1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,500 Hello. 2 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:04,100 I discovered the lost secrets of the cosmos. 3 00:00:04,100 --> 00:00:06,480 But stuff still happened. 4 00:00:06,480 --> 00:00:07,520 So what's up? 5 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:08,560 Do not fear. 6 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:10,680 They found the space tomato. 7 00:00:10,680 --> 00:00:13,000 They also lost it first, but then they found it. 8 00:00:13,000 --> 00:00:14,560 Let me talk to you about space tomato. 9 00:00:14,560 --> 00:00:15,920 All right, so there's space. 10 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:16,660 It's out there. 11 00:00:16,660 --> 00:00:18,720 In the space is a space station. 12 00:00:18,720 --> 00:00:21,480 In the space station is space science people. 13 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,000 And those space science people were like, 14 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:25,240 yo, let's grow a tomato in space. 15 00:00:25,240 --> 00:00:26,220 And then they harvested it. 16 00:00:26,220 --> 00:00:28,080 And they got a space tomato in their inventory. 17 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:28,960 And they were like, meat. 18 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:30,280 Let's put this in a bag. 19 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:31,560 And then they were like, hey, we're 20 00:00:31,560 --> 00:00:32,640 doing this thing with kids. 21 00:00:32,640 --> 00:00:35,280 Kids are going to tune in to a live feed of the space station. 22 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:36,600 We're going to show them science stuff. 23 00:00:36,600 --> 00:00:37,920 Let's show them the space tomato. 24 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:38,640 So they grab it. 25 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:41,240 And they're like, hey, kids, check out this space tomato. 26 00:00:41,240 --> 00:00:44,920 And the kids were presumably like, wow, that sure is a tomato. 27 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:46,800 After showing off their sweet, sweet mato, 28 00:00:46,800 --> 00:00:48,600 the astronauts decided to go ahead and just 29 00:00:48,600 --> 00:00:49,600 put that to the side. 30 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:51,080 And the guy who put it to the side 31 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:52,760 thought that he tethered it down, 32 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,000 but I guess not because it disappeared. 33 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:56,220 Or at least that's his story. 34 00:00:56,220 --> 00:00:57,440 The rest of the astronauts apparently 35 00:00:57,440 --> 00:00:58,760 just thought that he ate it. 36 00:00:58,760 --> 00:00:59,480 Which is fair. 37 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:00,600 I mean, it's a space tomato. 38 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:02,680 How often do you have a chance to eat a space tomato? 39 00:01:02,680 --> 00:01:05,360 But astronaut Frank Rubio maintained his innocence 40 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:08,480 and ultimately was vindicated because they eventually 41 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:09,560 found the tomato. 42 00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,480 Or rather, it is presumed that they found 43 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:15,040 a bag full of red goop because it was gone for a while. 44 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:16,120 And it's space. 45 00:01:16,120 --> 00:01:18,880 Food does not famously do very well in space. 46 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:19,680 Space ketchup. 47 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:20,880 No, no, I'm good, actually. 48 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:23,320 I don't think I want to eat rotten space tomato. 49 00:01:23,320 --> 00:01:24,120 Shocking. 50 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:27,240 Massive retail corporations lied to you about theft. 51 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:27,640 Weird. 52 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:28,320 Can you imagine? 53 00:01:28,320 --> 00:01:28,880 Wow. 54 00:01:28,880 --> 00:01:30,000 You may have heard throughout the year 55 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,280 that massive corporations like Walmart and Target 56 00:01:32,280 --> 00:01:35,400 and whatnot were saying, oh my goodness, oh my stars. 57 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:37,880 Our stores are being steal from so much. 58 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,080 That's me doing an impersonation of Walmart's PR team. 59 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:41,880 Hire me. 60 00:01:41,880 --> 00:01:42,920 Don't actually hire me. 61 00:01:42,920 --> 00:01:44,800 I don't want to work for Walmart. 62 00:01:44,800 --> 00:01:47,520 Anyway, the NRF, the National Retail Federation, 63 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:49,160 represents all of these companies. 64 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:50,480 It's a lobbying arm, right? 65 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,160 And they've been talking about how urban crime is on the rise. 66 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,440 And all of these stores have to start shutting down 67 00:01:56,440 --> 00:01:59,400 because of shoplifting, making it so they're not making money. 68 00:01:59,400 --> 00:02:01,240 So they have to close their locations 69 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:02,680 and raise their prices. 70 00:02:02,680 --> 00:02:04,920 Blame those inner city folk. 71 00:02:04,920 --> 00:02:06,600 You know who I'm talking about. 