This is Think Tech Hawaii, Community Matters here. Okay, we're back. We're live. It's Trump Week. I'm Jay Fiedel. It's one of my favorite discussions with Tim Appichella and we have on the phone Cynthia Lee Sinclair. Hi guys. Good morning. Okay, big week. Tim, lead off. What do you got? What's your top item today? Well, top item was just tweeted this morning by President Trump is that he's threatened to shut down the southern border between the United States and Mexico if he doesn't get his five billion dollars. Now that is a huge announcement and assuming that Twitter now is his format to make announcements because we don't have press, the press secretary isn't doing press conferences anymore. It was the last time you saw her in the press room. So the tweet seems to be his methodology of getting out his announcements rather than using the Sarah Sanders. More and more this sounds like Germany in the 30s. Honestly, it's dictatorship. But the bottom line is on this is that the amount of revenue and the impact of local economies for a shutdown of the southern border is tremendous. And for him to threaten that until he gets his five billion is very irresponsible.  Yeah, and this is no different. It's a transfer.  How do you handle a tantrum? You know, we talked to Cindy, our floor manager this morning asked her that question. She knows about that stuff. And she said, Well, you ignore him. That's what you do. Problem is, we got to get together all of all at the same time and ignore him. He's the President of the United States. He's not supposed to be having tantrums. No, he's not. Irrational. It's one thing to ignore a two year old or four year old, a separate tantrum, but this is a game that puts people's lives at risk. And so I you know, but with this, we can't ignore this. I think that's sort of what this country is doing. Well, he's not shooting himself in the foot. He's shooting the country in the foot as he has done before in order to get his way. But that's an outrage. It's an outrage. It's it was without advice and counsel. There's so many other things. But let's move on. Well, actually, just one quick second because he's getting support from his new advisor, McVonny, McVanney, McVanney, Mulvaney, Mulvaney, excuse me, McVanney. Yeah, right. And he's saying all options are on the table. Listen, it's the only way we can get the Democrats attention. Really? Really? That's how we're going to get the Democrats attention by shutting down the southern border between the two countries. I have an issue with this. I think anyone who lives along the border and all those economies along the border are gonna have an issue. Not constitutional process. You incredible.  I don't think he follows or understands constitutional process. This is a big problem wall or no wall. He declared an emergency that the the Chinese were trying to sell telecom equipment in the United States, like for cell phones. And he put a again, a one person ban. Remember that word ban? He put a ban on importation of telecom equipment from from the Chinese because he thinks it's all espionage. And I think well, according to his tweet, he's making a ban. So that's another amazing thing he's done this morning, an emergency ban already. Okay, but you had more. Let's let's go to Congress or anybody else. Let's go to Cynthia for a minute. She had one on these FEMA camps. I want to know more about that. Well, I'm here in California right now.  They're in Arizona, Mexico, Texas. They're popping up all over the place. They are these large camps, and they're called FEMA camps. They are heavily guarded, look like prisons. And nobody's really talking about them at all. I haven't seen the photos. It could be could be for disaster preparedness. Yeah, with with with barbed wire around the outside. Well, okay, let's say Mexico says we're no longer going to allow those who are seeking asylum in the United States, they're no longer be allowed to be retained in Mexico. So these are legal silent applicants. So United States, you handle it. What are they for? And why are they so heavily guarded? Right now, all we can do is speculate. What other points have you got? Well, I think this all ties into the government shutdown. And I think it all ties into his demand for funding of the wall. Now, remember, a week ago, he said I will take the responsibility and I'll take the mantle for the government shutdown. Well, he did take responsibility, but he doesn't take responsibility because he's pointing the finger back at the Dems. So the bottom line is people have remembered what he said. And as of recent, Harvard, Cap and Harris poll, 58% of Americans do exactly remember this and he'll hold him responsible for this government shutdown, versus 42% say he should not give in on his demands for the $5 billion. Remember, it wasn't much more than over a year ago, where the Democrats offered $25 billion. But we had been this what we call in a negotiation that there would be provisions for the DACA and the Dreamers. But it was $25 billion. So you know, what a great negotiator he's gone from $25 billion down to $5 billion. I don't know what to say about that. The bottom line is, you don't hold the government hostage, because you're going to have a temper tantrum. That's not a constitutional process. We're going to take a short break now, we'll be right back. For more than 100 years, American Humane Association has been teaching kids to be kind to animals. 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Alrighty, well, before I go down further, I think you've got to talk a little bit more about this wall, and the fact that we have bad optics, which we talked about before, to the world, to the world, we have a second child that has died in US custody. Yep. Okay. Again, it wasn't good optics to see children running barefoot from tear gas. Yep. It wasn't good optics to have children rip from their parents' arms so they could be detained. Detained in primitive cells, detained behind cyclone fences with nobody to watch them incredible and young children. It wasn't good optics to see, you know, to know that a young girl had died in US custody. It's not good optics to see another young child die in US custody. Finally recognizing the need to bring in medical professionals to be there if in the event someone becomes sick. See, that's too little, too late, in my opinion. It's too little, too late. So what does that say about the competency of what we're trying to do down there? And it's incompetent work that's being performed. It was incompetent to start with. They don't even know where the children are. They haven't been able to respond to those federal court orders. These children are separated from their parents and they may never see their parents again because of the incompetence of the border, border, you know.  