WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.819 Hello. I stood with my ex during her gommage, 00:00:03.919 --> 00:00:08.740 but stuff still happened. So what's up? Buckle 00:00:08.740 --> 00:00:11.580 up, strap in, grab a pal on the butt. Let's talk 00:00:11.580 --> 00:00:15.880 about the tax bill and get consent before grabbing 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:18.339 your pal on the butt. Unless it's a dog. So here 00:00:18.339 --> 00:00:21.339 in the United States of America, we are watching 00:00:21.339 --> 00:00:23.660 as our government is trying to pass a new tax 00:00:23.660 --> 00:00:26.559 slash spending bill that has a lot of bad shit 00:00:26.559 --> 00:00:29.750 in it. It's so bad that Republicans, who are 00:00:29.750 --> 00:00:31.969 the only party that are drafting and voting on 00:00:31.969 --> 00:00:35.090 this bill, can't even pass it. Let's back up 00:00:35.090 --> 00:00:37.170 and talk about this big, beautiful bill. It's 00:00:37.170 --> 00:00:38.850 not very beautiful. So Trump has been talking 00:00:38.850 --> 00:00:40.929 about wanting to pass one big, beautiful bill. 00:00:41.130 --> 00:00:43.490 He has this weird fixation with, like, making 00:00:43.490 --> 00:00:46.729 all legislation happen in one big drop. I don't 00:00:46.729 --> 00:00:48.590 know why. But because of that, Republicans have 00:00:48.590 --> 00:00:50.729 unironically called this bill the Big Beautiful 00:00:50.729 --> 00:00:54.850 Bill Act. Very cringy. This bill is over a thousand 00:00:54.850 --> 00:00:56.549 pages, and they're trying to pass it through 00:00:56.549 --> 00:00:58.950 reconciliation, which is essentially an administrative 00:00:58.950 --> 00:01:00.990 process that would allow them to pass it without 00:01:00.990 --> 00:01:03.109 getting any votes from Democrats at all. For 00:01:03.109 --> 00:01:05.209 the House, I want to be clear. We're talking 00:01:05.209 --> 00:01:07.290 about the House of Representatives. This still 00:01:07.290 --> 00:01:10.060 has to get past the Senate, which is... A very 00:01:10.060 --> 00:01:12.260 different process. But as of right now, the bill 00:01:12.260 --> 00:01:14.319 is out there. It's over a thousand pages long 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:16.680 and contains a ton of stuff. And everyone is 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:18.500 saying that it contains everything or doesn't 00:01:18.500 --> 00:01:21.040 contain everything. I tried my best to get an 00:01:21.040 --> 00:01:23.219 actual list of what I felt was the most meaningful 00:01:23.219 --> 00:01:26.200 points from it from the bill itself. So this 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:29.060 is not not hearsay. This is not I heard this 00:01:29.060 --> 00:01:31.560 is what's actually in there. Here we go. About 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:33.640 five trillion dollars in tax cuts. And most of 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:35.480 that's going to go to the super rich because 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:38.099 proportionally. That's where tax cuts give the 00:01:38.099 --> 00:01:41.099 most dollar per point. So a $5 trillion tax cut, 00:01:41.159 --> 00:01:42.599 they're going to try to make up for that with 00:01:42.599 --> 00:01:44.959 a bunch of cuts elsewhere to the spending budget. 00:01:45.140 --> 00:01:46.920 We'll get to that for a second, but first, not. 00:01:47.310 --> 00:01:49.790 cutting back spending a $60 billion bailout for 00:01:49.790 --> 00:01:53.569 farmers. An $800 billion reduction in spending 00:01:53.569 --> 00:01:56.409 on Medicaid, which is, to be clear, a thing that 00:01:56.409 --> 00:01:59.650 Republicans very loudly and very clearly said 00:01:59.650 --> 00:02:01.849 they would not do. With this reduction in spending 00:02:01.849 --> 00:02:04.030 on Medicaid, they've got increased work requirements 00:02:04.030 --> 00:02:06.430 for getting Medicaid. It also aims to defund 00:02:06.430 --> 00:02:08.590 Planned Parenthood via Medicaid. And independent 00:02:08.590 --> 00:02:12.169 estimations note that 7 .6 million citizens will 00:02:12.169 --> 00:02:14.270 lose their health care if this goes through. 00:02:14.389 --> 00:02:16.979 That has given some Republicans some... because 00:02:16.979 --> 00:02:19.460 that's enough people to lose an election. It 00:02:19.460 --> 00:02:21.879 includes a temporary increase to the standard 00:02:21.879 --> 00:02:25.060 deduction for taxes and a bit of a bigger deduction 00:02:25.060 --> 00:02:27.419 for high -tax states like New York. It contains 00:02:27.419 --> 00:02:30.979 a temporary exclusion of tax on qualified tips 00:02:30.979 --> 00:02:35.280 and overtime. That is not all of them. That break 00:02:35.280 --> 00:02:38.240 will only last during Trump's term through 2028, 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:41.580 so it's a temporary break on... stuff that still 00:02:41.580 --> 00:02:43.560 has other requirements around it. It shifts a 00:02:43.560 --> 00:02:46.280 lot of the cost of SNAP or food stamps from the 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:48.639 federal budget to state budgets. States don't 00:02:48.639 --> 00:02:50.719 currently pay a whole lot for SNAP. The Fed does. 00:02:50.780 --> 00:02:53.099 This moves it down to the state level, which 00:02:53.099 --> 00:02:55.840 frankly is going to destroy some state economies. 