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Chapter 1: What financial insights does Scott Adams share?
Thank you, my stocks. And I've made more money from Elon Musk in the past year than from anything else. If you count stock appreciation and stuff I do on X, like the subscription to Dilbert, et cetera. So stocks are up a little bit, but not all of them. The S&P 500 is down a little bit. A little bit. You'll hardly even notice. Let's get the comments going. There we go.
Chapter 2: What is the significance of the simultaneous sip?
Good morning, everybody, and welcome to the highlight of Human civilization. It's called coffee with Scott Adams, and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can understand with their tiny, shiny human brains, all you need for that is a cup or mug or a glass, a tankard, chalice or stein, a canteen jug or flask, a vessel of any kind.
Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens right now. Go. Sublime. Well, I wonder if there's any sketchy science that says that coffee is good for you. Oh, yeah, there is.
Thanks to the Daily Coffee News, who I suspect is an organ of Big Coffee, so you can trust them totally. A diet rich in foods containing polyphenols, of which there's a lot in coffee. can dramatically reduce the risk of metabolic syndrome, which is a major risk factor for heart disease. So if that sip of coffee made your heart feel better in a variety of ways, that's not an imagination. Yeah.
Enjoying the simultaneous sip can make your heart feel better. Well, it's a scientific fact according to Big Coffee. Did you know that egg prices have plummeted 12.7% this month, according to the Gateway Pundit? I'm glad somebody's watching the price of eggs. You know what's the best part about the price of eggs going down? Is it the economic benefit? Is it that you can buy more eggs?
No, it's so Democrats can shut the fuck up about eggs. I've never been so happy about eggs. So they're not mentioning eggs? Oh, thank God. Thank God. Because it was the one thing they understood. Eggs are up. Eggs are up. What about those eggs? What has Trump done about the eggs? Now that the eggs are down, they just sort of go quiet about the eggs. But they do have new words.
And we'll talk about that in a little bit. So here's something surprising and awesome. According to interesting engineering, a U.S. company has made a drone battery, so a battery for their drone, that can last three hours, and it doesn't use any of the minerals that we get from China. So it doesn't have... There's no nickel... manganese, cobalt, or graphite. And it can go 86 miles an hour.
It's a San Jose-based company called Lyten, L-Y-T-E-N. Remember, I keep asking. Are there any American companies making drones? And I think that maybe the reason we didn't have them before is because drones were more of a personal hobby kind of a product, and it wasn't in the market for our higher costs of manufacturing, which I assume.
So it didn't make sense to go into the drone-making business because you couldn't really meet the quality and the price of the Chinese drones. But as soon as it becomes a critical military need, we're talking about more expensive drones. And suddenly, you could get really, really rich making drones. So I'll bet you there are quite a few drone startup companies. I don't know.
But their battery is lithium sulfur. And apparently it's ready to go. It's not hypothetical. It's here and it's ready to go. So this suggests an interesting possibility. We kind of assume that the way we get some, let's say, economic and security comfort with the fact that China has all these critical things we need,
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Chapter 3: How are battery innovations changing the drone industry?
It could be that instead of mining our own critical things, we will innovate so we don't need them. So what if we just stop needing these critical minerals? I mean, obviously we still need them for phones and other electronics, but would it be impossible to innovate so that we just don't need those mines at all? Maybe. What about pharmaceuticals?
Is it possible, especially with AI coming, that the AI will say, you don't need those pills. They're not working. Here's what you need. It'll solve all your problems. And by the way, China doesn't have a monopoly on this stuff. Maybe. So the decoupling from China could be from innovation, not because we figure out a different way to get stuff. Possible. In related news,
So Toyota is planning to launch an EV with a 745 mile range. That's about double what a lot of the EVs have, but it's way more than even the biggest one right now. And you'll be able to charge it in 10 minutes.
So I had kind of stopped reporting on all the battery innovations because it was boring, and there were too many of them, and they were going to take 10 to 15 years to actually be in any products. But apparently, these are going to be in products really soon. So this is fully developed. Recharge in 10 minutes. And Harvard researchers say that the batteries could last up to 30 years.
