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Dopamine, at the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better.
It's called the simultaneous sip.
And it happens now.
come Yep.
Yeah, that was it.
That made everything better.
Well, I wonder if there's any science that would support the idea that coffee makes you healthier?
Oh, yeah.
According to CNN, there's a new study that says you can reach an older age, women especially, who drank one to three cups of caffeinated coffee per day in their 50s were more likely to reach an older age.
So, got that?
If you drink your coffee, ladies.
You'll live to an older age.
Now, in a related, well, I'll make it a related story, according to Science Mag, repetitive negative thinking is linked to cognitive decline.
So, if you have bad thoughts, and you just keep having bad thoughts, Your brain will corrode.
So, put it all together.
Every morning you should get up before anybody's up, have your cup of coffee, and then think positive thoughts.
And your brain will be healthy and you'll live forever.
Yep.
That's for the ladies.
Sip your coffee, have positive thoughts.
And as you know, So, if you ever said to yourself, I think there's an upside.
Having continuous negative thoughts?
Turns out there's no upside.
You should do whatever it takes to have continuous positive thoughts.
Now, can you do that?
Well, I feel like you could.
Even though there are some people who have legitimate mental problems that would cause them to have repetitive negative thoughts, Doesn't it make sense that you could force yourself even for 10 seconds to think something positive?
And if you could do it for 10 seconds, do you think you could do it for 20 seconds?
Like if you just started small?
I feel like most people, if they really worked at it, could at least increase the percentage of the day.
They're having a positive thought, seems to me.
Well, some of you asked me to solve the mating problem, the demographic collapse, and so I thought to myself, hmm, that seems impossible.
So I'm going to take a swing at it, okay?
So it starts with a story.
So, Nate Silver, in his latest blog post, apparently he was saying that conservatives are up 31 points among those with self-described excellent mental health.
Now, we have talked about this before.
It turns out that the people who are on the left tend to have terrible mental health compared to the people on the right.
Now, I'm going to tell you why.
And you're going to say, oh, that actually makes total sense.
Here's why.
And this is totally my own hypothesis.
But once you hear it, you're going to say to yourself, oh, that explains a lot.
It goes like this.
You can only be happy Well, if you believe in science and evolution and biology, the most important part of life is making more life.
Now, you might say to yourself, what about my search for meaning and all that?
Well, that's great.
But the single most important thing, Well, any animal can do is to make more of itself.
Now, the good news is I don't think you have to be literally the one having a baby or even married to the one who's having a baby.
I think you could have stepkids.
I think you could be helping somebody who has kids, maybe like a grandparent who does a lot of babysitting, that sort of thing.
But I think if you're not directly connected to essentially the energy source for all of life, which is the reproductive thing, I think it's going to be really hard to be happy.
Now, what if you could convince the people on the left that the reason the people on the right have better mental health, It's because they're sort of naturally connected to the political right kind of a thing.
And then you look at the political left, and doesn't it seem to you that they're a little less interested in having kids?
So if you could connect the two ideas.
And how many of you buy my hypothesis?
Hypothesis?
That the thing that makes you happy is being connected to the main thing your biology is requiring of you, which is to be part of the reproductive flow of humanity.
Well, try it out.
Because you probably have some depressed family member.
Who doesn't know why they're depressed and they're on drugs?
Can you imagine how they would feel if they were having a baby?
Probably really stressed, but also that they would feel like they were attached to something with meaning.
Anyway, Disney is, according to Breitbart, Disney is laying off hundreds of people.
And they're going to downsize their entertainment division.
I was watching a reel the other day on the internet.
And it was somebody who works in the L.A., Hollywood area.
And they seem pretty bleak.
Because apparently there are just no projects.
Nobody's making a movie.
And if they are, they're not doing it there.
The whole movie-making industry is kind of dead.
I don't know if it's coming back.
It seems to me that everybody's looking at AI and expecting somebody to make a feature-length movie in the next probably one year.
And I always thought I would like to do that.
I'll have to feel a little better to make that happen.
So maybe, possibly.
Meanwhile, Elon Musk's company Neuralink just raised $650 million, which would value the company at about $9 billion.
