Hello. I cooked all my meals from monsters in
the dungeon. But stuff still happened. So what's
up? I'm back. Wow. It was a lot. It was a lot.
A lot happened while I was gone. Too much. But
let's start off with a heist. In Philadelphia,
there's been a bunch of robberies of armored
cars. You know those armored vans, right? They
service banks, they're boxy, they've got money
inside. That's basically the entire business
structure who's in. Anyway, one of these companies,
Brinks, has been burgled a bunch of times around
the Philadelphia area, like in suburbs and such.
Most recently, thieves held up a driver at Gunpoint
and stole about $700 ,000 from the armored car.
Now, I will note that the second the driver is
held up by Gunpoint, the armor doesn't do much.
$700 grand is a good haul, but in June, they
stole $2 million from a different truck, which
begs the question... Why aren't these trucks
coming to my house? Anyway, the local investigators
and attorney say that they have found suspects
and they've arrested three people, one of whom
they say is a former employee of Brinks, the
armored car company, to which that guy's lawyer
says that he's not involved at all. What are
you talking about? Get out of here. Anyway, long
story short, security theater is not practical.
I'm a consultant. Hire me. Moving on. Stateside.
Sorry, that was supposed to be with a frown.
Stateside. Okay, I'm just gonna front -load all
of the Trump bullshit into one segment. Like,
I don't want this to be the entirety of the stateside
news. So let's just jump in. We'll start off
with the DC takeover. So Washington DC is currently
occupied by Trump -aligned forces. That may sound
editorialized, but I don't know what else to
call a group of military people being dispersed
into a city at the express direction of a single
guy for no reason. Donald Trump has deployed
hundreds of members of the National Guard to
Washington DC alongside a whole bunch of federal
agents to assist in law enforcement. He has declared
a crime emergency in the city and says that DC
is this lawless hellhole where you just get shot
for breathing. It's absurd. It was absurd enough
that I posted a video even though it's supposed
to be on break last week and I'll just summarize
what I said there. There's nothing happening
in DC that merits any of this. This is a very
sad show of force from a sad old man who has
to make good on campaign promises to hurt people.
Donald Trump on the campaign trail referred to
himself as, and I quote, your retribution. Right
-wing news outlets have been talking about how
liberals have been ruining the lives of every
American in every city, and they're coming after
your jobs and kids and way of life. Here comes
Donald Trump. Don't you want to punish the libs?
And because he can technically sort of legally
do this, that's why they're doing it. It's the
classic, like, oh, you're opposed to us deploying
people to help with the crime? Why are you pro
-crime? It's incredibly... Insultingly stupid
and another example of how little they respect
us But yeah, if you are a person in Washington
DC and you're just out and about Going to get
a coffee hanging out with some friends going
to one of the trillion farmers markets that now
have cops all over them You might walk by the
train station and see multiple army vehicles
parked out front like armored cars Washington
DC streets are filled with like Book sales and
like cultural events. This is embarrassing. It's
such a waste of money It's such a waste of time
and it's such a waste of human energy No one
needs to be doing any of this. We don't need
them on the streets because there's nothing to
stop in the first place, and all it's going to
do is cause people to have to uproot their lives
and continue to protest against nothing. We can't
help with the economy, we can't help, you know,
put, put homeless people in houses, we can't
feed children reliably in this country, but we
sure as shit can deploy the military into cities
that didn't vote for any of this. LA and DC.
famously want federal control of their cities.
And Republicans who don't want federal control
of anything are more than happy to take federal
control of those cities because it was never
about anything but revenge. Anyway, we also got
Sandwich Guy. There was a guy in DC who threw
a footlong subway sandwich at an FBI agent and
then was arrested and then was charged with a
felony by the administration that pardoned all
the January 6 people who like literally killed
a cop. Yeah, the Justice Department was like,
ah, you won't mess with our agents, except for
the ones that did, and then we pardoned them,
but you're getting a felony? Because that officer
was gluten -free and you hit him with some bread.
Again, embarrassing. It's just a deeply embarrassing
administration. Like, I've gone past being embarrassed
to be an American. I'm used to that now. I'm
embarrassed on behalf of the people who are still
lying to themselves and pretending that this
administration is anything less than a clown
show. Anyway, sandwich guy, he's not getting
charged with a felony. A judge agreed that that's
stupid as fuck and dropped the charges. But regardless,
Trump has a 30 -day time limit on this move,
but is already talking about declaring a national
emergency to extend this indefinitely. Other
states are also sending their National Guard
to DC. Which is wild. I don't think DC needs
your National Guard. That's a little weird. It's
a little weird for a military from a state to
go across to somewhere else. to garrison it against
the will of the people living there. It's a little
weird. Last thing on Trump, I cannot wait to
move on from all of it, but right now too. He
met with Putin in Alaska on Friday, and it went
exactly as people thought it was going to, which
is he got steamrolled by Putin. They went into
a meeting, Trump came out, Putin talked about
nothing, and then Trump talked about nothing,
and then they left. And then Trump was like,
I gotta make some phone calls to other leaders,
and we'll see if we can make something happen.
