Back to episode — Episode 2890 CWSA 07/07/25
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t, who is more likely to win? The bully, which would be the United States, even though it had nothing to do with the soccer team, or the victims of the bully, which would be the Mexican soccer team, but again, not the actual players, just the idea of one country versus another. And so if you would use that standard, which is weirdly predictive, it is so predictive that the best story would win. Th…
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Now I tried everything. I tried everything, but it was a sandwich that couldn't be eaten. It was an inedible sandwich. Have you ever had one of those? And as long as the bun was much harder than the contents, there was no solution. So I ended up just eating the contents with my fingers and throwing away the bun. But probably that was the healthiest thing I could do. Throw away the bun.
According to Elon Musk, the algorithm on X has been tweaked and improved so that you could maybe discover smaller accounts that have good posts. But I'll tell you one thing it didn't do is it did not change my bubble. I don't even remember the last time a Democrat saw something I posted on X. And I don't remember seeing anything that a Democrat posted. I get exactly one troll every time I make a comment that's in any way positive about Trump or Republicans. Always one. And it always looks like they're operating off troll kind of instructions because they all say the same thing.
Now you might see it. So if you see it in my account someday, you'll know what it is. They don't even comment on what it is that I'm commenting on. Instead they leave one comment and it's always just one person and a different one each time. That's how I know it's organized. And they'll say, "Is this how you plan to spend your remaining days on Earth?" So they mock me for having a terminal disease. And then they don't even mention anything that's wrong with what I said. They just try to shame me into thinking that I should not be spending my final minutes worrying about such things. One a day.
Now if I got 10 of those a day, I'd say, "Oh that just must be people are terrible." But it's one on every political comment. It just looks programmed really. So anyway, I have no access to any Democrats. So nothing I say influences anything unless it gets to somebody like Trump and maybe he quotes it or something. But I could talk all day long and no Democrat would ever see it. Just a couple of trolls, that's it. So that's not ideal.
Elon has said he's thinking about building a solar gigafactory. So that would make solar panels and the batteries that would store it. Now I would like to go back to all of you who told me there is no economical way to introduce solar into the network for part of the grid. But why would Musk be even thinking about it if there's no way to do it economically? Do you think he would depend entirely on government subsidies? I don't think he would gamble on government subsidies at the moment because he's going pretty hard at the government. We'll talk about that.
But it seems to me that betting on Elon Musk is a smarter bet, especially about technology and the economics of that technology. It seems like agreeing with him is a smart play. But people have decided that he's the only person in the world who can do 50 genius things in a row. And then the moment there's something that you feel like you care about, you think that you're smarter than him. It's the damndest thing. Like I love people's ego. Oh yeah. Well on this topic that I don't know anything about, I read an article once, so I guess I'm smarter than the smartest guy in the world. Maybe not. Maybe not.
In related news, according to Intere
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sting Engineering, one of China's big tech giants, Huawei, just filed a patent for a battery that they've juiced to have a 1,800 mile range for automobiles. And it's solid state EV. And they think it can get over 1,800 miles in one charge and charge up to 80% of it in five minutes. Now I'm not saying that Elon would use that technology because Tesla would probably invent its own stuff, but I would…
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