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We're (not?) at War? · Stuff Keeps Happening

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Hello. I had myself a little nap. But stuff still
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happened. So what's up? We're at... War? We're
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not at war. Don't call it a war. Alright, the
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US is just kind of just going bazonkers and doing
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a lot of dumb shit. For example, renaming the
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Department of Defense the Department of War.
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Yeah, haha, Trump, the guy that everybody was
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like, oh, he's gonna start no more wars, literally
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is renaming the DOD to the Department of War
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again. If you didn't know, that was what it was
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originally called, kind of, and then it's been
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the Department of Defense. Now it's going back.
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My favorite part of all of this is that defense
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contractors are now war contractors, if we're
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gonna stick with the semantics. Which they've
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always been, like we've known that, but yep,
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I'm gonna invest in some war contractors. That
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sounds real good. So that's just like one...
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Little thing and they didn't really change the
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name. It's like a an alternate name that can
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be used But then they're saying that everybody
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has to use it It's a mess and it's expensive
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and it's a huge waste and it's basically just
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because Pete Hegseth is insecure a big scary
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Secretary of War It's it's genuinely embarrassing
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Except for it's also my nation cool. So what's
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the Department of War up to? Glad you asked couple
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different avenues here They can really walk and
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chew bubblegum at the same time because they
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are both intimidating the people of Chicago and
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also killing people on boats off the coast of
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Venezuela. Let's tackle that in order. Chicago.
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Trump posted a meme of like him invading Chicago
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with military helicopters. Like posted a picture
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of a city of which he is the president. on fire
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as he's invading it. They love to say that everything
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Trump does that's obviously egregious is to troll
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people, and then when people are like, hey, this
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is obviously egregious, they're like, ha, see,
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he trolled them, like I said he's doing. It's
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five -year -old shit, which is not surprising.
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Him doing something completely unacceptable and
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then people saying that's unacceptable, we shouldn't
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stand for that. That's not trolling, that's just
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being an ass. Solidarity with the people of Chicago.
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I'm sorry that this is happening to your city
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now. I do want to note though that it's not like
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the military is about to roll into the streets
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of Chicago and burn it to the ground and launch
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an assault. That's not what's happening here.
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Trump is a huge weakling and like doesn't actually
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have the power he keeps asserting that he has
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and he just keeps breaking the law and we keep
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not doing anything about it but he can only go
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so far before people would do something about
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it. So he's trying to toe that line of like how
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much can I do, how many headlines can I make,
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how much red meat can I give to my base before
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I actually get in actual trouble. Doesn't make
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it better, doesn't make it okay, doesn't even
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make it remotely alright. It's still fucking
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awful. Quit strong -arming cities that don't
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want your presence there. Don't know but moving
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on to Venezuela and the whole situation there
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because that's that's International scale pretty
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fucking big essentially out of nowhere the US
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bombed a boat that had left from Venezuela with
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11 people on board just Obliterated it no warning
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the top boys in the US government Trump Hegseth
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Etc all started to say this is a drug smuggling
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boat They said that it had 11 drug smugglers
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on board and a whole bunch of drugs Which is
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why they bombed it with military equipment. As
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with most things with this administration, engaging
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with the words they're saying on face value is
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disingenuous. They are lying and they don't care
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that they're lying. And yet, I'm gonna fall for
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the trap. That's not how any of this works. The
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military doesn't get to go after civilians of
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another country just because we claim they're
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drug dealers. First of all, they've produced
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exactly no evidence for this. None. Just they
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just said that that's the case. Our government
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is capable of releasing information and proving
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their claims, bringing people to court, even
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if they weren't going to give them their rights
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to a trial. They could at least give any evidence
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at all. But that's not the case. So yeah, international
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eyes are on this and they're like, you just bombed
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a civilian ship with military personnel. That's
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a war crime. It doesn't matter. They're not a
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military target. The Trump administration keeps
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trying to say that they're members of a gang
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and that gang is tied up with Venezuela's state
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government and so they're a supporter of terrorism
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and therefore it's a target or something, and
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all of that still doesn't apply. And here is
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why it doesn't matter. All the words that I just
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said were useless. Because JD Vance went on Twitter
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and when someone said, hey, that's a war crime,
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he said, quote, I don't give a shit what you
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call it, and he's being applauded for this by
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a lot of people. And I want to talk through that
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a little bit. Now, I am not, I don't really give
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a shit about this statement. Like, I don't care
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about the fact that he cursed. I don't care that
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he's being a bit of a dick. What I care about
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is the sentiment and what it expresses. It's
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perfectly in line with how they approach everything.
