The Hong Kong Toilet Association and College Association: A Novel Approach to Public Toilets

In a unique development, the Hong Kong Toilet Association has been exploring innovative solutions for public toilets. The association, which represents various stakeholders involved in the management of public toilets, has been conducting research on ways to improve the user experience. One of their latest initiatives involves equipping male and female toilets with paper funnels and urinals. The idea behind this design is to create a more efficient and hygienic system for users.

The concept of using paper funnels in place of traditional toilet paper dispensers has been gaining traction in recent years. Proponents argue that it reduces waste, minimizes the risk of germs spreading, and provides an added layer of hygiene. The urinals, on the other hand, are designed to minimize splashback and ensure a more dignified experience for users. While some may be concerned about the potential drawbacks, such as increased pressure buildup or limited accessibility, proponents believe that these issues can be mitigated through proper design and maintenance.

One of the most striking aspects of this initiative is the emphasis on user experience. The designers seem to have taken into account the specific needs and preferences of users, including those with disabilities. For instance, the urinals are designed to provide a convenient place for users to store their belongings, such as phones or purses. Furthermore, the incorporation of a curtain or divider around the toilet area is intended to create a more private and comfortable space for users.

The commission on public toilets has been formed to oversee the implementation of this new design. The association hopes that by engaging with the community and soliciting feedback, they can refine their ideas and create a system that meets the needs of all users. This approach echoes the principles of participatory design, which emphasizes collaboration between stakeholders to co-create solutions.

The Hong Kong Toilet Association's efforts are not without precedent. In recent years, there has been a growing trend towards innovative designs in public toilets, particularly in Asia. From high-tech bidets to smart toilets with advanced hygiene features, these developments reflect a growing recognition of the importance of user experience and comfort in public spaces.

The Christmas Sweater Tradition: A Cultural Phenomenon

While the Hong Kong Toilet Association's initiatives may seem unusual, they are just one part of a broader cultural landscape. In this case, we take a look at an unexpected aspect of holiday culture: ugly Christmas sweaters. For many people, Christmas is associated with festive sweaters that showcase their creativity and humor. The tradition is said to have originated in the 19th century, when people would wear homemade sweaters as a way to show off their skills.

In recent years, the tradition has become increasingly commercialized, with companies offering a wide range of ugly Christmas sweaters for sale. However, some manufacturers seem to be taking it too far, incorporating elements that are more suggestive than humorous. One particularly striking example is a sweater featuring Santa Claus with what appears to be cocaine. While the designers claim that the image is merely implied, many viewers see it as explicit.

The Christmas Sweater Tradition: A Time for Self-Expression

Ugly Christmas sweaters have become an integral part of holiday culture, providing an outlet for self-expression and creativity. While some may view these sweaters as tacky or tasteless, others see them as a way to poke fun at the commercialization of holidays.

The designers behind this particular sweater seem to be pushing the boundaries of what is considered acceptable in holiday attire. However, they are not alone in their efforts to create provocative Christmas sweaters. In fact, the market for such sweaters has become increasingly lucrative, with many companies vying for attention and sales.

Streaming on Christmas Day: A New Tradition?

In a surprising development, it appears that some individuals may be planning to stream live content on Christmas Day itself. While this tradition is not yet widespread, it seems to be gaining traction among certain groups of people. The details of these plans are still unclear, but it's likely that they will involve a combination of social media platforms and online communities.

One possible explanation for this trend is the growing desire for community and connection during the holiday season. As more people spend time indoors due to inclement weather or other factors, streaming live content may become an attractive option for those seeking entertainment and companionship.

The Future of Public Toilets: A Conversation Starter

As we move forward in the world of public toilets, it's clear that design is becoming increasingly important. From paper funnels to smart toilet technology, innovators are pushing the boundaries of what is possible. While some may see these developments as quirky or unnecessary, others recognize the potential for improved user experience and hygiene.

Ultimately, the future of public toilets will depend on the collective input and feedback of users. By engaging with communities and soliciting ideas, designers can create systems that meet the needs of all stakeholders. Whether it's a paper funnel, urinal, or smart toilet technology, the key to success lies in collaboration and co-creation.

The Intersection of Technology and Tradition: The Ugly Christmas Sweater Phenomenon

In an age where technology is increasingly ubiquitous, it's fascinating to explore how cultural traditions like ugly Christmas sweaters have evolved. From social media platforms to online communities, our interactions with others are becoming more digital and connected than ever before.

While the tradition of wearing ugly Christmas sweaters may seem quaint or old-fashioned to some, it represents a deeper aspect of human culture: our desire for self-expression and creativity. Whether it's through art, music, or fashion, we find ways to showcase our individuality and connect with others who share similar interests.

In this context, the development of provocative Christmas sweaters takes on a new significance. Rather than being seen as tacky or tasteless, these designs represent a bold statement about what we value in our culture: creativity, humor, and self-expression. Whether you see them as delightful or distasteful, ugly Christmas sweaters have become an integral part of the holiday season's fabric.

