Hello, I was caught at the border by an Imperial ambush, but stuff still happened.
So what's up? Don't get arrested at Applebee's. Don't do that. Just stop it.
A woman was arrested at an Applebee's location in Indiana after attempting to share an all-you-can-eat
meal with her whole table. Now, she kinda has a point, except that she doesn't. The group sat
down at the table and they ordered this $15.99 all-you-can-eat deal, and when the restaurant
noticed that they were all sharing it, they charged the table for more than one person's worth of
all-you-can-eat. The table was not having it. Specifically, the woman who ordered the thing was
not about that. She made it known. They were like, look, it says all-you-can-eat, and therefore,
get then. And the Applebee said no and called the cops. So now, a crack team of investigators show up,
right? They roll up into the Applebee's, and they're like, give us the holy scripture,
the Applebee's menu. They pour over the scripture, and sure enough, it's $15.99 per person. It says
per person. At this point, the table's trying to shut the woman up. They're like,
actively telling her, like, stop it. They're gonna arrest you, and they're trying to cover her
mouth and whatnot, and she's truly not having it. She was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor.
I guess you could say that although it was all you could eat, she bit off more than she could chew.
Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm okay. Twitter is heavy on the banks, like very heavy. So here's the thing.
Banks had to give Elon money to buy Twitter, right? And that didn't go great. He needed a lot of it.
He bought Twitter for $44 billion. Remember that little thing? $44 billion that he did not have.
And so banks and various private investors paid up, and he did the thing. And now the banks are
kind of fucked. See, banks like to have debt in their control because then they can sell it,
because finance. But because Twitter is doing so poorly financially, these banks are just
stuck with this massive loan that they can't sell off to somebody. The last time that we saw
banks stuck in a situation this bad was the 2008 financial crisis. I want to be super clear. I'm
not saying this is going to lead to a new financial crisis. I'm saying that's how bad the situation
is for the banks who got in on this deal. Essentially, they have this loan in their
big spreadsheet, and they want to delete that row, and they can't. They just can't. They're like,
does anyone want this? Please, just someone take it. And everyone's like, why would you do this?
Why did you do this? No. According to the banks, the reason they did this investment in the first
place is because it was appealing to them to have, quote, the richest man in the world
indebted to them. But apparently, despite having more assets than every king ever had,
no one at these companies, these banks were like, maybe we shouldn't invest in Elon Musk buying
Twitter. I just want to say that again. I just want to say it again for good measure. The banks
were like, you know what? We should invest in Elon Musk buying Twitter. These people have money.
Like, you see, people have a lot of money. Hey, Earth, give me the money. I could put it to better use.
I can finally finish my prized Hot Wheels track. If you want to help me build my prized Hot Wheels
track, you can check out my merch store. Head to merchfrom.dev. There are brand new items up,
and I just discounted everything in the store. Some things are like more than $10 off what they
used to be. Definitely check it out. If you were eyeing something, now is a great time to pick
it up. It helps me a ton. Thank you very much. But with that said, let's get back to it. Breonna
Taylor deserves better. As a Kentucky judge has just recently thrown out the harshest charges
against the cops that murdered her. Here's a refresher. Breonna Taylor was killed in her sleep,
literally asleep in bed in her own home in the middle of the night by cops who forged paperwork
to get a warrant to break into her house. The cops were like found to have actually falsified
documents to come up with a bullshit reason to break into the house. Breonna's boyfriend,
hearing people breaking into his home, fired a warning shot. You know, that thing that's
constantly glorified among Americans? In response, cops volleied 32 shots killing Breonna Taylor in
her bed. The boyfriend was miraculously unharmed. Now a Kentucky judge has ruled that the boyfriend's
warning shot, not the 32 bullets fired by police officers who were there under false pretenses,
is the legal cause of Breonna's death. And because of that, they are throwing out the
civil rights violation charges that the cops were facing, which were among the harshest of
their charges. They're still being charged for falsifying the documents. That's not in question
like they falsified the documents. The judge is accepting that, but apparently that's not good
enough. Despite the falsified documents, despite the fact it was the middle of the night and they
just kind of broke into the home, the warning shot is why she died. This is obviously a slap in the
face to Breonna Taylor's family, to all black Americans, and to all Americans. Somebody was
slaughtered in their bed at night by cops who weren't supposed to be there. We shouldn't have to be
afraid of sleeping in our own homes because the state might kill us and then not charge the people
who did it. Cops breaking into your home in the middle of the night. You have no idea what's
going on. You just hear your door get kicked in. You've got a gun for self-defense because that's
your right as an American. And a thing, again, that is constantly uplifted as like a value of
America. Nope. Prosecutors have told Breonna's family that they're going to appeal the decision.
