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Image: Popularity of the first name Coral correlates with The number of biological technicians in Missouri

Spurious correlation #3,596

https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious/correlation/3596_popularity-of-the-first-name-coral_correlates-with_the-number-of-biological-technicians-in-missouri

Note: « every sequence has equal probability » is true but things are a little more complicated when you factor in entropy and the fact that some sequences are more « special » than others which matters when you consider say the probability of getting N heads and M tails after N+M tosses

Note: I did not create the section / chapter labels; I need to figure out some way to turn that off because I don't care for them; I'm also not responsible for the captions which Apple is auto-generating ( and ignoring any that I put in so I stopped bothering to try with those )

Transcript

Hey there I'm Scott and this is Tangents.

Well it is the 7th of December 2025 as I

Not quite sure when my last one was but it's been a while.

I'm I'm

Usually I'm back at my mom and sister's place at least

I don't have a lot of time and space and all that kind of stuff.

It's interesting to

Obviously you know controlling the temperature, controlling

Not having yeah not having somebody always there

It is nice to be able to spend time with my mom and those.

But the

Like I don't have I don't really have a comfortable chair there

There is that one that I can sit in that doesn't

I don't have a place to stand.

I don't have my standing desk.

I miss

And then I don't have my whiteboard and having like a

Nice cheer that I can sit in if I want to and

It's it's all really nice and I have

But anyway I have this opportunity I'm going to record a couple

It's already 1842.

I've been working on some

It's one of these things.

It always feels

That's that's kind of where I am.

I think I'm going to make it

Anyway anyway the thing I

I've spoken a couple of times on it.

I don't think I've made a

Any US calling an injection calling

I do that.

I set the speed and a car to kilometers per

I do 24 hour time and things like that.

I'm not saying that you can't do

I need to make one of

One of the things that I

The only time that it makes sense to the really get

Brooke Jacobs who I really like one of my best professors when I'm

Understanding the difference and those kinds of things

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Image: Thomas Henry Huxley in the 1860s. He was the first to decisively coin the term agnosticism. By Ernest Edwards National Institutes of Health public domain

Full transcript:

Hey there I'm Scott and this is Tangents

Well, today is the sixth of I was going to say

They're like a blink ago, I started my job,

And then I blink ago after that, that job ended

I was planning on going to Japan, South Korea,

And I've been back like two months now,

I mean, I know this is not the most profound observation

But I remember when I was a kid, I was a kid,

It seemed like forever

And kind of in a bad way, in some sense,

And it just seemed like a forever

And now, I blink my eyes and years have gone by

I've been, like, I'm back on Facebook,

And because I started my account there,

And there are a bunch of people that I'm connected to there

And I look at these guys, and they're like,

And, you know, so many of them also, the dudes,

And you're seeing these bald guys,

I'm not, I don't know how that happens

But no, I mean, like, we're all kind of the same age

And it's just weird, it's just fucking weird

I was just talking to somebody I used to work with

And her kid, who she had, after we broke up,

But, I have a history for some reason

In her case, I guess I don't want to talk too much about it,

There was someone in grad school who I really liked

And I don't know that she ever would have

But she definitely was very flirty, let's just say,

Like, the first time we started talking online,

She talked

And it was Friday night, and she just message me out of the blue

And we had, I guess that the transcripts

And I would kind of see her every once in a while,

But it was just weird

It was, and, you know, I was quite infatuated with her

I was, it was one of my last real,

I've had, don't give me wrong

I've had a few sense, and not a few before

But somehow with her, just was extremely, extremely interested

And, you know, I knew that that wasn't gonna work

And so, you know, ended up in a couple of other relationships

But I wasn't really, I don't know,

And also, like there was this thing that, you know,

I kind of, like, soft-dated a couple people before,

One of, one of those actually, also, she had a kid,

And, I don't know, soft-dated as the rape,

Not, you know, not dating, per se,

But, anyway, we sort of parted ways,

And that kid, I mean, years ago already,

And I think maybe going to school,

And then you just think about, like, the time

So, and you think, also, like, if I would have had a kid

It's wild, it's hard to wrap your mind around,

And especially, like, it just keeps accelerating

And I think about, like, how fast it must go for my mom,

So, it's just like, you

And, I don't know, I think about that,

We were together

And I, of the people that I've been with,

With one, again, I was still not really completely

That wasn't really even a relationship

But, you know, and it was very,

But it was, like, I've not had many people on Facebook

And with her, it was, like, a half dozen times

And, like, I wouldn't see her for nine months,

And then it was just fucking weird

It was just in retrospect and in perspective,

But, I don't know, like, if she ever was interested,

Yeah, it's one of those things, like, maybe the idea

I don't know, I really don't

But, I was with this other person, and I think,

And she's already really interested

And it's just, like, the weird thing is now,

Now, I can imagine, I'm not exactly jealous of people

And there's one that I don't really watch that much,

I see some, I think that I have some things,

I think they would be good

They're the things that the world would be a better place

And, you know, like I'm saying, I don't know,

I think, like, one of them, and actually,

And the funny thing is, I'm not agnostic

I'm absolutely not, I don't think at any point in my life,

I've basically always been non-religious

I was raised without religion, and frankly,

I'm very thankful that it wasn't really imposed on me,

But you see people where they lose a kid,

And you have this problem that you have to sort of resolve

But, you see people with these things,

And then their kid died, and how do you deal with that?

And I'm not saying like, anything could make that a okay thing,

Or for a lot of reasons, I think, you know,

And so, you know, you think about that,

But, you think about that, that means every year,

And so that means, what does that,

And you think about that

And then on top of that, you think about like,

And you add all that time, I'm up

And it just, it really fucked with me

And I was just thinking about how long the universe

And then you think also about the heat death,

And it just things like that kind of mess with me

And I don't think I ever really came

Like it didn't resolve in a way

But in going through that exercise myself,

And then I sort of started accepting it

And then I started being okay with it,

And I, the universe that I inhabit in some sense

But as far as I know, there's no higher power

Now, the reason I say I'm not agnostic is agnostic implies,

And it's even impossible to know the nature

The problem with that is of course it assumes

And it's specifically that sort of monophistic today

And so you kind of think about it,

And this is one of the reasons why, again,

And even when they take away the sort of formal religion

That the way that I see the universe

And in fact, to me, that stuff doesn't make sense

And like, I mean, part of it is also,

And you think about what would be,

You could either have something that exists outside

And then does that even have a real meaning?

And so you think about that, and so it just sort of,

But to me, basically, it says, if it does exist,

So you could use that in way of your hands

But you know, basically, as I see it,

And similarly, and this probably comes,

But I think our track, the next generation,

It just kind of eliminated the chance of me

Because in there, they have this character cue

And cue comes from a civilization,

And you know, essentially very godlike

It's a problem, it is definitely also a problem

It's one of the reasons that there are a lot of reasons

Because atheists, agnostic says you don't know

And my non-religious says that the concept,

Like, what does it mean to say that a god exists or not?

