Back to episode — Episode 2695 CWSA 12/20/24
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w, I would make the following advice. If you're producing content that's making people want to drive hundreds of miles to your house and kill you, you might want to think about that. I mean, I do like the fact that podcasters will say provocative and risky things because free speech allows it and, you know, as long as it's working in all directions, it can be a healthy thing. But just think about…
← Previous segment →y trying to help. That's usually good enough not to make somebody drive hundreds of miles to your house. But to be fair, when people are crazy, there's nothing you can do, right? Basically nothing you can do. So that's just a horrible little story.
There's a story that I'm having a little bit of trouble believing. Oh, I'm going to go further. I'm going to say I don't believe this is true. I think this is fake news. But there's a story, according to the Virginia Mercury, I guess some publication in Virginia, that the governor has approved or announced there's going to be this fusion nuclear plant in Virginia. Now, regular nuclear is fission, right? Fusion is the thing that doesn't exist. Am I wrong about that?
So there's an announcement that they're going to start building a fusion power plant in Virginia. So
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I immediately went over to Google and I said to myself, have I been in a coma? Because I followed the news on fusion and I didn't think we were that close. I thought we'd done some demos that show that, you know, for a brief time it can create more energy than it uses, but I didn't think we were anywhere near a practical application where you could just approve it and build it. So given that if yo…
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