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Africa But Bigger · Stuff Keeps Happening

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  Hello, I went back to grab what I left in a bush
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  But stuff still happened. So what's up? Hi, it's
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  good to be back. How's it going? I disappeared
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  for a while real quick Just summary of what happened
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  my face gave up on me. It got cancer. I had to
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  get rid of that I had there was a cancer on my
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  face. It's gone now There's a scar you want to
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  see it if you're watching not listening There
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  it is for those who are just listening imagine
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  if you will Not a big scar It went well. It was
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  fine. And now I'm past it I also fucked up my
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  ankle really really bad and couldn't stand for
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  a while and also was dealing with some brain
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  stuff You know how it goes, but we're back. We're
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  doing okay What's going on that made Africa bigger?
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  I mean, that's fine. I was just not expecting
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  it Maps. They help us find things. And sometimes
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  the thing that we're looking for is Africa. And
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  unfortunately, the current map that we use, the
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  Mercator Projection, it sucks a lot. And it's
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  bad. And I can't find Africa because of it. I
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  sailed right past it. That's not true for a lot
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  of reasons. Let me back up. The Mercator Projection.
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  It is essentially the standard map projection
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  that we use to display the world on a 2D plane.
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  A map. The world is spherical, and a map is usually
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  Not spherical, it's a map. And so it's pretty
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  hard to take planet Earth and unfold it into
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  two dimensions from three. Think of your shadow,
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  and how at the end of the day, when the sun is
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  low, it casts real far. It's kind of like that,
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  because you're three dimensions and the shadow
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  is two dimensions. Maps! So the Mercator projection,
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  it was made by a dude named Gerardis Mercator
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  back in like the 1500s. He was like, I wanna
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  make a big map, and I wanted to have everything
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  on it. But specifically, I want all the edges
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  of the map to latitudinally and longitudinally
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  line up with each other. Set another way, if
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  you kind of like go off the edge of one side
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  of the map, you come back on the exact same spot
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  on the other side of the map, like a Pac -Man
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  game. But for Earth, this works for a lot of
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  cases, and it makes sense why we got here, but
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  it skews landmasses like crazy. The closer you
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  get to the poles, the worse the map is at actually
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  representing what the world looks like. enter
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  the Equal Earth Projection, which tries to fix
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  that. It takes what we are generally used to
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  looking at and tries to rework it a bit so that
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  all the land masses are sized properly relative
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  to each other, and positioned properly next to
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  each other. And what this essentially does is
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  make Africa bigger, because Africa is way smaller
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  than it should be on the current Mercator Projection.
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  Similar to how, like, Greenland is gargantuan,
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  Africa is much smaller than it actually is. So
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  on the Equal Earth Projection, Africa big. Not
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  small Africa big Africa big shit I'm gonna be
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  saying that constantly and so Africa big and
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  the UN was like Africa big let's change the map
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  from Mercator to equal earth all in favor say
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  aye 164 countries said aye six countries abstained
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  and wouldn't you know it there was one day from
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  free country USA Now to be clear, this was not
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  a binding resolution. This was basically the
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  UN getting together and saying, hey, it would
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  be pretty chill if people thought about using
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  this other map going forward for, like, educational
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  material and stuff. So the US delegation cried,
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  saying that the map change, quote, cannot be
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  separated from the much larger and more radical
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  ideological project it belongs to. Because we
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  have to be against everything now. Never mind
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  that NASA Goddard decided to adopt this map back
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  in 2018. It's ideological, guys. What I have
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  to assume they're trying to get at is that they
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  don't like that this map makes Africa where black
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  people come from bigger while making the US where
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  white people come. Wait. No, no, that's wrong.
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  Slightly smaller. Anyway, it's maps. Ideological.
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  Let's move on. I have an ideology. That ideology
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  is that private corporations shouldn't have their
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  tendrils across international governance and
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  policy. McKinsey. They are a consulting agency
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  that operates in a lot of places across the world.
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  Dozens of governments, many companies, lots of
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  rich boys. They describe themselves as people
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  and AI powering growth. And recently, the Belgian
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  government seized about 65 million euros from
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  them. McKinsey has their fingers in basically
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  every pie they can possibly get them in. That's
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  their play. It's basically just be omnipresent
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  in policy crafting. Because, like, you know,
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  you hear the Heritage Foundation, it's not dissimilar.
