Back to episode — Episode 2948 CWSA 09/04/25
Context —
chemical companies were openly marketing and selling the precursors used for fentanyl, cocaine and heroin. And so apparently they've indicted Chinese companies. So the FBI knows the name of the companies and has indicted them. What happens when you indict a Chinese company? Nothing, right? It's not like the Chinese company is going to say, oh okay, we throw ourselves at the mercy of the American…
← Previous segment →than working. And I suppose you could work too, right? Because they're doing a daycare. So I guess you don't have to quit your job if you're a woman. So you can get the $72,000. You could also get leave. Looks pretty good.
I saw a post from Peter Diamandis. He says if you retire at 55, you're 89% more likely to die within 10 years. And the idea is that people who have a purpose in life seem to live longer.
But I would like to put some doubt in that study, which I'm sure was not a double blind because the only way you could do a double blind would be to select some people and tell them they're going to retire even if they weren't planning to. How would you do a double blind? I don't know that you could. So that's the first red flag is it's not a whatever study did this is just some correlation they found.
But I would like to inject this possibility. I believe that one of the biggest factors in when people decide to retire, assuming they can afford it, is how long their parents lived. Has anybody had that thought? If your parents both live to 100, then you probably think, I think I'd better work until I'm late 70s just to be able to even afford to retire. And you might think, well I'm going to be so bored if I'm retired for 40 years. I'll just be bored.
So I believe that if your parents died at 70, you say to yourself, I better retire as soon as possible so I get a little fun retirement. I might not have long. So it could be that the self-selection of when people retire is because they look at their own health and then they look at the genes of their parents and how long they lasted. And if it doesn't look good, they retire faster. And so that would suggest that people who retire were the ones with the medical disadvantages that would suggest they're more likely to die.
Anyway, apparently ICE, you know the not the frozen water kind but the ICE people who guard our borders or go after the immigrants who got through the borders. Apparently they are now going to use an Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps. *The Guardian* was reporting that. So it looks like it can just slice through just a
Context —
bout any kind of protection. And it's from Paragon Solutions and some say it's the strongest weapon of its type. Are you comfortable with anybody, whether it's even if it's in Israel, are you comfortable that that exists, that there's a known piece of spyware that can basically puncture everything? Terrific. As I've been saying for a while, your privacy is purely illusionary. It's a pure illusio…
Next segment → →