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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization according to Scott?
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Chapter 2: How does baseline happiness affect career satisfaction?
Let's see. Is there any new science that they could have completely skipped just by asking Scott? Oh, yeah. Here's one. The University of South Australia found out that being happy in your career doesn't make you happy in life, but being happy in general in your life can make you enjoy your career that you have more. Um, they could have just asked me. Yes, it's called baseline happiness.
And if you're happy in general, everything else in your life looks better. How many of you didn't know that? Was there anybody who thought, you know, if I were depressed, but I got a better job, I'll bet that would cheer me up. No, it doesn't work that way. If you're happy, then even your crap job seems pretty good to you. And if you're unhappy, it doesn't matter how good your job is.
Chapter 3: What revolutionary technology is being developed for wastewater processing?
You're still going to be unhappy. So just ask me next time I could have cleared that up. Saved you a lot of money. Well, according to Marine Insight publication, over in Germany, there's this revolutionary new wastewater processing plant. It's a wastewater processing plant.
And what's revolutionary is that they can convert the wastewater into methanol, which I guess is kind of climate neutral, and you can use that for marine fuels. Now, I wonder if there's anybody who works on the wastewater project that would tell us that we live in a simulation. Let's see. The wastewater... is being explained by Dr. Wissing, W-S-S-I-N-G, Wissing.
Chapter 4: How is drone technology evolving in warfare?
So Dr. Wissing can tell you about the wastewater. Apparently, Dr. Pooping was not available. He's the number two. Yep. Dr. Wissing for wastewater. Okay. All right. All right. Judge me. You can judge me on that one. This you knew was coming. Next Gen Defense was reporting that Maxar Intelligence, they've developed... a vision-based software that can make GPS unnecessary for your drone.
So in other words, if your drone gets jammed and it can't see the GPS signal, it doesn't care because Maxar Intelligence has these databases that are really detailed. They've got 3D terrain data for 34 million square miles. So it can just switch to, or maybe it doesn't even need, GPS. Which means that there is practically no defense against drones now.
Chapter 5: What insights does Ezra Klein provide on the efficiency of Democrats?
If your drone can't be jammed, if you can't jam the GPS, that seems like a problem. So yes, as Naval Ravikant said recently, it's really inevitable that all warfare will be drones, because why would you need anything else? It's all going to be drones. Well, if you haven't yet seen Ezra Klein on Jon Stewart's podcast... Oh, you have to see this. I so recommend this. So look for the clips.
If you just see the clips, you'll see everything you need to see. But so Ezra Klein is a co-author of the book Abundance. And he's doing, you know, I have to say my first impression was, hey, you're just writing a book that says Democrats should act more like Republicans if they want to win anything. So I wasn't sure it was adding much to the world. But now I think it is.
So I'm going to switch to full compliment to Ezra Klein and I guess Derek Thompson, the two co-authors. So the thing that was amazing is that you've heard Ezra Klein talk about how the Democrats are good at funding impressive things. But then for reasons that I didn't quite understand, nothing got done. So there was the funding of the high-speed rail in California that didn't get done.
There was the funding of the rural broadband internet that didn't get done. There was the funding of the nationwide charging stations that didn't get done. All good ideas in theory, but all they can do is give them money and not get anything done.
And if you wondered why it is that nothing gets done, you just have to, you just have to, here as your client, go through the 14 steps it would have taken to approve just the project for the car charging stations. Oh, my God. I'm not going to run through the 14 because it's pretty pedantic, but you have to watch Jon Stewart for the first time understanding
how completely doomed the Democrat way of work is. Because the regulations are mostly, I'm thinking mostly Democrat created. And if you looked at any one of them individually, you'd probably say to yourself, all right, well, I can see why you'd want this group to review it. Or I can see why you'd want to run it through this group for approval. But once you get to 14 different steps individually,
and everybody's got to review it and analyze it, and they got time for a comment, it becomes literally impossible.
so it's not just that it didn't happen it's that the system was impossible so anybody who tried to apply to you know be one of the people who executed on these funded projects couldn't get through it it would take you the rest of your life if you got through it at all so there is no way to actually execute on these well-meaning Democrat gigantic projects. There is no way.
