Back to episode — Episode 2679 CWSA 12/04/24
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a big one that's for your whole network to provide electricity to buildings, then you might not want lithium. And so some of these other storage technologies might be the way to go. So maybe there'll be a proton battery in your network coming up. So I guess Biden is doing all this Trump-proofing of government, trying to spend all their money and tie Trump up in ways that he can't reverse it when…
← Previous segment →st president, it just feels like an understatement. He doesn't seem like he's even on our side, does he? He opened the borders. That's not my team. He bankrupted the country with his spending. That's not my team. And now he's not going to let the DOGE effort fire people who probably need to get fired. That's not on my team. Started a war with Ukraine for what reasons? Is that on my team? Like, I'm not even seeing Biden doing things that appear to be in America's best interest. It's just weird how amazingly bad he is.
However, my guess is that there will still be ways to get rid of those 42,000 people. One way would be to turn off their connection to the network. Do you think they can do that? Just turn off their connection to the network and then fire them for not doing their work. So they can't fire them for not coming into the office, but they can certainly fire them for not doing their job, right? And I mean, did Biden say no matter what you do you can't get fired? Well, he didn't say that, did he? So all you have to do is turn off their access to the internal systems, just block their things unless they come into work, and none of them could do their work, and then you fire them. So I feel like there's a workaround there.
Just when you think human beings are as bad as they can possibly be, the Steam network — that's where video games are put on that network to be downloaded and played — Steam. Now there's a video game on there where you can reenact the October 7th massacre, and apparently you can be on the side of the massacre people. So you can play Hamas and massacre innocent people. That's a video game that was made in the real world. This is an actual real thing. Yikes.
Now, on one hand I say the same thing that most of you are saying, which is yikes, how in the world is that legal, and who would want to do that, and blah blah blah. But it raises a bigger question. Can you make imagination illegal? Because playing the game is sort of an imaginary process. Suppose you had virtual reality that allowed you to do things that would be illegal as a regular person, but it would be fantasy within the virtual reality, such as murdering citizens. You could argue that the Hamas thing was in the context of a larger war or something. But suppose you had a video game that allowed you just to murder innocent people. Should that be illegal? How about if it were something that allowed you to engage in what looked like virtual sex crimes, but nobody's involved except you and your imagination? Should that be legal?
Well, there's certainly a commercial element to it, which is are people going to boycott Steam because it's on there and all that. But I don't know if you should ever make anything that's in your imagination, even if the imagination is aided by some virtual process, as long as it's private. I think I'm in favor of making sure that nobody can mess with your imagination. I don't know that imagining these things makes you more likely to do them. It might. If you're already have a propensity to violence, I could see if you played video games with violence every day, it might push you over the edge. The average person isn't going to become violent from a video game. We know that for sure because too many people have played video games.
So here's another that I need to get rid of. All right, so here's what you should never say. "Matt Scott has no idea about Steam. If the game is still there in 24 hours, I'll be amazed." No
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w, I've used Steam. I've downloaded games from it, and I do understand that it's a commercial process. So anybody in the world understands that if it's still there in 24 hours, it would be pretty surprising. So you, for assuming that I don't know something as obvious as that and then making a comment in public about it. So how about less reading of minds and less insulting me and maybe have an opi…
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