WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.660 Hello. I helped to establish the Golden Han Moon. 00:00:04.900 --> 00:00:08.599 But stuff still happened. So what's up? Dear 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:11.099 listener, let's chat. I have some things I want 00:00:11.099 --> 00:00:13.220 to talk to you about. I want to talk about sort 00:00:13.220 --> 00:00:15.359 of what's on my mind with regards to the future 00:00:15.359 --> 00:00:20.719 of this show and the future of life here. in 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:23.600 the states? So, look, the big beautiful bill 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:26.120 has been signed into law, and among its near 00:00:26.120 --> 00:00:30.219 thousand pages of legislation are massive cuts 00:00:30.219 --> 00:00:33.020 to health care coverage for people, increases 00:00:33.020 --> 00:00:35.840 to student loan payments, and reductions in investments 00:00:35.840 --> 00:00:38.340 in climate change initiatives. It also about 00:00:38.340 --> 00:00:41.420 10Xs ICE's budget. ICE is the immigration enforcement 00:00:41.420 --> 00:00:43.820 agency in the states that is disappearing people 00:00:43.820 --> 00:00:46.140 off the streets, wearing masks, not identifying 00:00:46.140 --> 00:00:48.840 themselves. That good stuff. You know, that healthy, 00:00:49.079 --> 00:00:51.479 stable Living stuff. What are my thoughts on 00:00:51.479 --> 00:00:53.640 this? Where do I stand? I don't intend to relitigate 00:00:53.640 --> 00:00:55.380 this whole thing I've talked extensively about 00:00:55.380 --> 00:00:58.079 this bill and it's now passed. So what's the 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:01.200 fucking point instead? I want to talk about Where 00:01:01.200 --> 00:01:03.359 things are and how I see them and what I'm gonna 00:01:03.359 --> 00:01:06.719 do. I'm just gonna be clear Things aren't good. 00:01:06.840 --> 00:01:08.980 They haven't been good. They're not going to 00:01:08.980 --> 00:01:11.900 become good anytime soon. It's just, it's just 00:01:11.900 --> 00:01:13.620 not going to happen. I've been doing this for 00:01:13.620 --> 00:01:15.980 years and I've covered multiple administrations 00:01:15.980 --> 00:01:18.500 from both Democrat and Republican. I've covered 00:01:18.500 --> 00:01:21.239 Biden's complete inability to protect the most 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:23.379 vulnerable people in this country. And I've covered 00:01:23.379 --> 00:01:26.040 Trump actively trying to go after the most vulnerable 00:01:26.040 --> 00:01:28.620 people in this country. Not to mention the continued 00:01:28.620 --> 00:01:31.280 unfettering support for Israel as they slaughter 00:01:31.280 --> 00:01:33.959 tens of thousands of people, most of whom are 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:37.819 children. I have come up on some app for years 00:01:37.819 --> 00:01:40.900 now talking about the number of child deaths 00:01:40.900 --> 00:01:44.340 today. And I'm not about to stop speaking up 00:01:44.340 --> 00:01:47.000 about injustice and major issues in the world. 00:01:47.400 --> 00:01:50.219 I feel it's important to use my platform to do 00:01:50.219 --> 00:01:51.980 that. And I've never shied away from talking 00:01:51.980 --> 00:01:54.340 about political and difficult topics like war, 00:01:54.620 --> 00:01:56.840 genocide, all that stuff. I feel, though, that 00:01:56.840 --> 00:01:59.260 it has become the vast majority of my focus, 00:01:59.319 --> 00:02:02.310 and I want to temper that. Is it bad to focus 00:02:02.310 --> 00:02:04.549 on? Not really. It's important for people to 00:02:04.549 --> 00:02:07.030 know about these issues. And I do wish that more 00:02:07.030 --> 00:02:09.330 people were more politically active and more 00:02:09.330 --> 00:02:11.990 just understanding of how our country works. 00:02:12.229 --> 00:02:14.849 But I can only come up on here and tell you that 00:02:14.849 --> 00:02:17.550 everything is terrible so many times before it 00:02:17.550 --> 00:02:19.870 really starts to just suck. Here's the plan. 00:02:19.949 --> 00:02:22.750 I'm going to rebalance the types of topics that 00:02:22.750 --> 00:02:26.189 I'm focusing on and try to focus on fewer overall 00:02:26.189 --> 00:02:29.430 stories with more general information. Now, this 00:02:29.430 --> 00:02:32.629 episode in particular, After this segment, still 00:02:32.629 --> 00:02:35.169 has a lot of my usual stuff, but just understand 00:02:35.169 --> 00:02:37.909 that my focus is gonna be on highlighting both 00:02:37.909 --> 00:02:40.250 the good and the troublesome. Because things 00:02:40.250 --> 00:02:42.150 are really, really bad. They're going to stay 00:02:42.150 --> 00:02:44.430 really bad. And I'm not gonna be able to cover 00:02:44.430 --> 00:02:47.389 every piece of bad thing with which to inform 00:02:47.389 --> 00:02:49.750 you about everything that's going on that you 00:02:49.750 --> 00:02:52.289 need to be aware of. I simply cannot do that, 00:02:52.490 --> 00:02:55.389 and that's not my goal here. But I can make sure 00:02:55.389 --> 00:02:57.689 to lend a voice to situations that I think are 00:02:57.689 --> 00:03:00.300 important to be talked about. And otherwise, 00:03:00.539 --> 00:03:03.080 use my time and energy here to focus on what 00:03:03.080 --> 00:03:05.819 I believe is my purpose on this planet, which 00:03:05.819 --> 00:03:07.620 is to increase the number of smiles in the world. 00:03:07.819 --> 00:03:09.439 And to that end, I just want to call out there's 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:11.500 a lot more that I'm doing outside of Just Stuff 00:03:11.500 --> 00:03:13.840 Keeps Happening. I'm also designing and building 00:03:13.840 --> 00:03:15.979 a tabletop role -playing game called Presenium. 00:03:16.199 --> 00:03:18.800 I stream multiple times a week. I have a large 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:21.099 online community called the Astral Campgrounds 00:03:21.099 --> 00:03:22.900 that just has a lot of cool shit inside of it. 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:24.719 I'm gonna make a whole video on that later, but 00:03:24.719 --> 00:03:27.449 I've got a lot on my plate. And I just want to 00:03:27.449 --> 00:03:29.330 make sure that I'm doing the best I can with 00:03:29.330 --> 00:03:31.030 each of these things. And so we're going to have 00:03:31.030 --> 00:03:33.789 some new sections. We're going to have stateside 00:03:33.789 --> 00:03:37.930 elsewhere. Science, tech, gaming, the other stuff. 00:03:38.129 --> 00:03:39.590 You know, why not? But I'm just going to limit 00:03:39.590 --> 00:03:42.150 myself to a few things in the states, a few things 00:03:42.150 --> 00:03:44.229 elsewhere. And let's get on to the good stuff. 00:03:44.689 --> 00:03:47.370 Unfortunately, there's a lot of not good stuff 00:03:47.370 --> 00:03:49.930 still. So let's let's get to that. Here we go. 00:03:50.090 --> 00:03:52.819 Moving on. Thanks for being here. State side. 00:03:53.039 --> 00:03:55.780 Sudden rapid flooding in Texas has claimed more 00:03:55.780 --> 00:03:58.500 than 80 lives, at least 20 of which were young 00:03:58.500 --> 00:04:00.520 girls who were at an all -girls summer camp. 00:04:00.819 --> 00:04:03.080 Catastrophic rain northwest of San Antonio caused 00:04:03.080 --> 00:04:06.219 rivers to flood at unprecedented levels. I'm 00:04:06.219 --> 00:04:08.900 talking like nearly 30 feet in less than an hour. 00:04:09.060 --> 00:04:10.599 I want to start off by saying that there are 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:13.039 relief efforts going on. FEMA is there and there's 00:04:13.039 --> 00:04:15.419 local authorities working on trying to actually 00:04:15.419 --> 00:04:18.029 get people safe, but Of course, there's a lot 00:04:18.029 --> 00:04:20.029 of rhetoric around what the fuck happened here 00:04:20.029 --> 00:04:22.449 and how did it happen. Local officials in Texas 00:04:22.449 --> 00:04:24.110 first were blaming each other, then they were 00:04:24.110 --> 00:04:26.149 blaming the National Weather Service and NOAA. 00:04:26.490 --> 00:04:28.490 It's been a lot of finger -pointing. Whereas 00:04:28.490 --> 00:04:30.449 critics of Trump are saying that his cuts to 00:04:30.449 --> 00:04:33.250 the National Weather Service and NOAA recently 00:04:33.250 --> 00:04:36.949 set us up for this. I want to talk about what 00:04:36.949 --> 00:04:39.509 seems to have actually happened here and whether 00:04:39.509 --> 00:04:42.269 or not it is Trump's fault, which my answer is 00:04:42.269 --> 00:04:46.920 not really, but yeah. But kind of. So look, Trump 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:50.579 definitely did make cuts to the NWS, NOAA, and 00:04:50.579 --> 00:04:53.600 that did lead to vacancies, key vacancies, that 00:04:53.600 --> 00:04:55.120 may have played a huge part here and I'll get 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:57.839 to that in a second. But at the same time, meteorologists 00:04:57.839 --> 00:05:01.120 have come out saying, stop! bashing the ability 00:05:01.120 --> 00:05:04.220 of the NWS and NOAA because given what they had 00:05:04.220 --> 00:05:06.259 to work with, they did everything right. Warnings 00:05:06.259 --> 00:05:08.939 were sent out. There was expected flooding multiple 00:05:08.939 --> 00:05:12.180 days prior, there was flood warnings hours prior, 00:05:12.399 --> 00:05:15.019 and then multiple loss of life and damage to 00:05:15.019 --> 00:05:17.220 property warnings. that went out throughout the 00:05:17.220 --> 00:05:19.660 night while officials are complaining about like, 00:05:19.879 --> 00:05:22.600 oh, well, I got the alert, but they said it was 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:25.000 only going to flood seven feet, not this much. 00:05:25.319 --> 00:05:28.199 Like, that's not an excuse. I got the alert, 00:05:28.240 --> 00:05:29.819 but it didn't seem like it was going to be a 00:05:29.819 --> 00:05:32.000 big deal, despite that it said life threatening. 