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Hello. I was taught how to write cursive by hand.

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But stuff still happens.

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So what's up?

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Hey, consider the following.

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You're out on vacation, minding your own business, having a grand old time.

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Maybe you saw a cool bird.

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Maybe you ate a meal.

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And then you went home and your house was demolished.

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Oh, is that not normal?

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Susan Hodgson of Georgia came back home from a vacation

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to find that an old family house on her property had been destroyed.

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I want to be clear that it doesn't appear to be her permanent residence.

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It was like an old house that was in her family,

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but they kept it up and they were paying taxes on it and it was her property.

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But while she was gone, a demolition crew showed up onto her property

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and destroyed the house.

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And when a neighbor was like, what the hell is going on?

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They were like, mind your own damn business.

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Eventually, a family member of Susan's went over and was like, hey, what the hell?

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And they checked their permit and it turns out they had the wrong place.

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But that wasn't until after the house became a pile of rubble.

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Understandably, Susan's not super thrilled about this

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and is trying to figure out where to go next from here.

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I would be pretty upset myself.

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I do have to say, I don't think I'd be super thrilled coming back to a pile of rubble.

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It seems to me the only reasonable path forward

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is to have the demolition crew put everything back together exactly as it was,

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like putting together one of those 3D jigsaw puzzles.

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Canada is considering UBI.

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Kind of, sorta.

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They're looking into it.

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The Canadian Senate is investigating what universal basic income would look like

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after a bill that was proposed is making some forward momentum.

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It's not a sure deal, but they're looking into it, which is more than nothing.

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The bill as written would provide a quote,

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livable basic income for all Canadians over the age of 18.

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That includes permanent residents and refugees with legal status.

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What a livable wage looks like, I do not know.

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That is not my economy and who knows what they're going to consider a livable wage.

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But still.

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This wouldn't be the first time that Canada tried out UBI,

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although they didn't do it federally, some of the provinces have actually tried it before.

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For example, in 1974, apparently Manitoba tried a universal income project,

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and they found that when they did that,

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mental health hospitalizations went down, as did school dropouts.

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Weird! Who would have thought?

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It's almost like when a society of human beings come together and help each other,

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they all flourish.

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I wonder if anyone's ever studied the evolution of humans and what kind of creatures we are.

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Nah, nevermind.

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I think instead of doing that, we should just assume that we're supposed to be solitary,

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self-serving creatures who never should ever interact with anyone else.

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As we all know, throughout all of human history,

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the greatest civilizations were in shacks by themselves, never talking to anyone.

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There have been a lot of wild stories in the news recently,

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so let's talk about something a bit more tame.

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Like a judge pointing a loaded firearm at a defendant in his own courtroom.

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And then being super racist about it and getting fired.

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Sorry, I lied to you.

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New York Judge Robert J. Purtorti pointed a loaded gun at a man in his courtroom

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after claiming the man approached the bench too quickly.

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This was back in 2015.

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Judge Purtorti would go on to talk about this incident constantly,

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to a bunch of his colleagues playing up the size of the man and talking about how black he was.

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Yep, large black man, 6'9", built like a football player,

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came rushing towards me and I had to defend myself.

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Except the man was actually 6' and 165 pounds, and you're not supposed to point a loaded gun at someone,

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regardless of how quickly they may or may not be approaching your bench as a judge,

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in a courtroom that has bailiffs and security that scans for weapons before they can even enter the building.

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Anyway, eight years on, after bragging about this constantly, he was finally fired.

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Because the wheels of justice turn real swift.

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Remember earlier this year when Reddit did a bunch of dumb bullshit and pissed off most of their community

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because they wanted to be more like how Elon was doing Twitter?

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Well, they're doing that again.

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Reddit is reportedly considering removing themselves from search results,

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blocking Google and Bing,

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citing that they're trying to prevent AIs from training on their user data without paying for it.

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I want to draw some attention to that though, because it's not paying you for your data,

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paying Reddit for your data.

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So it was originally reported that Reddit was going to start requiring people to log in

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to read anything on the site.

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Reddit has since insisted that that's not what they're planning to do,

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but they are kind of planning to pull out of Google.

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They're saying that they don't need search to survive,

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and they're basically saying pay us for our users data.

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This comes at a time where Google search results are already struggling,

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and we previously saw how much it gets worse when Reddit basically disappears from Google search results,

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so they kind of have a point there.

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Or rather, they have a point in saying, hey, your search results are garbage,

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and we're one of the only places online where genuine publicly indexable conversation happens,

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even if that conversation is primarily just misogyny and transphobia.

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We are entering a phase of these massive corporations having unbridled control

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over the vast majority of our internet infrastructure,

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where they're all just trying to take jabs at each other and be the last one remaining.

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And guess who loses?

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Us.

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Do I think there should be ample discussion on the internet with a whole bunch of different topics

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and a place where everybody can find their community and learn a lot and exchange ideas?

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Yeah.

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Does it gotta be Reddit?

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Please no.

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The internet was built to have many a website, not five of them.

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But what do I know?

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I just worked in consumer technology for 15 years and left because I couldn't handle the corruption anymore.

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On this day in 2001, Apple released the first iPod.

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Despite other products already existing in the personal audio device space,

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the iPod took over the industry at some points having 70% of the market share.

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90% if you only include stuff that had hard drives in it.

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The iPod line would go on to eventually be discontinued in May of 2002

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after selling 450 million products.

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That is a lot of U2 albums.

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Lightning round.

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Google has been found guilty in a gender discrimination suit

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and now must pay former executive a million dollars

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because they are promoting people around her who were men and less qualified.

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Geico is laying off 6% of their workforce and is also instantiating a return to office policy.

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Because of course.

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Cops in New York City have arrested over 100 protesters

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who were out protesting the Israel assault on Gaza and calling for a ceasefire.

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It's a good look.

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Arresting people calling for a ceasefire.

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The data breach of 23andMe continues to grow in scale and controversy

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as the company is not entirely sure just how much data was taken.

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Hackers are continuing to release the private information of people

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using their genetic code to target specific ethnicities and nationality.

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Another defendant in the ongoing court case in Georgia over the election interference that Trump did

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has pled guilty and will be flipping and testifying against the other defendants including Trump.

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This is the second one to do that in just a matter of days.

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A third party investigation into misinformation on Twitter about the Israel Hamas conflict

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has found that blue checkmark accounts are responsible for at least 74% of that false information.

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Mitch McConnell has stated that he is going to support Joe Biden's $105 billion aid package

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for Israel and Ukraine.

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Speaking of Israel, Israel has carried out a further aerial assault against Gaza,

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bombing locations that citizens were told to seek shelter

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while also attacking the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria.

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Also, Israel has free healthcare and free college.

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So...

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As we enter another week of the US not having a speaker of the House,

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House Republicans are still scrambling to figure out what the fuck to do

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as nine people are now running for the gavel.

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And finally for today, Tinder is launching a new feature that will let you invite friends and family

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to come suggest accounts to you to match with.

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Send me your invite. I'll tell you who to do it.

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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,

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and in-depth instructions on how to do the Macarena.

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My name is Endeavorance. I'll be back on Wednesday.

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Take care and be well.