WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.339 Hello. I pet a baby cow this weekend. But stuff 00:00:05.339 --> 00:00:08.480 still happened. So what's up? Okay, state folk, 00:00:09.080 --> 00:00:11.160 which way are we going? Before I get to the general 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:13.080 state side stuff, I want to talk about a poll 00:00:13.080 --> 00:00:15.240 that's currently circulating, showing that Republicans 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:17.359 are souring on the direction of the country. 00:00:18.059 --> 00:00:20.760 APNORC had a poll, and that poll showed that 00:00:20.760 --> 00:00:23.260 Republican sentiment about if this country's 00:00:23.260 --> 00:00:26.039 going in the right direction dropped dramatically 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:29.469 this month. Like from 70 % to like 49%, like 00:00:29.469 --> 00:00:32.130 a huge drop in sentiment. So what caused this? 00:00:32.189 --> 00:00:34.520 Are they turning on Trump? Probably not, but 00:00:34.520 --> 00:00:36.000 I want to talk about this for a little bit because 00:00:36.000 --> 00:00:39.020 it's interesting. There's fractures, but it's 00:00:39.020 --> 00:00:41.219 not an about face. It's fair to assume, since 00:00:41.219 --> 00:00:43.420 this drop happened pretty recently, that it was 00:00:43.420 --> 00:00:45.799 in part impacted by the Charlie Kirk assassination. 00:00:46.060 --> 00:00:49.020 There are a lot of people who are white conservatives 00:00:49.020 --> 00:00:51.659 that don't pay much attention to the news, who 00:00:51.659 --> 00:00:53.600 saw that the news is showing that someone who 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:55.420 looks a lot like them just got shot in the neck. 00:00:55.700 --> 00:00:57.359 A person who looks a lot like them and says a 00:00:57.359 --> 00:00:59.509 lot of the things that they say... got shot in 00:00:59.509 --> 00:01:01.469 the neck. Now, a lot of people get shot in a 00:01:01.469 --> 00:01:03.649 lot of places all the time in this country, but 00:01:03.649 --> 00:01:05.609 rarely is it a white conservative talking head 00:01:05.609 --> 00:01:08.469 getting shot on video in HD. So there's that 00:01:08.469 --> 00:01:11.269 aspect of it, but there's also the massive crackdown 00:01:11.269 --> 00:01:12.909 on free speech that's been coming from the White 00:01:12.909 --> 00:01:15.439 House ever since the assassination. An obvious 00:01:15.439 --> 00:01:17.319 example of this is the Jimmy Kimmel situation 00:01:17.319 --> 00:01:19.819 where he got pulled off air for a very tepid 00:01:19.819 --> 00:01:21.640 statement. I want to be clear that I don't care 00:01:21.640 --> 00:01:25.120 about Jimmy Kimmel. I don't at all. But his statement 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:28.319 was that the MAGA world is working overtime to 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:31.000 paint the shooter of Charlie Kirk as some leftist 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:33.200 extremist. That was the statement. That was the 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:35.000 thing that got him taken off air. They're claiming 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:37.200 that that was like hate speech or something. 00:01:37.400 --> 00:01:39.579 It is now that I will point out that a recent 00:01:39.579 --> 00:01:41.739 report came out showing that the Fed has made 00:01:41.739 --> 00:01:45.019 no link between the shooter and any leftist group 00:01:45.019 --> 00:01:48.840 whatsoever. So he, that was just the truth. But 00:01:48.840 --> 00:01:50.500 it doesn't matter. He got pulled anyway. And 00:01:50.500 --> 00:01:53.099 of course, immediately Democrats were like, ah, 00:01:53.260 --> 00:01:56.159 Makimel. But Republicans were not uniform in 00:01:56.159 --> 00:01:58.200 their response. There was plenty that are cheering 00:01:58.200 --> 00:02:00.659 on the move and like, yeah, that the White House 00:02:00.659 --> 00:02:02.700 should absolutely go after people that I don't 00:02:02.700 --> 00:02:05.500 like personally. But others actually seem to 00:02:05.500 --> 00:02:09.319 remember that Free speech and not having a government 00:02:09.319 --> 00:02:11.460 chilling speech is actually part of their platform. 00:02:11.879 --> 00:02:14.300 And they were like, I don't know how to handle 00:02:14.300 --> 00:02:16.740 this one. The White House is now trying to crack 00:02:16.740 --> 00:02:19.060 down on the left talking about rooting out left 00:02:19.060 --> 00:02:22.020 wing terrorism, which isn't a thing in this country. 