Hello. I forwarded a chain letter to five friends, but stuff still happened.
So what's up? It's not so quality control. Uh, whoops. Remember just a few weeks ago when there
was that 737 Max that had a door just blow off the side of the plane while it was flying?
Yeah, that thing that should never happen? Well, Boeing went back and took a look,
and one of their suppliers reported that there were 50 more undelivered planes with, quote,
mis-drilled holes. 50 of them. Mis-drilled holes on an airplane. Ah, this is some late stage
capitalism bullshit. There are basically two companies, Airbus and Boeing for commercial
airliners. And Boeing is producing planes that just come apart. Cool. Why have safety regulations
when you can instead buy the people who make regulations? Why have competition when you can
instead just monopolize? Sorry, do-op-alize. Sorry, sorry. Totally not a do-op-aly. Totally.
There's a lot of nuance. There's a whole lot of stuff. It's not just two companies. Speaking of
effective monopolies, Disney has invested $1.5 billion into Epic Games, the creators of Fortnite.
This gets Disney an equity stake in the gaming company, which means that they have influence
over decision-making. Presumably Disney wants to do, first of all, a whole lot more just putting
Disney characters into Fortnite, but most likely they're looking at trying to bring in Epic to do
more, like, interactive experience. That's what their marketing team wants you to think of it.
Think of it as an interactive experience. Jesus Christ. I want to just point out that every
experience is interactive. That's what an experience is. Anyway, yeah, think of it this way,
though. You know how Fortnite is like a game, but also a social hub and sometimes a concert venue?
I think that's what Disney is after here. This is a big deal and possibly the first step towards
Disney ultimately wanting to buy Epic and bring them in as their, like, live services game
development thing. But that's just speculation. I want to be clear. That's just speculation.
Let's talk about John Fetterman, because I'm not surprised, but I am mad. John Fetterman is a
freshman US senator from Pennsylvania, and while he was on the campaign trail, he was painting himself
as a progressive. He even got endorsements from AOC and all of that. And then he went on to go up
against Dr. Oz. Dr. Oz. Anyway, he beat Dr. Oz, and now he's a senator. And since becoming a senator,
he's just basically a normal-ass Democrat, which is to say, center right at best. On the campaign
trail, he talked about needing healthcare reform, foreign policy reform, criminal justice reform,
all of this stuff, very thoughtful progressive ideas. And now that he's in the Senate, he's like,
I love Israel. And then he's like, there's a crisis at the border. And like, yeah, haha,
he started off from making Republicans mad by wearing shorts on the Senate floor.
But now he's just helping to fund a genocide. And it's not like he's unique in that. Most Democrats
are helping to fund a genocide. That's what they do. And all of the Republicans, too, is just to be
clear. It's not the Republicans don't get to get a free pass on this one, nor on any of them. They're
never getting a pass. But in terms of accountability, John Fetterman was like, hey, y'all, I'm a new kind
of guy. And then he gets into office and he's the old kind of guy. Like, let me put it this way.
His wife was an undocumented migrant. And now he's like, there's a migrant crisis. All these
undocumented migrants coming into this country that should be able to take care of them. Isn't
it weird how we don't have room for migrants, but we have the most aircraft carriers of any country,
and one of the few countries that have aircraft carriers, and one of the few countries that have
foreign military bases. What's up with that? But no, can't can't feed the hungry. Sorry.
A rich person did a bad thing. And people have acknowledged it. All right, look, I collect
articles over a few days and then write about them all at once. When I got this article in my
inbox, this was more breaking. But now literally everyone's already talking about it. So let's
talk about Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift made some music that one time and people like her for it.
But now she's getting in some heat because she's following in the footsteps of Elon Musk. She has
sent a cease and desist to Jack Sweeney, the teenager who has social media accounts publishing
the flight records for private jets. Now upfront, I want to be super, super clear. He's not publishing
any private information. He's taking highly available public information, like easily available
public information, and then just reformatting it and publishing it to social media. It's not hidden
info. This is an entire hobby. Flight tracking is an entire hobby. It's not some small niche thing.
But Elon Musk and now Taylor Swift have both attempted to stop this from happening,
saying it's an invasion of privacy to track their 20 minute flights that they take. They're both
extra mad because his flight tracker also publishes how much carbon emissions they make. And so these
very rich people get upset because people might start thinking that they're not actually all that
great for the world because of the whole using your private jet to go to 7-Eleven for a slurpee
thing. Is it slurpee? 7-Eleven is slurpees, right? Or is it iceys? I think it's slurpees. Anyway,
it's absurd. Multiple billionaires who are so rich they have their own private jets are going
after some kid for talking about said private jets. It's basically impossible to ignore the
outsized power differential here and how needless it is. And so even Swifties are starting to say,
that's kind of shitty. I mean, Tay-Tay can do no wrong, but this does seem like wrong.
Here's a challenge. At some point today, pull out your phone or a recording app on your computer
or something and record just one minute of whatever you're thinking about. You're not going to post
this anywhere. You're just going to hit record and start talking. I don't want you to do any planning,
just whatever's on your mind. Whatever comes out, comes out. Hit stop after a minute and set yourself
a reminder to go back and listen in six months. Lightning round. Citizens of Paris voted overwhelmingly
to essentially triple parking fees for SUV sized vehicles within city limits. A court of appeals
has unanimously determined that Trump does not have arbitrary legal immunity forever.
That's probably just going to keep going up the courts though. King Charles has cancer.
McDonald's appears to have missed their sales targets for the first time in like four years,
in part due to ongoing protests. Keep it up. Another Baltimore official has been charged for
crimes. This just happens weekly. This time it was mortgage fraud. People are out here jokingly or
otherwise stunt or otherwise wearing an Apple vision pro while driving their cars. In some cases,
a Tesla with autopilot. Don't do that. I get mad when I see people with headphones on while driving.
Don't do that either. I don't care how good the transparency mode is. Pay attention. You're driving
a car. You're driving a motor vehicle. Focus on that. Tucker Carlson is going to Russia to interview
Vladimir Putin in the least surprising headline of today's stories. Wait, nope. This one's even less
surprising. Nikki Haley, presidential hopeful for the Republican party, lost to none of the above
on the Nevada primary. Fucking hurts dog. Like straight up yikes, bro. Thank you so much for
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