your employer can know for sure if you're lying? I mean, you shouldn't be lying, but it would be a different world if somebody could know for sure if you're telling the truth.

According to Unusual Whales on X, Visa wants to give AI your credit card to buy groceries. Now, I guess Fortune is reporting on this. Now, I think what that means is that if you wanted to use AI as like an agent, you know, like a little AI that's your assistant where you can tell it to go buy some tickets to the show or go buy some online groceries or something. It really can't do anything unless it can use your credit card. So it's where things had to go. So it's not even so much about Visa. It's just at some point your robot and your AI, they kind of had to have access to some part of your finances or else they couldn't do much useful stuff. So this is probably something that's inevitable, but it's kind of scary that the AI would have access to any of your funds. But it tells me that I need a second AI. I need one AI that's an agent that can go do things like buy things on my behalf, but I need a second AI that watches the first AI just to make sure it doesn't rob me, right? It's sort of a two-AI situation. With humans, it's not unusual to have a double authorization situation where two humans have to, I think in banking you see this a lot. If I recall when I was a banker, a teller, if we needed to open the big safe, we didn't leave it open all day, but if we needed to open the big safe and anybody needed to go in, they could never do it alone. There had to be two people so that one person would watch the other one to make sure they don't rob you. AI has got to be the same thing because humans are not going to be able to watch AI too well. You're going to need one AI just to watch your other AIs and make sure they're not ripping you off. So I think that's inevitable, too.

Apparently the scammers, according to Futurism, Joe Wilkins is writing about this. Scammers are using AI to disguise themselves as attractive people or just different people and they're going after the boomers because the boomers are easy to fool. So I guess AI is so good at this point that you could have your natural face doing something like a Zoom call. And I assume that they can do it in real time, not just video, but something like a Zoom call where you look exactly like somebody else, like a completely different person. Now, I haven't seen that demonstrated yet, but I wouldn't be surprised, of course. I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work. Wouldn't be surprised if it does work. So watch out for that. If something looks too good to be true, it probably is. You know, I've been able to identify scams because anytime there's anybody who alleges to be female and shows interest in me, I immediately say, "Well, that's a scam." Yeah, I don't believe that. So use that same standard.

Here's an update for the Houthis. PX3 posted a Trump warning that the Houthis will be treated as an Iranian attack. So Trump wants to make sure that people know that the Houthis are not operating independently, that they're backed by Iran. Now I don't know if that's going to change anything because we all knew that right? But it feels like it's firing a shot across the bow of Iran when they're trying to get a nuclear deal. Now, I told you the other day that apparently the Houthi situation was not part of the negotiations with Iran, and I thought, why would that not be part of the negotiations? Like why would you bother to get a nuclear deal if you weren't going to also deal with the Houthi situation. You ought to throw that in there. So maybe this is part of what Trump's getting ready to do. Make sure that that gets thrown in the deal, doesn't get forgotten.

According to Remix, Russia's budget is getting hit hard because oil and gas prices are falling all over the world and Russia depends on those. But I'm going to say the same thing I said about China. We only imagine that we know what's happening with the Chinese economy, but it's the same with Russia. I feel like we just sort of imagine that we know. So maybe Russia's got a budget problem and maybe that will have something to do with them wanting to get peace on Ukraine, but I wouldn't bet on it. So I'm going to discount that as being important. If oil price went down another 40% then it definitely would make a difference. But at the moment it's just going to squeeze them a little bit. They'll figure it out.

According to PJ Media, he's writing about an exclusive report in the UK Times that says that Europe, if it wanted to put peacekeeping troops on the ground in Ukraine, that they would struggle to get 25,000 troops. And the larger picture is that apparently NATO is so hollowed out and the European countries are so bereft of military not just personnel but equipment that there's almost no military in Europe. They don't have people and they don't have much in the way of assets or equipment. So I guess they were depending on the United States being the primary combatant if Russia decided to take Europe because it doesn't look like Europe could defend itself. They don't have enough people and they don't have enough assets. S