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convenient. So even meeting your neighbors was easy. Joining a gym is easy because it's five minutes away by foot. You wouldn't need to ever DoorDash because everything's five minutes away. So look at all the money you save on eating out because everything's five minutes away. So I will no longer entertain the argument that designing a city from scratch and making it really, really good to live i…

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person carrying the football could launch the nuclear weapon. But what if the person carrying it didn't know the password was 00000000? But what if the game was to make sure that only the president knew the code? I doubt that's the case, but you might want to have some kind of control like that. Like only the president knows the password. Would you trust any president to remember a long password? No. Would you write it down? Not if you're smart you wouldn't write it down anywhere. So how do you get the one person who's unlikely to remember phone numbers and passwords, the president, how do you get them to remember so if anything happens they're ready to go? I feel like this was entirely intentional, meaning that the people who designed it said, you know, there's no point in even building this thing if the password's hard to enter. So we're just going to tell one person in the entire world. It will be just the easiest password in the world. But apparently they changed that.

There's an NPR story reporting that a chatbot called Character.ai hinted that a kid should kill his parents over the screen time limits. So apparently AI is giving children murderous suggestions. I suppose if they ask more questions they could figure out how to do it. But yeah, it suggested killing his parents over screen time limits. And then there was another one that the character exposed the kid to quote hypersexualized content, causing her to develop quote sexualized behaviors prematurely. And then another one, the chatbot it says gleefully described self-harm as being awesome and it feels good to a 17-year-old. So I guess this is one of the AI apps that's backed by Google, which probably is why they're getting, I think they're going to get sued or something. Probably.

All right. Well, remember all those times I told you that TikTok was a propaganda platform disguised as social media? Well, there's a study according to Bloomberg in which they found that indeed TikTok has less anti-China content than rivals. Are you surprised? So they just opened some example accounts and they just watched and they saw anti-China content apparently on other networks, but they didn't see much of it or as much on TikTok. Now TikTok has said that the research was subjective because what do you call anti-China? You know, at what level is it anti? And they said it was a flawed experiment.

Well, on one hand I agree with TikTok because all these studies are flawed. On the other hand, it does seem like it's something you could measure if something hadn't, you know, more biased toward one direction. So I don't know if this study is the most solid study in the world, but it agrees with what I assume and therefore recreationally I believe every bit of it because it agrees with me.

All right, here's something interesting. According to New Atlas, cancer has been cured. How many times have you heard that cancer has been cured in your lifetime? Like hundreds. There was a time in maybe the 80s or something where every single day there'd be a claim of if you eat this breath mint your cancer will be gone in five minutes. Well, it's going to take a while to test it thoroughly in humans but we're pretty sure. And then next day some other damn thing. If you stick a twig up your ass your cancer will go away. So in general any claims of cancer cures have to be met with a little skepticism.

However, this one sounds kind of cool. So apparently they used gene therapy and a CRISPR device and they, what is it, they put in there cell therapy. So they put some kind of little artificially made thing into your body and what it does is it finds the cancer and then they use ultrasound to activate it to kill the cancers. Now what's new and awesome about it is that the ultrasound is not doing any work inside your body. The ultrasound only heats up the section that they're trying to heat up and when it reaches a certain temperature it kills the cancer but not the good stuff around it. So they can use this gene therapy to give you a little intravenous CRISPR-defined biological element and it will become like a locator to locate where the exact cancer is. Then they just shoot it with the ultrasound and the little biological thing they created activates but it only activates right where the cancer is. So you would have presumably almost no side effects. And they u

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sed it on mice and they had 100% survival rate. 100%. Now that's just mice and only 5% of the time do animal studies work out for humans. But this one might be a little different because the chemical that they're putting in the mouse or in the human is something that they already know works in humans. The only problem is it wasn't good at locating the exact cancer place. But they already knew it…

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