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ong that even though it's more of a Jewish thing that it's still enough of a Christian thing that as long as it's a sincere religious action then it's laudable you know you would actually say I like that I like that that our leaders are religious and taking that stuff seriously. And I also like that the US is respecting Israel in that way. All right, here's my problem. If you look at this from a…

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land. I don't think he'll actually get to be on the ballot because they've got a weird system that might keep him off. But he was saying some good things about Elon Musk. And he said, Elon is an actual superhero for real. He's a great man. He gave me a lot of his time, pledged his support. He even offered financial support, but I said, I'm not after that. Now, that's the sort of thing that if somebody said he offered financial support but I turned it down, you wouldn't necessarily believe that, would you? But Elon responded on X and confirmed that he had offered to help fund his campaign, but he got turned down because he said I don't need that. Well, he doesn't need it yet because he's not on the ballot. Maybe that will change. I don't know.

Meanwhile, somebody called Penske Media. So I guess they own some magazine-like content of some kind. I don't know what they own, but they're suing Google over the AI summaries. You might know if you do a Google search that the first thing that comes up now is Google's own AI that gives you a summary, but it doesn't necessarily give you a link and the summary is usually all you need. So if you had created some content, you know, let's say you were in a story on Breitbart, you write that thing and then somebody says, oh, I want to go look at that story because you know I saw it somewhere but I didn't read it so I want to go look for it. If they Googled it, it would come up with a summary and they might say, my example is bad, but you'll get the idea. They might say, oh, the summary is all I needed. And then they'll never go to the content, which means that the people who spent all the money and had the business model to create content would in effect be giving it away for free to Google and it would just become Google's content because Google would take it, turn it into AI content and then say, well, now it's our content and they're being sued for that. So that will be interesting.

Do you remember I keep complaining about all the so-called robots that are coming and how every time you see a demonstration or a claim about robots, oh the robots are coming, that the robot is only ever doing one thing because only robots can only do one thing at a time. You know, they can't be general robots. Nobody knows how to do that. Well, here we go. Yet another video of a laundry folding robot and the post said, oh, here it comes. You know, the age of robots is here because we've got this robot that can fold laundry. Obviously, since that's one of the hardest things, it's suggesting that they can do all kinds of things if they can fold laundry. But I'll remind you that the first time I saw a video about a robot folding laundry and it was folding laundry was 30 years ago and just about once every year or two for 30 years. Is this different? Do you think that after 30 years of fake robots that really couldn't, you know, you can't commercialize them to fold your laundry for whatever reason? Do you think it's real now? I don't think you can have a robot that folds your laundry because why would you buy one that only does one thing? You would wait until there's a general purpose robot that can do that and make your coffee as well. But we're in my opinion nowhere near a general purpose robot in my opinion because if we were you would already see them. You would see at least the first draft and the only things you see still are one robot doing one thing. Don't get excited about that.

Well, my terrible piece of crap state called California has advanced a bill. Newsom hasn't signed it, but they've advanced a bill to give college admission priority to descendants of slaves. According to Just the News, let me say that again. They want to give priority to descendants of slaves. Are you actually telling me that they're not already doing that? They've been doing that for 30 years. All right, nephew. Nephew, you got to, you're going to have to put on the ear muffs. My nephew in South Africa. No, they've been doing this for 30 years. They've been favoring black applicants and you know and gay applicants and women and you know all the protected classes. I don't even know if this would be new. Like was there somebody who was going in and they were black and then somebody said, oh, you're black. Okay, okay, that's good. But are you a descendant of slaves? Well, I don't know. I'm black, but I don't know if I'm a descendant of slaves. Oh, well, I can't give you any special admissions because you're only black and American and you can't prove you're a descendant of slaves, so you don't go to the front of the line. But since you don't go to the front of the line, we'll put you second. We're still putting the white guys last. I mean, you're still way ahead of them, but you know, we'd give you a little extra bump if you were descended from slavery.

All right. It's stupid. It's insulting. It's racist. You, California, for even trying that. By the way, I should tell you that some years ago, I blogged that the way to do reparations would be with some preferential funding for black Americans who wanted to spend one generation catching up educationally. And I thought, okay, if you're going to do it at all, do it in a way that really fundamentally makes a difference. Don't just give people a bunch of money that they don't know how to spend because poor people don't know how to handle money. If you give a poor person, I don't know, $100,000 for reparations, how's that going to work out? I mean, they would like it, but it's not likely that they're going to turn it into a small business or something like that. But if you said, here's the deal. We do have this systemic racism and everybody else seems to have better education on average. So if we can spend one generation then we'll put a time limit on it. We'll say all right for this generation your ability to get into college and have it paid for by the government would be almost complete. You would not have to worry about getting into college at all if you were black. We'll just take care of that for one generation and then everybody's closer to even after that one generation. You say, all right, are we good now? Because that would work for me, but it's gone too far. There are too many ways that white people are just discriminated against in employment in the United States for me to be okay with any more of it. So I'm not okay with it.

All right. Well, we'll see if I get assassinated today for my opinions. I know I should be more afraid, but I'm not. And I would hope that you are not either. Those of you who should be afraid, if you're a bigger account, etc., be careful. You know, the Tim Pools of the world. Be careful. Yeah, I don't think I'm in that risk level, but and plus I never go out in public. I don't do public events. I think I told you that I stopped doing public events early in the Trump experience because I considered it too dangerous. So just think about this. I live in a country where it's not safe to go in public because of my opinions. And my opinions are that I support somebody that the majority of voters supported, the majority. And it's still not safe to go and I wouldn't go to Berkeley for sure. No, I mean I wouldn't be worried about an airport or something, but I definitely would not go somewhere where there's publicity and a set location and a set time because that's what gives the planners enough time to do something bad. So I just won't do that and I haven't done that for years now.

All right, everybody. That's all I got for you. I'm g

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oing to say a few words privately to the local subscribers. I will tell you most of you know that I continued doing the Dilbert comic even after it got cancelled. Never missed a day. It was always continuously published but I put it behind a paywall. So it's on the Locals platform and also on X you can subscribe. But the reason I'm telling you is because don't be drinking coffee when you finish to…

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