WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.500 Hello, I finished researching my unit upgrades, 00:00:04.580 --> 00:00:08.500 but stuff still happened. So what's up? Dear 00:00:08.500 --> 00:00:10.980 listener, I want to start by just saying there 00:00:10.980 --> 00:00:12.880 was a lot of stuff that happened in the past 00:00:12.880 --> 00:00:17.160 like 24 hours. Regarding death, lots of shootings, 00:00:17.339 --> 00:00:20.300 not great. I haven't really covered a lot of 00:00:20.300 --> 00:00:22.980 mass shootings recently, in part because they 00:00:22.980 --> 00:00:26.000 just happen constantly. The US has had quite 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:28.800 a few so far this year, as we do every year, 00:00:29.079 --> 00:00:32.719 but It's still awful. Longtime viewers will actually 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:35.320 know that what is now referred to as lightning 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:38.060 round in this show was once called rapid fire 00:00:38.060 --> 00:00:40.960 and I changed the name because of how frequently 00:00:40.960 --> 00:00:43.740 I was saying that in juxtaposition with talking 00:00:43.740 --> 00:00:46.500 about mass murder in my own country. So while 00:00:46.500 --> 00:00:48.820 there were several high -profile mass shootings 00:00:48.820 --> 00:00:52.159 over the weekend I'm just I'm just gonna move 00:00:52.159 --> 00:00:53.960 forward. There's so much other stuff to talk 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:56.859 about and these happen all the time and I hate 00:00:56.859 --> 00:00:59.649 that I'm saying that but that's Just wanted to 00:00:59.649 --> 00:01:02.689 level set stateside. New York City Mayor Eric 00:01:02.689 --> 00:01:07.030 Adams is joining Dropout TV. Wait, that was misinformation. 00:01:07.569 --> 00:01:09.890 New York City Mayor Eric Adams is dropping out 00:01:09.890 --> 00:01:12.129 of the mayoral race. So you may recall that there's 00:01:12.129 --> 00:01:14.069 been four dudes running for mayor of New York 00:01:14.069 --> 00:01:17.510 City. Zoran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo, Eric Adams, 00:01:17.829 --> 00:01:20.879 and Curtis Lewa. Now, discounting the guy who 00:01:20.879 --> 00:01:23.459 wears a beret all the time and made up crimes 00:01:23.459 --> 00:01:25.980 that he stopped in the past, we've got three 00:01:25.980 --> 00:01:28.920 guys. Eric Adams, Andrew Cuomo, and Zoran Mamdani. 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:32.099 Mamdani is leading in the polls by a double -digit 00:01:32.099 --> 00:01:35.480 number of points, and Andrew Cuomo is a disgraced 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:38.540 sex pest, and Eric Adams is a criminal. I don't 00:01:38.540 --> 00:01:40.099 know what we expected. I don't know what anyone 00:01:40.099 --> 00:01:43.879 expected from electing an NYPD official to the 00:01:43.879 --> 00:01:46.560 position of a politician in charge of New York 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:50.280 City. You got the crimes that you voted for I 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:53.099 that's just crimes But anyway, Eric Adams has 00:01:53.099 --> 00:01:54.959 dropped out probably because somebody bribed 00:01:54.959 --> 00:01:57.980 him to do that. He loves taking bribes which 00:01:57.980 --> 00:02:01.180 just leaves three dudes left and despite Zoran 00:02:01.180 --> 00:02:03.900 Mamdani having a double -digit lead in the polling 00:02:03.900 --> 00:02:06.719 despite Quinnipiac which by the way apparently 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:09.159 is pronounced Quinnipiac despite Quinnipiac putting 00:02:09.159 --> 00:02:11.500 out a poll showing that even if Eric Adams dropped 00:02:11.500 --> 00:02:14.400 out Mamdani would still have a 20 -point margin 00:02:14.979 --> 00:02:17.460 Top Democrats have still not endorsed it. Chuck 00:02:17.460 --> 00:02:19.740 Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries took time away from 00:02:19.740 --> 00:02:23.500 impotently tweeting at Trump to not endorse a 00:02:23.500 --> 00:02:26.060 generational figure in their own party. Mamdani 00:02:26.060 --> 00:02:29.039 expanded the electorate and is leading over basically 00:02:29.039 --> 00:02:31.840 every demographic in the polls, and they're like, 00:02:32.060 --> 00:02:34.060 well, you know, we just don't know who to endorse. 