Hello.
I watched a pot until it boiled, but stuff still happened.
So what's up?
A car crashed into a house.
Sorry, a car crashed into the second floor of a house.
You're not supposed to park there.
That's not where cars go.
There's not a whole lot of information right now, but everyone's okay.
The drivers hurt, but everyone in the house was okay.
They were downstairs at the time.
It's believed that this was an intentional act, which wow.
And also they think that he ramped off a culvert and flew into the side of the house.
The 20 year old guy driving the car.
I don't know what was going on in his head, but vroom.
That was probably was the vroom.
Hey, maybe don't use Zoom.
Video calling company Zoom has updated their Terms of Service
to be able to use all of your data to do whatever the fuck they want.
In this case, probably train an AI.
In their Terms of Service, it now reads,
Zoom may redistribute, publish, import, access, use, store, transmit, review,
disclose, preserve, extract, modify, reproduce, share, use, display, copy, distribute,
translate, transcribe, create, derivative, works, and process customer content.
Create, derivative, works is the big one, but all of those, they can take your video and do that.
They pinky swear that they're going to ask for your permission before they do that.
Trust them.
They're only the ones that can change their Terms of Service at will.
You can't change the Terms of Service at will, but they can.
Trust them.
This is not the first time that Zoom has had some issues with
customer privacy of information and whatnot.
If you're looking for an easy, lightweight alternative to Zoom
for just like doing a quick video call with somebody, check out Jitsi.
It's free.
It doesn't require an account.
It's peer-to-peer.
It's encrypted.
It's just, there's other alternatives.
I am not sponsored.
I just, there's other options out there.
You don't need to use the apps that you've already heard of.
Ohio said no, but in a good way.
Ohio had a big and random vote yesterday in the middle of August
to vote on a measure that would have made it harder to amend the state constitution,
among other random changes.
Inconspicuously timed with the fact that there is an upcoming vote to enshrine
abortion rights in the state constitution.
Ohio Republicans were trying to make it harder to change the constitution
right before abortion rights might have been passed.
But voters were like, hey, what the fuck?
They came out in droves on a random day in August to vote on a single issue
that was only on the ballot because people were trying to be nefarious
and leverage the apparatus of the state to harm the people who live there.
And so this measure failed miserably.
It was called in like 20 minutes after polls closing because it was so decisive.
Urban, suburban and rural counties all voted against this measure.
It was literally a measure that was made to just make it harder to do things with votes.
Had it passed, it would have required a 60% majority for a constitution amendment to pass.
It would have made it much harder to even submit the idea of a constitutional amendment.
And it would have essentially gotten rid of the ability to correct signatures
on mail-in ballots that were found to be not good enough.
Just like, hey, we're going to make voting harder.
Vote on that.
Anyway, billionaires not only shouldn't exist,
but also shouldn't be able to influence our politics
because almost all the funding received for pushing this,
like the organization that was really behind it,
was funded by a billionaire named Richard O'Lean.
And he lives in Illinois, which is not Ohio.
Let's talk about the Battle of Montgomery.
A dinner cruise boat was trying to dock back at their pier at Montgomery, Alabama.
But there was a pontoon boat in the way.
A dock worker went to the owner of the pontoon boat and were like,
you can't, you can't be there.
And they were like, fuck off.
So the dinner boat was not able to dock.
It was just kind of sitting there waiting.
And the dock worker was starting to beef with the people who own the pontoon boat.
He was like, you really can't be here.
And they weren't responsive.
So he started to untie their boat because fuck those guys.
The group who I will refer to as the pontoonies ganged up on the dock worker
and started to fight him.
One of them started the whole thing with a running leaping punch at the dock worker.
The dock worker then threw his hat into the air
as if to signify, you're all about to get a beat down.
And then it all began.
The pontoonies were going after the dock worker.
And at one point it was like eight on one.
They were really like having a bit of an advantage.
But then their reinforcements arrived.
People ran down from a nearby street.
One dude even jumped off the boat, swam to the dock, got out and started swinging.
The brawl went on to consume the entire dock
and eventually had a whole bunch of people involved.
And all culminated with a dude swinging a folding chair
and bopping people in the head.
There is a detail I have left out.
The dinner boat was almost entirely black people
and the pontooners were entirely white people.
And the docks at Montgomery, Alabama have a long history
of being a huge part of the slave trade.
A bunch of belligerent white dudes who weren't supposed to be there
were blocking an entire dinner cruise full of black people from docking at the pier.
And they were so upset about that that they attacked the dock worker.
A lot of people are seeing this as cathartic because it kind of is.
It is a direct fuck around and find out.
But also, cops were there.
They just managed to not kill anybody.
Nobody died in this encounter.
It was scrapes and bruises all around.
And it was basically just, this is what happens when you're an asshole.
There's of course pearl clutching going on
because the guy that was swinging the folding chair
bopped a white woman on the head when she was already on the ground.
But she was involved in the fight.
And my understanding of street fights is when you get involved,
you best expect you're going to walk away with a concussion.
Weird how if you enter into an ongoing fight, you might get hit.
Some people say violence is never the answer,
to which I would ask why does the military exist?
Sometimes when dudes are being belligerent assholes
and go eight on one against a single dude,
they should get punched in the jaw.
Just one man's humble opinion.
On this day in 1854, Henry David Thoreau published Walden.
Walden was a memoir of sorts that covered the two-year, two-month, and two-day time span
in which Henry David Thoreau was chilling at a cabin that he built near a lake,
sort of in the middle of nowhere.
He looked at nature a lot and it seems like it was really nice.
Basically, touch grass the book.
Lightning round. Norway will soon be finding meta about $100,000 a day
for illegally scraping user data.
You can now entirely disable YouTube recommendations
if you turn off your YouTube watch history.
The CFO of Tesla abruptly stepped down recently.
It was assumed that he was going to be next in line as CEO for the company,
but he's just gone now.
The ghost kitchen company that Mr. Beast is suing over the Mr. Beast burger stuff
is suing him right back for $100 million in damages.
Red Dead Redemption 1 is being brought to the Switch and PS4 slash PS5.
A 74-year-old man in Italy was killed by an avalanche of cheese wheels
that fell in a warehouse accident.
And finally for today, the US FDA has approved the use of an oral pill
to help treat postpartum depression.
This is the first pill of this kind as treatment currently requires an IV.
So this is nice.
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