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Go right back to the Department of War. They
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think this is cool and a show of strength. They
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would happily bomb far more places and then just
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make up stories about what they bombed. to get
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people to support them in doing more war crimes
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because they think that they have the quote authority
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the absolute authority that's the term they keep
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using to just bomb shit as America the whole
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concept of like we shouldn't be the world police
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god like they're just saying we have the right
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to do this because vaguely we can say that they
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are drug dealers and drugs are dangerous to our
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society and therefore it's national security
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It's cynical and it's just them wanting to be
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able to bomb shit, mostly so they can distract
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from how terrible things are going domestically,
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and how not released the Epstein files are. And
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so with all of that, don't spend time asking
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questions like, where's the Second Amendment
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people now? Or where's the small government people
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now? It was always disingenuous. Where they are
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is cheering this on. Because this is what they
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wanted. This is what they voted for. And like,
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yeah, it's going to erode their own rights. The
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government's already talking about how they can
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try to strip guns from trans people, which is
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against the Second Amendment. The party who's
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like, absolutely no infringement whatsoever,
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ever, ever, is like, hmm, how can we infringe
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just a little bit? And then maybe we'll just
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crank that up over time. But like, even the NRA
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came out against that. Like, that's how out of
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pocket that shit is. Anyway, don't let the government
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lie to you to create the preconditions of war.
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We've learned this over and over. We're gonna
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do it anyway. Like, that's just what humanity
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does. On loop forever. But still. And that's
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not me being a doomer. That's not - That's just
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- That's just history, baby. Noooo - It's my
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Mario Party announcer impersonation. ICE has
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set a record for the largest single workplace
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raid in the Department of Homeland Security's
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history. It's the Hyundai LG factory thing. If
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you haven't heard about this, essentially what
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happened is there's a factory in Georgia that's
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currently being set up that's a joint venture
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by Hyundai and LG. ICE recently raided this factory,
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which is in the process of being set up, mind
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you, and arrested hundreds of South Korean nationals
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who they claim were working illegally. chained
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them up, detained them. So come here, come here
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real quick, because, yep, working illegally.
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They are illegally contributing to the economy.
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Let's back up, and then we'll come back to the
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whole bunch of people getting arrested and what
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happened. May of 2022, Governor Brian Kemp of
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Georgia is announcing the largest economic development
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project in the state's history. This project?
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A battery factory owned by Hyundai and operated,
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which would employ people in the area, but, you
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know. set up by a foreign company. For the past
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few years, they've been building this facility,
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they've been setting it up, and people from Hyundai,
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from like, you know, South Korea, where Hyundai
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is, have been coming over and setting it up.
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But here's the thing. Working in the United States
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sucks, and not only does it suck to just be a
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worker in general, but working here as somebody
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who doesn't live here is very confusing. Working
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here as someone who does live here is confusing
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too. like navigating healthcare plans, if you
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even get one. I digress. Point being, there's
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a whole bunch of different ways to be here to
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work. But ICE reportedly got a tip that shit
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was going down at this factory, so they went
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and raided it. Arrested hundreds of South Korean
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workers who they claim were here illegally on
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visas that either expired or didn't cover the
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scope of the work they were doing. So it's not
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even that they are here illegally. It's not like
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Hyundai smuggled in a bunch of illegal immigrants
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and had them do enslaved labor. They're literally
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just like here on visas and some of the visas
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were like they didn't check the right box or
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something to that effect. Now, could it be a
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systemic thing and the companies are trying to
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like skirt paperwork? Absolutely! That happens,
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and most of the time it doesn't matter because
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countries are not trying to kick out foreign
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investment because they want to go after people
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because they're racist. That is not what usually
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happens. Sorry, it's truly getting to be too
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ridiculous to even talk about. Where we are now,
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the people who were detained by ICE have largely
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been sent home. The South Korean government,
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the president actually, got involved directly
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and was like, hey, what the fuck? They got a
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plane chartered, people got on the plane, they
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went home. So that's mostly settled. But South
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Korea made a commitment to invest hundreds of
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billions of dollars into America, and this was
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part of that. And ICE essentially just came in
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and took a big dookie all over it. And now they're
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like, what's going on? Are we really doing this
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investment or is it not worth our time? So thanks
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ICE, you literally just cost a bunch of people
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from Georgia their future jobs. Because it turns
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out after a factory gets built, they hire people
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from around the factory. Weird. Oh, speaking
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of jobs, we got the jobs report and it fucking
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sucked. The job reports for August came out.
