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Opening General Commentary

Coming to you early like I normally do for the local subscribers. But I've got a big internet problem today and I can't run multiple screens. So today I'm using the Rumble Studio to come in on four different platforms. I'm coming in on Locals, Rumble, X, and YouTube at the same time. Now I've never…

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SimultaneousSip Energy & Mood Management

o line this up. Anyway, so you see that the comments do not scroll, which makes them worthless to me. I don't know if they scroll where you are, but I can see each of them with an icon that says it's coming from Locals. So I can see Em and Dean and Thirston and Crawley and Upy Boy. But on Rumble I…

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MainContent General Commentary

but Locals and Rumble. Oh, actually it looks like I don't have any comments. I can't even tell if I'm actually live to the other platforms. Oh, there it is. There we go. Yeah, so there are... I see the YouTube comments. Oh look, there's Nick. I see Nick's comment too from Kim. All right, looks like…

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MainContent Media & Fake News

hat's nice. I'm live. All right, let me grab my notes. Let's do this right, shall we? Good morning everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. That's called Coffee with Scott Adams. Don't know what's going to happen today. We're using the Rumble platform for all four platforms:…

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MainContent Climate & Environment

a study that says you might be able to slow your biological aging by eating less. How many times have you heard this story? I feel like this is the millionth study that showed us. Maybe for the last 30 years, 40 years, haven't we been hearing the same study just repeated every year for 40 years? I'm…

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MainContent Media & Fake News

nt to do in terms of reducing aircraft contribution to CO2. So they're trying to figure out how to model just what would be different if they get a greener type of jet fuel. So here's something that's embedded in the story that if you didn't notice it you wouldn't know that it debunked all models.…

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MainContent Politics as Persuasion

is this a special case? Is this the one time somebody built a projection model in which the assumptions really drove the output? No, it's the only way it can be. There's no other way it can be. In the real world the assumptions that the study people put into it determines the output. That's the oppo…

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MainContent Luck, Skill & Timing

ock photos that you could use with a license approval. And every now and then I'll use one of those for my posting on social media. So I wanted to look for a picture of a dumb person. You know, would be a good picture for it. So I went there and I searched within iStock, and this is a Getty company,…

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MainContent Economics & Finance

ot a smart expression, well dressed. The difference is hilarious. I mean this, if I had to guess, I would say almost certainly college educated, looks like he's doing pretty well, good looking, smart looking guy, smart eyes, smart face. All right, well just pointing that out. I don't think iStock i…

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MainContent AI & Technology

t have closed this dealership. There's no trucks, no Toyotas. But I go inside because they're actually open. And it turns out they don't have almost any inventory. And the reason they don't have any inventory is that it gets purchased before it arrives at the lot. They can't make them fast enough.…

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MainContent AI & Technology

ich weren't that restrictive, give me a call and I'll come right down and buy it. No call. Same when I tried to buy a Ford truck a while ago. They didn't have any I could drive. And I've never owned a truck. I've driven them but I've never owned a truck. And I thought I'm not going to buy a truck I…

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Coming to you early like I normally do for the local subscribers. But I've got a big internet problem today and I can't run multiple screens. So today I'm using the Rumble Studio to come in on four different platforms. I'm coming in on Locals, Rumble, X, and YouTube at the same time.

Now I've never done this. The comments are going to be about 16 seconds delayed, and this will be the first time we've mixed the Locals comments with the other comments. But this might be a preview of things to come. So this is not the show. This is the pre-show, which normally only the local subscribers see.

If you'd like to see what happens five minutes before the actual show, you came to the right place. Because usually all I'm doing is adjusting my lighting and printing my notes. So if you want to hang out and chat with each other while I do that, that's what this is for.

I'm not going to do anything provocative because this is all the platforms. If this were just the subscribers on Locals you might get some extra stuff today, but we'll keep it generic and make everybody happy.

Now on this platform, unless there's an option which I don't see, I only see your oldest comments first. So if you want new ones, scroll to the bottom. Oh, it looks like they fixed that. They may have fixed the comment scroll since just two days ago when I mentioned it. Well that's pretty fast.

If you haven't, let my people go. I won't have time to check that. Yeah, don't expect that I'm going to be able to check any links that you send me during the chat. Yeah, no, no, I was wrong. The chat's broken. Or maybe if I keep my cursor... Oh, I just found out an interesting bug. I think if I float my cursor over the comments... Oh no, that's not it.

It looks like sometimes they scroll and sometimes they just don't. So it looks like a bug. All right, so the real show starts at the top of the hour. This is a special behind-the-scenes look at the pre-show where I adjust my lighting.

Right now I'm coming to you by 5G on my phone, which suggests I should probably plug it in. Yeah, I've got at least an hour on the phone. That should be fine. All right, let me turn off the alert. All right, we're in good shape. We've got a strong 5G signal, which is very rare.

Do any of you have this issue where when your regular internet goes out, your phone 5G goes out at the same time? Am I the only person who experiences that on a regular basis? Can't tell because I can't see any comments. Oh, I remember when comments were something that was useful.

So the Rumble people have a challenge, which is to fix the comments. Otherwise my business model falls apart because the live interaction is really the heart of the show, which we don't have in this model. In order for me to see a comment I have to physically reach up and scroll it every time.

So I can't do the thing anymore where I'm just doing the show, then I see a comment and I incorporate that. It just won't work in this model. So the technology isn't where we need it to be. But Rumble's working on it. They have all my feedback and they've been very responsive in the past, so I do expect them to take a good swing at fixing it. I just don't know if it's technically possible.

Can I see Locals comments? Yeah, I can see Crawley. I can see you asking the question. And they show up differently. Let's see if I can show you what it looks like. See if this works. Let's see, reverse this. God, this is annoying that everything's backwards. Why can't I do that right? Everything's like backwards twice.

