The Daily Zeitgeist - DMB: Live @ Trend Rocks 10/26: Meta, McFlurry Spoons, Our Old Prezzies, Maine Mass Shooting, Auto Workers Strike

Episode Date: October 26, 2023

In this edition of DMB: Live @ Trend Rocks, Jack and Miles discuss 33 states suing Meta, the death of the McFlurry spoon, our very old presidential candidates, the latest mass shooting in Maine, and auto workers strike possibly coming to an end!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Said the trend, the joke. Anyways, what an album. Shed a tear to that one. Shed a tear to that one. You are, Miles. I am, Jack. These are some of the things that are trending uh we got 33 states suing meta to fix the youth mental health crisis this is interesting timing on the i

mean so it's a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general from 33 states uh mainly we're covering this story because it allows us to say attorneys general which is a fun fun one to pluralize uh from 33 states now suing meta for quote contributing to the youth mental health crisis by knowingly designing features on instagram and facebook that cause children to be addicted to its platforms and you know there's a lot of research that points to social media being part of what is uh driving mental health crises among america's youth um but there's also countervailing research and a lot of research that points it's very kind of uh it's not settled science i would say yeah i think even like broadly it's it gives a a nice out for legislators to hang all of this,

like the ills that young people are experiencing on social media. Yeah, exactly. It's not all the other shit that people are experiencing in this country. That might also be. And I granted, we've seen the research, like even met his own research is like,

yeah, not great for like younger people's mental health to be on like Instagram or whatever. But like, great for like younger people's mental health to be on like instagram or whatever but like what about everything on the outside of the cell phone that young people are experiencing too yeah it's a little frustrating that there's wide sweeping bipartisan support for targeting social media companies uh but none nothing is happening to combat like, you know, uh, gun violence, for instance,

like maybe part of the reason teenagers are more depressed and anxious these days is because they've been having to do active shooter drills since kindergarten. Yeah. Um, you know, study from earlier this year found that 40% of 18 to 29 year old Americans are concerned about being a victim of gun violence or a mass shooting.

I feel like that might weigh on you. Yeah. Maybe climate change. Maybe, you know, their, their government's part in aiding and abetting ethnic cleansing in the middle East and wondering like, what,

what are the people I vote for do exactly? Right. Is there a, is there a, is there a future where the planet is not dead or just stricken with global war? Anyway, yeah. But meta, for sure. I mean, that's one dimension.

Go harder. Go harder, please. Yeah. I just don't think people know yet, but sometimes it really reeks of like, TV will rot these children's brains and that's why we're all you know like when we were young that was the big scare was right kids were watching too much tv which they probably were but maybe not the biggest problem that was facing our society at the time maybe it's inequality i don't know it could be that it could be the amount of taxes that billionaires should be paying. There's a lot.

There's a lot that could be done. But hey. Yeah. Go after them. I'm glad you guys got bipartisan support on something. Yeah. I mean, sure, let's sue Meta for all their shitty antics, but let's not pretend as though it's somehow going to fix the mental well-being of a generation who are worried that they might be fatally shot before they even have a chance to lose their home to a climate apocalypse.

Yeah. Or even, yeah. Or realize they can't afford a home or whatever that is. But yes. Yeah. Bipartisanship. Love to see it. The McFlurry spoon's going away.

It's gone. It's gone. It's gone. Just letting you know real quick y'all that weird plastic thing that had the clippy thing on the end that was hollow in the middle it's gonna be out of here it's getting phased out because they're like that's a lot of shitty plastic to be using so uh what's the theory there that thing like hooked into the blender and like that was the actual like blender blade is that i believe so it looked like that i believe

that's why the clip was on hey anybody who worked at mcdonald's correct me if i'm wrong but i believe that's why there is that clip on the end of it because it's clearly not to like you know lock into your jacket pocket or something like weird i mean that's how i like that's how i wear you just have like a necklace of mclurys on me at all times yeah exactly um but yeah that was that was a thick girthy piece of plastic for sure yeah yeah yeah because i mean obviously you know when i was in europe you know they were using wooden spoons already so we'll see see where they go yeah and a lot a lot of uh people are pointing out like there seems to be a concerted effort from the Biden campaign, uh, to convince voters that Trump's age is an issue too.

Basically. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, sure. Sure. Sure. Go ahead.

Yeah. Um, he's old too. You think I'm old? Well, I am, but he's like very old. Also,

he's also very old and also pro war at all times. So yeah, there's also that they are there. He's also very old and also pro-war at all times so yeah there's also that they're there he's also that too i don't know i mean like i get you see this a lot where they're like why are they why are people just like only talking about joe biden's age for me personally when i bring his age up it's to talk about how disconnected he is from the people that are inheriting the earth that he may be leaving within you know the next however many years his life goes on for yeah and because of that and not considering like all the things we just talked about climate change gun violence like what our foreign policy is and things like that and not understanding where a lot of younger people are with that uh that's why i point to that part not to be like he's so old oh no it's like this we we can't keep having these like elders be in

the driver's seat like for a ride that is going to affect you know billions of people in the future uh and so i i get that and i think with trump he's like such an open fascist and all these other things it's like well yeah he's old but then he's also like these other things sure wait they're all great yeah it's hard to pick one with him yeah yeah it does feel like that is going to be a big part of the next uh 12 months of our life is like you know how old you are oh yeah well you're you're old too and um it's not gonna be not gonna be satisfying but we will both send billions of dollars away to the military industrial complex and ensure that you don't have a future so they can unite over that and i think that's the thing that a lot of people are starting to like wrestle with like i think in this cycle because i see i'm already seeing the think pieces of people being like don't you

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And we're back. We're back we're back do you watch any nba basketball any opening night action i saw the end of the knicks celtics that was disheartening yeah yeah yeah i was tuned in but hey look took him to the wire took him to the wire yeah um watched wemby wemby yama uh and he is tall he looks tall still looks tall even when he's not having a big game guy looks tall gotta tell you he doesn't disappear in games i'll tell you that yeah uh there was another mass shooting as of this recording, uh, the shooter is still on the loose, uh, hours after the initial killings at a bowling alley in Maine. Once again,

this is the result of politicians and companies choosing profit over human lives. Uh, we've talked about it. Like so many times, so many times. And it's like, it's just getting like every time it's like the same thing too.

