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Back to episode — Episode 1794 Scott Adams - There Isn't Much News Today So Let's Have Fun

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on relief are the poor. So the middle class will be doing pretty well, but the poor have been completely excluded because since they don't pay taxes they don't have direct deposit and bank accounts. The government can't easily find them and give them money. So instead, and wouldn't know how much to give because it's based on your income anyway, so the poor get nothing and the rich get nothing. But…

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ot no content. The trolls are active today. Imagine being a troll like that was the best thing you had today, was to yell at me in capital letters. Like, well the best thing I got going today in my life is I got on a live stream and made everybody a little less happy with my comments. That's what I did.

But do you think that it's true that the Teslas are lined up for hours to get charged? Here's my degree in economics. My degree in economics tells me the following: you would not build a network of charging stations to fulfill 100 percent of all possibilities. That would be cost prohibitive. You would build a network of charging stations that could handle 98 percent of all situations. Today's the two percent. You know, the holidays are the two percent. That's when everybody's traveling at the same time. So it seems to me likely that the charging network is only designed for the 98 percent of the time when traffic is normal and not designed for the two percent. I'm just making up two percent, but not designed for that small number of times when everybody's traveling. Am I right?

So that's probably a real problem, but I can't, I'm not, I don't trust the news enough to know if it's just something that happened once. I mean we might already be past the line. I don't know. Or is it getting worse? Who knows? You know what would be interesting is if just private people started charging people's cars in their own driveway. You know, just run an extension cord out to the driveway, put up a sign, charge your Tesla 20 bucks or whatever it costs. And couldn't private people sell charging? Just park in my driveway, plug it in for an hour. Yeah, you could, right? So maybe something like that will happen.

So there's an ongoing debate about TikTok and whether or not China has access to information because it's a Chinese company. And Brendan Carr, he's on the FCC, and he's asking Apple and Google

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to drop the app because it's sending data to China. Now TikTok had assured us it's not going to do that, but apparently it's confirmed that some of the data was available in China. And I think at this point if we were fooled about what data is going back to China and TikTok was involved in fooling us, you have to take it out of the app store. Now I don't know if these two things are true, so let…

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