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e up to levels that nobody can even understand with their tiny shiny human brains, all you need for that is a tankard, a chalice, a stein, a canteen, a jug or flask, a vessel of any kind. How could I get that wrong? I mean, seriously, how could I get that wrong? All right, fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine of the day, the…

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check the science news. You'll never guess this one. PsyPost has an article that says that people with children report lower romantic love, intimacy, and passion. Did they really need to do a study to find out that people with children have lower romantic love, intimacy, and passion? They could have just asked me or anyone who's ever been around any child ever. I'm pretty sure we all knew that, right?

Or let me put it another way. If you could be in a room alone with the children and you were feeling feelings of romantic love, intimacy, and passion, I don't want you around my children. You know what I mean? So I think there's a fairly logical reason why being around children turns off those emotions, at least for most people. We don't know about Epstein, but for everybody else.

We got another science thing. According to Interesting Engineering, your heating may soon come from a data center. You know how data centers use a lot of electricity, but they also create a lot of heat and that heat has to go somewhere. So you can either pipe it into the atmosphere, total waste of heat, or you can pipe it into homes and indoor swimming pools and stuff like that.

How many of you remember that several years ago I did a little project with Bill PT in which we were designing sort of the ideal city and one of the concepts was to build a small city around a data center and it was for that very reason. So you'd want to have a small nuclear generator for the city, but also for the data center. And then you want to use that warmth that comes from it to heat your homes.

And I imagined that the designed city would be a profit center so that you would literally design it so that some big company like Google would pay to use your data center and they would pay for all your electricity from your small futuristic nuclear power plant and then the city wouldn't need no taxes because as long as they were generating sort of income from having an awesome setup, you would need no taxes. So how about that? So I think that's going to happen.

Well, in the world of robots, you didn't ask, but I've got the answer. In the world of robots, I keep seeing stories where they try to make a robot with human or humanlike muscles. So apparently if you design your robot muscles with human type organs, you can make it pretty strong and responsive. And now MIT has figured out according to Interesting Engineering how to get your robot to be way stronger than a mechanical robot and it increases the force output by 30 times and it's a biohybrid.

So it's not exactly a what do you call it when it's part human part robot cyborg? It's not exactly a cyborg, but it would have humanlike or animallike muscles. Now let me ask you this. How weird would it be to have a robot that had humanlike muscles on the outside? Wouldn't that be super creepy? Or are you going to want to have sex with it or would you not want to have sex with it if there were childlike robots in the room? So many questions. So many questions.

Well, the big news, which I'm not up to date on. Oh, damn it. I changed the ink in my printer and it still can't print. So it has smeared all of my documents into a terribly, well you can't see it, but what is causing that? If it's a brand new ink cartridge, if anybody knows what's causing that, let me know so I can fix it.

Anyway, the pipe bomber from January 6, you remember the pipe bomber, has been allegedly arrested. They know who it is. But do you remember it wasn't long ago that the news was, which probably was fake news, was that it was a woman and there was a lot of chatter that the pipe bomber was a woman. Do you know why I knew it wasn't a woman

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? Because it was a pipe bomb. Would you ever make a bet? Let's say I came to you and said, "Hey, yeah, I want you to place a bet. There was a person who planted a bomb, and it was a pipe bomb. Probably had to make it themselves. Was it a man or a woman?" How much money would you bet that it was a man who planted the pipe bomb? Well, I think I would have bet a pretty large amount. In fact, the lea…

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