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Hello, I was caught at the border by an Imperial ambush, but stuff still happened.

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So what's up? Don't get arrested at Applebee's. Don't do that. Just stop it.

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A woman was arrested at an Applebee's location in Indiana after attempting to share an all-you-can-eat

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meal with her whole table. Now, she kinda has a point, except that she doesn't. The group sat

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down at the table and they ordered this $15.99 all-you-can-eat deal, and when the restaurant

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noticed that they were all sharing it, they charged the table for more than one person's worth of

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all-you-can-eat. The table was not having it. Specifically, the woman who ordered the thing was

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not about that. She made it known. They were like, look, it says all-you-can-eat, and therefore,

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get then. And the Applebee said no and called the cops. So now, a crack team of investigators show up,

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right? They roll up into the Applebee's, and they're like, give us the holy scripture,

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the Applebee's menu. They pour over the scripture, and sure enough, it's $15.99 per person. It says

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per person. At this point, the table's trying to shut the woman up. They're like,

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actively telling her, like, stop it. They're gonna arrest you, and they're trying to cover her

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mouth and whatnot, and she's truly not having it. She was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor.

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I guess you could say that although it was all you could eat, she bit off more than she could chew.

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Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm okay. Twitter is heavy on the banks, like very heavy. So here's the thing.

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Banks had to give Elon money to buy Twitter, right? And that didn't go great. He needed a lot of it.

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He bought Twitter for $44 billion. Remember that little thing? $44 billion that he did not have.

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And so banks and various private investors paid up, and he did the thing. And now the banks are

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kind of fucked. See, banks like to have debt in their control because then they can sell it,

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because finance. But because Twitter is doing so poorly financially, these banks are just

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stuck with this massive loan that they can't sell off to somebody. The last time that we saw

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banks stuck in a situation this bad was the 2008 financial crisis. I want to be super clear. I'm

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not saying this is going to lead to a new financial crisis. I'm saying that's how bad the situation

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is for the banks who got in on this deal. Essentially, they have this loan in their

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big spreadsheet, and they want to delete that row, and they can't. They just can't. They're like,

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does anyone want this? Please, just someone take it. And everyone's like, why would you do this?

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Why did you do this? No. According to the banks, the reason they did this investment in the first

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place is because it was appealing to them to have, quote, the richest man in the world

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indebted to them. But apparently, despite having more assets than every king ever had,

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no one at these companies, these banks were like, maybe we shouldn't invest in Elon Musk buying

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Twitter. I just want to say that again. I just want to say it again for good measure. The banks

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were like, you know what? We should invest in Elon Musk buying Twitter. These people have money.

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Like, you see, people have a lot of money. Hey, Earth, give me the money. I could put it to better use.

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I can finally finish my prized Hot Wheels track. If you want to help me build my prized Hot Wheels

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track, you can check out my merch store. Head to merchfrom.dev. There are brand new items up,

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and I just discounted everything in the store. Some things are like more than $10 off what they

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used to be. Definitely check it out. If you were eyeing something, now is a great time to pick

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it up. It helps me a ton. Thank you very much. But with that said, let's get back to it. Breonna

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Taylor deserves better. As a Kentucky judge has just recently thrown out the harshest charges

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against the cops that murdered her. Here's a refresher. Breonna Taylor was killed in her sleep,

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literally asleep in bed in her own home in the middle of the night by cops who forged paperwork

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to get a warrant to break into her house. The cops were like found to have actually falsified

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documents to come up with a bullshit reason to break into the house. Breonna's boyfriend,

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hearing people breaking into his home, fired a warning shot. You know, that thing that's

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constantly glorified among Americans? In response, cops volleied 32 shots killing Breonna Taylor in

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her bed. The boyfriend was miraculously unharmed. Now a Kentucky judge has ruled that the boyfriend's

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warning shot, not the 32 bullets fired by police officers who were there under false pretenses,

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is the legal cause of Breonna's death. And because of that, they are throwing out the

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civil rights violation charges that the cops were facing, which were among the harshest of

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their charges. They're still being charged for falsifying the documents. That's not in question

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like they falsified the documents. The judge is accepting that, but apparently that's not good

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enough. Despite the falsified documents, despite the fact it was the middle of the night and they

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just kind of broke into the home, the warning shot is why she died. This is obviously a slap in the

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face to Breonna Taylor's family, to all black Americans, and to all Americans. Somebody was

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slaughtered in their bed at night by cops who weren't supposed to be there. We shouldn't have to be

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afraid of sleeping in our own homes because the state might kill us and then not charge the people

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who did it. Cops breaking into your home in the middle of the night. You have no idea what's

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going on. You just hear your door get kicked in. You've got a gun for self-defense because that's

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your right as an American. And a thing, again, that is constantly uplifted as like a value of

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America. Nope. Prosecutors have told Breonna's family that they're going to appeal the decision.

