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the when the other day, the thing that makes everything better? It's called the simultaneous sept, but that happens now: go yeah freedom, freedom, well. I was very proud of my tweets last night. I tweeted the following then you can identify by its initials is working for its own interests. Not yours no exceptions. Now how would you like a little persuasion tipp to take off your morning? What was the persuasion part of this tweet arranged again, and you tell me what is the persuasion born everything you can identify by his initials is working for its own interests, not yours.

No exceptions, no exceptions there. Do you know me well enough to know that, of course, I know other exceptions. I don't you know. I know there are exceptions. Of course there are exceptions, of course, but but the fact that I make you think about it is: what is what binds you the tweet. So here's here's what I hoped you would do absence of exceptions like aids. That would be an exception. So what you're supposed to do to do is this can't be true? What can be true that everything that you that you can identify by its initials is working for itself? Now you I mean What about the fbi? Ok, I, but it can't be true of everything in the region Will the iris ok well wish you ve got the geo pre, ok, yeah and

not all people, not all people, I mean what about a yossi but surely not be allowed us away. So gay I see somebody said most. Somebody said every business is identified by its letters on the stock market, to which I say. That's my point. That's my point. Not your boy! Every single company is working for itself, that's called capitalism. So yes, every single company, this listed on the exchange, is working for.

Itself, that's how it works, even kfc, even idea all right. So just so you know you can be on the inside. Of course, I did not believe there were no exceptions. Of course I did not believe that what is funny can you give me that did it work and how many of you spend extra time, because I said there were no exceptions. I'll bet you did yeah yesterday, lesser persuasion tabled today. That would be the intentional error persuasions. Well, I, Didn't you do. I see it and see if they are turning toward the mill. and I do see signs that reduces eyes, for example. We See that even see then people I saw several of them

question whether fetterman should have given even done the debate. I'm not sure they would have done that a year ago. I feel like that. That was clearly a move to the seller and ask for a cottage, I think, was the one who started directly. Maybe it wasn't his time, maybe maybe wait till next time, which which has nothing to do with a disability. I think you can be perfectly appropriate and still save, maybe maybe next it was better for him. So, along a theme crystal Rights receive them and had done one of the most prolific anti trump opinion piece people, but here he is today. He says I raised a little opinion. Piece is just as weak little opinion piece. It looks like he dashed it off in ten minutes. He he says with less than two weeks left before the november

term elections. All signs are pointing to a strong republican showing that would result in a switch of party control in the house and possibly the senate. He goes that's very good news for donald trump and then I'm waiting for the twist yeah, the part where okay now he's now he's going to get him, and he just goes on to say that trump will do what he always does, which is take credit. If the if the midterms go trump's way. Do you think trump will take credit? for the fact that a lot of people, that is to say the observers, didn't think, have a chance, or at least I or my actually with yes, now? No only will Donald trump predictably tried take credit, but let me ask you: he deserves it: right:

right. I wouldn't. I wouldn't even I wouldn't question that at one moment would you if trump took credit credit? Wouldn't you say yeah, that's that's warranted, because I believe that even the people who are doing things sort of independently from trump are still conform. The job of our right there's. Nobody was out there completely independent of tromp after a republican. If you republican you're running under a trump set of parameters. Whether you say it out loud or not, you don't have to say that allowing trump would get complete credit for this. In my opinion, I think that would be completely justified, but here's the surprising part.

Even chris Alyssa says that's true yeah. He says a little more indirectly, but he does say the trump campaign, for you know some of these semi underdogs and that they might actually win and that taking credit wouldn't be crazy right, I mean I'm about in airport, but yeah I do see. I do see a genuine shift towards the middle preceded. It continues.