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  So why do they have those funds seized? Well,
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  it turns out French authorities believe that
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  McKinsey may have done some tax fraud. Maybe.
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  Years back, the French government was like, yo,
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  um, hey, there's a lot of private companies that
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  are just involved in policymaking. We should
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  look into that a bit. And they looked into that
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  a bit and they found that McKinsey seemingly
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  hadn't paid basically any income tax for a decade.
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  Seemingly. Presumably. They think. Cover in my
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  ass. Yeet. Anyway, that 65 million euro number,
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  that's about 96 % of the amount of potentially
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  missed taxes from McKinsey. So that's been seized.
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  McKinsey says they didn't do anything wrong,
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  and that they love tax adherence, and that they
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  didn't do anything wrong. Now, maybe McKinsey
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  didn't do anything wrong. We'll just take him
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  at their word. That's fine. Moving on, let's
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  talk about some of the other things McKinsey's
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  done in the past that they definitely did do.
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  Back in 2021, McKinsey settled a massive lawsuit
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  against them as part of the lawsuits against
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  Purdue and all the OxyContin stuff, you know,
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  the opioid epidemic in the US. Yeah, they had
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  a big role in that. Facing criminal charges for
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  their role in poisoning our people, they settled
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  the lawsuit to avoid that, allegedly. Presumptively.
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  McKinsey has also been working with ICE since
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  the Obama era and continuing on under Trump,
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  helping them to save money with their concentration
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  camps, which ICE insists are detention centers.
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  McKinsey and ICE had some duets with such hits
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  as, reduce the food budget and reduce the medication
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  budget. Um, hey, maybe we don't do this anymore.
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  Like, have private companies who are just in
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  charge of policy making. What if, like, representatives
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  represented the people they represent? Grand
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  Theft Auto, GTA 6. It's been a meme for so long,
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  it has reached unbelievable hype levels. Fans
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  have been measuring the oxygen levels outside
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  of Rockstar's headquarters to try to predict
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  when a trailer was going to come out. That's
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  not a joke. That happened. There were actually
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  people who were like, we're going to try to measure
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  oxygen levels. And if they drop, that means there's
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  more employees on site and therefore some things
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  may be happening. They also tried to measure
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  acoustic noise in like meeting rooms from far
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  away. Wild! Recently, publisher Take Two and
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  developer Rockstar had a big first look at GTA
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  6. They released it on Netflix. It was a big
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  in -depth dive into the game as a big preview.
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  They did this seemingly in response to a giant
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  leak of GTA 6. After years of Rockstar being
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  very, very quiet about GTA 6, an account named
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  CyberLeak started to post footage of the game,
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  saying that they got a copy of the game's files
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  and would start releasing footage until Rockstar
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  met their demands. I will say, the demands were...
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  very gamer. And, like, I don't necessarily disagree
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  with them. But it's wild in 2026 with everything
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  that's going on that this is a list of demand
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  that includes things like No more digital pre
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  -orders. I feel like there's better demands like
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  just ask them to donate a bunch of money to a
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  good cause or something I don't know so I regret
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  to inform you that this leaker on Twitter posting
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  GTA clips may have compromised your discord account
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  and we'll get to that but first we're gonna talk
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  about how this leaker also pulled a crypto rug
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  pull because of course they did If you're not
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  familiar with crypto, congratulations. If you're
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  not familiar with rug pulls, also congratulations.
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  Super quick rundown. A rug pull is one of many
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  ways that people use cryptocurrencies to scam
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  other people. And it's basically saying, hey,
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  everyone, I've got this new cryptocurrency. It's
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  going to be real and big and good. Buy into it.
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  A bunch of people buy into it. The value of the
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  coin goes up. The person who made it has a giant
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  stockpile, sells all of that, plummeting the
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  value of the coin, taking the money and running.
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  It's what happened with the Hoctua coin, if you
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  recall that. It also happens to do like most
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  coins. So during all of this GTA leaking stuff,
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  Cyberleak was like, hey guys, I have a cryptocurrency.
