1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,520 Hello. I wore the beanie that my Twitch chat picked out. 2 00:00:04,400 --> 00:00:06,680 But stuff still happened. 3 00:00:06,720 --> 00:00:07,560 So what's up? 4 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:09,400 Um, shit's on fire. 5 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:10,440 Or it was. 6 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:11,440 And also will be. 7 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:12,240 We'll get to it. 8 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:16,000 But in LA, there's currently a state of emergency because a fire completely 9 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:17,600 engulfed Interstate 10. 10 00:00:17,640 --> 00:00:21,800 Okay, maybe not the whole interstate, but a chunk of it was engulfed by a fire. 11 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:23,160 And now it's closed. 12 00:00:23,200 --> 00:00:25,160 The fire did not start on the interstate. 13 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,680 It started nearby and made its way over to the road. 14 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:30,880 But once it got there, it was like, oh, yeah, I could take a joy ride. 15 00:00:30,920 --> 00:00:34,600 Unfortunately for us, fire taking a joy ride isn't great. 16 00:00:34,640 --> 00:00:36,840 First responders worked hard to take care of the fire. 17 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:39,600 And there's people in hazmat suits, like evaluating what's going on. 18 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:42,640 There's like structural engineers making sure that it's safe for cars to go vroom 19 00:00:42,640 --> 00:00:43,480 vroom on the bridge. 20 00:00:44,120 --> 00:00:45,160 But it's still closed. 21 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:50,040 According to Gavin Newsom, governor of California, there is a 24-7 operation on 22 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:55,080 this, and also people are encouraged to work from home to not have to drive on it. 23 00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:57,720 And with this interstate closure, they're worried about all the traffic that's 24 00:00:57,720 --> 00:01:01,800 going to go elsewhere now because roads are such good infrastructure. 25 00:01:01,840 --> 00:01:03,920 Anyway, the world is zero sum. 26 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:08,600 And since that fire was taken care of, it's time for a volcano to erupt in Iceland. 27 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:10,680 If you were not aware, that's how that works. 28 00:01:10,680 --> 00:01:11,280 Apparently. 29 00:01:11,320 --> 00:01:11,840 All right. 30 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:12,840 Iceland, right? 31 00:01:12,880 --> 00:01:13,160 Okay. 32 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,720 So they have a corner and that corner is the Southwest. 33 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:19,560 And in that Southwest corner is a volcano that's going to erupt. 34 00:01:19,640 --> 00:01:22,200 Why does my brain work that way? 35 00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:22,600 I don't know. 36 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:24,920 You're just going to have to deal with it anyway. 37 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,480 This volcano is due to erupt and they know this because there have been over a 38 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:30,720 thousand earthquakes leading up to it. 39 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:34,320 While many of these earthquakes were very small, you typically don't want to 40 00:01:34,320 --> 00:01:36,520 ignore a thousand earthquakes. 41 00:01:36,680 --> 00:01:39,880 Oh, also like a gaping hole just kind of appeared in a town somewhere. 42 00:01:40,120 --> 00:01:43,680 So they're like, okay, uh, maybe we should get out of here. 43 00:01:43,840 --> 00:01:47,000 A small town of a few thousand people near the volcano has been evacuated. 44 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,800 And at this point, they're just waiting. 45 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:51,560 Well, it was originally considered that this might be a pretty dangerous 46 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:54,880 eruption. The latest that I have seen from scientists on the ground there is 47 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:58,520 that it might actually be less of an intensive eruption than expected. 48 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:02,720 Where it as bad as it could be, it could have actually impacted the air quality 49 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:06,280 of like the entire Northern hemisphere, but they're not really expecting that 50 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:06,840 to be the case. 51 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,800 It's possible, but they're there. 52 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:09,640 It's not likely. 53 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,880 So instead, instead of like a whoosh, it might be more like a poop. 54 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,960 If you, if you, if you know what I mean, you know what I mean. 55 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,280 Tesla pissed off Swedish workers. 56 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:20,360 You're not supposed to do that. 57 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:24,360 Tesla workers in Sweden are demanding for Tesla to accept a proposal for 58 00:02:24,360 --> 00:02:27,360 collective bargaining and have a contract with the union. 