00:02:56.080 --> 00:02:58.080 For people on food assistance, they are working 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:00.419 to increase the age at which you no longer have 00:03:00.419 --> 00:03:03.639 to work to receive food assistance from 54 to 00:03:03.639 --> 00:03:06.340 64. It also removes a provision that exempted 00:03:06.340 --> 00:03:08.360 adults from the work requirement if they had 00:03:08.360 --> 00:03:11.430 a child under the age of 18. that limit is now 00:03:11.430 --> 00:03:14.069 seven so if you are a parent who has a young 00:03:14.069 --> 00:03:17.250 child and you need food assistance you will now 00:03:17.250 --> 00:03:19.969 need to work after that child is the age of seven 00:03:19.969 --> 00:03:22.449 otherwise you won't qualify and when i say work 00:03:22.449 --> 00:03:24.629 i mean like there are work requirements like 00:03:24.629 --> 00:03:26.289 minimum requirements that are going to vary by 00:03:26.289 --> 00:03:28.229 locale most people who are on food assistance 00:03:28.229 --> 00:03:30.930 still do have to go do things. They're not just 00:03:30.930 --> 00:03:33.250 sitting around collecting a check. That's not 00:03:33.250 --> 00:03:37.229 how that works. It removes a $200 tax on gun 00:03:37.229 --> 00:03:41.129 silencers that's been in effect since 1934. Really 00:03:41.129 --> 00:03:44.610 tackling those top of mind problems like... taxes 00:03:44.610 --> 00:03:47.409 on gun silencers. It gives the president the 00:03:47.409 --> 00:03:50.150 ability to designate that nonprofits are terrorist 00:03:50.150 --> 00:03:52.389 supporting organizations so that he can remove 00:03:52.389 --> 00:03:54.469 their tax exempt status. It throws a few hundred 00:03:54.469 --> 00:03:56.969 billion dollars into very Trumpy efforts like 00:03:56.969 --> 00:03:59.710 his deportation efforts and his concept of the 00:03:59.710 --> 00:04:02.710 Golden Dome, which is a missile defense system 00:04:02.710 --> 00:04:05.039 like the Iron Dome, but it's Trump. So it's the 00:04:05.039 --> 00:04:07.780 Golden Dome. It expedites approvals and sale 00:04:07.780 --> 00:04:09.740 of hundreds of thousands of acres of public land 00:04:09.740 --> 00:04:12.319 for mining, drilling, and logging. Increases 00:04:12.319 --> 00:04:14.500 the estate tax threshold about a million dollars 00:04:14.500 --> 00:04:17.259 from about 14 million to 15 million dollars. 00:04:17.620 --> 00:04:19.740 If your family doesn't have that much money, 00:04:19.779 --> 00:04:23.110 this doesn't apply to you. So... This doesn't 00:04:23.110 --> 00:04:26.069 apply to me. It also establishes a MAGA investment 00:04:26.069 --> 00:04:29.649 account for babies born between 2024 and 2028, 00:04:29.769 --> 00:04:32.089 so Trump's presidency, in which the state will 00:04:32.089 --> 00:04:34.050 put $1 ,000 into the account and then you can 00:04:34.050 --> 00:04:36.829 contribute to it and it grows like a baby 401k. 00:04:36.990 --> 00:04:39.310 It's literally called a MAGA account. They changed 00:04:39.310 --> 00:04:41.350 the acronym to not have it be Make America Great 00:04:41.350 --> 00:04:43.730 Again, but it's literally called a MAGA account. 00:04:43.889 --> 00:04:47.170 So, you know, it's got that stuff in it. Is it 00:04:47.170 --> 00:04:48.850 going to pass? Probably not. Like I said, there 00:04:48.850 --> 00:04:50.230 are already Republicans who are like, this goes 00:04:50.230 --> 00:04:52.610 way too far. Like it doesn't, this does not pull 00:04:52.610 --> 00:04:55.529 back on spending. This is going to just skyrocket 00:04:55.529 --> 00:04:57.370 our debt. It's going to remove people's ability 00:04:57.370 --> 00:04:59.069 to access insurance. It's going to make it harder 00:04:59.069 --> 00:05:01.370 to get food assistance. It just takes things 00:05:01.370 --> 00:05:04.209 away while giving tax cuts to the rich. It's 00:05:04.209 --> 00:05:06.189 what they always do. We knew this was going to 00:05:06.189 --> 00:05:08.290 happen. But anyway, that's what's in that bill. 00:05:08.709 --> 00:05:10.610 Let's move on. Kind of tired of talking about 00:05:10.610 --> 00:05:14.319 tax bill legislature. I want to go back to talking 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:16.720 about tax bill legislature. A woman in Georgia 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:18.800 