Alright, the big story you all want to talk about is elon musk carried a sink into twitter headquarters yesterday, an actual kitchen sink now, and that he tweeted to yell that he was in the twitter headquarters. Let that sink in now was that the most brilliant thing that anybody ever did see. You think that elon musk is mostly smart with technology. That's why you think he knows how to make money, but you really, though his understanding of persuasion is as good as it gets its as good as it gets he easily using the elite category of persuading- and this was a perfect example who this would have carried a sink into twitter headquarters and I spent Time tried to figure out why, right? How many

You spend a lot of time thinking about it trying to figure out why? Why exactly ass? I think I actually still, though, no it was an old me. It's an old meme, let us think in here, but let us think in is that why you brought the saint just for that one Some people are saying as an old me. Well, I I understand that everything but the kitchen sink, but how does it I'm not quite connecting anyway it doesn't matter so here's the beauty The beauty is a? U all interpreted at our we wanted to. Am I right?

You also believe put whatever interpretation you wanted on that, which is perfect, is just perfect. So what do I teach you about about? Persuasion here? Are two rules, the that elon musk is using number one. Visual visual persuasion beats everything, so he created a picture that could capture the the concept, because everybody was going to talk about the concept of hidden by id say, but there's no. picture of a person doing a contract to complete a transaction. He actually created a visual to to crew, basically capture that story and, of course, a guarantee that that would be on every every media outlet. Now here's the others, the first, the first rule of persuasion, is visual. You have to own the visual second part of persuasion.

Surprise surprise! So we had to do something, those visual. Visual and a surprising way. So it brings a saying that these are two of the probably. If you listed your top ten rules of persuasion, this- would be to other dead. When you see him persuading, He is doing it right, like he's actually using the the best technique of persuasion. This is not an accident. He knows how to do this and I dunno where he learned it, but What one can speculate. I so I tweeted

the neo has entered the matrix and neo has entered the matrix. Now I always tease people when they make matrix your references, because it's such a stale reference, but I'm going to make an exception for myself like everybody does everybody makes an exception for themselves? are you the beggar exemption from myself, because this too perfect, because he actually is entering the you're, not exactly the matrix but once he has access to the algorithm, he actually controls reality he's not just controlling a company that is not just controlling a not. We are an important media. Enterprise is way beyond that he's controlling reality, NEO has entered the

fucking matrix is literally, I mean this is as close to a literal as you can get I mean it's not literally neo, but it's as close as you can get you know in our world now. Do you think this marks a turning point, or is it just going to be another ownership of twitter and he'll he'll? Do some fun, things and nothing will change. What do you think? Do you think this changes, everything or changes? Nothing, I think, is good change. Maybe not right away but faster than you think and developed this little bit now I saw somebody very smart and twitter brian rum, mainly. I wish I could pronounces dave But he was speculating that this is just the first part in that,

you learn, might have his eyes on acquiring a rumble. Now I own stock in rumble, so full disclosure. I don't want to start a rumor that benefits be financially in some non disclose way right, so I've I've got some stock in rumble that I acquired because rumble acquired locals, and I had a small investment locals so when over the rebel, what do you think do you think elon musk would buy rumble it feels like a natural? Doesn't it it does actually feel like a natural extension, but feels like you know. Who knows so, I'm not going to predict that, but I'll note that somebody else has predicted somebody work and question number one. What would happen just hypothetically if twitter ends up changing the algorithm such that Democrats see real news for the first time. What would happen I mean seriously? What would happen if democrats are real news for the first time.

What will they do because I m here to tell you that there is a mental health elements to this that is under appreciated? Have any of you ever had the experience of thinking? Something was true. Let's say about your own life, only to learn that what you thought was always true or had been true for a long time, was completely untrue. I'll give you an example suppose you worked for enron, he had worked for enron for years and then later he found out the enron wasn't even a real company. It was basically a wholesale like what would that do to your mental health? I know a woman, I won't name names, but as somebody who knew somebody, I still know

obviously still newer and she had been with a guy for years and years and they were very close, didn't feel like getting married necessarily, but it looked like he was adding that way, and one day her boyfriend had some major health problems. So the boyfriend goes to the hospital and she visits him in the hospital and there's another woman in there visiting her boyfriend in the hospital and they see each other to get hi. I see you're visiting the same person. What are you here for she goes. Oh I'm his wife and she goes. Why are you here for- and she said, I'm his girlfriend of five.

