President, on behalf of all of us at the Chrysler Corporation, especially our people here in St. Louis, I want to welcome you today. By now I think you can see why we consider this plant a symbol of the new Chrysler Corporation. It's clean, it's efficient, it's modern and I'd stack it up against any assembly plant anywhere in the world. I wish you people were more enthused this morning. But even better than that, our workers here have the kind of pride in their work that once made our country's economy the envy of the world. They put out the best quality cars in the whole Chrysler system and that's a distinction that doesn't come easily because every one of our plants has made a tremendous commitment to quality. As you already know we're adding two new car lines here this year, our new turbocharged sports cars, the Dodge Daytona and the Chrysler Laser and then we're adding the luxury Chrysler New Yorker. That represents an investment by Chrysler of about 150 million bucks and it'll boost our capacity here in St. Louis by another 225,000 cars a year and it will mean more than 3,000 new jobs with an annual payroll of about 90 million dollars. But as interest rates have come down we've seen some new life in this economy. For example in the first 20 days of this year I see that trend continue. We're also optimistic because we've seen a growing spirit of cooperation between government and business and ladies who have worked so hard to bring these new jobs to Missouri. By the way with us today also our congressman Bill Emerson, Jean Taylor, Tom Coleman and Bob Young. I'm also talking about the spirit shown by the members of the UAW in St. Louis. These men and women are helping to make this plant a model of how American industry ought to operate. And of course I'm talking about the kind of dedicated men. Will you please join me in welcoming the president of the United States. Thank you very much. Governor Bond, Senator Danforth, the members of the Congress representing you in Washington. This is a friend here who has been driving us around this plant. I've been having a little nostalgia here because I used to do some plant tours when I was doing a show called the General Electric Theater. I used to stand before groups of the employees going through some of the 139 plants and for one or something better to do I tell them to ask questions. And one of the questions I used to get the most was how does it feel to see yourself on the late late movie? And I said it's like looking at a sun you never knew you had but I can't tell you how good it is to see an assembly line producing American cars and especially Chrysler's. It's the last time I was in a plant it was the Chrysler plant in Detroit and it was during the campaign. I know the Chrysler employees here in Fenton have had a rough time the last few years but I want you to know that and I really mean it America is on the mend and both the economy and Chrysler are on the comeback trail. Thank heaven I can say those words that auto workers love to hear which is auto sales are up. And that's having its effect. Now Lee has told me that 1,700 of your fellow auto workers are being called back to their jobs when the second shift begins in July. 1,500 more will be coming back when plant two resumes operation in the summer. And all in all as he told you Chrysler is investing $150 million to get these two facilities working again. The other auto companies are beginning to feel the recovery as well. You won't mind my mentioning them. Ford Hazelwood plant is bringing on another shift and so is that other little company general motors and they're calling back some employees. An economic recovery something like a seedling for a while it grows underground and you don't see it above ground and then it shoots up and seems sprouting all over the place and that's what we're starting to see around the nation right now. The shoots of an economic recovery are beginning to push up through the recession with its attending unemployment. It's no accident that the leading economic indicators are up for eight of the last nine months. What we've been trying to do hasn't been too well understood by some or maybe there's others that didn't want to admit it. But we want to lay a solid foundation for long term growth. We want an economic base so that you won't have to go through the pain again that you've experienced. And I believe that we've laid that kind of a foundation. Remember what an enemy inflation used to be? It was murderous. Well inflation has been brought down from 12.4 percent two years ago to 3.9 percent. And we've taken the lead in reducing the interest rates which have been poisoned as far as car sales are concerned. The prime rate was 21 and a half. It's now down to 11 but that's not low enough. We're going to keep on pushing on that inflation until they're both down some more. I know the auto companies and the UAW are doing everything they can to get things turned around as well. I wanted to stop by here today and say that the American people know that the United States are the U.S. auto workers are still the greatest auto workers in the world. Bar none. I know too that you've had here in what's going on the cooperation Governor Bonn and the state government of Missouri. And that's the way it should be. Also that government shouldn't be a heavy hand in your pocket and holding you down. It should be cooperating and helping to let private enterprise do the job that it can do in keeping people at work with your help and Chrysler's help and the help of so many other hardworking people and companies. We're going to get this economy humming like one of those Chrysler engines. I saw you just stuffing in the body back there. I know there's been a lot of misunderstanding and I know that many of you have been told a lot of things about what we're supposed to be doing or not doing. Very simply my idea of what the federal government should be doing is reducing the cost of government to the lowest practical point at which you can leave the most of your earnings in your pocket that is possible and still do and fill the responsibilities of government. And with that to stop this inflation binge which has been the longest continued worldwide inflation the world has ever known. And that has been the cause of the high interest rates. Bring them down reduce the regulations and the restrictions that have been hampering business and adding to the cost of the product make us once again competitive in the world market. Now if you can find a better program than that you buy it. I just wanted you to know I'm not above stealing a good line when I know here why. But it's been a great pleasure to be here. I know we're do it some other stops now and have to get going but thank you all and God bless you. We have published all is tied to the strength of the dynamic small and the strength of America firsthand. He saw it in the streets of