is being kept alive against her family's wishes 00:05:18.800 --> 00:05:21.620 because she was pregnant when she died. Adriana 00:05:21.620 --> 00:05:23.879 Smith was about nine weeks pregnant when she 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:26.860 had a sudden medical issue that resulted in her 00:05:26.860 --> 00:05:29.259 death. It was it came out of nowhere. Family 00:05:29.259 --> 00:05:32.180 devastated. But because Georgia has a quote unquote 00:05:32.180 --> 00:05:35.180 fetal heartbeat bill, which as an aside, that's 00:05:35.180 --> 00:05:37.699 not a heartbeat. That's that's not what a heartbeat 00:05:37.699 --> 00:05:40.040 is. But because they have a quote unquote fetal 00:05:40.040 --> 00:05:43.259 heartbeat bill. the fetus has personhood. So 00:05:43.259 --> 00:05:46.379 this woman has been declared brain dead and the 00:05:46.379 --> 00:05:49.100 hospital has her on life support and the family 00:05:49.100 --> 00:05:51.839 can't stop them. She's now at about 20 weeks. 00:05:51.939 --> 00:05:53.759 We don't know how long they're going to be keeping 00:05:53.759 --> 00:05:55.560 her alive. We don't know what's going to happen 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:57.019 to the baby. They don't even know what the baby 00:05:57.019 --> 00:05:59.879 is going to be OK. This is not healthy for anyone 00:05:59.879 --> 00:06:02.879 involved. But Georgia passed this law in 2019. 00:06:03.100 --> 00:06:05.000 And then when Roe v. Wade was overturned, it 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:09.160 went into effect. And so now at six weeks. a 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:11.800 fetus is considered a full human being with rights. 00:06:11.980 --> 00:06:15.100 That thing that every medical professional disagrees 00:06:15.100 --> 00:06:17.959 with? That thing. If you lack a uterus, you might 00:06:17.959 --> 00:06:20.480 not know that most people don't even know that 00:06:20.480 --> 00:06:23.000 they're pregnant until like four to ten weeks 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:25.519 into their pregnancy. It can go as long as 20 00:06:25.519 --> 00:06:27.100 weeks without even knowing that you're pregnant. 00:06:27.180 --> 00:06:30.759 It's all over the map. But six weeks? You're 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:32.540 not even going to have a chance to find out. 00:06:32.740 --> 00:06:34.800 Roe v. Wade was overturned on the cynical sentiment 00:06:34.800 --> 00:06:37.670 that states wanted to be able to choose whether 00:06:37.670 --> 00:06:40.430 or not abortion should be allowable. And every 00:06:40.430 --> 00:06:42.829 state that it's been on the ballot has passed 00:06:42.829 --> 00:06:45.970 with flying colors. This is because no one wanted 00:06:45.970 --> 00:06:48.050 it to be up to the states. We were happy with 00:06:48.050 --> 00:06:50.750 how it was. Overturning abortion rights was a 00:06:50.750 --> 00:06:54.329 deeply, deeply unpopular move. And it was never 00:06:54.329 --> 00:06:56.670 about states' rights. Republicans in Missouri. 00:06:57.180 --> 00:06:59.980 are currently trying to overturn a constitutional 00:06:59.980 --> 00:07:02.939 amendment that the population voted for that 00:07:02.939 --> 00:07:05.639 enshrined abortion rights. No joke, the state 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:08.199 voted to enshrine abortion rights in their constitution, 00:07:08.459 --> 00:07:11.540 and they're trying to get it overturned against 00:07:11.540 --> 00:07:13.579 the will of the people. Which is about as not 00:07:13.579 --> 00:07:15.819 states' rights as you can get. I feel like there 00:07:15.819 --> 00:07:17.720 was once a political party that was against a 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:20.319 nanny state having too much overreach into your 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:22.959 personal life and medical decisions. I don't 00:07:22.959 --> 00:07:25.560 know where they went. Can they come back? This 00:07:25.560 --> 00:07:27.439 past week, over two dozen people were killed 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:30.000 in Kentucky and Missouri as harsh storms and 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:32.139 tornadoes tore through the area. Hundreds of 00:07:32.139 --> 00:07:33.879 thousands of people are without power and crews 00:07:33.879 --> 00:07:35.360 are working around the clock to try to restore 00:07:35.360 --> 00:07:38.579 power, find people, help people. Can those people 00:07:38.579 --> 00:07:41.459 get a round of applause? Can we get more, just 00:07:41.459 --> 00:07:44.079 more general appreciation and recognition for 00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:47.220 the people who, in the face of catastrophe, abandon 00:07:47.220 --> 00:07:50.470 their own comfort to help others? Can we do that 