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Safety Wars Live 6-21-2024
Hi, this is Jim from Safety Wars. Before we start the program, I want to make sure everyone understands that we often talk about OSHA and EPA citations, along with some other regulatory actions from other agencies, legal cases, and criminal activity. Everyone is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Proposed fines are exactly that, and they are often litigated, reduced, or vacated. We use available public records and news accounts and press releases. We cannot warranty or guarantee the details of any of the stories we share, since we are not directly involved with these stories, at least not most of the time. Enjoy the show! And, from the border of liberty and prosperity, from the highway to north, this is Safety Wars for Friday, June 21st, 2024. You heard a little bit of family business there, right? Hey, it happens. We're broadcasting from our studio in Clarkstown, New York, aka New City. I always got, hey, Jim, you should be talking New City, not Clark so well, you know, okay. If I say New City, everybody says, "Oh, it's New York City." No, it's a New City. Some history behind this, we've all heard of Paramount, right? The studio. Paramount's studio. So, did I believe the Zooker family is still involved with Paramount's studio? They are, so Paramount's studio was owned by the Zooker family for many, many years. And my, just consequently, my great Aunt Anna worked for the family. She was one of the maids for something along those lines, working for the family here in New York and up here in New City, back in the 1930s. But out of Zooker, they were an Austria-Hungarian family, and they only hired, like, for house help, they only hired Europeans, specifically from Germany or Austria. So that's how my aunt got in with them, and she was very refined. Person, and this is where she learned, at least, from the Zooker family. But anyway, I digress. The Zooker family owned, like, the whole town here, most of the town, and they eventually sold it off, and it got developed, and their original property is now the Paramount Country Club here, as I understand it. So, you know, New City has a little bit of history, and, reportedly, some of the old Tarzan movies from the 1930s were filmed right here, behind my house, about 800 foot in that direction. So, again, you know, they're always trying to revitalize the area, because they had a history of film, so a lot of TV shows are here, filmed here, pilot episodes, forget the name of the one that was filmed, or about a mile in that direction, about three or four months ago. So, finally getting unburied from all the stuff I had to put on hold for all this time dealing with family issues, so things are going good. We had some things on the horizon here, in the very near future you'll be hearing about. I'm sure you're that. Now, Justin, going nuts here. So as a summer solstice, we are basically almost six months away from Christmas, and have you started your Christmas shopping yet? I have. At least choosing things on Amazon and putting it into my wish list, and, you know, you can never plan too early for these things. My wife says, with her events, she is a professional event meeting planner. She spends about a year planning out every event, pretty much, for the bigger ones. She'll handle a small luncheon to like a five or ten thousand person event, no problem. And, you know, along those lines, so what happens often is we get a lot of questions on, we get a lot of questions from people on events on how to run events and everything else, so, and then, you know, we had one tonight on weather insurance. So the list there that asks me about weather insurance, yes, it is a real thing, and a lot of events have them, especially if it's going to be one day event, so, and you have to, obviously, like with any insurance policy, you have to go, and it's a lot involved in it, a big, long questionnaire. So we have been dealing with this heat dome out here in New York, and something I want to point out to you folks, there's been a lot of talk about AI, right, artificial intelligence over the last few weeks, I think, now we're on our fourth week, where we now have AI, now, it's 4.0, right, so 4.0, not 4.0, not 4.0, 4.0, 4.0, and I've been very impressed with a lot of the information, we're getting off of it and everything, but it's not without controversy. Now, people use this for all different types of things, and one observation that a family member made was, does that, this mean that all of our creativity is going out the window, and it really doesn't matter anymore, and I mean, there is some of that, if you're using it, if you're using it for information to look things up and to organize, or maybe to look for some pretty obscure information, which I've used it for, it works sometimes better than a search engine, now choose your search engine out there, there are plenty of them, used to be even more, popular ones at least, and if you're going to be using it to organize your thoughts and maybe look up obscure information that you then have to go and double check, great tool, but there's a lot of danger with that, with the whole artificial intelligence thing, I mean, there's been reports of them putting AI into drones, military drones, like, and then people are fearing about a military type, a military type thing, like Terminator, Star Trek has been, and yes, I'm a Star Trek fan, has been addressing AI from since the 1960s, so this stuff has been out there, and also Isaac Asimov wrote "I-Robot" and what I had set up to three laws of, I think it was three laws of robots, robotics, it's probably worth a look here, I'm going to go to commercial break because I'm right in the middle of this, I want to explore this here, so I'm going to go to commercial break real quick, and we'll be right back and finish our thought here. 