I mean, you imagine if you're a human being,

And that is like so much,

If you wanted, you could pour molten lead

That's so much energy compared to what they have access to

It's so much material, it's so much destruction

It's just, and you think about that sort of thing

And there's somebody else with a technology,

You know, they certainly with a flick of the wrist

I mean, you don't even have to get that advanced

They're not like destructive on the scale of

But you can make a city go away in a blank,

And you think about, from the perspective

They raised cities and had to just do a quick search

But yeah, it was the ancient Assyrians would raise cities

And when I say raised cities,

And essentially, like a nuclear bomb went off

But you think about the amount of time

And yeah, especially if you have,

Any of that kind of stuff

And that is our level of technology now

If you imagine you have the ability

And that's not a big deal to you

That's very god-like

Now that's in the disruptive sense,

If you have replicators and phasers

You could build a building

Or some intricate detailed artwork

You could do it in minutes

And that's not that hard to imagine

Even if you don't have like actual replicators

If you want anything,

And it's there

Just no effort

It's not a big deal for me

And to you, it's the biggest deal in the world

Yeah, or whatever it is, whatever resource it is,

You just imagine that sort of thing

Somebody who's coming from a primitive society

And you start thinking practically

But what would it take to say, okay, this is something

You could say, well, there's something unknowable about it

And I guess you could go to like Hindu traditions

What does that really mean?

I'm not denying it, I'm not saying it exists

I'm just saying, I don't know that that's any different

And, you know, what does it really mean?

Because, I mean, if you take it seriously,

And so it doesn't, it almost means

And this gets to, again,

This is a thing that I noticed, I do,

Even when I have notes, I have notes now

I almost always let that thread hang

But the Pascal's wager thing, if you have,

And if you don't believe,

And so the wager is basically saying,

And I guess that's very compelling,

The problem is it really falls apart badly

So if you're gonna be doing Pascal's wager,

So now you have to start picking and choosing

And now you're gonna really pick pickle

They would, yeah

And then also there's that just in case thing,

I'm being very high level there, but you know,

But there's a lot of like lawyer and God kind of stuff,

And a certain point to me, it's like,

I don't really don't

If you think that there's a God

He was getting his PhD, I think in chemistry at the time,

And yeah, believe also that people who don't believe

This is one thing that, when I started realizing this,

But if I thought that you were going to burn and pain

They never pretty much never do the only ones

And the watch tower drove as witness people

And they're not even, I don't think that they're really,

And they don't seem to mind the fact

I brought this up, I've talked to them a couple of times

I brought this up to them and it didn't really register,

And I don't know how much they spent actually,

A four-letter domain is expensive,

And they bought that

And you just think like,

Whatever it is, it doesn't matter

And don't follow it and don't go to their, the cult, but yeah

It's just, I look at that and the whole idea

It also also actually, as long as I'm talking about this,

And in the neighborhood that I was in,

And they come out and they're on bikes,

They say that it's for safety, I'm sure,

Because you're going out into the world

And for them, you know, some of them are going to be assholes

Some of them are going to be hostile

And even the ones that are nice, they're not probably going to entertain you

So that sort of stuff you are getting hardened by that,

And even if not that, they're just sitting out there,

There are two fuckers out there sitting at a bench,

They look, some of them even look kind of like they're a couple,

But whatever it is, it's like, it's a bonding experience

This is why they do it

This is why cults send people out to recruit people

Because a recruiting people is the thing that's at a cult grows,

It's partly hardening you

It's partly showing you, like, oh, see how hostile the world is,

And then people kind of have that experience,

You're more inclined not to go out and venture and escape,

Incidentally, also not to keep harping on this stuff,

And you think about it also,

Like it would not have been a big deal

It would not have been like the end of the world, certainly

I wouldn't have gotten excommunicated from my community and all this kind of stuff

But some of these religions, if you are, either you do the conversion therapy,

Like, not just the community members around, but like, they're fucking family,

I have some animosity toward people that are shitty like this

And also, like, there's a certain, I don't mean, again, I don't mean to pick on a specific religion

I'm not a fan of most of the major religions

I'm not a fan even of the ones that are, I would say,

And, because there are a lot of, it's that thing, you know, I like your Christ,

Getting back to, uh, getting off that tangent and trying to get back to what I'm talking about here,

And the thing that's funny about this is this is the argument, this is actually

You should not allow, I don't even think you should allow the government

I think that's actually probably pretty fucked up

They certainly

But also let the ability to take away people's right to vote, if you give the state the

Think about what that means

Think about what that means

That means there's something you could do, you don't even have to do it, just somebody can decide

And now you cannot vote, you lose your representation in the state

And I always talk to people about this, and it's one of those things that people,

I think that what it is, I think maybe I'm just being

And instead of really interrogating it, they kind of just

But you should never, never, ever, ever, ever give the state that ability

And you think about it also, it's like, well, I talked to people about that and they're always like,

Basically, you don't

You don't know anything definitively one way or another

Everything is kind of an approximation

And you could be really, very, very confident about something,

And you could be very uncertain about things

In fact, the default position is you just don't know

This is a thing, I wish more people were

And like, I don't know is the greatest thing that you

Those are, if more people would

It would help so much

This is a weird thing

I was at a coffee shop this morning, and there were two women talking,

And it was like, I guess, really,

Just some kid has constipation,

And the fact that we are like, we're trained to be ashamed of just

Like, it's, it's fucking weird, it's fucking weird, because we all

You know, and it never mind talking about, like, reproduction and reproductive health and

And if you wouldn't even get into that, this gets to,

And it's not just, we don't, like, sex, you just have this idea that, oh, you just know how to do it

And you don't talk about it very much, and it's kind of very ashamed

There's a lot of shame

There's a lot of weirdness around it

And you think about, like, relationships, too,

Like, I mean, I'm not saying,

I'm just saying that the way that our society is,

And I don't mean that it's actually weird

It should not be weird

But we're trained

We don't have that protocol

We don't have the social

And it's just, like, the way that you have that, the way that you have this idea,

If you look at movies and, you know, it's interesting

Actually,

And in the thing, I'm terrible with names

But in the beginning,

And she's not into him or something

Something is happening

It's not going very well

And then he jumps

He's like super-infatuated

And she's the son all this stuff

And then all of a sudden, he's into this Juliet, who is also,

They're definitely way the fuck too young

They've known each other for

I think Shakespeare's making fun of it

I think he's, like, pointing out how fucked

But if we have this idea, this hyper-romantic idea that, A, you don't know if somebody

And then also,

And it, which is kind of ridiculous

Because the, the relationships that I've actually had, especially the good ones, they started out,

And then it's, it's all weird

And it's kind of like, there's a lot of pressure to it

And then you have this stuff where everybody's kind of pretending to be somebody else

And you're

And then you, you get to know each other there

And then you

And then now you become, like, now you have to know that actual person

The relationships that I've had that have actually been good and the, the way that I've preferred

It's like, you meet somebody

And you get to know them

And, you know, like, things just

Or they don't

And we don't talk about this stuff

We don't really have

We have a lot of models, especially in pop culture of terrible versions of this

You have a lot of models of, like, oh, somebody gets drunk and then they get taken advantage of

And, you know, I mean, to, I say take an advantage of, I mean, that's, that's code for raped

Basically, or, or, you know, I'm not saying that every time you have sex under the influence of

But there's a lot of, like, really transgressive stuff in our pop culture

And people

They take, I mean, it's one of the reasons

And it is also, like, you get to the whole bullshit, uh, I, again,

I need, I need a, a way to, like, end the thing I've, like,

Um, you know, because I'm like, I don't want to actually say something

But, uh, and I got so, and I got so hung up on that, I forgot what the fuck I was going to

The, the whole idea of, like, not taking no for an answer, love it for sight, um,

