It's game four of the World Series. Atlanta has a two-to-one lead over the Astros in the series, but the Astros have a two-to-one lead over Atlanta in the game, where in the bottom of the seventh inning, Dansby Swanson's up, Javier's on the mound.  Then another slider gets a big hack out of Dansby. He's gonna triple up on the slider.  So naturally thinking, hey, it's O2. He's swinging at that pitch. Why don't you just throw it outside in the dirt so he'll continue to chase it? That's what I think when I watch this. But the Astros, Maldonado, had been pitching backwards all game with Granky. And this is to Darneau. They go off speed for strike one. They go breaking ball for strike two. And then they go fastball in the zone to freeze him. And then Darneau's up again. They go breaking ball strike one, breaking ball strike two. And then fastball in the zone to freeze him. They tried this with Freddie, with Ozzy. They were doing it a lot. They were setting guys up off speed and then going fastball in the zone, trying to freeze him. So what do they go here? They go fastball in the zone and Dansby powers it over the right field wall just enough to tie the game. Nice little breakfast club salute. Simple. Massive gives it back to him with a fist pump. Now they're going crazy.  Now it's going to get wild. Now I don't know what that is. I don't know if this is by design or if they missed. Dansby goes way, he's full extension and Jock still got his fist by his peck. I don't know what they're doing. I don't know if it's by design. I don't know what's going on there but this is much more in synchronized right there. Bam, got him. We go down the steps. We're going to get a ton of butt slaps.  We're dancing, we're dancing. High five, chest, chest, chest, chest, chest. Ah! And the cops get some love. Of course they do. Of course they do. Now the next batter, Soler's up in the nine hole, pinch hitting, he swings huge. Let's watch that one again. He swings huge at that slider. That's a really nice pitch too. So he goes back to it again. He spits on that one. Now he triples up the slider again and Soler powers that over the short wall in left field. Yerdon can't grab it, would have been a crazy catch. Dansby's running down the dugout, screaming, celebrating. Let's go!  This face looks like Daniel Day-Lewis in a Civil War movie where he just watches son get brutally murdered or something. Like gangs of New York, Daniel Day-Lewis, screaming as the butcher. But that's actually Dansby, very excited. But it looks like something horrible has happened to him. Looks like an immense tragedy as we've fallen him. Let's go! Okay, good job, good job team. And now we're laughing and we're winning and they win the game. They're the first ever eight and nine hitters to go back-to-back homers in the World Series. Thank you to Jeff Passon and Eli Sports for that note. And the Braves win, and they're one win away from winning the whole damn thing now. Exciting times in Atlanta.


I want I want them to get to that stop quick like that's really the only thing that I'm gonna look for and and start creating a turn along the way I'll blend in here with her and let her have a turn however she wants but back up into the race let her just track along let her have that thought you know I don't want to I don't want to hinder hinder her movements right now I want to blend in with the thought and work with her to just get them better to where she has a thought when we come in here she knows what we're what we're doing I can mess around with her when I'm traveling with my feet or or start and start addressing more things along the way through this work that'll make tomorrow a little better you know she's awful she's awful worried so just let that drag and create a create a pull that you can let grow pull get stronger you know that's all right let her get a little stuck there I want her to take my feet to just start I just kind of blend in now and let let that go and get broke along the way or away from and I like to try to keep this as much as see I like that when there's a thought that comes from them because I can I can swooper around if in that but they're not gonna do no good when we need it so when you say they won't do any good JD you're saying because that's too mechanical and that's you pulled well yeah I should have them broke enough that I can help them but I want as least that I need to and it'll intend it'll just grow as we go on to after they've been put in them put in them spots and and know how to get out and are reading reading the situation I can they just get more broke you know like that first 30 days it might be slow and a lot of time but we should be able to stop and turn our horses and but I want that thing to stop and turn and and let them think their way through here at that beginning it'll it won't it won't take that long to keep going you know right now I think it's read the stop and and let things pull and let that pull get stronger and they'll of course they're soft you know left and right that that as it keeps going on well then we'll start pushing in and going forward into their face but I don't want to make them hold that very long right now because what I what I find that happens is


Still on the constitution matter. Why do we advocate for the total scrap of our present 1999 constitution? The constitution does not provide for acceptable fiscal federalism which means that states cannot generate sufficient revenue on their own because all minerals, mineral resources are vested in the exclusive control of the federal government. States do not need to depend on or be controlled by the federal government. Besides Lagos, Rivers and one or two other states in Nigeria, most states depend on the Federation accounts for as much as 80% of their revenue. So in what way will such a constitution promote autonomy and intentionality with resources, areas for revenue generation and sustainability internally? In one breath, the constitution gives the state government control over local governments. But in another breath, it makes local councils subordinate to the federal government. Thus, while the state government can create local government and determine their structure, their powers and their function, it is the responsibility of the National Assembly to incorporate any newly created local government into the constitution by way of constitutional amendment, which is quite cumbersome and in most cases unrealistic. I feel this process can be usurped by powers that be, for new dominance and ultimately control. The constitution in furtherance of its centralizing tendencies has no place for state or local police, whereas security is better handled at the local level. The issue of banditry kidnapping and the general insecurity is local and is therefore better handled locally. However, there is no provision in the constitution that allows government as chief security officers of their respective states to create and manage security outfits in their states. Because by constitution, there can only be one police force for the entire Federation and all individuals and persons of the police are prohibited from creating any other police force or security outfit to coexist with the current police force. State autonomy and policing is a huge plus on peace and development. The constitution also fails to state the specific functions of state and local governments. But it takes time to elaborate the powers and functions of the federal government. This tends to subordinate the state's government to the central government and puts the federal status of the 1999 Constitution that it debates. How will the local governments and states function in their fullness when the constitution is not clear as to what exactly their powers and functions are? For us to have a brand new constitution, there are some steps to follow. Number one will be the referendum where representatives at the legislature should be tasked with meeting their constituents and detailing every desire of these constituents for what the constitution should look like. These meetings can span months. All points must be properly documented in the most transparent and painstaking manner possible. Then there is the constitutional convention where the same representatives from the National Assembly and other stakeholders will publicly meet and debate on what should be contained in the constitution and what shouldn't. Every representative must be allowed free speech just like the constitutional convention assembled in Philadelphia in May 1787. Then there will be the documentation process. After debates have been properly weighed and analyses derived, decisions should be put in writing by a committee and then compressed. All parties will then sign an agreement if and when the document satisfies the needs of their constituents. Finally there will be approval and implementation by the president. What do you guys think? Well if I mean three things stood out for me there that I would really like to look at. Number one is the issue of the exclusive and the concurrentists which limits the powers the state government have to you know explore and all that stuff. Number two is policing and number three is the power of the local government and the state government. Now regarding the exclusive list I'd like to address that by quoting this biblical verse that we all know the parable of the the talent where the man gave some out and one kept it and at the point it said that you were not faithful in little and it took it from the guy that had one and gave it to the guy that had ten. That was happening in Nigeria now. Yes we know that there are limitations to the ability of states to explore the natural resources but when Nigeria had its boom I mean the success of Nigerian states or Nigeria's estates did not come from the all these so-called natural resources it came from agriculture. In the north they were exporting highs and skin or what's it called in the west cocoa in the east palm oil and all those other things. The state's government still have control over all these resources. What have they done with it? Nothing. Rather they sit down in their states and go cup in hand to the federal government and lament and get every citizen worked up demanding for things to be migrated from the exclusive to the concurrent. Now I'm not saying that is wrong. No we need it. The states need to have control but I'm saying even what you have control over right now why wouldn't what are you doing with it? Why wouldn't a boy say or let's say some states in the north okay I grow pepper I grow this I grow that.  