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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization?
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So about a few minutes after the show, Owen will fire that up. As some of you know, And the only reason I'm telling you this is because she's been part of the show. My loyal dog Snickers has gone to the big farm in the sky. And you might wonder if that's why I missed the show yesterday. And the answer is no, actually. I was in extraordinary pain for the last two days.
Like, I've never even felt that much pain. It went away today. No particular reason. Didn't do anything different. But I woke up and that pain was gone. So I got to experience the end of my dog's life with the most pain I've ever felt in my life. So to say that the last two days were not ideal, that would be an understatement. They were not ideal. So let's get past that and talk about the news.
According to SWPS University, wherever they are, practicing kindness reduces loneliness and increases cooperation. Now, can you believe it? That when you're nice to people, they'd rather spend time with you And also, they'll be more cooperative because you're nice. Is there any way they could have saved some money on that study? Yes. Next time, just ask Scott.
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Chapter 2: Why is kindness important according to studies?
I'm pretty sure I could have told you that being nice has a rather wide range of benefits. Will it help you at work? Yes. Will it help you with your social life? Yes. Will it help you in every way that you can imagine? Yes. Be nice. Be nice. All right. Well, according to the University of Michigan,
Researchers are trying to figure out how to use the same kind of persuasion that the tobacco that was used against the tobacco industry to get people to not smoke. But in this case, they'd be trying to get people to not eat junk food. And here's the interesting part.
that you would imagine that the most effective way to get people not to do something that's bad for them would be to say, hey, that's bad for you. Don't do that. Turns out that's not the case. And what they found was that focusing on industry tactics Rather than individual choices, they could change perceptions. In other words, people are willing to hurt themselves if it's their choice.
So if you say, eating this fast food could make you fat and blah, blah, blah, people will say, hmm. Yeah, maybe you could, but I really like this food. But if you say to them, people you don't know are screwing you with their clever, addictive treatments, and they're basically taking your money and killing you, well, then it feels personal. It doesn't feel like you're making the choice.
It feels like something that somebody's doing to you. And apparently that's more persuasive. So keep that in your persuasion bag of tricks. That people care more about being manipulated than they care about even their own health. That's a good one to know. Well, according to interesting engineering, Japan did a little test.
And they moved a million gigabits per second over a special kind of fiber. Now, you might say to yourself, isn't fiber already fast enough? Do we really need it to be that fast? And the answer is yes, because in the AI world, there's going to be a whole lot of video and a lot of AI and probably. So it also made me wonder if people are going to have to move
to places where they have this kind of super internet. I mean, it's going to take a while for this specific one to work its way into the market.
But if you're a developer and you're working from home and you're doing AI stuff, how long will it be before you realize that your connection at home just will never get the job done and you're going to have to go into the office and get onto their super, super cable? I don't know. We'll see. But one of the things I never think about with AI is I don't think about the transmission speed.
But that's a gaining factor. Not just how many servers you have, but can you move it back and forth? Well, Jake Tapper's CNN show hit its lowest rating since 2015, according to Fox News, who loves to report on that. So he had his lowest rated month in nearly a decade in May. At the same time, he was out there promoting his book, which is doing very well, by the way. His book is a big hit.
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Chapter 3: How can persuasion be more effective?
But whatever he's doing is working, so I'm not going to complain about it. So who in the world would act like they're open to pardoning Diddy at this point? Only Trump. Because I guess that used to get along until Trump got into politics. And he said...
um that uh nobody's asked but if i think somebody is mistreated so basically he was saying i don't know anything about the details of the story but i won't rule it out only trump would say that this is the most provocative thing you could possibly say but okay um i guess uh trump won another legal battle So I never understood why he was suing the Pulitzer Prize people.
Well, actually, his lawsuit is against the New York Times and the Washington Post. Oh, no. But the case is against the Pulitzer Board. Now, the reason that he's suing them is that they gave a Pulitzer for the fake, the writers who did the fake Russia collusion stories.
And because they have not been withdrawn, now that we know that was all fake, it kind of makes it look like maybe Trump was guilty because somebody won a Pulitzer Prize for saying he was. So it gets into the realm of defamation simply because they haven't withdrawn the award, which is actually a pretty good argument. It's a pretty good argument. I don't know if it'll pass legal muster,
But it did get past current challenge to proceed. So the lawsuit will proceed. We'll see if he wins. I think he's got a case. According to Kash Patel, when Comey did his seashell thing where he said 86-47, it caused a whole bunch of copycats to do the same messaging online.
which caused the FBI to have to do a whole bunch of investigations because they can't really ignore any threat to the president. So that's the worst thing that I think came out of it, is all the copycats. Now, some of those copycats might be thinking that it's something to act on as opposed to just message on. So that turned into just a horrible situation all the way around.
So fewer FBI handling things like crimes you'd like to solve and more of them trying to solve seashell-related Comey problems. That's not good.
According to Tulsi Gabbard, who was on the Will Kane show on Fox, she's going to declassify, or she did declassify, reports exposing how the Biden administration used intelligence agencies to target Americans who had dissenting views on COVID, immigration, and the 2020 election, labeling them domestic violent extremists. Now, you know what's missing from this story? Where's the list? Am I on it?
It's weird to be a citizen of the United States and to not know if you're on a list of violent domestic extremists, yes or no. I'd like to know that. I feel like I'd like to know that. So I don't know if this is a news story. It feels like a repeat, but anyway. If you haven't already heard it, journalist Glenn Greenwald is having what the Daily News is calling a scandal. A scandal.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of Trump's Pulitzer lawsuit?
How many tariffs has Trump tried to put on people? Hundreds, if you count all the different countries. And then how many of them have been blocked by district judges? I don't know. I've totally lost count. How many of the ones that were blocked by district judges have then been overturned by higher court? I don't know. I've lost count. I have no idea what's going on with tariffs. I don't know.
Do we have them? Do we have some of them, but not all of them? I don't know. I can't tell. But it's funny that the Democratic strategy... seems to be to block all tariffs and then complain that the tariffs don't raise prices. Let me say that again. The Democrats would like to see prices rise so they can blame the tariffs. But at the same time, they're blocking all those tariffs.
So even if it's true that the tariffs would make prices rise, and it's the only hope the Democrats have of ever winning again is if prices rise, the Democrats are blocking the tariffs so the prices can't rise. So I'm not sure they have any kind of a coherent plan. They should either block them or let the prices rise, I guess. We'll see where that goes.
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Trump's approval level, according to The Hill, and a new poll by the Decision Desk HQ, shows that he's doing pretty well. So his polling average is as high as 47.1 this past weekend. And that would be... that would be a good number for Trump. So in the last two months, he's gone up and down, but at the moment, and I think that has everything to do with tariffs being put on hold.
The public has no idea what's going on now. You know, the average voter. If you ask the average voter, so what country does Trump have a tariff on that has not been postponed or stalled by a core? How many people can answer that question? So I think people are just sort of discounting the tariff thing like it doesn't matter.
And if they like everything else Trump's doing, they're like, well, we like him. According to Wall Street Journal, conservatives kind of screwed themselves by making executive order lawsuits against Biden. So apparently during the Biden administration, when Biden was trying to do executive orders and conservatives were trying to stop him, They came up with some kind of major questions doctrine.
So the courts came up with a major questions doctrine. So if it's a major thing, then Congress has to act on it. But if it's not major, let's say it's a tweak or just a little redefinition of something, then the executive order can stand. Unfortunately, while this might have been a clever thing for conservatives to do, it created a situation where now the left can use it against Trump.
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