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So Isaac Asimov presented, and we're a work official called iRobob, we had to study this and when I took a film class in college, way back in the day, this was my last undergraduate course I had to take, was I did a, the course was science, fiction, and social issues. And one of the, one of the attributes of a, of good science fiction is that it addresses current problems, right, in a context of science fiction. Another thing is, is that it, well, it has an aspect of what if, what if, what if this happens, and there have been a couple of TV series over the years, over science fiction series that explored this, what if. One of them comes to mind is Scott Bakula, right, another Star Trek alumnus, in Quantum Leap. Another one is a TV series with Gerry O'Donnell and a whole bunch of other stars on there called Sliders in the mid 1990s. And we even go back and look at the, tonight on Pluto TV, they had a Star Trek Voyager episode, author, author. So all of these things, so science fiction as a, as a vehicle of discussing social issues, what ifs. One of the main ones that, no, in the last seven years or so that's come about is the handmaid tales on Hulu, starring Elizabeth Moss. Another one, and we talked a little bit about demographic collapse on this program. We talk about demographics and everything else. Right now, over the last month, I'm getting all this information on demographic collapse and I never solicited, I don't know, as, as, you know, being sent to me, you know, through the algorithms or what have you, or just by coincidence, as specifically on, on, on the population and things of that nature, where the handmaid's tale is one of these things where what happens when there's a demographic collapse, right, regardless of it. And then it goes into a certain scenario, which I don't want to say is likely or not likely, but one of the possible scenarios that might be there. So Isaac Asimov was talking about this in 1942 and the short story run around and it was included in nineteen fifties, nineteen fifties, iRobot novel. So the first law of robotics was a robot not, may not injure a human being or through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Second law, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings, except for a sudden charge orders with conflict with the first law, and the third law, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law. Well, let's look at the, uh, some of these drone technology we're seeing here and what's rumored to be out there in the military. Again, using robots to go and attack things, not a right, uh, being autonomous. So if you give, uh, it's sort of like when you give, and I'm sorry for the, uh, for the metaphor here, when you give someone enough rope to hang themselves, sort of like that. So now you are going out there and you are giving robots allowing them to make decisions and AI to make decisions is not always a good thing. As you're seeing with a lot of the AI out there and they're all about the same, I believe they're all pretty much the same here, I'm not favoring one or over another, uh, with these models. The information you're getting is wrong, the interpretation is wrong. I've used AI, uh, since it was available, commercially available, and you got a double check, you got a triple check. Now we're putting that type of AI into a computer, uh, a weapon, a war that may, you know, who knows what it's going to come out with. And there's been reports by, uh, former employees of, uh, very large data companies that you've heard of that have put out there that, Hey, this stuff is not working well. This stuff is giving wrong answers that this stuff is anti human. So that's something you need to consider here with all of this. I mean, there are good things and there are bad things. I found out some information I would have never been able to get anywhere else using AI and what I had to verify it, uh, with everything, and, you know, just that one of those things, uh, one of, one of the shortcomings is if you're using any type of the graph text to graphics programs, the text to graphics programs, uh, you got to watch out on every one of those, uh, there, uh, because I've gotten some very unusual results. I will leave it at that. One of the things is they cannot spell. Puzzle. They cannot spell technical. They cannot spell safety wars. They cannot spell Jim. They cannot spell a lot of things. Oh, you ask it to do something and with a logo or something and God knows what you're going to get. That's why we're still going to need human beings for the time being here with, uh, what we do now, we're going to take another break here and we're going to get into the news and let's go, it's Friday, so we need our hop message from Friday. This is safety wars broadcasting to our brothers and sisters in the occupied territory of behavior based safety. Get out your secret decoder ring. Here is your nightly message. How you respond to failure matters. How you respond to failure matters. Now let's talk a little bit about that. People say, uh, no, what, what does that really mean? How you respond to favor, uh, failure. So let's say you're supervising someone couple of, oh, go many different. You're supervising someone. You know, you want to have all the information available, presumably if you're supervising someone