And the thing I wondered was, does Elon Musk even care?
His net worth went up a few billion dollars.
I don't know what percentage he owns.
But can you imagine being so rich that you wake up and one of your companies raises your net worth by, I'll just take a guess, four billion dollars.
And he just made four billion dollars.
It wouldn't change his day at all.
His day would be exactly the same with, you know, $4 billion, if that's what it was.
Well, Sam Altman says the world must prepare together for AI's massive impact.
And then he said something that is the funniest thing a marketer ever said.
He said that OpenAI releases imperfect models early so the world can see and adapt and help shape regulations.
He says there are going to be scary times ahead.
Now, do you believe that OpenAI intentionally is releasing, and it has been, defective models?
Because it helps people get ready for the real thing.
Does that sound to you why they're releasing defective models?
It's not because that's all they have?
Now, I don't think you would argue with the fact that they don't know how to make them non-defective.
I don't think they know how to make them stop hallucinating, as far as I know.
It seems a little bit cheeky to say that releasing them with flaws is really helping society because then the flaws don't make them that dangerous, but then we can imagine what they will be like without flaws and that we can get used to it and prepare for it altogether.
Okay.
So, uh...
Meanwhile, Scientific America says that there's a Chinese company that found out how to bring your dead car battery back to life.
If you have an electric car, I'm talking about the...
So currently, if your electric car has a bad battery or it's run its course, I don't know what they do to recycle it or whatever, but it's sort of just this big problem.
But this Chinese company used AI, which is a big part of the story.
They used AI.
To look at all the chemical reactions that could revitalize a lithium-ion battery.
And they actually got three suggestions, and one of them worked.
So all they did was they took a dead battery.
Now, dead is not dead dead.
Dead is like when it reaches 80% capacity, I think, if it goes down from 100% to 80%.
That's considered unusable.
And they found they could squirt some of this chemicals in there and it would revitalize it.
And suddenly it would be exactly as good as a new battery.
Now there's some problems.
There's safety testing and you'd have to redesign the batteries so there's a way to inject something.
So that would be kind of a big deal.
And it might result in fewer sales of new cars.
Because if you could keep your battery running forever, well, why would you need to upgrade?
Because the software would be upgrading on its own.
So, anyway.
So I don't know if that has any place in the market, but that's pretty impressive.
I also didn't know that current batteries are supposed to last 15 years.
Does that sound right?
If you got a Tesla, the battery that comes with it would last 15 years.
That would be impressive.
Maybe it does.
Well, I usually don't talk about the individual crimes, even if they're mass shootings and stuff, but this illegal alien Muslim terrorist guy from Egypt, To quote Jim Hoft, the Gateway Pundit.
So, as most of you know if you watch the news, he used, what did he use?
Molotov cocktails and alcohol.
Set him on fire and threw them at a group of American Jews who were together, I don't know if you'd say protesting or rallying.
And I think they were rallying in support of the hostages or something.
But this guy shows up.
He's not even a legal citizen.
And he firebombs a group of Jewish people who were just trying to support, essentially, people who were hostages.
That's my understanding of it.
And I was trying to think.
Are Jews the only group in America who are attacked when they're grouping together?
Because I remember the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue attack, and I was thinking to myself, is there any other situation where a group of Americans that are in some demographic, if they group together, they're likely to be victims?
In other words, I've never heard of the Pride Parade being attacked, and I hope it isn't.
I've never heard of, I don't know, a woman's group being firebombed.
So you can certainly see how the question of anti-Semitism in the United States is at the top of the list of, uh-oh, we better do something about this.
And one of the things you can do about it would be not to let in Egyptian terrorists, if that's what he is.
That would help.
That would be a good start.
Have you noticed how there was a period when Trump first became president where we couldn't stop talking about the price of gas and the price of eggs?
Well, it turns out the price of eggs was doing great.
So according to Newsmax, a dozen eggs is under $3 in most places.
And the average cost is down to $2.52.
So according to the White House rapid response team, that means the price of eggs has dropped to 61% since Trump took office.
But the best thing about that?
Is it made Democrats just shut up about the one thing they understood?
