Coming up on DTNs Twitter's app store for algorithms sales force declares nine to five dead. Sorry, Dolly and a Hyundai robot with wheels that walks. This is the Daily Tech news for Wednesday, February 10 2021 in 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 Roger Chang. The show is pretty sweet. We were just talking a little bit about anosmia and spam modern days of dealing with it on good day internet. Become a member get that wider conversation patreon.com slash DTNs. Let's start with a few tech things you should know. Nikkei sources say that Apple partnered with the chip maker TSMC to develop micro OLED displays with displays built directly onto chip wafers for use in a future headset. The displays under development are less than one inch in size with mass production estimated several years away. The beta for iOS 14.5 adds accident hazard and speed check reporting to Apple Maps. A new report button is available in the bottom tray of maps to report incidents and voice support for Siri is available as well. An analysis by Cambridge Anniversary University, although they probably have universities also estimates that Bitcoin mining consumes roughly 121.36 terawatt hours of electricity per year, which would make a top 30 energy consumer if it were used by country. However, for context, the researchers noted that electricity consumed in the US by always on but inactive home devices could power the Bitcoin network for a year. Yeah, I like that comparison there. It's like, yeah, that sounds bad. But then also that following its launch in Australia, Google News Showcase launched in Argentina and the United Kingdom offering now includes free and paywalled articles for more than 120 UK and 40 Argentinian outlets bringing its total to 450 publications. Twitter announced monetizable daily active users increased 27% on the year in its Q4 to 192 million, but missed analyst expectations of 193.5 million with growth slowing for the third consecutive quarter. Twitter also said Wednesday it suspended more than 500 accounts and reduced certain hashtag visibility in India to comply with several orders from the Indian government amidst farmers protest on agricultural reforms in the country. The Twitter accounts are only being blocked in India and don't include news media entities, journalists, activists or politicians who have Twitter accounts. And Twitter CFO Ned Siegel said on CNBC Wednesday that people removed from its platform are not allowed to come back. And that applies to President Donald Trump, even if he ran for office again. All right, let's talk a little bit more about what Twitter is planning. Jack Dorsey has been talking a lot about decentralization over the past couple of months. What did he say this time, Scott? Yeah, it feels like every time I'm on the show, there's something new about his little idea. But on this same call with investors on Tuesday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey explained how its internet project or internal project rather called blue sky. And this is something he first announced way back in December of 2019, could create a decentralized social network to give people more choice over their Twitter, Twitter experience. Dorsey said Twitter might create multiple algorithms for you to choose from and offer them alongside those made by others in a sort of marketplace. Not a lot of detail beyond that. But Dorsey feels choice like this would quote, not only help out business, but drive more people into participating in social media in the first place. Decentralization could also help Twitter address concerns about moderation, neutrality, all that kind of stuff. Pretty fascinating idea. I still hope he does it with partners and not just a Twitter store with algorithm skins. Well, I mean, it sounds like it's a combination of both the way Twitter sees it happening. The company itself would say, All right, you might want this experience, we have enough user feedback to know that some users are frustrated with the kind of stock Twitter experience and using hashtags and maybe filtering out certain keywords or searching for users or topics isn't enough for you. You want Twitter built a certain way and we can do that for you. But then the company saying, also third party developers might have some really great ideas. And we would welcome those algorithms as well as long as you know, people wanted that. Could this be something that people would potentially pay for in the future? I would think yes. Yeah, although I mean, his focus on decentralization implies that this would be something out in the wild, right? For a long time, Twitter has been talking about maybe we'll partner up with an existing decentralized solution, which there are a few out there like Mastodon. And I think that's a really, really interesting way to approach this to say, What if we decentralize Twitter and differentiated Twitter is just one of the better ways to talk with folks. But like you said, Scott, he thinks that would help drive more people into participating if there was a federation, so to speak, that Mastodon is that right now, but Twitter isn't part of Mastodon. So you don't have enough people using it so it doesn't get that, you know, momentum that it needs. If Twitter gets behind something like that, whether it's Mastodon or something else, then suddenly it's got momentum. And if you could say like, Well, what I would like is a more environmental spin on this, or I want a more libertarian spin. I wanted to promote things that are more about molecular biology, you know, and promote scientists or I want I want to have spiritual issues and Christianity promoted more. You could have that. And still everybody be participating in the same network. And to his point about moderation neutrality, if you're the one picking the algorithm, then you might have issues with how that particular algorithm works. But there would be less burden on Twitter or any other participant to be the person in charge of deciding what gets promoted and what doesn't because you'd have a lot of different approaches to it. Especially when there's content that is questionable, you know, and or, you know, would get somebody in legal trouble. That's potentially pretty advantageous for Twitter as well. I really love the idea of being able to have like you said, it's got like a certain skin, not just what it looks like or color schemes, but something where it's like, I'm going to dive into environmental Twitter for a while. I can kind of do that if I curate my own list. Or if I have identified all the people in that space that I think are authorities on the subject. But what if you're trying to do some research from a starting point, having something that is helping bring voices to you that you're not going to find on your own, or you or was going to take you out ton of research to be able to build something even partially like that. I love that idea.  Right, right, right. Exactly. That kind of control will be crucial. But there's a subtext here that I think is important not to miss. And that is this is him also talking to investors saying, look at all these multiple quarters of no growth. The general feeling that social media has maybe peaked out a little bit and there isn't much growth. Maybe we could find growth through these other avenues. And I think it accomplishes that goal potentially in his mind anyway, and his other goals that he may have a little more high minded about how social media can be better or whatever. He can maybe do those two things at once. And that's that's kind of what I'm reading under the under the carpet there. The Wall Street Journal sources say that the US plans to have ByteDance divest ticktoxes North American operations to a group, including Oracle and Walmart. Remember that we've talked about it quite a bit on the show have been indefinitely suspended. Wide House spokespeople have said that the administration is developing a comprehensive approach to risks posed by Chinese apps. A formal response to ticktox court challenge against the executive order against it is due on February 18th. A separate order restricting transactions with eight Chinese companies, including Alipay, is set to take effect next week as well. So look for clarification from the administration on its approach to China, not just ByteDance or TikTok then. Yeah, this makes sense to me. I was never convinced that TikTok was our priority. And so I wasn't quite certain why we went after TikTok first, other than it was really popular. It didn't seem to be the most likely vector for a threat. I wonder about WeChat. There are more questions there, but it seemed more punitive than than it did strategic. So I will be very interested to see what the administration comes up with here to say, all right, we want to have a more comprehensive strategy that really assesses things based on how likely they are to cause a problem and go after those. My guess is they might still pursue something with TikTok. The Wall Street Journal article mentioned saying, OK, your data is required to be stored in the US if it's collected from the US, which would be an unsettling precedent. But if they can make a case of only in this case because of these reasons, I could see something like that continuing rather than saying you have to sell TikTok, especially because China has said they will not allow ByteDance to sell off TikTok. That's not a solution that that they'll go along with. Whereas because China requires companies to store data in China, I'm guessing they'll have a harder time justifying not going along with some plan like that. Yeah, I also was just thinking the other day like TikTok, not I felt like you did at the time that TikTok wasn't the threat that maybe everybody wanted us to think it was or, you know, whatever your stance on that stuff was. But I'm also not that surprised that China wants to hold tightly to that algorithm. That's the thing that makes TikTok work. And it's the reason I use the service, despite all of its quote unquote real or not real security concerns. It knows what I want to see. And it feeds that to me in a way that other services just plain don't do a very good job of. So if I were them, I wouldn't want to give that up either. And that part doesn't surprise me. Got an email from Chris to feedback at Daily Tech news show dot com. Chris said, I wanted to ask about Starlink. They opened up pre orders and living in rural Arkansas. I put down my 99 bucks. However, we pay more than that monthly for really crappy wireless service. But do you guys have a feeling as to whether or not I screwed up or not? He was like, it sounds like he got excited, put down the 99 bucks and then said, wait a minute, what have I done? This is a bad idea. I basically told him, like, well, it's a refundable deposit. You're probably okay. It'll be interesting to see if it actually comes to your area. And then when it does, is it any good?  