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g a Russian cousin entity right on their border or Putin who wants to control Russian entities on his border? Now both of them are military. Both of them are killing people to get the thing that they want. But I feel like in this analogy we're Hitler. Are we not? We're the ones taking over a country that we had no business taking over and we're doing it for empire reasons. Very clearly empire reas…

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gressively. So wherever it's introduced early and aggressively those places will die first. So that's how you know DEI is toxic because there should be a perfect correlation between how aggressive and early you were in it and how soon you die you know your organization.

So imagine trying to sell MSNBC when one of your stars works one day a week for $30 million. Nobody would buy that. But why do they have to keep paying so much money? Does it have to do with the fact that she is a lesbian and a woman? Is it DEI? Probably. Now I can't say that for sure because you'd have to be like in the room with them to know what's real but the prediction is if you go early and hard at DEI you will destroy yourself pretty quickly. MSNBC went early and super hard at DEI and now they've got somebody who's not doing much work they're paying $30 million. Probably Joy Reid can't be fired and she's making them look like idiots. Management she makes the management look like idiots and that's got to be DEI. So I think MSNBC is added to the list of examples of the sooner and the harder you go on DEI the sooner and more guaranteed your destruction. So just look for the pattern. The sooner and the harder you go in DEI the sooner you're destroyed.

The defense who defended Daniel Penny is considering going after DA Alvin Bragg for a malicious prosecution. So that would be a lawsuit so it wouldn't be criminal but if they can prove that Bragg was orchestrating the Daniel Penny thing for his personal reasons as opposed to just doing the job then it might be a lawsuit. And the personal reason which is just speculated here is that Alvin Bragg knew that if Daniel Penny walked free that there would be riots and that that would make him look bad because he's the law and order guy. So if there are riots you look like you're not doing something and everybody would say why didn't you do something more. So the idea is that if Alvin Bragg—if it could be demonstrated there were any documents or witnesses that the decision to go after Daniel Penny was not based on the law or what is precedent but only based on protecting Alvin Bragg's own reputation and job then the lawsuit I think could succeed. So we don't know that this is going to happen but I think they need to look into it. Pretty good. You find out if there's something there.

In other news I heard a few things about the AI that Elon Musk is doing the xAI and I heard a story. Let's see if I can retell the story. It was some expert—was it on I think on the All-In Pod talking to Jason and I didn't get the name of the expert when I watched the clip. I wish I had so if anybody knows him knows what I'm talking about put the name of the expert in the comments. But the expert said that if you get these Nvidia boards that are necessary for AI that apparently you could only put if I have this right 20,000 of them kind of networked together to work as one and that was a physical limitation. It would be engineering-wise it would be impossible to put more than 20,000 working as a team. And that then that would limit how smart your AI could be because the more that you could put on the same processing speed you know parallel processing the more you have the smarter you are in AI.

So the story is that Elon Musk didn't like that spent some time doing a deep dive and I don't know who if anybody helped him or it was completely his own idea but in fairly short order Elon Musk figured out how to network 100,000 together where it was presumed by every expert that 20,000 was the highest that could ever go. There would be a physical or physics limitation you just couldn't go beyond that. And then he five times it. He five times it probably because he got personally involved as you know I imagine there were other engineers in the room obviously but that's like one of the greatest engineering stories of all time. But if you put it on Elon Musk's resume it just disappears with all the other stuff he's done. So many things that make yo

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u go wow you did that. You created giant chopsticks to catch a rocket? Really? Wow. Yeah so and there are probably a dozen things I could add to the really. You put a network of satellites in the air so that everybody from these rural counties can get cheap high-speed internet? Wow. You know and I could just keep going and going and going but this little one just impresses the hell out of me if it…

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