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Chapter 1: What is the simultaneous sip?
For the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine, the hell of the day, the thing that gives you a little bit of oxytocin that you didn't even earn. It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Delicious.
Chapter 2: Are cold plunges effective for health?
Well, there's a new study that says that cold plunges are not actually helpful after all, and it's really just a way to make you torture yourself and take pictures that you can put on social media. Now, I don't know if that's true, but NBC News says, according to the American Physiological Society, warm water is better for you. So ice is good for injuries.
It's good for showing off how much cold you can take. It's not that good for you. However, I would add this caveat. When science does not agree with personal experience, which one do you trust? It's a tough one. Based on personal experience,
The anecdotal experience of me watching other people, because there's no way in hell I'm going to get in a big... There's not the slightest chance in the world I would ever get in a bunch of ice water and sit there. Literally nothing could make me do that. But the people who do do it, they report that the rest of their day is much more awesome.
So if you were to just look at the psychological, mental aspects of it, I suspect you would have a different opinion. So I'm guessing that the psychological part of it, just really getting your body going is probably pretty amazing. However, I think I will stick to my hot baths and hot water. Here's a little, this sounds like a little thing that might be a big thing.
So there's, according to SciNews, researchers found a way to convert CO2 into methane in a really efficient way. They've got this special nickel-based catalyst. Now imagine that. Imagine if you could get essentially energy just out of the air. Because apparently this is a big enough breakthrough that it would really make it economical
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Chapter 3: How can CO2 be converted into energy?
without a lot of equipment and expense, to actually convert CO2, which is everywhere in the air, into methane, which you could then use as a power source. Now that's pretty cool. Again, for the NPCs, a special note for the NPCs, if you're a player, you don't need to listen to this, but if the NPCs
Oh, no, the nickel catalyst is going to take all the CO2 out of the air and then our plants will die. Don't they know our plants will die? Doesn't anybody know that CO2 is plant food and all the plants are going to die? All right, I just have to say that for any story about pulling CO2 out of the air. They're not wrong. Now, also, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, they've got this new...
Chapter 4: What breakthroughs are being made in battery technology?
new way to store energy rather than having lithium batteries. They've got some kind of bromide-based aqueous flow batteries. Promising. That's right, bromide-based. So if you're a bro, that's probably not what bromide is about. But the current way that they use this technology isn't really as efficient as it needs to be.
But it turns out they've made some developments in the non-lithium batteries that would make them not burst into fire because lithium always has that risk. And they would last a long time. So it might be a way to store energy in the grid in a way that lithium maybe is not so good for. So that's a big deal. And how about this? Scientists, according to No Ridge,
They've created a durable coating to boost their perovskite solar cells. So that's not the normal kind. Normally the solar cells are silicon, but there's this other kind that they don't use much because it doesn't last very long. It wears out or something. But now they've got this special protective coating to make it last a long time, which could make the cost of solar come way down.
So these are all the things that are just sort of in laboratories and stuff. Here's another one. This one is the coolest one, I think. Rice University, according to the science blog, quantum physics being used to convert industrial heat into electricity.
Did you know that there is a device that can turn heat into light, and then when it's light, they can use solar devices to turn it into electricity? So there's some big breakthrough here. The breakthrough centers on improving the thermophotovoltaic systems, which transforms heat into electricity through light. And they've got efficiency levels above 60%. And it's within the practical zone.
So that's pretty cool. Imagine turning heat into light and then into electricity.
Hmm.
Pretty cool. So I would say that at this point, we're on the cusp where you could pull your water out of the air. So literally I have a device in my kitchen that I haven't taken out of the box yet that will just take water out of the air. So presumably it would be cleaner than the water I would get out of my swimming pool if there was a problem.
So then what if you could take your CO2 out of the air? and turn it into energy? What if you can make these gigantic breakthroughs in batteries and solar and solar voltaics, photovoltaics? You can get all of your energy out of the air and all of your water out of the air. The only thing you'd need to live off the grid then would be some way to get rid of your waste and your sewage problems.
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Chapter 5: Can we achieve justice in racially charged cases?
um so i don't know i think elon musk wanted somebody else but this one's seems safe so if the if the market wants a safe pick that is also going to be pro-trump looks like they got one so i think that won't be too much of a problem matt gates is starting to talk about what his future would look like but he's only leaving Yeah, he's a hedge fund billionaire investor guy. Besant is.
