I collected all of the power stars, but stuff still happens.
So what's up?
Sokka must have made an arrowhead back in the Bronze Age.
Archaeological researchers have been poring over a collection of artifacts recovered from
the Bronze Age, trying to figure out if any of them came from space.
Guess what?
One of them did.
An arrowhead in the collection very likely came from a meteor that crashed into earth
from, well, space.
And so this arrow that came from like 1500 BC was a space arrow.
Now to be clear, the arrow was not made in space and then came to earth.
It was just the iron came to earth and then was forged into an arrow.
But here's the wildest part.
They actually think they know which meteor it came from.
Meteorite, whatever.
Because they're way smarter than I am, they're able to actually look at the composition of
the arrowhead and they can match it to a known meteor slash meteorite, whichever one, that
landed in modern day Estonia.
It didn't land in modern day, but it landed in the area that it landed in.
You get what I mean.
Apparently it kind of like went like kaboom on earth and made a crater.
And then it had a whole bunch of like pieces of it fractured off from the kaboom and landed
all over the place.
And people came by and they're like, that's some good metal.
And then they turned it into arrowheads and shot each other.
And now I'm talking about it.
Pretty amazing.
Moving on.
Let's talk about the labor implications of shaking it off.
So you're probably aware that Taylor Swift is on tour and you might have even heard that
Taylor Swift is like bringing massive economic windfall to wherever she plays.
But now there's a bit of a mess because hotel workers in LA are currently on strike asking
for better pay so that they're able to afford living anywhere closer to work and have shorter
commute.
A lot of them are paid very poorly and have to commute very far just to work instead of,
you know, being able to live in the area that they work in.
You know, that thing that you should be able to do.
But LA is a tour stop for your girl.
And so local officials are now writing to Taylor asking her to postpone her show there
to stand in solidarity with the striking workers.
Notably a lot of the hotels affected by this strike are the hotels around the LA airport.
So it's going to be a mess.
I have absolutely no expectations that Taylor would actually postpone a show in LA.
Like the sheer logistics of the matter.
I just don't see it happening.
But maybe, possibly, perhaps, may chance.
Disclaimer.
I know virtually nothing about Lizzo, but here's what I've gathered.
So a lawsuit has been filed against Lizzo, a super popular singer songwriter artist in
general who's also known for body positivity messaging being plus size herself.
The lawsuit was brought to her from former dancers who allege a very hostile work environment,
sexual assault, harassment and like pushing her religion on them and a whole bunch of
other just really gross stuff.
I don't want to get into the specifics of it because it's fairly triggering and just
really graphic in general and largely just summarizes to Yikes.
She ain't good.
Lizzo has responded by posting to her Instagram with a message that largely summarizes to
Na-ah, the message starts by saying these are false allegations.
It goes on to then say that these dancers are liars and then goes on to say that she's
just passionate and very openly sexual, which doesn't really help her case here.
It's not a good post.
It's not a good deflection.
It's not a good apology.
It's not owning up to anything.
It's not really doing anything besides saying Na-ah, because on one side we have multiple
women with matching stories coming out against a person of extreme wealth, power and influence.
And on the other side, we have the person with the extreme wealth, power and influence
saying nope.
And so here's the thing.
I have like no prior conception of Lizzo.
I know a lot of people really like her.
I'm just like not tuned in to most modern music right now.
But like what I see here is people who have been potentially abused saying, hey, we've
been abused and the potential abuser being a person of wealth and power and status comparatively.
Anyway, turns out working from home is good for the economy.
Who would have thought that?
What an unbelievable concept.
So while a bunch of CEOs and manager types want you to get back to the office so they
can like, I don't know, slowly stroke themselves while they watch you work, it turns out that's
not actually necessary to make the economy better.
They just, you know, have a sunk cost in the office and want to feel like they have power
over you.
So yeah, a bunch of like city centers that have been like constructed around office jobs
and whatnot, they're going to suffer.
But the broader economy has actually been trending fairly okay in terms of like GDP,
not in terms of people being able to afford the basic needs.
But we now have a huge increase of people working from home, which means less people
who are commuting, spending money on their commute, spending money on expensive lunches
and whatever.
And so they're saving money, they're saving time, and they're using that time and money
to do like leisure thing, hobbies and shows and whatnot.
Travel either.
And this has led to an increase in GDP and increase in local economy improvements and
like, I mean, the whole Taylor Swift thing, she's performing at places and brings millions
and millions of dollars wherever she goes.
The landscape is changing a little bit and hopefully offices just kind of go to die eventually
because office jobs are literal hell.
Pardon my horrible pronunciation, but I'm going to try.
Today in 1755 was the birthday of Nicolas Jacques Conte.
He was a French author and an inventor and engineer and a whole bunch of different stuff.
He was also big into hot air balloons and he had a hot air balloon that he flew around
and then he invented the modern pencil.
What a guy.
It contains multitude.
Oh, he was also a painter and was in the army.
This guy lightning round.
There's been a lot of excitement around the JWST potentially identifying a bunch of new
black holes we didn't know existed before, but they're all like preprint studies.
They're not like peer reviewed and whatnot yet.
So we can get hype, but don't get too hype just yet.
The Ghost Kitchen Company being sued by Mr. Beast is saying that he's being a big meanie
weenie to them and that he's hurting their feet.
There was a super moon this past Tuesday and if you missed it like I did, don't worry.
There's going to be another even more super moon on August 30th.
A lawsuit has been filed against Taco Bell alleging that they're misrepresenting their
food in promotional images.
The U.S. Capitol was evacuated under threat of an active shooter situation and it turns
out it was probably just a prank call.
If you are one of the people paying Elon Musk a monthly fee to use X, you can now hide the
blue checkmark out of your embarrassment.
A pill that shows promise in the aid of attacking cancerous tumors is moving to human trials.
To be clear, this is not a cure for cancer in a pill form.
It's just another in an arsenal of helping, you know, with cancer.
YouTube shorts is getting some updates to help compete more with TikTok.
They're going to add support for their own version of like duetting and whatnot.
YouTube shorts.
It feels so tacked on.
I want to use it.
I want to use it more, but like I it's just so half baked.
The Department of Education in Florida has informed the College Board that AP psychology
is illegal to teach in Florida because of Ron DeSantis's new rules trying to just snuff
out queer people.
AP stands for Advanced Placement.
It's essentially a way for high school students to do like a mixed high school college course
kind of thing.
And psychology includes talking about sexuality and gender identity.
That's just what research does.
And if you're an aspiring psych student in Florida, you're just screwed because your
governor is a bigot.
And finally for today, as part of the lawsuit around the infamous school shooting at Marjory
Stoneman Douglas High School, they're going to recreate the shooting.
Like ballistic experts are going to go into the school and fire off all the shots that
were fired for research.
That's yikes.
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