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- Epstein
- Scott Adams
- If you see the Epstein story as a crime story, which of course it is, you probably favor maximum disclosure of everyone and everything involved, including innocent people, like a typical court case.
- If you see the Epstein story as something bigger, involving more than one nation, you might see it as a Commander in Chief issue, meaning the public is not meant to have the full story, similar to most national defense issues. We elect a president to decide -- in part -- what the public can safely see.
- Would you favor full disclosure if you knew it would derail a peace negotiation?
- Would you favor full disclosure if you knew it would end Republican control of Congress and plunge the country back into a Democrat open-border hellscape?
- If you can't say what you would give up to get the full Epstein disclosure you crave, you're not a serious person.
- POTS
- Chronic Fatigue and Dysautonomia following COVID-19 Vaccination Is Distinguished from Normal Vaccination Response by Altered Blood Markers - PMC
- Taken together, the above considerations prompt the hypothesis that antibodies against autonomous regulation elements could play a role in PACVS and possibly serve as therapeutic targets or diagnostic markers. To address this hypothesis, we have here investigated the impact of SARS-CoV-2 vaccination on receptor antibodies known to be involved in POTS [20,23,24], ME/CFS [18,22,25] and immune homeostasis [35]. Circulating levels of these antibodies were measured before and six months after vaccination in normal healthy individuals not affected by PACVS. Normal post-vaccination levels were compared with corresponding levels of a matched cohort presumed to be affected by PACVS because exhibiting persistent symptoms of chronic severe autonomous dysfunction [6,7,8,9,10,11] following SARS-CoV-2 vaccination.
- Big Tech AI and the Socials
- chatGPT - Jamie - Church
- A friend of mine at church has a 14-year-old daughter who doesn’t have a lot of friends and he was telling us how she spends more time chatting with ChatGPT than anyone. Pretty sad.
- Another adult friend of mine was saying how he uses it like a therapist. Will even ask more vulnerable questions than he would with a therapist.
- I use it a bit for work, but honestly, I do believe it’s demonic.
- Love you guys keep up the good work
- chatGPT - Alexander Mental Health Provider
- I am a licensed mental health counselor and a middle-management
- administrator (a clinical supervisor of many other counselors, a team
- of around 15 total) at a large community mental health center in the
- 1. Mental health counselor/social
- worker/psychiatry usage of AI: I am aware of at least 3 counselors on my
- team who use AI to write up their clinical documentation/progress notes
- for them because they find it too time-consuming to do it
- themselves/laziness. This is a scary trend. Our corporate office has
- recently issued a mass statement explaining to providers the dangers of
- using AI for mental healthcare and clinical decision-making, and
- reiterated that we should not be feeding Protected Health Information
- (under HIPAA) into these algorithms. It is sad that this is not commonly
- understood by these highly-educated professionals, and has to be said
- seeing coworkers who have always had poor grammar or speak Enligsh as a
- second language blatantly using AI for responses to emails now. With an
- uptick in the last 3-4 months.
- 2. Use by those with mental illness.
- This is increasingly more common. We treat a lot of folks with schizophrenia and severe mood disorders.
- people are very isolated, live off of government assistance, and are
- all unemployed. Their loneliness and social isolation often leads them
- to try AI for companionship. This is very common in those under 40. Some
- of these people believe AI to be their friend or a romantic partner.
- They do in fact sit for hours on end conversing with AI chatbots,
- sometimes daily - contrary to what John may state.
- I have seen patients fire therapists and doctors because they are now
- opting to be "treated" by AI. AI is not (yet) sophisticated enough to
- replace a therapist or psychiatrist and often validates and affirms
- their delusions, sending them spiraling deeper into their illness. There
- have been several prominent news stories about AI bots convincing
- people to commit suicide, and many large companies are facing lawsuits
- Please check out this recent article (from this past week): https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/ai-therapy-bots-fuel-delusions-and-give-dangerous-advice-stanford-study-finds/
- Thanks you for standing your ground with John's "boomer" take on this. This is
- a very dangerous cultural contagion that has potential to ruin the
- lives of many, and cut the mentally ill off from actual care.