to make good decisions and be able to manage people, let's say something goes wrong and you start screaming and yelling at people. Do you really think that they're going to report, uh, you know, uh, you think they're going to report a problem again and now you're going to have less information. There may be a bigger screw up later on. The other thing is this, if you, uh, no, no, I think we all have to deal with this with children, especially tweens, you know, something bad happens and how do we react? Well, first of all, they're going to react the way that you react and that was followed by example, but on the other hand, hormones are kicking in and everything else and something happens, they're not going to react logically or smart. You're not going to be able to see the other person's point of view. And what happens is you miss opportunities, uh, things don't go well. So how you react to it, if you're going to be a nervous Nellie or a Debbie Datter or yelling and screaming, guess what, uh, you're not, no one's going to give you information. I portrayed this even before I ever heard a pop around seven or eight years ago. Uh, I had, uh, Dave, my friend Dave, we were in a safety meeting together. I was officiating the meeting and he was in my assistant and he was my assistant and I said, uh, Dave, we're going to do like a role playing type of thing here. And he said, Oh, Jim, what are you talking about? No, no, no, with safety related role playing. You trust need to go along with what I'm going to say. And I said, Dave, I want you to tell me to put on my safety glasses. So this is Jimmy, you don't have your safety glasses on. You really ought to put them on. You're going to have a, uh, eye injury, maybe, you know? So what I went into him and yelled and screamed at him and I laid it into him and everything else and he was like, Oh, you know, and I said to him now, I was like, this is gone. What do you think Dave's reaction is going to be the next time I don't have my safety glasses on or any other safety issue? Thank you. I'm not following a procedure. You name it. You think David's going to now tell me and he said, no, I don't ever looked at me. I said, well, why is it that we're doing this here with everybody here? Do you think that this is going to be a good idea where they're looking to get rid of this company at this facility, looking to rebuild the contract, rebuild the contract. And here we are working against each other. And I said, this is the kind of behavior that led to a, uh, sister company to have a double fatality where people were told to put on fall protection and the answer that they gave to the person that told them to put on fall protection was, and this came out years later after the thing was settled in court, it was we taught you how to paint. We didn't teach you to paint. Go back to mixing the paint, we'll handle the painting and we had a scaffold collapse now. This person was the replacement foreman on the weekend there in the regular foreman had been off site, had been on vacation. He had the authority to stop work, but because he was so intimidated, didn't make the decision, ended up to people dead, the other one permanently disabled over this situation because he was intimidated. So, uh, with that, your reaction matters. You're not going to get information if you're going to, and in this case, the information that the people did not get was that the scaffolding was unsafe and that they were not following proper procedures. That was the message that was sent. So, now, your reaction matters, right, with that. How you react to bad information, to bad news, to criticism, all right? Often people criticize you because they're trying to help you. Maybe they're not feeling bad at the nicest way, but they're doing the best they can. They have good intentions, a little bit of logo therapy here, right? Even search for meaning, meaning, Victor Frankel, everybody has good intentions, just that things, the results are bad sometimes. That's a very, I know, we have organizational psychologists that listen to the program and all, but that's basically it. So I'm all over the place, but, you know, this is what else is there, right? With us. We're going to go into the ocean news reviews and let's see here, let's go to share a screen. Yes, I'm not using the new software. I had to get back in the swing of things with that, so we have news releases from the Department of Labor. Okay, here we go. All right, US Department of Labor finds a Woodbury resin maker's safety failures contributed to 37-year-old technicians' fatal injuries. Ocean finds that a certain company failed to train workers and lock out and tag out procedures. The US Department of Labor workplace safety investigation has found a Woodbury plastic and resin manufacturer could have prevented this out of Atlanta, a 30-70-year-old employee suffering fatal injuries by following required safety rules designed to keep machines from starting up during maintenance. They're recited for a whole bunch of stuff here, $98,000 now. You're going to say, "Well, that seems like a lot of money," "Well, probably no repeat violations here, I don't review these prior, I just go here, go with it," as it comes up. Citation 1, item 1, 1910-134, the employer did not identify and evaluate the respiratory hazards of the workplace, including a reasonable estimate of employee exposure as the respiratory hazards and identification of the contaminants, chemicals, state, and physical form. On or about blah, blah, blah, the employer exposed employees' respiratory hazards and that the employer did not evaluate the workplace to