Back to episode — Episode 2646 CWSA 11/01/24
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pleasure, the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. That's right. The simultaneous sip. Oh my God, that was good. Well, the stock market's up a little bit, trying to make up for yesterday, which was not so good. Not so good. How was everybody's Halloween? I was giving out candy last night. It was a smaller crowd than usual. Makes me wonder if kids are eating less candy…
← Previous segment →ever want to make kids happy, just get the little waters. You don't have to get the big ones. And they will go crazy for how considerate that is, because it's the thing they want the most anyway.
Then I did a little experiment at the end of the night. You know, when most of the trick-or-treaters are done, but you know there's going to be a few stragglers. You put out a bowl of candy that's full of candy that if somebody wanted to they could just take the whole bowl. But of course I've got redundant security cameras everywhere so I get to watch the action.
So just before bed I put out a big bowl, just filled with the good stuff, pretty big size candies and stuff, and I set it outside. And within 60 seconds a group of probably 13-year-old girls swooped in and just took the whole contents of the bowl. It lasted 30 seconds. But then I still had extra candy inside so I filled the bowl again to see how long it would last, because I didn't want to keep the candy. So I put the bowl out and the next group is boys. They're about the same age, maybe a year older. So it's a bunch of boys, but they were just doing a second run at the water and they see the big thing full of the nice expensive chocolate Kit Kats and stuff like that. They each took one. They took one.
Now I don't know if that's any kind of, I don't know if it's telling me anything, but the fact that people who thought nobody was watching still just took one gave me some hope. You know what I mean? Gave me a little hope for the future.
So the kids were unbelievably polite, unbelievably nice. It was just spectacular anyway. But that was yesterday. And it's November.
Well, got lots of good news. Live Science says that in a first, scientists have reversed Type 1 Diabetes by reprogramming a person's own fat cells, which apparently looks like it has a lot of promise. Scientists in China say they did it. Imagine that. Imagine getting rid of Type 1 Diabetes by reprogramming your fat cells. Like what if in two years that's just like a normal thing? Oh, you got Type 1 Diabetes? We can get rid of that.
Well in the world of AI, SciTech says that some drones are getting robotic cat eyes. So Korean researchers have figured out how to mimic the incredible eyesight of cats, and now they have drones, or they will have drones, that have the eyesight of a cat. That's what I want. When I buy a drone I'm going to say, do these have cat eyes or plain old stupid human eyes? But if they say cat eyes I'm buying.
But not only will they have cat eyes, but AI has done another first. Rowan Cheung is reporting on this on X: scent teleportation. That's right, you can now send a smell over the internet. How do you do that? Well obviously the internet is just going to be zeros and ones, but if on each side you've got a compatible little laboratory situation that can mix the right components, you can send some components, sniff it on your side, change it into zeros and ones, and then on the other side it does the chemistry and turns it back into the original smell. So you can actually send the smell. Now you're not going to be able to send it to your phone. You'd have to send it to someplace that's set up for that reception. But it's kind of cool that that is possible. You know, maybe someday it'll be in your phone.
Well in other news, economic news, the October non-farm payrolls rose only 12,000 when people expected it would be 106,000. The unemployment rate held at 4.1%. You know, let me give you some advice. It's a few days before elections. Don't believe anything. Don't believe anything the government tells you. Don't believe anything the news tells you. Don't believe anything that's on social media. If you were simply to take the approach that every single thing you heard t
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hat's new is just fake, and then you graded yourself after the fact when you found out what was true and what wasn't, you'd be about 85% right. Yeah, about 85% of everything you're going to hear will be fake. Now you might say, but that's okay, I'll just sort the fake stuff from the real stuff. You don't know the real stuff, so you have to treat it like it's all fake. It's sort of the fog of war…
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