What's up guys take down here with the news series for my channel It is called the crack a pack where I'm gonna be opening loose packs of hockey cards that I purchased from the dollar store Because I don't have a hockey card store in town. So whenever I go and get these on occasion I'm gonna be opening them up for the series.  This is where I'm gonna be putting them. I'm gonna be putting them in the crack a pack series So stay tuned for that for the channel Today I have 2017-2018 Opeachie Which I have not opened loose packs since before Christmas because I sold it at the dollar store and he hasn't gotten any in until now I live in a small town. That's why I don't have any hockey card shops or anywhere else really to purchase my hockey cards But I love buying them from him anyway, so I'm gonna continue to do that and Let's just get right into this video I'm gonna share all the hockey cards if I mispronounce names Please let me know down in the comments. It actually helps me out learn them. So I get and do them right next time I get a card. So Darren Helm Michael Camarelli. I think I mispronounced that one wrong Jamie McGinn Malcolm that one's a good one. Even though it's base. It's good for my collection Jonathan quick another good one for my collection. I love this one Henrik Sadeen recently retired I'm gonna keep that in my Personal collection. I have a retro card for Anton Slepeychev Slepeychev Comment down below if I mispronounced that one wrong. I believe I did I do apologize and a foil card for Ryan Spooner Boston Bruins Hopefully they do pretty good Moving on to the second pack I'll put that in the back for now Ryan Ellis Justin Flock Flock, sorry Alec Martinez Tyler Sagan Which if you guys watch the channel if you watch me unbox and open up hockey cards before He follows me everywhere Tyler Sagan.  He's no longer in Calgary But great pull nonetheless for me for my collection Nashville Predators team checklist, which I'm a huge fan of predators. So I'm glad I have that I got a mini card for Nikita Kutrov Add that to my mini card collection and a Marky rookie for Christian Fisher. I did have a starter there. I do apologize and I do have one more pack Louie Erickson good pull here Wayne Simmons Add that to my collection Oliver Bohr Strand, I believe the J is silent comment down below. Let me know John Moore Logan Couture Jesper Fast, I Like this one a lot. I don't get them often, but it is the four of clubs Four doesn't say on the back Jeff Skinner. It's the foil edition I did get a regular card before a regular playing card now. I got a foil one I don't like it just because it's so thin and I think as it's foil. It's kind of Curved but That is a nice poll. I do like that one and last up Boston Bruins David Beck as retro card. I think that is a great poll That is one of my favorite retro cards that I have this year Amazing for that and Also the Christian Fisher marky rookie retro. I think that's just amazing that I pulled all those So this is the first crack-a-pack video that I'm doing for my channel and intends to do more Basically every week or every couple weeks I try to go to the dollar store to pick up other stuff But also I will get a couple loose packs and open them up in this series for you guys So stay tuned Because as I move forward this summer, I think I'm only gonna buy one more blaster box and that's going to be OPG Platinum's I really want to see what I can get out of buying one blaster box So I'm gonna be doing that soon for you guys But any single packs that I purchased here on out are gonna be in crack-a-pack That is gonna be my new series for the channel. Hope you guys did enjoy if you did Please leave a thumbs up and I will see you guys in the next video. Please take care. Peace


What does a salesperson do when you say sell that sell this right? Well, the Rookie salesman will say this is the greatest pen in the world this pin They'll start trying to do some version of the three tens like this This is the best pen in the world the right to play down never runs out of eight best vibe Blah blah blah see I'm talking a mile a minute, right? But the fact is is that the only logical thing you can really say to someone Before you sell a little pen is first of all, are you in the market for a pen? Yes, qualify You have to start asking questions and this is the big mistake that salespeople make because a by gathering intelligence in the beginning It allows you to identify their needs their value systems any pain They might be feeling about you know a lack of not having something right and just as important is that it's true? Asking questions, you know and using certain tonalities and you mentioned tonality and body language and just as important even more important How will you listen to the answers?


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Distinguishing between the content message and the relational message. In this learning activity, you will distinguish the differences between the content message and the relational message. Every verbal statement has two dimensions. The content message and the relational message. Whenever we speak, we relate a content message and a relational message. Content messages are more obvious because they are the spoken words. Relational messages are less obvious because they usually are nonverbal. The content message refers to the subject matter you are discussing. For example, what are you doing after work today? The relational message refers to the relationship between you and the person you are communicating with and your feelings toward each other. For example, your relationship or feelings for a best friend influence your behavior with that friend. The relational message could include any of the following, sharing more of your time with your friend, helping your friend with a task, being more relaxed around your friend. Relational messages deal with social needs, such as inclusion, control, affection, and respect. Because relational messages are usually nonverbal, they can be ambiguous. To avoid misunderstanding, relational messages may require verbal checking. Communication problems can occur when communicators fail to check their interpretations or ignore the relational message. Relational messages can communicate indifference, friendliness, helpfulness, distrust, desire, respect, hate, love, aloofness, disgust, fear, submission, contempt, anger, and irritability. You have completed this learning activity, distinguishing between the content message and the relational message.


Good morning. My name is Wigic Concetti. I will show you today how to make Risotto Laminanesi. Risotto Laminanesi is one of the most famous dishes of the traditional Italian cuisine. First of all, what we need to have is a nice broth. I make today the broth with vegetables and pieces of meat which I use hands. But you can use also just vegetables to do the broth. I use carrot, onion, celery of course, potato, a zucchini and a few herbs from my garden. Like parsley, thyme, white fennel and rosemary.  The other ingredients of the recipe is chopped onion, minced like the grain of the rice, 2 large spoons of rival oil, 40 grams of butter, 2 spoons of bone marrow, a little salt, a glass of dry white wine, Parmesan, Parmigiano, 320 grams of rice, cardamom, saffron, saffron powder. Let's start to make the risotto by eating our broth and evaporating our dry white wine for a couple of minutes and just leave a part, keep warm. Let's start our recipe, 20 grams of butter, 2 spoons of rival oil and the onion, chopped. If you have a gas, just maintain medium heat, just on the top of medium heat, it will be fine. After a couple of minutes, when it's transparent, add the rice and toast it. Stir from the center to the side, try to, first it is very important because the grain of rice might have the porous getting close probably and stir and cook is absorbed. Just a couple of minutes as you see is already absorbed. Let's start to cook our rice with the broth, just put at the beginning too with another ladle. Obviously the broth has to be salted, but gently, not too much because you can correct and add the salt in the end as you like, salt and pepper. Wait until it is absorbed, but not completely, leave always a little bit creamy. Let's add the Italian saffron from Abruzzo and another ladle of broth. While you wait, you can start the parmesan. It's very important to break the parmesan during the cooking, so maintain fresh, tasty. Put the butter, stir, parmesan, stir again, exactly in the middle, heat a little bit. A little bit of saffron, fresh, grippy parmesan and this is the risotto la mimele. So let's have a taste of our risotto. Bonis!