the small town and great privilege of presenting the president of the United States Ronald Reagan. I would have enjoyed fewer than a hundred employees. If we're to remain true to America we must preserve it. Just one week ago I addressed the comments. I told them this. Sometimes statistics seem whiny and personal. Well today I saw a different kind of people who were saying this has got to stop. There seems to be a little confusion about this. It is easy and it is a good way of even greater help. There will no longer be any mistake. That's much worse. So again we in government must take the lead with a genuine recovery but in a starvation diet and we finally were just getting their pay scale up somewhat commensurate with what our men and women I'd like to get a pay raise. Then he said if the commander in chief says that that's necessary to make our country better on the so-called entitlements and the bill is the cost in place. On our budget we propose a basic structural reforms in those programs. We will assist unfairness and those in genuine need will be protected. But if we receive bipartisan support what used to be out of control will be finally brought under control. Third we're adjusting our program to restore America's defenses by proposing 55 million dollars in defense savings over the next five years. I share the details. Mr. President we welcome you to the time of our four, I wish you'd make us four of the federal government. What kind of help do you have if any of you own a small business branch? The Desmond's Association and I think I come from the single most depressed area of small business in the United States of America. The question we have for you is three parts basically. One is there anything that you can do to help the small businessmen recover on a short-term basis from the double whammy of both the flood and the docks and the contamination situation in the times of each area? Two would you be willing to allow a delegation from Times Beach to speak with you on the long-term solution to the terrible problem we have in Times Beach? And three would you be willing to appoint a citizen from Times Beach to your special task force that did to deal with the times of each situation? To the third one yes. To the second one I think that I've been kept pretty well aware and abreast of the problem that I know is there. Let me others have either returned to their homes or are living with friends or relatives. We're doing everything we can and the community cooperative project that has been... Would you be willing to accept that now? I guarantee it's not docks and contaminated. I'd be very delighted to it. You can just bring it down handed to somebody down here on this side of the of the rope. Mr. President to your right sir. Perseverance in bringing to final passage that the unborn child is not a living human being then we have to opt in favor that it is alive and it is killing to do what is being done today and that we only condone in self defense. There's first few words there about what happened here with the increasing sales and all and seeing all of you. I'm going back to Washington convinced more than ever that there isn't anything the people of this country can't do when the people get together and decide it needs to be done. Thank you again.


So I have a question Who's your favorite? This is also a little bit of the grown-up test Who's your favorite floutist? Well, I only know of one floutist so he's my favorite And you're over 50 if you know who that is Right Yes And I can name this tune in six notes Ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba Exactly Do you know that there's an app now? For name that tune I downloaded it. I probably won't play it Because I like that blend game where you do the color theory thing. I did sophomore year in design school But the point is we always want to do things faster You know we want to do things we want to name that tune in three notes And especially we want to in the name of performance Style that site and get our style sheets shorter I can style that site in three break points in four break points, right? And that's the power of grid If the rest of our styles are clean You know if we haven't like goose something with you know a little padding here And a little margin here and stuff if we keep it really clean We can get our style sheets Like down to half the size we really can do it in two or three break points Per like thing we want to style like You know the the posts and the pages and the products By the way, that's as far as my knowledge of taxonomy goes You know custom post types I don't even know what that is You know, I I accept posts Pages products and real estate listings Other than that, it's a post and it gets a category. That's what I have the like headspace for but anyway Here's a photography portfolio. I threw up. I swore. I wasn't gonna say throw up You know that I threw together on my personal site last fall When you know, I just realized I need a word camps category because I have some shots from some St. Louis word camps. I took a few pictures here, but anyway now this is a Genesis child theme Everything I do is a Genesis child theme unless it's something I put in the oven on pure convection Or it's a backhand volley and this is the phone view and Seriously that styles it and I don't know why I decided to have Three different grid or four is it? widget areas You know, oh My goodness. I better put on all those widget areas now So I don't have to come back and open that PHP file You know climb the mountain in the snow. It's in a tab If I need another one, I can add it some other time But at any rate you can see that all that column of pictures is just display grid grid tepid with columns one fraction Isn't it great we can finally measure things without knowing how wide they are One fraction. That's all of it There's a tablet lab or somewhat wider because the truth is we there are like There used to be eight million stories in the naked city now. There's eight million screen sizes and That's just on Amazon's You know the deal of the day page You know So I call it tablet. I call it phone. I call it laptop For all I know it's the jumbo tron at your local basketball stadium Or it's a watch But anyway, so here's The code for that, you know, I mean the grid part Three lines and again the fraction That's a new unit. It's called the fraction It's my second favorite my first favorite is the new unit called the Viewport width unit the VW and I do things in terms of the VW because unlike the VH You know, we don't usually know how high Something is and often when we're working in the browser How many of you are designers and We all write CSS of course and a little PHP. Yes Or not how many of you never heard the term CSS? Oh Good we're among friends and How many of you Do like a full comp in Photoshop or sketch or affinity or something and then You like write