As time goes on, it's becoming more and more
clear that essentially Trump folded and agreed
to Russia's position on how this war should end
and is now going to the EU to be like, hey, we
should do this plan. It's a great plan. When
I went to go see what like the right -wing opinion
of all of this was, they were preoccupied with
the fact that a B -2 bomber did a flyover of
the meeting and they were like, oh, that's so
cool! Let's ignore literally every other part
of the entire meeting. Okay, actual last thing,
because it's this fucking administration, of
course there was an extra bonus super ultra dumb
thing, which is that they found papers in a printer
at an Alaskan hotel that had intel on it. Like
staffers, as a part of this whole meeting, printed
out some intel on a hotel printer and left the
papers there! Who needs signal when you can just...
print? Let's talk about the CDC shooting, because
I - I'm sure it's been talked about, but I feel
like it hasn't really been talked about. There's
so much going on all the time, and major things
are just being swept under the rug. Like, I don't
know, the recent political assassinations? But,
you know, let's talk about a different attempted
political -ish assassination. The CDC was targeted
by a guy who was attempting to massacre the people
working there. This happened back on August 8th.
A man from Georgia went to the Atlanta CDC headquarters
and unleashed hundreds of bullets on the campus.
One police officer on the site was killed and
thousands of employees were sheltering in place
for hours. A whole bunch of windows were shot
out, but thankfully that was the extent of the
damage. One life is still a lot, but I mean,
you know. So why? Why would he go do this? Why
would somebody go attack the Center for Disease
Control and Prevention? It's because he was a
COVID conspiracy theorist. His parents actually
went to authorities because they were concerned
about his mental health because he was becoming
obsessed with the COVID vaccine. He truly believed
that he was doing untold harm to him and a whole
bunch of other people, and he wanted to take
it out on the CDC. Like, we had a nation's pandemic,
and through feats of wonder, we were able to
produce a vaccine. And people found a way to
convince themselves that that was the Antichrist.
and then they were voted into office. All because
some people whined about face masks. So here
is a guy who is just out of his mind, goes after
the CDC, hundreds of bullets. He was intending
to massacre the place. It was expressly because
he was driven to madness from the insanity around
the COVID vaccine. I truly and honestly thought,
now that we're years out from the time that they
said everyone who took a vaccine would die, that
we'd be over that, but apparently not. I must
be dead like eight times over. I got so many
fucking boosters. All right, let's go off the
rails. Like a Texas train. There was a derailment
in Texas. Woo! That was me being a derailment.
A Union Pacific freight train in Texas derailed.
Thankfully, no casualties, no evacuations. But
it was 35 jackknifed cars that were carrying
some hazmats and propane. No word on propane
accessories, though. It was kind of miraculous
that nothing too bad happened. There were some
grass fires that they were taking care of. And
like I said, there was one car that had propane
in it and it got beat up. But local officials
took care of it by setting it on fire. I have
to believe that if you are a person whose job
is like emergency crisis response and they're
like, yo, Jonathan, they've got there's a derailment
here. Stonathan, can you come out here and do
your thing? And Stonathan's like, alright, yeah,
this is what I train for. He comes out there
and sees that there's the opportunity to light
a tanker of propane on fire in the name of public
safety. They're gonna be like, hell yeah. This
is why I don't work in public safety. Elsewhere,
flight attendants in Canada, for Air Canada,
are on strike. The flight attendants are looking
for reasonable pay. If you're not aware, flight
attendants are really only paid for hours in
the air. So when they're on the ground and they're
like boarding or de -boarding a plane, they're
not getting paid. They're literally at their
job not getting paid. And they're like, hey,
I feel like we should probably be paid for this.