00:02:22.280 --> 00:02:24.419 So now this is just my opinion. But with everything 00:02:24.419 --> 00:02:26.919 that's going on with the vitriol, with the response 00:02:26.919 --> 00:02:28.639 from the White House, with the assassination, 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:31.599 with the heightened tensions, I think even Republicans 00:02:31.599 --> 00:02:34.030 are like, what the fuck is happening here? In 00:02:34.030 --> 00:02:35.889 interviews with Republican voters about this 00:02:35.889 --> 00:02:37.750 subject matter, they talked about a variety of 00:02:37.750 --> 00:02:40.030 things, mostly stuff like the economy, and how 00:02:40.030 --> 00:02:41.949 they can't get a job. Or how they feel like there's 00:02:41.949 --> 00:02:44.189 a lot of violent rhetoric going on, and just 00:02:44.189 --> 00:02:46.150 anger, and we're at each other's throats. Which 00:02:46.150 --> 00:02:51.550 is... I mean... The president's fault, to a degree? 00:02:51.629 --> 00:02:54.110 Like, obviously it's not just him, but the guy 00:02:54.110 --> 00:02:56.930 spends every single day railing against people 00:02:56.930 --> 00:02:59.210 while fucking up the economy. I think they're, 00:02:59.210 --> 00:03:00.919 um... I think they're a little annoyed by that. 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:02.979 So yeah, we've got like an administration that's 00:03:02.979 --> 00:03:04.639 trying to crack down on free speech that's using 00:03:04.639 --> 00:03:08.280 the death of some dude as a reason to go after 00:03:08.280 --> 00:03:10.460 people. The economy is bad, the job market is 00:03:10.460 --> 00:03:12.659 bad, public health is bad, public mental health 00:03:12.659 --> 00:03:15.159 is inaccessible. Birth rates are low, public 00:03:15.159 --> 00:03:17.219 safety is low, crime is on the rise. There's 00:03:17.219 --> 00:03:19.439 only so long that culture war quote -unquote 00:03:19.439 --> 00:03:22.919 victories can keep people satisfied. Those don't 00:03:22.919 --> 00:03:25.020 feed the hungry. The Trump administration has 00:03:25.020 --> 00:03:26.919 already shown that they're willing to fire officials 00:03:26.919 --> 00:03:28.840 who put out a report that makes the government 00:03:28.840 --> 00:03:30.879 look kind of bad. And now they're getting rid 00:03:30.879 --> 00:03:33.539 of the annual report on hunger, citing that it's 00:03:33.539 --> 00:03:36.500 too overly politicized. This report being a key 00:03:36.500 --> 00:03:39.419 way that we can analyze what hunger and poverty 00:03:39.419 --> 00:03:41.319 looks like in the country. But we're just gonna 00:03:41.319 --> 00:03:43.740 get rid of it. Legislating against trans people 00:03:43.740 --> 00:03:46.000 doesn't give health care to your elderly parents 00:03:46.000 --> 00:03:48.460 when they need it. Funding ICE more than most 00:03:48.460 --> 00:03:50.840 militaries doesn't make it so that corporations 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:53.560 pay reasonable salaries. And multiple crypto 00:03:53.560 --> 00:03:55.599 schemes from the literal President of the United 00:03:55.599 --> 00:03:58.400 States of America doesn't ease housing market 00:03:58.400 --> 00:04:00.599 problems. At the end of the day, I want to remind 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:02.639 you of this. There's a lot of people out there 00:04:02.639 --> 00:04:04.360 that want the same thing as you do. They want 00:04:04.360 --> 00:04:07.669 safety, security, and a future. Unfortunately, 00:04:07.870 --> 00:04:10.430 a lot of people don't have the time or space 00:04:10.430 --> 00:04:13.849 or tools to learn how to effectively bring about 00:04:13.849 --> 00:04:16.149 that change. And so their dissatisfaction and 00:04:16.149 --> 00:04:18.589 lack of direction make them perfect prey for 00:04:18.589 --> 00:04:21.310 those who want to profit off of sewing division. 00:04:21.670 --> 00:04:24.230 There are absolutely bad actors out there, but 00:04:24.230 --> 00:04:26.649 those bad actors are dwarfed by people who just 00:04:26.649 --> 00:04:29.050 want to not be hungry tomorrow. And unfortunately, 00:04:29.110 --> 00:04:30.910 when people want to not be hungry tomorrow, they're 00:04:30.910 --> 00:04:33.310 willing to believe a lot of things that make 00:04:33.310 --> 00:04:35.029 them feel like they might not be hungry tomorrow. 00:04:35.180 --> 00:04:37.459 And so it's everyone's job to help make sure 00:04:37.459 --> 00:04:40.600 that we all know how we actually get fed. Which 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:43.839 is to say eat the rich. Moving on. Stateside. 00:04:44.139 --> 00:04:47.579 Still. The TikTok sale is happening. Kind of. 00:04:47.620 --> 00:04:49.259 But it's not. But it's not a sale, but it is 00:04:49.259 --> 00:04:52.120 a sale. And it's... Not gonna do anything. A 00:04:52.120 --> 00:04:54.579 deal has reportedly been met about the acquisition 00:04:54.579 --> 00:04:58.279 of TikTok by U .S. agencies because national 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:00.740 security, apparently. Oracle, Silver Lake, and 00:05:00.740 --> 00:05:04.079 A16Z, which are three giant tech investment firms, 00:05:04.199 --> 00:05:06.439 are going to have an 80 % stake in the U .S. 00:05:06.779 --> 00:05:08.740 operations of TikTok. Oracle is gonna be controlling 00:05:08.740 --> 00:05:12.250 user data, and they're gonna lease... The algorithm 00:05:12.250 --> 00:05:14.509 from China? Whatever the fuck that means? It 00:05:14.509 --> 00:05:16.350 was apparently the algorithm, that was the problem. 