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I don't believe that's real.

Right.

In the comments.

Tell me, is that something you've heard before?

I've never heard that.

And it doesn't sound like Trump at all.

So, is that just made up?

So, did he just make up the part about Trump wanting to get rid of Black History Month and then he extended that to he wants to eliminate uh black existence from the country?

That's pretty big stretch.

Pretty big stretch.

Anyway, even CNN wouldn't let him get away with that.

Um, also in Chicago, apparently the schools in Chicago have a lot of vacancies.

So, some of the schools are like half empty.

Now, why?

So, I read this story about the Chicago schools having way fewer people signed up to be in those schools and I don't remember it saying why.

Does anybody know why?

Why would the Chicago schools be half empty?

Is that because uh people are leaving?

Are people just leaving Chicago because the schools are so bad?

Are they relocating?

Or is it because the uh population of new kids is low?

Is it because of deportations?

Yeah, that's a good point.

Is it because they were full, but the deportations got rid of the the people who were not citizens?

I don't think that's really happened at scale.

So, probably not.

So, it's weird that that this was a story in the news and I feel like they left out like why is this happening with other blue cities?

Is it happening with all schools?

I'm genuinely curious what would cause this.

Maybe has something to do with school choice, but that would be a pretty big impact for school choice.

So that doesn't seem real.

Anyway, so that's an open question.

So if anybody has the answer to that, let me know.

Um, according to the National Pulse, the uh one thing that the top rated US cities have in common is no Democrats in power.

So apparently Provo, Utah was declared the most efficient city in the US.

And I guess they used efficient for a stand-in for you know high quality city.

Um it's according to a WalletHub study and they looked at 148 cities and uh what they found is the ones where there were no Democrats in power were the top rated ones and all the ones where Democrats were in power were low rated.

So you might ask yourself, is that the only thing that they had in common?

And I will say no more.

Is that the only thing they had in common was Democrat leadership?

I don't think it's the only thing they had in common.

All right.

Um the uh I guess the federal authorities according to the Post Millennial uh the IRS and the FBI and I guess some other federal people are looking to trace the money behind the uh the LA anti-ICE riots.

And they say, "Make no mistake.

We will identify and disrupt financial networks supporting these criminal activities." Uh, that was from the IRS.

Now, are they criminal?

I'm still waiting to hear what is the crime.

Is it a crime to fund a protest?

Is it a crime to fund a protest and be secret about it?

What part exactly is the crime?

Because I don't want to see people locked up because they disagree on politics.

Uh there better be a real crime here.

I'm guessing there is, but if anybody knows where it is, let me know.

In uh good news for AI.

The University of New South Wales, um they've got an emergency room where they're using AI to translate because apparently a very large percentage of the population speaks uh different languages.

So, imagine how many lives you could save if your emergency room had a uh translator, an AI translator that was good for everybody.

You're really going to save some lives.

So, this is one of those AI home runs where it's all good and no bad.

It's just translating and people who have specific, you know, medical problems can communicate them well.

All good.

According to uh the University of Missouri, Eric Stein is writing about this.

Uh they did a study and they found that hope is a key to a meaningful life.

Hope.

Does that make sense to you?

Does that pass your sniff test?

That people who have the most hope have the most meaningful lives?

It does for me.

Yeah, that totally uh tracks and I would also argue uh as Nate Silver points out on X today, he did some uh did some analysis and he found out that uh the things that make people happy besides uh age and and religiosity.

So apparently the older you are, the happier you are.

Young people are not that happy.

And the more religious you are, the happier you are.

But those things pale in comparison, says Nate Silver, when compared to the liberal conservative gap in happiness.

So Nate Silver, who is not he's not a conservative, um is saying as strongly as possible that conservatives are happier and that the data is just really clear on that.

So put the two studies together.

One is that conservatives are happier and the other is that people who have hope have more meaningful lives which almost certainly would make you happier.

Do those fit?

I think they fit.

I feel like conservatives are hope related in their worldview.

So, you know, if I uh work hard and go to school and show up on time for my job, it's because I hope that those efforts will be rewarded.

Um, from my youngest days, I hoped that I would be successful enough to do the things that I wanted in life.

So I would say I'm very very hope um related and always have been.

Now I also uh you know lean conservative at least in terms of who I who I choose to back politically.

So it does seem to me that conservatives have more hope.

Does that feel right to you?

You know, there's no science that connects those two specifically, but it feels like it makes sense to me.

So, that, ladies and gentlemen, is all I needed to say today.

Uh, I'm going to say a few words privately to the folks on Locals, and we'll watch what happens in Israel and Iran today because I think this is the part of the week when things are going to heat up a little bit.

Now, you might remember one of my predictions was that uh Israel's estimate that they could be done with the operation in two weeks was too short and that it won't be two weeks.

Do you believe me yet?

So, it's been a little over one week.

Does it look like we're less than one week away from Israel being done with whatever they needed