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isunderstanding the issue here, maybe I am. If nobody has been accused of a specific crime that's their own business. That is their own private business and I'm sure they all regret that they got on that plane but it doesn't mean that they're guilty of any horrible crimes. So I absolutely disagree with Jesse Watters and anybody else who wants to see the flight logs. Are we curious? Yes. Yes very c…

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xtraction from wastewater. How about that? Because we've got that uranium shortage. But it also generates electricity while you're doing it. Whoa. Whoa. Now a lot of you looked at me for your explanations how science works so I'd like to just explain to you in the simplest possible ways. I'm just going to keep this simple. Just a summary of how the technology works. All right so here's what you need to know. It's a spontaneous microbial electrochemical method. So that's the first thing you need to know. And what they do is they spatially decouple the microbial oxidation and the uranium reduction reactions and it's an innovation that what you do is you've got the two chambers separated by the proton exchange membrane. You got that right? And then obviously they're going to separate with a proton exchange membrane. Then you use an anode made of carbon felt and a cathode titanium foil and then the process uses that as I said, you know not to repeat myself, but the microbial driven electrochemical reaction and that facilitates sort of a uranium extraction from the wastewater which simultaneously generates the electricity.

Now you know what makes me a little bit angry about this? Well you and I thought of this idea but didn't do anything about it. So I guess that just tells you that life really rewards action. I mean I was just thinking about this and I'm like huh I wonder if I put two chambers separated by a proton exchange membrane and then introduced an anode made of carbon felt. So I was thinking about this the other day but I did nothing about it so I feel like an idiot now.

Well Elon Musk is always in the news and he's dumping on Disney lately. He said that Walt Disney might be turning in his grave because Disney is infected, deeply infected, infected with the woke mind virus. I think he's really trying to make that woke mind virus thing part of the common consciousness. I know a number of people used it before he did but he's really driving it home. And he says they used to bring joy to peopl

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e's lives. Disney did. Making wonderful things their family enjoyed. But now it's just basically they're giving you woke garbage. Speaking of woke garbage, did you know that roughly one third of adults under 30 regularly scroll TikTok for the news? So one third of young people are getting their news from TikTok. And there's a communications expert Molly McPherson who was at an Axios event and she…

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