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Expectations were already pretty low. We expected
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around 75 ,000 new jobs and got 22 ,000. Just
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22 jobs. 22 ,000. Very abysmal. The previous
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two months also got adjusted. June now had job
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loss, which is the first time that that has happened
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since Trump's previous term when COVID broke
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out. I also want to note that as people have
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been pouring over the data and the jobs reports
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and all the economy stuff, wouldn't you know
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it, black women are affected by an outsized degree
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on all the job losses. Hundreds of thousands
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of black women have left the workforce and have
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not been able to return or were laid off, and
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it's way more than any other demographic by population.
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Maybe all that anti -DEI stuff has, uh, you know...
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misplaced values. You may recall that the last
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time that a job support came out, the numbers
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were so bad that Trump actually fired the head
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of the bureau that puts out the numbers. Unfortunately
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for him, again, he's a shitty president and doesn't
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know what he's doing, and telling people that
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they are not hungry only lasts so long. But moving
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on, I never said anything that I've ever said.
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That's my RFK Junior impersonation. I'm not doing
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the voice. RFK Jr. is a well -documented anti
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-vaxxer whose own family and a global coalition
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of medical experts call a threat to humanity.
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So anyway, the Director of Health and Human Services,
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RFK Jr., had a hearing in the Senate recently,
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and it was bizarre. Here's how basically every
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conversation between him and a senator went.
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First, the senator would be like, hey, you said
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this thing, and it sucks. To which RFK would
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be like, I didn't say that. You made that up.
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And the senator would be like, nah, I've got
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it right here. I've got a transcript. It's on
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video. To which RFK was like, no. And also, you're
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the problem, and I'm the solution, and anyone
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who believes you is wrong, and everyone should
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believe me. End hearing. It was basically back
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and forth with senators being like, you're inept,
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and him being like, nuh -uh. But for real, he
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essentially just sat there and denied that the
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COVID vaccine was effective, or at least hemmed
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and hawed about it, as opposed to being like,
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yes, obviously, the data shows that. And then
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he was like, I'm not an anti -vaxxer. And then
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he tried to downplay the fact that he continuously
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tries to link SSRIs to murders. He just said
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a whole bunch of crazy bullshit, which is completely
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par for the course. It's RFK Jr. A bunch of medical
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organizations are calling for him to step down.
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We've got measles outbreaks. Florida is trying
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to overturn vaccine mandates. The head of Health
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and Human Services is taking shots of raw milk
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and telling people that he can see their children's
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mitochondria. Last thing about RFK and the whole
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-ass United States before I move on. There was
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a 10 % drop in the stock of the company that
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makes Tylenol after it came out that RFK is likely
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soon to release a report that links Tylenol use
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in mothers to autism in children. Now... That's
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not true. The claim is not true. The stock drop
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did happen. There has been a ton of research.
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It's not, that this is not, it's just not a thing.
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It is not a thing and they're just gonna be constantly
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searching for, quote, the cause of autism forever.
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Because it's not a thing that we need to find
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the cause of. Stop it. It's not how this works.
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I'm so tired of having to say that's not how
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this works. Just be competent. A little bit.
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Ever. Elsewhere, Japan is down a prime minister.
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They only have the one, but it's gone now. Prime
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Minister Shigeru Ishiba has stepped down or announced
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his resignation a little under a year after taking
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office. Essentially, he took office and like
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right after that his party lost both the upper
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and lower houses of government. But he's largely
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been working to try to figure out what the fuck
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is going on with the Trump tariffs, saying that
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he wanted to get all that settled before stepping
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aside so as to not cause more chaos because the
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tariffs... are a lot. So he is stepping aside
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and he's calling for his party to do a vote to
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figure out who the new Prime Minister is going
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to be. I don't know a lot about Japanese politics.
