Back to episode — Episode 2838 CWSA 05/13/25
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again you can see that Gavin Newsom is trying to be more of a centrist, which I define as trying to be a Republican without going all the way. Well, according to MIT Technology Review, there is a new technology that police might be using soon that doesn't use facial recognition but it can still recognize people. So without, because there's a controversy about using facial recognition, it's too in…
← Previous segment →sses, they'd have to leave immediately because if you were the one person who had some serious crimes on your record or something, the person who walks in with the Meta glasses would be the only one who knows. So as soon as you see somebody walk in with those Ray-Ban glasses, you're like, all right, got to go. I'm out of here.
But it would be the most useful thing you could do. You would be able to talk to strangers all the time because you would see something in common. Can you imagine you meet somebody you've never met before but it can check their social media and it tells you immediately what you have in common. It's like oh you both like to surf. Well you know if you know that right away that you met somebody new and you both like to surf, you already have something to talk about. It's like it would be so easy to make friends, but you can see the downside too. So there would clearly be a dark side to it. However, I think it would be useful.
All right. So what we're expecting from this Saudi trip with the president is that there are a lot of deliverables that have been arranged in advance and maybe it's already happening. I don't know. But I think you're going to see this nonstop flow of good news heading to the United States.
Now at the same time apparently there was a Pakistani man who is a British citizen who's in the government who is suggesting that Trump should be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize for quickly de-escalating the Pakistan-India conflict. To which I say, huh, maybe yes. Because we don't know exactly what Trump did, but I'm guessing what he did was he put pressure on both sides, as in you better cut this out or we'll cut trade with you or put some kind of pressure on you or sanction you or something.
And both sides would like to be able to just trade with the United States and have a good relationship with the United States. But they also needed what I called the fake because. The fake because is a reason to do the thing that they wanted to do anyway. And what they wanted to do anyway is not have a fight and not go to World War III. They definitely did not want a nuclear confrontation.
So when Trump comes in, he can just gi
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ve them some ambiguous threats and both sides will say, "Oh, well, now that I have the ambiguous threat, I guess that's a good enough reason not to have World War III. Phew, I was so willing to go to nuclear war, but now that Trump has talked to us." So I think that's something that Trump would know that neither of them wanted it. They just needed some external reason to make it look like a good i…
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