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Chapter 1: What is the simultaneous sip?
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So good. Has Starship taken off yet? That happens today, right? There's going to be a consequential launch of Starship 7, SpaceX. And this one, I guess, is going to take some payloads up. It's going to take a payload up first time. And they'll be testing things like multiple reentry and return to Earth and see if Elon Musk's giant tweezers can catch it again. Giant tweezers.
Chapter 2: Why did the FDA ban red dye number three?
You call it giant chopsticks, but that's racist. They're really giant tweezers. The FDA has banned red dye number three, according to the AP. So 35 years after it was borrowed in cosmetics, I guess it was argued that it was different when you ate it. Well, it causes cancer if it touches the outside of your skin, but it's okay to eat it. Do I have any skin on the inside of my body?
Stop asking questions. Not the skin per se, but let's say tissue. All right. I wonder, is this the Kennedy effect? Does it strike you as kind of a big coincidence that the easiest thing the FDA could have ever banned, it was the easiest, that it got done just before RFK Jr. gets into office and who said he would ban it? Is the entire reason that they're banning it now to make sure that RFK Jr.
doesn't get an easy win? Because that's messed up. Although sooner is better. So sooner is better. But it looks kind of messed up, doesn't it? To me, it looks like this is entirely politicized. They got the right answer, I'm pretty sure. But the timing...
I don't know what could make me hate the FDA more, that it took 35 years to do this, or that when they finally did it, apparently the only reason is that RFK Jr. is coming into office and he's just going to rip them apart. I don't know if he'll rip them apart, but you know what I mean. Yeah, I think this is the Kennedy effect.
Chapter 3: What is the Kennedy effect on FDA decisions?
And you could argue, therefore, by extension, it would be a Trump effect, but not really the one I wanted. Well, I do want it because I wanted this ban, but the fact that it's just purely political, that's not giving me any confidence. Anyway, or it could be just the biggest coincidence in the world of when it happened. Well, Meta has a new AI model for translating speech.
And you say to yourself, Scott, they've been able to translate speech on the Internet for a long time. So why is this even a story? Well, apparently the old way or the common way to translate speech is first it turns it into text and then it turns it into the other language and it translates it.
So they figured out somehow to use AI to just directly translate so it doesn't go through the intermediate steps. And apparently that makes it nearly instant. Imagine having a conversation with somebody in another language where you're just talking into your phone and the translation is not instant, but let's say it got there in one second. That would be really transformative.
You could have a reasonable phone call with somebody, or a Zoom call, I guess, first, with somebody who didn't speak the language, and it almost wouldn't make a difference. That little, I don't know exactly the delay, but if there's like a second or something, it's still going to be mildly annoying, but you'd have perfect ability to communicate. That's really a game changer.
Chapter 4: How is AI changing speech translation?
The things that sneak up on you are the things that just sort of get better every year. So you're not really paying attention. But then there's one year where it's not about just getting a little better. It's now just a completely different application. It's so good. That's one of these. Anyway, 100 different languages. Very impressive.
Justice Alito, he's a Supreme Court justice, of course, and he's talking about there's a case before them, some kind of free speech versus porn situation. And I guess Pornhub is part of the conversation in the Supreme Court. And this is actually a real thing that Justice Alito asked in public in the Supreme Court. He said, is it like the old Playboy magazine?
You have essays there by the modern-day equivalent of Gore Vidal and William F. Buckley Jr. Yeah. Yeah. There's Justice Alito acting like he has no idea what Pornhub is. Now, I'm not saying he's ever used it, but it reminded me of a couple of stories.
Number one, the first thing I did when I got out of college and entered the real world, it was almost the first thing, I got a subscription to Playboy magazine. Because I thought to myself, wait a minute, this was pre-internet, I hate to say, pre-internet.
And I thought, are you telling me that all I have to do is give them money and they will send me pictures of beautiful naked women like once a month? And it's just like for a little bit of money? And I thought that I died and went to heaven. I was so happy to be an adult. And then I started getting it. And of course, it was just as good as I'd hoped. Again, pre-internet.
