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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…

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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's what makes me really engaged. If an AI had written the same joke and had a CGI that looked just like Phil Dunphy the character, I don't know that I would enjoy it. I think it would just be flat in my mind, even if it was just the same. I think it would be flat.

So my, and I think that'll be true with music, humor, movies, and probably books. And I don't know if that's going to change. It might be that we just lose interest in all of those forms of entertainment because people stop doing it and computer-based stuff isn't interesting. We just might just stop being entertained in the same way. But we'll see.

You know, the most likely place this will end up is that the same creators that are creating now, like me, will just use the tools. For example, instead of replacing me to make Dilbert, it's far more likely that I will use an AI tool with my art director and we will slightly animate the comic. So I should be able to very soon say, Wally's at the table with Dilbert. Wally's back is to us and he says the following things. And then watch it come alive. And then Wally talks, you hear it, and then he turns around, he gesticulates. So within a year for sure I should be able to create comic comics with my art director. But there's still going to be lots of trial and error. Try this, try this. Adjust that, adjust that. So you can't take the humans out, because the humans are the only thing telling you if you've done it right so far, right? The human can say try this, try to destroy this. But only the human can tell you if it's working, because they can feel it. Computer can't do that.

All right. I saw that there is still an effort to pack the Supreme Court. And I thought to myself, all right, but didn't I already have a task force on asking that question? And Biden's own task force said no. Did you know that? That Biden actually had a task force some time ago and the task force came back and said no, don't do it. Don't pack the court. So it's been asked and answered. But that doesn't mean it's done.

So I wanted to see who is dumb enough and worthless enough and terrible enough that they'd be working on trying to pack the court even today, even after Biden's own people said don't do it. Who would actually do that in our governmen

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t? Not in the government. Jerry Nadler. Jerry Nadler's on that team trying to push. I mean, there's some others as well. But I'm genuinely curious about that guy. Does he even wake up in the morning and try to do the job of the people's work? Like I don't even know what's going on with him, because he doesn't even seem slightly interested in the well-being of the country. You know, you could defe…

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