Things need to be thought out. Logistics need to take place before these executive orders fall into place. And that's not happening. And that's why you're having the tragedies of people dying or, you know, being ripped from their parents arms. This is completely chaos, chaos, running the company in the country with chaos. So I talked to one guy of the weekend, you know, at a party who supports Trump. And he said, Well, the country wanted some disruption. It didn't want same old. So it invited an elected a fellow who promised disruption. And now we have disruption. And the people who wanted disruption, they're happy to see that they got what they wanted disruption. But what about the benefit of the country in general, the greater good disruption is not good, not good for the economy, not good for the social social fabric of the country, not good for the government, not good for global relations. Well, and remember a lot of voters that did come onto the Trump side for this 2016 election, they that was a vote more against Hillary Clinton than it was for Donald Trump. Yeah. So were they looking for this kind of disruption? Were they looking for these kind of statements about Charlottesville and you know, all the many, many things that have been spoken as president of the United States? Were they looking for that? But maybe not. But they're getting disruption. And some of them are saying, Well, okay, I wanted disruption. I'm getting disruption. I like disruption. This is going to help. They really believe that. David, now pertaining to the wall and the death of these children. Is that the kind of disruption they're looking for? I don't think so. I really don't. But he's still got his. But the question is, do you go along with the flow without protesting? That's what's happening. And he's got supporters in Congress who support him. And of course, his appointees tend to support him. So what we have is a one man band. And he has some few supporters, which he parlays and leverages in the press. He's good at that. But you know, he also the base keeps going along with him. I'm waiting for the base to stop going along with him. I'm waiting for the Republican Party to stop going along with him. Republican Party, such as it has changed to whatever that is. Well, the question is, has this base grown from 33% now up to 38%? You know, I mean, where is that base expanding or retracting? I don't know. The polls, yes, and polls. No, I mean, what did I hear about a poll that said more Republicans or Republicans like what he's doing than before. And there was an increase of something four or 5% in the past few weeks. I mean, the more disruptive, I guess, some people, the more they like him. I don't know when this is this is going to get rational. Right. Okay, well, how about some other points about what happened? Well, I think one of the biggest news stories we last spoke 20 points here. Yeah, the biggest news story I think was of course, the withdrawal from Syria and his visit, his Christmas visit to Iraq. And what a disaster that was for a lot of reasons. Name some. Well, first off, you try not to his commander in chief. There's been a long tradition. Try not to politicize any visit of commander in chief to any part of being a Democrat or being a Republican, you're there as commander in chief for the military. You try not to politicize it. Well, that's hard not to do when you're signing an autographing make America great again hats, any handing them out. I don't know if that was planned or not, but that was a brand of hats, didn't they? He didn't go at Christmas. The tradition is the president goes at Christmas and talk to the troops. He didn't go at Christmas. He didn't do anything. Not a peep at Christmas, not a tweet at Christmas. It was after Christmas that he went to find that very himself. Second, second really amazing point is that he didn't check in with with the government in Iraq. That's correct. And they said enough on him. Let's get your troops out of here.  Well, first off, he snubbed him because he didn't visit with him. I think there was a plan meeting, but of course, something happened that didn't happen. But you know, in in those cultures, believe me, if you're in your backyard with what you didn't get asked for their permission, and then you leave without meeting with them, that's that's a snub. It's a snub. And that doesn't sit well with a lot of elite and any leader not to mention the leaders in the Middle East. This is this is cultural. You do not treat people that way. Well, I think it was a complete disaster what he did in Iraq, complete disaster. And it doesn't it doesn't help one bit to justify or defend which is what he tried to do is action in pulling the troops out of Syria. Right. But worse yet, what he said is we can use Iraq as a land base to cover Syria. Should we need to do so? Okay, did you pass that by with Iraq at all? Did you talk to the Prime Minister saying we're now just going to be a satellite base permanently for us to engage into Syria? Did you talk to his own joint chiefs of staff about it? Did he have military back in doesn't have a state department anymore? These things out of a dark place. Bracky Palmer, Parliament has they're gonna set up a vote that vote may well say we want your 5000 troops out of Iraq. That's what they say. So we'll see if that's gonna happen. Let's talk about the stock market for a minute. We've had a real roller coaster lately. It's been pretty scary. I mean, running 800 points on a day coming back. But I don't think they're coming back is is the is the default here. I think it's gonna go down. I think it's gonna go down more. And maybe it's a metric. It's a canary in the coal mine about how well he's doing among the people who know own stock and trade stock in this country, which may not be his base. But but the fact is, if you keep on losing money, ultimately, it does affect the economy. You know, people wonder, and a lot of talk in the media about how there's a, you know, a decoupling of the stock market and the economy. I don't think that's really true. I think it's a question of public confidence. If you lose public confidence in the stock market, then probably a recession will follow. A recession may follow anyway. You know, speculation is that in six months time, we're going to see a real Lulu of a recession. And this stock stock volatility is probably going to accelerate that.  