00:05:32.250 --> 00:05:34.649 So there's a lot at play here. There's the reduction 00:05:34.649 --> 00:05:37.589 in staff that did have a key position in the 00:05:37.589 --> 00:05:39.689 regional office of the National Weather Service 00:05:39.689 --> 00:05:41.709 removed. It was the person who was going to be 00:05:41.709 --> 00:05:44.110 the one that coordinates with emergency services. 00:05:44.290 --> 00:05:47.170 Seems like an important person to have. So while 00:05:47.170 --> 00:05:49.350 they had the information and warnings were issued, 00:05:49.449 --> 00:05:51.769 even if the information wasn't as catastrophic 00:05:51.769 --> 00:05:54.389 as they originally put out, they did put out 00:05:54.389 --> 00:05:56.750 those warnings. It just didn't get to officials 00:05:56.750 --> 00:05:59.649 who would then take action because the NWS is 00:05:59.649 --> 00:06:02.939 not an evacuation agency. There are local officials 00:06:02.939 --> 00:06:05.339 whose job it is to know their locality and know 00:06:05.339 --> 00:06:07.959 what the protocol is for evacuating people. So 00:06:07.959 --> 00:06:09.759 it does seem like a breakdown in process. You 00:06:09.759 --> 00:06:12.339 can definitely link the removal of that guy from 00:06:12.339 --> 00:06:15.759 NWS to Trump, because that guy specifically took 00:06:15.759 --> 00:06:18.639 Trump's buyout offer. So that seat is just empty. 00:06:18.980 --> 00:06:20.540 The Trump administration is saying this has nothing 00:06:20.540 --> 00:06:22.980 to do with their cuts, because it was a buyout 00:06:22.980 --> 00:06:24.639 offer, not a cut. Now there's one other part 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:26.019 of this story that I want to talk about, which 00:06:26.019 --> 00:06:28.339 is there's a lot of discussion right now about 00:06:28.339 --> 00:06:30.850 whether or not the people in red states quote 00:06:30.850 --> 00:06:34.009 -unquote, deserve it when a natural disaster 00:06:34.009 --> 00:06:35.829 happened. I feel like we see this most with Florida, 00:06:35.910 --> 00:06:37.529 whenever a hurricane hits Florida, and people 00:06:37.529 --> 00:06:39.689 are like, well, they get what they voted for, 00:06:39.750 --> 00:06:44.589 and it's like, oh boy. States in the US are not 00:06:44.589 --> 00:06:47.490 uniformly red and blue. That's not how it works. 00:06:47.709 --> 00:06:50.490 Most of them are damn near 50 -50, and the only 00:06:50.490 --> 00:06:52.430 reason that they swing so hard one way or the 00:06:52.430 --> 00:06:55.089 other is due to gerrymandering and people who 00:06:55.089 --> 00:06:57.089 won't vote for the opposition party because they've 00:06:57.089 --> 00:06:59.709 given up from all the gerrymandering. and voter 00:06:59.709 --> 00:07:02.910 suppression, and all that good stuff. And I know 00:07:02.910 --> 00:07:04.769 most people, when they say they get what they 00:07:04.769 --> 00:07:07.930 voted for, are not trying to imply that they 00:07:07.930 --> 00:07:10.189 want everyone in that state, regardless of who 00:07:10.189 --> 00:07:12.949 they voted for, age, voting eligibility, any 00:07:12.949 --> 00:07:15.350 of that stuff, to die. I know that people aren't 00:07:15.350 --> 00:07:18.089 flatly saying that. But a lot of people don't 00:07:18.089 --> 00:07:20.730 think deeper on these kinds of things. The damage 00:07:20.730 --> 00:07:22.670 that that line of thinking does is irreparable, 00:07:22.870 --> 00:07:24.470 because there are people who are fighting for 00:07:24.470 --> 00:07:26.910 the same things that you want in the places that 00:07:26.910 --> 00:07:29.889 you're complaining about, and instead of isolating 00:07:29.889 --> 00:07:32.610 and uplifting them, you're lumping them in with 00:07:32.610 --> 00:07:35.029 everyone else, completely undermining any effort 00:07:35.029 --> 00:07:37.589 that they're making to improve things. They need 00:07:37.589 --> 00:07:40.339 your help. too. Anyway, we don't need to be red 00:07:40.339 --> 00:07:42.279 or blue anymore because we've got the AMERICA 00:07:42.279 --> 00:07:45.199 PARTY! Elon Musk, after his big fallout with 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:47.139 