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facial recognition so it's not just that there are more cameras it's that there are more pixels so there's a literal explosion of pixels so the current number is right around 770 million cameras so how long do we add that last level to 30 is that counting narrating please put portal or no I think these are glut governments you like public surveillance yeah put ring in there that's much higher yeah well not yet but probably about this time next year at the rate at which ring is being sold but also all the cell phone cameras and the Pokemon go players and yeah it's kind of nuts so the ranking goes China China number one then the US and then all of Asia excluding China comes in at number three the UK's just not even trying yeah Wow they're pretty small my impression of the UK CCTV cameras is that most of them don't work the way that they're supposed to then once the do worker like old and like for 20 P resolution because they tried to put him like way up high on a pole so that a person is like two pixels and you're like yeah this one camera covers an entire city block it's like bad news guys you can't see anything when that happens and despite their efforts they're constantly whining about its old stabbings and knife crimes and stuff like that they got him with a potato peeler so yeah that was effective way to trade your freedom for security now you talked about this one earlier and we thought it was gonna be in the other one but it's in security which actually kind of excited I also I put an FBI story on security because sometimes it's like it's so hard he's FBI security or is it government and then I'm not even consistent with my determination so whatever and we're still gonna cover it tick tocks parent company sued for collecting data on kids now this is the musical dot ly thing that we reported on a couple of weeks ago that has come to a head they weren't able to work it out there it's where tik-tok acquired that company and that could that technically that company has been sued and so tick tock is like I hope that was an acquisition we don't know and that happened before tick tock had them yeah so I guess they fixed it after that I'm not I wasn't clear no I well it can't prove that they're still collecting data on kids yeah but see I think it's ridiculous that we should have a double standard yeah if it's not okay to collect those things about kids it shouldn't be okay to collect those things about anybody I guess there's a consent variable in there but still but you're not allowed to consent to other things mostly on almost all the u.s. things like prostitution or like things that you put in your body the kinds of plants that you set on fire Apple so Apple has the activation lock which is super effective if your phone gets stolen or you know so you lose it or whatever and you can lock it down and the next person cannot use it they can get no value out of it but at the same time what percentage of Apple users do you think understands that and a resale scenario or you know like donating it is there a disincentive to help Apple have Apple help their customers understand hey are you retiring this computer you'll just hit this button well you're getting ahead of yourself here but absolutely Apple benefits from every one of those that can't be activated because you can't track down the original person so how do we fix that what we don't fix it expand the program I fix it has got the article the report on Apple's activation lock will make it very difficult to refurbish Macs so this is part of the t2 chip and the encryption the encryption on these devices can be so good that a repair shop is unable to reset them so you can say it's like hey you can't ever fence stolen goods a stolen Mac laptop would be worthless that sounds pretty good but there's also no way for an owner to say I'm done with this give it to somebody else well there is but it's an obscure total reset process now if you're getting rid of a computer you should be totally resetting it but we're talking about Apple users here's literally everything in this Mac was worth it turned back into sand is it like a genie like the genies new master you have to wish on something I don't know laughs right it's not like that you think that anybody experimented with genie DRM via wishes that would be what Tim Cook would do right yeah I wish that no one else could ever make another wish is my first wish DRM is a plague and it's bad it doesn't stop piracy we've seen the study after study that proves that the people a lot of the people who power games or movies or whatever weren't gonna buy them anyway and then if you stopped them through DRM then they probably are never gonna make your money or at least you're not gonna make that like first week sale they're gonna buy a second hand or something like that but there's a darkness to the REM and it's not just how annoying it is it's that ultimately you're creating something that just like the Mac makes it impossible to get around in the future no one's thinking about the future they think about it's fragile the curse of the outdated DRM it's claimed another victim Tron evolution if you bought Tron evolution but you haven't played it yet the game is currently broken owing to the DRM servers are down well secure arm is what secures this Disney has parted ways with securom so the secure servers are no longer listening for Tron evolution which means that when you install it secure I'm just always returns false yeah got a look at that game's blade so Disney has been alerted about this and that response is we're working on that don't worry thank you for your patience or uh we don't care yeah no and that's not gonna the crazy thing is people are still installing Tron it's a it's historic it's like you know if we hadn't made the rosetta stone we wouldn't have been able to translate hieroglyphics are you comparing Tron evolution to the Rosetta no just the the lack of any kind of thing to make the DRM go absent the original servers a lack of the Rosetta Stone we've talked about packages and libraries that are poisoned these days and when you're doing programming more often than not you're downloading some kind of library right this is Python you're gonna be going out there to pip to be here some studies is there any way to get around it no but you gotta be super super careful it's terrible to malicious Python libraries caught stealing SSH and GPG keys at one library was available only for two days but the second was live for nearly a year yeah so this is crafty look what