for years and they learned for the first time he had two lives to complete lives. Now what happened to her mental health when she found out the last five years of her life were not what she thought was an easy was uneasy like it was really disorienting. I mean you can imagine what that would do to you your whole life, your whole life would be altered by that, because everything you saw would be. I dunno. If I can trust that, why would you ever trust? You would never trust anything again right, so one possibility of elon buying twitter is that Democrats will see real news for the first time. Also, people on the right will see things from the left that they'd never seen before. What will that do to people? Will that bring us together or make us crazy, because I think the initial impact will be to make us disoriented what happens when, when people get disoriented, go back to your persuasion, lessons if everybody gets disoriented and they they can't find their base anymore, like their team, doesn't make sense, they're, not sure which team they're on there? What happens when people are disoriented? They don't thrive in chaos. No, that's not what happens.

cognitive dissonance, maybe cognitive dissonance may give them some escape, but there's something scarier the scarier. His thing is that when nobody has anything to latch onto the first person, who provides that thing to latch onto they'll latch onto it, in other words, they'll be looking for a new truth. Whoever provides the new truth owns them right, there'll be broken, there'll, be broken, free from their old truth and floating free and their free agents somebody's going to somebody's going to succumb into their team. You hoping somebody good right, you hoping somebody who has some principles and not somebody evil, but somebody's going to do it. There are a lot of free agents will be created by this. I think that assumes that the algorithm changes in some dramatic way, but which might not happen, we don't know what would happen. The elon musk finds out that

Twitter was actually, let's say, being influenced by foreign forces and, and everything was corrupt, what he'd fix it. I mean that would be step number one, but things could look real different because we don't know so yeah. You want to hear a good example of some fake news. Today. Wall street journal had some excellent fake news and I don't really blame the the wall street journal of fake news. Often do I in fact I I don't know if I've name checked them before for fake news, so this will be the first time, probably alright. So the wall street journal editor article that china is considering inter bearing in our elections. I don't know if that's true or false, but probably jew,.

And it reports that they they may have changed their mind about interfering in the two thousand and sixteen election was at twenty twenty, but they haven't interfered recently because they didn't have a preference of who is president. So then they didn't think that their interests would be served by either president, so they didn't interfere but now The thought is that they might interfere air. There would interfere in a general mocking up society way as opposed to picking a winter, so they try to so civil war, and you make us a doubt, the elections and stuff not up. I'm willing to believe is all correct. Reporting by the wall street journal would now one way or the other, but here's what they here's, what they said next that

that the china have not risen to a level of russia and they said also ran in interfering with our elections as russia and ran have alleged to have done. Do you see the fake news russia interfered with their election? Others specifically there are talking about botz and fake, fake users, so you're, I'm not talking about hack emails, so nothing about hacking, emails or steel darcy right. Let the boy talk about trolls, where you're sending social media trolls now. Do you think that russia influenced our elections in the past with their charles was losing the new says? Yes right, the new says they try to influence now is of real news or fake news is a real or fake news that russia tried to interfere with our elections with bots.

Is real fake lives as real as also fake is real than it happened? I think everybody agrees that happened. How big wasn't it was like? A hundred thousand dollar add spend for some means that we got to see eventually and the means have no power whatsoever.

I can tell you, as somebody who has studied persuasion, they didn't have any persuasive power. They were just random, jokes, no persuasion whatsoever. So do you think the wall street journal gave you a straight report by saying that china might try to get up to the level of interference of russia, or should they have said nobody has done anything of of substance, yet they might. But even russia has not done anything of substance, yet they did a real thing. It just didn't make any difference and couldn't have at that at that size. Now correct me. If I'm wrong, that's fake news is fake news to suggest that russia had an impact with the boss as completely figures, so he elon musk tweeted, that dutch citizen journalism is one of them.