Trump, has announced that he's forming a political 00:07:47.139 --> 00:07:49.120 party, a thing that people have been speculating 00:07:49.120 --> 00:07:50.879 he might do, and a thing that people have been 00:07:50.879 --> 00:07:53.379 speculating that if he did do, would undermine 00:07:53.379 --> 00:07:56.259 the GOP. So, lol. Let's start off by saying this 00:07:56.259 --> 00:07:58.660 is not a real political party. Elon Musk has 00:07:58.660 --> 00:08:00.860 gone on Twitter and tweeted multiple times. That 00:08:00.860 --> 00:08:02.920 doesn't establish a political party. Could it 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:04.740 be a thing? Maybe. I don't know. But he says 00:08:04.740 --> 00:08:07.300 that it wants to be a party for the middle. Which 00:08:07.300 --> 00:08:08.959 is concerning because this is a guy that went 00:08:08.959 --> 00:08:11.939 on stage and did a Nazi salute twice. Elon Musk 00:08:11.939 --> 00:08:13.360 doesn't know shit about fuck. He doesn't know 00:08:13.360 --> 00:08:15.339 what he's doing. He's starting this party because 00:08:15.339 --> 00:08:18.060 he's claiming that he was betrayed by the Republicans 00:08:18.060 --> 00:08:20.079 who said he was gonna go do Doge cuts and then 00:08:20.079 --> 00:08:22.060 they passed this bill that did a lot of spending. 00:08:22.579 --> 00:08:25.480 Which is wild. Because if he's being honest about 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:28.060 his reasoning, which I'm certain he's not, then 00:08:28.060 --> 00:08:30.819 his claim is that he really thought he was doing 00:08:30.819 --> 00:08:33.879 something at Doge and never once caught wind 00:08:33.879 --> 00:08:37.289 of anything. that implied Republicans would absolutely 00:08:37.289 --> 00:08:39.070 do this thing that they were loudly saying that 00:08:39.070 --> 00:08:41.210 they were going to do the whole time. Like, you 00:08:41.210 --> 00:08:43.350 don't get to be a political insider and then 00:08:43.350 --> 00:08:45.370 claim that you are a political outsider. And 00:08:45.370 --> 00:08:47.509 if you were blindsided by that, then you are 00:08:47.509 --> 00:08:50.769 not fit to run a political party. Anyway, who 00:08:50.769 --> 00:08:52.389 gives a shit? People are going to, like, join 00:08:52.389 --> 00:08:55.610 this, sort of, but right now there's really nothing. 00:08:56.190 --> 00:08:59.409 And I just, I doubt we're going to see an America 00:08:59.409 --> 00:09:01.549 Party candidate on a ballot, but you know what? 00:09:01.590 --> 00:09:03.730 I'm not going to say don't do it. If they get 00:09:03.730 --> 00:09:07.539 there, great, have fun. Um, literally can't imagine 00:09:07.539 --> 00:09:09.519 what you would stand for. There's not really 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:11.539 room for another conservative party in the U 00:09:11.539 --> 00:09:13.379 .S. I don't know where they're gonna go. But 00:09:13.379 --> 00:09:16.259 I know where I'm not gonna go. Akon City. Several 00:09:16.259 --> 00:09:19.100 years ago, music icon Akon, that's fun to say, 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:21.759 announced that he was going to build a futuristic 00:09:21.759 --> 00:09:24.179 city in Senegal. He also announced that it was 00:09:24.179 --> 00:09:26.580 going to be powered by a cryptocurrency of his 00:09:26.580 --> 00:09:29.259 own design called Akoin. This is a real thing, 00:09:29.279 --> 00:09:31.879 and it's not even the only crypto -powered private 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:34.440 government municipality thing that was proposed 00:09:34.440 --> 00:09:37.720 around that era. Anyway, it's not happening. 00:09:37.879 --> 00:09:39.860 It's not happening. There's a partial of land 00:09:39.860 --> 00:09:42.320 in Senegal that AECON did once turn into a city, 00:09:42.580 --> 00:09:44.500 and they built like part of a welcome center. 00:09:44.639 --> 00:09:46.759 And that's it. It's been several years. There's 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:49.519 no roads. There's literally nothing. And so the 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:51.840 government of Senegal was like, yeah, no, this 00:09:51.840 --> 00:09:54.220 is done. Shit's cooked. They said that they're 00:09:54.220 --> 00:09:56.620 going to work with him on a, quote, more realistic 00:09:56.620 --> 00:10:00.860 path towards Something being built. So, apologies 00:10:00.860 --> 00:10:03.259 to anyone out there who was hoarding a coin. 00:10:03.500 --> 00:10:06.000 I know this is probably a very difficult time 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:08.360 for you. You probably have a lot of difficult 00:10:08.360 --> 00:10:11.019 times if you were hoarding a coin. A content 00:10:11.019 --> 00:10:12.919 warning for this next section, I will be non 00:10:12.919 --> 00:10:15.019 -graphically discussing rape, including the rape 00:10:15.019 --> 00:10:17.340 of children. The Democratic Republic of Congo 00:10:17.340 --> 00:10:21.259 is experiencing an HIV crisis among its decades 00:10:21.259 --> 00:10:23.940 -long conflicts in the region. Some background. 