've got to shove it down the throats of the other people even if it's not their perfect solution. There's no other way to do it. So if you think he's being a dictator and blah blah blah well no more than Jamie Dimon. Somebody's got to be in charge and somebody's got to say this process can work. This other process where you've got 14 people deciding what works, that can never work. That can never work. So if you want something to work yeah two people at a summit is how I would do it. That's exactly how I would do it. And I would definitely leave Zelensky home. No doubt about that.

So anyway but also Saudi Arabia is hosting that Arab summit as I said. So I like the fact that Saudi is acting like a real ally. Have you noticed that? It feels like not all of our allies act like allies but there might be some exceptions. I don't know about but I do appreciate that Saudi seems somewhat consistently trying to make sure that America and Saudi Arabia have a strong ongoing connection and they're not sabotaging us while secretly trying to help us or vice versa. So I know I'm speaking too soon and maybe they're doing things we don't like as well but I kind of like the way it looks, the way it feels. So good job Saudi Arabia so far.

And then according to the University of California San Francisco did you know that there's an alarming rise in advanced prostate cancer in California? So California more than other states but also the other states stopped reducing the cancer deaths and they've plateaued. So the idea is that specific cancer, prostate cancer, has gotten worse in California. Now NPCs would you like to blame the vaccination for that? NPCs remember swimming is the best form of exercise, French press is the best for coffee, and that green stuff is Soylent Green. Now this started before the pandemic. Before the pandemic listen to me before the pandemic this trend started. It seems related to they say it's related to less screening. So the less screening they say is leading to worse outcomes. I'm not entirely sure that makes a difference because I've seen studies that say that Great Britain doesn't do as much screening as we do for this specific cancer and their life expectancies are much different. So there's a little conflicting data. Some data says that this screening doesn't make a difference but California's seeming to indicate it did. I don't know. I don't trust any news. I don't trust any data. Remember all data is the fox counting the chickens and you can never trust the fox to count the chickens. But the only thing I wanted to point out is this is a case where it definitely happened before the pandemic and before the vaccinations. So there might be some several unrelated reasons that the cancer rates are up that don't have to do with vaccinations and don't have to do with COVID. But also there could be some of that. So I'm not ruling out that any of that's — I'm not saying that the vaccinations do or do not cause a problem like that but there do seem to be some other reasons. So just so you heard that.

Well if you didn't know it I posted on Locals yesterday and then I reposted on X a lesson on risk management. Now before you tell me what I'm going to tell you just wait for me to say it first okay. Nobody cares about who got a vaccination during the pandemic. It's old news, old story. But it's a really good lesson in risk management. And I would argue that if you weren't good at risk management you often said something like — and people said this to me in comments to my lesson. They said Scott the only thing I needed to know is that the government said it was a good idea and it was called experimental. So therefore that's all I needed to know. And so I thought to myself are there any examples where the government wanted you to do something that was good for you? Because if everything the government recommends is bad for you that's a pretty good reason. If every time the government said you should do this was always wrong jus