1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:00,500 Hello. 2 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:06,200 I collected all of the Chaos Emeralds, but stuff still happened. 3 00:00:06,200 --> 00:00:07,080 So what's up? 4 00:00:07,080 --> 00:00:12,120 LA Graffiti is a worldwide issue, says the chief of the LAPD, 5 00:00:12,120 --> 00:00:14,720 which means it's a meaningless statement. 6 00:00:14,720 --> 00:00:19,440 If you haven't already seen, some graffiti artists in LA came together to graffiti bomb 7 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:22,600 an abandoned high-rise luxury apartment project. 8 00:00:22,600 --> 00:00:26,080 A developer was building a high-rise, and then the money dried up, and then they stopped, 9 00:00:26,080 --> 00:00:28,640 and then she's been sitting there, unfinished. 10 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:30,760 While there's a homelessness crisis. 11 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,280 And so a bunch of local artists got together and made a statement. 12 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:35,240 They covered the building in tabs. 13 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:36,800 It's actually really gorgeous. 14 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,440 But we can't have that because graffiti, bad for reasons. 15 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:44,040 You know what those reasons are, and you know who gets to decide what's bad. 16 00:00:44,040 --> 00:00:48,480 Anyway, in response to this, the chief of police went on to say that it was a, quote, 17 00:00:48,480 --> 00:00:56,200 iconic location that has been unfortunately taken off track and now taken advantage of by these vandals. 18 00:00:56,200 --> 00:00:59,960 He's complaining that they've had to arrest a few people and that some of them came from 19 00:00:59,960 --> 00:01:02,600 other places to come join in on this. 20 00:01:02,600 --> 00:01:04,880 And he's like, this makes it a worldwide problem. 21 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:12,240 The graffiti on the abandoned high-rise luxury apartments in my city that is just gripped with issues. 22 00:01:12,240 --> 00:01:17,800 But now this guy with a spray paint can, he's the reason that we're having struggles. 23 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:19,040 Fuck the LAPD. 24 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:20,600 Sorry, fuck all of the PDs. 25 00:01:20,600 --> 00:01:24,800 What good is a walled garden if it doesn't have porn? 26 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:29,680 All right, the Apple Vision Pro is out and a bunch of guys, and let's be clear, it's guys, 27 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:35,040 are walking around wearing the headset and telling us that we're all missing out, saying that we just don't understand. 28 00:01:35,040 --> 00:01:36,160 This is the future. 29 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:36,960 Yay. 30 00:01:36,960 --> 00:01:40,440 Look, I'm not here to say whether or not AR or VR is the future. 31 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:43,120 I think that AR is actually pretty cool. 32 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,520 But it's not $3,500 headset with a two-hour battery life. 33 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:46,920 Cool. 34 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:52,000 Also, it doesn't even do all that much actual AR stuff, like disappointingly little. 35 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:56,000 It just like puts windows in places. 36 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,160 Anyway, one of the AR VR things it doesn't do is porn. 37 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:03,720 Ha ha, yeah, yeah, yeah, let's all be shocked for a second. 38 00:02:03,720 --> 00:02:04,960 VR porn is a thing. 39 00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:08,000 It's a real, real thing, and it's very popular. 40 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:09,120 And that's fine. 41 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:16,400 It's okay to enjoy sexuality, except according to Apple, because you can go actually like look at porn on your headset, 42 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:21,720 but they don't actually allow you to watch the 3D VR spatial porn, at least by default. 43 00:02:21,720 --> 00:02:25,880 They've turned off the ability to do that, but users of the device have found work around. 44 00:02:25,880 --> 00:02:29,440 And Apple's like, oh, it's a beta feature? 45 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:31,960 Get it. 46 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:33,960 Damn, maybe Apple's got a point. 47 00:02:33,960 --> 00:02:39,720 Point is, you spent $3,500 on a headset, and then you have to do extra work to... 48 00:02:39,720 --> 00:02:41,040 Yeah. 49 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,120 Anyway, I'm not here to kink shame. 50 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:47,160 I'm not here to tell you that you shouldn't go watch VR porn. 51 00:02:47,160 --> 00:02:51,640 I'm just here to tell you that if you want to get off to VR porn, there are cheaper ways. 52 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:56,280 It is not great right now, y'all, and I don't love talking about these two old gas bags, 53 00:02:56,280 --> 00:03:02,880 but we're staring down the barrel of a 2024 rematch between Trump and Biden, and y'all, it ain't great. 