The Twilight of the SImps: A Difficult Time for Chinese E-Girls?

A massive amount of Simp activity is coming from fairly young men, and it's clear that this trend is not going to disappear anytime soon. In fact, most people would argue that Sims are still a staple of many gamers' lives, particularly those in their 30s who have been playing since the early days of gaming. But what does the future hold for these young Simpers? Will they be able to adapt and overcome, or will they become a relic of the past?

One thing is certain: China has taken notice of this trend and is cracking down on it. In an effort to curb excessive Simping, the Chinese government has banned spending by teens in live streaming, requiring hosts and gift givers to provide real names after accusations of abuse. And perhaps most significantly, teenagers are no longer allowed to donate at all anymore. It's a bold move, but one that may ultimately be necessary to address the issue of underage Simping.

But what if there was a way for young Simpers to contribute to their favorite streamers without breaking the law? Perhaps something like Amazon's Mechanical Turk service, where users can earn credits by completing small tasks and then donate those credits to their favorite streamer. It's not a perfect solution, but it's worth exploring.

Of course, one of the biggest challenges facing young Simpers is the issue of digital payments. Many platforms already offer digital payment options, making it easier for minors to contribute to their favorite streamers without having to worry about credit cards or other financial instruments. But what happens when those digital payment systems are implemented in China? Will there be a way for young Simpers to contribute without being flagged as underage?

The answer may lie in the use of blockchain technology, which could potentially allow users to verify their age and identity while still maintaining anonymity. It's a complex issue, but one that has already been addressed by other platforms. And if China can figure out how to make it work, it could be a game-changer for young Simpers everywhere.

In the meantime, many gamers are left wondering: what will become of this beloved aspect of gaming culture? Will it continue to thrive, or will it fade away as younger generations grow up and move on to other interests? Only time will tell. But one thing is certain: the twilight of the SImps has arrived, and it's a difficult time for Chinese e-girls.

Fresh Business and Snow in Kentucky

A line is forming outside the weather station, and the latest forecast from Chad is that we can expect another day of rough winter weather. The woolly worms have predicted this, and they're not to be trusted. According to legend, if you see a solid black worm, winter is coming. And today's forecast looks like it's going to live up to that prediction.

But don't just take Chad's word for it - the weather station has been tracking the situation closely, and they're expecting a prolonged period of cold temperatures. The question on everyone's mind is: will this be the worst winter weather in years? Only time will tell.

And speaking of time, there's another reason to stay indoors today: the Discord server has gone down. We've had reports of users being frozen out of chat, and it seems like no one knows what's going on. Will it be fixed by tomorrow? We can only wait and see.

The Mysterious Case of the Frozen Discord Server

It happened suddenly - one minute we were chatting away, and the next our screens just froze up. It was as if the Discord server had been taken down without warning, leaving us all stuck in limbo. And now, no matter what we do, we can't seem to get back online.

Theories abound, but nobody seems to know for sure what caused it. Was it a technical glitch? A hacker attack? Or was it just a simple case of too many users trying to log on at once? Whatever the reason, one thing is clear: we need to figure out what happened and fix it ASAP.

So, stay tuned - we'll be back online as soon as possible. And if you have any ideas about what might have caused the problem, feel free to share them in the comments below. We're all ears... or rather, all screens.