00:05:16.449 --> 00:05:18.970 You know, China was able to influence our national 00:05:18.970 --> 00:05:20.430 discussion or whatever, it's like a national 00:05:20.430 --> 00:05:22.509 security thing, and that is still just gonna 00:05:22.509 --> 00:05:25.310 come from China? I guess? We really don't have 00:05:25.310 --> 00:05:26.970 a lot of information, so we don't actually know, 00:05:27.009 --> 00:05:28.910 but that's what the current reporting says. But 00:05:28.910 --> 00:05:31.750 it does look like a new US -specific app will 00:05:31.750 --> 00:05:33.810 roll out, and people on TikTok will need to move 00:05:33.810 --> 00:05:37.579 over to that if you're in the US. I don't have 00:05:37.579 --> 00:05:39.779 high hopes for this. Oracle is owned by Larry 00:05:39.779 --> 00:05:42.540 Ellison, and Larry Ellison is a massive Trump 00:05:42.540 --> 00:05:44.379 supporter and one of the richest people on the 00:05:44.379 --> 00:05:46.839 planet. He's basically Elon Musk, but you haven't 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:49.879 seen him as much. Now, notably, this guy's son 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:53.560 is now the CEO of CBS and Paramount. That makes 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:55.480 the Ellison family, which is one of the richest 00:05:55.480 --> 00:05:59.370 families in the world, also one of the most influential 00:05:59.370 --> 00:06:01.910 families in media. They're working to put Barry 00:06:01.910 --> 00:06:05.009 Weiss, who is a massive quote -unquote anti -woke 00:06:05.009 --> 00:06:07.730 conservative journalist, as the editor -in -chief 00:06:07.730 --> 00:06:10.129 of CBS News. Now's a great time to subscribe 00:06:10.129 --> 00:06:11.930 to my newsletter if you don't do that already. 00:06:12.149 --> 00:06:13.610 We're waiting for the details, we don't exactly 00:06:13.610 --> 00:06:15.709 know how this is gonna work, but as a reminder, 00:06:16.410 --> 00:06:19.170 don't ever put all of your eggs in one corporate 00:06:19.170 --> 00:06:21.639 basket when it comes to media. This is why I 00:06:21.639 --> 00:06:24.899 am everywhere. This is why I have so many profiles, 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:27.939 including places that I personally self -host, 00:06:28.300 --> 00:06:31.220 to have no worries about losing everything if 00:06:31.220 --> 00:06:36.139 a company goes shitty. So diversify. Thumbs up. 00:06:36.500 --> 00:06:38.360 Let's talk about Mississippi, where two different 00:06:38.360 --> 00:06:40.540 men were found hanging from two different trees 00:06:40.540 --> 00:06:42.879 on the same day, hours apart from each other. 00:06:43.139 --> 00:06:45.459 Mississippi has a long and very unfortunate history 00:06:45.459 --> 00:06:47.920 of lynchings. Even in modern day, there have 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:50.670 been at least eight of them since 2000. And that's 00:06:50.670 --> 00:06:53.189 a severe undercount. But recently, two different 00:06:53.189 --> 00:06:56.110 men were found hanging from trees, both in Mississippi, 00:06:56.410 --> 00:06:58.529 within like three hours of each other. The first 00:06:58.529 --> 00:07:01.250 was Trey Reed, a black 21 -year -old student 00:07:01.250 --> 00:07:03.550 of Delta State University who was found hanging 00:07:03.550 --> 00:07:06.430 from a tree. Initial reports were that he had 00:07:06.430 --> 00:07:08.569 broken limbs in addition to being found dead 00:07:08.569 --> 00:07:11.069 on the tree. Those reports were proven untrue. 00:07:11.089 --> 00:07:13.089 He did not actually have broken limbs. At least 00:07:13.089 --> 00:07:15.730 that's the data that we have now. But that doesn't 00:07:15.730 --> 00:07:18.810 change the fact that virtually immediately authorities 00:07:18.810 --> 00:07:21.800 said No foul play. This was a suicide. Before 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:23.660 we knew anything else, they were already saying 00:07:23.660 --> 00:07:26.060 they didn't suspect foul play, which is what 00:07:26.060 --> 00:07:28.620 they do every time this happens. A few hours 00:07:28.620 --> 00:07:30.759 later, Corey Zoukades was found hanging from 00:07:30.759 --> 00:07:33.500 a tree. He was a white homeless man who we don't 00:07:33.500 --> 00:07:35.459 really know much more about. That investigation 00:07:35.459 --> 00:07:38.120 is also still ongoing. In Reed's case, the