00:07:50.470 --> 00:07:53.730 more? Now, unfortunately, it does seem like this 00:07:53.730 --> 00:07:57.209 disaster was made worse by the fact that Doge, 00:07:57.230 --> 00:07:59.829 in the current administration, recently made 00:07:59.829 --> 00:08:03.529 a bunch of cuts to NOAA, N -O -A -A, the government 00:08:03.529 --> 00:08:06.110 wing that tracks the weather. In fact, one day 00:08:06.110 --> 00:08:08.209 before the storm, the New York Times posted an 00:08:08.209 --> 00:08:10.930 investigative report into the cuts at NOAA and 00:08:10.930 --> 00:08:13.829 specifically listed Jackson, Kentucky as one 00:08:13.829 --> 00:08:16.029 of the locations that was the most desperately 00:08:16.029 --> 00:08:18.759 understaffed. That's one of the places that got 00:08:18.759 --> 00:08:21.180 hit. So the timing doesn't look good. There were 00:08:21.180 --> 00:08:22.939 delays in getting out the warnings and there's 00:08:22.939 --> 00:08:25.720 reductions in staff at the places that give out 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:28.720 those warnings. Between this and the FAA cuts, 00:08:28.939 --> 00:08:32.139 can we stop getting rid of people whose job it 00:08:32.139 --> 00:08:35.700 is to maintain national safety? I want to be 00:08:35.700 --> 00:08:38.519 able to go see my friends via air travel and 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:41.740 via having them still be alive. Hey, if you like 00:08:41.740 --> 00:08:44.720 what I do, I could really use your help. I need 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:48.470 to eat. I need to live, and that costs money. 00:08:48.669 --> 00:08:50.490 And so if you want to support me, you can head 00:08:50.490 --> 00:08:54.129 to merchfrom .dev. 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In New Zealand, there were some indigenous 00:09:26.950 --> 00:09:28.929 members of parliament who stood up and performed 00:09:28.929 --> 00:09:32.070 a haka. If you're not familiar, it's like a ceremonial 00:09:32.070 --> 00:09:35.769 dance thing. I don't actually know how to describe 00:09:35.769 --> 00:09:38.269 it. It's fucking rad. It's like somewhere between 00:09:38.269 --> 00:09:41.190 a showing of pride and celebration or intimidation. 00:09:41.190 --> 00:09:43.940 It has a whole bunch of purposes, but... Yeah, 00:09:43.980 --> 00:09:46.759 so they did a haka in the parliament on the floor. 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:49.480 It was a protest against legislation and the 00:09:49.480 --> 00:09:51.139 entire world saw it and was like, that's rad, 00:09:51.279 --> 00:09:53.820 that's sick. But now the New Zealand parliament 00:09:53.820 --> 00:09:55.799 is looking into punishing the people who participated 00:09:55.799 --> 00:09:57.500 in that. They want to suspend them for a few 00:09:57.500 --> 00:09:59.000 weeks, which is like an unprecedented punishment. 00:09:59.639 --> 00:10:01.539 But don't worry, they're justifying it to themselves. 00:10:01.879 --> 00:10:04.759 Quote, we intend to leave members in no doubt 00:10:04.759 --> 00:10:07.299 that the behavior discussed is not acceptable 00:10:07.299 --> 00:10:10.139 and that the intimidation of other members of 00:10:10.139 --> 00:10:12.659 the House is treated with the utmost seriousness. 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:16.019 That seriousness, that utmost seriousness, also 00:10:16.019 --> 00:10:19.059 includes a complaint that during the haka, it 00:10:19.059 --> 00:10:21.200 looked like one of the members of parliament 00:10:21.200 --> 00:10:25.559 made... A gun shape towards another. Very serious 00:10:25.559 --> 00:10:28.039 concerns. Anyway, I don't know. I'm going to 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:30.639 side with the indigenous people who are protesting 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:33.740 using their culture on the land that their culture 00:10:33.740 --> 00:10:36.919 is from that was colonized. I'm going to stand 00:10:36.919 --> 00:10:40.259 with them on this one. Eurovision happened again. 00:10:40.539 --> 00:10:43.080 Eurovision is like a big old song contest. It's 00:10:43.080 --> 00:10:46.080 like somewhere between the Olympics and Glee. 00:10:46.240 --> 00:10:48.039 Bunch of European countries come together, perform 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:50.240 songs, and then there's an audience vote and 00:10:50.240 --> 00:10:54.789 a judge vote. Austria won. Good job, Austria. 