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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization?
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Chapter 2: What scientific studies could have been bypassed?
According to UCL Political Science, female lobbyists are more likely to gain access to meetings with policy makers. Did they really have to study that to find out that female lobbyists can get meetings with policymakers more easily? Apparently even with female policymakers, but I would have known that too. Let me tell you about my career day when I was a senior in college.
So in my little college in upstate New York when I was a senior, the bunch of local companies would come in, and they would interview the seniors to maybe make job offers. And one of the big employers was a pharmaceutical company looking for sales reps. And I knew a lot of people in the college. It was a very small college.
And I saw that the people I was competing against, because we were sort of lining up to do our little interviews, weren't nearly as accomplished as me academically. So I'm thinking to myself, this is going to be easy. I am so going to get this job offer to be a pharmaceutical representative. And the other people who were in line were really hot girls who were not that good at academics.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of female lobbyists in politics?
And every single one of the hot girls got an offer to be a pharmaceutical sales rep. And none of the guys, not a single male was offered anything. And that's where I learned that you don't need to do a study to find out that women can get more access to meetings. Yes, women can definitely get more access to meetings. You could have just asked me.
All right, let's see if science has any more surprises. Oh, yeah, here we go. According to Eric Dolan, who's writing in SciPost, there's new... This one's just funny. There's new evidence, new research. There's new research in the Journal of Affective Disorders that suggests that people who engage in sexual activity... at least once a week, are less likely to experience symptoms of depression.
Chapter 4: How does sexual activity relate to happiness?
Somebody actually took time and money to study that. Yes, yes. People who are getting laid are happier than people who are not getting laid, period. Now, sometimes it's cause. The cause and effect can go either way in that particular case. But yes, people who are having more sex, I can almost guarantee you, on average, are happier than people who are not having sex. So next time, just ask me.
You don't need to do that study. Just ask me. In other news of hilarious science, do you remember the claims that were all over social media that some group had used some wild technology that was looking under the pyramids and they found these vast columns suggesting an entire different civilization was at work for years before the pyramids? And as soon as I saw that, I said, no, that's not real.
Well, apparently today, according to the AFP, the scientists are saying it's a rubbish claim and there's no giant structures beneath the Egyptian pyramids. But apparently all the experts who are aware of the technology that they use to image onto the ground, pretty much all of them say that technology can't do that.
Chapter 5: What new technology claims are being debunked?
Even if there were giant columns under the pyramids, you couldn't see them with that technology. That definitely wouldn't work. So I could be wrong. Maybe there are giant pillars under the pyramids. But I'm going to claim, at least temporarily, I'm going to claim success in debunking that without doing any research at all. As soon as I saw that one, I thought, probably not. Probably not.
Here's another one. The science is also stupid today. According to the Daily Mail, the Vatican has, in its documents, in secret archives, it has secret links to UFOs. And some researchers now believe that the Holy See could be sitting on the biggest secret of all, proof of extraterrestrial life. Do you think the Vatican has proof of extraterrestrial life and they've been keeping it from us?
I'm going to say nope. Nope. Not unless that alien life is under those pyramids. I'm going to say no on that. All right, here's one that is real. According to Elon Musk, you're a Tesla. Tesla. will soon be a robo-taxi if you want.
Now, what I think that means is you can just park your Tesla outside your garage, and then if somebody has an app... Now, this isn't functional yet, but it's all developed and looks like it'll roll out pretty soon. You could just call up a self-driving Tesla, and it will just pull out of your driveway and go pick somebody up and make some money while you're sleeping.
How many of you would let strangers use your car? I feel like it would be creepy to know that other people were in your car doing God knows what because there's no driver there. But it would be like Uber but without the driver. What's the worst thing about an Uber? Uber. It's the driver. The worst thing about an Uber is the driver.
Because if you're, let's say, young or you're female, you have to worry about the driver being dangerous. If you're male, you have to worry about the driver playing the radio or making a phone call or being really annoying and trying to talk to you the whole time. So there's nothing worse about Uber than the driver. There's also the thing where the driver will
start to come to you, and then for reasons you don't understand, they cancel or they change their mind. That's not the technology doing that. That's the driver. So if you can get rid of the driver, and Tesla could be like Uber and all the other ways, yeah, that'd be pretty good. Speaking of Tesla, I saw this on Barrio, an awful summary. I guess the source is Teslarati.
But did you know that every Model 3 and Model Y that's delivered in the United States uses batteries that are 100% made in America? Did you think we could even do that? I didn't even know that America could make that many batteries. But apparently, Tesla has been able to make all of its batteries completely in America for some time now. So that's interesting to know.
