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as to basically shift the argument and become the champion of election integrity, which nobody could disagree with. Basically it's a high ground maneuver. Have I told you that the high ground maneuver wins every argument? It's the one that always wins. And as soon as you hear it you're like, "Oh, okay, damn it. The argument's over." That's the high ground. The high ground is not whether the elect…

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ou can talk to anybody about anything and they don't necessarily have to disclose it. But it's nice when they do.

All right. Have you noticed that every story is about Elon Musk? I'll give you some examples. So AOC tweeted this sort of long ambiguous tweet to which Musk responded. So AOC tweets, "Tired of having to collectively stress out about what explosion of hate crimes is happening because some billionaire with an ego problem unilaterally controls a massive communication platform and skews it because Tucker Carlson or Peter Thiel took him to dinner and made him feel special."

Now when I read that I thought she was talking about Elon Musk buying Twitter. Elon Musk must have thought the same because he tweeted back hilariously, quote, "Stop hitting on me, I'm really shy." Okay. Now if you see this outside of the realm of Twitter, which a lot of people will, they'll just see this reported in a news item or something, you don't really appreciate how perfectly Twitter-like his response is, right? His response would be maybe inappropriate in almost any other domain. In any other domain it would be a little weird. But in the specific one of Twitter it's exactly right on point. He's hitting the target right in the head. It's a Twitter response.

So I've told you before and keep watching for this because it's fun to watch that Elon Musk is very clear about what matters and what doesn't. And when things don't matter he mocks them. And when things do matter like saving the planet or going to Mars or something he somehow makes that happen. So I've never seen anybody who's more clear about what's silly and what's not. That's just one of his best qualities. And so he just makes fun of it.

And then apparently AOC tweeted but quickly deleted, "I was talking about Zuckerberg but okay." And then everybody had to debate whether she deleted it because it wasn't funny enough or didn't want to engage or was it because it really wasn't about Zuckerberg or who knows. But apparently there's a Zuckerberg version of meeting with at least Peter Thiel and there's a speculated Musk version in which he probably met with Peter Thiel or did or something as part of deciding about Twitter.

And so I just love this little exchange. But so Elon Musk is in every part of the news. We'll keep going on this. But first, so this really happened. A reporter for The Guardian decided to do a story about virtual reality. And so went into one of the virtual reality worlds. And I'm not sure which one it was. I don't know if it was Meta or just a virtual reality world. It doesn't matter to the story. What matters to the story is that she was immediately assaulted with racism and actually was groped in the VR environment, basically sexually assaulted in virtual reality.

Now of course she was quick to point out that she never lost touch with the fact that it wasn't the real world. But the problem with, or the feature of virtual reality, is it makes you feel the same way as the real world. Knowing it's not the real world doesn't help you nearly as much as it should.

I've told you some of the story about my VR experience. I put on the glasses and I walked up to a cliff edge so that in the virtual world if I stepped off it looks like I would fall to my death. In reality I knew I was just in a room in my house and had no danger whatsoever. I couldn't make my legs move. I couldn't walk over the cliff in the virtual reality. Couldn't make my legs move. My brain would say, "Move your legs. You're perfectly safe." I would even take the glasses off to make sure I was still in the real room, put them back on and say, "All right now." Couldn't do it.

And so when she says she was actually assaulted and like I guess they cornered her and they were doing stuff with her hands and stuff that she felt actually assaulted. And I think that's real. That's completely real. And so what are you going to do about that? Do you end up having all the same laws in the virtual reality because th

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e virtual reality just becomes your reality? Well just to make it more weird there's a new invention that allows you to feel things while you're in virtual reality, specifically on your mouth. And so Gizmodo had an article about this that I'm failing to find in my notes. But apparently there's a little haptic response thing. And I saw a picture of it. You've got the VR goggles on and then there's…

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