coroner 00:07:38.120 --> 00:07:40.500 has already declared it a suicide, but the family 00:07:40.500 --> 00:07:43.120 is rejecting that. A foundation by former NFL 00:07:43.120 --> 00:07:45.019 player Colin Kaepernick is going to be paying 00:07:45.019 --> 00:07:48.480 for a private secondary autopsy on read. This 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:50.420 is obviously horrible. Like, we don't know what 00:07:50.420 --> 00:07:52.939 happened. We're not going to get good info. There's 00:07:52.939 --> 00:07:55.620 not an interest in getting that good info. But 00:07:55.620 --> 00:07:57.660 it's very difficult to ignore that, right when 00:07:57.660 --> 00:08:00.300 we have this escalated sense of political violence, 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:03.319 two people are found hanging from trees, one 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:06.699 black and one homeless, two groups that are often 00:08:06.699 --> 00:08:09.420 targeted by conservatives. Quite literally, a 00:08:09.420 --> 00:08:12.000 conservative commentator on Fox News suggested 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:15.040 that we should involuntarily euthanize homeless 00:08:15.040 --> 00:08:17.360 people. He still has a job, by the way. Last 00:08:17.360 --> 00:08:19.800 thing for stateside, let's talk about them H1B 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:22.959 visas. H1B visas are used by companies to bring 00:08:22.959 --> 00:08:25.939 in foreign talent to fill in positions that otherwise 00:08:25.939 --> 00:08:28.540 are difficult to staff. Or at least, that's what 00:08:28.540 --> 00:08:31.279 they're supposed to be. In reality, H -1B visas 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:34.639 are used a lot by the tech industry to hire on 00:08:34.639 --> 00:08:37.019 foreign workers to pay them significantly less 00:08:37.019 --> 00:08:38.659 than they would have to pay an American worker. 00:08:38.919 --> 00:08:41.220 They might just be paying them the lowest possible 00:08:41.220 --> 00:08:43.299 legal wage they can do to still use the visa, 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:45.820 or they hire them at a position that's way lower 00:08:45.820 --> 00:08:48.039 than they're actually qualified for. They also 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:50.580 then have an employee who's essentially beholden 00:08:50.580 --> 00:08:53.120 to them. They own that visa, and if the employee 00:08:53.120 --> 00:08:55.320 fucks around, they could just cancel the visa. 00:08:55.500 --> 00:08:57.460 So giant corporations love it, and especially 00:08:57.460 --> 00:09:00.320 big tech companies. They will get thousands and 00:09:00.320 --> 00:09:02.539 thousands of these per year. So what happened? 00:09:03.019 --> 00:09:05.039 Because it is still whack. Pretty much out of 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:07.000 nowhere, Trump signed a proclamation that adds 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:12.059 a $100 ,000 fee to H -1B visa applications. There 00:09:12.059 --> 00:09:14.240 was already a fee, but it was essentially trivial. 00:09:14.360 --> 00:09:17.059 Now, it's a hundred grand! When this came out, 00:09:17.059 --> 00:09:18.720 there was not a lot of information. People were 00:09:18.720 --> 00:09:20.399 poring over it, and immigration lawyers were 00:09:20.399 --> 00:09:21.899 like, I don't know what to make of this, but 00:09:21.899 --> 00:09:24.860 it sure seems like people need to be on U .S. 00:09:24.879 --> 00:09:27.980 soil by midnight tonight or face a hundred thousand 00:09:27.980 --> 00:09:30.120 dollar reentry fee. Now, since then, the White 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:32.820 House has clarified that that's not the case. 00:09:32.840 --> 00:09:35.419 These are only for net new visa applications. 00:09:35.559 --> 00:09:37.100 But that seems like the kind of thing that you 00:09:37.100 --> 00:09:39.580 should include in the original statement. know 00:09:39.580 --> 00:09:43.580 like maybe maybe work through stuff just a little 00:09:43.580 --> 00:09:47.700 bit longer and like think about it 70 % of H1B 00:09:47.700 --> 00:09:50.799 visas are awarded to Indian nationals and India 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:53.100 has made a statement basically saying like this 00:09:53.100 --> 00:09:55.360 sucks India's higher education system focuses 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:58.039 a lot on international job placement so this 00:09:58.039 --> 00:10:00.690 is like a primary pipeline for that And while 00:10:00.690 --> 00:10:04.370 I also believe that H1B visas should be significantly 00:10:04.370 --> 00:10:06.850 overhauled, slapping a hundred thousand dollar 00:10:06.850 --> 00:10:09.330 price tag on them doesn't do a whole lot, especially 