Back to episode — Episode 3060 CWSA 01/02/26
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ferent states have different standards for what is ultraprocessed. So in one city ultraprocessed means one thing. In another state it means another. But they're looking to get some kind of a federal standard, which you would sort of need. If you're going to have a standard for food, you would need it to be federal. Will the states disagree? And will the states say stay away from our state, we have…
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So somebody told me that the Nick Shirley account which blew up and became a giant thing was primarily because Elon boosted him. Is that true? I was trying to understand why since 2018 local news and others and whistleblowers have been pointing out this massive fraud, but it took Nick Shirley and his work to make us all pay attention. Now it could be that I'm in such a bubble that I think people are paying attention but not really. I said this the other day that if you just walked onto the street and tapped on somebody's shoulder and said, hey, what do you think of the Nick Shirley videos, they would have no idea what you're talking about. But I live in a bubble in which the Nick Shirley videos are big. So I see it every day. Every day. And then versions of it every day. But I think Elon just giving that a boost might make all the difference. So again I say what would it be like if we didn't have an Elon? Everything would be different. We wouldn't even know about a lot of this stuff. Now Mike Benz of course would also be critical to our current understanding.
All right. So the Washington Examiner, Drew Bond is writing that can AI help lower our energy bills. Now that sounds the opposite of what you thought, right? If the big data companies or the big data centers that drive AI need massive amounts of energy, wouldn't that compete with the domestic residential need for electricity and power and wouldn't it necessarily make your energy costs go up? But here's a version of what probably will be happening that suggests that the data centers will make your local energy prices go down. So already we're seeing that the big companies, the massive companies who need to build these big data centers, they're augmenting the existing power by building their own power sources in the same places as the data centers. So they're using natural gas, they're using solar, geothermal, wind, and small nuclear reactors and battery storage. So if they use all of those things and they keep it local, they can pay for basically all the energy they need. But here's the new part. What would stop them from making extra? If you're already going to put in this power source and you're going to use it just for yourself, how hard would it be to make it twice as big and then provide even
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cheaper energy to the local community? And I'd never really thought of it that way, but if they have enough regulatory relief, it seems to me that something has changed in regulations because why is it suddenly so easy for these big companies to build their own power plants? I feel like building a power plant would be the hardest thing you could ever get approved, but suddenly there are lots of th…
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