WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.720 Hello. I cooked all my meals from monsters in 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:08.560 the dungeon. But stuff still happened. So what's 00:00:08.560 --> 00:00:11.580 up? I'm back. Wow. It was a lot. It was a lot. 00:00:11.580 --> 00:00:14.060 A lot happened while I was gone. Too much. But 00:00:14.060 --> 00:00:16.620 let's start off with a heist. In Philadelphia, 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:19.140 there's been a bunch of robberies of armored 00:00:19.140 --> 00:00:21.620 cars. You know those armored vans, right? They 00:00:21.620 --> 00:00:24.359 service banks, they're boxy, they've got money 00:00:24.359 --> 00:00:26.679 inside. That's basically the entire business 00:00:26.679 --> 00:00:28.820 structure who's in. Anyway, one of these companies, 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:31.140 Brinks, has been burgled a bunch of times around 00:00:31.140 --> 00:00:33.520 the Philadelphia area, like in suburbs and such. 00:00:33.859 --> 00:00:36.479 Most recently, thieves held up a driver at Gunpoint 00:00:36.479 --> 00:00:40.719 and stole about $700 ,000 from the armored car. 00:00:40.780 --> 00:00:43.500 Now, I will note that the second the driver is 00:00:43.500 --> 00:00:46.619 held up by Gunpoint, the armor doesn't do much. 00:00:47.020 --> 00:00:50.259 $700 grand is a good haul, but in June, they 00:00:50.259 --> 00:00:52.619 stole $2 million from a different truck, which 00:00:52.619 --> 00:00:54.659 begs the question... Why aren't these trucks 00:00:54.659 --> 00:00:57.579 coming to my house? Anyway, the local investigators 00:00:57.579 --> 00:01:00.460 and attorney say that they have found suspects 00:01:00.460 --> 00:01:02.259 and they've arrested three people, one of whom 00:01:02.259 --> 00:01:05.040 they say is a former employee of Brinks, the 00:01:05.040 --> 00:01:06.920 armored car company, to which that guy's lawyer 00:01:06.920 --> 00:01:08.719 says that he's not involved at all. What are 00:01:08.719 --> 00:01:10.400 you talking about? Get out of here. Anyway, long 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:13.959 story short, security theater is not practical. 00:01:15.060 --> 00:01:19.340 I'm a consultant. Hire me. Moving on. Stateside. 00:01:19.739 --> 00:01:21.560 Sorry, that was supposed to be with a frown. 00:01:22.180 --> 00:01:24.959 Stateside. Okay, I'm just gonna front -load all 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:27.280 of the Trump bullshit into one segment. Like, 00:01:27.379 --> 00:01:30.500 I don't want this to be the entirety of the stateside 00:01:30.500 --> 00:01:33.280 news. So let's just jump in. We'll start off 00:01:33.280 --> 00:01:36.359 with the DC takeover. So Washington DC is currently 00:01:36.359 --> 00:01:39.840 occupied by Trump -aligned forces. That may sound 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:42.400 editorialized, but I don't know what else to 00:01:42.400 --> 00:01:45.920 call a group of military people being dispersed 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:49.359 into a city at the express direction of a single 00:01:49.359 --> 00:01:52.390 guy for no reason. Donald Trump has deployed 00:01:52.390 --> 00:01:54.269 hundreds of members of the National Guard to 00:01:54.269 --> 00:01:57.530 Washington DC alongside a whole bunch of federal 00:01:57.530 --> 00:02:00.989 agents to assist in law enforcement. He has declared 00:02:00.989 --> 00:02:03.969 a crime emergency in the city and says that DC 00:02:03.969 --> 00:02:06.489 is this lawless hellhole where you just get shot 00:02:06.489 --> 00:02:09.590 for breathing. It's absurd. It was absurd enough 00:02:09.590 --> 00:02:11.150 that I posted a video even though it's supposed 00:02:11.150 --> 00:02:13.610 to be on break last week and I'll just summarize 00:02:13.610 --> 00:02:16.000 what I said there. There's nothing happening 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:20.500 in DC that merits any of this. This is a very 00:02:20.500 --> 00:02:24.740 sad show of force from a sad old man who has 00:02:24.740 --> 00:02:28.099 to make good on campaign promises to hurt people. 