the styles And you discover something that you had in your lab that you really loved and it's not exactly translating Into the CSS properly and some things like way over there that should have been here Anybody ever had that experience? Both, you know, how many of you had that experience this week? Yeah So the fraction You know can be anything The VW is great especially on these narrower views because That's like smaller and it's maybe not gonna mess up on you Also, I have the concept of these little like cars as the measurement units. Oh, that's three bugs across But anyway, we so there's a laptop view Now we have one fraction And you can do it this way or you can do it with some repeat notation, etc And I think it's time to pay some dues We are here today for exactly two reasons and we would not be here at all without them Jen Simmons and Rachel Andrew. They've been working on teaching us this stuff and Jen I think has been advocating for getting it Supported for longer than that, but they've been working on the teaching the stuff for like two years Everything you read even the stuff on CSS tricks I'm a huge fan of Chris Coyer, you know, everything started with them In fact when I was doing demos for this and some other work in the last couple of weeks I had Rachel Andrews demos open the whole time in three tabs. I finally Put it in another window just so I could get to it faster a Little taste of Jen Simmons started her website and that will lead to you to her lab She's also got a whole list of stuff seriously You could read for six weeks between the two of them and This I absolutely have had open For a month and that's what ends so much more means So grid what? Isn't Where do we use it does work with Flexbox? Yes How do we get started so first? What is it? Here's what it's not It's not a plug-in It's not a framework. It's not a page builder And it's not a panacea much It's a CSS specification That's the technical term Flexbox by the way isn't any of those things and it's also not a CSS specification It's the flexible box module. I Guess that's because you can read it. I haven't in You know six fewer hours So where do we use it on? Flexbox if you're familiar with it helps us do things in one dimension Grid works for grids of posts which largely happen in two dimensions That first phone view not withstanding We can use it instead of Flexbox instead of floats Goodbye foundation Instead of block an inline block instead of display table What's display table for? Does anybody even know I mean is that was that just like to help people get over? table layouts So instead of Flexbox. I just redid this grid. This was a Flexbox Row wrap deal Just did that. Yes. I did have Rachel Andrews thing open the whole time another grid That we can now use grid for instead of Flexbox and another one Yes, I do do a lot of tennis stuff, don't I? We can also use them along with most of those things which is wonderful so I Will take a leaf from our high school teacher guy yesterday who was terrific. I thought didn't he do a great job yeah, and Make sure we're we're all tracking along Questions at this point on what it is what it's not are we asleep awake? I Don't think I have a joke for this part. Oh, yes, I Do Well a little acknowledgement Thank You foundation you taught me some great php. That's how I learned to manipulate the loop and this is still in foundation and I will refactor it in grid shortly After we take the cats in that was our vet So you can also use grid inside a post in this for photography site I Purposely did not use any of those gallery plugins like Are you familiar with next-gen gallery? Hands Foo gallery, which is free and then there's all those light boxes. I think we maybe don't need those quite as much anymore unless you want to be sophisticated so at the top My favorite image from we drove back from California to st. Louis in September, and I just love the way that those rocks live in space and I Use I use backspread I use Backstretch don't ever get a dry mouth One of the few jQuery Skrits I care about With grid and grid to organize the shots right in the post There's the code one fraction Overflow visible. I don't know why I care Again two fractions three fractions and yes, you can mix units We're gonna live dangerously here We're actually gonna look at that code pen thing Unless of course, we're not. Oh, I guess I'm supposed to Tell me when you see the cursor. Oh, there it is. We can all see this the CSS part on the left Oh, oh I guess I want to switch to mirroring right now Hang on a second This is a bad idea. I think but anyway, the point is You any Let's go back to the real thing. There we are Imagine if you will that you have one of those one FR one FR one of ours thing you can actually do one FR 300 pixels and Auto and It'll just go and then there's other notation. You can use that will say Okay, I want it to start over in column one and in column three and Yeah, it's perfectly fine that the column that he is in is 200 pixels wide and two picks hundred pixels long and I encourage you to go to codepen.com and with some of Rachel's examples and And play with it Because it's hard for me to understand we don't want to take that much time But it's absolutely the best thing you can do to learn about this stuff And if you have children, they'll probably come up to your screen and say, what are you doing? And give you that look that they give you If you are parents, I have good news for you at about 25 They start to say these new vocabulary words like thank you and Are you sure you don't mind? It's fabulous Cannot recommend it enough 25 23. Those are the cutest 22 in our son's case. Those are the cutest ages ever Love them today so Does it work with Flexbox? Gorgeously Flexbox I think was born for navigation also phone views And then you know if you're building mobile first Start with a phone view in in Flexbox and then the next break point or two up Switch to grid when it seems appropriate You know Chris Coyer who I mentioned before He's a new father He wants to strap the baby to the Roomba and Win money for videos he tweeted that so I'm not saying anything out of school But as he puts it the phone is just a long tube of content What's perfect for one dimension? Flexbox two dimensions grid If you take away nothing else from today It's that one dimension flex box So your primary nav your phone view two dimensions grid Three dimensions, I don't know I Know that final cut pro just upgraded to some 360 video editing and we'd have to get like our phones in four years maybe with the 360 video and Maybe then you guys tell me Navigation that's Flexbox Ro wrap Wouldn't necessarily have to wrap probably better if it doesn't you know all those themes where Well, you know all the times where you'd really like to center the logo in between like three top level Links over here and three top level links over there You know why we never saw