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Chapter 1: What is the significance of the simultaneous sip?
It's called the simultaneous sip and it's happening now. Go. Well, here's the good news. The good news is that it feels like at least for a day or so, Trump has slowed down and my brain is starting to normalize. Oh, my God, my brain has been on fire for the last few weeks. So many things to hear and listen to. And it's all interesting. And I care about it all.
I'm just like on my phone all day long. Look, it's another thing. There's another judge. There's another judge. Look, it's another lawsuit. It's another judge. And it looks like it slowed down a little bit. So that feels good. Anyway, after today's show, remember to join the after show. That'll be on Spaces, hosted by Owen Gregorian. So look on Spaces on X. That's the audio product, audio only.
And just look for Owen Gregorian, and you can find his Spaces right after the show. Well, here's a story in the New York Post that I swear is an old story. Haven't we talked about this one before? There's a Chinese zoo that admitted to painting a donkey black and white to pass it off as a zebra. Haven't we heard that one before? And it makes me wonder how many other animals are fake.
It's like, you know, is it possible that they've done any plastic surgery on any other animals to turn them into other animals? I don't know. kind of wondered, well, we didn't have any chipmunks, but we did have this rat. Let's just give him a little color job and maybe a little plastic surgery on the snout. Suddenly, rat turns into a chipmunk.
Well, nobody goes to the zoo to see a chipmunk, so that's ridiculous. Why'd you bring it up? Let's talk about the health benefits of saunas, and I want to see if this is real science or not. Backwards science. Backwards science.
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Chapter 2: What are the health benefits of saunas?
You tell me, was the sauna creating the following health benefits, or do the people who decide to use saunas and have the money and have the time, are they naturally the people who have fewer health problems? So here are the things that, according to Oliver Anwar on X, there's research showing that if you sauna four to seven times a week,
All right, how many people have the time to sauna four to seven times a week? I would argue that these are not the people who are working so hard, and we know that working all the time is bad for you. So right away, you start saying to yourself, hmm, these are people who have a lot of leisure, and they may have some money. because they can go to a sauna instead of being homeless.
So if you use a sauna four to seven times a week, your risk of dementia and Alzheimer's is reduced by an astounding 66%. So it's good for your mental health. It's good for your immune system. It's good for recovering from athletic performance. It's going to help your cardiovascular and your blood flow. So what do you think?
Do you think that what we discovered is that saunas are really good for you? And I assume they are. I'm sure they are. Or did we discover that the people who use saunas are exactly the same people who are doing everything else that's good for you? Do you think the people who use saunas are also eating the most junk food?
Or are the people who do sauna four to seven times a week more likely to eat a healthy diet? Are they more likely to do exercise? Well, if one of the reasons for doing it is to recover from exercise, maybe there's a little bit of a selection bias there. Here's what they didn't do. I don't think that they had a control group of people who were exactly like the other people.
Some of them used the sauna and some didn't, and then they tracked them over 40 years. I don't think that happened. So where do you think this information about saunas making you healthier came from? I don't know, but let me ask you this. Who would have the most interest in producing a study, which would be expensive, a study about the health benefits of saunas? Who in the world
would have the financial interest to want to do a big expensive study on the health benefits of saunas? Oh, yeah. Could it be the foxes are the ones counting the chickens again? Yes. I don't know the answer to the question. But if I had to guess, Big Sauna did a study. And Big Sauna decided that a controlled long-term study would be really expensive and might not give them the right answer.
So instead, they just compared people who have the luxury of being able to sauna all the time with the people who don't have that luxury and found out that one group is healthier. How about that? Yeah, how about that? Surprise. All data that matters is fake. It has to be because it's always the fox counting the chickens. All right. So Trump signed an executive order, according to The Hill,
He's going to strip funding from schools that require the COVID-19 vaccinations. God, that feels good, doesn't it? Don't you love the fact that the school will be punished for requiring people to get a COVID vaccination now? Wow. So that's just a feel-good story. Here's some new information.
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Chapter 3: How will changes to food stamp policies affect consumers?
I get my German words wrong. It's not schadenfreude where I'm just enjoying somebody else's pain because I think they have it coming. It's nothing like that. I have a lot of empathy for the just regular workers who go to work. But I feel so good that something that's difficult to do for the government, which is self-police and reduce its own expenses, that it's actually happening.
It's like one of the most optimistic things I've seen in a long, long time. Speaking of optimistic things, there's a recording released recently Jamie Dimon, head of JP Morgan, in which he's just giving it to his employees, some kind of, I don't know if it's a Zoom or all employees meeting or something. And he is just cursing up a storm. He's dropping the F-bombs and the other bombs.
