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nt. No they didn't, you troll. You goddamn bastard. They did not do that. You did that. We know you did that. It's the Nord Stream all over again. We've seen this play. Don't lie to us, you little troll. You know they're not going to blow up their own nuclear power plant. They didn't blow up their own pipeline. They're not going to blow up their own nuclear power plant. Is it a coincidence that t…

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then they'll reduce support. So maybe it's a Putin plan. Chess player Putin. You never know. Well, I do think we will know. That's what I think. I think we'll know just like we know the pipeline. You know, maybe not on day one. On day one we might not know. But we'll know. We're going to figure it out and we're going to hold responsible anybody who was behind it. You're not going to get away with this. Like maybe in the short run some way, but no way.

Let me just say if there's anybody that's allegedly on our side, allegedly on our side, who does that, they have to die. I mean, that's got to be a death sentence. You start a war on fake pretense. I don't care if you're the president of the United States. That's a death sentence. You should be. It should be. I mean with the courts, not talking about a revolution. I think the courts and the law, they don't, but they should support executing anybody who did a false flag to start a nuclear war. I mean, that seems basic.

All right. The reparations task force in California continues to amuse, and they've added to their claims that they would like to drop the law. They want to get rid of the law that makes it a crime to urinate in public. So they would like millions of dollars per person and they would like to urinate in public. Now we're not quite there, but you can see the logical endpoint here, can't you? The logical endpoint, we're almost there, is that the reparations task force would like to recommend, and I feel like they're just sort of crawling up to it, you know, cats on the roof. They don't want to break it to us all at once. But what they really want is for Californians to pay Black Californians a massive amount of money and then let the Black Californians piss on them. So you want to combine those two things. So it's not good enough that you just give money. You want to give money and then have them piss on you in return. And that's apparently what they're asking for.

So right now it's just they want to urinate on sidewalks, I guess. But you know, obviously that's going to be scaling up to eventually they'll just be whipping it out and spraying all passersby. Thanks for the reparations. Hey everybody, thanks for the reparations. Yeah, come on by. Thanks for the reparations. So it's going to be like that. I think that's the endpoint.

All right. I saw a video from Ryan Brian Romelli. He shows an example of AI making a Pixar-style movie just from a script. Now not from Pixar's script, I don't think, but just from some other script. And the animation looked Pixar quality. Now I don't think they're quite at the point where you could feed a script into it and a movie comes out the other end that you'd want to watch. But we're very close to a Dilbert movie that requires me to do little or no work. Now I don't know if anybody would watch it, but the technology to make it just from a script is very high. Very high right now. So maybe that'll happen. If I had to guess, that's a year away. Maybe less. Maybe less than one year AI will be able to make a full movie with hitting all the beats and having basically a fully edited movie. Maybe less than a year.

I continue with my prediction that humans will not want to watch AI-generated art of any kind. Is that a contrarian? I don't know if anybody else is saying that. And the reason is that we enjoy art made by humans because of our knowledge it came from humans. If you take away your knowledge that a human made it, it'll lose all interest. Because when we're reading it, we're not just reading it for entertainment. There's some connection with the creators that's important to the process, like a mental connection. You know that somebody wrote it, somebody acted in it. As soon as you take away all the human elements, you would just be watching a computer's daydream. No interest whatsoever.

I want to see that. If I see a movie that's like, ah, this is the best movie, I think about the director. I think about the writers. I think about the skill of the actors. I even think about the costume people. So when I see a great movie, I'm thinking about the talent of the humans who put it together. And that's what thrills me. I'm thrilled by the human talent, even though I don't necessarily conceptualize it that way when I'm watching it. I'm just sort of enjoying the

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jokes. So I've been re-watching, in my opinion, the best television show of all time called Modern Family. Ran for many years. So I'm starting from the beginning to re-watch it. And I'm having that experience as I'm watching Phil Dunphy say the funniest things you've ever seen on television. I'm thinking about the writers, the human writers. I'm thinking, how did they come up with that? And that'…

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