Benefits. You said the beautiful thing about twitter is how it empowers citizen journalism. People are able to disseminate news without an establishment bias which of course caused critics to stream in and say, but those citizens will not be fact checked now. Does that sound, like the dumbest criticism, you've ever heard in two thousand twenty two? Let me say it again just so, you can laugh at it. I will now be the critic you can't have citizen journalism, because who would do the fact checking

Alright, you can stop laughing. There is no fact checking now who believes, there's any fact checking on the actual professional news. The fact checking is clearly fake is obviously fake. It's like way beyond the level where it's a conspiracy theory that is fake. It's obviously demonstrably factually proven to be fake. How could citizen journalism be worse than that? It couldn't possibly be worse good at it. The sounds every tweet is fact checked in real time by by the rest of the comments, you're right. Alright, here's the more fake news is real news, fake news, fake news, thus real news. You remember people said that they were gonna, find people twenty Five hundred dollars for disseminating for spreading misinformation, then the world the way

older, rebelled and said now. You can't do that, will close our accounts and then pay pal. They as they back out and they said. Oh, oh, oh, that was just a mistake that wasn't even supposed to be in their total mistake. We took that out and was like a typo tables. Like you never happened, then, after you are no longer paying attention, they publish their their new terms of service in the twenty five hundred dollar. Fine is occurring, twitter users not shorter, but users unto her. They put that twenty five hundred dollar back in,

as soon as the outcry died down the true lose or fake news go through news or fake news. The paypal put the twenty five hundred dollars back in their after they said they take issue. It is faint, lose but also kind. The true here's what's fake, they did take out the spreading misinformation park, so the twenty five hundred dollar per apparently was always in there. but it was related to two other bad behavior. So, for example, if you're using their service to promote hitler or racism or something you could have been yogi dinged for twenty five hundred dollars,

so the twenty five hundred dollars is still there, but it was there always and it wasn't related to spreading misinformation. So the misinformation far they got rid of, or did they or did they let's go a little bit deeper, so first, all its fake news because they didn't put in the these spreading misinformation part visit because let's look at what part they did leaving so they do not have spreading misinformation as one of the triggers for the twenty five hundred dollar fee, but here are some things that I think these have been in there before. I think

but the river now. So one of the things you can do is to collect money for products that represent a risk to consumer safety, see you can't be doing something they would present a risk to consumer safety. So what would be some things that would be a risk to consumer safety? Firearms firearms will be a risk to consumer safety. Have about iver mechlin. Is I've reflected a product that in somebody

This opinion could be a risk to consumer safety. While I can, I can interpret that way because even if somebody said well, I remember it is well tolerated, then could not pay pal say it doesn't matter that is well tolerated. If you're promoting this yours sort of anti vaccine and that's misinformation or or at home, not miss. probation is harmful, so don't they still have a way to say that you're doing stuff that's harmful, related to a product. Does that give them any? I mean I'm not a lawyer, so I'm just speculating here. I dunno about this one yeah. How about tiktok? Do you think tiktok is a product that presents a risk to consumer safety.

If you collected money for something on tiktok, I dunno, if that's a thing or not, but could you collect money? Well, let yours a story about tech duck apparently tiktok. The spreading around as something called the black our challenge in which children's were encouraged to strangle themselves and not make that up. so the algorithm tiktok delivered to attend, you're old girl. So it decided that she would be interested in seeing this challenge to strangle herself at which he did, and then she died a legit Now the story does have a little bit too much little bit too on the nose. So if tomorrow you find out, this is fake news. Don't be surprised this as fake news written all over it, but it also could be true, which will be,

huge tragedy. But whether or not this one well isn't. It is true. Clearly, Tik tok is spreading. Eu information, as somebody can say, was dangerous. Somebody good. So who were in murky territory, if products that are a risk to consumer safety or a trigger for getting in trouble. This you can also get in trouble according to paypal, if you're collecting money for sale of products or services identified by government agencies to her.

