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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization?
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Chapter 2: What is the simultaneous sip?
Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip, and you're going to love it. Go. Well, I'm right again. It was terrific. I knew it. All right, you ready for this? There's going to be a P. Diddy documentary coming out. telling us some of the bad things he's done.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of the upcoming P. Diddy documentary?
I don't know if you've heard, but this guy named Diddy has done allegedly some bad stuff. I won't give you any hints about it, but I will warn you that the documentary effect is an effect. I warn you often that if you see a documentary on any topic, it's going to be nonstop, at least an hour of things on one side and not the other side. I hate to say this. This is going to be hard for me.
I'm going to say a sentence that I almost can't get out of my mouth. Are you ready? Despite the many claims you're going to hear about P. Diddy, under our system, he's innocent until proven guilty. I did it. I stayed American. I stayed American. That's a tough standard, you know? Anyway, by the time you're done with the documentary, you're not going to think he's innocent until proven guilty.
Chapter 4: What are the challenges of documenting someone's alleged crimes?
That much I know. Is that fair? Not at all. It's not at all fair. Can you imagine being arrested and have charges that might be leveled against you? And next thing you know, there's an entire documentary about all your crimes. That's not exactly fair. Is it interesting? Yes, I'm going to watch it for sure. Do I think he's probably guilty of a lot of things? Well, I do.
But you're going to have to prove it. And if you ask me, is it cool to have a documentary about somebody who's in jail with charges, I would say no. No. If there were some way without a direct attack on free speech, I can't think of a way. But it seems like if a court can order, let's say, A gag order? A gag order is a routine thing, right? Judges do that all the time.
And is that not telling somebody that they can't use their free speech? So we have some precedent that the court, at least during the limited time of a trial, can tell people to shut up. But then they can do a documentary. You know, I hate to be defending Diddy, but I think we need to all defend ourselves, right?
Because if you or I are ever in jail and somebody does a documentary about how bad we are while we're in jail waiting for trial, that's not cool. That's never cool. It's free speech. It's definitely not cool. Anyway, here's a cool thing that might have an application to the fire recovery. So Fox News reports that Kurt Knudsen is reporting that there's a shape-shifting AI transformer home.
So I'll let you imagine it. So imagine a mobile camper. So it's that size. But there's no part where the driver sits. There's no engine. So it's not really a camper. It doesn't go anywhere. It's stationary, but it can be towed by an ordinary truck. So an ordinary truck tows this little mobile home looking thing. But here's the cool part. It's not as big as a mobile home.
It's only that big when you're towing it. As soon as it gets there, you can push some buttons and it expands to a 400 square foot, very well designed space. Now, the well-designed part is hard to say without looking at the picture, but trust me, they worked with not just a tech company, but they worked with a design company. What's the name of this company? AC Future.
So they partnered, and if you can trust my judgment on design, it's really well-designed. Like I looked at it and said, oh, I would love spending some time in that thing, if you can imagine that. Now, imagine this. Imagine you own some property in Pacific Palisades. Everything's burned down. It might take years to rebuild. But suppose they got utilities working and they cleaned up the toxic stuff.
That could be sooner. So that might be six to nine months. So by the way, that's the current estimate, I believe, six to nine months to get utilities and the toxins removed. Now that's the government's estimate. I don't know if you believe that. But let's say it's six to nine months. And then we'll follow a lengthy building process.
I think it's reasonable that the residents might put up with being displaced for six to nine months. But if you add on top of that the two years it takes to get a place approved and built, even if they speed things up, you're going to have trouble getting labor. It's never going to be fast.
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Chapter 5: How can AI help in fire recovery?
He said, quote, it was a totally fascinating meeting. He's a fascinating man, and his wife is lovely. They were both up, and I couldn't be more impressed, Trump said about Federman and his wife. He said, they had an hour-long meeting, and Trump said, he's a common-sense person. He's not liberal or conservative. He's just a common-sense person, which is beautiful, Trump said. I rest my case.
I rest my case. You know, I've been saying good things about Fetterman and getting slapped around on social media because the thinking is you can't say anything nice about the other team because winning is the important thing. Now, I understand that. And I'm completely on board with the concept of winning is the most important thing. if the alternative is complete destruction of your country.