That was it

That was it

The mail

Um, that whole bullshit thing

I mean, I think about it

Also, like, I, I was, uh, according to museum culture, I was kind of a

I never, like, I, I, I never, and there, there was somebody, my sister's friend

That was very consensual,

I didn't have been younger than that

I don't remember

But

And then didn't go anywhere

And I wasn't really, other than that, like the next time I,

I've been in talk to people, and you had, but that's not really any friends

And then undergrad,

There was one TA that I really

There was, uh, there were a couple of TAs that I kind of got to know a little bit,

And I don't mean that

I just mean, especially with the little kids

I didn't, I never really felt that comfortable with them

I never really felt like when I was a little

I didn't, um, I didn't feel like one of the kids,

And, you know, as I got older, I sort of grew, well, I don't know if I grew into it,

And then sort of like the end of undergrad, I start connecting with people a little bit,

I don't think it's a thing you can control, but I'm at somebody who every

It went, in fact, like from my,

It wasn't like people excluded me, it was just

It's a weird lip, and, you know, because there was a time where, like,

Anyway, rambling around here, the thing getting back to this agnosticism, I'm on blue sky,

It's like, you know, you, you, how dare you not allow me to say,

Blocking was part of the design of at protocol, which is the thing that they claimed that

He's, he's a journalist who is known, journalists is not the right

They also, as part of that, I don't want to make this

Anyway, the, the thing that I'm getting to, with all of this, I'm on blue sky today,

Then agnosticism is probably probably almost the

I think it's kind of important, I think, I really think like, I've never had a class

I can't think of a class optics

Actually, undergrad optics,

It's probably pretty hard to figure out when I was there and who was teaching all that kind of stuff

So

And it's still true, if I understand

Like I just, yeah, it's, I'm not saying it's easy, but it just

It's why I can, I could not use calculus for a couple of years and then figure it

Like it might take a little bit of time to brush up, but it would come back to me pretty quickly,

Even like, reman versus lip egg integration and all that kind of stuff,

But I'm not doing like a complex analysis proof right

But the stuff that I really understand, it kind of understands it

And so if you understand it, you kind of own it

I think that is, I know people think differently

But for me, especially with physics,

And there are always people that would have like microprint, full both sides,

I've talked about him before, but he, he's actually one of the

But he

And he was right, it really, especially for the proofs,

I'm sure, like if you're trying to do like

Yeah, that was a good class, rings and fields and groups and all that kind

I miss, it was talking to a friend about this a couple of days ago or so,

And I mean, obviously, like part of it is just a year at a certain time,

And I'm not saying like,

It was not a great time

There were a lot of things that were not

But one thing that was awesome about undergrad for me, especially one semester

But most of it, I was getting

I had a little bit of

And I could just

And some of the classes were not great

Some of the classes were things that I

But most of the classes were pretty interesting

And most of the classes

I would have liked to have taken more

It would have been like undergrad if money was not an object

And I was going to live

I always used to say that I would, and I would still would do this, like collect

I just get a bunch of doctorates and get a JD and get an MD

I would do that for sure

I don't think I would ever get an EDD

It's kind of a weird thing

That's interesting

I don't know that I would get an MBA

I might do it just like, if I was

Okay, I probably get an MBA just to just do it

I PhD in psychology

I would definitely do that

I probably practice surgery for a little while

But then you think about the MBA, the business degree, you can't see the whinsing on my face,

It's not like, it's more like it you

Maybe I would do it just

I probably get sick of it

Probably not

But anyway, getting rambling around here, rambling is what I do

I guess if you're

It's kind of the thing that you need to, I don't have an, or I don't have

And on one hand, you can get pretty

You could do that too, but it's going to be hard

Unless you're just naturally like, that's the thing you do

And I do, the weird thing is actually,

It's more

And or I do something weird,

That kind of

I can imagine like, I, today, I wrote an outline and I think the outline

Like, it gives me at least some kind of structure

And that even happens with the notes,

But you think about like you could be doing

And I guess for a certain kind of person, Simon Wissler, that works for

It seems to be like a

It's interesting,

For at least somewhat, I listened to one of his things with my mom and sister,

And it also like, it's interesting, I guess it's a human thing,

And so I did not enjoy the one that I was listening to with them

And it's kind of had a lasting effect

I think also like I've heard maybe too many of his things,

But you know, if you're doing something where you're putting in a lot of

Because especially like I don't edit this this

And especially like when I

I like TikTok for the videos, but the problem is also at the same time,

It's so much effort

And if you really want to do like you make it, like I've

And you just think about like, yeah, I don't,

I don't think I would, I don't think I'd want to, and, yeah, I don't think it would

What I'm doing here, I somehow can sustain it, as long as I have time and opportunity

I don't know why that is, it's been, and it's been

You know, again, I was my, my ex, who was the sister of my friend's

She and I, well, her kid is 14

So we broke up 15 years ago,

And you just think like, when we get the knowledge other, she was listening

So, and that was not like, I just started it

It was one that I was doing for years

Before that, I just think about like, I've been doing this for a long, fucking time, and it's kind

And the thing is also, like, I have zero interest in, I don't have a real interest

I don't have a real interest in monetizing this

Just the idea of

It's such a weird fucked up thing about our society

And the

And you're like,

And I'm not saying I do that,

And it's like, oh, you do those

You could, you know, no, like art should not be,

Going back to Star Trek, you have Cisco's and the this restaurant from the father

And I don't think they exchange money

I don't, maybe they do, maybe they don't,

But he loves to cook

He just likes to cook

He likes having a restaurant,

And it's essentially

So you could just do that

And it does get to this thing, like, you see

I know, it's like,

Nothing comes of this

Nothing, there's no, you know, but I just do this

This is a thing that I do because I like it

And I think that's good

I think if you like making paintings,

You just make fucking paintings

You do sketches

You write poetry

You do equations on a blackboard

I used to, I used to love when I was, when I was in high school and undergrad, I used to like

And I would just, especially, and I was, this came up recently,

I was like,

Same,

Was, he is the one that called it the phone book for me

But it's this big black, mine was a

I think the soft cover is better

I miss, it's the one physical book that I got

I had, you know, I had a box full of books

And there were some that I liked

There were, I had like a cow field theory one

I had,

I had, I had a few other books that were, that were pretty good

But I, the gravitation one, I miss

I got that in high school way before I ever took

And that book, it's, maybe I'm just overly romanticizing it

But I'm going through the book and it starts out just like with a description of stuff

And it introduces tensor calculus

It introduces like vector transport

And it, I will say,

But, you know, it's, it got me to a certain point with a lot of this stuff that I could,

Uh, I, I, I didn't, I don't know how I would do on it now

But, you know, I did,

And, yeah, that was fucking cool

I enjoyed that

Or just like figuring out and thinking about,

And now you can start integrating path

And you can, you realize that like, oh, well, in this metric where you have space,

So plus plus plus minus signature minus minus minus plus,

Uh, minus minus minus plus gives you like three spatial ones

And then also, you can, you can put Cs in there, but

You use a unit of length in the unit of time that are the same

So the speed of like

You could do that for all, pretty much all of the units, or most of the major units

But anyway, you do that

You the integration, you figure this stuff out

And, you know,

But, you know, and it built a lot of intuition and it was fun

And there's that, you know, that, but that was a hobby

It wasn't like I didn't need to be paid for it

I didn't need to be paid

I mean, I guess I did pay to go to classes

But I would, if I, if money

Just take some, you know,

But it would take a long time

Like, you know, you can take, because you just think about

How many languages could you take? And the languages each take, you know,

Take another language, work on that, get better at it

But I'm put the front say,

And, yeah, you, um, that would be interesting

I think that would be cool

Learn,

I mean, I wouldn't want to do that as a career

It's a thing that's horrible about the, again, it gets to the society in the way that things are

But, you know, like, people have this idea that education has to be vocational training

And, I mean, obviously, like, you need somehow to pay your way through life and always kind of

I do think, you know,

And that there will be people,

If you made it not miserable, like, I mean, think about it

Wouldn't you,

You can go out there and just like chill in the

Doesn't seem like that big of a deal

Are you getting enough people to do that?

