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Hello.

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I looked both ways before crossing this street,

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but stuff still happened.

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So what's up?

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You have pissed off the autoworkers.

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You're not supposed to do that.

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United autoworkers are going to hold a vote soon to determine if they'll strike as soon as next month,

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as talks with their employers are falling apart.

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Big shocker.

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150,000 representative union members might go on strike because the big three automakers that they work with

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are pieces of shit and not paying them well enough.

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Here is a quote from Sean Fain, leader of the United Auto Workers Union.

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Quote, we're done taking their crap and the scraps they want to feed us.

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Yo.

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Yo?

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Uh, yo?

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Hello, United Auto Workers.

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It's me, Endeavorous.

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Yo?

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Notably, if they go on strike, the union's going to be able to take care of their own.

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So they're fine to do it.

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It's just on the auto workers to decide if they want to pay their workers equitably.

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Deep breath.

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Trump has been indicted again, again, again, again, again.

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This time in Georgia for the whole calling Georgia and asking them to change the election results for him.

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He also got hit with RICO charges, which basically means we have identified you as a criminal organization

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orchestrating illegal shit constantly.

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This brings Trump to a total charge count of 91.

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As for the state of play, Republicans are firmly behind Trump still.

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They're digging their heels in and they are vocally and full-throatedly supporting him,

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saying that this is just a witch hunt.

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Also interesting with this one is that because of laws, they're going to be able to have cameras in the courtroom

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and we also might see a Trump mugshot.

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So that's that's going to be everywhere.

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Moving on different lawsuit.

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Do not do revenge porn.

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In fact, don't be an asshole in general.

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A woman in Texas has just won a whopping one point two billion dollars in a revenge porn case against her ex-boyfriend.

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I want to be very clear that it wasn't just revenge porn.

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He posted pictures of her online, hosted it on Dropbox, sent the links to her friends and family,

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and then harassed her saying that she's going to spend the rest of her life trying to scrub this from the Internet

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and will always fail.

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It was about as malicious as intent can get.

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She was originally seeking a hundred million, but she was awarded 200 million for damages

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and then another additional billion dollars just to say fuck that guy.

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There is some sort of large machinery just outside my recording studio.

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So I'm going to try to deal with that.

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What the hell is that?

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It's my neighbor.

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We don't have big yards, but they seem to have contracted somebody with a riding mower.

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Cool. Anyway, so yeah, that billion dollars was literally just for fuck that guy.

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It's just punitive damages.

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And the reason for that is because fuck that guy.

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Hey, please just don't go to Maui right now.

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I mean, like I probably don't need to tell you that, but please don't go to Maui.

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The relief efforts in Maui are ongoing and they're fraught with a lot of issues

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and they're just asking people to stop using their living space that has recently been destroyed as a tourist destination.

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Residents are even getting calls from real estate investors asking to purchase their property.

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You know, the property that they own that was just destroyed by a fire.

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Absolutely no goddamn respect for just people's lives.

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Got to get that good deal on some good, good Maui real estate.

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There's not much more here besides like, please just be thoughtful about picking where you go on vacation.

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Like this is people's home.

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The day after people escaped from burning buildings into ocean waters,

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tourists were swimming in those same waters.

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Meanwhile, people are looking through rubble for their family, pets, anything they can rescue from their now destroyed lot.

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I'm going to again include donation links to relief efforts in today's newsletter.

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So check that out if you're looking for a place to donate.

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Otherwise, just be a good person.

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I don't know.

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Lots of lawsuits today, but good news for the lawsuits because here's an update.

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I talked about this a while back, but there's a group of young people who are suing Montana

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because the state constitution ensures them a safe and healthy environment.

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And then the state climate change happened.

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The state was not considering the safety and health of the environment when handing out permits for energy projects.

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And so the kids are suing them saying, hey, I would like to be able to have a future.

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And just recently a judge sided with them.

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So they got their first court victory.

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This is not the end of the road.

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It's going to be challenged.

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They're going up against energy projects and fossil fuels.

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So it's going to be a wild ride, but it works.

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A bunch of youngins got together and sued the state for fucking up the environment and it didn't immediately get thrown out.

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That's kind of cool.

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On this day in 1858, the first transatlantic telegraph message was sent.

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US President James Buchanan and Queen Victoria exchanged a what up over a giant transatlantic cable that had just opened up for business.

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It took four years to create the cable and it broke in three weeks.

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Kind of deteriorated real fast and they couldn't repair it in time.

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And then it just became useless.

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Now, I mean, like, you know, you fail, you learn.

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So like now we're still using undersea cables to do Internet things.

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And that's that's all well and good.

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But God, that must have sucked.

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Lightning rap Instagram threads continues to absolutely plummet in active user counts.

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They're now below one million active daily users down 85 percent from lunch.

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Dating at Grindr is presenting their employees with an ultimatum saying they have to move within 50 miles of an office and return to office or leave.

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This is coming just weeks after employees at Grindr announced unionization plans.

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It turns out that X, formerly known as Twitter, has been adding an artificial five second delay on links out to websites that Elon Musk doesn't like.

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Competitors and news websites that are critical of Elon, especially.

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I want to make it clear that it's well understood in the world of technology that if a link takes more than three seconds to load, you're going to lose about half of your would be traffic.

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This is literally leveraging a dark pattern to selectively reduce traffic to external websites.

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What a piece of shit. At least 30 people have been killed in Russia after a gas station caught fire and exploded.

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And finally, for today, Baldur's Gate 3 is now the highest rated PC video game of all time, according to Metacritic.

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That is because you can throw crabs.

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Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening.

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Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online for sources, bonus content and a very silly hat.

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My name is Endeavorance. I'll be back on Friday.

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Take care and be well.