1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,600 Hello, I risked it all for a chance at greatness. 2 00:00:04,320 --> 00:00:06,800 But stuff still happened. 3 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:07,680 So what's up? 4 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:10,400 Hey, maybe we should do the four day work week after all. 5 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:11,600 Finally, please. 6 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:15,840 So every time that we study four day work weeks, we learn that it's good and we should do it. 7 00:00:15,840 --> 00:00:17,600 But let's talk about it some more. 8 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:22,880 In 2022, the UK conducted a study with 61 businesses trying a four day work week. 9 00:00:23,520 --> 00:00:26,560 And 89% of them were like, yo, this rules. 10 00:00:26,560 --> 00:00:30,320 They decided to keep the policy, keep it rolling, and they were citing improvements in 11 00:00:31,040 --> 00:00:37,840 business stuff, gains in productivity, employee retention, happiness, hiring, all sorts of things. 12 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:42,320 Just all going up because we're not being forced to work an arbitrary number of hours that were 13 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:46,000 chosen by the people who profit off of our labor. 14 00:00:47,040 --> 00:00:50,880 So this consultancy did a follow up with these companies who participated in the study and 15 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,000 queried how they're doing and checked in on the employees and whatnot. 16 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:54,560 Guess what? 17 00:00:54,560 --> 00:00:56,560 They're still happy with it. 18 00:00:56,560 --> 00:00:57,600 Very happy with it. 19 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:03,200 In fact, a hundred percent of the managers and CEOs they worked with said it had a positive 20 00:01:03,200 --> 00:01:05,600 or very positive impact on the company. 21 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:07,280 A hundred percent. 22 00:01:07,280 --> 00:01:13,520 Now look, very obviously a four day work week or changing up work schedules does not apply 23 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:15,520 to every single position ever. 24 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:18,160 There are jobs in which you have to actually be present. 25 00:01:19,280 --> 00:01:24,160 Yes, but those people should be paid more and not required to work the vast majority 26 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:25,920 of their waking hours as well. 27 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:30,240 Because hey, something about waking up every single day and spending the majority of my life 28 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:35,520 making somebody else rich, only to ultimately hope that one day I'll be able to retire for 29 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,120 a few years before I die doesn't sound like a life. 30 00:01:39,120 --> 00:01:40,160 But what do I know? 31 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:41,040 I'm just alive. 32 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:43,040 Are you familiar with Joseph Lattapo? 33 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:44,720 If you are, I'm sorry. 34 00:01:44,720 --> 00:01:47,520 If you're not, I'm going to make your life just a little worse. 35 00:01:47,520 --> 00:01:53,280 Joseph Lattapo is the Surgeon General of Florida, the state that's currently having a measles 36 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:54,000 outbreak. 37 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:59,680 Joseph Lattapo encouraged people to not get COVID vaccines as a public health official. 38 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:05,040 Joseph Lattapo has told parents that their unvaccinated children can continue to go to 39 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:08,160 school in person during this measles outbreak. 40 00:02:08,160 --> 00:02:12,960 As a reminder, the average measles patient infects about 18 other people. 41 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:15,280 It's that kind of contagious. 42 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:21,200 It's also extremely preventable, like so ridiculously incredibly preventable. 43 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:26,960 Yeah, but old surgeon Joseph is far more interested in maintaining his like anti-fouchy, 44 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:31,680 weird right-wing conspiracy approach to things than actually being a public health official, 45 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:35,760 because that is the state of politics in the United States of America. 46 00:02:35,760 --> 00:02:36,400 Nice. 47 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,320 I don't, I'm not even, I'm not making this up. 48 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:44,560 Like this dude went on Steve Bannon's podcast and talked about how COVID vaccines are the 49 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:47,200 anti-Christ separating us from God. 50 00:02:47,200 --> 00:02:51,040 This man is a public health official of a state. 