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AI Slop Adverts & Way Too Much Killing · Stuff Keeps Happening

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Hello. I crossed a few things off of my list,
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but stuff still happened. So what's up? I want
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you to know up front, this episode is structured
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such that all the rough stuff is up front, and
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then it just kind of gets a little lighter there
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out. So stick with me. Hey, here we go. Hey,
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it's Next Day Dev. It's the same guy next day.
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There's a lot that happened over the past...
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few days that's pretty horrific as i just said
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lots of bad stuff up front it gets better as
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it goes i'm actually re -recording this introduction
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because i wanted to just add in some more stuff
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real quick so let's just quick overview of some
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of the really rough things that happened recently
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in australia at bondi beach there was a mass
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shooting at a hanukkah celebration very obviously
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a targeted attack against jews uh it's horrific
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And this is not a thing that happens outside
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of like the US particularly frequently. So it's
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pretty shocking to say the least. However, among
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the mess of this situation, there is a hero that
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people are celebrating. Ahmed Al Ahmed, who ran
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in and disarmed one of the shooters. He took
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two bullets while doing so and saved who knows
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how many people. Now, I've seen some weird takes
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online about people criticizing the guy for not
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taking the gun that he just took from the shooter
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and using it to kill the shooter who he just
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disarmed. He disarmed him. Not everything needs
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to be solved by shooting somebody with a gun.
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Or if it was me, I would have shot the guy. Cool.
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Enjoy the trauma. Like here's a man who just
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disarmed someone to save lives and you're criticizing
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him for not having taken a life. Thankfully,
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that's a very small minority of people. Let's
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talk about Rob Reiner. This literally just kind
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of happened overnight. Rob Reiner, the famed
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movie director who directed Princess Bride, was
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found dead, him and his wife, in his home in
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an apparent homicide. We really don't know a
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whole lot more just yet. That's a thing. There
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was also a shooting at Brown University here
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in the States. The shooter is still at large,
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despite the president of our country. stating
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publicly that the shooter was captured. That
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was not true. That was not true. There's been
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an ongoing war in Sudan for years that's been
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causing a massive humanitarian crisis, possibly
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the biggest ever. But recently, the RSF, one
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of the major militias in the area that's basically
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backed by the UAE, slaughtered 60 ,000 people
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in one town over the course of just a few weeks.
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It's so significant that aid groups can't even
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get aid there because it's too dangerous. Over
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100 ,000 people are still unaccounted for from
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all of that. It's a massive crisis, and there's
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not a whole lot we can do, which makes me feel
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very powerless, and I'm sure it makes you feel
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very powerless as well. It's important to know
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that these are things that are happening, but
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it's also important to remember that we can't
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just fix it. That is the problem with being a
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human. So the first step is being aware that
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these things are happening. And the next step
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is making sure folks in your life know as well.
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It's never a comfortable conversation to have,
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but we won't ever have change until people are
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actually aware of how the world works. Thanks
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for getting through that with me. Let's move
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on. I promise it gets better. It's going to be
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rough first, but then it gets better. So the
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US government under President Trump and his just...
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gaggle of ghouls have been chasing down people
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in the streets who are not white and demanding
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immigration papers and then taking them to makeshift
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prisons. Often there's just no due process whatsoever.
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Sometimes they're showing up at a courthouse
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where someone's trying to do their immigration
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meeting and they get arrested and thrown into
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a prison. Prisons that have basically no oversight.
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And in the case of the infamous alligator Alcatraz
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in Florida, Worse oversight than a standard ICE
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facility. Because Alligator Alcatraz, which is
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actually the Everglades detention facility, is
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not a federal facility. It's a state facility.
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The state of Florida is using funds from FEMA
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to build a concentration camp. And the reports
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coming out of there are horrific. Now, before
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I get into that, you might be confused because
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there was a big story about how a judge had ordered
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for Alligator Alcatraz to be shut down. That
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didn't happen. because that order was shut down.
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So it's been a thing, and it's still a thing.
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Inside the facility are cages packed with 32
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people to a cage. Mosquitoes are running rampant.
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There's basically no working plumbing, so feces
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are just spilling out of the toilets and seeping
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everywhere. One of the most eye -popping things
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to come out of this is literal torture. There's
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apparently a thing called the box that's like
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a tiny metal cage that inmates at this facility
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get strapped into, shackled to, and left out
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in the elements for hours up to a day at a time.
