Chachapoyas is an ancient city once effortlessly mingled among the mountains of northern Peru. At an elevation of 2,335 meters, it is still an inhabited location that was once the home of a little-known or indeed understood enigmatic civilization known as the Cloud People, situated in the mountains far from the Peruvian coast, although this didn't apparently stop them somehow, creating elaborate jewelry from seashells. Chachapoyas remains extremely isolated to this day. Only ever accessed by enthusiastic hikers, adventurers, and airlifted scientists, it is a site like many others we have covered which dot our planet, that, through our own research, has been revealed to have a contradictory explanation for their construction. Indeed, these sites are dated to and subsequently tagged to convenient culprits. We have not only found compelling evidence to suggest that this most isolated, once thriving location is one of the oldest pre-Incan relics anywhere in Peru, but that the datings of such sites is often a funded conspiracy rather than a reality. Los Pinchudos is an elaborate Chachapoya tomb complex molded into a high rock face. It is a natural and cultural world heritage site and is guarded 365 days of the year and closed off to all except specific scientific exploration. What is remarkable about the site is the fact that the wooden statues marking the tombs have mysteriously survived the ages. These statues were used by academia to date the site. However, although the explanation for the statue's survival is apparently, quote, an arid climate, end quote, the actual site displays evidence of a far greater antiquity than these timber ghosts. Wooden artifacts rarely survive the humidity found within the Peruvian mountains, and although scientists attribute the figure's preservation to the site's location in an arid climate, the site, when discovered, was in such disrepair, an emergency conservation effort was launched to save it from further erosion. Many believe that the tombs would have been lost completely without church and Peruvian conservator Ricardo Morales-Gamara who restored the eroding foundations. The clay and stone tombs of the complex also have wooden roofs and have surviving Inca paint in red, yellow, black, and white. We feel, due to the other compelling evidence that has been gathered and subsequently shared upon our channel, along with the extensive erosion found at many of the sites attributed to the Chachapoyas, that there may be a high chance that the wooden roofing and statues commemorating the graves may have been another conservation effort performed by people placed more recently within history. People modern academia claim as the original builders. Is it possible that with the extensive erosion evident at the site, in contrast to the highly preserved and seemingly recent wooden monuments and protective roofing, that we are actually looking at more than two building phases upon these tombs? When original construction, followed by a later ink and conservation effort, and then a modern correction, we find the evidence to suggest such highly compelling. In the past, whenever an artifact or ancient ruin was to rear its unexplainable head, funded parties would scramble to quickly rebury them within museum archives or to simply ignore and not publicly share such discoveries. As such, many of the sites that we cover here upon our channel are not only notoriously difficult to track down and study, but are also very often unfamiliar to our many viewers. One continues their way through the same journey as you and I by perusing the many subjects we have already covered. The feelings of confusion as having never been confronted with said locations and data therein actually becomes a sense of predictability and a symptom of a much larger conspiracy. As we push on with more and more sites and artifacts, further compounding the proof of this cover-up and deepening our evidential arsenal regarding this ignored and in some cases suppressed history upon our planet, it is inevitable that sooner or later the movement will indeed begin to move. And this is our mission. The Inga Stone, located in the middle of the Inga River in Paraba State, northeast of Brazil, an artifact like any other which has an unexplained and possibly controversial history is little known to the world. It is a rock formation which covers an area of approximately 250 meters squared. However, upon this enormous rock is an unknown language with, quite possibly, an untold story. 46 meters long and 3.8 meters high, there are etchings made all over this stone whose meanings, although extensively studied by some of the best minds on the planet, remain unknown and undeciphered. Several figures are carved in low relief, illustrations of animals, fruits, and human constellations like Orion and our very own Milky Way can be seen. Scholars presume that it was created by natives that lived in the area until the 18th century, although any compelling evidence to support this claim has yet to surface. Thought to depict animals, fruits, weapons, humans, possible ancient aircrafts or birds, and what appears to be a table of contents with stories divided into sections with each symbol connected to the number of a chapter, what it says is not known. Ignatius Rolem, professor of Greek and Latin theology, argued the symbols were similar to ancient Phoenician carvings, while others felt the symbols were related to ancient ruins. An additional popular hypothesis is, of course, ancient aliens, since the Inga's symbols were so different to any others found. Some researchers, such as Claudio Quintans of the Parabino Center of Ufology, has postulated that a spaceship landed in the Inga area during this ancient time, and the symbols were probably drawn by these extraterrestrial guests. An incredible stone, with a history we may one day unravel. The Great Pyramids of Giza, undoubtedly some of the most incredible ancient monuments to be found anywhere on Earth. Just how old are these structures? 4,000 years? 10,000 years? 100,000 years? We recently uncovered the astonishing megalithic blocks once exposed upon the east side of geops, blocks which indicate that the entire skeletal structure of the pyramid is actually made with blocks similar to those found at Baalbeck. 100-plus tonne blocks, revealed at some point within antiquity, most likely done by a jealous ruler in an attempt to destroy and conceal the evidence of this past more capable civilizations were. Additionally, humans are curious creatures. Not only do we now suspect that destructive phases have befallen the great structure throughout its long life on Earth, but also, like we do today, has also before experience being marveled at. And conservation efforts, in the form of more modern casting stones, have been installed, these blocks initially obstructing our view of the seemingly impossible blocks, which make up its inner structure. Is there any proof to support such claims of an enormous age to be found anywhere else on Earth? Peru, a place which contains the same uncannily designed impossible pre-Incan architecture. Within the Supe Valley, some 120 miles north of Lima, is the pyramid of Corral, now claimed to be the oldest pyramid on Earth, and the clear erosion which it has experienced clearly makes it an obvious candidate for this title of incredible antiquity, once towering into the heavens, now virtually leveled by erosion over many, many millennia. This site has clearly received no later attention by a capable or interested civilization, left to rot with the overgrown mountains of Peru. Yet it possesses such similarities in architecture with ancient Mesopotamia, China, India, and indeed Egypt. Is it now so unforgivable to suspect that all of these structures were actually built by the same civilization? At the same time within history? The only difference being that the well-known and documented Egyptian civilization later moved in on the specific pyramidal structures of Giza for power purposes, while the Inca focused in on the ancient architectural land terracing. Interestingly, and yet more compelling, evidence supports previous hypothesis here on the channel when Paul Kosach discovered Corral in 1948. It received little attention because it appeared to lack any historical artifacts, an unusual absence of any habitational evidence usually saw it at archaeological sites. Could this be due to the sheer age of these monuments? That all but the remaining gigantic stones has simply eroded away? Corral is not the only pyramid to be found within Peru. There are many more which share the same evidence of great age. Near the city of Saipan is the largest pyramid concentration in southern America, known as the Pyramids of Tucumi, or the Valley of the Pyramids. It has no less than three pyramid cities, which together have a stunning total of 250 pyramids. Tucumi lies on the southern margin of the valley and is surrounded by fertile agricultural land, thanks to the Taimi Canal, which brings water northwards from the Changke River, a perfect strategic location for a once flourishing civilization. Who were these people? When did they live? Thanks to ongoing research, not only is the officially upheld story surrounding such cities crumbling, but we are now getting closer and closer to finally answering these questions. Ollante Tabo, probably one of the most visually perplexing sites within Peru, claimed to be that of the Incas and at an altitude of 2,792 meters above sea level. Once one takes a good look at this place, it becomes near impossible to believe that the Incan civilization, with their access to such limited technologies, could have created such a place. During the Inca Empire, Ollante Tabo was the royal estate of Emperor Paca Cuti. According to academia, when he conquered the region, he built the town and the ceremonial center within. It is such an impressive, perfectly placed strategic structure that at the time of the Spanish conquest, it served as a stronghold for Manco Inco Yupanqui, leader of the Inca resistance. However, as mentioned many times on our channel, how could a civilization create such astonishing architecture at such an early time within