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of a tradition of starting government news sections with the fcc i feel like we might not have a reason to after today but we do have three stories to see us off in grand fashion the first one is a little bit mundane i don't think very many people care about this and i i kind of agree with this because people are horrible yes and no one wants to put up with this yeah the fcc is maintaining its ban on mobile phone voice calls during flights why a huge number of people are crammed into an aluminum straw do you really want the person next to you yelling into their phone imagine it's an 80 year old man and he is just talking the filthiest stuff that you've ever heard like he's getting into you know like latex and water sports like just really bsdm he's going into hard detail do you want to sit there for hours listening to that no if he's if his knee is touching yours and you got to listen to that no i mean it's already really terrible if you're you know on a conference call that has a lot of latency and that airplane connection it's going to have a lot of latency you have to keep repeating the sexy part yeah yeah so that makes sense i know it's an inconvenience for some people but uh you know you can tune out for the time it takes to fly in the sky can now the next one is uh maybe no surprise i think probably at the behest of the trump administration and the outgoing portions of the fcc they're saying let's get as much as we can done and the time allotted to us do you think this will stand come february you know it might probably not i don't know it does seem like uh there's a little bit of bipartisan support here well yeah i mean it doesn't this they actually have put out more like the first time they did this it was kind of like okay where's the evidence and now it's like okay this there is maybe something to this that needs to be investigated anyway it's another entry on the old black list and not a surprise zte zte corp designation as a security threat has been affirmed by the usfcc so if you're gonna buy gear for your 5g network or your you know continent continent corporate infrastructure you might want to double check zte is one of your suppliers and you might want to put a date of january 19th into your calendar right now and you might ask what am i putting in to my calendar for january 19th well perhaps uh a purchase of some champagne or some other celebratory uh liquid or device whatever it is that you do to mark a momentous occasion that you don't want to forget i'll bring some m ms to the level one news will you commit to right now uh probably one of the small bags all right and what are we celebrating well fcc chairman ajit pai will step down on january 20th bye bye mr ajit pai something something whiskey and rye yeah we actually used that for the last one we did so we can't use that one again we got an official official date though now we jumped the gun ding dong the witch is dead is also appropriate i think we made the same joke last time too because it wasn't we talked about this last week of the week before but it wasn't confirmed it was just yeah it's obvious but we raised the question we'll raise it again how long before he has one of the top offices in the verizon building oh it's going to be something ridiculous just utterly ridiculous like the damage that you've done to help this is just lasting and it's incredible shareholders thank you the world over i bet the pie children will have an xbox and a ps5 wow we talked about this story before and we all were horrified by it and we all recognized how bad it was but what we did know at the time was the scope and it's been investigated a little bit more and now we know iras could search warrantless location database over ten thousand times motherboard obtain irs documents describing the sale of a database of smartphone movements that it's not really they didn't really buy a database they bought access to a database they could do 12 000 searches they have 12 000 searches that they can do on that database on a yearly basis and so they probably have i think it says could this is a weird headline i think they did i think they confirmed ten thousand this was vintel yeah and now that is the company that lets you track they so they put their little evil worm and various sdks that go into apps and they harvest all that data they sell it to the government as well as other people now the the funny thing here is ron wyden's office pointed out that you know even if you're buying access to a database like this you can't really do an end run around the fourth amendment because you're aggregating a lot of data it's like you could buy one piece of data and maybe that's not a warrantless search but when you've got access to this much data and you can identify an individual then maybe that does constitute a search the supreme court ruled on that according to ron wyden's office a while ago so they keep asking the irs to explain their legal rationale for doing this and the answer seems to be well we thought we could get away with it what kind of makes it worse too is it's like they're not they didn't just pay to have it they're paying for like each individual like thing so it's like you're you're also wasting money while you do this it makes it worse yeah but krista when you are running an extortion business pro criminal tip you lose money to get money from the people who borrowed money right so you'll spend more money to punish someone who doesn't pay because in the long run that's better because it scares the other people into paying unless you're microsoft or amazon in which case they just laugh because it's like what