Because, you know, he raised interest again. I wish he'd take responsibility for what he's doing. He takes credit, but not responsibility. And that's the sign of a bad leader. He hasn't learned that there is a brick wall between the executive office and the Federal Reserve. He just doesn't get that point, unfortunately. You know, it's not the Fed's, you know, their mission statement to accommodate the president. And that's what the president complained about a week ago. They're not accommodating me. Well, they're not supposed to. That's not their job. You talked about public confidence. It's not a good strategy when the markets are jittery. And you have this volatility of up a thousand down 600 up, you know, these huge, these huge margins of volatility. And then for Treasurer Mouton, to call six leaders of major banks, Bank of America, Citibank, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and saying, Hey, guess what? Liquidity is good here. Well, why are you calling us to talk about liquidity? Where you already know that? So when the word gets out that our Treasurer is calling all these major banks to talk about liquidity, that makes the market very, very jumpy. In fact, on that day, I believe we lost 600 points because because he tried to that was Christmas comment and uses calming his calming action attempt to comment as a news point, the political point. Never say relax when the market is jittery. Right. Don't do that. Let it go. Let it go. Just to get a little bit more about the stock market. I think there is concerned from Wall Street that, you know, with Trump administration, there may be some of the finer good points of the Frank Dodd provisions, you know, that regulatory thing that was passed in the Obama administration. There are actually good stop gap measures that keeps Wall Street a little bit more honest and controlled. And one of them is liquidity and the reserves requirement for liquidity and, you know, these stress tests that banks have to perform to make sure and give confidence to the market that liquidity is abundant and that if there is actually a major crash that they'll have enough in their margins and their liquidity to call on it. Yeah. And so, you know, are those provisions going to be eroded because that's not good for the market? I don't think each one of these spontaneous, what do you want to call it, impulsive things that he does has an effect on public confidence. But we live in an interconnected world and the question is whether that effect on public confidence is limited to the federal establishment. Does it cover the whole country? I think it does. And does it cover the world? Because the world is all connected. And he's done a lot of things to, you know, destabilize Europe. We know that. And Europe, the financial affairs in Europe are really in trouble now. He's had a tremendous effect on cutting the cord, if not getting into a war, a trade war with China. One thing after another, these are destabilizing events. And they do not bring public confidence anywhere, anywhere in the world. Now, a few people can say, I like a strong leader. I back up a strong leader or I like a disruptive leader. I back him up. But the fact is that the people who... Markets don't. Markets don't and rational people don't. Right. And so I think the public confidence is failing. The question is, and that's going to affect the economy. I'm telling you now, it's going to affect the economy. The question is, does this question of confidence apply to the Republicans? Now, you mentioned to me that there was a House Oversight Committee which sent letters to agencies requesting documents. Elijah Cummings. It's kind of a breakaway thing. Everywhere, some of the committees, maybe it's a change of power in the House. Some of the committees are speaking up. There'll be more of that. Maybe some of the Republicans break away in Congress. I think there'll be more of that. And after a while, he's going to lose confidence right now. It feels like he's at the end of his Heather. Doesn't it? Doesn't it feel that way? He doesn't think so. No, he doesn't. He'll double down. And the people who like double down, they'll hang in with him. But a lot of people have got to be questioning what he's doing. Now, you know, these requests for documents always take time. And of course, these committees have been denied because they were, you know, they weren't in control of the House of Representatives. It's certainly not over these committees. So, Elijah Cummings, who has been in the House of Representatives for a long time, he's now the oversight chair, as you mentioned, and he's going to specifically focus in on a few things. One is he wants to find out a little bit more about Hurricane Maria and how that affected or how we did not respond to Puerto Rico, as well as we might have. Oh, yeah. Number two, he's going to look at the how we came to the family separations during that the southern border. Oh, yeah. He's going to look at the misconduct of government officials. Specifically, remember Tom Price from the human human services and all his private jets and things. And how did that happen? Look, you know, maybe those aren't earth shattering investigation, but he's going to least request these from the from the EPA, Department of Homeland Security and Department of Health and Human Services. I think bottom line is he's going to really look at payments from foreign governments to the Trump organizations and how that did or did not work its way into the election. So these are these are 51 letters he sent to the head of the all these agencies and getting documents that he's been previously denied. So when this stuff starts to trickle back in, we'll see how that affects the news cycle. I think it will. This tells me and I maybe you have more information on it, but that, you know, we see Trump's stonewall and, for example, on his tax returns. And we see him calling a war on the press and calling the press names and manipulating the press conferences and and even who can appear at a press conference. But I think there's something else too. His agencies are shutting down the press. They don't tell you. They don't tell you what they're doing. They don't tell you why they're doing it. These are his appointees. So I think the war on the press goes further than what we see in, you know, in his nasty remarks about and to the press. I think it's the whole it's that part of the government that he controls is is shutting down on giving information. These items that you mentioned, you know, ideally the press would have been able to cover those items before. You know, why did we do this? And why do we do that? What was the background? What was the process? But I have a feeling they couldn't get any information. So that's why the House Oversight Committee is so important. They're doing work that maybe the press should have been able to do before had their had there been openness and transparency in the Trump government. Well, remember, he's replacing everyone that felt they had a duty to honor what their mission statement is for that agency. But