There are things where you'd probably

But you don't need to have this thing where, like, if you don't do it, you're fucked

You don't have to have this thing where if you don't do your shitty job,

You're going to be just miserable if you, if something goes wrong and, you know, you need surgery

And I think really, it's kind of fucking annoying,

We have so much variety

You have 20 companies

They're not, like, making, it's something

Like,

Part of, part of what's annoying about it is

Everybody wants to, you know,

Everybody's trying to duplicate the same shit that everybody else is doing

There's not a lot of room for creativity in that

And then you end up with, like, look at cars

You look at, you go to the serial aisle and they're all the same boxes

Basically, like, in terms of composition and, you know, ingredients,

But they're all very,

And, you know, you start going through that and you get, you go through the

Like, you have stuff that is, everything is, is made now to be just, there's something

I feel like I hear like people talking like in the background

It sounds maybe like it's just an electric hum or something behind me

Whatever it is, it's very

Maybe it is people outside, but whatever it is, it's like, if I could actually hear

But the way my brain works, if I sort of like half hear it, I start focusing on it and then I'm like,

You don't have to pay people to make

You don't have to, it's annoying

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Well it is the 4th of November 2025 as I

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Hey there I'm Scott and this is Tangents.

Well, my mom and sister just left for her by E.

They're going to Kauai`i and they'll be there for the week.

So I will have the place to myself for the week.

I'm going to try to bank up some episodes.

I don't

I should I know bank them up

But the way that I operate I probably will just

There should be more coming

So got that out of the way.

I could have

And the little bit of money that I do have left over

And it's kind of something because I have done so much to reduce my burn rate.

I had the car

I had the apartment that I did eventually get rid of, but

So I'm living with my sister and I rent free.

Which is complicated,

It's a place to be.

I definitely definitely

Just having a place to work and just sit and you know having control of some

I miss that very much and I would like to have that again soon.

I don't know.

I don't want

Let's just say that.

But it's

It's nice spending a lot of time with my mom and her cat is slowly warming up to me,

His name is Snoop and after Snoop Dogg.

But he's a cute cat that he is

Anyway, I don't want to I don't want to talk about that.

That's not what I'm here to talk about.

The thing I am interested in saying of courses, I reduced my burn rate so much, so much.

I'm working

The credit card debt, the annoying

Then I will get to the subject

But like three years ago, three years ago, I had a company and it seemed like everything

If everybody had to

It felt like things were

Finally, I was getting paid pretty decently and you know, it seemed like things were

I should have been paying

But I got sick of doing the business stuff,

I don't even understand the concept of money.

I've mentioned that a couple

I mean, every time I talk about this, I think it's

I have an undergrad degree in mathematics.

I have a PhD in physics.

I understand

I even have an undergrad minor in anthropology and I could have done

If I would have gone another semester, I understand the idea, you have

I understand what money and currency is supposed to be.

But it's not real.

It's fucking unreal.

Even the story that people tell about it,

The thing is, the bartering was

Instead of trying to do like three layers of bartering to convert from one thing to

It's bullshit.

If you actually go to indigenous populations

You need it and so I'll give it to

And the reason for this, it makes a lot of sense.

If you have ever known somebody who has like a

If you're a fisher person, you can go out and

And on one hand, this is a little different now because we've got overfishing and all those

But if you are in sort of a more natural state and you go fishing, it's easy to catch

And the incremental cost of catching

And so people used to do it

So it's much easier.

I mean, you look at like anything.

If you

And it's like a problem.

It's like a disease

Well, that's how a lot of stuff actually is.

This is something like we treat the people who grow our food, who harvest the food,

So fucking horribly.

And I remember it's been years now since I saw this.

But I was watching something and I checked this out.

It's actually true.

It's not bullshit.

And basically this thing was saying that if you wanted to double not not like increment by 10% or

But if you wanted to double what the people who are picking lettuce are getting paid,

It's not that much.

You could

You could make them actually pay well.

You could make them

You let them do it kind of freely.

And you don't have to make

And you could make a fuckload of lettuce and have plenty for everybody.

So anyway, they did going back.

They gift the economy thing.

Once you start learning about

And then you think about economics.

Like, if you talk to economists,

They treat it as though they're talking about like something like energy or mass,

And what really is true about currency and about money as it

A bank would take a certain amount of money,

And that bank would use that dollar and lend out $10.

And that scale is about

The bank would lend out a multiple of what they've taken in.

And of course,

And they can lend out $100 because it's $10.

And it's a fucking fantasy.

It's completely disconnected

All the stuff that, you know, your bank accounts, those are literally

I mean, and again, I know it sounds like bullshit and you have

No, it wouldn't.

And even if it did, you know, if you just, I mean, if you want to get extreme with

Now, all of a sudden, all those billionaires, those people with

They're their net worth has gone

You know, everybody has way more than they had.

And they have way more than

But now we have inflation and things kind of renormalize.

And it's sort of,

And then over time, because you're running

And you have the same problem.

It's just delaying it.

You have to do

You can't, you can't just operate that way.

But if you did that, it wouldn't hurt

It wouldn't change anything fundamentally.

It wouldn't, it's not like if I suddenly gave

And every credit card that I've given you, it just has $1,000 on it,

And it has that much.

And at the end of the month, it just

Like your credit card, you put, you can put, you can use it, you could not use it.

It doesn't

But you go out to dinner, you buy groceries, you do whatever with it.

And I'm not talking about,

But you could just give everybody a credit card, like that,

And it would literally not hurt anything.

In fact, what it would do ultimately

It would, because all of a sudden, a bunch of small

A bunch of businesses like restaurants start doing massive amounts of

They start doing really well.

Any kind of thing that is currently in some kind of

All of a sudden, if you want to just work on something and make art,

You could magically do it.

And if you have a shitty job

You could just, I assumed a little bit of sex there.

But you know, you could tell your

And it really wouldn't, like the only thing it would hurt is the people

Like it's the most frustrating thing, because you have these

Like

It's essentially like a form of hoarding and you get these people and they get a hundred billion dollars,

You have the amount of money that allows you to have your own fucking

You know, you have that much money.

You have the amount of money that you could

That's the amount

And it's not enough.

They're fucking poor.

They are the poorest people

Our people like Elon Musk and like Bezos and all these fucking assholes,

They will never feel like it is enough.

And they have more

It's disgusting.

It's

So anyway, I don't want to, I don't want to ramble too much about that, but

I genuinely don't.

If you change

It would actually help things.

And

People kill each other.

People

Like most of the suffering on the planet now

Diseases.

Like, you, somebody has cancer.

Maybe we don't have

Maybe they have some kind of an anatomical issue that

Anything like that.

Those kinds of things are very difficult to fix.

But when it's like, you don't have enough food.

Well, more than enough food rocks on this fucking

Like, everybody who starts that off is a deliberate

It is absolutely violent.

It is absolutely fucking horrible.

It is absolutely unnecessary.

There's zero reason.

Any human being in this day and age should ever start to death.

There's

Anyone should not have a fucking house.

And I say a house.

I mean, I don't think people

Now, in I don't mean

And yeah, there are ways to do it

Like, you go to Tokyo.

