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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What is the simultaneous sip and why is it important?
It's called the simultaneous sip. And it happens now. Go. Oh, that's good. That's good. Well, we've got news and we've got fake news today. We've got all kinds of news. Real stuff, fake stuff. You know, the usual stuff. So there's a study, according to SciPost, that each additional fast food meal you eat per week is associated with a 4% higher likelihood of depression.
Chapter 3: How does fast food consumption relate to mental health?
So 4% higher depression rate if you eat at least one fast food meal per week. Does that sound like real science to you? Or does it sound like backwards science? Backwards science. Well, I can only speak for myself here, but I suspect this might be generalizable. When I ate fast food when I was a younger adult, I don't do it anymore, but when I did, I would do it for the enjoyment.
I'd do it for the dopamine. I didn't really do it for the food. It was because it just felt so good. So who would likely eat unhealthy food just to make themselves feel better? Probably somebody who's trending toward depressed or sad. So I've got a feeling that the reason people eat it is because they're already feeling not 100%.
Chapter 4: What is the Pleasure Unit Theory?
So I'm not so sure it's the food makes them sad so much as being sad makes you eat things that are unhealthy, but it sure feels good when you do it. Now, this is part of my hypothesis. It's the pleasure unit theory. I call it a theory, but it's a hypothesis. And The idea is that everybody needs a minimum amount of enjoyment or else it's just not worth living.
And if you can't get enjoyment in legal and healthy ways, you will get it another way. And this might be one of those examples. So I think it might be, at least partially, backward science. So some robots are learning to maybe determine how humans feel, their emotional state, by touching. So they figured out how to get sort of a galvanic skin response mechanism in the fingers of a robot.
This is all experimental. But the idea is that apparently you can tell people's emotional state by their galvanic skin response. Now, this is according to live science. And maybe, but here's what I think. Why don't robots do it the way people do it? Because people can tell people's emotional state. We look at their body language. We look at their eyes. We look at their face.
We look at their smile. We listen to the exact words they choose. And those are all patterns. So basically, humans have pattern recognition. And the pattern recognition... allows us to know how other people are feeling unless they're trying really hard to hide it from us.
So I would think that the robots are 100% likely to deal with humans as emotional creatures because they'll just know what that means and they'll know how to deal with it and they'll recognize the patterns and they'll see if the irises of your eyes are larger or smaller. They'll look for all those little cues. By the way, it's the same thing I learned in hypnosis.
When you learn hypnosis, you learn to read people's micro changes, you know, tiny changes in skin tone and, you know, eyes and stuff like that. It's very useful. It's a learnable skill. According to Zero Hedge, Trump says he plans to continue aid to Ukraine. But he wants to raise NATO's spending limit to 5% from 2%.
So at the moment, NATO countries are supposed to donate 2% of their GDP toward NATO. And Trump wants to pump that up. And I assume that means that the United States would save some money. Or would it? Because if we spend 5% on NATO, that's just more spending. But the critics will say, wait a minute. I thought we voted for Trump to end this war. You did.
but but but he says he's going to continue funding the ukrainians to fight he did there's no conflict there yes he's going to negotiate an end to the war yes he wants to escalate the war yes because that's how you negotiate it's just negotiating
So Russia needs to feel like he's in it for the long run, and if they don't give him the deal he wants, he'll just keep fighting, and we'll just keep sending drones over there, and NATO will up its spending, and we'll just... Grind the Russian army down. Now, clearly, clearly, Trump would rather negotiate an end to the war.
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Chapter 5: How does Trump approach negotiation regarding Ukraine?
Because, you know, technically you're voting for one person, but, I mean, the appeal of it was who he could bring to the game. So, yeah, we voted for him. We absolutely voted for Musk, indirectly. CNN's ratings continues to make news how bad they are. I would hate to be in the news business, but the news is about how bad your business is.
93,000.
Do you know how many people are going to watch this live stream? Probably 100,000. If you count the audio on Spotify and you count Rumble and you count the X feed and you count YouTube and you count locals, so on multiple platforms, probably the live audience will be lower, but the nature of podcasts is they get replayed. CNN largely doesn't get replayed.
At least the whole show doesn't get replayed. So is my podcast as big as CNN? No, because here's what they never tell you. When they tell you that CNN's ratings are low, they're leaving out the main part of their business model. The main part of their business model is clips. If you follow the news at all, you're going to see tons of clips taken from their shows.
So when the live show of CNN is on, I don't think even CNN expects you to watch it. But they probably do expect you to be on social media and see the clips and all that. So they probably make more money from the clips And then, you know, they have advertising. But as you've learned, especially the pharma advertisers, are really just trying to make sure that CNN doesn't say bad things about them.
So they advertise. But I think they make most of their money. I'll take a fact check on this. But I think the cable news makes most of their money by charging the cable providers for their content. So even though you pay just for cable access, the cable company pays for a lot of their content, and they're paying CNN to be on their cable.
Because if you offer a cable and you don't have CNN, it would look like it's an incomplete product. So they kind of have to do it. Anyway. So whenever you see these news about numbers, there's always something missing that's important. And what's missing is that they don't get much revenue from the live viewership. And it's about clips, and it's about charging the cable providers. All right.
The What's Up With That, I think it's a blog or a web page, by Anthony Watts says, He had an article out that says, hey media, remember in 2017 when an iceberg in Antarctica freaked everybody out? So there was some giant iceberg in 2017 that I guess it cleaved itself off. And everybody said, oh no, climate change is melting all the icebergs. We're all dead. And then, see, that was 2017.
