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drones. So I mean, it's a smaller story, but do you believe that the Biden administration would have done that? You know, just drop that regulation because it's outdated and do it fairly rapidly. So there's something about the speed that the Trump administration is doing stuff, just ordinary stuff like that. It just looks like a whole different speed for a government to do stuff. According to Fut…

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always the same that organic things could possibly process things faster than digital things. And this might be the future, blah blah blah. So here's another one that they're trying to turn bacteria into digital processors. And every time I see this kind of story, I say to myself, I feel like this will never work. As soon as you put in organic parts, they become unpredictable and they die. They don't live forever. I mean, is it my imagination or is it sort of obvious that you can never have a sturdy commercial application of an organic computer? Doesn't it seem like a total waste of time? And even if you made one and it worked, you know, it'd be like a year before the silicon version with lasers or whatever was faster. So these stories just seem dumb to me.

Well, here's another what's going on with China story. You know that they were making electric cars like crazy and they were subsidizing their electric car business and they had, they were even selling more electric cars I think in China anyway with a Chinese company even more than Tesla in China. But now we're hearing that it's turned into this big price war because there's so many electric car companies in China that they're competing with each other a little bit. They're sort of oversupported. And I don't know how my cat is finding ways to throw additional things on the floor. She must have found or he must have found some continuous thing to destroy. I just hear the sound. I don't know what's happening over there. Doesn't sound good. Anyway, so my question on China is again I'll ask the same question. Is China about ready to have an economic collapse or is China getting ready to dominate the economy of the whole globe? Because I feel like I'm getting both stories. You know, this electric car one sounds like they're in trouble. Then you have the ghost cities that they built that nobody moved into. And you've got the bad consumer spending because they're all saving money. You've got the demographic problem where they don't have enough females and they don't have enough babies and they're running out of people and blah blah blah. But on the other hand, you know, they're building the Silk Road, although the Silk Road is running into some trouble, I hear. They're building the biggest navy in the world. They're building power plants faster than anybody. So is China collapsing economically? Because there's lots of evidence that it is, or is it going to be dominating everything economically? I feel like both of those movies are running at the same time and I'm not really sure which way it's going to go. I do know that China is not going to get a lot mo

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re foreign investment because people have figured out it's too risky to do business in China, but maybe they find a way to get around that. I don't know, just do business with other countries. Anyway, that's all I had for you today. It's sort of a weird news day. I'm going to speak privately to the wonderful and beloved members of Locals subscription based. I will remind you that my book, Loserth…

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