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Hello. I placed first in the mushroom cup.

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But stuff still happens.

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So what's up?

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Um, speaking of driving, don't drive off a cliff.

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I don't recommend it.

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It's not healthy.

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Um, but you might survive because a dude in Southern California drove off of a hundred foot cliff into a ravine

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and was stuck in his pickup truck immobilized for five days before being rescued.

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Firefighters, who I would remind you are rad as hell,

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showed up on the scene and created like a human pulley system to yank this driver out of the ravine.

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They went down, they came back up, and now the driver is safe recovering in the hospital from non-life-threatening conditions.

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Hell yeah.

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Um, so you remember when Mitch McConnell glitched again?

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And we all watched that.

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That was pretty good.

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Anyway, apparently it wasn't a stroke or a seizure.

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I mean, at least according to the capital physician who says that it was a, uh, medical terms,

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uh, transient ischemic attack.

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My understanding is that means that like blood wasn't flowing real good.

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And so he just kind of zonked.

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See, normally you want your blood to flow, right?

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You want it to be like, you want it to be like, that's the sound of your blood.

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But it didn't do that.

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I have a different theory though.

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I, I have a pretty good eye for demonic possession and I'm not saying that he was possessed.

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I'm not not saying I'm saying he was, I think we're on the same page.

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Airbnb is essentially banned now in New York City.

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If you're not aware of like what Airbnb has done to just the housing market in general,

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it is essentially giving people a free pass to be like shadow short-term rental landlords.

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I'm talking to entire apartment complexes being purchased and turned into just Airbnb rental

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facility, like an underground ring of hotel chain.

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Meanwhile, rent prices are going to Zonkers town and there's a lot of homeless people who

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would probably like to have the ability to live somewhere.

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And so now if you want to run an Airbnb in New York City, it must be where you live.

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You have to register it with the city and you can only have up to two people at a time.

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And you have to be actively living there while your guests are there.

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You don't get to just purchase a place that somebody else might have been able to live at

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and then rent it out just to pay it off.

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Weird.

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Maybe people should be housed before we have people who own like dozens of properties and rent them

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out and just parasites.

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Notably, this is how Airbnb was supposed to work.

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It wasn't supposed to be this giant operation.

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It was supposed to be you have a spare room rented out.

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It's supposed to be like organized couch surfing.

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That was the idea.

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Anyway, TikTok has a shiny new data center in Dublin.

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Yay Irish people.

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So if you're not aware, the EU has like actually kind of halfway capable data regulations going on

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and TikTok is trying to adhere to their data regulations by keeping user data in the EU.

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So they've opened up a Dublin based data center.

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It's kind of similar to how in America they've been like, ah, you got to open up a data center

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in America to manage user data here because China, China, China.

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Anyway, TikTok did that.

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And there's a data center that is being operated by Oracle, which like, if you know anything about

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Oracle, it's not like they could be trusted.

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Oracle is just like a massive legal black hole of a company.

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Anyway, also the projects to have the data center in the US.

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It's called Project Texas because of course it is on this day in 1628.

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The town of Salem, Massachusetts was founded.

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It was an extremely important port town and also was the place where the Salem witch trials happen.

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I'd prefer to just think of it as a bustling hub for all things witchy.

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I know that's just completely rewriting history, but I mean, bubble bubble, toil and trouble.

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That's all I have to say about that.

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Lightning ramp.

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It turns out that Chad GPT has been getting steadily worse at basic math problems.

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Like it's only able to answer basic math questions like 2% of the time.

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Someone made a D make of portal for the N64, which that sounds awesome.

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A D make is when you like take an existing game and make a fan game of it.

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Like reimagined for a old console.

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It's sick.

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The Rolling Stones are releasing a new studio album 18 years after their last album.

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They're still still doing it.

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First Lady Jill Biden has COVID and Joe Biden has been routinely testing.

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We're waiting to see if he gets hit.

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Stuff dried up enough at Burning Man for Exodus to happen.

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So people people have left.

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My source for this next one is from a Ukrainian outlet.

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Take that as you will.

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Just want to make that clear.

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Vladimir Putin has reportedly had air missile defense systems installed just a few miles from his house.

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And finally for today, according to Bethesda Game Studios, the amount of just completely vacant,

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boring planets in Starfield is intentional.

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It's to simulate the vast emptiness of space.

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It's fun guys.

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Trust me.

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It's not me hating on Starfield.

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It's just we made our game empty for fun.

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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 here to for unknown prime number.

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My name is Endeavorance.

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I'll be back on Friday.

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Take care and be well.