Hello, I risked it all for a chance at greatness.
But stuff still happened.
So what's up?
Hey, maybe we should do the four day work week after all.
Finally, please.
So every time that we study four day work weeks, we learn that it's good and we should do it.
But let's talk about it some more.
In 2022, the UK conducted a study with 61 businesses trying a four day work week.
And 89% of them were like, yo, this rules.
They decided to keep the policy, keep it rolling, and they were citing improvements in
business stuff, gains in productivity, employee retention, happiness, hiring, all sorts of things.
Just all going up because we're not being forced to work an arbitrary number of hours that were
chosen by the people who profit off of our labor.
So this consultancy did a follow up with these companies who participated in the study and
queried how they're doing and checked in on the employees and whatnot.
Guess what?
They're still happy with it.
Very happy with it.
In fact, a hundred percent of the managers and CEOs they worked with said it had a positive
or very positive impact on the company.
A hundred percent.
Now look, very obviously a four day work week or changing up work schedules does not apply
to every single position ever.
There are jobs in which you have to actually be present.
Yes, but those people should be paid more and not required to work the vast majority
of their waking hours as well.
Because hey, something about waking up every single day and spending the majority of my life
making somebody else rich, only to ultimately hope that one day I'll be able to retire for
a few years before I die doesn't sound like a life.
But what do I know?
I'm just alive.
Are you familiar with Joseph Lattapo?
If you are, I'm sorry.
If you're not, I'm going to make your life just a little worse.
Joseph Lattapo is the Surgeon General of Florida, the state that's currently having a measles
outbreak.
Joseph Lattapo encouraged people to not get COVID vaccines as a public health official.
Joseph Lattapo has told parents that their unvaccinated children can continue to go to
school in person during this measles outbreak.
As a reminder, the average measles patient infects about 18 other people.
It's that kind of contagious.
It's also extremely preventable, like so ridiculously incredibly preventable.
Yeah, but old surgeon Joseph is far more interested in maintaining his like anti-fouchy,
weird right-wing conspiracy approach to things than actually being a public health official,
because that is the state of politics in the United States of America.
Nice.
I don't, I'm not even, I'm not making this up.
Like this dude went on Steve Bannon's podcast and talked about how COVID vaccines are the
anti-Christ separating us from God.
This man is a public health official of a state.
Where people live.
Quote, I encourage everyone to repeatedly punch themselves in the dick on loop forever.
I don't know if he said that, but it sounds like something he'd say.
He's been hemming and hauling about the mRNA vaccines and just basically spewing every
anti-vaxxer thing on the books while also just generally being unhelpful.
I don't, I don't, what, like, like, I, there's no point to this story aside from what the
fuck.
Like no one's winning here.
It's people, children just have the measles now.
That's the story.
That's where we're at.
It's just an outbreak among our children of an incredibly destructive disease that's
highly contagious.
No cause for concern, says the public health official.
Speaking of anti-vaxxer, Robert F. Kennedy is running for the presidency for some reason.
And for also some reason, his campaign decided to launch an AI chatbot.
I've already talked about AI chatbots before and how they're always a good idea.
And just like the rest of them, this one was definitely a good idea.
Oh, it's offline.
They took it down because it was a bad idea.
So Robert F. Kennedy, he's running as a Democrat against Biden,
but he's also like a weird anti-vaxxer.
Like he's a piece of shit.
Don't support Robert F. Kennedy.
I know it sounds appealing.
He's not Biden.
And he sometimes says some words that sound kind of good sometimes.
The due to conspiracy theorists out the wazoo, like he's broken.
So much so that when they launched this chatbot to try to interface with his potential supporters,
explain issues to them, talk about what he stands for.
They trained it on his website and his materials.
And then the chatbot turned around and was like, yeah, dog, he is strongly anti-vaxx.
The chatbot insisted that Robert F. Kennedy strongly held that vaccines cause autism.
They chained on his material.
But all of this takes a little bit of a backseat to the fact that
they were making a chatbot using chatGPT.
And you're not allowed to do that for political purposes.
That is against their terms of service.
I lied to you.
They weren't using chatGPT.
They were using Microsoft's live chat AI product, which in turn uses chatGPT.
So to get around the limitation of not being able to use chatGPT for political reasons,
they just found a loophole and used the Microsoft backdoor into chatGPT to make one.
And now it's offline.
Because weird, making a politically motivated AI chatbot is a bad idea, as would be voting for
Robert F. Kennedy.
And also don't vote for Marianne Williamson either.
She's also a piece of shit.
Y'all, don't fall for these grifters.
I'm not saying that Biden's good.
I'm just saying just cause they're an alternative to Biden doesn't mean they're good.
They're mostly bad.
Might I remind you that Donald Trump was also a political outsider.
Here is an update on the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The United States administration via Vice President Kamala Harris has made a statement
saying that there is a potential six week ceasefire in the works and that Israel has
essentially agreed to it.
They're saying that it is now up to Hamas to agree to the deal, which is kind of a shitty setup.
Like a backhanded sort of like, well, you guys need, you got it.
It's on you, especially because Israel has essentially accepted it.
What the fuck does that mean?
The ceasefire would last for six weeks and it would allow for aid and hostages to be swapped.
It's not what needs to happen, but it's better than nothing.
I'm trying not to miss the forest for the trees here, but I just don't see Israel changing their
stance.
Like they're not going to stop doing this.
They just got done massacring over a hundred people who were just trying to get flower.
Like people were crowded for humanitarian aid trying to get flower
so that they could have some food.
And IDF soldiers unleashed a barrage of bullets on the crowd.
Just innocent people trying to get food massacred over a hundred debt.
And then an AP photographer posted a photo of a group of women IDF soldiers taking a
selfie in front of the rubble that was once Gaza fit check for the genocide.
I do not exactly know what is going to happen here.
I doubt it's going to result in an actual ceasefire,
but I mean there's there's not much hope right now.
Anything that's in the direction of general movement is better than more bombs.
But we're definitely going to be getting more bombs.
Lightning round.
Remember like a couple weeks ago last week time is an illusion when AT&T like had a hard
network outage.
The Attorney General of New York is now probing that the University of Maryland is
canceling like frat and sorority events because they're like, hey, please, please stop hazing
people.
I think I saw a movie about that once.
Moving over to the University of Florida, they've had to cancel all DEI programs and
fire any DEI employees due to a new state law that bans diversity and inclusion efforts.
You know, the thing that a lot of Floridians really need right now.
Removal of diversity initiative, not, you know, insurance.
During a statement about aid, Biden mixed up Gaza and Ukraine.
Twice.
And finally for today, nowhere is safe as Golden Corral has been hit with a massive
cyber attack that leaked a bunch of data about their employees and dependents and whatnot.
I shouldn't laugh.
That's really bad for the people who work there.
Golden Corral data breach was not on my bingo card.
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