they did here Python 3 - date you till now there is a library called date util that's safe and you can use it but python 3 - date util steals your keys and then we have jellyfish you see that first L is actually an uppercase I mmm jellyfish so if you just tab complete and you're not looking and I becomes I comes before L so deli fish perfectly safe useful jellyfish steals your stuff down so watch out for that always gonna be careful the big dump of remember they put together that like massive billion password database collated all the passwords together well the good news about that is we can test against it much more easily you know the folks at Microsoft and use that as a lookup tool you can turn that on and office 365 with a couple check box now it's like we are your users using terrible passwords click well probably because this because they did some you know they ran some data and it's terrifying 44 million Microsoft users reused passwords in the first three months of 2019 so Microsoft used that database of 3 billion publicly leaked passwords not that they reuse passwords but they use passwords from the naughty list you have 44 million users were affected not I didn't notice did they compare both email and password or do they just find that because there could be some they did both but there were independent procedures so the email was your email was on this list changed password and the second thing was your password was one of the passwords changed priceless so like a lot of people a lot of very not creative people have a dog that's you know named Skippy or whatever or a cat named snowball so I could see a lot of people using snowball as a password yeah but you can enable this now actually uh it's a plug-in for you can even get a pan plug-in for it which is amazing you can have your Linux passwords checked against all these billions of passwords and it only takes about 50 milliseconds so you should definitely enable that we turned that into a video and they have that the way of doing it without actually sending your password yeah yeah really and password managers now are also some password managers are incorporating the naughty list so that when you try to set a password in your password measure and save it it's like yeah hang on I'm not sure that's the most secure password with the you know the more and more rapid the quicker the cycle of leaks as it continues to accelerate how long before passwords are like IP addresses and like you have to use 500 digits just to get one that's not on the naughty list I'd love to have the the data points of who all use the the quote from Call of Cthulhu like they use the the rila blah blah like that was their password and it's like this is super secure but not really because you can copy/paste it from the text but some guy lost like ten or fifteen Bitcoin because that was his wallet password and it was like this is really secure and it was not secure at all because that was a thing that you could try and there's no extended characters or numbers in it most JavaScript wouldn't even let you validate that yeah yeah it's probably too long as well yeah the old password is too long I never really could understand that one well if you are using your password manager in Linux you're very security minded you're probably using the VPN too right you're feeling pretty superior about that you're looking down at all the plebes and like ah they think my connections coming from Iceland well there's one more thing for you to worry about oh no there's a new Linux vulnerabilities less attackers hi VPN connections security researchers found a new vulnerability allowing potential attackers to hijack VPN connections on affected UNIX devices and then inject arbitrary data pay at the payloads in ipv4 and ipv6 TCP streams it's got a CVE so several different distros are impacted basically it's just it's a flaw in the TCP stack not really it's not been passed yet but presumably someone will fix this it affects pretty much every kind of VPN protocol - so there is no escape was to intentionally designed this way is the NSA somehow responsible for this the elliptic curve all over again do you remember I guess it was probably like what 2008 when AVG was a really good antivirus I always think it was like 2003 was it before then it was a while and I'm just remember yeah so long sorry you will never see that again Mozilla removes Avast and AVG extensions from add-on portal / snooping claims before extensions - from Avast and - from AVG are still available on the Chrome Web Store so Mozilla got some complaints here and it's still not really clear what's going on Mozilla removed the extensions but it does seem like the extensions would report whatever webpages are looking at back to a central server now whether that was enough for the central server to also login as you with like cookies and stuff we don't know now we've seen this before from security plugins and they're like no we're testing to see whether or not this web page is safe for you to go to and do that we need to log everything we're definitely not selling that to advertisers but they probably are we don't know we have no way of knowing we have no way of knowing what their what their intention is but this would be a very dangerous database to accidentally leak or a very lucrative database to own that it's not just Linux that has a new vulnerability this week but also Android and they're going after something more juicy than just your VPN connection vulnerability and fully patch to Android phones under active attack by bank thieves strand hog as a spoofing flaw exploited by 36 apps including banking Trojans the article doesn't say but I think this is the vulnerability that we talked about a couple of weeks ago where you could airdrop a file and then the file that you air-dropped basically runs with the same permissions as like the airdrop utility or the Bluetooth transfer utility or whatever it is so there are different applications that will do different things with files on the file system and Android and you can pretty easily get one of those trusted applications to run something that it should not trust but it will run with the permissions of that application and it can even request more permissions so like if you load something in say the Maps application the Maps application can say hey can I use your camera and it's like oh the Maps application let's use my camera that might be fine but it's actually the Trojan I think they're exploiting like the OAuth type thing where you're like okay I have this thing and I want to log you in