00:02:28.500 --> 00:02:30.860 Donald Trump on the campaign trail referred to 00:02:30.860 --> 00:02:35.189 himself as, and I quote, your retribution. Right 00:02:35.189 --> 00:02:37.490 -wing news outlets have been talking about how 00:02:37.490 --> 00:02:40.569 liberals have been ruining the lives of every 00:02:40.569 --> 00:02:43.330 American in every city, and they're coming after 00:02:43.330 --> 00:02:47.030 your jobs and kids and way of life. Here comes 00:02:47.030 --> 00:02:50.129 Donald Trump. Don't you want to punish the libs? 00:02:50.550 --> 00:02:53.210 And because he can technically sort of legally 00:02:53.210 --> 00:02:56.469 do this, that's why they're doing it. It's the 00:02:56.469 --> 00:02:59.909 classic, like, oh, you're opposed to us deploying 00:02:59.909 --> 00:03:02.330 people to help with the crime? Why are you pro 00:03:02.330 --> 00:03:06.280 -crime? It's incredibly... Insultingly stupid 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:09.580 and another example of how little they respect 00:03:09.580 --> 00:03:12.560 us But yeah, if you are a person in Washington 00:03:12.560 --> 00:03:15.460 DC and you're just out and about Going to get 00:03:15.460 --> 00:03:17.759 a coffee hanging out with some friends going 00:03:17.759 --> 00:03:20.340 to one of the trillion farmers markets that now 00:03:20.340 --> 00:03:23.620 have cops all over them You might walk by the 00:03:23.620 --> 00:03:27.120 train station and see multiple army vehicles 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:31.520 parked out front like armored cars Washington 00:03:31.520 --> 00:03:34.240 DC streets are filled with like Book sales and 00:03:34.240 --> 00:03:38.080 like cultural events. This is embarrassing. It's 00:03:38.080 --> 00:03:40.560 such a waste of money It's such a waste of time 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:43.680 and it's such a waste of human energy No one 00:03:43.680 --> 00:03:46.020 needs to be doing any of this. We don't need 00:03:46.020 --> 00:03:47.360 them on the streets because there's nothing to 00:03:47.360 --> 00:03:49.039 stop in the first place, and all it's going to 00:03:49.039 --> 00:03:50.780 do is cause people to have to uproot their lives 00:03:50.780 --> 00:03:54.219 and continue to protest against nothing. We can't 00:03:54.219 --> 00:03:55.620 help with the economy, we can't help, you know, 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:58.120 put, put homeless people in houses, we can't 00:03:58.120 --> 00:04:00.099 feed children reliably in this country, but we 00:04:00.099 --> 00:04:03.479 sure as shit can deploy the military into cities 00:04:03.479 --> 00:04:06.780 that didn't vote for any of this. LA and DC. 00:04:07.629 --> 00:04:10.250 famously want federal control of their cities. 00:04:10.509 --> 00:04:12.330 And Republicans who don't want federal control 00:04:12.330 --> 00:04:14.889 of anything are more than happy to take federal 00:04:14.889 --> 00:04:17.550 control of those cities because it was never 00:04:17.550 --> 00:04:20.870 about anything but revenge. Anyway, we also got 00:04:20.870 --> 00:04:23.329 Sandwich Guy. There was a guy in DC who threw 00:04:23.329 --> 00:04:26.370 a footlong subway sandwich at an FBI agent and 00:04:26.370 --> 00:04:28.170 then was arrested and then was charged with a 00:04:28.170 --> 00:04:30.410 felony by the administration that pardoned all 00:04:30.410 --> 00:04:32.589 the January 6 people who like literally killed 00:04:32.589 --> 00:04:34.339 a cop. Yeah, the Justice Department was like, 00:04:34.420 --> 00:04:37.519 ah, you won't mess with our agents, except for 00:04:37.519 --> 00:04:39.120 the ones that did, and then we pardoned them, 00:04:39.160 --> 00:04:42.740 but you're getting a felony? Because that officer 00:04:42.740 --> 00:04:45.019 was gluten -free and you hit him with some bread. 00:04:45.459 --> 00:04:49.259 Again, embarrassing. It's just a deeply embarrassing 00:04:49.259 --> 00:04:52.540 administration. Like, I've gone past being embarrassed 00:04:52.540 --> 00:04:55.060 to be an American. I'm used to that now. I'm 00:04:55.060 --> 00:04:57.699 embarrassed on behalf of the people who are still 00:04:57.699 --> 00:05:00.240 lying to themselves and pretending that this 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:02.639 administration is anything less than a clown 00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:05.319 show. Anyway, sandwich guy, he's not getting 00:05:05.319 --> 00:05:07.279 charged with a felony. A judge agreed that that's 00:05:07.279 --> 00:05:10.079 stupid as fuck and dropped the charges. But regardless, 00:05:10.120 --> 00:05:12.620 Trump has a 30 -day time limit on this move, 00:05:12.639 --> 00:05:14.899 but is already talking about declaring a national 00:05:14.899 --> 00:05:17.959 emergency to extend this indefinitely. Other 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:19.800 states are also sending their National Guard 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:23.959 to DC. Which is wild. I don't think DC needs 00:05:23.959 --> 00:05:27.279 your National Guard. That's a little weird. It's 00:05:27.279 --> 00:05:30.879 a little weird for a military from a state to 00:05:30.879 --> 00:05:35.060 go across to somewhere else. to garrison it against 00:05:35.060 --> 00:05:37.500 the will of the people living there. It's a little 00:05:37.500 --> 