known history? How did they create some of these sites? What purpose could they have served? Some of the ruins that can be found in Peru, and in particular, Ollante Tabo, you cannot help but wonder if, for example, the giant stairs carved into the hillside were intended for human use, then why create them to such enormous scales? According to the history books around the mid-15th century, the Incan Emperor Paca Cuti conquered Ollante Tabo, including the surrounding region. All were incorporated into his personal estate. The emperor then claims to have rebuilt the town with sumptuous constructions and undertook extensive perishing and masterfully irrigating the Eurobomba Valley, notably without any prior knowledge of these techniques known of. Were these giant ledge steps once used by giants, or possibly, had to use similar to the ancient site known as Moray? Moray also claimed to be Incan. This mind-boggling side had an astonishing purpose. It seemed the builders of this enormous structure were masters of horticulture. They had somehow figured out that by creating these raised ledges at particular angles to the seasonal winds and sun, using this to slowly acclimatize plants previously not suitable to that climate over many generations. Perhaps this is what Ollante Tabo was used for. Moray is little shared by academia. Indeed, its existence and one's function is difficult to explain with modern paradigms. And although not giants, we feel the site's once use was no less impressive. Homes, towns, religious structures, an entire living infrastructure of a once highly successful, highly capable people. Managing to expertly fuse their existence harmoniously with the surrounding environment, creating structures which left little, if any, impact on the surrounding landscape, structures still usable even to this day. Located within Ibanque, a province in the region of Apurimac, Sehuite has been conveniently dated to the period of the Incan Empire between the 15th and 16th centuries AD. However, like many sites dotted around Peru and indeed the world, an explanation as to how these cultures achieved such wonders with such primitive access to construction or tools is not forthcoming. Compared to other Incan sites, Sehuite is also a complete ruin, leading the more observant and indeed the free-thinking self-funded geologist among us to suspect that it may actually be even older than the pre-Incas responsible for Machu Picchu, yet the most noteworthy object at Sehuite and the reason for our video is its monolith. A mysterious boulder drenched in intricate, purposely placed carvings. Interestingly, the word Sehuite originated from the Kechua word Seweda, which translates as Place of Orientation. The site is located on the top of a terraced hill. Dedicated research has also revealed that the site was once home to an enclosed sanctuary. Yet all that remains of this sanctuary today is a few leveled platforms and the monolith. It contains more than 200 geometric and zoolomorphic figures, including reptiles, frogs, felines, topographical hydraulic models, complete with terraces, ponds, rivers, tunnels, and irrigation channels. The functions or purposes of the stone are not academically known, yet others suspect it was a map of the once existing complex created by a culture able of moving tremendous weights and carving stone with relative ease. Researcher Dr. Arlan Andrews Sr. believes the monolith was used as a scale model to design, develop, test, and document the water flow for public water projects and to teach ancient engineers and technicians the concepts and practices required. Quote, the rock was edited several times with new material, either altering the paths of the water or adding routes altogether. Clearly, a remarkable artifact left by a remarkable civilization. Thanks for watching, guys, and until next time, take care. Thanks for watching, guys, and until next time, take care. This area of stone is not merely vitrified, but was, at some point within the distant past, turned to lava. With the limited investigations available, predictably none of which undertaken by funded academics, it has been revealed that this mysterious event did not occur as one would have expected. It could have presumed from a heating from above, but from beneath, or perhaps from within the center of the stonework, successfully melting the stone wall in its entirety into a pool of liquid magma. And although largely overlooked by tourists, and indeed academics alike, the evidence of the stone having once turned to liquid is undeniable. The question then, what turned this stone to liquid? Was it some form of weapon? Or perhaps, is this evidence to suggest how polygonal walls were once built? Perhaps these as yet unexplained polygonal walls were constructed with such precision due to a past ability of its builders, able to melt and shape these stones prior to placement. Or perhaps, could this melted stone be evidence of a war? One that occurred between the inhabitants of these ancient ruins and an unknown entity, ultimately resulting in their demise? Perhaps being the reason why these highly advanced, highly capable ancient people from these civilizations not only mysteriously disappeared but left many a quarry amid ancient stonework seemingly abandoned left where we find them today? In another area of the world, far away from Peru, there also exists compelling evidence of such a war, having actually once taken place with a possible entity from above. Eerily, this site is claimed as the remnants of a battle with God, specifically surrounding the biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah. Sulphur balls embedded among the landscape at this specific site is undoubtedly compelling evidence to support these accounts of war, a holy war undertaken at this specific location that, regardless of holy scripture, was fought with a foe of considerable ability.  The sulfur found at these sites has also, intriguingly, been tested from 93% to as high as 98% pure sulfur with trace metals such as magnesium found within that would have produced astounding heat easily capable of melting stainless steel and indeed the stones within Peru. Furthermore, the brimstone found is significantly different to sulfur found elsewhere, almost as if this brimstone was specifically designed. For example, sulfur from within natural geothermal regions is yellow in crystal form. We find all these evidential factors highly compelling. Peru is undoubtedly a jewel in the crown of ancient sites that can be found all throughout the world. Not only does it contain some of the most astonishing, as yet unexplained polygonal masonry to be found anywhere, but it also contains many other anomalous, advanced features built with such precision and prowess they are still utilized by modern-day man. Irrigation systems still flow with fresh water as if they were built yesterday, still providing water to the local residents who reside in these mountainous areas. Agricultural technologies, utilized by our more modern ancestors, the Incas, undoubtedly aiding in the flourishing of their culture. It is a place that possesses such advanced features Academia can merely resign themselves to a limited close explanation of such wonders, as merely identified as pre-Incan. This, without any explanation as to how these ancient groups, who predate those who they have studied in depth, were aware of such advanced, elegant solutions to farming, water sourcing, building, and many other miraculous techniques for survival. Among these notoriously inaccessible cliffs throughout the Inca Trail. However, deep within the Andes, far away from the well-worn tourist routes, is possibly one of the most perplexing ancient ruins of them all. Known as Napahuaca, it is a rock-cut ruin that is seemingly placed alone in a place of no initially obvious significance, no indication that it was linked to any existing pre-Incan ruin, yet the precision and indeed obvious effort that went into the creation of this anomalous artifact is undeniable. Carved into the mountainside, strongly reminiscent of false doors, features that can be found among many ancient ruins around the world, that, according to numerous ancient legends, were used by spirits to enter and exit the realm of the living. It is intricately designed, features smooth, seemingly laser-cut surfaces, which, in regard to its dating, is nothing short of astonishing. Found in an altitude of nearly 3,000 feet above sea level, it contains many baffling features, which may indicate why this seemingly inconspicuous location was selected. The ceiling and floor of the cave entrance, for instance, not only appear as if it was hewn with laser-like precision, but were also carved at two precise separate angles, one of 60 degrees and another of 52 degrees. These angles, intriguingly, are also found within the great pyramids of Giza at numerous locations. Furthermore, whoever constructed this possible false door somehow picked the only spot upon the mountain that contained traces of a mysterious blue stone. This blue stone, only found within this specific spot, has for many years been utilized within modern technology for its unique characteristic for its piezoelectric properties, a type of crystal capable of generating an electrical charge used by radio manufacturers for many decades within receivers. The rock chosen for the specific location of the carving is also, intriguingly, magnetic in nature, what's more, if one travels exactly halfway around the world to the UK, the false door aligns perfectly with Stonehenge. Why was this false door created? How was it created with such precision? What tools were utilized by ancient man to achieve these feats of ancient engineering? Why was it placed at this specific location, a place that has been discovered to contain mysterious blue crystals with unique electrical properties? Is this false door, like many alternative researchers have postulated, a portal of some kind? Allowing the teleportation of an ancient advanced civilization? We find the location, the precision involved, and indeed the other intriguing characteristics surrounding this mysterious anomaly, highly compelling.