determine the employee exposure levels to contaminants such as when not limited to particulates found in a certain product. On or about, blah, blah, blah, the employer did not evaluate, so for another chemical. Now, something, right, you've got to do that. Now, as I pointed out earlier this year, 50,000 people a year die in the workplace or from work-related industrial hygiene issues, and there is the rule. If you have a respiratory hazard, guess what? You need to do an assessment. Now, if you do not have a respiratory hazard, what do you do? I would advise you to write it down somewhere that you did an assessment, and there were no respiratory hazards. Now, get--I would hire somebody who knows what the hell is going on, a certified safety professional, possibly certified industrial hygiene, a certified hazardous materials manager, or somebody who really knows what the hell they're doing. You know, one of these days we'll have a talk on a lot of stuff here with this. Employees were exposed to particulates that not otherwise regulated, restable fracture to total dust hazard here, and this was for 12,445 dollars, or the other ones. That seems to be the number of this one, 12,445 dollars with that. One item 3B, feasible administration, and this was zero, engineering controls, not done, as your whole hierarchy of control thing. The employer did not assess the workplace, the determinative hazards of present, or are likely to be present, or me. That employee was exposed to skin and eye irritation, and that the employee did not assess the workplace, the determinative hazards of present. Now, I had a discussion with a friend of the program yesterday on specifically these issues. I had mentioned when I was on coast to coast with Ian Punnett last year that just because something doesn't have an exposure limit, necessarily, does not mean that you could just expose people. So famous case, the popcorn flavorings case back in the early 2000s. And the conclusion was that in lieu of not having a PEL, or REL, or TLV, or something like that exposure standard, that essentially the warning properties of that chemical are now the PEL. So here we have in this case here with this, right? The employer did not assess workplace determinative hazards of present. So here we had people getting skin and eye irritation. Again, this is a first state issue, right? With this. And skin and eye irritation. Should they have gotten some type of assessment done, absolutely, and as your report in writing. My face protection, again, from froling particles, $1,165, employer did not provide the basic advisory information on respiratory rateers, and appendix D, another 1165. So let's say that you're going to be, uh, respirators are not mandatory, still have to sign off on appendix D and train your people on that of the respiratory protection standard. That's the way it is, folks. So here we have another set of violations here. Lock out, tag out. This is the one that, uh, apparently with a person, uh, do, do, do. So you have not only issue plan, you have to look it over periodically, usually annually. Or more $14,000 on that. Each effective employee was not instructed on purpose and use some of the energy control procedure. That means that they interviewed people and they were like, what the hell? I don't know. That means ineffective training, 10,372. Then we have another one, a point of operations and machines, whose operation exposes an employee to entry shall be guarded. So no equipment guarding on this one or inadequate, another $14,518. And again, certification of training, uh, did not contain each employee name and the date of training. Program total of $55,539 on that set. So again, everybody is innocent until proven guilty on here. So, uh, basically a person was killed over this stuff. They're lucky that that's all that they got, but it would have been better had nobody gotten heard to begin with. Okay. Uh, let's see the other one. Department of Labor finds a certain company, uh, fired an employee who reported deceptive practices to leadership. The US Department of Labor has ordered a certain company in Plano, Texas, and its parent company in Seattle during the state of payback wages and compensatory damages to an employee who was fired in June, 2023 after informing other management about deceptive business practices. Uh, whistle-blower investigation by the Department of Social found the employee alerted the company management that customer refunds after canceling services were not issued in an entirely manner to hundreds of customers because the company is requiring them to complete unnecessary steps and the cancellation, uh, process. The employee suffered retaliation for reporting what they reasonably believed to be a violation of the law. The actions of the company and its parent company are wholly non-acceptables at OSHA regional administrator, Eric S. Harbin and Dallas, federal law protects the right of an employee to report unfair business practices and financial deceptive deception without fear of any type of retaliation. Our investigation found the employee suffered retaliation after responsibly alerting the company that his actions violated the law. In addition to ordering the employee's routine statement, OSHA has instructed the employer to pay $109,661 in back wages and $76,389 in compensatory damages to the employee. The agency determined that the company's violated provisions of the Sarvings-Opsi Act and the Consumer Financial Protection Act that forbid employer retaliation against the worker who raises concerns. So OSHA, at current count it's 25, OSHA manages 20, uh, whistleblower stuff in 25 