So he seems to have all the right skills. Yeah. Have you noticed there are a lot of people named Scott in the news this year? Scott Jennings, Scott Besant. There's just a lot of Scots lately. Too many. Anyway, Matt Gaetz... says he's not going away and we don't know what he's going to do yet, but he's definitely not going to go back into government right away.
So he's not going to, people speculated, as I did, that he might cleverly say, aha, I only quit from my last term. I didn't really resign from my upcoming term that I already won. Scott Pressler too, right? Scott Galloway, right? I'm not wrong that the name Scott is just all over the place this year. I've never seen so many Scots kind of break through at the same time.
It's something weird about that. Anyway, I think Matt Gaetz is signaling that he's going to do something in the private sphere. And my guess would be something in the media zone. I think he's just so good. with the verbal stuff and he understands government and he's been there, he's been behind the curtain, et cetera.
I'd be amazed if he doesn't come up with some show on rumble or something like that. So my guess is that he would be part of some, uh, Pretty professional platform that may exist or may be created for his benefit. I did see... Didn't Rumble recently have an announcement that there's going to be a major addition to their platform? A major talent?
Could it be that the major talent coming to Rumble is Matt Gaetz? Because that would make sense, right? So we'll see. Over on CNN... legal analyst, Eli Honig. He thinks that Pam Bondi is a qualified, very qualified, without a question, to be attorney general. And points out she's been a prosecutor for 20 years in Florida, and eight of those she was attorney general.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of robots in the workforce?
And it's a big, complicated job. So she's on par or better than most of the people appointed to that job in the last 50 years. Now, Here's what I appreciate about Eli Honig on CNN. This isn't the first time that he said what is true when he could have said what was propaganda.
Because, you know, if you watch CNN, sometimes people say what's true and obvious, and sometimes it's just wild propaganda. But Honig...
consistently so I'm giving him this is just a compliment to Honig I watch him quite often and I don't see him doing propaganda he seems very consistent to actually just stick with what you see and what you observe and how to interpret that in a logical way so that's just a shout out every time I see somebody being honest on TV I think it's worth a mention right
But one of the attacks on Pam Bondi is, apparently she said on video, she said publicly, that it might be time to investigate Trump's investigators. So in other words, the attorneys who are going after Trump with all the lawfare, she thinks maybe they need to be investigated because they were not doing it for all the right legal reasons. Maybe it was just pure lawfare.
Do you know what I say about that? Yes. Yes. I think it would be highly unusual in almost any other situation, no matter whether the parties were reversed or not, I would be opposed to it. On any normal situation, I would say, are you really kidding me? You're going to investigate the lawyers who are just doing their lawyer job?
Somebody hired them to do a lawyer job, and now you're going to investigate them just for doing their job? That's completely unaligned. Except, even as a private citizen, you can see that the lawfare is out of control. And I do think that they need to explain their reasoning. Now, my first thought was, if you get rid of the bosses, you're fine.
If you get rid of Jack Smith, maybe that's the problem. But then you've got all these other people who willingly decided that working for Jack Smith on this project was how they wanted to make money.
And I say to myself, if you were qualified enough to get that kind of a job, such a high-profile job, you're probably qualified to get a lot of different jobs in the private sector and the public sector as well. Why would you pick that one? That's a question I think has to be answered. Because I don't think anybody who was working for Jack Smith believed they were doing what was good for the world.
I can't read minds. So maybe they did. It's possible. But it doesn't seem like it. From the outside, it looks like they all knew exactly what they were doing, and it wasn't anything that they should have been doing. So I don't know that anybody did anything illegal. Yeah, let me clarify. I'm seeing the comments. I think you're asking for a clarification, and I want to make that.
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Chapter 7: How does the media handle legal issues involving public figures?
The reason the elites are so confused is, say it, say it, the elites are talking to themselves and don't know what's happening in the real world because, because, because of the news. There's only one reason, that the news is fucking fake. If you're not willing to say that, Abby Phillip, you know, after years of fake news, the left doesn't even know what's true.
They don't even know what other people are hearing. Then you found it. But if you're only going to go as far as blaming the elites... and still thinking that the news you're telling is somehow useful and true? No, you're not close. You're simply directing your fire in the other direction. Maybe it's not what we're putting on TV. Maybe it's the people watching it. Yeah, that's it. That's it.
It's not what we're presenting to you as brainwashing and propaganda. The problem is you believed it. And then you started talking to yourself and not knowing what was going on. Oh, my goodness. All right. I like to keep a list, an ongoing list of imaginary Democrat worries. So here's the newest batch. David Axelrod's got a couple.
