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this world? All right, I've got my notes. I'm not printing them out anymore. I did buy a new printer, by the way. So I've got a brand new functional printer, but I got hooked on not printing them out. So saved a few minutes. Saved a few minutes. All right. I saw a quote on X from Aaron Gwyn. I don't know who Aaron is, but Aaron says funny things. And the quote was, "We know psychology is a scam f…

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r than people who are already in the business. And it will get to a superior place so fast that it would be better than waiting for them. That's pretty confident.

Can they do it? Probably. Probably. I do think they probably can. So it'll be impressive when they do.

Well, here's a story that just keeps popping up and I didn't believe it the first time and I don't believe it the second time. And that is, I don't know, was it on the Joe Rogan show again? It was on somebody's podcast that new radar scans reveal a massive engineered substructure beneath the Giza pyramids. Does that sound familiar? Like it's not the first time you've heard this exact story. You know, maybe the picture is different, but do you believe that we can with any kind of technology that we have, do you believe that we can look under the pyramids and see a giant structure and we've determined that it might be an energy grid beneath the pyramids?

I'm going to say no. I'm going to say no. So far I've got a pretty good record of when I say nope just on the surface I don't have to do any research, it's definitely not true. So far I've been right. We do have a question mark about the sonic weapon under the embassies. I'm still open to that being a sonic weapon but my first impulse and I'm staying with it is that it was fake and that there was no sonic weapon. Possible though. It's possible. I'm going to stick with no sonic weapon.

And the claim about the pyramid seems a little complex. Yeah, I don't believe it.

All right, what else we got going on? So it's going to be all fake news today.

How many of you remember when I used to bug the hell out of you by claiming that the slippery slope is not a logical structure? Meaning that if your reasoning comes from the slippery slope that you haven't done any reasoning at all. Do you remember I used to say that all the time and people would get so mad. They'd say, "What about this example? What about this example? It's obvious that if you go down the slippery slope, you can predict where it's going to go because it's slippery. It's slippery."

And I kept saying that's not a thing. There's no kind of logic called the slippery slope. Well, you can still argue with me on that, but Eric Nolan at Sidepost is talking about a study in which they found that conservatives are more prone to slippery slope thinking. Do you think that's true? That if you're a conservative and something starts going in the direction you don't want it to go, you're more likely to think it's going to keep going.

I don't know how much more, but apparently there's an identifiable difference. Now that would explain everything because I didn't really spend much time interacting with anybody conservative for

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most of my early adulthood. But as soon as I did, I kept seeing people claim the slippery slope. And I kept saying, there's no logic called the slippery slope. Sometimes things keep going the way they're going and sometimes they don't. There's no logic to it. You can't use that to predict. But people did. They did use it to predict and sometimes they would get it right because there were only two…

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