through Google or I want to log you in through your steam account or your Facebook account and then I can spawn that app to do the oauth2 then give me a token for your login and then steam and ask for permission to do more stuff but they're spawning their steam look-alike and so you log in with that and then it vlogs the end to the real steam in the background and it still logs you in but now it's stolen your credentials it's fully patched don't know how it's being exploited well huh well know in a week or two but it's nasty so that's another thing where it's like okay instead of trying to remember all these passwords and you know have all those out there and leak databases maybe I just used an OAuth and I blogging it everything through Facebook right well that's not secure either it turns out at least not when something like this happens we've talked a lot about ring and how incredibly horrible it is for price well it's just week after week it just keeps getting worse every week there's a new thing that comes out of a ring that makes you more and more terrified not just to own ring but what if my neighbor gets it I can't stop them and this week no exception ring reportedly outed camera owners to police with a heat map and has since removed the tool all right so picture this you're in a police precinct and you're like hey Amazon can you tell us who in this neighborhood has a ring and Amazon says I can't do that I've you know privacy concerns but what I can do is give you a map of the neighborhood down that is that is so high-resolution you could read the license plate numbers off of people's cars and I'll show you exactly where you're getting live video feed from if only the police had a database of where people live they could put the two together and if only they'd actually like forced some people to change their addresses in order to map everything to 9-1-1 calls like a couple decades ago and have exact perfect records like that it's like well on the overlay here I'm seeing that this house has a has a ring video feed I bet that's the Johnsons you know is this phone has like the voice over Wi-Fi improvement thing and I'm out there where I don't get great coverage so I was lucky I'll turn that on it's like oh we need your exact address for 9-1-1 purposes to tie to this IP address I was like all right now I'm sorry I do nope that's if I ever get sued for copyright I don't know that this is gonna screw me so it'll be funny if you had whole network VPN and like the IP address was like in Estonia it would probably charge me for the helicopter flew to Arkansas so I also have to remember that ring has the whole like the police get a kickback if they put you on to ring and they'll come to your house and be like hey you need to say yes to the letting us view your video and they'll coerce you in various ways so now not only do they know who does have it but who doesn't have it who is perhaps a potential customer but truly the darkest timeline it really is it's like this timeline is 98% cacao so we talked about the doctors getting on YouTube to check out surgeries which is weird but that one's kind of like a constructive use of the Internet right hmm this one may be a little bit more destructive because as this is the Security section everything eventually gets leaked right so what if I told you that some really really personal embarrassing details about you might be out there on the cloud invoice form at Amazon lets doctors record your conversations and put them in your medical files it also does transcription and that seems exceedingly dangerous to me so no no their invoice format there in plain text great so yeah if doctors are getting on this Amazon medical thing it's not just Google that's getting into the medical game it's Google and Amazon do you think they'll ever get to a point where like a hospital has if they're either at Google Hospital or an Amazon hospital see I thought that was gonna happen two years ago because there was like the Google Health thing and then there was the the Microsoft like Bing health records that wasn't Bing at the time and both of those companies have basically shut down those efforts they're like we're gonna we're gonna make it so that there's a standard format and everybody can exchange medical records in this nonsense of your doctor waiting two weeks on your MRI scan that's terrible and I agree that's terrible but the Google like Facebook warehouse data thing did not happen okay so we won't do it through the hospital do it through the insurance company yeah that's probably what's happening yeah so anyway I'm imagine you got a gunshot wound right and they're rut you're brushing you in through the trolley and it's like sir would you like to sign up to Amazon Prime and save 30% of his procedure you're sure it's carefully requires it and your medical records are gonna be one or the other I gotta wonder though what's to stop Jeff Bezos from getting in the insurance game because he's got like he would be just a license to print money far beyond what he's got now also think of well for Google and this is more valuable for Google but if Google got anything the insurance game and I think in mind that data for your profile what a time to be alive yeah so it's like hey this guy's got high blood pressure so advertise to him based on that and he's got back pain so he probably is on opiates so let's advertise you know stuff like that to him and also he started using viagra six weeks ago after he met his new tennis trainer so I send that to the divorce lawyers this is a story I alluded to before we had that FBI block and I should have put this there but I didn't because I saw this and I was like this is more of a security story even though the other ones were kind of the same thing now even the FBI is warning about your Smart TV security this is a call back though a few days ago is episode where we talked about the the whole IOT thing because the FBI is like look this I it's the Wild West you can't trust these devices you're gonna have to separate them from your network because they're gonna do naughty things eventually and smart TVs are perhaps the tories number one they're the most powerful of the IOT devices all right maybe although you know Vizio said they couldn't update to the latest version of Netflix because it requires too much CPU horsepower to be code yeah yeah my mom's got a TV and it's too old you know the Netflix app no longer works make sense if only there was some sort of modular standardized connector that displays had that would allow you to replace out the electronics that