I would hope that most people would agree, but
Air Canada is not most people. And so they haven't
agreed to that. Now, this is a big deal. Air
Canada is the biggest air carrier in Canada,
and this is one of those things where it's a
strike that could threaten the economy. Canada
actually has a system in place to allow the government
to force workers back to work if it would impact
the economy. Apparently, the workers being taken
care of is not a part of the economy that they're
worried about impacting. But, the union said
fuck off. They're not going back to work. Despite
the agency in the Canadian government saying
you got you got to go back. They're saying no
and in part They're saying no because the person
at the head of that agency is a former high -level
attorney from Air Canada Wouldn't you know it
so right on y 'all are righteous always stand
in solidarity Sorry for anybody whose flight
got fucked up, but maybe Air Canada should pay
at all. Meanwhile, over in Gaza, we are still
watching as Israel and the United States participate
in a forced starvation of two million people
stuck in an open -air prison. According to the
UN, as of August 12th, about 227 people in Gaza
have died from malnutrition or starvation since
October of 2023. 103 of them were children. The
rate is picking up as Israel is continuing to
prevent aid from getting into the area. Netanyahu
is also now talking about just taking over Gaza.
Essentially, the entire world, aside from Israel
and the United States, are saying this is horrendous.
But that's not going to stop us, because we're
not going to sit idly by and watch as a humanitarian
disaster unfolds in Gaza without making it worse.
Because Trump has recently cancelled medical
visas for people from Palestine coming out of
Gaza who are seeking medical treatment to get
their life saved from doctors in America. This
move brings everything more in line with our
foreign policy and just makes it all the more
cruel, which is great for us as a loving Christian
nation with a lot of money and luxuries for some
people. I remember when I was born that my first
sentence was, I can't wait to help Northrop Grumman
stock skyrocket. Yay bombs. Anyway, hey, the
UK, it's kind of hard to get hard now, isn't
it? The UK passed a porn ban. Kind of. They passed
the Think of the Children. Kind of porn ban.
So in the UK, if you want to access a website
that has any kind of adult material on it, you
now have to verify your identity. This means
credit card information, uploading your government
ID, taking a selfie of yourself. Depending on
the service, it's a different situation. It's
a mess and it's not just porn. If you want to
use like Spotify, you got to do it. Obviously,
this makes a lot of people mad. Like, hey, I
feel like I shouldn't have to upload my government
ID to all these tech companies that are infamous
for abusing. people's personal information. But
that doesn't stop the UK. Why would they? We
don't do reason here. So of course, the next
thing you would expect to happen happens, which
is everybody starts using VPNs. And so now the
government of the UK is taking a look at VPNs.
We've got to ban that too? Oh well. Hey, when
people are asking for comprehensive tech policy,
we're not asking for this shit. We're asking
for like ownership of our data. You know, in
the face of all the surveillance capitalisms
going on? Anyway, if you are also in the US,
stay frosty, because US senators are trying to
push a porn ban here as well. A brief moment,
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Thank you so much for being here. Let's move
on. Science! And tech! Let's just get past this
one real quick. Sam Altman and Elon Musk are
fighting again on the internet. Next story! Alright,
slightly more information. Essentially what happened
is, Musk went on the Musk website, the Twitter
one, and he posted saying that Apple is intentionally
downranking Grok and upranking ChatGPT in the
App Store. To which Sam Altman, the head boy
at OpenAI slash ChatGPT, fired back and was like,
yo, Musk, like you infamously modify the Twitter
algorithm to uprank your posts. So that post
got more views. Elon got all mad. They beefed
back and forth on Twitter for a while. It's about
what you would expect from billionaire titans
of industry in 2025. The best of us, really.
But while the two of them are beefing, one of
the co -founders of XAI, the company that makes
Grok, stepped away kind of abruptly. He's moving
on to do his own AI investment ventures. Like,
it's not like... Coming to Jesus or whatever,
but you know, he's stepping away and speaking
of AI. Oh boy I have one thing to ask of you.
Please don't date the computers. So chat GPT
5 launched recently and it's not great Apparently,
I don't use it, so I don't know, but everything
I've seen about it says it's not great. But more
importantly, and critical to this story, as a
part of the release of ChatGPT 5, they took down
access to the older ChatGPT models, including
any sort of saved chatbots you got going on there.
This set off a massive backlash. from a cohort
of people who have AI significant others. There
are whole communities of people who have AI boyfriends,
AI girlfriends, AI partners. Frankly, as open
-minded as I try to be, I gotta caution you.
That's really dangerous. I get it, people want
companionship. The world is really rough right
now. People are looking for any kind of comfort.
And also, this is a product from a company that
sells a subscription. And it doesn't have feelings.
These are not real artificial intelligences.