different areas on the program earlier this week, which I will be uploading this weekend. We had gone into, uh, right, the, uh, this with whistleblower and also stop work. So people say, uh, authority, but you have whistleblower, uh, uh, protections we mentioned, but OSHA manages all this stuff. Now my opinion, probably they should, they should, all these whistleblower complaints should be handled by someone outside of OSHA, uh, my opinion. Why OSHA has enough to do. So either increase their, uh, increase their, uh, uh, funding or move it to another agency, even if they have to create another agency, uh, with this, uh, what, uh, ends up happening is they have a lot of these cases and it uses up a, a, a huge chunk of their time with us to manage this, uh, with our budget. You think that they're managing safety, they're managing all this other stuff. Uh, okay, there is another, uh, injury here, hold on, and, let's go to another commercial break here. Is your safety training old, stale and hacky? Is your safety trainer still preaching a warped version of behavior-based safety? How about safety training that actually addresses your hazards and your workplaces and is not standardized baloney from 25 years ago? Contact the Safety Wars team at safetywars.com or call Jim Pollsell at 845-269-5772. Remember, if you're receiving this message, you are the solution to unsafe workplaces. You are listening to Safety Wars. Tomorrow's safety today. 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All right, so here we have our next story here. Department of Labor cites a Boaz mobile home manufacturer after a 62-year-old worker suffers fatal trauma after a 10-foot fall. A Boaz home manufacturer could have prevented a 62-year-old roofing labor's fatal flaw and the employer followed required fall protection standards, a U.S. Department of Labor investigation found. Ocean cited the company with 10 serious violations for hazards, so basically the person slipped off the roof. The employer was alone loading shingles. As they straddled, a two-foot-wide space between a platform and mobile home's roof, when they slipped and fell approximately 10 feet, doesn't take much, guys. Failure to train workers at, again, this is being regulated as a general industry thing apparently. I guess these are prefabs, right, mobile homes, prefab homes, or it could be a tow behind. I'm not sure. I don't want to get into it because I don't feel like dealing with the Durnies, right? Oh, you can you set those on my phone? No, I don't deal with that. The agency proposed any 1004, 63 impenalties, again, I don't get it. I mean, it is 2024 here, I don't get it, I really don't. So here, okay. Here we have citation on item one, type of violation series. That's provided elsewhere in this section, 29CFR1910.28, again, that's general industry. The employer did not ensure that each employee had a walking, working service with an unprotected cider edge. This four-feet or more above a lower level is protected from falling by one or more of the following systems described in this section. Again, with construction to six-foot, general industry, four-foot, again, right? Again, where I see a lot of injuries, even in industry, in my maritime and my ship experience here, is the transition from one boat to the shore, from one boat to another is something like that. And it's the same thing here, what happened here is moving from one piece of equipment to another, guess what, you might have an issue. Now what we've done on certain jobs was where we could not easily put up a guardrail system, that we actually use the guard, we went and put scissorlets around an elevated work area. Now you're going to say, did you tie off to them? No, we used the scissorlets as a guardrail. That might have been a solution here, that might have worked. Yes, we are dealing with the 100 degree heat here in New York. I'm getting sweated up and I'm under these studio lights. Each line of stairs having at least three treads and at least four risers was not equipped with a stair rail system, right? Again, missing handrails, that was $5,600, first one was $16,000, third one here. Citation one, item 3, 13,066, I don't know how they came up with that number. Again, no training on personal followers, arrest systems. Citation one, item four, type of violation, seriously employer, did not assess the workplace determined hazards are present, which necessitate PPE. That one was $5,600. And there's no hand protection on here with this, and when they're exposed to any type of hand in hazards, $5,600, employer did not ensure that each tower industrial truck operator, which means a forklift, usually, again, not only had to take a training class, you have to actually have a visual test, a functional test, by a qualified person. We're doing that this weekend. Yay. We conductors and our equipment required or permitted by this subpart were not approved, so let's see what this is. At the roofing department, on or about November 16th at the outside of the employer, exposed employees to electrical hazards in that and in has electrical connector was used to extend the electrical circuit was not approved. Wow, you really got to know what the hell's going on with that one to get, no, for OSHA to get you on that one. OSHA really's got to know what's going on there and another similar one, $5,600. Is there electrical situation? No has come. There's a $600. No unright to no inventory, they got them for zero on that one, but no inventory chemicals. No training on hazardous chemicals, for a grand total of $81,463. Okay, I don't know, no, I don't know what to say with this stuff