If you thought about it, the one thing the Democrats had on their side was that Trump had over-promised stuff like he would do things on day one.
Well, day one doesn't really mean day one.
It just means as fast as possible, we'll get right on it.
I would say, you know, if you're only halfway into the first year, it looks like you got right on it.
So your egg prices went down and gas prices are down.
And maybe gas prices will go down some more because Trump just opened, with another executive order, 23 million acres of Alaskan wilderness to drilling.
So Doug Bergam is...
And that reverses a Biden-era drilling ban.
I wonder if companies feel safe going into business drilling up there if the possibility of a Democrat getting elected could put them out of business.
Is that a thing?
Or would even a Democrat say, all right, if you've already drilled, you know, that's allowed?
But no new drilling.
I don't know.
Would the Democrats use common sense?
Hard to know.
But, of course, some people are worried about the habitats for grizzly bears and polar bears and caribou and migratory birds.
And they don't want to lose the caribou.
I mean, what would you do without caribou?
If there's one thing I need when I want to drive my car to a distant location, more caribou.
I'll be like, oh man, I only made it one mile.
Why?
Well, I only had access to one caribou.
So, ladies and gentlemen, it's sort of a tie.
On one hand, you get a bunch of oil that drives civilization.
Boring.
On the other hand, you lose some caribou, possibly.
Now, one of the things I wonder when I read a story like that is how much oil is up there?
Because doesn't it sort of also matter how much?
Because, you know, I'm in favor of opening it for drilling.
But in the back of my mind, I'm assuming...
Because I would kill a few caribou for an enormous reserve.
but suppose there's only a little bit there.
Well, that's sort of a...
I would only kill like one caribou for that.
Meanwhile, over in Poland, there was a presidential election and a...
Somebody named Karol Nowrocki.
And he won narrowly, but apparently he's got that Trump vibe about him.
So, do you think that's actually a Trump effect?
Or is that some kind of a coincidence?
Are people really going to just start copying Trump because it works?
Maybe.
I don't know if that makes the world a safer place or not.
How many Trumps can you have in the world?
And the funny thing is, I think he knocked out somebody named Donald Tusk.
That's pretty weird.
A weird coincidence.
Anyway, we'll see if that's the Trump effect, if it affects any other countries.
All right.
So there's a gentleman named Alex Karp, who is the CEO of Palantir.
So he would be a multi-billionaire by now.
And he was asked at some event...
And he said the following.
He said, I've never met someone successful who had a great social life at 20. If that's what you want, that's great.
But you're not going to be successful.
And don't blame anyone else.
And then he also says that picking the right partner in life is important.
Now, do you buy that?
Do you buy that if you had a great social life in your 20s, that your odds of being successful are very low?
You know, career-wise, successful.
i have to admit that if people are not just totally hopping it in their 20s it would be hard to imagine that they're going to start humping it in their 30s but
But by the time I reached my 30s, that's when I launched Dilbert, and I found myself working full-time, doing a Dilbert comic strip, writing a book, working on licensing projects.
It was insane.
The amount of work I put in was just through the roof.
So, while I do believe that people in their 20s, if they're not working pretty hard at something, that's a bad sign.
But I think there are two things you can work at.
One is working directly on that startup or whatever it is that's going to make you rich.
But the other is building your talent stack.
I think either one of those gets you someplace.
So if you were to look at my life in my 20s, I looked more relaxed, going to a corporate job, taking all the classes that they offered, taking a Dale Carnegie class, learning about technology, learning marketing, learning strategy.
So I was learning all those things.
And I was very aware that I was just building up my skills so that someday I could do my own thing.
I didn't think it would necessarily be cartooning, but all of those skills, including the technology stuff, directly went into Dilbert.
Then there's Mark Andreessen.
He was talking about the world of robots in the future.
Now this is not directly So Mark Andreessen, famous investor, if you don't know who he is, says general purpose robotics is going to happen at a giant scale in the next decade.
Now, that's what most of us think, but when it comes from somebody like Andreessen, then it just seems more credible.
And he says the U.S. should not try to get the old manufacturing jobs back, which would suggest you should not be waiting to get your manufacturing job back.