The high likelihood of being fraudulent. So if you sold ivermectin for covet, the government agencies would say that has a high high risk of being fraudulent right when, when that example, for that, so they do have some some questionable elements in their terms of service, but we'll see how that- It works out, let's say or an ai, because as much as you hate talking about ai, it's the only thing, that's gonna matter in about three years, and you really need to be ready. You would be mad at me if I didn't warn you about this right. Do you remember that it was a long ago when people who thought they were smart said well ay? I might take severe factory jobs,

but the last thursday I will be able to do is art. Do you remember what all the smart people thought? I couldn't do art and do you remember when I kept saying you are so wrong? No, no art will be the first thing. I can do why, because our has patterns and rules. that the artist now, but you don't so the reason that our looks at the magical two people can't do it is that they don't know it just based on rules and ass. They knew the rules. Maybe they couldn't be as good as the great artists, thinking of god, For example, I discover that humour as a formula. and I believe I am the only person who's ever read about it. But there are six dimensions of humor. You ve gotta use at least two of the six to make a joke,

Could I teach ay I to write a joke? Yes, I could. Then all we need to do is rapidly. Test is jokes against real people until had the best form of it made that my need to just give a thousand. very varieties, but one of those thousand, it would be better than the human could do is already. There is just. Real, a trivial adoration. Until it can do, you were and singing it'll do music. It already does graphic art better than actual artists, my opinion, no one, it doesn't do yet is follow. Follow the bosses specifications as well as a human right, that's that'll happen. So here is an example of how this is gonna mess up every industry. I believe every industry is gonna, be turned upside down and three years or less.

So shudder stock, a company, the cells, photographs or licences, so you can use them in your own, your own content, but it had a problem because you're, putting computer generated are on their site and the computer generated are, would borrow from living artists and create a composite. This of the living artists were say: hey, that's actually by art that had just stolen combined with we always you can't do that and so shutter stock is coming up with an idea in which they were compensate. The original artists from which the a I borrowed, I don't see how that can work Because how do you know what they say I borrowed from justice is unworkable and all but they'll try to do it now.

Let me give you a secret to how to destroy a business model ready. so my business model is under syndicated cartoonist. So if, if where it does really well, I get a lot of benefit, but if another cartoonist, who is also syndicated, doesn't do well, are very few newspapers buy it. For example, then they make a small income and I make a bigger income cause dilbert as well. Well, do you know what the newspapers want us to do us the syndication? They want to combine all comics as one thing and then just charge one price, and then the cartoonists would sort of get an equal share, because everybody's cartoon is being contributed to this.

Robert, you know that does to me would be out of business, because I would never if that business model becomes the dominant one and it will it will. Then I can make money right it would. Typically, it would lower my income, which is very worthwhile down to a level that is not worthwhile, and then I would find something else to do that could pay better, because cartoony wouldn't pay that that's what's going to happen with these photographers, so you start with the the best photographers who can make it insanely good pictures and they're really the hours and their stuff is the least more. Those people will no longer be in their business. Because a I will make it unprofitable so the best of the best humans will retire immediately because they will have a business model.

So, whenever you're doing something like combining people's art, you've destroyed the art industry, you got that true with music as well. You know, have music streaming the it was terrible for the most important artists, but it was probably good for the the lesser artists, okay, so everything is going in the direction the artist will be out of business if they're the the the star artists. Now might you might not care unless you're a star artists like I have, which is weird to call myself that? But it's true, I think at the moment. I'm not sure this is true, but I think I'm the most successful living cartoonist, who still has a cartoon, was published.

The four adults I think, Garfield's bigger, but that's more oriented toward kids. I think that's true. I think I just outlived. I outlived artists, who are better. so here again the lusaka. You gave the arabs law. slow, moving disasters. You remember that years ago I came up with this idea that humans reliably solve any problem. They can see coming from a long ways away. If it's a really bad, probably consult solve it. If they have time like the year, two thousand problem like running out of oil in the seventies. Just you know all kinds of problems run in the food we sold it, etc. So, if you have time where

fine and here's. Another example of that, as of today cnn, is reporting that germany, who who had been importing fifty five percent of its gas from russia before the war, fifty five percent of all of germany's gas- you know not gas, for I think they mean gas for heating We've already replaced it yet LNG they've already have fully replaced it. Germany already has enough gas for the whole winter because they knew they knew do their time. Now. If you told me that that was possible, I would have doubted it actually,

