Back to episode — Episode 2721 CWSA 01/15/25
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simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. I am now hydrated enough to get through the entire show, so let's get going. So I've got a friend who on almost every other contact tries to tell me that he's figured out something that Elon Musk is doing that's dumb. And I say, you know, he's got five of the most important businesses in the world. He's solving problems. He's going to Mars. I don't know…
← Previous segment →n. Now this should not be taken as any kind of an insult to anybody. I've made this mistake before, which is if I mention somebody's on the spectrum, if I say anything like that publicly, people say whoa whoa whoa, who are you insulting? To which I say, insult? Where was the insult? Well you just said somebody's on the spectrum. To which I say, right, but what's the insult? Isn't that like saying somebody's tall, somebody's black, somebody's white, somebody's male? It's just who you are. So I don't put judgment on being on the spectrum. You know, if you took away the inventions and the benefit that has been brought to the world by people who are technically on the spectrum, and I think Elon includes himself, you know he's self-identified as being on the spectrum. I'm not 100 percent sure it's true, but when I see this kind of an opinion where he's favoring the literal over the reframe that doesn't need to be literal, I think, wow, this might be one of the cases where drawing this distinction between a reframe would work for the regular public. But here's what I learned. I just learned it doesn't work if you're on the spectrum, which actually makes sense, right? So being on the spectrum would make you a little more literal, and maybe you just couldn't embrace the imaginary part of the refra
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me. So I learned something anyway. Looks like there might be coming a ban on Chinese connected car software. Ars Technica is talking about that. I guess Congress is working on that. There might be some exemptions, but it would block Americans from having cars with Chinese software. Now I don't know what the real potential risk is for having, let's call China an adversary, having them have control…
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