54 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:09,560 In one corner, we've got Joe Biden, a half-melted ice cream cone of a flavor that you got because they didn't have the flavor you actually wanted. 55 00:03:09,560 --> 00:03:16,000 Biden is currently on his back foot doing damage control after a report came out talking about the government documents that he mishandled, 56 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:20,840 but more specifically, in the report, they talk about the lapses in memory that he's been exhibiting. 57 00:03:20,840 --> 00:03:26,080 Now, the White House and Democrats at large are clutching their pearls and saying this is a politically motivated attack and blah, blah, blah, blah, 58 00:03:26,080 --> 00:03:30,840 but anyone who has seen footage of Joe Biden would not be surprised. 59 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:37,480 And so after that came out, Biden held a bizarre press conference where he was mad at reporters yelling at them about how good his memory is, 60 00:03:37,480 --> 00:03:42,400 and then immediately afterwards mixed up the presidents of Mexico and Egypt. 61 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:45,360 It's giving person-woman-man-camera-TV. 62 00:03:45,360 --> 00:03:52,280 All of this is up against the backdrop of the fact that the vast majority of Americans think that Joe Biden is too frickin' old for another term. 63 00:03:52,280 --> 00:03:57,680 Even Hillary Rodham Clinton has chimed in saying that he's too goddamn old. 64 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,920 She also noted the other half of the sentiment, which is that Trump is too old, too. 65 00:04:01,920 --> 00:04:06,680 Trump's a few years younger than Biden, but hey, what if we went a few decades younger? 66 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:09,800 But speaking of that, let's talk about who's in the other corner. 67 00:04:09,800 --> 00:04:16,840 Donald Trump, steeped in lawsuits and having spent his entire life being very publicly a white-collar criminal, 68 00:04:16,840 --> 00:04:18,960 here comes Trump for a second attempt. 69 00:04:18,960 --> 00:04:28,320 We know he wants to become president again so that he can basically be a dictator and get immunity and pardon all of his friends or let people pay him for a pardon, all that stuff. 70 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,560 We know he's just gonna be a corrupt asshole. 71 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:36,520 This is part of why I don't like talking about him and part of why I don't stir up stuff about the plans that they've got. 72 00:04:36,520 --> 00:04:39,040 We know that the plans are terrible. 73 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:48,320 And now recently at a campaign speech, Trump talks about how he would actually encourage our enemies to attack our allies in NATO if they don't pay enough into NATO, 74 00:04:48,320 --> 00:04:53,280 which is a protection racket, which is not at all surprising for Trump. 75 00:04:53,280 --> 00:05:01,160 Now look, I am not a stan of NATO, but you don't go around just saying, hey, friends, if you don't pay me, I'm gonna ask other people to hurt you. 76 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:11,880 You don't just completely ignore the entirety of all history and the work that people have put in to build up nations and make allies and find security. 77 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:16,600 Yeah, the world's not perfect, but there's also a whole lot more peace than there is war right now. 78 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:23,360 And I don't think that the thing that we should be doing right now is indexing even further on who has money and who doesn't. 79 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:29,440 And yet there are scores of soulless people who seem to praise money as a god and Trump as their messiah. 80 00:05:29,440 --> 00:05:32,360 We don't need to run the country like a business. 81 00:05:32,360 --> 00:05:35,120 We need to run the country like a country. 82 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,760 And so look, what is the solution here? Who do we vote for? How do we fix this? 83 00:05:38,760 --> 00:05:43,160 I will tell you, we don't. We don't fix it at the ballot box. 84 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:45,840 There is no solution there. Stop looking for one. 85 00:05:45,840 --> 00:05:48,280 The answer is not to campaign for a third party candidate. 86 00:05:48,280 --> 00:05:53,520 I am sorry to tell you, that's not going to happen. That's not pessimism. That's reality. 87 00:05:53,520 --> 00:05:57,360 This is a multi-billion dollar industry pushing for these parties. 88 00:05:57,360 --> 00:06:02,040 And I would posit that the energy it would take to try to get a third party candidate to win 89 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:07,360 only to hope that that single election of that single president would fix all of our problems, 90 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:09,760 that energy could be used in much more productive ways. 91 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:17,840 Direct action, getting involved in local politics, and making sure that the current elected politicians never have a moment of peace in their life 92 00:06:17,840 --> 00:06:19,400 are much more good uses of your time. 93 00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,560 A content warning, this next segment is about the genocide in Gaza. 94 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:25,200 I'm not going to be flowering this up. 95 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:26,600 That's not a thing I can do here. 96 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:31,520 As Israel continues their genocide against the people of Gaza, they are now beginning to attack Rafe, 97 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:37,000 the southernmost place in Gaza that they have been routinely telling people to flee to and seek refuge. 