And he is criticizing his employees for being on Zoom calls and secretly checking their email and not paying attention. He says it's bad for bad for morale, bad for creativity. It's rude. It's going to make everything less efficient. He can't stand that. He thinks working from home is just not only bad for the company, but he thinks it's damaging an entire generation of young people.
And the more I thought about that, I thought, oh my God, he's right. When I was in the regular workforce, my cubicle days, every now and then, it was kind of rare, You know, I'd have a work-at-home day for one reason or another. I mean, it was rare, but it happened. And to me, it was just a way to do a little extra work because I wasn't being bothered.
So it didn't happen often, and I found that I was actually more productive because I wasn't being bothered. But here's the thing that I was not considering that Jamie Dimon did consider, and I think he's right on this, that if I had not spent... all of my other time in the office, then the work at home thing would be a whole different deal. Imagine if I didn't know my coworkers in person.
Imagine if I didn't have all the casual question answering and the brainstorming that happens in the hallways and learning who's the good bear and the bad bear and who's just a waste of time and who can get things done, who wants to work with me, finding somebody else who might want to hire me.
know doing a little networking these are all the things that if you're only once in a while working at home then the work in your home is really a plus you probably actually just get more done you know and then you get all the benefits of the human contact and the you know the accidental connections and all that but imagine if you're a young worker who's never really spent much time in any office
And your entire experience is waking up and going to your own living room and sitting on the couch. And maybe you're doing work, but you're having no connections with other people. Your company is sort of a meaningless concept that puts a direct deposit into your bank account. I can't imagine that you would be killing it in terms of effectiveness or your own career or even your own mental health.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of AI in news accuracy?
And as much as I hate commuting, commuting is just the worst thing ever. The benefits of doing this painful work in person thing are pretty extreme. And I think Jamie Dimon is right on that. He's correct. And he also talks about they're not working long hours because when he tries to call anybody who is allegedly working at home, they never answer the phone.
Every time he tries to call somebody who's working at home, nobody's there. They're probably there, but they can't answer the phone because there's an incriminating noise of where they are. But I would ask you this. Oh, and then he also said that their own headcount has gone up 50,000 in five years.
And he says the only reason they needed 50,000 more people is because the people they already hired weren't getting the work done. Now, that might be hyperbole, but there's probably something to that. Because if they're doing exactly what they always did, but they needed 50,000 more people, that does kind of suggest that maybe they've got a problem.
So it was great hearing him frustrated and calling that out. According to Digital Trends, Nadeem Sarwar is writing that Meta, you know, the Facebook parent there, Meta. Meta is going to go into the robot business big time, but they're going to focus on domestic robots to help you home.
But, and this is really interesting, I love watching anything that Zuckerberg does strategically because he doesn't get everything right. But as a strategic long-term thinker, he's pretty darn good. So when he makes a strategic, long-term, big-money decision, definitely gets my interest. Now, the whole meta thing of living in the virtual world doesn't seem to be catching on.
So he may have gotten that one wrong. But his current thing on robots is it's not going to be a meta robot. So meta will make a robot, or lots of them actually, but they won't be meta-branded robots. Part of it, this is speculated, is that people are already worried about data security with Facebook. So if you put basically a robot connected to Facebook, that's what it would feel like.
If you put that robot that's from the same company that's already been snooping on all your personal information, you're gonna feel, is that robot spying on me? Like if I say to my robot, You know, I need you to go buy something. Is that thing going to show up in my advertisements? Because it went through the robot and then suddenly my phone gives me an advertisement for that product.
Because that would be creepy. And it's hard to imagine that the robot wouldn't be looking for ideas to sell you stuff. It seems like it would. But here's the interesting part. I haven't gotten to it yet. What Meta is going to do is build the supply chain for robots. So it wants to build all the component manufacturing, and I guess they would use their own AI software.
It looks like maybe augmented somehow. But they want to build a supply chain in which they can sell any part of the supply chain to anybody else. So, for example, I'm making this up, but it's roughly the idea. So they would have part of their supply chain with making, let's say, a good robot hand. But they would sell that hand to anybody who wanted to buy it.
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Chapter 5: What is the future of Meta's domestic robots?
So what if you have a meeting with somebody and say, all right, here's the thing. We're going to create this new hoax. We're going to do this new dirty trick. Well, if you need five people involved, can you be sure that one of them won't drop the dime on you, become a whistleblower? So it's possible that The Democrats are a little bit crippled by their own fear of who they can talk to about what.