00:02:34.379 --> 00:02:36.560 Could be anyone. I don't know. Maybe they just 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:39.300 see more of themselves in the disgraced sex pest 00:02:39.300 --> 00:02:41.759 than the charismatic leader. That would make 00:02:41.759 --> 00:02:45.090 sense. Given how ineffective they've been. Anyway, 00:02:45.210 --> 00:02:46.710 mom Donnie looks like he's almost definitely 00:02:46.710 --> 00:02:49.729 going to win the race because obviously like 00:02:49.729 --> 00:02:52.210 Obviously, but we haven't quite gotten there 00:02:52.210 --> 00:02:54.030 yet I I wouldn't be surprised if there's a few 00:02:54.030 --> 00:02:56.370 more tricks up the sleeves of the donor class 00:02:56.370 --> 00:02:59.060 like at the end of the day All of this is happening, 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:01.759 at all, because the Democrats are more interested 00:03:01.759 --> 00:03:04.680 in sticking to their donor -first agenda than 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:06.539 anything else. They'd rather refuse to do the 00:03:06.539 --> 00:03:09.340 easiest political endorsement in history than 00:03:09.340 --> 00:03:11.599 go against what their donors are telling them 00:03:11.599 --> 00:03:13.780 to do. Because for a good chunk of the Democratic 00:03:13.780 --> 00:03:16.379 Party, that's all it's about. It's about seniority, 00:03:16.740 --> 00:03:19.280 and it's about donor relations. Everything else 00:03:19.280 --> 00:03:22.120 is details. Weird why people don't like the Dem 00:03:22.120 --> 00:03:25.060 Party. Like, at all. Like, cool, they're not 00:03:25.060 --> 00:03:28.560 fascists. Unfortunately, the fascists are delivering 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:30.979 for the people who want that. They're making 00:03:30.979 --> 00:03:35.439 good on the whole doing awful things thing, which 00:03:35.439 --> 00:03:37.439 is what their supporters want, and that's why 00:03:37.439 --> 00:03:40.560 they have supporters. Weird. So let's move on. 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:44.099 Over in Iowa, the Des Moines School District 00:03:44.099 --> 00:03:47.229 Superintendent has been arrested by ICE. For 00:03:47.229 --> 00:03:50.009 those not in the states, as a reminder, ICE is 00:03:50.009 --> 00:03:52.030 Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They are 00:03:52.030 --> 00:03:54.310 an agency under the Department of Homeland Security. 00:03:54.449 --> 00:03:56.389 They are the ones who are essentially a private 00:03:56.389 --> 00:03:59.449 army for the administration currently going after 00:03:59.449 --> 00:04:01.770 immigrants and people that they claim are illegal. 00:04:01.949 --> 00:04:04.289 In this case, they arrested Dr. Ian Roberts, 00:04:04.430 --> 00:04:07.009 who is a 20 -year veteran educator working in 00:04:07.009 --> 00:04:09.569 Iowa as the superintendent of their largest school 00:04:09.569 --> 00:04:11.789 district. ICE claims that he is here illegally, 00:04:11.909 --> 00:04:13.849 and they also really want you to know that when 00:04:13.849 --> 00:04:16.470 they were chasing him down, he fled and apparently 00:04:16.470 --> 00:04:20.350 had money and a gun on him, which I guess is... 00:04:20.379 --> 00:04:23.519 Illegal? That's just like, so not a crime! They 00:04:23.519 --> 00:04:25.639 claim he's a threat to public safety, which has 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:27.740 been met with complete pushback from the community, 00:04:27.839 --> 00:04:29.519 which is like, what the fuck, this guy rules. 