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That is torture. That's torture. It does not
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matter anything about anyone's legal immigration
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status. This is not acceptable. Even the most
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self -serving take on this should be that, hey,
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Maybe the government shouldn't have the ability
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to do this to people who have not been found
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guilty of a crime. Being brown and here at the
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same time and found by an ICE officer while doing
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so is not a crime. Meanwhile, over in Texas at
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Fort Bliss, there's been reports of abuse, sexual
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abuse, and even forcing detainees to climb over
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the border wall to secretly deport them. One
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teenager from that facility was taken to the
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hospital after guards beat and abused him so
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badly that he had broken teeth and severe testicular
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trauma. I don't think that's helping our country.
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Anyway, the Department of Homeland Security's
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response is, nuh -uh. Here's a quote from the
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DHS assistant secretary, Tricia McLaughlin. Quote,
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any claim that there are inhumane conditions
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at ICE detention centers are categorically false.
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No detainees are being beaten or abused. Remember
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the hospitalized inmate? Anyway, moving on, continuing
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the quote. Quote, no lawbreakers in the history
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of civilization have been treated better than
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illegal aliens in the United States. get a grip.
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I don't want to just sit here and say that these
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people are overtly evil. I also don't know what
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takeaway we're supposed to have besides that.
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I have watched every day as human lives have
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been destroyed and I've been told by our officials
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to not care about that. And then I see people
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who are supporting this saying, ha ha, that's
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what I voted for. They need to do worse things
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to these people. Like, hey, that's awful. You're
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a bad person. But I also want to be very clear
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that I've seen a lot of tides turning about this,
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and I've seen a lot more resistance from people
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who thought that this was going to be different.
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I don't know why they thought it was going to
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be different, but they're finally now waking
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up to the fact that, hey, maybe running on a
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platform of mass deportation now doesn't result
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in the best administration. But here is a little
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bit of good news. We're starting to trend upwards,
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I promise. Because among all this immigration
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madness, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man who was,
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quote, mistakenly deported to the one country
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he wasn't supposed to be deported to, is back
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home. As a very quick recap, Kilmar Abrego Garcia
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was hanging out in front of a Home Depot looking
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for work when ICE agents arrested him. They used
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his bull's hat to say that he was a gang member.
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And then they deported him to Seacott, the torture
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prison in El Salvador. And then it came out that
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that was the one country that he was not supposed
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to be deported to if he was deported, which he
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wasn't supposed to be. To which the U .S. government
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was like, no, he's a gang member. And also now
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that he's there already, we can't do anything
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to bring him back. And then he was brought back.
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Then when he was brought back, the Department
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of Justice was like, he will never go free on
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U .S. soil. That's a quote that is wild. This
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is a dude who is hanging out at a Home Depot
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looking for work as a day laborer. He's never
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going to go free on U .S. soil. Come on, you
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guys. It is embarrassing how much energy has
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been put into things that don't fucking matter
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and just make everything worse. So yeah, he gets
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back here. They're like, he's never going to
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go free. And the U .S. government continuously
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tries to deport the man to three different countries,
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this time in Africa. All the while, Abrego Garcia
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and his lawyers were saying, hey, he'll move
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to Costa Rica if you want him to. And officials
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from Costa Rica were like, sure, yeah, we'll
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take him. To which ICE was like, no, that's not
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on the table. It has to be an African country.
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for reasons. Essentially, the government fucked
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up real bad. And because we know that nobody
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in this administration can ever admit fault on
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anything, they just double, triple, quadruple
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down on this random dude claiming that he is
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this hardened criminal. And at this point, they
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can't back off because they've already made it
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so clear. They've staked their claim on deporting
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this one guy who wasn't supposed to be deported.
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Because if there is a guy who is that color and
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was deported and brought back because, hey, he
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wasn't supposed to be deported, that breaks their
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narrative. Their narrative being that everyone
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who's that color deserves to be deported. Anyway,
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this is all kind of still ongoing. Kilmar is
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still not totally free. He's basically on house
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arrest. He has to check in with ICE, although
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a judge has signed a thing saying ICE can't arrest
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him. But it's ICE. We'll see. Let's move on.
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Let's keep that upward trend. McDonald's! in
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the netherlands i don't know why i hopped i'm
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not that excited about mcdonald's generally so
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mcdonald's netherlands like specifically the
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dutch arm of mcdonald's published an ai generated
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ad that caught so much flack they have already
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taken it down the ad was essentially a bunch
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of clips of like fails like fail video kind of
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stuff just like unfortunate situations set to
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a remix of It's the most wonderful time of the
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year where they were saying it's the most awful,
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terrible time of the year. Who cares? Point being,
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it was a bad idea and the commercial was creepy
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and people didn't like it at all. Beyond being
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AI slop, it also was just an uncomfortable commercial.
