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elp those with sleep apnea. So they had people blow into this shell, you know, a conch shell, and those that did did not have nearly as much sleep apnea. Now, they did not report how the conch itself slept, but I feel like it slept pretty well, if you know what I mean. All right, you'll have to think about that one for a little bit. Take your time. Take your time. Now you're good.

So I was telling you that ChatGPT launched version five and people were not impressed and I've been predicting for some time that AI may have started to plateau and maybe won't get that much better that quickly. It'll get better, but maybe not so quickly anymore. Well, apparently there were enough complaints about GPT-5 that they pulled it back and just said, why don't you use four for a while again? And I guess it was some specific technical problem that they've identified and fixed. So it might be a very temporary thing, but GPT-5 was underwhelming. Apparently it was dumber than four, but they know why, so they've already fixed it.

That was embarrassing, but they are in the kind of business where going fast and making mistakes and fixing them is exactly what they probably need to be doing as long as it doesn't release a super intelligence into the world with no guardrails that will kill us all.

Harvard has announced a major breakthrough in the fight against dementia. They say they believe that micro doses of a new lithium compound will maybe just really make a big difference because apparently it makes a big difference in dementia-ridden mice. Now, I believe I looked up on Grok once how often a drug that works with mice ends up working and being approved and everything for a human being. What do you think is the ratio? If it works with mice in a lab, what are the odds that it will also work on humans and be safe and get approved? I feel like it was one in 14. I think it was one in 14, but it might have been much worse than that. Yeah, it's not even 25%. It's a very small number. Ten percent. Yeah, maybe 10%.

And I saw on social media that Tesla is the only car company, maybe it was American, no, I think the only car company that's making cash. So Tesla produced something like 16 billion in cash. So that's not profitability because profitability could be just on paper. But cash is what you care about. If it's producing lots of cash, you have a really good company. So it's the only one. All the other car companies are actually losing cash. Did you know that? That there's only one car company in the entire world that operates profitably. Well, the others might be profitable on paper, but only one of them produces more cash than it uses. Tesla. Weird.

So what else is happening as my papers stick together? Solved. There's also a report that Tesla might be trying to enter the Britain energy market. I saw a Sawyer Merritt post on this and the idea is, I don't know the details, but it looks like Tesla, at least a component of Tesla, will be involved with maybe Powerwalls and I don't know what else, maybe solar panels, but at least Powerwalls. And it feels like the market for Powerwalls is almost unlimited, doesn't it? Because my house, I looked into it. The only reason that I don't have a Powerwall is because the process of buying one is so bad that I gave up. I was sold like, oh yeah, I'm going to get a Powerwall. And they made the process so unpleasant of all the things I have to do and the information I have to give them and the scheduling and the phone calls and the phone calls and the follow-up phone calls for the follow-up meeting. It's just an initial meeting for the follow-up. Oh my god, it was just an unbearable process. So I just bailed out in the middle of it because I couldn't handle the incompetence. But as a product, if you just had a normal-sized house, which I don't, I would definitely get one. I can't imagine that I wouldn't if I could afford it.

Trump is pushing his IQ test idea for Jasmine Crockett and AOC. It's such a summer story again that Trump puts another Truth Social post in which it's just this long complainy thing about AOC and the other three that we never remember, the Squad, and then Jasmine Crockett. He's calling both of them low IQ and then he clarifies, Trump does, when he says low IQ, he puts in parentheses "very" with lots of exclamation points. Very. They're not just low IQ in his opinion. They're very. All of which I find funny. And sure enough, I love what it does. It makes us wonder which one is dumber. And instead of thinking, well, that's not very nice of him, all I'm thinking is I wonder which one is dumber. If they took that IQ test, I wonder how that would come out. I'm a little bit curious, I must say. I don't think they're going to take an IQ test, but I do suspect both of them would do fine actually on an IQ test. If I had to guess, let's see. If I had to guess, I would put them both at 120 IQ, which would be pretty solid. You know, it'd be good enough to get elected to Congress. That's what I think.

Anyway, JD Vance said in an interview yesterday, he said that we're going to see a lot of people get indicted over Russiagate. Do you believe that? Do you believe that a lot of people will be indicted over Russia? And would one of those people be Hillary Clinton and would one of those people be Barack Obama? I feel as though Barack Obama would be the last who might be indicted. I can't imagine him being the first, you know, the beginning of the list. It's possible, but I feel like they might want to tiptoe into it and maybe make sure that they got something like a conviction on a lower-level person. Maybe somebody will flip on them. Maybe it just makes it easier to sell to the public if somebody's already been convicted as being on his team. It makes it a little more obvious that if people are convicted for their participation with him, it wouldn't surprise you if he got indicted. So we'll see.

But Hillary Clinton, how in the world do you avoid indicting her like right up front? Because she's literally the genesis for the entire Russiagate hoax. If she gets away with it, I don't know, we might see some prosecutors being murdered or, as Hillary likes to say, suicide again. Coincidentally. We'll see.

Apparently Trump might be giving an announcement right now as I speak. I'm not sure, but he was going to tell us what he planned for Washington DC. We believe according to the reporting that there will be FBI agents who maybe have already been assigned to help the DC police to prevent violent crime. Now, the FBI agents would not be pulling people over and giving th

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em tickets or anything like that, but they might be there to assist. And then separately, Trump is reportedly considering sending the National Guard into DC again for policing but probably not doing what police do. Not arresting people, just being a military presence and maybe an assistant to the police, whatever they need. So Trump seems very determined to make Washington DC a livable city again.…

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