that in a theme store before like a year ago It was hard to do with floats You know you prime and you know and filters and hooks out the wazoo move the primary Navigation over here and this became the sub navigation and to keep it centered and to keep the left on the right left and the right on the right That was a pain in the butt and by the way, I'm not being inappropriate. I mean the pork butt Our son is in the barbecue business Of course the elephant in the room about any new CSS thing browser support For grid Totally is anybody in here use opera mini on their phone Do you know anybody who uses opera mini I Don't either so And you know, I don't I want to be inclusive and say you know wonderful, you know if they do but I Don't think it's a big problem Doing here Another problem with grid and something to watch out for I hate to end on a downer There's this thing called the implicit grid How many of you have ever done anything with grid or played with it at all today? I mean before today You know those grids we defined in all those views That's just a suggestion CSS and the browsers If you add things They will add things and that's what we call the implicit grid So if I go back to like that tablet view, but then for some unknown reason That I did a lot in the last couple of months Decide that one of those Nicely lined up squares Needed to have a position That I specified and I decided that that one Needed to be In column one or in column five Suddenly we'd start to see holes and we'd see five columns here That's the implicit grid If I decide to put one of them in row four, there's gonna be a row four because the grid Isn't final until you've placed all your items So be aware of that Which is one reason you should really play a lot on code pen is so that you can make Bessie happy And she'll go back outside to the jungle because otherwise Bessie has some news for you also Bessie wants to remind us not to do that to our elements as much as possible You know don't fix things with margin and padding don't fix things by You know deciding that this has to be in a particular place for the most part define your grid let things fall and then If something's in the wrong place or something needs to be in a specific place then start tweaking But let things be automatic first and Then Bessie it will be happy She might even give you a peanut. I'm Mary Baum I Make stuff for tennis people and I live on Twitter at Mary Baum. Thank you very much Questions Yeah, Flexbox is also a CSS specification and I will teach you Flexbox right now display flex and You look at and if it's working All the elements that you are in the children of what you just declared that on Will line up horizontally and squish all together and then There are two ways to sort that mess out justify content goes in that direction if you want everything in a row and That's basically flex start flex end but mostly you'll use space between and You don't say anything about that if you want them going the other way then you go flex flow column and Then if you want them left aligned Say a line like a line items flex start a line and items Center a line items flex end for the right side and a line items stretch if you want them to justify it And if you think you want them to wrap into more than one rows switch to grid There you go. You mean like floats and stuff Yeah Well, no, you're dealing with divs the whole time everything is a diff You know be careful of making you know have have as few divs as you can and Decide where you're gonna do your margins and padding I Would recommend doing them on the big boxes But then sometimes I decide no you shouldn't do them on the big boxes. You should do them on the little things but but I think pat patting versus margins pad the big boxes and Then leave the margins for the little boxes sort of at the very end of Each of each size when you're tweaking Combination of flex box and grid And but I'm gradually getting rid of the floats and I'll tell you why Floats actually have a really legitimate use Especially for those of us who come from print Sometimes you want to pull an image or a graphic out of some copy and Wrap text around it That's what flexes that's what floats are for and Possibly someday The Mozilla Foundation is going to see fit for Firefox To wrap text around a shape that is not a rectangle and at that point Floats are going to be a little important Until then we can in many ways ignore them Unless we want to really You know unless we really want to get fancy with Pulling like a rectangular photograph halfway out of the column and wrapping And that's that it can be kind of tricky. I was messing with that a lot When I should have been doing something else anything else Or should I say what else oh? Rachel also tweeted out a great cheat sheet on totally on Like when you say a line when you say justify when you say stretch that goes across Flexbox and grid and multi-column I would just go to her Twitter. Yeah Yeah, I would search on her and Twitter She tweeted and then it'll be sort of near the top of her feed Yeah Bootstrap Foundation, I know that foundation has just released a new vert except Probably you need I have not been doing a lot of email marketing Lately so you can pelt me with whatever you want to and say shame But I think foundation for email is probably relevant because emails and I would say I Was about to say that emails like never going to adopt this stuff But of course it is in about five years when it's all obsolete. Oh Oh That was a joke Some of some jokes are true But yeah, yeah bootstrap Foundation I don't know if you were in the habit of as I was Like rewriting a bunch of foundation stuff so that it would look the way I wanted it to look but also you know no more Rewriting the loop did I explain to you guys that this is a Genesis theme? Oh, I never got to the point of like that thing where it's either a Genesis theme or Pasta or a backhand volley But you can do this talk you can totally do this with like underscores or anything else you're using I'm only partly a shill for the studio press Okay, and they don't even know I'm a shill for them


So if you're having problems with your computer and really could be basically anything, chances are you're spending a lot of time troubleshooting. But one of the things that you might check is your time, because if your time is wrong on your computer, there are many things that just might not work. So you might have problems loading certain secure websites. You might have problems with two-factor authentication codes actually working. Many things can go wrong if your clock isn't showing the right time. So if you're having some problems with the internet loading or your two-FA codes not working or any other problems, check your time, see if it's right, and that might be your problem. It could save you a load of time later on when you're trying to troubleshoot. See you tomorrow.