I think that's a rational thing to do. Here's the rest of the deal. SpaceX's Starlink is now in public beta. It has opened up to pre orders for potential customers of its internet service, which is delivered by satellite. $99 deposit, like Chris said, lets you get a target date for coverage. Now depending on where you are, that target date could either be 2021 or 2022. You also have the option to link to your credit card so that it can charge you your $99 and refund it that way. The Starlink kit itself, which includes a Wi-Fi router and a dish is $499. Starlink says pre orders for that are fully refundable and may take six months to fulfill. Placing a deposit does not guarantee you service. Starlink's public beta started last year in Canada, the UK and the US has more than 10,000 customers on board getting service from more than 1,000 satellites now in orbit. Keep that number in mind, 1,000 satellites. Starlink has also been provisionally approved to get $885.51 million dollars out of a total $9.2 billion dollars that's being split among 180 different entities. Starlink is just one of them. They're getting $885.51 million in US federal funds over 10 years to provide broadband to underserved areas. However, the Fiber Broadband Association and the NCTA Rural Broadband Association have both filed an objection with the FCC claiming Starlink will fall short of required capacity in 2028 and that the funding should not be finalized. Starlink will need to provide in order to meet the requirements of the funding 100 megabits per second download and 20 megabits per second upload to 642,925 underserved locations by 2028. The opposing ISPs hired a consulting firm called Cartesian to determine that based on public information, it believes Starlink users would not get their full bandwidth by that point because of congestion. Cartesian based its estimates on an average peak usage by 2028 of 15 to 20 megabits per second because of things like 4K streaming becoming popular. Cartesian modeled that usage across SpaceX's 12,000 satellites. It's got a thousand now needs to have 12,000 by 2028. So if they don't get all 12,000 launched, that would be another impact. The FCC is currently evaluating Starlink's technical claims before finalizing approval of funding. So a lot of things going on here. Starlink needs to get enough people to put down deposits that it can say, okay, we've got a decent user base and it needs to get that federal funding so that it can say, all right, and we can like push out into these rural areas, which will be one of our big selling points. Yeah, this is a lot of moving parts that need to fall in the right places for people not to be really upset at the end of this right? You need the funding to get 12,000 satellites up there. You got 1000. I mean, you got to get a lot more than 1000 per year to reach 12,000 by 2028. But if there's a congestion issue and imagine what kind of internet usage we're going to be talking about in 2028, you know, the ISPs might not be wrong here. And at that point, the money has been spent and who loses the people like Chris with rural internet who say, well, shoot, this didn't work. Yeah, although that's one one less than one billion out of 9.2 billion with the rest being split around 180 entities. That's probably those other 179 entities that are complaining. They're part of that association. It's like we don't want that money going to SpaceX. That's a lot going to one company. Right. I was just reading that thing about securities laws and how they work with people putting money down for a thing that isn't out yet. And that's more complicated than I thought. I don't know how that works in this particular scenario. But then when I was I was watching was about a car where they a little bit like Tesla where they promised a car, you put a certain amount down and then they have to deliver that car with that money has to go into escrow basically and not be used for day to day operations. I'm sure they have that all taken care of because this is a big deal and a lot of people involved. So my guess is you're safe with your 99 box. And like Tom said, if it's starting to look grim, just yank it out. Hey, folks, if you want to talk about Starlink or anything else, get in our discord. Charlotte just joined. Charlotte's in there about to drive a bus. But talking to some other folks in the DTNS audience, you can join Charlotte and everybody else by linking to a Patreon account at patreon.com slash DTNs. Scott, tell us what Facebook's up to these days. Sorry, I was on mute and didn't know it. Hey, let's talk about Facebook is Facebook's in the news again. Big shocker everybody. Facebook's announced it will test or will test reducing the distribution of political content in its news feeds. A small percentage of people who experience the test in Brazil, Canada, Indonesia and thankfully the US Facebook will try several ways of ranking political content and monitor what effect the different approaches have COVID-19 content and content from official government agencies will not be affected by these changes. Pew Research Center study they just did shows that 33% of people in the US get their news from Facebook. Facebook says political content is about 6% of what people in the US see. I don't know if I trust that number. I mean, I'm trying not to go, ah, that's not true. We're we're very honest. Sarah and I were talking about this in Discord earlier.  Like I I get that a lot of political content seems to be linked to making people more radical. And there's a few numbers out there that show that. But there hasn't been a lot that's really convincing that, oh, if you let the company in charge decide which political information should be downgraded, that will make things better. I this this feels more like something Facebook would do because it gets them good headlines than something that we know will solve the problem. I don't know. Maybe it will. You know, you can you can throw things at a wall and hope to hit the dartboard and maybe maybe you will. I don't know if this means Facebook's good at darts. Yeah, it's also I don't know. I mean, the idea that a lot of people get their news primarily from Facebook is just it's somewhat mind boggling. But hey, that's that's just the way it is because some news is intentionally misleading, not all news. And I'm not singling anybody out, but some of it is one would think, OK, well, Facebook is one of the platforms or the platform that you as a misinformation news person is trying to share with the largest amount of people. You're going to get pretty creative about the way that you share that kind of thing. Facebook saying, yeah, we don't. We need less political content on our platform. Is it necessarily going to mean that it just goes away because Facebook decided to change an algorithm that isn't going to catch how people might get smart about it in the future? But yeah, I don't know. It's kind of Facebook saying, well, this doesn't work, so we're just going to make it go away, and that's not very good solution either. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe take a page out of what Twitter is talking about that we mentioned earlier. Right. Yeah. Give us an app store for our Facebook experiences. So many skins. Well, good news from Salesforce, everybody, we don't have to work anymore. Oh, really? Yeah, it's only partially true. Salesforce posted to its blog Tuesday, a headline that got a lot of attention titled The 9 to 5 Workday is Dead. Salesforce is going to give employees three categories to choose from for their work schedule while still being employees at Salesforce. They don't just get to kick up their feet. They still have to work. But Flex, one of the options, would see employees coming in one to three days per week into the office. Salesforce has a huge, huge headquarters in San Francisco, but they have employees all over the world. The other two categories are fully remote. You don't go anywhere at all. You just work remotely and office-based. Office-based is expected to be the smallest category with employees like building maintenance or other roles that just require them to be in the office five days a week. So that part makes sense. Sometimes you just can't be remote. But Salesforce is saying the majority of our people can and have and we don't want to change it back. Yeah, we were wondering all last year, like after the COVID is over, how much of this work from home will stick? And this isn't necessarily the typical response, but we have a response from a very large company saying what we're going to do is let a lot of people stay home. I know some companies have already made work from home permanent, but Salesforce is interesting saying we are going to let you pick the category. I imagine you have to pick it with your boss. Obviously, if you're in the maintenance department, they're not going to let you work from home. You have to come in and do that job. But yeah, they're going to have these multiple categories and it shows that this great experiment we were all forced into has certainly had effects that you now realize, oh, working from home isn't trying to shirk your duties. Working from home can absolutely work in various roles. But also we may have some roles that really do need to be in the office a couple of days a week. And that's what I think is kind of interesting about this from Salesforce is they didn't say it's fully remote or in the office. They said there's also this category of like, man, you need to be around sometimes to mix with each other and do some face to face brainstorming or whatever. But there are some roles that only need to do that a couple of weeks, a couple of days a week. And if you only need to do a couple of days a week, well, then we don't need as much office space for you. So stay at home the rest of the time. There's been some some shifts in the video game business. I'm trying to remember the massive company that really did it the biggest. And then I can't find it. I was trying to find it before you finish. But basically you're starting to see in that environment some permanent policies in place for work at home plans, whether we're in the pandemic, post pandemic and beyond. And I think that's a really interesting shift, especially for a business where collaboration and sort of constant feedback and bouncing ideas around an office is kind of the norm to see some of these companies shift that way has been really interesting. And I mean, Salesforce is is monstrously big. So this is it's a it's a big thing. I mean, whether or not we this is all positive or things don't get reversed down the road. Who knows? Like we don't know. It's just too soon to say we're still learning from this. We're still trying to figure out what's what. But it seems like they're striking a decent balance for the time we're in. I know the the cynical reaction is well, they just want you to work all the time. That's why they're saying nine to five is dead. But Salesforce did say a lot of the right things, which is with home childcare, with daily appointments, doctors appointments, you know, working from home gives you flexibility. So it's not all necessarily like we just want to work you to death. It's all it can be we actually want to take account the fact that between nine and five, you sometimes need to do things that aren't work. And what we care about is you get your work done. Yeah. And for anybody who's never seen the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco, it's massive. It's literally the largest building in the entire city. And there's some large buildings. It is big. Now, Salesforce isn't the only tenant of the entire building, but there are there's that building.  