I would have doubted my own. My own law of slow moving disasters, because I couldn't imagine that they would build storage facilities or that they had storage facilities. That would effectively double their capacity and they were just sitting there empty mean. How exactly do you store it or is it stored, maybe onsite somewhere else, but they own it? Oh you know about that. Is it about that is it is not stored in the country. That's it they own it, but it's probably still with the producer right. the producer still allow that the producer holds it, but they only at that's scope, be it, but anyway they worked it out now. Ukraine this is a bigger problem. sincerely know about the other european countries, because maybe they had less exposure to russia specifically, but if the other european countries are in as good a shape that europe is gonna get through the winter and she can we really expensive

And that would take away Putin's biggest weapon would so Putin's biggest remaining weapons are nuclear weapons and freezing? It looks like he's not gonna get away with freezing europe, and even ukraine, I think he's gonna survive it'll be difficult, but they were Oh ITALY is upping Julia, the adriatic sea somebody's reporting, her citizen reporting threeg

So here's an excellent this happening. What happens when so Putin get well? Russia has threatened to shoot down elon musk satellites. What do you think of that, so putin and russia? I actually threatened that they might take out satellites. If the satellites are you know helping ukraine now. Look look here. Let me just put this outer I've told you that I will be able to do better than the units the I will do better than humans is persuade it will be persuasive way, more precise, persuasive

that's because you could just free day I the ten rules of persuasion and they were just use em. I could tell you the ten rules or persuasion all day. Long you'll still forget to you. Right, but may I will just use correctly. You also instantly test to see which things get more real It's so ai could, in theory, very quickly, be so powerful as a persuasion. It would be a weapon of mass destruction, not a joke, though I hate to quote Biden, my god I just I didn't buy that literally with no exaggeration. No hyperbole. Persuasion once is weaponized by ai will be so powerful that it could cause a revolution. It could take down the country. It could turn off your power, it could kill everybody. So so do you know who has access to a weapon of mass destruction of that that size.

probably you a mosque now. I think he I think he is no longer involves, was one of the big eyes the same opened was was backing. I think they were together. One point: I read something, so you might not be involved, were they I knew, but then, as such He's doing I with us on the right hand, he must obey I access in a variety of ways. So so imagine imagine this imagine putin targeting elon musk satellites, I pathetically and then imagine that you must get pissed off and deciding to target burdened with a sigh persuasion. Do you think that airline musk could take down russia or take them prudence, presumably with nothing but a I persuasion? What do you think? Do you believe that you learn bus would have first or access to it? You have to have access he'd. Have

if twitter supporting it and not banning it. So he has a platform. He has the ai and he would have the motive hypothetically. So if his satellites get targeted, elon musk has the power of a nation state just about as suzy as twitter right cause. He will have The platform you'll have the distribution, satellites and he'll have the ai to weaponize. It. in whatever way wanted. If, if his ethical say, if it is effort, ethical constraints allowed him to do that. He might just say we use it for war. He by might ethical concerns about whether about weaponizing, ai, which would be reasonable. Actually so I wouldn't worry if I were a burden because burden can attack ukraine

and he might survive, but if he attacks elon musk satellites, I don't think he has a chance. I don't think he has a fucking chance. I think he logged would take him out and he would never know right. Boone would just know that things went bad. You wouldn't know why, because the the persuasion would be somewhat under the hood, wouldn't even see happily anyway. The other thing is it: if you're, if you're a gazelle you there, you can just bribe the highest people in the russian government to do anything, you want gay. I have a question for you, now it is illegal for an american to bribe a foreigner or bribery.