This 10th year of Daily Tech News show is made possible by you, the listeners. Thanks to all of you, including Michelle Serju, Kirk Stephenson, Ms. Music Teacher, and a Libertarian. On this episode of DTNS, robots are training themselves to be better at tasks, what Tesla's earnings mean for EVs in general. And Molly Wood tells us how to electrify Los Angeles. This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, October 20th. My brother's birthday. Happy birthday, Tim. In Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Ghost Pepper, I'm Sarah Lane. Drawing the top tech stories from Cleveland, the home of Travis Kelsey, I'm Anne Peralta. From Oakland, California, I'm Molly Wood. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. I don't know which I'm more curious about. Len's mentioning Travis Kelsey or Studio Ghost Pepper. Oh, I'll tell you all about it. OK. In GDI, but you're going to have to get through some tech news first. Let's get right to it then. Starting with the quick hits. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission unanimously approved petitions by Microsoft, Google, Apple and Meta, among other companies, to let them use the six gigahertz band for wireless devices using very low power, sometimes known as VLP operations. For example, an in-car connection or maybe AR glasses. Wi-Fi 6E uses the six gigahertz brand band. Devices can also use higher power levels if they're geofenced to keep from interfering with actual licensed six gigahertz usage. The FCC now moves into taking comments on other ways it can expand six gigahertz spectrum usage by devices of all sorts. Nintendo launched Super Mario Brothers Wonder on Friday to pretty much rave reviews out there. And if you don't already know the Super Mario this time is in 2D, it's a side scroller. Now, the obvious analysis would be to say, oh, it's a play on nostalgia, which it is. The cynical analysis would say it's a way to save cost and development, which it might be, though there's a lot more sophistication in these kinds of 2D games than the ones we are familiar with from the 1980s and 90s. But whatever the reason, it appears to be something gamers enjoy and Nintendo is not alone in taking advantage of it. Sonic Superstars also launched into this week. India's Central Bureau of Investigation, the CBI, rated 76 locations across the country this week as part of Operation Chakra 2. The aim was to dismantle tech support scams that impersonate Microsoft and Amazon in order to fool customers around the world into giving them money. The operation shut down and seized equipment, websites and bank accounts for two such systems. Ex-Chairman Elon Musk posted on X that the platform will launch two paid tiers. Musk wrote, one is lower cost with all features, but no reduction in ads and the other is more expensive, but has no ads. No other details or official announcements were posted. As we mentioned earlier in the week, X is testing a $1 per year plan for new users in New Zealand and the Philippines in an attempt, it says, to reduce the number of bots on the platform. Meanwhile, Slack became the latest company to retire its customer service account on X. Communications around uptime and other issues will no longer be posted on its Slack status account. Issues will instead be posted at Slack's main status page and through Slack's RSS and Adam feeds. The privacy centric browser Brave has been downloading VPN services to some Windows customers, computers without their consent. All right. So here's the deal since two two thousand twenty two. Installing the Brave browser on Windows includes the company's firewall plus VPN service, which is something you have to pay for but stays dormant unless you specifically subscribe to it. Brave says it plans to change this install process going forward, but didn't offer a timeline as to when that would happen. For now, you can uninstall the apps in question. Brave VPN and Brave Wire Guard are both of those. But updating the browser would likely reinstate them until Brave itself changes things internally. All right, robots are getting smarter. But how, Sarah, tell us. Oh, Tom, I'm glad you asked. Nvidia Eureka, that's powered by GPT for trained robots to do around 30 tasks. You might say, well, don't robots do that anyway? Yeah, but these are kind of special. The training was done by having the robot software simulate the tasks repeatedly. Then the large language model evaluated them and reinforced improvements. This let training that might otherwise take days, take minutes. This includes things like a robot spinning a pen, the way a human might do, you know, through their digits, open drawers, use scissors, catch a ball, stuff that is very specific. Quadruped robots, dexterous hand robots, you know, a variety of other robots that do specific things were all said to have a lot of success with these tasks. Nvidia found the system was 80% more effective than training programs for robots written by humans, and that robot performance improved by 50%. Robots teaching robots apparently is a thing. You can try the Eureka algorithms in Nvidia's physics simulation app, Isaac Jim. Now going along with this, Meta's fundamental artificial intelligence research team or FAIR also updated its robot training simulation environment. First it updated its simulation data set habitat. Habitat 3.0 adds human avatars to help simulate how humans might either get in the way or help with robot tasks. They mentioned cleaning as an example. So you simulate a robot going around cleaning and then you can put a human in there and walk in their way or maybe help scrub down stuff like that. If the robot needs to stay near a human to hear requests that might be another scenario it could use. There's also a new database of more realistic interiors called HSSD 200. That improves the simulation of how interiors actually work. And you can take that into the real world with a robot software stack called Home Robot, which works for open vocabulary, mobile manipulation devices, including Boston Dynamics Spot Robot, and Hello Robots Stretch Robot. Habitat and Home Robot are available under an MIT license at Meta's GitHub pages and HSSD 200 is published under a Creative Commons non-commercial license. So we have better ways to train robots from NVIDIA. We have some better ways to train robots to do stuff from Meta and better ways to get that training into actual robots. Molly, does this sound fun to you? Does it sound useful? I know I'm like, what do you want me to say here? Just so many ways to die? I don't want to go so obvious with it. However, I want a robot to clean my house. So we're in this kind, you know, it's like the automatic response here, especially when I see it spinning the pen like that. I mean, that kind of dexterity is something that researchers have been trying to figure out with robots for decades and decades and decades. So it's like a crazy impressive technological achievement to see that. I have had Roombas for years, be mediocre and mid.  So I look forward to the brief, happy time where the robot cleans my house. Let's be fair, it'll clean after two to cover its tracks. Will it? Why bother? Really? Yeah, at that point, there might not be any enforcement. Now that's a smart robot. That's a smart robot. Yeah. All kidding aside, this is pretty significant. Really impressive. Yeah, my take on this in my Substack newsletter was that these are the kinds of advancements that you just don't feel unless you're working in the space. But if you're watching, like we all are, it's worth realizing like this is a big leap forward. The reason we don't have spot robots roaming around in your neighborhood right now is because they're really hard to train. And so you can train them to do a thing, it's pretty limited and they're kind of expensive because of that. So they're useful, but they're not widely useful. This is the kind of thing if you can speed up training that much. If you can allow the wide variety of training that this can allow and actually move it into actual robots in the real world like the MetaStuff does, suddenly you start to have that explosion of people using it for things that we hadn't really thought about using because you don't have to plan for it. You can just try stuff. We're not quite yet at the it can generate cats level that AI was a few years ago, but we're getting close. We are. I don't think we it is possible. It is not possible to overstate the importance of simulation across the sort of technological universe. You know, this