are feeding the signal to the display if only we could have predicted that computers tend to get much more power hungry and processor demanding as time goes by and we could simply plug a new one in we're gonna do away with all of the ports on the TVs TVs don't have any pause oh how long until Apple gets what like starts manufacturing TV I think that would be a selling point there like look you paint the charging pad into the wall and then when you just hang the TV on the wall no wires and its power no you buy the Apple mounting bracket well now see how the charging pad is far better because you can only watch eight hours of TV at a time and then it has to turn off to recharge that's a way of controlling your screen time yeah you can turbo charge the charging time by just letting it play ads well that's nonsensical which is appropriate because we're moving on to nonsense but now if you are a vegan you might want to tune out right now oh yeah I got some bad news for you the vegan lifestyle now some people do it for health right but if you're doing it for health like why would you honey right oh yeah so it's really about B vomit sounds delicious you have to be you have to respect the animals and we're not supposed to eat and we're not supposed to eat their byproducts because they made that for them not for us but that's kind of like a moral high ground right and what if I told you that the things you were eating were suffering just as much as those poor little baby pigs New Scientist shows that recordings have revealing that plants are making ultrasonic squeals when stressed now I don't read the article I don't know if I agree with new scientists referring to the noises as squeals that makes a great headline yeah but the plants do actually make ultrasonic noises when they're stressed so if the plant has been damaged it moves from about one the ultrasonic squeal per hour to like twenty five to thirty five like one every two seconds so that's it that's interesting no water was the worst yeah it's like starting to suffer the most when I were thirsty so and I wonder this there has to be an evolutionary mechanism for this so I wonder if other plants can pick up on the ultrasonic squeals and it well if stuff happens as a result of that that is the one thing so I'm thinking like because plants are such a communal type of living organism right they rarely just live one at a time I seem to do better in groups so that could be a way to see maybe like could they have some sort of response to like everybody's screaming about water maybe I won't drop seeds right now mmm but have we ever seen anything that would make us think that I don't know that we've even really look for that I think we've just slight others been a reduced amount of water the plants grow more slowly I mean basically with plants it's a game of how quick can I extract carbon from the air to use for structural purposes but if we can prove that the plants are suffering what happens then I have a feeling that some people are just gonna look this over or yeah like no that's fake I don't like that which is what I feel about veganism how would you kill the plants suddenly so that it doesn't suffer either because they're so distributed I mean when plants get cancer but because the cells don't really move a much in in in in plants the cancer doesn't like go all over the plant and then kill the plant because the cancer was literally everywhere so what you have to do is you have to grow all of your own food right and then you have to like get your water up to a rolling boil and pull the plant right out of the ground right into the water that's like a lobster the animal and if when you take plants to a restaurant for example you have to just like dig them up transplant them take them alive to the restaurant till they're ready to be good although that would be horrifying from the time that they were dug up to the time that they were actually ready to be true that would be yeah so we can't do that at all just to get freezing because flash freeze them you think the refrigerant truck might damage the environment somewhat uh speaking of destroying the environment I love Nestle water that's delicious what's in your thermos it is and the ice cubes in my thermos are also manifestly water that requires plating Christa hates that she's but she uses k-cups mmm yeah miss hypocrite so Nestle water and I'll I'll admit they're evil and that's actually part of the appeal that I like about them because it's like all these vegans and hipsters is like oh we're destroying the earth but they're hypocrites most of them any of them they have children you're a hypocrite and Nestle is just like in your face they're like the G Jinping just showing the environments like yep that's what we're doing and we're making a ton of money doing it and it's late they have slaves Nestle has slaves so it's a little tongue in cheek but when they make claims like this you can't help but just like sit back and sort of give them the slow clap it's like wow that is did you really expect that to work Nestle cannot claim that bottled water is quote an essential public service a Court has ruled so Michigan's second highest court rules in favor of the township case that could damage the company's effort to privatize water so yeah they were they were looking at putting a manufacturing plant here but also because it's Michigan you know they're like hey we can just say the bottled water is a public service and the township can't do things like control the price of water that we're taking from their environment which is ridiculous I mean bottled water became popular and was it the 90s I guess there was it later it was probably the nineties yeah maybe been like turn-of-the-century so we got along pretty well without it for quite a while now the shocking thing here I see if I can quickly spot the the number of gallons they were pulling out do you remember reading 400 gallons per minute I thought it was more than that with those in thousands do you see it oh maybe maybe the might be nominal flow was like 400 gallons per minute oh you're right yeah 400 gallons per minute I wanted to increase to 400 gallons per minute so it's somewhere less than that but 400 gallons per minute that's a lot of water that is crazy and the Michigan people pointed out it's like the aquifer can't sustain that this is you're just gonna dry us out you're gonna extract our blood and leave a desiccated husk as you move on to the next victim and yeah that's pretty much the Nestle business model this is for I'm done though you're your last mountain