and, all right, we're, let's check out some of the other news here, where did it go? All right, these are not from government websites, so I can't really show them on the air here. But this is from the epoch time, so I nearly half of US online job posts, things are fake. Recruitment professionals and victims, and this is a story as premium reports, I don't know who the, oh, my autumn, spread it, spread man here. Recruitment professionals and victims of ghost posts instead of actors hurts everyone, including companies that create them. Amid complex hiring processes, a shadow is spreading in the American business world. Companies are using fake online job openings to protect an image of growth, keep existing employees motivated and cultivate a pool of possible future candidates with no intention of hiring. So this is basically called ghost posting, and according to this article, it accounts for 43% of online job openings across multiple industries. So one or some of my thoughts on here, this sounds like a possible securities and exchange commission violation here, in my opinion, if you're, because image of growth, right, you're trying to portray your company soon better than what it is, if that's publicly traded company, you got a problem there. You're selling the company, you might have a problem there. The other stuff is just bad management, I mean, keep existing employees motivated. Oh, look at us, we're doing this, we're hiring more and more people. I actually had a conversation with someone where that's what the company was doing, right? Oh, look, we have all this money coming, all these jobs coming on, and they, at the same time, they're laying people off possible future candidates for no intention of hiring. Oh, yeah, the headhunters do that all the time. I mean, I applied to a couple of headhunting jobs back in the mid 2000s, and I'm still getting phone calls from them. Oh, hi, Jim. Are you still in the safety business? Oh, we got a job for you, blah, blah, blah, blah, and it turns out these people don't know what the safety business is, they don't know what we do, but they're going to be recruiting people for it and, you know, say and solve, you know, just, right. According to another poll, 55% of people, Americans say they're completely burned out from job hunting. I mean, I know people who've applied to thousands of jobs, not going to call back. No, they end up having to, you know, there's fake posts, there's this, there's that. I don't know. Unethical, just unethical behavior here. Home prices here hit record high in May at sales stall. Well, what does that have to do with the safety war here? Well, yeah, it does. It's called money. Basically, people are spending a lot of money for less and putting a lot of stress in the system, and people know that. So, you know, it is what it is with that, and you, that impacts the way people manage people. Hold on. Okay, and this computer is starting to lock up on me. This is not good. Okay. Hawaii agrees to historic settlement in youth climate case. U.S. state of Hawaii has reached an historic agreement in response to litigation by youth activists, farmers, things to speed up. I just lost it here. Thirteen young, no, right, promising to speed up the decarbonization of its transfer site to protect the right to safe and healthy climate. This is a big one, guys. All right, because they settled, you're going to see a lot more of these cases. Thirteen young people from across the island was brought to case in June 2022. I believe we covered this story on this program, arguing that their constitutional rights through a life-sustaining climate were being violated. They asked the state government to take action, to implement its goals of net -- this is from barons here -- goals of net negative emissions in the transport system by 2045. And again, why do people settle with a lot of this stuff? Well, guess what? I don't want to continue the litigation. It's going to cost more money. Many of the plaintiffs are native Hawaiian youths, experiencing climate change harms, including sea level rise, droughts, floods, and fires, which are threatening their lives. So that -- and their ability to carry out cultural perspective -- cultural practices. Incredible on that. You're going to see more of these cases. For the long -- this is from DNYUZ news, right here. The weather becoming political. They're reporting like this is a new thing here. Weather has been political for an awful long time, even before the current global warming debate. Now, just watching the news tonight with this heat dome above the Northeast here, we're here in this -- no, we're hearing all different types of stuff. We're going to know. They're in a panic. They're apoplectic, it seems, here on the news here. Well, guess what? We've had it. We've had it again. I was listening to one researcher talking about what could have caused the last ice age to end, and all this flooding. Now one of the current theories is the solar mass ejection. Why do I mention this? There's a lot of stuff we don't understand here, right, where there -- there's been proof of a coronal mass ejection 12,000 years ago. Here you have -- and then Tesla traps toddler and hot car and raises a concern about electric doors. Adults can use manual door releases from the inside of dead electric vehicles, but younger ones can't. Well this is one of the things with -- this is -- no, they point out Tesla here with a woman, right, basically the woman had taken her grandchild out and -- and no hot weather in this time of year in Arizona and that sort of thing, right, the woman was in there. How did they get out of