So 745 mile range, 10 minutes to charge it up, and the battery lasts 30 years. Not bad, Toyota. And it raises the bar for Tesla, doesn't it? Well, Jensen Wang of NVIDIA He's agreed with Elon Musk on the value of robots, humanoid robots. I think Elon Musk said at the high end, the robot market could be $50 trillion. And that's what Jensen Wang says. He says it could be a $50 trillion industry.
Because the world is short of workers and there's a declining birth rate and He thinks the first use will be in manufacturing. So people keep asking me, Scott, how do I plan my future in the robot world? And I don't know the answer to that because I'm definitely not smart enough to
peer into the future and see what all that robot business is going to bring but I'll give you kind of a general advice which is I think the economic value of doing stuff you know carrying things from here to there and just doing stuff is going to drop to zero because the robots will do it But the value of owning stuff might be retained because robots can't own anything.
So if you own a hotel and people want to stay at it, as long as there's still some people around, that might be worth something. If you own robots... Maybe the model will be that individuals can own a dozen robots and then the robots just go to work for you. That's what the new Teslas will be able to do soon. Very soon you'll be able to park your Tesla on the curb.
And if anybody wants an auto taxi, they can just call it on their app and your car will drive to them and make some money while you're asleep. So that's a case of owning something instead of doing something. So just think of those terms. Think of something that a robot can't do. Let's say, I don't know, there's some things where you just need people.
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Chapter 4: What progress is being made in the electric vehicle market?
Do you know what all those things are collectively? Cause and effect. It's just cause and effect. So if you define free will to be identical to cause and effect, well, sure. Okay, now your AI has free will, but it doesn't mean a thing. It's just cause and effect. So I know that's making half of you crazy, but think about it. All right. Let's talk about Trump and stuff.
But first, we'll talk about RFK. So RFK Jr. is going after pesticides and food, and I guess he's got some report that's coming. And the pesticides he's targeting... and I assume that the report would have to support that or you wouldn't keep targeting, would be glyphosate and atrazine. And he thinks those are toxins. Now, Trump officials are reviewing it, but no decisions have been made.
Farm groups are against it because it would lower yields, of course. But here's what I didn't know. Apparently, the European Union still allows glyphosate. I swear I've heard a thousand times that they don't allow glyphosate in Europe, but apparently they do. However, the other one, atrazine, is not allowed in the European Union, but it is allowed in America. So we'll see.
We'll see if we end up banning both. Or maybe we just match Europe and ban the one. We'll see. But I do like the fact that every time RFK Jr. has an idea, his critics go crazy and they say, but, but, but, you've got to look at the science. And then every time he's looking at something, he says, well, that's what we're doing.
You know, we commissioned a study or we put together a meta study or we're looking at the science. every time he he doesn't sometimes look at the science and sometimes guess what what do his critics think he's doing do they think he's guessing he made it very clear that he's all about the science and he's going to show us his work and other scientists will get to look at it
And they'll have plenty of time to say this is good science or bad science or to add some more science. But it's amazing to me that his critics have decided that sometimes he's going to use the science and sometimes he's just going to make shit up. That's not going to happen. He's going to go with the science every single time.
Now, the science might be wrong, but he's not going to ignore the science. That's not going to start happening all of a sudden. Anyway, I guess President Trump got to meet the new Syrian president. who not too long ago had a $10 million bounty on his head for being a terrorist. But now he's reformed. Because, you know, terrorists sometimes reform. It might be the first time it's ever happened.
But he met the Syrian president, not in Syria, but in Saudi Arabia. And it wasn't the longest meeting in the world. But the crown prince of Saudi Arabia and Turkey's Erdogan joined by phone. And it looks like the people who are on our side are trying to rehabilitate this guy, you know, reputationally so that we could work with him. And the idea is that Trump is going to remove his sanctions and
which is something Syria desperately needs. And the government of Syria is going to take some steps to meet U.S. demands, and that would include arresting militants and also having relations with Israel, positive relations with Israel. And they've said yes to those. So, I mean, if he's a reformed terrorist, he's doing a real good job of it.
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Chapter 5: How is AI transforming radiology?
And if that wasn't making a difference, but apparently brutal, we haven't gotten to. So brutal sanctions are a whole other level. And apparently Trump is willing to go to that level to avoid a physical war and to get Iran on its side. But I also like the fact that
as the Middle East is embracing Trump like crazy, I mean, they're really treating him like a superstar, at least the Saudis and the Qataris. If he pulls together a yet more impressive Abraham Accord, where essentially everybody but Iran is on the same team, and they're all working together almost like a European Union, it's going to be harder and harder for Iran to have any bad intentions.