or ice boat yeah that's the same thing you yeah but your pure life is doesn't it's not like your life doesn't have blood what speaking of blood on your hands the CRISPR guy that made that HIV resistant babies everybody was kind of like whoa what you shouldn't have done that he was like I'll do it again you ever see that goofy mean that's funny it's got an obscenity in it I can't say it here but it's funny so this guy actually released his research and some other scientists have had the ability to go over it and look at you know see like okay what did you do and the findings are a little alarming yeah the headline from The Guardian is China gene edited baby experiment quote-unquote may have created unintended mutations unquote so these are twins they got Chris perd and the basically the scientists are saying two things here one that they did successfully target the correct gene but they did not edit the gene in the correct way and the information in the paper shows that like there should be some proteins or something that they can detect those aren't there so the mutation that confers resistance for HIV is not present in these twins but something was affected now if we confirm that these twins are terrible mutants and as they grow it's not super obvious but testing confirms like okay there's something ain't right here do we as a society or I guess you know chiming like what I'm asking this question knowing what the answer from China will be do we have the right to stop them from breeding there's a there's a thing that I forgot that I knew until I reread it in this article and that was part of the reason for this insanity is that the father has HIV and so in China they couldn't afford to do some kind of you can do sperm washing which today I learned and it'll get rid of the HIV that way but they couldn't afford to do that so they did this instead which seems like a terrible choice well the they wanted to have a kid that all that therapy and everything I think that do like in vitro and stuff right they of course couldn't afford it so this was an alternative this madman came along he was like oh I could help you you know but there's a price the literal Rumpelstiltskin of the monkey paw of CRISPR did you also know that they have just opened an hiv-positive sperm bank really yes that's horrifying and it's kind of like a woke thing to be like let's remove the stigma from H and I guess they do the sperm washing thing hmm did you buy anything on Cyber Monday uh I got some stuff on eBay how percentage-wise how much extra box was on your pack have you seen my desk it's just like a pile of cardboard we're probably like toward the top 80 percentile yeah fenders when it comes with literally everybody in the neighborhood is like hey I need some boxes let's go you're yeah it's bad the Amazon effect is flooding a struggling recycling system with cardboard more cardboard could wind up in landfills that seems terrible because cardboard these this is like the easiest thing in the world to recycle you just pull the packing material off of it what slow down because this headline is misleading it's not Amazon Amazon certainly contributing to it it's the Chinese trade war you see we take all of our cardboard and we put it on ships and China's like yeah I'll give you a couple pennies for that I can recycle that I'll make that into something useful well not anymore though see the trade war has put a stop to that we don't have anywhere in America that can recycle these and we really should because it's easy to recycle but I think with our labor laws and the like minimum wage and stuff you can't make it profit you would have to build a factory that's more automated than most of the the factories are it's sort of a chicken and egg problem you need the Chinese to come up with the automation technology which will then to be deployed in America so that it's a for me this is something that Bernie Sanders needs to tax and spend on or better recycling infrastructure in America yeah now we've had the list of companies that are bending over backwards to the Chinese demands let's say we got Steen we got Google we got Apple Oh Apple plus a thousand we got the the chip makers basically basically any company that makes over a billion dollars a year didn't Nike do something yeah I mean literally every company I think Sony did something so but here's one that you might not have ever expected DC Comics comes under fire for deleting Batman poster that sparked a Chinese backlash I the poster describes Batman throwing a Molotov cocktail which i think is out of character for Batman yeah he won't use weapons for like you know felt like that maybe he was trying to stop a giant robot enemy or something I don't think Batman would throw a Molotov so this is was it called DC black label or something like that and apparently this is supposed to be like a more mature Batman he's getting old looks like I got a long talk but some people in China so they're kind of like conspiracy they're like kind of when Alex Jones on this so something in his pink right he was wearing a pink something pink is the resistance color and it was a yellow it's yellow I thought it was a I thought it was Pepe well yellow - yellow is the Hong Kong resistance color and Batman was wearing yellow he was throwing a Molotov which is obviously you know like all the resistance uses Molotov and there was something else about this picture and I thought hey this might be a secret piece of propaganda Hong Kong propaganda and you have to take it down immediately deleted and decent said you're right we do you know I don't think Batman would have accepted that I don't think that goes with Batman's character would racial Dulce so social media often brings out the worst in people because they want attention and they'll do stupid things like show off drugs and guns on social media or you know torture people with molten lids like PTSD article but that was Facebook video when who would upload that to Facebook I'm good I've got to impress my friends on Facebook what here's one that maybe is more terrifying because the likelihood of me getting tortured with molten led I feel is low but the likelihood of me being in a dentist's chair unconscious ain't credibly high dentist in Alaska allegedly rode hoverboard while extracting patients tooth you know if this was in China this would be something about the organ harvesting hands extracting the Weger giddiness yeah so it's I watch the video it's just a dentist you know he's just standing on a hoverboard while extracting you tooth but if you read the the complaint