is how we're going to get to materials development, drug discovery, like this is sort of all of the stuff that everybody talks about. And they usually say quantum computing is how we get there. But we're to the point now with NVIDIA's chip sets, which by the way, it designs using simulation on its own chipsets and generative AI, where the just time to market and time to discovery is so sped up that, you know, it's easy to get distracted by the robot flipping a pen, but it's this is major. I mean, this is a this is a loose comparison, but I kind of think about like, OK, so we've got all these robots that apparently are getting smarter and smarter and able to do much more dexterous things than ever achieved before. And I think like, OK, well, humans and robots are not the same breed. But like, let's say you have a bunch of young adults graduate from some, I don't know, you know, associate degree, where we're all supposed to know the same thing. Well, your mileage may vary, right? Because humans are really unpredictable. I feel like with something like this, when it comes to cleaning your house, you know, working in a warehouse, that sort of thing, having more precise knowledge and also being really predictable is why the robots are going to win here. Not saying that, you know, humans will lose as, you know, as part of that. But it it takes a lot of the guessing out of, you know, the personalization of all of this. That's my optimistic way to view the story, I guess. Yeah, yeah. No, that's a really good point. Like it it makes it makes it easier to imagine using it, right? If you don't have to be like, OK, let me adapt to this robot. Like, what's their mood like today? Right.  Home life? We are about to talk about cars. And so I'll get there. But, you know, I will say that despite these advances and the power of these simulations. I will see if it actually gets there once you move out of the simulation into the real world. And the reason I mentioned cars is that self driving cars are a perfect example of like a technology that seemed like it would work great until it encountered snow and pedestrians and buses and Uber, you know, drunk girls getting into Ubers.  You know, like, right, right. We'll imagine a robot just kind of saying like, you know what, this is not what I signed up for. I asked. Yeah, this is way too dirty. I've got some other calls to make and how do you live like this? Just seriously. Well, as Molly mentioned, we are going to talk about automotive stuff. So here's some good news for Tesla and Toyota and Toyota's luxury brand, Lexus, they're going to adopt the North American charging standard. That's the one that's used by Tesla superchargers. And ACS ports will go into Toyota's cars starting in 2025. So we got a couple of years ahead of us, but we're getting there. And Toyota, well, I guess just a year now and Toyota will offer adapters to existing car owners to make it easier to adopt this as well. Toyota, Jones, BMW, GM, Ford, Hyundai and Honda and adopting the NS NA CS standard. Volkswagen and Stellantis are the last major holdouts in this increasingly interesting market. So that's the good news. Tom, let's talk about earnings. Yes, the rest of the news. Tesla announced its earnings Wednesday. They missed earnings and sales estimates. Elon Musk warned that the cyber truck won't see positive cash flow for more than a year after it launches. It's expected to launch November 30th and remarked and I quote, we dug our own grave with cyber truck. Tesla's CFO mentioned a lot of cost cutting efforts, which was not necessarily music to everyone's ears. Musk said, we have to make our cars more affordable, hinting that more price cuts might be on the way. Definitely something investors did not want to hear. Musk also mentioned the challenge of high interest rates several times. Wedbush security analyst, Dan Ives, who I've seen quotes from Dan Ives over the years. He's not prone to hyperbole called this a mini disaster. Molly, I know you have a lot of thoughts on this and EVs in general. What's your take? I do. I think we've been sort of waiting for the earnings call that came after actual competition in the EV market, right? Like all and you know me, it personally is hard for me to say all credit, 100%, all credit to Tesla for creating a market for electric cars in the United States. And they were in a perfectly privileged position of being basically the game, you know, the only game in town. And it still is kind of like default behavior, I think, for most people when they're about to make that switch to an EV, they're like, well, I guess I'm going to get a Tesla. They don't, you know, I mean, there is a lot of competition on the market, but they're not necessarily thinking about it. But there isn't. But what's interesting about these earnings is that Tesla took all of the margin cushion that they have had as a result of selling these cars at a really high price. Use that margin cushion and the super high stock price to finance massive price cuts on every model and particularly the Model 3. And I had a friend point out to me recently, and this is 100% true, that when you factor in the supercharging network, that's what actually makes a Tesla such a great deal. And yet they still didn't sell as many as they thought they were going to for all of the reasons, right? The interest rates, Elon himself, which of course isn't coming up, but is a real, it's enough of it like when you pile it on to the, you know, when you put that factor on the pile along with all of the other things, you just sort of start to get this like, death by a thousand paper cuts and there's a lot of genuine competition on the road. And what we might be seeing, this is why I think the price conversation about this is so interesting. What we might be seeing is that people are willing to pay a premium. I mean, certainly they are because they're early adopters of EVs, but they might also be willing to pay more to like not have a Tesla for whatever reason, whether it's Elon and his personality and all of the like hate speech that he allows and incites in some cases, or it's just wanting to do something different, right? Like not wanting to look like every other car on the road. I'm in the San Francisco barrier where I've started to associate the Model 3 with like an Uber. It's like a taxi, you know how like for a while every Prius was a taxi or vice versa. It feels like that now. Oh yeah. And then I think, and then the last thing about this, I will say is I think it's really interesting. It's interesting to like the prices of EVs have to come down to popularized EVs, but it's very interesting to see a company like Tesla which has been more like Apple pursue or at least Hintet pursuing what is basically an Android strategy. Like are you gonna make it really inexpensive and low margin so that it's everywhere? And is that a winner? Yeah. And Tesla does have a service revenue model. I'm not sure how good it is, but it's not like they don't have a way to continue to make money off cars later with charging for firmware updates and services and things like that, charging for self-driving features. I know BMW gets a lot of the heat for wanting to, was it BMW that wanted to try to charge for the seat? Oh yes. Yeah, yeah. For everything. BMW was one that rolled back and said, you know what, never mind. I think they're still doing it in some markets, but they rolled back in others. But yeah, Tesla's been doing that. They've been saying you've got a capability in your car that you can only unlock if you pay. My point here, not to get into that whole thorny nest, but to say like they have other revenue sources.  I do think probably Molly, the best argument you made was that competition. Competition has come for them. First mover advantage doesn't last forever and there's plenty of stories out there of the company who did at first disappearing or being acquired by an incumbent company. I mean, look at all the dot-coms that traditional media gobbled up and turned into their own thing.  Everybody forgets that. So, you know, Tesla could be in danger of that if they're not careful. True, absolute true story. Earlier today, someone who knows, I don't know, less about EVs than I do, which is really saying something. I got a text from them and they said, you ever heard of this company Lucid? I said, yeah, I've heard. They go, well, what a cool car. To me, that's what I felt about Tesla's back in the day. And Tesla's still are very cool looking cars. Trust me, I wouldn't say no. But they're, yeah, like you said, Molly, they're ubiquitous. They're everywhere. It's not like a, whoa, that sort of thing that you're still seeing on the highway.  