those two technologies
00:50:41.140
that have both been out there for a while you know years and years but they both kind of matured
00:50:47.460
at the same time that just when the drones can do all kinds of things and there could be thousands
00:50:54.340
of them in the sky you know autonomously attacking you is exactly the same time that we've built all
00:51:02.100
these deadly lasers that can shoot them out of the sky what are the odds that those two technologies
00:51:09.140
are peaking at about the same time that's weird it's a simulation
00:51:19.060
wells uh one of the russian advisors to putin accused the u.s and accused trump of thinking about
00:51:27.540
using crypto to wipe out our debt now if you like me you said wait how how would you do that
00:51:36.740
how would you wipe out 35 trillion dollars worth of debt with crypto uh without making things worse
00:51:43.700
now you might remember that i've asked that question a bunch of times but not saying how it would
00:51:49.460
happen but asking if there's any way to make it happen and i the answer that i got from everyone is
00:51:56.660
uh no you you can't like do it with one magic trick of crypto you might be able to make crypto your
00:52:04.420
only money and then inflate away the value of the dollar over time and maybe that's literally the
00:52:10.500
only way we'll ever get out of it so that might happen but uh so i went to grok and i put that story in
00:52:21.220
there and i said is that something that could ever work and grok said not really so grok would
00:52:29.380
went into all the details but basically said now you know every way that you could go with that
00:52:35.780
this is me paraphrasing it but every way you could go with that with some kind of clever crypto thing
00:52:41.780
would make something way worse and you know would be unacceptable so no that probably won't happen
00:52:51.300
um but you can see why they're afraid of it because the u.s has
00:52:55.060
uh played around with the gold standard for example in the past well politico is talking about
00:53:03.940
france's government collapsing a lot of collapsing happening lately so the uh joshua berlinger is
00:53:10.420
writing about this so i guess macron has to appoint now his fifth prime minister in less than two years
00:53:18.580
um and there's protests um and there's protests and things are falling apart so um i don't think
00:53:27.860
i hate to say it but i don't really see a way that france can survive do you i know i suppose that would
00:53:36.660
be true of everybody in the medium run but i don't see i don't see a path
00:53:43.860
um i hate to say that because you know i'm pretty optimistic and i generally don't buy into the oh
00:53:52.260
this country is going down the drain you know we've talked about yeah i don't think china is really
00:53:57.620
about to go down the drain i don't think russia is really about to go down the drain and i don't think
00:54:03.460
france is going down the drain this year um but it seems like just demographically
00:54:11.540
they're in an unrecoverable situation but we'll see and i guess uh macron is mad at the u.s for uh
00:54:23.540
barring visas for most palestinians but like that's the biggest problem he's got 75 cities in lockdown
00:54:32.580
uh and he's worried about palestinian visas all right um in other news israel has reportedly said yes
00:54:45.460
to trump's suggestion for a gaza ceasefire so that would make you think ah we're 50 toward peace because
00:54:57.220
at least one side said yes um except that what israel is uh requesting and what uh i guess trump is
00:55:07.140
requesting um requesting would be too weak demanding is that they give up all the hostages
00:55:14.340
and lay down their arms now if you were hamas do you think you're going to give up your hostages and
00:55:22.580
lay down your arms because what happens to you the minute that that happens it's not like part of the
00:55:29.940
deal is for safe passage or something it's not like you're going to get a you know you're going to be
00:55:37.140
pardoned 100 of the people who have a weapon and are in a tunnel and are working for hamas a hundred
00:55:45.460
percent of them are going to be in jail or killed why exactly would they want to hurry that up
00:55:51.780
while they have hostages so to me uh it's easy for israel to say uh we will accept your total surrender
00:56:02.900
so that we can do what we want with you so i get why they say yes but how in the world
00:56:11.700
is is some awesome we're going to say yes to that well unless you know they have no other choice
00:56:17.620
and everything's worse and that's it looks like that's where things are heading it's going to get
00:56:23.380
a lot worse but uh just before i got on apparently there was some kind of big explosion in qatar or
00:56:31.860
qatar as you like to say uh in doha some say it was an israeli assassination strike as senior hamas
00:56:41.460
officials but uh i heard that just before i went live so by now we probably have better information
00:56:49.940
but we're still in the fog of war so i wouldn't believe anything about that story yet uh i definitely
00:56:56.980
wouldn't believe that it was an israeli attack yet it totally could have been you know i wouldn't rule
00:57:05.060
it out but uh too soon i wouldn't jump to that conclusion so i wouldn't trust any of the reports
00:57:11.940
coming out but if it were true that uh israel figured this was a good time to take out their
00:57:19.300
leadership in qatar well there's probably no no bad time to do it
00:57:27.860
and uh uh san mateo one of my local airports here uh is launching uh the first flying car with vertical
00:57:40.180
takeoff um it's going to test flights at half moon bay and hollister and you could you could buy one
00:57:48.900
for or and you could put in a pre-order for your flying car at three hundred thousand dollars
00:57:54.500
now i think you know that that there have been news stories about flying cars for
00:58:04.900
30 years and we're always right around the corner oh we're so close you are gonna have a flying car
00:58:12.500
any minute now well maybe it's happening maybe we'll see but if it does can we agree on one thing
00:58:24.500
if we get our flying cars that is the golden age everybody agree i think that would settle it we
00:58:33.780
still need to work on our affordability but uh in many other ways golden age all right ladies and
00:58:42.260
gentlemen sorry about my cat related disturbances if it sounded a little choppy over here i was
00:58:49.140
fighting a cat with one hand and using my brain to entertain you with my other hand all right that didn't work
00:58:59.380
flying cars will be a disaster it does seem like it would be a problem um unless the flying cars are
00:59:07.940
uh self-driving uh self-driving by law i can imagine that it would keep them out of trouble
00:59:18.420
all right thank you sergio i'm going to say a few words privately to the beloved members of locals the
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rest of you i'll see you tomorrow same time same place i enjoy it every morning so make sure you come