They are literally prediction machines. They're
just taking words and putting them together in
an order that it believes would make you the
most satisfied. It is, at best, a digital yes
-man. Here's an example. There was a 60 -year
-old man who recently was admitted to a hospital
for psychosis. He was having, like, hallucinations,
visual and auditory. He believed that his neighbor
was poisoning him. Turns out he had asked ChatGPT
how he can eliminate salt from his diet. And
so instead of table salt, he began using sodium
bromide, which is not a thing you should use
instead of table salt. But ChatGPT was like,
that's a great idea. Do that. And then he landed
in the hospital because it wanted to be helpful
and not impede him in his goals. These are unthinking
machines. They do not have a consciousness, they
only even exist in any form of output while they
are actively responding to a query. They're not
thinking otherwise. But the backlash was enough
that OpenAI brought back the older models and
is looking into figuring out how to handle the
situation going forward. Like, they're aware
that people have an unhealthy emotional attachment
to this thing, and they're like, oh, well, we'll
look into that. I cannot think of a more lucrative
opportunity in the tech sector. Gaming! What's
up about Mario Kart? And Animal Rights. Alright,
this is mostly fluff, but PETA, the people for
the ethical treatment of animals, they sent a
letter to Nintendo over the most recent Mario
Kart release. So in Mario Kart World, Nintendo
finally gave us everything we wanted, which is
to say, you can now play as the cow. From Mario.
Yay. But people like the cow. Cow, cow good.
But cow have nose ring. PETA don't like cow nose
ring. So PETA writes a letter, it goes to Nintendo,
and it's actually pretty light -hearted. But
they're essentially saying, hey, Nintendo, you're
a cow character. Yay! We love cow! But, um, the
nose ring is a sign of, like, domination over
an animal and, like, abusing them and animal
rights stuff. Get rid of the nose ring! To which
I assume Nintendo said nothing because I'm almost
certain that this was just a publicity stunt
and didn't actually do anything or go anywhere.
But still... Anyway, this is not the actual first
time that PETA has done something in response
to a Nintendo release when Animal Crossing New
Horizons came out. PETA released a guide on how
to play it as a vegan. The guide included Don't
Fish. And don't catch bugs. If you've played
Animal Crossing, hopefully you understand that's
a little limiting. Anyway, when is cow getting
a mainline title? And over on Steam, you can't
use PayPal anymore in some countries. In the
ongoing situation where payment processors are
pulling off of Steam and itch, citing that there's
adult games and that that breaks policy or whatever,
PayPal is now unavailable in a whole bunch of
countries for buying video games on Steam. PayPal
is otherwise available. The payment processors
maintain that as long as nothing illegal is happening,
they're perfectly fine with whatever merchandise,
which leaves a few open questions, such as, why
are you lying? Because we know they got a letter
from an anti -sexuality religious group, and
then suddenly they pulled off. Wait. Wait. Look,
I'm a little tired. The words are gonna come
out the way they come out. It is at this point
that I'm realizing just how prevalent the pearl
-clutching and regressive Puritanism. It just
has a death grip on the headlines right now.
Oh, the cities, they're being ransacked because
some crime happens sometimes. Well, if someone
think of the children, we have to make it so
that everyone registers to look at porn. Adults
can access adult content? We have to ban that
at the monetary level. Like, obviously, I knew
this was a thing that's been going on. It's just
so dumb. It's so deeply unnecessary, and we just
want to be left alone. How about we will consume
things the way we want to consume things, and
if you don't like it, shut the fuck up. Lightning
round! We've got some promising -looking research
on battery technology, specifically rearranging
stuff that I don't understand inside of a battery
to give it a higher power density. This will
allow us to do stuff. There's a new study that's
looking at the impacts of ADHD medication on
people who have ADHD to see what kind of impact
it has on dangerous decision -making. Dangerous
activity like self -beefing and substance abuse,
stuff like that. Turns out it's significant.
Who would have thought that if you get medication
for a thing that you need medication for... Anyway,
it significantly reduces the chances of stuff
like suicide. Some people were freaking out because
there were weird -looking rabbits hopping around
Colorado. They have like... crazy fangs and look
like zombies. They're fine. They're not fine,
but they're not demonic. We're good. It's not
an uprising quite yet. It is apparently some
kind of virus that they can get that causes essentially
like warts to grow on their face. Still creepy
as hell. A Florida judge struck down most of
a recent book ban bill. That's... It took me
so many tries to say book ban bill in the right
order. But yeah, they struck that down because
they looked at the books and they're like, these
are not obscene. What the fuck are you talking
about? And finally for today, some teenagers
managed to rob Brad Pitt's house. and a bunch
of other celebrities around the area. They also
even managed to rob the house of the LA police
chief, but they done got caught. So close. Thank
you so much for listening to today's episode
of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to skh .news for
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Brad Pitt's house. My name is Endeavorance. We'll
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