are you going to do out spend this well i'm sure they have an alternative arrangement the irs is like let me go after this person who has no money break a few fingers so uh yeah listen the interest rate is outrunning the growth of our economy at this point i don't know how we're gonna catch up we're never paying that debt but people make that argument it's like well we're never going to pay it so let's just make more of it and it's like i think it'll be worse i don't know and uh so we had during the election aside from all the other stuff that happened during the election the gig economy was uh i guess it was helped i it depends on which side of the aisle you stand on i guess but lyft and uber kind of won with their california case because it was like oh they didn't win everything but yeah they want a lot they won the whole like you're not an employee thing yeah you you are not our employee you are a contract worker and so now they're moving further i i could see this this could be bad for like a startup company yeah just like oh yeah come and work for us and we're going to give you all this beautiful stock and you're going to be like oh my god the stock's worth so much and then you get paid and then six months later when because there'll be freezes on this when those freezes come off your stock is now worth a tenth of what it was that's the danger here the sec proposes rules for giving gig workers equity so if you're gonna basically give workers equity what are the rules that you have to follow one of them is basically you can't separate the company from its assets one of the one of the popular tricks to do is to give everybody equity in the company but no say so and so the company will sell off all of its assets but the company that remains is the one that you have equity in and you had no say so in the transfer of the assets or getting you know money from the assets or anything else so it's you just you have nothing and that's a perfectly acceptable legal maneuver currently the sec is trying to say well let's let's maybe not do it that way but it could be good maybe not now if you were working for uber lyft and you got shares before the ipo you probably make a lot of money see i think the whole solution to the uber lift problem is to basically franchise and have somebody that knows what they're doing that can you know deal with more transient workers kind of on a local basis and give them a bigger cut but what you're probably giving up there is that mountain of data yeah i guess you could require your franchisees to send that back but then it's just more people in on the scan yeah i mean it it does end up being a pyramid scheme but pyramid screen schemes are tried and true in the us economy they work so well every ride the writer is just harassing you it's like you got to start doing this yeah you got to join my uh my circle of drivers cynthia you get a free 10 gift certificate if you sign up now it's like a little caesars delivery basically do they do delivery now we get a free five dollars free free five dollar pizza every friday did they just start doing that no i thought they were always pick up no no it's a like the driver can have like a free meal coupon or whatever oh if you do like an ubereats type of deal i don't know who's paying for that or if that's just something they're doing but you know it's a thing to order pizza right now yeah it's probably like ubereats yeah it's some kind of promotion now we're going into the christmas season and assuming that you get to see your family for christmas no and uh there are actually there isn't there may or may not be a tree there may or may not be gifts under the tree perhaps you're too destitute to buy gifts but let's say if this were a normal christmas you'd be uh stored at leveltext.com what you won't find on stored at levelonetext.com that you probably will find under a lot of trees this year is internet of things devices as they just get more and more popular it's hard to believe but congress just approved an iot security law and it totally doesn't suck now this is amazing the register is saying that a us law totally doesn't suck that's actually genuinely impressive the iot cyber security improvement act was introduced it does a lot of really good things the main thing that it does is it tells the national institute of standards and technology to come up with something that's sane for handling internet of things devices things like credential updates handling patches handling security just a basic very very basic laundry list of stuff that's needed for things that are going to be on the internet because that forgotten smart toaster from three years ago it's already mining bitcoin for somebody in like east estonia now you might be thinking that's crazy i mean think about all the devices already out there and think about uh who's the the chinese kid uh he sing he's singing i thought it was his song oh he sung maybe you can't rename him at this point you might be thinking he sung is he doomed what's he gonna do for money after this well this only impacts companies that are doing things with the government so they're not gonna stop you from selling bad internet of things devices but if you do business with the government you have to meet this standard so hopefully there'll be something on the box that's like you know fda approved it's like the early days of the uh underwriters lab where it's like oh you definitely want to get the power strip that's ul listed because it won't burn your house down and then later it's like oh all power ships have to be unlisted that's not true i've been on amazon and that's like one of the amazon questions is this ul listed no