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teboard, huh? That's right. Well, let's start with this cool news. I saw Brian Reilly post on X about a portal. It's one of the coolest uses of technology I've seen. So if you imagine something that's bigger than a person, a big round circle, and the center of the circle is a screen, you know, a huge person-sized screen, and you could put it in any city, and a person could walk up to it and they…

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War and it would exclude the Revolutionary War and those earlier wars. But since we've had internet and since we've had really good phones and communication, how many wars have there been between the United States and somebody who spoke the same language?

Let's see. Actual question. It's not, I'm not being rhetorical. There are two. Now who would that be? Because Russia doesn't speak English. The Palestinians, I mean, so a lot of them have a second language, but they're mostly different language. And here here's the thing. I wonder if it's possible to have a war between two nations that speak the same language, their original language, and have lots of communication technology where the citizens can talk to each other. Now don't give me the Civil War. Only in modern times when we could, in modern. Now, okay, I don't want to see anything with 18 in it. 1800 and anything is not in this co

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nversation. I'm very specifically saying America. No, Russia plus Ukraine, you're not getting this yet. America. Have we gotten in a fight with an English-speaking country? And so here's what I'm speculating. If universal translation just becomes part of all of our technology, which it looks like it will, I mean pretty easy to predict, you would be able to directly talk to citizens of any other c…

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