00:05:40.120 weird. Last thing on Trump, I cannot wait to 00:05:40.120 --> 00:05:44.120 move on from all of it, but right now too. He 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:46.839 met with Putin in Alaska on Friday, and it went 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:48.600 exactly as people thought it was going to, which 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:50.759 is he got steamrolled by Putin. They went into 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:54.279 a meeting, Trump came out, Putin talked about 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:56.040 nothing, and then Trump talked about nothing, 00:05:56.040 --> 00:05:58.240 and then they left. And then Trump was like, 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:00.920 I gotta make some phone calls to other leaders, 00:06:00.980 --> 00:06:02.779 and we'll see if we can make something happen. 00:06:02.800 --> 00:06:04.660 As time goes on, it's becoming more and more 00:06:04.660 --> 00:06:06.839 clear that essentially Trump folded and agreed 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:09.540 to Russia's position on how this war should end 00:06:09.540 --> 00:06:12.339 and is now going to the EU to be like, hey, we 00:06:12.339 --> 00:06:14.160 should do this plan. It's a great plan. When 00:06:14.160 --> 00:06:16.779 I went to go see what like the right -wing opinion 00:06:16.779 --> 00:06:19.019 of all of this was, they were preoccupied with 00:06:19.019 --> 00:06:21.740 the fact that a B -2 bomber did a flyover of 00:06:21.740 --> 00:06:23.720 the meeting and they were like, oh, that's so 00:06:23.720 --> 00:06:26.410 cool! Let's ignore literally every other part 00:06:26.410 --> 00:06:28.990 of the entire meeting. Okay, actual last thing, 00:06:29.370 --> 00:06:31.029 because it's this fucking administration, of 00:06:31.029 --> 00:06:33.310 course there was an extra bonus super ultra dumb 00:06:33.310 --> 00:06:36.930 thing, which is that they found papers in a printer 00:06:36.930 --> 00:06:41.610 at an Alaskan hotel that had intel on it. Like 00:06:41.610 --> 00:06:44.529 staffers, as a part of this whole meeting, printed 00:06:44.529 --> 00:06:47.670 out some intel on a hotel printer and left the 00:06:47.670 --> 00:06:50.850 papers there! Who needs signal when you can just... 00:06:50.850 --> 00:06:53.189 print? Let's talk about the CDC shooting, because 00:06:53.189 --> 00:06:55.879 I - I'm sure it's been talked about, but I feel 00:06:55.879 --> 00:06:57.920 like it hasn't really been talked about. There's 00:06:57.920 --> 00:07:00.620 so much going on all the time, and major things 00:07:00.620 --> 00:07:03.100 are just being swept under the rug. Like, I don't 00:07:03.100 --> 00:07:06.079 know, the recent political assassinations? But, 00:07:06.139 --> 00:07:08.220 you know, let's talk about a different attempted 00:07:08.220 --> 00:07:11.040 political -ish assassination. The CDC was targeted 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:14.139 by a guy who was attempting to massacre the people 00:07:14.139 --> 00:07:16.480 working there. This happened back on August 8th. 00:07:16.579 --> 00:07:19.500 A man from Georgia went to the Atlanta CDC headquarters 00:07:19.500 --> 00:07:22.879 and unleashed hundreds of bullets on the campus. 00:07:23.199 --> 00:07:25.639 One police officer on the site was killed and 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:27.540 thousands of employees were sheltering in place 00:07:27.540 --> 00:07:29.540 for hours. A whole bunch of windows were shot 00:07:29.540 --> 00:07:32.060 out, but thankfully that was the extent of the 00:07:32.060 --> 00:07:34.759 damage. One life is still a lot, but I mean, 00:07:34.779 --> 00:07:37.279 you know. So why? Why would he go do this? Why 00:07:37.279 --> 00:07:39.620 would somebody go attack the Center for Disease 00:07:39.620 --> 00:07:42.160 Control and Prevention? It's because he was a 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:44.129 COVID conspiracy theorist. His parents actually 00:07:44.129 --> 00:07:45.389 went to authorities because they were concerned 00:07:45.389 --> 00:07:46.930 about his mental health because he was becoming 00:07:46.930 --> 00:07:50.129 obsessed with the COVID vaccine. He truly believed 00:07:50.129 --> 00:07:52.329 that he was doing untold harm to him and a whole 00:07:52.329 --> 00:07:54.329 bunch of other people, and he wanted to take 00:07:54.329 --> 00:07:58.569 it out on the CDC. Like, we had a nation's pandemic, 00:07:59.269 --> 00:08:02.310 and through feats of wonder, we were able to 00:08:02.310 --> 00:08:04.829 produce a vaccine. And people found a way to 00:08:04.829 --> 00:08:07.449 convince themselves that that was the Antichrist. 