Isn't it illegal to bribe and every situation? Is that true, yes or no? It's it's illegal in every situation, but does that include war? Is it illegal to bribe somebody in the context of war? Of course, not in the context of worry, you can bribe somebody to be by now. I dont know if an american citizen can participate on their own and a war kelly without even be illegal. let us suppose Lemme give you for himself let's say, were at war, and I send a tweet out that I think is really persuasive, could make a difference.

my job by joining the war without provision did I did what it one, if I just like, grab some weapons and fly over there on my own and sir shooting bad guys that legal, if I'm shooting the enemy, Illegal to do that, if an american citizen is suppose I only killed actually combatants, I any citizens without that be illegal, I'm assuming it is a misdemeanors, but suppose, Isla musk went to our military and said: Oh, I wouldn't normally do this, but I know a bunch of level. Russians, because I do business over there, and I can guarantee that I could tell some of those high ranking russians that if they get rid of food- and they ve got a good job with me on spacex someday.

could he do that? What would the american military say? Sure I mean if you can make it happen, god would they given that the us, because you know nobody asked take a chance. All it would require. Is one conversation through intermediaries? Hey, hey igor eli, told me to tell you that if you turn on Putin in some specific way, let's say you've got a job at spacex. I feel I feel like I feel like going after. Ukraine is a real dangerous thing and putin took a big risk, but going after elon musk would be another level of danger that I don't. I don't think he would take off because you wouldn't see it coming like you. Would you wouldn't know what elon musk did back

You would just know something: bad happened, sue the! U s, apparently, earthly blinking says is reiterated that the? U s is tracking the What is nuclear saber rattling and it has warned Putin not to use nuclear weapons, and he- and I guess Putin knows what the response would be and it would be a terrible response, something terrible now. Let me ask you this. I don't want to get into the definition or, but is it really a war? If you can tell the other side what weapons to use like there's something weird about this? Am I wrong? If you can tell your enemy who's, trying to kill you? If you could tell the boy what what

They cover cannot use. Is it really a war, I would say, is the negotiation. Is a war when you use all your weapons when you, when you hold back your best weapons, I think that's just a negotiation that happens to involve bullets, chemic, chemical and nuke, we're being held back yeah. So to me this looks like an active negotiation. If somebody wanted to win a fucking war, they'd use all their weapons. That's why think? So? It's partly economic. So we can sell military weapons, I'm sure, partly just to extended negotiation and we all wars, negotiations, people say them do you believe that somewhere in the world in a

is already being trained in the skill of persuasion? What do you think? Well, if it's not, that would be an obvious oversight, is already happened, of course, and her name is He, yes, I was a cold war or negotiation or a war. Well, it wasn't a war. It was was a bunch of bullshit is what it was you know. I still maintain that the reason for the ukraine war is not any reason has been mentioned. Do you want to know my reason for the ukraine were: do you remember what it was the saviour remember so business for the ukraine war. Not no, not this not onto laptop, not about money, not about money laundering, not about lithium, not about the world economic forum, not about lithium, not about.

I mean not about resources, not about ego, not about nato expansion, but you know what I think it was. The root root root cause you're, ready, not about regime change, not about land, not about military nope, it's simpler than that. There are too many russians experts in our government. That said, there are too many russian experts in our government and let me let me really fuck up your mind here: here's a mental challenge. Imagine if the number of russian experts in our government, You say that that all changed- and there was a small number and the number of the say uranium experts in our government was expanded to the number of russian experts

Think we would be starting a war with iran if most of our exports were iranian experts. Yes, we want, right, you're going to start a war with whoever he has the most experts with. Why? Because they will be the most number of voices telling you, you need a war so that those experts are more important, follow the money. If you follow the money, it goes all the way down to have the expert. Our objective that, if there were, if we only had one russian expert, who was really good, just just one person, but there. really good and everybody knew there really good, do you think that one expert could start or no he's just one person

but as soon as you got like russia experts all through your organizations, they're going to be looking for war with russia cause that's what makes them important it's good for their income, good for their careers good for their prestige, good for everything. So, of course, there's going to be war. If you have a lot of rush experts? So all of those are the reasons above that those are all fake, they're, all fake, because you can recreate the situation just while you could predicted just by the number of experts. That's all I would think yet the people were or will we have a

