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Heat Records, Twitter Clones, and EVEN MORE Umbrella Covers - Ad-Free (Patreon)

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2023-07-08 04:25:57
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2026-06
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Hi. On today's episode, Katy and Cody discuss the record-breaking heat across the U.S. and why it's so hard to draw attention to the climate crisis, the protests in France over the police shooting of a teenager, Instagram's new Twitter, and Elon Musk's unfolding web of lies.

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Steve Snyder

Turning in the assignment last minute. Nice. 👍🏼

Xalimata

I think the book series Musk pretends to like is The Culture by Iain M Banks. Its so post scarcity that one of the characters was confused about stealing since you could just copy it with a mater replicater.

Estance DH

(I'm French, I live in Paris"s suburb, I know what I'm talking about) What has happened a first few days after Nahel' death is that very locally, young people have gathered in (mostly small group in their neigborhood, some came up to Paris, but most stayed right home) & used fireworks & small incendiaries devices to target & sometimes destroy symbols of power & oppression (banks, police, schools, public buildings). It's been a long held practice (this round has been the most impressive since the 2005), that is distinct from formalized protests (the Prefect of Police keeps forbidding people from having peaceful legal protests, so there you go). Though not formalized, it can't be said that those actions are random or meaningless, the young people can be very organized in how they targeted the mayor of l'Hay les Roses in particular (that's the town next to mine, in our town the mayor is very popular, when he was elected one of the first thing he did was confiscate the weapons of the municipal police : our town hall was left untouched). In my neigborhood, though all the banks were hit, one ATM remains functional, because they left it on purpose, because at the end of the day, their moms are gonna need to go to the ATM & our ATM probably won't be repaired for a long time, so many were destroyed here). The problem of police violence in France has worsen & people are left voiceless, becausee the courts won't charge or condemn police & in 2017 (or 18, I can't remember) the governement loosened the regulations on the police that led to Nahel's death & many others. Since 2005, things have gotten so much worse, which makes sense because after a win, the politicians have had all the time to change the narrative & prepare the counter attack, so that we are left without the possibility to protest & actually enact change. One new tactic the police use is the new widespread use of forbidding protests, especially protests led by PoC, which coulc have only happened an handful of time, ever, before 2014 Gaza protests & is now a tactic to discredit opposition : police prefecture forbid the protests, calling for a "risk of violence", if people protest anyway you say they are unlawful, thus justifying the police brutality at the protests.

Estance DH

Some French people don't protest ever. Some will only protest for one things (labour law, feminist, antiracism, LGBTQIA+ issues, decolonial ecology, housing...). Activists will show up week after week, year after year until they fall of exhaustion, everytime they are off work, because that's just our whole live. Usually activists are the people who can't take it anymore or those who need to protest to survive : undocumented people's groups organize protests every week, without rest, for example. We get to know each other, if this group comes to support us, we have to show up for them & vice-versa, building solidarity (intersectionality). Only office workers work 35 hours a week (mostly), in some industry, working up to 59 hours is standards & we usually have around 2 hours round trip commutes, if that's in crowded public transportation that always late, that can be hell. We live in crowded small spaces & we do not have the same access to things: getting a driver's licence cost around €2000, we don't have AC, it's currently 31°C inside my flat & it's midnight, sorry, I'm very warm right now). But what I'm getting at is that you think of healthcare as a big problem in the US, we just have other problems instead. Like our very high unemployement while the governement works to destroy the social safety net slowly but surely. If you get 500€ a month in unemployement, the first month you are unemployed (mimimum monthly wage is 1300 €, cheapest possible rent is around 700 €) & there aren't no job, what do you do?

Made of Stardust

Katy was NOT about this umbrella cover day, but I have to say the cover is how you put the umbrella in your bag after using it and your stuff not get wet. So I'm breaking ranks, sorry Katy.

Mitchell

Bruh, elon has totally said climate change isn’t real… watch that video clip of him and a journalist asking

Thalandor46

Having just gotten through the mishap that was properly understanding the holiday, I have to say that I was expecting a lot more people to be singing that one Rihanna song based on the episode title!

TyelorD

As someone who was born and raised in the PNW, I have to say I never see anyone use umbrella covers: because I never see anyone use umbrellas here 🤣 It could be pouring down rain and most if us just walk around, either with our jackets hoods up or not lmao

Michael G Williams

I know editing is a lot, but an ad-free version would be cool for patreon