98 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:43,560 They have made 80% of Gaza uninhabitable and told everybody to seek shelter in one location. 99 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:44,680 And now they're bombing it. 100 00:06:44,680 --> 00:06:49,720 Every time I check the article, the death toll goes up, so I can't even give you an accurate number. 101 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,440 But the last I saw was 60 people dead, about half of them children. 102 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:58,240 This was to cover an operation that took two hostages back from Hamas. 103 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:05,280 So far, on their assault on Gaza, Israel has slain nearly 30,000 Palestinians. 104 00:07:05,280 --> 00:07:09,680 Virtually everyone else in the region is displaced. 105 00:07:09,680 --> 00:07:11,520 There are no homes to go back to. 106 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:13,360 There are no routes of egress. 107 00:07:13,360 --> 00:07:15,200 This isn't righteousness. 108 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:17,560 This isn't divine retribution. 109 00:07:17,560 --> 00:07:20,800 This isn't the security of the Jewish people. 110 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:22,840 This is Western invasions. 111 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:28,920 This is a convenient excuse that we are using to eradicate natives from a region and establish Western culture hubs. 112 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:31,960 And, more importantly, military hubs. 113 00:07:31,960 --> 00:07:37,960 All the while merrily fulfilling points of a doomsday prophecy for a religion that's not even involved. 114 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:44,520 It is gross, and the reason that it seems like they are lying through their teeth constantly is because they know it, and they don't care. 115 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:45,800 It does not matter. 116 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:50,640 I wish I could give you an upbeat ending here, and I wish that I could put in jokes and whatnot. 117 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:52,160 I can't. I cannot do that. 118 00:07:52,160 --> 00:07:54,600 And now for the fun part. 119 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:58,560 Moving on to a segue back to having upbeat stuff. 120 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:00,560 Here's a challenge. 121 00:08:00,560 --> 00:08:01,560 Here's a challenge. 122 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:06,320 At some point today, try to stop and think about your earliest positive memory. 123 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:10,400 Just the earliest memory you can think of that just evokes a sense of happiness. 124 00:08:10,400 --> 00:08:16,680 Now, try to express it in words, in art, in music, however you want. 125 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:17,760 Try to get it out there. 126 00:08:17,760 --> 00:08:20,560 Try to be as creatively descriptive as possible. 127 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:23,520 Put the emotion of that memory into whatever you create. 128 00:08:23,520 --> 00:08:24,320 Lightning round. 129 00:08:24,320 --> 00:08:25,400 I'm gonna be real with you. 130 00:08:25,400 --> 00:08:30,840 I did a lot of putting a bunch of stories into the main stories today, so this is gonna be a quick lightning round. 131 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:41,200 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is seeking somewhere between five and seven trillion dollars for a plan he has with computer chips and the computer chip industry. 132 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:46,600 And finally for today, Baldur's Gate 3 is going to be getting an update that improves kissing. 133 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:48,000 I want that update. 134 00:08:48,000 --> 00:08:50,960 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 135 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:58,800 And the Stuff Keeps Happening dot online for sources, bonus content, and an index of every atom in the known universe. 136 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:00,000 My name is Endeavorance. 137 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:01,640 I'll be back on Thursday. 138 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:04,760 Take care and be well. 139 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,720 A, it's post credits Endeavorance. 140 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:08,720 What's up? 141 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:09,880 Thank you for listening. 142 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:17,960 Don't forget to leave a review and all that on whatever app that you are using and consider sharing this podcast with a friend or a loved one or 143 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:21,560 a hated one, whoever you think deserves to have to hear my voice. 144 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:23,160 Thank you so much for the support. 145 00:09:23,160 --> 00:09:48,160 Take care and be well.