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ista, I would have said, even if they'd already started, I would have said, "Oh, darn. It's my fault I ordered the wrong thing. Can I adjust?" And the human would have said to me, "No problem." Because they would rather have me as a repeat customer. They would throw away what they started and start doing it the right way. And I'm thinking, you know, there might be like a hundred different reasons…

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say at the end of a climate change story? Wait till you find out about the climate models. There's a 100% chance that in the future there will be exposés of how the climate models were fraudulent and that they knew they were. You want to anybody want to make a bet? I say 100% that someday. The trouble is I can't put a deadline on it. It might be 10 years from now, 20 years from now, but I guarantee there's going to be an investigative journalism situation where they go, "Well, we got a whistleblower and guess what? They always knew that the models did not predict." That's what I predict.

According to Newsweek, Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick is talking about how the US government under Trump administration wants to own some of the patents for inventions that the universities come up with if those universities were taking government money as grants to do the science that created the patents. To which I say, it's another sign of fascism. No, it's not. It would be fascism if perhaps you believe that Trump was going to keep the money for himself. It's not fascism if he's making you money. He literally, this would be the taxpayers' money. So if he could get some value out of the patents, and there probably would be over time, that wouldn't go to Trump. He would be long retired.

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It goes to us. So no, don't worry about it being fascism. They're literally just trying to give you a bonus. That's it. And I'm in favor of it. It does make sense that if we taxpayers are funding the patents, does it make sense that if Harvard gets one that Harvard gets to keep it? It was our money. Why wouldn't we ask for a piece of the action? Totally makes sense to me. You will be very sad to…

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