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Hello. I fought my way to the heart of the traveler.

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But stuff still happened. So what's up? Weird. Elections happened in multiple places where people

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were heard. Kind of. Let's start with the UK. The UK had an election recently and there was a

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historic blowout. I want an historic blowout. The Labour Party, which is the UK's like center left

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dish kind of party, they dominated the election. They just completely dominated. The Tories, by

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contrast, their Conservative Party, saw the biggest loss in the history of the country. They lost like

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two thirds, more than two thirds of their seats. They were completely pushed out of certain regions.

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The party is in complete disarray. There's actually now like infighting happening among the

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Tories where they're like, uh, do we go further right? Or what do we do? And then other ones are

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like, my guy, why would we go further right? What are you doing? The Conservative Party was in power

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for 14 straight years in the UK, during which time we saw Brexit and Boris Johnson and Liz Truss

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lasting for less long than ahead of lettuce. So weird. Weird that that resulted in them being

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pushed out historically. But let's move over to France. We were actually staring down the barrel

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of France almost having a massive right wing takeover. Marine Le Pen, who's far right party was

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positioned to take over France, it didn't go that way. Very thankfully. A coalition of their

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left-leaning parties and centrist parties worked together and coordinated and had an actual effort

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to upset the fascist takeover of the country. The result is that after all the voting was said

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and done, Le Pen's party is in a distant third place. So not not quite taking over the government

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as people were fearing. And there's actually not a majority. No one got a majority of the seats,

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so they're going to have to form a coalition. Wild. Imagine having multiple parties that form

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coalition. Weird. Give me your shirt. Give me your shirt. I want to recycle it. And we can do that

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now because science scientists have discovered a way to use big words. Microwave assisted glycosis

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to take clothing and break it back down into its core components. It's like dismantling in a video

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game. But in real life. But for real, there's just giant piles of discarded clothing because the

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textile industry is a hazard to life on earth. Most clothing just doesn't get recycled. It

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doesn't even get thrown away. It just ends up in a pile in like Chile. This is largely because

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although we can break these down, it's not profitable. Like it doesn't make financial sense

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to do so, which is always a good driving factor for decision making. But now scientists have

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this method where they can take polyester or or cotton blends and they can break them down back

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into core components like bet, BHET, yo bet. Those components can then be used to turn back into

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polyester or maybe maybe we just stop doing that. Regardless, about 1% of clothing worldwide is

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currently recycled. They estimate that this could actually tackle up to 88% of clothing worldwide.

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There's still some more research to be done on like how to target certain like dies and whatnot.

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But it's looking pretty cool that the process takes like 15 minutes down from multiple days. So

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hopefully this is going to be more profit worthy. I want you to think about the past year. I want

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you to think about everything that you've done. I want you to think about all the meals that you've

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shared, the glances that you've exchanged with loved ones and friends, the stories you could tell.

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You could have been doing that on Mars. Loser! Four NASA volunteers just stepped out of a year-long

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mission in a fabricated Mars environment. These four scientists have been in isolation from the

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rest of the world for the past year. Sounds kind of nice. They stepped into a 3D printed fabricated

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Mars on June 25th, 2023. And since then, they've just been living as if they were isolated from

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humanity on Mars. This includes like a fake communication delay with home base. So they

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can't even just chat with people. It's like a 30 minute delay. During this time, they've been

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pretending to live on Mars. They've been doing like fake Mars walks, hopefully not running into any

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cabal and all in all just doing their absolute best Matt Damon impersonation, growing crops and

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working with Donald Glover to go home. And so I want to leave you with this, a question. Why are we so

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focused on terraforming Mars? When we can instead just build Mars here and terraform that? I'm a

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genius. This is my impersonation of Joe Biden. For the audio listeners, I was on the floor pretending

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to be dead. And yet somehow the dead husk of Joe Biden is still saying he's going to stay in the

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race despite a bunch of Democrats and Democrat donors and whatnot being like, please step aside.