They're just going to want to, they're going to want to have to play along, I think, at some point. So everything about this seems like it's heading in the right direction. But of course, it's a very unpredictable area. So you never know. So I guess Trump is in Qatar already. He's already headed there. And Qatar is putting out the red carpet very much like the Saudis.
They had the horses and the jets were accompanying Air Force One in, and they're going all the way. But I'm now going to change my opinion about the gift of the Qatari airplane that Trump said he would accept that would be the new Air Force One, or at least one of the two Air Force Ones. My first thought was I don't like anything about it. because it looks like it's going to influence him.
And anything that even indirectly influences the president while he's got to negotiate with these same countries just feels like a bad idea. And then there's the look of it. So it would be an easy attack vector for his enemies. Oh, you just love the dictators and whatever. You're just doing it for your own benefit, whatever.
And then it didn't really make sense to me because if the real thing that takes time is taking an ordinary jet and turning it into Air Force One, my understanding is that Boeing already has the frames, you know, the hard part. The hard part's over. Well, no, the easy part's over, which is building sort of a generic airplane.
The reason we don't have Air Force One for another seven to 10 years is that's how long it would take to build it out so it's an Air Force One. Because it has all these defensive things that you've never heard of. Basically, every part of it is different from a normal plane when you get to the inside. So wouldn't that be exactly the same for the Qatari plane?
The Qatari plane wouldn't be done until Trump left office. There's not even the slightest chance that it would be done before he leaves office. So my initial response had been, I'm uncomfortable with this Qatari plane thing. I was still reserving a little bit of judgment, but then every time I heard Trump talk about it, He kept changing my mind. I don't know if any of you had this experience.
But when I just read about it as a news report, I think, oh, this is a terrible idea. No, don't take that plane. No, bad idea, bad idea. And then I'd see a clip of Trump saying, well, you'd have to be an idiot not to take a free airplane. And then I go, okay. Okay. Well, that's pretty persuasive. Why wouldn't you take a free airplane? And then he says, it's a reward for us doing a good job.
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Chapter 6: What are RFK Jr.'s views on pesticides?
Now, if that's true, and essentially they were being asked to lie, because the evaluators, what would they be called? What's the name of those people? The people who look at your house and decide how much insurance you're going to get? Anyway, so those people say that they would do their work, and then the bosses would say, well, why don't you change that number so that we give them less money?
Adjusters, thank you. The adjusters. So if it's true... that Allstate was leaning on the adjusters to literally lie because it was good for a profit. That's a pretty big problem, and I think Josh Hawley is doing good work to expose that. In related news, another insurance company that I always confuse with Allstate, State Farm, because they both have state in the name.
They've requested and been granted a 17% premium increase in California. but they still won't cover wildfires. And the 17% is just the first part of what they want. They want 30%. So, insurance companies are not doing great. I mean, I guess it's better that they exist than they don't, but they're not really helping California too much.
And they're starting to look more like the enemy than the safety. In some technology news, according to engineering and technology, there's an electrolysis technique that now can convert seawater directly into hydrogen without desalinating at first. Now, apparently it is so efficient
and it looks like it can be ramped up to industrial scale, but so efficient that you can use solar power to create the hydrogen. So in theory, if you're a place that's near seawater and you get a lot of sun, you can just put this new industrial scale production thing there And it will just keep running and create a bunch of hydrogen that is worth more than the cost of the installation.
Now, that would be pretty amazing, actually. So I don't know if this is the thing that will change the world. But every time I see something like this, I think, man, you really can't predict where anything is going. Because if you can simply put up some solar panels and dip a hose in the ocean, and suddenly you're making hydrogen forever. That's kind of awesome. That's kind of awesome.
So it looks like that's coming. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's what I got for today. It looks like mostly good news, and watching Trump do his thing in the Middle East is awesome. So let's keep an eye on that. But I'm going to talk privately to the... to the subscribers on Locals.
And the rest of you, thanks for joining, and I'll see you same time, same place tomorrow morning, because I never rest. Neither should you. Locals, supporters, coming at you in 30 seconds.
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