U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell met with local officials and emergency service personnel Tuesday, August 9th in Pikeville, Kentucky, proceeding his visits to local communities affected by the July 26 floods. McConnell has been working with President Joe Biden on accessing federal resources to aid in recovery. Well, the president told me last week right after it happened and said they would be here to do any and everything it took to get back. I think it'll require the involvement of the state as well and we've got a lot of state representatives here today who are interested in seeing what they can do beyond what the federal response is. So I think the message is we'll get through this. We're all together on it and people need to have hope. Experienced heart specialists and subspecialists collaborating for the benefit of your care. Top 10% national hospital rankings for patient safety and heart attack and heart failure treatment. The technology is skilled to perform extraordinary complex minimally invasive cardiac, electrophysiology, interventional and structural heart surgeries. This is a heart and vascular institute at Pikeville Medical Center. When it comes to your heart, place your care in our hands. Currently, individual assistance through FEMA is available in 12 counties. The deadline to apply for individual assistance has been extended to September 6th. This was a catastrophic flood far beyond anything we ever anticipated. Congress of Rogers has done a lot of flood walls over the years. It contained water with normal storms, but this is far beyond that. And our job here at the federal level now is to help with the cleanup. FEMA is on the ground. They do a good job. Appreciate the president coming yesterday. As I indicated, this is not a Republicans or Democrats thing. We're all in this together and we're going to get past it. For information on all flood relief resources, visit governor.ky.gov backslash flood-resources. For mountaintop news, I'm Brianna Robinson.


Okay, thanks very much Thierry. So today, as has been mentioned by Emily and Thierry, I'll be speaking about open land contracts, which is a new online database or repository for large-scale land, agriculture and forestry contracts. I'm briefly going to provide a bit of context about these sorts of deals and why the contracts are important before then introducing the tool and talking about how it contributes to transparency, the challenges that we face, how it can and cannot contribute to best practices and then most importantly for today's discussion, how the tool can be used practically by people in countries affected by large-scale land-based investments. So I'm sure a lot of people in the audience are aware of investment contracts and how they impact on land deals. Land deals or investments in land are governed by a wide range of different types of legal frameworks. So we obviously have the laws of the host country. International law creates obligations on the host state, things like international human rights law, international environmental law and international investment law. The investor might be bound by certain laws from the home state where the investor is registered. So things like anti-bribery laws or stock exchange listing laws. And then we have international standards and best practices. So if the IFC is involved, their performance standards will apply. And then finally we have contracts between different players in the investment. So between the investor and the state, but also between the investor and financiers, there might be service providers, contracts with the communities and so on. And the type of contract that we're focusing on today is the investment contract that's often entered into between the host government and the investor. These are important because they create additional obligations than those that exist under the domestic law. And they can also limit how domestic laws apply so they can limit how tax laws apply for example. They also tend to be negotiated without public involvement or participation and are rarely disclosed to the public. And this is extremely problematic given the severe human rights impacts on local communities that are often caused by land-based investments. Open land contracts like I said is a repository of these investment contracts. It features publicly available contracts as they apply to land, agriculture and forestry projects. And it's freely available to all users. This is what the home screen of Open Land Contracts or OLC looks like. The database features the full text of contracts and it's in both text form and PDF scan of the contract itself. We also have plain language summaries or annotations for the contract's key social, environmental, fiscal and operational provisions. And these are designed to make the contract more understandable for people that don't have experience with contracts or people without legal training. And then we also tag each contract with metadata, basic information about the country, the project is in, what resource is involved and so on, so that users can more powerfully search through the database to find particular types of contracts that they're interested in. And here's just a very quick screen shot of what the different search functionalities look like. So you can see you can search by year, by country, by resource and so on. And then this is just to give you a sense of what these plain language summaries look like. So here we have the scan of the contract in the middle of the page. And then on the left-hand side we have the annotations and at the very top there's an annotation that summarizes what the contract says about local employment obligations. So open land contract was developed to promote greater transparency and facilitate the disclosure of land contracts. We also attempt to equip stakeholders with the tools and resources necessary to effectively read and understand the contracts. And this is where our plain language annotations fit in. The whole point is to make these contracts more accessible to every type of stakeholder who may or may not be affected by a particular investment. We also hope to catalyze broader awareness of the implications of land contracts more generally and their underlying deals. And then finally we hope to demonstrate that land contract disclosure is both feasible and valuable. And here our main audience that we're targeting is obviously the host governments who are one of the parties to the contract but who are often reluctant to disclose the contracts. And here's just an example of a blog that presents an argument very concisely as to why it's not going to be the end of the world if contracts are disclosed. In the extractive industries we've already seen much more extensive disclosure of contracts and the sky has not fallen in. If anything it's actually made life much easier for governments who can now see what other governments are negotiating and develop new ideas. Okay. And so then we move to the challenges. The first is how do we convince governments to disclose. Like I said there are less agricultural contracts in the public arena than there are extractive industries contracts. And that's partially because we don't have an agricultural equivalent to the EITI. We try to link government, we try to link in with government commitments under initiatives like the Open Government Partnership where some countries have already committed to contract disclosure outside of extractive industries. And we also stress with when we are speaking to governments that we don't leak contracts for the first time. Instead we work with governments to try and facilitate their disclosure. A second challenge like Emily mentioned is always present with these sorts of tools is reliability and credibility of the information and data that's being presented. We have a contract disclosure policy that sets out when we will feel comfortable disclosing contracts. And a lot of the time it comes down to whether the person who has provided the contract to us can have a kind of chain of custody back to the original parties to the contract. But it also is an issue of framing. And we take pains to stress that the publicly available version of a contract may not necessarily be the final version or the only version that's regulating the project. So unfortunately that's as much as we can do to really present what is publicly available without creating over reliance on a document that might not be the last word on the particular deal. And then dissemination to communities, obviously a lot of the time communities will not have access to internet which makes a portal like this less accessible. We have developed the ability to batch download contracts and annotations so that paralegals or advisors who are attending specific communities can actually download annotations for contracts impacting on deals that are relevant to those communities as a way to try and bridge this internet gap. And then finally the question of best practices. Just because we're presenting these contracts does not mean that we're endorsing that any particular contract is a good model or a bad model. Rather we're trying to encourage people to understand these contracts more. And we again try and make that very clear in the framing of the site. I'll skip that slide just because I am aware of the time. So on to practical uses. We recently had a mini grants program where we offered small amounts of money to applicants who had ideas for innovative uses of open land contracts. As a result the Centre for Environment and Development in the Cameroon was one of the successful grantees and they will be testing guidance on understanding and monitoring these types of contracts using open land contracts. They'll focus on the SGSOC palm oil concession in Cameroon and I've included a link on the slide there for anybody who wants to see how that contract is presented on our site. We also have a journalist from the Thompson Roaders Foundation who will be visiting sites of where these contracts take place to actually compare how they are presented on open land contracts with the realities on the ground. And then we have contract exercises and other training materials on our website that can be integrated into other training and capacity building efforts. And we're obviously always open to collaborating with other NGOs if there are particular ideas. Which leads me to the final slide. We do believe that open land contracts is a tool for empowerment. It's designed for users without legal training. The annotations are kind of a key bridge here. It can help advisors and community members understand contracts governing projects. And we also think it can assist communities who want to carry out community-led monitoring efforts or other types of efforts to hold the parties to account. And more generally contract are another source of enforceable rights which means they're a pressure point for civil society. Communities can use them as a platform for advocacy, on legal reform, on better contracting practices, on the government's failure to monitor the investment or enforce the contract and so on. So I'll end it there and very much looking forward to the discussion afterwards.