51 00:02:51,040 --> 00:02:52,320 Where people live. 52 00:02:52,320 --> 00:02:58,080 Quote, I encourage everyone to repeatedly punch themselves in the dick on loop forever. 53 00:02:58,080 --> 00:03:01,200 I don't know if he said that, but it sounds like something he'd say. 54 00:03:01,200 --> 00:03:05,920 He's been hemming and hauling about the mRNA vaccines and just basically spewing every 55 00:03:05,920 --> 00:03:10,800 anti-vaxxer thing on the books while also just generally being unhelpful. 56 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:15,440 I don't, I don't, what, like, like, I, there's no point to this story aside from what the 57 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:15,840 fuck. 58 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:16,960 Like no one's winning here. 59 00:03:16,960 --> 00:03:20,400 It's people, children just have the measles now. 60 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:21,120 That's the story. 61 00:03:21,120 --> 00:03:22,000 That's where we're at. 62 00:03:22,000 --> 00:03:25,760 It's just an outbreak among our children of an incredibly destructive disease that's 63 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:26,800 highly contagious. 64 00:03:27,520 --> 00:03:31,120 No cause for concern, says the public health official. 65 00:03:31,120 --> 00:03:38,400 Speaking of anti-vaxxer, Robert F. Kennedy is running for the presidency for some reason. 66 00:03:38,400 --> 00:03:42,560 And for also some reason, his campaign decided to launch an AI chatbot. 67 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,800 I've already talked about AI chatbots before and how they're always a good idea. 68 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:50,720 And just like the rest of them, this one was definitely a good idea. 69 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:51,920 Oh, it's offline. 70 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:55,680 They took it down because it was a bad idea. 71 00:03:55,680 --> 00:03:58,560 So Robert F. Kennedy, he's running as a Democrat against Biden, 72 00:03:59,360 --> 00:04:01,360 but he's also like a weird anti-vaxxer. 73 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:02,000 Like he's a piece of shit. 74 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:03,440 Don't support Robert F. Kennedy. 75 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:04,640 I know it sounds appealing. 76 00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:05,760 He's not Biden. 77 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,280 And he sometimes says some words that sound kind of good sometimes. 78 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:12,720 The due to conspiracy theorists out the wazoo, like he's broken. 79 00:04:12,720 --> 00:04:17,600 So much so that when they launched this chatbot to try to interface with his potential supporters, 80 00:04:17,600 --> 00:04:20,160 explain issues to them, talk about what he stands for. 81 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:22,960 They trained it on his website and his materials. 82 00:04:22,960 --> 00:04:27,520 And then the chatbot turned around and was like, yeah, dog, he is strongly anti-vaxx. 83 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:32,480 The chatbot insisted that Robert F. Kennedy strongly held that vaccines cause autism. 84 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:35,360 They chained on his material. 85 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:38,320 But all of this takes a little bit of a backseat to the fact that 86 00:04:38,320 --> 00:04:40,960 they were making a chatbot using chatGPT. 87 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:43,280 And you're not allowed to do that for political purposes. 88 00:04:43,280 --> 00:04:44,800 That is against their terms of service. 89 00:04:45,600 --> 00:04:46,400 I lied to you. 90 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:47,840 They weren't using chatGPT. 91 00:04:47,840 --> 00:04:53,920 They were using Microsoft's live chat AI product, which in turn uses chatGPT. 92 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:58,400 So to get around the limitation of not being able to use chatGPT for political reasons, 93 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:03,920 they just found a loophole and used the Microsoft backdoor into chatGPT to make one. 94 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:05,360 And now it's offline. 95 00:05:05,360 --> 00:05:12,480 Because weird, making a politically motivated AI chatbot is a bad idea, as would be voting for 96 00:05:12,480 --> 00:05:13,520 Robert F. Kennedy. 97 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:15,760 And also don't vote for Marianne Williamson either. 98 00:05:15,760 --> 00:05:16,960 She's also a piece of shit. 99 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,200 Y'all, don't fall for these grifters. 100 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:20,880 I'm not saying that Biden's good. 101 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:24,960 I'm just saying just cause they're an alternative to Biden doesn't mean they're good. 102 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:26,160 They're mostly bad. 103 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:29,760 Might I remind you that Donald Trump was also a political outsider. 