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we talk and the way we move, they're going to have full control over our minds. Let me say that again. If a robot can learn to talk like us, in other words adopt the same mannerisms that we have individually, and also move like us, literally copying the way we move, it will almost have full control over your brain. Now I know you don't believe that, but it's coming and there's nothing that can st…

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You know the vehicles need to be recharged, the devices need to be recharged, and this thing can do it just by turning on and sending the signal out in all directions. So it can actually recharge the military devices while they're being used from a distance. Holy cow, that's pretty cool.

Do you think that's actually going to work? I think it's in the early stages of development but they must have prototyped it already. So that's interesting. But I also wonder if human soldiers are really going to be the future. Because why would you ever send a human soldier into a battlefield in 10 years? Ten years from now, why would you send a human at all into the most dangerous thing? Because the drones are going to own the sky and the robot dogs are going to own the ground. There isn't really a place for a human in war unless they're on the losing side I guess.

Anyway, you may remember that I did a podcast, well I'll call it just a conversation with Naval Ravikant. And I did that on multiple platforms. I did it on X and YouTube and Rumble and Locals. Now Locals is a subscription site so that's limited audience. But Owen Gregorian was looking at the numbers and noticed that on X it has 1.1 million views. I think closer to half a million might have watched the whole video. But on YouTube it has 62,000. So on X it was somewhere between half a million and a little over a million. At the same time it was all live and it went to all the platforms at the same time and YouTube only had 62,000.

Now I know what you're going to say. You're going to say well you know maybe less visibility or something. But even on Rumble there was 76,000 views. So tiny little Rumble had way more views than all of YouTube for this content. And X had, you know X goes to a million of my followers right away. So a lot of it is just that I have a lot more followers on X than I have anywhere else. So that's always going to be bigger. But does that look natural to you? Does it seem natural to you that I could garner half a million to a million views and if you look at the comments you know people are very up on it. I mean they just loved it. Does it look, does it sound to you as if I'm being suppressed? I feel like it's super obvious and that it's always been the case. So can't prove it because there is one explanation that would be normal which is I just have maybe a more active audience on X. Maybe it's just that. But I doubt it. If I had to guess it looks like it's some kind of suppression.

Here's my favorite story of the day but also the smallest story of the day. It involves nine words. And here's what's cool about it. Do you know how we've come to love our billionaires and also hate them? So it's almost like the billionaire class has become like a wrestling show where you've got George Soros who plays the heel. You know sometimes Reid Hoffman plays the heel. But then you've got your good guys, you know your Elon Musks. And you got your, you know anyway I could go on. But you know what I mean. The billionaires, the ones with personalities and they like to be public. Mark Cuban for example. They become a whole entertainment field in themselves. Like to me they replace celebrities. I have absolutely no interest in what Beyoncé has to say. I don't like your music. No interest at a

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ll. But if there's a good billionaire fight, oh I'm all in. I love to watch the billionaires do their thing because for the most part they didn't become billionaires by accident. You know there was something going on with these special people. But here's the story. So Elon Musk heard something at Mar-a-Lago and he posted about it. Now as you're going to hear in a moment, what he heard was not tru…

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