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Chapter 1: What is the dopamine hit of the day?
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Chapter 2: What are Scott Adams' thoughts on Elon Musk?
So I've got a friend who, on almost every other contact, tries to tell me that he's figured out something that Elon Musk is doing that's dumb. And I say, you know, he's got five of the most important businesses in the world. He's solving problems. He's going to Mars. I don't know if he's really dumb. I feel like maybe he doesn't have the mental problems you think.
Now, my friend has a net worth of zero, and I don't want to say, you know, you have a net worth of zero, and you're giving advice to the richest man in the world, and none of it looked like luck to me. It looked like skill. So maybe you should take that into consideration that he might know a little bit more than you.
And then today I saw a post by Elon Musk, and I thought, hmm, I'm going to have to go in there and correct his thinking. Apparently, I'm just an idiot. So do you know how absurd it is to say, hmm, Elon Musk has an opinion, but I'm so much smarter. Watch me fix it for him. But that's what I'm going to do. But only because it's a very special case.
I wouldn't do this about engineering or business or most things. So it's a very special case. Here's the situation. Dr. Peter Diamandis on X, he had a post in which he led off by saying, sugar is poison. And then he did a thread on Here's Why. Sugar is poison. Now, he didn't make that up. That's the title of the book. And you're all aware that I often say alcohol is poison. Now,
Elon Musk weighed in on the statement that sugar is poison, and he said, no, cyanide and arsenic are poisons, whereas sugar is edible. You don't see a pile of bodies outside a candy store, LMAO. And then Elon said, that said, sugar should only be eaten occasionally and in small quantities. Now, he's not technically wrong, right? Sugar is not actually a poison. Like, literally, it's not.
And sugar is edible. And if you were going to eat it, a small amount would be not the worst thing that ever happened to you. But being the reframe guy, I couldn't let it stand. So I don't know what the comments are going to be, but I weighed in and I said, reframes need not be literal. Most of the good ones are not literal. And then I noted, I wrote the book on that reframe your brain.
A reframe is a brain hack. It gives you the ability to make better decisions without changing the data. So it's just a trick. It's not supposed to be literal. And in fact, being literal doesn't help it a bit. There's no advantage to being literal. You want it to work. You don't want it to be accurate. Um,
So I pointed out that if the goal is to minimize but not eliminate sugar, calling it a poison is a perfect reframe. But then I had to acknowledge, because I think I learned something in this exchange, why would Elon Musk, clearly and unambiguously one of the smartest people in all of our experiences, not understand a simple reframe is not meant to be literal? How is that possible?
Well, I don't know the exact answer, but I ended with this statement. I said, I acknowledge that departing from the literal doesn't work for every brain. Now, this should not be taken as any kind of an insult to anybody. I've made this mistake before, which is if I mention somebody's on the spectrum, if I say anything like that publicly, people say, whoa, whoa, whoa, who are you insulting?
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Chapter 3: Why does Scott Adams consider sugar to be poison?
on being on the spectrum, if you took away the inventions and the benefit that has been brought to the world by people who are technically on the spectrum, and I think Elon includes himself. He's self-identified as being on the spectrum. I'm not 100% sure it's true, but when I see this kind of opinion where he's favoring the literal over the reframe that doesn't need to be literal,
I think, wow, that this might be one of the cases where drawing this distinction between a reframe would work for the regular public, but here's what I learned. I just learned it doesn't work if you're on the spectrum, which actually makes sense, right? So being on the spectrum would make you a little more literal, and maybe you just couldn't embrace the imaginary part of the reframe.
So I learned something. Anyway, Looks like there might be coming a ban on Chinese connected car software. Ars Technica is talking about that. I guess that's the Congress is working on that. There might be some exemptions, but it would block Americans from having cars with Chinese software.
Now, I don't know what the real potential risk is for having a, let's call China an adversary, having them have control over some number of cars in America. But how many cars do you think are on the road at any one time in America? It's a big number, right? Would it be 5 or 10 million at any moment during the day? I don't know what the number is, but it's got to be millions.
And suppose we become a self-driving car nation. Seems inevitable. Might be only a few years away. What would happen if an enemy just got a hold of a million cars and just drove them into ditches? It is a weapon of mass destruction, potentially, to have a million cars drive off the road at the same time.
