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grudgingly he's kind of good at this politics stuff. That's why he's governor. So if he's good at the politics stuff and in my personal opinion destroying California is unforgivable even if the local leaders are the reason. If he did something big and bold and common sensical like saying you know what we got to get competent people. We got to get rid of DEI. Could he become president if he was the…

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ng to be close.

Now at the moment I would imagine the human is well beyond what the AI currently can do but how long? End of the year I think therapy might be one of the things that goes first to AI.

Meanwhile here's a fake news story in my opinion but maybe there's just something wrong in the way it was written. It's in the Express publication and it says that over in Ukraine there are these butterfly battle yeah these butterfly drones. So they got a big shipment 30,000 drones coming in from the UK and they say that these drones are so light and nimble that they look like a child's toy but they have a machine gun and they can carry a soldier out of the war zone. No no there's no drone that's the size of a child's toy and has a machine gun on it and certainly it's not carrying any soldiers the size of a child's toy. No no. I don't know what's wrong with the story. I don't know if any of it's right. Maybe the entire thing's made up. But no no you're not putting a machine gun on something the size of a child's drone toy. Weird. But it says has an operational range of 12.5 miles and can operate autonomously for up to three days and has this machine gun on it and a mobile turret and it's got four oh it's also got listen to this it's got fourth glass protection armor so it can even you can even shoot it and if you don't shoot it too many times or too hard it'll survive being shot. Remember size of a child's toy has a machine gun can operate autono

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mously for three days and it could take direct fire. None of that can be true. Does anybody believe any of that? I don't think any of it's true but who knows maybe I'm wrong. Anyway that's all I got for you today. We're going to talk to the Locals people privately and the rest of you I'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for joining. I hope your day gets better.

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