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the American tradition, maybe they have to serve some jail time depending on what they've done under that context. Maybe. But the context really matters. And the pieces in the media have been telling us forever that we could know and that Trump knew and everybody knew Trump knew that the election was fair. Let's get to that. The other one-third blame for the violence is with Pelosi and Milley and…

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hard to change after they're done, this 3D printing might be just the thing. They have to finish it with humans using for the electrical and the plumbing and stuff, and that takes the longest time. But it was just a three-unit, three-story multistory thing in eastern Ireland. Now I don't think this technology is quite there, but you could see it's going to be. I would rather the 3D printer made Lego-like blocks that I could just snap together, which exist by the way. There are concrete blocks that snap together like Legos now. And so that if I needed to change an interior wall or even an exterior wall, I would know exactly how to do it because it's made of parts and I can just move them as long as I've got the load-bearing wall. As long as you don't affect the load-bearing part of it, you should be able to play around with your interior space. So I think that's where a 3D printer is getting it wrong because as a homeowner I've made lots of changes to my home after I moved in. And it would bug the heck out of me if there were no practical way to move a wall. But maybe other people would be happy with it.

There's a new drug in testing according to the American Chemical Society. Now you should know that if a drug works in the lab, there's very small chance it's going to work with a human. If they do some testing on a mouse and it works good on a mouse, there's still very little chance it's going to work on a human. However there are cases where the mouse can have a transplant where a human organ is basically attached to the mouse and then they can see if the human organ dies or what happens with the treatment. So if you can get all the way to making a human tumor die in a mouse, then you get very excited.

Now usually when I see stuff like this you hear the new drug makes your chemo 30% more effective, to which I say but you're still on chemo which has got a lot of side effects. It's only 30%. I'm not even sure that's even real. I mean that could just be data noise. I don't know. So usually there are just hundreds of these we've cured cancer things but they don't work out in people. This one looks a little different. So they actually, it actually shrunk tumors in the mouse models. And these were human breast cancer tumors that they put in the mouse. And the expert said it is very rare for a compound to shrink tumors in the mouse models of breast cancer, let alone completely eradicate those tumors with a single dose. Completely eradicated the human tumors in the mouse with one dose, no side effects. Now you have my attention. And now you've got my attention.

Now the odds of it working in humans again, I wouldn't get too excited because there's a very low transfer rate from animal models to humans. But if you see something completely remove a tumor with one dose and it was designed to do it, it wasn't that they were just looking around for stuff. You know they had a good idea that the mechanism would work. That's why they tested it. That's pretty exciting.

Now here's the good news and the bad news. If you have or get cancer in 2025, you have a race against the clock now like has never existed before. Because when I was a kid these same stories were every day when I was 18 years old and not many of these came to fruition. So every day there's some claim of this doesn't work out. But what's different is AI. If you overlay AI on top of this world, the experts in AI are saying you can end up curing basically all the cancers because you could look at the DNA of the person, you could check the specifics of the tumor, a

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nd then the AI will tell you exactly the kind of shot to give you that makes those tumors go away. Now of course there's some medical people who say oh don't let the tech bros talk about science. They're not scientists or they're not medical people. And I get that. But I do think that pattern recognition is going to be the big winning play and that's what AI does well. So it could be, there's no…

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