Okay, we'll cut that by a third or a quarter, right? You know, even conservatively, you have some space that is not being used on a pretty regular basis. I know this applies to a lot of cities and just buildings in general all over the world. Some of them will kind of go back to the old way of doing things. As you mentioned, Scott, I mean, some will, it depends on the business. But for those that don't, what can we do with that space? Considering a lot of housing shortages and a lot of different places, I think some some some government officials should get creative. Yeah, condo, that stuff. Yeah, money to be made and I don't know, maybe some good to be done. Some very large living room you have, Sarah. Yeah, it used to be a conference room. It used to be a conference room. Yeah, I like that. Really the main one. Hyundai unveiled the Transforming Intelligent Ground Excursion Robot Experiment Tiger X one for short on Tuesday. The concept builds off of Hyundai's previous elevate walking vehicle. You might have remembered it showed it off at CES back in 2019 can transition from electric four wheel drive operation to four legged walking for more uneven or inaccessible terrain. Each leg has six points of articulation between the male and the chastis with more omnidirectional design that can rotate and move in any direction. So forward, backwards side to side. The X one has 28 motors and 28 position sensors, including on its wheels, unmanned scientific exploration, payload delivery for remote locations, emergency services like delivering medicine or equipment to the side of a natural disaster, all potential use cases. Yeah, it seems cool. I was looking at this video earlier and thinking, these are the ones I want. These are the robots I want. I don't need bipedal creepy human ones. I want like stuff that can get worked on. Yeah, exactly. I want one I can send out. I don't know on some hard job somewhere and know that it's weird tires are going to move around in ways that will make it survive and get this horrible job done and come back and park itself. And that's all I have to deal with it. I don't have to talk to it. I don't have to try to reckon, you know, wrestle with this idea that it sort of looks like me. And that's weird and have all those disconnects. Let's just go forward where our robots are all misshapen and just look like stuff we already have. They're just really smart to get what they need to get done and not great at being human like. I don't want anymore. I've seen this compared to the size of a cat and the size of a roller board luggage. I don't know who has very large cats or very small roller board luggage. But it does seem a little closer to the luggage that it does to the cat size, but it's not huge. It's not car size. And so this could be carried by by a large drone and dropped off again. Another more search and rescue applications to this because again, it could be placement of a monolith in the Utah desert. Yeah, see, place the bottle if roll out do some walking to get across the uneven terrain. Yeah, I love it. All right, let's check out the mail bag. This one comes from Josh who says, Hi, team. What is your view on the big three? Apple, Google, Amazon struggling to get into the gaming space. Amazon their crucible was unreleased and put back in beta. No plan right now. Yes, they launched Luna, but it's been under the radar for the last couple months for Google. I'm sure the death watch for Stadia has started and with the various changes happening, the model of subscription plus purchase coming into question for Apple. Apple Arcade launched been pretty much known news since then. Is it a problem of this being a different industry or too many big studios already available? This is so interesting.  Certainly the PC gaming side was already part of that. But but don't forget Microsoft struggled for years to make PC gaming their own thing despite the fact that Windows is the platform the games are being written on. So while they fumbled about with that, you know, people like Valve and others would come by and have extreme success on PC despite the fact that the owners of the operating system couldn't seem to do it themselves. So I guess what I'm trying to say with that is these companies aren't necessarily suited to do this very well. Gamers are also notoriously. What's the word suspicious of somebody kind of sneaking into that industry and saying, hey, we can do this to check out our cool thing. Stadia is a good example of this. Like they tried to play like we know what gamers want. And this is what they want. And it turns out we kind of don't want what they say we want. And we also don't like being told that we want what we want. It's a it's a weird. Unique thing, I think to that other businesses to but that business in particular is very, very skeptical of anybody who wants to swoop in and be the new leader in the space. Amazon, I think, has the best chance here. Amazon's doing OK with Luna. It's still not even in full release yet, so we'll see. And I think they have a good model for Luna.  Crucible is a mess. Absolutely. They've got their MMO people are excited about, but they're not shutting that stuff down. The way that Stadia just shut down all their internal development without releasing a game. I think I think Amazon may not know what they're doing entirely yet. I think they have a lot of money and when they commit to a thing, they seem to stick it stick it out until they're 100 percent sure it's not going to work out. And I can't say that for Google. In Apple's case, they've always just been weird. It's like dip their toe in with Pippin all those years ago, and it was terrible, but they did it. And then this whole talk of metal with Max and you're going to be able to render out stuff better on Max a few years ago. And it kind of worked, but it wasn't that big a deal. External GPUs, all this stuff. M1, they're making new claims about gaming performance, that sort of stuff. They, unless they really, really wanted to put their heart in it, I don't think anything comes of that either in terms of leadership, but in Apple's case and in somewhat Google's case, they kind of don't care because where the biggest money is being made in gaming right now is in mobile and they already own the platforms where that's happening. They already have the stores and they get their percentages and they're already multi billion dollar revenue generators just by being the phones you're using. So in a way, they're already leading this thing. We it's just not on the consoles or the PCs that this this emailer might be thinking of. So I don't know that these any of these two will ever be your core gamer brands that you look at and go, oh man, can't wait to get the new Apple killer box 2.0 whatever. That's I just don't see that ever happening. And the same goes for Amazon and Google. However, that's OK, because they're providing stuff on another end of it. If anything, it's Amazon is playing catch up here because they don't have that mobile footprint, right? They don't have that platform. And so until they have something closer to that, closer to what they have with the Echo, not with gaming, but you know, kind of that ubiquity, then maybe they'll do better. So so, Josh, I'm just what I'm saying is don't sweat it too much. These guys are all going to do fine. And in a lot of ways, they're already top of that game. Apple and Google kind of snuck in and stole it in a weird way. If you want to look at it that way. I want to add one one quick thing, Josh. Also, keep in mind, there's a bias to the coverage you're seeing. If this looks like a service is going to fail, you're going to see that headline everywhere. If it looks like the service is doing exceptionally well, you might see that headline everywhere. But if the service is just doing okay, you're not going to hear anything about it. 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Russia seeks to deplete Ukraine's Patriot missile stocks. Russia's recent powerful missile strike on Ukraine caused significant destruction, but it may have had a more specific purpose. Thus, Russia is likely trying to force Ukraine to use the limited stock of Patriot missiles. Experts shared their opinions in an interview with Business Insider. Russia has chosen a particularly good timing since the US Congress, which is supposed to approve further aid, could limit the provision of Patriot missiles to Ukraine. The protection provided by the systems, Russia will be able to inflict much more damage on Ukraine without fear that its strikes will fail, experts say. Jade Maglin, a researcher of Russian politics and senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said that depleting Ukraine's stocks of Patriot and other surface-to-air missiles is an obvious part of Russia's strategy. The idea was also expressed by Yaroslav Trofimov, the Wall Street Journal's Chief Correspondent on Foreign Relations. He said that Russia is seeking to destroy Ukraine's stockpile of Patriot missiles in the hope that it can then destroy the batteries that launch them. They will be much more difficult to replace. Ukraine received five Patriot batteries from the USA, Germany and the Netherlands. They can track 100 targets at a distance of 90 kilometers and are credited with destroying multiple Russian missiles and aircraft.


What's up guys in this video? I'm talking about why I'm gonna be talking about why lucid dreaming is hard. Why is it so difficult, right? Right because I'm seeing a lot of comments on my videos and other videos Where you guys are saying things like I've lucid I've tried to lucid dream for six months seven months and Nothing's happening. You know, I've been doing reality checks. I've been doing everything that I need to do But I'm just not having any lucid dreams. Why not and people are saying, you know, why is it so difficult? Why is it so impossible? I'm seeing reddit posts lucid dreaming is impossible Right now, let me just clear that let me just set the record straight with this any new skill that you learn when you first learn it Depending on obviously your aptitude and you know the things you've learned before Any new skill is difficult. Anything is hard, right? Lucy dreaming is no exception because it's a new skill. It's not just something that you can turn on and have Be part of your life. It's something that you need to build up and practice and You know, that's that's obviously the very easy answer. That's a simple answer because it's true If you wouldn't expect to suddenly have muscles but without going to the gym or without eating right without fixing your diet without sleeping You'd expect that you'd get the results when you put in the work and lucid dreaming is no exception to this rule You need to put in the work and you need to practice the things. There's the skills the habits And the exercises that you need to do in order to have lucid dreams That's there's no way around that guys. You need to put in the work and you need to practice it So yes, it does it does feel difficult. It is hard to learn But then so is everything and to be honest, I don't really think it's that difficult It's not as difficult as some guys are making out online and it's certainly not impossible especially, you know, if you're starting this with a Newfound optimism or positivity if you have a good attitude towards it And if you think that it's gonna work for you, then it probably will but if you approach it after reading these posts after reading these Suggestions that it's impossible or hard or difficult or you know, it's gonna take years Then obviously you're gonna limit yourself because it's gonna become like a self-fulfilling prophecy You know, you think it's gonna be difficult. So you make it difficult for yourself subconsciously or consciously So what can you do about it? How can you make