59 00:02:27,400 --> 00:02:30,720 Tesla headed by Elon Musk is famously anti-union. 60 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:35,080 Musk actually went as far as to once get in trouble for posting on Twitter, a 61 00:02:35,080 --> 00:02:36,480 threat to his own employees. 62 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:39,880 When his employees were considering unionizing, he was found guilty of union 63 00:02:39,880 --> 00:02:43,000 busting there and then he appealed the decision and it was upheld. 64 00:02:43,040 --> 00:02:46,400 But now in Sweden, over a hundred metal workers have walked off the job at 65 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:47,960 places that service Tesla vehicles. 66 00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,880 And in a show of solidarity, other unions are jumping in. 67 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,040 Doc workers are refusing to deliver Teslas. 68 00:02:53,240 --> 00:02:55,880 There are painters unions that are refusing to paint Teslas. 69 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,440 Basically anybody who can is lending their solidarity. 70 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:02,320 Additional unions are threatening to join in over the coming weeks. 71 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:05,480 If Tesla continues to not listen to the collective bargaining, they will 72 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:09,080 essentially continue to pile on until Tesla does the thing that virtually 73 00:03:09,080 --> 00:03:11,720 all employers in that region already do. 74 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:16,080 They have been referred to by trade organizations as not a serious employer. 75 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:19,600 If you're an American watching this, by the way, listen to the 76 00:03:19,600 --> 00:03:21,040 words that I have said here. 77 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:25,360 It is standard procedure to have a trade union that fights for your working 78 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:26,760 conditions in other countries. 79 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:27,720 Standard. 80 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:32,040 It's also standard to get like multiple months of PTO per year. 81 00:03:32,080 --> 00:03:36,840 That's, that's not the case in America, but I digress into the end of that segment. 82 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,680 A content warning for this next segment. 83 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,880 I'll be discussing the ongoing situation in Gaza. 84 00:03:40,880 --> 00:03:41,800 I will not be graphic. 85 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:45,000 Israel is continuing their outsized retaliation on the 86 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:49,200 civilian death toll in Gaza has risen past 11,000. 87 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:54,360 There's 11,000 lives that have been snuffed out about half of whom were children. 88 00:03:54,480 --> 00:03:58,040 Recently, Israeli forces stormed one of the last operating hospitals in 89 00:03:58,040 --> 00:04:02,040 the evacuated region where doctors, nurses, and other caretakers were 90 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:05,480 taking care of active patients, including newborns. 91 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:10,520 These hospital staff members chose to stay behind despite evacuation orders 92 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,920 to take care of people who couldn't otherwise be treated. 93 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,560 They are risking their life to stay there and take care of others. 94 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:21,440 I have read reports of doctors in the hospitals attempting to help 95 00:04:21,440 --> 00:04:23,720 patients during active shelling. 96 00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:27,840 Israel maintains that Hamas is secretly operating underneath the hospital. 97 00:04:28,080 --> 00:04:29,960 And so they need to continue to attack it. 98 00:04:30,280 --> 00:04:32,360 They have not provided any proof for that. 99 00:04:32,360 --> 00:04:36,040 And that is a claim that they have made many, many times in the past, 100 00:04:36,160 --> 00:04:37,400 not just in this conflict. 101 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:41,160 It is exceedingly rare that Israel actually provides proof for their 102 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,600 claims of why they need to go and attack a hospital. 103 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,120 Now, I am not in the business of trusting what Hamas has to say. 104 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:51,680 And their response to Israel claiming that they are there is, nuh-uh. 105 00:04:51,840 --> 00:04:52,960 But I do not care. 106 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:58,320 My tax money is going towards military support for this operation against my will. 107 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:01,560 Shouting Hamas while pointing at something does not make me want to 108 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:03,680 give you the thumbs up to bomb hospitals. 109 00:05:03,880 --> 00:05:07,760 And I would hope that most people would want a little bit more evidence 110 00:05:07,880 --> 00:05:10,680 before being like, yeah, I'm going to go to the hospital. 