the criminal complaint it's like you know this is the most reckless thing that there has ever been in the entirety of Alaska ever and it's like should he have done that no does do we need to really have the prosecutor vent his spleen on this probably not but there was also quite a bit of like Medicare fraud yeah that's a little problematic been stealing money hand-over-fist so I think the tooth extraction is just the headline the final straw swing straw that broke the camel's back yeah and you also you have to always have to wonder like why are you practicing dentistry in Alaska what did you do in the mainland some people just like to call it I guess but is the kind of guy who rides a hoverboard - jack - - and posted social media see a guy who enjoys the quiet just come stir-crazy I got some money my grandpa left me I'm just gonna go up there and work on my book for a while I'll be back in a couple of years since like those before you know you're practicing dentistry yeah now one of our favorite stories ever on the level one news was Romeo the frog and his courtship which we can't get any more details about because that stupid twitter is just constantly giving me you know environmentalist garbage and nothing about Romeo the Frog very angry about that but frog research is a big deal we're trying to learn more about them constantly and you want to go out you want to listen to the frogs right but some of those frogs live in the Amazon how do you listen to frogs in the Amazon without going there every week there's a solution scientists create a special phone to dial up chatty frogs in the wild Ribbit's real-time researchers ask themselves why make so many nighttime pond visits when you can just pick up a frog phone instead I wonder if the phone will be high enough fidelity yeah she's calling from our iPhone my fingers it's a solar-powered phone that's all it is it is in the wild so it fires up you dial into it and it's got some decent microphones I guess and it turns into the frogs study their calls but really aren't all the frogs just screaming I want to have sex I want to have sex I want to have sex yeah just like the birds just like the crickets just like all the animals that should be a thing in one of the episodes of Rick and Morty women it's like they get an animal translator like dr. Dolittle and that's just all the way here I'm sure something was done that's for sure we're getting into a world where our generation certainly is getting into political office which is crazy because you know you don't think of yourself as getting older but you are you're getting old and you're injuring your hip but what about we think about lawmakers playing stain games it's kind of crazy right like this do you have the cognitive dissonance of that as I do know I was when I read this headline I got the picture of like somebody going on voice chat to like playing overwatch and it's like now I'm the candidate for you doing campaigning actually in the game I don't think so but playing steam games that's fine using campaign money on steam games over the line Tech Thomas reports to the US congressman has pled guilty to using campaign funds on Steam games that is federal offense that's a felony now it wasn't just Steam games that's the that's the fun headline right it turns out he was just all of his living expenses were coming from campaign contributions also $1,300 on Steam games there's a lot of rules for for this kind of thing but what if he was campaigning with Steve games under what under what scenario would that be okay like if he bought well I mean overwatch is not a steam game but what if he bought you know csgo and he was on voice chat campaigning mmm how do you explain the groceries groceries are not a little fuzzy was he campaigning Chef Boyardee yeah so he's gonna go away for a while and he should that's good to see I have a feeling this is some sort of partisan thing though it's like we need to get him out we did find something good salt the database well they found a lot yeah they did so now this you know we're into the winter actually it's technically not winter yet is it but it will be very soon soon and you're gonna fire up that fireplace put some logs on that's very cozy and comfortable but maybe you want a little something more out of your fire this winter maybe you want a special kind of scent Kentucky Fried Chicken is now selling fried chicken scented fire logs for the holiday season original recipe of course is there any chanse energy any statistically significant chance that there's not a serious carcinogen and how do you make that smell out of a log Colonel Sanders original recipe did involve shoe polish there you go but I bet that would drug drive your pets crazy as well yeah yeah I think there's gonna be like a little chihuahua dog just throws itself this is an amazing PR stunt whoever there whoever came up with this is the you know it seems like KFC they're willing to take the risk when it comes to advertising right because they'll do crazy commercials and campaigns dating app yeah yeah brilliant and they miss as often as they hit but I figure the D&D campaign think about a crappy like milquetoast where you're not taking risks and people aren't laughing at you but I also just don't care I think if they're laughing at you at least they're aware of you right you're driving down the road you're like God that Yule Log is the stupidest thing ever we should go for some mashed potatoes we should get one of those for the Christmas level one news we don't have a fireplace to advance into that yeah we could probably open a window I put this one in because I thought Kristen would enjoy it she does have stories about being banned from Minecraft servers I remember why do you remember one that's got several stories about like she would go on Minecraft servers and be banned because they didn't very strong opinions about things you didn't play correctly with the other children but but now there's a place that all those little Minecraft snowflakes can go the Vatican Vatican priest is making his own minecraft server to offer a less toxic community for gamers one Jesuit priest is planning to launch a Vatican minecraft server father Robert Bellah sir Bala sir as a Jesuit priest he's gonna he's sort of looked at you know kids spend a lot of time in Minecraft and he's thinking hey maybe this would actually be a good place for the church to do some stuff because good lord it's toxic and the math on some of these kids I gotta say I agree with him there's no politeness I can think of some things that Catholic priests have