72 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:10,000 I'm going to evoke the right type of people for you to hate 73 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:11,520 without actually saying it. 74 00:02:11,520 --> 00:02:13,080 Anyway, they also, that's a lie. 75 00:02:13,080 --> 00:02:13,840 It's just a lie. 76 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:15,000 It's just a straight up lie. 77 00:02:15,000 --> 00:02:17,320 Turns out they have recently been like, psych, 78 00:02:17,320 --> 00:02:18,600 that was made up. 79 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:21,080 We didn't ever have the data that actually proved that. 80 00:02:21,080 --> 00:02:23,280 We were going off of our interpretation 81 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,680 of an anecdote that was given during a congressional hearing 82 00:02:26,680 --> 00:02:29,360 by the former president of our lobbying firm. 83 00:02:29,360 --> 00:02:32,160 So the organization whose sole purpose is to try to maximize 84 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,000 the profits of Walmart, Target, et cetera, 85 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,520 used their own former president's words 86 00:02:37,520 --> 00:02:42,600 that were inaccurate to weave this narrative about crime, 87 00:02:42,600 --> 00:02:45,120 making it so that they have to raise their prices 88 00:02:45,120 --> 00:02:46,960 and close stores. 89 00:02:46,960 --> 00:02:49,080 Because it's a lot easier to say that than to say, 90 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:50,400 we're doing union busting. 91 00:02:50,400 --> 00:02:52,400 Pay no attention to the fact that some of the stores 92 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:54,960 that we're closing, we're trying to unionize. 93 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:56,960 No, it's the theft. 94 00:02:56,960 --> 00:02:59,440 The theft that we don't have the numbers to prove. 95 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:00,440 One last point here. 96 00:03:00,440 --> 00:03:02,480 They also want you to believe that people are shoplifting 97 00:03:02,480 --> 00:03:04,200 like valuables and whatnot. 98 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:05,480 That's not true either. 99 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,320 Turns out the most targeted stuff are health care products, 100 00:03:08,320 --> 00:03:10,360 infant products, and office supplies. 101 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:14,080 As always, if you see someone stealing food, no, you didn't. 102 00:03:14,080 --> 00:03:17,880 The US FDA has approved the first gene editing therapy 103 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:19,360 for sickle cell disease. 104 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:21,040 You may have heard of CRISPR before, 105 00:03:21,040 --> 00:03:22,760 not the drawer in your fridge, 106 00:03:22,760 --> 00:03:25,040 but like it's a gene editing thing. 107 00:03:25,040 --> 00:03:26,320 Both equally important. 108 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:28,360 So sickle cell, it sucks. 109 00:03:28,360 --> 00:03:29,320 I would, I think that would, 110 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:31,200 that accurately summarizes sickle cell. 111 00:03:31,200 --> 00:03:32,360 I think that makes sense actually. 112 00:03:32,360 --> 00:03:33,440 But to get a little more into it, 113 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:36,160 what it means is that your cells are not producing a compound 114 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:38,680 that helps to circulate oxygen throughout your body. 115 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:40,720 And so life just kind of sucks. 116 00:03:40,720 --> 00:03:41,840 I am underselling this. 117 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,920 Sickle cell is a debilitating lifelong disease. 118 00:03:44,920 --> 00:03:46,480 And the only real cure for it 119 00:03:46,480 --> 00:03:50,000 is an extremely invasive bone marrow transplant. 120 00:03:50,000 --> 00:03:53,320 But what if we could instead take your cells, 121 00:03:53,320 --> 00:03:55,080 fix them, and put them back? 122 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:56,440 That's what this therapy does. 123 00:03:56,440 --> 00:03:58,760 Essentially, instead of doing a bone marrow transplant, 124 00:03:58,760 --> 00:04:00,080 they can take your cells, 125 00:04:00,080 --> 00:04:02,040 throw them in a saucepan on medium high, 126 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:03,640 stir in a couple of good things, 127 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,560 and then put them back into your body to fix you. 128 00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:09,520 Oh, sorry, that's, I think I'm just hungry. 129 00:04:09,520 --> 00:04:10,640 They take some of your cells, 130 00:04:10,640 --> 00:04:13,240 and they edit the genes to make it work better, 131 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:15,760 like do the thing, produce the thing it's supposed to produce. 132 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:17,120 Then they make a bunch of those cells, 133 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:18,320 put them back into your body, 134 00:04:18,320 --> 00:04:20,800 and then you can benefit from the fixed cells. 135 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,440 Now, there's a lot of asterisks here. 136 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:24,720 It's still very invasive, 137 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:27,200 and it's also prohibitively expensive right now. 138 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:29,040 But this is still huge. 139 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,600 This is yet another step towards hope 140 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,360 for a criminally underserviced disease, and that's hype. 141 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,640 Medical science people are just very, very cool. 142 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,760 Pulling out DNA, taking a little, 143 00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:43,720 just taking an eraser, just like squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak, 144 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,760 and just writing a different DNA there. 145 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:46,600 That's how they do it. 146 00:04:46,600 --> 00:04:47,960 That's crisp and now we're getting crispy. 147 00:04:47,960 --> 00:04:49,600 A content warning for this next segment, 148 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:52,000 I will be discussing the mass killing of civilians. 