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Back to episode — Episode 2506 CWSA 06/15/24

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ing. That's like one of the most impressive technology things I've ever heard of in my life. Now let's take it to the next level. If you can 3D print something as sensitive and powerful as a rocket engine, how far are we from 3D printing a small modular nuclear reactor? Suddenly, if you could get rid of the burdensome regulations but not the ones you need, if you get rid of regulations and you co…

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e business's needs? What's better than that? Communism? I can't think of anything else they'd be talking about. So apparently the employees of the New York Times are literally communists or socialists or something but they don't understand this whole capitalism thing.

Well here's the good news and bad news. Let's see if you could have predicted this. If you haven't read the story I want to see how long it takes you to predict the ending of this news event. It involves California. So put on your California thinking cap. Involves the drought which California had for years which is now solved. It turns out that California is just flush with water, got plenty of water. At the same time they're going to deny farmers, they're going to cut a lot of the farmers back to only 40% of the federal water they were supposed to get. I guess there's federal water and other water but it'll be a major pullback in the water. Why? All right it's California and there's plenty of water. Plenty of water. Everybody agrees. But the farmers will not be allowed to get nearly as much water as they need. Why would that be? You tell me. It's California. Oh let me guess. Oh let me fill you in. It's because of an endangered fish. There's a problem with an endangered fish. Yep. So is that the most California thing you've ever heard in your life?

Years ago before I built the house that I'm living in right now I thought I was going to build it in a different place. I bought several acres down the road and when I went to look into building on it turns out they had maybe some endangered fish in the little creek that was dry most of the time or frogs or something. I forget what it was but I've actually been limited from building for a fish or a frog that nobody has ever seen. And by the way there weren't any there. It just looked like a place that might have some endangered fish or something. It's actually insane trying to get anything built in California. I don't recommend it by the way. I wouldn't do it at all. But anyway so this endangered fish, I don't know how endangered it is or how important it is because frankly I've never missed that fish. But apparently you could eat that fish whole and it would be really good for you. But don't. It's an endangered fish. So even though it'd be very healthy to eat a whole one, don't do that. It's endangered.

So what are the farmers going to do? Well I don't know but the only thing I can think of is if the farmers can't get water for their crops they might be able to get the huge masses of illegal migrants to urinate on them. I mean I don't know if that would help but it's better than nothing, right? That's just my idea.

All right, the Oakland reparations committee it wants five million. And you're going to say well that's not nearly as much as I thought. Oakland's a pretty big place and the reparations committee is only asking for five million. And I saw that and I thought, huh that might actually be something we could talk about because

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you know we wouldn't miss five million in our taxes. And then I read it more carefully. No they don't. The reparations committee in Oakland, they don't want five million for reparations. They want five million from taxpayers to come up with a plan for the reparations. Five million to work on a plan. Now as a person who lives in the Oakland area what should I do to avoid being penalized for being…

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