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hose drones. But if you'd like to take this experience up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains, all you need is a cup or a mason jar, glass tankard, chalice, stein, a can, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day. The thing t

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hat makes everything better is cold. That's right. Simultaneous sip.

Go. That was so good it makes me think the price of coffee should be higher. Oh wait, the first story is that the price of coffee is higher than it has been in 47 years. Well, you know Trump calls oil liquid gold. I think it's coffee. Yeah, I think coffee is the liquid gold. Let me put it this way. If you said to me, "Scott, I cannot give you any oil today," I'd say, "Really? But I could have it tomorrow, right?" Yeah, you can have it tomorrow, but today no oil. I'd say, all right, all right, whatever. But if you came to me and said, "Scott, you can't have any coffee today," I'd say, "I'm going to kill you." But I'd be kidding because I'm against violence.

Well, you would not be surprised to know that there's a big advance out of Korea, South Korea obviously, in batteries. They found out that they can add water to a lithium metal battery and it increases the lifespan by 750% using only water. I love the fact that nobody thought of putting water in it. It's like the most abundant element on the planet. So you don't need to know any details about that. I always tell you the battery stuff in the context of if battery technology becomes, let's say, five times better, everything changes. And then there must be like 20 or 30 things that are going on, every one of them would make batteries five to 10 times better. So there is a real interesting world coming of robots and self-driving cars and everything else with batteries that last forever.

Meanwhile, according to StudyFinds, scientists are getting close to having a pill that cures diabetes. So a Mount Sinai team is working on it. They figured out the mechanics of it, so they're pretty sure they can do it. They just need to test it on humans, so it's going to take a while. But I wouldn't wait for that.

Meanwhile, Tesla launched what they call their actually smart summon feature in China. Now I think what that means is you can summon your car from anywhere and it will just drive to you so that you can get in it. Imagine never having to park your car again. Can you even wrap your head around that? Imagine that wherever you're going, your own car drops you off in front of the door and then you tell it to go park itself and it just looks for a parking place. And then when you want it, you just summon it and it goes from its parking place to wherever you're waiting. Now that's pretty amazing. But it looks like China has the function where they can call it to you. I don't know if a Tesla full self-driving can go find a parking spot. I don't know that it can do that.

And also at the same time, Musk says that the Tesla full self-driving drove a car from LA to San Diego with zero interventions. Can you imagine going from LA to San Diego without ever touching the steering wheel? That's pretty amazing. You know, I've told you before that my retirement assumption is that I could just go sit in the car and tell it to take me on vacation. And I say something like, "Hey car, I haven't spent much time looking around in Arizona. Let's go to Arizona." And then the car figures out, uses its AI to figure out what hotels I'll stay at along the way. And if it's time for me to have lunch, it would be amazing. I just do my own work while I'm going somewhere.

All right. Meanwhile, the SpaceX headquarters, which had been in some other named city, is now officially named Starbase. So it's Starbase City. So we have a new city in America called Starb

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ase. Now I would love to know how Starbase was designed because didn't Elon Musk have a lot to do with designing the whole city? It wasn't a nothing until he decided it was a city. So I'd love to know what technique he used to design it to make it livable, because I would imagine some of that is transferable to other places. We'll see. Meanwhile, the Vigilant Fox is reporting over on X that Neil…

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