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try that fake one with me again.

All right. What's going on? I find that the first part of the news is always something about Elon Musk. Is there even one day that guy can go without making news? It's impossible.

But apparently on Sunday, this Sunday in Austin, Texas, will be the launch of the Tesla robotaxi. So the no-driver self-driving taxi in Austin. And I saw a picture of somebody in one and they were sitting in the front. Would you sit in the front of a robotaxi or would you sit in the back in case something goes wrong? I feel like I would sit in the back seat if that's an option. I assume it is. Wouldn't you? You know, just a little bit safer, at least for a while?

Now, I get that the self-driving robotaxis will be safer than a human-driven automobile, but even with a human I don't feel comfortable in the passenger side of the front seat. I always think, can I trust this human? So I'd probably sit in the back.

Well, according to the ex-CEO, which is not someone who used to be a CEO but rather the CEO of the company called X, Linda is saying that users will soon be able to trade stocks on X and make investments and send tips and split bills and maybe even buy merch, all without leaving the app. And they're going to call it X Money. So it'll be a peer-to-peer payment system.

Now here's the fun part. If X becomes the everything account, isn't X an internet within the internet? Because I asked myself, what do I do all day on the internet that I could not do completely within X? I use AI. All right, well that's built into X. I look at the news, but all the links and the analysis are on X. So the only other thing I do is investments and send money digitally. That's the only other stuff I do. So if I could do all of that on X, I would be within an internet that was within an internet. And do you know how much power that would give Elon Musk if he had an internet within the internet and you never left it? You would be in the bubble of all bubbles.

Now I get that X has different points of view, but I don't really see them. Do you? I could spend the entire day on X and never see a competing point of view. All I would see is the people that I most like to see. The only times I see competing points of view is when they're being mocked by people I agree with. So when I see a clip on MSNBC, it's never to agree with it. It's always to laugh at it. If I see a clip of The View, it's always just to laugh at it. So the bubble of all bubbles is forming. I don't know if I'm against it or for it, but it's a complete transformation of the internet experience if you never leave that one app. And I probably wouldn't. I'd probably be on it all day anyway.

And then Elon Musk's AI company, which I assume will be folded into X into Grok, I don't know how that works, but apparently Elon Musk is now launching the biggest supercomputer in the world. The largest supercomputer has many GPUs. You don't need to know the details, but the biggest one in the world is Elon Musk's. So if you used AI for all of your work and Elon Musk had the largest supercomputer driving the best AI, would you ever leave? I don't know.

It's looking to me like Elon Musk's strategy for X and for everything else is kind of amazing. It's like a strategy I've never seen before that basically would take over everything from the news to finance to banking. And probably it would work. So that's big.

Speaking of Elon Musk, he points out that the solar power generation in China will exceed all sources of electricity combined in the USA in only three to four years, which he calls a wakeup call. So do you remember when people mocked Elon Musk for saying that we could get all of our energy from solar? We would need batteries, of course, but we have batteries. He was never really in the majority on that. I always felt like he was in the minority and everyone who thought they knew about energy would say over and over, "Well, you're never going to get there with solar power alone. I mean that's ridiculous. You're going to need nuclear and you're going to need oil and gas and all that." And in the short run, certainly that's all true. But is it hypothetically possible, as Musk has been sayi

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ng for years, that if you wanted to and you went hard at it, you could have all the energy needed from solar? And it's starting to look like he was right about that. Looks like he got the math right. If you were doubting Elon Musk on math and engineering, well he made a bad bet. I have to admit I was skeptical because it looked more like he was just promoting his own products, but I think he's al…

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