Hello. A snake in my window whispered to me that stuff has happened.
So what's up? Did we just discover a way to eradicate COVID?
Probably not. But researchers at UC Riverside may have discovered a way that we could potentially,
maybe, make it so that there's a medication that just completely nullifies COVID after infection.
Sort of kind of maybe. It's early. The short version is they essentially found a protein in
humans that COVID uses to reproduce. And if we can cut it off from that protein, then we might
be able to basically leave it dead in its tracks. In theory, because again, this doesn't exist yet,
there'd be a medication that like after you get infected with COVID, it just makes it go away.
This is all in theory, but that would be cool. As a general reminder, COVID is like sharply on the
rise right now, which is everywhere. So just be careful. You know, take precautions and wash
your hands. This is for the guys, especially. The amount of times that I go into a public restroom
and I see guys just not wash their hands on the way out is disturbing. You touch things that I
also have to touch. Please stop. Your penis is not that clean. Please seek shelter because there are
dangerous roving bands of bands. They might play music and have fun. Cops in Alabama have tased
and arrested a high school band director for not directing his band to stop playing after a football
game. Apparently after this high school football game ended, the bands from both schools were
having a bit of like a drum battle. They were just, you know, playing across the field at each other,
having a good time, fun competition of music. People in the stands were like, oh, this is kind
of fun. We're going to stick around and watch what happens here. But cops were like, we need to clear
out the stadium. We've got to get rid of these people because they're having a good time engaging
at a local community event. And so they went to the band director and they were like, hey,
tell the children to stop playing music. I know I'm slightly editorializing, but like it's just
comical anyway. So yeah, they asked the band director to tell the kids to stop playing.
He didn't do that. And then they said that he got into a scuffle with them. And so they tased him
and arrested him. He was taken to the hospital, treated, and then booked in jail. This is some
footloose ass shit. He has been charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
You know, the crimes you get charged with when you let children play music. This is your reminder
to bully the rich because it turns out that if you pick at the scab enough, it might just come off.
Drew Barrymore has announced that she is not bringing her show back to TV. This is after she
previously decided to be a scab and cross the picket line, bring her show to TV. And then she
was called out for it. And she was like, well, I'm going to do it anyway. But it turns out that
that's not a popular opinion to have. And that's not a popular move to me. And so she was like,
oh no, I guess I hurt people. Oopsie doodles. I'm so sorry. And I'm not going to bring my show back
to TV anymore. We can celebrate that she made this move and that that's a good thing that she's not
going to do the scab thing anymore. But also she knew the whole time that she was making that call.
She knew this would make her a scab. She knew that going back on TV was not going to be a
popular decision. She just didn't expect you to hold her as accountable as you did. Just in general,
there is a lot of just celebrity falling down happening right now. And I think it's a pretty
good sign of people just being tired of their shit. We are tired of the exceptions. We are tired of
the special cases. We are tired of that. You just don't understand. We're tired. So what have we
learned? If you bully the rich, they just might cave. Let's keep it up. Do you want your very own
F-35 fighter jet? Because I have a lead on where you might find one. The US military has announced,
oops, we lost a fighter jet somewhere in South Carolina after a mishap happened and a Marine
had to eject from the jet. They lost signal or something. I don't exactly know, but it landed
apparently in one of two lakes, either Lake Moultrie or Lake Marion, or at least that's where
they're looking. And they're like, hey, if somebody could like help us out, like if you see a jet,
if you see an F-35, could you just, you know, call us? So here's the thing. Out there somewhere is an
F-35 fighter jet. It may be underwater. I don't know. But if you find it, I mean, it's up to you
what you want to do with it. Take it home, hang it up on the wall, take it for a spin around the
block. You could do anything. It's really, the world is your oyster with an F-35. On this day,
in 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. This was a quote unquote compromise
between the Northern states that didn't think it was okay to own people and the Southern states
that thought it was cool and good to own people. The act made it so that the Northern states,
both authorities and citizens, had to comply in the arrest and return of escaped slaves from the
South. Doesn't matter what your morals are. The law says you must return this human to the person
who purchased them. Anyway, they went on to fight a war over whether or not it was okay to own people
and the South lost. Lightning round. Russell Brand has been hit with a bunch of allegations involving
sexual assault, rape, abuse, a whole lot of stuff. And it's, it, whoo. TikTok is planning a huge sale
with their new TikTok shop system. So much so that they're looking to subsidize sales. So up to like
50% off of items. They're trying so hard to make the sales be the best on TikTok that they're
literally willing to subsidize your purchases. Or I guess more specifically the sale. Whatever.
The company behind the game engine Unity has put out a statement about the whole situation there
that basically said, we hear you. And nothing beyond that. Texas is apparently paying Bitcoin
miner operations to not mine Bitcoin so that their failing electric grid can function better.
Google is gearing up to release their next AI called Gemini and supposed to compete with GPT4,
chat GPT stuff. I thought we were done with this. And finally for today, Baldur's gate three is
going to be coming in full to Mac OS. So if you've got a Mac book, congratulations, you too can now
romance one of many very attractive people. A quick scheduling update. I'm going to be off on this
Friday and next Monday. So just a heads up that there will not be stuff keeps happening episodes
on those days as I'm going to be out of town rafting in white water. And it's kind of hard to
get the news out there. Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of stuff keeps
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