00:10:09.330 --> 00:10:11.690 when we don't really have a mechanism to even 00:10:11.690 --> 00:10:14.350 collect that money. And also, also, it seems 00:10:14.350 --> 00:10:16.110 like they put in a stipulation where they can 00:10:16.110 --> 00:10:18.809 just waive the fee if they feel like it, because 00:10:18.809 --> 00:10:21.029 of course they did. But ultimately, I don't think 00:10:21.029 --> 00:10:24.289 this is going to bring jobs back. Like, they're 00:10:24.289 --> 00:10:27.850 just going to offshore the jobs. H1B visas are 00:10:27.850 --> 00:10:31.220 offshoring with less steps. Without that, they're 00:10:31.220 --> 00:10:33.299 just gonna offshore. It won't be until companies 00:10:33.299 --> 00:10:36.320 face actual penalties for pulling bullshit and 00:10:36.320 --> 00:10:38.539 screwing over American workers that they're gonna 00:10:38.539 --> 00:10:40.759 do something. But we'll never actually do that 00:10:40.759 --> 00:10:43.740 because any time we pass legislation that's gonna 00:10:43.740 --> 00:10:46.220 actually hold companies accountable, everyone's 00:10:46.220 --> 00:10:48.860 like, oh, but they're gonna move now. If we pass 00:10:48.860 --> 00:10:51.860 legislation, the companies who treat us like 00:10:51.860 --> 00:10:57.240 shit will leave. Darn. Oh no. Elsewhere. Let's 00:10:57.240 --> 00:11:00.129 talk about a treaty of the seas. 60 different 00:11:00.129 --> 00:11:02.070 countries have signed on to a historic Treaty 00:11:02.070 --> 00:11:05.250 of the Seas, potentially saving them from catastrophic 00:11:05.250 --> 00:11:07.570 damage. Essentially, it's a treaty that says 00:11:07.570 --> 00:11:09.509 there's a bunch of international water that we 00:11:09.509 --> 00:11:11.190 really should protect if we want to keep having 00:11:11.190 --> 00:11:13.909 a planet in the future, so let's protect that. 00:11:14.129 --> 00:11:16.129 The treaty establishes zones that need to be 00:11:16.129 --> 00:11:18.149 protected from things like underwater mining 00:11:18.149 --> 00:11:20.769 and fishing and so on and so forth, and it's 00:11:20.769 --> 00:11:23.029 the first of its kind. A healthy ocean is really 00:11:23.029 --> 00:11:25.809 important for not destroying the planet from 00:11:25.809 --> 00:11:27.629 climate change, like the ocean sucks up a lot 00:11:27.629 --> 00:11:30.929 of CO2. and also produces a lot of oxygen, and 00:11:30.929 --> 00:11:33.389 is important. And while this is not some sort 00:11:33.389 --> 00:11:35.429 of, like, binding, massive piece of legislation 00:11:35.429 --> 00:11:38.049 that's gonna really do a whole lot, it's at least 00:11:38.049 --> 00:11:39.909 a step in the right direction. It's gonna be 00:11:39.909 --> 00:11:42.070 on individual countries to actually enforce it 00:11:42.070 --> 00:11:45.690 and police the areas and such, but maybe they 00:11:45.690 --> 00:11:48.669 will? I can be optimistic. Notably, a few key 00:11:48.669 --> 00:11:51.169 players haven't fully agreed to it yet, the US, 00:11:51.330 --> 00:11:53.909 China, Russia, and Japan being those key holdouts. 00:11:54.289 --> 00:11:57.580 The US and China have, like, Sort of signed on 00:11:57.580 --> 00:12:00.740 Russia and Japan have kind of like looked at 00:12:00.740 --> 00:12:07.059 it, but hey save the plankton What's next oh 00:12:07.059 --> 00:12:09.860 dear Bridget McCrone the first lady of France 00:12:09.860 --> 00:12:12.899 and wife of Emmanuel McCrone. This is weird. 00:12:13.059 --> 00:12:16.879 She's gonna Submit scientific evidence to a court 00:12:16.879 --> 00:12:19.269 of law to prove that she's a woman This is where 00:12:19.269 --> 00:12:21.549 we are. Because apparently these are the only 00:12:21.549 --> 00:12:23.929 people that drive the news now. Candice Owens, 00:12:24.129 --> 00:12:26.850 a right -wing podcaster from the US, has been 00:12:26.850 --> 00:12:29.269 staunchly asserting that Bridget McCrone was 00:12:29.269 --> 00:12:31.990 born a male. This has been a thing the right's 00:12:31.990 --> 00:12:33.789 been doing a lot of just like taking pictures 00:12:33.789 --> 00:12:37.710 of women and being like, they're trans. Because 00:12:37.710 --> 00:12:41.389 reasons. I genuinely don't know like why they 00:12:41.389 --> 00:12:44.590 do this. I can't think of a worse use of anyone's 00:12:44.590 --> 00:12:46.970 time. But where we are now is that the wife of 00:12:46.970 --> 00:12:49.370 a foreign national leader is going to submit 00:12:49.370 --> 00:12:52.409 evidence to a court of law to prove that she's 00:12:52.409 --> 00:12:56.409 a woman because of a podcaster, and because of 00:12:56.409 --> 00:12:58.970 transphobia, and because why is this happening? 00:12:59.350 --> 00:13:02.269 Anyway, fun fact, I was born a man. Sue me for 00:13:02.269 --> 00:13:04.429 something. Let's talk about urine and China. 