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Hello. I stayed on the line for a brief hold, but stuff still happened.

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So what's up?

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Strikes keep happening. Get it? Like what I say? That wasn't very good.

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After 118 days of striking, the Actors Guild has come to an agreement with employers,

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getting them most of what they were looking for.

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As of yesterday, the president of SAG-AFTRA has said it's time to go back to work,

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you can resume your obligations, and so on and so forth.

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So the strike is officially over, and among the highlights of the deal they made are

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better wages, better residuals, stronger wages for people participating in streaming,

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protections from AI, and more.

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Protections from AI. That's a thing that has to get negotiated now.

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These companies wanted to essentially scan actors and then pay them once and then use

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their likeness forever using AI instead of paying the actor. Real artistic shit.

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Anyway, this is another in a long line of historic strikes that have happened recently,

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and resulted in significantly better pay and working conditions.

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There might be something to this whole class solidarity thing.

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Zuck likes broken teenagers.

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According to 42 state attorneys general.

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Quick aside, I hate attorneys general. I hate that. Stop it.

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It's like saying AirPods Max.

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Stop it. Like if you're referring to multiple pairs of the large version of Apple's wireless

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headphones, are they AirPods Max's? If you're like, what if you're referring to multiple groups

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of attorneys general from multiple countries? Is that attorneys generals?

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Send help in the form of don't actually answer that question, because it was a joke and I don't care.

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Um, Facebook. That's what I was talking about.

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42 US state attorneys general have brought a lawsuit against Meta, the parent company of Facebook and

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Instagram, alleging that they made conscious decisions to essentially exploit underage kids,

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specifically in the space of designing their app to be harmful and addictive for children.

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Consciously.

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Recently unsealed evidence shows that in internal communications,

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experts and internal product managers were all suggesting doing stuff like disabling beauty

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filters and like stats and whatnot for kids on the app. And when they took it to Zuckerberg,

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he was like, no. So with like pediatric recommendation that this is not healthy,

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he was like, nah, it's good. Do it. Instagram and every other major social media app uses

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algorithms to optimize how long people spend time on the platform so that they can optimize

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data collection and ad sales. It is in their best interest to keep you on the app as long as possible

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by any means necessary. And very often those means are, Hey, you're awful. Stay here and find out how

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you can fix it. Welcome to Instagram, small child. You are ugly and unloved. Would you like to have

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an ad on how you can fix that? Follow these suggested accounts. They'll guide you to the

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proper products. Anyway, you know that classic adage, don't film an airplane for several hours

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using high powered lights because you might cause damage to the exterior windows and cause them to

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come off while they're in mid flight with a commercial flight the next day. No? Well, now you

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do. Cause an Airbus A321 took off from London and once they reached about 10,000 feet, they realized

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that they were missing a few windows. A couple of exterior windows in the back of the plane were

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like damaged and falling off and passengers flagged down staff saying, Hey, it's really loud and cold

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in here. What gives? The flight crew went to check it out and they're like, wow, it is actually real

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loud back here. What's going on? Oh, we're missing windows. They were only at about 10,000 feet. They

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alerted the pilots who decided to stop climbing and instead turn around and land the plane.

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Thankfully the plane landed uneventfully and no one was injured. Upon investigating what the hell

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happened, it turns out that this plane was used in like some sort of quote unquote filming event

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the day prior and it had high powered lights pointing at the plane for hours, which probably

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melted some of the adhesive on the windows or something. So there you go. Before you board

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your next plane, ask them if it was recently used in a filming event. Otherwise it may not be safe.