But somewhere along that time, because I never really canceled it, and time goes by, and I start reading the articles. And then sooner or later, I was the article. So I was one of the big interviews, so I was featured in Playboy, and it was just an interview. I didn't have to take off my clothes.
And eventually, the internet comes in, and of course it saturates the world with a tremendous amount of porn, to the point where looking at the pictures in the magazine... It didn't seem interesting at all. Sure, you know, I mean, if it was right in front of you, you'd look at it. But this is actually true. There's no exaggeration in this.
Toward the end of my many years subscription, I actually didn't look at the pictures. That's literally true, I swear to God. And it wasn't because I didn't like looking at that kind of picture. It's just that the Internet was full of it. But the Internet didn't have good articles all the time. So the articles were genuinely very good. That's a true statement.
So believe it or not, that's a real thing, which, you know, at the moment, Playboy is not doing so well. But it also reminds me of a time I went to a DARE program for adults when I was a stepdad of younger kids. And they would have a program where just the parents would come in. to learn what, maybe how to spot their kids getting into drugs or stuff.
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Chapter 5: What issues are arising with Dr. Drew's YouTube content?
It would be the quote of the day. Instead of going with their frame, he left the frame. Pam Bondi stayed in the frame. That question is the question, and she's trying to respond, but she wants to give a longer answer. You're not letting me. That would be the traditional, but staying in the frame. Trump leaves the frame, and that works every time.
Let me tell you how I would leave the frame if I were in her position and somebody gave me that yes or no, yes or no, yes or no question. I would say, Senator, could you ask a better question? Oh, I'm asking this question. I'm asking this question. Yes, no. Yeah, I heard the question. Could you ask a better one?
Oh, yes, no. Yes, no. Yes, no. Oh, yes, no.
I hear you, Senator. I'm just asking because everybody's dedicated their time to this. I just wondered if you have a better question. And then you use up all of his time. You use up all of his time. You turn him into the guy where the quote is, can you ask a better question? Because here's why this works. Everybody listening to the exchange knows that the question is the flawed part.
Everybody knows it. Why doesn't anybody call it out? And why doesn't anybody demand that if you're going to put your time into this process, you're going to need better questions? A better question is a high ground. It just says you're not capable of being here. But if you can step up, I'd be happy to ask you a question. That's a kill shot.
Now, not everybody could pull that off, but that would be, roughly speaking, that would be a Trump way to do it. Here's what I think Trump would say. First of all, he's not going to get questioned like this ever, now that he's president. But if he did, I think he'd say something like, you know, this is an example why you're useless. We all came here today, and that's the best you could do?
That is your best performance in asking a question that the public is interested in. So I think he would just break the frame. You've got to go after his technique, not answer anything about the question. Well, Joy Reid brought on a Democrat that apparently ran against Bondi and lost. So, man, if you're going to bring somebody on to say some bad things about somebody...
What you want is somebody who was on the other team, a Democrat, and ran against her and lost. Right? Because that guy is going to come with some fire, right? Well, that didn't work out. It turns out that after he lost to her in the race, she hired him. She hired him.
In other words, she hired him because he was good at his job and she didn't care that he was a Democrat because she was about getting the best job. And then, to prove that she hired the right guy and that it was about his qualifications and it was not about Democrat or Republican, he basically proves it right by saying that... that she's very tethered to the law.
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Chapter 6: What is Walgreens' new strategy on store closures?
And it's always, it's long been predicted that they had oil, but company has been looking for it for a long time. And finally Greenland just said, ah, give up. So there's speculated that there's substantial oil, but nobody's found it yet. Could we, could the United States find it? I don't know. Maybe. So it does starting to feel like something's going to happen.