it easier? Well, I'm gonna approach this like like this. So there are certain habits that you can Build which sort of combine together to make every habit more effective and easier So sort of like they go hand-in-hand. Okay, if you try to start meditating every day Forget lucid dreaming for a second. Right? If you try to just meditate every day That would be difficult in and of itself It'll be a hard habit to build because it's new, right? It's a new skill If you try to write your dreams down every morning, that will be difficult if you tried to Improve your health fix your diet exercise every day go for a walk These things are all difficult to do at first, right? So what you want to do is you want to try and stack the habits on top of each other This is a technique that I got from my book. I think it was called a miracle morning With a golden white cover The idea is that you create you create these habits stacks so that you don't have to focus on all these habits and building The habits up at the same time you focus on one habit, which is a routine You build either a morning or an evening routine and in this routine You put all of these habits that you want to build together, right? You build them on to the same routine So that instead of focusing on I need to remember to do reality checks And then I need to remember to write my dreams down and then I need to do you know I need to sort my diet plan out for the week. I need to do my exercise. I need to meditate It gets overwhelming, right? And it's it's too much to do. It's too much to focus on especially in today's day And day and age we've got so many things to try and do It just becomes too much and so you give up and that's why loads of people give up Forget all that. Okay, you just like just make a morning routine Stick all of the habits that you want to have on to the routine Make it make a post-it note or you know write them all down on a piece of paper stick it to your wall and At a certain time in the morning seven or eight in the morning or whatever whatever the time Go through the habits and just do them one after the other and so that when you've woken up and You meditate and then you write your dreams down and then you do a reality check And then you go for a half an hour run or whatever it is it becomes so ingrained in your You know psychology and in the way that you think in the mornings after you've done it for a while Then it becomes weird not to do it and that's what a habit is It's when it becomes easier to carry on doing the thing then it does to give up and not do the thing and This happens after usually about two to three weeks of doing something every day consistently Okay, so just do that I'm not even going to tell you how to build a morning routine because you need to figure it out for yourself depends on which habits you want to build Say if you're trying to write a book, okay, your morning routine could look like this You could meditate then do reality check then write your dreams down then write Ten pages of your book then go for a run then make breakfast done Like that's all you need to do but by doing that really simple thing of stacking the habits on top of each other You group them into one thing so that instead of focusing on all the all these different things that you've got to do and Overwhelming yourself you focus on just one thing. Just do your morning routine every single day done


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Welcome again everyone to another plenary session of the ninth annual international conference on sustainable development. We are extremely excited about this session, the crown jewel if you will of the day. It is our great honor and deep pleasure to be hosting the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, and I will turn it over to Professor sacks to do the honors of introducing her. Lauren, thank you very much. And indeed, Prime Minister. Thank you so much for joining the international conference on sustainable development. We really are greatly honored to be together with you. And we want to wish Bangladesh a happy 50th birthday. First of all, this is a celebratory year. Even though we're in the midst of a big crisis globally, everywhere. We still want to celebrate Bangladesh's achievements. Another one of the things that makes us so excited to be together and we want to hear from you is the fact that when we analyze as the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network does each year. As we progress towards the sustainable development goals. Bangladesh came first in the world in most progress between 2015 and 2020. So we want to congratulate you for that achievement, as well as wish Bangladesh a happy birthday. And I want to point out for listeners, as we welcome you, if you look at the, the facts of Bangladesh's progress in development, they really are wonderful and striking back in 1981 literacy was 29% of the adult population. In 1998, the completion at the lower secondary school was 50% now 88% electrification was only 14% of the population in 1991. Now electricity access is 92%. And one that is a especially clear indicator of the great strides of well being the mortality rate for children under the age of five at independence was 222 children dying before their fifth birthday of every 1000 births. By 1991 that had declined to 138 per thousand still high by 2019, the mortality rate for under fives was down to 31. So this is a seven fold reduction, which is a tremendous accomplishment. So Prime Minister, thank you so much for being with us. Let me remind all of the many participants that Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is in her fourth time as Prime Minister. From 1996 to 2001 2009 to 2013 2014 to 2018. And since December 30, 2018, when she won the election at the end of 2018 is Prime Minister until today. And in between leader of the opposition in three parliaments so you have been in the leadership of your country during this time of tremendous progress so we want to give you personal congratulations as well. And I would like to turn the microphone over to you, Prime Minister, and I hope that you can share some lessons of Bangladesh's progress because this is of interest for all of the world. Thank you again for being with us. Thank you very much. Thank you, Professor Jeffrey Sacks, giving me this opportunity so all of me and my people of Bangladesh. I also thank the Earth Institute, Columbia University global masters of development practice, and even sustainable development. The solutions network for inviting me to the nine ninth annual international conference on sustainable development. There's always a pleasure to be among students, academies and enlightened people. Distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen, the COVID-19 pandemic has upset the world. It has taken countless lives to upset livelihoods. Millions of people worldwide have been reduced to poverty and hunger. Education is facing huge disruption, especially of children. Climate vulnerable countries like Bangladesh are adversely affected by the pandemic, as well as natural disasters. Development gains and his disease progress have been badly hit. In fact, of this turmoil, I thank you for the opportunity to share our experiences and my perspectives on how to build forward better and to get back on track to achieve the 2030 agenda and the Paris climate agreement. On this makeup, my association with the global development discourse is more than two decades. I led Bangladesh in the Millennium Development Summit in 2000. In the adaptation of the landmark 2030 agenda and the Paris climate agreement in 2015. Our achievements as MDs were highly significant. We are recognized by the international community as a development miracle for our success, especially in poverty reduction, food security, gender parity in primary and secondary school, decreasing infant and maternal mortality rate, gender equality, etc. Over the past one decade, our poverty rate came down to 20.5. Actually it was 31.5%. Now it is 20.5. And our per capita income multiplied more than threefold. The infant mortality rate was reduced to 23.67 per 1000 maternity mortality rate to 173 per 1000 live births and longevity of life rose to 73 years. We have set up more than 18,000 community clinics and health care to cater healthcare services, mainly to women and children. According to WEF and political empowerment of women, Bangladesh is ranked seventh ahead of its regional neighbors since 2014. Get emphasis has been laid on female education. The girls education up to 12th grade has been made free. Every school students are supported by stipend stipend money reaches to mothers or legitimate guardians directly throw their mobile phone about 23 million students have been brought under stipend and scholarship. We have established 20 new public technological and general universities in the country raising the total number of public universities to 52 research as many as 105 private universities are offering higher education in the country. Female male school enrollment ratio rose to 53 is 247 in 2017 from 35 to 65 in 2009. Now you perhaps you have noticed that now girls are more than boys. Now we are trying to bring more boys to the school and looking forward to why the boys are reducing enrollment in pre primary and primary level rose to 99%. Increasing female education has significantly lowered in the rate of child marriage free books in distributed among students up to secondary level from primary pre primary to secondary level since 2010. School launches have launches have also been arranged. As a result, dropouts have drastically decreased. Our education journey builds on this success. Because I believe that education is the main key to reduce poverty. That's why we give more importance to education vocational education, technical education, etc. Bangladesh is the pioneer in climate change adaptation and mitigation efforts. We have recently submitted and ambitious and updated and they see we have adapted the music climate prosperity plan focusing on green gold resilient infrastructure and renewable energy. According to sustainable development reports 2021 published by the University of Cambridge Bangladesh has improved the most on the SDC index since 2015 Bangladesh is now among the five fastest growing economies in the world. But first in the terms of GDP, the even the commanded Bangladesh to graduate from LDC category this year. Our graduation comes at a time when we are celebrating the 50th anniversary of our independence and the birth centenary of our father of the nation, Bongo Bando Sheikh Majib Ramon. And his leadership we achieve our independence. I believe that there is no better way to pay tribute to our father of the nation and millions of our freedom fighters. We are on track to fulfill the dream of a father of the nation to build a sonar Bangla or golden Bengal hunger free society hunger free country hunger and poverty free country. It was his dream. Since 2015, we have been working hard to integrate agenda 2030 into our national plans and policies, putting whole up government approach, a high level national committee was formed for the implementation and monitoring of the as disease. We have already submitted to be an RS in 2017 and 2020 we have done sector specific assessments and integrated as disease in our eight five year plan. Second perspective plan has also been aligned with the as disease, because I believe that without proper plan, we