The geese was fuming. He's jumped up, smashed a cup off the table, not going to lie, probably would have done the same thing. But mate, you're going to have to take it on the chin. The old woman's found something better. So when George first arrived to the beach and the tablet terror went off, he had to choose between me or Rianne to take on a date. Welcome to the beach, George. As the ex, you have the extra power to choose. You can either take Rianne or Bailey on a date. Should we go and have a chat or not? It's the other day. I feel so bad for going on a date with George because I know Bobby's back at the villa, worried sick and I just don't want to mug him off at the end of the day. What's the matter? Why are you nervous?  He's worried. He's written all over his face, exactly. But like, where are you at with it? Do you want to give it a go with him? Is this what you actually want to do? So I'm in the villa with Bobby. The whole time when we was trying to make a go at things in the villa I felt like he had a barrier up. It was very miserable, very toxic, didn't really even make a conversation, wasn't laughing. Why is it stressing you out? What's stressing you out? The thing is with you, mate, you don't talk. You don't talk? You don't, mate. You listen. That is it. I'll get no answers. George coming into the villa was a massive surprise. I never expected it in a million years but I'm glad that he did because it made me realise of the reasons why I left Bobby because we didn't add that connection, any sort of laughter together. It was literally like we was brother or sister or like a married couple. How did your date go? Yeah, it was alright. You kissed? No. So I walked in, everyone's sitting down around the table. I'm not going to lie. Me ask, I was flapping a little bit but who's wouldn't be? Met everyone. Everyone come across as very nice. I can see Bobby giving me the evils. I think he knew something was up. I had to sit there. I told Bailey, look, you've got to tell him that we've had a kiss on the first date. So there was no flirting? No. No. Are you touching my lips or? Salt.  Obviously I kissed Bailey. She was saying, please don't say nothing. Please don't say nothing. And she didn't want to mug him off, which is understandable. But I'm a straightforward geezer and I'll say it how it is. And if anything ever does go on, I'm the sort of boy that will tell the geezer what has happened. So basically, I'll just lay it out there, shall we? Whatever. So if you want us to do, we had a kiss. No. I'm sorry. I can't feel it. We have been so happy.  Bobby exploded. He pushed a drink off the table, kicked a chair. The geezer's fuming. He's jumped up, smashed a cup off the table. Not going to lie, probably would have done the same thing. But mate, you're going to have to take it on the chin. The old woman's found something better. Bailey sat down and explained that she's kissed the guy. You know, especially after what we thought she said to me, that she wants to test the water. See, this is a good test for us to potentially move on and crack on with each other. I was on the same page, and then she goes and does that. So I lost my call, and I lost my temper, and obviously she hit the fat. Is that not Lurtis? Is there anyone you should have liked this? No, no, no. Listen, I'm calm, mate. I'm calm. Everyone had something to say to Bailey. Everyone was a bit shocked by the situation. But look, she can't look the way she feels. It is what it is. It's not their relationship. It's Bobby's and Bailey's. So whatever they've got to say doesn't bother us. Calm down a bit. I promise you, you're slacks! It is what it is. I didn't expect anything from the guy.  I'd have done exactly the same.  I realise that I like Georgie, and we're going to try and give it a go, but you can never be sure in the villa what's going to happen next.


The Heart of West Virginia will be holding their first creative call out of the year at the alternative art spot on Thursday, February 8th. It's very rare that we have an agenda for these meetings, so it's really just kind of like a get-together and kind of a brainstorming session for what we can do. The goal of the call-outs is to invite local artists of all styles to come out and pitch ideas they would like to see done in the community. The Heart of West Virginia has cultivated a nice community of local artists eager to do projects and hold events in the area. We want to bring it back and we want to find out where we are. It's kind of like a jumping-on point if you're interested in becoming part of this and part of what we're growing in Williamson. The creative call-out will begin at 6 p.m. on Thursday, February 8th. For more information, you can visit the Heart of West Virginia Facebook page. For Mountain Top News, I'm Kelsey Fidell.


It's going low. You need to restock. What's yours, thank yous. I wonder how the one above is for the taste. I know, because this one was definitively better. Better than the plain old monk. Yeah. Well, the plain old monk tastes like it was filtered through a dirty sock. This one tastes like it was filtered through clean underwear. No. That's not true. That's not true. Josh! Do you like some pizza? I'm Corbin. Ah! When you grow up, don't mess with your butt cause you could get VB. Yeah, what are we doing? Oh, a short film. Wow. Yay, it's been a while. And I think it's Halloween related. Inspired by two events. A horror short film by Ganesh Shetty. Parosh, meaning invisible. Is a meditation on how even ordinary events, if unexplained, get attributed to the divine. Invisible forces and lead to superstitions. A widespread age-old issue in our country. Ah, not just your country. Happens all over the place with humanity that often the unexplained gets relegated to the supernatural or superstition. Yeah, you remember in the video where he was talking about aliens built this and I was making fun of that and then people attacked me for that? Because you know. Cause I didn't believe aliens built these temples. Where is your- I think people did. But that's so insulting to the alien realm. We don't you know about Aida? Aliens for the ethical treatment of aliens. Oh, really? Aida. Yeah. That's nice. I think they need to be treated differently. They actually do. If you hear anything about aliens being bad, that's probably a lie. Here we go. That's what she said. Sorry. Click, play. Then Karala. You think everybody's gonna like this. I'm gonna coconut in the house. I hope that doesn't mean- Yes. Or whatever that was. It wasn't- It was a- It was a- Elephant. Elephant thing. Yeah. I hope one doesn't knock her on the door. Uh-oh. The tower's scared. It's sound so far. It's in here. It's not in here. Oh. What? It's in here. It's in here. You scoundrel. You scallywag. What? I think the time the power goes out, someone's dead. I'm really impressed with the sound. There was something as simple as that. Maybe his left his phone up and it says it's based on a true story. Oh no. It's so much scary. It's like funny, really. Are disconcerting for me? A baby crying is not a scary sound. Well, I think maybe if it's- Cause it's coming from just a tree. Like why is there- I can't see a baby. Why is there a baby crying in this palm tree? Yeah. And I guess because we're in, you know, don't live in a village or live in a city in the 21st century. Your first thought is gonna be something's technological going on. Somebody put a speaker up there. Somebody's doing something. I understand the point of the short film. It's funny that it's just that simple. Yeah. It's like, it's- That was on the tree. A guy left a phone on the tree. Like it's nothing more complicated than that. But obviously the point obviously I think was they made it a lot more than that. Which is a valid point. Yeah. That's a very, very true point. Oftentimes, not always, but oftentimes and probably a larger percentage than not are people's response because it's fear based relegated to something supernatural when there's a natural explanation. I find that a lot with people that believe in like aliens and them. Not saying, I do believe there's probably thousands, millions of other species around the solar system. But the fact that people believe they've come here and built stuff and all that kind of stuff, I don't. I do not believe. And so like- I don't know about the building of stuff but I do believe. Do you think they've been here? That's a thing that they are here. Oh yeah, you think so? Yes. I do not believe that. Yeah, I do. I don't know why they would come here. Like there's probably way better places then. Oh no, no. They really didn't care that much until we created nuclear weapons and then they were very interested in what we were gonna be doing throughout the cosmos. No, yeah.  Anyway, but yeah, I get the concept. I was expecting more like scary, scary. Me too. But maybe- Which is why the baby cried for me. Like if it had been a whisper, that to me is one of the scariest things you can put in a movie. And obviously in the wild. Somebody hears a- Disconcerting. Whispering is very disconcerting and it's also very hot. So is stillness. That's why one of the scariest moments from we ever on film was he's riding his little moped around the hotel. Comes around the corner and there are the dead twins at the back of the hall just standing there looking at him holding hands. That is freaking scary. Spoiler alert. You've seen it, it's pop culture. But anyways, let us know what other short films that we should react to and more spooky. Yeah, spooky scary. For this month, let us know down below. Josh!