And I'd never really thought about that before. But that might actually be a variable that's potentially big. Well, here's the, I guess you'd call it the Groundhog Day news. A federal judge just blocked something. No, a federal judge just unblocked something. No, a federal judge just blocked something, but then it was unblocked.
But then it was blocked for a certain time, but it wasn't really blocked. It was just delayed. But then it wasn't delayed. It was unblocked. But then it was blocked and banned and banned and blocked and then unblocked and banned and unblocked. So that's all the legal news you need. I have no fucking idea what's going on with all these judges. But here's another one.
A federal judge just sided with Musk and Doge in rejecting an effort to block them from accessing government information systems. So Nick Sorter's reporting on that. So that's good. So they're not blocked from getting into the technology systems. That's a big, big deal. But I think they get blocked somewhere else. There's another judge story here. We'll get to it.
But I can't keep track of all the judges. What we do see, there seems to be a very clear pattern that the judges that are blocking Doge are all corrupt. They either have a family member who's benefiting from corruption or has some connection to USAID or a family member who's like a you know, a well-known fundraiser for Democrats or something like that.
Like all of them have some clearly and obviously conflict of interest. I mean, it just looks like pure corruption to me. Anyway. The Department of Homeland Security has already moved 12 CISA employees. So CISA is the cyber security agency that policed misinformation. So do you think CISA was policing misinformation? Because that was their mission. No, they were censoring conservatives.
Let's be honest. They were censoring conservatives. So 12 of them got fired, according to the New York Post. and what what were they doing instead of um so when they were when they were policing misinformation what was not getting done was there anything that wasn't getting done because they were out there policing all the misinformation well yes they weren't working on election security
So the thing they could have been working on instead of censoring conservatives, they could have been working on improving election security. Now, I don't know if it's one for one, as in election security was totally ignored while they did these other things. But the way the story is framed...
It makes it seem like they stopped doing the only thing we desperately need, election security, and spending all their time doing the one thing we don't need, which is telling us what information is true and what's not, especially if you're not true. So here's a story that's a little too on the nose. I think it's true. So according to The Guardian, the Mexican president, Claudia Scheinbaum,
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Chapter 6: How did Scott Adams connect with the Clinton administration?
Chapter 7: What are the potential impacts of tariff threats on Taiwan?
The only thing that's different is your comments that are streaming in and the visual thing that I'm seeing of myself while I do this. So my consciousness is 100% on the things that are changing because the things that are changing are the only things that have the possibility of what I predict is going to happen, not matching what happens. Everything else in my environment
I'm unconscious to, because they're not going to ever change. So what I predict about them I know will be the same as what happens. I mean, I don't know-know, but it's a pretty safe bet. So you are not conscious of anything you think isn't going to change, and you're correct about it. You're only conscious of things you can predict what's going to happen, and then you watch what's happening.
And what makes humans do better than other creatures is that. the degree of consciousness, the degree of predicting, and then seeing how it's different. Because if you predict and then you're wrong, then you have much better insight about how to adjust it. Oh, wow, I was wrong about that. Rethink it, rethink it, try something else, until you get predictability.
So we're always going to get predictability. We're striving for it, and that's consciousness. It's the only purpose for it. It's not magic. It's just a simple little trick of the brain so that we're more able to solve problems. We predict, and then we can solve them sometimes in advance based on our prediction. And then if we're wrong, we say, whoa, that didn't work.
Look at the difference between the prediction and the outcome. Basically, that's the basis of science, right? Science is looking at the difference between your hypothesis and your outcome. So The first thing you need to know is that consciousness is not special. It's special because humans seem to have the most of it.
If you notice that your dog definitely seems conscious and your dog too can predict. You see that? Your dog can predict. When I walk into the kitchen, my dog thinks, hmm, that's where I get treats. So the dog comes into the kitchen. So the dog also has an idea of what the future looks like and then operates based on that. And if I don't give the dog a treat, what happens?
I can tell that she has some tension, just like humans. When things don't go the way we expect, we get tension. And then we want to get rid of the tension by solving it so that our world becomes predictable again. So consciousness is nothing but the difference between your prediction and your observation. That's it.
Similarly, there's a new study from, not a new study, but an article in Popular Mechanics that according to some of the scientists, not all of them, but some of the scientists in the quantum realm, your thoughts can change the past. Now we know in the quantum world that things don't really exist until they're observed. So as weird as that sounds, that's generally scientifically accepted.
I think everybody accepts that at this point. That until you observe something, it's just a probability. And then once observed, it becomes solidified forever. But now it's going further. that you could change your own past. All right, I'll turn off your comments. You can observe your own past. Or you can actually change your past by what you're thinking. Now, I think...
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