Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of gold trend. I I was a courtesy a Fighter of the Night Man in the discord there it is coming back, Tina Turner. Tina Turner did the main song for Golden Eye was like nah, and I was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I remember I remember being so disappointed too, because I think that was the first Bond film I saw in the theater and I was like, what the fund is
this fucking fifteen minute credit sequence? Yeah, because my parents usually just fast forward the Timothy Dalton James Bond vhs is when we had so I didn't even know anyway, they really luxuriate in that in those uh credit sequences sometimes, and that's always like, I feel like critics are always like, ah and just a gorgeous credit sequence with and I'm always just like, yo, what is this seventy two? Like what then are we doing? It's very slow? Well, I
am jack that over there is miles. These are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday afternoon. Fast food companies are trending. There's something happening in California where Californians will basically be voting on the Fast Act to possibly overturned the landmark new state law that could see the minimum wage for fast food workers raised to
an hour. So this was supposed to be a new law already in January, and then companies including you know all all the Favoritespole, Starbucks, your favorites in nat Burger, KFC owner Young Brands, spent millions of dollars opposing it by donating to the Save Local Restaurants coalition. It's wild that these non local restaurants are just so focused on a campaign to save local restaurants, you know, but they know so tell me this, if I sign this, how do I save local restaurants? You want me to have
signed it now? Oh so you're going to push this to a vote in the next major election. That's okay, okay, okay, okay. Yeah. So this is basically they began their signature gathering campaign back on Labor Day to stop the new law and basically framed it as a way to, you know, protect local restaurants from having to pay these high wages. Again not being funded by local restaurants, that's being funded by
fast food chains. Well, two an hour is quite literally the bare minimum, right as for a living wage, like when you adjust for ship and I'm sure in California would probably even more. But like the irony of not the irony, just they keep doing the same fucking tactic to like that're like, you know, if if this law passage, your hamburgers will be fucking right, because that's what's gonna happen. No, it fucking won't. But anyway, like the same kind of
threats of you know, your prices go up. But really, I think most people be like, yeah, I actually know more people that would benefit from this than I than me thinking are believing that doing this is going to somehow make my life worse. Well, all my friends are the CEOs of McDonald's and young brands, so I'm very concerned about their bottom line and their mood, their mood when we're going on a yacht together. The council would
also oversee health safety and antidiscrimination regulations, so can't have that. Um, so they're yeah, they want to get rid of that as quickly and efficiently as possible with a fun pr campaign about saving local restaurants, and yeah, the talking points are fast food prices would sky rocket, people would lose their job, that's every time. It was with rent controls, it was with like helping dialysis centers, it's with clean energy,
like renewable like mandated renewables. It's always the same line of attack. Well, you do this woke thing, it's gonna make everything more expensive because all it is, it just gives up the ghosts that all of these things are about creating more equity. And what they're saying is like, well, if you tip the scale in favor of the workers, the only way we can offset that is to pass
that cost down to you, because we're we're fucked. If the bottom line shifts at some level, we're gonna be able to buy back as much stock as we did last year. You know. Yeah, and we've seen better. They will treat the workers as badly as they as the law will allow, essentially is what we've seen. So you know they this is something and they're the ones trying to fund the pushback on this. You know what, Like,
we know what everything we need to know. But in the next few years, right when is a fucking company going to be like, I'm not gonna I can't even run my business in Californic. Target is no longer in California because the wages they're they're saying, we got a paper is too much. Too much, folks, you're gonna lose target. You're gonna lose target. Okay if you if you vote for this, like that's a threat down the line, I'm sure, which would be funny, but yeah, no one to do that.