The Justice Department says they're looking at it. We'll see. Hey, let's leave imagination
to our imaginations. Yeah? We go with that? Google is desperately trying to invent the
Torment Nexus as they've just launched a feature on their new Pixel 9 phones called
Reimagine. What this feature does is let you take a photo with your phone and then tell your phone,
hey, regenerate this image to look like this and it'll do it. For example, take a picture of your
favorite teacher and reimagine her a little differently. Take a picture of someone that you
want to get revenge on and reimagine it with unsavory concepts in the photo. Take a picture
of the person you're trying to blackmail and you get the point. Tech reporters have been playing
with this feature and they're basically finding that there's like no guardrails. It'll generate
most things. And the scary part is that although like generating something absurd seems like a big
deal, that's not it. It's the subtle stuff that's horrifying. Imagine you're a teenager living right
now and your parents are woefully ill equipped to identify AI images. Your middle school, high school
bully, whoever falsifies an image of you very convincingly doing insert thing your parents
don't like here. You can see where this is going. And while yes, this has always really been possible
with like Photoshop and even recent other generative AI apps. This is now going to just be built
into the photos app on your phone. Zero barrier to entry. Very little guardrails. Like yeah,
people can do bad things in many ways. It's a matter of scale. It's the complete lack of
who is this for and why doing. Do we need the functionality to take a picture of something
and then ask your phone to completely alter it? Does that help us? Really? I understand the
argument for like, Hey, can you tweak it to remove this object that I didn't want to see in this
photo? But adding in a car crash. Is that a thing we need? It's all fun and games until someone
uses AI to alter a picture of you to be wearing a fedora lightning round. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and is getting behind Donald Trump. He's seeking a
position in the Trump administration. Should they win specifically in the health department
so that he can make sure vaccines are safe as he puts it? A doctor in Florida is on probation
after performing a colonoscopy. There's a second half here. He wasn't wearing his hearing aids.
And so he couldn't hear the patient screaming. A hunter was out hunting when he was mauled by a bear
and then was shot while being mauled by a bear while trying to get the bear off of them. It's
unclear if the shot was his or someone else in the hunting party or maybe it was the bear,
but a guy got mauled by a bear and shot while being mauled by a bear. He's alive. Mostly.
Members of the super rich family of Mike Lynch, a rich British tycoon, have died after their
yacht overturned out the coast of Sicily. Seven dead. More notably, hundreds if not thousands of
migrants per year die in that area on ships that are much less luxurious than a yacht. Nintendo
will be shutting down Animal Crossing Pocket Camp in November. They're going to instead release a
new version of the game that's like a one time payment instead of having all the microtransactions
and online interactions. So you'll be able to have what you had and continue to play it as more
of a traditional, you bought the game now you can play the game game. We're going to be getting a
book that is 70 previously unpublished poems by J.R.R. Tolkien is being put together by his son
and some like experts of his legacy. Y'all after that, uh, TikTok trend that went viral about eating
a whole cucumber. Iceland has a cucumber shortage. This is the worst. This is the outcome that I
told you would happen. No one is ever considering the impact of TikTok trends on the Icelandic
cucumber trade. It's bullshit. A U.S. Border Patrol agent in New York was arrested after being
caught requesting that female immigrants applicants show him their breasts. He was like,
this is a part of the process. What? The Mormon church just passed a whole bunch of new restrictions
on transgender members of the church, basically equating them to predators and saying they can't
work with children. Hey, fuck the Mormon church. The founder of encrypted messaging app Telegram
has been arrested by French authorities. Telegram is famous for their lack of censorship and also
specifically rampant issues with child pornography and a bunch of other really unsavory things.
Your boy is a fan of privacy and encryption and all that good shit. And also Telegram is kind of
a cesspool, but I would really, really prefer it if the EU would stop trying to undermine all
notion of encryption and privacy. Thank you. And finally for today, those stranded astronauts
are finally coming home in February. There's been two astronauts that have been stranded at the ISS
for a while. Their original flight home didn't happen. They must have missed the gate. Specifically,
they, Boeing was supposed to bring them home. You never want that to be the case. It didn't work.
Now they're going to be going home on a SpaceX mission in February. Neat. Thank you so much for
listening to today's episode of stuff keeps happening. Head to SKH.News for sources, bonus content,
and my plans for rescuing those astronauts from space. My name is Endeavorance. I'll be back
on Monday. Take care and be well.