00:10:55.009 --> 00:10:58.750 But notably, second place was Israel, who had 00:10:58.750 --> 00:11:01.250 an outsized amount of audience votes compared 00:11:01.250 --> 00:11:03.490 to their judge votes. So there's probably nothing 00:11:03.490 --> 00:11:04.789 there. We don't really need to look into that. 00:11:04.830 --> 00:11:06.590 That's nothing. But I do want to take a deeper 00:11:06.590 --> 00:11:10.549 dive into this little country that got second 00:11:10.549 --> 00:11:14.029 place. See what they're up to. Oh, they're continuing 00:11:14.029 --> 00:11:16.889 to carpet bomb Gaza and destroy lives. They've 00:11:16.889 --> 00:11:19.730 been continuing their next wave of just eradicating 00:11:19.730 --> 00:11:22.639 Gaza. from the map. I can't even keep tallies 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:26.019 anymore. I'm seeing articles of 100 people killed 00:11:26.019 --> 00:11:27.860 in an airstrike last night. And the next day, 00:11:27.860 --> 00:11:30.960 another 93 were killed. Hospitals are shutting 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:32.860 down. There's virtually no hospitals left for 00:11:32.860 --> 00:11:35.820 them to go to. It's basically the end. I've been 00:11:35.820 --> 00:11:38.259 covering Israel's assault on Gaza for over a 00:11:38.259 --> 00:11:40.740 year. And the number of times that I've got up 00:11:40.740 --> 00:11:42.360 in front of this camera and talked about the 00:11:42.360 --> 00:11:44.500 number of children that have been killed, the 00:11:44.500 --> 00:11:46.799 amount of atrocities being committed, the fact 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:51.019 that virtually the entire world agrees that this 00:11:51.019 --> 00:11:54.100 is a genocide, ethnic cleansing, that the leadership 00:11:54.100 --> 00:11:56.220 of Israel need to be held accountable for their 00:11:56.220 --> 00:12:00.940 actions. Nothing, nothing changed. The United 00:12:00.940 --> 00:12:03.759 States of America has a vested interest in Israel 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:07.360 existing, largely from a geopolitical foothold 00:12:07.360 --> 00:12:11.000 perspective, but also pretty much equally from 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:14.240 a death cult fulfillment perspective. It is critically 00:12:14.240 --> 00:12:16.659 important to the ethos of evangelical Christians 00:12:16.659 --> 00:12:20.200 in America. to have Israel be established and 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:22.000 sustained. There are a reason that Christian 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:25.200 groups are pushing so hard for Israel to exist. 00:12:25.279 --> 00:12:27.600 It's not because of their good graces towards 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:31.419 Jews. Because again, Israel is not synonymous. 00:12:32.009 --> 00:12:34.590 with Judaism. And so while I don't want to be 00:12:34.590 --> 00:12:36.710 a doomer, I don't want to be like, oh, there's 00:12:36.710 --> 00:12:38.610 nothing we can do. There's kind of nothing we 00:12:38.610 --> 00:12:41.129 can do. The damage has been done. And we're at 00:12:41.129 --> 00:12:42.529 the point now where the Trump administration 00:12:42.529 --> 00:12:45.809 is toying with an idea of just resettling a million 00:12:45.809 --> 00:12:48.809 people from Gaza because Israel wants it and 00:12:48.809 --> 00:12:50.929 they got to get what they want. Anyway, congrats 00:12:50.929 --> 00:12:52.950 to Israel for their second place in the singing 00:12:52.950 --> 00:12:56.330 competition. It's a shame that we couldn't preserve 00:12:56.330 --> 00:12:57.990 the millions of souls living in what's supposed 00:12:57.990 --> 00:13:05.649 to be a sacred land. Technology. Stuff keeps 00:13:05.649 --> 00:13:07.230 happening. We'll be back after I talk to you 00:13:07.230 --> 00:13:10.769 about white genocide in South Africa. Beep boop. 00:13:10.769 --> 00:13:13.210 I'm a robot. Okay, backstory. Twitter has the 00:13:13.210 --> 00:13:16.909 option to tweet at Grok, which is XAI's version 00:13:16.909 --> 00:13:20.649 of ChatGPT. XAI is Elon Musk's AI company that 00:13:20.649 --> 00:13:22.789 also technically now owns Twitter. It's a whole 00:13:22.789 --> 00:13:25.190 thing. My cord is stuck on a button. Fixed it. 00:13:25.429 --> 00:13:27.950 Anyway, it's a whole thing. Recently, starting 00:13:27.950 --> 00:13:30.389 around like 3 a .m. one night, Grok started to 00:13:30.389 --> 00:13:33.769 just include phrases about white genocide in 00:13:33.769 --> 00:13:36.700 South Africa in response to everything. You can 00:13:36.700 --> 00:13:39.259 ask it about anything. I saw one that was asking 00:13:39.259 --> 00:13:41.519 about like baseball contracts and it was like, 00:13:41.600 --> 00:13:43.580 ah, yes, this is an interesting baseball contract. 