But yeah, you get more competition and things start changing. And I just still feel like investors, whether retail or institutional, like Wall Street is still gonna, at the end of the day, if it were me as an investor, I would want margin over incremental additional revenue. Because margin you can count on. You don't know, like people are gonna pull back on that extra spending, right? Like relying on, you don't see Apple being like, we make enough on services now that we're gonna lower the price of the phone. No. Because the thing you wanna count on is getting that big, bad margin at the point of purchase.  Because that is a big change and they don't like it. And the other thing Tesla was for a long time was the next thing, right? It was an electric sports car. Then it was an electric SUV. Then it was an electric sedan that maybe not affordable, but certainly more affordable than a sports car. The next thing is the Cybertruck, which he just said was a mistake. Was it a dud? He doesn't have the next thing. Yep. Well, and they haven't redesigned those cars in a decade. Yeah. I mean, that like does not happen. By the way, I do wanna add to the list of cars that have announced they're adopting that charging standard, also a Polestar, the one that I have to like my little, my little redheaded stepchild that's always overlooked. Very good. No, that's not overly Polestar. I'm glad you added that. Well, folks, Tom's top five is the, I think third generation. Fourth generation of a top five show that I've done throughout my career. And I'm having a blast doing it. Roger and I put it together every week. This week, the top five failed floppy disk replacements. Roger dug deep to find all those attempts to replace the floppy disk, which eventually replaced itself. It just disappeared. But there were some pretty interesting attempts to try to replace the floppy disk throughout the eighties and nineties. The companies and the technologies they hoped would replace the floppy disk as the new industry standard is the topic of the top five and you can catch it at youtube.com slash daily tech news show. All right, Molly Wood on this week's episode of everybody in the pool. You talked to the president of the Los Angeles CleanTech Incubator, a nonprofit organization that works to help fund clean tech companies. They have an interesting goal for the 2028 Olympics, which are sort of right around the corner at this point and also coming to Los Angeles. We wanna talk about the idea of accelerating this kind of development. So let's start with the goal. What is the goal and why do companies care? Yeah, this is a super interesting, this is just a really interesting organization because it's sort of like spun out of the actual city. I'm a big fan of cities and local action. I think you can like, you know, we always want nations to solve our problems or whatever. And it turns out that a lot of times it happens with like mayors. And so this spun out of a kind of mayoral initiative. But what I like about this story and this conversation is that this is organization, you know, LA won the bid for the Olympics in I think like 2016 or 2017. And they said, okay, as we know, a lot of times when the Olympics come to town, it's like not always great for the city. You know, you end up with a bunch of infrastructure being built at a huge cost and maybe a big carbon cost and greenhouse gas emission cost and then they're stranded. And so you have this sort of like blight and all these various problems. And so the Olympics themselves, the games themselves have been trying to address this. But then Lacey, this organization, Los Angeles Clean Tech Incubator said, well, okay, what if we use that 2028 deadline as just a push, a huge catalyst to try to decarbonize Los Angeles? Like electrify the entire grid and get 80% of the cars and trucks on the road to be electric. And it was wild, like it was extremely aggressive, but they kind of brought all these different organizations together and they've actually in the, you know, four or five years since they announced gotten to 25% electric adoption. They've done all this work to roll out specifically light and heavy duty truck electrification and they're modeling how to use renewable energy to generate, they call it a virtual power plant that will generate enough renewable energy to basically equal the footprint of the games themselves. And they're not officially affiliated with the Olympics, but they are talking with the LA 28 committee to sort of try to encourage them. And apparently the Olympics said, yeah, we're not building, LA and the Olympics were like, we're not building any new infrastructure for this. So they want to get a fleet of electric buses and all of these things so that when people come, they can move around in this low carbon way. And it's just kind of a cool twist. So not build a new stadium, you know, obviously LA has a lot of that stuff already. I know I'm getting into maybe some Olympic weeds, but that's pretty unusual.  And you know, to the point where sometimes years later, people go, well, what was all that for? Not really using that anymore. It's kind of a waste. Totally. I mean, they can't do that much about the fact that everybody flies there. So I did some research on the Olympics and their carbon emissions because they do have this like sustainability goal. And they did determine that the Tokyo Olympics in 2022, I guess, were the most sustainable Olympics, mainly because it was during COVID and like 110,000 fewer people flew there. And so many fewer people that they were like, oh, the carbon budget was way better.  Maybe repurposed, but maybe not. That's usually not even something that anyone's having a conversation about before. I just loved it. I just thought it was like such an interesting story. And then I thought it was cool for, you know, this organization to basically say, let's use this as a catalyst because that has happened in the past where the Olympics either catalyzed like good economic development for cities, which was the original goal, you know, about moving it around, but also to just sort of say like, let's try to put our best foot forward as a city also when people come here so that it's not a negative outcome for the city or a negative impression in terms of like smog and, you know, gas guzzling diesel trucks up and down corridors, which we know already are polluting like poorer neighborhoods and have all those other negative externalities attached to them. Yeah, and I think it's easy, especially if somebody lives in Los Angeles to look at this and go, while they're not making very good progress, that support of the line isn't looking like it's coming to my neighborhood anytime soon, et cetera, et cetera. But what I'd like about it, the other, you know, if you're not gonna let perfect be the enemy of the good here is that there is a lot of progress that seems to have been made that would not have been made otherwise. Yep, I think that's true. I think they were able to say, you know, and it's just so, I find this kind of like systems level change so interesting. It's like what, again, they're in no way are they affiliated with the games themselves. They just were able to say, this is coming. It's a good reason. It's a good deadline, right? Right, it's a deadline. Like, oh, okay, everybody, let's get on board with this because there's a deadline. Awesome, it's working. Makes a big difference. All right, well, let's, you know what? We weren't gonna do this, but I think we're gonna do it after all. So let's check the log. John in Hot and Sunny, Vietnam was talking about our discussion we had yesterday with Nika Monford about DNA data and that data not always being super, super locked down. John says, hacks happen. It's not data you can change. However, just to argue the case rather for the other side, those providers do allow you to sequence your DNA data, download it to your computer then delete it from their servers. At this point, you have some options. Prometheus, John uses as an example. Here, you can upload your data, get a thorough report of the known research that is relevant given your specific DNA. Are you at increased risk for lung cancer, for example? That might shape where you live or who you date. Yes, you're sharing your DNA, but again, you can delete it after you get what you want from it. The real question becomes how