And I'm not saying Japan is great.

There are obviously

But you go to Tokyo.

And this is a place where you have, I think

I don't remember exactly.

But you have this huge population

It literally feels

Sorry.

It's not 20 million people.

I was exaggerating.

But so

Now there are places which are kind of

Anyone who says city, I mean they built up in a lot of buildings and very industrial

But most of this stuff, you walk around and it's like parks.

It's like trees

And it does not need to be like a fucking nightmare.

Like you

And in doing that because you have

You could have, you know, you want to eat something.

You could just walk around, not have a plan, not know where you're going to go.

And you'll

You can go to a bakery.

You can go to a coffee shop.

Now not every neighborhood has all that stuff.

But you could find the lot of it.

And the thing

And you go to

And it will

And I'm not even exaggerating on the prices.

For ridiculous, it'll be like

If you're coming from the US like I am.

And that's just like a normal lunch.

That's not a big deal.

Now you can, you could certainly go,

But you could get pretty good food and pretty comfortable situation and live in a

But I am saying, you know, like,

That's how it should fucking be.

You can have a place where you have

Like, nobody needs to die because they don't have fucking health insurance

It's ridiculous.

It's, again,

It's not a real scarcity.

The only real scarcity that is there

And the reason we don't have enough

It's because all of the medical schools deliberately create scarcity.

They don't want to

It's not like a massively rare profession.

It's something, and of course

And yeah,

It just to be clear.

You would have to open the, you know,

And then

There are, there are

It's not like a trivial thing, but you could have suddenly, in five or

You could have all these people, not only

Imagine what you could, like, I understand you're a doctor,

I need to make $700,000, or whatever the

It's not, again, this disease of our culture, of our society.

And I'm not trying to pathologist it, but it is kind of a disease that you can never be sight,

You can never be satiated.

If you just did this, you would have so many more doctors,

And not just from a person who chose a profession that

Like there

Their aspiration in life is just to help people just

Like that is a thing.

There are so many people I know, personally, who,

Like I know a bunch of people who went to my

Maybe there were other people, he's the only one that I know of

It wasn't a surprise that he washed out, but he didn't make it through.

But most of

A lot of them wanted to do research, a lot of them wanted to do stuff, but they couldn't do it,

There's not like a lie, it's frustrating because these are people

They're not like incompetent people.

They're not

They're not people who

They're not people who are lazy,

But these are people who would actually make massive

And I think about this all the time, because

And drum discovery, it's like one of the things about all of this kind

Some of it will actually work out.

And so I think about this drug

And I don't mean, you know, like hallucinogens

We'd probably

We'd have other classes of antibiotics that don't exist now.

But the most important one that I think about a lot is my mom is on blood thinners.

And prior to being on blood thinners, she used to have, I guess it wasn't aspirin.

It was

And her back was actually manageable.

She could walk

And she said chronic back pain, since I was, I think

And since then has had chronic back pain.

That was a long time ago.

But she was taking IVU pro for every day.

And her back pain was actually pretty good.

It was,

But it was manageable.

It was tolerable.

And then she got on

So now she's got the pain again.

But you think about this, there are absolutely no.

I am certain that there are things that you could

Simple, small molecule drugs.

I don't mean like complicated.

You

Oh, maybe those kinds of things also would exist.

But you know, a single small

There's absolutely also some small molecule you could make and take.

That would, for example, stop pain in general.

Like, you know, give you not like an opiate where

There are drugs like that that are in the space of possibility.

And I say that

I would say the probability

I can't say that it's

Now it almost certainly exists.

And if it doesn't exist, there's something else that would work and be able to do about the same

Maybe there's some other, maybe there's some way to treat the stuff that she's got.

Maybe there's something that you could do that would make her feel better and not just be like a

Those kinds of things absolutely potentially exist.

And we're missing out on them.

There are so many things that just are unnecessarily worse than they have to be because we don't

And it annoys the shit out of me to

Like I think about, I started when I left ASU, and when I worked at ASU before,

And part of it was because I wanted to be a director, although I didn't

But also partly, I just wanted to build something,

And I was trying to get an infrastructure

And then some Jackass, who was fucking incompetent,

Tenured professor,

He weasled his way in, got to be the

I quit that job because I was fucking miserable in it after he started doing this.

And I still, I took like nine months, I wound down the stuff I was working on.

You know,

But I did that, and then I started thinking about what I wanted

And I came up with an idea, and I still have this idea, and it's annoying to me,

If I was working on this shit from then till now, and when I say

But instead, I spent that time trying to find other ways

This is why they're terrible ideas, by the way.

They're not people who are

And I'm sure, even if you don't know that

So if a bothers you, it's bothering a lot of people.

And you think about it, and you're

That's how you get good ideas, right? These are people who are

They're all like, nobody's fucking satisfied in the

And these people are looking at that, and I'm like, oh, I just, if I just make up something,

I don't know what the story is that

And the problem is,

I needed to work on, or I needed to work on stuff.

I wanted

This is the thing that fucking pisses me off as much

I'm somebody who's actually quite motivated, and I'm

I'm not the be, like, sucking my own dick too much, but I'm actually

I'm pretty good at some of the stuff that I do.

I'm not,

I might not, because I'd be a pain in the ass.

I really would, and I'm not saying the, yeah, I'm not saying I'm a bad worker if a bad attitude,

And when it's stuff that is just, you know, like, doing some

I'm much less happy about it.

But,

But that being said,

I have,

And part of it is because I am bothered by things,

And it pisses me off that I have been working on

I'm not going to specifically

Like, pretty much everything that I've worked on in the past that was for

It was not something that was worth putting time or effort into.

And it was literally just somebody wanted to be, they wanted an invention.

They wanted to make more

They wanted to get like a little bit bigger, nesting, and, you know, they wanted to have a

They wanted to have whatever fucking luxury that they, but whatever it was, that drove

Here's this terrible idea that I have,

This is the other fucking annoying thing

They're not going to pay like the cost to actually like make a product to make something

It's fucking expensive.

Like companies spend regularly to develop new products,

They're not people who

And so you're coming in, and you're like, I have this

Here's $20,000 for you.

Here's even $100,000, which people don't

It's enough to get to like some prototype stuff.

It's enough to

Depending on what it is, you might be able

It's probably

And if you look at companies like Apple,

And even then, even then, the thing that comes out will be like the Vision Pro,

And it's fucking annoying that you can spend that much money

You can feel with that product.

I can't

And the

I'm not saying Steve is a great guy, but

He doesn't play the instruments, but he's playing the orchestra.

I don't think that's a completely bullshit thing.

I don't want to give him too much credit also,

He's actually pretty good at this kind of stuff,

But, you know, you have Tim Cook.

And Tim Cook is not.

Tim Cook is not really,

And, you know, he was, I don't want to say

In terms of great by the metric of making a lot of money,

He was good at that.

And he's not

He's not a, like, idea guy.

And so he tried to come up with some shit.

And he's got

Like,

I haven't looked at the history, but I would say, over the course of many

But even for the initial product development, they probably spent a ridiculous, ridiculous amount

And you can tell because you look at all of the, like,

But the assembly of it is a lot of complex tiny pieces that are

You have circuit boards that are very dense.

You have ICs that are very dense and

And everything is just like so.

And you have these mechanical modules that kind of go in

And it's, it's a pretty, you know, you think about the number

And then don't even,

Like, think about how much work went into the software

So you've got contract work from other

And your idea is to make some

And you want to spend a tiny amount of money on it, which, you know,

I'm pretty efficient.