So why can't I do this? This is weird. I have to hold it up to the opposite of where it is. Okay, oh this is so hard. Like you have to think backwards twice or something in order to line this up. Anyway, so you see that the comments do not scroll, which makes them worthless to me.

I don't know if they scroll where you are, but I can see each of them with an icon that says it's coming from Locals. So I can see Em and Dean and Thirston and Crawley and Upy Boy. But on Rumble I can see Roy. Those are the only comments.

I think we may be not live anywhere but Locals and Rumble. Oh, actually it looks like I don't have any comments. I can't even tell if I'm actually live to the other platforms. Oh, there it is. There we go. Yeah, so there are... I see the YouTube comments. Oh look, there's Nick. I see Nick's comment too from Kim.

All right, looks like all the comments are here. It's working on Rumble. Good deal. How's our timing? Oh, it's after one. We're after the top of the hour. Well, you're going to watch me printing my notes. I know that's exciting. But you're going to see how this show is actually produced.

Soon as those notes are done, we're going to put on the show of shows, 5G style. I've got two strong bars of 5G and so far we're streaming good. You've got a pop-out chat on Rumble. That's nice. I'm live.

All right, let me grab my notes. Let's do this right, shall we?

Good morning everybody, and welcome to the highlight of human civilization. That's called Coffee with Scott Adams. Don't know what's going to happen today. We're using the Rumble platform for all four platforms: YouTube and Rumble and the X platform and local subscribers, my special favorites.

And if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand, hey Paul, all you need is a mug or a glass or a tankard, a canteen, a thermos, a flask, a vessel of any kind, and fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. Join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the thing that makes everything better. It's called the simultaneous sip. It happens right now.

Oh, that was good. Sometimes I have to pretend the coffee tastes delicious, but today absolutely delicious.

All right, look at all those comments. It's not frozen on my side. Everything's looking good here. Oh, comments are scrolling too. Look at that. Look at that. All working good, or working well as you'd like to say.

All right, yes. Locals is not getting rid of comments. They will just move to the Rumble Studio so your comments will all be here. And then they're working on the technology to get them to be a little faster if that's possible. Might not be possible, but I think there's a 16-second delay on the stream anyway.

Let's jump right into it. The fake science. I like to start with fake science. NBC News reports there's a study that says you might be able to slow your biological aging by eating less. How many times have you heard this story? I feel like this is the millionth study that showed us. Maybe for the last 30 years, 40 years, haven't we been hearing the same study just repeated every year for 40 years? I'm not alone in that, right?

But here's what's left out, and why I consider this fake science. Fake science. It's because the thing that they say they're measuring is that you eat fewer calories. So they have a control group that eats what they want, I guess, and another group that has limited calories. And then they measure their biomarkers and they find out that the people who ate less food have better biomarkers.

Now there's an obvious point to this, which is obesity is not good for you. But if you're doing a short-term study it seems weird that you'd see a big difference in the short term. But here's what's left out. I'm pretty sure that our food supply is largely poison. Meaning that the more food you eat, it's not just more calories. It's more poison. It's more additives. It's more pesticides. It's more everything.

So they did a test to see if eating fewer calories made you healthier. But they never tested to see if eating less poison makes you healthier. Don't you think if you were eating at McDonald's and you just did less of it, it's not just the calories that you got less of? You got less of all the stuff you didn't want in your body. Of course it makes you healthier. Of course it does.

So that's weird science. And there's not even a mention of the fact that the food itself might be bad for you.

All right, here's more of fake science. I guess the Biden administration is trying to come up with a new climate forecast model that would take into account what they want to do in terms of reducing aircraft contribution to CO2. So they're trying to figure out how to model just what would be different if they get a greener type of jet fuel.

So here's something that's embedded in the story that if you didn't notice it you wouldn't know that it debunked all models. Within the story saying how they're going to create a model is a paragraph that debunks all models. They don't call it out that way. You just have to notice it.

All right, here's that paragraph. It says the rumor has it that those involved with the modeling process can't find common ground regarding the actual impact of corn usage in the synthesis. Some believe that it should be weighted with a higher penalty since carbon generation occurs during the harvesting phase. The ethanol industry wants to see its carbon impact as low as possible in order to blah blah blah.

All right, did you catch it? Yeah, in that was the debunking of all climate models. How many of you saw it?

All right, here's what you should say. The climate models are completely dependent on the assumptions. The model is not even important. The assumptions they make about how important it is to, let's say just using their example, to consider or not consider the time of the season when you're picking the corn or something like that. So you could simply make an assumption that would completely change the outcome.

Now is this a special case? Is this the one time somebody built a projection model in which the assumptions really drove the output? No, it's the only way it can be. There's no other way it can be. In the real world the assumptions that the study people put into it determines the output. That's the opposite of science. It's the opposite. You can't be more opposite than the people sitting in a room debating what assumption should be in your model. That's the least scientific thing anybody ever did ever.

But we still have this little fiction like the models can predict the future. Nope. Never have, never will.

There's a company that I still have a subscription to called iStock, where you get stock photos that you could use with a license approval. And every now and then I'll use one of those for my posting on social media. So I wanted to look for a picture of a dumb person. You know, would be a good picture for it. So I went there and I searched within iStock, and this is a Getty company, they own it.

And I looked for... Do you think there were any issues with the diversity, the way they handled the diversity? So it was a page of morons, but they weren't all the same. Now I hope this doesn't kick me off here, but let me show you some of the pictures. See if this works.

First of all it was almost all white people, but there was one black person on the page. And you think to yourself, how'd they handle that? How are they going to have diversity in a result for dumb people? It's going to be pretty hard. But here's how they handled it. There were a bunch of white people shown, and I think a few Asians. And here's a white person here. He is drinking, has crazy eyes, and he's got weird teeth and everything. He's like, ah, not doing too well.