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:31.980 Everyone who worked with him has been blindsided 00:04:31.980 --> 00:04:34.360 by this, and the institutions that actually employed 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:37.379 him said that they did multiple different background 00:04:37.379 --> 00:04:40.680 checks to look into criminal records and citizenship, 00:04:40.779 --> 00:04:43.879 and there were no issues. But he is black, and 00:04:43.879 --> 00:04:46.339 he was born in a different country, which apparently 00:04:46.339 --> 00:04:48.470 is enough to detain a man on the street. We don't 00:04:48.470 --> 00:04:50.490 know a whole lot more right now. He's been taken, 00:04:50.730 --> 00:04:53.269 he has retained a lawyer, and local communities 00:04:53.269 --> 00:04:55.769 have been outraged by this. Regardless of anything, 00:04:56.129 --> 00:04:59.069 this very much is the federal government coming 00:04:59.069 --> 00:05:03.250 into a district in a state, abducting a key political 00:05:03.250 --> 00:05:06.589 figure, and no one knows why. I can now safely 00:05:06.589 --> 00:05:09.790 walk the streets without worrying about a veteran 00:05:09.790 --> 00:05:12.990 educator teaching things to the youth. Cool. 00:05:13.910 --> 00:05:16.069 What a real country. The other thing that our 00:05:16.069 --> 00:05:17.829 government is really good at doing aside from 00:05:17.829 --> 00:05:19.990 abducting people is shutting down, which might 00:05:19.990 --> 00:05:22.089 happen tonight. The US federal government is 00:05:22.089 --> 00:05:24.250 potentially going to shut down as the Republicans, 00:05:24.569 --> 00:05:27.370 who, again, control all three branches of government, 00:05:27.740 --> 00:05:30.180 are blaming the Democrats. Now, don't get me 00:05:30.180 --> 00:05:32.339 wrong. I love blaming the Democrats, too. It's 00:05:32.339 --> 00:05:34.660 a national pastime. But you're in control of 00:05:34.660 --> 00:05:36.519 the entire fucking government. Essentially, the 00:05:36.519 --> 00:05:38.300 budget is about to run out, and Congress needs 00:05:38.300 --> 00:05:40.779 to pass a budget. And so Republicans have made 00:05:40.779 --> 00:05:42.779 a bill to keep the government open, but it was 00:05:42.779 --> 00:05:44.759 crafted entirely by them and doesn't include 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:46.839 anything for the Democrats. And Democrats are 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:49.240 like, we want concessions. And Republicans are 00:05:49.240 --> 00:05:52.089 like, no. Republicans need 60 votes in the Senate 00:05:52.089 --> 00:05:54.449 for this to pass, and they don't have 60 votes 00:05:54.449 --> 00:05:56.389 because they don't have 60 senators. So they're 00:05:56.389 --> 00:05:58.709 essentially saying we demand that you capitulate 00:05:58.709 --> 00:06:01.350 to a one -sided piece of legislation, and if 00:06:01.350 --> 00:06:03.649 you don't, we're gonna blame you for it. This 00:06:03.649 --> 00:06:06.480 is not... unusual, this is usually just like 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:08.459 if there is a party that's fully in power they 00:06:08.459 --> 00:06:10.480 do this, like they blame the party that's the 00:06:10.480 --> 00:06:13.620 minority party for being obstructionist. In reality, 00:06:13.740 --> 00:06:16.579 this is in theory supposed to be where bipartisanship 00:06:16.579 --> 00:06:19.139 comes into effect, but bipartisanship doesn't 00:06:19.139 --> 00:06:21.800 exist. And so instead, we are all just wondering 00:06:21.800 --> 00:06:23.699 what the fuck's gonna happen tomorrow. So, if 00:06:23.699 --> 00:06:25.500 it does go through, which at time of recording 00:06:25.500 --> 00:06:27.819 it's very likely, it very well could change by 00:06:27.819 --> 00:06:30.339 tonight, but who knows? Here's what to expect. 00:06:30.540 --> 00:06:32.329 A lot of government services will stop. Basically, 00:06:32.350 --> 00:06:34.529 anything that's not considered essential will 00:06:34.529 --> 00:06:36.610 stop. If you depend on a specific government 00:06:36.610 --> 00:06:38.490 service and you are concerned about it being 00:06:38.490 --> 00:06:40.930 halted, I recommend searching to see if that 00:06:40.930 --> 00:06:42.829 is considered essential or not. Some government 00:06:42.829 --> 00:06:44.410 employees are going to be essentially just put 00:06:44.410 --> 00:06:46.050 on leave. Some government employees are going 00:06:46.050 --> 00:06:48.269 to have to continue to work without pay and get 00:06:48.269 --> 00:06:50.389 back pay later. But mostly, it's just going to 00:06:50.389 --> 00:06:53.689 be very expensive. Like, it's not cheaper to 00:06:53.689 --> 00:06:56.149 shut down. Because all of the problems that accrue 00:06:56.149 --> 00:06:58.509 while we're shut down