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Well, the Trump administration says it's looking for some big deals for eggs from Turkey and South Korea and maybe at least one other place, according to The Hill. Now you might say to me, Scott, how can you allow a story about Turkey and eggs? Do not pretend that they're turkey eggs. Well, I can do it because I'm a professional. The rest of you will have to make terrible jokes at home about Turkey and eggs. But really they're chicken eggs. They're completely chicken eggs.
Now I didn't know that eggs could last that long. I don't know how you preserve an egg long enough to get it across an ocean, but apparently that's a thing. So we're going to have that. And also apparently, according to Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins, the American fleet of chickens is ready to poop out some eggs very soon. So within just maybe a couple months we'll have our fleet of chickens up and running.
Now what you don't know is that they won't be real chickens. They'll just be drones. Yeah, we're replacing all of our real chickens with drones made in Ukraine. No, that's not true. That's not true. They're real chickens as far as you know. Might be run by AI. No, they're real. They're real chickens. So we should have a chicken solution pretty soon.
It's kind of weird that that became such a big issue because it seems like that's the one thing that either party would have been able to solve. You know, the long-term cost of eggs probably was going to get solved in the next four years no matter who was in charge. But I do think the Republicans probably put more horsepower into it, a little more work to make it happen. No way to know, but probably.
According to Breitbart News, Simon Kent is writing that Trump is going to meet with the UAE, or he did meet with the UAE, and they've committed to a $1.4 trillion investment framework in the US. Now as usual it's a 10-year deal, so people like to give you the big number. Still, that's a gigantic deal, you know, even over 10 years. So that's good.
Now here's my question. Was it always true that other countries were on a regular basis making big decisions about investing in the United States, or is this really a Trump thing? Is Trump the reason that all these companies and all these other countries are saying yes, yes, you know, give me a deal or I'm going to invest large amounts of money in America? I don't know. It looks like it's Trump, doesn't it? It doesn't look like it's baseline. And the more of these that you see, the more of these there will be, because when people get the idea, oh, if I do a big investment in America, America is going to be a little bit friendlier to me. That might be good for me. So yeah, I think you're going to see a lot more of that.
Here's a story that'll kind of blow your mind. Now I don't know if this is true or not, but it seems true enough. According to ZME Science, it's possible that the population of the world, or at least the rural population of the world, has been undercounted by over 50%. So apparently it's really hard to count people in, let's say, lesser civilized living conditions because they don't have ID, they're not registered on any kind of government database, and you can't see them. So even if you try to see them from space by satellite, they'd be under the tree cover or whatever.
This was first discovered by researchers from Aalto University in Finland who were only trying to look into how many people will get displaced by big dam projects. So if you
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're doing a big dam project, no it's a big dam project not a big damn project, but apparently those usually displace a lot of the locals. And the researchers wanted to find out how bad the displacement was, and so they went to count the number of people who used to be there to compare it to the number that were there after the dam was done. And they found out there's no real way to know how many p…
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