Now, what is it I always say about the difference between Republicans and Democrats? Democrats are really good at goals. High-speed rail, that's a goal. I like it. Rural internet broadband. I like it. Nationwide charging stations for electric cars. Sounds pretty good. Those are good goals. I like it. But they also developed a system that made it impossible.
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Chapter 6: What allegations surround the National Diversity Council?
Well, one of the founders, Dennis Kennedy, allegedly paid himself $450,000 a year for 10 hours of work a week. But then in 2022, allegedly, at the peak of DEI mania, he and a few other executives decided that they were really owed another $3 million in back pay. And so they looted the organization is the accusation.
And now the organization is filing for bankruptcy with the board saying that Kennedy systematically looted it by funneling its assets to a for-profit firm controlled by himself. Does that sound familiar? That's exactly what we were finding out with all the NGOs. If the NGO gets a lot of funding, let's say from the government could be private donations.
Uh, then the first thing they'll do is say, here's how we're spending that money. We're going to hire this for-profit entity. That just happens to be my wife, or just happens to be me with another name. And we're not going to have any accounting. So that's not as obvious what we're doing. It's the same scam. everywhere. And once you realize the pattern, you can just pick it up instantly.
It's like, oh, you got a bunch of money, you gave yourself a generic name like the National Diversity Council, and you can protect yourself by accusing any of your critics of being racist. Ah, see, that's important. Because if you don't have an audit process and you're planning to loot the organization,
You want to make sure that if anybody blames you of anything, you can say, oh, my God, what are you, some kind of white supremacist who hates diversity? Don't you see that diversity is in the name of our organization? Of course it's good because it says diversity right in it. It's right in the name. You racist. I think we're onto it now. I think we can spot these a little easier.
Well, Mario Noffel is reporting that Trump has threatened to defund the Smithsonian over what he calls divisive narratives. And he's ordered J.D. Vance to go clean house, whatever that means. And what he wants to do is remove what he calls improper ideology or else they'll lose federal funding. and he accuses the museum of pushing a decades-long effort to rewrite U.S.
history with distorted ideological narratives instead of facts. So they're going to have to get rid of all the divisive content or else the government won't fund them anymore. And to me, I can see why they're doing it. I'm sure it's a good idea. But history has always been fake. So when you take one version of fake history and somebody's trying to rewrite it to another version of fake history...
It doesn't make it more accurate, but there is a version of history that's better for the country.
And if you're deciding to change the history to white people suck, now I haven't seen what the Smithsonian is up to, but I'm just going to take a wild guess that what they're saying is that white people are the problem, they killed all the Native Americans, they created all the slavery, they stole all the money, and white people are bad. Just a guess.
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Chapter 7: What concerns are raised about the Smithsonian's narrative?
Well, here's a story that really sounds great for America. Just listen to this. According to interesting engineering, enormous, massive lithium deposits have been discovered in the U.S., worth $540 billion, so much that it would vastly reduce China's grip on the United States for lithium. So I'm reading this, and I'm like, wow, $540 billion worth of lithium, and it seems to be accessible.
Isn't that the greatest story? The only thing that could be bad about this is if it's in California. Don't be in California. Please don't be in California. Please, please don't be in California. It's in California, beneath the surface of the Salton Sea. So I guess the value is not $540 billion. It would be closer to, let me call up Ezra Klein.
Ezra, there's $540 billion worth of lithium in California under the Salton Sea. Do you think we could, okay, calm down, Ezra, calm down. Okay, I know we'll never get it. Yeah, I know, 14 steps. Okay, we'll just leave it there. Never mind. Thank you. Goodbye. Yeah, that's a complete waste of time because it's in California. I'd love to be wrong. I would love to be wrong.
But no, it's worth nothing because it's in California. That's all you need to know. Trump has floated the idea of maybe easing off on tariffs, according to Reuters, on China, if China approves the sale of TikTok to an American entity. What do you think of that idea? Going easy on tariffs on China if they approve a TikTok deal. Here's the problem.
