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uld be burning a lot of stuff. So the climate models assume more people equals more burning. That's a basic part of the models. But it turns out that when you look at the ice samples, the more humans there are, the less biomass there is that's burned. It's opposite. So one of the key assumptions that people equals more burning and that's fed into the model is opposite according to these new studi…

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All right, female doctors. There's another study says female doctors have a far greater risk of taking their own life than even male doctors but higher than other professions. Now when I used to be a banker it was my job to make loans to doctors and dentists and professionals like that for a while. That was my job. And one of the risks of making loans to medical professionals especially dentists is that they had unusually high rates of taking their own lives. Dentists in particular have like career-wise are right at the top of taking their own lives. I'm not surprised that doctors may be a little higher and that female doctors are the highest. And I have a hypothesis to add to this. You know the obvious things would be that being a doctor isn't as good as it used to be and you don't have the same prestige and the work is terrible and a lot of the time you're just doing work that's just busy work to make sure you stayed up all night because for some reason the medical field wants to torture you when you're a new doctor. I've never understood that, to make you stay up 21 hours and all that stuff.

But here's my hypothesis. Since all of those things would be pretty common male or female, I think it's access to pills. If you were a doctor and you were deciding to end it all wouldn't you do it with pills? I would think so. And if you had access to them because you could get all you wanted I would think that would explain most of it actually. It seems like there are a lot of people who probably think about doing something to themselves but it's sort of hard. You're not quite sure how to do it in a way that you'd be willing to do it. But if your job was giving out pills and you could get all you wanted, if you could have asked me you didn't have to do the study. Scott, do you think that the industry that can get all the tools of taking your own life very easily, do you think they would have higher rates of doing it? I'd say yeah, probably. If you can get exactly the tool and it's easier for you, sure.

Well it looks like the headlines say that Andrew Tate has been detained again by the Romanian officials. So he got arrested. Do you know what is the weird part of this? The headline says Andrew Tate detained again in Romania but you read it and it says his brother was picked up too. I feel sorry for Andrew Tate's brother Tristan. He's always the also guy. Andrew Tate gets picked up by the Romanian cops and he has a brother too. So here's my question. Since we don't know what those charges are and Tate says he doesn't know what the charges are based on what evidence, he says there's no evidence. I don't have an opinion about whether he did or didn't do anything wrong. I will state again that even a citizen of Romania is innocent until proven guilty based on our standards. He hasn't been proven guilty so he's innocent until proven guilty in my personal standard of these things.

But here's the question. Do you think he would have been picked up if there were not an American election coming? I feel like he's one of those people who can move young votes, especially young males. I think that maybe Romania was asked to pick him up by somebody associated with the United States because he's exactly the kind of person you want to take off the field when you know people under 30 are looking to figure out who to vote for after not thinking about it until the last minute. He's exactly the kind of person they don't want talking for the next few months. To me this looks very suspicious. The timing looks suspicious. The lack of any obvious evidence that we could see, the public can see of guilt. And again I want to be very clear it's not my job to defend them from any charges. I have no idea what they did or did not do. I have no awareness of any of that. I'm just saying that if I were to, if you would ask me to guess, would they be picked up just about now? I think I might have put a bet on it. If you'd said all right take a bet, give me your bet. Would you bet that the Tates would be rearrested and maybe never charged, you know just taking off the field and taking off the social media before the American election? Would you place a bet on that? I think I would have. I think I would have placed a bet on that that they would be arrested again only because they're effective people. Listen to them. They have a big platform and they're presumably going to be more pro-Trump than pro-Biden or pro-Kamala Harris.

Anyway there's a report that the Chinese tech companies are hiring quote cheerleaders to motivate the programmers. Now based on the photo the cheerleaders would look like they would be heterosexual attractive young women whose job they say is to do stuff like buy breakfast for the programmers, have a conversation with them and play ping-pong. Now if that's true America just has to give up and surrender because we can't compete with that. No. What if our programmers suddenly found it enjoyable to go to work? Well that would be pretty sexist. Yeah this sounds so sexist that could never happen in the United States so we can never compete with this, these happy programmers. But maybe American programmers work harder because they know they have to get rich if they want a girlfriend. So that's plenty of incentive. They probably have all the incentive they need right now.

All right, so there's a report that Osama Bin Laden once said, and it must be in a document somewhere that we've captured after Bin Laden got taken down, but apparently there's some document in which he was saying it would be okay for Al-Qaeda to try to assassinate Obama during Obama's term but they wanted to make sure that they didn't assassinate Joe Biden the vice president. Do you know why Bin Laden thought it would be acceptable and desirable to assassinate the president of the United States but not the vice president? Do you know what his reasoning is for that? Well allegedly his reasoning is that Joe Biden was incompetent and it would be really good luck for Al-Qaeda if he ever became president of the United States because he would destroy the United States with his own bumbling incompetence. That was Bin Laden. Now do you believe that? I kind of believe it. It's a little too on the nose so maybe I'll put a little skepticism in there. I think that would be more appropriate. Yeah I think I was falling into the trap of wanting to believe it because it was a good recreational story like oh that's a good fun story but I don't really think Bin Laden had that insight actually. The more I think about it I'm going to call it false. I think I'm going to call this one fake news. You know maybe there's some document but who knows who made it. Seems a little fake newsy. I don't know. Seems like Russian disinformation to me. No it doesn't. But so I'm going to use the it's a little too close to exactly what some people would want to hear to make me believe it happened just that way.

But here's a weird thing. Do you know if you took the name Bin Laden and simply removed the letters N L and A that all happen they're next to each other. So if you take Bin Laden and remove some of the letters N L N A do you know what you have? Biden. You literally can't spell Bin Laden without Biden. I don't know if the simulation is telling us something but there it is.

Anyway there's a story that one of the officials in the government nuclear weapons department is trying to make the nuclear weapons group way gayer. So it's the National Nuclear Security Administration's special assista

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nt named Ner, that's the last name, Ner, N-A-I-R anyway, made it clear that she wants to get rid of all the white supremacy in the nuclear weapons group, get rid of the white supremacy in the nuclear field. And she wants to gay up the nuclear weapons as part of the diversity, equity and inclusion. So there's actually somebody who's feeling that the important thing about nuclear war is to make sure…

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