In this video, we're going to use what we just learned about medians. So in this problem we have three variables that we have to solve for, x, y, and z. And we're going to use the different properties of a median that we just talked about. So I'm going to start with x, and x is the median. So I know that in order to get x, I have to add the bases together, 17 plus 53, and divide that by 2, or multiply by half. So if I add 17 and 53, I get 70, and 70 divided by 2 is 35, so x has to be 35. Next I'm going to go to y, and we know that because the median is the midpoint of the leg, then we know that y has to equal 11. And over on the other side to find z, because again, the median is at the midpoint of the leg, I know that these two pieces have to be congruent. And since it tells us that the whole thing is 26, then z has to be half of that, because it has to be congruent. So z would be 13. In this example, it's important to notice that this is an isosceles trapezoid. So if I want to find angle A, because it's isosceles, I know that the base angles are congruent. So A has to equal 78 degrees. To find angle B, we did a problem similar to this in one of the other videos. And what we're going to do is know that the trapezoid angles have to add up to 360 degrees, because it's a quadrilateral. So I'm going to add 78, oops, hello, 78 plus 78, and that's going to give us 156 degrees. And then I'm going to subtract that from 360, so 360 minus 156, and that's 204 degrees. And because I know that these two angles are congruent, I'm going to take 204 and divide it by 2, and that gives me 102 degrees. So B is 102 degrees. Then to find Y, I'm sorry, to find X, I am going to use the median formula. And that is that if you add the bases together, so 15 and X are the bases, if you add those together and divide by 2, you'll get the length of the median, which is 24.  X plus 15 divided by 2 equals 24. You can solve this a couple different ways. You can either multiply both sides by 2 to get rid of the fraction, or you can think of 24 as a fraction and cross multiply to solve for X, whichever one you'd like to do, you can. So either way, you get X plus 15 equals 48, and then when you subtract 15 from both sides, you get 33. So the value of X on the base would have to be 33. And then to find Y, this mark right here says that it's congruent to this, and so that means this is 15. And because the median is at the midpoint of the leg, then Y would also have to be 15. Okay, in this last example, we are going to have to find X and Y. It doesn't matter which one you start with. I will go ahead and find X first. And so because this is the median, I know that if I add the bases together and divide by 2, I will get the 2X minus 2 value. So I'm going to do 5X minus 21 plus 3X minus 31 divided by 2 has to equal 2X minus 2. So I'm going to combine like terms. So we get 8X minus 52 and divide by 2 equals 2X minus 2. Then I'm going to multiply both sides by 2 to get rid of this fraction. So it's going to be 8X minus 52. Now you just have to make sure that when you multiply this other side by 2, you actually distribute. So it's going to equal 4X minus 4. And I'm running out of room. So let me move my screen up here. And so now we're just going to solve for X. So I'm going to subtract 4X on both sides and add 52 on both sides. So we get 4X equals 48. And then when we divide by 4, we get X equals 12. Okay, the other variable we have to find here is Y. And so because I know that the median is at the midpoint of the leg, I know that Y squared has to be congruent to 14Y minus 48. So I'm going to set those equal. And once again, because we have both a Y and a Y squared, we're going to have to factor and solve this. So the first thing we're going to do is set it equal to 0. So I'm going to subtract 14Y and add 48 to get everything on one side. And so that it's equal to 0. And we're going to factor. So what two numbers multiply to 48 and add to negative 14? So I know it has to be two negative numbers. And if you guessed negative 6 and negative 8, you would be correct. Negative 6 times negative 8 is 48. And when you add them, you get negative 14. So now we get two answers, Y equals 6 and Y equals 8. And once again, we have to make sure that both of those answers make sense. So I'm going to go back over here and plug 6 and 8 in for Y. Well, either way, we get 36 and 64. So those numbers both make sense. I'm going to plug 6 in here for Y, 14 times 6 and subtract 48. And you get 64. I'm sorry. You get 36. And if you plug the 8 in for Y, 14 times 8 minus 48, you get 64. So this is a situation where both of these answers make sense. So you would actually give both of them as your answers.