00:10:24.440 --> 00:10:26.639 Democratic Republic of Congo, different from 00:10:26.639 --> 00:10:29.779 the Republic of Congo. Start there. The DRC has 00:10:29.779 --> 00:10:32.340 an unconscionable amount of valuable minerals, 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:35.960 and essentially it is a battle royale from local, 00:10:36.259 --> 00:10:40.019 foreign, private, and public groups to try to 00:10:40.019 --> 00:10:42.840 get that cash. All at the expense of the Congolese 00:10:42.840 --> 00:10:45.200 people who have been displaced around the world 00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:46.980 due to this conflict. Some groups are looking 00:10:46.980 --> 00:10:49.840 to establish better sovereign security, but it's 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:52.629 just it's been a mess for so fucking long. China, 00:10:52.629 --> 00:10:55.549 for example, has a massive industry that depends 00:10:55.549 --> 00:10:58.590 on buying cobalt and other minerals from brokers 00:10:58.590 --> 00:11:01.529 who are extracting it from the DRC. Now, China 00:11:01.529 --> 00:11:03.549 is not the only country doing this. And as I 00:11:03.549 --> 00:11:06.210 said, it's not even just the public sector. There 00:11:06.210 --> 00:11:09.789 are private contractors who are making bank off 00:11:09.789 --> 00:11:13.149 of this folder all. Now, the HIV crisis comes 00:11:13.149 --> 00:11:17.049 in because some of the groups in the DRC use 00:11:17.049 --> 00:11:20.019 rape as a weapon of war. This is especially prevalent 00:11:20.019 --> 00:11:22.799 with one militia called M23, who has caused a 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:25.039 massive spike in reported rapes, and I can't 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:27.539 even imagine what unreported stats are like. 00:11:27.759 --> 00:11:29.840 They do this to inflict trauma on populations, 00:11:30.019 --> 00:11:33.360 to destabilize populations, and because war. 00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:36.580 And because of this, HIV spreads like wildfire. 00:11:36.659 --> 00:11:39.220 In some regions, the rate of infection can be 00:11:39.220 --> 00:11:42.600 as high as 3 .5%. Now, the US used to help out 00:11:42.600 --> 00:11:44.820 a little bit by offering medicine and rape kits 00:11:44.820 --> 00:11:47.850 and stuff like that. And then Musk, Trump, Vance, 00:11:47.909 --> 00:11:51.629 and Marco Rubio shut down USAID and all of that 00:11:51.629 --> 00:11:54.769 help. So while there is a rising spike of HIV 00:11:54.769 --> 00:11:57.250 among women who are being left with nothing, 00:11:58.190 --> 00:12:00.529 there's also no longer medicine for them. All 00:12:00.529 --> 00:12:03.370 because some affluent rich guys in the US decided 00:12:03.370 --> 00:12:06.350 that struggling people in the midst of conflict 00:12:06.350 --> 00:12:09.470 don't deserve medicine. Because reasons. Gotta 00:12:09.470 --> 00:12:12.169 save that money. That's why we passed the big 00:12:12.169 --> 00:12:14.330 beautiful bill with all of his tax breaks. and 00:12:14.330 --> 00:12:17.250 added a bunch of money to the deficit. But we 00:12:17.250 --> 00:12:20.330 saved money by getting rid of the life -saving 00:12:20.330 --> 00:12:24.850 HIV stuff, you know? We are... amoral good. Anyway, 00:12:25.169 --> 00:12:28.490 viruses don't respect political boundaries. It 00:12:28.490 --> 00:12:31.070 is legitimately good for the entire fucking planet 00:12:31.070 --> 00:12:34.149 for everyone to work together to improve global 00:12:34.149 --> 00:12:36.590 health. I feel like that shouldn't be controversial. 00:12:36.990 --> 00:12:39.350 Do you want to be rich? Like, filthy rich? Like, 00:12:39.389 --> 00:12:41.750 fuck off rich? Just go work for Metta as, like, 00:12:41.750 --> 00:12:44.879 an AI expert. Meta slash Facebook slash Zuckerberg 00:12:44.879 --> 00:12:47.440 are trying to hire more AI talent going as far 00:12:47.440 --> 00:12:49.980 as to poach people from other AI companies like 00:12:49.980 --> 00:12:52.740 OpenAI. And for those people, there's been reports 00:12:52.740 --> 00:12:56.419 of signing bonuses up to a value of a hundred 00:12:56.419 --> 00:13:00.139 million dollars for a single hire. They have 00:13:00.139 --> 00:13:04.059 the money. They have the resources to offer a 00:13:04.059 --> 00:13:08.120 hundred