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:10.240 and then they were voted into office. All because 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:12.779 some people whined about face masks. So here 00:08:12.779 --> 00:08:15.480 is a guy who is just out of his mind, goes after 00:08:15.480 --> 00:08:18.939 the CDC, hundreds of bullets. He was intending 00:08:18.939 --> 00:08:21.800 to massacre the place. It was expressly because 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:25.720 he was driven to madness from the insanity around 00:08:25.720 --> 00:08:28.220 the COVID vaccine. I truly and honestly thought, 00:08:28.339 --> 00:08:31.160 now that we're years out from the time that they 00:08:31.160 --> 00:08:33.899 said everyone who took a vaccine would die, that 00:08:33.899 --> 00:08:35.929 we'd be over that, but apparently not. I must 00:08:35.929 --> 00:08:38.029 be dead like eight times over. I got so many 00:08:38.029 --> 00:08:39.850 fucking boosters. All right, let's go off the 00:08:39.850 --> 00:08:43.389 rails. Like a Texas train. There was a derailment 00:08:43.389 --> 00:08:46.350 in Texas. Woo! That was me being a derailment. 00:08:47.570 --> 00:08:50.049 A Union Pacific freight train in Texas derailed. 00:08:50.169 --> 00:08:53.429 Thankfully, no casualties, no evacuations. But 00:08:53.429 --> 00:08:55.450 it was 35 jackknifed cars that were carrying 00:08:55.450 --> 00:08:58.470 some hazmats and propane. No word on propane 00:08:58.470 --> 00:09:01.080 accessories, though. It was kind of miraculous 00:09:01.080 --> 00:09:03.179 that nothing too bad happened. There were some 00:09:03.179 --> 00:09:04.940 grass fires that they were taking care of. And 00:09:04.940 --> 00:09:06.960 like I said, there was one car that had propane 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:09.480 in it and it got beat up. But local officials 00:09:09.480 --> 00:09:12.600 took care of it by setting it on fire. I have 00:09:12.600 --> 00:09:15.240 to believe that if you are a person whose job 00:09:15.240 --> 00:09:18.200 is like emergency crisis response and they're 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:23.120 like, yo, Jonathan, they've got there's a derailment 00:09:23.120 --> 00:09:25.600 here. Stonathan, can you come out here and do 00:09:25.600 --> 00:09:27.659 your thing? And Stonathan's like, alright, yeah, 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:29.179 this is what I train for. He comes out there 00:09:29.179 --> 00:09:31.440 and sees that there's the opportunity to light 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:34.279 a tanker of propane on fire in the name of public 00:09:34.279 --> 00:09:36.919 safety. They're gonna be like, hell yeah. This 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:39.179 is why I don't work in public safety. Elsewhere, 00:09:39.639 --> 00:09:42.360 flight attendants in Canada, for Air Canada, 00:09:42.659 --> 00:09:44.740 are on strike. The flight attendants are looking 00:09:44.740 --> 00:09:47.240 for reasonable pay. If you're not aware, flight 00:09:47.240 --> 00:09:49.940 attendants are really only paid for hours in 00:09:49.940 --> 00:09:52.450 the air. So when they're on the ground and they're 00:09:52.450 --> 00:09:55.009 like boarding or de -boarding a plane, they're 00:09:55.009 --> 00:09:57.450 not getting paid. They're literally at their 00:09:57.450 --> 00:09:59.350 job not getting paid. And they're like, hey, 00:09:59.429 --> 00:10:01.549 I feel like we should probably be paid for this. 00:10:02.350 --> 00:10:05.029 I would hope that most people would agree, but 00:10:05.029 --> 00:10:08.190 Air Canada is not most people. And so they haven't 00:10:08.190 --> 00:10:11.149 agreed to that. Now, this is a big deal. Air 00:10:11.149 --> 00:10:13.470 Canada is the biggest air carrier in Canada, 00:10:13.950 --> 00:10:15.309 and this is one of those things where it's a 00:10:15.309 --> 00:10:17.590 strike that could threaten the economy. Canada 00:10:17.590 --> 00:10:20.450 actually has a system in place to allow the government 00:10:20.450 --> 00:10:23.669 to force workers back to work if it would impact 00:10:23.669 --> 00:10:26.889 the economy. Apparently, the workers being taken 00:10:26.889 --> 00:10:29.230 care of is not a part of the economy that they're 00:10:29.230 --> 00:10:32.029 worried about impacting. But, the union said 00:10:32.029 --> 00:10:35.059 fuck off. They're not going back to work. Despite 00:10:35.059 --> 00:10:37.139 the agency in the Canadian government saying 00:10:37.139 --> 00:10:39.100 you got you got to go back. They're saying no 00:10:39.100 --> 00:10:41.480 and in part They're saying no because the person 00:10:41.480 --> 00:10:45.080 at the head of that agency is a former high -level 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:48.200 attorney