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Maybe Some Kings · Stuff Keeps Happening

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  Hello. I completed all of my quest objectives,
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  but stuff still happened. So what's up? No Kings,
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  again, and still, and again. This past weekend
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  saw worldwide protests for the No Kings protests,
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  also known as the No Tyrants protest, if you're
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  in a place that... does do Kings. If you're in
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  one of those, uh, one of those Kingler locations,
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  if you're feeling like this is deja vu, it's
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  because this is not the first no Kings protest.
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  And this one was bigger than the last one. The
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  last no Kings protest saw about 5 million people
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  take to the streets in the U S this one saw estimates
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  say about 7 million. That doesn't include counts
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  from worldwide protests of people going through
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  the streets in other countries to be like, hey,
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  the Trump administration fucking sucks. There
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  wasn't really much violence to speak of. These
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  were pretty tame marches. It was a lot of people
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  who were just disgruntled voters going out and
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  marching. It's about as basic as an American
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  protest can get. That doesn't mean it's meritless
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  or useless. Just basic. I only mention that because
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  Republicans are trying to paint it as a hate
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  America rally and tried to say that the people
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  who are going are like dark money funded Antifa
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  warriors. Meanwhile, if you look at any picture
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  of the crowd, it's just a bunch of like old white
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  people holding signs about like brunch and stuff.
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  Like, yeah, there are libs, but like that's not
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  violent Antifa warriors like me. I am a violent
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  Antifa warrior. Hear my battle cry. It is also
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  notable that the current sitting president of
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  the United States, a person who is in charge
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  of a country, posted a handful of AI videos in
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  response to the protests. One of which is a video
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  of him with a king's crown on his head, flying
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  a fighter jet over protesters and then opening
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  up a hatch to drop what appears to be a bunch
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  of diarrhea. all over the protesters. That is
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  a choice, my guy. We're waiting for more details,
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  but if these numbers hold, this would be the
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  biggest one -day U .S. protest since, like, 1970.
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  And the third largest of all U .S. history. Now,
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  I know there's a lot of people who may say demonstrations
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  like this. They're saying that it's useless,
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  it doesn't do anything. Where has this gotten
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  us? I get your frustration. But to look at the
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  mobilization of 7 million people... And to say
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  that that's meaningless is just absurd. Just
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  because this is not a group of people who are
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  now ready to start the revolution doesn't mean
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  it's not valuable. People are radicalized at
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  varying paces and you can either help chip in
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  with that or you can complain about it. I would
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  prefer that you help chip in because liberals
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  marching and waving signs because they are disgruntled
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  with the current situation is better than complete
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  apathy which led to us having this administration
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  is it gonna fix our situation no no one said
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  it would and no one said they were trying to
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  do that nowhere ever was this protest supposed
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  to fix everything it's a demonstration it's a
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  show of solidarity it's a pep rally you gotta
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  have those because you have to show people how
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  many of us are feeling the same way right now
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  Anyway, stateside. There was a little bit of
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  international there. That's why it counts. We
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  are on day 20 of the U .S. government being shut
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  down. I had churros last night to celebrate.
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  Not really celebrating. I just got churros because
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  I like them. It's day 20 of the shutdown. Congress
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  is in gridlock. Nothing seems to be moving. this
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  is probably going to become the next longest
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  shutdown of all time. It's currently in third
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  place for longest shutdown of all time, first
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  place being held by Trump's first term. Essentially,
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  Democrats and Republicans in Congress are not
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  voting for passing a bill to keep the government
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  funded, which is leaving them in deadlock. It's
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  dumb. I would... I would say it's dumb. I think
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  that's how I would describe it. We're getting
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  closer and closer to the point where a government
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  shutdown actually becomes dangerous for the government,
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  which is to say, when people start getting hungry,
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  it's real easy to ignore a government shutdown
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  and all political discussion when you're not
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  hungry. So as this continues to drag on, we will
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  eventually see military and federal families
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  missing paydays. We'll see a strain on food banks,
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  and we'll see food assistance dwindle and eventually
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  snuff out. To try to push out how long it is
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  before people start to really get hungry, Trump
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  has signed a thing to make it so that the DOD
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  is going to move funds around to pay the military,
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  but that's only going to last like a month, and
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  they're probably still going to miss their first
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  payday. So beyond that, we just don't know. It's
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  just going to keep getting wackier. I do want
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  to share how this has personally - affected me
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  please understand that this makes me feel very
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  vulnerable but i was recently going for a hike
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  this past weekend and at the nature center the
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  latrine was closed due to the government shutdown
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  And so I had to become one with nature. Speaking
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  of shit, let's talk about text messages between
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  a bunch of Republicans. Politico recently published
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  a report that revealed a bunch of text messages
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  from a Telegram channel between a bunch of young
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  Republicans. People who are like capital Y, capital
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  R, young Republicans. So this is where it gets
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  messy. And this is where the narrative starts
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  to get real fucked up. So let's be real clear.