now, even though they were appointed by him, they have disappointed him. Okay, because they're doing what their mission was. Yeah. And that is to be a steward of that agency. But remember, the top priority is not your mission to the agency, your top priority is loyalty to the president of the United States. That's the way it seems to be. And so now that seems to be the way it's working because you're right, there is a bottleneck of information that's coming out. And no one's really knowing what's going on in our government, not as well as we ought to or how we used to. Again, when's the last time we've seen a press conference with Sarah Sanders? It's been a while. Sarah Sanders, unfortunately, she lies. And we all know that she lies. I know, but you at least want to have the opportunity to find out what she's lying about. I mean, I don't I don't feel the press has access to sufficient information to report on so many things. And I don't feel the public is as informed as it should be. And I think we are living in a dark age in terms of public, you know, public information and transparency of the government.  But I still think we don't get enough information. We don't know what's going on in the government. We get it. We get it only by hook and crook. And that's not the way it should be. There should be openness, much more openness than there is. And the question is, will that work? You know, I'm reminded of you, we long in West Louisiana governor the old, you know, you can fool all the people some of the time, some of the people all the time, but you can't fool all of the people all the time. And the question is, I mean, in our great Democratic Republic, that should be happening, should happen soon. But will it happen next year? Will somebody say, wait, you can't fool all the people all the time. We're going to rise up. And that may be a function of the mother investigation. What do you got on that? Well, not much more than we talked about last week. Again, he's been very, very, very disciplined. And we've seen the indictments come out. But he's, you know, he hasn't said a whole lot more and nothing really a whole lot more to report on that. Except for what I said before is that we should hold back this talk about impeachment, because a lot of people and myself included, I don't feel the payments to Stormy Daniels is enough to impeach a president. It's just not it's not good to lie about it and have it funded and direct people on how you fund these kind of nefarious, you know, things that behind the scenes in order for you to become elected, but it's not impeachable. Is it a high crime in Mr. Meener? I don't know. But with the report that's going to come out and it will come out, will that detail more high crimes of Mr. Meener that both the House and the Senate will have to look at and examine and either stand up or not stand up? I think they will. Okay. I mean, I'll go with that to a point, but I want to add a thought here, which a lot of people have expressed. That is, all of that is about the past. All of that is how we got elected and the kinds of things he did to get elected and the suppression of information and buying people off and all that, including the bone spur this week. Oh, that was incredible.  It was obvious what was going on there. The core of that story is he doesn't have a bone spur. He never had a bone spur.   But anyway, you know what I mean? He may not have a bone spur, but he has a lot of skeletons in his closet. Oh, good. I like that. But you know, what I'm worried about is you want to wait. You want to wait, you want to see what Mueller has to say. You want to be measured about this. Right now, you know, he's doing new normal on international relations and on for that matter, national programs. He's pulling the wings out of the Obamacare. He's making it very hard for social services, social services, you know, to go to disadvantaged in the country. He's doing terrible things on immigration to people, immoral things, awful things, not worthy, not worthy of the country or the presidency. This is now. This is not the past. This is now. And I suggest to you, Tim, it's going to get worse. Whatever Mueller says, Mueller is going to be talking about the past, not now. I think the damage is happening right now. The damage is happening in international relations, international trade, international geopolitical maneuvers and wars. I think he's really dangerous and he's really hurting us. And we have to look at that, not the past. So you're saying stop it as fast as you possibly can before more damage can be done. That's what I'm saying. And by the time this stuff does hit the table, it'll be all passe news. I don't know if that's what you're saying, but I don't know. Maybe it'll be grounds for impeachment. It'll be hard to get an impeachment unless you get both out. What about a censor? Is that possible? A censor doesn't really help much, does it? He's going to be in office. He'll deny it. He'll say it's a conspiracy against him. It's a witch hunt, whatnot. You know, that's not going to stop him from doing his thing. I don't know how you stop him. I really don't. But I'd say that it becomes increasingly important to stop him from what he's doing that damages the country and its relationships with the world and therefore global peace, tranquility and economic stability. Yeah, I think when the new house was formed with a majority of Democrats, you're going to see them start passing bill after bill after bill that's going to address the middle class. And when those bills don't go any further than the house, they go to the Senate and they're defeated time and time again, Americans may see, hey, we do have a government that can get something done, but we have an obstruction to the Senate that's a majority of Republicans that aren't passing bills that's going to benefit my life. And so we'll see how interesting that turned out. What it is, so this is actually at the end of the day, it's not Trump and his machinations. We know he's going to do these things worse and worse. And it's not the Democrats, they're going to try to do the right thing, they're a little disorganized, they're going to try to do the right thing. It's the Republican Party, such as it has evolved to. And it's up to those people, those human beings, those public officials who took an oath to defend the Constitution, it's up to them to stop this train. They don't do anything. I'm really worried about the country, but that's just me. I would share your concern. Yeah. Well, thank you, Tim. We had a lot more on the list. We'll have to do this again. Nice to see you as always. See you next week. Happy New Year in the meantime. Let's see what happens between now and then. Got it. Trump week, every Friday you got it. Aloha.