from Air Canada Wouldn't you know it 00:10:48.200 --> 00:10:51.360 so right on y 'all are righteous always stand 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:54.080 in solidarity Sorry for anybody whose flight 00:10:54.080 --> 00:10:56.620 got fucked up, but maybe Air Canada should pay 00:10:56.799 --> 00:10:59.779 at all. Meanwhile, over in Gaza, we are still 00:10:59.779 --> 00:11:02.259 watching as Israel and the United States participate 00:11:02.259 --> 00:11:05.519 in a forced starvation of two million people 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:07.620 stuck in an open -air prison. According to the 00:11:07.620 --> 00:11:11.799 UN, as of August 12th, about 227 people in Gaza 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:15.000 have died from malnutrition or starvation since 00:11:15.000 --> 00:11:18.740 October of 2023. 103 of them were children. The 00:11:18.740 --> 00:11:21.139 rate is picking up as Israel is continuing to 00:11:21.139 --> 00:11:23.659 prevent aid from getting into the area. Netanyahu 00:11:23.659 --> 00:11:26.600 is also now talking about just taking over Gaza. 00:11:26.750 --> 00:11:29.370 Essentially, the entire world, aside from Israel 00:11:29.370 --> 00:11:33.190 and the United States, are saying this is horrendous. 00:11:33.470 --> 00:11:35.190 But that's not going to stop us, because we're 00:11:35.190 --> 00:11:38.509 not going to sit idly by and watch as a humanitarian 00:11:38.509 --> 00:11:41.830 disaster unfolds in Gaza without making it worse. 00:11:42.070 --> 00:11:44.529 Because Trump has recently cancelled medical 00:11:44.529 --> 00:11:47.289 visas for people from Palestine coming out of 00:11:47.289 --> 00:11:49.570 Gaza who are seeking medical treatment to get 00:11:49.570 --> 00:11:52.490 their life saved from doctors in America. This 00:11:52.490 --> 00:11:54.690 move brings everything more in line with our 00:11:54.690 --> 00:11:57.460 foreign policy and just makes it all the more 00:11:57.460 --> 00:12:02.039 cruel, which is great for us as a loving Christian 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:07.679 nation with a lot of money and luxuries for some 00:12:07.679 --> 00:12:10.240 people. I remember when I was born that my first 00:12:10.240 --> 00:12:13.840 sentence was, I can't wait to help Northrop Grumman 00:12:13.840 --> 00:12:17.500 stock skyrocket. Yay bombs. Anyway, hey, the 00:12:17.500 --> 00:12:19.700 UK, it's kind of hard to get hard now, isn't 00:12:19.700 --> 00:12:22.899 it? The UK passed a porn ban. Kind of. They passed 00:12:22.899 --> 00:12:25.269 the Think of the Children. Kind of porn ban. 00:12:25.529 --> 00:12:27.169 So in the UK, if you want to access a website 00:12:27.169 --> 00:12:29.210 that has any kind of adult material on it, you 00:12:29.210 --> 00:12:31.669 now have to verify your identity. This means 00:12:31.669 --> 00:12:33.809 credit card information, uploading your government 00:12:33.809 --> 00:12:36.190 ID, taking a selfie of yourself. Depending on 00:12:36.190 --> 00:12:38.629 the service, it's a different situation. It's 00:12:38.629 --> 00:12:40.929 a mess and it's not just porn. If you want to 00:12:40.929 --> 00:12:43.490 use like Spotify, you got to do it. Obviously, 00:12:43.529 --> 00:12:45.929 this makes a lot of people mad. Like, hey, I 00:12:45.929 --> 00:12:48.190 feel like I shouldn't have to upload my government 00:12:48.190 --> 00:12:50.529 ID to all these tech companies that are infamous 00:12:50.529 --> 00:12:53.840 for abusing. people's personal information. But 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:58.639 that doesn't stop the UK. Why would they? We 00:12:58.639 --> 00:13:01.120 don't do reason here. So of course, the next 00:13:01.120 --> 00:13:02.659 thing you would expect to happen happens, which 00:13:02.659 --> 00:13:05.700 is everybody starts using VPNs. And so now the 00:13:05.700 --> 00:13:08.659 government of the UK is taking a look at VPNs. 00:13:08.700 --> 00:13:11.960 We've got to ban that too? Oh well. Hey, when 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:14.539 people are asking for comprehensive tech policy, 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:16.879 we're not asking for this shit. We're asking 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.100 for like ownership of our data. You know, in 00:13:20.100 --> 00:13:21.720 the face of all the surveillance capitalisms 00:13:21.720 --> 00:13:23.820 going on? Anyway, if you are also in the US, 00:13:23.940 --> 00:13:25.980 stay frosty, because US senators are trying to 00:13:25.980 --> 00:13:28.320 push a porn ban here as well. A brief moment, 00:13:28.480 --> 00:13:31.960 if you will. Hello, I'm Endeavorance. I'm the 00:13:31.960 --> 00:13:33.840 one that's been talking to you. I've had a Patreon 