Back to episode — Episode 1251 Scott Adams - Wuhan Lab Allegations, the Coup Persuasion Success, and my Pineal Gland
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And all you need is a copper margarita glass or a tumbler or plastic vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. Yeah, it does. It's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now. Go. Ah. Yeah, that was good. So one of the unintend
← Previous segment →ed consequences of the coronavirus and the school shutdowns and all of that is that states are breaking out all over the place trying to assert their ability to allow students to choose where they go to school. What are the biggest two stories in the country in terms of how important they will be to the future, largely ignored? Are you watching all the headlines about all the movement toward breaking the, let's say, the monopoly that the teachers unions have on schools? There's a lot happening. A lot. A lot of states moving forward with saying, hey, let's propose at least funding the students. So lots of action, lots of proposals. Imagine if school choice could become real, or realer, so that you have real school choice for everybody. That would solve most of our problems. It would take a big bite out of systemic racism. Let's say every kid gets a good education or can. That takes a lot of problems away, right? And it's the teachers unions that prevent that good thing from happening. But they're having a lot of problems now because they're keeping the schools closed. And I would guess this will lead to less support for teachers unions and more support for choice. So that's a gigantic story if it goes the right way. Gigantic. Transforms the country. Protects us forever. I mean, it's really big.
The other one is that the government, and I don't know what the Trump administration can make permanent but at least in terms of current priorities, the government has decided to go big on small nuclear reactors to be used for space. Now you don't realize yet how big a deal that
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is. But if the government has decided that nuclear power is necessary for space, Space Force, space exploration, space defense, and it is, that means that our domestic industry will get a big boost because they'll do a lot of things in maybe the government sector for military. And that will almost certainly create smaller, cheaper, better new technology reactors that might even be safe from a melt…
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