Back to episode — Episode 2875 CWSA 06/21/25
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e topic. So now AI can influence us by which vocabulary we use, but it can also influence us by being very useful. So we rely on it for facts, even if they're wrong. And apparently it can also influence us with analogies and emotion and empathy. So if you were wondering, is AI going to start being in control of humans? Yeah. Yeah. No doubt about it. There isn't the slightest chance that AI will n…
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Well, speaking of Elon Musk, apparently Tesla, according to CNBC, has just signed a deal with China to build their largest grid-scale battery power plant. Now I think the batteries are also made in China, but they've got a battery factory in Shanghai and it's made over 100 megawatts in the first quarter. So what this is about is a way to make your network more efficient because you can store the cheaply generated electricity in your batteries and then release it as you need it and China will be first.
Now I don't give financial advice, but if you knew that Tesla just signed an enormous deal to create grid-scale battery power plants in China and they're planning to do it for other countries as well, isn't that one of the biggest businesses in the world? I mean it's starting with one but wouldn't every power grid want this? So what exactly is the size of this financial opportunity? It looks like it's bigger than cars. Literally every country and every grid would probably get some benefit from having a battery power plant.
Anyway, according to Politico and Carrie Lake was announcing this in her role as an advisor to President Trump. Apparently a majority of the staff of Voice of America is getting released, terminated. And senior presidential advisor Carrie Lake said, "Today we took decisive actions to effectuate the Trump agenda to shrink the control federal bureaucracy." So we'll see if that sticks. Eliminating 1,400 jobs and 85% cut to the workforce there. Good job.
As I've said before, pundit and humorist comic Dave Smith has very effectively and impressively worked his way into the conversation about the biggest topics in America, in this case the Israel-Iran conflict. And I'm very impressed because it would be one thing if you were a famous geopolitical expert, but to become one of the central people in the conversation coming out of the humor field, the podcast punditry world, you really have to be doing something well. And even if you disagree with him, and I'm going to disagree with him a little bit today, even if you disagree, I really like what he adds to the conversation because he does sort of force people to debate him. And you can judge for yourself who's got the better opinion, but I like where he takes the conversations.
But he had a post that actually got millions of views and I will read it to you. His post was, "Okay, fine. Iran doesn't have nukes, but have you heard their chants? We must go to war to stop these chants." Now that's a pretty good humorist take, but is there any more to t
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his story? Of course there is. So here's my take, and he may have already answered this. I don't know. But I weighed in on that. And I said in the comments, I haven't heard an innocent reason why Iran insists on threshold enrichment levels. Threshold meaning right up to the point where you can make a nuclear weapon. And there's no reason to be there at that level of enrichment. There's not a civi…
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