need to be handled and 00:06:58.509 --> 00:07:00.910 the back pay and it's a mess. The other thing 00:07:00.910 --> 00:07:02.889 that we're watching right now is that Trump is 00:07:02.889 --> 00:07:06.089 seemingly positioning a threat to fire a ton 00:07:06.089 --> 00:07:09.250 of federal employees as leverage against the 00:07:09.250 --> 00:07:11.589 Democrats. Like he has instructed his people 00:07:11.589 --> 00:07:14.750 to essentially draft up plans to fire mass numbers 00:07:14.750 --> 00:07:17.050 of federal employees if the government does shut 00:07:17.050 --> 00:07:20.009 down. Which essentially is just Trump using American 00:07:20.009 --> 00:07:23.370 workers' livelihood as a bargaining chip. against 00:07:23.370 --> 00:07:25.430 the Democrats to ensure that the Democrats vote 00:07:25.430 --> 00:07:28.689 for a bill that is deeply unliked by the American 00:07:28.689 --> 00:07:31.269 people? Bipartisanship in action. And on the 00:07:31.269 --> 00:07:33.410 topic of firing a ton of federal employees, they 00:07:33.410 --> 00:07:36.490 already did that. And it's been bad. Elon Musk's 00:07:36.490 --> 00:07:39.009 Doge efforts to fire a ton of government employees 00:07:39.009 --> 00:07:41.490 resulted in the government having to rehire a 00:07:41.490 --> 00:07:44.089 bunch of them, essentially creating a seven -month 00:07:44.089 --> 00:07:47.250 -long taxpayer -funded paid vacation for the 00:07:47.250 --> 00:07:49.509 people that Doge claims they fired, at least 00:07:49.509 --> 00:07:50.949 for a good portion of them, because they have 00:07:50.949 --> 00:07:53.129 to bring people back in because they fired too 00:07:53.129 --> 00:07:55.610 many people and now they can't function properly. 00:07:55.790 --> 00:07:58.129 And they're like, whoops, how could nobody have 00:07:58.129 --> 00:08:00.069 seen this coming? Anyway, none of this releases 00:08:00.069 --> 00:08:03.319 the Epstein files, which is... Interesting. Hello, 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:04.959 dear listener. If you like what I do and you 00:08:04.959 --> 00:08:06.660 want to help me keep doing it, you can check 00:08:06.660 --> 00:08:09.779 out iSupport .dev. It's got links to my Patreon, 00:08:09.980 --> 00:08:12.660 my Ko -Fi, my YouTube membership stuff, my merch 00:08:12.660 --> 00:08:14.980 store, and then also just sharing my content. 00:08:15.339 --> 00:08:17.439 Goes a really long way. I'm also on a whole bunch 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:19.800 of social media places. Follow me wherever the 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:23.300 social media is. I'm probably there. Moving on. 00:08:23.639 --> 00:08:25.800 Elsewhere. Venezuela is preparing for a potential 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:28.300 invasion from the United States of America. Images 00:08:28.300 --> 00:08:30.600 have been surfacing around the internet of elderly 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:33.940 people in Venezuela in militia training, carrying 00:08:33.940 --> 00:08:36.820 guns crawling through the dirt. The US has now 00:08:36.820 --> 00:08:39.960 extra judiciously killed 17 Venezuelan citizens 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:43.330 using military force. These boats that they keep 00:08:43.330 --> 00:08:45.389 claiming that they're bombing that are drug boats 00:08:45.389 --> 00:08:48.269 have not been proven to be drug boats and are 00:08:48.269 --> 00:08:51.110 just us murdering foreign civilians. And so now 00:08:51.110 --> 00:08:53.049 Venezuela is like, well, you're positioning a 00:08:53.049 --> 00:08:55.850 lot of boats on our coast. You're shifting aircraft 00:08:55.850 --> 00:08:58.570 to bases closer to us. We're going to prepare 00:08:58.570 --> 00:09:01.830 for war. Now, obviously, if the U .S. decided 00:09:01.830 --> 00:09:05.190 to do a full out invasion of Venezuela, the militia 00:09:05.190 --> 00:09:08.009 wouldn't do a whole lot. But and I want to be 00:09:08.009 --> 00:09:10.960 hyper clear about this one. for everyone who's 00:09:10.960 --> 00:09:14.679 outside the US. We don't want this. There may 00:09:14.679 --> 00:09:19.259 be a small contingent of weird losers who are 00:09:19.259 --> 00:09:23.200 like gung -ho about the idea of rooting out