Lucid dreaming in 2023 this is there is promise going to be new information in this video So just to allow I will get to it. Okay. This is important stuff. The world has changed I don't know if you've been paying attention Or if you know, but the world in the last three years has changed enormously in many ways It's many things that have happened in the last three years That mean Learning and practicing lucid dreaming are now different. It's not the same as it was three years ago The same techniques don't apply. You need to use a different a much different very different approach now Then you did three years ago. So let's get into it The first thing that's happened is there's a lot more and I will bring this back full circle and I promise it will be positive But I'm going to start with a negative so I can end with positive There's been in the last three years a lot more stress. You might you probably have seen this right lots of stress Uncertainty the ground has been changing and shifting underneath our feats different groups trying to do different things Agendas governments restrictions, you know the stuff right the world is changing and along with that has been there's been a lot of fear and Along with the fear. There's been a lot of very low vibration energy around the world as well as high vibration I would say in equal proportions because much like anything with nature very balanced, right? So just as the dark has been increasing the light has been increasing to an equal amount But the result of that is that depending on which way you orient yourself Within you will either now be more in the light more relaxed happy joyful and abundant Or you may have unfortunately gone the other way and been wrapped up in all the fear and the uncertainty and the doubt and it's fine I'm not I'm not judging. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that because you know, we're just human We all get programmed by something if in some way, right? So you can't really avoid it but as a result of that let me tie this back in when you're more stressed You're much less likely to lose a dream You're more likely to have a nightmare and so you may have been having a lot of these stress dreams or fever dreams almost These weird vivid nightmares that kind of don't really make much sense and you don't know why you're having them So there's good and bad about that. I'll get on to that. That's the first thing, right? So 2023 and onwards there's more stress Which you could if you decide to get more involved in of course you don't have to and that's the topic for another video You can choose to either go in one direction or the other but that's just how it is at the moment There's a lot of stress, fear, uncertainty, doubts, as well as a lot of potential and opportunity and love and Abundance. So that's the first thing. Okay, the second thing, technology Now as I'm sure you know in the last three years a platform called TikTok has massively Exploded gaining its first million users significantly faster than any other app previous and continues to grow You know this right, TikTok. I don't really care one way or the other. I post to TikTok, but I don't use TikTok So it's really just to catch people who happen to be on there But I wouldn't recommend you use TikTok to be honest unless if you're already there follow me or if you want to But if not, I wouldn't advise you to download TikTok And because the reason for that is because the algorithm on TikTok is much more dangerous than the algorithm here on YouTube They're both not ideal. You know YouTube is no perfect example of an algorithm But that being said the TikTok one is significantly worse.  They're just designed to keep your senses tingling to release dopamine and So therefore to keep you scrolling for hours and hours Wasting your life while some Chinese company gets rich and yeah, of course you could say well, it's entertaining I get that and I know how addicting it is because the reason I had to uninstall it was because I was so Addicted to it. It just couldn't stop scrolling. It showed me exactly what I wanted to see You know, and I would just scroll for ages But you know for a lucid dreamer not good news. No bueno So if you are if you have it installed uninstall it in my opinion in my humble opinion, of course If you don't have it installed, I wouldn't really recommend it. You're not missing much. Okay It's just a bunch of pointless little videos can be useful, but there's no filter There's no there's no way to tell it what you want to see and what you don't want to see So you can kind of get tricked your brain can kind of get hijacked by it If you just look at a video for just a second too long boom the algorithm knows now And it will show you more of those even if you weren't really that interested in it And you just really just were curious what the video was about Doesn't matter the algorithm knows this video this topic keeps them on the platform slightly longer than the other ones So now his feed is gonna his or her feed is gonna be this Very dangerous. So the first problem stress the second problem technology and tech doc Because it fries your brain and it releases dopamine when you really shouldn't be releasing dopamine We as humans have evolved to use dopamine as a motivation tool So we would hunt or run away from something or whatever and we would get a release of dopamine Which would tell us tell our brains and tell us that this is good repeat this behavior Hunting is good or exercise effort Working out building shelters. These things are good. Therefore. Here's some dopamine to keep you like, you know Wanting to do it more basically Now you can release Infinite amounts of dopamine with no effort whenever you want for as long as you want and dopamine is an interesting Substance because unlike many addictive drugs and the substances.  You either throw up or you pass out with dopamine release There is no such mechanism You just keep producing it until eventually you become tired and weigh yourself out and they prove this with rats I don't know if you've seen this study with rats, but they implanted an electrode in the rat's brain and they gave it a button when they press the button Dopamine gets released in the rat. They put the rat next to the button and then Let's beside the button with some food and basically long story short the rats starved themselves to death By just constantly pressing the button. They stopped caring about food even when they were starving Now, of course, we're more sophisticated than rats. I would like to think that being said, you know Our brain chemistry is very vulnerable to attack if you think of our brains like a computer It's literally like having the world's first computer with no antivirus operating in a world like today with very advanced technology enormous AI databases and capabilities algorithms Entire skyscrapers full of teams of people who use algorithms and data to make you more and more addicted to their platforms. This is a very dangerous place to be for a brain Unfortunately, so in my humble experience, the best solution is just to turn it off. Just don't engage with it whatsoever Don't install tick tock. Don't use it and when you use YouTube be sensible about it You know, don't just watch whatever the algorithm suggests try and decide what to watch as much like with those are dreaming Try and make the conscious decision About what you actually want to do what content you want to watch. Why are you watching it? Do you really need to watch?  