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Well, it's all looking good. So Elon Musk is apparently very happy with the development of his robots. Optimus. Not optimist. No, Optimus. But ironically, which is the wrong word to use, but you won't know the difference. He's optimistic about Optimus. I guess version three is looking good and it already has a Grok AI built into it for conversation purposes.
So 2026, do you know what 2026 is going to look like? Oh my god, you're going to have auto cabs, self-driving Teslas everywhere. You're gonna have the release of Optimus. You could have AI that's going to whatever new level it goes to by then. And what else? But basically all the big stuff seems like it's going to happen in 2026. So lots of stuff coming.
Well, Bernie Sanders was on Joe Rogan's show and Bernie was talking about climate change and Joe Rogan sort of challenged him on whether climate change is real. And he said this. He said to Bernie, "Did you see the Washington Post piece?" Essentially they found that we're in a cooling period and this was like a very inconvenient discovery but they had to report the data and kudos to them for doing that. So then he asked Jamie, his engineer, to put up a chart and the chart showed very clearly that with or without human involvement the temperature of the earth has greatly fluctuated over the entire knowable period. So there are periods when it's up, periods when it's down.
And so Rogan shows Sanders the Washington Post piece that you might argue destroys the entire climate change narrative. And Sanders' response was, "Well, I'm not sure. I didn't read that article, but you know, the scientists who are out there, I think I know." So Sanders at the end of his career. He can't, I don't think he'll last too much longer. He's a certain age. But imagine your entire career, one of your most important things was pursuing climate change and then the publication which is most aligned with the left, Washington Post, gives you essentially a debunk of the thing that you spent your entire career chasing.
So that would predictably cause some cognitive dissonance which would make Bernie say stuff like well the Washington Post doesn't know and what about those 97% of scientists. So it's not like he's going to change his mind but there it is. Does it feel to you like climate change is now so debunked that you don't really see stories about it even on CNN and MSNBC? It feels like that entire narrative went away. Is that my imagination? Did anybody else notice that? I don't know if that's entirely because of Trump or just the news was too inconvenient at some point.
Well, according to something called Zatakan by Ruben Andre, there's a survey. It shows that Gen Z likes flex hours and part, oh they want to, 38% of them want to have sex at work which I believe means remote work. And I'm saying to myself, Gen Z, only 38% of them want to have sex at work. What part am I not understanding? Is there really a human being who doesn'
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t want to have sex instead of working? Who would make that choice? Well, you know, I could be having some sex right now and getting paid for it, but I'd rather be working on these reports. 47% of young people say remote work has improved their sex lives, even without a partner. I don't know. One of the most let's say inconvenient things about all the remote work is that for some number of people…
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