cannot make any achievement. We have adapted short term program midterm program and long term program it invasions transforming Bangladesh into an upper middle income country by 2031 and a high income country by 2041. The delta plan 2000 hundred captured the as disease vision and beyond. It aims to create a prosperous and climate resilient delta for our future generation. Future generations must get a better life. That is our aim. We have taken up a coordinated effort involving the government, the private sector, the civil society and other stakeholders to ensure whole of society engagement to reach people who are further is behind we have put additional focus on localizing as disease. This serves as a data to monitor real time progress of our as disease. Finally, in our infrastructure capacity. We are launching mega infrastructure projects like, but my breeze Dhaka material, carnival, eternal and root for nuclear power plant. We may have been many streamed in national development and economic activities, and they are now the backbone of certain vital sectors such as RNG. In digitization and connectivity has spurred the digital economy, youth lead innovation and transformative social economic changes. This is now also helping us tackle the COVID-19 pandemic better. We have a huge youth population. We have invested heavily in their education and skills development to help them with the maximum benefit of the digital economy and technological innovation. Dear participants, ladies and gentlemen, the 2030 agenda is a global compact. This is our blueprint for a sustainable and inclusive global development. No single country can achieve this agenda alone. We need enhanced global collaboration and solidarity to advance this agenda. We have already entered the decade of delivery and action of the agenda. Yet the goal seems far away. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries were off track to achieve this disease. The pandemic has pushed them further behind. We need to chart out a bold and ambitious global roadmap to put us back on the SDZ stock so that no one is left behind. Let me share a few specific points in this regard. First, the success of SDZ now depends on sustainable recovery from the pandemic. The call of the hour and with real urgency is it ensure vaccines for everyone everywhere is to ensure vaccines for everyone everywhere. There are many poor countries, they cannot buy vaccines so it should make available to them. Developed countries and rich countries can come forward. Second, we must close the use resource gap in the implementation of the 2030 agenda. Third, we are concerned about the rising trend in global poverty. For the first time since 1998, due to the impact of the pandemic, our recovery efforts need more focus on job creation, social protection, women empowerment, and science, technology and innovation. Fourth, we believe that COVID-19 recovery measures should complement climate actions to create stronger resilience against any future shock or calamities. Finally, there must be more focus on enhanced monitoring and support mechanism for SDZ implementation. The UN should have enhanced coordination in this regard. It is also imperative to ensure that there are adequate and timely support measures to withstand emergencies and shocks to avoid any slight back. Third, we have preparedness for the pandemic and other emergencies should be done with priority at every level. I shall list it here. I'm happy to respond to any questions you may have. Thank you all for your kind attention. Prime Minister, thank you so much for your wise words and also for illuminating the deep sources of Bangladesh's success. And I'd like all of us to take note of several things that you said that I think are really key. You put education at the center of the economic development. I think that this is exactly right. And a very powerful message. I note, by the way, that Bangladesh in the most recent data, as I mentioned in the year 2018, has a lower secondary school completion rate of 88%. Pakistan, by contrast, is only half of that 48%. You've really put the kids in school. And I think it must be also the magic touch that you have really emphasized the girls education, because this is absolutely essential. And you also notice now the issue is getting the boys in school. We have the same issue in the United States, interestingly, there's a huge gap. At the university level, young women are outnumbering the young men by quite a margin and it's rising. Girls are probably just better, I think is the truth. I know we have to help the boys too, but I think your message is really powerful on this. And I wasn't sure that, but I think that that is probably number one key to your success. You mentioned the plan, which I also subscribe to because we need planning. We need the government to be able to look ahead, not a week or a month or the next to vote, but a plan that is systematic for public investment for building infrastructure for educating children for building the clinics that you talked about the thousands of clinics around the country. Third point you mentioned, of course, was the embrace of the whole sustainable development agenda. So you put a high level task force to work on the SDGs, right from the start. But also, Prime Minister, it's very gratifying to hear from you the focus on future generations because this is the vision of really investing in the future. I think you gave us a lot of powerful insights into Bangladesh is very rapid, very impressive, and very inspiring progress. You also mentioned several challenges for the world, which I want to make sure people hear and that your voice is well heard this week at the UN one is vaccination for all. It has just been grossly unfair, inequitable and dangerous. How countries have been left out and left behind of the vaccine access. President Biden is hosting a vaccine summit on Wednesday, but I want to make sure that all of the vaccine producing countries. The US, EU, UK, China, India, Russia are there, all cooperating and all giving the leadership to the UN, which could get this job done. But so far hasn't been able to get vaccines, because the companies are giving them to the rich countries, the rich countries are standing in front of the queue. And even the UN can't buy them, because the rich countries have export quotas. So Wednesday, I'm hoping for a big breakthrough. And I think your voice is very powerful for that vaccines for all no more delay and empower the UN to do its job, which it can do. Second point you mentioned dear to my heart is finance resources need to flow to Bangladesh to other countries that are have the way to get high returns on investment, but then can't get access to capital. And so we need to make sure that you have an expanded access to financial flows on good favorable terms. Third you emphasized empowering the poor empowering women and empowering excluded groups and delay no lose no time in that empowerment right now, especially in the midst of our current crisis. And fourth is the need for climate action.  We need action in the whole world. And I really thank you for your strong voice in that. Finally, I want to underscore this very impressive timing that by 2031 Bangladesh. Aspires to be an upper middle income country. And in 2041, a high income country. We're going to give you all support for that. Those are bold and impressive and achievable goals and please count on all of us listening and the sustainable solutions network to be supporting you in that and Prime Minister I we we made an award, which you will get in in person. But right now I will just show it online. This is an award presented to Bangladesh for the Prime Minister for the largest increase in the sustainable development goal index score between 2015 and 2020. This is great progress. You're running the fastest race. We are really thrilled. And you have your, your copy there. We're really honored to be delivering this for the people of Bangladesh and thank you for your leadership for the SDGs. Thank you very much. All the comments you made. Really very, very encouraging. Professor sex distinguished participant I'm deeply honored to accept this award on behalf of the people of Bangladesh. I'd like to thank ICSD for honoring the people of Bangladesh by this award. This is a testimony of our endeavors engaged in achieving as disease, leaving no one behind is a key part of the SDGs will continue our efforts in the March towers progress and prosperity so that no one is left behind. I dedicate this award to my country man. Our people with the help of them we achieve our independence as well as whatever I have done is only their support as you know that I have lost. My younger sister, whole family. My father was the president of Bangladesh, including my mother, my three brothers to sister in laws, my uncle's all, I mean, almost 18 members of my family was assassinated in 1975. And my sister and myself, we were abroad that time we are in Germany so we survived. We could come back to our country for long time for six years, because military dictators didn't allow us to come back. But when I receive support from my people. I was able to return my home in 1981. Since then, I've been working to achieve this goal. No one will be landless or homeless. This is our aim. We are making free of cost. We are providing houses for the poor people, landless homeless people. And each and every people should get food, at least two meals per day. We, we achieve that. And that way there are many other area we need lots of time to expand I know there is time. Well, time is too short time is very limited I cannot explain everything but I am trying all my best to fulfill my father's dream. You are in this exploitation free society. Peace and harmony that is our name. Thank you very much. And I dedicated this to my people. Prime Minister you are you are inspiring us and we all want to wish you and all the people of Bangladesh a happy 50th birthday and all success going forward. And as we start to travel again I'm looking forward to being back in Dhaka it's been too, too long that we can't move, but I hope that I can call on you at home in your beautiful country. Thank you for seeing you there but I want to thank you so much for being with us at this conference so you've touched a lot of people and a lot of people have heard you and will draw lessons from you and will hear your powerful call to action so that nobody is left behind. Be sure of that. Thank you so much. I invite you to come to Bangladesh now you should see the Bangladesh. I'm excited, I'm excited to do that. And I look forward to that very much. Let me thank you and we will turn it over to Lauren to help us close. Lauren, burrito who has brilliantly organized all of our sessions, and Lauren if I could ask you to help thank all the people that have made I CSD possible, I would be most grateful, and for all the people listening thank you for participating in the conference, and we're so honored and grateful to hear the Prime Minister Bangladesh. Thank you so much. Thank you so much everyone we are grateful to all of you for tuning in and no one more so than the Prime Minister again it has been our deep pleasure to host you. We have another set of sessions starting in about 40 minutes I threw the link to the program into the chat. So, again, thank you Prime Minister and we look forward to seeing everybody online for our next session and about 40 minutes. Thank you. Bye now.