So, yeah, I'm in favor of banning the Chinese software, even if there's no indication there's something wrong with it. There will be. There will be. Meanwhile, over at Interesting Engineering, there's a pinecone-inspired building shades. So they studied pinecones. that apparently, I guess the little, whatever you call it, what would you call the little leaves or whatever on the pine cone?
There's probably a word for that. But apparently they move based on the sun, so they wanted to find some way that you could make your windows in your building open up and close based on sun and without using electricity. So are we called needles? Hmm. I don't know. I'm not sure if that's right. But they do it without electricity, so that's the important part.
The sun directly causes the pinecone-like parts to open. Now, my take on this is, doesn't your window look like a pinecone? Do you ever want your window to look like a pinecone? I don't know. I'm not sure this has potential. Meanwhile, there's the Tic-Tac...
tiktok ban as far as i know is going to go into effect on sunday unless something miraculous happens between now and then can you give me a fact check on that is that correct that tiktok is going to be done in the united states it'll still be international but is it going to be done in the united states because i feel like there might be another thing coming
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Chapter 4: What is the potential ban on Chinese car software?
because he didn't say it, did he say just because he didn't say it that somehow other people lost money because they didn't know that he did it? Maybe. I can see that argument. I just wonder if this would have been pressed against everybody because it seems like it would be easy to demonstrate this is the day he bought the stock. This is the rule. This is when he admitted he bought it.
It's after the rule. Yeah, $175 million, write us a check. So it's just, it might be valid. You might say to yourself, yeah, that would have happened to anybody. I don't know. I watched the segment with Michael Schellenberger on Tucker's show, Tucker Carlson, and there was a little discussion on UAPs. I did notice,
that Tucker sort of took over that conversation and I never really got to hear what Michael Shellenberger thought was happening. So Shellenberger brought up a few of the hypotheses, but I don't think he landed on what his opinion was. And part of it is because when Tucker started talking about it, I think that just took the conversation in such a direction.
that I don't know if Michael thought that was the right time to give his own opinion on it, because I'm sure he has one. But here's what Tucker said about the UAPs. Quote, they're not from Mars. They're not from another planet. They're from here. They've always been here. These are spiritual entities. It's clear that these things reside deep in the earth, under the water, and in the atmosphere.
And then he pointed out that Elon Musk, and he'd had personal conversations with Musk, Tucker had, didn't think that there was anything coming from space. Now, Tucker said, and I don't know if this is just Tucker or Elon said this as well, and I'm not sure it's true. He said that we'd pick up on satellites anything entering the atmosphere. Do you think that's true? I don't.
If you look at the quality of any of the systems in the United States that you thought were good, none of them are good. If you had asked me a month ago, Scott, what do you think is one of the best fire departments in the world? I would have said, well, you know, obviously L.A. because they would need it and they would have the money. enough of a population to get whatever they needed.
So yeah, the best fire department in the world would probably be LA. Well, not so much. So when I hear things like, well, our advanced satellites would pick up any UFOs coming through our completely impenetrable digital network of surveillance, I say to myself, or not. Yeah, or not, maybe.
So I don't know if that's a good reason, but Trump said about the UAPs, I'm going to give you a report on drones. We don't know if the drones are really the same as the UAPs, but the drones over in New Jersey, I think he's talking about, We'll give it in one day into the administration.
He told the governors somewhere because I think it's ridiculous that they're not telling you about what is going on with the drones. I'm going to make a prediction. He's not going to tell us what's going on with the drones. And if he does, you're going to feel that it's incomplete. Like, really? Does that explain all the drones? Or did that explain some of the drones? or maybe a lot of the drones.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the TikTok ban?
So the first part of the story is that LBJ was just a flat-out criminal, and he ran the government through blackmail, through, I guess, Jagger Hoover. So according to this telling, so Alex Jones and his guest. It's well-known, well-documented. Apparently there are books written in which LBJ was just flat-out criminal. Some say he was also a murderer.
Some say he ordered the hit on JFK because he was so humiliated by the way he was being treated. Now, there seems to be good evidence that he was humiliated, So the part is, did he really order it? Well, the evidence is, according to the grandson, he found some... He'd had them for a long time. He didn't just find them.
But for a long time, he had had the tapes left to him, you know, in the estates or the wills or something. So he had these little tapes, and he finally had them, you know, converted so we could listen to them, whatever that took. And then those tapes were played, and it showed...