Now let's come to the government of Lagos because yes we have a ministerial about Greek in Lagos but we can't have time to grow anything. I'm sorry why won't you look for collaborations like it happened on that day and we had the is it kebbey rice? Kebbey rice. If we do more of that our states will grow and I think it's time for states like Lagos to also say okay there are too many people in Lagos. I'm taking my money partnering with Anambra or Eboi or emo state. I'm coming to set up a palm oil plantation just do that 30% or 50% of it comes to Lagos the remaining we export. We're creating jobs for the people there to stay there do the same thing in the north we rise do the same thing in the south west and you will reduce the pressure on Lagos that is the problem of Lagos. Now when it comes to policing it's another fairy tale that yes we need again it's good to have police in your state that you can relate with but to say everything goes back to the IGP for approval is not true and I'll give a very simple example. Governor Wike, yes Wike and his arc rival. What's his name? The former governor Rosimiamechi. Rosimiamechi was an his was an inviscid to river states blaring his convoy is a federal minister has that federal capacity. Governor Wike was also coming blaring his in his convoy a state ordinary state governor that doesn't have control over the state police. Supposedly. You know I'm using what everybody says doesn't have they meet and because it's the governor of the states the policemen that were with the federal minister had to calm down for him again when the federal government sent DSS to arrest a judge in his states it wasn't in the state house it was in the house of the judge he went there and told them they don't have the capacity and they pulled out. You know you know I need to add this part here. Okay. Governors become selective with when they achieve Thank you. That is what I never and let me bring out another case if you remember the case of this in most states yeah where the president governor is turning on when when they want to they can activate state apparatus especially during especially during elections state governors control everything even the way state electoral commissions vote and how they vote then selectively when there's ban G3 they are not in control and I tell people okay if there's any armed robbery case now like for example what happened in what is the state's offer yes I doubt the governor needed to call the IGP to release his voice you know you know the you see the breakdown of the police systems but the police structure Nigeria is such that you know you have the state's commander you have the is it regional or local government kind of commander then even within local government you have subunits that's why you have the subdivision etc etc now if things are happening for example let's say in this kosher fair area and there's crisis the commander in charge of this division doesn't need to call the state's commander for approval it takes charge the one in the local government doesn't need to call this divisional commander before it takes charge so if there's anything happening what I believe is a problem with policing in Nigeria which is something really need to address is that number one the people are under equips given the emoluments do not exist I wouldn't go kill myself all the policemen that have been killed on the street what has happened to the family and we're humans if my fellow policeman goes on one mission dies in Nigeria and you say sorry and all you get is a letter to the family why would I die for a country however two days ago a few days ago there was this thing about a just anyone for the four policemen to Somalia it's a it's a it's an international mission they are catered for they are paid well policemen will kill to go there and when they get there that is when you know Nigerian policemen are professionals I need to add a point before I now go about the same you know voting my own with my own version you have less than 500,000 policemen policing 200 million people and half of them are with VIPs or vital assets meaning banks CBN etc so we approximately have 210,000 policemen policing 200 million people you know that you're asking for does that so this is not even a problem now states they make me laugh you're talking about removing this from concurrently is too exclusive this now I'm going to number one states kidnap the entire local government which is this problem with with democracy in Nigeria yes so you can't ask for more control of resources when you are even kidnapping the resource of the local governments under you now federal government pays directly to local governments states have ingeniously come up with a very brilliant ministry which is ministry of so-called intergovernmental and lifting LG funds affairs no I just added that so they conveniently did that and then ensure that the funds are kept in the intergovernmental affairs then they disboss what they feel like governors are not as rich as they're supposed to be as regards policing we must be honest any governor that opens his mouth to discuss restructuring is one of the enemies of democracy and here is why if you haven't provided autonomy and even after the presidential the presidential executive order 10 of 2020 which instructs the autonomy to the judicial and legislature and governments are not full governors are not following which restructuring are you talking about you want it from the federal I do not support let me finish I do not support a state police with the present powers on the state governor as it is example we don't hate football because I'm not because of some governors no I'm being honest with the powers conferred on governors by the Constitution if you hand them a state police number one nobody will suck in that state number two nobody will be able to run against them there will be no opposition because they have kidnapped the legislature usually and you now want to give them enforcement simple create local police police should be restructuring in a new constitution what we are saying is it can be local it was yes so it shouldn't be states it should be you know one of the things I think we should consider when it comes to policing is this the reason they give for policing is that okay we want to have control the federal men is controlling everything but this is what they forget if you have state police and you still have a bad federal government the federal police still has more power than your state police so it can come into your state yes and take over because what you're saying now is abuse in the system because what is happening now what they claim is happening that the federal control everything it's an abuse if that is what is happening so if you're running away from abuse you don't create another avenue for even bigger abuse the Constitution will be clear what to do in such a situation and then we're forcing so many things that written a constitution that we're not enforcing right now for example local government autonomy judiciary and all which which are already provided in the constitution you know the major problem of the constitution in Nigeria is that it is not even implemented to 40% exactly that's where the major problem is and that's why a lot of people are scared to talk about a new constitution because we have a new constitution then with the improved Senate that we have the 10th assembly the night assembly is most brilliant assembly as I've ever seen of course I'm speaking such but you know if you have that caliber of people in the house the federal house with a new constitution we're doomed I'm being honest and I cannot show you 50% of them do not even know Nigeria's constitution that's true that's in itself I agree so I think one of the key things in trying to get a new constitution will be as Nigeria is trying to get a new constitution we also should try and get at least 48 senators into the house and like 160 house of breath into the houses so that we know that while we're creating a new constitution it's with a new crop of minds that actually know what they are doing and now this should not be ah this person stood during and says ah the person will probably make a good later no the person will not make a good later that is a big mistake may not obviously in times in my political experience 70% of time will not make a good they will go through the electoral college as well we wouldn't show that happen so we can't be careful we are solution providers here we can just be talking about the problems we are also provide preferring solutions so if we pick someone who is able to speak we just say go through the process to learn like you said you don't become a doctor so we teach you what you do so that you can add it to all the other solve it but you know I think what will also help solving it best is that when we finish teaching those who are aspiring for office we also teach the constituents what to expect from me that is key because and that is what we need before we can introduce a new constitution because you see I always say I believe there are a lot of people that are vying for the seats of the precedents I'm sorry let me just say the philadelphia is all I mean it I feel I respect and in terms of their success rate and all that I believe rather than go to the presidency we need to get them into the the National Assembly because if we get a lot more of them into the National Assembly it will be easier to then speak with the president our conversations here will never be complete and they will not be complete without you at the positive professional says way to go Joyce you're such a confident positive inspiration keep impacting and imparting positively thank you so much do well to follow us on our social media platforms on Facebook plus TV Africa 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The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC has recorded 154 new COVID-19 cases. The NCDC disclosed this on its official website on Wednesday morning. Reports have it that the new infections indicated decline from the 161 cases recorded a day earlier. The NCDC said Lagos State, the epicentre of the deadly virus recorded 119 cases, followed by Aquabomb-11, Rivers-6, IKT-4, Ogun-4, the FCT and Gumbi reported two each, while Quara State recorded just one.