00:13:43.740 --> 00:13:46.679 But on the topic of white genocide in South Africa, 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:48.960 blah, blah, blah. And it was just that for like 00:13:48.960 --> 00:13:52.059 every response, just everywhere. It was out of 00:13:52.059 --> 00:13:55.179 nowhere bringing up white genocide in South Africa, 00:13:55.259 --> 00:13:56.620 which at this point, I want to make it very, 00:13:56.700 --> 00:13:59.580 very clear. There is no white genocide happening 00:13:59.580 --> 00:14:02.379 in South Africa. This is a bullshit made up conspiracy 00:14:02.379 --> 00:14:05.879 theory pushed by you guessed it. Elon Musk, among 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:07.940 many other folks on the right. And it's also 00:14:07.940 --> 00:14:10.039 tied up with Trump having recently brought in 00:14:10.039 --> 00:14:13.259 a handful of quote -unquote refugees from South 00:14:13.259 --> 00:14:16.399 Africa who, shocker, were all white and got expedited 00:14:16.399 --> 00:14:19.360 entry into the country. So, of course, everyone's 00:14:19.360 --> 00:14:22.860 like, oh, weird. Elon Musk's AI is suddenly telling 00:14:22.860 --> 00:14:25.740 everybody about white genocide in South Africa. 00:14:25.980 --> 00:14:28.539 And so it was so blatant that XAI had to actually 00:14:28.539 --> 00:14:30.059 put out a statement in which they were like, 00:14:30.139 --> 00:14:33.990 well, a rogue employee. edited the system prompt 00:14:33.990 --> 00:14:38.789 for the ai at 3 15 a .m we're looking into it 00:14:38.789 --> 00:14:42.429 a rogue employee yeah so to make things funnier 00:14:42.429 --> 00:14:45.240 they decided to try to save face by publishing 00:14:45.240 --> 00:14:47.779 their system prompts to GitHub, the open source 00:14:47.779 --> 00:14:50.120 coding platform. So they're like, the world can 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:53.600 see. It's an open source thing. So someone decided 00:14:53.600 --> 00:14:56.200 to open up a pull request, which is a suggestion 00:14:56.200 --> 00:14:59.440 for a change to the code, to re -add the line 00:14:59.440 --> 00:15:01.860 about white genocide and always talking about 00:15:01.860 --> 00:15:05.360 white genocide to the AI system prompt. And someone 00:15:05.360 --> 00:15:09.539 at XAI approved that change. It was a joke. The 00:15:09.539 --> 00:15:11.159 person who made the change was like, this is 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:14.019 a gag, but it got included. It was later reverted. 00:15:14.679 --> 00:15:17.159 But what? So here's a privately held company 00:15:17.159 --> 00:15:19.600 with direct ties to the White House who's building 00:15:19.600 --> 00:15:22.299 an AI and for some reason can have a rogue employee 00:15:22.299 --> 00:15:25.340 completely upturn the entire system and try to 00:15:25.340 --> 00:15:28.559 shill fabricated stories. Furthermore, they have 00:15:28.559 --> 00:15:32.080 some rando just approving poll requests on public 00:15:32.080 --> 00:15:34.539 open source projects that could potentially be 00:15:34.539 --> 00:15:37.740 detrimental to said project. I have spent... 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:39.720 half of my life working in the tech industry 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:42.200 that is not how any of this is supposed to work 00:15:42.200 --> 00:15:45.120 you're not supposed to be able to just have one 00:15:45.120 --> 00:15:49.220 guy make changes to the production systems at 00:15:49.220 --> 00:15:51.600 three in the morning without anyone knowing that 00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:54.720 is mind -boggling to me and so here we have a 00:15:54.720 --> 00:15:57.340 very direct look at why we should not trust ai 00:15:57.340 --> 00:16:00.759 models for all of the the shrieking and pearl 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:03.480 clutching about deep seek ai that came from china 00:16:03.480 --> 00:16:07.820 and how it's got propaganda here is An American 00:16:07.820 --> 00:16:11.059 AI company directly getting caught with their 00:16:11.059 --> 00:16:14.200 pants down, having attempted to do that. And 00:16:14.200 --> 00:16:16.440 specifically, it's an AI company that Elon Musk 00:16:16.440 --> 00:16:19.460 himself says is supposed to be anti -woke and 00:16:19.460 --> 00:16:22.860 quote -unquote maximally truth -seeking. Maximally 00:16:22.860 --> 00:16:24.419 truth -seeking, except when you need to, you 00:16:24.419 --> 00:16:27.120 know... nudge the truth in the direction that 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:29.519 you want it to go. Microsoft plans to lay off 00:16:29.519 --> 00:16:31.980 about 3 % of their workforce in June, about 6 00:16:31.980 --> 00:16:35.960 ,000 people. They're trying to reduce the complexity 00:16:35.960 --> 00:16:38.700 of their company in order to best position the 00:16:38.700 --> 00:16:41.379 company for success in a dynamic marketplace. 