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Yeah, Biden has made it very clear. He's said multiple times that he's staying in the race,

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that he has no plans to step aside. Now that doesn't mean that he's staying in the race and has no

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plans to step aside. He's a politician. There's why would he say, Oh, yeah, you know, there's

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there's a chance that I'm not as strong as you thought I was and that you should have doubts

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in me. So I'm not actually as worried about what he is saying. I'm looking at what the other people

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in the room are doing. And what the other people are doing is freaking out and asking him to step

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aside. A bunch of governors got together. They were like, Oh, what's the plan here, my guy? And

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now some sitting Democrats in Congress, including some on major positions within the house are like,

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Ah, bro. Meanwhile, massive Democrat donors, including like the heiress to the Disney fortune,

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are refusing to pay until Biden steps aside because like, what are you, what are you doing?

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Biden's most recent take is that he's just going to give it his all. And if that's not good enough,

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then at least he tried, which is exactly what you want to hear from a person who totally has

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our best interest at heart. Like it's so grim looking for Biden right now that Republicans

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are starting to shift their strategy towards focusing more on attacking Kamala Harris, who is

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the most likely person to replace Biden. If he did step aside, I'm not saying that's going to happen,

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but it's not impossible. And just a quick FYI to people who are saying it's too late or he can't,

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if he steps aside, then it's going to be an empty ticket and just Trump. That is not how civics

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works. Like that's just not, that is not the situation that we're in right now. First of all,

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it's all vibes. Like the rules are vibes. Like these are political parties that are, they have

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like standards for how they do their selection process. It's not law. And second, Biden is

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not the nominee yet. He has not, it hasn't actually officially happened. We'll see.

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Lightning round. Popular streamer Dr. Disrespect has confirmed that he was banned from Twitch for

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messaging a minor and planning to meet up with them. This is your sign to check out my merch store

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and pick yourself up, but don't prey on children mode. ChatGPT fucked up. And when somebody said

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hi to it, it responded by divulging all of its inner secrets. Like literally outlining the exact

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instructions that it was given by open AI on how to operate. The stuff that you're not supposed

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to be able to see. Kevin Bacon experimented with using prosthetics to blend into society and be

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a normal person and then stopped it because he was like, this sucks. Target, Dollar General,

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and other massive retailers are second guessing self-checkout because of a lot of lost inventory.

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Well done, y'all. Elon Musk is excited to roll out an update to Twitter that's going to get rid of

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the buttons to interact with posts, like the like and retweet buttons are going away, as are their

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accounts. You will instead need to swipe to interact with posts or otherwise like go into it. It

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doesn't matter. Get off Twitter. Google's carbon emissions have spiked nearly 50% since 2019,

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presumably because of all their effort working on AI stuff. I love destroying the planet so that a

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robot can tell me to put glue in my pizza. Scientists have mapped out the neurons in our

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brains and how they process language when we hear them, like how words are associated with sentiment.

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It's pretty besonkers. The US government is getting a record number of complaints about air

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travel. The most comparable year was in 2020 when airlines were like refusing refunds because COVID.

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And finally for today, John Cena has announced that he is retiring from wrestling. John Cena.

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

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skah.news for sources, bonus content, and a never-ending loop of the John Cena walkout music.

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My name is Endeavorance. I'll be back on Monday. Take care and be well, except this is the post

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show Endeavorance. Hello. It is me. It is I. And I am here to say thank you again for listening.

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And if you like what I am doing, it would mean the world to me if you would share or leave a review

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or tell someone about this dude on the internet who talks about things sometimes. Thank you so

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very much. Your support means everything. It sounds like I'm doing a bit right now. I'm just like

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actively coming down from doing the actual recording. And so like I just can't stop speaking in this

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cadence. Oops. Anyway, I promise I'm being sincere. Take care. Be well. You'll hear from me soon.