So, I'd like to talk now about a concept of how to apply the ideal gas law to the workings of a jet engine in pretty basics, okay? Pretty basic. So, what I'm going to do here is I'm going to write four words and when I write these four words, one of two things is going to happen. You're either going to kind of chuckle or giggle a little bit like my high school students often do and you're probably also going to wonder what in the world do these words have to do with the ideal gas law and a jet engine. So let me write these words here. All right. Where do those words come from? What in the world are you writing? All right. Well, I asked a friend who actually worked for a place that manufactures jet engines. What types of things would you want students to know or think or understand about the work you do if I was teaching a class in aerospace engineering? And he said, here's four words that they should learn because that'll help them remember the workings, the basic ideas, the workings of a jet engine. And those words were, and I raised my eyebrow a little bit too when he said this, suck, squeeze, bang, blow. Well, let's see how those apply to the ideal gas law and to the workings of a jet engine. First of all, let's recall the ideal gas law. And I'm going to use the, well, normally it's PV equals nRT. But I'm going to rewrite it this way as a ratio. PV over nT is equal to some constant, where our values are our pressure, our volume, our amount of gas, and our temperature, OK? So how does that work? How do we apply the ideal gas law to the jet engine? Well, here's what we're going to try to do here. At the end of the jet engine, one of the things we want to do is we recognize that there's a pressure outside, a P naught, OK? There's a pressure outside here. And that if the jet engine's not turned on and not moving, there's also a pressure inside, which is the same as the pressure outside, OK? But what we'd like to do, that same pressure outside is also the pressure out here. But if we can get a change in the pressure where the pressure inside is much greater than the pressure outside, that's going to push a bunch of stuff out of the back, and it's going to create thrust. And we'll talk about thrust more later in another video or later in the class. Well, that's the blow part. We'll get to there.  So how do we create that difference in pressure? And here's where the ideal gas law comes in. We start off by recognizing, OK, in order to make this work, we're going to bring in a whole bunch of air.  And as we suck in that air, we're adding to that system. There we go. We're adding in a whole bunch of air. We're going to add to that system a bunch of mass into the system. OK? Well, recognizing that p over n, there's v and t as well, pv over nt, but what we're going to do is we're going to say we're adding a bunch of stuff, thought a closed system. We're adding a bunch of stuff to the system. And when we add stuff to the system, assuming the other things stay the same, they don't quite. There's some variations in there. But that's going to tend to make my pressure go up. We're adding a bunch of stuff and putting it into this system. The more stuff we add, pressure has a tendency to build.  Then we squeeze. We use a change in geometry. We use some baffles to sort of push things in, and we take all that air and we squeeze it down into a smaller and smaller space. There's a squeeze part. Well, when we're squeezing, again, looking at pv over nt, squeezing makes the volume go down. Well, if the volume goes down, assuming the other two say somewhat the same, what's that going to tend to do to the pressure? It's going to make the pressure go up. Notice we're not assuming the temperature is probably not heating up very much there. And we're not adding more stuff. We already added more stuff over here, whereas over here, the volume was pretty much sustained until we started shrinking it. So in two ways, we've made the pressure go up, first by bringing stuff in and then squeezing that stuff down. Then step three, bang, what do we do here? We take it and we light it on fire. Well, wait a minute. You can't add air on fire, but what we do is we add fuel. We add some rocket fuel, something that can explode, something that can burn. And when we do that, two things happen. Let me rewrite pv over nt again. First of all, we are adding jet fuel. That is, once again, adding more mass. We're adding it to the system. But in addition to adding it to the system, we set it on fire, which releases a whole bunch of energy and heats up everything in the system, which raises the temperature. It gets nice and hot in there. Nice and toasty. Well, both of those things, as part of the bang, lead to a major increase in pressure. So we've increased it by adding stuff. We've increased it by shrinking stuff. We've increased it by adding more stuff and exploding it, heating it up. And now we have a pressure inside that's a lot greater than the pressure outside, and we just let her go. We let it blow out the back. And that's how we create thrust using the principles of the ideal gas law.


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The Game Changers is the newest vegan propaganda documentary to hit mainstream along the likes of Cowspiracy and Earthlings using pseudoscience and fear mongering to convince people to go plant based. This movie is clearly an attempt to create a false reality. Not only are these people cherry-picked, they are lying about their actual performance. On top of that, do you really think they want you to be healthy?  People have already been eating 70-80% of their calories from plant foods in America. The movie's narrator is a self-defense trainer for military members, James Wilkes, who also won the Ultimate Fighter, tore ligaments in his knees and started studying nutrition. This is the clown shill they are using to portray this document as his own, as opposed to a propaganda piece, making it seem as if it's one person's mission to do good when in reality it's an incredibly well orchestrated plan. The first topic is about Roman gladiators. They found their bone mineral density was high, indicating a quality diet. Bones that have a high mineral density contain high strontium levels, which is what they were testing in the bones to indicate the mineral density. The claim they're making is that vegetarians have higher strontium in their bones than carnivores, but that is simply a myth with no scientific basis. We know that the nutrients needed to deliver calcium to bones are vitamin D3 and vitamin K2, as well as magnesium, of which we need animal foods to properly metabolize. No animal foods equals weak bones. There are two speculative reasons about why the gladiators ate so many grains. One is that they are slaves, and grains are a slave food. Two is that grains are very fattening, and if you have a layer of fat to protect yourself, it increases your likelihood to survive combat. So the diet of these gladiators was probably 50 to 60% grain, and fruit and vegetable access was relatively limited. Keep in mind we didn't have transportation at that point in time, and it is pretty safe to say that these gladiators ate more meat than we do now, especially in much higher quality meat. Before we get into the rest of this movie, I want you guys to understand that all of these people we are going to talk about are professional athletes at the top of their sport or they are retired athletes. Without a doubt, performance enhancing drug use is prevalent with expert levels of execution, and we know male athletes are now allowed to compete in female sports. UFC 202, Nate Diaz vs. Conor McGregor was staged as a vegan vs. carnivore fight, claiming Nate Diaz is a vegan and that Conor McGregor ate two steaks every day. But Nate Diaz isn't vegan, he eats fish and eggs. Then they bring up Scott Jurek, an ultramarathoner, talking about how he recently became vegan and is going to try to break the record for the Appalachian Trail, questioning how he is going to do so without animal protein in his diet Of course they bring in a sports expert saying that energy is from carbohydrates, not from animal protein, but we know the body has metabolic mechanisms to utilize energy from all macronutrient sources, whether it be protein, fat or carbohydrates, and the prevalence of high fat, low carb endurance athletes is growing. Up next is Morgan Mitchell, the current Australian 400 meter sprinting champion, at least at the time of this movie. She has seen a huge decline in performance, finishing 23rd out of 24th at a recent World Athletic Championship. This is Datsy Boush, a vegan cyclist that did something no one else has ever done at their age ever in Olympic history. I'll let you guys speculate on that one. Of course they have to address the issue of protein from animal foods. And they simply say that animals like cows, pigs, chickens are the middle man because the protein originates in the soil and the feed the animals are consuming. No shit, animals are the middle man. They have complex digestive systems and are able to extract nutrients that humans cannot from inedible plant matter. Try feeding a human crude soy and corn stalks. The claim is that vegans get all of the amino acids our bodies need in their diet, at least on paper when compared to meat eaters. But just because you're putting the amino acids in your body does not mean your body can convert it into protein. I'll link a video at the end here I did on Cam Newton where I explained the Krebs cycle as well as the urea cycle. The body simply cannot handle converting all of these amino acids into protein. It doesn't have enough B vitamins and the amino acid ratios obtained from plant foods is not optimal. They bring up Kendrick Farris, an Olympic weightlifter who hasn't competed since. These athletes always get to their peak eating meat, claim to go vegan, then mysteriously retire. One huge selling point of this documentary is Patrick Baboumian, who has been injured for over three years now and can no longer train anywhere near the top level, if he ever really has. He is not even close to a world-class athlete compared to the likes of Eddie Hall, Brian Shaw and Thor. Someone asked me how could you get as strong as an ox without eating any meat? And my answer was, have you ever seen an ox eating meat? No, I haven't seen an ox eating meat.   Bryant Jennings is a boxer who has been vegan since 2015 and coincidentally was undefeated until he went vegan, losing two of his most recent fights. Then they get an NFL doctor that talks about a meal being related to endothelial health, the health of our arteries and blood vessels.   There are many types of lipids in your bloodstream composed of all different types of fatty acids. And we know the main cause of endothelial dysfunction has to do with modern foods, refined carbohydrates, sugar, vegetable seed oils that comprise most of standard American diets, but now for some real pseudoscience. Hamburgers increase inflammation by 70%. If any of you saw my Whopper video the other day, we all know a hamburger is only about 10% meat.  