He says instead we should lean hard into designing and building robots.
Now, I assume we're doing that?
I don't know exactly what the government is doing to make it easier to build robots, but as Andreessen points out, otherwise we will live in a world of Chinese robots.
Can you imagine how dangerous it would be if you had a full-sized humanoid robot that was built in China and its intelligence could be updated and controlled?
Just through the cloud, through China.
And if China wanted to overthrow the United States, all it would have to do is activate all the robots at the same time.
Grab a knife off a kitchen counter.
Stab inhabitants.
So yeah, we'd better start building our own robots.
Like, really fast.
Build those robots.
So if you translate this into some kind of meaningful career path advice, there must be elements of robot building that you could identify as current jobs for human beings.
I don't know exactly what that would be because I don't know enough about the robot building world, but I'd be looking hard into What is it that you need to build and sell robots that the robots won't do themselves, if there is anything?
Because that's going to be a pretty big area.
Anyway, according to the Gateway Pundit, Christina Layla, so you may have heard this story, but this one's a really spicy one.
So the FBI and Mueller's team, you remember Mueller, apparently they hid RussiGate documents using a special coding system that you can use to make things invisible to people who are searching for them.
Now, imagine, so at this point, I think, you know, Bongino and Kash Patel.
Have identified the code that was used to hide all the good stuff.
Now, why do you think, and this is regarding the Russiagate collusion, I feel like this is going to be the thing that tells you what all the people did, all the bad people.
So right now we sort of have this general idea.
That the FBI was presented with this idea that maybe Trump had some Russia connection.
But we all know that it was organized via the Hillary Clinton campaign.
But I feel like the reason nobody's going to jail for it is there's not quite the paper trail.
You would need to prove who did what and when.
What they were thinking and what their intentions were and all that stuff.
And it could be that this new discovery that there's a secret code where all the good stuff was hidden.
We might find out just how bad this was.
My only concern is that there's so many things that happen in the news, especially in the Trump world.
That the energy has already been taken out of the topic.
And the people on the left and the mainstream media will just say, ah, that was a long time ago.
And they'll just act like it's not a big deal.
And then the political right will be screaming and saying, are you kidding?
We just proved that you tried to overthrow the government to the United States or influence an election, which would be sort of the same thing.
And we have the names and we've got the exact details, and that's not going to be anything.
So that's what I predict.
I predict there will be some really spicy things that come out of this, but that the mainstream news will...
So unless there's some kind of prosecution, it will just sort of disappear.
Well, Steve Bannon on his War Room show had the author of Putin's playbook, Rebecca Koffler, and she says...
At the very least, our satellite images, but probably more than that.
And I thought to myself, Oh, I'm an idiot.
Not once did I think, oh, the United States was obviously involved in that attack.
I didn't think that once.
And it's kind of obvious when somebody who's an expert points it out, you go, huh, yeah.
Actually, there's a pretty good chance that America was involved in that.
But then, related to that, So there's a video that's been posted on Telegram that shows a team of Russian military people operating this Chinese drone laser.
You see what's happening, right?
Russia and Ukraine have become a weapons testing area for first the United States and now for China.
And Russia and Ukraine are just sort of caught in the middle.
And I also thought to myself, do you know who's preventing Russia from attacking the United States?
Besides, perhaps, Russia themselves.
Probably China.
Do you think China, that buys 80% of the energy that Russia sells, do you think they have the power to say, no, you're not going to war?
We might test some weapons and we might keep crawling along the way things are going, but she can't start World War III.
I feel like China would have that power now.
So that we're not even really dealing with Russia exactly.
I think that China has probably pulled off a total control move because they're the biggest customer of Russia and they can bankrupt them anytime they want.
So I think we're safer than you think because China would not allow Russia.
To escalate beyond the point where they're just testing some Chinese weapons.
So I think that so-called war in Ukraine is just going to keep going as a stalemate.
Another guest in the war room named Boone Cutler, he asked the following question, which is a good idea.
What would happen if all those Chinese-owned properties, I think most of them are farms, that are near military bases in the United States, what if they also have swarms of drones?
They're right next to military bases.
So they could attack the military base in, you know, a minute.