Good day, fellow investors. I still hope you are doing great today, even if the past week wasn't that good in the financial markets. Today we're going to discuss what happened, what are the reasons behind what happened, and of course what will happen in the future. So stay tuned. Let me first show you that we haven't seen such a decline for 15 months, which has been the longest positive low volatility streak in the history of the SAP 500. For higher volatility, of course, you are used to stability and now this gets people scared. Last week everybody was asking how high can stocks go? We will hit 3000, 4000. Stocks can go only up, up and up. And now this weekend the question will be how low can stocks go? Should we sell? Should we stay as soon as we see panic? We see what happened on Friday and that was a 2% decline. Total decline over the week was 3.86, which is nothing important. The SAP 500 is still at 2780, which is 762, which is a huge, huge result over the past nine years. Nevertheless, the question is how low can this go? The first news from the previous week was that the US GDP was below expectations. Okay, nothing happened. As you can see, Monday there was calm. Then things started unrolling. First, we had news that the Treasury announces a refunding. This means that the Treasury will ask much more money on Treasury's auctions than it usually does. The department expects to boost the sizes of at least some auctions in February to accommodate to a growing budget deficit, thanks Trump, and the Federal Reserve's initiative to shrink its balance sheet. So the government constantly sells Treasuries in order to finance itself and refinance all Treasuries. So that gets never repaid. Nevertheless, if they need more money, if they will sell even more Treasuries because of the higher deficit, and in this case the Fed is not such a buyer anymore, the Fed is now the seller, then the question is, okay, who is going to buy those Treasuries? Higher supply. We have had some rumors that China will stop buying US debt, lower demand, a little bit fear. I'm not going to buy Treasuries now if their value will be lower in the future. And this created a spike in interest rates, in Treasury interest rates. If Treasury interest rates go higher, then the required return from stocks also goes higher, because stocks are riskier than Treasuries, and that puts a negative effect like gravity that pulls both stock prices and bond prices down. So this is what happened, and there was plenty more. Let's see. During the week, San Francisco Fed Williams says that he sees three or even four rate hikes this year. So four rate hikes, which means higher interest rates again, because the economy is overheating. And the crucial overheating moment was when the payroll report came in on Friday. So job growth up 200,000, which is more than expected. And the most important thing was that average hourly earnings increased 2.9% on an annual basis. So 2.9%, this means that, okay, we have reached a moment where companies cannot hire anymore, which tout increasing the salaries, which means that we are at that point in an economy where there is no more room for growth. In addition, an economy cannot grow that fast without increasing its productivity. And you can see that the US productivity has been going just down for the last few years. So this is what happened with the US 10 year government yield. It surged from 2.6 to 2.8, but the increase has been going on already for a few months now. Nevertheless, this spike is really what tipped stocks and bonds and the perspective on the stock market. The Fed has started selling, has been increasing the sales of how much it is selling treasuries, which means there is one less buyer that buys treasuries. Higher interest rates put a big burden on all in-depth corporations, governments and so on. So not a good thing. Higher interest rates, stocks go down. What will happen? Let's look a little bit at the fundamentals. If we look at the psychically adjusted price earnings ratio that takes in account 10 year earnings, we can see that it is higher than Black Tuesday 1929. It is much higher than Black Monday 1987. It is not as high as the dot-com bubble, but we are at extremely high levels. Robert Schiller, the one that created, not invented, but created and marketed the CAPE ratio, has said that it explains one-third of future stock market returns and the higher the CAPE is, the lower will be your stock market returns. So if you're looking from a business perspective, from analyzing businesses and a business earnings yield, then this market crash might go on for a long, long period of time. Let me show you something very interesting. How to buy stocks? Google searches in January 2018 has been extremely high as it has been in 2008. So when stocks are at its highest, people want to buy more because they fear they are missing out. As you can see, expectations from stock price increases since Bloomberg measures it, has never been so high prior to this week. Total equity inflows were extremely positive and the highest you can see here for more weeks in a row during January 2018, which is extremely bullish indicator for stocks. However, that might revert quickly. So if we look at earnings, they are very high, okay, stock market crash is okay, is possible. But there is something else I want to show you, which shows the other side of the medal. It isn't that dark. If we look at earnings from the SAP 500, 50% of the companies reported from for now and 75% have reported EPS surprises, earnings per share surprises. Further, the blended earnings growth rate for the SAP 500 is 13.4%. So those are excellent, amazing news. So stocks have seen earnings improve, have seen growth with everything is good. However, this growth accompanied with the good growth in jobs with higher prices with expected higher inflation is really what pushes interest rates higher. The Fed will try to not let the economy overheat, higher interest rates, lower earnings, later debt issues, and of course a recession. So nobody knows what will happen. Further on the earnings, Alibaba showed exemplary earnings, 56% revenue growth, which is amazing. iPhone also growth other products, especially very important other products growth, growth over all regions. Alphabet announced revenue up 22%, which is huge for such a good company. So on one side, we have fears about interest rates, higher interest rates, lower asset prices. On the other side, we have great earnings, everything is doing great. So we will see more volatility as the interest rate and the growth from stocks balances out. And we will see how the Fed will manage to keep things stable. If the Fed loses control, we might see inflation, that might be also good for stocks overheating economy, if the Fed loses control over monetary policy. So I'll make a video about what can happen to stocks tomorrow. But back to the question, what will happen from the current perspective? I think that anybody who says what will happen is lying, nobody knows what will happen. Stocks can go up and down in the next three, six, 10 months, five years, nobody knows. So what to do? The most important thing is to understand your personal financial position and to understand the risk you are taking. If you have to retire in the next two, five, 10 years, you have enough to retire to live the life you wanted for yourself and you have everything in stocks, I wouldn't do that. I would look for much more safety, short-term treasuries, whatever, where I can protect my capital. If you're young and if a crash comes, you can take out your salary, if you keep your job and buy more stocks, then you might even enjoy risk it a little bit more. So everything that will happen in the market doesn't matter. What matters is your risk, reward, position, your portfolio, how are you diversified across sectors, across other investments, where are you in your life? That is what matters. Nobody knows what will happen with stocks tomorrow, next week, in the next 10, 12 months, two, three, four, five years. Because as you can see, earnings are growing. Those companies are growing. The big companies are growing. Everything is growing. Everything is good. The Fed will try to trim it a little bit, increase interest rates, and we don't know how will that affect in the next six months. Will the Fed hike more or less? And that is what will lead stock prices. So see how that fits your requirements.


