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Hello. It's been one week since you've looked at me.

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But stuff still happens.

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So what's up?

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The sun.

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Is up and it's really pissed off.

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The sun is losing its goddamn mind over the weekend.

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There has been a G4 geomagnetic storm on the surface of the sun.

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Wow.

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What this means is that over the weekend, a lot of like sun

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radiation hit the Earth's atmosphere and it got all hot and bothered.

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And so the aurora happened more than usual.

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Sometimes people ask me what kind of content I make and not infrequently.

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I will say that I do current events, communications.

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And I think I just realized I'm a fucking liar because that that certainly was not

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communicating. I don't know what it was, but it wasn't communication.

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Anyway, there's a geomagnetic storm on the surface of the sun at no location.

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Three, six, six, four.

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And I was surprised myself.

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Now, this splotch on the surface of the sun is causing the aurora to be visible

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far further south than usual, which is pretty neat.

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It's neat because the aurora is pretty cool.

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Taxes, according to recently published data from the New York Times,

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the ultra rich are for the first time ever paying a lower effective tax rate

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than the working class.

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The 400 richest Americans are paying less in effective taxes

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than the bottom half of earners in America.

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This graph shows the change in the tax rate, the effective tax rate of the rich

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over time. Notice how it only goes down.

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And I wonder what happened in the in the 80s.

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That huge dip, I guess we'll never know it was Reagan.

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Thank fuck, he's dead.

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So yeah, we've just been kind of cutting taxes for the rich.

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For my entire life could be time to change up the strat.

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What do you think?

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I think it's really cool how I've been told for my entire life that if we just

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keep cutting these taxes on the rich, things are going to get better.

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And things get materially worse every year.

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But it's because it's because we're still taxing the rich.

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If we just got rid of those taxes, you could finally be happy.

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It's pretty wild to think that like a small contingent of ultra rich people

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have a vested interest in convincing a percentage of poor people

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that it's in the poor people's best interest for the rich people to be rich.

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They don't need to convince everyone just enough that it's harder for people

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who don't want the world to work that way to change things.

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That was my soapbox for the day.

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Weird how this keeps happening.

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A young black man was murdered by cops in his own home for doing nothing.

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If this sounds familiar, it's because it keeps happening.

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Robert Fortson was a 23 year old member of the US Air Force

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and was recently murdered by a cop in his own home, not committing crime.

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This is a reminder that committing crimes does not give the cops a pass to murder you.

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I feel like we could use some reminders on that one

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that cops are not judge, jury and executioner.

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They're cops.

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So a cop shows up to Roger's apartment, bangs on the door

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and then sidesteps the peephole so they can't be seen.

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Bangs on the door again after there's no response, kicks in the door,

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sees Roger standing there and shoots him dead.

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From inside the apartment, Roger was on the phone with a video call of someone

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when he heard a knock at the door.

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He went to go look through the peephole and didn't see anyone there.

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He got a little nervous, so he went to go get his firearm that is legally owned.

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And also, he's an active service member, but it doesn't matter, this is America.

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There are literally more guns than there are people here,

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and you can legally own guns.

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So Roger goes to get his gun for self-defense in his home

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from a mysterious knock at the door that he can't identify.

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And then the cop kicks in his door, sees a man standing there, holding a gun

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and immediately shoots him dead.

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As a reminder, Roger wasn't doing anything.

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Someone in the apartment complex had called the cops for a disturbance,

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and then they showed up and murdered someone.

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One moment, sitting on his couch, having a video call with someone.

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The next moment, someone with a weapon is kicking in his door

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and his instincts were to get something for self-defense.

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His instincts were clearly correct, but it didn't matter.

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Again, if this sounds familiar, it wasn't long ago that another cop

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murdered another black man in his own apartment

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after she walked into his apartment thinking it was hers.

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But hey, maybe we should still do, you know, military training for our cops

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and give them military equipment.

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This is America.

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Hands off our guns, unless you're black and a cop kills you,

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in which case you shouldn't have gotten the gun

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that you own legally for self-defense.

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Shouldn't have done that. That's on you.

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Tinder is out.

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Hinge is in.

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It doesn't matter, because they're owned by the same company.

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Tinder, Hinge, and basically every dating app you've heard of

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are all owned by Match Group.

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They just are a big company that has a bunch of dating apps

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that just try to cover all the different demographics.

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Tinder has been shitting the bed recently,

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and they keep rolling out features that people are like,

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what the hell?

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They rolled out a feature recently where you can pay

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an exorbitant amount of money per month

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to get their, like, ultra-premium subscription service.

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It's like 500 bucks a month to get the best match?

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Pay money to have access to the hot people, apparently.

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Anyway, people are like, okay, I'm kind of tired of Tinder culture.

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I kind of actually just want a relationship now.

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So they're going to hinge, because that app is famously better.

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But in the past year, we've seen a drop in Tinder usage

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about 10%, and a growth in Hinge usage, like 30%.

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Tinder is still far bigger than Hinge, mind you.