In this video, we're going to figure out how the equipotential surfaces are going to look like when we have multiple charges. Say positive and another positive or a positive and a negative or a negative and negative charges. Now just a quick recap, we've already defined in previous video what equipotential surfaces are. These are three-dimensional surfaces which have the exact same potential everywhere on top of it. And an example would be for us, you know, a point charge, the equipotential surfaces would be spheres. And one of the amazing properties of these surfaces we've seen is that these surfaces are always perpendicular to the field lines everywhere. And if you're not familiar with this concept or you need a refresher, feel free to go back and check that, you know, check our previous video out. But anyways, now let's bring in another positive charge and our goal is to figure out logically using this property. We're going to use this property, how the equipotential surfaces is going to change. So if I bring in another charge, so let's say here's another charge over here. You know by now that the presence of this charge is going to change the field lines, right? You may have seen earlier that the field lines are going to sort of change. Maybe these field lines are going to push on each other and so the field lines are going to move upwards like this over here. These field lines are going to move downwards like this over here and so on and so forth. And because the field lines change and because the equipotential surface should always be perpendicular to the field lines, that means our equipotential surfaces are also going to change. So the question is, how would it change? We can't draw an exact thing, but we want to get an intuition for, you know, how it may change and what the rough surface would look like. So let me draw the new field line properly over here. Here's what our new field looks like, somewhat like this. Now what I want to do to figure out what the new equipotential surface looks like is, I want to look at one of these field lines and compare it with what it was before and then see how the potential surface would change, the surface would change. So let me get rid of all the field lines and just compare it with one of the field lines over here. So if I zoom in, okay, so this was our earlier equipotential surface when the field line was like this and this was 90 degrees, this was perpendicular. Let me use white, this was perpendicular. But now notice once it has curved, this is no longer perpendicular. So to make this perpendicular, you can kind of imagine this part of the equipotential surface must be somewhat, let me draw that, okay, somewhat like this, somewhat like this. Can you see that? Then it'll be again 90 degrees. And the same thing would happen somewhere downwards. So if I draw one more field line over here, then this equipotential surface, this part of the equipotential surface should also, to make sure it stays 90 degrees, should bend somewhat like this so that this would stay 90 degrees. And immediately from this, you can kind of see that our new equipotential surface would sort of kind of look somewhat like this. So you can kind of see that it'll be bulged out towards that other positive charge. Can you see that? Okay, now let's see what happens somewhere else. So let me show you one more field line over here. Now let's look at what happens over here. Well, again, notice it's no longer 90 degrees. To maintain that 90 degrees over here, this part of the equipotential surface should be somewhat, somewhat like this so that this will be 90 degrees again. And finally, if I draw one more, something very similar at the bottom, at the bottom, you're going to get something very similar over here. It should be like this to maintain that 90 degrees. And now if I attach, if I complete this figure, you can see it's going to be a little bit squashed behind. Oh, so can you see what the picture looks like? It's kind of like, it's kind of like going to be an egg-shaped equipotential surface. Now this doesn't look very nice, so let me zoom back out. This doesn't look very nice, but if I get rid of it, this is what it would look like, somewhat like this. This would be the new equipotential surface. Let me get rid of that. And so if I get rid of our, let me get rid of this. All right, there we go. This is what the new equipotential surface looks like. So it's kind of like bulge, it's kind of like egg-shaped, but it's kind of like bulge towards this one. And the same thing would happen over here. Same thing would happen over here. And so notice what has changed. So let's try and compare what it was before to what it is now. So if I compare earlier, if I only consider individual charges and I don't consider the effects on each other, it would be spheres. But when I do consider the effects on each other, look at what happens. This was before, this is now. So it's kind of like the equipotential surface is trying to merge with each other. Kind of like a drop of water. Can you see that? Okay. And in fact, if I draw more equipotential surfaces, they will indeed merge with each other. You can see they're slowly merging. And if I go very, very far away, it's pretty much going to look circular. I have a simulation over here. Let me show you. In this simulation, we can visualize equipotential surfaces. So let me put a positive charge over here. And we get spherical equipotential surfaces. The brightness represents how strong the field is over here. But what's important is spherical because there's one charge. Let me put another charge over here and you can see another spherical. You can imagine they're very