So post 1.0.3 patch you can't actually farm nightmare dungeons Well, actually guys. Yes, you can and today we'll explain exactly how you do this to earn Inflate amounts of increased XP stay tuned How's it going guys? My name's DP Gen. If you do enjoy the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see Wanna see more be sure to subscribe Okay, so post 1.0.3 patch They basically remove the ability to farm nightmare dungeons how we used to do it But guys today, I bring a new reset method. This will allow you to farm any nightmare dungeon of your choice Infinite amounts of times to earn crazy amounts of XP now credit for this one goes to Jay Reezy on my discord For hitting me up and explaining how to do this It's quite straightforward a little more long-winded than previously But we're still gonna get it efficiently for you guys today. Okay, so firstly post 1.0.3 patch The way dungeons work now in regards to their XP is drastically changed you earn way way way more Someone calculated on PC where it can be upwards of three times more This is great for us because we're gonna be farming them now What I will also say is it was believed before that dungeons nightmare dungeons where the enemies are three levels above you Was the best way of doing things because it was about that perfect spot for our XP and efficiency Now guys the higher that nightmare dungeon is in regards to the enemy level against your level if they're 10 15 levels above you will earn more XP So firstly it's about finding that right level of Nightmare Sidual that nightmare dungeon where you can farm it efficiently if it's 10 15 levels above you you want to Do this because you will earn way more XP if it's only five levels above you that's fine, too But find that you need to find that perfect spot then guys you obviously want that perfect nightmare dungeon You want to farm there's plenty out there which are great farms. I'll renew off a quick couple now On its hold, which is what I demonstrated this with it's a great great dungeon Not to which way is a ballot blind borrows is great all those cave is great the haunted refuge is great Demons wake is great and all the wood is also great ones But there's many in this game guys that will give you increased XP in fact They all will either way obviously some are way more efficient than others Unfortunately, this does not work in a team as far as I'm aware. So this is solo only Okay, so to set this up go ahead and activate that nightmare Sidual So whatever night message you you want to farm Whatever nightmare dungeon you do want to farm for that increased XP go ahead and activate it Once you've activated it guys fast travel to said nightmare dungeon and simply enter it Won't you inside the nightmare dungeon guys? You then want to exit the nightmare dungeon Here guys you want to head to any of our dungeon on the map doesn't matter which one is but you need to head to it I Personally and I highly recommend you go into the iron hold dungeon because what we need to do is we need to complete the Very first objective within said dungeon the iron hold is super super easy You run up to one enemy you kill said enemy. It's an elite you grab the key there It is objective done so the iron hold located right here on the map right by a fast travel point as well guys I recommend you go into this one and using this one in the future Which I will explain so yes go here guys do what you got to do complete that first objective then guys exit the dungeon When you're outside this dungeon fast travel to that nightmare dungeon you activated in here guys You need to run it up until they're like we don't need to run up until the last point But you need to run it just farm away do what you got to do What is one rule do not complete it do not complete this dungeon? So there's a boss you have to kill do not kill the boss if there's a certain objective You have to complete to complete the dungeon do not complete the objective from here guys Now to farm it and reset this nightmare dungeon you need to head to any other dungeon on the map again Again guys I recommend that I and hold because we have to do that first objective again This is where it differs we have to do that first objective again to reset the nightmare dungeon So all them adds or an enemy's respawn again iron hold is perfect can do this in a little 30 seconds So go to this faster of a point on the map guys go to the iron hold run to that elite kill him get the key Objective done from here guys You can exit the dungeon and fast traveled to that nightmare dungeon You have activated and you'll notice guys that all the enemies within here have reset I mean you can farm it again now what I do believe is to farm the nightmare dungeon You will have to at least complete the first objective in that said nightmare dungeon too So run the nightmare dungeon. Well, you're gonna run it up until the end anyway If you're farming it either way, but you just need to make sure you get past that first objective This isn't something I have tried and tested myself when I'm farming this on its hold Which you're seeing on screen now. I normally run it way past the first objective either way So do not worry about that.  It was previously, but it's still super super quick It's probably gonna take you an extra 25 35 seconds if you're a next-gen or PC to reset a said nightmare dungeon So it's definitely worth it in my opinion and again guys If you have the right nightmare schedule for the right nightmare dungeon, you're gonna earn tons and tons of XP doing this I mean loot wise it's gonna be crazy, too And you can if you have fully in which is a loot you can obviously head to Tans and sell them in between Doing what you got to do to reset said dungeon So don't worry about that, but this will earn you tons of XP and like I said since the 1.0.3 patch with the increased XP you get from enemies I mean obviously you get increased XP for complete nightmare dungeons, but we ain't doing that here We ain't completing this we just farming the enemies and luckily with the 1.0.3 patch They confirmed that the monsters within nightmare dungeons do give you increased XP gains Which is what we want people it really is now what I will say is they nerf the last method in doing this So this probably will get in there sooner or later, too So this is something you're interested in doing if you want to farm those nightmare dungeons over and over to earn crazy amounts of XP to level up super super quick I mean I'd use this while you can because it probably will get nerfed now with the right dungeon here you can earn Well, I mean pre-patch or some dungeons that could give players upwards of 10 15 million XP per hour pulse patch dungeon farming with increased XP gains This is gonna substantially rise now. I don't play on PC so I cannot calculate it I can't see my XP gains on my XP bar, but for anybody who plays on PC I'm sure they will let you know down below again some great dungeons in this game You want to look at for Alderwood is absolutely amazing if you get the siege of this perfect demons wake is unreal for getting ruins is great I also love the Haunted refuge all this cave iron hold I mean iron holds where we resetting but it still itself a great dungeon to farm if you have to see to grow it Try that out.  You know your XP farms You know your dungeons, you know what suits you so do what you gotta do But there we have it guys guys if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps add to the like what you see I want to see more be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys. I will see you on that next one


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Daily Tech News show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including Paul Boyer, Brad, and Kevin. Coming up on GTNS, Will Smith is back to tell us what parts he used when he built a new PC from scratch, plus Apple's plan to allow side loading on iOS, and why the young folks these days may not be as tech savvy as you old timers assume. What happens when you assume? This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, December 14th, 2022 at Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. In Salt Lake City, I'm Scott Johnson. And I'm the show's producer, Roger Chang. Joining us, co-host of Brad and Will made a tech pod, Will Smith. Hey, Tom, thanks for having me. I assume you're the Will, not the Brad. You know, we thought about it. We thought we might mix it up, but I did go with I am the Will on the Brad made a tech pod. And we didn't put Will Smith, so it's not confuse anyone. Right, right. I'm so sorry about that.  