Hello. I placed first in the mushroom cup.
But stuff still happens.
So what's up?
Um, speaking of driving, don't drive off a cliff.
I don't recommend it.
It's not healthy.
Um, but you might survive because a dude in Southern California drove off of a hundred foot cliff into a ravine
and was stuck in his pickup truck immobilized for five days before being rescued.
Firefighters, who I would remind you are rad as hell,
showed up on the scene and created like a human pulley system to yank this driver out of the ravine.
They went down, they came back up, and now the driver is safe recovering in the hospital from non-life-threatening conditions.
Hell yeah.
Um, so you remember when Mitch McConnell glitched again?
And we all watched that.
That was pretty good.
Anyway, apparently it wasn't a stroke or a seizure.
I mean, at least according to the capital physician who says that it was a, uh, medical terms,
uh, transient ischemic attack.
My understanding is that means that like blood wasn't flowing real good.
And so he just kind of zonked.
See, normally you want your blood to flow, right?
You want it to be like, you want it to be like, that's the sound of your blood.
But it didn't do that.
I have a different theory though.
I, I have a pretty good eye for demonic possession and I'm not saying that he was possessed.
I'm not not saying I'm saying he was, I think we're on the same page.
Airbnb is essentially banned now in New York City.
If you're not aware of like what Airbnb has done to just the housing market in general,
it is essentially giving people a free pass to be like shadow short-term rental landlords.
I'm talking to entire apartment complexes being purchased and turned into just Airbnb rental
facility, like an underground ring of hotel chain.
Meanwhile, rent prices are going to Zonkers town and there's a lot of homeless people who
would probably like to have the ability to live somewhere.
And so now if you want to run an Airbnb in New York City, it must be where you live.
You have to register it with the city and you can only have up to two people at a time.
And you have to be actively living there while your guests are there.
You don't get to just purchase a place that somebody else might have been able to live at
and then rent it out just to pay it off.
Weird.
Maybe people should be housed before we have people who own like dozens of properties and rent them
out and just parasites.
Notably, this is how Airbnb was supposed to work.
It wasn't supposed to be this giant operation.
It was supposed to be you have a spare room rented out.
It's supposed to be like organized couch surfing.
That was the idea.
Anyway, TikTok has a shiny new data center in Dublin.
Yay Irish people.
So if you're not aware, the EU has like actually kind of halfway capable data regulations going on
and TikTok is trying to adhere to their data regulations by keeping user data in the EU.
So they've opened up a Dublin based data center.
It's kind of similar to how in America they've been like, ah, you got to open up a data center
in America to manage user data here because China, China, China.
Anyway, TikTok did that.
And there's a data center that is being operated by Oracle, which like, if you know anything about
Oracle, it's not like they could be trusted.
Oracle is just like a massive legal black hole of a company.
Anyway, also the projects to have the data center in the US.
It's called Project Texas because of course it is on this day in 1628.
The town of Salem, Massachusetts was founded.
It was an extremely important port town and also was the place where the Salem witch trials happen.
I'd prefer to just think of it as a bustling hub for all things witchy.
I know that's just completely rewriting history, but I mean, bubble bubble, toil and trouble.
That's all I have to say about that.
Lightning ramp.
It turns out that Chad GPT has been getting steadily worse at basic math problems.
Like it's only able to answer basic math questions like 2% of the time.
Someone made a D make of portal for the N64, which that sounds awesome.
A D make is when you like take an existing game and make a fan game of it.
Like reimagined for a old console.
It's sick.
The Rolling Stones are releasing a new studio album 18 years after their last album.
They're still still doing it.
First Lady Jill Biden has COVID and Joe Biden has been routinely testing.
We're waiting to see if he gets hit.
Stuff dried up enough at Burning Man for Exodus to happen.
So people people have left.
My source for this next one is from a Ukrainian outlet.
Take that as you will.
Just want to make that clear.
Vladimir Putin has reportedly had air missile defense systems installed just a few miles from his house.
And finally for today, according to Bethesda Game Studios, the amount of just completely vacant,
boring planets in Starfield is intentional.
It's to simulate the vast emptiness of space.
It's fun guys.
Trust me.
It's not me hating on Starfield.
It's just we made our game empty for fun.
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