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I'm not gonna pretend that I know anything about
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this guy, but there is a quote from him that
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I do want to read because it's very foreign to
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me as a resident of free country USA. Quote,
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I have consistently stated that I do not intend
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to cling to this position and that I would make
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a decision at the appropriate time after accomplishing
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what needed to be done. What needed to be done
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being settling the tariff stuff and now... He's
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doing that! Wow! Thanks, Guy! I mean, I don't
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know if thanks, Guy, but thanks, Guy! Over in
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eastern Afghanistan, there have been a series
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of devastating earthquakes. What started on August
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31st with the 6 .0 magnitude earthquake has resulted
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in several aftershocks, thousands have died,
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and thousands more have been injured. Entire
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villages have been wiped out, and a lot of the
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villages in the area are mud and stone construction,
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and they were just devastated. I do want to say
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that there are efforts, there are rescue efforts
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and aid efforts now in the area, but the continued
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aftershocks, there were two more earthquakes
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after the initial one that stopped efforts for
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a while. Like, there's so much rubble and so
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much destruction that it's hard to navigate in
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the first place, let alone while there's also
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the threat of earthquakes. But it's another example
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of people coming together in the face of absolute
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horror to help each other. They're a long ways
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away, but my heart goes out to everyone who was
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affected by this disaster. And just once more,
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like, thank you to any and everyone whose focus
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in this world is to help people in their time
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of need. Stay righteous, y 'all. Game it! Silk
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Song is out. Silk Song is out. Silk Song is out.
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Silk Song is out. That's my Silk Song song. You're
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either hyper aware of this game, or you have
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no idea why everybody's freaking out, or you've
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no idea what I'm talking about. But Silk Song
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is out. What the hell is Silk Song? You know
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those things that are just like franchises that
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become a meme when you're just waiting for the
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next installment? You've got your Game of Thrones,
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you've got your Grand Theft Auto, stuff like
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that. We've been joking for decades about Half
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-Life 3 at this point. Silksong is kind of one
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of those. So there was a really popular game
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called Hollow Knight where you play as a bug
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and you explore stuff. It's really sweet, really
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casual. That's not true. It's very hard. I suck
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at it. Silksong is a sequel, or the next game
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in that franchise, and the developers announced
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it in 2019. Now, as an indie game developer,
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I am very, very aware of... how long it takes
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to build stuff, so like no hate against the studio
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for needing time to build an amazing game. However,
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essentially years of speculation of when this
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game is gonna come out led to it just reaching
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that same meme status of like GTA 6 and Half
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-Life 3, etc. And then lo and behold, like a
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couple weeks ago, they announced... that it was
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gonna come out on September 4th. It was a blindside
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announcement, so much so that other game developers
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rescheduled their launches two weeks out. And
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then on launch day, there was so much hype that
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it brought down basically every digital storefront
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worldwide. Steam, Xbox, Nintendo, PlayStation,
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and GOG all went down when it launched. So that's
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neat. I don't... I'm bad at it. I hope if you're
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excited about this game... Have fun, have a blast.
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I suck at Metroidvanias. Hey, do you want more
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on to... Oh. Lightning round! Sorry, that wasn't
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good enough. Let's try that one again. Lightning
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round! Australia hates fun, and so now you can't
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have the soy sauce packets that come in a little
17:38
fish. It's like a little fish -shaped packet.
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It's because it's a single -use plastic. Like,
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we should ban those, but... but my fish. There's
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limited early research into the potential use
17:47
of an over -the -counter nasal spray that might
17:49
be able to significantly reduce the chance of
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COVID infections. I want to conclude this is
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early. It's early! But it's... it's... that's...
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that's huge, if true. Ranchers and biologists,
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wildlife experts, etc. are experimenting with
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using drones that blast music and like movie
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lines at wolves to keep them away. Literally
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blasting AC DC at a wolf. About as metal as it
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gets, Aura, the ring, the, like, wearable fitness
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ring thing, they made a partnership with the
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Department of Defense, or I guess the Department
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of War. Aura maintains that your data is not
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being shared with the DoD, it's only for people
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who are in the DoD and opt into it. That's what
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they say, and that's all I can say. And finally
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for today, someone's multi -million dollar yacht
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sank right after it was deployed. Which, uh,
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if anybody wants to buy a multi -million dollar
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yacht... Save yourself the trouble and just give
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me the money instead. I won't sink. Fast. Thank
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you so much for listening to today's episode
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We'll talk again soon. Take care and be well.