But I can't magically, you know, I'm one guy

Couldn't magically do like too much.

And again, these people

And part of that I understand is

This is how this is going

This is what you need.

And this is how far this is going to get you.

This is how far you have

And never mind also, like, you get people that want to do like medical devices and things like this,

And if you make custom stuff, you have to get like the battery

You have to do, you have to know how to design a battery, so it's not

And, you know, because there are

All

But having all that stuff work,

But some of them, just because of process controls,

And some of them are not going to fit in the module that you

Now you're going to either waste them, or you're going to have to design around that,

And you start figuring stuff like this out when you start scaling it up.

And you think about, like, that's the battery.

That's the fucking battery.

And that's going to be

How much, how much are you trying,

You have a battery.

You have a simple control board, which has the battery charger on it,

And then you have

And your options are, you can get pre-built modules

We worked on this project for one group of people.

And because they wanted, they actually had

And they were people who were coming from a company that

It was, I was not happy with it.

But we did considering the fact that we're using off the shelf parts, off the shelf actuators,

We had it about as small as you could make it with those constraints, but it was still too big.

It was still kind of foggy.

It was not great.

We had to do, like, two part molds for stuff.

And yeah,

It's annoying.

It's annoying.

When you look

That, like, the amount of time

All that kind of stuff takes a lot of money.

Building a test chick.

This is another thing people never want to fucking pay for.

But designing

Now, there are things where people who do this

But when you're really, like, if you're building something and you want to make sure,

That kind of stuff takes time.

It takes effort.

It takes money.

And nobody wants to pay for it.

And again, this is all for a product that is probably in most of these cases.

There were some

But for the most part, shitty idea, not enough money, and you're not going to be happy with

And then you're certainly not going to pay, you know, at 10 times more

And you're also not going to pay,

But getting the tooling, if you want to make, like, people aren't like, I want to make this volume

I'm going to sum millions of them.

Okay, when you're making millions of something,

Not fucking cheap.

You

It is expensive.

And that will, you know, have a certain life to it.

And also,

It has a finite life.

And the tolerance is going to get sloppy over time.

And you want to build stuff and you want to

And nobody wants to pay for it.

And again, the idea is crappy, and most of

And you look at

I spent so much time.

And to be fair, I figured out how to do

I figured out how to, like, I'm not saying it was a complete waste of

I would have products out that would be like, I would like to say, pretty high volume products,

And even if they weren't,

And which is really fundamentally, this is another, I haven't even gotten to the

This is, it's funny.

I'm 40 minutes into this.

I haven't even gotten to the thing

I'm gonna make this

I will make one of these on PE.

I'm gonna make it note to myself

But because PE is a whole fucking topic of itself.

And I guess, in some ways,

And, you know, it's different if you have

Like the stuff that I want to make for the most part,

It would be a significant amount of time and effort invested in it.

And, and, and, and, expense to, to get parts made and, you know, like doing, doing stuff that's not cheap.

Um, but anyway, getting, getting back to that.

Um, I, I'm just thinking, I'm gonna, I'm gonna,

But,

They're making something that nobody's actually going to buy.

And, you know,

And it's frustrating.

It's very frustrating.

It's making me sad.

It's like so much fucking time spent on building shit like that.

I, I should have been, I should have just been figuring out how to do it myself.

I, I, you know,

I don't know how I could have gone a different path and made that work.

But what I do know is actually, like, things should just be such that, you know, you can,

You could just have a place.

And I, like, I don't need a fucking mansion.

I need a kitchen that's decent.

That, like, extravagant.

But, you know, like, I can cook there.

A fridge, a stove, a sink, a place to the sort of chill, a bed, a bedroom.

And a little place to work.

Yeah, I could, I'm, I'm in my sister's place right now.

And I'm in the, I'm in, it's a three-level place.

The level I'm in, if I had this much space as an apartment, and it was kind of partitioned a little bit,

I, it would be nice to have, like, maybe a little bit more, but I could,

That's, that's the stuff that I want.

I don't need, I mean, it would be nice to be able to fly.

I like flying, but also, you know,

And I, I, I thought a lot about this.

I don't think that it's a great thing

Even if it was completely, like, you have micro-nuclear reactors or something,

Even if that was the case,

I mean, it's relatively safe, but, you know, flying a small airplane,

Like, you know, even if, even if it was perfectly safe, even if it was free, even if there's no really

It's nice to have clear skies.

It really is.

Anyway, but, you know,

I don't need ridiculous luxury stuff.

I want the stuff that I need to work, the stuff that I need to be comfortable.

That's kind of it.

And there's this thing, that this is going to be the end of this part, but there's this idea

This is what the people in private equity think is terrible.

It's a business that is,

That is a lifestyle business, and, you know, the people who are VCEs, who mostly are terrible,

A lot of these people,

That lifestyle business actually is a fucking good thing.

It's, you know, like,

At this idea that you have to have one guy, one guy who's at

Jeff Bezos doesn't need that.

Think about all of the stores.

Think about how much nicer it is, to have all those different stores, to have all those, like,

They, you know, that's something that you should

We should put resources into, like, Paris puts money into bakeries.

And it's good.

It makes it nice if you are in Paris, you can walk around, and there's a fucking Petisserie,

And it's probably pretty good.

It's probably, it's probably actually pretty good.

It might not be great, but it's not going

And, you know, even if it's not the best, there's going to be another one in a few

And yeah, it's just, it's, it's a much better place.

It's a much better way to make things work.

It's a much better way to live.

So this gets, anyway, coming finally back to this week grass.

The thing that, I'm going to give you a little motivation for this, a little explanation of

And I feel like I'm, I don't know if anybody's going to get 47 minutes

But now I'm talking about this week grass.

I should put chapter markers on it.

But I need to figure that out.

I really, I tried putting them

And then I kind of temporarily, at least, gave up, but I will work on

The thing that got that gets me, and this is

But it's not that expensive.

Like, if you

It's, I think, you know, 30 bucks a month or something.

I don't know how much, I know there are hosting things that are cheaper.

But, you know, you're

And the traffic that you're getting, isn't that really that much?

So you're, you're not using that much worth of

And you could, you could do co-hosting, you could do a lot of stuff.

But, I'm just saying, there are ways that you could do this under the current circumstances

And it's not that expensive.

It's attainable, attainable to one

And even if you have a decently busy sort of thing, it's tens of bucks

That kind of hosting, you could probably pay

That kind of hosting, you could kind of manage.

The problem is, say you make something that's

And if you make something that's really popular, you get a lot of traffic.

And if you

And as it

And so as, you try to make a Facebook essentially or a MySpace.

MySpace is probably

But anything like that, if you're building a small version

You can totally do it.

And you can even like, it's hard

It's stuff that is well understood.

It's stuff that, you know, especially if you have people who are experts at it, you could figure it

So you could build stuff that can scale.

The problem is the cost of its scaling.

And if you

Just in the stuff to host that shit is very, very expensive.

And this means that somehow you have to pay for it.

And if you're paying for it, well,

There are a couple of things you could do.

One is you get people to pay.

And the individual, like the the cost of hosting Facebook, per Facebook user or Twitter or whatever,

If even that,

So in principle, you could probably get people to pay that.

But the problem is,

And there's a thing where people,

They're not, they're not really happy about that, generally speaking.

And so you have this issue that people don't really want to pay for it.

And somehow you have to make

And of course, somehow, because you live in this society that we have, you probably want to

You probably don't want to just have the team that is because you could develop

You need a lot, like for moderation and things like this.