Oh, goodness. Sometimes I have to touch the stove, but for the most part, I'm good. I'm good with no more Will Smith jokes. Good, yes. We will try to fend them off as fast and furious. By starting with the quick hits. On Wednesday, Twitter announced it would shut down its newsletter platform at review early next year. Twitter bought review in early 2021, and initially the company added review sign up buttons to Twitter profiles, then rolled out a feature that allowed users to sign up for review newsletters directly from tweets. January 18th, I have until January 18th to move off of review that I just move on to anyway. While meta is pulling back on its connectivity efforts around the world, Microsoft is filling the gap. Microsoft announced a partnership with the satellite network operator Viasat to expand its AirBand initiative, which works to expand internet access to rural areas. AirBand will use Viasat's network to extend internet access to 10 million people around the world, including 5 million folks in countries on the continent of Africa. AirBand will also provide seed investments for infrastructure projects in Africa as part of a wider goal to connect 250 million people globally by the end of 2025. Security researcher Brian Krebs reported that the user database for the US FBI's InfraGuard program appeared for sale online on December 10th. The program was designed to build information sharing partnerships between the FBI and private firms, including operators of critical infrastructure. Krebs contacted the seller, who said that they obtained access by creating a new InfraGuard account posing as the CEO of a major US financial corporation. The dataset mostly reveals emails and phone numbers, but also allowed for direct messaging other InfraGuard members. Social engineering. The US Commerce Department placed the Chinese chipmaker Yangxi Memory Technologies, or YMTC, on its entity list, along with 30 other additional Chinese companies. A lot of folks are already on that entity list, Huawei being the most famous. This would bar US firms from selling technology to YMTC without a license. On October 7th, the US placed YMTC on an unverified list of entities that it was unable to conduct end-user checks on to make sure US-based technology wasn't being diverted for military use. So it's an escalation of the list that they're on. In somewhat related news, Nikkei's Deal Street Asia reports that ARM has determined it is not allowed to license its most advanced chip designs to China's Alibaba. Alibaba, of course, it's like an alphabet, except in China. Search engines, marketplaces, all kinds of stuff. And ARM says due to export rules in the UK and US, can't sell its advanced designs to Alibaba. Apple released iOS 16.2, Mac OS Ventura 13.1, and WatchOS 9.2. The iOS update adds Apple Music Sing to the Apple Music app. That's the one that lets you turn down vocals on supported tracks for a karaoke-like experience. It also allows hiding wallpaper and notifications with devices always on display. And the updates also add the free-form digital canvas app to Macs and iOS devices, letting multiple people collaborate in real-time, as well as advanced data protection for iCloud, which expands the data categories protected with end-to-end encryption. If your phone can't run iOS 16, Apple pushed the security patches as part of iOS and iPadOS 15.7.2 updates. If your device can run iOS 16, you'll need to update to iOS 16.2 to get those patches. Yep, that's what they've been doing lately. Alright, let's talk about the youths of the world. DigiDay's WorkLife News highlighted a report from HP called Hybrid Work Are We There Yet? In large part, it was about hybrid working, but WorkLife noted a couple findings in the report that indicated that younger workers appear to maybe not be as tech-savvy or tech-confident at least as we thought they would be about all things tech in the way older workers assume. Yeah, so HP surveyed 10,000 office workers in 10 markets around the world. 20% of those aged 18 through 29 said that they felt judged when experiencing technical issues compared to 4% of those older than 40. Also, 25% of that 18 to 29-year-old group said that they would avoid participating in a median if they felt like their use of tech would disrupt it as in not working properly. Compare that to 6% of those older than 40. HP grouped the findings under the head in tech shame. Tech shame? Yikes. The conclusion that a lot of folks draw from this is that the tech skills people get from growing up with technology are not necessarily the same ones needed in the workplace. Seems logical. Making a TikTok doesn't necessarily make it better. Making a PowerPoint or operating a Zoom call. Plus, older folks can afford better equipment and better internet connections in work from home situations. That can give them a leg up as well. Scott, do you notice this with your own Gen Z kids? Yeah, so my son who's 22 now, just turned 22 this year, he definitely shows signs of this. I think part of it is he just showed up and it was all in fruition mode. When he was eight or nine, Minecraft just existed. He was a thing you could just jump into and have. He didn't see all the steps it took to get to something like Minecraft, nor did he see what it took to get to something like a small device in your pocket with a touchscreen. He came up with that stuff. And so in a lot of ways, I think that he just didn't see the underpinning the way that we did. We saw it from its inception and it's really kind of dirty implementation of the old days of either the internet or other technologies. And then we went from using our rotary phones all the way up till now and we remember every little stage of what it meant in that transition. And I just don't think they have the background on it. They just see it as what it is. And it's the same way I see a lot of things like I look at a broken furnace or something and I just go, I don't know, like who's going to take care of this? But my dad had it done in five minutes. I think there's a little bit of that going on. And I don't think it's detrimental in terms of like this is a real going to be a huge issue. I think there's a lot of catch-up that can be done. But I think some of us, Axers and Jen, millennials and so on, could be a little nicer to these up-and-coming kids and just not assume that because they grew up a touchscreen, somehow they're going to be little tech geniuses. I think that'll help. Well, and so much of the conversation is like, oh well, but the younger, like you're talking about with your son in Minecraft, it's like the younger kids just don't know a world where this didn't exist. So they're just so much better at it. And there is an under-the-hood type of thing going on where it's like, well, do you know how to build your own PC? Probably not. But there are a lot of people that are over the age of 40 that can't do that either. But I think there is a little bit more of a nuts and bolts thing that maybe the younger set just has never had to deal with. I mean, it's not new for older generations to misunderstand what younger generations are good at. So I look at this report and I'm like, yeah, you know what? This makes sense. My uncle Harold was old enough to drive in 1937. You know, when cars were just starting to not be hobbyist things anymore, they were just starting to be regular things. So of course, he loved collecting cars and he knew how every single one of them worked because he had grown up in an era where you needed to. There wasn't a cheap mechanic around every corner like there is now. I'm not like that. Even if I do know how to do something on a car, I might not because I'll spend my time more efficiently doing something else and just paying somebody to change that oil or work on those breaks. So it's similar to that. And I think it's a good reminder that, oh, tech has been a booming long enough that there are folks like like Scott's son who haven't been forced to go in and edit the text files of civilization in order to make the King of France say something else. Yeah. Also, yeah, go ahead. Shout out to the 18 to 29 year olds who don't participate in the calls if they set up is going to distract from the calls because like we've all been on the call with with Byrne who's like walking through the subway or something. There's a cement mixer running next to him. Some guys cut in concrete. I don't want to hear that. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good self-awareness indicator there. But I can tell you that like I'm working with him on stuff like his computer is not working or he's got some problem with the way, I don't know, the way emails coming to him or something. These things come up and he contacts me in the way my mom contacts me and asks me about it. And part of it, I can hear in his voice this feeling of like, I don't know because they didn't really tell us. Yeah. And I'm not, I'm not trying to parlay this conversation into a big condemnation of the educational system, but I am saying that because they just got to skip over all of that hard-knock life, they don't know what ICQ is. They just know their phone's work. Like they don't know. So I, again, I returned to this idea. We've got to figure out a way to be kinder to them because they're just going to feel bad all the time. I think one way to look at it is that technology used to have a certain set of skills around computers mostly, right? And it now means everything. Everybody has a supercomputer in their pocket for the most part, right? Everyone has at least the ability to visit a library and get access to the internet. Most people have it in their homes, even if it's just through their phone. So take technology out of this conversation. Just take the technology out of it and you get new workers often feel judged by their older workers and are worried that things are going to go wrong. And I'm like, oh, yeah, no, I felt exactly that way. Not necessarily about technology, but about other stuff when I was first entering my first jobs. And that's just the way it goes. And back to what Scott's saying about, you know, just be nicer to the new folks, help mentor them. I remember my dad trying to make me learn how to change the oil in my car. We went around that dance for about a decade. And finally I was like, I will never do this ever. I will pay whatever someone wants me to pay them to do this for me. Thank you. Still don't know how to do it. All right. