1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,500 Hello. 2 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:02,580 I am back from my vacation. 3 00:00:03,240 --> 00:00:05,080 Because stuff has happened. 4 00:00:05,080 --> 00:00:05,880 So what's up? 5 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:08,680 Medical science continues to make me look like a moron. 6 00:00:08,680 --> 00:00:10,040 Because they're very smart. 7 00:00:10,040 --> 00:00:11,480 Well done, smart people. 8 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:12,880 Let's talk about Alzheimer's. 9 00:00:12,880 --> 00:00:15,920 We've made we've made improvements to Alzheimer's medication. 10 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:16,980 That's very good. 11 00:00:16,980 --> 00:00:20,200 A medication for patients with Alzheimer's has recently been approved by the FDA. 12 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:26,300 But like right after that, another study came out and found that this other experimental medication is even better. 13 00:00:26,300 --> 00:00:28,200 Now, I want to temper expectations a little bit. 14 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:30,200 Like we're still, this is a tough one. 15 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,040 It's a tough old nut to crack. 16 00:00:32,040 --> 00:00:38,340 But we've got studies that show that this medication is able to sort of stave off the mental decline that Alzheimer's brings up. 17 00:00:38,340 --> 00:00:43,320 Especially in the earlier stages of the disease, which can help improve quality of life for a little bit longer. 18 00:00:43,320 --> 00:00:44,360 It is not a cure. 19 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:49,560 We are still doing research, but it is a step in the right direction and is teaching us more about this disease. 20 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:52,060 And hopefully, someday we'll get there. 21 00:00:52,060 --> 00:00:53,020 So fuck yeah. 22 00:00:53,020 --> 00:00:54,000 Medical science. 23 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:57,460 Hey, remember when the president of the United States did a bunch of crimes? 24 00:00:57,460 --> 00:01:00,160 Like on TV and like bragged about it. 25 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:01,500 Remember that? 26 00:01:01,500 --> 00:01:05,740 Well, Trump has been informed that he is now the target of a third criminal investigation, 27 00:01:05,740 --> 00:01:09,140 this time into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. 28 00:01:09,140 --> 00:01:10,640 And he's not happy about that. 29 00:01:10,640 --> 00:01:16,880 It's almost like he recorded a video saying, hey, people who are currently storming the Capitol, you are correct. 30 00:01:16,880 --> 00:01:17,920 And we love you. 31 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:18,460 Weird. 32 00:01:18,460 --> 00:01:22,860 So yeah, the Department of Justice is going after Trump and he might be indicted for a third time. 33 00:01:22,860 --> 00:01:27,660 At the same time, 16 fake electors from Michigan have been charged with felonies. 34 00:01:27,660 --> 00:01:31,060 As a quick reminder, during the 2020 election, they were like, you know what? 35 00:01:31,060 --> 00:01:33,400 It looks like the state's going blue. 36 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:37,740 We're just going to ignore that and try to send our own suite of electors for Trump. 37 00:01:37,740 --> 00:01:39,600 They were like, no, the votes don't matter. 38 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:41,180 Let's just make it up. 39 00:01:41,180 --> 00:01:47,980 And so 16 real life human beings signed a piece of paper with their hands saying, I am the real electors. 40 00:01:47,980 --> 00:01:49,480 It's me, the big boys. 41 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:51,920 But weird, the state doesn't agree with that. 42 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:54,860 And so Michigan's attorney general has charged them a lot. 43 00:01:54,860 --> 00:01:55,520 Weird. 44 00:01:55,520 --> 00:02:01,520 Weird how it keeps happening that people do a crime and talk about it a lot and then get charged. 