00:13:04.730 --> 00:13:07.610 Two drunk teenagers from China decided to pee 00:13:07.610 --> 00:13:12.429 in some hot pot. Big ol' trough of broth. Urine. 00:13:12.850 --> 00:13:14.629 Anyway, they also recorded it and posted it on 00:13:14.629 --> 00:13:16.629 the internet. Which brings me great joy. It makes 00:13:16.629 --> 00:13:20.090 me so happy to know that teenagers do dumb bullshit 00:13:20.090 --> 00:13:22.909 regardless of country of origin. So they got 00:13:22.909 --> 00:13:26.250 caught and it kind of sucks for everyone involved. 00:13:26.470 --> 00:13:28.549 The restaurant in Shanghai where they peed in 00:13:28.549 --> 00:13:31.389 the hot pot had to make good by basically everyone 00:13:31.389 --> 00:13:33.649 who ate there for like a week. They gave them 00:13:33.649 --> 00:13:37.139 all refunds and paid out extra for like Damages 00:13:37.139 --> 00:13:40.080 they had to replace all their stuff and now they 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:42.320 have a shitty reputation for being the piss pot 00:13:42.320 --> 00:13:44.940 place Now the teens were charged but also their 00:13:44.940 --> 00:13:47.080 parents are being held liable for like failure 00:13:47.080 --> 00:13:49.960 to properly Guardian their children so that means 00:13:49.960 --> 00:13:51.700 the parents are gonna be held liable for the 00:13:51.700 --> 00:13:54.539 for the hot pot piss as well Anyway, silly teenagers. 00:13:54.639 --> 00:13:57.750 Don't be in hot pot. That's fucking Gross. Anyway, 00:13:58.169 --> 00:14:00.850 other note on China, as much as teenagers peeing 00:14:00.850 --> 00:14:03.570 in a hot pot is a pretty big fucking deal, it's 00:14:03.570 --> 00:14:06.269 also worth noting that China is eclipsing the 00:14:06.269 --> 00:14:08.649 rest of the world with their green energy rollout. 00:14:08.950 --> 00:14:12.350 In one fiscal quarter, China added more renewable 00:14:12.350 --> 00:14:15.649 energy than the entire energy grid of Turkey. 00:14:15.889 --> 00:14:18.490 That's a lot of capacity. Meanwhile, in places 00:14:18.490 --> 00:14:22.149 like the US, we are cutting back on wind energy 00:14:22.149 --> 00:14:25.090 because Our leader doesn't like how windmills 00:14:25.090 --> 00:14:27.230 look, even though they're not even windmills. 00:14:27.370 --> 00:14:30.529 So anyway, maybe we should all just be pissing 00:14:30.529 --> 00:14:33.389 in the hot pot. Let's pop over to Israel, where 00:14:33.389 --> 00:14:36.009 Netanyahu is being a little too defensive. So 00:14:36.009 --> 00:14:37.769 I talked earlier about Charlie Kirk getting popped, 00:14:38.149 --> 00:14:40.309 and for whatever reason, Netanyahu has found 00:14:40.309 --> 00:14:42.549 it to be imperative that he makes it clear that 00:14:42.549 --> 00:14:44.549 Israel didn't do it. After the shooting, there 00:14:44.549 --> 00:14:46.769 was conspiracy theories circulating about Israel 00:14:46.769 --> 00:14:49.870 having a role in the death of Charlie Kirk, and 00:14:49.870 --> 00:14:53.779 not litigating that here? But it was so rampant 00:14:53.779 --> 00:14:56.639 that Netanyahu has made statements about it. 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:59.480 Multiple of them. Multiple times. This guy has 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:01.860 said Israel had nothing to do with Charlie Kirk's 00:15:01.860 --> 00:15:04.059 death. And then he went as far as to say that 00:15:04.059 --> 00:15:06.639 this conspiracy theory is being funded by Qatar, 00:15:06.940 --> 00:15:08.820 the place that they just recently bombed, despite 00:15:08.820 --> 00:15:11.639 being a US ally. Critics have noted that Netanyahu 00:15:11.639 --> 00:15:14.360 was strangely loud about Charlie Kirk's death 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:16.960 right when it happened. Like, before we had a 00:15:16.960 --> 00:15:18.980 lot of information, he was already posting about 00:15:18.980 --> 00:15:20.940 it. And then he goes on to be like, we didn't 00:15:20.940 --> 00:15:23.220 do it! But what's far more important than literally 00:15:23.220 --> 00:15:25.600 anything involving Charlie Kirk ever is that 00:15:25.600 --> 00:15:29.039 Israel recently killed 31 journalists in Yemen. 00:15:29.320 --> 00:15:31.759 On September 10th, they made multiple airstrikes 00:15:31.759 --> 00:15:34.659 against multiple newsrooms in Yemen, killing 00:15:34.659 --> 00:15:37.240 31 journalists who were working on finalizing 00:15:37.240 --> 00:15:39.480 that week's newspaper. This is the second deadliest 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:41.840 attack on journalists ever recorded by the Center 00:15:41.840 --> 00:15:44.580 for Protecting Journalists, and it's completely 00:15:44.580 --> 00:15:47.559 unacceptable. Israel is going for records with 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:49.460 regards to killing journalists at this point, 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:52.490 and it's fucked up. But at least we know that 00:15:52.490 --> 00:15:55.470 they didn't kill Charlie Kirk, according to Netanyahu. 