done that are more toxic than mine probably not good to let this guy alone let my kids out of the house so yeah that would be disturbing like twelve-year-old me so what he does I plan on minecraft with this old guy it's like wait what only people from the parish would be allowed to join but still let's he's gonna show me a sticky piston life really excited about that monkeys we don't have monkeys in this country and I'm glad because I hate monkeys but some places in the world they got monkeys just running around in the wild it's crazy their predicted sometimes yeah and monkeys will steal your food your crops and they're really hard to catch I mean think about how hard it is to deal with our pests and monkeys are so much smarter and mobile so what do you do well they have an ingenious plan for dealing with these monkeys farmers monkey scaring plan is a roaring hit like the picture implies they painted their dog to look like a tiger but they also put pictures around their farm this guy is adorable do you think he has sort of an identity crisis what am I yeah well a dieter he's like what did you do to my fur this is this is crazy this is a dye that apparently lasts for like three months so yeah and the monkeys have not been a problem for these farmers although you got to think eventually these these monkeys gonna learn right yeah and then there's just you think there's ever gonna be a situation where this desensitizes them to the Tigers yeah and tigers are just feasting on monkeys and then there's a tiger population explosion Oh that'll be great this is another one that I really wanted Krista to see yeah I don't I feel unqualified to comment on this one but she's talked about this before too so apparently there's like some camping gear that similar she has talked about that yeah yeah so I don't know I was curious like which way do you think she would go on this I don't know I think she would be for it but maybe not out in 90 seconds female urinals will have a peeing time for women says Hong Kong toilet Association so a Hong Kong college Association was looking at people in and out of mail like it exactly equally equipped male and female toilets dudes get in and out a lot faster and the solution is a paper funnel and urinals ed urinals so yeah they're gonna have like a stack of these it I guess it's gonna be like those dispensers yeah look at the were like the ice cream cone dispensaries meat he's pop one of these off and I gotta wonder though like how hygienic is that I feel wholly unqualified to eat like I don't even know I guess it's the volume would never build up right you can't generate enough pressure that it would wash back there split the I don't know it's it's weird there's there's definitely there's I would imagine there's enough pressure for some splashback just also the other thing to think about here is you know with the male genitalia you can you can keep your pants on why are you working at this you're gonna have to juggle around your ankles you're gonna be double hand in that little cup and you're gonna be bare ass to the world while you're straddling this how many it seems a little it's not dignified no I guess my fault that seems like a lot of words to say there's gonna be a new category on pornhub oh look there's like a silicon one - you think that's reusable I would hope not we are creating waste we're killing germs with this and that's the here we go reason actually look how happy this guy is an interesting one know how we'll see so it turns out they have like a commission on public toilets and they're gonna like vote on whether or not this is a good idea I like those urinals better because there's a place to put like there's a place to put your phone that's nice there's a purse there's a curtain you would of course you have your phone up there still looking at it I mean I've definitely been in the men's bathroom sometimes when I really wished that there had been a curtain for my urinal yeah well those handicap journals like make it impossible to close to it so we might as well just be using a trough at this but somebody's looking at your penis that I remember time when bathroom urinals were actually a trough yeah the great school ones really just a bunch of kids just pissing in a trough that's where we come from it's Christmas time and one of the big Christmas traditions is of course the sweater I don't like sweaters the awful sweater I find them in but it is sort of like that oh who can get the ugliest sweater it's the time of year when it's okay to wear something terrible on purpose and Walmart of course wants to sell you your ugly Christmas sweaters who wants to show you literally any chance to but Walmart Canada might not have vetted their inventory the inventory was amazing Walmart dossier pulls Christmas sweater featuring Santa with cocaine it's only implied this is this is fine well he's got some snow here just let it snow and he's cut it into tiny little lines this is perfectly fine his eyes are kind of bugging out it's fine there's some other ones that were amazing that they also pulled that this is actually maybe the most that you could make the most argument if this one's not offensive yeah but the other ones I touch myself actually this guy looks like how it would be if those women were using those urinal yeah and then we've got that one's pretty suggestive okay so you don't realize what was being in its this is the male genitalia and there's I didn't see that that's Santa getting a probe from an alien like what that even means is DM Santa classic oh they don't have the elf one all they do yeah when I think about you I touch myself and it was Elf on the Shelf yeah that's all we got this week I don't know it's next week is next week the live news our the one after and now we have two weeks left before the Christmas week oh yeah that's right so like Christmas week is probably gonna be live news on Wednesday this year right so we'll do what we do live Sunday or live Tuesday probably lives well we could do it during the day on Tuesday because everybody's gonna be going good learn doesn't really matter you think Chris is gonna be around for that I don't want to figure out what Christmas schedule it'll we'll post the new or the announcement on patreon a little closer time maybe also Twitter also do I'll be hungover driving to my parents house and probably Christmas Day here Christmas Eve oh wait is Christmas Day on Wednesday yeah that'd be Christmas Eve on Tuesday so that definitely means streaming on Monday our Sunday Sunday or Monday I will figure it out no see you next week\n"