That would be transferring wealth from the citizens of the United States to the rich people in the United States who bought TikTok. So the benefactors would be the billionaires who buy TikTok, and that would be paid for partly by money that would have otherwise gone into the Treasury. So how is Trump going to think this through? Now, I'm not saying it's a bad idea, by the way.
What I'm saying is, how do you sell it? Because it's total oligarch-friendly, citizen-unfriendly, American-last. I mean, to me, it looks like it'd be kind of good for China and good for a few oligarchs who buy it, who are his buddies. And I don't see how you sell this thing. Now... I will give you one possibility. One of the things that Trump said was that the U.S.
government, if it's being helpful in making the deal happen, should get a percentage of TikTok. Oh, now that was not part of this story. But remember, Trump has floated that idea and he was serious about it and it makes sense.
If the government is doing something important to make a private investment worth something from zero to maybe be worth a trillion dollars someday, why don't we get a piece of it? If you give me a piece of it, meaning the citizens, I'm all in. Yeah. If you say we're going to reduce tariffs a little bit on China or to get this deal done.
But in the end, the United States, let's say, are a sovereign fund. I think we're going to have trouble funding the sovereign fund. There's some technical reason why the sovereign fund might be in jeopardy. But this seems like a perfect use for a sovereign fund where we invest literally zero and we get a percentage of ticked out. I'd be happy with more of that.
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Chapter 8: How might AI transform healthcare and medication safety?
which has not been applied to this question yet. So if the only thing he does is apply the best science to it, even if it finds out that the vaccines weren't as bad as you thought, you're going to be a lot happier. Now, I think most of you are expecting to find out that the vaccinations, various ones, not just COVID, but I think you expect, at least this audience does,
that it's going to find out that they were much more dangerous than you thought. But either way, we need to know. We need to know. I'm open to the fact that it might go either way. But we definitely need to know. It's right at the top of things we should be caring about. And then RFK Jr. was talking about Elon Musk using AI to improve health and efficiency and improve delivery.
So he said they've had a bunch of geniuses come over to RFK Jr. 's domain to try to figure out how to do that. Can you imagine? how much money could be driven out of healthcare if you only knew what worked and what doesn't. Separately, I saw another story, I didn't write this one down, about how there's a large number of
complications with medications that are very specific to your genetic makeup. So if you could, of course, there's a problem, you know, anytime your genetic makeup is part of a database, you have to worry about that. But imagine if we just had those two databases. What's your genetic makeup? And how does this drug do for people with your genetic makeup?
And you could get rid of something like 9% of all the injury. That's huge. That's huge. So, but think of all the different ways that AI could just make everything work better. Do you think you've ever taken a medication that didn't work well with the other medications you were taking and you just didn't know it? Probably. Probably. And AI can help you with that.
So at the very least, you should take a picture of all your pill bottles with AI. The next time you get a prescription and say, I got a new prescription. Is it going to work well with all the ones I already have? And by the way, if you use chat GPT at the highest level, expensive one, you can literally do that. You could just put all your pill bottles in a row.
and just put it on video and just take a picture of all your pill bottles and say, I'm going to add this pill. My doctor said to add this one, and it will tell you. It'll tell you which ones don't work with other ones. More so, I think, even than your doctor would. I mean, they're supposed to flag it, but you can't expect them to know every interaction. I've never seen a doctor look up
an interaction while I was talking to them. I wonder if this system does that for them. My healthcare system is pretty well automated. So it might be that if they just prescribe it, maybe it puts up a warning. I don't know. I'm kind of skeptical that it's already built into the system, but it could be. It could be big. Meanwhile, dumb old Tim Walsh,
he was at some kind of event and he was urging Democrats to get more serious about DEI and immigration. He thinks that the problem was they didn't go hard enough on those things. So he goes, quote, we'd let them define the issue on immigration. We'd let them define the issue on DEI. We'd let them define what woke is. We got ourselves in this mess because we weren't bold enough to stand up and say,
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