00:15:55.730 --> 00:15:58.669 Hey, do you like what I do? And do you also want 00:15:58.669 --> 00:16:01.769 to help me keep doing it? If yes, thank you. 00:16:02.049 --> 00:16:04.250 You can head to isupport .dev to find links to 00:16:04.250 --> 00:16:05.750 a whole bunch of different ways to support me. 00:16:05.889 --> 00:16:08.129 And as always, just sharing my content helps 00:16:08.129 --> 00:16:10.049 a ton. So thank you for being here. Thank you 00:16:10.049 --> 00:16:14.070 for sharing it. Let's move on. Technology! NVIDIA 00:16:14.070 --> 00:16:16.139 bought a bunch of Intel stock. Intel has not 00:16:16.139 --> 00:16:18.360 been doing particularly great financially recently, 00:16:18.500 --> 00:16:20.820 and recently the government invested about $10 00:16:20.820 --> 00:16:23.980 billion in purchasing Intel stock, and now Nvidia 00:16:23.980 --> 00:16:26.519 is buying about $5 billion of stock. In doing 00:16:26.519 --> 00:16:28.519 so, they're announcing a partnership where Nvidia 00:16:28.519 --> 00:16:32.240 and Intel will like cross create chips to cross 00:16:32.240 --> 00:16:35.059 integrate their technologies into both data centers 00:16:35.059 --> 00:16:37.159 and personal computers. What this really means 00:16:37.159 --> 00:16:38.779 is that it seems like the U .S. is trying to 00:16:38.779 --> 00:16:41.179 position itself to better hold their ground on 00:16:41.179 --> 00:16:43.840 the semiconductor market. China just recently 00:16:43.840 --> 00:16:46.960 banned the of AI chips from Nvidia. That's not 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:48.919 necessarily a one -to -one reason why this is 00:16:48.919 --> 00:16:51.340 happening, but other countries are catching up, 00:16:51.360 --> 00:16:53.159 and we are falling behind. And it also doesn't 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:55.500 really help that, like, we don't have a ton of 00:16:55.500 --> 00:16:58.240 manufacturing here, and a lot of our market value 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:01.879 from a company like Nvidia comes from speculation 00:17:01.879 --> 00:17:04.359 that AI is gonna matter in the future. Which 00:17:04.359 --> 00:17:06.799 it probably will, but is it gonna matter this 00:17:06.799 --> 00:17:09.579 much? Like, these kinds of moves are being discussed 00:17:09.579 --> 00:17:13.269 as national security. The continued success of 00:17:13.269 --> 00:17:16.309 Nvidia and Intel are a matter of national security, 00:17:16.549 --> 00:17:22.309 which seems like a bad place to be colors. I 00:17:22.309 --> 00:17:24.829 see them. Most of them. You know Jackson Pollock, 00:17:24.930 --> 00:17:26.490 the guy who does like the paint splatter paints? 00:17:26.910 --> 00:17:28.569 You know, the guy that makes the art that has 00:17:28.569 --> 00:17:32.049 everyone give the most tepid take ever of modern 00:17:32.049 --> 00:17:35.190 art isn't really art. That guy. So he has a really 00:17:35.190 --> 00:17:37.509 famous painting in the MoMA that they wanted 00:17:37.509 --> 00:17:40.779 to figure out. what he used as a pigment for 00:17:40.779 --> 00:17:43.200 a specific blue in the painting. Jackson Pollock 00:17:43.200 --> 00:17:45.660 did a lot of his work by just flicking paint 00:17:45.660 --> 00:17:48.000 at the canvas, and so a lot of the colors on 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:51.480 his works are just single pigments. Knowing what 00:17:51.480 --> 00:17:53.559 pigments, like what specific pigments were used 00:17:53.559 --> 00:17:55.799 to create what colors, helps with things like, 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:59.579 one, just art history, but two, preventing counterfeits. 00:17:59.900 --> 00:18:01.700 Historians thought for a while this was manganese 00:18:01.700 --> 00:18:04.619 blue that he used, and they were right, that 00:18:04.619 --> 00:18:06.819 is what it is, but how they figured that out 00:18:06.819 --> 00:18:09.220 is rad. They took a sample from the painting, 00:18:09.339 --> 00:18:10.980 again, like lots of globs, so they took like 00:18:10.980 --> 00:18:13.859 a tiny little little scraping of the blue and 00:18:13.859 --> 00:18:16.160 they put it under a microscope, or they put it 00:18:16.160 --> 00:18:18.200 under a science object. They hit it with a bunch 00:18:18.200 --> 00:18:20.960 of lasers and then measured the vibrations in 00:18:20.960 --> 00:18:23.339 the molecules to create a unique signature for 00:18:23.339 --> 00:18:25.539 the pigment. They could then go and test that 00:18:25.539 --> 00:18:28.259 signature against other pigments and Wouldn't 00:18:28.259 --> 00:18:30.099 you know it? They were right. It was, it was 00:18:30.099 --> 00:18:32.839 that blue. Fun fact, it's the same