Now this was typical. There were lots of white people looking like morons. But then here's the sensitive part. They also have a picture of a black man that comes up in the search. Now how do you think they handled that? So here's their image of a black person, which is funny because he looks more like a scientist or a lawyer. He's got a smart expression, well dressed. The difference is hilarious. I mean this, if I had to guess, I would say almost certainly college educated, looks like he's doing pretty well, good looking, smart looking guy, smart eyes, smart face.

All right, well just pointing that out. I don't think iStock images is going to last more than a year because AI should pretty much put them out of business. And maybe it should.

There's a school district in Aurora, Colorado. The superintendent says that you may not implement or adopt any program that does not prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion. Now what does prioritize mean in your worldview? So what does it mean to prioritize DEI? Wouldn't that mean that you sort of had to put it in front of, I don't know, everything? That's what it means, right? If you prioritize it, you push it above other considerations.

What would be the other considerations? Good ideas, things that work, things that are good for the world. As soon as you throw in "prioritize," it's just racist. There's no other way to look at it. There's no second way to look at this. If you say in writing it's our policy to prioritize it, there isn't any way to prioritize it unless you give up other things. So what are you giving up? They should tell us what they're de-emphasizing. What are you giving up?

All right, so as I told you, our food supply is very dangerous but getting more dangerous every day. Apparently there was a food airdrop in Gaza in which one of the parachutes didn't open and five people were killed by falling food. Big pallet of food. Now I don't know how you get five people with one pallet of food. That's like the worst luck I've ever seen in my life.

Not only, as Glenn Greenwald points out, not only did these poor people survive the bombing and the famine and God knows what disease and deprivation they're going through, and then they get killed with a pallet of food. Now that's just about the worst thing I've ever heard. But it certainly gives you this weird feeling that if your time has come, your time has come. You ever feel that?

This is like the reverse of that joke, you know the old joke I tell too many times about the flood. And God says I sent you a car, I sent you a boat, I sent you a helicopter. You just didn't take them. But it's like the bad evil backwards version of that. It's like God, I tried to kill you with the bombs, I tried to kill you with the starvation, and none of that worked. So I'm just going to drop a pallet of food right on your heads and kill you all.

So yes, it's just the worst thing I've ever heard in my life in terms of bad luck. Geez. So I do believe that you can hold two thoughts in your head, which is that what's happening over there is horrific on a scale that we hope we would never see again in modern society. At the same time, what else are you going to do? If somebody had a better idea I'm sure they would have suggested it.

There's a study that says that a lot of Americans can't buy cars. So you need an annual income of $100,000 to purchase a car. I assume that means a new car. So on average if you don't make $100,000 you can't get a car. But the average American household is closer to $80,000. So buying a car in today's world, pretty hard.

What they don't say is that even if you have money you can't buy a car. It's almost impossible to buy a car. Has anybody tried to buy a car? I won't bore you with my whole story but let me tell you my quick version of buying a Toyota truck.

So I wanted to get a Tacoma. So I go to the Toyota dealer. I look around. I think oh they must have closed this dealership. There's no trucks, no Toyotas. But I go inside because they're actually open. And it turns out they don't have almost any inventory. And the reason they don't have any inventory is that it gets purchased before it arrives at the lot. They can't make them fast enough.

So if you want to buy a truck you could buy one that's in the pipeline. But the pipeline ones are all random combinations of features and colors that are very unlikely to be what you want. But if you're lucky and you can get one in the pipeline before all the other people who were also looking at the same pipeline before they grab it, well then and only then you can have a Toyota truck. Literally you can't buy one.

So I tell the salesperson, well if you get a truck that meets these criteria, which weren't that restrictive, give me a call and I'll come right down and buy it. No call. Same when I tried to buy a Ford truck a while ago. They didn't have any I could drive. And I've never owned a truck. I've driven them but I've never owned a truck. And I thought I'm not going to buy a truck I can't even drive one. That's in the same general idea.

So I couldn't buy a truck and I couldn't buy a Ford. I couldn't buy a Toyota. And so there we are anyway. I can see why. And then I thought about the process of negotiating for a car and I thought I would almost rather do anything than spend a whole day negotiating.

Has anybody brought their laptop to a car purchase? Because remember they used to use the trick where they'd say I'll talk to my boss and they'd be gone for an hour. And what they're really trying to do is make you stay there as long as possible so you're too invested in the process to ever say no. That's why they do it. So they're trying to wear you down physically. They're trying to physically exhaust you.

So has anybody brought their laptop and said hey, take your time, I got a lot of work to do, and then just start happily doing your work on your laptop while they think they're sweating you out but you're actually getting a lot of work done? Hey I think I'll send some posts. If you haven't done that yet you need to do it because it ruins their whole game.

Because you know they're back there peeking out to see if you're still there so they can run out. In case you leave they'll run out and grab you and bring you back. So you know they're watching. So just make it look like you're really having a good time on your laptop getting a lot of work done.

Anyway, we hear that the X platform is going to compete with YouTube. So they're going to have a big video platform that will play on some smart TVs. That's the big announcement. And it will look very much like the YouTube interface. So Musk is going big for video, which is the smart play.

There's a little garage startup who has made what would be an $8,000 robot. And they 3D print the parts and they put little motors in it. I think it's called K-Scale Labs. And the funny part is that the founder of this little garage startup, as soon as I saw him talking I said my God that's Elon Musk too. He looks like Elon Musk. He looks like him and talks like him. And then I looked in the comments and somebody else said the same thing. Oh good, I'm not imagining it.

So yeah, there's somebody who reminds you of Elon Musk who just made an $8,000 robot that you could just have running around your house. Now I'm assuming you just load it with one of their AIs. But here's what I would like to suggest. If somebody could tell me who makes the best little motors for robots, because each of the arms and legs of the robot are going to have a number of motors and servos or whatever they're called to activate all the body.