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  Young Republican here definitionally means 18
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  to 40. The term young Republicans here is specifically
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  referring to a national organization of young
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  Republicans. And that's the name of it. They
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  mean young as in first half of life, not teenagers.
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  So what this was, was a big trove of texts that
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  had the exact awful shit you would expect. I'm
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  not going to quote it. I'm not going to show
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  it. It's just. racism sexism uh death murder
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  killing jokes uh rape jokes all all of the things
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  essentially the exact kind of humor that you
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  would expect from a 15 year old boy and so when
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  it says young republicans have text messages
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  that have rape jokes in them it's like yeah duh
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  only the yeah duh was actually referring to a
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  35 year old in one case and someone who's currently
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  in this u .s administration And I mean it, like
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  the text, like they said things like, I love
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  Hitler and the things you're not supposed to
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  say, you know, the things that they always want
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  to say, but can't. That's kind of something they
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  would say in a hidden Telegram channel while
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  turning around and yelling at anyone who would
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  insinuate that they're racist. It's so fucking
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  transparent. So this was enough that the actual
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  organization, the National Young Republicans.
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  Folks, they called on these people to step down
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  because they were in like positions of leadership
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  within the organization. It's almost like modern
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  young conservatism preys on young boys and their
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  feeling of being left behind by society for the
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  very real sense of isolation that they're feeling
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  and the lost and stolen future. that truly has
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  happened to them. It's almost like there's a
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  bunch of people out here who feel hopeless and
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  left behind. And the only ones they have to turn
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  to are the worst among us. Among us. Exactly.
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  Our system uplifts the most selfish, horrible
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  people to the highest echelons. Places that were
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  only ever reserved for gods. And so in lieu of
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  a responsible masculine figure, we have Donald
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  Trump. as our president, posting AI videos of
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  him literally shitting on his citizens because
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  that's what he thinks communication should be.
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  Am I offended by that video? Not even remotely.
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  Don't give a shit. Am I upset about the fact
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  that the leader of a country that holds me at
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  gunpoint to pay them taxes is doing that in response
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  to the citizens? Yeah, I feel like that's not
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  a good use. of the leadership position, you know?
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  Anyway, I don't remember what I was saying, but
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  racists. So J .D. Vance decided to defend the
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  racists essentially by saying, oh, well, you
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  know, that's just how kids talk. 18 to 40. So
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  he was trying to do the line of like, oh, it's
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  young Republicans. It's just some teenagers.
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  It's just locker room talk, whatever. That's
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  just how kids are. And honestly, he's not wrong.
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  That is how kids are. And he stopped short of
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  saying. And that's a huge problem for our culture.
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  And we must address it because the normalization
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  of dehumanizing our fellow man is antithetical
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  to the American project. He could have said that,
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  but he didn't. He didn't say that. Instead, he
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  said, talking about gassing Jews is just how
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  kids are. Over in Alaska, there has been some
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  terrible wreckage from a typhoon that hit on
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  October 12th. Remnants of a typhoon hit southwestern
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  Alaska, annihilating villages, primarily those
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  of indigenous people. Folks who have had generations
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  in their towns, towns that don't exist anymore.
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  Floods rolled in and shattered records of flooding
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  by a long shot. Houses were taken off their foundation
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  and were floating far enough to be crashing into
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  each other. Here's an excerpt from alaskapublic
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  .org with a person describing what it was like
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  on the ground. Quote, Carl said that houses were
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  pushed off their foundations and scattered across
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  Kipna. He was in a house with 14 family members
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  during the storm, six of them children, when
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  the four bedroom house started drifting around
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  2 a .m. At one point, he yelled to his family
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  to brace when it looked like they were going
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  to strike another house. He estimates his home
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  traveled half a mile before it came to rest.
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  End quote. There's been a flurry of rescue efforts
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  and the National Guard has been deployed. The
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  head of Alaska's National Guard said that this
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  might be the biggest off -road network operation
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  in 45 years for the National Guard. And unfortunately,
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  officials are assessing the damage and predict
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  that it's so severe, it might be more than a
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  year and a half before people can return to their
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  homes. Homes which mostly are gone now. But again,
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  these are largely indigenous towns, and the folks
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  living there have a deep connection to that land.
