#105 - Are our law makers just bored?

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Oregon is passing some weird laws these days, recall elections in California are looming while they want to pay for all the past rent, and Kamala Harris has what appears to be only servants of color while serving mostly white people at her tea party. So... nothing much new.If you like the music check out the artist here: theearthonfireIntro song links: Spotify Apple MusicPlease subscribe to us on YouTube and Rumble to watch videos after they are published.Follow us on Instagram for random funny picsFollow us on Facebook to get notified of LIVE! episode recordings and to join the chat!Links discussed in episode:One more step before controversial Oregon bill becomes law, banning 'love letters' during home salesSperm Can Survive in Space; Humans Could Reproduce on MarsWhen Will the Recall Election Take Place? It's Becoming a Big Point of ContentionCalifornia to Pay off all Past Due Rent Accrued During COVID, Giving Renters Clean SlateBitcoin dives as China widens crackdown on crypto mining Vice President Kamala Harris revives tradition of hosting all female US Senators for dinnersHUGE DEVELOPMENT: NSA Reveals in FOIA Response that the FBI Involved in "Improper Surveillance" of 16,000 AmericansLights go off. At midnight on June 20th Shanghai time, all bitcoin and other crypto mining facilities in Sichuan will be collectively powered off. I'm keen to follow the migration to their new locations.TIL Poland sent the US a birthday card with 5.5 million signatures to mark the 150th anniversary of the US in 1926.TIL the opening crawl to Star Wars begins with a storybook-esque narration ("A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....") because George Lucas first imagined his films as stories being told by an ancient race of immortals. The immortals were written out for early films, but this vestige remained.TIL:TIL of the Heart Attack Grill restaurant in Las Vegas, which serves high fat/sugar food. Customers wear hospital gowns, waitresses are dressed as nurses, and customers over 350lb in weight eat for free. There is in fact a history of people dying there from cardiac arrest.TIL over half of all phone calls we receive now are SPAMTIL that almost 50% of biosolids (human feces) in the U.S. are used as fertilizers for agriculture. In Asia it is almost 90%, mainly for rice production.Shower Thoughts:A cyber security student who can hack the the University's database and give themselves full marks probably deserves full marksBurger flipping is a thing where if you do it as a job its seen as a failure but if you do it recreationally it's a mark of success in life.Lincoln will have lived closer to the detonation of the first nuclear bomb, than people born after 2025.Antibiotics sound like something you take to keep yourself from turning into a robot.We do not have a good grasp on just how much humanity can progress in a lifetime. In a single one, we went from the first flying machines to putting a man on the moon, and in the next lifetime, we went from room-sized computers to ones we carry in our pocket that are incomprehensibly faster.A coma is a free trial of the afterlife, and when it expires you either pay for the full version or you go back to lifeIf you choke on a piece of meat it's an animal's last chance at revenge