million dollar signing bonus to multiple 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:12.570 people on a whim just to poach them. just to 00:13:12.570 --> 00:13:14.909 get those people specifically. And of course, 00:13:15.029 --> 00:13:16.730 OpenAI is not happy about this. They're like, 00:13:16.750 --> 00:13:20.149 ah, people poaching our people. I wanna talk 00:13:20.149 --> 00:13:22.789 for a real quick second about money in the tech 00:13:22.789 --> 00:13:24.750 industry. For those who aren't aware, I spent 00:13:24.750 --> 00:13:27.669 the majority of my life in tech. I worked in 00:13:27.669 --> 00:13:30.549 tech in big places, small places, places you've 00:13:30.549 --> 00:13:34.090 heard of, places you haven't. There is so much 00:13:34.090 --> 00:13:38.750 money floating around these spaces. It is unimaginable. 00:13:38.840 --> 00:13:41.639 You cannot comprehend the amount of money that 00:13:41.639 --> 00:13:44.799 these venture capital firms or just tech oligarchs 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:48.259 have to throw around at things. Dumping multiple 00:13:48.259 --> 00:13:50.519 billions of dollars into a project that most 00:13:50.519 --> 00:13:54.559 likely will fail is the norm. Billions. With 00:13:54.559 --> 00:13:57.259 a B. So whenever these AI companies bitch and 00:13:57.259 --> 00:13:59.340 moan about how they can't pay artists because 00:13:59.340 --> 00:14:01.120 then they wouldn't have a business model, or 00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:02.519 when you've got a company like Facebook saying 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:05.159 they can't do real content moderation because 00:14:05.159 --> 00:14:08.000 it just costs too much money, $100 million for 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:10.379 a single guy. That's all I got to say about that. 00:14:10.539 --> 00:14:13.399 Anyway, let's talk about robo taxis in Austin. 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:15.960 So Tesla has recently started a pilot program 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:19.580 of their robo taxis in Austin, Texas and Let 00:14:19.580 --> 00:14:22.259 me be clear, this is a thing that Tesla has been 00:14:22.259 --> 00:14:24.840 advertising as like a pivot point in their company. 00:14:25.100 --> 00:14:27.580 While other EV manufacturers have caught up and 00:14:27.580 --> 00:14:30.340 surpassed Tesla in a lot of ways, Tesla still 00:14:30.340 --> 00:14:32.299 has just a ton of hype around them, and they 00:14:32.299 --> 00:14:34.279 need to stick a landing to not lose all that 00:14:34.279 --> 00:14:35.899 hype, so they've been talking about how they're 00:14:35.899 --> 00:14:38.360 gonna pivot into being a robotaxi company, and 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:39.980 that'll be their big cash cow in the future. 00:14:40.240 --> 00:14:42.019 Except other companies have already started the 00:14:42.019 --> 00:14:44.620 robotaxi thing with more success, and this pilot 00:14:44.620 --> 00:14:47.879 program is not exactly instilling joy. The pilot 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:51.559 is limited only to a handful of people who mostly 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:55.059 follow Musk on Twitter, and they can buy a ride 00:14:55.059 --> 00:14:59.000 for, I shit you not, $4 .20. When they get picked 00:14:59.000 --> 00:15:02.100 up by their robotaxi, there is a Tesla employee 00:15:02.100 --> 00:15:04.659 in the front passenger seat. They've got a stop 00:15:04.659 --> 00:15:09.539 button, like a driving instructor. Anyway, it's 00:15:09.539 --> 00:15:11.879 only available in a very, very limited part of 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:14.100 Austin and has been breaking traffic rules left 00:15:14.100 --> 00:15:16.200 and right. A couple of the taxis have bumped 00:15:16.200 --> 00:15:18.779 into parked cars. One taxi just stopped in the 00:15:18.779 --> 00:15:20.039 middle of an intersection and was like, here 00:15:20.039 --> 00:15:23.759 you go. You've arrived. It's generally just messy 00:15:23.759 --> 00:15:27.899 and silly and obviously not ready for even testing 00:15:27.899 --> 00:15:29.899 at this scale. And a lot of people will say like, 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:31.480 oh, well, they need to be able to test it so 00:15:31.480 --> 00:15:34.120 they can improve it. Like, do they? Do they need 00:15:34.120 --> 00:15:37.039 to test it in a live functioning city or is that 00:15:37.039 --> 00:15:40.070 a marketing tactic? They build entire simulated 00:15:40.070 --> 00:15:42.549 cities for like training cops and firefighters. 00:15:43.409 --> 00:15:47.570 So long story short, don't get in one of those. 