Hello. I went up against a Sicilian when death was on the line.
But stuff still happened.
So what's up?
Uh, author's note.
I'm not going to talk about the Trump assassination attempt.
Cool. Turns out a lot of people hate AI, specifically when it's being used for customer service.
I mean, a lot of other things, too.
A recent survey of nearly 6,000 consumers found that 64 percent
would prefer that companies don't use AI for customer service.
It also found that 53 percent would consider switching to a competitor
if they found out that a given company was using AI for their customer service.
Concerns about this ranged from like, AI is going to give me the wrong answers
to my data is almost definitely going to be compromised.
That's the great thing about AI is that there's so many bad things about it.
Take your pick.
It's a really wonderful sort of choose your own adventure.
The survey was conducted by Gartner, which is a like research firm
that sells research to executives.
So hopefully they listen, but if they won't listen to consumer research,
because why would they?
Maybe they'll listen to an obscenely rich investment firm
because Goldman Sachs just recently released a paper that talks about how AI is deeply mid.
The paper basically makes the case that like,
there's not really enough here to merit the billions upon billions of dollars
that we're investing into this space.
This being we being the the royal we wait, is that the right use of that?
Whatever.
The we being people with a lot of money who are dumping way too much money
into products that are not all that good.
Like even the products that are kind of okay are really just like kind of okay
at doing a very specific thing like it hasn't revolutionized life, you know?
But this is from the perspective of an investment firm.
So they're saying, hey, there's a lot of money and not a lot of products.
They're basically saying, y'all, this is a bubble.
Calm down.
Anyway, in addition to all of that, one last quick AI thing is three US senators
just proposed the copied act because every bill has to has to be a backernum.
But the copied act in theory would add protections for like writers and artists
and whatnot in not having their stuff be stolen and used to train AI's.
Weird.
I thought we had something for that already.
It's called like, I don't know, duplicate left or something.
I don't know what it was called.
This is my impersonation of Boeing.
Oopsy doopsy, we did a whoopsy.
Boeing has pled guilty to criminal fraud conspiracy.
Just gonna say that again just for the fun of it.
Boeing has pled guilty to criminal fraud conspiracy.
Now, don't get too excited because they're getting a slap on their wrist.
They pled guilty in a plea deal and they're being charged about $244 million,
which is like eight cents to them.
Families of people who died on various Boeing aircraft that were rushed to market
with no safety standards, apparently, they're not happy with this.
They're saying this was a sweetheart deal because Boeing is too big to fail.
That was fun.
That was a fun little sound I just made.
The victims families were hoping for a criminal trial because if there was a criminal trial,
Boeing would have had their name dragged through the mud.
More.
They would have had to go up on the bench and sit next to a judge and be like, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, we did do it.
We did do a fraud a little bit, but like we do make good bombs.
So yeah, reminder, if you're like not really tuned into like the military contractor world,
Boeing is a massive military contractor.
They make bombs.
Apparently they're a little bit confused about like when things go in the air,
which ones are supposed to fall down and explode and which ones are supposed to gracefully land.
I want to make something really clear.
I am a red-blooded trident favoring citizen of Earth just like you.
But Poseidon's about to take a big L.
Back in May, a large statue of Poseidon appeared in the Gulf of Mexico, like on a beach,
not like in the middle of the ocean.
That would be sick.
But it appeared like in the waves on the beach.
Is there a term for where the water comes?
Is that just beach?
Anyway, it's a pretty rad statue.
I will say.
However, that's a Greek god.
Greek is not Mexico.
This is a good episode, dear god.
Yeah, Poseidon does not have a connection to Mexico.
I don't know why it's there and not to be the locals because local indigenous groups are like,
hey, why is Poseidon here?
We have our own gods.
And so I want to talk to you about Chak.
The Mayan god of rain, thunder and lightning.
Chak is about to take Poseidon into the ring.
And it's not even going to be one round, y'all.
Let me tell you about this guy.
He has jade axes that he throws at rain snakes in the sky.
And that's how rain happened.
Although also sometimes his axes are lightning axes.
