1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,000 Hello. I took a bit of an extended hiatus. But stuff still happens. So what's up? Australia 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:14,160 took a hard look at children and said, no, uh, uh, social media. A bill recently passed 3 00:00:14,160 --> 00:00:19,680 in Australia that says if you are under 16, no social media for you. Get off. Well, other way 4 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:26,320 around, if you are a social media company and you have users that are under 16, fine. Not fine. Bad. 5 00:00:26,320 --> 00:00:33,120 You're going to be fine. You wonder, you get me. $30 million of fine. $30 million of you being 6 00:00:33,120 --> 00:00:38,720 fined. It's not 30 million dollars. Man, words. How did I do this before? The bill targets large 7 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:43,920 social networks and basically just says if you are not doing enough to verify the age of your users, 8 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:48,000 you're going to be fine, which is great. When has requiring tech companies to collect more 9 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:54,640 user data ever been bad? Privacy and child rights advocates are not all about this, but the general 10 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:01,440 public is way behind it, like 80% approval. And like, I totally agree that young kids should not 11 00:01:01,440 --> 00:01:08,240 be on social media. Like it's not good. Advertising the children is not okay and creating an attention 12 00:01:08,240 --> 00:01:13,760 trap to then display as to children is double not okay. And that's what social media is. For the 13 00:01:13,760 --> 00:01:20,160 same time, there's also a lot of established culture and connections online and safety nets. 14 00:01:20,160 --> 00:01:26,320 I think of queer children who are in danger at home and their only safety net is people that they 15 00:01:26,320 --> 00:01:29,760 connect with over the internet. And while they can still use the internet, obviously this just 16 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:36,880 makes it harder. Joe Biden did the meme. After years of being like, I'm not going to pardon my son. 17 00:01:36,880 --> 00:01:43,680 I have honor. Biden pardoned his son literally like not even five months ago. Quote, I have 18 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:50,160 bide by the jury decision. I will do that. And I will not pardon him. I was in July. 19 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:56,160 So what happened? Hunter Biden has been under investigation by Republicans in Congress 20 00:01:56,160 --> 00:02:00,640 for a long time because they wanted a boogeyman. Hunter Biden is a private citizen. He doesn't 21 00:02:00,640 --> 00:02:06,560 hold government office. He's just Joe Biden's son. And unlike Trump's children, he is not 22 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:13,040 half involved with government. But he did do crimes. Hunter Biden did crimes and was found 23 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:17,360 to have done the crime. And so he should face punishment, but also also Republicans getting 24 00:02:17,360 --> 00:02:23,360 a majority in Congress and then using all of their time basically to just go after Hunter Biden. 25 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,560 That's fucking dumb and a terrible use of government resources. Reminder, 26 00:02:28,560 --> 00:02:34,560 they showed his nudes on the house floor. Like this, it's a circus. So Biden pardoning his son 27 00:02:34,560 --> 00:02:39,760 here, it makes sense, right? Because he wants to prevent the next iteration of that getting 28 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:45,680 much, much worse. So if he pardons him now, then they can't go after him more. Does that make it 29 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:51,280 right? No, of course it doesn't make it right. But also he's a war criminal. So like, whether or 30 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:57,440 not he pardons his son is a little bit less of an issue. That said, maybe we shouldn't have some guy 31 00:02:57,440 --> 00:03:04,000 in our government who can be like, actually, that's not a crime. Because I said so. Unless that guy's 32 00:03:04,000 --> 00:03:08,560 going to be me, because you can trust me, I'm a philosopher king. And there's no fallacy there. 33 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:14,240 Reminder, get your flu vaccine and COVID booster. Because on top of RFK being nominated to run HHS, 34 00:03:14,240 --> 00:03:22,240 which is horrifying, Trump has now appointed David Weldon, a 71 year old anti-vaxxer to run the CDC. 35 00:03:22,240 --> 00:03:26,880 Quick interjection, I just want to point out that whenever I call an anti-vaxxer who's a well 36 00:03:26,880 --> 00:03:32,240 understood anti-vaxxer, an anti-vaxxer, anti-vaxxers show up in my comments and say that they're not 37 00:03:32,240 --> 00:03:39,200 anti-vaxxers. I just said that a lot. It's confusing. Because like, RFK is very obviously an anti-vaxxer. 38 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:44,560 And the amount of people who told me he wasn't or tried to tell me he wasn't, it was off the charts. 39 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:51,040 This is not a safe place for anti-vaxx sentiment, by the way. Don't, don't try to justify it. You're, 40 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:57,920 stop it. They don't cause autism. It's so, there's not a discussion. But Weldon is one of those 41 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:02,880 doctors from Florida who has been making a career for himself by being a hack online and pandering 42 00:04:02,880 --> 00:04:08,160 to conspiracy theorists. And his appointment has a lot of conspiracy theorists happy who previously 43 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:13,920 said that you can cure autism using industrial bleach. They're very happy about this nomination. 44 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,920 Hell yeah. Look, these nominations are probably not all going through. Like, like, there's definitely 45 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:22,640 some egregious ones. This one is probably one of the ones that won't go through, but we can't 46 00:04:22,640 --> 00:04:29,680 bank on that. What we can do is try to read the tea leaves and just be prepared. And in this case, 47 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:33,840 I don't think it is completely out of the question to think that the next administration may put a 48 00:04:33,840 --> 00:04:40,800 temporary hold on distributing vaccines or just try to disrupt the supply chain in some way. So 49 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:45,360 go get your flu shot. Go get your COVID booster. Google is big mad because they got caught being 50 00:04:45,360 --> 00:04:50,800 a monopoly. The DOJ wants Google to sell off Chrome. Google owns Chrome. If you didn't know 51 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:57,360 that, Google owns Chrome. And Chrome is the most popular web browser by a gargantuan margin. It's 52 00:04:57,360 --> 00:05:03,200 more than two thirds of browser usage. On top of that, Google has a stranglehold on the search 53 00:05:03,200 --> 00:05:09,120 market and billions upon billions of devices running Android that are then all using Google. 54 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:16,400 That's because Google is a monopoly. Where did I hear that? Oh yeah, from the court. So the DOJ 55 00:05:16,400 --> 00:05:20,960 has been going after Google for being a monopoly and they're saying, hey, sell off Chrome. Just 56 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:26,960 flatly divest from Chrome and you can't reenter the browser market for five years. They're actually 57 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:31,200 pushing for something even wilder, I think, which is that Google would have to share their search 58 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:37,120 results and add data to their competitors at a marginal rate for a decade. The idea there being 59 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:42,480 they have established so much of an entrenched monopoly that they need to take active steps to 60 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:49,120 undo being a monopoly. This is your reminder that the game monopoly is supposed to be a joke on 61 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:54,320 how bad monopolies are. You don't want that. Is this going to happen? I don't know. It's not 62 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:58,320 quite there yet and they're almost definitely going to be pushing back as hard as they possibly can. 63 00:05:58,320 --> 00:06:04,160 And as Google is looking a little bit more shaky, what with their weird AI rollouts that have not 64 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:09,440 gone super well and general destruction of the recent quality of their search, they still 65 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:13,520 are on top by a huge margin. I've got a feeling this is one of those things that's just going to 66 00:06:13,520 --> 00:06:19,760 kind of disappear, especially as a new administration rolls in. But there may be a tiny chance that in 67 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:25,520 our lifetime, we would see a giant tech company actually take a bit of a hit. Maybe. Kind of. 68 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:40,560 If we're lucky.