Whatever 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:26.299 fantasy has been woven by Trump, but the average 00:09:26.299 --> 00:09:29.360 American is losing the ability to afford rent, 00:09:29.519 --> 00:09:31.879 food, and medicine. We're not walking around 00:09:31.879 --> 00:09:34.320 hoping that we launch new war fronts into other 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:36.899 countries. Our leadership does this because it's 00:09:36.899 --> 00:09:39.580 what keeps the money flowing. We don't want this. 00:09:39.840 --> 00:09:41.679 Like, even Trump supporters, one of the things 00:09:41.679 --> 00:09:43.940 they kept pointing to with him was that he wasn't 00:09:43.940 --> 00:09:46.620 going to start new wars. Obviously, that's a 00:09:46.620 --> 00:09:50.360 bullshit statement. But still, even his own supporters 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:53.299 were excited about the idea of no new wars. As 00:09:53.299 --> 00:09:55.740 of now, we're not actually at war, although the 00:09:55.740 --> 00:09:57.759 leadership of Venezuela says that we're in an 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:01.139 undeclared war. International eyes are watching 00:10:01.139 --> 00:10:03.960 this closely and aren't happy with how the US 00:10:03.960 --> 00:10:05.879 has been acting recently, to put it a little 00:10:05.879 --> 00:10:08.740 mildly. Let's move over to the flotilla making 00:10:08.740 --> 00:10:10.860 its way to Gaza. There's been a few of these 00:10:10.860 --> 00:10:12.860 now, but essentially activists have put together 00:10:12.860 --> 00:10:16.100 a large flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to 00:10:16.100 --> 00:10:18.960 bring to Gaza. Dozens of ships representing 44 00:10:18.960 --> 00:10:21.240 different countries are bringing aid in this 00:10:21.240 --> 00:10:23.980 flotilla, and the flotilla has come under attack 00:10:23.980 --> 00:10:26.559 by the Israeli military. After initial reports 00:10:26.559 --> 00:10:28.600 of drone attacks from the Israeli military on 00:10:28.600 --> 00:10:31.980 the flotilla, NATO countries have deployed warships 00:10:31.980 --> 00:10:35.019 to support the flotilla. Spain and Italy at this 00:10:35.019 --> 00:10:37.179 point have both sent multiple ships to support 00:10:37.179 --> 00:10:40.120 the flotilla, and the Italian Minister of Defense 00:10:40.120 --> 00:10:48.169 is quoted in saying, Israel has been using drones 00:10:48.169 --> 00:10:50.970 to drop flares and other explosives and some 00:10:50.970 --> 00:10:53.710 kind of flammable chemicals on these ships. They 00:10:53.710 --> 00:10:56.909 also committed a major war crime, which is they 00:10:56.909 --> 00:11:00.570 jammed their radios and forced Abba to play through 00:11:00.570 --> 00:11:03.450 the ship's radios. Also forced starvation. Israeli 00:11:03.450 --> 00:11:05.590 media is trying to label the flotilla as terrorists. 00:11:05.690 --> 00:11:08.029 They even tried to say that Hamas organized this. 00:11:08.250 --> 00:11:09.850 They want to say they're terrorists so they can 00:11:09.850 --> 00:11:12.750 get away with just killing them or holding them 00:11:12.750 --> 00:11:15.970 in, quote, terrorist -grade prisons. But since 00:11:15.970 --> 00:11:18.230 Israel is an international pariah at this point, 00:11:18.690 --> 00:11:20.570 most countries aren't having that. And like I 00:11:20.570 --> 00:11:23.960 said, warships supporting the flotilla. The Fotillas 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:26.340 should reach Gaza this week, so we'll find out 00:11:26.340 --> 00:11:28.700 if they are finally successful or if Israel pulls 00:11:28.700 --> 00:11:31.019 some other bullshit. One other note on Israel, 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:33.659 actually. So Microsoft has a contract with Israel's 00:11:33.659 --> 00:11:36.080 military to give them cloud infrastructure to 00:11:36.080 --> 00:11:38.759 do their Israeli military stuff. As a reminder, 00:11:39.019 --> 00:11:42.700 Google, Microsoft, Amazon, they're defense contractors. 