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est sex you ever had? Maybe. I wouldn't rule it out. So I always think it's a fool's well, an idiot's take to disagree with Elon Musk prediction for the future. But it does make me wonder how the richest man in the world deals with the fact that he may have accomplished the greatest, you could argue the greatest accomplishment of all time to be the richest person in the world and then money becom…

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ys have a value? Would it if our population continues to decline? Would it if you didn't need it for farming because we were so good at farming that you needed 10% of the farmland that we use now because the robots and the AI are doing underground indoor farms. Whatever it is possible.

All right. So I'd like to double back on a story that you already know about. I saw a clip. I think it was on the Maze account on X that says where Rob Reiner was on some interview and he said that Russian election interference which he believed was true was way worse than if they had attacked us with an atomic bomb. And I'm reminded that at some point it's not too soon and I think we're getting close to that point. Rob Reiner was not a good guy. He was not a good guy. And he was if you consider only his involvement in the Russia collusion hoax and his collusion with the heads of the intelligence agencies to do that, John Brennan, etc. He's one of the worst people that's ever lived. He's not just a bad guy. He's not just an actor director who happened to get a lot of attention. He's really bad or was. And I feel like we're on the border of it's not too soon. And I don't want it to get away. I don't want it to get away from us that he was he's now somebody you should have respected. Although his movies were excellent.

So New York Post, Glenn Reynolds has an article talking about how DEI hollowed down the generation and sapped America's promise. Have you noticed, I've mentioned this before, that it seems like nearly every major company and organization in the world, no, in the United States, became incompetent in the last several years. They went from you liked them or you didn't like them. Sometimes they're good, sometimes not. But it sort of turned into everything is incompetent and some people should blame DEI.

Now that sounds kind of racist, right? If you say, oh, all of our institutions became incompetent because they allowed too much DEI, which would suggest that the race or gender of the people coming in or the sexual orientation somehow made them less capable. Now I've never made that claim. My claim about DEI is that there's a numbers problem. And the numbers problem is that if you artificially constrain who you're willing to hire, you're going to run out of qualified people pretty quickly because you've artificially constrained it.

So if everybody in the world was an Albanian and there was no diversity at al

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l, but you only hired left-handed Albanians, what would happen to the capability of your major institutions? Right? So there's no racism involved. There's no sexism. There's no sexual choice. Everybody in the world is an Albanian. But you've artificially said, I'll only hire left-handed Albanians. You tell me, do you run out of qualified people faster than if you said, we'll hire any Albanian. The…

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