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Well, there was some kind of an election in Canada, and I don't really care. Does anybody care? Let's take a vote in the comments. Does anybody care about the election in Canada? No. Okay, moving on.
Apparently Amazon has decided to show the tariff costs in your cart before you pay for it. But as Sean Davis pointed out on X, why don't they tell us what country it's being made from? Wouldn't you like to know that? Would you love to know what's being made in China? Yes, you would. So it might be nice to know what the tariffs are adding to the cost, but on the other hand, it would also be really nice to know what country is this coming from. That would be fun.
Speaking of Jeff Bezos, I guess Amazon is going to launch its Project Kuiper satellites according to USA Today. So they're going to launch 27 satellites into low Earth orbit. What is it for? That's missing in the story. What are they going to use all those satellites for? I assume they're going to compete for internet traffic with SpaceX's satellites. They're going to deploy over 3,200 satellites eventually. Is the entire Earth going to be surrounded with satellites at one point? Are we going to dim the sun with so many satellites at some point? Drone delivery. You think it's about drone delivery? Maybe. Yeah, maybe. Could be.
Speaking of shopping, ChatGPT OpenAI is going to add shopping to its AI app. So if you're in ChatGPT, this is a story in Wired, you'll be able to search for things and it will pop up with recommendations and it will learn to know your preferences. And so yeah, it could be competing with Amazon. We don't know. Might be more than that, but would you shop with AI? Because I've tried to shop with AI and it's actually pretty good because it gives you links to the actual vendor. You know, it's not acting like Amazon. It would give you links to Amazon and other vendors. I kind of like that. So I don't know how they're going to make their money. So they're not going to have sponsored ads, or at least they don't yet. But don't you think it would be better to shop with an AI than to even go to Amazon? Although I've got to say Amazon.com, the actual software, is probably the best software I've ever seen. Have you ever stopped to think how incredible it is that Amazon.com works and it works really well and it's optimized and it's easy to navigate? I'm always wowed by how good Amazon is with software.
Anyway, apparently IBM is going to invest $150 billion in the US to grow its manufacturing over five years. So add that to the Trump tariff wins. Apparently we've got quite a few companies now that are going to move their manufacturing to the US. So that part of what Trump is trying to do seems to be working at least at some scale.
Speaking of Trump, he just signed an executive order to require truck drivers to speak English. Now I didn't know that was a big problem that truck drivers didn't speak English, a lot of them, but apparently it is. And it's not just a small problem. Apparently that inability to speak English has led to a number of accidents. I don't know if it's because they can't read street signs or what it is, but there is some thinking that there's massive danger that the truck drivers can't speak English. So maybe that got fixed, although now there won't be enough truck drivers. So that's a problem.
Here's some fake news. Listen to the fake news. According to NPR, some two anonymous sources. Now if I tell you it's NPR and it's two anonymous sources and the story is something that's negative about the Trump administration, is it real? What's your guess? Is your guess that NPR with two anonymous sources and a negative story about the Trump administration, is there any chance that's real? Well, it looks like it's not. So the claim was that some Doge workers got access to nuclear secrets, which apparently the authorities have said, "No, that's crazy. Nobody got access to any n
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uclear secrets." Of course not. Here's some more fake news. Trump is claiming he's already made 200 trade deals, but he won't specify. He won't give any examples so you can't check on him. Does anybody think that Trump already made 200 trade deals? Does anybody think that's even a little bit true? So some of the claims that Trump is making are just hilarious. I saw Scott Bessent was in an intervi…
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