In 2024, the current understanding is It was just a normal thing that's been happening all the time. It has nothing to do with probably anything. It was literally just baseline. It was the most ordinary thing that happens all the time. So if you thought in 2017, my God, the world is melting, you were wrong. Climate change, most of the news about climate change is fake. So
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of the estate tax?
I have a suspicion that there's a little bit more to it, and maybe we'll never know, but I don't know. Maybe it's a DEI problem. We'll never know. Trump provocatively has put out a notice on social media that Panama Canal either needs to lower its prices for American ships or maybe we should take it back.
Now, you might not know if you're not old enough that the Panama Canal was built by Americans. I think 35,000 Americans died building it, mostly from mosquitoes. Trump was mentioning that statistic recently. And then Jimmy Carter sold the entire canal to Panama for $1. I think he just didn't want to be colonizing Panama, so he said, all right, even though it's very, very profitable.
And even though we built it at great personal expense, it's not our country, so we're going to turn it over to you. And I understand. I mean, I get why Carter did it. We just don't want to be that kind of country where we're just basically colonizing the middle of Panama. On the other hand, what happened was Panama...
grossly increased the price for passage for each ship and I did see that they could charge as much as $450,000 for one ship nearly half a million dollars just to pass and our ships are paying that so Trump is basically saying if you don't want us to take it back which wouldn't be hard militarily you're going to have to lower those prices at least for American ships
And again, the way you should see this is as negotiation. Did Trump just declare war on Panama? Sort of. Yeah, sort of. He kind of did. But it's in the context of negotiations. So I like that. Jack Posobiec is saying that I think he's involved in putting together a class action suit for the January Sixers.
and the class action would be against the committee, the January 6th committee, who may have done unethical things, maybe even illegal, we don't know yet, that would cause some of them to go to jail in a context in which they normally would not be going to jail. So you know how often you've been bugged by the fact Somebody will become innocent by the law and then there'll be a legal case.
So the private lawsuit takes all their money even though they may not have done the crime or they were not found guilty of the crime. I hate it when it works against my interests where I think, come on, the law found them innocent. It's not fair that they get sued when they're innocent on a legal sense.
You probably all know the reason that you can find somebody liable and have to pay money even though they were found not guilty of the very crime is that there's a different standard. So if it's military... The entire jury has to agree that they're guilty. If it's a civil suit, we're just suing them for hurting you in some way, then it just has to be the majority of the jury. So it's much easier.
And Jack Posobiec is saying that they would start with Liz Cheney. Now, I asked my digital device, what is the net worth of Liz Cheney? It said $14 million, but of course, nobody really knows that stuff. Nobody really knows anybody's net worth. I've been looking at my own net worth as estimated by social media for the last 25 years. Not even close.
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Chapter 7: How do media narratives shape public perception?
Chapter 8: What are the consequences of political exclusions in families?
So it seemed like she was on the job because her interns were posting on X. And the funniest thing is the interns posted something about how great the interns were in her office with a picture of them all posing with her. Must have been from the past. So the interns who were running the account were complimenting themselves in the account. I like those interns.
As soon as I find out that they were using their privilege access to a representative's account to compliment themselves, I said to myself, approved. Yeah, that sounds like something I might do if I were an intern. Anyway, so I don't know if we have a real government or maybe they're all in memory care by now. So there was a sighting in the southeast United States, something in the sky.
They don't know if it was a satellite burning up and crashing or if it was some kind of a satellite. I'm sorry, a meteor or a satellite. They don't know. But I guess people can see it in Kansas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, parts of Louisiana. So I saw the video of it, and it really looks scary because it's, you know, this flaming particles coming through the sky that look pretty big.
And it was in multiple parts. So as far as I know, we still don't know what that was. But if I were a meteor chaser, let me give you a little financial advice. If you could be the first one to find a meteor, and it's not on somebody else's private property, those meteors are worth a lot of money. Did you know that?
Yeah, they're worth, you know, it might be worth a million dollars if there was a big chunk of it. or actually a lot more. So we'll see. If I saw where that was landing, I would have been driving toward that thing so fast because it's basically just free money laying on the ground if it's intact, if any of the parts came through big enough that there's a nice chunk.
Well, you probably heard the story that a U.S. jet, military jet, got shot down by a military destroyer. in the Red Sea. Now, I didn't see as part of the story what the, it's an FA-18, so one of our advanced jets, a Super Hornet. Anyway, so it got shot down in what they call a friendly fire, which is sort of the worst name for your coworkers trying to kill you accidentally. But anyway,
the good news as somebody said is our apparently our anti-aircraft defenses are really good because i think i think it only took one missile to take it down but the pilots got out so the there were two people in the plane or the jet and apparently they ejected in time so i think we're going to find out more about this story on the surface it's sort of a
perfect bad anecdote for the biden administration you know that by the end of the biden administration the military was shooting at each other you know it just it's a little too perfect as as a little uh you know as a little punctuation at the end of the sentence so i'm going to wait on this one there might be more to this story
I have a suspicion that there's a little bit more to it, and maybe we'll never know, but I don't know. Maybe it's a DEI problem. We'll never know. Trump provocatively has put out a notice on social media that Panama Canal either needs to lower its prices for American ships or maybe we should take it back.
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