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that last stuff is true, but every day there's new information about coffee and I wouldn't rule it out. It could be a fuel of the future. Meanwhile in the publication Pulse, somebody wrote an article about all the mental health benefits of laughter. So it turns out that laughter, which is a subset of being happy, is good for your health. Well they could have saved some money by asking me. But som…

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e wouldn't do that. So there must be some kind of secret dark web deepfake AI that if you knew what it was you could use it.

Now here's the problem. Sure they can shut down that one school. Sure you could punish that one person. Yep, probably never do it again. But I was once fourteen. Is anybody here who was also a fourteen-year-old boy at any time in your life? Have you ever been a fourteen-year-old boy? If I were a fourteen-year-old boy and you handed me a tool that was free and could turn anybody I wanted into porn, you couldn't pry that out of my fourteen-year-old hands. How in the world are you going to stop this? This is going to be to infinity. This is unstoppable and kids are going to do it. So I don't know what you're going to do about that.

I think the weird horrible future is that every young woman will have to just get used to being in a porn that she wasn't in, that her deepfake was in. I don't know. I honestly think there's literally zero way to stop it if there was an AI that could have done it in the first place and that's apparently out there and somebody has access to it. Doesn't look good. But anyway.

A robot dog. You've seen all the robot dogs. One of them just finished in South Korea a marathon on one charge. So with one battery recharge a robot dog ran a marathon. So calculating distance, I would feel safe living near a robot dog at ten miles? Nope. Fifteen miles? Too close. Twenty-six miles? Not enough. You got to get farther than twenty-six miles a

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way from your robot dog if it's got a weapon. I for one do not trust robot dogs. Pit bulls are looking good. I might get a pit bull to fight the robot dogs. You've seen that more athletes are doing the Trump dance. You know the Trump dance. It's the dance. I can do it. If I see a little viral video on TikTok or something and I see the young people doing these dances where it looks like they're fl…

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