we're think everything looks like a nail, because aren't you confused about the fact that the united states and russia have any beef whatsoever? Doesn't it make no sense? It doesn't make any sense that it, I will say it until I'm blue in the face, and it will definitely happen. It goes like this. Russia and the united states are natural allies. You can't stop that arc of history from applebee's. There is nothing that will stop us from being allies. In the long run it will happens. We just have too much a governor and a distrust of china is at the top of the list right. So I suspect that the way we solve ukraine is by bringing space and a future

which are where we can work together into the mix. Now, do you think the united states could ever propose that we work together with russia now because are too many russia experts? The only way that would work is if you found a way to monetize the russia experts for helping to bring russia into nato or an alliance or whatever. If the russia experts could find a way to make money from non conflict, then it could work, but I dunno how that would work. Nobody makes money from non conflict. That's an exaggeration

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or download it. Or do I have a question for you? I I need to use the other collective mind, so I've done this experiment before but everytime. I do it I'm fascinated, and I guess something that's purely for my own benefit, but maybe helps you too here's a question. If you use a blood pressure, monitor the kind that wraps around your arm and then compresses your arm. If you sit in one place and just measure your blood pressure three times in a row

Will it always be lower on the third try and it is that because you've been sitting there or is it because the machine squeezed you once or twice, and so it's getting a different reading the third time, in other words, is the third reading accurate. If you keep the band on, do you have to take the band off and put it back on each time you use it, or can you just sit there and hit yes every time. I am saying here is whose role over the place I hears here is why I want to know, because I did something yesterday- that blew my mind now, a number of times. I've done multiple readings on my boy.

Pressure monitor and generally they're they're, not too far like each reading is within the range of the other one. You know they're different every time you do it, but they're, not that different. You can tell if you have high blood pressure or not, but here's something I did yesterday. I took it three times first time, one thirty four over ninety something so that's high second time similar like one thirty two over hyena or something like that. Alright third time, I used that a mental exercise and all I did was drop myself on a beach in hawaii, have a beach that I know well enough that I can imagine it in in perfect detail drop myself on the beach and then took the blood pressure monitor right so here here it went from one thirty, four over ninety and then thirty seconds of visualization. I lowered it to one eighteen over sixty eight.

One eighteen over sixty eight, thus low blood pressure less below normal in thirty seconds. Now now here don't don't take. This is impressive. That's not where I'm going with us are now saying that really worked, I'm asking you if it really worked, I'm not claiming it! I'm not claiming it work. I'm asking you if I fooled myself, because because the coffee,

Was just looser on the third try now I will recruit I'll try to recreate it. You were taught to do it by a psychologist. Now, here's what you need to know. As you know, I'm a trained hypnotist and I can do self hypnosis is one of the things I learned. You know. Learning hypnosis and self hypnosis is sort of a a rapid meditation, so you can bring yourself to a desired state, but where meditation, it's sort of you know, you work your way toward it and you never sure you're there and everything else, but without hypnosis should go right to it. So what I say I dropped myself in a beach I mean I could feel my entire metabolism feel the exact way. I would feel if I were on the beat

from the sun, and I did it in thirty seconds and I could feel the entire beach feeling like I, you feel it my skin now. I also have an unusual say:

unusually commercially developed imagination. Do you ever wonder if you know the famous question: do you see red the same way? I see red, you know, there's no way to know, but there's also no way to know. Although there was a test that claims that we do see it the same, but I don't believe it and there's also no way to know if everybody imagines the same way right cause. I can't see your imagination or you can see mine, but I believe the evidence suggests that, because I'm a professional creative person, I probably have a stronger power of imagination, because I make money on my imagination and I use it every day. So just a ho carpet doctor everybody say out of the carpet doctor who says to us from youtube: see you soon

that is the best dosage. I got all day season, absolutely absolutely alright. So the question is: do I have better powers of imagination? Is that why? Maybe I could imagine my blood pressure down, or was it just a trick on me so I'll test it again, but I wondered if anybody knew the answer to all right. That's all for now and everything is a bell curve. Okay. Yes, we talked about georgia molony on different livestream. All right carpet, make sure that you tweet me as soon as you're on twitter and will look at your number's up, we'll get you up to a million users and is about six months. Alright, that's all for now. Youtube