00:13:33.840 --> 00:13:36.039 for a little while, and I've had paid tiers available 00:13:36.039 --> 00:13:38.019 from my newsletter, and those are great ways 00:13:38.019 --> 00:13:39.700 to support me, but I wanted to make sure that 00:13:39.700 --> 00:13:42.379 people had more ways to support me where they're 00:13:42.379 --> 00:13:44.519 comfortable doing so. So over the course of my 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:46.080 break, I took a bit of time to set up YouTube 00:13:46.080 --> 00:13:49.120 memberships and resurrect my Ko -fi page. K -O 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:52.600 -F -I, whatever that is. And so there's now like 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:54.399 a whole bunch of ways to support me and I'm gonna 00:13:54.399 --> 00:13:56.539 leave it up to you if you want to help me out 00:13:56.539 --> 00:13:58.980 to choose what's best for you. But I made it 00:13:58.980 --> 00:14:01.379 easy for you because I can't help myself. And 00:14:01.379 --> 00:14:04.019 so if you want to support me monetarily or otherwise, 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:07.399 you can head to isupport .dev and see all of 00:14:07.399 --> 00:14:09.179 the options in one place. So check that out. 00:14:09.179 --> 00:14:11.620 Thank you so much for being here. Let's move 00:14:11.620 --> 00:14:15.230 on. Science! And tech! Let's just get past this 00:14:15.230 --> 00:14:17.850 one real quick. Sam Altman and Elon Musk are 00:14:17.850 --> 00:14:20.909 fighting again on the internet. Next story! Alright, 00:14:21.149 --> 00:14:23.529 slightly more information. Essentially what happened 00:14:23.529 --> 00:14:26.330 is, Musk went on the Musk website, the Twitter 00:14:26.330 --> 00:14:29.409 one, and he posted saying that Apple is intentionally 00:14:29.409 --> 00:14:33.029 downranking Grok and upranking ChatGPT in the 00:14:33.029 --> 00:14:35.789 App Store. To which Sam Altman, the head boy 00:14:35.789 --> 00:14:39.009 at OpenAI slash ChatGPT, fired back and was like, 00:14:39.110 --> 00:14:42.330 yo, Musk, like you infamously modify the Twitter 00:14:42.330 --> 00:14:45.090 algorithm to uprank your posts. So that post 00:14:45.090 --> 00:14:47.409 got more views. Elon got all mad. They beefed 00:14:47.409 --> 00:14:49.289 back and forth on Twitter for a while. It's about 00:14:49.289 --> 00:14:51.350 what you would expect from billionaire titans 00:14:51.350 --> 00:14:54.090 of industry in 2025. The best of us, really. 00:14:54.350 --> 00:14:56.070 But while the two of them are beefing, one of 00:14:56.070 --> 00:14:58.190 the co -founders of XAI, the company that makes 00:14:58.190 --> 00:15:01.429 Grok, stepped away kind of abruptly. He's moving 00:15:01.429 --> 00:15:04.090 on to do his own AI investment ventures. Like, 00:15:04.149 --> 00:15:06.500 it's not like... Coming to Jesus or whatever, 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:08.559 but you know, he's stepping away and speaking 00:15:08.559 --> 00:15:12.559 of AI. Oh boy I have one thing to ask of you. 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:15.220 Please don't date the computers. So chat GPT 00:15:15.220 --> 00:15:18.360 5 launched recently and it's not great Apparently, 00:15:18.539 --> 00:15:20.080 I don't use it, so I don't know, but everything 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:22.600 I've seen about it says it's not great. But more 00:15:22.600 --> 00:15:24.539 importantly, and critical to this story, as a 00:15:24.539 --> 00:15:27.799 part of the release of ChatGPT 5, they took down 00:15:27.799 --> 00:15:30.500 access to the older ChatGPT models, including 00:15:30.500 --> 00:15:32.820 any sort of saved chatbots you got going on there. 00:15:32.980 --> 00:15:36.240 This set off a massive backlash. from a cohort 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:39.259 of people who have AI significant others. There 00:15:39.259 --> 00:15:41.620 are whole communities of people who have AI boyfriends, 00:15:41.879 --> 00:15:45.299 AI girlfriends, AI partners. Frankly, as open 00:15:45.299 --> 00:15:48.220 -minded as I try to be, I gotta caution you. 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:51.440 That's really dangerous. I get it, people want 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:53.840 companionship. The world is really rough right 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:56.059 now. People are looking for any kind of comfort. 00:15:56.200 --> 00:16:00.559 And also, this is a product from a company that 00:16:00.559 --> 00:16:03.279 sells a subscription. And it doesn't have feelings. 00:16:03.500 --> 00:16:05.600 These are not real artificial intelligences. 