00:16:43.419 --> 00:16:46.019 I am so glad. I said that I worked in tech for... 00:16:46.019 --> 00:16:49.159 I'm so glad I'm out. My God. Microsoft has been 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:50.559 laying people off left and right for the past 00:16:50.559 --> 00:16:53.360 few years. This is more of that. I do want to 00:16:53.360 --> 00:16:55.740 note that Microsoft recently beat their quarterly 00:16:55.740 --> 00:16:59.820 earnings expectations in April. So, yeah, you're 00:16:59.820 --> 00:17:02.779 really tightening the belt there. Okay, let's 00:17:02.779 --> 00:17:05.779 get uplifted. I found a good one. I found a good 00:17:05.779 --> 00:17:09.079 one. So aside from not having white genocide 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:12.200 in South Africa, there's also good research happening. 00:17:12.319 --> 00:17:14.559 Researchers in South Africa have found two new 00:17:14.559 --> 00:17:16.740 genetic signals that can help better identify 00:17:16.740 --> 00:17:20.339 breast cancer in black African women. So we know 00:17:20.339 --> 00:17:23.200 that medical science is way behind on women and 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:26.279 black people. So black women especially have 00:17:26.279 --> 00:17:29.519 it real bad in the medical science field, both 00:17:29.519 --> 00:17:32.940 as researchers and as patients. However. There 00:17:32.940 --> 00:17:35.980 was recently a genome -wide association study. 00:17:36.180 --> 00:17:38.779 Don't know what that means, but cool. The study 00:17:38.779 --> 00:17:40.680 revealed these new genetic identifiers, which 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:43.140 could help create medicine to target specific 00:17:43.140 --> 00:17:46.420 cancer cells that exhibit these identities, which 00:17:46.420 --> 00:17:51.160 is cool. I also learned that Africa has the most 00:17:51.160 --> 00:17:53.779 genetic biodiversity among people living there. 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:58.019 So that's cool too. Game it! Okay, so GTA 6 was 00:17:58.019 --> 00:18:00.759 delayed, right? Like, I talked about that last 00:18:00.759 --> 00:18:03.039 time. But now a bunch of companies are scrambling 00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:05.680 to figure out what to do with their games that 00:18:05.680 --> 00:18:07.720 were supposed to release around the new release 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:11.240 date for GTA 6. Grand Theft Auto 6 has been one 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:13.720 of the most anticipated, if not the most anticipated 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:17.640 piece of media maybe ever. Like, so much so that 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:20.319 there is a meme of just like, we got whatever 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:23.470 before we got GTA 6. Like, it's... It's been 00:18:23.470 --> 00:18:25.789 in the zeitgeist, but it was recently delayed. 00:18:25.849 --> 00:18:28.049 And, you know, that that level of anticipation 00:18:28.049 --> 00:18:31.470 being pushed back to spring 2026 means that a 00:18:31.470 --> 00:18:33.250 bunch of other games that were supposed to come 00:18:33.250 --> 00:18:37.289 out in spring 2026 are now like, oh, oh, I don't 00:18:37.289 --> 00:18:39.589 want to deal with that. So we'll see if there's 00:18:39.589 --> 00:18:40.710 a if there's a game you've been looking forward 00:18:40.710 --> 00:18:41.950 to and that's supposed to come out around that 00:18:41.950 --> 00:18:46.180 time. Maybe maybe check in on them. EA. is doing 00:18:46.180 --> 00:18:48.920 a return to office now. Electronic Arts, the 00:18:48.920 --> 00:18:51.799 behated game publisher, has said that their employees 00:18:51.799 --> 00:18:53.559 are going to have to come back into the office 00:18:53.559 --> 00:18:55.559 for at least three days a week, and they are 00:18:55.559 --> 00:18:57.980 no longer doing remote hiring. This, of course, 00:18:58.019 --> 00:18:59.980 uproots a bunch of people's lives and plans and 00:18:59.980 --> 00:19:03.059 work -life balance and everything. And also, 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:05.900 insult to injury, we pretty much know now that 00:19:05.900 --> 00:19:08.279 there's not much of a difference between remote 00:19:08.279 --> 00:19:11.359 work and in -person work. So this is not going 00:19:11.359 --> 00:19:13.440 to do a whole lot. I'll tell you one thing, actually, 00:19:13.480 --> 00:19:15.539 it will do a whole lot. Because studies have 00:19:15.539 --> 00:19:18.059 shown that return to office plans basically just 00:19:18.059 --> 00:19:19.960 result in a bunch of employee turnover, which 00:19:19.960 --> 00:19:23.279 for EA, maybe that's for the best. Well done, 00:19:23.400 --> 00:19:26.740 EA. Bungie is running a marathon. This one's 00:19:26.740 --> 00:19:29.859 personal. So Bungie, game developer Bungie, they 00:19:29.859 --> 00:19:32.039 developed games, they made Halo, they made Destiny. 