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  I'm super altruistic. If you buy into this cryptocurrency,
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  I'm going to do something that's good. Lighten
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  the details, but doesn't really matter. Cyberleak
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  sold everything they had for about $250 ,000
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  and disappeared. Given the anonymity, Take Two,
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  the publisher of GTA, is now working with the
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  courts to subpoena Discord and Microsoft and
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  Twitter and YouTube and who knows who else in
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  the future, asking for a shitload of user data.
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  In the case of Discord, we at least know that
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  it's, hey, we want a bunch of data associated
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  with any account that interacted with this list
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  of servers. And we don't know what that list
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  of servers is. A judge looked at this and was
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  like, yeah, this is fine. This is cool and good.
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  Hey, tech companies. to try and track down someone
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  who did some IP fraud, we're gonna hand over
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  a bunch of people's information. Just in case.
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  Now, look. Intellectual property, it's important.
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  Like, it's important to be able to protect art.
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  Maybe we don't do this? Maybe, maybe... Scammer
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  leaking stuff on Twitter does not result in the
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  mass obtainment of people's data. Maybe. Anyway,
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  yeah, car game, vroom pew. And now, it's time
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  to talk about the anniversary of some divine
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  judgment. In Constantinople, 1509. On this day
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  in 1509, a giant 7 .2 magnitude earthquake rocked
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  the Sea of Memara. The earthquake absolutely
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  rocked Constantinople, and there was 28 days
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  of aftershocks and a tsunami that eclipsed the
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  city's walls. 28 days of just like... That's
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  me, um... Being in an earthquake Now I say judgment
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  because this event is referred to as minor judgment
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  day It refers to an interpretation of a part
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  of the Quran that talks about the last judgment
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  being a big earthquake So this is little earthquake
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  unlike Africa big earthquake smaller judgment
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  minor. I'm losing it. I'm losing it We're going
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  to bring it back, though, because I do want to
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  share with you some artwork that came out of
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  this event. Now, I want to be clear. This is
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  a tragedy, but we have some art that depicts
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  the scene. If you want to see for yourself, here
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  it is. I'll describe it for those who are listening.
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  Imagine, if you will, it's real distressful stuff.
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  A bunch of people covered in houses and horses
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  sticking out from houses and people just kind
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  of like... waving their arms around. It's hilarious.
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  It's a very funny image. Like, I know it's depicting
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  tragedy, I know. But like the guy in the middle
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  who's just like, guess I'll die. Honestly, I
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  think I just relayed a bit too much. Lightning
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  round! A Tesla in full self -driving mode hit
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  another car, killing the other driver, and Tesla
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  failed to report it despite a law requiring them
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  to report when crashes involved full self -driving
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  mode. Workers at Wikimedia, the company behind
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  Wikipedia and other Wiki -like things, they unionized.
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  They overwhelmingly voted to unionize. A cargo
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  plane for Amazon crashed with at least five people
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  dead after it overran a runway on landing in
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  Miami. We got a big old trailer for the remake
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  of Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time for the Switch
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  2, and it hilariously looks like all of those,
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  like, what if Ocarina of Time was made in, like,
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  Unreal Engine videos. It does look pretty good,
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  though. A little cartoony, a little strange in
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  some places. I think it looks good, though. As
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  of time of recording, we still don't really know
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  if Mitch McConnell is alive or not. I do have
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  it on good authority that Lindsey Graham is still
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  dead, though. Seemingly due to a sundowning president
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  at one point just randomly deciding that he wanted
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  to take over Canada, we now find ourselves in
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  an escalating trade war with Canada. Seems US
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  negotiators went in and they were like, hey,
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  we basically want to make you a vassal state.
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  And Canada was like, no? And so the US was like,
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  well, nothing we can do. And finally for today,
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  a member of the National Guard, who is still
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  for some reason deployed to Washington DC, costing
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  us money every single day, pulled a gun on another
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  member of the National Guard after they were
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  arguing about hairstyles. I don't know, man.
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  I just... I just read the news. Thank you so
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  much for listening to today's episode of Stuff
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  We'll talk again soon. Take care and be well.