I don't think they're going to be a state or anything, but I feel like some kind of strategic partnership is coming. So Biden did his farewell address. I couldn't even watch it because you know, what am I really watching? If he were a real president with a real brain and he has some good goodbye address, I'd be like, Oh yeah, maybe I'll watch that.
And yeah,
I feel like Biden barely exists. That giving him any attention at this point seems like a waste of time. Like, what's the upside of that? So he babbled through his speech. It was recorded, of course, because he couldn't do it live. And he babbled about the risk of the tech billionaires because apparently their billionaires are not in tech.
So when they controlled the tech billionaires, like Zuckerberg, then the billionaires were no risk whatsoever.
But as soon as the tech billionaires started saying not just that they thought Trump was okay, but rather that they were just going to think independently and not take the brainwashing from the media, that that was a problem, that they're no longer brainwashed by the fine people hoax primarily. So Biden, you're as useless as you've ever been.
He's leaving office as Trump's popularity reached the highest it's ever been. So Biden was at his lowest popularity while Trump's at his highest. That's what I call a good day. If you're Trump, how much would you love that the guy you replaced is at his lowest approval while you're at your highest? That's just a good week.
Meanwhile, Joe Scarborough over at MSNBC, he wanted to defend his prior opinion about Joe Biden being completely mentally sharp. You know, the thing he's been mocked for the most. And he doubled down. Oh, yes, I spent three and a half hours or two and a half hours.
to three hours with Joe Biden, yeah, and we were talking in depth about foreign policy matters, and he was sharp as anyone I've spoken to, and he's spoken like a man who's been doing this since he was 29. Have I mentioned that the audience for Morning Joe tunes in to get his insight?
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of Maduro's threats?
China taking Taiwan is looking bigger and bigger. But here's what I wonder. What would be the best thing that America could do if China decided to make a move on Taiwan? Now, one would be just go to war. Not ideal. Not ideal. Not ideal. The other would be to just walk away and say, all right, well, that was going to happen sooner or later. No point in fighting over it.
The third opportunity is terrible, but I could see it happening, which is that if China moved in and it was clear that there was nothing that would happen to stop them, would the United States take out the chip manufacturing in Taiwan? Just bomb it. And the answer is maybe.
It wouldn't stop them from rebuilding it in China or rebuilding it after China owns them because you wouldn't be able to get rid of the expertise. The people is what allows them to build a chip-making place. But they could certainly slow them down maybe until the United States could figure out how to compete on chips.
So I wouldn't rule out that the entire chip-making industry in Taiwan would go up in smoke if China rolls in because there's nothing else you can do. And if our biggest problem is we need access to chips and we're going to lose it because China takes over and China's going to have all the good chips, which, by the way, they're not allowed to have.
They're not allowed to have the chips that are being built on the island they think they own. reverse this in your mind. Imagine it's America and let's say the Virgin Islands that we think we own is the only place that makes good chips and they wouldn't sell it to the United States, but they would sell it to China. Would we put up with that? Would we say, well, you know, we think we own you.
I mean, that's not a Taiwan and it's not like the Virgin Islands. So the analogy doesn't work. But I'm trying to make you imagine what it would feel like if you had some of the most valuable things in the world on this island, the high-end chips, some of the most valuable things in the world, those chips. Nobody else can make them.
Like if we could make them in the United States, we had the know-how, we'd be doing it. We're trying, but I don't think we're that close. So if you imagine what it's like, that you're China and you can't even buy the essential chips you need from the land that you think is yours in the first place? I don't see how they don't make a move. I don't see how they don't make a move.
I think it's just a matter of time. And this might be the timing, except Trump's in office and I don't know. So here's what could stop it. Trump could say, China, there's one thing you need to know. We're not going to let you take control of the chip manufacturing. We'll bomb it to the ground.
The first moment a Chinese foot from China mainland reaches Taiwan, we're going to eliminate all the structures. We'll tell the people to get out because we don't want to kill any people. They're our allies after all. But we will burn those factories. So if you think that what you're doing is getting the chips, you're not.
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