45 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:03,440 They're like, oh, yeah, we're the patriots. 46 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:09,040 We're going to ignore the will of the voters and just send our own electorates that we chose. 47 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:09,900 This is good. 48 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:15,580 Even ignoring the fact that this is just the state swabbling with other people who work within the state and do state things. 49 00:02:15,580 --> 00:02:17,540 Like, what the hell? 50 00:02:17,540 --> 00:02:20,620 Like, we already have the bullshit that it is the Electoral College, right? 51 00:02:20,620 --> 00:02:24,960 Like, this is this wouldn't be a thing if a simple majority vote could elect a president. 52 00:02:24,960 --> 00:02:26,960 But that's not how a president gets elected. 53 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:31,060 So we have a bullshit system and they're trying to be like, hey, so within this bullshit system, 54 00:02:31,060 --> 00:02:37,040 we're going to try to pull some sub bullshit, sort of a a mondo bullshit, meta bullshit, if you will. 55 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:38,600 Literally like why? 56 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:39,940 I mean, I know why. Don't answer that question. 57 00:02:39,940 --> 00:02:41,040 I don't want to hear why. 58 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,340 The reason why is bad. 59 00:02:43,340 --> 00:02:46,140 It's a rhetorical why, sort of a royal why. 60 00:02:46,140 --> 00:02:51,180 Hey, so you know that thing where you accidentally email the wrong person's secret military documents? 61 00:02:51,180 --> 00:02:51,740 No? 62 00:02:51,740 --> 00:02:55,060 Well, that is a thing that has happened hundreds of thousands of times 63 00:02:55,060 --> 00:03:00,980 because people meant to send emails to military email addresses at dot M.I.L. domains 64 00:03:00,980 --> 00:03:05,260 and accidentally sent them to dot M.L. domains, which is for Mali. 65 00:03:05,260 --> 00:03:09,500 The thing that comes after the last dot in a URL is called a top level domain. 66 00:03:09,500 --> 00:03:12,400 You're dot coms, dot net, dot orgs. 67 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,380 There's also like, you know, the special ones like dot gov and dot mill. 68 00:03:16,380 --> 00:03:22,180 Then there's the country code ones where you've got like dot NZ, dot U.S., dot C.A. 69 00:03:22,180 --> 00:03:23,320 Those are the country code ones. 70 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:28,460 And we've got the fancy ones now like dot service and dot gay. 71 00:03:28,460 --> 00:03:31,080 But it doesn't matter. 72 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:38,660 We just whoops. People just missed the I in dot mill and sent military information to random addresses in Mali. 73 00:03:38,660 --> 00:03:43,340 There is a silver lining, which is that the dot M.L. domain name has been being handled by a third party 74 00:03:43,340 --> 00:03:45,260 that's actually not in Mali. 75 00:03:45,260 --> 00:03:50,900 And they've been reaching out to the U.S. being like, hey, hey, yo, this is a problem. 76 00:03:50,900 --> 00:03:53,220 The U.S. is like, oh, whoopsie doopsles. 77 00:03:53,220 --> 00:03:56,480 Oh, well, so far, nothing actually classified has been sent to this domain, 78 00:03:56,480 --> 00:04:00,180 but it's about to be handed back over to the country pretty soon. 79 00:04:00,180 --> 00:04:06,780 And that's not a thing you want to just, you know, hand people only the best in free country USA. 80 00:04:06,780 --> 00:04:09,100 We got the good ending. 81 00:04:09,100 --> 00:04:11,900 Well, sort of. I mean, yeah. 82 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:17,940 A dude and his dog were adrift at sea for like two months after they intended to sail from Mexico to French Polynesia. 83 00:04:17,940 --> 00:04:23,780 Unfortunately, soon after they departed, their boat got hit with bad weather and they lost all their electronics 84 00:04:23,780 --> 00:04:26,540 and like navigation equipment and whatnot and communication equipment. 