111 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:16,440 Yeah, send military into that hospital where there's babies and sick people 112 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:22,120 trying to live in the region that was told to be evacuated because bombs are happening. 113 00:05:22,240 --> 00:05:26,040 I want to say in no uncertain terms and with absolute honesty, 114 00:05:26,600 --> 00:05:31,680 that the amount of respect I have for these caretakers in that hospital is immeasurable. 115 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:33,560 You are an inspiration. 116 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:37,400 The world would be a better place if more people shared the heart of those caretakers. 117 00:05:37,400 --> 00:05:45,680 On this day in 2022, the Earth's population crossed eight billion, an estimated population. 118 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:47,320 No one actually counted. 119 00:05:47,400 --> 00:05:48,360 Well, we kind of counted. 120 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:49,360 I mean, we sort of counted. 121 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:52,600 We, we, it's a, we crossed the mark. 122 00:05:52,640 --> 00:05:53,080 Okay. 123 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:57,640 The United Nations dubbed that day the day of eight billion, which is not a very 124 00:05:57,640 --> 00:06:00,040 creative title, but it makes sense. 125 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:03,880 Also, apparently, even though nobody asked, the Philippines picked a baby to be 126 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:05,920 the symbolic eight billionth person. 127 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:07,440 They're like, ah, that one. 128 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:09,240 That's the eight billionth one. 129 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:10,080 Lightning round. 130 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:14,760 As the details of the recently won SAG-AFTRA contract has come out, people are a little 131 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:18,680 spooked because the actual protection for AI doesn't really go far enough. 132 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,200 There were dissenting voters and several thousand members of the union are not super 133 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:24,120 happy about the wording. 134 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:26,360 So we shall see if that goes back. 135 00:06:26,440 --> 00:06:31,040 A Jewish school in Montreal has been targeted by gunfire twice in the past week. 136 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:36,000 This is a reminder that anti-Semitism is not AIT and is a reminder that you can be 137 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:40,200 critical of Israel while not being anti-Semitic and a reminder that most people 138 00:06:40,200 --> 00:06:42,480 who are critical of Israel are not anti-Semitic. 139 00:06:42,600 --> 00:06:42,920 Cool. 140 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:43,720 Moving on. 141 00:06:43,840 --> 00:06:47,680 The U S House of Representatives has just voted to pass a bill that would extend 142 00:06:47,680 --> 00:06:50,360 funding for the government a little longer. 143 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,480 Again, the shutdown has been moved out by a couple of months. 144 00:06:53,920 --> 00:06:54,640 Again. 145 00:06:54,880 --> 00:06:58,040 And also the Republicans tried to vote against their own thing. 146 00:06:58,640 --> 00:06:59,200 Again. 147 00:06:59,200 --> 00:07:04,680 There were 95 dissenting votes, 93 of whom were Republicans on their own proposal. 148 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:08,440 It's expected that the Senate is going to pass the bill and we're not going to have a 149 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:11,240 shutdown, but we're going to be right back here in the new year. 150 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:12,720 So there you go. 151 00:07:12,760 --> 00:07:18,920 Nepal has banned TikTok, citing that it is, quote, detrimental to social harmony. 152 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:20,600 I cannot say I disagree. 153 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:25,400 Speaking of wildly popular social networks, Donald Trump's Truth Social has apparently 154 00:07:25,400 --> 00:07:29,360 lost $73 million since launching last year. 155 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:33,200 And finally for today, if you have a PlayStation 5, you can pick up Sony's new 156 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:39,640 handheld PS5 streaming device, which streams from your PS5 to the device. 157 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:40,360 And that's it. 158 00:07:40,840 --> 00:07:42,200 And I, what? 159 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:49,080 It's like a steam deck, but you have to have a PS5 on a network and accessible to play it. 160 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:49,520 What? 161 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:50,880 What is even happening anymore? 162 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:54,040 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 163 00:07:54,040 --> 00:08:02,640 Head to Stuff Keeps Happening.online for sources, bonus content, and an endless supply of ice water. 164 00:08:02,680 --> 00:08:04,280 My name is Endeavorance. 165 00:08:04,320 --> 00:08:05,960 I'll be back on Friday. 166 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:24,960 Take care and be well.