Shouldn't we be investing in little motors that go into robots? Is there a company that owns that like NVIDIA owns the GPUs for AI? Doesn't it seem like that's the shovel investment for the gold rush? Because the robots are going to use a lot of little motors.

coming to you early like I normally do for the local subscribers but I've got a big internet problem today and I can't run multiple screens so today I'm on uh using the uh Rumble Studio to come into four different platforms so I'm coming into locals Rumble um X and You.

Tube at the same time now I've never done this and the comments are going to be about 16 seconds delayed and this will be the first time we've mixed the locals comments with the other comments um but this might be a preview of things to come so this is not the show this is the pre-show which normally only the local subscribers see but if you'd like to see what happens five minutes before the actual show I came to the right place because usually all I'm doing is adjusting my lighting and printing my notes so if you want to hang out and chat with each other while I do that that's what this is for uh I'm not going to do anything provocative because this is all the platforms if this were just the subscribers and locals you might get some extra stuff today but we'll keep it generic make everybody happy now on this platform um unless this is see unless there's an option which I don't see uh I only see your oldest comments first so your new scroll to the bottom oh it looks like they fixed that I'll be downn that they may have fixed the comment scroll since just two days ago when I mentioned it well that's pretty fast uh if you haven't let my people go I won't have time to check that yeah don't expect that I'm going to be able to check any links that you send me during the chat that's yeah no no I was wrong the chat's broken or maybe oh maybe if I keep my cursor oh I just found out a interesting bug I think I think if I float my cursor over the comments oh no that's not it it looks like there's some um sometimes they scroll and sometimes they just don't so it looks like a bug all right so the real show starts uh at the top of the hour this is a special behind the scenes look at the pre-show where I adjust my lighting right now I'm coming to you by 5G on my phone which suggests I should probably plug it in yeah I've got at least an hour on the phone that should be fine all right let me turn off the alert all right we're in good shape we got a strong 5G signal which is very rare do any of you have this issue where when you're regular internet goes out your um phone 5G goes out at the same time am might the only person who experiences that on a regular basis can't tell because I can't see any comments oh I remember when comments were something that was useful so the rumble people have a challenge which is to fix the comments otherwise my business model falls apart because the the live interaction is really the heart of the show which we don't have in this model so in order for me to see a comment I have to physically reach up and scroll it every time so I I can't do the thing anymore where I'm just doing the show then I see a comment and I you know incorporate that it just won't work in this model so the technology isn't where we need it to be but uh bubles working on it they have they have all my feedback and they've been very responsive in the past so I do expect them to take a good swing at fixing it I just don't know if it's technically possible can I see locals comments uh yeah I can see Crawley I can see you asking the question um and they are they're they show up differently let's see if I can show you what it looks like see if this works let's see reverse this and then can you God this is annoying that everything's backwards why can't I do that right everything's like backwards twice so oh why can't I do this this is weird I have to hold it up to the opposite of where it is where I it okay oh this is so hard like you have to think backwards twice or something in order to line this up anyway so you see that the comments do not scroll which makes them worthless to me I don't know if they scroll where you are but I can see each of them with an icon that says it's coming from locals so I can say em and Dean and thirston and Crawley and upy boy but on Rumble I can see roie those the only comments I think we may be not live anywhere but locals and Rumble oh actually I don't it looks like I don't have any comments I can't even tell if I'm actually I can't tell if I'm live to the other platforms oh there it is there we go yeah so there are I see the You.

Tube comments oh look there's next I see next comment too from Kim all right looks like all the comments are here it's working on Rumble good deal how's our timing oh it's after 1:00 we after the top of the hour well you're going to watch me printting my notes I know that's exciting but but you're going to see how this show is actually produced soon as those notes are done we're going to put on the show of shows 5G style I got two strong bars of 5G and so far we're streaming good you've got a pop out chat on Rumble that's nice I'm live all right let me grab my notes let's do this right shall we good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization that's called coffee with scottt Adams don't know what's going to happen today we're using the rumble platform for all four platforms uh You.

Tube and Rumble and xplatform and local subscribers my special favorites and if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand hey Paul all you need is a CER muger glass of tanker CH a canteen sugar flask a vessel of any and fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee hadn't joined me now for the unparalleled pleasure the dop me of the day thing makes everything better it's called the simultaneous siping it happens right now oh that was good sometimes I have to pretend the coffee tastes delicious but today absolutely delicious all right look at all those comments um it's not frozen on my side everything's looking good here oh comments are scrolling too look at that look at that all working good or working well as you'd like to say all right yes uh we're not locals is not getting rid of comments they we'll just move to the rumble studio so your comments will all be here and then uh they're working on the technology to get them to be a little faster if that's possible might not be possible but I think there's a 68c delay on the C anyway let's jump right into it the fake science I like to start with fake science NBC news reports there a study that says you might be able to slow your biological aging by eating less how many times have you heard this story I feel like this is the millionth study that showed us maybe for the last 30 years 40 years haven't we been hearing the same study just repeated every year for 40 years I'm not alone in that right uh but here's what's left out and why I consider this fake science fake science it's because the thing that they say they're measuring is that you eat fewer calories so they have a control group that eats what they want I guess and another group that has limited calories and then they measure their biomarkers and they find out that the people who ate less food have better biomarkers now there's an obvious point to this which is obesity is not good for you but if you're doing a short-term study it seems weird that you know that that you'd see a big difference in the short term but here's what's left out I'm pretty sure that our food supply is largely poison meaning that the more food you eat it's not just more calories it's more poison it's more additives it's more pesticides it's more everything so they did a they did a test to see if eating fewer calories made you healthy healthier but they never tested to see if eating less poison makes you uh healthier don't you think if you were eating at Mc.