Welcome to SkipNet Direct Access Terminal. Please enter command. Log in. Please enter user authentication. kpcrow at atfoundation.scp. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child. Authentication accepted. Please enter command. Access 2317, 4. You are attempting to access a security level 4, top secret file. Please note that access to this file is restricted to personnel with level 4 security clearance directed in contact with SCP-2317. Continuing without proper authorization will result in disciplinary action, up to and including immediate termination of life. Information regarding your access to this file, including the date, time and location, will be reported to the Records and Information Security Administration. If you wish to continue, please re-enter your user authentication now. kpcrow at atfoundation.scp. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child. Warning, incorrect authentication. You have 60 seconds to enter the correct user authentication, or security personnel will be summoned to your location. kpcrow at atfoundation.scp. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child. Warning, incorrect authentication. kpcrow at atfoundation.scp. Sometimes I feel like a motherless child. Authentication accepted. Please enter your project-specific personal identification number.<PHONE_NUMBER>-015. PSPIN accepted. Please look into the camera for a retinal identification scan. Incorrect orientation. Please align the pupils of your eyes with the guidelines indicated on the secondary screen and try again. Thank you. The time and date of your access to this file has been logged in reported to the Records and Information Security Administration. Username, Dr. Cain P. Crow. Title, Senior Supervising Researcher. Displaying SCP-2317, clearance level 4. Item number, SCP-2317. Object Class, Keter. Special Containment Procedures. SCP-2317 is to be secured at containment area 179 in a reinforced 3 meter by 3 meter by 3 meter containment chamber. Armed guards are to be in place at all times in order to prevent unauthorized access to the facility. All personnel assigned to SCP-2317 must rotate out for one month of psychological counseling after two months on site. Personnel assigned to SCP-2317 must undergo heavy psychological testing before being cleared to enter the site. Individuals must score at least 72 points on the Milgram obedience examination, be unmarried, have no offspring, and express nothing less than total loyalty to the foundation. While on site, individuals assigned to SCP-2317 will be issued concealing helmets with integrated voice changers to protect their identity. On-site staff are not to remove said uniforms in the presence of other staff members. Off-duty hours are to be spent in private quarters alone. One staff member with security clearance 4-2317 will be assigned each month as, quote, Class D personnel in order to act as assistant to the primary celebrant. Personnel without security clearance of level 3 or higher will be told that the assistant is a Class D personnel chosen from the normal pool of Class D candidates. All persons directly involved with Procedure 220 Calabasas are to be informed of this fact. No personnel shall be authorized to assist with Procedure 220 Calabasas without first being clearly briefed that the assistant is not, in fact, a Class D personnel and should not be terminated in the event that they disobey direct orders from the guards. Description SCP-2317 is a wooden door and frame originally constructed as a basement door for a 19th century Massachusetts brownstone. Upon opening the door, any person stepping through the doorframe will be transported to an alternate reality. Exploration of the alternate reality, SCP-2317 Prime, is limited, but the area directly accessible through SCP-2317 is a salt pan several kilometers in radius. A circle of seven pillars, SCP-2317-A through SCP-2317-G, are positioned in a 10 meter diameter circle, approximately 10 meters directly in front of SCP-2317. Each pillar is approximately 1 meter in diameter and 7 meters tall, constructed of marble and engraved with a series of intricate ball reliefs. The art style of the engravings do not correspond to that of any known modern, historic, or prehistoric civilization. SCP-2317-A through SCP-2317-G extend 200 meters below the surface of the sand and into SCP-2317-H. SCP-2317-H is a spherical space 100 kilometers in diameter located directly underneath SCP-2317-A through SCP-2317-G, lined with the same stone used to construct SCP-2317-A through SCP-2317-G. Contained within SCP-2317-H is SCP-2317-K, hereafter referred to as Entity. The following information has been inferred through seismic analysis and ground penetrating radar, as well as direct observation. Entity appears to be an obese, human-like creature of immense proportions, estimated height if fully erect is over 200 kilometers. Horns resembling tree branches sprout from its head, which lacks a lower jaw. Entire body is covered in millions of overlapping plate-like scales. Seven heavy hooks are embedded in the entity's back, each one attached to a heavy steel chain connected to the lower end of one of the seven pillars embedded in the ceiling of the chamber. At the time of the writing of this document, six of the pillars or chains have been broken or damaged, and only one chain remains intact. Addendum 1, Procedure 220-K. Procedure 220-K is a ritual to be performed at solar noon each day, defined as the moment when the sun reaches its height over SCP-2317. Performing Procedure 220-K requires the following. Two armed Foundation security personnel with security clearance of level 3 or higher, hereafter referred to as guards. One Foundation personnel with security clearance of level 4, hereafter referred to as celebrant. One Class D personnel as specified under special containment procedures, hereafter referred to as assistant. One live male gallus domesticus, hereby caged to prevent complications during transport to SCP-2317-prime, hereafter referred to as chicken. One obsidian-edged knife, hereafter referred to as blade. One silver aspergillum and aspersorium, filled with at least 500 cc of holy water blessed by a priest of Abrahamic faith. One kiloton level nuclear device to be detonated in case of catastrophic containment failure. Step 1. Celebrant guards and assistant open SCP-2317, step through and enter SCP-2317-prime. Assistant will enter first, followed by guards, followed by celebrant. Guards will, at all times, maintain situational awareness of assistant and should be prepared to prevent escape with deadly force. Step 2. Beginning with the pillar closest to and in line with SCP-2317, SCP-2317-A, celebrant circumambulates SCP-2317-A through SCP-2317-G, proceeding counterclockwise at an even and measured pace. At every other step, celebrant will scatter holy water using the aspergillum and aspersorium, in the direction of the circle center. Step 3. Upon completing one circumambulation of SCP-2317-A through dash G, celebrant scatters holy water over the head of the assistant and recites the following phrase. Seven seals, seven rings, seven thrones for the scarlet king. Step 4. Celebrant then moves to a safe distance away from the assistant, who will take the obsidian knife and use it to kill the chicken provided as sacrifice. Blood will be drained from the chicken and added to the aspersorium, then stirred to mix with the holy water already contained within. Step 5. Assistant then circumambulates SCP-2317-A through dash G in a clockwise direction, scattering the mixture of blood and holy water in the direction of the circle center. Step 6. Upon completing one circumambulation of SCP-2317-A through dash G, assistant walks to the center of the circle of stones and pours the remaining mixture of blood and water onto the discolored patch of salt and sand in the center, while reciting the following phrase. Blood for the old gods. Water for the new king. Step 7. All materials are gathered up, the obsidian knife is secured, and all personnel return through SCP-2317, which is subsequently closed. Failure at any point to properly perform Procedure 220 Calabasas may result in an XK class end-of-the-world scenario. Should any mishap or failure occur, all personnel are to return immediately through SCP-2317, closing the door behind them. The containment chamber will be immediately locked down, and a Level 2 emergency declared and reported to the O5 Council. Further instructions will be provided to on-site personnel according to emergency order Zachariah. Addendum 2317-2. History. SCP-2317 was first discovered in 1922 by Data Expunged. Object was subsequently moved to what was then called Proficional Containment Area 17. Object was moved to containment area 179 in 1982, where it remains as of the writing of this article. When initially discovered, four of the seven chains were broken, and three were intact. The breaking of the fifth chain in corresponded directly to a event in our world. The sixth chain, which broke in was also coincident with a much more severe event, eventually resulting in the deaths of persons. Analysis of supplementary texts retrieved at the time of containment pointed to Procedure 220 Calabasas as an effective means of maintaining containment until an effective means of repairing or reattaching said chains can be discovered. Containment procedures were modified to incorporate Procedure 220 Calabasas. As records show that the sequence of events shows an exponential increase in lethality, it can be extrapolated that failure of the final chain, Procedure 227-G, would result in an XK class end of the world scenario. For this reason, every possible effort is to be made to ensure a successful Procedure 220 Calabasas. Further information on SCP-217 is restricted to the Overseer Council.


