1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,520 Hello. I am in the midst of removing this treadmill. 2 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,560 But stuff still happened. 3 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:07,440 So what's up? 4 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:12,720 The UAW is still on strike and they recently got a big ol' UAW. 5 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:15,840 This past Friday, workers were informed that a concession was made 6 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:19,040 and they would be able to unionize at a GM battery factory, 7 00:00:19,040 --> 00:00:21,040 which is a huge moneymaker for GM. 8 00:00:21,040 --> 00:00:22,560 This was previously not on the table, 9 00:00:22,560 --> 00:00:25,120 but when workers threatened to walk out of the factory, 10 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:26,800 they were like, oh wait, uh, 11 00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:29,920 uh, uh, uh, please don't. 12 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:33,120 Weird, it's almost like a company is nothing without their workers. 13 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:35,520 Maybe the workers should be the ones in charge. 14 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:36,800 Taking things even further, 15 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:39,680 workers at Mack Trucks have now joined the strike as well, 16 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:42,640 after negotiations for their next contract fell through. 17 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:45,760 These companies keep trying to not pay their workers what they're worth, 18 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:49,520 and so the workers are just gonna keep striking, my guys. 19 00:00:49,520 --> 00:00:53,760 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced he is running as an independent for president. 20 00:00:53,760 --> 00:00:57,120 RFK is loudly a conspiracy theorist and anti-vaxxer, 21 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:58,320 and is not your friend. 22 00:00:58,320 --> 00:00:59,760 He is still just a politician, 23 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:03,520 and he thinks this is his best shot at getting you to think that he's the cool one. 24 00:01:03,520 --> 00:01:06,080 He is totally not like other girls. 25 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:07,600 Previously aligned with the Democrats, 26 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:11,680 he has now gone independent and Republicans are jumping on this being all angry, 27 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:14,000 because he's now essentially a spoiler vote for Trump. 28 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:17,360 I've seen some people say that he might be a spoiler vote for Biden as well, 29 00:01:17,360 --> 00:01:20,480 but he's like deeply unpopular among Biden's base. 30 00:01:20,480 --> 00:01:21,680 But on the Republican side, 31 00:01:21,680 --> 00:01:25,360 he's essentially all of the like I go against the grain stuff of Trump, 32 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:26,400 but without the baggage. 33 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,200 So there's possibly an actual threat there. 34 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:33,280 Here, going against the grain means advising people to not get health care, 35 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:36,960 because as we all know, everyone who took the COVID vaccine is dead now. 36 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:38,800 They're still trying to ban TikTok. 37 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:40,800 The US government still wants to ban TikTok, 38 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:43,120 because they're mad that it's successful. 39 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:44,560 I'm gonna rephrase that, actually. 40 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,480 The US government wants to ban TikTok, 41 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:49,920 because the senators and congresspeople who were paid off by meta in Google 42 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:53,600 are feigning anger about TikTok's success despite being a foreign app. 43 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,560 And so they're still trying to find a way to determine what apps you, 44 00:01:56,560 --> 00:02:00,240 as a private citizen, are allowed to use on your personal device. 45 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:03,680 While the previous attempt, the restrict act, fell apart because 46 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:06,960 there's a lot of legal issues with trying to ban speech, 47 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:09,040 they're trying to do another one. 48 00:02:09,040 --> 00:02:11,760 Democrat senator from Washington, Maria Cantwell, 49 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:14,720 is leading the charge writing a bill called the Guard Act. 50 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:19,760 Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has stated that she's hopeful about this new bill, 51 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:23,760 and giving her agency more tools to ban apps that you use. 52 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:26,720 She is hoping that it will give the commerce agency, quote, 53 00:02:26,720 --> 00:02:31,920 a statutory set of tools to have a comprehensive approach to these apps, 54 00:02:31,920 --> 00:02:35,840 which translates to, it'll let us ban apps that we don't like. 55 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:40,000 Maybe we shouldn't give our government the power to control how we can communicate with each other. 56 00:02:40,560 --> 00:02:44,240 Just a thought, I'm deeply saddened to inform you that Dorothy Hoffner, 57 00:02:44,240 --> 00:02:49,520 the 104-year-old woman who recently went skydiving, has passed away this past Monday. 58 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,040 By all accounts, she was absolutely fucking rad. 59 00:02:53,040 --> 00:02:56,480 She's finished up with this life, we'll see what she does next. 60 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:58,720 Rest in peace to the realest of us all. 61 00:02:58,720 --> 00:03:04,640 On this day in 1958, NASA launched its first attempt at a lunar probe, 62 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:06,320 and it didn't go super well. 63 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,760 The Pioneer 1 launched off into space and was supposed to orbit around the moon and 64 00:03:09,760 --> 00:03:14,160 collect some data, but it didn't really work, and it just fell back to Earth and burned up in the 65 00:03:14,160 --> 00:03:21,280 atmosphere. However, exactly 10 years later, on this day in 1968, the Apollo 7 mission, 66 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:26,080 a crewed mission into space, worked out pretty well. So in just 10 years, they went from, 67 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:34,000 oops, our probe burned up, to, hey, we put people in space, and it didn't go catastrophically much. 68 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:38,320 Lightning round. Sony has announced a new PS5 model that's going to be a bit smaller and have 69 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:42,880 a detachable hard drive that will cost 500 bucks and will hopefully be in stock anywhere. 70 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:47,440 The CEO of Unity is stepping down after the controversy around their pricing model, 71 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:52,640 causing them to just lose all credibility. Speaking of CEOs, the CEO of X slash Twitter, 72 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:56,800 which is not Musk, but instead somebody else, is pulling out of a tech conference because 73 00:03:56,800 --> 00:04:02,000 over the past weekend with all the, you know, war that broke out, the misinformation on Twitter has 74 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:06,720 gone out of control. She's saying that she needs to focus on safety on the platform. 75 00:04:07,920 --> 00:04:10,400 What safety? And finally for today, players of 76 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:16,480 Minecraft are banding together to push back on an annual mob vote. The mob vote is a yearly thing 77 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,560 where the developer of Minecraft is like, here's three potential things we'll add to the game. 78 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:24,880 Vote on one. And the player base is like, stop, stop making us choose. Just, just, 79 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:29,840 just add stuff to the game. I've got a pup update for you. A pup date. I took Flynn to the vet this 80 00:04:29,840 --> 00:04:33,840 morning and he got a full checkup, including x-rays and blood work and the whole nine yards. 81 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:37,680 He's now on some medication and will hopefully be recovering over the next few days, but 82 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:40,720 really just remains to be seen. He is still in good spirits and he was super 83 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:44,480 waggy and very lovey this morning. Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of 84 00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:51,200 Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online for sources, bonus content, and a comment box for you 85 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:56,400 to recommend what I should have for breakfast. My name is Endeavorance. I'll be back on Friday. 86 00:04:56,400 --> 00:05:09,280 Take care and be well.