You probably need a

But to do this software development, to do like just managing stuff and making things

It's something like that kind of thing is a low fixed

And the operations are a growing cost that scale with the number of users.

Maybe even scale

And so each person you add to

But you can kind of think, like as you get more and more users, it gets more and more expensive.

And however it does it, whether it's linear or not, it's not great.

Even if it's logarithmic,

But especially if it's not.

So anyway, it's more and more expensive.

How do you pay for

One of them is ads,

I think ads are one of the bans of modern society.

And also,

And I look at the stuff that I watch, the stuff that I want to watch and that I continue to watch,

I came back to her.

I didn't need to do it twice,

EEV blog.

Yeah, there, I can't think of his name, federal,

There are a number of people like this that I watch, and I enjoy

But I don't want to watch just random shit from random people.

And most of it's serenotics, she's great.

Most of it, Anne and Reburn.

I love her.

She's great.

But most of the stuff on here that it's filling it, is just this AI-slop crap.

Now,

It's just garbage.

It's just fucking garbage.

And it's just like this thing that they keep

University day, Fraser King.

He's great.

I like it.

But it's just more and more garbage.

And it's the thing that, you know, and then you watch stuff, and you get your options,

It's not that much a month.

I think like half of what you're paying is going to the

I wish it was more, but yeah, that half is not bad.

And I felt good about

But then Facebook or Facebook, then YouTube started doing this shit where instead of showing

They did,

Like I had to go to people's pages to see when they put new stuff

And this happened for a long time.

And it got so annoying to me that I stopped paying for

I don't really want to

And so I go back and I get the ads.

And the ads on there are so

Like I don't think that they're selling anything.

I don't think, I really

So there's a agency that's

There are a lot of people like the network, YouTube, whoever.

They're taking money

They're pushing the stuff out.

And they don't really give a shit, who sees it?

Or I wouldn't even consider.

I mean, if I see the ad, I'm not going

But even without seeing the ad, it's not a thing that I would consider buying.

Yeah, it's fucking horrible.

And I think part of this also is they deliberately, you know,

Because the premium, if you look at the recurring revenue,

So they want you to be on premium.

They're incentivized to get you to not see

Probably not great.

So anyway, they do this.

And it sucks.

It's terrible.

And so your options are, again, ads get people to pay, or I guess you can sell

That's the sorts of things you can do.

None of them are good.

None of them are things that I think anyone should be subjected to.

So the thing that occurs to me, or I'm sure a lot of people have had this realization,

Individually, if you want to have a website,

Most people have a website up and you might,

You want it to be able to, like somebody goes to it, they can see stuff,

You're probably

You're not getting that much.

So you get a lot of excess capacity with your website, even if you're paying for it.

And then

And if their thing gets super popular, then you're paying

If you're building something that's a Facebook competitor, you're paying an intractable

And so the thing that I was thinking and kind of seems to me like an obvious thing

And if you do that, you can get the hosting, both for data and for communications and

And you can share it between people.

Think about that share it between people.

And so this idea is basically you build this infrastructure.

And this infrastructure is such that

Somebody also, if they want, they could

It's going to be open-source

Or people, if you want, you can have your own fucking

You could just host it wherever.

You could, you know, if you

And all of these things, you have a couple of problems.

So you don't want to just host everything.

I don't think that's a good thing.

And I don't think

You don't want to build the Nazi bar.

So one of the things that

I've had a lot

And I get really annoyed with the way that most people implement it.

I think the reason that it sucks in most cases is a lot to do with the, basically, people don't

And when I say that, I mean, even like PhD level education,

They never take a philosophy course.

They never take an art course.

They never take art appreciation or anything.

And so they don't appreciate this stuff.

And so you

They never take a fucking ethics course.

They're,

Never take it in a fucking ethics course.

Never have taken

And so you have a bunch of people with business degrees, these finance

They don't know why it's important

Why it's important to have due process.

They don't know why it's important

And they also don't understand things like having a social contract.

And the social contract to me

And it seems like a thing where it's like, it's kind of hard

There's a reason it's got paradox in the name.

But the idea is basically that if you

And do the things that end up pushing basically what we got today, which is fascism,

And to see you think about it,

I remember this as a kid, because even

And I hadn't people tell me, like, Scott, you know, Scott, poor, simple, young,

What you have to understand is that it's very important that we protect the

And the problem with this idea, and I actually bought it into it for a while, I was at one point

It thought I really started thinking about it.

When you think about it in that way, it sort of makes sense, right? This is one of the things where

Because if that's the frame that you're working in, it does sound like, yeah, okay, we can't

And it sounds actually like it makes sense, right?

And I'm not saying this is the right frame,

If you imagine that we have a social contract.

And that social contract is if you do certain things, if you, you know, it's a contract that

So if you participate in society

And when you start thinking about it in these terms, it's no longer a paradox.

It's no longer, because the people who are to tell a terrarians, the people who are fascists,

And so, if you think about it that way,

This is a thing that I think needs to be, I could go into that

But I think, yeah, already do our already an hour.

And so, I'm going to try to

That sort of social contract and explicit social contract can be a thing

And you can sit there and go, okay, well, if you agree to the social

I've thought a lot about different ways to do it, but one of the easiest ones is just

And you can decide whether or not

And you can do that either by explicitly letting them in or letting them out,

And then you have some kind of a judicial system that determines

There are lots of different ways you could do it.

And I think

But you have this social contract and if people are in whatever

And like if somebody's

And unless you're maybe somebody who has a restaurant and

So you need the grapefruit from somebody else,

So having this kind of a system,

And you do this and individually, you could have something where

And especially, it gets worse because people run big algorithms and they do a bunch of

And those kinds of things cost a lot more to run.

And so

And when you think about that,

And so you kind of have this thing where people are working together and essentially have a gift

And because we have this network going together

You could

And you could also have something where, like, if you have

And as you're doing that,

You're doing stuff like hosting more of it.

So the more

And the more people look at something, the more copies of it are out there, which means also,

Instead of having websites that go away,

And you have this way to, like, if suddenly something from

And if it doesn't get popular, at least there's an archive or two,

Especially if it's just text, I mean, if it's just text, it takes a, like,

Like Wikipedia is a lot of text.

If you download Wikipedia,

But individual pages on Wikipedia, not that much.

And the amount that you

As you imagine, like Wikipedia, for example,

This is the right way to do it to be honest, but you can't

So the waste wheat grass works, at least now, isn't like this.

The waste wheat

And those are peer-to-peer,

But the right way to do it is that

If you open it for your Wikipedia page,

And if somebody browsers that Wikipedia page, you're serving it,

And if you do

And again, it's not like if you're doing massive

But if you are serving two times,

And you could do this.

Again, annoyingly to do this, there are technical reasons why you can't do it just like that.

What you can't do is kind of like that, and you store the stuff in the phones.

This is down the

So you have something that is outside of the local

You can tunnel through this, and you can do, you can make things like this work, but you still need

And every device

And you just directly talk to them.

If you could do that and have a direct peer-to-peer network, that would be the right way to do it.

Because then everybody has their own fucking phone.

And if you imagine, you're watching a video

I mean,

If you're doing it that way, it just works.

And it also, if you had something like that, you wouldn't need, in principle, you wouldn't

Now it's not the most efficient way to do it, it's not

It gets complicated.

You have

And you probably wouldn't end up doing

This is actually one of

But this is a thing that I think I've been

You can go to sweetcrust.

online and see

You can also see my page, um, sminord.

phd, uh, hosted on this stuff already.

