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Hello. I struck a bargain with the face.

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But stuff still happens.

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So what's up? Good news, Australia.

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Your government's not going to watch you watch porn yet.

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Contrasting what some states in the US and, of course, good old Great Britain is doing.

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The Australian government has decided to not require ID verification to watch porn online.

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This is because they came to the very obvious conclusion that any attempt to do so

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would have massive privacy implications.

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And this next part is just buck wild.

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You know, this is this is unbelievable.

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They're going to allocate money and resources towards educating parents

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about how to work with their children to establish healthy boundaries,

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as well as funding, quote, age appropriate, evidence based, respectful relationships education.

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It is truly frightening to know that a country might treat their children with respect.

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I think instead we should go back to using these children as political pawns to invade your privacy.

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It just seems more free that way.

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Speaking of wanting to know about your body,

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Elon Musk wants to know about your body because X slash Twitter has updated their privacy policy

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to say that they are now allowed to collect biometric data,

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as well as your education and employment history.

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They are claiming that this is for security or something.

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That doesn't make any sense.

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That's not how that works.

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Extremely brief tech education.

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Whenever you use like Face ID or a fingerprint scanner on your phone,

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that's handled by your phone on secure hardware on your phone, not by the app that's using it.

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So if an app wants to use Face ID, it asks your phone to do Face ID

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and your phone just gives it a thumbs up or a thumbs down.

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The app doesn't know about your face.

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So Twitter saying we need your biometric data to be able to do privacy things.

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That's not OK.

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And it's triply not OK because all of these tech bro lords are trying to do biometric stuff

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because all of them are into eugenics.

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That is not speculation.

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That is an understood thing.

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I've linked an explainer in today's newsletter.

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I would caution that it's a massive rabbit hole,

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but largely, if you're ever wondering why all these tech bros are ultimately trying to do

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health care innovations and talking about like fertility rates and whatnot.

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It's all eugenics and it all goes back to Stanford.

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I'll make a longer video on that at some point.

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It don't use Twitter.

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Get off of it.

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I know a lot of people are saying like I'm on Twitter for the art.

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I'm not sure if artists know that Twitter owns all of the art you put on there.

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Like they also have said that they're allowed to take and use your art

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for whatever purposes they want, including training their AIs and reselling.

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It is not a safe place for artists.

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It is not a safe place for communities.

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It's not a safe place for really anybody but Nazis at this point

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and people who want to give Elon Musk their biometric data.

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Hey, you know what's not chill?

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Texas, the Texas Supreme Court, which is made up entirely of Republicans,

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have upheld a bill that bans health care for trans minors.

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Before I go any further, I want to be exceedingly clear again.

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For the gorillianth time, gender affirming care for minors

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can be as simple as talking to a counselor, getting a haircut or a change of clothes.

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It is exceedingly rare for a minor to actually get surgery.

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Hell, it's rare for a minor to even actually be on medication.

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It does happen and it's health care, but it's rare.

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A decision which should be between families and doctors and pediatric experts

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has now been thrown aside as the Supreme Court has said, no,

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you cannot make that decision.

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We are making it for you.

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Trans minors who are already on doctor recommended medication

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have to stop under this new law.

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This starts today.

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As of today, there are going to be human beings

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who were previously taking medication for a condition they have,

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and they are now legally not allowed to do that anymore.

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Pediatric psychologists have already sounded the alarm

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that this is going to cause some of those children to turn to self harm or suicide.

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This is why it's often referred to as life saving gender affirming care.

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It's no different than people with depression

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who need to get medication to help with that

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and otherwise may have suicidal ideation.

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This is why people are saying there's trans genocide happening.

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This is not a rampant thing sweeping the nation and corrupting our children.

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This is just human beings trying to survive, be themselves and receive care.

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There are far, far bigger issues that could have been tackled,

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but instead we're just using trans people as a punching bag.

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These are people who have decided that their myopic worldview

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supersedes your rights so much so that if you tried to exercise

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what were previously your rights, you can go to jail.

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I am sorry.

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I'm mad about Instagram now. I'm mad today.

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This is not an important story. I'm going to rant anyway.

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Just give me this.

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There are rumors that Instagram is going to start allowing reels

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to be longer than a minute and 30 seconds,

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maybe three minutes or up to 10 minutes.

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I, as a person who does a lot of work in the short form vertical video space,

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have some words here.

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So TikTok videos typically cap out at three minutes.

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You can go longer, but it typically caps out at three minutes.

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Reels currently cap out at a minute and 30 seconds.

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You can post longer reels, but they won't go into their equivalent of the For You page.

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YouTube Shorts caps out at 60 seconds.

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Meanwhile, TikTok's new monetization system requires that your videos

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be at least 60 seconds to make any money.

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So TikTok is pushing back against Shorts by way of capping

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when you can actually get money.

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Shorts doesn't let you go past the 60 second mark at all.

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And reels doesn't really let you go past the minute and 30 second mark.

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And so if you're a person who's trying to make content for people,

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you have to jump through all of these hoops to meet all of their requirements

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because they're all fighting each other for domination in this space.

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It is a great example of how we lose.

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Anyway, Instagram might actually rethink some of that

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because they might maybe allow some longer videos.

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Why do reels and shorts even exist?

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Anyway, like I said, it's not a pressing story.

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I am just mad.

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On this day in 1864, the city of Atlanta, Georgia,

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was evacuated after a months long siege during the American Civil War.

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Confederate General John Bell Hood called for the evacuation

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because Union General Sherman was relentless.

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While General Sherman had a stop at nothing to win the war kind of vibe,

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apparently General Hood was described by a historian as,

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possibly the largest mistake that either government made during the war.

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Imagine hearing that your promotion was considered

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the biggest mistake in the American Civil War.

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Fucking yikes, bro.

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Lightning round.

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Mitch McConnell glitched again for like 30 seconds,

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for the second time in like a month.

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Retire.

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Regulators are looking into Tesla after reports of a secret Elon mode,

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which removes some safety features from their autopilot system.

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Apparently Lockheed Martin's street wear is popular in South Korea right now.

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I don't know if that's cursed or blessed.

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Sony is hiking the price of PlayStation Plus,

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so if you're subscribed, go double check.

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And finally for today, Burger King is being sued

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over potentially misrepresenting the size of the whopper,

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that misleading advertising.

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Fun fact, my grandfather designed the original Burger King logo.

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Isn't that neat?

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

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Head to Stuff Keeps Happening.online for sources, bonus content,

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and a full sized whopper.

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My name is Endeavorance.

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I'll be back on Monday.

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Take care and be well.