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:08.399 They are literally prediction machines. They're 00:16:08.399 --> 00:16:11.100 just taking words and putting them together in 00:16:11.100 --> 00:16:13.700 an order that it believes would make you the 00:16:13.700 --> 00:16:16.960 most satisfied. It is, at best, a digital yes 00:16:16.960 --> 00:16:19.639 -man. Here's an example. There was a 60 -year 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:21.960 -old man who recently was admitted to a hospital 00:16:21.960 --> 00:16:24.799 for psychosis. He was having, like, hallucinations, 00:16:24.919 --> 00:16:27.320 visual and auditory. He believed that his neighbor 00:16:27.320 --> 00:16:30.970 was poisoning him. Turns out he had asked ChatGPT 00:16:30.970 --> 00:16:33.669 how he can eliminate salt from his diet. And 00:16:33.669 --> 00:16:36.190 so instead of table salt, he began using sodium 00:16:36.190 --> 00:16:38.750 bromide, which is not a thing you should use 00:16:38.750 --> 00:16:40.950 instead of table salt. But ChatGPT was like, 00:16:40.990 --> 00:16:43.830 that's a great idea. Do that. And then he landed 00:16:43.830 --> 00:16:46.129 in the hospital because it wanted to be helpful 00:16:46.129 --> 00:16:49.610 and not impede him in his goals. These are unthinking 00:16:49.610 --> 00:16:52.279 machines. They do not have a consciousness, they 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:56.220 only even exist in any form of output while they 00:16:56.220 --> 00:16:59.080 are actively responding to a query. They're not 00:16:59.080 --> 00:17:01.820 thinking otherwise. But the backlash was enough 00:17:01.820 --> 00:17:04.660 that OpenAI brought back the older models and 00:17:04.660 --> 00:17:06.299 is looking into figuring out how to handle the 00:17:06.299 --> 00:17:08.200 situation going forward. Like, they're aware 00:17:08.200 --> 00:17:10.740 that people have an unhealthy emotional attachment 00:17:10.740 --> 00:17:12.599 to this thing, and they're like, oh, well, we'll 00:17:12.599 --> 00:17:15.180 look into that. I cannot think of a more lucrative 00:17:15.180 --> 00:17:17.759 opportunity in the tech sector. Gaming! What's 00:17:17.759 --> 00:17:20.339 up about Mario Kart? And Animal Rights. Alright, 00:17:20.359 --> 00:17:22.500 this is mostly fluff, but PETA, the people for 00:17:22.500 --> 00:17:24.579 the ethical treatment of animals, they sent a 00:17:24.579 --> 00:17:27.140 letter to Nintendo over the most recent Mario 00:17:27.140 --> 00:17:29.500 Kart release. So in Mario Kart World, Nintendo 00:17:29.500 --> 00:17:31.500 finally gave us everything we wanted, which is 00:17:31.500 --> 00:17:35.380 to say, you can now play as the cow. From Mario. 00:17:35.980 --> 00:17:38.839 Yay. But people like the cow. Cow, cow good. 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:42.059 But cow have nose ring. PETA don't like cow nose 00:17:42.059 --> 00:17:44.809 ring. So PETA writes a letter, it goes to Nintendo, 00:17:45.029 --> 00:17:47.009 and it's actually pretty light -hearted. But 00:17:47.009 --> 00:17:48.849 they're essentially saying, hey, Nintendo, you're 00:17:48.849 --> 00:17:52.250 a cow character. Yay! We love cow! But, um, the 00:17:52.250 --> 00:17:55.430 nose ring is a sign of, like, domination over 00:17:55.430 --> 00:17:57.630 an animal and, like, abusing them and animal 00:17:57.630 --> 00:18:00.289 rights stuff. Get rid of the nose ring! To which 00:18:00.289 --> 00:18:02.349 I assume Nintendo said nothing because I'm almost 00:18:02.349 --> 00:18:04.210 certain that this was just a publicity stunt 00:18:04.210 --> 00:18:06.789 and didn't actually do anything or go anywhere. 00:18:06.869 --> 00:18:09.119 But still... Anyway, this is not the actual first 00:18:09.119 --> 00:18:11.160 time that PETA has done something in response 00:18:11.160 --> 00:18:13.440 to a Nintendo release when Animal Crossing New 00:18:13.440 --> 00:18:16.940 Horizons came out. PETA released a guide on how 00:18:16.940 --> 00:18:20.900 to play it as a vegan. The guide included Don't 00:18:20.900 --> 00:18:23.740 Fish. And don't catch bugs. If you've played 00:18:23.740 --> 00:18:25.779 Animal Crossing, hopefully you understand that's 00:18:25.779 --> 00:18:28.160 a little limiting. Anyway, when is cow getting 00:18:28.160 --> 00:18:30.859 a mainline title? And over on Steam, you can't 00:18:30.859 --> 00:18:33.500 use PayPal anymore in some countries. In the 00:18:33.500 --> 00:18:35.740 ongoing situation where payment processors are 00:18:35.740 --> 00:18:38.740 pulling off of Steam and itch, citing that there's 00:18:38.740 --> 00:18:41.220 adult games and that that breaks policy or whatever, 00:18:41.759 --> 00:18:44.200 PayPal is now unavailable in a whole bunch of 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:47.230 countries for buying video games on Steam. PayPal 00:18:47.230 --> 