00:11:42.879 --> 00:11:45.740 They provide infrastructure for war. Anyway, 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:47.919 The Guardian reported that apparently Israel 00:11:47.919 --> 00:11:51.919 had used Microsoft's cloud. to perform mass surveillance 00:11:51.919 --> 00:11:55.000 on Palestinians. And Microsoft was like, oh, 00:11:55.320 --> 00:11:56.840 oh, we looked into that and that might be true 00:11:56.840 --> 00:12:00.960 actually. Oh, oh, hey, no one could have seen 00:12:00.960 --> 00:12:04.600 this coming. Oh, maybe we'll pause their account 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:07.100 while we investigate further. So Microsoft has 00:12:07.100 --> 00:12:09.899 like paused the contract with the Israeli military, 00:12:10.279 --> 00:12:12.279 specifically regarding defense efforts. They 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:14.220 still have other contracts with Israel in general. 00:12:14.379 --> 00:12:18.860 But finally, after months of external and internal 00:12:18.860 --> 00:12:21.980 protests for Microsoft, they've finally done 00:12:21.980 --> 00:12:25.580 something. All it took was being associated with 00:12:25.580 --> 00:12:28.960 what is now labeled by the UN as a genocide. 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:32.559 Over in China, no bummers, the Chinese government 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:35.019 is expanding censorship efforts to prevent social 00:12:35.019 --> 00:12:38.039 media from being too sad. Essentially over in 00:12:38.039 --> 00:12:39.919 China, there is a growing sentiment, wouldn't 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:42.259 you know it, among young people who feel like 00:12:42.259 --> 00:12:44.639 hard work won't really get you anywhere. And 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:46.779 so there's been a lot of pessimism and nihilism 00:12:46.779 --> 00:12:48.899 in social media, and the Chinese government is 00:12:48.899 --> 00:12:52.080 like, that's not good for the future. China's 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:54.659 no stranger to clamping down on speech to direct 00:12:54.659 --> 00:12:57.960 public sentiment, but it's kind of an obtuse 00:12:57.960 --> 00:13:00.100 way to go about things. They're basically saying, 00:13:00.220 --> 00:13:02.379 hey, sentiment is bad right now, so let's just 00:13:02.379 --> 00:13:05.159 crush bad sentiment, rather than... fix what's 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:08.620 causing the bad sentiment. Sound familiar? So 00:13:08.620 --> 00:13:10.059 they're starting a two month long initiative 00:13:10.059 --> 00:13:11.759 where they're gonna basically go after various 00:13:11.759 --> 00:13:13.539 social media platforms and say, hey, you have 00:13:13.539 --> 00:13:16.419 to actually prevent all this negative pessimism 00:13:16.419 --> 00:13:18.679 or you're gonna be fucked. They're not like going 00:13:18.679 --> 00:13:21.000 after individual people and being like, you're 00:13:21.000 --> 00:13:24.549 a sad person. Go to jail! That's not what's happening. 00:13:24.889 --> 00:13:26.429 Something pretty interesting here though is that 00:13:26.429 --> 00:13:28.149 it essentially means that the Chinese government 00:13:28.149 --> 00:13:31.049 has formally acknowledged this souring sentiment 00:13:31.049 --> 00:13:33.049 among young people, which is not something that 00:13:33.049 --> 00:13:35.309 they're usually excited to do. The fact that 00:13:35.309 --> 00:13:37.549 they have made a formal program to tackle it 00:13:37.549 --> 00:13:40.070 means that they're signaling we're aware and 00:13:40.070 --> 00:13:42.730 acknowledging that we have a problem on our hands. 00:13:42.950 --> 00:13:45.210 And China doesn't tend to like to show the world 00:13:45.210 --> 00:13:47.029 that they've got problems on their hands. Now 00:13:47.029 --> 00:13:50.059 I can't help but think about how... China's trying 00:13:50.059 --> 00:13:51.740 to crush negative sentiment on the internet, 00:13:51.820 --> 00:13:54.960 and over in the US, there is currently a massive 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:58.039 effort to chill -free speech that might be critical 00:13:58.039 --> 00:14:00.259 of the current administration, or critical of 00:14:00.259 --> 00:14:02.759 America, or really critical of anything. Major 00:14:02.759 --> 00:14:04.700 tech companies have been cozying up to the current 00:14:04.700 --> 00:14:07.840 administration. Fuck, Tim Cook giving Trump a 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:11.460 golden trophy? Like what? Remember, the social 00:14:11.460 --> 00:14:14.080 media companies are not there to provide a service 00:14:14.080 --> 00:14:17.120 for you to be able to have your reach and platform. 