Okay So that's that's the technology problem and then alongside the technology problem You have the issue of echo chambers reddit discord tick tock Twitter these become echo chambers where anyone can have a voice and If one person said something another person can repeat that and before you know it everyone's repeating it But it's actually wrong and nobody bothered to check whether the first person was correct or not And so what happens then is that you know, you just get opinions forming in these little echo chambers When they might be the wrong opinion, it might not actually be true so you do need to be a bit careful of that and decide who you listen to You know, don't don't just listen to me even just listen to like listen to me alongside 10 other people and just see what you know, what each person's perspective says What what does each person say and then decide what you resonate with and what you think or what feels most authentic to you? so How do you lose your dream in 2023 then well first you avoid or eliminate as much as you can those things So you reduce your stress as much as you can meditation Not watching horror films playing violent games these sorts of things Second you don't engage with the algorithms that are designed to Essentially just addicting to their platforms don't engage with them Don't you know Don't install the app.  Okay. If the app is free you are the product It comes at a very high cost to you So and then third decide who you listen to and what information you take on board and then fourth going beyond that You need to just basically Once you've removed those distractions and those things hijacking you just stick to the basics, you know Things like getting a solid sleep eight hours keeping your stress levels down eating a good diet and sticking to one or maybe two proven techniques like the mild or the wake back to bed and I have videos about these on my channel That's it for now. So let me know what you think about this is a new era of Technology and development But I don't know. There's some things that are not quite right And hopefully this video makes a little bit of sense and you can kind of navigate those So let me know what you think and I'll see you next time


I don't use drugs. I never really have gotten into marijuana. I have no interest. But I took psychedelics and I'm proud to say that I wouldn't write the way I write. I wouldn't think the way I think. Likewise. I wouldn't have understood the nature of cultural relativism as an anthropologist. I wouldn't treat women the way I do. Our parents used to say, don't take these things. You'll never come back the same. That was a whole bloody point. Point to involve. I think that one of the very positive things going on today is a very judicious and cautious, it feels cautious, revitalization of the use of psychedelics and finally the recognition that these substances can be legitimate tools for clinical use in certain cases and for research. So all this stuff is moving ahead. It's not going to be smooth because the changes that we're endorsing are profoundly unsettling to those not prepared to recognize and the fact that the genies out of the bottle ain't going back and the tsunami of social change and transformation and spiritual growth and reinvention of our entire sense of ourselves on the planet, it's rolling forward and get out of the way if you're not prepared because it'll drown you if you're not prepared to float upon it.


An individual rented this truck behind me and OD'd on fentanyl and crashed the vehicle. You can see the damage on it. It took eight shots of Narcan. These seats will not budge. You're working in a very confined space and then you're struggling with these seat covers. Hey guys, Laura here. I am in Tampa, Florida at the site of a fentanyl overdose that went terribly wrong. So an individual rented this truck behind me and OD'd on fentanyl and crashed the vehicle. You can see the damage on it. And it took eight shots of Narcan to revive him. But I am told that he did live. But we are here to clean up the fentanyl, neutralize it to make it safe for the body shop workers to handle this project. So stay tuned. I'm seeing personal content, pawn shop receipts, parts of the vehicles, the rental agreement, and some miscellaneous s**t. Do you want to be a crime scene cleaner just like us? Well, now you can. Spall and Deacon is currently opening up enrollment to our biobasic courses on ThinkEffic.com. Click the link in our bio and head on over to ThinkEffic slash SpallandDeacon.com and use promo code CLEAN for 10% off your order. Now back to the video. All right, I'm gonna start the process. I really don't see any powder or anything, but that doesn't mean anything because it's so tiny that you can't tell. The debris on yourself is on this side and smoke it that way. So that's what it looks like. Porous materials and then we're gonna restart the process all over again. I don't know why anybody would use this floor. It's nasty. Nasty nasty. There's too much room for error. It's not even April if these seats forward. That's gonna be another challenge. There we go. I'm getting seat naked. Look, it's even wrapped in plastic. Extra safe. This is so tight. Nobody can sit back here. This is the the furthest that this serves forward. So this is a problem. Let's see how this feels. Whoa. Actually not bad. Without the cushion, it's still, it's still got some good. Looks like manuals. And that was on ya. Tied in a stash. Sweat dripping in my eyes again. I should have wore a headband. I think I've learned by now. I didn't. You know another thing too that I used to have? You know those things that you buy? They're like chamois towels and you put them in the freezer and then you put them around your neck when you're working. Those things are awesome. Just the bottom. See that plastic along with metal?  On the seams it's always easier. So you're probably thinking why don't you just take the seats out? That would be great. And that's what I would do if this was like a normal car. But we can't move the vehicle to get it to them to move the seats out. So I am taking a much needed break. It's about, I think it's about 86 degrees. So it's not like terrible. But if you add all this into it, it's well over a hundred. Normally I don't have such a problem with taking off the seat covers. But these seats will not budge. The two passenger seats won't even move up an inch. So that's making it very very challenging. So you're working in a very confined space and then you're struggling with these seat covers. So it seems so minor but man it's just it's a lot. I want to make sure that I get every nook and cranny because there's a ton in a vehicle. So we got lucky and they changed their mind so I can remove the seat. The hard part is accessing the bolt because nothing will fit and it's all the way back here. So I am trying to get through here. I can't go at an angle here. So I might need the cameraman to hold this. For a few minutes while I hydrate I can run. The respirator of course it's super important PPE but it makes it so difficult to breathe. It feels like you're breathing out of a straw.  So that's one and then I can't sweat. So you know you're dehydrated when you're drinking a ton and you're not urinating. So that means I'm sweating it all out. But that's summers in Florida like it's we work in a ton of houses that have no AC. So which I think is a crime to not have AC in a climate like this. Just like I think it's a crime to have no heat in a northern state. Like that just shouldn't be allowed. That's a should be just a basic human right. So we're almost done here. I'm gonna let that marinate for a couple minutes and then I'm gonna wipe it down and we are good to go. Because it gets everywhere. I think that is a wrap. We're just gonna leave it closed up for 24 hours. And this thing should be good to go to be rebuilt. Not an easy job but it felt good to make this vehicle safe. So stay tuned for the next one. Thanks for watching guys. Don't forget to like, share, subscribe and ring that bell to be notified of the next episode. For more information visit any of our locations.