The deaths toll in the building collapsed on Lagos Island has risen to four. The National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA, also announced that five persons have been rescued. The Zonal Co-ordinator Southwest of NEMA, Ibrahim Farin-Louis, said that further investigation from the incident showed that the collapsed building was under construction. He added that the developer who was converting the bungler building into a three-story before it collapsed, he assured that the agency responders were not or emergency responders were not working hard to get to ground zero.


One does not realize the complexity of having choices till one has it, and I think that was the biggest thing that I realized that it's much harder to take a decision when you have the choices versus you don't. I did dabble into investment, I did dabble into trying to advise companies and all of that. I realized that the joy you get of creating is something that you miss the most and I think if you have built and created all your life, the idea of not creating is never a good idea. It was just kind of making you more frustrated and if you have been living life with high intensity all the time, it's important to kind of go back to that. I remember I was working when I was in 2007 or 2008 and I realized I can keep buying a bigger house or a bigger car and I realized that there is no end to that trap or I decide to do something of my own and the reason I felt that because any day when I was an employee, I never behaved like one, I was a terrible employee, I would always do things that I wanted to do and build companies within the company and anyways keep doing initiatives that I liked. I just realized that one needs to have enough confidence, I think a lot of entrepreneurs do face that, they feel that they are different, they feel that they should be doing something on their own but they get into this trap of EMI, I call it the entrepreneurship of killing. Our country is in a very desperate situation for having more entrepreneurs, if we do not have more entrepreneurs, where are the jobs coming from, why credit, I think looked like an interesting problem to solve because it looked like almost everybody in the country was trying to solve for the volumes of customers whereas there are a handful of people who pay taxes and a handful of people who are doing the right things and nobody was really looking for them and I think for us it was the biggest opportunity to say that there is a customer segment that we can really, really focus on and truly relate to them and their problems, so the idea is that can we help do two things, for a small segment of customers who are credit worthy and trust worthy, can we improve their financial life by helping them prevent bad behavior and constantly encourage good behavior.  I can't construct hell technically, so I can create at least a positive environment. So I think in a country like India which is so large, it is extremely hard to go around punishing people, it's not even a practical solution but you can definitely encourage good behavior. So as long as we are in that direction and dimension, that we are helping financial progress of the good actors, I think everything is a fair game. Now the question is what will we do, it is a bunch of experiments, but what we imagine in two to three years time, I think this will be a community of I would say 10, 12 million customers who are likely to be using the service and product but also probably engaging amongst themselves and improving each other's life as well. A lot of people have simplified what data is because of the events that happen in Facebook and I think it's unfortunate because now every company is going to be using the same lens. We are asked that, oh, you have email access but I sometimes wonder why don't people ask that the company that has your email is an ad company. So the question is that a lot of times we do not differentiate between the differences of that. Today when we take data, we have a very simple intention, can I help you highlight transactions that you otherwise don't get to know or miss because it's not coming on SMS and I think if you can just highlight that to them saying that can we improve your score, can we improve your repayment behavior, can we improve your interest that you are paying, you can actually have better financial life. I think our goal is quite simple and we are very fortunate because every customer who have discovered some of these features, they absolutely love us and keep wanting to try more and more things that we offer. The country behaved very, very differently in post demoralization and we were doing this way before when PTM started, right? So the thing is, but one cannot regret all of these things. Life is all about these left and right turns that you can keep regretting I missed it, right? But you can be thankful that you were right about doing something that just we had ahead of time. And like when we did credit card and credit, like a lot of people are saying why are you focusing on everybody's doing UPI? But the thing is credit cards have grown from 18 million cards to 45 million cards in three years time and spends on credit card has gone from 1.8 billion dollars a month to 8.5 billion dollars is exactly the same period of time. So the question is that sometimes doing contrarian things hurts you if you don't time it right. But sometimes if you time it right, it can turn out to be quite right. So I think I have zero regrets for whatever happened. But the thing is that I'm glad that at least the thesis that we were way ahead of others to pick worked out. I have a simple philosophy. I believe that India is such an early market. Competing is rarely going to create wealth but creating newer opportunities will create more wealth, right? So I think there are so many gaps in the market that if you go for the blue ocean strategy you'll actually create more wealth versus compete on existing sectors and destroy wealth that exists. And I think I believe Indian entrepreneurs need to realize that wealth is not zero sum and therefore it has to be thought of it not as something like a zero sum where only when I lose you win and only when you lose I win it's not a situation everybody can win. If the economy is going to go to 6 trillion there will be enough people I'm a serial entrepreneur. Am I a successful serial entrepreneur? I think time will tell. I think I have done probably six, seven companies already. Most people just know about a few. But the thing is that India does not like serial entrepreneurs as much it likes entrepreneurs. In India I have noticed is that we treat our companies as our kingdoms, right? And every time you exit your company it's considered to be a weakness or a sign of weakness. Nobody in India appreciates this idea of that oh you sold your company. We treat our companies as our spouses and not as our kids, right? Like it's just a very different kind of a challenge I have seen. Who knows? Who knows? I can tell you one thing though.  Myself. It doesn't get easier. Myself. Because you have zero room forever. Nobody expects you to fail. Everybody expects that okay just because you can raise money you will always be successful. And the system is not conducive for people who are trying multiple times. They expect it to be perfect all the time. And that puts extraordinary pressure on the team, on yourself. And I think the toll it takes is at a different level. So it's only sexy from the outside.