And according to a post I saw on X by Nick Cruz-Patane, he says that Tesla vehicles share the same batteries, cameras, and computers as the Optimus robots will. So I think I could have guessed that. That it would be the same AI and you know, computers, and why wouldn't they use the same batteries, you know, the smaller versions?
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Chapter 6: How is Tesla revolutionizing the automotive industry?
And the Democrats will still be racing down to El Salvador to say, free the cannibal. The human trafficker wife beating MS-13 cannibal. Free him now, because process makes all the difference. You know what I worry about? This is something I learned from the Democrats. You've probably heard that there's something called the Department of Justice.
And they will often arrest people for things like murder. And then those people will be sent to jail if they're convicted. And I'm thinking, isn't that kind of a slippery slope? If they can arrest people who are proven to have murdered people,
and they could put those people in jail, can't they pick up people who have never murdered anybody and never committed any crimes at all and put them in jail too? According to Democrats, that would be a risk. I learned that from the story about Kilmer Abrego Garcia. Well, Governor Abbott in Texas just signed some legislation to give Texas their own state doge.
So I guess they're going to build the ability to make their government more efficient. But there was one thing that I loved about the statement. So this is from Abbott. He said that the new doge in Texas, it will ensure that Texas is operating at the speed of business and will make it easier for Texans to do business, blah, blah.
I love that framing that the government in Texas will operate at the speed of business. I don't think you could phrase that better. Now, somebody said that that was a UPS slogan from long ago, but no matter where they got it, that is just such a well-chosen phrase that the state could operate at the speed of business. Because that's exactly what you want.
You want the government not to slow you down. Speaking of that, according to the Washington Times, the amount that businesses spend to satisfy federal regulations, of which there are thousands of new ones every year, is $2.1 trillion per year. Actually, more than that. So the amount that we waste... by just satisfying various infinite government. This is just federal. This is not even state.
2.1 trillion per year. That's the same as the entire amount of the budget deficit. 2.1 trillion? I think we can do better. Maybe we will. So according to The Hill, The Washington Post has struck a deal with OpenAI. So now if you're using OpenAI and you're searching for something that has been in the news, it will give you summaries and quotes and links from the Washington Post.
So how do you feel about that? The Washington Post will be a primary, maybe the primary, news source for people the biggest AI, open AI. Does that give you anything to worry about? Well, I'll tell you, my trust in open AI as a source of independent and accurate information just went down 40%, approximately 40%.
Because, as you know, and of course, I can't prove this, but the Washington Post has always been alleged to be kind of tight with the intelligence community of the United States, you know, sort of working hand in glove. If the CIA needed to get a message out, they could do it through the Washington Post. Now, that's the allegation. And then,
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of foreign funding in universities?
But let's take a look at the implications of that. According to an article in Wired by Zeyi Yang, even though China is limiting U.S. access to critical minerals, it might not be as bad as you assumed. because we've all been told they need these critical rare earth materials to build all kinds of technology, from your phones to your robots to your electric cars and everything else.
And that's true, but we're being reminded by this article that you could live without them. So, for example, your electric car could certainly operate without some of the rare earth materials, It might not last as long and there might be a feature or two that it can't do, but it'd still be an electric car.
And apparently there are a number of examples that were, if you had to, you could just sort of make your product without some of those rare earth minerals. It's just that it wouldn't be as good, but you could still make it and it would still be commercial and people would still buy it.
And then also, this is what I was wondering about, but apparently Belgium has emerged as a possible re-export hub, meaning that if people bought the rare earth minerals from China, China doesn't know where it goes after that. And that maybe some part of the European Union could be buying these rare earth materials. They'd have a closer connection to the United States than to China.
And then the next thing you know, the United States has some rare earth minerals from China, but China doesn't know that we have it. Now, if all the countries that we sanction can pull this off, such as Iran, they still manage to get stuff, and I'm sure Russia still manages to get stuff. I feel like we can do the same thing.
You don't think we could figure a way to smuggle in that rare earth stuff? The other thing I learned that I didn't know is that even though it's critical materials, we don't spend a lot. It's not like trillions of dollars or anything. It's like a fairly small amount of material, very important, but small in terms of quantity, but also small in terms of dollar amount.
So one of the reasons that we don't have, you know,
new mines and refineries popping up for these rare earth minerals is that all it would take according to this article in wired all it would take is one new factory or refinery for one of those minerals and it would create too much of the mineral so apparently the demand is critical because they're important but it's a small demand like it's not that many dollars and it's not that many pounds of material
So if you built a new refinery, it would maybe crush the price for the one mineral and your business model wouldn't work. So that's interesting. I didn't know any of that. By the way, there might be workarounds for the rare earth minerals. We'll see. According to Ryan Peterson, who follows shipping, I think he's CEO of Flexport, or founder of, or both. But Flexport's in the shipping industry.
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