Hello, I recorded this on a leap day, but stuff still happened.
So what's up?
Dr.
Ruth L.
Goatsman is a real one.
This absolute baller found out that after her husband died, he left her a billion
dollars in investments that he had.
Dude kicked it and was like, Hey, here's a billion.
Go do something with it.
When he left it to her, he actually said, like, do what you think is best with it.
And so she did what she thought was best and changed the lives of hundreds
of people forever.
She gave it all away, making a $1 billion donation to the Albert Einstein
College of Medicine in New York.
And specifically that billion dollars is going to make that college tuition
free for perpetuity.
She made this announcement to a room full of students who lost their damn minds
rightfully so because she just came up and followed through with the Scots
Tots promise.
I don't I don't actually watch that much of the office.
I just that's like the one reference that I think I can like safely make.
Here.
So yeah, weird.
If you come into a billion dollars, you can give it away.
Yep.
But hey, I'm sure all those people who are just hoarding their billions and
billions of dollars totally have a good reason for it.
No, no, no, we're going to do good with this money.
But first I got to grow it a lot more and then get myself a private island and
then get myself a private jet.
I'm going to do a lot of good with the money.
I'm going to do some side projects and trust I got it, but I got to grow it first.
Mitch McConnell is retiring and not a century too late.
Mitch McConnell, the leader of the U.S.
Republicans in the Senate, has finally announced that he's going to retire in November.
This man has been basically at the center of everything shitty that has happened
in America for my entire fucking life.
He is the conduit through which Roe v. Wade was overturned.
He is the one who made the extremely unacceptable decision to just not allow
Obama to seat a Supreme Court justice and then let Trump seat three.
Like we all know that was bullshit and he knows it too.
And he doesn't give a shit.
And that's been his entire political career.
And it's been a long one.
He is the longest running Senate leader ever in this country, during which time
he basically prevented any bills from going through, stopped any notion of
actually working together and just let money run wild in DC.
So yeah, he's retiring, but damn, has he earned it.
He has he has said his piece.
I will give you an update for when he finally fucking dies so that we can all
meet up at his grave and have a group shit.
Love a good group shit.
Dust off that hole and get yourself an amethyst to eat.
Stardew Valley 1.6 comes out March 19th.
Concerned eight creator of Stardew Valley told us forever ago that patch
one point six is coming out.
And he was like, it's not going to be a lot.
It's mostly just for like mod support and stuff.
And then we didn't hear anything for a while.
And then he was like, psych.
I lied.
It's there's a lot in this patch.
New dialogue, new character porches for winter time, new characters,
maybe new end game content, eight player multiplayer support natively.
Like it's wild.
It's wild how much stuff has happened in this game.
And it's mind boggling that all of this is just free content updates.
There is a reason that everyone likes Stardew Valley specifically.
And this is why.
And the entirety of the games industry has just been trying to recapture
this lightning in a bottle and failing.
Like how many farming life sims are out there that you played and maybe it was
good, but then you just went back to Stardew Valley because that's like,
it's the better one.
Anyway, it's coming out on March 19th.
He announced it recently because it was the eighth anniversary of Stardew Valley,
which is whack.
If you need me, I'll be looking for the mayor's trunks.
Medical science again, again with the medical science.
Y'all, but seriously, like allergies might not be that important anymore.
And they are.
This is hold on.
So look, your food allergies are not about to go away with a pill, but researchers
have published a paper in which they experimented with people with severe
allergic reactions to food in giving them a drug that was originally approved
for asthma.
After just 16 weeks of treatment, research showed that the patients who were
taking the drug had a significantly lower reaction to the foods they were
allergic to than the placebo group.
Now, what this looks like is like if you have a severe peanut allergy and you
were on this treatment, you could have like a few peanuts and you would still
have a reaction, but it wouldn't be deadly.
The goal here is to prevent accidentally ingesting something and dying, not making
it so that you can just go ham on a jar of peanut butter.
But like that's significant.
I would bet that there's a good contingent of people who are like, hey,
yeah, I would like to not almost die if I accidentally sniff a peanut.
Seems pretty good.
I sniff peanuts all the time.
What?
Anyway, the drug is omalizumab.
It was originally approved for asthma and then some kind of nasal
polyps.
Yum.
It's really just like all in one.
You got, you got asthma, you got nasal polyps, you got allergies.
Just take the pill easy.
Yeah, my brain is just like melting at this point.
Lightning round.
Wendy's made a statement in an earnings call talking about experimenting
with variable pricing throughout the day.
And then when everybody was like, Hey, what the fuck are you doing?
They were like, I don't know.
We're not doing surge pricing.
We're doing the reverse of surge pricing.
Trust us.
Stop being upset.
According to internal documents that were acquired by four or four media,
Tumblr and WordPress are interested in selling their user data to AI
companies like mid journey.
Are you a person on Tumblr who posts art?
Now you're feeding the AI's and they profit off of your artwork.
They being the AI company and Tumblr.
Speaking of AI, Google's AI is such a mess right now that the CEO of Google
was like, this is unacceptable.
It's still trying to spit out the very like boring liberal ideology of what
like being thoughtful and inclusive is kind of stuff, you know, like showing
black women as Nazis.
Quick aside, it makes me incredibly mad that like in all of this discussion
about like wokeness, it's just so fucking bad faith.
And like the wokeness in air quotes that like the conservatives are mad about,
it does exist among people who are just being performative about it.
Like it's the people who think that the army needs to meet its quota of trans
people so that we can have good representation.
Like that's like, God stop it.
I'm just very tired of the rainbow flags on our bombs crowd.
Apple has scrapped their years long internal attempt at making an electric
vehicle. This doesn't change anything.
It was yet another brutal day for video game employees yesterday as EA and
Sony have laid off a collective 1,600 people from like successful studios
underneath them because reason.
Someone hacked into the late Matthew Perry's Twitter account and used it to
shill a crypto scam 2024.
And finally for today, rejoice because the Justice Department is now going to
look into that whole airplane doors blowing off of them while they're in
the sky thing that's happening with Boeing airplanes.
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