The bun itself in a hamburger will poison you. The next topic is antioxidants and the importance of antioxidants in plant foods is overstated, but vegans never really bring up the most important antioxidant in the body, glutathione. As it requires only B vitamins found in animal foods to operate. The process of methylation for glutathione is worlds ahead in terms of importance. Antioxidants from plant foods can be likened to waxing your car. Whereas glutathione is like getting an oil change. A large portion of this documentary focuses on linebacker Derek Morgan of the Tennessee Titans, talking so positively about how they converted over a dozen of the Titans vegan. Coincidentally, Derek Morgan went vegan in 2018, got injured that year and was unable to recover from those injuries, retiring at 30 years old. I can't make this up. Is the rest of the Tennessee Titans going to retire to the documentary moves in the direction about the narrator being worried for his dad's health. Giving children and teens the idea they know better than their parents that the old traditions of eating meat are wrong. And of course, a man himself, Dr. Caldwell Esselstein, I'm sure many of you know the seventh day Adventist, a vegan religious cult by now, as well as a bunch of other plant-based doctors say coronary heart disease is a Western issue. But if that's the case, why do vegans still have heart attacks? And indigenous people did not. That's because the cause of heart disease is linoleic acid, plant-based fats, which the body doesn't recognize as they are inflammatory. I've discussed this in many past videos. Then they move on to the classic anti-meat arguments, heterocyclic amines, nitrosamines, TMAO, which I spoke about in my video last week. Anti-meat myths debunked. After that, they threw 50 firefighters in a room with Dr. Caldwell Esselstein's son. Wonder why the dad couldn't be there. Perhaps too weak to travel. He shows them a picture of a clocked artery and says it's from eating meat and dairy. It's completely comical. Oh, yeah, maybe, maybe the fat is white. That's from the dairy. Man, those Masai warriors sucking down milk and beef must have been eating a different type of meat and dairy. Despite a long continued diet of exclusively meat and milk, the men have low levels of serum cholesterol and no evidence for arterial sclerotic heart disease. The narrator of the movie continues shaming his dad that he is stubborn, says his father is a product of where he grew up, an animal based society. Moving on to Lou Smith, a former NFL player that is now vegan. And again, do we have any professional athletes that are vegan or just a bunch of people who are retired or crippled? Onto the golden boy, Arnold Schwarzenegger, ate eggs and meat to win the Olympia, but then says as he got older, you don't need protein from animals. Saying he loves plants much more than meat. I'm curious why Arnold doesn't get a lot of blowback for being such a sellout to big broccoli. The elite chow down on steaks and caviar while telling us to eat soy.  Of course, they bring up some 25 year old girl straight out of college who starts saying that humans don't have genetic, anatomical or physiological adaptions for meat consumption. I'm assuming that anthropologist from Harvard didn't want these words coming out of his mouth himself. This young woman claims we have longer digestive tracks than carnivores and we don't. They are actually much closer to other carnivores than herbivores. She claims that a longer digestive tract would allow us more time to digest plant foods, but that's not how it works. You can't digest a food. You don't have the enzymes or bacteria for doesn't matter how long it sits in your stomach. Cows and gorillas can ferment grass into fat.  That's how different our digestive systems are. This woman also ignores that our stomach acidity is as low as the scavengers. How convenient for her to miss that. Then Miss intern brings up vitamin C saying we are reliant on plants and the reason we see colors is to identify fruits for vitamin C, which is not true as vitamin C is contained in meat and it's not needed in incredibly large amounts in our diet. Another common argument, a big brain requires glucose. Is that why our brain is made out of fatty acids that can only be obtained from animal foods like fish? Is that why our body can make glucose from fat and protein? Is that why babies are born in ketosis? Then they try to say that humans have mouths designed for plant tissue. That's wrong from every angle whatsoever. Herbivores like cattle and goats that graze all day have sandpaper mouths and grinding molars, which are drastically different than humans. But humans started eating meat because of our tool usage and hunting ability, not because of our physical anatomical capabilities. We also have to consider that the human mouth has partially evolved for speech. Then this clown of an anthropologist says the most important thing if you were placed in an ancestral environment would be the knowledge of plant foods. Really? Is that why every single indigenous group consumed the majority of their calories from animal foods? No understanding of the caloric density and nutrient profile of vegetable foods whatsoever. The only thing allowing us to consume so much plant matter is agriculture. Onto the classic vitamin B12 argument that vitamin B12 is contained in dirt, again, saying that animals are the middle men, saying that you can get B12 by drinking water or eating dirt on vegetables, but that pesticides, antibiotics and chlorine killed the vitamin B12 bacteria, which is complete nonsense as most water sources in the world are not polluted with these things.  Animals absorb B12 that is made by their gut bacteria. Yes, there are some small amounts of microbes in the soil that might contain B12, but that is not any significant amount of the vitamin that is conducive for an herbivore to consume or for a human to consume. Back to marathon runner Scott Jerrick, who was supposed to run the Appalachian Trail, ended up tearing his quadricep one week into the race, and he actually moved on, tried to finish the race, but didn't break the record. It's unfortunate they spent so much time and money making this movie. If this came out a year or two ago, then these people might not have fallen apart already.  With this, they segue into male fertility, trying to make an argument that a plant-based diet is better for sexual health.     Yeah, real great science, guys. As ridiculous as this is, I will mention that conventional meats raised in feedlots are highly estrogenic because of atrazine on feed and crops, and will usually lower male fertility.  Now we bring in juice boy, Nimai Delgado. They try to make the argument that meat eaters have similar testosterone to vegans. They try to say soy isn't estrogenic, and there is far too much proof about the estrogenic effects of soy formula, the dangers of isoflavones. You want to make an argument saying soy isn't estrogenic, yet the reason I am standing here looking like a girl is because I was fed a soy formula. And now this clown of a narrator starts talking about cigarettes, trying to argue that the tobacco industry used to lie, so now the meat industry is lying. Really? Is that why Americans have been eating 70% plants for the past 50 years? The lobby behind grain, soy, corn, fruits, vegetables, Bayer, Monsanto is far larger than any meat lobby. This is gas lighting at its finest. They attempt to dispel the wisp of confusion that pops up in the media from time to time, that meter eggs is okay. I don't even know why they brought this up because the conventional appeal to authority ideas are in favor of plant-based. Very few people in the mainstream acknowledge keto or meat-based diets. They still have reservations. Then we go out to Africa with a group of people that is protecting rhinos from poachers. One guy who was patrolling protecting an animal every day said it didn't make sense to eat meat every night when he was protecting a rhino. Pretending there isn't a difference between using an animal for a trophy versus nourishment, it's comical how they compare shooting and endangered species for sport to eating a steak for dinner. Moving into the environment, saying that animal agriculture is destroying land, which is hypocritical considering every form of conventional agriculture destroys land and that animals naturally grazing is what is required for regenerative agriculture. They try to say that animals are using up water. Yeah, keep growing those almond trees, that lettuce, very high water usage in vegan diets as well. It's not exclusive to meat and those numbers are always foggy. Of course, this leads to emissions, yet there is absolutely no proof. There is a man-made impact on climate change, as CO2 is only 4% of greenhouse gases. While water vapor accounts for 96% and we don't know much about water vapor, even if this climate change nonsense was true, they are blaming meat when they should be blaming factories, corporations, especially overpopulation. They aren't telling you to stop driving to McDonald's or having kids, but they sure do want to take your meat away. Oh yeah, no, go to McDonald's by the Beyond Burger instead of the Beef Burger. So what's the lesson from this documentary?  It's very important to point out that every single thing said in this documentary is completely incorrect. It's misinterpreting what's going on. It's fear-mongering. But the takeaway from this is that they want to control you. They want to control the food supply. They want to keep making money. And above all of this, we have to start fighting against it, making other people aware of this, and pointing things out. If someone starts bringing up the documentary, starts saying, hey, that guy had to retire. Hey, he got injured. Hey, she came in last place. We have to educate people and inform them on the realities that you need high quality, nutrient-dense animal foods as a basis in our diet as humans to be healthy. Thank you guys for joining me. If you could please like the video, subscribe, hit that bell icon, share the video if you can. You guys would like to support me further. Definitely check out Frankie's Free Range Meat, providing you with high quality, nutrient-dense animal foods, always at an affordable price. Go to frankiesfreerangemeat.com. You can also check out Frankie's Naturals, Minimal Ingredients, Minimally Processed Hygiene and Cosmetic Products, such as my lip balm. This one tube has lessened me, I think like six months right now and by far the most effective lip balm. And I'm not making any money on it. So definitely buy something besides the lip balm.