much do you trust that they do what they say they're going to do? And John, I think you're really hitting it on the head on this one. One of Facebook's many scandals was when a security researcher deleted his account then about a year later, after that, there was the data breach and that researcher's data was in that breach. So Facebook, now Metta, seemed to be lying by saying that they deleted the data maybe they just didn't do it right. I for one, tend to see the benefits we can get from knowing more about ourselves as worth the risk. However, I know I'm trusting that some people are actually deleting my data when I tell them to do so. The risks are there, but the benefits are also significant. All right, thank you, John, well written. And thank you, Len Peralta, for illustrating today's show. We gave you lots of things that you could run with. Which one did you use? Robots, you gotta love robots, right? And I love the fact that these robots are doing crazy things like juggling and opening doors and spinning stuff. It's so awesome. However, I think there are some robots that would be a little bit upset that they've been, I mean, think about Robocop here for a second. He has some prime directives and his prime directives are now serve the public trust, protect the innocent, uphold the law, and number four, spin pencils like a bleeping clown. So, there you go. That is, by the way, it's my second 80s reference in two weeks, so I'm pretty happy about that. I like it, I like it. Yeah, you can get this right now at my Patreon, patreon.com forward slash Len, if you go and back at the DTNS lower level, this is yours to have. Or you can go the old fashioned way and get it at my online store, LenPeraltaStore.com, where I am taking orders for those custom drawn Christmas cards, holiday cards. So, go ahead and get your order in today. Awesome. Holiday season. It is coming up. LenPeralta. Also thanks to you, Molly Wood, for being with us. Molly Friday was fun as usual. Let folks know where else they can keep up with your work. Thank you. Oh my God, this show is such a blast. EverybodyInThePool.com is my climate solution podcast, which now is also a website. 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Sometimes we chase a relationship to distract us from the relationship that we have with ourselves. Many people lose themselves in a relationship. The subconscious desire to get so wrapped up in someone else is often the result of self-denial and self-rejection. It's critical for your well-being and the health of your relationships to first establish who you are, attend to the parts of you that hurt and ache and give yourself the love you may be expecting from another.


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Hi everyone, Joe for jashby's casebreaks.com coming at you at 2021 Panini rookies and stars football This is actually not the last filler.  So sorry about that. There is one more But it's it's like half the price of this But anyway, we're gonna do a cereal box break first We're gonna give away eight spots within the cereal box break do the break itself and then give away six Give away six random number block spots in that NT football break So we only sell 24 spots out right here first dice roll top eight after nine six and a three nine times one two three four five six seven eight and ninth and final time After nine Sean Terry Jeremy Matt Steve Steven Steven Jeremy Extra spots going your way So we'll put a little rooftop symbol next to your name. So you know you won that In this first dice roll So a little buy one get one scenario for you now, let's do the break itself All 32 teams are in let's roll it and randomize it two and a two for the hard way one two three and four Two and a two four times for the teams one Two three and fourth and final time All right, there's the first half of the list right here And the second half of the list right over here Let's just get on with it. Let's get into the break and then let's give away those number block spots crazy here rookie wise, but That's all right. The whole point of this is Is to see who's gonna win these spots see him So let's get all the names in here. Hold on. Let me finish this first top six We'll get number block spots of the top two will get the bears number block next to Into the Patriots number block next to into the Giants number block. Let's roll it randomize it It's five and a two seven times. So it's top six After seven good luck one two three four five six and seventh and final time after seven Seven on down it's going to be sad times Canard my apologies But I appreciate you trying there is one more we got to do if you want to give this shot So seven through 32. Thank you But they're only the top six are going to be happy matt and steve are happy So is shawn and steven and shawn and steve A lot of s names here So let's copy your names after seven times. So here's how it shakes out for you So steve birch and shawn mattock. You're in that bears jets number block It's a few other teams too steven k and shawn. You're in that Patriots random number block and steve birch and matt You're in that that Giants eagles, etc. Etc. Number block.  I'm joe. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


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carers in Britain do one of the most important and difficult jobs in the country and they do it for appalling pay. So it's only right that Labour challenged the Tories vociferously on their abandonment of the sector. However, when Liz Kendall, who is Shadow Minister for Care, attacked the government on pay for carers, she also managed to piss off another group of key workers. Despite repeated promises, the truth is you'd be better off stacking shelves at Morrison's than caring for older or disabled people and that is simply not good enough for our country. So that was a debate on Tuesday in the House of Commons. Liz Kendall, I mean, the motivation of the intervention was good. She's saying you don't pay carers enough, but for some reason, some arbitrary reason, I'm not sure why she thought it was a good idea, she made that point by essentially denigrating or seeming to denigrate at least the work of people who work in supermarkets. So she's saying, oh, how could it possibly be the case that we value care less than working in a supermarket?  Let's go to some responses on Twitter from people who are supermarket workers who weren't particularly pleased with what Liz Kendall said there. First tweet, as a shaft stacker myself, I think the people that have been on the front lines through all this deserve a bit more respect than being someone to be scoffed at. Very reasonable point there. This worker from the very supermarket, Liz Kendall mentioned of the supermarket chain, Liz Kendall mentioned also pretty pissed off. This is vile and disrespectful. Liz Kendall should hang her head in shame. You're sincerely a Morrison's worker. Now, this statement was also predictably pounced upon by opposition politicians in this case, much more opportunistically than the tweets I've shown you previously. So this was the Tory leader in the London Assembly. She says, let me take this opportunity to say thank you to shelf stackers in supermarkets. You are valued hugely by the majority of us.  Everyone who does an honest job is valuable to all of us in society. What an ignorant and just appalling comment to make, especially now when you thought we would have learned our lesson on about work, about what kinds of work are actually essential, what kinds of work are very difficult and are very skilled, and that has actually rarely corresponded to how that work is valued in society, either socially or economically. There is actually a connection between the devaluing of care work and the devaluing of shelf stacking and supermarket work, because it tends to be the work that makes our world a much more hospitable place that seems to be undervalued in our society, and it's the work that makes our world less hospitable that is somehow much more valued and rewarded in society. What is the job of the Labour Party if not to fight that paradigm that some workers are not worthy of respect and not only to reinforce it but proudly reinforce it? This wasn't like some kind of got-shoot moment. This wasn't like Twitter sleuths digging up past comments. This was something that a speech that Liz Kendall wrote or someone wrote for her, she read out and then posted it to her own Twitter page, which is just such a sign of where the Labour Party or where at least parts of the Labour Party are now, and it represents a kind of really disgusting, what is often called aspiration politics that has plagued the Labour Party. It's also plagued, you know, liberal, anti-racist movements, quote-unquote movements, and it's an approach that basically says that working class people or, you know, racially minoritised people should keep intact the hierarchies that run our world, regardless of how illogical, how damaging they are, and fight for our claim to have a few seats at the top of this false hierarchy.  