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Hello

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I got stuck
in a time loop for 33 years,

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but Stuff Still Happened.

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So what's up?

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Let's talk about data.

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Don't click away.

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I'll make it fun, all right?

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Not long ago, I posted a
video about what "your data" is.

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Like, what do they mean when they say

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that these governments
and companies want "your data"?

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That's a different kind of data.

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Today, we're gonna
talk about public research data

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and like information and stuff.

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You know, the things
that you're supposed to be able

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to look up on the internet.

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That data.

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So there's a lot of
data on the internet, right?

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I put it there.

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Other people put it there too.

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But there's a lot of it.

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Some of it—a lot of it—
comes from governments

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and research agencies
that publish their findings online.

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Massive amounts of
data sets that you probably

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have no idea are out there.

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Oceanography data and like climate data

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and all that kind of stuff.

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This data is made
available for researchers

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and whoever to do things

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...like research.

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And of course, in many
cases, this data is then slurped up

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by private corporations
who then sell it back to you,

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trying to hide the
fact that it was paid for

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by your taxes to begin with.

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Cough, cough.

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AccuWeather.

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Yeah, by the way,
AccuWeather uses government data

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and then sells it
back to you and then lobbies

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to try to restrict your
access to that government data

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so that you have to get it through them.

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Very cool, very cool.

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But as we have a new
administration coming in,

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as is normal with many administrations,

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they are scrubbing a
bunch of data from these data sets.

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But normally, the
information they're scrubbing

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is old and out of date.

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In this case, if it
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it's going away.

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The scale and contents of
data currently being just erased

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from the internet
by the Trump administration

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because it doesn't fit
their narrative is staggering.

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Thousands of public data sets

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have been straight up removed.

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There have been
government agency websites such as USAID

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that are now just completely offline.

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The page you could use to
search information on the CDC,

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gone.

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Now we're gonna focus this
down into a single point of light,

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a little crystal
of knowledge, if you will,

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as we understand that the NTSB,

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the National Transportation Safety Board,

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has just announced that
they're no longer going to be

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emailing updates to journalists,

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instead opting to
post exclusively on Twitter.

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You heard that right,

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as Elon Musk has been
wreaking havoc in the government,

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and we'll get to that soon enough.

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He is also strong
armed an entire government agency

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to post on his privately held platform.

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The agency that
publishes updates about plane crashes

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is now on a
platform where you can be banned.

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Sorry, you disagreed with Elon Musk.

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You don't get to know if planes are safe.

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Reminder, this is a
privately held platform.

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You have to make an
account to be able to even read stuff.

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And it is overrun
with bots and crypto scams.

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But we're not at the
ranting about Musk part yet.

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We're on the data and whatnot.

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So let's talk about what
the internet is supposed to be.

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At its inception, the internet was made

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for being a
decentralized place to share information.

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It was made for
universities to be able to send

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research papers
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Whole lot easier to just like,

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look it up real quick on the internet,

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than to call up someone and be like,

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"Hey, do you have a
book and can you mail it to us?"

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As time went on, we started to get

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more interactive stuff on the web.

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So you can make an
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you can have a blog, et cetera.

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And then companies
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"Hey, information
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behind a login screen for reasons."

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Nevermind that everything
was publicly accessible before,

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we can't make as much
money if you're not logging in

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and giving us your email address.

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So that we can send you marketing emails

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that you didn't ask for.

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And now a ton of really
popular social media services

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require you to log in to even see a post.

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What?

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Someone posted
something on the internet

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and I can't see it.

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It's a honeypot.

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They made all these
services to get you stuck

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in their systems so
that they can then close them off

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and make it worse.

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But at this point,
where are you gonna go?

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I mean, you shouldn't
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but still.

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Now, I say all of this
because I wanted to highlight

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something good.

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I know this sounds very doomer-y,

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but let's talk about
something really cool that happened.

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While the internet is
inundated with massive corporations

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trying to squeeze
every ounce of money out of it

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that they can, there are a
lot of really good-meaning people

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who are basically making
nothing and doing all the work.

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Researchers, open source
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hacktivists, hobbyists, all sorts of folks

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are doing stuff
completely for free on the internet

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that actually makes the world turn.

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In fact, the vast majority, if not all,

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for-profit
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and publicly funded systems.

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They then like to turn
around and charge you for that, but.

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And among these good
folks, there are people at archive.org

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who are working to
back up all the data sets

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that were deleted.

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So while the Trump
administration doesn't want people

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to have access to this data,

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for whatever reason they decided,

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people on the internet,
again, out of their own heart,

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put in the effort to back this data up

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to ensure that it remains available.

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And so I wanna shout it out, archive.org.

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They are a donation-based nonprofit

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that tries to ensure that data

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on the internet stays available.