149 00:04:52,000 --> 00:04:55,000 In a study recently published by an Israeli newspaper, 150 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:57,720 they found that of the airstrikes done against Gaza 151 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:00,800 between just October 7th and 26th, 152 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:04,720 61% of the deaths were civilians. 153 00:05:04,720 --> 00:05:06,560 This is an extraordinary outlier, 154 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:10,320 even in context of Israel's previous attacks on Palestine. 155 00:05:10,320 --> 00:05:14,840 They note that this is an unprecedented killing of civilians, a genocide. 156 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:17,240 The author notes that any notion of restraint 157 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:18,280 is a straight up lie. 158 00:05:18,280 --> 00:05:20,160 The numbers just simply don't prove it, 159 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:21,680 and they're only getting worse. 160 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:23,880 Israel is now moving their offensive efforts 161 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:26,280 towards the south of Gaza, where up until now, 162 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:28,520 they had been telling people to flee to. 163 00:05:28,520 --> 00:05:31,400 And so now the people who have all fled to the refugee camps 164 00:05:31,400 --> 00:05:34,840 that were also air-struck have nowhere to go. 165 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:37,080 Yes, Israel has bombed sites 166 00:05:37,080 --> 00:05:42,880 that they told people to seek refuge at, 61% civilian casualty rate. 167 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:46,160 Meanwhile, in the US, Joe, I'm the most progressive president 168 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:48,120 to ever sit in this office, Biden, 169 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:52,600 asked Congress if he could send 45,000 tank shells to Israel. 170 00:05:52,600 --> 00:05:56,160 But then he decided he didn't actually care what Congress had to say, 171 00:05:56,160 --> 00:05:57,400 and he just did it anyway. 172 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,840 But do not worry, I have it on good authority 173 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:02,360 that Joe Biden is actually just a swell guy, 174 00:06:02,360 --> 00:06:05,000 and you should completely ignore his support of genocide 175 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:07,720 because one time he almost kind of reduced student debt. 176 00:06:07,720 --> 00:06:10,720 Demand more from your leaders, demand to be heard. 177 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:13,680 The world is watching and taking notes. 178 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:17,920 On this day in 2009, mobile game developer Rovio 179 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,280 released Angry Birds for the first time. 180 00:06:20,280 --> 00:06:24,120 The game would go on to sell 12 million copies in the first year. 181 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:25,880 It would then expand to other platforms 182 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:28,400 and eventually land multiple movie deals. 183 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,720 All of this because the birds were very angry. 184 00:06:31,720 --> 00:06:33,720 Moral of the story, stay mad. 185 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:34,640 Lightning round. 186 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,640 There was momentarily an app on Android 187 00:06:36,640 --> 00:06:41,240 that allowed Android users to send iMessages to iOS users. 188 00:06:41,240 --> 00:06:46,280 It worked with end-to-end encryption and it showed up as a blue bubble and everything. 189 00:06:46,280 --> 00:06:47,600 And then Apple shut it down. 190 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,680 And then Elizabeth Warren was criticizing Apple for shutting it down. 191 00:06:50,680 --> 00:06:51,480 I don't know. 192 00:06:51,480 --> 00:06:55,560 Apple's out here being like, we had to protect our users' privacy. 193 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:56,400 Buy an iPhone. 194 00:06:56,400 --> 00:06:59,640 Some burgle boys in whole ass ski mask get up and everything 195 00:06:59,640 --> 00:07:01,800 broke into Keanu Reeves' house. 196 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:04,800 Thankfully for them, he wasn't home, so they survived the encounter. 197 00:07:04,800 --> 00:07:07,600 Elon Musk has reinstated Alex Jones on Twitter 198 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:10,280 after doing a poll about if he should do that. 199 00:07:10,280 --> 00:07:13,560 I don't know why he was doing the poll in the first place either. 200 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:20,320 But then he also hopped on a call with Alex Jones and Andrew Tate and Ramaswamy. 201 00:07:20,320 --> 00:07:21,280 What the fuck? 202 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,000 And speaking of Elon, his own AI, like his own chat GPT competitor, 203 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:27,040 has some choice words to say about him. 204 00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:30,120 And finally for today, a Baldur's Gate 3 speed runner 205 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,560 has completed the game on its hardest mode, where you have one life 206 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:37,160 and cannot load your save in 38 minutes. 207 00:07:37,160 --> 00:07:38,840 38 minutes. 208 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:40,240 What? 209 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:43,560 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 210 00:07:43,560 --> 00:07:48,000 Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online for sources, bonus content, 211 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:55,080 and a round ball filled with snails. 212 00:07:55,080 --> 00:07:56,160 My name is Endeavorance. 213 00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,080 As a reminder, I have changed the schedule of this show. 214 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:01,400 I will be back on Thursday. 215 00:08:01,400 --> 00:08:10,600 Take care and be well.