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  It's their life, it's their livelihood. Even
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  in the face of absolute destruction and disaster,
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  while there were evacuation efforts going on,
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  the people of this town were hesitant to leave.
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  It's all they know. It's all they want. It's
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  just to be home. And I cannot blame them for
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  that. If you want to donate, I've included links
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  in the description of this episode. Elsewhere,
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  there was a cease... Never mind. The ceasefire
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  that Israel and Hamas have mostly agreed to that
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  the U .S. was fostering has all but fallen apart
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  already. I almost had enough time to write a
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  draft. before it fell apart. Essentially, since
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  the start of the ceasefire, Israel has still
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  been killing and bombing people in Gaza and has
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  been escalating it over time. Recently, they
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  did a bunch of airstrikes in the region of Rafah
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  because they claimed that Hamas was shooting
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  at Israeli soldiers there. Hamas says that they
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  can't even get to that region right now. Israel
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  is pointing to the violence at the hands of anti
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  -Hamas militias fighting against Hamas. Civilians
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  and journalists have been getting killed as these
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  militias are roaming around. Israel has already
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  tried pausing aid distribution and claims they're
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  going to get right back to it soon. it's hard
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  to believe their claims because they also said
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  that every single hospital and school and faith
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  center in Gaza was secretly a Hamas operation.
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  Oh, you know what? Throw refugee camps in there
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  too. There is not one intact hospital in Gaza.
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  They have all been destroyed or damaged by Israeli
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  strikes. And I wish it wasn't this overtly evil,
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  but we have confirmation from Israeli media that
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  Israel has been arming the militias that they
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  are saying. are going against Hamas and causing
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  a bunch of violence in the area. Netanyahu himself
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  and his cabinet secretly approved the distribution
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  of weapons to militias to send into Gaza that
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  they then used as an excuse to continue attacking
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  Gaza. I don't think any reasonable person really
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  expected this to be a ceasefire that actually
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  held. I had some hope purely because I've seen
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  so much. and I just want it to end. I do not
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  like the terms of this ceasefire, and I never
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  really thought it was going to hold. I didn't
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  think it was a good one. I really wish that killing
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  would end. Speaking of killing, Russia and Ukraine.
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  Fuck. Let's go through this quick. Russia and
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  Ukraine, it's still going on. It's still ramping
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  up. Russia has been amping up their drone strikes
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  and missile strikes on cities in Ukraine. And
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  in response, Ukraine has been striking deeper
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  and deeper into Russia's mainland. There are
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  reports that Ukraine has hit enough oil refineries
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  in Russia to have reduced their oil refinery
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  capacity by like 20%. Zelensky went to Trump
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  to ask for Tomahawk missiles, which if given
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  them, that would severely change the balance
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  of power. And Trump thought about it and then
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  said no, and then also said, stop fighting and
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  just use the current battle lines as the map,
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  which is what Putin wants to do. What a surprise.
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  But anyway, France is having a time of it. It's
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  been like a year and a half of just absolute
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  chaos in the French government. Last summer,
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  the far right in France won a bunch of seats
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  in parliament, more than people had expected.
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  And in response to that, the current president
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  of France, Macron, he was like, let's try that
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  again. And he called it a snap election. Essentially,
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  that was just like, hey, let's do a do -over.