00:14:17.200 --> 00:14:19.399 They are there to make money. In the future, 00:14:19.460 --> 00:14:21.580 I plan to make some videos about how you can 00:14:21.580 --> 00:14:24.080 be a more independent digital citizen, so if 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:26.500 that is interesting to you, let me know in the 00:14:26.500 --> 00:14:29.759 comments, or reply, or at me, or something. Reach 00:14:29.759 --> 00:14:32.179 out! Let me know that you want to see that. GAME 00:14:32.179 --> 00:14:35.100 IT! Stardew Valley 1 .7 is gonna be a thing, 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:37.080 but don't get hype, but I mean you're gonna get 00:14:37.080 --> 00:14:38.840 hype. Stardew Valley is just one of those games 00:14:38.840 --> 00:14:41.840 that has been getting updates consistently for 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:45.879 free since its release well beyond what anyone 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:50.000 expected. I would say like Stardew Valley and 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:53.240 No Man's Sky. I don't know what else comes close. 00:14:53.419 --> 00:14:55.600 I'm genuinely curious. If you have another game 00:14:55.600 --> 00:14:57.529 you can think of, let me know. But Stardew Valley 00:14:57.529 --> 00:15:00.470 1 .7 has been confirmed, and developer Concerned 00:15:00.470 --> 00:15:01.750 Ape has said that he doesn't want to hype it 00:15:01.750 --> 00:15:04.830 up too much, but it is gonna be a thing. I will 00:15:04.830 --> 00:15:08.070 say that when 1 .6 was confirmed, and he also 00:15:08.070 --> 00:15:09.769 said he didn't want to hype that up too much, 00:15:10.169 --> 00:15:13.149 it finally dropped with a massive amount of content 00:15:13.149 --> 00:15:15.330 and a complete overhaul for modding utilities 00:15:15.330 --> 00:15:18.649 for the community. So Concerned Ape saying that 00:15:18.649 --> 00:15:21.450 a new patch shouldn't get too much hype is evidence 00:15:21.450 --> 00:15:24.000 that we should get hype. Sorry, dude, you did 00:15:24.000 --> 00:15:28.379 this to yourself. EA Sports. It's deeply unethical. 00:15:28.679 --> 00:15:30.820 Jared Kushner, Silver Lake, and Saudi Arabia 00:15:30.820 --> 00:15:33.379 are going to be the new owners of Electronic 00:15:33.379 --> 00:15:37.139 Arts, a massive game publisher. EA, who is well 00:15:37.139 --> 00:15:40.799 -hated for a lot of reasons, makes FIFA and Madden. 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:43.059 They're gonna be fine, but a joint venture that 00:15:43.059 --> 00:15:46.600 includes Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia's public 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:49.860 investment fund is gonna be taking EA private 00:15:50.080 --> 00:15:53.519 for a record -setting $55 billion. What does 00:15:53.519 --> 00:15:57.100 this mean? Not a ton, probably. I mean, EA is 00:15:57.100 --> 00:15:59.539 a shit company, and now they're just kind of, 00:15:59.539 --> 00:16:03.039 like, solidifying that and going private? Like, 00:16:03.039 --> 00:16:06.059 being privately shitty? I genuinely do not know 00:16:06.059 --> 00:16:08.580 if this makes them any worse. Just being associated 00:16:08.580 --> 00:16:11.500 with Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia's investment 00:16:11.500 --> 00:16:14.679 firm. Is EA even shittier now, or are they... 00:16:14.679 --> 00:16:17.100 is this less shitty? At the end of the day, massive 00:16:17.100 --> 00:16:18.919 corporations taking private by private equity. 00:16:19.330 --> 00:16:21.889 This just kind of keeps happening. I'm not, I'm 00:16:21.889 --> 00:16:23.370 not too broken up about it because I don't remember 00:16:23.370 --> 00:16:25.389 the last time I played a game that EA published. 