You're like, like, okay, we're're gonna hear thoughts and prayers no legislation don't make this political or you find out something even more infuriating like that this guy was known to law enforcement prior to this yeah for threatening to shoot up like a military base yeah so it like what the fuck is going on uh but again when you have laws like mains which a lot of people like their laws are so lax but when you look at them like on a continuum yeah they're about normal for the united states yeah so people are pointing to mains gun laws and like just how fucked up their gun laws are because they don't require a background check to buy a gun. No red flag laws, the sorts of things that would have saved a lot of people's lives in this case

because this was a person with a known history of just tossing up all sorts of red flags. It doesn't ban high-capacity magazines. The stuff that is the bare-bones legislation that we know

does work and can be passed in the united states in some parts of the united states uh doesn't require a permit to carry concealed guns just breaks breaks off they they flipped them off um but so people are like well ma geez, a place sounds like a, you know, like they just don't give a fuck. Wild West. Yeah. They got to be worst in the nation. Right. With laws like that.

So every town for gun safety, which rates these sorts of things is like, yeah, they're really bad. They rank 25th out of 50. So exactly right in the middle. Yeah. They are right in the in the middle of the whole thing. A lot of people are pointing out, too, how it's like Sudafed is harder to buy than a firearm in Maine because it's like a meth precursor. Yeah. And also, I mean, we've talked about Susan Collins, too, like how just her she's she's never done the right thing.

And when she was like tweeting stuff about it's like, oh, this is like we need to do something about it. A lot of people were like pointing out the fact that like when people were like nicely asking her to like vote for legislation that would help people like with sidewalk chalk. Remember, she like called the police. Yeah. Like, oh, they wrote on my sidewalk. Yeah. Please find them um and yeah the yeah it's just so fucking disheartening and you know that it happened like during a children's

bowling league jesus um and now there's like over i think around 18 people that have died and so yeah uh we continue to like grapple with so many fucking failures of this country like simultaneously it's it's really kind of becoming overwhelming yeah a couple of the like pro gun rights arguments that this that are directly affected by the events that we like do know and can confirm at this point uh you know they like to say that more guns actually make america safer uh since good guys will also be carrying guns because in maine roughly half of all households have guns so that didn't seem to stop things here um also the idea of like it's just people who like aren't properly trained that cause problems this person is a certified gun training, uh,

trainer. Yeah. Firearm instructor. The other thing that this highlight is just like, this is another big emergency, like important story, new story that is happening with Twitter being like absolutely and completely broken.

And so, um, you know, just every time there's a massive story the misinformation is just comically bad immediately on x and on twitter um and like right in this case the misinformation was just like right off the bat uh a highly followed account reported that the shooter had been caught. Right. Literally like came out and was like,

coast is clear. Everyone, you can come out of hiding. And the shooter hadn't been caught yet. Yeah. Like I can't think of a worse piece of misinformation to spread. Truly. It was that post had been seen over 170,000 times.

And that's like, that's like the fun for these people who pay their eight bucks because your bullshit's floated up to the top because of the algorithm yeah uh and you can just play a video game called put people in a state of disarray just for eight bucks a month because there's no what anyway so yeah as of now the suspect is still at large. So it's just, yeah. Please stay safe if you're in Maine. Yeah. There's also, of course, immediate reports that he was a Hamas supporter and a left-wing nut who voted for Obama, both of which are unverified.

So I don't know. Yeah. Also, apparently he'd made threats to shoot up a military base. So, yeah. Yeah. Bad, bad times up a military base. So, yeah. Bad, bad times. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. There is a tentative deal in place with United Auto Workers and Ford. Yeah.

Got two more to go if this tentative deal becomes fully ratified. this tentative deal becomes fully ratified uh they don't like there aren't the full details aren't out but sean fain who runs or who leads the uaw uh said that includes a 25 increase over the course of the new contract it raises the top wage for workers by over 30 to more than 40 an hour the starting wage by 68 uh and the wage for temp workers by over 150% and also stuff like pensions and other things like that. So we don't know everything, but it seems like they're slowly, slowly making headway

since what I believe the strike started on September 15th. So we'll see what happens with the other two manufacturers. It does almost seem like this collective action stuff might work. So far, I'm just seeing a bunch of dubs for people. Not many L's.

Yeah. But hey, let's all keep that in mind. Stay organized. All right. We'll leave it there with a bit of good news. Yeah. That's going to do it for us this afternoon. We are back tomorrow with a whole

ass episode of the show and a very special guest you probably already know probably seen her on twitter already asking me all but hey you already know y'all already know we are back then uh with the whole last episode of the show until then be kind to each other be kind to yourselves get the vaccine don't do nothing about white supremacy. We will talk to you all tomorrow. Bye. Bye. Hey, fam. I'm Simone Boyce.

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