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ho knew what and all that stuff. And former prime minister Boris Johnson has to explain why five thousand of his WhatsApp messages from the 2020 plus period disappeared. And Boris says he's not so sure. Some kind of technical thing, maybe something about the app. I don't know. Maybe it was uninstalled or when it got reinstalled, you know, maybe something like technology and the app and the somethi…

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ata that they were supposed to store? Yeah, a lot of election data is missing. We haven't seen the UAP videos but I'm sure they exist, but they must be missing. Yeah, the Epstein jail video. Yeah, that just seems like there's just a lot of things missing. Just a lot of things missing.

Anyway, here's a trend you should watch. So China has a company that's using AI to build indoor vertical gardens. Now why is this a big deal? Well, indoor gardens, you know, greenhouses have been around forever, but they haven't quite replaced outdoor gardening for basic economic reasons. But you think that someday they would because your indoor gardening is going to be better on water, much easier on water. It's going to be better on keeping the insects out, much better. It's going to be potentially better in managing light if you do it right. But the one problem they had was still space, and of course you've got labor. But robots and AI could kind of solve that for you, and also building vertically. So they'll build. So instead of putting everything on the ground where you run out of space, they can just build shelves and keep going up to the ceiling.

Now if you have shelves to the ceiling you've got twice as much work problem, right, because you've got to get somebody up there to look around and adjust things. But if you had a robot, a robot with a couple arms and some AI, the robot would not only know how much light and water and when to plant and you know how to get rid of any weeds if there were any. And oh, the other benefit is you wouldn't need insecticide, so you'd have less chemicals, fewer chemicals.

So basically indoor gardens should be the way that we go if you can get the economics down. You know, some little extra. Every house you build would have its own garden. Imagine a room in your house which just has a robot like a Roomba that's just working all day and all night just making sure everything's good in there. And it has AI so it can actually look at your plant and know what's wrong. It can just look at it and say, oh looks like it needs a little water. I think the AI plus vertical shelves is right at the edge, right at the edge of where it's going to make more sense to be indoors I think. And then you know maybe you add little solar panels to drive the robot

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and stuff. But I think once your labor goes down to practically zero and you can use the space better and then the AI makes sure that your crop is way better than it would have been, it's going to be a big deal. Indoor gardens. Mark my words. Kim Jong-un had an event I guess. He was talking about the women in North Korea not having enough babies and he actually wept. He actually cried in public,…

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