far away. And so they're kind of not interacting with each other. But now let's see what happens when I bring them close to each other. Can you see that X-shape being formed over here? Look at that. Look at that. Look at that. That's the X-shape being formed. That's exactly what we saw. And I can now keep them over here and draw a few equipotential lines. And let's see what happens. Let me go ahead and draw that. And there you go. Close to the charges. It's pretty circular because they're extremely dominant. You go farther away. It's kind of X-shaped. And then they slowly merge. And if you go very far away, it's going to become more and more circular. Because if I go very far away, it feels like these two charges are very close to each other. It feels like a single charge. And so the equipotential surface of a single charge is pretty much spherical. Okay. Here's a question for you. What's going to happen if I made one of these charges much stronger than the other? So let me show you. So here is I'm going to add more charges over here. More charge. This is two, three charges. Say four charges over here. Okay. What's going to happen if I bring them close to each other? Can you kind of visualize what the new equipotential surface is going to look like? All right. Let's see. I can just do that. And again, we can see it's X-shaped and it's merging. But you can kind of imagine this is huge. This is small. And so now if I were to draw the equipotential lines, you can see the difference. Because this is more dominating, it is more circular. And this is becoming very quickly X-shaped. And then finally they merge together and you get circular. A quick question for you. Instead of two positive charges, what if I kept two negative charges? What do you think is going to happen? Do you think things are going to change or things are going to remain the same? Can you pause and think about it? Here's the thing. If I kept two negative charges, the field lines are going to look pretty much the same except that the lines are going to just reverse in its direction. Right? And therefore nothing much would change. So the equipotential surface should look exactly the same. So let me get rid of these charges. So here's one negative charge. Here's another negative charge. You can imagine blue to be that of a negative potential. Again, spherical equipotential surfaces. If I bring them close, notice they merge. And everything you saw for two positive charges would be the same for two negative charges. So it'll be the same for light charges. Now comes the question. What happens if you have one positive, one negative? Ooh, that's interesting. So going back to our drawing board. One of these charges were negative of equal magnitude. So it's a dipole. How will the equipotential surface change? Can you again pause the video and think about how the field lines would change and as a result how the new equipotential surface would look like? It won't be like these. So pause and think about it. All right. Okay. So let me get rid of these surfaces. Now the big change is going to be instead of field lines curving away from each other, they're going to start curving towards each other. Field starts from positive and goes into negative. Let me show you that. Somewhat like this. Which means now on this side we'll get the equipotential surface to be flatter on this side. And on this side it'll be sort of bulged. Not exactly bulged, but so it'll be the other way around. So let me show you what I mean. Somewhat like this. Does that make sense? And if I were to draw more equipotential surfaces, you can see as it comes closer and closer to the center of the dipole, it's going to get flatter and flatter. In fact right at this point you can see the field lines are all parallel to each other and so you'll get a plane sheet over here. So let me show you that. This is what it would look like. And these would never merge with each other ever because one is producing a positive old potential, one is producing a negative potential. In fact I hope you can see right in between the potential is going to be zero. I hope I've drawn a green over there. It's kind of like neutral potential. And again we can go back to our simulation. So this time we'll bring in one positive charge, one negative charge and you can kind of see that extension happening on the other side. You can kind of see flattening over here. Now let me draw the equipotential surfaces. There you go. Not exactly like what we drew in our drawing board, but you can kind of see it's becoming flatter over here. And again, what if I made one of the charges stronger and one of the charges weaker? If I made the positive charge a little stronger in magnitude, you can kind of see it's going to, you know, this positive would start dominating over this negative and again let me show you that. So let me add more positive charge over here. You can kind of see it's, the positive starts dominating and again let me draw the equipotential surfaces. And there you go. This is very interesting. Over here you see a similar trend. It's getting extended on the opposite side like we saw before with the dipole. But you see more effect over here compared to this one because this is dominating. But if you go far away, they eventually merge. Why is that happening? Why is it merging? One's positive and one negative. That's because if you go far enough, the positive charge dominates and then you start having positive potential. And so that's why eventually if you go far enough, then these two charges merge together. Together they sort of look like a single positive charge and eventually you start getting spherical positive equipotentials.