blue pigment 00:18:32.839 --> 00:18:35.640 that was used in pool floors. So if you were 00:18:35.640 --> 00:18:38.740 a person in the US between like the 70s and 90s, 00:18:38.900 --> 00:18:42.099 the concrete in a public pool, that blue, it's 00:18:42.099 --> 00:18:44.740 that same pigment in that neat gaming. One of 00:18:44.740 --> 00:18:48.000 my favorite series is Horizon. Zero intellectual 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:50.880 property. Chinese tech juggernaut Tencent is 00:18:50.880 --> 00:18:55.039 producing a game called Light of Motoram. Mo 00:18:55.039 --> 00:18:57.680 -Mo -Materam. Motoram. I'm not looking it up. 00:18:57.680 --> 00:18:59.680 I don't care. In the promotional materials, it 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:01.680 appears to be a game where you play as a sort 00:19:01.680 --> 00:19:04.799 of tribal hunter in a world inhabited by robot 00:19:04.799 --> 00:19:07.539 animals, and you play as a character who's like 00:19:07.539 --> 00:19:09.839 a redhead with a bow. This is completely different 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:12.380 from the Horizon series, where you're a tribal 00:19:12.380 --> 00:19:15.019 hunter in a world filled with mechanical animals, 00:19:15.180 --> 00:19:17.779 and you're a redhead with a bow. So Sony, who 00:19:17.779 --> 00:19:19.700 makes the Horizon franchise, is pretty upset, 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:22.000 especially because the marketing materials look 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:24.920 identical, but Tencent has responded by saying 00:19:24.920 --> 00:19:28.380 no. They're trying to get a copyright on something 00:19:28.380 --> 00:19:32.460 that's far too specific. A world in which people 00:19:32.460 --> 00:19:35.460 are tribal hunters using bows to hunt down specifically 00:19:35.460 --> 00:19:37.500 mechanical animals that looks very specifically 00:19:37.500 --> 00:19:39.960 this one way. Now I will say the two do look 00:19:39.960 --> 00:19:43.259 very very similar, but digging in a bit it does 00:19:43.259 --> 00:19:46.009 seem like Tencent's game is pretty different 00:19:46.009 --> 00:19:48.589 from the Horizon series. Visually, looks very, 00:19:48.589 --> 00:19:51.049 very similar, and the promotional art looks incredibly 00:19:51.049 --> 00:19:53.410 similar, but keep in mind that stuff like this 00:19:53.410 --> 00:19:56.309 can be done on purpose to create these kinds 00:19:56.309 --> 00:19:59.029 of situations to get attention. Lightning Round. 00:19:59.390 --> 00:20:02.029 After a decade -long search, researchers found 00:20:02.029 --> 00:20:04.990 a 140 -year -old ship that was lost to a storm 00:20:04.990 --> 00:20:07.279 in Lake Michigan. And another boat, which might 00:20:07.279 --> 00:20:10.440 be found in 140 years, was sunk by orcas. A man 00:20:10.440 --> 00:20:12.680 died while riding a roller coaster at Universal 00:20:12.680 --> 00:20:15.200 Epic Universe. That's really sad. I also did 00:20:15.200 --> 00:20:18.539 not know that Universal Epic Universe was... 00:20:18.539 --> 00:20:21.700 a park? That name is very bad. A man in the UK 00:20:21.700 --> 00:20:24.079 who was using Snapchat to prey on more than 40 00:20:24.079 --> 00:20:26.799 children has been caught and jailed. A judge 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:29.480 dismissed the terrorism charges against the alleged 00:20:29.480 --> 00:20:32.279 shooter of the United Healthcare CEO Luigi Mangione. 00:20:32.539 --> 00:20:35.720 Those were the big, big charges that we kind 00:20:35.720 --> 00:20:37.859 of knew when they were originally levied against 00:20:37.859 --> 00:20:40.720 him that that was not going to work. Like, that 00:20:40.720 --> 00:20:44.089 was the state way overreaching. And finally for 00:20:44.089 --> 00:20:46.609 today, California has made it illegal for law 00:20:46.609 --> 00:20:49.329 enforcement officers to wear masks while performing 00:20:49.329 --> 00:20:52.250 their duties in a direct blow against the Department 00:20:52.250 --> 00:20:55.130 of Homeland Security and ICE. These federal agents 00:20:55.130 --> 00:20:58.349 have been wearing masks while going around detaining 00:20:58.349 --> 00:21:01.329 people, which isn't good at all. Hopefully more 00:21:01.329 --> 00:21:03.029 states follow through with this and hopefully 00:21:03.029 --> 00:21:05.730 actually enforce it. Thank you so much for listening 00:21:05.730 --> 00:21:07.609 to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. 00:21:07.829 --> 00:21:10.849 Head to skh .news for sources, bonus content, 00:21:11.190 --> 00:21:14.309 and the location of yet another 140 -year -old 00:21:14.309 --> 00:21:16.970 ship at the bottom of Lake Michigan. My name 00:21:16.970 --> 00:21:18.910 is Endeavorance. We'll talk again soon. Take 00:21:18.910 --> 00:21:20.269 care and be well.