00:19:32.440 --> 00:19:36.500 They're in hot water. So I am a loser. I play 00:19:36.500 --> 00:19:39.650 a lot of Destiny 2. And for a long time... People 00:19:39.650 --> 00:19:42.349 who played Destiny 2 were begging for Bungie 00:19:42.349 --> 00:19:45.029 to do anything in the player versus player arena 00:19:45.029 --> 00:19:47.029 space. Like, there is a player versus player, 00:19:47.130 --> 00:19:49.990 like, game mode. It's just been atrophying. So 00:19:49.990 --> 00:19:52.630 for, like, years, players were asking for something. 00:19:52.750 --> 00:19:55.859 And Bungie was like, hey, PvP people. We've got 00:19:55.859 --> 00:19:57.960 something for you. It's a new game that we're 00:19:57.960 --> 00:20:00.440 building. Not, not, we're not fixing the, we're 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:02.099 going to make something different entirely, which 00:20:02.099 --> 00:20:04.099 pissed a lot of players off because they didn't 00:20:04.099 --> 00:20:05.940 want that. They just wanted like, I don't know, 00:20:05.960 --> 00:20:08.619 a new map maybe. So Bungie announces Marathon, 00:20:08.680 --> 00:20:11.279 a new extraction shooter game, which is a new 00:20:11.279 --> 00:20:13.940 type of game that I don't fully understand, but 00:20:13.940 --> 00:20:16.140 it's basically like a battle royale, but with 00:20:16.140 --> 00:20:19.160 like RPG and looting mechanics. Long story short, 00:20:19.440 --> 00:20:22.460 nobody wants this game. And then they released 00:20:22.460 --> 00:20:24.240 a preview and people started playing the game 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:26.880 and the reviews were very lukewarm. And then, 00:20:26.880 --> 00:20:29.119 and then during the preview, an artist pointed 00:20:29.119 --> 00:20:32.500 out like, hey, that's my art. It turns out Bungie 00:20:32.500 --> 00:20:35.339 used stolen art assets in the game and then they 00:20:35.339 --> 00:20:36.900 admitted to it. And now they're just getting 00:20:36.900 --> 00:20:39.299 dragged. So here's a game that people weren't 00:20:39.299 --> 00:20:41.319 really thrilled about the announcement of that 00:20:41.319 --> 00:20:44.519 then the first preview was not inspiring and 00:20:44.519 --> 00:20:47.430 then also contained stolen artwork. And Bungie's 00:20:47.430 --> 00:20:48.970 just been laying people off left and right. Like, 00:20:48.970 --> 00:20:51.369 it's really, it's not going great. I just wanted, 00:20:51.490 --> 00:20:55.069 I don't know, like, a capable ranking system. 00:20:55.549 --> 00:20:58.670 I just wanted, like, reasonable matches without 00:20:58.670 --> 00:21:00.490 cheaters. That's literally it. I don't know. 00:21:00.690 --> 00:21:03.309 Lightning round! A Mexican Navy vessel crashed 00:21:03.309 --> 00:21:05.450 into the Brooklyn Bridge, killing two people 00:21:05.450 --> 00:21:08.369 on board and injuring 19 others. The vessel was 00:21:08.369 --> 00:21:11.930 here on a goodwill mission. Oops. The US no longer 00:21:11.930 --> 00:21:14.470 has a perfect credit rating, just like the rest 00:21:14.470 --> 00:21:16.849 of us. A kindergartner in Pennsylvania brought 00:21:16.849 --> 00:21:19.589 jello shots to school, but don't worry, he brought 00:21:19.589 --> 00:21:21.450 enough for the whole class. Oh, he brought enough 00:21:21.450 --> 00:21:23.289 for his friends, but I wanted to make the joke. 00:21:23.470 --> 00:21:25.450 Anyway, yeah, a kindergartner doing jello shots. 00:21:25.589 --> 00:21:28.069 That's a new one. A plantation house in Louisiana 00:21:28.069 --> 00:21:30.750 burned to the fucking ground. I'm just gonna 00:21:30.750 --> 00:21:32.690 say that again. A plantation house in Louisiana 00:21:32.690 --> 00:21:36.089 burned to the fucking ground. One more time. 00:21:36.250 --> 00:21:40.650 A plantation house that held slaves. In Louisiana, 00:21:40.930 --> 00:21:44.569 burned to the ground. More of that. Also Louisiana, 00:21:44.970 --> 00:21:47.289 10 inmates recently escaped from a New Orleans 00:21:47.289 --> 00:21:49.650 jail. Three of them have been caught, seven still 00:21:49.650 --> 00:21:52.190 on the run. A fertility clinic in Palm Springs 00:21:52.190 --> 00:21:54.750 was bombed. FBI is saying that they're investigating 00:21:54.750 --> 00:21:57.690 it as an intentional act of terror. I've seen 00:21:57.690 --> 00:22:00.369 murmurings about the person who did it being 00:22:00.369 --> 00:22:04.089 like an anti -being -born, like mad about being 00:22:04.089 --> 00:22:06.990 alive kind of person. unclear. And finally for 00:22:06.990 --> 00:22:09.930 today, my dog was very wiggly this morning and 00:22:09.930 --> 00:22:12.450 I gave him some good belly rubs. Thank you so 00:22:12.450 --> 00:22:14.029 much for listening to today's episode of Stuff 00:22:14.029 --> 00:22:16.710 Keeps Happening. Head to skh .news for sources, 00:22:16.890 --> 00:22:20.769 bonus content, and a thousand more pages of tax 00:22:20.769 --> 00:22:23.349 code. My name is Endeavorance. I'll be back on 00:22:23.349 --> 00:22:25.470 Monday. Take care and be well.