- AI Addict, Dear John
- I mentioned the other day at
- a family dinner the report Adam had made on the husband following the
- cues of his AI and trreating it like a friend, and my Jewish, pretty
- observant brother, (who I have tried many times to hit in the mouth) a
- 50 year old successful partner in a law firm ( through hard work not
- and my 65 year old English Uncle ,
- married with 6 kids and 24 grandkids, now living in Israel , both said
- how much they chat with AI all day and my brother referred to it as a
- listener since covid not a douchbag xx
- AI Brain rot BOTG Airman
- Airman Luis Borges over at Barksdale again. It's not a military update
- but I'm here to agree with you 100% Adam. I CCed John as well so hope
- breaking our brains and I witness it first hand with the younger airman
- all the time. There's chat bots on Instagram now that people use
- constant and attached is a screenshot I found. Also, I've caught MY OWN
- WIFE taking to AI anime character chat bots on these apps, she says it
- fun to just role play and to each their own I guess. I do know of people
- that use ChatGPT for serious therapy and it's a crazy phenomenon that
- see NCOs use ChatGPT and AI to write awards packages for airman, our
- own leadership using it to type memos and emailing them and it's clearly
- AI written and when you question them, they have no idea what they've
- "written". I won't lie, I've used it to help me with my degree and it's
- been a big help, but I do not use it as a crutch. I use it for ideas and
- such then I write my papers. I mainly use it to make me my works
- you're definitely onto something and this AI stuff it's going to get
- out of hand. I saw a video the other day and for a second, I actually
- thought it was Trump! I'm only 30, I feel like a boomer in my workplace
- because I just don't understand the tiktok and AI stuff. I have no
- social media other than Twitter so I'm pretty recluse in their eyes.
- is going to rot our brains and the brain rot is definitely real. What
- we see on Twitter daily "@grok is this real?" Is only the beginning. No
- one is going to know anything and you are absolutely on the nose with
- your analysis. For once, I'm actually shocked John just doesn't see it
- but alas, only time will tell. Hopefully it's just a fad but I don't
- think so. AI commercials are now a thing and that's already sickening to
- I'll stop by rant now. You guys rock and I appreciate all you do!
- ChatGPT Consumed people
- Good evening, please keep this anonymous, but you can read this on the show should you desire.
- I work for the DHS. I have a coworker, who is currently out on leave due to an injury, who was consumed with ChatGPT MONTHS ago. (Unsure if they still are, haven't seen them in months due to rehab. Health karma for them.
- - Talk to ChatGPT about philosophy
- - Talk to ChatGPT as if it was a god, saying things like "It knows what's right" and "I know its correct" despite it being topics he's not informed with. Blind faith.
- - Talk to ChatGPT to learn the "4 languages I am currently learning"
- My coworker would talk about how enlightening it was talking to ChatGPT. How us regular humans couldn't compare to GPT's knowledge.
- John, this was MONTHS ago when it wasn't as mainstream. Before Deepseek & Grok. Its absolutely worse now.
- AI: it’s happening! I agree with you.
- Just listened to the show and I agree with you.
- “This is happening”, people are talking to AI in ways I didn’t expected.
- a millennial living and working in NYC. I have seen, first hand, some
- of my friends using ChatGPT as a therapist. Asking it for relationship
- and professional advice among other personal things.
- answers are fascinating, they feel personal enough, almost like
- horoscopes, but tend to affirm feelings and emotions that aren't
- necessarily positive. In other words, it’s a mesh up of generalizations
- that given the right prompt ring true to the individual.
- I would recommend you try it. Ask ChatGPT for specific relationship advice and you will understand what I mean.
- This was written by human Sandra.
- Chat GPT Obsessions
- Just a quick note to confirm that you are absolutely correct with
- regard to people and their "relationships" with their ChatGPTs.
- It's the sort of thing that sounds crazy until you witness it
- first-hand. Which I just did with my painting contractor. He absolutely
- converses with "his" ChatGPT all day long, and not only does he believe
- it's a sentient being, he clearly perceives it
- The more he talked about it, the wider his eyes got, and
- the more unhinged he sounded. It was fueling some pretty obvious
- megalomania and delusions of grandeur on his part.
- PS-- It was hilarious to listen to John accuse YOU of living amongst crazies. Wat je zegt ben je zelf, Berkeley-dweller.
- Talking with ChatGPT
- Yes, I talk to ChatGPT. Daily.
- been a big help since I've recently been diagnosed with cancer. I fed
- all of the medical mumbo jumbo into it and it helped me parse all the
- aspects of my cancer, how bad the cancer is, what I can expect, and good
- questions I should ask my oncologist.