Coming up on DTNS Scott Johnson talks to us about Nintendo's moves against game preservation plus 3g is shutting down should you be worried and meta wants to build a universal translator this is the daily tech news for Wednesday February 23rd 2022 in Los Angeles I'm Tom Merritt and from Studio Redwood I'm Sarah Lane in Salt Lake City I'm Scott Johnson and I'm the shows producer Roger Chang there is a longer version of this show called Good Day Internet if you want to hear more of what we have to say go get it patreon.com slash DTNS big thanks to our top patrons today they include James C Smith Miranda Jenelle and Justin Zellers let's start with a few tech things you should know at CES last month Intel launched its 12th gen Alder Lake chips for its H series lineup now it's rolling out Alder Lake chips in its p-series and use series laptops Intel says the boosted core accounts offer up to 70% better multi-thread performance than previous 11th gen Intel and AMD hardware and beat Apple's M1 and M1 pro chips in benchmark tests although not the M1 max the new chips include Intel's integrated iris Z graphics support for Wi-Fi 6e Thunderbolt 4 and PCIe 4.0 somebody filed a public records request with the state of California's Department of Motor Vehicles regarding Waymo's autonomous car operations the DMV ran those documents past Waymo and Waymo asked for certain technical details to be redacted as trade secrets however the requester challenged those redactions so the DMV said you should sue us Waymo to file a lawsuit requesting an injunction against us releasing the redacted data which Waymo did Tuesday California's Superior Court ruled in favor of Waymo's request Waymo says it will continue to share safety and other data with the public but that technical data will remain redacted TechCrunch says the data that was redacted was data from Waymo's application for a permit and involved things like how the system identifies conditions transfers control back to humans and how the company addresses incidents can have the DMV knowing that stuff well the DMV could know it just not anybody else Apple added a new American Siri voice to the iOS 15.4 beta called Voice 5 although the file name refers to it as Quinn Apple told the Verge that the voice was recorded by a member of the LGBTQ plus community Axios describes the voices sounding more gender neutral than other Siri voice options. The EU proposed something called the data act to encourage the adoption of androids no no it's not that the data that encourages fair access to non personal data and gives small businesses a leg up against big tech at least that's the idea. The data act would require IoT cloud service providers to give a user their own data when they request it and also to provide access to data to third parties in real time. So the idea is if you pay for Nest's cloud service for example all your non personal data would have to be made available for Apple or wise etc with your permission of course basically trying to encourage data to be under the customer's control and not exclusive to any one company. This would make it easier for customers to switch cloud services big big part of this. More text is coming on this rule with specific rules for individual tech sectors. Once that's all ironed out it'll go before legislatures to begin the process of trying to become law. The ISP frontier had a couple rocky years not too long ago but it has announced that it now offers a two gigabit per second symmetrical tier to offer its fiber customers for $150 per month frontier offers fiber service to roughly four million customers across 19 states. Not mine though. I looked at my address earlier today AT&T Google Google Fiber Verizon Fios Xfinity and Zipley fiber also offer two gigabit per second service but none of them offer it to all of their customers. And those are just the fiber ones I think I think there's some some other like wireless ones that can that can do maybe not two gigabits you know I take it back probably not two gigabits so maybe I need to move back to the neighborhood that I have I have gigabit internet but it's not symmetrical. Looks pretty good. Alright Scott tell us about what Meta is up to. Well Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg you may have heard of him demonstrated an algorithm being developed by the company that can change virtual surroundings with voice commands. They showed themselves asking for a beach and picnic tables, seagull sounds stuff like that. It's already making the meme rounds but it's interesting technology. The feature is part of project car, sorry, karaoke, which is karaoke. Yeah, I know it's silly. I hate it. Yeah, you think and if you think I don't like that went until I get to the other name of the other thing. Anyway, they're developing a conversational AI in virtual worlds or for virtual worlds met and I announced a project also to create a universal translator. Now this might have some some feet to it. The idea is to make one system that works with all languages. Meta says about 20% of the world's population doesn't speak languages covered by existing machine trans Translation algorithms to tackle this problem. Meta has two techniques, one called no language left behind hate that name will work on building models that require fewer training materials. That's for languages that don't have extensive written works or maybe none at all. Maybe it's purely, you know, passed down verbally. The second technique is called universal speech translator, which aims to train an algorithm to translate between languages without needing a written component. So this one elusive Star Trek technology we keep hoping we get to outside of I guess replicators, universal translator may be coming. Pretty cool. You know, I did the the only thing that I can really compare this to I guess is Google Translate, which works pretty well. Anybody who uses it regularly knows that you get the message across it doesn't necessarily translate as well as it should. But this is on a whole other level. I mean, the idea that 20% of the world's population can't even participate in any existing machine algorithms for translation. That surprised me. That's that I know that there are languages that either aren't written or are under the radar enough that there isn't enough research that has been studied to be able to kind of be part of this this larger initiative. But yeah, that's a lot of folks. Yeah, we looked up at the Linguistic Society. Ethnologue, which is published by SIL International classified 6909 distinct languages. So there's more if you count dialects and things like that. But there are 6909 distinct languages on the planet. If you put that number in your head, it starts to make more sense when you go to that Google Translate dropdown and there's like, you know, 20 in there. I think obviously Mandarin, English, Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, you've covered a huge part of the population with just those. But there's lots of languages beyond that, not just in certain parts of the world where small populations exist that still speak, you know, older languages. But Sarah, you reminded me when we were talking about this before the show that India itself has thousands of languages inside just the borders of India. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I think some of those are technically would be considered dialects and not fully separate languages. But yeah, I mean, it's just the the implications of this should it work well. Really, it turns into, you know, I always think of the babblefish, where you can just understand everything. And this whole, what language do you speak? What language do I speak? How do we figure this all out? Just becomes more and more fluid and easy to navigate. You got to get to a place where it's real time. And I'm not saying we're anywhere near that. But that would be the ultimate goal. We're closer. Yeah, we're a lot closer than we've ever been. I think what's interesting about this is that we're going like, yeah, we can pretty much almost real time translate Mandarin to English. That's not hard anymore. Like that fascinates me. They're like, what's hard is, could we translate all the languages? Could we make a literally universal translator? That is an extraordinarily hard problem. Like we've done the easy part. The stuff that we have a lot of data on that we can train. And I'm fascinated by this project. I think this is a worthy project to say like, let's try to make this as good as possible with the ultimate goal of, could we make a what the universal translator is in Star Trek, which is something that just picks up context and figures out how to translate two entirely different languages from alien species. We are at least just working with the one species. But imagine if we got really good, if we got close to those 6,000 languages working, maybe we could translate dolphin. Yeah, I mean, we start to translate other use the right word to context matter so much. Even Google translate kind of has a hard time. I have this little thing I do back and forth with our own Patrick Beja where I he'll he'll tweet something as he often does in French. I'll convert it to English and then repost it as a reply. Because there's always some goofy thing wrong with it. Like it's not exactly that's the downside of this machine translations are always going to miss nuance. They're all, you know, for the foreseeable future anyway. You're never going to be able to 100% rely on them because there's some pretty crazy examples of them getting things wrong and causing problems. I just remember when text-to-speech didn't work at all and look at us now. So, you know, we may get there. Well, more than 30 government websites, including the Ministry of Defense, were hacked and defaced to show pictures of someone holding a machine gun. You probably think we're talking about Ukraine, but we're not. Ukrainian government websites and some Ukrainian banks have been d-dost, flooded with traffic, making them hard to access. But in the southwestern African country of Mozambique, pretty far from Ukraine, attackers got control of the websites and put up messages attributed to Yemeni hackers. There's a civil war currently being fought in Yemen. Among Mozambique's breached sites were the portals of the National Disaster Management, Roads Administration, and water agencies. Big deal. The head of Mozambique's National Institute of Electronic Government, Hermenio Jassy, said that no personal data was accessed and the sites had been restored as of Monday. But as of Wednesday, the attackers regained control, saying they had completely infiltrated 34 ministries. The attackers want ransoms to be paid or they say they'll release confidential data. This is a big attack. Well, let's ask ourselves, if the names of the countries weren't Mozambique and Yemen, would this not be a really big story in the world today? Now, you may have heard of it, but you likely haven't. And I ask the panel today, why not? Why have we not heard more about this? Yeah, there's 31 million people in Mozambique give or take. It's a lot of people. And there are similarly sized countries in Europe and smaller. If Luxembourg had its stuff taken down, this would be pretty big news. France had its stuff taken down. It'd be gargantuan news. Is it just because we expect, like, oh, Mozambique maybe isn't as sophisticated? Like maybe there's an assumption and therefore, but this is the first time this has ever happened. It's not like they get hacked all the time. Also, if I'm a Yemeni hacker, I would probably not pick Mozambique as my first target. So I'm a little confused there, which makes it a more interesting story to me. Like why go after Mozambique? Was it because there was a vulnerability, were they just trolling around and this is the one they found? Lots of questions here, but I feel like because it's a smaller country that is not in Europe, we don't hear about it. Yeah. Part of what threw me with this one, I guess I have the unfortunate honor of knowing somebody who's in Mozambique right now and works for the State Department, some old neighbors of mine and their whole family.  