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The Justice Department says they're looking at it. We'll see. Hey, let's leave imagination

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to our imaginations. Yeah? We go with that? Google is desperately trying to invent the

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Torment Nexus as they've just launched a feature on their new Pixel 9 phones called

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Reimagine. What this feature does is let you take a photo with your phone and then tell your phone,

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hey, regenerate this image to look like this and it'll do it. For example, take a picture of your

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favorite teacher and reimagine her a little differently. Take a picture of someone that you

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want to get revenge on and reimagine it with unsavory concepts in the photo. Take a picture

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of the person you're trying to blackmail and you get the point. Tech reporters have been playing

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with this feature and they're basically finding that there's like no guardrails. It'll generate

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most things. And the scary part is that although like generating something absurd seems like a big

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deal, that's not it. It's the subtle stuff that's horrifying. Imagine you're a teenager living right

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now and your parents are woefully ill equipped to identify AI images. Your middle school, high school

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bully, whoever falsifies an image of you very convincingly doing insert thing your parents

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don't like here. You can see where this is going. And while yes, this has always really been possible

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with like Photoshop and even recent other generative AI apps. This is now going to just be built

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into the photos app on your phone. Zero barrier to entry. Very little guardrails. Like yeah,

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people can do bad things in many ways. It's a matter of scale. It's the complete lack of

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who is this for and why doing. Do we need the functionality to take a picture of something

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and then ask your phone to completely alter it? Does that help us? Really? I understand the

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argument for like, Hey, can you tweak it to remove this object that I didn't want to see in this

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photo? But adding in a car crash. Is that a thing we need? It's all fun and games until someone

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uses AI to alter a picture of you to be wearing a fedora lightning round. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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has dropped out of the 2024 presidential race and is getting behind Donald Trump. He's seeking a

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position in the Trump administration. Should they win specifically in the health department

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so that he can make sure vaccines are safe as he puts it? A doctor in Florida is on probation

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after performing a colonoscopy. There's a second half here. He wasn't wearing his hearing aids.

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And so he couldn't hear the patient screaming. A hunter was out hunting when he was mauled by a bear

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and then was shot while being mauled by a bear while trying to get the bear off of them. It's

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unclear if the shot was his or someone else in the hunting party or maybe it was the bear,

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but a guy got mauled by a bear and shot while being mauled by a bear. He's alive. Mostly.

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Members of the super rich family of Mike Lynch, a rich British tycoon, have died after their

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yacht overturned out the coast of Sicily. Seven dead. More notably, hundreds if not thousands of

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migrants per year die in that area on ships that are much less luxurious than a yacht. Nintendo

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will be shutting down Animal Crossing Pocket Camp in November. They're going to instead release a

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new version of the game that's like a one time payment instead of having all the microtransactions

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and online interactions. So you'll be able to have what you had and continue to play it as more

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of a traditional, you bought the game now you can play the game game. We're going to be getting a

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book that is 70 previously unpublished poems by J.R.R. Tolkien is being put together by his son

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and some like experts of his legacy. Y'all after that, uh, TikTok trend that went viral about eating

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a whole cucumber. Iceland has a cucumber shortage. This is the worst. This is the outcome that I

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told you would happen. No one is ever considering the impact of TikTok trends on the Icelandic

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cucumber trade. It's bullshit. A U.S. Border Patrol agent in New York was arrested after being

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caught requesting that female immigrants applicants show him their breasts. He was like,

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this is a part of the process. What? The Mormon church just passed a whole bunch of new restrictions

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on transgender members of the church, basically equating them to predators and saying they can't

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work with children. Hey, fuck the Mormon church. The founder of encrypted messaging app Telegram

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has been arrested by French authorities. Telegram is famous for their lack of censorship and also

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specifically rampant issues with child pornography and a bunch of other really unsavory things.

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Your boy is a fan of privacy and encryption and all that good shit. And also Telegram is kind of

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a cesspool, but I would really, really prefer it if the EU would stop trying to undermine all

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notion of encryption and privacy. Thank you. And finally for today, those stranded astronauts

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are finally coming home in February. There's been two astronauts that have been stranded at the ISS

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for a while. Their original flight home didn't happen. They must have missed the gate. Specifically,

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they, Boeing was supposed to bring them home. You never want that to be the case. It didn't work.

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Now they're going to be going home on a SpaceX mission in February. Neat. Thank you so much for

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listening to today's episode of stuff keeps happening. Head to SKH.News for sources, bonus content,

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and my plans for rescuing those astronauts from space. My name is Endeavorance. I'll be back

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on Monday. Take care and be well.