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video of look at my humanoid robot, it can put this box over on that shelf a hundred times in a row. To which I say, can it do anything else? So, sure enough, this is not a general purpose robot because I don't think those are even possible. I don't know, maybe Elon Musk has solved it, but I just don't think that the current versions of AI can power a robot. So instead of having a general purpose…

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with it and see what it could do. You'd have to give it to somebody who's actually a developer who can make it do something because it doesn't know how to do anything useful apparently except I think it has some kind of acrobatic thing.

You know how we always say that the Amish don't get the chronic health problems that the rest of us do and then we say it must be the vaccinations. And then we say it's not the vaccinations, it's the food. They don't have all the preservatives in their food. And we don't really know. But it does seem that they have fewer chronic problems. One of those chronic problems is allergies that they don't have. So the Amish children rarely have allergies.

And there's a new study. ZME Science has this story from Rupendra Brahmbhatt. And the story says that it might be because the Amish barns are full of dust that makes the kids more immune to allergies. Now, do you know what kind of dust there is in a barn? It would be hay, right? And also cow waste. So that's what they're breathing. But if you spend a lot of time in barns, apparently you have fewer problems with allergies.

Didn't work for me. I spent a lot of time in a barn when I was young. But it didn't cure my allergies. Damn it.

So let me correct t

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he fake news that you may have seen. You may have seen on social media that the TV show The View, they were taping the last show and said they were going on a hiatus or something and people said The View is going out, you know, is no longer on TV. But that's not true because The View takes the same vacation every summer. So there's nothing to suggest that the TV show The View will be discontinued.…

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