why are you selling it so yeah that'll be interesting and uh hopefully it becomes like it it's not required but it becomes one of those things where if you don't have it people are smart enough not to buy your stuff although people are still buying those chinese electronics i really are who knows all just based on cost i got this 43 inch tv but it's literally stealing my bank account i can see it on the screen it's trying different pin numbers well with the ul listed stuff there is such a good reason to pay a little bit more and i think internet of things falls into that same category it's funny though because the example of burning your house down like you buy you import some cheap stuff from china it's going to come with lithium-ion batteries that can't wait to burn your house down so i mean it kind of but having your identity stolen by the chinese maybe not on the same level of having your house burned down but i still have a visceral it's worth more pay a little more now when it comes to the big tech companies of course uh this year has been a free-for-all for attacking them but i don't think we've really gotten into this is more of a stalking phase i think the government's there you know they're creeping around they're hunkered down in the tall grass and they big tech companies they know they're there but they don't know when they're coming and the uk has taken one more very tentative stalking step toward the final kill uk to set up pro competition regulator to put limits on big tech in theory this sounds really interesting but i don't know how they're going to execute on this in any way that makes any logical sense and in fact they gave no details yeah so i mean they kind of i've read about this before and in some other contexts and some of the eu regulators kind of hint at like you know a craigslist type thing where you don't want to monopolize like selling stuff online okay that sounds good but how does that translate into you know we need a an eu competitive version of say gmail or we need an eu competitive version of whatever the business model is literally to get your personal information mine it and sell it the business model doesn't work if you follow all the eu regulations well maybe the answer is to just make the taxpayers pay for it which seems to be one of the directions they're taking when it comes to the whole security infrastructure for the networks kind of thing especially when it comes to the phones because hey you can't have huawei anymore what happens then well the other companies that are left behind in this case nokia and erickson they don't really have to compete very much do they and what happens then the isp situation in the united states that's what happens then so what do you know what do you do to fight it well they're going to try britain commits 333 million dollars u.s to help carriers replace huawei 5g equipment chinese teleconfirmers have to be banned from the country's next generation networks by 2027 due to security concerns uh does has anybody let let britain know how fast technology moves i mean they might as well be banning it by the year 2700 anybody let them know that great britain might not exist by 2027 they're like seven years that that that's forever yeah i just that doesn't seem that seems really dumb you know what that's that island's going to be called in 2027 amazon island buys it where did you take your vacation in 2022 oh the amazon warehouse used to be known as the british isles what happens to the queen in that scenario it's like uh you know the amazon convenience store where you can go in and just pick up whatever you want and walk out with and it just charges you for it amazon island is like that but for uh you know like war crime type stuff so you just go in and you murder people or whatever you rape and pillage and then when you go home they send you a bill so what you're saying is hbo series westworld is the ultimate conclusion of where jeff bezos is headed except with real refugees and not robots that's fine so uh europe also in another move that is probably a good one and hopefully won't backfire in some terrible way has taken a step towards something that we tried to do during the election and got some movement on right to repair european parliament vote takes another big step toward right to repair rules the eu continues to head toward better repair rules it seems to me that they're taking the playbook just straight away like they're looking at just apple stuff it's like okay what do we need to do to make apple make stuff that's easier to repair but believe it or not they need to look past just making stuff easy to repair for apple there's a lot of stuff that could be done with laptop design to make things really easy to repair like for one there's a couple of really minor design changes like for the surface book that microsoft could have done to make it way more repairable and that needs to be as part of like the design phase like you know how they send devices off to the fcc to be certified and the fcc has early access devices to make sure there's no radio interference or anything like that there should be an opportunity for the government regulators to offer commentary on hey why didn't you do this they don't necessarily have to make any changes but then if they bring charges later to say no i think you reasonably could have done something different here then maybe that would be a finable something i mean apple is maybe one of the worst yeah so you know i mean if you're gonna if you make a rule that encompasses all the garbage that apple does you're probably gonna catch almost everybody did you see the video of the guy that bought the two new i