And sometimes he has snakes and throws snakes at the clouds.
It's a little unclear, but there's axes, jade, snakes and lightning all in play.
And again, I like Trident.
Look, I have a mini Trident right here.
I'm a Tridentor boy all the way through and through, but I don't know about this one.
Poseidon take the L, my guy.
Anyway, the statue is being removed because they didn't get permits for it.
And also because indigenous groups are like, hey, this is like actually offensive,
but also like they didn't get the permits for it.
And also also it's probably going to mess up the local ecosystem.
Don't like art installations are cool and all.
Also be thoughtful about nature.
You got it.
I want to talk to you about vaginas.
Now this past week I've seen a whole bunch of videos from women and trans men and non-binary folks all talking about this story.
But I feel like I need to talk about it too so that you can have the perspective of a cis white guy.
And I think it's critically important that I am heard.
That never happens.
Yeah, so tampons have lead in them.
Researchers tested 14 different popular brands of tampons for 16 different metals that you don't really want to have in a tampon.
And they found all 16 metals among them.
And they found lead in every brand they tested.
Notably, there is no acceptable exposure level for lead and there certainly isn't a level of acceptable exposure for lead in the kuchi.
Now vaginas, I love them.
You love them.
They're a portal to the babyverse.
I didn't pay attention in sex ed, but they're pretty great and vaginal tissue is pretty absorptive and absorptive.
It absorbs.
And if it absorbs lead, that's just going to go right into the bloodstream.
That's not great.
I'll give you a note here.
It's a bullet point.
It says lead should not go in blood.
So while I have not personally menstruated yet, I can definitely say that if I was menstruating, I would, I mean, I would be basically a second class citizen.
So, I mean, yeah.
But hey, maybe it's time to look into using a menstrual cup because of the lead.
Anyway, hey, people who look like me, women are criminally understudied in general health care science, like lead in tampons level of understudy.
Women go into an auto mechanic and they like try to swindle women specifically more than men.
Think of that, but you have cancer.
Like that's not great.
I would actually go as far as to say that kind of sucks.
Gaming.
Summer Games Unquick happened.
And if you're not familiar, that is a speed running expo that raises money for doctors without borders.
This year they raised two and a half million dollars.
I love nerds.
The developer of city of skylines two has delayed the console release indefinitely.
Despite there not being plans, there's no concrete plans.
The head of Sonic team is wondering why there hasn't been a Sonic RPG yet.
How fast do you want to go?
The choice is up to you.
They are making a Planet Coaster 2 and it's going to have multiplayer theme park building.
Let's get spirally.
The developers of Pow World have joined forces with Sony to make a new subsidiary that may ultimately produce a Pow World anime.
So if you were wondering what world we live in, that is that we live in the Pow one.
Apparently.
Side note, I did not play Pow World.
Are people still playing Pow World?
That's not a dig.
I'm sure you're having fun.
If you play it, I just it was everywhere.
I haven't heard of it until this story.
So I don't know.
Lightning round.
You could be the proud owner of the two pistols that Napoleon Bonaparte planned to kill himself with.
They're for sale.
They're for auction.
Canada has a national crisis of car thefts.
Analyzing data from 2022 has shown that there was a car theft about on average once every five seconds.
Spotify is adding comments to podcasts.
Why?
Tesla is reaching out to Cybertruck owners and offering to upgrade their motors.
After suddenly a whole bunch of motor complaints have been rolling in.
Basically, all of Houston, Texas right now is still without power after being hammered by massive storms.
This is not going to get better anytime soon.
But this is good.
Rudy Giuliani was trying to file for bankruptcy to get out of having to pay punitive damages to people from a different court case from him doing all the election fraud stuff.
Anyway, that just got thrown out.
The judge was like, you, you are messing around too much.
You're not filing.
Get out of here.
And speaking of court cases getting thrown out, Alec Baldwin is no longer in a court case for the shooting thing that happened on the set of the movie that he was on.
That court case has been finally dropped.
And finally for today, ripped to a real one, I guess, Richard Simmons passed away recently at the age of 76.
Thank you so much for listening to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening.
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