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman has another story out. Gurman very good with this stuff. So he's right more well more often than he's wrong. And Gurman's sources are saying that Apple engineers are working on changes to iOS to support alternative app stores and side loading in iOS 17. The work is supposedly being done in advance of the EU's Digital Markets Act, a DMA, which applies to tech companies with at least 45 million monthly users and a market valuation of at least 75 billion euros. So the big tech companies. Among other things, the act requires these companies to let users install third party apps on their operating systems by March 6th, 2024. The DMA also requires messaging apps with large user bases to interoperate. So if you're like, oh, it's that one, the one that makes text messaging, you know, work with each other in WhatsApp and all that, that's the DMA. Since the DMA only applies to Europe though, Gurman points out that Apple might only implement these changes for European customers unless other countries also implement similar regulations, which could happen. So nothing's been announced by Apple officially, but Gurman's sources do say Apple is considering mandating security requirements for third party apps to run on iOS and possibly requiring verification by Apple which would then carry a fee. Apple also may open its APIs to have access to cameras, NFC, locating devices. Third party browser makers may also be allowed to use engines other than WebKit. The company has apparently not decided how it intends to comply with the DMA's requirement to allow third party payment systems in apps yet. Right now Apple lets some media apps include a link to the web for payment info. Netflix can do that. It allows some actual third party payment options for developers in South Korea and just for dating apps in the Netherlands because the Netherlands forced them to do it for dating apps. In those last two cases, Apple still takes a slightly smaller cut of the payments as well, even if it doesn't go through the App Store and requires the apps to show warning pop-ups. Apple also has not made a decision yet on how to let iMessage interoperate with the other messaging platforms like WhatsApp, but German sources say it is not going to consider RCS, which might be what you were thinking if you're like, hey, that's the carrier standard for multimedia messaging. It's what Google has been bashing Apple over the head to use. It doesn't sound like that's on the menu for whatever reason. Will, what do you think this, if this all ends up being true and they do, even if it's just in Europe, allow third party payments or third party apps to side load, what do you think this could mean for Apple's App Store? I mean, I think the, my first thought is that Apple is going to want to dissuade users from doing this. So I think the big thing that's going to hit most, you know, side loading is usually a really small percentage of the market. So we're talking probably single digits unless there's some incredible app that comes out that's only side loaded. I think the big thing is that it's going to cause Apple to maybe change the way they moderate apps on the existing App Store, to limit some of the stuff, to allow some of the stuff that's previously been disallowed and is marginal like, you know, support for X Cloud apps and things like, you know, maybe Fortnite will be back on the App Store because they don't want to give people an excuse to go out and get out of their ecosystem and increase the support costs for their devices. I mean, it would be kind of a fun situation if Apple has won the case, Epic's in the middle of paying for an appeal and they just were like, here, you can do third party payments. Yeah, I was thinking about that very thing because this is all very interesting timing and literally could do that. Like it could end up just making that entire court fight expensive and mean nothing in the end. But I'm interested to see what it means for potentially third party App Stores and what those look like. Like, is a third party App Store some complete other brand that says, hey, we're making, like, is it good old games compared to Steam or the Epic Store compared to Steam on PCs? I'm trying to think of with other equivalents of these alternatives. Which is the other big one, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the idea of that happening isn't crazy on PC, obviously, because it's an open system and Steam is not demanding people stay anywhere or locking people out of computers. They don't have that power. But in this case, this puts the iPhone closer to what, certainly what Android is, and even closer to what PCs are in terms of its ecosystem and what do those look like? Could they, could we see like a really cool App Store pop up that carries a lot of the same apps we're getting anyway, but also has some other advantages, even for gamers, could Netflix have their own App Store to help bolster their game thing, but also do apps? Like, it gets kind of complicated and weird. I don't know how many people have belly up to the bar for it, but that's a fascinating landscape and I'm kind of here for it. I want to see what that is. And the more widely used operating system already has it. Android. So if you look at that, what that tells you, and it could be different on iOS, is that you'll get Amazon's App Store, which that'd be fascinating if there was an Amazon iOS App Store.  And that would be fun as well. I think Wash in the Wind in our chat room has a really interesting thought. What if Google brought the Play Store to iOS? Oh, man. I mean, they could. They wouldn't be able to necessarily port all the Android apps, but what if they operated an alternative App Store on iOS? It'd be interesting. Well, presumably developers are still going to have to be Apple developers and do all the normal agreements there to be able to package the apps for delivery on whatever store to the devices. I think it's really interesting. Android seems like the most of the market that's doing side loading is people buying devices that have non-Google App Stores, though. So things like Amazon Kindle tablets and stuff like that. Not you and I side loading apps onto our Android devices. Yeah. That is the good point. Folks, if you ever thought about something we're talking about on the show, but you don't know our email address, let me fix that right now. Feedback at DailyTechNewsShow.com. Email us. Will, you have a long history of testing and reviewing PC components and you recently had a blog post about upgrading your PC on the PC World Build Stream. I like how you described your old machine as a ship of Theseus. You just replaced so many parts over the years. It was not the same PC you started with. So I get why you wanted to start over fresh. If we went over every piece of the upgrade, it might take as long as watching the new Avatar movie. So we're going to focus just on the main parts. Starting with the CPU. What did you choose? So when Gordon and Adam over at PC World asked me if I wanted to come in and build a PC with them, they at first were like, hey, what CPU do you want? And I said, literally, this was before the new CPUs came out, the new Ryzen and core CPUs came out. And I said, I didn't know. I have some really unusual use cases. I podcast, I play games, I work in Unreal Engine, fair amount. But I don't do a lot of heavy multi-core tasks anymore. And when the benchmarks came in for the new CPUs, we kind of got down to it and we're like, okay, so you need occasional spikes because you occasionally will, you know, compressive video, compressive audio, something that we use a lot of threads. But for the most part, you want fast, single, dual, maybe quad core performance. And Gordon at PC World recommended the Intel processors in that case because they spike higher, but for low core, low core counts. But they aren't quite as fast if you're like hitting all of the cores constantly as the Ryzens are. All right. Let's talk about the motherboard. What did you go with there? So my case is why I like white cases. I like white computer hardware. So one of the requirements I gave Adam when he was picking out parts was like, hey, see if you find a white motherboard. That would be cool. I didn't realize quite what a challenging thing that was because there's only like seven of them on the market for the new processors. The Seuss ROG Maximus Z790 Apex is a LGA1700 motherboard. It's a DDR5 board and it's primarily for overclockers. But it also has a couple of interesting