And these are static pages, deliberately static pages, deliberately very low server

I'm sorry.

They're very little

They could just be cashed and, you know, they're pretty easy to

It needs things to share.

Um, so they don't really cost that much per viewer.

And if you

If you do it that way,

You can host a lot of shit and have a lot of people

And the more people that are hosting stuff, the more people that are paying for their stuff,

And eventually, like the initial, the way that I see this initially,

Um, and that my space could have music

But it's sort of, like, you know, you have your own web page, everybody has

You can make stuff, and it goes into your feed.

And that's how it's kind of

But then you imagine you do the same thing, and you could start doing

And inside of these nodes, you can, of course, it's very

But you can, or stuff that you don't like,

And so you have some

You could also have streaming.

Uh, and in fact, streaming could mean like live streams.

So you have

And you could have transcoding of those videos.

And you can have

And you imagine that, you start getting to the point where, you know, it's not just that you

You could do TikTok.

You could have

This is a thing that you know, I should

Uh, this is a organization, which, it's, it's currently registered as a California

And the idea, the co-op, the idea is basically that everyone who uses it

And the governance, still working on it, it's not like fully written down

But the way that I imagine the governance going is basically, there's going to be

So, certification is, uh, essentially, uh, vote by lottery.

So the way that you pick the people that are running stuff is if you want to, to be running stuff,

You can also do a lot of stuff that's had

So like if you see something, it's all open source, um, and MIT license.

So if you see

You could do a lot.

I just, I think this is a better way to run things.

There are a lot of reasons why I like certification.

This is another thing I need to talk about,

But I keep looking at, like, Gavin Newsom,

They're just all these fucking assholes.

Terrible fucking people.

Even

You know, Obama, I used to love.

I used to think this guy was the fucking shit, right?

He has this tone and cadence.

He's super cool.

He looks cool.

Looks good.

He looks cool.

Uh, and, you know, you're just like, yes, yes.

Uh, you hear that shit.

You know, like, yeah.

And I know a lot of people that miss that, but then you realize, oh,

You know, he's drowning kids.

He's, uh, starting the family

Pretty fucking terrible guy.

Honestly,

Um, and he's also not only a war criminal himself, he's a guy who let

He's a war criminal who backed up war criminals.

So pretty, I'm not a fan.

Let's just say.

I'm not a fan of his anymore.

I used to be.

And, you know, this is a problem because the people who want to be people who are like

The people who want to be in charge are the people who should not be in charge of almost any

Um, but also you get that side of it.

And then you have this

What they think is the thing, you know, whether it's Joe Rogan or, um, I mean,

The people who are talking about a subject.

If there,

They sound like

Even if they're not,

People, if if somebody has riz, if somebody is just like they,

Um, that's the kind of stuff that tracks for people.

If somebody,

But whatever it is,

And I think it's pathological.

I think there are a lot

There are people that like them.

There are people that like Gavin Newsom.

These are people like I see Gavin Newsom or Trump or Buttigieg or, you know, like most of these

I see them and they give me the fucking willies.

They seem gross.

They're off putting,

I know like I see a Gavin Newsom talking

I certainly not, but I see Gavin Newsom.

And this guy is like,

He's the guy who's on

I do not understand.

I don't really want to understand either.

But I think the problem here,

Whatever it is,

The idea also that people keep voting the

Because I know a lot of people that talk about like term moments and all this kind of stuff.

Term moments would be nice.

Although it's kind of hard that the people that need the term

So good luck.

But term moments are also

Like, you could just, the correct way to vote is by default.

If you recognize the name

Again, that good reason is not,

Just because you recognize the name, unless you have a specific,

You should vote against them.

You should vote for somebody else.

You should absolutely, I mean, I like it.

Look at this main Nazi guy.

I don't even want to talk

For 20 years, it claims not to have known what it was, although there's documentation that he did.

But, you know, it, like, and also due to who obviously life's going short was,

No, but he, like, I mean, it's just not plausible.

It's not credible.

You have this thing.

It's just ridiculous.

Like, I, and I understand there are

But, I think, you know, I think you fucking know.

Also, same guy, he had, you know, it's not like

And then you get

Now, this is a guy who got in, and he's a guy who, he's a guy who went the,

I need to eat.

I mean, I'm going to

He could have

I didn't need to go into the military.

Choose as to

Does a tour? Does another tour? Does another tour? Does another tour?

And then

Like, this is not a good guy.

That's disqualified.

I'm sorry,

You look at, I, I mean, did it, I guess they did make one of these,

Was, something like 0.

00003% there's something like that.

I don't

And again, it's like a hundred people out of 342 million people get to be in the Senate.

And you could go, okay, well, not all of those 342 million people are eligible.

You have to consider

And you're saying

Now, you don't, you can be a little bit fucking selective.

You

You can't collect a fucking signature to get ballot access to run in the

I think it was June.

You can't get in the

You can't get the signatures, and they'll fucking January.

Pick another guy, pick another

And people talk about, like, oh, no, he's the only one.

It could only be him.

Fuck you.

Fuck you.

You have a Nazi tattoo.

Either you didn't know about it, and you didn't

I think you cover it up with

And if it's not a dog

I think he's playing in your face.

I think he's literally laughing at you, going, haha, fuck you.

I'm going to get a dog whistle.

And this is the whole point of a dog whistle is that it's plausibly deniable.

So, you know, he's

That is a neo-Nazi dog

So, you went from super overtly Nazi thing.

And again, also, like, I just got a picture

But this motherfucker, you know, people were like, oh,

And people asked me, like, how did you know? How did you know, Scott?

I don't, you know, I'm not a fan of

I've seen Raiders of the Lost Ark.

I've seen,

I've seen that one with Tom Cruise,

I've seen all these, you know, I've seen the fucking thing.

Are we the baddies, right?

Exactly

I've seen, like, it's, it's sort of, of the, maybe it's not as well known as a

It's pretty fucking close.

I didn't know where I first saw it,

I know I've seen it in Holocaust museums.

I know that I've

I know that I've seen it in old pictures and

Like, it's not a thing that is some obscure symbol that you have to be, like, deeply,

19 19th letter of the alphabet means S, and he's got an explanation for it.

Yeah, and in the explanation,

But, you know, if it was just that,

And this is,

Let's pretend that,

If you're coming from like the Nazi tattoo,

You know, it's a ridiculous thing, but to me, that's just the basic,

That is like the minimal sort of, as diligence.

And the fact that he can't

It's a fucking

No, I mean, the best case scenario is this guy is too incompetent and too careless

Not everybody needs to be a goddamn senator.

There are things like, if you

Hard stop.

You're okay,

We have

We should be picky.

How do you, you go to, like, states, I looked at this,

If you look at the state that has the fewest number of registered

And Maine, it's like

It might

I don't remember the exact number.

It was at least 100,000.

I think

You could find somebody in that

You know, it's like that I feel like I'm losing my mind that people are making an argument for this.

And then you got people like fucking Jacob and Jacob and whatever the fuck the thing is defending this shit.

Fuck you, there are other people, there are other fucking people, take somebody, find somebody,

And in fact, you more than anyone are in a position to start a

And in fact, what you should also do is go mother fucker, we didn't know

This is how you get, by the way,

This guy's a piece of shit and he's

And like you look at the Senate and it's just, and all of this stuff fundamentally comes down to

And so because of this stuff, you end up with the worst fucking people in the world.

And you end up with