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the Syrian civil war was over 700. Oh my god. But that was spread over a longer period. So for the on a per year basis, Gaza has killed the most journalists. But what have I told you about data? Almost all data is fake. I'm going to go further. All data is fake. How many of the journalists do you think were really Hamas operatives pretending to be journalists? Well, not zero. Probably not zero. An…

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at's sort of like the Red Cross. There's some symbols that can operate in the war zone and you're not supposed to shoot at them. So imagine you had a drone that as soon as you saw it, you say ah, that's a journalist drone. I don't need to shoot that one. And then it's got a Zoom camera on it and it just comes down and lands somewhere where it can talk to anybody and it does an interview and says hey, do you have a minute? I'm a journalist. You're talking to me through the maybe there's a little camera, a little screen on it and can I interview you and maybe even there's some AI that does some language translation because AI can translate on the fly. So you could be an American journalist, land in an Arab country and just interview somebody in another language if they were willing to do it. So that's what I predict. Journalists will be replaced with drones operated by journalists, but they should stay out of those places.

All right, everybody. That's all I got for you today. I'm going to say a few words privately to the Locals people, my beloved Locals people. The rest of you, thanks for joining. Hope you got something out of this. We'll do it again tomorrow. Same time, same place. Come back.

All right. Oh no. It's not working again. All r

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ight. So Locals, my button to go private with you is not working today. I wonder why it works sometimes but not other times. Yeah. So that's not working. So I can't talk to you privately today, but I will give you a final sip that you can all enjoy. And then I'll say see you later. See you later. Oh, I can't even end it. So I have to close it and reopen it.

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