And we're back. To a first major conversation this morning on the breakfast, the Federal Road Safety Corps has announced on Monday that it has deployed a 36,224 personnel and 1,226 patrol logistics to facilitate vehicular movement during the Christmas and New Year celebrations across Nigeria. Now the FRSCs act in Kormasho, Daouda, Buu. This was there during a press briefing in Abuja. At the press conference, Buu said the Federal Safety Corps had maintained a culture of organizing special patrol operations, codenamed Operation Zero Tolerance, to road traffic crashes. For many years, he added that they measures a full series of activities that mark the holiday season to ensure the safety of lives and property of road users. Now, the FRSC boss also went out to reveal at the press conference that the objective of the special patrol operations during this period, which commenced on December 15, 2022, would end on January 15, 2023 and has focused on the enforcement of traffic laws and prompt response to accident victims. Let's look at the issue of safety on our roads this year. We're glad to say joining us to do justice to this particular issue is none other than Mr. Imanole Kuley. Imanole Kuley is the National Court Data Roperine Foundation, which is the network on police reform in Nigeria. What I'm told while we have a Mr. Nika Guley, Public Affairs Analyst, since he apologizes for that mix up and very glad to have you on the program this morning. Hello, Mr. Nika Guley. Good morning to you, sir. Yes, good morning. Good morning to you and good morning to everyone. Sorry for the mix up. What are your thoughts? I've always had this, you know, view when I hear the police and the road safety officials, you know, ramp up the activities in celebratory periods. I always would ask, I mean, must they ramp up activities during celebratory periods? Are lives not worth, you know, saving in periods other than the Christmas Easter and salad festivities? But some would say that, you know, it's because of the increased activity. What do you say to this thought? Thank you very much for that question. My view is that when the sectoral safety permission and the police put up this press conference, I issue this statement in the runoff to festive periods, like Christmas, New Year, salad, the regressions, and all that. Because this is what it's expected of them every day. It is not only during festivities that we have our roads busy. Our roads are busy lying around. Agreed, there is an increase in traffic on some routes during the festivities, but every day of the week, our roads are busy. And one would expect government agencies to best have the possibility of safety of our roads to be doing their job on an eight-day basis. It shouldn't be a ceremonial thing that, oh, all the during Christmas and New Year, I will go and announce that I have deployed X numbers of men, I've deployed X number of vehicles and helicopters and all of that. That should be on a very busy because Nigerian roads are one of the most dangerous in the world. Dangerous in the world means that the road conditions themselves are not good. Most roads are not motorable. It can hardly drive on a marginal road for a kilometer without encountering a poor road. Secondly, the quality of vehicles on marginal roads, most vehicles are rickety. These are vehicles that have been rejected in other countries that are road roadways.  And then the drivers are rickety on a Nigerian road. Most of them are rickety because the government is unable to enforce a driver licensing regime where you have to go to driving school, turn the driving test and pass it before you can get a license. Anybody can get a license in Nigeria. So when you have this combination of three factors, it makes Nigerian roads one of the most dangerous in the world. And you expect government agencies that say we do that with limited to be carrying out this pressure or pressure on a daily basis to prevent Nigerians from buying. Because a lot of Nigerians have been made for a big scheme on our roads or measures really entirely preventable as well. So this is my view about this statement that has been issued by the Road Safety Commission. Okay, how would you you know respond to the reports that a total of road accidents recorded were 3,282 in the second quarter of 2022? I mean it showed progress being that there was a decrease of 1.88% from the first quarter in 2022. I mean shouldn't we be giving you know the accolades to the agency? I don't really believe the statistics that these people push out. This Nigeria, 200 million people, 36 states and the FCT, your accounting accident of 3,000, that should be our daily accident count. Maybe perhaps what they consider an accident is different from what I would view as an accident. For me, I would view on a platter man hitting somebody or pulling with his passenger or boat as an accident. It is indeed an accident. When another car or hit another car or hit the predictor, it's an accident. I need to think about Nigeria as big as we are, as popular as we are, that you are not going to have 3,000 of state accidents around the country on the daily basis. Then if you are not being honest with the statistics, so if the road safety commission is saying there were 3,000 accidents in the quarter and all of that, what statistics are dodgy? They are dodgy because the road conditions of Nigeria have not improved. The vehicle quality has not improved. The driver quality has not improved. From what factor will exactly mitigate against accidents in Nigeria? There is nothing. As I am speaking to you now, there are people who are driving for the first time in their life, first time, very first day of driving and they are on a major road, major road without even a sign on their vehicle. That is how it is in Nigeria. SPS like the United Kingdom where I live, before you are licensed to ground, you must take three different examinations. You take an examination for the theory, take an examination for the simulator with a different perception and then take an examination for the practical in the road. Before you take that examination, you must go to driving school so that at the end, between the government issues to license, you must be competent. There are people that have written an examination for 10 years and they cannot qualify as the driver. So those who are on the road are very competent. They understand the rules of the road and therefore it is like every driver is a component and they understand each other. All that in Nigeria where I talk about anybody can get into a vehicle to get onto the road. So if the road safety is not taking action to enforce driver license for this car, and we haven't fixed our road and we have not made any policy about the quality of the vehicle that we are on our road, what can we do before we get to them? So that's the strategy. That's my view. Mr Agoli, a very interesting example of comparison with what pertains in the UK where it's so hard, like you said, to be licensed as a driver. I also equally know people who have been their whole lives, people in their 30s and 40s, they've not passed that exam, they're not driving. What role do the citizens, the drivers on our roads have to play in the accident? Yes, please. Mr Agoli, are you there, please? All right. Sorry about that. Apologies for that. Yes. What role do the drivers on our roads in Nigeria have to play in all of this? I mean, sometimes on my way to work, I have to get down off the car to control traffic because someone who is not supposed to drive against traffic or we call one way, that's put his head there, and then some other people who are queuing for fuel, it's crazy. You have to beg people to do the right thing so that traffic can flow. I'm sure you, at one point, may have had to come down to control traffic. So do we also have, in terms of accident, not traffic congestion, but accidents, do we have an attitude that makes the problem worse? Okay, so anytime I have conversation with people, they say that Nigerians are wrong, they speak to you. Nigerians have a traditional problem that we are our own enemies, we don't do the right thing and all of that. I disagree with them again and again. Why do that is that? We mistake the sanity, we see in other places that we are arriving in New York now and you see that people see red light, they stop, they are looking for spilling, they are not packing anyhow, you know, and all of that. We mistake that to mean that the people's attitude is good, that the people on their own are behaving well. If it's not correct, the truth of the matter is that the New York Police Department has put a potential in place who gets to you if you break the traffic rules. If you beat that traffic light, there's a camera there that takes a picture of you and only in a matter of days, you will see the full force of the New York Police Department at your doorstep in the letter. That letter can't be made by the country in prison, it can't handle its work. Implement the same thing in Nigeria and Nigerians will even obey these far better than the New Yorkers are doing now. God made man in the wrong with the law. We do also have Christians who understand the set. One, in the garden of Eddard, God made man. Two, God gave man the law. Three, man broke the law. Four, God got consequence management. Law enforcement into the garden of Eddard. Places like Nigeria that are not doing well. We are doing the first thing, we're doing nothing about the court. When you go to places like Canada, France, UK, Germany, they are doing the fault. That law enforcement, that consequence management, the stronger it is, the more sane its society is. So if you are here in London today and you see how well people are behaving, the Metropolitan Police have got cameras with all the people watching the people.  That is the problem in Nigeria. We have also already got our individual sovereignty to leaders. But the leaders are not doing their job. Show me the cameras so we don't want people in Nigeria. People be the traffic light and don't cut me. And therefore, why would they forbid me? If you remove the cameras of New York City, we are not going to New York. You can break anybody on that. Remove the camera and the Metropolitan Police from London Road and everybody will be beating the traffic light there. So we just want government to do their work. Well, let's quickly talk about what we can do as a people. And those who are road users, everyone, because all hands must be on deck at the end of the day, now, vividly for the first quarter in 2022, the report from the MBS that 1,834 persons lost their lives in 3,345 road accidents that happened in three months. So we are looking for the first quarter of January, February and March. Well, moving forward, what exactly do you think, especially at this period, because people are going to travel and you can't tell people not to travel. A lot of people will still use the roads and what have you, other means of transportation. But I'd like to ask you, what kind of practice and behavior should stakeholders, those who are passengers and those who are controlling these vehicles, engage in to ensure that at least the debt rate actually reduces? Yeah, well, what I would like to advise, but as we went up in the first week by a period, is that yes, we don't have the job to do, but drivers also have their own job to do. They're something that is called defensive engineering. You look after yourself. You take everybody on the road that's not knowing anything.  And you have both to do something. We have to try safe, because some of the drivers who have on the road are sometimes wonder if they have kept the origin of their lives at home and they are driving with a motor purple. Because the kind of dangerous overtaking that you see, the kind of speedy that you see, you know, if you are in society, the government has speed cameras. They have speed cameras on the road. If you over speed, they know. But in Nigeria, we don't have these things. So people should just take the responsibility for themselves. Yes, you are traveling for a specific period, but arrive safe. Arrive in one piece.  And then you have the lives of other road users, because a lot of accidents that people experience is not their fault. It is a road who wants to do them or something. So we need to, on our own, also, play safe, especially during this period, so that if we take you three hours to drive from Lagos to Badon, so we eat, why are you trying to make it in 30 or 45 minutes and then lose your life or involve yourself in an accident in the process? So this will be my advice to put a motor on the road during this specific period. Yes, the government is not there, they let us take responsibility and keep ourselves safe. Yeah, but in the case of speed limit, because there's a measure of how you should drive. Speed limit for when you are driving within the city and when you are actually driving outside. We're talking about the highways and then the major roads within the city. So what else can government do at this point in time? Do we need government to have the officials on the road to ensure that people are not driving beyond speed limit? What exactly can be done? The government just has to figure out what, you know, there's a systemic failure, as far as driver licensing, motor licensing is contained in Nigeria. Like in the UK, every vehicle that is more than three years old must go for MOT. That MOT is the process where you check the vehicle and verify that the vehicle is capable of being on the road. The same way I already described the driver licensing process. When we have to play Nigeria, we have all these processes. We have all the laws. People who are taking on jobs to do these things, we must go ahead and do their job. There has to be a process to know if someone is licensed to drive on the road or not. And there must be a process that you must go to the mill and pass your driver licensing examination before you are licensed to drive on the road. These rules belong to the government. And only the government has the responsibility to certify people to operate on the road. That is the way it happens. And government in Nigeria has to begin that. You know, it's never late. If I admit they start today, they are aligned and we take in this portion. Because driving is a very dangerous activity. In driving, you can do that immediately. I think like in a split of a second. And once you make that mistake, that is the problem for me. It's not like when you are in the mountains, you make a mistake on paper counseling. So elsewhere, the government protects the lives of those who are on the road. We are not saying that in Nigeria. We need to begin to do that. All right. Nika Gule, thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Thank you. Have a wonderful day. All right. And we will be taking a break now. While we're here, we talk about more issues looking at what the House of Representatives has to say about the CBN governor and his invitation to answer questions on the CBN's policies. We have a break. We'll be right back. Stay with us.


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