bigger role in advising the White House on the Israel-Hamas war. So here are some of the insightful things that our dumbest vice president is recommending. Now see if anybody ever thought of these things before. These are so insightful.

Apparently she's pushing officials to articulate more empathy for Palestinians. Well nobody thought of that before, huh? Empathy for non-combatants who are dying in a war. I've never heard of that before. Okay, that might be a good idea, Kamala. Also the most obvious idea in the history of obvious ideas, but does she have something better than that? Does she have something better than the most obvious idea in the history of obvious ideas? Yes. They should focus on a post-conflict Gaza plan. So they should spend more time talking about rebuilding Gaza.

Who told you that? I did. Yeah, it's the same advice I've given, but it's also the same advice that Israel would give you. It's the same advice everybody would give you, which is if you don't describe where you're going it's harder to get people to want to go there. So she's right, but these are the most obvious things that you could ever advise and I kind of didn't really need her for any of this.

Well in other news the X platform is moving ahead to become a payment processing app in addition to being everything else. And they've got licenses now for processing payments in a dozen US states, but they probably have to get most of the states or all of them before they can go live. But that's happening. To me that's a really big deal because you know if you've got a gazillion people on the app, and let me ask, how many of you in the course of a week, in a normal week, how many of you would send money on some digital app whether it's Venmo or Google Pay or Cash App? How many of you use any kind of a digital app at least once a week? And Zelle, yeah Zelle's one. A lot of yeses, few nos. I don't know how you avoid it. I feel like I use it almost every day for one thing or another.

Yeah, well so I think putting the payment thing in X is going to be a big deal because you're already there.

All right. So Nvidia, which makes these advanced chips which do among other things their perfect chip for AI. But the United States is trying to keep Nvidia from shipping their best chips to China because we don't want China to be as good as we are at AI. Could be dangerous. But Nvidia is arguing that they can tweak these chips so that they're degraded in some way and not as good as ours. But we'll see about that.

I guess China has been as much as twenty percent of Nvidia's revenue. But keep an eye on that. Do you think you can really keep China out of the AI game by making sure that their chips are not as good as ours? I feel like it's going to drive China to have their own chip manufacturing. But why wouldn't they have it already? What would prevent China from having their own chip industry? Is it the equipment you need to build the industry that they would have to build up? All kinds of, because I guess it's the same problem in the United States, right? The United States doesn't have the chip industry it used to have and it's hard to make it because you know I guess maybe it's trademarks and copyrights and patents. I don't know. I just don't know what prevents any major industrialized country from making their own chips. I'd love to know what's so hard about that that only Taiwan can do it. So we need to know more about that.

An expert who you should listen to, Bruce Schneier, he's one of these cybersecurity expert types and he's got an editorial on Slate in which he says that the era of AI is going to be an era of mass spying. Now what he means by that is that in the old days if you had a reason to spy on one person, let's say you had a reason to suspect them, you could get a warrant and then you could legally spy on that one person's communications. But if you have AI you have the option of sort of just watching everybody and having the AI summarize what th