Donald's and you just did less of it it's not just the calories that you got less of you got less of all the stuff you didn't want in your body of course it makes you healthier of course it does so that's a weird science and that there's not even a mention to the fact that the food itself might be bad for you all right here's more of fake science I guess the uh Biden Administration is trying to come up with a new climate forecast model that would take into account what they want to do in terms of uh um reducing a aircraft contribution to CO2 so they're trying to figure out how to model just what would be different if they get a Greener type of um jet fuel so here's something that's embedded in the story that if you didn't notice it you wouldn't know that it debunked all models So within the story saying how they're going to create a model is a paragraph that debunks all models they don't cow it out that way you just have to notice it all right here's that paragraph um it says the rumor has it that those involved with the modeling process can't find Common Ground regarding the actual impact of corn usage in the synthesis some believe that it should be weighted with a higher penalty since carbon generation occurs during the harvesting phase the ethanol industry wants to to see as carbon impact as low as possible in order to blah blah blah all right did you did you catch it yeah in that was the debunking of all climate models how many of you how many of you saw it all right here's what you should say the climate models are completely dependent on the assumptions the model is not even important the Assumption they make about how important it is to let's say just using their example um to consider or not consider I don't know the Time of the Season when you're picking the corn or something like that so so you could simply make an assumption that would completely change the outcome now is this a special case is this the one time somebody built a projection model in which the assumptions really drove the output no it's the only way it can be there's no other way it can be in the real world world the assumptions that the PE the study people put into it determines the output that's the opposite of science it's the opposite you can't be more opposite than the people sitting in a room debating what assumption should be in your model that's the that's the least scientific thing anybody ever did ever but we still we still have this little fiction like the models can predict predict the future nope never have never will um there's a company that I still have a subscription to called iock where you get stock photos that you could use you know with a a license approval and every now and then I'll use one of those for my posting on social media so I wanted to look for a picture of a because I was going to do a post in which a dumb person you know would be a good picture for it so I went there and I searched within iock and this is a Getty Getty company they own it um and I looked for um do you think there were any issues with the diversity the way they handled the diversity so it was a page of morons and uh but they weren't all the same now I hope this doesn't kick me off here but uh let me show you some uh some of the pictures see if this works um first of all it was almost all white people but there was one black person on the page and you think to yourself how'd they handle that you how are they going to have diversity in a uh result it's going to be pretty hard but here's how they handled it uh there were a bunch of white people shown and I think a few Asians and here's a white person here he is you know drinking has crazy eyes and he's got weird teeth and everything he's like ah not doing too well now this was typical there were lots of white people looking like morons but then here's the here's the sensitive part they also have a picture of a black man that comes up in the search now how do how do you think they handle that so here's here's their image of a black which is funny because he looks more like a scientist or a lawyer he's got a smart expression well dressed the the difference is is hilarious I mean this if I had to guess I would say almost certainly college educated looks like he's doing pretty well goodlook smart looking guy Smart Eyes smart face all right well just pointing that out um I don't think I stock images is going to last more than a year because AI should pretty pretty much put them out of business and maybe it should there's a a school district in Aurora the state where Aurora is I don't know where's Aurora some somewhere in the middle west somewhere Aurora anyway somewhere in the United States um the superintendent says uh that you may not uh this is actually in a document uh you may not implement or adopt any program that does not prioritize diversity equity and inclusion now what does prioritize mean in your in your worldview doesn't oh Colorado so Aurora Colorado thank you so what does it mean to prioritize Dei wouldn't that mean that you sort of had to put it in front of oh I don't know everything that's what it means right if you prioritize it you push it above other considerations what would be the other considerations good ideas things that work things that are good for the world as soon as you throw in prioritize it's just racist there's no other way to look at it there there's no second way to look at this if you say if you say in writing it's our policy to prioritize it there isn't any way to prioritize it unless you give up other things so what are you giving up they should tell us what they're deemphasizing what what are you giving up all right uh so as I told you our food supply is very dangerous but getting more dangerous every day apparently there was a a food airdrop in Gaza in which one of the parachutes didn't open and five people were killed by Falling food big pallet of food now I don't know how you get five people with one pallet of food that's like the worst luck I've ever seen in my life not only as Glen Greenwald points out not only did these poor people survive the bombing and the famine and God knows what disease and deprivation they're going through and then they get killed with a pallet of food now that's just about the worst thing I've ever heard but but it certainly gives you this weird feeling that if your time has come your time has come you ever you ever feel that this is like the reverse of that joke you know you know the old joke I tell too many times about the flood and you know God says I sent you a car I sent you a boat I sent you a helicopter you know you just didn't take them but it's like the the Bad Evil backwards version of that it's like you know God I tried to kill you with the bombs I tried to kill you with the starvation and none of that worked so I'm just to drop a pal of food right on your heads and kill you all so yes it's just the worst thing I've ever heard in my life in terms of bad luck geez so I I do believe that you can hold two thoughts in your head which is that what's happening over there is horrific on a scale that we hope we would never see again in in modern society at the same time what else you going to do somebody had a better idea I'm sure they would have suggested it um there's a study that says that uh a lot of Americans can't buy cars so you need an annual income of $100,000 to purchase a car I assume that means a new car so on average if you don't make $100,000 can't get a car but most uh the average American household is closer to 8,000 so buying a car in today's world pretty hard um what they don't say is that even if you have money you can't buy a car it's almost impossible to buy a car has anybody tried to buy a car I won't I won't bore you with my whole story but let me tell you my there's a quick version of buying a Toyota truck so I wanted to get a Tacoma so I got to the Toyota dealer I look around I think oh they must have closed this dealership there's no trucks no Toyotas but I go inside because they're actually open and it turns out they don't have almost any inventory and the reason they don't have any inventory is that it gets purchased before it arrives at the lot they can't make them fast enough so here's so if you want to buy a truck you could buy one that's in the pipeline but the pipeline ones are all random combinations of features and colors that are very unlikely to be what you want but if you're lucky and you can get one in the pipeline before all the other people who were also looking at the same pipeline before they grab it well then and only then you can have a Toyota truck literally you can't buy one so I so I tell the the salesperson well if you get a truck that meets you know these criteria which weren't that restrictive you know give me a call and I'll come right down and buy it no call say when I tried to buy a a Ford truck a while ago um you know they didn't have any I could drive and I've never owned a truck I've driven them but I've never owned a truck and I thought I'm not going to buy a truck I can't even drive one that's in the same general idea so I couldn't buy a truck and I couldn't buy a a Ford I couldn't buy a Toyota and so there we are anyway I can see why um and then I thought about the process of negotiating for a car and I thought I would almost rather do anything than spend a whole day negotiating has anybody brought their laptop to a a car purchase because remember they used to use the trick where they'd say I'll talk to my boss and they be gone for an hour and what they're really trying to do is make you stay there as long as possible so you're too invested in the process to ever say no that that's why they do it so they're trying to wear you down physically they're trying to physically exhaust you so has anybody brought their laptop and say hey take your time I got a lot of work to do and then just start happily doing your work on your laptop while they while they they think they're sweating you out but you're actually getting a lot of work done hey I think I'll send some posts if you haven't done that yet you need to do it because it ruins their whole game because you know they're they're back there peeking out to see if you're still there so they can run out in case you leave they'll they'll run out and grab you and bring you back so you know they're watching so just make it look like you're really having a good time on your laptop getting a lot of work done anyway there's a uh oh we we hear that uh the xplatform is going to compete with You.

