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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,…

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o that's pretty scary. But doesn't it seem like there's now a trend that we've seen that nobody has the military that you thought they had? That everybody's bluffing? Because aren't you a little bit surprised that the entire Russian military couldn't capture all of Ukraine? So Ukraine is fighting Russia to a standstill with what? Senior citizens and children and anybody they can get to go in a pit with some drones. So I don't think that Russia had anything like the military that we assumed they had. And it looks like Europe doesn't have anything like the military that we assumed they had. And I wouldn't be surprised if China also doesn't have anything like the military we thought they had. Although if they were going balls to the wall instead of just trying to stay within the lines, probably it would be different. You know, if they use their best weapons and stuff, probably it'd be different. But I don't know. It's so easy to assume that some other military is stronger than it is.

In other news, according to ZME Science, China made the world's fastest transistor and didn't use any silicon and runs 40% faster and uses less power and blah blah blah. But I'm going to say the same thing that I should have said about battery breakthroughs because every single day I see a new report about somebody made a battery breakthrough that charges faster and lasts longer and doesn't require any rare earth minerals. If you would look at the history of breakthroughs, it could take 5 to 10 years for anything to hit the market. And it could also take decades. That wouldn't even be unusual. So this new kind of chip and the new kind of batteries, they probably will change the world, but maybe not for 15, 20 years. So it's more like a forecast of what the future looks like.

Another in other news, my last story here, I think it's my last one. The University of Bristol has found that some conditions like depression and schizophrenia might have something to do with underlying conditions in the body. In other words, that it might not be entirely brain related. It might be something about your overall physical fitness that's causing your depression and schizophrenia and other mental health problems. And I will just remind you that I've been saying for years that one of our big mistakes in health care, at least mental health care, is to assume that your brain is the thing that's in your skull. That might be the most important part, but you should think of your brain as your entire body because anything that happens to your body is going to affect your brain so much. Whether it's gut health or probiotics or that this new thing is about immune response. So they think if they gave you a better immune response, you'd have better mental health. Now, I don't know about this particular study, but just in general, the fact that we treat the brain like it's a special thing in your skull and not really just one component of your mental health has always been a mistake in my view. Could be the food. Could be.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, that's what I had for you. I'm going to say hi to the locals people very quickly and the rest of you I'll see you same time tomorrow. Thanks for joining.

All right, locals. I'm coming at you in 30 seconds or possibly not. So the answer is not because the button to go private is not working today. So I'll have to close the studio to close that, which means I can't go private. But I'll see you tomorrow on the pre-show and we'll have some fun then.