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I've included a donation
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so you can check that out if
you want to kick them a few bucks

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for saying fuck you to
people who want to erase everything.

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Policy stuff.

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Here we go, tariffs,
they're landing like tomorrow.

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And that's 25% on
Canada and Mexico, 10% on China,

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10% on energy from Canada.

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Why? I don't know.

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I don't think Trump knows.

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And Canada and
Mexico certainly don't know.

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They're like, why
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So what, what is this?

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What does it mean?

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Let's go over that real quick.

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Trump doesn't know what a tariff is

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and no one can tell him otherwise.

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And so he campaigned on
tariffs, not knowing what they are,

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and now he's trying to deliver on that,

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still not really knowing what they are.

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And so at his Florida resort,

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he signed an executive
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To bypass the theoretical
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he declared a
national emergency...

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...because

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He said,

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the reason is the border and fentanyl.

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But what is a tariff?

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Why are you poorer?

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A tariff is a tax on
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Once they've been sold, they come in

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and the person who
purchased them has to pay a tariff.

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They cost money to
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In theory, it's
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more domestic production,
but that's not how that works.

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And so ultimately it just means,

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hey, the consumer is
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on everything from Canada and Mexico.

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I hope you didn't want
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at all or lumber to build houses at all.

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Like, yeah, we could
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but that takes time and investment.

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Not random fucking tariffs.

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The way you do that is by
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for people to do things domestically

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that encourage
employment and growth and support.

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And instead we're just
gonna charge the poorest people

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in America more money for
basic goods because Trump's ego.

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So now our two
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are stuck in a trade
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Economic forecasts show
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it could cause massive economic turmoil.

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It could spike inflation
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over $1,100 a year.

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Functionally, you're gonna
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It's truly wild
because anyone who actually knows

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what they're talking
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Even the Republicans
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trying to explain why they're doing this

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because it's so directly antithetical

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to everything they claim they stand for.

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And so they're going on TV being like,

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oh, it's just a $2 increase.

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That's not, everyone needs to calm down.

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Or, oh, people are just
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They got a hunker down for their country

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after an entire
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But suddenly it's just $2, bro.

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Calm down.

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Trump has been very loud about how Canada

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could easily get rid of the tariffs

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by simply becoming the 51st state.

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I wanna be very clear.

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It's not a joke.

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He was never joking
about Canada being the 51st state.

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And I said this when
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He doesn't say things as a joke.

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He says things to test the water

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and then continues to say
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So now he has imposed tariffs on Canada,

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hasn't told them why
and said they can get rid of it

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if they assimilate
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I want um...

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healthcare.

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The government is getting pretty musky

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as Elon and his ilk are
going around to various departments

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and strong arming
their way into those systems.

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They are literally
going into the buildings

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and forcing people to
allow them to access classified data.

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Things that they do not
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As I was putting this together,

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I got a breaking news alert from the AP

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that they had gone into the USAID office

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and demanded access to their systems.

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But the people in that
office had security clearances

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and said, you can't access
this information, it's classified.

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We legally cannot give you access.

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Those people were put on leave

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and now they have
access to the classified data

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that they don't have a clearance for.

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Now look, I'm not a big
fan of how often we label things

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as classified just to
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I get it.

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And also Elon Musk and
his tech bros are not the ones

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that I want rooting
around in classified documents.

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Like they also have access

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to the Treasury Department systems.

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They could, in theory,
stop payments to certain people

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who they don't believe deserve Medicare.

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Says here you're in a blue state.

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You don't get anything now.

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I wanna be super clear here.

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This is dangerous and is not gonna stop.

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There is no more accountability

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in the United States government.

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The head of the
Republicans in the House verbatim stated

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that he does not second
guess decisions from the president.

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Which is the explicit purpose

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of the House of Representatives.

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Checks and balances.

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In this case, it's just checks to cash.

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I don't know, there's
a joke in there somewhere.

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So please never again
ask, how can this be happening?

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Because it's
happening and it's not gonna stop.

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And it's only going to get crazier.

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And if you continue to go back and ask,

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how is this happening?

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You're just gonna drive yourself insane.

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Side note, I don't
know when being moderately okay

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with programming became synonymous with,

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you're now allowed to
do literally anything you want

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with no consequences.

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But that's apparently where we are

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with our country at this point.

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Anyway, let's go in a
different direction, kind of.

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Let's talk about tech stuff.

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Google is gonna not do a layoff.

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They're gonna do a not-layoff.

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Google did a bunch of layoffs last year.

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And this year, all
the employees were like,

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y'all, I can't keep doing this.

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I can't keep having
layoffs right around the corner.

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I gotta have some stability.

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If you're gonna do
something like offer us buyouts.

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And so they're doing that.

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It's not a layoff, it's a buyout.

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This not a layoff is
affecting their platforms

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and devices sector,
which is like Android and Pixel

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and hardware and whatnot.

