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geothermal because his company also invests in geothermal and nuclear. So he's got investments in a nuclear power plant that Sam Altman is involved with as well. And then he also says that climate change is not a crisis. He doesn't say humans are not warming the Earth. He just says it's not a crisis. Now that's kind of perfect. I don't know if I could be happier honestly. Because the thing you wo…

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ow something about fracking, something about geothermal and something about nuclear and ideally solar too although I think that's a little easier to understand. So not bad. I'd be pretty happy with somebody who has that much knowledge. I don't think that's as important in even jobs like defense. I think a general or a generic very smart person who's got the right intentions could do fine. There's lots of examples of that.

I saw on this, maybe you saw this on Joe Rogan show. He was talking to special forces veteran Evan Hafer. Anyway he's one of the founders of Black Rifle Coffee I think. And he was talking about with his own experience as a special forces guy he says if we declare war on the cartel, which is something Trump said you do, these dudes are not going to understand what the fuck is going on. They are in for a world of ultra violence that they've never actually felt before. They have fucking no clue. If we organize these tier one units against them what I would be doing if I

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were down there, I'd be getting ready to retire right now because if Delta Force is hunting me bro I would be so terrified. Now is that hyperbole? Because it seemed to me the cartels are quite aware of what violence looks like but mostly they're doing it against a competing cartel which of course they have some violence from. I don't know. Do how many of you think that the cartel would try to bri…

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