1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,500 Hello. 2 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:06,640 It is officially cold enough for cozy sock season, but stuff still happens. 3 00:00:06,640 --> 00:00:07,540 So what's up? 4 00:00:07,540 --> 00:00:10,880 Imagine getting a million dollar speeding ticket. 5 00:00:10,880 --> 00:00:16,220 A man in Georgia was caught going 90 in a 55 and received a speeding ticket from the state. 6 00:00:16,220 --> 00:00:20,100 The cost of the ticket was 1.4 million dollars. 7 00:00:20,100 --> 00:00:22,720 When he saw this he was like, oh what? 8 00:00:22,720 --> 00:00:23,920 What? 9 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:25,900 And so he called the state for some clarity. 10 00:00:25,900 --> 00:00:29,840 Upon calling the court, they said, well, you can pay it or show up in court. 11 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:32,280 So he showed up in court. 12 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:37,960 It turns out that that was a placeholder number and the maximum fine was actually $1,000. 13 00:00:37,960 --> 00:00:43,160 The state has since said that they're going to adjust their placeholder to avoid confusion in the future. 14 00:00:43,160 --> 00:00:51,560 Imagine being the person who was like, yeah, we need to put a random number here to just hold the space until we figure out how much to actually charge people. 15 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:54,560 1.4 million dollars seems to make sense. 16 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:57,680 That certainly won't cause anyone to become radicalized. 17 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:00,800 A vote known as the Voice was recently held in Australia. 18 00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:05,400 It was a measure to give indigenous and First Nations people more representation in the state. 19 00:01:05,400 --> 00:01:11,080 The idea was to give them an actual mechanism to influence policy and just give them more rights in general. 20 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:16,480 A yes vote would have been to do that and a no vote would have been to not do that. 21 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:18,600 And no won by about 20 points. 22 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:23,840 Now, of course, this is mostly a country turning its back on the people who they marginalized to settle their land. 23 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:24,720 Because it is. 24 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:33,760 There is a contingent of First Nations people who reject the basic premise, though, saying that they don't want to be included in a constitution made by a state that doesn't represent them. 25 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:42,760 Regardless of interpretation, the fact remains that Australia and many countries across the globe have a lot of work to do to do right by their native peoples. 26 00:01:42,760 --> 00:01:45,240 We do not speak of the speaker in this house. 27 00:01:45,240 --> 00:01:48,760 We do not speak of the speaker in this house. 28 00:01:48,760 --> 00:01:52,920 We do not speak of the speaker in this house. 29 00:01:52,920 --> 00:01:54,680 And neither do Republicans. 30 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:57,240 The Republican controlled House of Representatives in the U.S. 31 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:02,200 is still in complete disarray as they haven't been able to select a speaker for over 10 days now. 32 00:02:02,200 --> 00:02:04,640 First, it was going to be Steve Scalise, but he pulled out. 33 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:07,280 And now the current front runner is Jim Jordan. 34 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:11,200 But a lot of people don't like Jim Jordan for a lot of reason. 35 00:02:11,200 --> 00:02:17,920 Jim Jordan has allegations in his past about him helping to cover up sexual assault against students that he oversaw in college. 36 00:02:17,920 --> 00:02:23,800 This makes him a pretty good face for the Republican Party, similar to how Bob Menendez is a good face for the Democrat Party. 37 00:02:23,800 --> 00:02:31,960 However, Jimothy is not actually all that popular in his own party, being very far right and Trump-aligned and, you know, participating in the whole January 6 thing. 38 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:34,200 And so a lot of his party is not willing to vote for him. 39 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:37,920 Democrats have also said that they're not going to vote for him for obvious reasons. 40 00:02:37,920 --> 00:02:40,120 And so he might just not have the votes. 41 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:43,920 There's also murmurings that he might force a vote to happen sooner than they're ready, 42 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:48,080 which could potentially result in a Democrat being elected to Speaker of the House. 43 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:52,560 That would be an actually hilarious twist of fate, even if it's not going to really change much. 44 00:02:52,560 --> 00:02:54,400 A content warning for this next segment. 45 00:02:54,400 --> 00:02:56,720 I will be discussing death and the death of children. 46 00:02:56,720 --> 00:03:03,160 There will not be pictures and I will not be graphic, but I will be discussing the ongoing situation between Israel, Palestine and Hamas. 47 00:03:03,160 --> 00:03:08,160 I want to start off by saying in no uncertain terms that Israel is an apartheid colonizer state 48 00:03:08,160 --> 00:03:13,840 and is not representative of the general will of global Jews around the world or even its own citizens. 49 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:20,160 It is a political power armed to the teeth and backed by the West that has been assaulting Palestinians for decades. 50 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:22,800 There is no drawing a line between the conflict. 51 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,880 Palestinians have suffered significantly more than Israelis in this conflict. 