think it was the iphone iphone 11 or iphone 12 is brand new bought two of them a red one and a blue one and he took them both apart and swapped the components from the red one to the blue one and he swapped the camera and some other stuff and in so doing the camera when he swapped it it would kind of work but then it would glitch out in weird ways like it would draw lines in it and like brightness didn't work and hdr didn't work but it was the same model phone and the same camera and the pcbs were labeled the same and then just to make sure he didn't break anything he swapped the cameras back and then it worked fine individually in each other phone so there's something that apple has done to make the replacement parts flaky even though they're perfectly compatible with one another that's not surprising at all and i think that is why they get the spotlight that level of insanity is just i mean that's evil that's hideously evil why would you do that we don't have the time to do that kind of design work you know damn well i'm sorry chris i talked to everybody no we talked over each other i was just saying like they don't they're probably like oh you know we can't it's not cost effective to put that much design thought into you know making replaceable parts but then they put all that design thought into that particular use case that's so small like yeah it's like you literally swapped an identical camera module from one phone to the other and it doesn't fail it doesn't pop up and say hey this part isn't compatible it literally becomes glitchy that's hideously evil that has to be intentionally done that way also over the pond but no longer part we're not talking about the uk anymore we used to lump them together but now they're apart is france and we've been talking about this one for some time now because it's gotten weird in france in a lot of ways this was decided quite a while ago but it's been just sort of like held up in court since then and obviously it's been a weird year they probably haven't spent a lot of time thinking about this but they're saying now hey look time's up we gave you this long we gave you time to fight this but come december we're doing it france orders tech giants to pay digital tax france last year applied a 3 levy on revenue from digital services earned in france but suspended collection of the tax and what ryan alluded to they are no longer suspending collection of the tax it's time there's also been some riots in france and some some changes toward perhaps a more authoritarian stance so revolution some people predicted that this whole thing would lead to that and lead to an expansion of power who could that have been i love it when we get stuff right i don't think we can clean that one but uh speaking of this thing that we're living in i'm talking about the pandemic of course that's the big thing that shapes all of our lives at the moment um one thing that has been when it comes to spectacular failures in 2020 now i think we got to give the gold trophy there to the u.s election that's that's a clear winner when it comes to to number two or maybe you know at least in the top ten it was the apps for the uh the tracking yeah it's like we can use technology to solve the spread of a virus problem is anybody using one nope no i don't know anybody that's using one and are they even still running them i know they canceled a couple of them i can't imagine that they're they would be effective for a very i don't think they're running well and part of the reason they're not effective is because we get so much spam on our phones at all hours like why would i add another spamming service well you say they're ineffective but perhaps they're not effective at what you want them to do but they are effective at something australia's spy agencies collecting the uh the app data from the thing the app data like the the the pandemic app data i guess and if you're like me you're like wait a minute this story's a repeat from the other week no this is australia the other week was the us so whatever we were doing in the us to collect app data and patient data it turns out the australians were doing the same thing now the australians they have an excuse for the agencies they said yes it's true we did track the app collection data but we weren't trying to we track everything just so happened that that was one of the things so don't worry see this is really bad because there's a lot of there's a lot of conspiracy theories out there right now and most of them are terrible but occasionally you know a broken clock is right twice a day and this is one of them because it's like oh that sounds like a nutball conspiracy it's like well in this case it's unfortunately actually happening or you mean one about how the government's trying to use this to crack down on dissent like in france and hong kong a lot of that happening in hong kong you know who else really really really dislikes dissent like almost jinping levels maybe one step back it's the leaders in russia yeah and you know where a lot of dissent comes from these days it's that filthy social media russia wants to ban social media sites discriminating against russian news outlets twitter facebook and youtube were at risk of getting blocked by russia for quote unquote discriminating against russian news sites like russia today are uh novosti and crimea 24. now those uh those sites do have an obvious political uh narrative that they follow although so does most of the mainstream media in the us and the rest of the world oh i guess and yet everybody on social media are morons this is an impossible situation for the citizenry how can you how can you how do you how can you