from the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas. It's theCUBE, covering .NEXT Conference 2016. Brought to you by Nutanix. Now here are your hosts, Dave Vellante and Stu Miniman. Welcome back everybody. This is theCUBE, we're here live. This is our second day of coverage of the .NEXT Nutanix Conference. A lot of action going on here. Joris Vuvray is here. He's the head of networking and systems management at SwissLoss. Yes, that's it. Hello everybody. Welcome back to theCUBE, so SwissLoss. Tell everybody what SwissLoss is all about. SwissLoss is a Swiss lottery based in Basel in the north of Switzerland. And we're doing traditional lotteries, instant tickets, sport betting, horse races betting too. We have like 6,000 point of sales in Switzerland, 3,000 out of a point of sales of online connector or data centers. And we also have our own gaming platform on-premise running on Nutanix with almost 600,000 registered users or players.  And we're making one million Swiss francs profits each day. So we have to keep the pace and make sure everything's running in the IT to have happy customers. Well in the last 10 years online gaming has exploded and it's an interesting dynamic because there's obviously some local opposition that's regulated, like you say, a non-profit. Talk about the dynamic in the industry and how you guys got started and how you're growing. So it's a very old company. So it grew up from sport betting actually and then we had many companies, other companies doing instant tickets. And we went all together to build SwissLoss for a couple of years. And we are doing all the IT by ourselves just as software development is done externally. And internet is becoming more and more important with the generation changes. People want to play mobile. People want to play on the internet. So it's a big deal to keep the pace with that and to also have interactive games on the internet. So for that you have to have a very good background infrastructure, having system which gives a good answer times and all that stuff has to be running milliseconds. So it's a big deal and that's the reason why we are always looking at a modern way to do IT, to simplify things and to make things run as easy as possible. So paint a picture, if you would, of the infrastructure and the sort of applications that it supports. What does it look like? So there's a workload we are running on Nutanix. It is mainly a web workload like Tomcat server, Gboss web servers or backend servers. We're not running any big databases on Nutanix. We're running Splunk on Nutanix, so big Splunk indexes for example, but not databases like Oracle or also big database. And we have two data centers, so two production blocks each with five nodes, 20 terabytes of Nutanix storage. It's a hybrid storage with SSDs and SATA disks. And we also have a test block to test everything. So the goal with Nutanix was to forget our infrastructure as Nutanix is saying to have an invisible infrastructure, to gain time for the engineer to focus on other goals and managing storage area networks and all that stuff. So I think it's like the David Allen way to go to forget things or getting things done another way, to write everything down and forget it. It's the same for Nutanix to install your system and then forget them to be able to focus on the application and having happy customers. Can you give us a little bit of a before and after? What did your infrastructure look like? How many people do you have? What were these doing their time and the picture after? So the team of engineers like six guys doing that stuff. So before we had traditional blade servers and HP storage, fiber channel storage. And we always bought new shelves, new disks to grow this storage because of our needs. And after sometimes you notice that this will come to this end of life. The lifecycle of the product will come to an end and you have to change everything. So when we talk about that with my boss, the ID popped up to do these things differently and to find another solution. We also wanted to run all of our rock load which is mainly most of the time based on Linux machines on the Linux hypervisor. So we went to the market and had a look at what was around and Nutanix was the only solution to bring as a KVM solution and VM management all in one box. But the Acropolis hypervisor was only announced last year and you're actually a beta customer of it. So can you walk us through? I mean, it's something unproven. I mean, Linux KVM's been around for a while but how did you convince management to go with this? How'd you even find it in the first place? That was not easy but we made a POC with Nutanix and we were amazed how this hardware was performing and KVM was efficient for our workload. And we spoke with Nutanix and told is there maybe something missing for the management of the VM? We'd like to have something really easy and you only had KVM but not the management of the VM on top of it. And a guy called Bass, our engineer in Europe, told me yes, you know, there's something around you just have to wait a little bit and you'll have early access to this and we'll make sure you'll be happy with the product. So it was called Acropolis. So we had early access to Acropolis in October 2014. We've installed it in two days, made the training of the teams and I think two weeks after we began to move virtual machines in production on top of Acropolis. Relative HV team. Yeah, yeah. And how did their operations change, their workflow? So the workflow changed because Nutanix is really easy to manage. I always said I could give an iPad to my kids and they will be able to manage HV and do that stuff. You know, there are no, most of the time playing Minecraft on their iPad, building blocks and I hope they will build Nutanix blocks later on their iPad too, but for the team it's like a move from a system administrator having to patch fiber channel, plug-in storage, plug-in servers to a more analytic way of doing IT and analyzing troubles in the application. So we can really focus on business application or business transactions that are important for us and focus on performance instead of having to have a look at hardware failure and all that stuff. And you said you're not running your database workloads on Nutanix? No, but I've heard about the ice-caze stuff that Nutanix is bringing now, so we were too early with our migration of Oracle databases, but it would be too expensive for us to virtualize Nutanix and virtualize Oracle on top of Nutanix, yeah. Because the database license cost? Yes, of course. Oracle is not cheap, so it's pretty expensive, so you have to license your work clusters and as a nonprofit organization we are not able to do that, yeah. So what do your Oracle run on? We run our Oracle database appliance, yeah. So you can cut your license cost to half? Yes, we could optimize our license with that, yeah. Yeah, so it's interesting. We have a lot of folks on, a