features. One of them is a, there's an additional PCI Express power connector on the leading edge of the board where like the SATA ports and all of that stuff are. And when you plug your power supply into that, it turns the front-mounted USB-C port into a 60 watt power supply, USB-PD power supply. So you can charge your laptop or your steam deck or like an iPad off of that at full speed, which is nuts. Like, when they described the feature to me, I was like, this is a really goofy feature. I'm never going to do this. And then 15 minutes after I had the thing turned on, I had plugged a steam deck into it. And I was like, oh, it's charging at full speed. This is really nice. The other thing that's awesome about it is it only has two RAM slots, which sounds like a negative, but we wanted high speed memory in this, like really high speed DDR5 memory. Cause that unreal engine games, which I work on on my day job are really dependent on memory bandwidth performance typically. And so having high refresh, high speed memory in a fourth slot configuration is less likely to work reliably than it is if you put it in a two slot configuration, even having just unpopulated RAM slots that you're not using makes the system less stable. And then also having higher clock speeds and all that stuff makes the system less stable. So the two slot board seemed like the right way to go in this case. And it's worked out really well so far. Booted up the first time. The machine's been running at DDR5-7600, which is not quite the fastest RAM you can get, but it's really close. And we haven't had any stability problems or performance problems or anything like that out of the gate. Yeah. I loved your description of being dismissive of that front PCIe port. And then when you used it going, OK, actually, that's kind of cool. Yeah. It just seems like a goofy thing. Like, why? I don't need that. I'm never going to. Maybe I plug my phone in. Who knows? It's where the gamepad gets plugged in or something. So yeah. It's a surprisingly useful feature. I hope you see it. I hope I see it on more boards in the future. Yeah. It's a classic case of not understanding what a feature is good for until you actually get a chance to use it. I try to remind myself of that sort of thing often. All right. Let's get to the new GPU. What'd you pick? Well, so I reviewed the 4090s from NVIDIA a few months ago when they rolled them out. And so I had one laying around. And I just took that in with me. We chucked that in there because we figured might as well see what happens. It turns out it's really fast. The new AMD GPUs, the RDNA3 GPUs aren't out yet at the time we did the build last week. And the 4080 seems like kind of a fizzle in terms of price to performance. It seems like NVIDIA may have overpriced it a little bit over what they should have for the speed that the card's capable of.  The RDNA boards seem really interesting. There have been a lot of rumors about performance this week. But unfortunately, the embargoes on that stuff aren't up yet. So we don't have real official benchmarks yet. When you get real official benchmarks, would you even consider revisiting this option? Or are you happy enough with the 4090 RTX? I think I can probably settle for the 4090. So the AMD cards are priced somewhere on it. It seems like they're going to sandwich the 4080 based on the rumors that we've seen. We'll see one that's slightly faster, one that's slightly slower. It seems like the 4090 is going to remain the kind of top dog for this generation from what we've seen. Unless AMD has a last minute surprise. And like we said, Will's got a whole blog post on this. There's a PC World build stream. But to finish out here, tell us what you did with storage. So Adam, when he was expecting this, I was like, hey, we're just going to put a bunch of NVMe SSDs in here. Is this OK with you? And I said, yeah, I'm fine with that. We went with two SK Hynex Platinum P41 two terabyte drives and then one Solidime P44 Pro that's a little bit faster than those. And what I did was I set up the C drive on the Solidime, the slightly faster drive. And then I've got a big data partition spread across those other two drives so that I actually can, like I have a data structure for the first time that doesn't have an old folder on it. It says stuff from C, which is what every computer I've had for the last 20 years has had on it. So I redesigned my storage and backup processes for this new machine. We talked about it on the tech pod this week, which people seem to really enjoy. So if you're curious about what the approach was there, you can check that out. Did you install a gas generator or solar panels to power your NVIDIA or how are you dealing with that? Don't tell Gordon, because he'll be really upset with me, but I've undervolted almost everything just a little bit because it turns out it's fast enough. It's fast enough. You can always go back if you need it later. Yeah, if I need that juice, it's there. All right. Sarah, you thirsty? I sure am. I'm not only thirsty, but I'm wondering what to do over the holidays with my loved ones. And if you're also wondering that, you might like this next story, Hard Seltzer, beverage company, White Claw, and Netflix have somehow banded together for a limited edition murder mystery tabletop game called Crack the Claw, available for a limited purchase now.  Players can pair this game with a White Claw of their choice, I guess. John Shea, who's the Chief Marketing Officer at White Claw USA, yes, White Claw is sold separately, said in an interview that the game is fun and engaging. Oh, well, I'm glad. Oh, man. The more White Claws you drink, the more fun it is. The more fun engaging it gets. So it's mafia. It's a mafia game. That's fine. You know, I like a good mafia game. It's a little among us vibe, right?  I'll do it. Who's the murderer? Sure. I don't totally know how Netflix gets involved in this, but they have. That is the weird bit. This reminds me of like the 90s and everything Red Bull was doing with everything. Everybody had a deal with Red Bull and this just feels like, oh, White Claw and Netflix, that's just weird enough. I guess that works, sorta. Yeah. Don't knock flugetog, Scott. That's all I'm saying. They allowed a man to jump from the edge of space to the ground, yeah. That's right. Gotta crack the claw, guys. Had no idea that Netflix would get into not just video games, but tabletop games as well. Yeah. What's the claws come out? You never know what's gonna happen. Claws out. Claws out. Claws and claw. Alright, let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. This one comes from Paul. Paul says, since there's been so much talk on the show recently about machine learning, content generators like chat, GPT and terms of services, or TOSs, I had a thought, why not combine the two? Maybe a chat GPT like AI could be used to digest a term of service. Then you could ask the AI to do things like give me the top five most important points from this TOS, or how does this TOS affect my privacy rights? Paul says, of course, there would probably have to be legal ramifications about how accurate the AI is since chat GPT is still prone to simple errors, but it could provide a solution to unreadable TOSs. You know what? This doesn't solve the biggest problem that we were talking about on this topic, which is why TOSs are the way they are, like why we can't have a better system for this. But I like what Paul's saying is like until we do figure all of that out, here's a way that maybe it could help you figure things out without having to rely on somebody else. Need a lot of training, need a lot of vetting, before somebody could provide this in a way that you could rely on. But I like the idea. I think there's something there. Yeah, I do too. There's so much of doom and gloom about AI in the moment in my circles anyway. A lot of artists are really upset. There's that whole mess at Art Station. There's a lot of weirdness going on. But I like when the conversation turns to creative uses of the technology, which is here to stay and it's going to keep growing. So we may as well start figuring out cool ways to use it. And this is a pretty good one. I can't tell you the last time I read a whole TOS, which I think was never. I don't think I've ever done it. I've tried. I've tried too. I really tried once. I went, you know what?  I got like two paragraphs in, realized there were nine left. And I went, I'm done. I'm out. We did a segment on Tested briefly that was like, hey, here's what the TOS means. And we had to stop doing it because nobody wanted to read the TOS's. So, you know. Yeah. The machines do it. It's not the most fun research. Yeah. Machine learning. This is where it's at. The only TOS I've read is the original series. There you go. Oh, also KT data point out it out in our chat room that, you know, the Netflix white claw, crack the clock game is related to the glass onion movie, which is a knives out movie. So I thought we mentioned that, but in case we didn't. Yes. That is part of the reason that that is coming out. Gotcha. Well, a great reason for us to do the show is having Will Smith joining us on the show. Thanks so much for being here. Well, and let folks know where they can keep up with all that you do. Thanks, Sarah. Yeah, you can find me at tech pod content town, which is where it's the Internet home of Brad will made a tech pod. Well, also on that side is the FOSS pod, which is our free and open source software thing. And then I'm on Twitch at twitch.tv slash not that will Smith among other places. Excellent. Scott Johnson. So nice to have you as well, let folks know where you there. They can keep up with your latest. Well, thank you, sir. 