even function like assuming that you you weren't just a complete and terrible person and you also weren't a how would you even get anything reasonably approaching you know actual news reporting you watched the level one you saw exactly yeah even though we're reporting the same stuff they are yeah so yeah it's terrible so uh this now they don't ban these places uh but they you know twitter's got all that new stuff where it's like this is disputed if you try to like share one of their tweets you might get a little pop-up it's like i don't know are you part of the problem did you know that you're liking racist propaganda it's like wha what and so uh yeah the russian government's saying listen we're not gonna let you operate in our country if you keep you know just singling us out like this so we'll see i don't know that i mean i i'm not sure but like i i feel like at least with youtube youtube usually puts the information about like the source under almost all of them so like i watched a video about a hermit who lived in russia and it was like this is from a russian news source and then like i'll watch a video about something else it's like this is from the bbc this is a british news source and like i don't think okay i don't think that's what they're complaining about there i will actually we'll talk about it in social media but twitter has several new things and one of them in particular is if you try to retweet stuff that comes from these guys it tries to talk you out of it oh that's not new they've been they've been doing that for a while that's kind of new i think it's yeah it's fairly new they might have been testing it for a while i feel like i've seen that for a while like like at least a month or two maybe i'm imagining it maybe you're one of the secret like they usually use the twitter tester you're a twitter power user i think initially it was election news and now it's russia today and news sites like that because sometimes they'll run a story just to troll the us so that like somebody in in the u.s is like oh look at this thing and it was just something that was written to troll the u.s it's not actually american yeah i think they were pretty pro-trump just because they knew that that made a lot of people upset yeah and you know it got that argument going i mean it's a pro move politically you got to give it up to it but you know it kind of makes sense that you want to fight it in some way i don't know what the answer is it says here on dimitri's bio who wrote this article that he's never left kiev i don't understand how he could be reporting on what's happening in georgia i don't think they're talking about are you talking about the state georgia yeah okay india also has a little bit of a cybersecurity problem now india if you'll remember another one of the great things that happened during 2020 a little bit of a almost hot war i do love the reports like you read the uh using the uh the the google translate on some of the uh the india language uh hindi language whatever news sites for some of this stuff like the headline here on techcrunch is india bans 43 more chinese apps over cyber security concerns but you read the the the native language version and the translation is is something like oh we got through auditing a bunch more apps it's just more chinese crap it's like oh okay we should ban these because these apps have no useful utility for indian citizens so this was uh it did 175 the first time they got another 43 but there's an amazing statistic in here yeah the top 500 apps in india not a single chinese app how many of our top apps you think are chinese uh at least five or six that's gotta be i have a 500 oh probably more yeah a lot and it's amazing uh one of the big ones that the people are just crushed by though is pubg yeah pubg mobile it turns out it's doing a lot of really scary things that's one of the ones actually you should look that up and look at what they found in the security audits i expect that that will make the rounds in uh like uh english language security circles too because they'll probably do some of the same audits and uncover some of the same stuff it's really it's really pretty interesting stuff that they managed to cram into a mobile game if those are true yeah imagine how that's most people probably don't care about it's like i don't care about my privacy but you're messing with my tick rate i can't i don't i need to have that bandwidth i got to use it to aim come on moving on to social media now it is uh very common and we will often do two dueling stories in a single news session that's facebook is censoring the right wing and facebook is censoring the left wing and both sides get equally angry in the comments which i always feel good about i feel like if both sides hate you then you're doing something right but now we have one that swings again to uh anti right it would seem because of the election the rap says that zuckerberg changed the facebook algorithm to highlight cnn the new york times etc post-election the goal was to showcase authoritative outlets and make hyper partisan outlets like the breitbart less prominent dun dun dun dun as reported by wait for it the new york times so yeah uh this is no longer the case or at least they say it's no longer the case it was just right after the election they were like oh people are going crazy let's kind of silence you know the dangerous part and just have this nice safe mainstream news and everybody was happy with it now apparently there are some people within facebook who are like they refer to it as the nicer news and they want to go to that permanently so we'll see but then oh wait which one were you thinking we were