And he works for the State Department and I am sure is in the midst of this. Like this must be a big deal for them as an outreach arm of the United States government. And I guess by knowing them and knowing this, I suddenly have a more connected view of it or I'm more like, oh my gosh, that's big news. And I think that's it. I think we just maybe people aren't, you know, we don't hear about Mozambique all the time. I mean, if we did, we would. And if we didn't, we don't. And so yeah, you're right, Tom, if this was anything else, if this was a tiny country, but we all knew about it, or if this was a city like, I don't know, if someone said it was Hong Kong, we'd be freaking out. But if it was a smaller province in China we've never heard of, nobody would talk about it. So I think it's just really down to that. What do we used to? What do we know? And if we know somebody there means it's a bigger deal to us. Otherwise, it's a statistic we miss. Which, you know, I think what what made this catch my eye was I've saw so many stories about Ukrainian hacks. Most of them saying Ukrainian hacks might get worse, which is basically reporting on something that hasn't happened yet. That's why I'm glad you said Sarah that like, yeah, there's some D-dusts going on. There are. This is what's actually happening there. And yet, BBC doesn't even have a straight up story about this. I had to go to BBC's topic page where they sort of blog in real time about stuff. And News24.com, which is a South African source, had it as well. I did, I had a similar thought to you where I was like, why Mozambique?  It has nothing to do with the story. It's hard to, it's hard to believe that no one else has gone, huh, that's interesting. Why Mozambique, and then has written something about it that at least surfaced for me. All right, let's switch over to 3G. Well, not for long because it's going away. In 2002, I remember Ken Ray and I covering the launch of 3G networks in Europe and places like that on tech TV radio. By 2007, the iPhone launched on edge a 2G network. It wasn't even until 2008 that the iPhone launched on 3G. LTE started showing up on phones around 2010 and 20 years after those first 3G networks were launched as 5G rolls out more and more. Carriers are calling time on 3G.  And every time it does, some services that never moved off the system get left behind. So where are we at? The U.S. has AT&T already shut down as of Tuesday, February 22nd. T-Mobile shutting its 3G down March 31st, and Verizon shutting its 3G down December 31st. Europe has already shut down a lot of its networks, starting with Vodafone ZIGO in February 2020. Shutdowns are kind of staggered by service and country between now and 2025. Telenor shutting down 3G in Sweden in December 2025. That's the longest one I could find. NTT Dokomo, the first to launch commercial service in Japan, is going to turn off its 3G in March 2026. So first in for last out, I guess. If you want to find out about your region, NMD.com has a comprehensive chart on what 3G services are going away when and where. And here in the U.S., CNET's David Lum has a great run out of what's happening for folks here. The short version is if your phone is from 2015 or later, you got LTE, so you won't lose service. Of the millions of subscribers to carrier services, the total number of people that have 3G only in their phone, that is no LTE, is in the hundreds of thousands. Besides phones, there are also some other things. Older car navigation systems, alarm systems, ebook readers, IoT devices that use 3G that have built in 3G connections. RCR Wireless estimates there's about 80 million 3G devices in use just in North America alone as of 2019. But Entner followed up on that number and says, you know, people have switched off a lot of those. It's only about 5 million now. If the hardware for LTE or 5G isn't in a device, you can't upgrade it. So when 3G service shuts off, it loses that avenue for connecting to the Internet. If it doesn't have Wi-Fi, it's offline altogether. Most manufacturers are offering discounts and other ways to encourage upgrades. A lot of alarm companies like ADT will send a technician to your house, give you the new modem as part of your existing plan. If you haven't heard from your manufacturer or service provider, you should contact them, see what they offer. If you are like, oh wait, I've got a device that only uses 3G. With IoT devices, you might just have to pay for a new device. Whenever this happens, we see a lot of stories saying services should stay up as long as people are using them. Do you think they should though? Like you got to move on, you got to free up that spectrum for the next G. Yeah, if you've got a, you know, I'm trying to think of any IoT device that I think would be impacted by the loss of 3G and I don't think I have any.  But you know, my phone has LTE, so that's what I'm always looking for anyway. Just the dreaded 1X. That's the only thing I really don't want.  Bad news, right?  You know, now I'm being forced into it. But yes, we are moving forward. 5G will become what 3G was not that long ago. That's how it goes. And unfortunately, sometimes hardware has to die because of it. This seems like the kind of thing we're going to talk more about preservation in a minute about a whole other story, but it's the kind of thing that can be preserved in some technical ways, like, you know, I have to imagine somebody somewhere in their cool ham radio basement. It's got a nice 3D transponder receiver sender set up where he could say, oh, yeah, back in the mid aughts, late aughts. We used to, this is how we used to communicate on our phone, you know, whatever. So that stuff can hang around. But yeah, as usual, progress pushes the old stuff out and we have to get with the new. Yeah. The key is preparing for it in advance. Usually what happens with these shutdowns is most stuff is handled well. Manufacturers do what they need to do to get you onto new devices. But there's always a slice. It's usually a small slice, but there's always a slice of horror stories of where like, you know, this particular medical device or that particular security device, nobody got around to dealing with or couldn't afford to deal with and it just went away. And that's sad when you know this stuff has a lifetime. So maybe what we learned from this is, hey, 5G devices, make sure you you build in an exit route for when 5G goes away in 20 years. If you haven't thought about this or anything on the show, why aren't you emailing us electronic mail? It's been around longer than 3G. Email us feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. Do it now. Last week, Nintendo announced it's no longer going to sell Wii U and 3DS games in its eShops after March of next year. This is not happening tomorrow. They're giving you a whole year, actually more than a year to get ready. March of 2023. But if you still use a Wii U or a 3DS, that shop is going to go away. In fact, it's going to go away in stages. Starting May 23rd, you'll no longer be able to add funds to your account with a credit card. And then after August 29th, you won't be able to add funds with a gift card, which would be your work around until August. And everything, including download codes, Nintendo wallet account funds will stop being usable in the eShops. Again, just for Wii U and 3DS starting in late March next year. You'll still be able to read download your purchase games. If you bought something, you can always go back and get it. You can get your downloadable content. You can get software updates. You can even play online. None of that's going away on these devices, quote, for the foreseeable future. It's just the ability to buy new stuff that's going to be going away more than a year from now. But Scott, as positively as I have spun this, it's not all rosy, is it? No. In fact, this time maybe less rosy than ever. And I don't know if that's just the culmination of time or where we're at in terms of our ability to preserve games and other digital content or maybe just our attitude towards this stuff has changed. I don't know. But Nintendo is taking considerable heat for this move. And it's not that different than moves they've made in the past with other outdated devices. You can't log in, for example, to a DS store, just the regular DS or the 2DS or, well, the 2DS part of ecosystem. So I suppose that's still around. But the point is, the minute Nintendo got into the world, if you can download stuff from some digital place, is the day that the clock started ticking. And now that stuff's all coming due and everybody's like, well, wait a minute, where am I going to get it? Now, most of the time, the PC world's been doing this for decades. The stuff you bought 10 years ago still runs because Windows still runs it and PC still run it. And so you can play games that are very old and no problem. You can play. And this is also true in a lot of console stuff moving forward. It's more recent, but this is pretty much Microsoft from here forward. They have, you know, as much backwards compatible as you would expect them to do, they even have more coming. And as they move further along, the idea is that, well, if you bought it here, you bought it everywhere. Sony a little slower to adopt that idea. But in the case of Nintendo, they have always been like, well, that's it. We're done. Party's over. You're not going to be able to get these games here anymore. And maybe never see those games ever again in terms of them being available someplace else or somewhere new. Like right now, you can go to the Switch online service and pay four bucks a month and have access to a handful of SNES and regular NES video games. You can pay a little bit more and get some N64 and Genesis games. But they're a tiny, tiny fraction of what was available on, say, the Virtual Console. That was like 530 games available on the VC, which was a service offered on Wii, Wii U, and 3DS. That's not there anymore. Now, that wasn't a subscription. So you didn't just get like a one price and they could have everything. You had to buy these games individually.  