But in the end, who knows. Um. There seems to be a little bit of backlash happening to chat GPT smarty pants ass chat bot apparently, according to a headline on I just made up headline that Matt Drudge just made up not as smart as we thought, folks. Chat GPT average to C plus when a University of Minnesota law professor used it to generate answers in four law
school exams while humans are bridge a B plus. Okay, it's funny like listening to people talk about this because there there is this version of technology that they have in their brain from the movies specifically like the movies that came out posts Iron Man, but just you know, over the past twenty years, like movies written generally by older people have the you know, it's the enhanced enhanced
things where technology can do whatever you tell it. Too, And so that's been the expectation, right, is that technology you just say past this law exam and the technology will pass the low exam better than a human could. And so like the fact that it can get a C plus on the law professor's exam is, I don't know, that's pretty good. And then there's this other story that came out where Democratic Congressman Jake uh auchen class is that how we're gonna try. I haven't, haven't, haven't attempted
that one, but yeah, let's go with that one. Let's go with auchen Class. Uh delivered a speech about a new bill to create new artificial intelligence centers, a co owned, co run artificial intelligence center between the US and Israel. UM A little bit more on that in a moment, but it is funny because he like talked about how he had to refine the prompt several times to produce the text he ultimately read. So again, it's like this thing, this thing kind of stinks, but we gotta do it.
We've gotta do it. But again, you know, it's you. You hear that a lot, like as people interact with it, they're like the things not writing good Shakespearean sonnets for me, you know, what's the what's the purpose of having like a joint Israel U s AI center every time there's join, any time there's any joint US Israel anything, it's like, yeah, let's let's here test out our fucking crowd control technology
on Palestinians and report back. It's it's it Is it really that easy to say that it's that it's for weapons. I mean, we don't know. We do know that Israel. If anyone's getting us closer to a Skynet situation, it would seem to be Israel. Up to this point, they recently unveiled AI powered robotic guns in order to shoot at Palestinian protesters. So yeah, yeah, so shut that ship down right away. Uh don't need AI, y'all. We can't. We can't even do normal intelligence on this fucking planet.
Right let's you know, but what are they gonnam a lud right now? Yeah? Google has been offering advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to the Israeli government, and then we're like they they later quote worried that this will probably just enable further human rights violations. That Google realized that they later worried that they did they might not, they knew it registered the concern again, y'all. Just like
Western intervention, not a good track record. US and Israel teaming up on some kind of technology ship. Yeah, um, all right, let's take a quick break. We'll be right back, and we're back and Murdoch, Yeah, big al Alex, your boy, he's in. He's in. He's on trial right now, big
red baby. There's a couple of details that have come out. First, they took down his pop pause painting in the courtroom, so he will no longer be you know, foreboding presence in the courtroom where maybe this person's hey, you know what,
let's yeah take that. And then apparently, you know, the people who were talking like who are like looking at the trial, they said he broke down in tears during his murder trial as witnesses were describing the crime scene, you know, like when I believe his his wife and son were killed. He was like very emotional. It's like a photo of him, like you could see like literal
tears are like falling off of his face. But then the first officer arrived, his test his his testimony was yeah, I mean that guy was upset, but he wasn't like crying or anything when I got there, when his when his like you know, and again some people are like, well, you know, who knows what that means. But when you put that against everything that this guy has done, you're like, yeah,
it's like context but nothing. Yeah. Um, completely judging somebody's response to a traumatic event that just happened probably isn't totally fair. I don't know. I have to check with my um, with with my two sheet or from that one cop who claims that they can tell when someone is lying whatever they call nine one one they can tell.