104 00:05:29,760 --> 00:05:32,560 Here is an update on the ongoing genocide in Gaza. 105 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:36,240 The United States administration via Vice President Kamala Harris has made a statement 106 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:41,520 saying that there is a potential six week ceasefire in the works and that Israel has 107 00:05:41,520 --> 00:05:43,600 essentially agreed to it. 108 00:05:43,600 --> 00:05:49,440 They're saying that it is now up to Hamas to agree to the deal, which is kind of a shitty setup. 109 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:53,440 Like a backhanded sort of like, well, you guys need, you got it. 110 00:05:53,440 --> 00:05:58,080 It's on you, especially because Israel has essentially accepted it. 111 00:05:58,080 --> 00:05:59,360 What the fuck does that mean? 112 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:04,480 The ceasefire would last for six weeks and it would allow for aid and hostages to be swapped. 113 00:06:06,320 --> 00:06:09,680 It's not what needs to happen, but it's better than nothing. 114 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,280 I'm trying not to miss the forest for the trees here, but I just don't see Israel changing their 115 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:15,760 stance. 116 00:06:15,760 --> 00:06:19,040 Like they're not going to stop doing this. 117 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:24,480 They just got done massacring over a hundred people who were just trying to get flower. 118 00:06:24,480 --> 00:06:28,880 Like people were crowded for humanitarian aid trying to get flower 119 00:06:28,880 --> 00:06:30,640 so that they could have some food. 120 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:35,200 And IDF soldiers unleashed a barrage of bullets on the crowd. 121 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:40,240 Just innocent people trying to get food massacred over a hundred debt. 122 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:46,080 And then an AP photographer posted a photo of a group of women IDF soldiers taking a 123 00:06:46,080 --> 00:06:50,800 selfie in front of the rubble that was once Gaza fit check for the genocide. 124 00:06:50,800 --> 00:06:53,520 I do not exactly know what is going to happen here. 125 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:56,720 I doubt it's going to result in an actual ceasefire, 126 00:06:56,720 --> 00:07:00,160 but I mean there's there's not much hope right now. 127 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:05,440 Anything that's in the direction of general movement is better than more bombs. 128 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:07,360 But we're definitely going to be getting more bombs. 129 00:07:07,360 --> 00:07:08,240 Lightning round. 130 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:14,160 Remember like a couple weeks ago last week time is an illusion when AT&T like had a hard 131 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:15,040 network outage. 132 00:07:15,920 --> 00:07:19,680 The Attorney General of New York is now probing that the University of Maryland is 133 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:24,400 canceling like frat and sorority events because they're like, hey, please, please stop hazing 134 00:07:24,400 --> 00:07:24,880 people. 135 00:07:24,880 --> 00:07:26,880 I think I saw a movie about that once. 136 00:07:26,880 --> 00:07:32,080 Moving over to the University of Florida, they've had to cancel all DEI programs and 137 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:37,680 fire any DEI employees due to a new state law that bans diversity and inclusion efforts. 138 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:42,000 You know, the thing that a lot of Floridians really need right now. 139 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:47,920 Removal of diversity initiative, not, you know, insurance. 140 00:07:47,920 --> 00:07:52,160 During a statement about aid, Biden mixed up Gaza and Ukraine. 141 00:07:52,880 --> 00:07:53,440 Twice. 142 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:58,640 And finally for today, nowhere is safe as Golden Corral has been hit with a massive 143 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:04,880 cyber attack that leaked a bunch of data about their employees and dependents and whatnot. 144 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:05,760 I shouldn't laugh. 145 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,520 That's really bad for the people who work there. 146 00:08:09,920 --> 00:08:12,800 Golden Corral data breach was not on my bingo card. 147 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:15,440 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 148 00:08:15,440 --> 00:08:22,640 Head to StuffKeepsHappening.online for sources, bonus content, and a link to my brand new 149 00:08:22,640 --> 00:08:25,680 merch store, shop.indeverance.camp. 150 00:08:25,680 --> 00:08:29,840 You can grab yourself the brand new Skulls Keep Happening sweatshirt. 151 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:33,040 Get all cozy while being a pirate. 152 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:34,480 Hell yeah. 153 00:08:34,480 --> 00:08:35,520 My name is Endeavorance. 154 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:37,200 I'll be back on Thursday. 155 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:53,680 Take care and be well.