So maybe we should look at that.
Now, I haven't seen any evidence that the land that's being bought that's near military bases is, you know, being stocked up with weapons.
But I would definitely worry about it.
I would look into it a little bit.
So, yeah, let's find out a little bit more about that.
Meanwhile, according to interesting engineering, In Russia, the kids are going to be taught, I guess it's a mandatory class, they're going to be taught how to operate drones.
So they'll all be little drone experts.
To which I say, isn't that worthless?
In one year, won't all the drones be self-driving?
Why would you put a human in the drone operating position?
You know, even if the AI is operating the drone, at the very least, the human will be relegated to final decisions.
So I think the drone will take off.
It will decide because AI is operating the entire war.
The drone will know where to go.
For maximum impact and the weakest defense.
And it'll pick its targets.
And maybe, but not even necessarily, it might show it to the human.
And then the human says, yes or no.
Yes, attack that tank.
But it doesn't seem to me that you're going to need a lot of human operators for drones in one year.
Is that too soon?
I think in one year, if we have full self-driving Teslas that are giving civilians rides in cities throughout the United States, you think the drones are going to be operated by humans?
Maybe in some specialty way, but it doesn't seem like a useful skill in the future.
So Jeffrey Sachs.
Who was on the All In Summit way back in September of 2024.
He had some interesting things to say about Taiwan.
And I'm not going to say I agree with it or disagree with it, but he makes a good case.
He says, China, first of all, is not a threat to the United States' security.
Big oceans, big nuclear deterrents, and so forth.
Second, we don't have to be in China's face.
What do I mean by that?
He says we don't have to provoke World War III over Taiwan.
That's a long, complicated issue, but this would be the stupidest thing for my grandchildren to die for.
We have three agreements with China that say we're going to stay out of that, and we should.
And I have to say...
Now, on the other hand, Taiwan is an ally, and we must have made some assurances that we would be helpful.
But I wonder to what extent just giving them weapons would be enough.
It seems to me that if you know in the long run, there's no possible way that Taiwan will remain independent forever.
It's not like a thousand years from now.
If you came back, Taiwan would be independent.
One way or the other.
The big country is gonna overwhelm the little country that's right next to them.
So it doesn't seem to me that He makes a good point.
So probably we'll have to pretend that we're doing something useful while letting China have its way, is my guess.
How many of you, show me in the comments, Have lost a connection to a family member.
It could be your own child.
It could be your parents.
Because of politics.
I just wonder how universal this is.
Because I was reading a thread on X of people who were talking about losing family members that hadn't talked to them since the election.
How many of you were in that category?
Oh, my God.
I'm seeing a string of yeses go by in the comments.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
Yeah.
Incredible.
That is so disturbingly dangerous for this country.
Wow.
So I was thinking to myself, how do you deprogram those people?
And the answer is you probably can't because they've chosen to have no contact with you.
But if you could, I would start with the fine people hoax.
And I would also start, I would set it up this way.
I would say, have you ever found out something that just totally rocked your world because you thought it was one way, but then you found out you'd been fooled and it was another way?
Such as, let's say, the nutrition pyramid, the food pyramid.
Now, if you can get your family member to admit that they had ever experienced believing something was completely true and then learning it wasn't, say, can I show you another one?
Just to blow your mind.
It won't change your view on politics.
But I want you to see how easily you could be led to believe something that isn't true.
And then you do the fine people hoax.
But make sure you found the American Debunk website, because it'll show you the full video to prove what's going on.
But then, a lot of these people think that the real problem was the January 6th insurrection.
And I'm going to tell you the worst argument you can make if you're trying to talk somebody out of believing it was an insurrection.
All right?
You can't say it wasn't dangerous because people got hurt.
So you have to acknowledge that you both agree that the violent part was uncalled for and that those people had to, you know, They had to be dealt with.
Now, they didn't go to jail.
Even if they were pardoned, they did serve some serious time.
But here are the bad arguments.
Don't say the Feds were behind it, because that's unproven.
As soon as you say, oh, the Feds, it was a Fed erection.
No, Feds erection, not a Fed erection.