He says, Pam Bondi, the new AG nominee, will be responsive to Trump first, not duties of the Constitution. Is that a real worry? No, that's not real. That's not real. That's just made up. Do you know what's real? Your eggs cost too much. Do you remember a week ago when all the Democrats suddenly understood that eggs cost too much? Well, in one week, they all forgot the cost of eggs. Okay.
This is not your problem. Your problem will not be that Pam Bondi will be responsive to Trump first and ignore the Constitution. You know why? She's not going to ignore the Constitution. I'll bet you not once. There's no indication that after her many years of public service that she would suddenly stop doing the thing that she does, which is follow the Constitution. This is not real.
It's not even a little bit real. This is a ridiculous thing to worry about. All right. Then next... there's an OMB nominee, Russ Vout. And I guess he used to be the OMB head before, so it's no big deal. He should be easily confirmed. But now they're worried because he also was one of the authors of Project 2025. Oh, great.
So now you're taking a perfectly ordinary thing, which we've experienced before because he was already in the job before. And he's an ordinary supporter of the president. But because they can tie it to this fake thing, Project 2025, which is not fake, it exists. The fake part is saying that it's Trump's ideas. It wasn't. It was definitely people who support Trump's ideas.
But it's not his ideas, except some coincidental overlap. So that's being turned into that Project 2025 will be implemented because one of the people involved with it got his old job back. No, that's not real. No, Trump is still in charge. Giving this one guy this one job he used to have does not make 2025 activated as you're replacing the Constitution or something. This isn't real. I saw a clip.
This might have been older. I could have been older, but it was Mark Cuban on a podcast saying that he's got this hypothesis. He's not sure, but he thinks Elon Musk may have taken over a bunch of abandoned X accounts and turned them into a personal army of bots that he controls. Now, I don't think that's true.
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Chapter 8: What is the future of MSNBC under Elon Musk's ownership?
That's not a crime. In fact, I'll go further. If, let's say, Mark Cuban wants to, just hypothetically, wanted to jump in and get rid of a bunch of regulations that affected, let's say, oh, I'll make this very specific. So Mark Cuban has the company, is it Cost Plus Drugs, I hope I don't have the wrong name of the company, where he's trying to lower the cost of prescription drugs.
I'm pretty sure there are some government regulations that are holding him back. Don't you think? Like if you're trying to make drugs less expensive, probably there's some government thing in the way. Suppose Mark Cuban said, you know what? I've got some ideas for reducing regulations in the government. It will help everybody.
But I got to be honest, my company would do great if these regulations go away. So let's say the regulations go away. And then Mark Cuban's company that he funds and he's part or full owner, I don't know, goes doubles in value. Are we going to be mad at Mark Cuban? Because he can sell you even more drugs at low cost.
No, if the billionaires get involved in making things better for everybody and they happen to be the first people who benefit from it, that's okay. That's okay. You can benefit if you're making everybody else better off. And by the way, a lot of people will own stocks in these companies. So everybody who owned a little bit of Tesla stock, they're not complaining. They're not complaining.
And I think Tesla is priced primarily because of robots, and you can't take that away from him, right? You just can't take away from Elon that he's poised on a $10 trillion business opportunity, and maybe the strongest player. Of course his stock is going up. All right, next. Here's NBC News on X. So this is the language that they chose.
Now you tell me if this is news, because it's NBC News, or is this propaganda? Just look at the wording. The president-elect has promised to roll out a number of policies targeting trans people on his first day in office, including a new federal definition of sex as binary and assigned at birth. Targeted He's targeting trans people. That's propaganda.
Because when we talk about changes to policy, do we say somebody got targeted? Every policy change is good for somebody and bad for somebody else. Just all of them. But you don't use that word targeted, do you? Here's another way they could have said it. The president-elect has promised to roll out a number of policies protecting women sports and defining who can use public bathrooms.
Would that be accurate? I think it would. But as soon as you put this word targeted in there, it turns into propaganda. How about it's an issue that people care about and they're going to make some changes to that make 98% of the public better off definitely could be bad for some trans who want more rights than they would have.
But that's not exactly targeting the 2% as much as it is giving the majority what they wanted. So target is a little, that's a little propaganda-y. All right. Even Brian Williams, he used to be the NBC anchor. He says the Democratic Party should be rebuilt and that they should change leadership and basically start from scratch. Here's the problem. They can't.
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