I think they they put in something that like one in in this like report offered by that cop, they put in this claim that one in every three people who calls nine one one is like actually a murderer. Like they some wild statistics. But yeah, they claim that if somebody says there's blood instead of saying that someone's bleeding,
they're the murderer or something like. There's all these like telltale signs that are exactly the sorts of ship that like people want to believe in, you know, like that, like it's like if someone goes like I shot my brother on accident, why is that relevant? Right now because because you didn't do it, it's like, what holy it really? Yeah, it is like the same thing like with kind of and like paul Ty Goldman type ship when your confirmation
biases set like this. I think there was even a scene in Paul Wasn't there scene in Polty Golden and people like, oh, no, he's lying. I can tell it, Like there was like some yeah, there was like a focus group scene and people like can me like, oh, this guy's fullish it or whatever. But you also see people do this too, and like we're so true crime brain too, where you hear people like did you hear the nine one one call? I know that's bullshit and we really act like it all fits into this neat
fucking pattern. Yeah. There's so many examples of people who were like victims of crimes and the police were like, well, you know that this is the telltale sign that I remember seeing it. There's one docuseries about a like serial rapist who got away with it for a long time because the cops just didn't believe the victim who had like the best most evidence and like eyewitness account because she isn't like crying when they came and she was
like kind of matter of fact about it. And then my favorite example is the Amanda Knox documentary where they like the cop was like she was covering herself in a comforter um, which is the ultimate sign. Like he smoked a pipe and had like a shake not Shakespeare Sherlock hat, and he like had all these rules that he made up that basically all came came back to. Uh. I don't believe women. I don't believe anything that was. But yeah, and she had a comfort or wrapped around her,
which we all know it was lingering. Yes, when a woman does that, you see. Um Anyways, Tyree Nichols is trending. That is the name of a citizen of Memphis who five now former Memphis Police officers murdered beat to death earlier this month. Um. The aps have been charged with murder and the video of the beating is expected to be released. UM. I think tomorrow so or yeah, it might be out. I don't know. It's I can't bring myself to watch it. Just hearing like the reactions of
people that have seen it is horrified. It sounds really fucked up. Yeah, anyway, so that's why we need to get rid of our police and figure out a more efficient way to deal with our crime by you know, supporting people and not having a fucking merry ground of funding that just incentivizes this ship and has basically turned like Americans completely against each other. No one can even the assumption is every single person is violent and will kill you, and that's why you can get in a
car accident and end up dead. Yeah, but not from the car accident, but from merely asking the police route. Yeah, the from Yeah, the people who are arriving who are supposed to be help, you know, immediately, assuming you know. Yeah, it's uh, this is woof yeah, it's I mean, yeah, you need you need uh, you need you need accountability. Uh and we we need to see what what form that comes in. But also real actual fucking to like
take this problem. All we just keep doing the same fucking same over and over and over and over again. All the data suggests that this isn't the way to do it, like, but we have a real hard time letting goats. Yeah. And the other thing is I gotta say, I have to say, I have to say the amount of Look, the officers that that perpetrated this attack, they were black and I've never seen quicker accountability for the police than when the officers were black. I'm just gonna
say that, which is wild. It should be across the board. But what it was like only a couple of weeks. Yeah, yeah, like that's the other kind of funked up part. And I'm not I'm not saying that that should excuse one thing or the other. But my god, like to even see the disparities even reflected on how quickly we take people to account or not take them to account, it's
like another fucking grim reminder of this place we live in. Yeah, because where the blue lives matter people right now, right, you know, I'm sure they'd have something to say if the people look different. But again, this is a this is a much larger issue. But again it is the layers of ship and this one is really it's kind of sucking me up. Yeah, you'll remember that the you know, in the George Floyd case, that that wasn't even a video that they were trying to release. That was a
video that got released because you know, so a bystandard. Yeah, uh, succession is trending because there's a new teaser for season four that it looks funny it looks Yeah, it looks like succession. They have not sucked up the formula, which is we fucking hate our dad. He's a bastard. Yeah. Uh. And now oh, I mean it's because now they're diametrically opposed fully, so it's we get to see them try and fight daddy. Uh. And what that happens looks like
Tom is scheming a little bit. Yeah, Tom is fully aligned with Daddy and the kids are all, you know, together, trying to bring it down and can't get him on the phone. I believe your father would like you to
call him. No he can. Actually, there's a whole there's this you should watch the teaser, but there's this a very succession esque moment where like, is it clearly the dad's assistant is trying to get the kids to call him and reach out, but his ego won't allow it, and they're like, no, you should call him, like he needs to call us, and like, the best I can do is I can get a text from him that requests a call, right, ship, All right, shout out to the what do they call it again? What's that family?
The oh murdocks um, the Roys, the Roy's thank you, thank you, thank you. Shout out to the roys Um. And you know, my brain started saying funck off just generally, like a few times a day lately, which is usually you know, That's how I know a new sixth season of Succession is coming, a new sixth season. You never say you never say fun off, just in general, No, just just in logan roy Yeah, okay, starts coming, bubbling up, Okay,
get low again, get logan um. All right, those are some of the things that are trending on this Thursday. We're back tomorrow with the whole last episode of the show. Until then, be kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get the vaccine, don't do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to you all tomorrow. All right, bye bye