Tube so they're going to have a big video platform that it'll play on some smart TVs that's the big announcement and it will look very much like the You.

Tube uh interface so musk is going big for a video which is the Smart play there's a little garage startup who was made a what would be an $88,000 robot and it it's they print the parts and they put little Motors in it who's it called I think it's a k scale labs and the funny part is that the the founder of this little garage startup uh as soon as I saw him talking I said my God that's Elon mus too he looks like Elon Musk he looks like him and talks like him and then I looked in the comments and somebody else said the same thing I oh good I'm not imagining it so yeah there's somebody who reminds you of Elon Musk who just made an $8,000 robot that you could just have running around your house now I'm assuming you just load it with I know one of their AIS um but here's what I would like to suggest if somebody could tell me who makes the best little motors for robots because each of the you know the arms and legs of the robot are going to have a number of motors and servos or whatever they're called to activate all the body shouldn't we be investing in Little Motors that go into robots is there a company that owns that like in owns the gips for AI do doesn't it seem like that's the the shovel investment for the the gold rush because the robots are going to use a lot of little Motors

coming to you early like I normally do

for the local subscribers but I've got a

big internet problem today and I can't

run multiple screens so today I'm on

uh using the uh Rumble Studio to come

into four different platforms so I'm

coming into

locals

Rumble um X and YouTube at the same time

now I've never done this and the

comments are going to be about 16

seconds delayed and this will be the

first time we've mixed the locals

comments with the other

comments um but this might be a preview

of things to come so this is not the

show this is the pre-show which normally

only the local subscribers see but if

you'd like to see what happens five

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the right place because usually all I'm

doing is adjusting my lighting and

printing my notes so if you want to hang

out and chat with each other while I do

that that's what this is for uh I'm not

going to do anything

provocative because this is all the

platforms if this were just the

subscribers and locals you might get

some extra stuff today but we'll keep it

generic make everybody

happy now on this platform um unless

this

is see unless there's an option which I

don't see uh I only see your oldest

comments

first so your new scroll to the

bottom oh it looks like they fixed that

I'll be

downn that they may have fixed the

comment scroll since just two days ago

when I mentioned it well that's pretty

fast uh if you

haven't let my people go I won't have

time to check that

yeah don't expect that I'm going to be

able to check any links that you send me

during the chat

that's yeah no no I was wrong the chat's

broken or maybe oh maybe if I keep my

cursor

oh I just found out a interesting bug I

think I think if I float my cursor over

the comments oh no that's not it it

looks like there's some um sometimes

they scroll and sometimes they just

don't so it looks like a

bug all

right so the real show starts uh at the

top of the

hour this is a special behind the

scenes look at the

pre-show where I adjust my

lighting right now I'm coming to you by

5G on my

phone which suggests I should probably

plug it

in

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yeah I've got at least an hour on the

phone that should be

fine all right let me turn off the

alert all right we're in good shape we

got a strong 5G signal which is very

rare do any of you have this issue where

when you're regular internet goes

out your um phone 5G goes out at the

same time am might the only person who

experiences that on a regular

basis can't tell because I can't see any

comments oh I remember when comments

were something that was

useful so the rumble people have a

challenge which is to fix the comments

otherwise my business model falls apart

because the the live interaction is

really the heart of the

show which we don't have in this

model

so in order for me to see a comment I

have to physically reach up and scroll

it every

time so I I can't do the thing anymore

where I'm just doing the show then I see

a comment and I you know incorporate

that it just won't work in this model so

the technology isn't where we need it to

be but uh bubles working on it they have

they have all my

feedback and they've been very

responsive in the past so I do expect

them to take a good swing at fixing it I

just don't know if it's technically

possible can I see locals comments uh

yeah I can see Crawley I can see you

asking the question um and they are

they're they show up

differently let's see if I can show you

what it looks

like see if this works

let's see reverse

this and

then can you God this is annoying that

everything's

backwards why can't I do

that right everything's like backwards

twice

so oh why can't I do this this is weird

I have to hold it up to the opposite of

where it is where I

it

okay oh this is so

hard like you have to think backwards

twice or something in order to line this

up anyway so you see that the comments

do not scroll which makes them worthless

to me I don't know if they scroll where

you are but I can see each of them with

an icon that says it's coming from

locals so I can say em and Dean and

thirston and Crawley and upy boy but on

Rumble I can see

roie those the only comments I think we

may

be not live anywhere but

locals and Rumble oh actually I

don't it looks like I don't have any

comments I can't even tell if I'm

actually I can't tell if I'm live to the

other

platforms oh there it

is there we

go yeah so there are I see the YouTube

comments oh look there's

next I see next comment too from Kim all

right looks like all the comments are

here it's working on

Rumble good deal how's our

timing oh it's after 1:00 we after the

top of the hour well you're going to

watch me printting my

notes I know that's

exciting but but you're going to

see how this show is actually

produced soon as those notes are done

we're going to put on the show of shows

5G style I got two strong bars of 5G and

so far we're streaming

good you've got a pop out chat on Rumble

that's

nice I'm live all right let me grab my

notes

let's do this right shall

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we good morning everybody and welcome to

