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ighlight of human civilization. It's called Coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time. But if you'd like to take a chance on elevating your experience here to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains, all you need for that is a copper mug or a glass or a tanker shell or a canteen or a jug or a flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorit…

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imultaneous sip. And it happens now. I'll give you a second one. See, you weren't ready. You weren't ready. But now you are.

All right. Let me check my situation here. Do we have any kind of news about coffee being healthy for you? Oh, it turns out that coffee is really good for you according to Dr. Marcus, that your odds of surviving a heart problem if you've got a cup of coffee in you is way better. Not because of that one cup of coffee, but people who have coffee. Coffee. Coffee. Yeah, I said coffee. I grew up in upstate New York. I can say coffee. Can we agree on that?

All right. So despite my maximum coffee influence, I had a really good nap this morning. I didn't think I was going to be awake for the show, but I made it. Pain level is currently manageable. It's been pretty bad lately, but maybe it's a little bit less today. That would be good.

Well, apparently Microsoft, according to Tech Explorer, is going to look into what they call super intelligence after the OpenAI deal. So their current deal, I guess, allows them to explore with ChatGPT. So this would be Microsoft plus ChatGPT allows them to explore sort of ordinary AI, as if there's anything ordinary about it. But if they want to go all the way to super intelligence, then it looks like they would make another deal and that super intelligence would look different. That would be the good stuff.

Do you know what that means? It means they don't know how to do super intelligence and that whatever they're doing now is the best they know how to do at the moment. Does that mean they'll ever be able to do super intelligence? Probably they will eventually, but I don't know if it's going to happen on Tuesday or anything.

All right. So that would be when robots can do everything we can do. Super intelligence.

Well, Trump has pardoned, or is it called a pardon? I always get the pardons and the clemencies and all that mixed up, but basically he pardoned a whole bunch of his cronies before they've been charged with anything. So they haven't been charged. This would be a situation where it's just getting ahead of it just in case. But it includes Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Ken Chesebro, a whole bunch of people, some of the names you've heard, but they seem to have all been involved in one way or another with the quote fake electors plot.

Now that's what Democrats call it. They call it fake electors. Why? Because they're word thinkers. If they can get you to accept that a good label for what happened was that there was a bunch of people who did some illegal stuff and they need a pardon, well then they win.

So I did wonder if this is actually a good play because it does, even though they're not even charged with anything relevant to these actions, they're not charged with anything, it kind of makes them look a little guilty, doesn't it? That they accepted it. Trump himself did not pardon himself, but does that matter if you can pardon yourself anytime you want? He can kind of, you know, if he got in trouble he could bang that out in a few minutes. So I wouldn't make too much of the fact that he excluded himself from that. He could do it anytime.

Anyway, that was good programming. So it's one of those stories that reminds you that the Trump people may have been mistreated. So it's kind of good that way. But it

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also makes it look like maybe they needed a pardon. What'd they do? So this one works both ways. But if Trump thought this was really good timing for it because we're too distracted with other things, he'd be right. The distractions are all over the place. So this one just isn't going to move anything. So if some people he liked got some pardons, well he wins. I don't know if the juice is worth t…

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