And the reason I made that connection is because this reminded me of, you know, when liberals or people of colour in upper-class jobs, like, lament their experiences of racism through the lens of like, oh, I'm the CEO but I get mistaken for a cleaner, like, isn't that so terrible? Isn't that the sharp edge of racism? Rather than thinking, you know, why are we accepting the premise that being a cleaner is something that shouldn't be respected and valued and paid well, why are we accepting the premise that it is an insult to be mistaken for a cleaner? Because let me tell you, a world without CEOs is probably going to be much nicer than a world without people who clean our streets, our homes, our buildings, etc.   So when I was hearing this about Liz Kendall, not only did I think, oh my god, like, have you learned nothing over the past year, but I also, it kind of rang a bell with that sort of trope in a lot of liberal anti-racism that also really pisses me off. And I thought, god, like, this is just such an example of how liberalism has just cannibalised our movements of all of their radical potential. But the good thing is that I definitely think the younger generation and the generations that are taking to the streets, the generations that are becoming very disillusioned with this kind of politics, they're not just accepting that kind of representation, aspirational politics. And so that's kind of where I pin my hope when I switch on Twitter and I see just this absolutely ghastly, self-aggrandising, like, disgusting form of politics that makes me so, like, bristle at the idea that she is in a party that is called the Labour Party. And to be outflanked by Tory as well, just embarrassing, so embarrassing. It really is bizarre for Liz Kendall and her team, and Kirsten Armie, because we know he's quite authoritarian when it comes to what front benchers tweet out, thought that that was okay after a year where literally, in March last year, everyone was saying, the heroes of this moment are people who work in supermarkets, because while everyone else was self-isolating, they had to go out in the middle of the pandemic and make sure that we could all feed ourselves. And the pandemic isn't even over. And they're already using people who work in supermarkets as the example of people whose work is presumably valueless. The fact she was pointing to are also a little bit more ambiguous than she suggested. First of all, you're watching Tiskey's Hour on Navarra Media. We go live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 p.m., if you haven't already, do hit that subscribe button. Let's go to the facts of the matter, because as I say, they aren't as clear cut as Liz Kendall suggested. And so I googled this after watching that clip. I think she might have been referring to, there was a blog from the Kings Fund. So they're the main NGO or research organization when it comes to healthcare. Now they wrote a report in 2019 that was comparing the pay of people in the care sector and people who worked in supermarkets. And we can get up here the comparisons they made. So at this point in time, they did judge that people who worked in care did get significantly worse pay than most people in supermarkets. So the Kings Fund found the average pay for carers was $7.90 per hour, appalling wage there. Iceland was the only supermarket chain that paid less than that, £7.80 outside of London. Tesco slightly higher, which was £8.00 outside of London. And then it gets higher for all chains inside London and up to $10.50 when it comes to little. And Audi, the average pay for working in those supermarkets. And it's important to mention that the reason the Kings Fund did that report wasn't to denigrate supermarket workers, it was that there was a practical problem in the care sector, which was that retaining staff is incredibly difficult because the conditions are awful and the pay is really low. And so people weren't moving from being care workers to working in supermarkets. I mean, it's depressing. But what matters in terms of retention of staff isn't so much is the pay any good, but it is are there alternatives which pay better? So this isn't how the left should be arguing, but in terms of a practical problem that was within the care sector, that comparison makes sense, doesn't make sense in terms of putting moral value on anything, but in terms of retention of workers, you can see how that argument is a one that has some purpose at least. However, I said it's ambiguous because the BBC this year painted a slightly different picture. They used ONS data, that's the Office of National Statistics, to show the various pay levels for key workers compared to whichever and compared to the median national wage. In this case, they show carers as earning slightly more than shop assistants, key workers who are paid the worst of pharmacy assistants, then cleaners, then teaching assistants, then shop assistants, and then care workers. So a slightly different story there. But obviously, when it comes to the politics of this and when it comes to what labour front benchers should be saying in Parliament, the point isn't whether cleaners get paid more than teaching assistants or less than teaching assistants or whether care workers get paid more than shop assistants. It's that all of these essential jobs, people who are doing some of the most difficult jobs in society and some of the most necessary jobs in society, are getting paid a pittance, they're getting paid poverty wages. You can make that point without pitting one group of workers against another group of workers.


Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. We support our people, defying their rights against humanity. Another enemy, the agents of war. It will only be possible to have truth and enduroity in our world when through the willingness of all men to stand up. We have promoted within the presence when we are looking forward with all our enemies. Wait there. We need the... That's a first. Three ways of press. Three ways of press. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. Baraki. we'll deal with it. How bad are the cuts going to have to pay? I never consider any cut bad. This way please. It certainly feels good. We have both made a simultaneously water option, I think. It was really the first time I could ever say that I've ever noticed this. There was a period out there when the snow was blowing straight across. The wind was so strong it was coming right across the plateau. And then suddenly that wind let out and the snow started falling straight down. It was an instant change in temperature. But ever there was a wind chill factor that you were feeling. It was in that period of time. It was like a warm wave moving into you. I was talking about that at that moment. That's a change. That's just sort of warmed up if you went along. I have to go down because of the cold weather. I was being sorted for all these people I was. We were talking here, both of us, in a shared experience about entrepreneurship and some all independent business and what it has meant to our economy and telling me in his own country the same thing there. And what it is meant, of course, of the people who build by themselves how they feel. I was just going to observe that I met with some of our minority community members here. Blacks, yes to be cleaners. And one of the things that they are doing on their own after a long time is many of their people in public housing. What a difference it makes. As a property to defend. Yes, yes. And as we were saying, sometimes you would find that these are small entrepreneurs very small businessmen who find harder for their principles than the last ones because sometimes it becomes too easy. They inherit the business or they get it from new relations while these people, these small ones, they have to come the other way up fighting with their teeth and their nails and they're back to normal. They're back to normal. And sometimes people go back to normal.