going to jump to that one that was out of order let's go ahead i'm rearranging the one tab you'll just have to you've got to do find for yourself but then the solomon islands are set to ban facebook in the name of national unity why would they be banning facebook in the name of national unity unless it's the algorithm i don't i don't think it's the algorithm i think it's uh for example this gentleman because one of the quotes was like the lies that spread on social media can take a good honest man and tear him down in no time at all and i think that translates into uh i don't want people knowing this kind of stuff about me and facebook they're really getting information out there on facebook i don't care for it let's do away with it scary do you think there will be a time where like we'll look back on like the early 2000s it's like remember when the internet like you could just look at anyone's internet you could look at the internet stuff that was posted in russia or like yeah you know like will that be a thing yeah well we all have our own little mini internets i think i think at least china is going to separate at some point right there's like all the countries are trending that way now whenever i do a search for china all i find is like the chinese section of it's a small world from disneyland like everything just looks so happy and amazing and it's all just singing they're promoting the new mulan movie i don't understand so anyway yeah uh mr sogavara sogovayer he has said that uh yes we're going to do this but he is scheduled to meet with the internet service providers and the top tech people because he has no idea how he's going to do this and i got to think uh you know you want to do your old uh lenode commercial here you want a vpn that's in the us that you host yourself so they can't recognize as a popular vpn provider yeah lenode is on board with the whole self vpn thing it's one click and you just you and you've got your own private vpn that's terminated on the node the traffic's encrypted so unless your isp is going to block all encrypted traffic you you're not they're not going to block your traffic although the chinese firewall is quite sophisticated it's like oh this looks like encryption that we can't break let's turn it off you know i don't think the solomon islands have the same level of sophistication in their firewall i think you'll be okay remember libra libra was supposed to revolutionize the economy it was supposed to replace all of our money and put it all in lord zuckerberg's coffers and he would let us spend his digital currency in instead the us government and the governments around the world took one look at that and they said if this happens we will kill you not in so many words but i think that was the intent we would be unhappy with your decisions so here we are a year on and what is libra well maybe it's going to launch but it's going to be way different facebook's libra could launch in january as a way to just send money between people think of it more like paypal don't think of it as some sort of blockchain cryptocurrency mark zuckerberg cornering uh you know small transactions becoming the uh you know the micro payments gateway thing no i think this is just something for you know one person on facebook to send another person on facebook some money no big deal also it's going to be a stable coin tied to the dollar so if you're thinking of speculating in it there's no reason to it won't appreciate or depreciate not like that exciting bitcoin there's nothing better than waking up and being like oh yeah it's uh it's currently past its all-time high it went down for a bit oh it's back up bounce yeah nice well it may have gone back down again while we've been sitting here i don't know but yeah i cleared its all-time high so all the people that bought then can are finally like i'm free i can get out i'm free they're not getting out though they're making that mistake yeah i would love to see it and i but i said this last time and i didn't do it i would love to see it go back to like ten thousand there's a lot of people that think it's gonna hit a hundred thousand in short order i've seen a lot of headlines they're saying way more than that really at 100 thousand you got to sell it yeah yeah i mean that's that'd be crazy it's it's that whole thing where it's like the tulip mania yeah or you're gonna sell it at 100 000 and feel like an idiot when it hits 200 000 but you shouldn't feel like that no that's a fallacy of investing yeah well this is what we're talking about earlier krista uh when it comes to like russia today and stuff like that twitter without really banning anything is trying to shape the narrative for sure crystal oh why am i supposed to read it on twitter will warn you if you like misleading tweets i see this is when was this published november 23rd yeah it's been this has been around for a while november 23rd is a week ago but like that's ages and internet time i think they i think they had it out right before the election because of all the crazy stuff that people were posting prior to the election it is kind of weird but yeah and uh but at this here's my problem with that the way they label them is this is disputed yeah what in the mainstream news at this point could you confidently say no one has disputed or this what about this should not be disputed but who decides like the dispute is always going to be there that's the thing it's just what they should say is the people the narrative that we like disputes this that would be a better label because there's always going to be a dispute somebody's disputing something one thing that you can't dispute about twitter is that