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said if you cut the Department of Education it will be bad for disabled students and it will be bad for the nutrition programs. So you monster you might be getting rid of some things that aren't that important but you're also getting rid of the special needs programs that I guess were funded through that entity and the school lunch programs that were also funded federally. And then Trump just sign…

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e big bricks that were the only way you could make a cell phone in the early days. And so I was right in the middle of that literally in a lab which studied that stuff and other phone company stuff. And so one of my co-workers, somebody in my group was a top engineer and he was asked to study the danger from the cell phones to find out if we could really be in this business safely because it was an issue back then. And he studied everything that was written, looked at all the studies about cell phones and he came back with the recommendation that they were safe and that the business could go ahead. Pretty good right?

He studied all the studies, decided you know he had some engineering argument why these particular magnetic radiations wouldn't affect your brain and blah blah blah. So he did all the work, came back, said perfectly safe. I was sitting next to him one day while all that was happening and privately I said to him would you use one of these phones? Because believe it or not those were the days where people didn't have a cell phone in their pocket yet. I said would you use one? And he looked at me and he said no. His personal opinion was that it wasn't safe. His professional opinion was that it was safe. The company only cared about his professional opinion and they went ahead and they produced the phones and did very well. And then eventually smartphones came.

Now I'm no expert but if we can't count the number of people in the world to within a billion and we've been told that the food pyramid was upside down until it wasn't and we're still told that scientists can measure the temperature of the entire planet and compare it to the earlier decades, completely absurd, what do you believe about the science about phones and radiation? The correct answer is you shouldn't believe anything. So I don't know what studies Kennedy is looking at and I don't know if it's the same effect for adults. I hope not. But there's nothing you can believe. You know the financial incentive to fake a study like this is just so off the chart. We're talking about hundreds of billions of dollars hanging on the industry saying it's safe and keeping us believing it's safe. So don't believe anything.

Meanwhile according to Interesting Engineering there's over in Germany they found an efficient way, it's the efficiency that's the story not that you can do it at all but an efficient way to turn CO2 they suck that out of the air into jet fuel. And the important part is not that they can do it because we've been able to do that for a while but we couldn't do it efficiently so it's not like you could actually start making jet fuel. It wasn't that good. But now they can and they're looking at making just a crap ton, a ton of jet fuel a day from one facility that's working with Sunfire and Climeworks. Climeworks is a company that sucks CO2 out of the air. They've been around a while now.

May I complete this story the way you want me to? There's something missing right? And it goes like this. If you take all the CO2 out of the atmosphere all our plants are going to die and then we will all starve to death. So whatever you do Scott don't be in favor of sucking CO2 out of the air because the more we have the better. That's what you're thinking. That's what you're thinking. But I don't think we're talking about sucking enough out of the air that it would make any difference. So I could be wrong.

Meanwhile according to Interesting Engineering Ukraine is testing a zigzag drone that has a four barrel shotgun. So now the drones are going to have firearms, a four barrel shotgun so it can do dogfights with other drones. So if you want to take down a drone with your drone you can send up your shotgun drone and just blast away at the other drones. So does that scare you at all? You know and I'll say again that we're sort of in this weird part of history where drone warfare is under development and it's come a long way but it hasn't fully replaced human soldiers. But weirdly we're at the very time in history where Ukraine is running out of human soldi

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ers but they're doing great on unmanned crafts and robots and robot dogs and drones. So it could be, makes me wonder if Zelensky is smart enough to know that they're six months away from being able to completely defend their border without new troops. In other words you wouldn't need many to just tell the drones to do what they need to do. So could it be that the real reason that Zelensky is sort…

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