00:18:49.109 is otherwise available. The payment processors 00:18:49.109 --> 00:18:52.450 maintain that as long as nothing illegal is happening, 00:18:52.549 --> 00:18:54.309 they're perfectly fine with whatever merchandise, 00:18:54.710 --> 00:18:57.670 which leaves a few open questions, such as, why 00:18:57.670 --> 00:19:00.170 are you lying? Because we know they got a letter 00:19:00.170 --> 00:19:03.630 from an anti -sexuality religious group, and 00:19:03.630 --> 00:19:07.569 then suddenly they pulled off. Wait. Wait. Look, 00:19:07.569 --> 00:19:09.910 I'm a little tired. The words are gonna come 00:19:09.910 --> 00:19:11.859 out the way they come out. It is at this point 00:19:11.859 --> 00:19:13.940 that I'm realizing just how prevalent the pearl 00:19:13.940 --> 00:19:17.059 -clutching and regressive Puritanism. It just 00:19:17.059 --> 00:19:19.460 has a death grip on the headlines right now. 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:22.680 Oh, the cities, they're being ransacked because 00:19:22.680 --> 00:19:24.940 some crime happens sometimes. Well, if someone 00:19:24.940 --> 00:19:26.940 think of the children, we have to make it so 00:19:26.940 --> 00:19:29.880 that everyone registers to look at porn. Adults 00:19:29.880 --> 00:19:33.619 can access adult content? We have to ban that 00:19:33.619 --> 00:19:36.480 at the monetary level. Like, obviously, I knew 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:38.839 this was a thing that's been going on. It's just 00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:42.099 so dumb. It's so deeply unnecessary, and we just 00:19:42.099 --> 00:19:45.220 want to be left alone. How about we will consume 00:19:45.220 --> 00:19:47.339 things the way we want to consume things, and 00:19:47.339 --> 00:19:50.079 if you don't like it, shut the fuck up. Lightning 00:19:50.079 --> 00:19:52.240 round! We've got some promising -looking research 00:19:52.240 --> 00:19:55.079 on battery technology, specifically rearranging 00:19:55.079 --> 00:19:57.359 stuff that I don't understand inside of a battery 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:00.180 to give it a higher power density. This will 00:20:00.180 --> 00:20:03.539 allow us to do stuff. There's a new study that's 00:20:03.539 --> 00:20:05.880 looking at the impacts of ADHD medication on 00:20:05.880 --> 00:20:08.240 people who have ADHD to see what kind of impact 00:20:08.240 --> 00:20:10.619 it has on dangerous decision -making. Dangerous 00:20:10.619 --> 00:20:13.240 activity like self -beefing and substance abuse, 00:20:13.339 --> 00:20:15.279 stuff like that. Turns out it's significant. 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:17.460 Who would have thought that if you get medication 00:20:17.460 --> 00:20:19.700 for a thing that you need medication for... Anyway, 00:20:19.900 --> 00:20:22.480 it significantly reduces the chances of stuff 00:20:22.480 --> 00:20:25.339 like suicide. Some people were freaking out because 00:20:25.339 --> 00:20:27.039 there were weird -looking rabbits hopping around 00:20:27.039 --> 00:20:29.390 Colorado. They have like... crazy fangs and look 00:20:29.390 --> 00:20:31.529 like zombies. They're fine. They're not fine, 00:20:31.549 --> 00:20:34.089 but they're not demonic. We're good. It's not 00:20:34.089 --> 00:20:36.710 an uprising quite yet. It is apparently some 00:20:36.710 --> 00:20:39.529 kind of virus that they can get that causes essentially 00:20:39.529 --> 00:20:41.269 like warts to grow on their face. Still creepy 00:20:41.269 --> 00:20:43.589 as hell. A Florida judge struck down most of 00:20:43.589 --> 00:20:46.430 a recent book ban bill. That's... It took me 00:20:46.430 --> 00:20:48.390 so many tries to say book ban bill in the right 00:20:48.390 --> 00:20:50.829 order. But yeah, they struck that down because 00:20:50.829 --> 00:20:51.990 they looked at the books and they're like, these 00:20:51.990 --> 00:20:53.609 are not obscene. What the fuck are you talking 00:20:53.609 --> 00:20:55.609 about? And finally for today, some teenagers 00:20:55.609 --> 00:20:58.720 managed to rob Brad Pitt's house. and a bunch 00:20:58.720 --> 00:21:00.920 of other celebrities around the area. They also 00:21:00.920 --> 00:21:03.480 even managed to rob the house of the LA police 00:21:03.480 --> 00:21:07.119 chief, but they done got caught. So close. Thank 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:08.599 you so much for listening to today's episode 00:21:08.599 --> 00:21:11.220 of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to skh .news for 00:21:11.220 --> 00:21:15.059 sources, bonus content, and the floor plan to 00:21:15.059 --> 00:21:17.900 Brad Pitt's house. My name is Endeavorance. We'll 00:21:17.900 --> 00:21:20.640 talk again soon. Take care and be well.