00:15:47.990 --> 00:15:49.889 Anyway, let's talk about the revenge of the glizzies. 00:15:50.029 --> 00:15:53.389 This passed some days ago. It was 4th of July, 00:15:53.490 --> 00:15:55.929 which is a day in the United States marked with 00:15:55.929 --> 00:15:58.389 celebrations and eating too many hot dogs. And 00:15:58.389 --> 00:16:01.690 then we blow shit up the American way. And conveniently 00:16:01.690 --> 00:16:03.889 around this time, as everybody was buying and 00:16:03.889 --> 00:16:06.029 eating too many hot dogs, some reporting came 00:16:06.029 --> 00:16:09.289 out about how hot dogs kill you. They cause cancer. 00:16:09.549 --> 00:16:11.409 Some shit like that. Basically, there was a research 00:16:11.409 --> 00:16:13.789 paper that aggregated a bunch of data from other 00:16:13.789 --> 00:16:17.110 research that found that processed meat has contributing 00:16:17.110 --> 00:16:20.750 factors to, like, cancer. Things that we basically 00:16:20.750 --> 00:16:22.590 already knew. There was a lot of reporting, a 00:16:22.590 --> 00:16:24.330 lot of headlines, a lot of freaking out about, 00:16:24.330 --> 00:16:27.070 like, if you eat hot dogs, they cause cancer 00:16:27.070 --> 00:16:29.730 now. A few things. One, duh, that was always 00:16:29.730 --> 00:16:32.909 true. Two, there's a huge difference between 00:16:32.909 --> 00:16:36.889 eating some hot dogs and eating hot dogs constantly 00:16:36.889 --> 00:16:39.100 every single day. The research basically showed 00:16:39.100 --> 00:16:42.059 that the equivalent of, like, a hot dog a day, 00:16:42.559 --> 00:16:46.539 every single day, can have a modest impact on 00:16:46.539 --> 00:16:48.960 the likelihood that you'll develop several different 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:51.340 diseases. But even the own research paper was 00:16:51.340 --> 00:16:53.120 like, we gotta look into this more. This could 00:16:53.120 --> 00:16:54.919 be a lot, could be nothing. We kind of knew this 00:16:54.919 --> 00:16:57.100 already, but it's worth looking into. Fucking 00:16:57.100 --> 00:16:59.320 everything causes cancer. I'm not saying go get 00:16:59.320 --> 00:17:01.929 cancer. Cancer sucks. It's real bad. But you're 00:17:01.929 --> 00:17:04.390 far more likely to get hit by a car like directly 00:17:04.390 --> 00:17:06.650 after watching this video than you are to get 00:17:06.650 --> 00:17:08.890 cancer from the hot dogs that you just ate 4th 00:17:08.890 --> 00:17:12.490 of July. Game it. Hades 2 is getting closer to 00:17:12.490 --> 00:17:14.730 being released. The developers behind Hades 2, 00:17:14.809 --> 00:17:16.769 a game that I have not yet played because I'm 00:17:16.769 --> 00:17:18.549 waiting for the full release because I'm hopelessly 00:17:18.549 --> 00:17:21.809 addicted to Hades 1. How do I start this sentence? 00:17:22.230 --> 00:17:23.670 Anyway, the developers of the game released an 00:17:23.670 --> 00:17:25.470 update and along with the patch notes, they said 00:17:25.470 --> 00:17:27.930 that this is likely the last update before the 00:17:27.930 --> 00:17:31.430 full 1 .0 release, which is scheduled for... 00:17:31.960 --> 00:17:35.200 2025, which is this year. But while we wait on 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:37.539 that, let's talk about that thug life. Tony Hawk 00:17:37.539 --> 00:17:40.440 Pro Skater 3 and 4 remake is coming out in less 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:42.920 than a week. And with that, there is an interview 00:17:42.920 --> 00:17:44.859 that Polygon did with Tony Hawk, where they're 00:17:44.859 --> 00:17:48.160 like, hey, you want to remake the Tony Hawk Underground 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:52.240 games? Now, real talk, your boy is a thug. I 00:17:52.240 --> 00:17:55.319 played so much Tony Hawk's Underground 1 and 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:57.500 2. I also played an assload of American Wasteland, 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:01.140 which was good in its own way. I would love to 00:18:01.140 --> 00:18:02.859 see a remake of the Tony Hawk Underground games. 00:18:02.980 --> 00:18:05.039 If you're not familiar, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:07.400 is more like an arcade -y type game, whereas 00:18:07.400 --> 00:18:10.019 Tony Hawk Underground is more of an RPG, like 00:18:10.019 --> 00:18:12.079 telling your own story, rise to fame kind of 00:18:12.079 --> 00:18:14.819 thing. Mr. Anthony Hawk said himself that he 00:18:14.819 --> 00:18:16.839 would love to see that happen, but also noted 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:18.880 that one, he doesn't really have the ability 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:20.880 to snap his fingers and make that happen, and 00:18:20.880 --> 00:18:24.960 two, he would be also interested in maybe a reimagining 00:18:24.960 --> 00:18:27.160 of Tony Hawk's Underground. You know, like they 00:18:27.160 --> 00:18:28.680 remade one and two, they're doing the remake 00:18:28.680 --> 00:18:30.880 for three and four, they're very faithful remakes. 