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don't know what's going to happen today

we're using the rumble platform for all

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take this experience up to levels that

nobody can even understand hey Paul all

you need is a CER muger glass of tanker

CH a canteen sugar flask a vessel of any

and fill it with your favorite liquid I

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unparalleled pleasure the dop me of the

day thing makes everything better it's

called the simultaneous siping it

happens right

now oh that was

good sometimes I have to pretend the

coffee tastes delicious but today

absolutely

delicious all right look at all those

comments um it's not frozen on my side

everything's looking good here

oh comments are scrolling too look at

that look at that all working

good or working well as you'd like to

say all right yes uh we're not locals is

not getting rid of comments they we'll

just move to the rumble studio so your

comments will all be here and then uh

they're working on the technology to get

them to be a little faster if that's

possible might not be possible but I

think there's a 68c delay on the C

anyway let's jump right into it the fake

science I like to start with fake

science NBC news reports there a study

that says you might be able to slow your

biological aging by eating

less how many times have you heard this

story I feel like this is the millionth

study that showed us maybe for the last

30 years 40 years haven't we been

hearing the same study just repeated

every year for 40 years I'm not alone in

that

right uh but here's what's left out and

why I consider this fake science fake

science it's because the thing that they

say they're measuring is that you eat

fewer

calories so they have a control group

that eats what they want I guess and

another group that has limited calories

and then they measure their biomarkers

and they find out that the people who

ate less food

have better biomarkers now there's an

obvious point to this which is obesity

is not good for you but if you're doing

a short-term study it seems weird that

you know that that you'd see a big

difference in the short term but here's

what's left

out I'm pretty sure that our food supply

is largely

poison meaning that the more food you

eat it's not just more calories it's

more poison

it's more additives it's more pesticides

it's more everything so they did a they

did a test to see if eating fewer

calories made you healthy healthier but

they never tested to see if eating less

poison makes you uh healthier don't you

think if you were eating at McDonald's

and you just did less of it it's not

just the calories that you got less of

you got less of all the stuff you didn't

want in your body of course it makes you

healthier of course it does so that's a

weird science and that there's not even

a mention to the fact that the food

itself might be bad for

you all right here's more of fake

science I guess the uh Biden

Administration is trying to come up with

a new climate forecast model that would

take into account what they want to do

in terms of uh um reducing a

aircraft contribution to CO2 so they're

trying to figure out how to model just

what would be different if they get a

Greener type of um jet

fuel so here's something that's embedded

in the

story that if you didn't notice it you

wouldn't know that it debunked all

models So within the story saying how

they're going to create a model is a

paragraph that debunks all models they

don't cow it out that way you just have

to notice it all right here's that

paragraph um it says the rumor has it

that those involved with the modeling

process can't find Common Ground

regarding the actual impact of corn

usage in the

synthesis some believe that it should be

weighted with a higher penalty since

carbon generation occurs during the

harvesting

phase the ethanol industry wants to to

see as carbon impact as low as possible

in order to blah blah blah all right did

you did you catch

it yeah in that was the debunking of all

climate models how many of you how many

of you saw

it all right here's what you should

say the climate models are completely

dependent on the

assumptions the model is not even

important the Assumption they make about

how important it is to let's say just

using their example um to consider or

not consider I don't know the Time of

the Season when you're picking the corn

or something like that so so you could

simply make an assumption that would

completely change the outcome now is

this a special case is this the one time

somebody built a projection model in

which the assumptions really drove the

output no it's the only way it can be

there's no other way it can be in the

real world world the assumptions that

the PE the study people put into it

determines the output that's the

opposite of

science it's the

opposite you can't be more opposite than

the people sitting in a room debating

what assumption should be in your model

that's the that's the least scientific

thing anybody ever did

ever but we still we still have this

little fiction like the models can

predict predict the

future nope never have never

will um there's a company that I still

have a subscription to called iock where

you get stock photos that you could use

you know with a a license approval and

every now and then I'll use one of those

for my posting on social media so I

wanted to look for a picture of a

because I was going to do a post

in which a dumb person you know would be

a good picture for it so I went there

and I searched within iock and this is a

Getty Getty company they own it um and I

looked for

um do you think there were any

issues

with the

diversity the way they handled the

diversity so it was a page of

morons and uh but they weren't all the

same now I hope this doesn't kick me off

here but

uh let me show you some uh some of the

pictures see if this

works um first of all it was almost all

white people but there was one black

person on the page and you think to

yourself how'd they handle

that you how are they going to have

diversity in a uh

result it's going to be pretty hard but

here's how they handled

it uh there were a bunch of white people

shown and I think a few Asians and

here's a white

person here he is you know drinking has

crazy eyes and he's got weird teeth and

everything he's like ah not doing too

well now this was typical there were

lots of white people looking like morons

but then here's the here's the sensitive

part they also have a picture of a black

man that comes up in the search

now how do how do you think they handle

that so here's here's their image of a

black

which is funny because he looks

more like a scientist or a

lawyer he's got a smart expression well

dressed the the difference is is

hilarious I mean this if I had to guess

I would say almost certainly college

educated looks like he's doing pretty

well goodlook smart looking guy Smart

Eyes smart

face all right well just pointing that

out um I don't think I stock images is

going to last more than a year because

AI should pretty pretty much put them

out of business and maybe it

should there's a a school district in

Aurora the state where Aurora is I don't

know where's

Aurora some somewhere in the middle west

somewhere Aurora anyway somewhere in the

United States um the superintendent says

