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eapon on the other team." Because although that microwave beam apparently is an inefficient way to carry electricity through the atmosphere, it might be just what you need to shoot down some kind of a threat from space. So even the press release on that might be a cover for something military maybe. Speaking of charging things electrically over space, apparently Tesla just filed a patent on somet…

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everyone buy one, because even though it might be 30 minutes to charge your car and it's not really hard to plug it in, wouldn't you like to not get out of your car?

So with the current technology, you have to always get out of your car, right? Even if you're just plugging it in for an electric charge, that little bit of work where you have to get out of your car and the weather might not be ideal, that's probably a big deal. I don't own one, but I imagine I would be very, very happy if it drove to the charging station on its own when it needed to and that it charged itself without me touching it and without me getting out. That would be a whole different experience. So these seem like small changes, but I'll bet it's not small.

So here's something that happened to me yesterday that freaked me out a little bit. And I think this is an accurate statement of what happened. Does anybody need an extra sip? If you came in late, extra Sunday sip.

So because of my advanced age and because of my health situation, I had started to write down some facts about myself just for posterity basically. So I was recording some timeline things, and it turns out that using AI to learn about my own life was the best way to do it. For example, I couldn't remember what years I worked at the phone company or what years I worked at the bank, but it's on Wikipedia and you can get that kind of stuff using AI.

So I was messing around with Gemini. Gemini would be the Google version of AI. And I asked it something about my own life, and it used as a source the Google document that I was using to compile that information, which was brand new. That's right. Google's AI used as a source document a private document that I just created using Google tools. Do you know how freaky that was? And it told me that's where I got it. It said it got it from this document. That is literally the document I just created. So it was a little bit circular because I was looking for it to validate the dates that I guessed, and instead of validating it, it could find that I just written it down and it used that as a source.

Now, I'm pretty sure it also knew who I was because I had interacted with it before and I think I told it who I was for some convenience. That was freaky.

Well, I have some questions about the increasing use of coal power in the United States. And here's some news and some context that I'll add to it. So the Daily Caller News Foundation is reporting that there was more coal burned in 2025 than in the year before. It was up around 13 percent. Now that might not come as a surprise to you because you know that Trump has been pushing coal. He calls it clean coal. I don't know if there's anything that's clean coal, but he says that. And I wondered how much danger that created because the knock on coal is that it would

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be bad for the world. But we live in a time in which people are way less worried about CO2. So there are two big objections to coal. One is it puts CO2 into the atmosphere at a pretty big pace. But at the moment that's not terribly concerning the way it was even two years ago because even the mainstream media is starting to admit, well, we don't have necessarily a climate crisis. Even Bill Gates…

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