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Does this mean it's
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I don't think so.

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I don't.

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Also, it's Google though.

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They kill like everything they ever make.

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Zuckerberg wants that masculine energy.

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It's not a good time to be Zuck.

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Well, one, he
literally said that companies

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need more masculine energy,

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which is a fucking gross statement.

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Two, he did that like wild heel turn

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about Meta's content moderation policies.

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And it's just trying to suck up to Trump.

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And Republicans aren't really buying it.

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They're pretty skeptical.

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I mean, they have
spent the past, what, eight years

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just railing on Meta, claiming that Meta

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was censoring Republican voices.

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And now he's like,
nah, y'all like me now, right?

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No, no one fucking
likes you Zuckerberg, give up.

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To cap all this off,
there are now rampant rumors

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about him having a divorce with his wife.

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I haven't actually seen
anyone, any reputable source

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say this is real, but
the fact that the internet

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is ablaze of people
just assuming that everything

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is so fucked up with Zuck right now

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that he must be going through a divorce.

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I think that explains where he's at.

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Oh, hey, if you use
WhatsApp, you may have gotten spyware'd.

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Not trying to scare you, calm down.

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You would know at this point, I think.

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So WhatsApp was compromised.

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They announced that they
disrupted a spyware operation

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going on inside of
WhatsApp that affected about 100 people.

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They said it affected journalists

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and people from civilian life.

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So they wouldn't
say who, it could be anyone.

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The attack was called
a quote zero-click attack,

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which means you
didn't need to actually interact

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with anything to be hit.

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The spyware itself was
developed by an Israeli-based

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spyware company called Paragon.

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They also have a branch in the US

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and they were about
to sign a contract with ICE

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to do like spyware for
ICE's investigation division

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that thankfully didn't go through.

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It's actually on hold.

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It didn't not go through,

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but a Biden era
executive order prevented it

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because of like a
crackdown on using spyware

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on our own citizens.

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Hey, maybe we shouldn't do that,

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but it's an executive order

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and Trump really likes
to undo Biden's executive order.

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So we'll see how long that holds.

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All right, okay.

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I promise this one is,
this is, this is, it's neutral.

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It's at least neutral.

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I don't know if you
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but before the Apple
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and Google watches, there was the Pebble.

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It was a, it was like a modest device.

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It had a pretty shitty screen,

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but it had a long battery life

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and it did most of the
things you would want it to do.

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Unfortunately, it didn't quite take off.

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And when like Apple
and Google and Samsung came out

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with their very
flashy ones, it just got creamed.

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So it eventually got bought by Fitbit

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and then Fitbit got bought by Google

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and Google did nothing with the Pebble IP

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until now where
Google has now open sourced

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the original Pebble
operating system software.

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And so the original
founder of Pebble was like, fuck yeah,

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I got my shit back.

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I'm gonna go make these watches again.

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So he's looking to start a company

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to make more accessible smartwatches

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at a cheaper price
point with a longer battery life

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using this like open source software

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so that they're more
like user modifiable and whatnot.

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That's pretty cool.

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We like that.

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So yeah, you don't need a smartwatch,

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but if you do want one, I mean, you know.

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Lightning round.

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Dr. Phil has been
going on ride alongs with ICE

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as they detain migrants
so that he can exploit them.

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Sorry, so that he can interview them.

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The LA Palisades and
Eaton fires have now been officially

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100% contained.

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That's really fucking good.

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Ron DeSantis has been working overtime

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to pass like anti-immigrant legislation

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and just crack down
on migrants and whatnot,

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trying to be a mini Trump.

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And it's so much that
his own state legislature,

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which leans Republican,

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is starting to finally push back on him.

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They're like, "Dog, you gotta calm down."

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So it turns out on the
heels of the Black Hawk helicopter

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that crashed into the plane,

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there's a lot of
specifically Black Hawk related incidents

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in the army,
specifically training incidents.

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They're probably
not all training incidents,

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but since 2014,
we've lost 47 service members

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to Black Hawk training exercises.

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The Teamsters and
Costco were at a standstill

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informing a new
contract for the next three years.

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And at the 11th hour,

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they met a tentative
contract to prevent a strike.

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All sorts of benefits beyond just pay,

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unionize your workplace.

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And finally for today,
after Google agreed to change

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the Gulf of Mexico to the
Gulf of America on Google Maps,

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they have now
identified America as a quote,

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We're really sensitive.

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That means that
we've got disputed borders

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or fucked up governance.

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I don't think
that's actually what it says

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on their like help page,

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but that's how I would describe it.

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Thank you so much for listening

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to today's episode
of "Stuff Keeps Happening."

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Head to skh.news
for sources, bonus content,

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and my own backdoor
into the US Treasury systems.

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I'll be back on Monday.

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Take care and be well.