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  And the far right got more seats. from the two
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  over since then macron's been doing everything
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  he can to try to keep the government from just
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  falling apart but there's not enough people in
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  any group to form a coalition that lasts and
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  so there's just been like a rotating door of
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  prime ministers and recently another one came
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  and went there's been protest after protest after
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  protest mass mobilizations just shutting france
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  down this is what happens when you have strong
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  labor force by the way these were like union
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  planned protests uh join the joining union joining
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  union there were also just like civilian protests
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  like there was really impressive other protests
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  going on beyond just just the organized union
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  ones but still the people in france are protesting
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  government cuts and an increase in the retirement
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  age shit like that they're basically saying like
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  hey why is our life getting materially worse
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  under your leadership huh side note uh here's
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  a really good idea leadership of a country that
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  improves things i got a million of these anyway
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  yeah it's just kind of a mess in france there's
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  just protest after protest after protest prime
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  minister after prime minister after prime minister
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  uh and the far right coalition's leader was found
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  guilty of embezzlement and isn't allowed to run
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  for office for five years so they're really having
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  a time of it that's all i can really say technology
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  bad technology let's talk about sora OpenAI recently
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  launched an app called Sora, and you probably
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  have already heard about it, but it is an AI
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  TikTok app. Essentially, it is a endless scrolling
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  feed of AI -generated videos, and all that you
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  do is generate AI -generated videos and then
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  put them into a feed. So it's a feed of literally
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  just slop. And so in classic OpenAI fashion,
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  they didn't know, or more likely didn't care,
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  what was going to happen when this app hit the
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  general public. And it did, and wouldn't you
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  know it, copyright infringement abuse you can
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  generate video of other people some people would
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  busted brains can opt in to being put into these
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  videos. Sam Altman himself is one of these opt
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  -ins, and people have already generated CCTV
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  footage of him shoplifting. Like, it's so blatantly
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  stupid. Now, OpenAI probably thinks they can
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  get away with basically anything forever, and
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  they might be right, but this move pissed off
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  content lawyers from Hollywood to Japan. Hollywood's
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  like, hey, why are you able to generate footage
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  of... our copyrighted material. In Japan, they're
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  like, why the fuck can people generate, like,
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  entire anime sequences from our material? Like,
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  this is our cultural export. You're trying to
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  claim that you have divine right to train some
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  kind of exploitation machine with it? And so
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  it didn't take long to get stuff like SpongeBob
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  in a Nazi costume and shit like that. And OpenAI
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  was like, oh, whoa, whoops. Their original plan
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  to handle copyright was opt out. If you have
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  a copyright on something and someone somewhere
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  made a video, you can apply to opt out of having
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  that content be usable. It's insane. This is
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  where we are. And this is why I'm basically always
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  saying, stop showing abject deference to tech
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  bros. This is dumb. We don't need to live like
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  this. Copyright law is a mess, an intellectual
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  property. It's important in some ways and abused
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  in many ways. But I'm always here if somebody
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  wants to sue Sam Altman. Let's talk about depression.
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  I have it. Scientists at McGill University have
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  isolated brain cells that they believe are affected
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  by people with depression. We've known for a
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  long time that depression is physiological. Depression's
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  not just you're sad a lot. Depression's your
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  body doesn't have the right chemical balance
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  to make it so that your brain doesn't want to
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  just end. Trust me, I didn't want to have it
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  like that. I didn't mean to. Anyway, we've known
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  that it's physiological in nature, but we don't
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  have a lot of insight into the specifics of what
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  brain cells are doing what differently with people
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  with depression versus people without. So these
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  science boys took a hundred cadavers. Science
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  boys do the coolest thing. Anyway, the science
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  boys took a hundred cadavers and looked at their
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  brains. About 40 of them did not have depression
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  and 60 of them did. They were able to isolate
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  two different types of cells that had notable
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  difference that were consistent between the cadavers.
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  I'm not going to pronounce them because I don't
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  want to sound dumb. And I did. look it up but
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  what does this actually mean unfortunately it
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  doesn't mean a ton but it does mean that we're
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  making progress we don't know what we don't know
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  correlation is not causation so they can't just
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  say well we now know how depression happens because
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  of these two brain cell types you know next steps
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  would look like figuring out if there's a before
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  and after death difference with these brain cells
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  and learning more about if this is a result of
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  depression or a cause of depression but it's
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  movement in a of potentially having a better
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  understanding of mental illness and more ways
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  to counteract it so that hopefully someday I'll
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  be able to stop taking the pills that make me
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  not want to go dark. Lightning round. There was
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  a guy who worked in the US Department of Energy
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  and he recently lost his security clearance after
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  his computer tried to upload about 200 ,000 images
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  of porn. to a backup over the government network.
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  It was reportedly his lifelong collection. For
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  the first time in 20 years, the U .S. passport
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  has slipped out of the world's top 10 most valuable
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  passports. We were number one a decade ago. I
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  wonder what happened over the past decade. OpenAI,
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  again showing their excellent judgment, announced
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  that they will soon be allowing ChatGPT to again
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  act like your friend, boyfriend, therapist, stuff
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  like that, including sexting. This is a great
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  idea and very good. And finally for today, a
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  guy in Indiana found a 4 ,270 -year -old human
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  skull. Like, yeah, we knew people were there
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  then, but that's an old skull. Like, very old.
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  I wonder whose it was. Wasn't mine. I don't think.
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  Thank you so much for listening to today's episode
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  of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to skh .news for
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  sources, bonus content, and a map to where I
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  hid the other 4 ,270 -year -old skull. My name
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  is Endeavorance. We'll talk again soon. Take
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  care and be well.