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or you can look at my X feed. You'll see I just reposted it, and it will be a Coffee with Scott Adams after party. All right, so don't miss that. 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 p…

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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 people are there. Just think about that.

And not only that, but our estimates apparently are just wildly off. They said on average the data sets undercounted rural populations by 53%. In some cases the estimates were off by as much as 84%. The population of an area was off by 84%.

Now do you know where I'm going to go with this? Can you guess the next thing I'm going to say? We'll see how well you know me. This will be a test of my predictability. What's the next thing I'm going to say? Does anybody have it yet?

So how do you think we do when we're measuring the temperature of the world, every place on the planet? You just found out that we can't even count the people, and that was all made up. Even counting the people. What are the things you would just kind of assume we had under control? No, it was just we were just guessing.

Do you remember when you were younger and you thought nutrition had been exhaustively studied and the government was telling you what was safe to eat? Do you remember that? It turns out it was just all the food pyramid was upside down and it was just based on industry food people trying to sell you cereal or something.

So now, and do you remember when you thought that vaccinations were tested in a gold standard randomized controlled trial and that after the testing, even once it got approved, that they would do ongoing continuous testing to make sure it was still safe? Do you remember when you just assumed that was true? Nope. Nope, that was never true.

So I'm going to say again because I think it's hilarious, at least hilarious to me. Wait till Democrats find out about climate models. Just wait till they find out that the most foundational thing to their entire movement, completely made up. You can't even count the number of people on Earth, much less measure the temperature everywhere on Earth for decades. That is so not something that humans can do. So not even close. And the fact that they've sold it to the American public, even the scientific community, even the scientific community has been convinced that we can measure the temperature of the Earth over time. Wow.

Well, another fun news. US Commerce Secretary Lutnick, he was talking to the All-In pod guys that went to Washington, and he said the US has already sold a thousand gold cards. So those are the cards that we sell to rich people to give them a sort of a fast start to being citizens if they want to be US citizens. And that would be $5 billion. A thousand of those gold cards would be income to the United States of $5 billion. But maybe even better, if you're bringing in all these rich people, you know they tend to hire people and they spend money and they start businesses. So this gold card thing might be way better

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than I thought. We'll see. We'll see. Hey, notes don't stick together. Meanwhile, Columbia University has folded to the Trump demands. So the Trump administration was withholding $400 million of federal funding until Columbia made some specific changes to fight anti-Semitism, which according to the Trump administration they had not done enough of. And you know there were a lot of anti-Israel pro…

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