As soon as you say it was the feds, even if it was, even if it was, it's not an argument that would work with a Democrat because they would just reject it as ridiculous.
It's like, well, there weren't that many.
So whether or not you're sure the feds were behind it, it's a bad argument.
So just drop it.
The second bad argument is, You might be right that the election was stolen, but since there's no proof that any Democrat would ever accept, it's a terrible argument.
Now, you just said to yourself, how are we going to argue against January 6th being an insurrection if he just told us that all of our obvious arguments are terrible arguments?
You can use a good one.
Here's a good argument.
Now, it will take a few explainings for the person that you're working on to understand that you're in completely solid territory.
It goes like this.
The only thing you need to know is what the nonviolent protesters were thinking when they entered the Capitol.
What were they trying to accomplish?
Why were you protesting?
What were you trying to accomplish?
Now, I believe the answer would be, in every case, it looked to us like the election was stolen.
So we were trying to slow things down to see if we could check it so that we can save the republic.
Now, you may have just said to yourself, Scott, you just said don't use the argument that the election was stolen.
Here's the tough part.
I didn't.
What I said was that the protesters might believe that based on the fact that it broke pattern.
So it broke pattern in terms of those last-minute votes for Biden and the fact that there were so many of them.
And it's off historical pattern.
It broke pattern in the bellwether counties or precincts.
So it broke pattern.
Now, that is not proof that anything was stolen.
The only thing you need to know is that the protesters believed It didn't look like a credible election.
You don't have to argue whether it was actually stolen.
If you argue whether it was actually stolen, that's the end of the argument.
Because a Democrat will be like, all right, go away, go away.
There's no evidence it was stolen.
I'm not going to listen to the rest of it.
But if you can get them to understand that it's not about what you or they think, it's about what the protesters thought.
So if the protesters thought it was a perfectly fair election and they were trying to delay it or stop it, it was an insurrection.
That's what I'd call it, right?
If they believed that the election was fair and they did what they did anyway, trying to delay the certification, well, that's a little bit insurrection-y.
You know, not really effective because they didn't have any chance of succeeding.
But if they believed, right or wrong, this is important, right or wrong, if they believed that the election did not look credible, then having a delay to make sure it was credible would be saving the republic.
It would not be an insurrection at all.
So, that might be a little too complicated, but that would be the only clean path to convincing somebody who was willing to listen that that was a hoax.
It was no insurrection.
It was patriots trying to make sure that we got the right result.
All right.
So, the other day I wittily pointed out that Democrats only did two things wrong in the last several years.
The two things they did wrong were all of their candidates and all of their policies.
Now, of course, I was saying that for humorous intent.
But then other people said, but what about their messaging?
Now, I think that candidate and policies covers messaging too.
Just to put a little light on that, here's the comparison in messaging.
Where Bernie and AOC were saying things like, we have to stop the oligarchs.
Trump was saying, we're going to enter the golden age.
Which one of those is better messaging?
Stop the oligarchs.
Or, come with us, we're going to enter the golden age.
Those are not close.
That is the worst messaging ever.
How about this one?
Equity?
We want to have equity.
Or we want common sense.
Which one's stronger?
We've got to fight for equity, so everybody gets the same payout.
No matter what they put in.
Or we've got to fight for common sense.
Again, these are not close.
It's not like you're like, hmm, six of one, you know, half a dozen of the other.
As soon as you hear them, you go, oh, I like the golden age and I like common sense, but stop the oligarchs and give me equity.
It just doesn't resonate.
But then you've got Tim Walz, who's teaching Democrats how to code talk like a real man.
And lately he said that a good strategy would be to bully the shit out of Trump.
What?
Bully the shit out of him?
That's the messaging from the Democrats?
Oh, my God.
That's bad.
Anyway.
And then the last story that I have for you, which I think is a very important one, is that China now has a negotiator for the trade deals.
And believe it or not, President Xi, Hired somebody named He.
I'm not making that up.
H-E.
That's his first name.
So she hired He to get them a good trade deal.
And I guess he's a tough negotiator, so we'll see how that goes.
All right, that's all I've got for today.
And I'm going to say hi to the locals' people privately after this.