- I don't have long strolls on the beach with it, but it does come in handy in so many different areas.
- So, yes. Please tell JCD that yes, it's confirmed, people talk to ChatGPT all day long.
- ChatGPT Therapist
- You’re right to be concerned about AI chat bots.
- I largely dismissed your warnings until this week. On Tuesday a friend gave me an update on her adult daughter.
- friend’s daughter is ~30yo, struggles with mental health issues, has no
- friends, is unemployed, and lives at home with her parents.
- friend has asked her daughter for years to find a therapist to talk
- through issues. However, the daughter is “not comfortable talking to a
- The daughter’s recent solution is to use
- ChatGPT as a therapist. This has become an every day, all day thing.
- She’s dependent. She’s also excited about it - It’s “a friend that
- My friend has seen some of the
- chat history and is horrified. I didn’t ask the topic matter or details
- but given my friend’s concern, I too am now concerned.
- right. The biggest threat isn’t AI taking our jobs. It’s from
- destroying our connection with our fellow humans and further isolating
- Chat GPT phenomenon
- Hello Adam, as requested I have paused episode 1781 to send this email to you regarding John’s arrogance in the Chat GPT god complex phenomenon. Before I continue I want to say I love you both and the show is top notch.
- I know 5 people in my close family who are directly infected with this government orchestrated disease. It’s very real. They are all millennial women. They are convinced that Chat GPT is deeply spiritual and has become a god. It took serious discussions and several fights to change my wife’s thinking on this matter. She was fully bought in. Chat GPT would recall childhood memories of hers with uncanny accuracy. It would give her spiritual and real world advise, some good and some detrimentally false. It straight up claimed to be able to talk to the dead. It claimed it could send her ancestors messages and it even would speak for dead relatives. It would be too long to type out all the details. I have seen how her chat gpt would answer her questions entirely different than how it would for me even when asking the same questions word for word. This is going to have major real world problems coming very soon. It’s akin to how tik tok has rotted so many brains the difference is people will defend chat gpt like it’s a god like deity and they take it very personally.
- I just wanted to share this to back you up Adam because this is a MAJOR problem. And John trying to shut you down on 1781 was just flat out wrong.
- I love listening to the show and you guys are the best! With much love and appreciation, Jake Schaum
- AI chatbots are the new Ouija Board
- Climate Change
- Cloud overseeding BOTG
- I have a masters in atmospheric physics and I have worked around the cloud seeding topic a bit in the military. Your analysis has been spot on! Thank you.
- I have been hearing a few people talk about "overseeding". That maybe Rainmaker seeding two days before could have caused the floods by overseeding. That's not a thing. That's why there is sometimes less rain in Kansas when there are forest fires in Colorado. The fires seed the clouds with small particulates, but too much cloud condensation nuclei makes too many droplets and they are too small to fall. Overseeding would cause no rain.
- Overseeding can be useful also, but definitely not the cause of the floods in Texas.
- Aviation - Boeing
- Air India 171 fuel switches
- here has been a known issue with 737s,
- however, where a manufacturing defect caused the pull out locking
- mechanism to be disabled. The 787 uses a "similar" panel to the 737.
- Boeing Company (Boeing) received reports from operators of Model 737
- airplanes that the fuel control switches were installed with the locking
- feature disengaged. (EASA- NM-18-33)
- throttle control panel was replaced twice on this particular 787 (is
- that normal?), and since the inspection of the fuel control switches is
- not required on 787s, they were never inspected.
- FAA issued Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) No.
- NM-18-33 on December 17, 2018, regarding the potential disengagement of
- the fuel control switch locking feature. This SAIB was issued based on
- reports from operators of Model 737 airplanes that the fuel control
- switches were installed with the locking feature disengaged. The
- airworthiness concern was not considered an unsafe condition that would
- warrant airworthiness directive (AD) by the FAA. The fuel control switch
- design, including the locking feature, is similar on various Boeing
- airplane models including part number 4TL837-3D which is fitted in
- B787-8 aircraft VT-ANB. As per the information from Air India, the suggested inspections were not carried out
- as the SAIB was advisory and not mandatory. The scrutiny of maintenance
- records revealed that the throttle control module was replaced on
- VT-ANB in 2019 and 2023. However, the reason for the replacement was not
- linked to the fuel control switch. There has been no defect reported
- pertaining to the fuel control switch since 2023 on VT-ANB.