Back to episode — Episode 1117 Scott Adams - Persuasion Against Antifa, Cohen's Book, Gravity Batteries, Fake News
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ught in that war were kind of suckers, would that offend you if your friend said it and nobody else was supposed to hear it? Let's say neither of you had served. Or alternately let's say both of you had served so that your peers, whichever way that goes, I think you would not be offended by that. Yeah, hoodwinked might be better. Somebody says in the comments hoodwinked might be a better way to pu…
← Previous segment →gh to just put it on a hill. But here's the other thing that I ask. If you can dig or even find gigantic holes, can't you use those gigantic holes to condition homes? Meaning use the fact that the temperature under the earth is usually around 56 degrees no matter what, and you can use that to pump up air to cool a home if it's too warm or to warm a home if it's below 56 degrees. So could you use abandoned mines, wherever there are gigantic holes in the ground that exist, could you not use them for building a town nearby that uses that for its heating and cooling and takes 50 percent off the cost of that or something?
Anyway, there are some good news happening because entrepreneurs continue to entrepreneur and inventors continue to invent. And while we're concentrating on all this political assholery, there are real good citizens creating good solutions for the future. Yeah, geothermal is one of the words I was looking for there. All right. The company name is Gravitricity. They need a little help on the name of their company. All right. Yeah, and somebody's mentioning in the comments Elon Musk's company, the Boring Company, that bores holes. I've often thought that if you just bored a gigantic tunnel that would be the first start of building a town above it for the same reasons. You could use your tunnel for running all of your utilities, but it could also be a source of your heating and cooling, could be transportation under the town, could be a lot of things. I've said this before, but our ability to inexpensively dig really deep holes is going to be one of the key technologies of the future. Yet the fact that Elon Musk owns a whole digging technology and company, it kind of tells you that that's a bigger deal than just a good idea. It really is the future. The ability to dig cheaply underground is the future.
Here's a thought I want to just put in your head. As we're obsessed with all things coronavirus and virus and epidemics, have you noticed how much China is treating Islam like a virus? If it's true, the stories we're hearing about what China is doing with the Uyghur minority, they are a Muslim minority within China, and the reports are that they're being rounded up and put in essentially concentration camps. And who knows what other badness is happening besides that. But if you look at the way China treats Islam, they treat it exactly like a virus because the first thing they do is quarantine. And like a virus, like a regular virus, religion does transfer by association. If you never had connection with anybody physically or over the internet or any other way, if you never had contact with anybody who had a religion, you probably wouldn't develop one spontaneously. It's physical contact and communication that makes religion spread. So I'm not going to say this is good or bad because you can put your own obvious morality on top of this. But it's interesting that China treats religion like a medical problem. Are they wrong? Because we treat mental health as a medical problem, don't we? We didn't always. But today our more enlightened view of the world is that if you have a mental problem, that's a health problem. It's no more or less a health problem than a broken leg. It's just part of your body is not functioning the way you'd want to. And we would treat things like, let's say you were brainwashed to do something terrible, you know, to be a Nazi or something. We would treat that as like a mental condition.
And it's interesting that China treats religion in general. Now in th
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is case they're treating Islam that way, but I think they do the same with the Falun Gong and I think they would do the same with any Christian sect in China if there was such a thing. So it has more to do with religion than it has to do with Islam. But it's an interesting approach, as immoral as it is. Here's something we learned from the coronavirus. That the regular flu was always... I saw the…
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