ot necessarily true that Moore's law holds, but rather than have an unpredictable bumpy ride toward better chips, if you treat it like it's super predictable, then everybody can make their plans and say, "Okay, well, I need this one now, but in two years I know I'll have to upgrade." I think it's just marketing. Am I wrong? Because it's weird that if you even look for why the law applies, there's not really an answer to it. They just sort of observe that it does. I think it's marketing.

All right. But if I'm wrong about that, I would find that interesting. So let me know if you have a better idea what's going on. And it makes me wonder if the AI has the same situation that maybe we're wanting to make it look like it's predictable, but maybe it's not.

Well, over in Israel, Netanyahu has officially asked for a presidential pardon for what are his alleged corruptions. So he and his wife, Netanyahu and his wife, are being accused of accepting more than $260,000 worth of luxury goods including cigars, jewelry, and champagne from billionaires in exchange for political favors and maybe some favorable coverage from Israeli media outlets which is sort of separate.

Now, let me give you my take on that. I don't know if this is true. I mean, Netanyahu would say it's political lawfare and it's not based on anything real. But how much do you think Netanyahu could earn if he were out of office and giving speeches? What do you think would be the market value of one speech by Netanyahu if he were out of office tomorrow? I think it would be over $100,000, wouldn't it? So when you say that over some amount of time he allegedly accepted $260,000 worth of luxury goods, including things like cigars and champagne. Does that mean that some billionaire invited him to his house and they had expensive cigars and champagne and then maybe the billionaire asked him for a favor when they were done? Is that what he's being accused of? Because that's not much of a crime. I mean, I'm not even sure it is a crime. Can you not enjoy expensive cigars and expensive alcohol with somebody who is a billionaire who might also want something? But isn't that true of everybody? Everybody who talks to a politician wants something. So it's a pretty small crime if the two sights to see is first of all goods like champagne. I mean, how much is, what are we talking about? Is Netanyahu gonna sell out Israel for a really good bottle of alcohol? I don't think so. Is Netanyahu going to sell out Israel because he got good cigars? Like, how good are these cigars?

So let me be clear. I'm not defending Netanyahu and I don't know what he did or didn't do, but I'm just commenting that his income potential just as being who he is is way bigger than this. So even if he had done exactly what they said, how much influence would this have on his decisions given that he could make way more money than that with a few speeches? I don't know. It does feel like it's small ball. And we'll see if he gets the pardon. I would bet against it. But it doesn't seem like the biggest problem in the world, even if he did exactly what they said.

All right. Also in Israel, according to AFP, they killed 40 Hamas fighters in Gaza who are in tunnels. Don't you wonder how many terrorists are left in those tunnels? It does seem to you that it's going to be sort of that Japanese World War II thing where there's going to be somebody in a tunnel that stays there for 20 years. I don't know how that would eat, but they're still in tunnels now. So 40 of them got killed. Apparently their assumption that there's still some number of people still in tunnels while the Israeli army controls the surface. Below the surface, there might be this whole civilization of not that many at this point, but maybe dozens of people who are just figuring out how to get out of the tunnel without dying.

And then Israel apparently has now deployed for the first time their Iron Beam laser defense system for shooting down missiles and drones. And I guess that's just going into operation now. And it makes me wonder if they had that up and running during the worst of the attacks, how much difference would it make? And how much of a difference is it going to be when any country that's attacked with drones and missiles has a laser defense system? Because if it works, everybody's going to have one, right? At least all our allies will have one. I feel like that could change everything because right now anybody who could send a deadly drone into enemy territory would have an advantage because they could send lots of drones until you overwhelmed the defenses. But if you had a really