t did you know that Chile and Colombia are only having one child per woman and Thailand is less than one. So it's not just the rich countries. So even Chile, Colombia and Thailand are not just not reproducing. So why is that? Because when I think of China and the US, I think, oh, it's just economic, you know, people can't afford it. But is that true everywhere? Did it suddenly become too expensive in every country at the same time? Do they have a housing problem in Thailand? They might. I don't know. So I don't know why it's happening everywhere. So there's a deeper mystery to the lack of babies. And I would say again that if the problem is the cost of living that we should build freedom cities that are optimized for having a family. Because I've told you this a number of times, but until it gets solved, I'll just keep saying it. The ultimate place to live if you have a young family is where there are other young families and you can't do better than that because you can take turns watching kids and they have sleepovers with your friends, etc. So it's way easier to raise kids if you're around other people raising kids. So if you build a freedom city that's optimized for a low cost of living and a high quality of contact with other people in the same age range and same interests, it would be amazing. You could build it tomorrow. You just need approvals basically.

Apparently colleges are having a tough time scrambling to fill their roles because of all the foreign students who are staying home or have been banned from their colleges. And apparently it's a pretty big deal. There's going to be a 30 to 40% decline in new international student enrollment. So 150,000 fewer international students in this country. So people who were much deeper on the wait list, in other words, people who didn't get in will be getting in. So that's good.

There's a new synthetic opioid that's way worse than even fentanyl and even way worse in that the Narcan which can save you if you have a fentanyl overdose doesn't work on this. So what is it called? Nitazene. Nitazene. So watch out for that. Kids are already dropping dead taking a pill that they think is one thing. It turns out to be filled with nitazene. So don't take that.

So allegedly Putin and Trump are going to meet and talk about Ukraine, but I don't think there's any chance this will work because Zelensky is making a video saying that there's no possibility of Ukraine giving land away for peace and that's really the only deal. And he says that Zelensky says that the constitution of Ukraine prevents him from even having that conversation because he doesn't have the power to give anything away. Now, will Trump come back and say, I got a deal, and your part of the deal is you got to do a constitutional convention and vote on whether or not we can end the war by giving away this property? Would he do it? I feel like Zelensky is going to go all the way. And as long as he's in office, he's never going to say yes to peace. I feel like and so it might be that Trump has to get rid of Zelensky before anything productive can happen. We'll see. But we'll watch that. I feel like the odds of this producing a three-way agreement for peace are basically zero. Don't you? Basically zero. So but I'll be surprised. I would love to be wrong.

Israel bombed an Al Jazeera reporter who was in Gaza and killed him as well as four of his co-workers who were also Al Jazeera reporters because they said that the one guy was actually a Hamas operator. Now, I don't know if that's true, but they killed him and his whole team intentionally. Four confirmed dead. So maybe him and three others. Now, does that seem a little convenient to you that whenever there's people reporting on Gaza, which is the last thing that Israel would want to happen, that they're also working with Hamas, so you better kill them all? I don't know. So here's my warning about the war zone. 100% of the information coming out of the war zone is not credible. Some of it might be true, but it's not credible. You can't believe it's true just because it showed up in the newspaper. So do we know that this Al Jazeera guy was really working for Hamas? We don't know that. Could it be that Israel just decided to kill him because the last thing they want is any living reporters in the area? Possibly. I don't have any information to suggest that's the case, but possibly. So I would say this is exactly the kind of story you should say to yourself, okay, it's a total shitshow over there. People do terrible things on both sides. This is probably more of that, but we don't know which side was doing the terrible thing. Obviously, if the three people who were with him were innocent reporters, that would be pretty bad.

I guess Australia has decided to recognize a Palestinian state. What exactly do they think that looks like? Do they think that Israel is just going to suddenly say, oh, all right, Gaza is a Palestinian state now. Go ahead, you guys. You can have Gaza and the West Bank and we'll get rid of all of our settlements. Do they really think any of that's going to happen? I don't believe it.

And Bernie Sanders is now saying that Netanyahu is a war criminal just as much as the head of Hamas is a war criminal. So he's now basically acting like they're morally similar or at least legally similar in terms of war crimes. You can pick your war criminal. Pick your preference. The only thing I have to say about that is that I try not to impose my own ethical or moral standard on a situation which does not operate on ethics or morality. It's purely self-interest of the countries and if I observe that Israel is effectively pursuing their own national self-interest what else am I to say about it? The only thing that I have to say about is whether the US should be funding any part of that a