I get it. I get it. Winning is the most important thing if evil is the alternative. But sometimes you've got to put a little nuance on this. The fact that Trump can call out somebody on the other team as being a paragon of common sense improves Trump's messaging. Because if Trump had said, I love common sense,
when the most famous common sense person on the other side came to talk with him if he had somehow rejected him or dismissed him or insulted him or or even played it off as not important that would have been a huge mistake because his most central message is the thing that brings us together is common sense and so when he sees somebody coming together over common sense he's got to call that out because this it looks like trump complimenting federman and he is
But it's really Trump complementing the concept of common sense, which amazingly has to be championed in a day where there's so little of it. You know, it's just remarkable that you have to even mention it. But yeah, that's the secret sauce is the common sense. And it is the unifier. And Trump is playing it exactly right.
Speaking of Trump, so the inauguration is coming and security is very important. But a couple of things about that. I don't know if this is true, but it was reported that the major drone maker that is a Chinese-owned company, DJI, is it? So most of the drones everywhere are made by one company in China. They're basically the big drone company in the world.
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Chapter 6: What recent advancements are being made in climate technology?
And what they had been doing, China, is making their drones geo-fenced. which I thought was a requirement, but maybe it isn't because they dropped it. So geofencing means that since the drone has a GPS, it knows where it is, it would be prevented. Even if you tried to fly it there, it would be prevented to go over a Navy base or military base or some government facility.
So even if you wanted to fly your Chinese drone over the White House, you couldn't do it. Until now. allegedly trying to just drop the, or at least the company, just dropped the geofencing barrier. So correct me if I'm wrong. I'll take a fact check on this because there's part of my brain that says, I'm not sure this is true. Well, all right, I'm going to go harder at it.
I'm going to say that if you're looking to spot fake news, you know, I always say the two on the nose, something's a little too perfect. This one's striking me as a little too perfect. that just days before the inauguration where the biggest risk, at least in our minds, the biggest risk would be an aerial drone-like attack, especially if there's more than one of them.
At the very time that we're thinking of it, the one company that makes the most, I would say, dangerous drones, if you happen to be in America and you're sort of the hobbyist level drone, the most dangerous ones drop their defense. and become weaponized at exactly the time it would threaten Trump? Does that feel a little too perfect? So let me say this. I'm going to say I don't believe it.
It could be true, but it's so on the nose that I'm going to say put a pin in that one and give me a fact check in a few days, okay? Get back to me on that and tell me if that's true. It doesn't It's not smelling right. You know what I mean? A little too perfect.
And then I hear that Netanyahu canceled plans to go to the inauguration, which some people are interpreting as a sign that it needs more security because maybe Netanyahu thought it wasn't safe enough. But that's speculation. I don't know if you've noticed. that Netanyahu has a few things to do this week, as in they're negotiating the hostage release, etc.
So Netanyahu has all the reason in the world not to come. There's nothing surprising about that. But he got invited, so that's like a win-win for him, I would say. All right. There's some fake news about TikTok. I think it's fake. That Chinese officials are talking about... allowing Elon Musk and for some reason only him to buy TikTok.
So TikTok will be not available in America unless something happened like just the next few days that would allow an American to buy it. Now, if China and the Chinese owned company don't want to sell it, it doesn't matter if anybody wants to buy it. But I'm not sure anybody put together an offer that would look like it's acceptable.
So I think China, the government said this was fake news and that China is not allowing, there's nobody who's in power who says that Elon Musk should buy TikTok. So Bloomberg said it was unnamed sources. So how often have the anonymous sources of any story been correct? When was the last time they were correct? I don't remember a time. I can't think of one time. An anonymous source was right.
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Chapter 7: What are the latest developments in California's wildfire management?
Can you be any more incompetent than not being able to even get the politics right? Okay. Okay. Fire suppression is pretty hard, pretty hard. They should have done it, but it's not hard to read the room when the state's on fire. Maybe we should back off on a little, some of the bullshit, maybe a little less bullshit when the fucking state's on fire. Well, there goes my New Year's resolutions.