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It's probably safe. This is a reminder that air travel is actually pretty safe. Compared to being

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run over and then dragged by a robo taxi, at least cruise, a fully self-driving robo taxi company

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is recalling 950 cars, their entire fleet after one of their cars hit a pedestrian and then dragged

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them along the pavement. Oh, sorry. After one of their cars hit a pedestrian that had already been

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hit by another car and then dragged them across the street. According to the recall report,

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a hundred percent of their fleet are affected by a quote software issue that caused the car to

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miscategorize the situation and decide to go ahead and drive. So someone got hit by a car that was

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being driven by a human and then fell over in front of a driverless car that then also hit them

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and dragged them across the street. Cause it was like, Oh, I don't know what that was. This event

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comes after previous issues with cruise safety has been raised. For example, apparently their cars had

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trouble recognizing children and they've previously run into emergency vehicles or run over active fire

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hoses that were in use, stuff like that. But don't worry, cruise says that they have a software update

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ready to fix the whole hitting a pedestrian and then dragging their body along asphalt thing.

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If you will afford me a quick tangent, I have talked about this a little bit before, but I know

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that self-driving cars seem really appealing, but they really just ain't it. It is very easy to say

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that this is just growing pains and that eventually once we have every car equipped with self-driving

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technology and they can all perfectly communicate with each other, there will be no more accidents

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and everything will be great. It's a fallacy. There will always be a need for specialty human

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driven vehicles. There will always be a need for emergency vehicles. There will always be roads that

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are too poor to have some sort of computer system drive on. There will always be animals crossing

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the street. There will always be people who are staging protests on highways. There will always be

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something. Roads are weird and confusing and messy and dangerous and they don't make a whole lot of

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sense. One person causing an accident can block an entire highway. One person having one bad day,

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making one bad decision can impact hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of people who are just

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trying to get to their destination via road. It's really easy to say that like, oh if it's all AI

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and if it's all self-driving cars, then they'll be perfect, but no software glitches. It'll take one

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glitch to cause an infinite amount of problems. Cars are multi-ton metal vehicles propelled by

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fire and lightning. Humans are fleshy meat bags. We just don't mix. There are cheaper, safer,

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and more efficient methods of making automated transportation, but they want to go for cars

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because whoever solves that problem wins the favor of all of the auto industry. And there is a lot

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of money in the auto industry. And a lot of that money goes towards lobbying, stopping any other

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kind of project. On this day in 1944, the USS Mount Hood exploded while docked at Siedler Harbor.

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When I say exploded, I mean it ceased to exist. The USS Mount Hood was an ammunition ship. Its

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whole purpose was to carry thousands of tons of explosives. On the morning of November 10th, 1944,

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17 men from the ship were off to go collect the ship's mail. They were walking along the beach

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about four kilometers away from the ship when they were thrown to the ground by a shockwave.

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When they got up and turned around, there was just a plume of smoke where once there was their ship,

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but nothing was recovered. Well, one thing was recovered. A 16 by 10 foot piece of metal

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that was found in the newly formed crater right below where the ship was docked. A massive

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underwater trench that was created from the explosion, 300 feet long and 40 feet deep.

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Of course, hundreds of sailors lives were instantly claimed and many vessels within a

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two kilometer radius were damaged or entirely destroyed. According to investigations, the cause

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of the explosion was inexperienced crew and poor management. On a ship that's supposed to carry

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thousands of pounds of explosives, I guess go off the Navy. Lightning round. Valve is releasing a

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slightly updated steam deck with an OLED screen and better battery life. Some scientists in a lab have

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successfully grown some yeast that has more than 50% synthetic DNA. Snapchat has laid off 20 project

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managers in an attempt to increase their speed of decision making. Hey, you know that like venue

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that you're probably seeing a lot recently from Las Vegas. It's just like a big sphere that does

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like light shows on the outside and the inside. They're hemorrhaging cash. It turns out they're

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operating at like a 90 plus million dollar loss and their CFO just recently quit reportedly after

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a shouting match with the CEO. Hulu and Disney Plus are combining into one app because they're

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at the end of the end of time there will be exactly one app and it will suck. After the recent election

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results in the US, GOP strategizers are starting to get a bit concerned about their hardline stance

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on abortion. I wonder why. Rockstar Games has announced that they will be releasing a GTA 6

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trailer in December and finally for today, pour one out for a real one as Omegle has shut down.

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While yes, there was a lot of problematic stuff about Omegle, I didn't have a second half of that.

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

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My name is Endeavorance, I'll be back on Monday, take care and be well.