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n engineering problem where they just have to figure out how to iterate quickly. Well, apparently this big breakthrough — and I don't know the science behind this, I'll just read this — so for the first time a fusion reaction has achieved a record energy output exceeding the energy absorbed. So they're saying that they've achieved some fusion breakthrough, but I think what they really achieved, if…

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e watching today, so hi Connor. And he tweeted this. He said, "I taught the user interface for reality." This is a micro lesson that I did on Locals. I can't remember if I did it publicly too, but I talked about how to use different filters or frames to view reality and how to potentially interact with reality. And Connor says he taught that lesson to his German high school today and he quoted part of it. He said, "First you must accept that the frame at least as a filter, meaning you don't have to accept it as truth, just accept it as a way to predict the world." And then he said he gave examples about religion and they were blown away.

Now the thing that blows me away is that something I was doing here is being taught in high school in Germany in one class. But it turns out that a lot of things that I do get taught in schools. So a lot of the Dilbert material has been packaged up to teach in business schools. So there are lots of business school classes that I think there are some psychology-related classes. They use Dilbert as a lot of examples. So Dilbert is used in schools. And then you know the systems versus goals, the talent stacking, and now the user interface for reality. I know my book God's Debris is assigned often in college courses. So weirdly I have all these connections to education that I wasn't expecting.

So the Salvation Army took a real big hit on their donations because they had some kind of a guide they put out within the Salvation Army that said that white culture has challenges and needs to overcome, among other things. This was just something that was within it, including they have to get over their denial of racism and their defensiveness about race. It states that white Americans need to, quote, "stop trying to be colorblind." So how did that work out for the donations to the Salvation Army? Yeah, down by about a third.

So who was it who said everything woke turns to

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shit? Was that Trump? Is Trump the first one who said that? It's sort of — it was Trump, right? Everything woke turns to shit. There will never be a more accurate predictive rule. I mean I thought I was good at predicting but you can't beat this. Everything woke turns to shit. You just see it over and over and over again. Every time you see it it's just destroying something — our schools or our go…

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