And I can tell, I don't even know if this is that shocking, but I can tell the Nintendo's don't want to throw the whole thing in there and say, here's every game we've ever made for the Super Nintendo have at it for your measly four bucks a month. There's probably a happier medium there. But the big complaint gamers have with Nintendo has always been, Nintendo will say, well, don't pirate our stuff and don't make ROMs and don't share them. Okay, fine. Let us buy your game someplace. And Nintendo doesn't have a good answer for that. They're like, well, you bought it back when you had a Wii. Yeah, but we's are all dead and you can't find new ones and it's super expensive to find that stuff now and we're happy to pay again if we can have it on a modern platform. They just don't have the headspace for this. At least they haven't demonstrated that. And I think that's the problem, right? Well, as we talked about with 3G going away, you know, you can't keep tech around forever. I don't expect to be able to go to down to the store and buy a Commodore 64 game brand new, right? Like, I get it. You have to sunset stuff, but where it rubs people the wrong way is you're stopping us from preserving games. In fact, Nintendo is part of the Entertainment Software Association, which has been asking for a rejection of the Library of Congress's exemption for recreating online games, games that need a server to play. And yet Nintendo is not making those available. So there's a gap of games that, sure, maybe not a lot of people want to play, but for historical purposes, like if you're part of the Video Game History Foundation or an organization like that, you just want to be able to preserve them and it's illegal for you to do that. And Nintendo is not allowing you any other way to do it. Yeah. And the comparison I used this morning was if it's a little bit like saying, sorry, your Walkman is the last place you're going to be able to play Bob Dylan music. I'm sorry, no more Bob Dylan. So forget it. Sorry. Maybe we'll bring Bob Dylan out later sometime, but you won't know when and we'll have it in our fake vault that doesn't really exist. That kind of mentality seems silly when you apply it to other kinds of media. Yeah. Why video games get a pass on that is still very confusing to me and a lot of other people. Yeah. It's fine if you don't want to port games over to the Nintendo Switch service, but don't block fair use historical research. You can limit it. They're like, ah, but if we do that slippery slope, piracy will happen. It's like, well, okay, but also piracy can happen in a lot of cases and often doesn't. Also in this case, I guarantee you people will get the ROMs, preserve them in the way they can because Nintendo is not helping and they'll do it in a way that Nintendo doesn't like and it's going to be worse than if they were active participants in the preservation process. I think this is a big mistake on their part. Yeah. How many roads must Nintendo walk down before it gets getting preservation? Would you like to talk about smart birds? Yeah. Little dinosaurs. I mean, even if you didn't, I was going to do it anyway. When researchers attached a little backpack like tracking devices to five Australian magpies for a pilot study to learn more about the movement and social dynamics of this very highly intelligent type of bird, they discovered a new social behavior that they didn't even mean to discover. The magpies began cooperatively rescuing each other to remove these little backpacks, these harnesses, that were holding the trackers in place. Now the magpies were first trained to come to an outdoor feeding station. That station could either wirelessly charge the battery of the tracker, download data from the tracker, or release the tracker and harness by using a magnet. The researchers were pretty confident that these were snug harnesses. Sure, there was a magnet, that was sort of the fail point, but how are the magpies going to know anything about magnets? But they noticed within about 10 minutes of fitting the final tracker, an adult female who didn't have a tracker on, started using her bill to remove the harness off of a younger bird. Three days later, all five magpies had successfully shed their tracking devices because, you know, teamwork. Dominique Potvin, a senior lecturer in animal ecology at the University of the Sunshine Coast, wrote in the conversation that tracking magpies is crucial for conservation efforts due to increasing frequency and intensity of heat waves under climate change. So the researchers were doing good work already, but they ended up with a finding they had no idea they were about to find. Yeah, the backlash against privacy invasion has reached the magpies. They are wickedly smart birds. We have magpies here in some volume and they every spring and summer, if you see a magpie, you need to keep your eyes open. That's all I'm saying. I just imagine one of the magpies going like, pick your lock. Hey, Pat, you got something right there. Let me, let me get that off you. I don't know if you realize it was there. No, it happens all the time. People say, where's my phone magpies? Where's my keys? I know what they're doing. The researchers said after they had, because they had actually visually observed this this magpie taking taking the tracker off of the younger, smaller magpie, they said, we don't know for sure if it wasn't just this one magpie who was just like, all of you, we're all getting our trackers taken off. Or if it was, you know, the activist magpie. Yes. Yeah, it was or learned behavior that all the other magpies had picked up, but something that they instinctively wanted to help each other do. And it took very little time at all. Very cool. Very interesting. Yeah. All right. Let's check out the mailbag. Josh has a question for you, Scott. Josh's question is, why do we still have to choose between 4k versus 60 frames per second on the new get consoles? Is it computing limitation or just that devs aren't ready to put in the work? Josh says, I personally prefer the higher frame rate, but really curious why in 2022, we still have this compromise. Okay. So there's a couple of things to hit here. One is a more complicated thing, which is there are games that can hit both 4k and 60 frames per second or 4k and 120 frames per second. Those exist on these new consoles, but they're not the ones he's probably thinking of. He's thinking of, well, why doesn't the new forbidden West game? What's the deal there? I should be able to do both. And that's one. That's a good example, actually, because right now I'm running the preferred frame rate over the resolution fidelity because I just think it looks better and runs better. Here's the problem with games like that that are massively high fidelity and you're talking about, you know, the big flagship AAA stuff that you're paying 70 bucks for. Those games simply want you to do more than those devices are capable of. And the reason you were able to afford a $399 console or $499, whatever they are, is because they skimped a little on like cutting edge GPU stuff. If you want that stuff, you can get it on a PC and spend $1,500 or more for a video card capable of the 120 or the 60 plus plus 4k. Those are all possible in those scenarios, but you pay for it. So as awesome as these new consoles are, and they've got some really cool technology under the hood, the simple answer is they're not as powerful as we think they are. They're okay. They do great. And they're better than the last ones, no doubt. But, you know, in another 10 years we'll be glad to bump up to whatever's next. And PCs will be lapping that as well. And it's okay. This isn't PC master race talk. This is just the way that tech has always evolved. And it's, you know, once you get used to it, it's fine. Yeah, eventually we'll just play everything streamed online anyway. Yeah, it's all going to get weird before it gets less weird. So enjoy the weird. Well, if you have questions for Scott or Tom or me or Roger or anybody on the show, please do send them in. Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. Also want to extend a special thanks to James C. Smith, one of our top lifetime supporters for DTNS. James, you may have noticed. We also thank you at the top of the show. Double thanks. You were next on the list, so you get a double thanks today. James, thank you for all the years of support. Also, thank you to all your years of support, Scott Johnson. Couldn't deal without you. Let folks know what you've been up to. That's very nice. If you're, if you're, if this talk of preserving old games is peaking your interest, I have a whole show about retro gaming. And a lot of those discussions are about how do we, how do we preserve them? People probably don't know this, but NHL 95, a very popular hockey game in 1994. Sorry, NHL 94. Very popular then, still extremely popular now. And we talk about why that is and how that got preserved in the community that got built around it and why it's still relevant today. If that sounds interesting, check it out. We're Play Retro wherever you get your podcast or you can find us at frogpants.com slash play retro. Excellent. Well, we are live on this here show Monday through Friday at 4.30 p.m. Eastern 2130 UTC. Find out more at dailytechnewshow.com slash live. We'd love to have you join us live if you can. We're back tomorrow doing it all again with Justin Rubber Young. Talk to you soon. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com.