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but there's no Uber driver, so I don't have to worry about a person. And then I take it to my local ping-pong emporium and I play with the robot, and then I take my self-driving auto cab home. I can avoid people completely. That's a good world. As you know, the *New York Times* did a big piece alleging that Elon Musk is taking all kinds of drugs. They say he was on ketamine and ecstasy and mushro…

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not on any drugs at all. It's fake news. And he was randomly tested for three years after he had one puff of weed on the Joe Rogan show. So nope. He's telling us quite clearly that he is not on any kinds of drugs, and I think they do keep testing him because of SpaceX.

He did say he tried prescription ketamine a few years ago, but that wasn't illegal. So here's something exciting in interesting engineering. I keep telling you that the most exciting technology would be holes. You know, like the Boring Company can make a tunnel, big hole. But if you could go straight down and you could go far enough, you could get into all that geothermal. And apparently there's a new technology that looks like it can do t

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hat. It's a company called Quaise Energy. And what do they do? They have a novel drilling method. They use a gyrotron, you know, which is how I do it. It's a device that generates a powerful high-frequency millimeter wave. And these waves are so intense that they can literally vaporiz

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