people love the little check mark oh god they want it there's an entire cottage industry on trying to get these things but a while back it was getting it was too dramatic and twitter was like you know what we're done we're out of the blue check business don't ask anymore but if you're one of those people who desperately needs it maybe some good news probably not twitter verification will return early next year don't you worry along with brand new rules so it used to be that you had to upload your photo id which interesting twitter with that just doesn't seem like a good idea yeah don't do that uh there's uh i gave some of the oh yeah here we go so this is this is who came in there but other influential individuals kind of gives them uh the ability to do whatever they want news media accounts that's us does it mean we get the blue check mark entertainment that's the better we probably could but you know that's fine is that really necessary i don't even want it i don't think i want it either i'm glad to stand as a man of the people among the unchecked populous that's the place to be chat not up there and then ivory blue ivory tower i respond twitter's just to post memes anyway everyone knows that and you could call this uh perhaps the twilight of the simps a difficult difficult time if you are a chinese e-girl because it does seem like now here's the question it seems to me that and then this article uh supports it as well a massive amount of simp activity is from fairly young men yeah i'd say that's true what age do you think traditionally you would grow out of your simphood based on what we've personally witnessed it's uh well past their 30s so do you think much like you know video games being more mainstream and stuff like that as we move forward with more and more generations we'll get older and older simps yes you think we'll see that yeah okay so maybe it won't be that bad but for now they're definitely going to take a hit china bans spending by teens in new curbs on live streaming what does it say hosts and gift givers must provide real name after accusations of abuse and teens cannot donate at all anymore what if we could set up something like amazon's mechanical turk service where it's like i know you can't give but why don't you go spend an hour on mechanical turk and then send me the credits it's not even mechanical turret you just stop down at the foxconn factory and just check in under her name let's clock in for twitch does that already like you watch enough ads you get bits and then you can give the bits to the streamer or just run down to the transplant hospital make a little deposit that is funny that you know twitch basically already solved this problem because here a lot of people that are under 18 don't have a credit card so how can you give money to your favorite streamer oh wait but they have digital payments over there yeah i bet that simplifies it a lot yeah yeah that's a good question about the digital payment thing once we go digital payments how do we deal with the 18 verification is there gonna be a flag on your account man whatever the chinese equivalent of being like a rhodes scholar is it's like oh you've lost your rhodes scholarship because we went through your payment history here and we found where you gave a hundred dollars to a streamer against the rules you've lost your scholarship you bought bath water you know if there is a flag if there's like an 18 flag some kid is accidentally gonna his account's gonna like get that flag turned off or turned on and he's gonna figure it out he's gonna be buying like booze and porn and there's gonna be a big scandal about that there was a bug with xbox forever microsoft ex where like if he signed up uh like an under 13 account you got that flag and it just never went away like even five or six years later for xbox live it's like no this this account is flagged as under 13. it's like well i was when i set it up but i'm not now there were a bunch of stuff you couldn't do and there's just nothing you could do about it we'll see we'll see the see if these girls can adapt and overcome what do we got coming tomorrow i don't remember another day of fresh business and i think and snow here in uh kentucky i know is it supposed to snow again yeah it's just so this afternoon there's like a line coming in right now yeah earliest snow we've had in years chad the prophecy was true the woolly worms foretold this yeah the worms yeah scary and your worm was solid black right solid black so a continuation of rough winter weather here chad you heard it here first you didn't think you were going to get a weather report that's not true chris did they didn't hear it here first they heard it from the worm they don't take credit they had if they had woolly worms in their area absolutely although their woolly worms wouldn't be the same forecast so that's true particularly true 100 true all right well kristen why don't you give us a uh a ominous woolly worm goodbye goodbye like they're chanting at some point the discord went wrong it did yeah i had to re-disconnect and reconnect oh kristen you've you've poisoned the video you know i had to because you guys i was talking and you weren't responding and like you guys were frozen for me when did that happen uh like the last like three stories i think okay all right that's not too bad it'll be fixed for tuesday yeah it was like it just froze and i was like hello hello and no one was answering so i was like i don't know what to do so i just reconnected don't make me set up rosie with dual monitors so who can like track the thing over from one to the other and just monitor all the things all right see you tomorrow bye you\n"