Hello. I fought my way to the heart of the traveler.
But stuff still happened. So what's up? Weird. Elections happened in multiple places where people
were heard. Kind of. Let's start with the UK. The UK had an election recently and there was a
historic blowout. I want an historic blowout. The Labour Party, which is the UK's like center left
dish kind of party, they dominated the election. They just completely dominated. The Tories, by
contrast, their Conservative Party, saw the biggest loss in the history of the country. They lost like
two thirds, more than two thirds of their seats. They were completely pushed out of certain regions.
The party is in complete disarray. There's actually now like infighting happening among the
Tories where they're like, uh, do we go further right? Or what do we do? And then other ones are
like, my guy, why would we go further right? What are you doing? The Conservative Party was in power
for 14 straight years in the UK, during which time we saw Brexit and Boris Johnson and Liz Truss
lasting for less long than ahead of lettuce. So weird. Weird that that resulted in them being
pushed out historically. But let's move over to France. We were actually staring down the barrel
of France almost having a massive right wing takeover. Marine Le Pen, who's far right party was
positioned to take over France, it didn't go that way. Very thankfully. A coalition of their
left-leaning parties and centrist parties worked together and coordinated and had an actual effort
to upset the fascist takeover of the country. The result is that after all the voting was said
and done, Le Pen's party is in a distant third place. So not not quite taking over the government
as people were fearing. And there's actually not a majority. No one got a majority of the seats,
so they're going to have to form a coalition. Wild. Imagine having multiple parties that form
coalition. Weird. Give me your shirt. Give me your shirt. I want to recycle it. And we can do that
now because science scientists have discovered a way to use big words. Microwave assisted glycosis
to take clothing and break it back down into its core components. It's like dismantling in a video
game. But in real life. But for real, there's just giant piles of discarded clothing because the
textile industry is a hazard to life on earth. Most clothing just doesn't get recycled. It
doesn't even get thrown away. It just ends up in a pile in like Chile. This is largely because
although we can break these down, it's not profitable. Like it doesn't make financial sense
to do so, which is always a good driving factor for decision making. But now scientists have
this method where they can take polyester or or cotton blends and they can break them down back
into core components like bet, BHET, yo bet. Those components can then be used to turn back into
polyester or maybe maybe we just stop doing that. Regardless, about 1% of clothing worldwide is
currently recycled. They estimate that this could actually tackle up to 88% of clothing worldwide.
There's still some more research to be done on like how to target certain like dies and whatnot.
But it's looking pretty cool that the process takes like 15 minutes down from multiple days. So
hopefully this is going to be more profit worthy. I want you to think about the past year. I want
you to think about everything that you've done. I want you to think about all the meals that you've
shared, the glances that you've exchanged with loved ones and friends, the stories you could tell.
You could have been doing that on Mars. Loser! Four NASA volunteers just stepped out of a year-long
mission in a fabricated Mars environment. These four scientists have been in isolation from the
rest of the world for the past year. Sounds kind of nice. They stepped into a 3D printed fabricated
Mars on June 25th, 2023. And since then, they've just been living as if they were isolated from
humanity on Mars. This includes like a fake communication delay with home base. So they
can't even just chat with people. It's like a 30 minute delay. During this time, they've been
pretending to live on Mars. They've been doing like fake Mars walks, hopefully not running into any
cabal and all in all just doing their absolute best Matt Damon impersonation, growing crops and
working with Donald Glover to go home. And so I want to leave you with this, a question. Why are we so
focused on terraforming Mars? When we can instead just build Mars here and terraform that? I'm a
genius. This is my impersonation of Joe Biden. For the audio listeners, I was on the floor pretending
to be dead. And yet somehow the dead husk of Joe Biden is still saying he's going to stay in the
race despite a bunch of Democrats and Democrat donors and whatnot being like, please step aside.
Yeah, Biden has made it very clear. He's said multiple times that he's staying in the race,
that he has no plans to step aside. Now that doesn't mean that he's staying in the race and has no
plans to step aside. He's a politician. There's why would he say, Oh, yeah, you know, there's
there's a chance that I'm not as strong as you thought I was and that you should have doubts
in me. So I'm not actually as worried about what he is saying. I'm looking at what the other people
in the room are doing. And what the other people are doing is freaking out and asking him to step
aside. A bunch of governors got together. They were like, Oh, what's the plan here, my guy? And
now some sitting Democrats in Congress, including some on major positions within the house are like,
Ah, bro. Meanwhile, massive Democrat donors, including like the heiress to the Disney fortune,
are refusing to pay until Biden steps aside because like, what are you, what are you doing?
Biden's most recent take is that he's just going to give it his all. And if that's not good enough,
then at least he tried, which is exactly what you want to hear from a person who totally has
our best interest at heart. Like it's so grim looking for Biden right now that Republicans
are starting to shift their strategy towards focusing more on attacking Kamala Harris, who is
the most likely person to replace Biden. If he did step aside, I'm not saying that's going to happen,
but it's not impossible. And just a quick FYI to people who are saying it's too late or he can't,
if he steps aside, then it's going to be an empty ticket and just Trump. That is not how civics
works. Like that's just not, that is not the situation that we're in right now. First of all,
it's all vibes. Like the rules are vibes. Like these are political parties that are, they have
like standards for how they do their selection process. It's not law. And second, Biden is
not the nominee yet. He has not, it hasn't actually officially happened. We'll see.
Lightning round. Popular streamer Dr. Disrespect has confirmed that he was banned from Twitch for
messaging a minor and planning to meet up with them. This is your sign to check out my merch store
and pick yourself up, but don't prey on children mode. ChatGPT fucked up. And when somebody said
hi to it, it responded by divulging all of its inner secrets. Like literally outlining the exact
instructions that it was given by open AI on how to operate. The stuff that you're not supposed
to be able to see. Kevin Bacon experimented with using prosthetics to blend into society and be
a normal person and then stopped it because he was like, this sucks. Target, Dollar General,
and other massive retailers are second guessing self-checkout because of a lot of lost inventory.
Well done, y'all. Elon Musk is excited to roll out an update to Twitter that's going to get rid of
the buttons to interact with posts, like the like and retweet buttons are going away, as are their
accounts. You will instead need to swipe to interact with posts or otherwise like go into it. It
doesn't matter. Get off Twitter. Google's carbon emissions have spiked nearly 50% since 2019,
presumably because of all their effort working on AI stuff. I love destroying the planet so that a
robot can tell me to put glue in my pizza. Scientists have mapped out the neurons in our
brains and how they process language when we hear them, like how words are associated with sentiment.
It's pretty besonkers. The US government is getting a record number of complaints about air
travel. The most comparable year was in 2020 when airlines were like refusing refunds because COVID.
And finally for today, John Cena has announced that he is retiring from wrestling. John Cena.
Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to
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