here? They told her they could not get into the car, but as she gave them a go-ahead to break in and all cost, surely enough the fire department smashed the window and retrieved the child. Notice, notably, Tesla does have a procedure to get into the car, but it requires several steps and a battery charger. Now this sounds like a new thing, right, thank God the woman realized, I like what happened in our town a couple years ago, and right now -- and I would like to credit people like Todd Conklin for making this change in cars. I recently got a used vehicle, kind of a real good deal on a used vehicle, and now when I turn the car off, I get in there and check the back seat for passengers, right, and he was one of the ones who was advocating. That's how I would like to think that Todd, for another program, Todd Conklin, great podcast, I would like to think that he -- that he had a hand in that, but this is nothing new. So we remember back when I was growing up, back in the '70s and '80s and even the '90s, you used to have the button, right, for the lock. It's -- oh, the door is unlocked down, it is unlocked. A lot of cars don't have that anymore, they have like an indicator pin, locked and unlocked, or they may have on the door itself red, or no, red, no, it's unlocked, right, a switch or a lever is up, there's a red -- right, children do not realize that, what that is. So along with a lot of the minivans out there, not -- I believe all the brands have this, you have a button with a sliding rear window, rear door, you press a button, opens and shuts. Children don't know how to operate that, necessarily. Back in the '70s, it's really simple. Pull the lever and the door is locked, then it's going to be unlocked, easy. Now you kind of go through, might have to go through a couple of steps to get the door open. Apparently that's what happens here with these electric cars. So maybe it would be a good thing to show your children, and I'll say the other end also where it's a technology resistant population, to show them and run through this. Don't assume that people know what's going on, and especially if it's a company truck. I had one of my clients, they had to do repairs on three or four vehicles, and they were very expensive repairs because people were riffing door handles off, because they didn't know how to unlock a door, right, you know. Very expensive, those go for like $700 to get that fixed. Now back in the early 1990s in California, might have been late 1990s, early 2000s in California, there was a power situation there. If you look back at the old issues of regulation magazine, there's a, when Gray Davis was governor, there was a pretty extensive story on that, probably still available, regulation magazine, last I checked, has archives, but this is not something that is a new issue. This power problems because of electric, because of technology, have been putting stress on the power grid. Right now we have the blockchain technology for like cryptocurrency that puts a huge strain, and we have all this AI and all this computers stuff, and I mean here, I got four lights, I got two phones going on, I got a computer, basically the phones are computers, and we got this, and that, guess what, uses a lot of power, guess what, bigger stress on the electric power system, and the means are all over the place, all over the internet here with that. So I'm looking here from the Washington Post AI exhaust in the power grid, tech firms are seeking a miracle solution. Glenn Beck this week, I don't normally listen to him, but he had a, someone on talking about what they were going to do, what they were looking at for supply power for this stuff, and let's just say it was, think of matrix level stuff, some researchers are involved in using human stem cells to power, to generate electricity. So near the river banks in central Washington, Microsoft is spending on an effort to generate power from atomic fusion, the collision of atoms that powers the son of breakthrough that has eluded fusion, that is not fission, that has eluded scientists for the past century, physics will elude, physicists predicted will elude Microsoft. So what they're looking for are micro reactors from what it doesn't say that here, but that's basically what everyone's looking for micro reactors going way back. A chat GPT powered search according to the international energy agency consumes almost 10 times the amount of power, amount of electricity as a search on Google, really, okay. So we're talking another energy crisis self created by us. Now here is a story from Wired Magazine, Morgan Meeker is the author. My memories are just met as training data now, but it plans to use personal content posted by Facebook and Instagram, uses to train algorithms, suggests our digital histories are being repackaged and teach AI about how to mimic humanity. Again, we're looking at matrix and terminator level stuff here, folks. So that's what I got for tonight. We will be dropping these episodes on your favorite podcast for platforms this weekend. That's something I could not get to this week, the project that I'm working on is very remote and has no internet access. And we're getting home at 9 or 10 o'clock at night here and it's rough, it's rough. I'm not complaining because at least I have work to do. So I want to thank everybody for their support through these last three years, four years throughout our fourth season. It's been fun. We're going to continue to do this for the time being, hopefully forever, or at least until I'm retired and what's retirement, I don't know. 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