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Hello. I put my shopping cart in the return area, but stuff still happens.

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So what's up? Watch the sky next weekend.

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Because for people in North and Central and South America,

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America, there's going to be a solar eclipse.

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October 14th, around midday, an annular solar eclipse will happen.

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You're going to be able to see the Ring of Fire.

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Thanks, Moon.

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I have linked a website in my newsletter that will let you see exactly where it's going to be

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and how much coverage you can expect at what time.

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Go check that out.

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And if you're going to look at it, please wear protective lenses.

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Not sunglasses, specifically eclipse glasses.

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They do a lot more than just make it dimmer.

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If you burn out your eyes, how are you going to see the taste of Cinnamon Toast Crunch?

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Meta has rolled out an AI that generates stickers for use in chat.

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It'll generate basically anything.

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One reporter was able to get it to generate Elmo with a knife,

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Mickey Mouse with a gun, gender-bent pregnant Shrek.

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This is primarily hilarious.

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And while a real artist would be able to just make these stickers anyway,

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the issue is that Meta, which is a company that makes profit,

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has an AI that can generate just copyright infringing things that are also really bad.

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I don't think Disney wants Meta having people sharing Mickey Mouse with a gun,

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let alone facilitating it.

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But, you know, go off, I guess.

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More than 75,000 Kaiser Permanente healthcare employees are currently on strike

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during negotiations for a new contract.

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The strike only lasts a few days, but they're asking for pay raises

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and fixes to chronic understaffing at most of the locations.

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Big shocker, they're pointing to the fact that Kaiser has had record profits recently,

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while employee wages have stagnated and CEO wages have gone up.

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Hey, pay workers.

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It's not that hard.

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The Biden administration has waived dozens of regulations to speed up construction

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of the border wall from the Trump administration.

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Yes, Biden's border wall.

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Environmental regulations such as the Safe Drinking Water Act,

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the Endangered Species Act, and the Clean Air Act have been waived

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so that we don't have to worry about environmental impact

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while building a border wall that the administration says they don't approve of.

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The administration maintains that their hands are tied,

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and while they don't approve of the use of funds,

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the funds must be used for constructing this wall.

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And so because their hands are tied,

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they're going to waive a whole bunch of environmental regulations to make that go faster.

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An argument could be made that they're doing this to make it so that it's not more expensive

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to do the border wall or something, but you're against it.

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Why are you facilitating it?

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And why are you facilitating it by reducing environmental oversight

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while also claiming to be a progressive president that cares about the environment?

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Environmental advocates are noting that this border wall is going to be built

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right through the habitat of an already endangered species,

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and it's going to fuck up migration patterns.

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All because, of course, we have to stop migrants from seeking refuge in this country.

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This country that famously has never taken in migrants seeking refuge.

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Can't be having that. That has no place in our history.

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Never mind that this isn't even our land to begin with.

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Anyway, as a kicker, the Biden administration is also resuming deportation for Venezuelan migrants.

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There you go.

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Joe Biden claims to be the most progressive president in history, and perhaps he is,

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but the most progressive U.S. president is still center right.

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On this day in 2010, a little-known app called Instagram was founded.

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It was originally intended to be a check-in app, more like Foursquare,

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but they decided that was not a good idea and instead pivoted towards image sharing.

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I guess that worked out because a couple years later,

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Facebook purchased them for $1 billion in an acquisition that is largely criticized

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as anti-competitive despite getting approval from regulators.

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At time of writing, it is estimated that there will be about 2.5 billion monthly

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active accounts on Instagram. There are 7.8 billion people on Earth.

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So it's probably, you know, probably not one-to-one people to account.

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I think we know that.

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But that's a lot of accounts. Maybe. Just maybe.

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There shouldn't be websites with billions of users.

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Lightning Round.

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A Russian airstrike targeted a civilian town in Ukraine, killing 51 people.

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The town is small enough that that is 20% of their population wiped out in one strike.

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Many of the people who were there were attending awake at the time.

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I didn't want to dwell on this one, but I mean, reminder.

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Fuck poo.

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The Biden administration has approved $9 billion of student debt relief for 125,000 borrowers.

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Maybe they can approve not building more border wall.

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Elon Musk is now being sued again, this time by the SEC,

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compelling him to testify in an ongoing case investigating his actions around stock purchases

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while buying Twitter.

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He has been just not not testifying.

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And they're like, dog, like, you got it.

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The state of Virginia in the US accidentally purged a bunch of eligible voters from their

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voter rolls. They're saying that they're working on it, but they don't know how many

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people got kicked out.

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It seems to be associated with people who had parole violations.

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So you're probably okay if that's not you.

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But those people have the right to vote and it was just taken away.

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Patreon got a big old branding update.

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If you want to check it out, you can go to their website, patreon.com slash endeavorance.

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And finally, for today, Metta is doing even more layoffs, this time targeting their Metaverse

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subdivision, which totally was a good investment.

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What a what a solid choice on old Zuckerberg's part.

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

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Hit the stuff keeps happening dot online for sources, bonus content, and that link that I

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talked about about the eclipse.

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Hey, a real one.

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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.