parts of Africa mining for these rare earth minerals and it's just this big dirty pit with people who are covered head to toe with the whatever the dirt is that they're digging through. And I saw one yesterday there was a cobalt mine and some people were being dug out that there'd been a collapse but they got them out and everybody's cheering and stuff. I had two takes on that video. Number one I looked at it it looked like the saddest worst criminally dangerous situation I've ever seen in my life. And then I heard the people cheering all happily and laughing when they got their co-workers out from under a collapse. And I thought to myself have you ever studied the theory of happiness? That people have this baseline happiness that even if you have an amputation you know a month later you go back to your baseline of happiness. I wonder if the people there were substantially less happy than somebody who was just like say low income living somewhere else. I don't know. There's something about the story that isn't tracking with me which is why would so many people do it if it were not their best option? I mean isn't there other options worse? You're saying they're doing it for the pay because there's nothing else that would get paid. Well that's my point. If the other option is you don't get money then they think it's their best option even if it's unhealthy. So I don't know how to think of something where it's their best option.

But here's the point. I'm going to everything that they're doing. Did you ever see a video of all the, it's like just thousands of people milling around in this big dirty hole. Have you ever just tracked any one of them? Just look at one of them. They're not doing anything. Most of them are standing there with a shovel and looking at somebody else. It's like 99 out of 100 of them are doing absolutely nothing. They're just milling around. I don't know why. But is this not the perfect situation for robots? Why are there any humans in those holes in the first place? What is it that the human can do that the robot can't do?

Sarah says in all caps Scott thought COVID would collapse civilization. LOL. Sarah you know that never happened right? Are you having an episode Sarah? You okay? You should see somebody about that. You have some kind of disease that's making you shout in all caps things which only you remember but never happened. That's something you should look into. Yeah if you start shouting in all caps a memory of something that didn't happen to the person who knows it didn't happen there's something wrong. You need to seek help. So go take care of that right away.

All right well anyway I think we could mine rare earth minerals if we used machines to do it. I think if we use machines we could do it even in the U.S. safely I think.

All right were you expecting it when the Ukraine war kicked off? Weren't you expecting the Russians to use their advanced cyber capabilities to take down all the networks in Ukraine? And then it sort of didn't happen. Yeah they had a few easy wins that apparently were not lasting. And like here's the takeaway from this. Turns out it's really hard to conduct a cyber attack. That's the takeaway. Well it turns out it's really hard so Russia tried as much as they could but well it turns out it's hard. Couldn't pull it off.

Did we miscalculate everything about Russia? Did Russia actually have a paper military and a paper cyber ability? Because you know what else we overestimated? Do you remember when we said Russia interfered with the 2016 elections and then we looked into their valuable memes from their troll farm and they spent a hundred thousand dollars on some memes that weren't even all in the same direction. Some of them were pro-Hillary some were pro-Trump. And then you saw the quality of the memes that looked like they were made by high school kids with no persuasive anything. So we know Russia can't do memes. They can't influence an election even if they tried. They can't do cyber attacks too well and their military is kind of lame. So maybe we're wrong about everything. You ever think about it? Maybe just everything's wrong and we're no closer to nuclear war.

Now in my opinion we're not closer to nuclear war. Not even a little bit. Because nobody wants it. The minimum requirement for a nuclear war is that somebody wants it and we have exactly zero people who want it or are crazy. Nobody. And as the Wall Street Journal in an opinion piece said today I think that's what it was, Putin does have an escape. He has an escape route. If he had no escape route that'd be different but he actually can just say oh we got what we wanted. We kept Crimea and we kept them from entering NATO or something. So he could definitely negotiate from this point and get something he didn't mind keeping as long as NATO stayed out of Ukraine. So yeah you could just negotiate anytime he wants.

Now there's one theory that I'm not going to endorse but the idea is that Russia would run out of fighters before Ukraine. Now the argument goes that even though Russia has more people and would be willing to throw more fodder at it forever that the Ukrainians are never going to quit because it's their homeland. So no matter how few there are left and no matter how irregular the army and no matter if they have to turn it into a guerrilla war the Ukrainians will keep fighting. I don't know. I'm not sure that's true but that's a current opinion of somebody.

Sarah is yelling in all caps again something that didn't happen. LOL. Scott thinks Ukraine is winning. Really sort of the opposite of what I just said Sarah. You can't tell what's happening over there. So Sarah you need medical help. I'm going to hide you on this channel so that you'll be yelling at yourself from now on. But that's just a cry for help. I think you need some medical attention here.

All right so cyber war is hard.

Let me ask you if any of you are having this problem. Do you find that it's harder and harder to interact with people who still believe the news is real? Have you had that problem? Every time I talk to somebody who says something they heard it on the news and I think really you st