85 00:04:26,540 --> 00:04:27,740 It wasn't good. 86 00:04:27,740 --> 00:04:31,220 So it's just a dude and his dog adrift at sea for multiple months. 87 00:04:31,220 --> 00:04:36,220 And they survived off of the thankfully fishing equipment they had and rainwater. 88 00:04:36,220 --> 00:04:38,380 But they're back on land and they're doing OK. 89 00:04:38,380 --> 00:04:41,620 The dude seems to be in good spirits. He's able to eat, albeit slowly. 90 00:04:41,620 --> 00:04:45,740 And the dog survived, too. It's we're we're happy about this. 91 00:04:45,740 --> 00:04:50,980 On this day in the year 64, the Great Fire of Rome began. 92 00:04:50,980 --> 00:04:54,060 It went on to burn for a while and it burned about half the city down. 93 00:04:54,060 --> 00:05:00,580 And funnily enough, there's rumors, unconfirmed rumors that Nero ordered the fire 94 00:05:00,580 --> 00:05:03,180 because he wanted to, you know, clear out some room for a new palace. 95 00:05:03,180 --> 00:05:07,380 Now, again, this is unconfirmed, but as we've seen before on this show, 96 00:05:07,380 --> 00:05:10,500 Nero is not a stranger to wild ass shit. 97 00:05:10,500 --> 00:05:12,180 Big day for Nero. 98 00:05:12,180 --> 00:05:16,500 Lightning round. The EU is rolling out regulations such that gaming handhelds 99 00:05:16,500 --> 00:05:19,940 like the Steam Deck will have to have replaceable batteries by 2027. 100 00:05:19,940 --> 00:05:24,420 Burger Chain In-N-Out has adopted a policy that their employees are not allowed to wear masks 101 00:05:24,420 --> 00:05:26,500 unless they have a valid doctor's note. 102 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:30,780 An ongoing court case around whether or not Apple is allowed to force all app developers 103 00:05:30,780 --> 00:05:34,460 to use the app store for payments is possibly heading to the Supreme Court. 104 00:05:34,460 --> 00:05:39,940 There's been a huge spike of abuse allegations among staff in McDonald's locations in the UK. 105 00:05:39,940 --> 00:05:42,020 And McDonald's is like, oopsies. 106 00:05:42,020 --> 00:05:45,260 After spewing anti-Semitic bullshit that I will not repeat here, 107 00:05:45,260 --> 00:05:48,620 RFK Jr. has been condemned by members of his own family. 108 00:05:48,620 --> 00:05:52,540 The Wall Street Journal was quick to publish an opinion piece about how that just makes 109 00:05:52,540 --> 00:05:56,540 RFK Jr. more trustworthy because his family obviously can't be trusted 110 00:05:56,540 --> 00:06:00,060 because who condemns their own family publicly? Blah, blah, blah, blah. 111 00:06:00,060 --> 00:06:02,060 Real cool journalism. It is... 112 00:06:03,420 --> 00:06:07,420 way too goddamn hot. Like all over everywhere. It's just, it's hot. 113 00:06:07,420 --> 00:06:09,020 Don't, don't die, please. 114 00:06:09,020 --> 00:06:13,340 And speaking of that, insurance companies are continuing to flee Florida, 115 00:06:13,340 --> 00:06:18,140 making it even harder to actually own a home in a market that's already terrible. 116 00:06:18,140 --> 00:06:22,140 Why insure stuff in Florida if there might not be a Florida soon? 117 00:06:22,140 --> 00:06:25,420 It's just good business. There's now, there's someone's 118 00:06:25,420 --> 00:06:28,540 mowing very loud right near where I'm recording. Very cool. 119 00:06:28,540 --> 00:06:31,260 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 120 00:06:31,260 --> 00:06:35,340 Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online for sources, bonus content, 121 00:06:35,340 --> 00:06:39,100 and the sound of somebody mowing their lawn right outside my window. 122 00:06:39,100 --> 00:06:42,300 My name is Nzeverance. I'll be live tonight on my Twitch. 123 00:06:42,300 --> 00:06:46,460 I hope to see you there. And don't forget, if you're listening to this as the podcast, 124 00:06:46,460 --> 00:06:49,740 please, please give it a share, give it a review. 125 00:06:49,740 --> 00:06:53,020 I don't know how any of that works, but it does help very much. 126 00:06:53,020 --> 00:06:57,260 Thank you so much for listening. I'll be back on Friday. 127 00:06:57,260 --> 00:06:59,260 Take care and be well.