Hello.
I stopped the microwave right before it beeped,
but stuff still happened.
So what's up?
Oopsie doopsie, we lost contact with the Voyager 2,
the sequel to Voyager.
OK, so you know that space probe that we sent out
that's supposed to just kind of go straight into the universe,
like forever?
Well, oops, we lost contact with it temporarily,
to be clear, hopefully.
So the people operating the communications with this thing
accidentally sent the wrong command,
and it made the dish just kind of tilt ever so slightly out
of the way, and now it won't talk to us anymore.
But here's the thing.
Scientists are smart, and they know that humans are dumb.
And so there's a failsafe.
It's going to orient itself back towards Earth
in a matter of months on its own.
But in the meantime, we're just kind of blasting
its general area with a, please, hey, please reply.
Voyager 2, we didn't mean it.
I'm so sorry.
Call me.
Anyway, this is legit funny.
Like, oops.
It is the scientific equivalent of hitting send on photos
that you had meant for one person,
and it went to somebody else.
You done goofed?
Going to have to wait for things to cool off a bit.
Now, while we're waiting to reestablish contact,
maybe we can be playing with our Switch 2,
because we've got some details about Nintendo's next console.
Kind of.
I'm going to say Switch 2.
We don't have confirmation that it's a Switch 2,
but here's what we do know.
It is reportedly going to come out
in the second half of 2024.
That's pretty soon in the grand scheme of Earth.
We know it's going to have some sort of portable playability,
which lends some credibility to it being maybe a Switch 2.
We know it's going to have an LCD screen, not an OLED screen,
and we know you're going to be able to port your Nintendo
account over from your Switch to it,
which kind of maybe implies some backwards compatibility
in games library.
But I mean, it's Nintendo, so don't hold your breath.
Also, expect cartridges again.
That's fine.
Who cares?
Now, I'm saying Switch 2, but this is Nintendo,
the creators of the Wii U and the new Nintendo 3DS XL.
So for all we know, this is going
to be the new Nintendo Switch U us Wii edition.
But I do not give a shit.
As long as they release Animal Crossing, I'm fine.
Quick aside, I'm a long time Animal Crossing boy.
A long time Animal Crossing boy.
I've played all of them.
New Horizons was mid.
Don't get me wrong.
New Horizons was great.
It was what we needed at the time.
It was still an Animal Crossing game,
and all Animal Crossing games are very, very, very good.
But compared to the other ones, it was just fine.
I liked being able to put furniture everywhere.
I liked being able to edit my terrain,
but it had a lot fewer shops.
It had a lot less expanding of the store.
It just lacked a lot of the other stuff that made
it have a sense of progression.
I don't love that.
New Leaf had a whole downtown, and you
could do public works projects.
There was some cool stuff going on there.
I was also really hoping for longer term support
and more events and updates and stuff.
And they really just kind of fumbled that.
Nintendo had on their hands some incredible social phenomenon
gaming experience, and they just bumbled the ball,
because it's Nintendo, and they're
going to fuck up online play.
I do not feel like watching a multi-minute cut scene every
time I want to go say hi to a friend, especially
in the era where I can just click a button
and join my friend's game on Steam.
I'm done with this topic now.
Let's move on.
I apologize.
I am simply very passionate about Crossing Animals.
YouTube sensation and guy who should give me a lot of money,
MrBeast, is suing his burger people.
That's right, MrBeast has a line of burgers
called MrBeast Burger.
It was a partnership that he did with a company called
Virtual Dining Concepts.
In the depths of the pandemic, the ghost kitchen phenomenon
was going wild, where you take a restaurant
and you use their kitchen to prepare food
for a virtual brand.
Restaurants were open to this because they
needed any kind of money.
And so a bunch of ghost kitchen management companies
cropped up, and they had a bunch of investors
to put brand names on things like MrBeast and MrBeast
Burgers.
But here's the thing.
It turns out they didn't do shit quality control,
because why would they?
They were just trying to get a quick buck off of a pandemic.
And so MrBeast is not particularly
happy about the quality of the burgers,
because he was supposed to be saying,
oh, these burgers are great.
But it turns out they were vile.
I'm sure that in some places they were quite good.
I'm sure they were perfectly capable burgers,
depending on the kitchen you ordered from.
But there was no consistency whatsoever.
And so there was a bunch of reports of people being like,
my burger is like fucking frozen or covered in mold.
It's bad.
Anyway, MrBeast is now suing them,
because it ain't good for his brand.
Hey, MrBeast, can I have a, can I get like five bucks?
Let's talk about the ongoing coup in Niger.
It's actually getting kind of out of hand.
Africa might have a sort of continental war.
And that's not good.
So Niger has had a coup.
I've talked about that last time.
And they're trying to essentially separate
from Western influence.
There are countries on the continent
that aren't interested in separating
from Western influence.
And there are countries that are also very much interested
in supporting Niger in their efforts.
So while Niger is saying, leave us alone,
let us handle our own shit, they've
got support from some countries nearby and opposition
from other countries nearby.
And meanwhile, all the foreign powers
who like to play around in Africa
are pulling out and watching from afar,
because it's suddenly not convenient to be in that area.
On this day in 1776, the Declaration of Independence
was actually signed.
So don't get me wrong.
July 4th is when it was adopted, ratified,
all the important stuff.
The actual physical signature apparently
didn't take place until today.
This is according to a letter that
described the situation written by Benjamin Rush in 1811.
Apparently the vibes in the room were pretty somber,
as people were thinking that they were essentially signing
their death certificate.
So much so that one signer, who was apparently particularly
ample, cracked a joke about how his weight would help him die
faster when they all get hanged.
Fun stuff.
The wackiest part is that joke would land in modern humor.
Lightning round.
So the SEC is suing Coinbase, and we knew that.
But apparently they had previously asked Coinbase
to stop trading all cryptocurrency besides Bitcoin.
There is a leprosy outbreak in Florida.
Donald Trump has been indicted again, again, again, again,
this time around January 6th.
And the indictment also includes Rudy Giuliani
and other co-conspirators.
Paul Rubin, the guy who was Pee-wee Herman, he died at age 70.
There's a weird looking bear at a zoo in China.
And it looks so strange that people
think that it's a person in a bear costume, so much so
that it's actually driving a 30% increase in traffic
to the exhibit.
BBC News is giving Macedon a try.
They've set up their own Macedon instance to give it a test run.
Meanwhile, at X slash Twitter, Elon Musk
is suing an online hate research group
for trying to do research about online hate on Twitter.
And finally for today, get hype, because the Euclid Space
Telescope is getting ready to do some space telescopery.
This telescope is kind of analogous to the James Webb
in some way, but it's like trying
to figure out some secrets about dark matter,
among other things.
I mean, it's a space telescope.
But it's going to be dope.
Well, yes, we just lost contact with the Voyager 2.
We're also out here sending ridiculously powerful measurement
instruments into space to solve mysteries of the universe.
Like, I mean, I had a cinnamon roll for breakfast.
Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff
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