00:16:25.889 --> 00:16:28.350 I guess The Sims? The Sims is also won, if you 00:16:28.350 --> 00:16:30.669 like The Sims. If you like The Sims, you are 00:16:30.669 --> 00:16:33.610 now supporting Jared Kushner. I'm so sorry. Sony 00:16:33.610 --> 00:16:35.710 had their big games announcement thing streaming 00:16:35.710 --> 00:16:37.690 thingy called State of Play recently. There was 00:16:37.690 --> 00:16:39.250 a bunch of announcements. Here's a few of them. 00:16:39.340 --> 00:16:41.600 Gran Turismo 7, it's gonna be a thing, seven 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:44.080 hole Turismos. Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 00:16:44.080 --> 00:16:47.240 is coming to PlayStation. If you haven't played 00:16:47.240 --> 00:16:50.100 Microsoft Flight Simulator, it's bonkers. They 00:16:50.100 --> 00:16:53.480 have like the entire world mapped out in like 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:55.620 three dimensions. You can crash a plane into 00:16:55.620 --> 00:16:58.480 your own house. Nioh 3, Nioh? I've never played 00:16:58.480 --> 00:17:01.759 that game. They announced some PlayStation branded 00:17:01.759 --> 00:17:05.990 wireless speakers. Okay, and a bunch of remasters. 00:17:06.150 --> 00:17:08.990 Deus Ex remastered, Dynasty Warriors 3 remastered, 00:17:09.049 --> 00:17:11.509 a bunch of remasters. I'm gonna link to the full 00:17:11.509 --> 00:17:13.150 announcement of everything in my newsletter. 00:17:13.430 --> 00:17:15.730 You can check that out in the description. Lightning 00:17:15.730 --> 00:17:19.509 round! Non -peer -reviewed alert! This is not 00:17:19.509 --> 00:17:21.309 a peer -reviewed paper I'm about to talk about, 00:17:21.470 --> 00:17:23.630 so don't take it as gospel. But researchers have 00:17:23.630 --> 00:17:25.390 submitted a paper for peer review which looks 00:17:25.390 --> 00:17:29.829 into the role of LLMs like ChatGPT in encouraging 00:17:29.829 --> 00:17:32.259 people to continue to be shitty. You know, like 00:17:32.259 --> 00:17:34.619 when people go to an AI and they're like, this 00:17:34.619 --> 00:17:37.619 situation happened. Am I the bad guy? And the 00:17:37.619 --> 00:17:41.099 AI is like, no, you did everything perfectly 00:17:41.099 --> 00:17:44.180 right. And everyone who told you to stop punching 00:17:44.180 --> 00:17:46.880 them in the dick was just being too sensitive. 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:49.519 You're absolutely right. Punching people in the 00:17:49.519 --> 00:17:52.460 dick is a love language. A literal school child 00:17:52.460 --> 00:17:56.180 dismantled a gun that his friend brought to school. 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:58.480 He was concerned about the danger of the gun 00:17:58.480 --> 00:18:00.839 and had experience in hunting with his family. 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:04.700 So this school child dismantled the gun to remove 00:18:04.700 --> 00:18:07.440 the threat. He was then expelled because he didn't 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:09.579 tell a teacher about the gun. We are really good 00:18:09.579 --> 00:18:12.000 at teaching our children the best lessons. Spaceballs 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:15.180 2 is in production. I didn't know this was happening, 00:18:15.180 --> 00:18:17.099 but it's in production. And finally, for today, 00:18:17.380 --> 00:18:19.420 Dominion Voting Systems, who's been in a lawsuit 00:18:19.420 --> 00:18:22.119 with Rudy Giuliani for a while, has settled the 00:18:22.119 --> 00:18:25.900 lawsuit, which was a $1 .3 billion lawsuit. with 00:18:25.900 --> 00:18:28.119 confidential outcomes. We don't actually know 00:18:28.119 --> 00:18:31.319 what the settlement was, but that has been settled. 00:18:31.619 --> 00:18:33.400 Notably, Giuliani has had to sell everything 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:35.460 he owns, because the dude's bankrupt and dying. 00:18:35.720 --> 00:18:37.339 Thank you so much for listening to today's episode 00:18:37.339 --> 00:18:39.960 of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to SKH .News for 00:18:39.960 --> 00:18:44.720 sources, bonus content, and a button that charges 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:47.960 Rudy Giuliani $1 .3 billion more. My name is 00:18:47.960 --> 00:18:50.779 Endeavorance. We'll talk again soon. 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