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ly held up a book called the Antifa Handbook. So that was 2018. So he wanted you to know that he was on board with Antifa and is showing you their book. What's he say today? There's no such thing as Antifa. His own son had publicly declared support for Antifa. The thing he says doesn't exist. His son is a member apparently. And he held up the book. Now, I was thinking, how many other things are De…

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if it came from that gun and it definitely wouldn't have left that hole.

Now, I hate that every single freaking thing that looks like it's simple turns into a conspiracy theory, but how do you get past those facts coming from somebody as qualified as Rob O'Neill? Which one of you is going to say, "Oh, based on my own Seal Team Six up close murders, not murders, but kills. Based on my own up close, that looked like an entry wound to me." As far as I know, 100% of military and hunters, military people and hunters, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe 100% of them have said that was no entry wound. Am I right? 100%. Like everyone, every single person who knows what they're talking about. I've now heard one person who say, "Oh, yeah, that could be an entry wound, you know, maybe under these situations." Not one. So I'm not going to go full Israel on this because I don't see that evidence. But there's something wrong with this. There's something wrong. I don't know.

Here's some fun science stuff. Scientists just split sound particles. Did you know that sound had a minimum I guess frequency length or something? Very tiny. But apparently they can now break one sound. What I guess it's like a photon for sound. What's it called? A phonon. And they can break it and send it in two paths. And if you can do that, which apparently they can do, it might create a path for really efficient quantum computers you could fit in your pocket. So that they might be able to power things by breaking light, but also breaking sound and somehow that would help them do something with quantum. That's kind of cool. That's a ways away. Won't be happening tomorrow.

Scientists allegedly according to user Massimo who found this study in the New England Journal of Medicine found a cure for type 1 diabetes. A cure. Apparently they took a guy with type one and they tweaked his genes using CRISPR. They edited three genes and then they stuck them back in him and he started creating his own insulin and he doesn't have diabetes anymore. Now, could he reproduce that? I mean, they had to edit three genes, but they know exactly which genes to edit and they know how to do it. Did diabetes just get cured? I don't know. I don't know.

Maybe I've told you about this before, but here's a little update. You know that if we could access the geothermal energy, which is just the extreme heat in the inner core of the world that we would have more electricity than we would ever need for the end of time, including for AI. But getting to it is hard because you would have to dig a hole really deep. And that really deep hole. We don't really quite have the technology to do that economically, but turns out there's a lot of action happening there. There are so-called closed loop systems. There's a carbon-free heat engine that drills down. So they're using technology from fusion research and all kinds of other things. Looks like one of them might be a giant laser kind of thing. But anyway, there are a number of schemes to try to economically get into that heat. If we ever do that, even once, if we can even once figure out how to get deep enough to get into that heat, that changes everything. If we can do it economically, I'm surprised that Elon Musk isn't building something with the boring machine that can go straight down and get to the geothermal. It would be completely different technology, but it seems like exactly the kind of technology he'd be into because it's such a moonshot. I mean, it would just replace everything. It looks doable in the long run. It's hard for me to imagine that in the long long run humans would not be able to go that deep and to get that energy. I feel like that's just a guarantee, but it might be 20 years away. Interesting. Engineering had that story. Well, I was looking for the gentleman who was on YouTube talking about this, but it agrees with what I've said, so I'll just say that there's another smart person saying it.

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ne actually has they're turning the corner on having an advantage in the war. The advantage is that now that it seems to be purely a robot war, you know, drones mostly, that whoever does the best on drones will win the war so long as they can stay in business long enough to do that. Now, it does look like the human deaths on the front line may be lessened because they're just doing drone on drone…

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