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it turns out that one professional... Oh damn it, did I not write that down? Oh, somebody had a better joke than I did, quoting the speechwriter humorously. Anyway, never mind. But I wondered if this would be generating a whole category of jokes. Do you know how Letterman used to do the top ten list and it seems like they could always make that funny, at least a few items on it? Because there's so…
← Previous segment →fleet of firefighting drones? A little too soon for that. I don't think we have the technology. But if they were helicopter drones, could they not do what the Chinook did? You know, maybe you just need the human pilot at this point. But at some point that's what I think it's going to be. At some point I think forest fires will be spotted by drones and then the first phase of suppression will be drones. And maybe their first drones can't carry as much but you've got lots of them, right? It's just you're just black in the sky with smaller drones that don't have a big payload but there are lots of them and they're fast. I think that's where we're going.
But it's nice to know that it's possible that these helicopters might be the reason that my sky looks blue. All right, so that's good news.
I saw a tweet by Twitter user Machiavelli's Underbelly who is a really good follow if you're looking for a good follow especially on AI and technology related stuff. Just search for Machiavelli's Underbelly. Machiavelli is spelled just the way you think it is. All right. And he notes, somebody else was tweeting, there are a whole bunch of bot accounts requesting that we go hard with new mask mandates and the bots are saying the exact same thing. It's obvious it's a cut and paste and has all kinds of different accounts.
And as Machiavelli's Underbelly alleges, now this is an allegation but I don't think it's wrong, there's a foreign entity that is flooding us with bots trying to destroy America by bringing up the mask mandate thing again. What do you think? Do you think? And I do think the evidence was strong. There was a list. There was actually a video list of a whole bunch of accounts that all have the same thing. And oh, you know what, if you find it just do a search on some of the terms and you can see within Twitter you should see all the accounts just pop up because it's the same terms they use.
Now who do you think would be behind it? Do you think first of all, well let me state, if these accounts shown really exist then there is a bot problem and it's a bot problem pushing masks. Who would do that? Do you think that a domestic entity would do that? I mean anything's possible but it seems very unlikely. I don't see a domestic. So what do you buy that if it's a bot
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attack it's foreign? I think it's foreign, yeah. You could argue that maybe it would help somebody in the election but that's a little murky, isn't it? I don't really see how that's going to help any American, not really. So I feel as though it's got to be foreign. And who would be the most likely culprits? China or Russia? China or Russia? China. You don't think Russia isn't Russia more implicate…
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