52 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:31,680 After the attack on the Israeli people by Hamas that left over a thousand people dead or captured, 53 00:03:31,680 --> 00:03:34,880 Israel has responded by killing far more people than that. 54 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:40,320 This is what Israel does whenever they're able to get the world on their side to further their ethnic cleansing. 55 00:03:40,320 --> 00:03:43,680 Of course, the attack on innocent civilians is horrific. 56 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:47,040 However, Israel has responded with war crimes. 57 00:03:47,040 --> 00:03:54,320 They have cut off food, water, power, points of egress, internet access and basically all hope from the Gaza Strip. 58 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:56,880 The Gaza Strip is home to over 2 million human beings. 59 00:03:56,880 --> 00:03:59,040 The average age there is 18. 60 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:03,680 The excuse that Israel will use for their actions is that they need to eradicate Hamas from the region. 61 00:04:03,680 --> 00:04:07,760 They'll point to the fact that Palestinians put Hamas into power by voting for them. 62 00:04:07,760 --> 00:04:11,520 What they won't note is that that election happened nearly 20 years ago. 63 00:04:11,520 --> 00:04:14,320 And again, the average age there is 18. 64 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:18,320 The following numbers are almost assuredly a severe undercount of the deaths. 65 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:27,360 But at time of recording, there have been 724 child deaths reported so far among the 2,200 people that have been killed by Israel. 66 00:04:27,360 --> 00:04:30,960 This already exceeds the death toll from the Hamas attack. 67 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:31,920 So is that enough? 68 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,800 Famously, an eye for an eye fixes everything. 69 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:40,240 Millions of people are currently trying to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip and aren't able to get anywhere 70 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:44,240 as points of egress are either blocked off or being actively attacked. 71 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:51,680 And during all of this, Israel has the unwavering support of the United States and many other western nations in doing all of this. 72 00:04:51,680 --> 00:05:01,760 US Democrats still strongly support Israel and for some reason US Republicans who are typically saying that America needs to be less involved in global affairs want America to do more here. 73 00:05:01,760 --> 00:05:04,480 I can't put my finger on why. 74 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:05,040 Huh. 75 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,480 Really just a humdinger. 76 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:11,520 As always, I recommend seeking out and uplifting black and indigenous voices on this matter. 77 00:05:11,520 --> 00:05:22,720 Their perspectives will be more rooted in lived experience and cultural understanding in the face of a never-ending effort to whitewash, defang and recontextualize the history that led us here. 78 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:30,560 I find it unsurprising but disappointing that America, a country founded on colonization, genocide, slavery and apartheid, 79 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:35,360 and who teaches all of us that that was a big no-no that we should never do again, 80 00:05:35,360 --> 00:05:37,200 is supporting what's going on here. 81 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,760 Again, unsurprising but disappointing. 82 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:46,160 I want to close out this statement by saying in no uncertain terms that criticizing the state of Israel is not an anti-Semitic act. 83 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:53,680 On this day in 1793, Marie Antoinette was executed by guillotine as a result of the French Revolution. 84 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,760 She was the final queen of France before her neck got a little bit too close of a shave. 85 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:04,800 Marie Antoinette is famous for her let them eat cake quote, which is surprising because pretty much everybody agrees that she never actually said that. 86 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:09,760 The moral of the story here is don't be French royalty unless you've eaten the chop chop fruit. 87 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:10,560 Lightning round. 88 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:18,160 Twitter is further cracking down on sex workers and adult content, limiting its reach and essentially trying to make it so that they can't really operate on that platform very well. 89 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:24,560 After a nearly two year long saga, Microsoft has officially closed their deal purchasing Activision Blizzard. 90 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:29,040 That is a lot of intellectual property under one company. 91 00:06:29,040 --> 00:06:30,160 It's giving Disney. 92 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:36,720 Speaking of gaming, somewhere, somehow, someone purchased a brand new Wii U in 2023. 93 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:41,520 It is reportedly the only new Wii U that was sold since May of 2022. 94 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:44,320 The Wii U is a good console with terrible branding. 95 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:51,760 And finally for today, Netflix plans to open up brick and mortar stores, which is inherently hilarious, but they're not going to be like a movie rental place. 96 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:58,160 It's going to have experiences and shopping and food, all of which will be related to like Netflix IPs. 97 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:00,960 I'm a little scared. 98 00:07:00,960 --> 00:07:03,760 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 99 00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:12,400 I had to stuff 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