00:18:31.140 --> 00:18:34.599 What if we kind of made a new Tony Hawk game 00:18:34.599 --> 00:18:37.759 with that engine? Or like a, you know, remix 00:18:37.759 --> 00:18:40.359 of the original, something like that. Just make 00:18:40.359 --> 00:18:42.799 it slightly more modern. If you've gone back 00:18:42.799 --> 00:18:44.119 and played the original Tony Hawk Underground 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:47.259 games, they're still very fun. Boy howdy, they 00:18:47.259 --> 00:18:50.559 are a time capsule. Last thing for gaming, several 00:18:50.559 --> 00:18:52.859 high ranking executives from Ubisoft slash Ubisoft, 00:18:52.980 --> 00:18:55.720 depending on... Who's yelling at me today? They've 00:18:55.720 --> 00:18:58.880 been found guilty of harassing women. Yeah, that 00:18:58.880 --> 00:19:01.380 sentence took a tonal shift. Long story short, 00:19:01.660 --> 00:19:03.420 several high -ranking executives were found guilty 00:19:03.420 --> 00:19:05.460 of sexually and psychologically harassing women 00:19:05.460 --> 00:19:08.099 in their Paris office. Throwing things, getting 00:19:08.099 --> 00:19:11.259 all angry, soliciting kisses, general creepy 00:19:11.259 --> 00:19:13.619 executive shit. When the company was first alerted 00:19:13.619 --> 00:19:15.440 to this, like five years ago, they were like, 00:19:15.460 --> 00:19:19.210 oh! Dang that seems bad. We'll look into it and 00:19:19.210 --> 00:19:21.430 then nothing happened Then eventually the French 00:19:21.430 --> 00:19:23.470 authorities stepped in and made something happen 00:19:23.470 --> 00:19:26.529 and now we're here So hey, I have a few suggestions 00:19:26.529 --> 00:19:29.269 for just like general game publishers in the 00:19:29.269 --> 00:19:31.710 industry I know I'm an outsider, but I have a 00:19:31.710 --> 00:19:33.369 passion for game development game design and 00:19:33.369 --> 00:19:38.730 gaming Don't harass women like at all like it's 00:19:38.730 --> 00:19:41.029 really just not hard. I'm gonna not harass women 00:19:41.029 --> 00:19:46.819 right now Lightning round. Archaeologists found 00:19:46.819 --> 00:19:51.019 a stash of 32 ancient Roman shoes, eight of which 00:19:51.019 --> 00:19:54.660 were very, very large, like inexplicably large, 00:19:54.819 --> 00:19:57.579 like very unnaturally large. That ancient big 00:19:57.579 --> 00:20:02.799 boy. FaceTime on iOS is gonna now pause your 00:20:02.799 --> 00:20:05.240 active video chat if it sees that you're undressing. 00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:10.720 It'll be like, whoa, cool, whoa, nice. That was 00:20:10.720 --> 00:20:12.640 me being FaceTime. There was a guy who went on 00:20:12.640 --> 00:20:15.509 a show by Guy Fieri. where if you won the show 00:20:15.509 --> 00:20:18.930 by Guy Fieri, you got a franchise of a Guy Fieri 00:20:18.930 --> 00:20:22.049 restaurant with Guy Fieri branding. And the guy 00:20:22.049 --> 00:20:24.990 who won the Guy Fieri thing is not happy because 00:20:24.990 --> 00:20:27.569 he was also supposed to get more further compensation 00:20:27.569 --> 00:20:30.569 from Guy Fieri. And so now he's suing Guy Fieri 00:20:30.569 --> 00:20:33.789 about the lack of follow through with the prize 00:20:33.789 --> 00:20:36.690 from Guy Fieri from the Guy Fieri show. Fieri. 00:20:37.309 --> 00:20:39.529 Tumblr was going to migrate to use WordPress 00:20:39.529 --> 00:20:41.349 in the background and integrate with the social 00:20:41.349 --> 00:20:45.200 open web, like Macedon and stuff. Pause that. 00:20:45.339 --> 00:20:47.579 By the way, I'm on Tumblr. And finally for today, 00:20:48.220 --> 00:20:50.799 scientists have discovered a new life form in 00:20:50.799 --> 00:20:53.359 some goo that was found underneath a ship in 00:20:53.359 --> 00:20:57.420 Dry Dock. This is real. It is temporarily named 00:20:57.420 --> 00:21:01.740 Ship Goo 001, my favorite species, and my new 00:21:01.740 --> 00:21:03.240 screen name. Thank you so much for listening 00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:04.880 to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 00:21:04.960 --> 00:21:08.160 Head to skh .news for sources, bonus content, 00:21:08.559 --> 00:21:12.569 and Ship Goo 002. My name is Endeavorance. Thank 00:21:12.569 --> 00:21:15.369 you so much for being here. 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