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We'll now hear from Mike Perry on Christian Atheist Universal Immortalism. Michael Perry has been active in cryonics and has had cryonics arrangements since the 1970s. He has worked at Alcor Foundation, a leading cryonics organization since 1987. He has written a book, Forever for All, about the possibilities of attaining immortality and resurrection of the dead through scientific means. Cryonics features prominently even though it may not be strictly necessary. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Colorado and he is currently exploring mathematical approaches to the problems of personal identity and resurrection. Welcome. Okay, glad to be here today. I am going to try to present a religious philosophy that may not appeal to everybody, probably want to appeal to everybody here. I hope you can hear me okay. Alright, it sounds like an echo to me, but anyway, it does appeal to some of us, the kind of people who don't believe in the supernatural, but are not happy with thinking that life ends with a grave and that kind of thing either. We don't want to think of religion as just nonsense. So anyhow, it's a combination of what is called Christian atheism. You can look it up on the internet with something else I'll get to in a moment. Christian atheism may seem like a contradiction in terms, but actually it's a reasonable philosophical position. It says that there's no personal God, there's no supernatural, but the Christian ethic is perfectly valid. Enlightened brotherly love is the approach that we ought to use in our relations with others using the golden rule. And so it's a sort of philosophy of how to live well in this life interacting with other people. And I think some people have found it a satisfying substitute for the traditional Christianity or other religions, but I don't happen to be one of those people myself. And the main reason is that it's still basically death is an honest Christian atheist or most the usual type of person like this will have to admit that, you know, life ends after a few decades and that's it. And so you just have to make the most of this life. And you work it that way. If you talk to people like that about things like cryonics, we used to think that they would be, their eyes would light up and they would really be interested in this idea, but usually they're not interested in it. Anyway, I am one of these people that is interested in immortality. And since, like I say, I don't believe in the supernatural, I think it must happen through our own efforts or in some kind of technological way. So anyway, Christian atheism might be a good start on a religious philosophy, but it just doesn't go far enough.  I talk about this in my book forever, overall. And I don't claim to be the originator of these ideas. They have been kicking around for a long time. Fyodorov was an early promoter of this kind of thinking. But once again, you have enlightened brotherly love as your guiding principle for interactions with others. But you also have scientific immortalism, which is the idea that the problem of death can be solved scientifically. Admittedly, it's a hard problem, but there are a number of approaches. I will get to that shortly, some of these. And also something that I usually goes under the name of universalism. Traditional Christianity used to disturb me because it isn't Christian universalism, but some souls are condemned to eternal torment, or a softer version is called annihilationism, where they're not tormented and they're not tortured forever, but they just die and that's it. The ones that aren't saved with universalism in the end, everybody is saved.  So really universal immortalism does incorporate universalism. And of course we're combining the two. Someone earlier talked about an idea of God where it's not a being, but a kind of principle, and I think he said it very well, and I can't equal that in my talk. I don't have time or preparation for it, but basically you could see God as not a being, but a principle enlightened brotherly love, or agape, or Holy Spirit, not the Holy Spirit, but Holy Spirit. So it would be a pervading feeling that we care about each other. We're trying to benefit ourselves, but others too, in a position that you could call enlightened self-interest. So enlightened brotherly love, there's a little glitch here. That's supposed to be an equivalent sign, but it didn't come through. Enlightened brotherly love is more or less equivalent to enlightened self-interest if you consider the scale of eternity, and that's what I'm interested in. It's seriously that life should be eternal and we should be immortal. So that's a principle that is consistent with Christianity and universal immortalism. So who was Jesus? Why would somebody like me, like I say, I don't believe in the supernatural, I think Jesus was another human being, but still he was a pretty incredible human being. He was a pioneer transhumanist and mortalist. You could call him an apostle of brotherly love, the Son of God in a metaphorical sense at least. So I can see an advantage in having your philosophy center around this one person, even though you could imagine developing universal immortalism on another planet that has a totally different civilization and different people in it, and no one person is absolutely critical to it, but still there might be something, and I think there would be something of value to consider the things Jesus said. What did he say? Among many things that he said that are very worthwhile was to heal the sick and raise the dead. And he didn't say things like, well, you can't really raise the dead yourself, but you call on the higher power to do it. He just plain said raise the dead. And I think as our technology develops, we should take that more seriously. So I'll say a little more about that later. And again, Jesus was a human being. And I see that, you know, I don't believe in supernatural. I don't believe in anything that seems to violate laws of physics. I don't think literal resurrections of the dead have happened already. Resurrection was a faith event once, but eventually it will be for real. And you know, we need to take that seriously. The crucifixion confirms the humanity of Jesus. He was a human being. He really did suffer on the cross, I think. And it also justifies our questioning of early dogmas and things. Jesus seemed to be questioning some things when he was asking why God had forsaken him on the cross. And I suppose that's subject to many different interpretations, but we are justified, I think, in questioning any kind of position that just doesn't seem to jive with what scientific observations seem to be telling us. Again, raising the dead, I think, can literally happen, and it's up to us to work out how we should do it. Two minutes to go, all right? I've already covered this point. Universalism means that all sentient beings should gain salvation and a future life in which they will be able to grow indefinitely. And I really mean all to the cats and the dogs and the fleas of item. It's up to us to work out the details on that, and I certainly can't do it in a minute and a half. But for now, there's also cryonics, which is one kind of intervention against death that I'm obviously a promoter of. I probably won't have time to do much more here, but I have a theory of resurrection that is not based on quantum archaeology. It's another approach entirely, well, it's another approach. I call it mini-bodies for one of another term. It's based on the idea that information really is lost, and you're not going to be able to tease it out of the historical record. But when that happens, I think that you can justify the position that the actual historical timeline has become ambiguous. So in other words, there's not a unique historical timeline. If you resurrect one timeline worth of beings, they are truly authentic beings that in some sense really did feed into our present, even though this one resurrection is not unique. But it is real, and we will have to, we can adjust to that. I think, again, cryonics I think is an expression of enlightened brotherly love and enlightened self-interest if pursued properly. So maybe I should stop here if there's any time for questions. Thank you. I'm not sure if I have time for questions, but I don't hear, you've got a question. How does your universal immortalism tie in with tiplerism? I would say that it's pretty consistent with it, but tipler seems to be tied down to a certain physical theory. And this can adapt to different possibilities in the future. And also, tipler has never expressed any interest in cryonics, and I'm a strong proponent of it.