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So understandably so, it got a whole bunch of
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pushback and people were like, this is just,
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this is awful. This is terrible. Please take
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this down. And the studio behind the ad gave
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the worst defense imaginable. The production
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company, The Sweet Shop, had this to say in their
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defense. Quote, for seven weeks, we hardly slept
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with up to 10 of our in -house AI and post specialists
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at the gardening club, our in -house AI engine,
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working in lockstep with the directors. We generated
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what felt like dailies, thousands of takes, then
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shaped them in the edit just as we would on any
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high craft production. That response from the
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company has mysteriously disappeared from their
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website. I wonder why we were up all night asking
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this computer to plagiarize things. So that was
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the McDonald's ad and that got pulled. But Coca
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-Cola did their second annual Christmas ad this
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year generated with AI. Last year they did one
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and it got some criticism. People being like
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this is soulless and plasticky. And then they
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did it again because soullessness and plastic
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the American way. Now, for whatever reason, the
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Coke commercial this time around, it didn't get
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as much backlash as the McDonald's one. But something
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I learned when I was digging into this was that
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Coke essentially humble brags about having made
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Santa popular. Now, it's a humble brag because
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on Coca -Cola's website, there's a page that's
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like, are we responsible for Santa being a thing?
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And they're like, no, we just popularized it.
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They argue that. that the reason that santa is
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how we know him today is because they commissioned
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an artist to do a bunch of ads for coke that
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depicted santa as the way he is today and that
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was distributed all over the place because coke
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ads they did not invent the original santa and
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also it's debatable as to whether or not their
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ads are the reason that people know santa today
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but what a claim anyway i don't think that we
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need this i don't think i don't think we need
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this i don't think that we need ai to generate
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commercials i don't think do we do do we i say
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we like the human race do we need this i don't
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i don't think so i'm not certain but let's go
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over to the gamer place here we go now we're
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in the gamer place cool welcome to the gamer
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space we're going to talk about the game awards
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the game awards are kind of shitty there's just
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like an industry event that's that's pretty pretty
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shitty uh but it's kind of all we got right now
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ever since e3 was ejected from this world so
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who won expedition 33 won everything basically
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not literally everything uh but let's see here
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clear obscure expedition 33 won game of the year
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best art direction best game direction best narrative
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best score best performance that's for Jennifer
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English best indie game best debut indie game
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and best rpg I may have missed something Can't
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count much past that. Let's talk about what was
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announced, because first things first, we're
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getting a new Divinity game from Larian. Larian
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made their big announcement, which involved a
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statue in the desert. I don't really fully understand,
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but they put a statue in a desert, and they were
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like, look at this statue. What could this be?
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And then people were like, I don't know. What
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could that be? And then it turned out that it
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had something to do with the reveal of this new
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game. Cool. Point being, Larian Studios, the
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company that made Baldur's Gate 3, is making
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a new mainline entry in their series Divinity.
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It's another RPG series very similar to Baldur's
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Gate. Only they said that this was going to be
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even bigger than Baldur's Gate 3. So that's cool.
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There's a bunch of other announcements. Here's
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a handful of things that I had a non -zero reaction
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to. There's going to be a sequel to Control called
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Control Resident. You'll be able to play as Leon
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Kennedy in the upcoming Resident Evil Requiem
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game. Leon! There's gonna be two new Tomb Raider
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games because one wasn't enough. There's too
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many tombs. One of them is a remaster of like
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the original game. Not really a remaster, like
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a re -imagination, I guess. They're making a
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new mainline Mega Man game. Yo, got a new trailer
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for the Street Fighter movie, which I forgot
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was happening. And it looks wild and I'm expecting
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it to be terrible. I'm here for it. Also a new
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D &D themed RPG that seems to be about being
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a warlock. so it's sort of like me i'm a warlock
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that was magic lightning round a hiker did the
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meme uh fell into some quicksand and was rescued
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from said quicksand after using like a gps sos
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thing quicksand's real y 'all It happened. After
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losing power to both engines, a small plane made
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an emergency landing on I -95 in Florida, landing
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directly on a driving car. Everyone's okay, but
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the guy driving that car, I can't even imagine.
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Like, I would never get in a car again. It turns
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out just a few weeks prior to the U .S. raiding
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an oil tanker off of Venezuela, we also raided
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a cargo ship that was headed to China. Just did
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that too. Going from Iran to China, and we were
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just like, that's ours now. Yo -ho? I guess?
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I'm not a huge fan of that in particular. And
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finally for today, someone's house in California
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done dang exploded. And it was captured on video
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from a doorbell camera, but it's gone. House
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was there, and then it was not. It was because
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of a gas leak from construction. Hey, maybe gas
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is a bad idea. Thank you so much for listening
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to today's episode of Stuff Keeps Happening.
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Head to skh .news for sources. bonus content,
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and a primer on how to make your own quicksand
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to trap hikers. My name is Endeavorance. We'll
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