Anyway. Do you remember that there was the client scientist, Michael Mann, and he was in a lawsuit with Mark Stein over claims of climate change. So Mark Stein was criticizing this one scientist as well as climate change.
and the scientist michael mann decided to sue him for the things he said and uh he won the scientist won so he i guess stein owes him a million dollars or something for something that the court decided the scientist was right and stein had gone too far but uh the national review which is where i guess stein had made the offending comments had also made their own comments about stein's comments more
you know, not, not criticizing him, just weighing in on it. And they were also included at one point in the lawsuit, but they've been removed because what they were doing was more like free speech and not so much, you know, defaming somebody.
So they got dropped, but now the scientist who got a million dollars for Mark Stein is being ordered to pay half a million to, to the national review to pay their lawyers. And, uh, That's only a partial payment. That could go further. So let me get this right. Stein allegedly defames the scientist. Scientist gets a million from Stein.
But the scientist may have gone too far in defaming the National Review. So now the court is saying that they have to give the National Review half a million. And then there's more coming. Was that a 13-year waste of time? So basically it was just Mark Stein paying his own employers legal fees by the time it's all done? When you see what the lawyers did to the situation...
It made it so much worse. It's just no sense of anything that's right or wrong. It's just a legal morass. Anyway, that's fun to watch. But my take on this whole story is why do we let the courts decide what science is correct? Doesn't that seem like a mistake to let the court decide who got their science right?
Because I'm pretty sure that, you know, well, I'm sure the case was more about what an individual did or did not do, not just the science.
But here's something that, according to this report that's in the Daily Color News Foundation, according to them, during the trial, there was a testimony from a tenured statistics professor and the chair of the undergraduate stats program in the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.
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Chapter 8: What is the significance of common sense in politics?
that would be quite meaningful to me so here's somebody who's good at numbers and he's a tenured professor of statistics and he says you did the numbers wrong and those numbers are driving your model so michael mann in case you're watching i don't know what's true and i'm not blaming you of anything since i don't want to get sued
But I think the whole situation is funny and I find it hard to take any of it as credible. But speaking of climate change, the Wall Street Journal had a pretty funny editorial. Apparently there's a new term that the Democrats are trotting out called hydroclimate whiplash. And it's caused by climate change. And it means that in California, for example, some year it will be extra dry.
but the next year could be extra wet, and then the year after that could be extra dry. Now, this is something that's happened in California since the beginning of recorded records, sometimes extra dry, sometimes extra wet, and sometimes extra dry, and I don't know if I mentioned it, sometimes extra wet.
But the climate experts have decided that they're going to call it a cool name, hydroclimate whiplash, and try to sell you on the fact it's caused by climate change. Have I mentioned that in the entire history of California, sometimes it's extra wet, sometimes it's extra dry, just like the last few years. So if the last few years are exactly like the history of California,
That's clearly caused by climate change. What? So it's the baseline, the way it's always been, but it must be caused by climate change. So when it's dry, it's climate change. When it's wet, it's climate change. And when it changes from dry to wet or wet to dry, it's climate change. Huh. May I give you one of the best ways to spot a scam? Here's how to spot any scam.
not climate change specifically, but just any scam. Hey, I've got an idea that if you take this pill, your hair will regrow. Test, test, test, nobody's hair regrows. Did I say hair would regrow? I said we really found out it makes you taller. Test, test, test, doesn't make you taller, doesn't make your hair grow. Well, while you were testing it, I found out that it makes your breath smell better.
Okay, do you see where this is going? If the claim stays the same, even while all the assumptions and the facts change, the claim was never true. If you're sticking to the claim, no matter what you see, it's not data-driven. And climate change might be true, but we don't believe it because it's data-driven. We believe it because we've been told to believe it. Now, could there be data? Yes.
Could humans be influencing climate? Yes, they could be. Do I know how much or how dangerous that would be? Nobody does. Nobody does. But it's not very high on my list of things to worry about. However, what would be, as the Wall Street Journal editorial board goes on, What would be some of the things that California is doing to battle the wildfires?
You're probably thinking, oh, they're going to do lots of fire mitigation, remove all those burnable things, maybe have better resources nearby, stuff like that, right? Well, maybe. But they've got a climate bond. which partly I'll be paying for, that has $36 million for sequestering the carbon and reduced emission from ranches and farms that I don't think we need.
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