uh that you may

not uh this is actually in a document uh

you may not implement or adopt any

program that does not prioritize

diversity equity and inclusion now what

does prioritize mean in your in your

worldview

doesn't oh Colorado so Aurora Colorado

thank you so what does it mean to

prioritize

Dei wouldn't that mean that you sort of

had to put it in front of oh I don't

know everything that's what it means

right if you prioritize it you push it

above other

considerations what would be the other

considerations good ideas things that

work things that are good for the

world as soon as you throw in

prioritize it's just

racist there's no other way to look at

it there there's no second way to look

at this if you say if you say in writing

it's our policy to prioritize it there

isn't any way to prioritize it unless

you give up other

things so what are you giving up they

should tell us what they're

deemphasizing

what what are you giving

up all

right

uh so as I told you our food supply is

very dangerous but getting more

dangerous every day apparently there was

a a food airdrop in Gaza in which one of

the parachutes didn't open and five

people were killed by Falling

food big pallet of food now I don't know

how you get five people with one pallet

of

food that's like the worst luck I've

ever seen in my life not only as Glen

Greenwald points out not only did these

poor people survive the bombing and the

famine and God knows what disease and

deprivation they're going through and

then they get killed with a pallet of

food

now that's just about the worst thing

I've ever

heard but but it certainly gives you

this weird feeling that if your time has

come your time has come you ever you

ever feel that this is like the reverse

of that joke you know you know the old

joke I tell too many times about the

flood and you know God says I sent you a

car I sent you a boat I sent you a

helicopter you know you just didn't take

them but it's like the the Bad Evil

backwards version of that it's like you

know God I tried to kill you with the

bombs I tried to kill you with the

starvation and none of that worked so

I'm just to drop a pal of food right on

your heads and kill you all so yes it's

just the worst thing I've ever heard in

my life in terms of bad luck

geez so I I do believe that you can hold

two thoughts in your head which is that

what's happening over there is horrific

on a scale that we hope we would never

see again in in modern society

at the same

time what else you going to do somebody

had a better idea I'm sure they would

have suggested

it

um there's a study that says that uh a

lot of Americans can't buy cars so you

need an annual income of $100,000 to

purchase a car I assume that means a new

car so on average if you don't make

$100,000 can't get a car but most uh the

average American household is closer to

8,000 so buying a

car in today's world pretty hard um what

they don't say is that even if you have

money you can't buy a

car it's almost impossible to buy a car

has anybody tried to buy a car I won't I

won't bore you with my whole

story but let me tell you my there's a

quick version of buying a Toyota truck

so I wanted to get a Tacoma so I got to

the Toyota dealer I look around I think

oh they must have closed this dealership

there's no trucks no Toyotas but I go

inside because they're actually open and

it turns out they don't have almost any

inventory and the reason they don't have

any inventory is that it gets purchased

before it arrives at the lot they can't

make them fast

enough so here's so if you want to buy a

truck you could buy one that's in the

pipeline but the pipeline ones are all

random combinations of features and

colors that are very unlikely to be what

you want but if you're lucky and you can

get one in the pipeline before all the

other people who were also looking at

the same pipeline before they grab it

well then and only then you can have a

Toyota

truck literally you can't buy one so I

so I tell the the salesperson well if

you get a truck that meets you know

these criteria which weren't that

restrictive you know give me a call and

I'll come right down and buy it no

call say when I tried to buy a a Ford

truck a while ago um you know they

didn't have any I could drive and I've

never owned a truck I've driven them but

I've never owned a truck and I thought

I'm not going to buy a truck I can't

even drive one that's in the same

general idea so I couldn't buy a truck

and I couldn't buy a a Ford I couldn't

buy a

Toyota

and so there we are

anyway I can see why um and then I

thought about the process of negotiating

for a car and I thought I would almost

rather do anything than spend a whole

day

negotiating has anybody brought their

laptop to a a car

purchase because remember they used to

use the trick where they'd say I'll talk

to my boss and they be gone for an hour

and what they're really trying to do is

make you stay there as long as possible

so you're too invested in the process to

ever say no that that's why they do it

so they're trying to wear you down

physically they're trying to physically

exhaust you so has anybody brought their

laptop and say hey take your time I got

a lot of work to do and then just start

happily doing your work on your laptop

while they while they they think they're

sweating you out but you're actually

getting a lot of work done hey I think

I'll send some posts if you haven't done

that yet you need to do

it because it ruins their whole game

because you know they're they're back

there peeking out to see if you're still

there so they can run out in case you

leave they'll they'll run out and grab

you and bring you back so you know

they're watching so just make it look

like you're really having a good time on

your

laptop getting a lot of work done anyway

there's a uh oh we we hear that uh the

xplatform is going to compete with

YouTube so they're going to have a big

video platform that it'll play on some

smart TVs that's the big announcement

and it will look very much like the

YouTube uh interface so musk is going

big for a video which is the Smart

play there's a little garage

startup who was made a what would be an

$88,000 robot and it it's they print the

parts and they put little Motors in it

who's it called I think it's a k scale

labs and the funny part is that the the

founder of this little garage

startup uh as soon as I saw him talking

I said my God that's Elon mus too he

looks like Elon Musk he looks like him

and talks like him and then I looked in

the comments and somebody else said the

same thing I oh good I'm not imagining

it so yeah there's somebody who reminds

you of Elon Musk who just made an $8,000

robot that you could just have running

around your house now I'm assuming you

just load it with I know one of their

AIS

um but here's what I would like to

suggest if somebody could tell me who

makes the best little motors for robots

because each of the you know the arms

and legs of the robot are going to have

a number of motors and servos or

whatever they're called to activate all

the

body shouldn't we be investing in Little

Motors that go into robots is there a

company that owns that like in owns the

gips for

AI do doesn't it seem like that's the

the shovel investment for the the gold

rush because the robots are going to use

a lot of little

Motors