I believe it was either his own relative talking to another close confidant, and it seemed to be a phone call in which they were talking casually, but in a worried way, just sort of matter-of-factly, that LBJ had ordered the hit on Kennedy. And it's just like right there, plain as day. Now, Alex Jones says, that the source is impeccable. So he vouches for the human being who had the tape.
He knows that that person was in fact a relative, is in fact a relative of a real person who genuinely was, you know, LBJ's confidant and apparently participated in some shady stuff. He's checked to make sure that the audio was not AI generated. So he feels that he has a positive source. The recording didn't just pop up today.
It's something that the source that he trusts says he's had in his possession for a long time and that it didn't seem fake. Fake in terms of it doesn't seem like something that was not related to those two people. It does look like the two people made the tape. It's a real tape. But then I listened to it. I would like to give you my judgment. It might be the real people, just like as claimed.
It might be exactly those two people. It may have been made at exactly that time. So I think the tape is real, the people are real, and the timing is real, and they really said those things. However, I'm going to give you a little insight as a professional writer. The hardest thing about being a professional writer when you write dialogue
And I remind you that I write dialogue for characters every single day for 35 years. There is a skill involved in writing dialogue. The main part of the skill is avoiding looking like it's scripted dialogue. Did you all know that? The main thing that you want to avoid to be a good writer, one that people will pay attention to, is your writing has to just be clearly unscripted.
something that a real person would say. If you listen to the tape, as I did, and you're a professional writer, you will see right away it's scripted. So it doesn't mean it's not true. That's a whole different conversation. It could be that the principals wanted to get it on tape so that it would be believed or something in future days. It might have been a protection thing.
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Chapter 6: What is Trump's External Revenue Service proposal?
You know, in America, we already have people who do like all the crimes, right? Some tiny amount of people do all the crimes. Do you think that they're genetically the same as the people who are the same demographic as them? I don't think so. Show me the black guy who's got like 25 convictions and then compare them to your black friend in the cubicle next to you. Do they have the same genes?
No, they have different genes. Whatever's causing the 25 crimes in a row situation is not what's happening to Bob in the cubicle next to you. So to imagine that that's a statement about the demographic group... It's just weird. Like, who would take it that way? You'd have to aggressively want to interpret it wrong to get to all the ways she got.
But anyway, so during that conversation, there was a bald white guy whose name I can't remember, but he does a pretty good job of supporting the Trump side of things. And she said to him on the air, quote, I'm not going to be lectured by some white man who has no idea what he's talking about. Now, suppose a white man said that about her. Let's just reverse it.
Because both of the characters on CNN are presumably very successful professionals. They've got high-end jobs, like really high-end. So we can treat them as not like one is the oppressor and one is the victim. They're both in a good, good shape compared to the average person in society. Do you think that if the man she'd been talking to
a white man, had said, I'm not going to be lectured by some black woman who has no idea what she's talking about. How long would that guy last as a guest on that show? That would be the end of it. They probably would just go to commercial and say, all right, well, you're not invited back. And I think the host would say, you're never coming back. We don't do that here.
She should have said the same thing the other way. We don't do that here. Yeah, don't do that. Now, even if that's the only thing that happened, I'd be totally happy. What was the host? The host was Aaron... I'm forgetting the last name. But, man, you know, I didn't see what happened after, but if she didn't say, we have some standards, that's beyond our standard.
If you want to be invited back, that's not working. That's all I wanted. I just wanted a little bit of pushback. I'm not asking for jail. I'm not even asking that she not be invited back. I just need that. Just that. Just a recognition that that's not acceptable. Anyway, I guess Pfizer has this lawsuit coming against them for anti-white discrimination.
Greg Piper is writing about that in Just the News. And there was some challenge to that, and that got passed, so that lawsuit will go forward. So Pfizer is going to have a little bit more to worry about. Over at MSNBC, the head of the network, Rashida Jones, is stepping down. Now, that's a weird phrase, isn't it? Stepping down. What does that sound like? Stepping down? Stepping down.
Isn't she moving sideways? Because she said she wants to work on other stuff. So why is that down? Maybe the other stuff is better. Isn't that up? Anyway, it was a weird choice of words. But she's being replaced, at least temporarily, with a, of course I checked, a white woman. And I said to myself, hmm, replaced with a white woman.
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