lot of clients we work with that have that same issue. It's just what it is. I mean, it's a very large component of your TCO is the Oracle license and maintenance cost, and so... And that's what we appreciate with Nutanix. You know, we are a small company, so we can go to Oracle and tell them you have to change something because we can't afford this. Whereas with Nutanix, we had a good, good partnership. We could bring new... We could give us feedback to Nutanix for Acropolis and, for example, bring things that we needed as an early adopter and it's a really, really great partnership. So, George, you talked about kind of the operational impact. What about from the economic standpoint? Many out there, our feedback from the community is hyper-convergence is great, but it's not cheap, it's not necessarily, you know, from a capex standpoint less expensive. What's the overall economic picture look like for you? I've heard that many times. I mean, I've talked with many people here all saying, yeah, it's maybe good, but it's maybe too expensive or I don't know, but we wanted to choose the best product that fits for us so, I mean, the investment was not that huge and if you have a look at the simplicity of the solutions, there's a huge gain in time for the engineers and a huge return of investment when you have a Nutanix blocks running because you can just forget it and with all the solution, you have to do driver's updates or firmware updates or whatever and losing a lot of time with that. And also, one aspect which is important for me is the power and cooling. I mean, when you have huge blades servers or huge core switches, it's using a lot of power and it needs also a lot of cooling so we've also made some great improvement in that area for a lot of sensors. Have you quantified that at all? I mean, I've talked to some Nutanix customers to get from, you know, 10 racks down to one rack. Yeah, it's like one rack to four units. Wow. Yeah, yeah, it's huge, yeah. So it's a big deal, I mean. How do you, let's talk about performance, I mean. Yeah. Performance to me is I'm getting consistent, predictable performance, that's a good. Yeah. Is that the right way to think about it? Or are you actually looking at it? No, I'm increasing my, I'm shrinking my footprint and increasing my performance. No, we're trying to increase performance all the time. I mean, it's very important. So I think Docker will also be a big deal on Nutanix because you want to simplify everything and Docker is also a way to simplify things and to make your application run with better performance and also better security. I mean, security is also a big challenge and that's also something that Nutanix changed in my company to have the engineer be able to focus on performance and makes things easy. So you're using containers today? No, no, not yet in production. We've made some experimentation and I'm glad to hear that Nutanix will be integrating.  Yeah, I'm sure we'll use this feature. So what about security? Splunk customer? Obviously that's one of your primary use cases. Yeah, so we're using Splunk on top of Nutanix. So security is a big deal for us because we are certified for products like the Euro million, for example. So we have to be certified by the World Watch Reassociation to sell some kind of products and security is a big deal for us. So Nutanix was also important in that area because it's bringing also security in the iProvisor and in the World Solution which was also important for us. I would imagine too, I mean, this whole idea of simplicity, making the infrastructure invisible, dumbing it down if you will. I mean, it's not, it's complex but simplifying the infrastructure, what impact does that have on your ability to deal with security, respond to security incidents, spend more time on security? Are you able to shift resources toward things like security or? Or the skill sets too diverse? Yeah, it's too diverse, I think, because security is another area so it's nothing to do with these hyper-converged things but the gain in time was mostly to focus on other things and also one thing that's important when you look at Nutanix and take Nutanix and you suddenly have a gain of time to do other things, other areas of IT that you'd like to change, it's making you disruptive too as administrator or as IT manager, thinking IT in another way and also trying to push disruptive products in all the projects that you have to make things change and make things easier in another area of your IT things. So you're pretty early on the adoption standpoint. Where's the white space? What are you asking for the vendor community to help you kind of grow and move even faster? So we're always asking to have things that run easy and today everything is based on REST API and automation so that's a big deal that we'd like now to do to automate things. We've been using, for example, Cisco ACI for a couple of time now so I think now the big challenge is to make things stick together, integrate everything together and make things easier as it is now. So what's on Nutanix's to-do list from your perspective? From your perspective, what do you want to see Nutanix do specifically? I mean, you were talking generically just then about integration. What's on their to-do list? I think container was a big deal so we really wanted to see that but I don't know, I think the Nutanix roadmap is going in the right direction. I won't tell them what I expect them to do because they're always one step forward so they're always one step forward to our expectation and I think I was at the conf last year and I have the feeling that it was five years ago because they're bringing so much new features that it's just crazy. I mean, the announcements today or yesterday, that's just everything that we expected Nutanix to do so I want to allow me to tell Nutanix what they have to do. Another happy customer. We'll give you the last word, your experience here this week, second dot next conference. What are you going to tell your colleagues when you get back, what have you learned? Oh, I've learned a lot of things. I mean, the announcement that the keynote, that was just huge and I will tell my colleagues that they'll get the gain of time next year maybe to do all the things that there are now spending time on them. What about the announcement was most intriguing to you? Docker is for me the biggest deal. As I said, it was very important. Native Docker, persistence. Yeah, persistence storage for containers. That's a big deal and that was an issue for me before. And doing that inside of Nutanix natively and taking advantage of all the simplicity. Also self-provisioning is a great, great feature. George, thanks very much for coming to theCUBE. Thank you. All right, see you again. Thank you, gentlemen. All right, keep it right there. Everybody, Stu and I will be back with our next guest. This is theCUBE. We're live from the win in Las Vegas at dot next. Right back.