o push one freaking button. Okay, I'm going to use my finger, which I know is a human finger. I'm positive I'm still alive. And I'm going to push the button, which I've pushed now five times. Once it worked. All right, careful, careful. Push the icon. Yes, yes, I pushed the button and it did what it was supposed to. First time today. All right.

Did you know there's a breakthrough in fusion? Nobody cares. General Atomics figured out how to get 20% higher than the Greenwald limit. The Greenwald limit, which you all know about, of course. It's some kind of limit that the fusion people needed to get past, and they got past it. It was considered difficult or impossible, but they did. And they've also figured out how to stabilize the plasma. Now, the thing with fusion is it might be another 20 years of breakthroughs without actually anything breaking through. But once it gets serious, it's all going to happen at once.

Now, isn't it weird that fusion is coming, which would lower the cost of energy to zero over time, at exactly the time we need cheap energy and relief from inflation? Have you noticed that we have a number of timing things happening that are weird? Meaning that all right, we're heading toward doom with our debt and our expenses and nobody can live. But at the same time, if fusion were a little bit faster, it would save us. But it might just be late by 20 years. I mean, over the history of humankind, missing it by 20 years, that would be the slightest, slightest miss.

But we have other timing too. So you know the AI people at OpenAI think that we're on the verge of being able to solve all of our cancers and diseases because AI will figure out some pattern recognition and figure out how to do it. What about the people who have terminal cancer this year? They might miss the cure for all cancers by a month. Now, it's bad enough if you have to die from cancer at all, but think how dumb you would feel if you died a month before all cancer is cured. That's going to happen. It's like somebody's family member is going to die a month before all cancer is cured. I don't know if that's a year from now, but that's what the AI people say. Could be a year from now.

Meanwhile, NASA is testing a nuclear propulsion to go to Mars in 45 days. So currently it's six months, I think. That would lower it from six months to 45 days. That would be a pretty big deal.

And Naval Ravikant, he was on the Tim Ferriss podcast, and he said that people who don't homeschool their kids' lives suck. And then he described why. Totally right. If anybody has had kids in the last 20 years, you know that the life of the parents is essentially destroyed by school. Because the school loads them up with homework so you can't have any quality time at night. But you got to get up and you've got this stress of getting them there, the traffic, and everything's tense. Tense getting the kids to school, if you drive them especially. It's tense and it's just brutal. But if you homeschool, you kind of make your own schedule and everything's fine. And they perform better and they don't get damaged by the school. Yeah, if you're just a regular parent with children in school, you've got a tough life. And there's no reason for it. There's no reason for it at all, because you can homeschool and you can solve all those problems.

Well, Mr. Beast, the gigantic YouTube star, says he wants to get some billionaires together and buy TikTok. He's already talked to his billionaires and he's pretty serious about it. He says we mean business. You know, having Mr. Beast and his advisors or his investors having them own TikTok, that would be pretty good, as long as we can solve the privacy and the influence part of it. So that's interesting.

President Trump has his Diet Coke button back in the Oval Office. Have you seen it? It's like this nice block of wood with one button on it to order a Diet Coke. Except I feel like he needs more buttons, don't you? Like I'd like to see a trap door button where he could invite in the top DEI director for every government organization. So what's your job? I'm the DEI director. Next. What's your job? Well, I'm the director of DEI. And the Diet Coke, please. Beep. And then you get it mixed up and you want a Diet Coke and next thing you know, Rubo going through the trap door. Oh sorry, I meant to hit the Diet Coke but my bad.

All right. Well, according to Christopher Rufo, who you know was working very hard on getting rid of DEI ridiculousness in the corporate world and elsewhere, he says that the tech executives are telling him that in the Silicon Valley companies they respect Trump's ban on DEI. They respect it. And many feel relieved that they don't have to enforce it anymore. They don't have to pretend. So Rufo says resistance to DEI is basically dead now. Does that surprise you? Are you surprised that DEI could die that easily? I'm not, because I was well aware that the main promoters of DEI tended to be rich white guys who were just protecting themselves. So as soon as somebody said I will hurt you more if you do it, then you don't do it. Then all the people who were only doing it to avoid getting hurt would say, wait, well hold on, what did you say? Oh, it's going to hurt me more to keep doing it? Oh, then I won't do it. There was never any intellectual agreement. It was purely just a bunch of rich white guys covering their ass, pretending like they cared. They didn't care. They were just waiting for some good reason not to do it. Trump gave it to them.

Meanwhile, this is funny. The Daily Mail is reporting, and I don't know if you could trust this story. If this story were about Trump, I would tell you there's no way this is true. But since it's about Jim Acosta, I'm going to recreationally pretend it's true. Now I think I've explained before that a recreational belief is one that doesn't really have a lot of credibility but it would be fun if it were true. Certainly would be fun. Yeah, this is one of those.

So as you know, Jim Acosta's time slot is going to get moved from 10:00 a.m. to midnight, which is widely interpreted as he's being minimized and CNN wants to maybe encourage him to leave on his own. You know what I mean? But the story from Daily Mail is that Jim Acosta is reportedly considering leaving the network because of the shift to the bad time slot. But the move comes as CNN is slashing 200 jobs.

Now let me give some advice to Jim Acosta if he's telling people that he's considering leaving the network. That would be sort of a negotiating, wouldn't you say? He's sort of negotiating with management. Oh, if you move my time slot I might quit. Well let me give you some negotiating advice, Jim Acosta, and this is free. There's no charge for this. If your company is trying desperately to cut costs and they've already decided that you need to move to midnight, that's not really the time to start threatening them that you might quit. Because that's exactly what they want. Obviously they want him to quit. He must be one of the more highly paid people. He's not helping the network at all, and you know they showed it by moving him to midnight. No, I wouldn't negotiate under those circumstances.

The good news is sucking at your job finally matters again. So there's that. But don't worry about Jim Acosta. He can always follow the path of Tucker Carlson, who left Fox News and just got bigger. Or he could follow the model of Don Lemon, who left his prime time show and now he's doing nothing. I don't know. I don't think Don Lemon worked it out well.

The Oscar nominations are out. And the only thing the Oscar nominations for the best movie tell me is movies don't seem like a thing anymore, do