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But if this trend continues, and if Tinder keeps shitting the bed,

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then it might be on its way out.

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That said, the thing I want to highlight here

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is that basically every dating app is just the same company.

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They just reskinned and slightly tweaked the algorithm

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for more specific outcomes per app.

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I feel like we're all kind of familiar with this whole

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illusion of choice thing, like you go to the grocery store,

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and basically every brand is owned by one of two or three brands,

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which are then just owned by BlackRock.

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We're seeing the same thing with apps now.

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Oh, you want to do social networking?

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Mark Zuckerberg's gotcha covered, and only Mark Zuckerberg.

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Oh, well, I guess if I guess you could go on Twitter.

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Gaming.

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A Black Lotus Magic the Gathering card has sold for $3 million.

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That can buy you, and this is true, a sack of potato.

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You're self some shepherd's pie.

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Nintendo has finally acknowledged that they're working on a Switch 2,

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or more specifically, a successor to the Switch,

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is what they're calling it.

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It may not literally be a Switch 2.

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It does sound like there's going to be a lot of backwards compatibility

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with Switch games in your Nintendo account and whatnot.

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Like they've already said that, but they're not saying Switch 2.

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Knowing Nintendo, this can go one of two ways.

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It's either going to be called the new Nintendo Switch XL 2DSI,

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or it's going to be called like the swatch, the Nintendo swatch.

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Oh, dear. It's not good today.

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Speaking of Nintendo, they are also following in Stoney and Microsoft

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footsteps in removing their integrations with Twitter.

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They're X. I'm not going to call it X.

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They removed their Twitter integration.

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You used to be able to share screenshots and videos and whatnot

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directly to your Twitter account.

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They got rid of that because not worth it.

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For a while, Warner Bros. were threatening to delist

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like a couple dozen indie games from the Adult Swim Games Library

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on Steam and other online stores.

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They're not going to do that because that's dumb.

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Stop delisting games.

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Like it's a weird phenomenon in the era of digital game stores

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that companies can be like, eh, this game just doesn't exist anymore.

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Like it's just not for sale.

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And there's not really a secondary market because it's all digital copies.

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So get that.

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In some cases, they can just remove the game from your library too.

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So like if you didn't have it installed already and you purchased it,

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it's just gone.

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You will own nothing and be happy.

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Last up for gaming news today, that whole Sony making people sign in

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to PSN accounts in certain games.

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The fallout from that is still going.

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Ghost of Tsushima, which is an amazing game, is coming to PC,

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but is now having its launch marred by the fact that Sony wants people to sign in

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and you can't do that in every country.

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And so Steam is like, well, if the game is not accessible

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to certain people in certain countries,

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because they can't make an account to access certain parts of the game,

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then you can't sell it there.

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And so they've been refunding people who purchased the game in certain countries.

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I want to share a quick anecdote, which is that just like this past weekend,

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I enabled cross saves on Baldur's Gate 3 between my Steam Deck and PS5.

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Now, I did have to make a Larian account to enable cross saves,

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but because they actually are just trying to facilitate ease of use of their product

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and not just collect information on you,

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all you do is make a Larian account and then connect any accounts

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from the other places that you're playing the game.

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You never have to log in after that.

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You boot up the game on whatever platform you're playing on.

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And if you've linked to that account already,

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Larian's just like, oh, cool. Yeah, we know. We got you.

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You can cross save. No problem.

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No sign in here and accept our terms of agreements

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and buy a subscription for your Larian Sync Pro account.

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And lightning round.

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Among all their other ongoing issues,

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Boeing had to scrap a Starliner ship launch.

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Boeing makes space ships apparently,

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but they've got the Boeing Starliner and its launch was scrapped

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because of a, you guessed it, faulty part.

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Apple has a new iPad Pro with a new chip, the M4 chip,

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and it's their fastest chip ever.

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And they put it in an iPad and it's still an iPad.

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The Boy Scouts of America are now just called Scouting America.

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And apparently they're going to allow gay people and maybe girls.

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TikTok is suing the US over the US's attempt to ban TikTok.

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That lemonade that Panera put out that kills people is they're getting rid of it.

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Elon Musk's brain implant company, Neuralink,

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has implanted their first chip into a human brain

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and it has like partially come back out like it's like detaching.

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It worked for a little bit.

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And then it detached. Researchers have used machine learning

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to decode whale sound so we can potentially listen to whales talk to each other now.

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Like, yo.

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How are you?

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I have concerns about the general movement of our society.

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That's a bummer.

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That's me being whales, so.

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Critical Role is launching their own version of basically dropout called Beacon.

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And apparently we're now just going to see every group of creators

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make their own subscription service.

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And finally for today, the US government has stated

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that Israel's use of the weapons that we're giving them

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is inconsistent with international law.

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Dang, what can we possibly do about that?

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Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening.

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Head to skh.news for sources, bonus content,

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and a massive cache of lost documents from another world.

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We're going to rebuild and we're going to learn the secrets from Beyond the Cosmos.

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My name is Deverents. I'll be back on Monday.

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Take care and be well.