Thanks for coming. For those that don't know, my name is Brendan Smith. I'm one of the detective inspectors attached to Task Force Maxima. Yesterday at about eight o'clock in the morning we had a gentleman that was on a recreational ride around Hope Island when he was involved in an incident with a white van. This white van has basically forced him off the road. He's had to take some evasive action and as part of that he's had to push against that white van to avoid being run over. The driver of the van has then stopped and came back and just started to assault him, knocked him to the ground and continued to assault him. Subsequent investigations have identified the offender to be a member of the Finks Motorcycle Criminal Gang and he's currently before the Southport Court today. The gentleman involved, he received some injuries. He received lacerations to his ear, the side of his face, bruising and stiffness to the neck. He's required to get four stitches in those wounds. It's quite a serious assault. It clearly demonstrates the reason Task Force Maxima exists to target those people involved in criminal activities, gangs that are causing issues for the people, the public in general. It's a continuation of the same sort of behaviour. We've seen it at Royal Beach, we've seen it at Rabina Shopping Centre that we saw it at the fight there at Royal Pines. It's activity from criminal gangs that need to be stopped. They're not armed with any. No. It was just a punch to the head. Model punches to the head. The men that have been charged as a whole role within the Finks. No, he's just an ordinary member for one of the better two. Where was he picked up and who did that involve? He was picked up on the Gold Coast. We negotiated with his defence and he surrendered himself to the Southport Police Station last night. Victor. He's obviously shaken up. It's not something you expect. I'm sure we all see cyclists every day to think that not only have you got the risk of being run over but to be physically assaulted by a criminal, something that no one should have to put up with. Were they known to each other the two men? No. Does the victim have any links to any other? No, he's just a normal citizen going for a recreational ride. Like you see every Sunday yourself and you see everyone riding around and he's just been assaulted for no reason. What else in the band? No. Why have you taken the step of releasing the picture that's not something that ordinarily happens? I think it's important that the public see the type of people we're dealing with. They're attacking innocent members of the public. For no reason. It's important that people see that these aren't fun-loving motorcycles and see that these are criminals and we treat them as such. Do you think this kind of incident adds more to the whole market breakdown and the harshness of the laws that you're replacing? It's a perfect example of why we needed the law so we can take the steps that we are. So you're saying he attacked them for no reason at all so there were no aggravating circumstances at all? No, and there were three or four independent witnesses who witnessed at all and they support the complainant's version of events. Just what about the new laws assisted you in this investigation? I think it's important that the new laws have focused the community and the service against the activities of criminal motorcycle gangs and that's why, you know, we're targeting these people as strongly as what we are. Because this does involve a member of our motorcycle gang, does the victim need any further protection? Not at this point. I mean, that's something we assess on every matter, not just criminal motorcycle gangs, but any matter that involved violence. We look at the safety of the complainant and we take steps to make sure that they feel safe. You said there were four or five independent witnesses. Did any of them try to help? They all came rushing over and, you know, made attempts to break it up and obviously they took photos themselves of the offending ban and that to assist police with our inquiries. So it was great to see the community get involved. It's really good. Did the alleged defendant drive off as soon as it happened? Yes, he did. Once the witnesses came over and rendered assistance, he's then left the scene and we've made investigations to track him down. Is this matter before the court is adjourned? Yes, it is. It's before the Southport Court, it's after that. Can you say whether the accused has any criminal history? I don't know. Can you say whether the go-coast dropped off? Yes. Can you tell us a little bit about the victim? I don't know. I don't know. I just know he's a 43-year-old man that lives on the go-coast. He was on holiday, so he was out going for a ride on his bike and obviously rides a fair bit because he's had all the gear, like rent and all that sort of thing. There is an increasing backlash on social media from people who don't really understand these laws. Is the police feeling that when they're going out and dealing with these? Just to speak on that, just in relation to that matter, what we're seeing is the community are becoming more and more involved in these matters. This is a clear case where three members of the community have come to the assistance of this victim. We've seen an increase in calls to crime stoppers. We've seen an increase in calls to not only Task Force Maxima, but our regional colleagues in relation to criminal motorcycle gang activity. Will it be elixir that he was wearing his colours? No. I know you probably can't play, but had he been arrested in the past month? I'm not sure, since the ball just came in. I can say that he's on bar for other matters. Thanks, folks.


If we let A equal B in our angle sum formulas for sine and cosine, we get... Consequently... Which are basically useless since there are special cases of the angle sum formulas. Remember, understand concepts. Don't memorize formulas. More usefully, what if we want to do something like find the sine of 15 degrees? Remember, a problem exists even if we don't know how to solve it. So we note that the sine of 15 degrees shows up in the expansions of both cosine of theta plus or minus 15 and sine of theta plus or minus 15. These also require knowing the value of cosine and sine as well, so let's make both angles 15 degrees. Let's use the formula for the cosine of a sum. So the cosine of 15 plus 15 will be... Which we can simplify. Now notice that our right-hand side includes the square of sine and cosine, and remember the fundamental trigonometric identity, which gives us a relationship between the two, and so we can replace one with the other. So let's solve for cosine squared, replace, and simplify, and figure out the value of cosine 30. And now the only thing we don't know in this equation is the sine of 15 degrees. So solving for the sine of 15 degrees. And because we're taking a square root, we will have to choose which square root we want. And since 15 degrees is a first quadrant angle, the sine is positive and we'll choose the positive square root. Every formula in mathematics comes from automating a process. So we started with the cosine of 2 theta. We used our Pythagorean identity to solve for cosine squared and replace. Then we solved our equation for the sine of theta, and we had to decide which square root to use. One of the secrets for success in life, and in mathematics, is ask what happens if. So we eliminated the cosine squared, if instead we substituted for sine squared, again our Pythagorean identity would allow us to rewrite our cosine 2 theta equation as then solving for cosine theta would give us, and again we still have to decide, positive or negative square root. And putting our results together, give us the half angle formulas. But remember, I'll never mind you're just going to memorize the formulas anyway. But you should understand that they do come from the angle sum identities plus a little bit of algebra. So let's find the sine of 15 degrees using our formula. Well, that's actually what we did. And all our formula did is it allowed us to skip the algebra, which is in fact the whole point of having a formula. How about the cosine of 105 degrees? And we know we've already found this twice using the cosine of a sum as 60 plus 45, and the cosine of a difference using 135 minus 30, and we got an answer. Let's use the half angle formula and see if we get the same result. So we'll drop it into our formula. Now the reason this works is that 2 times 105 is 210 degrees, and we know the cosine of 210. And since 105 degrees is an angle in the second quadrant, cosine of 105 is negative, and so we conclude. Uh oh, that's a different result. But if we compute the values we do find that the two wildly different expressions do represent the same number, so we do get the same answer.