Daily Tech News Show is made possible by its listeners, thanks to all of you, including DeGrasia, A Daniels, Irwin Sturr, and Ken Hayes. Coming up on DTNS, good news and bad news in the chip industry, but have we hit bottom? Plus, Tech to Grow Better Berries and a free music streaming platform that actually helps your local musicians. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, November 16th, my mom's birthday. Happy birthday, mom. 2022 in Los Angeles on Tom Mary. And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane. And on the show's producer, Roger Chang. Quick programming note, those of you who were still waiting to find out if you needed to be afraid of AI or not, hang in there. Dr. Nikki was going to tell you today, but then an AI got to her. No, she's sick. We hope she feels better soon, but we will have her back on the show. Meanwhile, we have these quick hits for you. Indeed, we do. Amazon announced it will lay off 3% of its staff. That's approximately 10,000 workers in its retail devices and HR divisions, including people who work on voice services and the Luna game streaming service. The cuts don't affect warehouse workers or anyone working on AWS. Microsoft began rolling out a new games for work app for Microsoft Teams. Let your coworkers and you play Solitaire, Minesweeper, Wordament, Icebreakers, all during meetings. The feature is only available to enterprise customers. With the launch, Microsoft cited a Brigham Young University study, Utah Connection, if Scott was here today, that found playing short video games together made workers 20% more productive than those who participated in more traditional team building activities. I feel vindicated for pain, a little less attention in meetings that I should have in the past. You were 20% more productive. Exactly. You should have listened to me, bosses. The Financial Times reports that YouTube will roll out shopping features in shorts. Starting in 2023, it will roll out an affiliate marketing system to pay a commission to US creators that promote products. It would also allow users in the US, in India, in Brazil, in Canada, and in Australia to shop in shorts videos through embedded links. Sponsor my shorts, please. Samsung announced apps for Xbox Cloud Gaming, Amazon Luna, GeForce Now, and another system all coming to 2021 model Samsung TVs next week. The apps and a Samsung Gaming Hub are already available in the 2022 model Samsung TVs. The Samsung Gaming Hub will not be coming to older TVs. So once again, it's Xbox Cloud Gaming, Stadia, and GeForce Now, as well as Utomic. That's the other one. I have an older Samsung TV, so probably time. Yeah, I have a Samsung TV that's like from 2006. It's never getting any of this. Mine is 2013, also told. Autonomous Vehicle Company, Wabi, announced a product for semi-truck manufacturers, semi-truck manufacturers, big trucks, to use when assembling big rigs to add autonomous functions. Wabi Driver is plug-and-play. It's a product that can be integrated at the assembly line to make any semi-autonomous. Wabi Drive software is mostly trained in simulations to save on cost and capture more edge cases than real-world driving encounters. Wabi is led by Ubers, former chief scientist Raquel Erdison. Some companies are facing an economic squeeze, particularly AV companies, meaning that cost is a differentiator in a crowded market that includes companies like Waymo, Aurora, TwoSimple, Kodiak, and Plus, as well as car companies like Daimler, Volvo, and Navistar. All right, let's talk berries. Let's talk berries. So if you happen to run a farming company and you want to grow plants that have high yields, which you do, you also want your plants to have really good taste, which you would, and require low amounts of fertilizer, pesticide, and labor, this might be interesting to you. Bloomberg has a write-up on a company called Mineral, a project from Alphabet's X-Lab. Mineral has been working with Driscolls. You may recognize this name if you buy berries across the United States. They could even in Canada. Driscolls is a California company known for its berries, strawberries, blueberries, blackberries. Mineral is testing out unmanned rovers with Driscolls that basically move like van-sized vehicles up and down crop rows doing what's called phenotyping. So they're basically collecting data that shows which plants are doing well and which aren't. Genotyping tests the genes. Phenotyping looks more at how they're doing. Something currently done by humans walking around with notepads and tape measures. So very labor intensive until you get to the mineral vehicles. Mineral's vehicles have all-terrain wheels, say that 10 times fast. They also have GPS 6 cameras and some LiDAR. A human drives it remotely, but there are plans to try to make these autonomous at some point. Mineral is also testing several other vehicle types besides the ones they're using at Driscolls. They've got some smaller carts for raspberries. They have sensors that can just go on existing tractors. And besides Driscolls, Mineral is working with a dozen other companies, including China's state-owned Singenta. Singenta is using it to help identify weeds so that herbicides can be targeted more efficiently. You know, I don't know not running a farm myself. First of all, I also love Driscolls. Tom, Driscolls blueberries are in my fridge at all times. Yep, me too. I got excited when I went home to Illinois and I saw that they had Driscolls in the Schnooks there. I'm like, oh, I thought I only could get these in California, but you can get them in a lot of places. Yeah, they're everywhere. The idea of having an autonomous vehicle going up and down, crop rows, spraying pesticides, that almost seems like what I would expect this story to be, but the story being something that is potentially just a little bit better for everybody, making us healthier, making the plants healthier, that is a step in the right direction. Yeah, so if you read this Bloomberg article, and I recommend you do if you're interested in this, you know, it talks about the labor that it takes for someone to sit there and look at a plant and mark down, okay, this plant has, you know, the leaves are touching the ground, that's not a good sign, and then take all that data, collate it and decide, okay, well, we need to spray some more herbicide in this area in that area. That is all made extremely efficient by these machines because the machine learning is good enough to be able to just capture all that. They don't get tired the way a human does when they're like, what am I looking at again? Yeah, you just start to wear out. Especially, you know, in the high heat of the summer, all sorts of things that happen on farms. So this is going to improve the accuracy, improve the efficiency, just make it faster, which means that you don't have to waste herbicide spreading it in the wrong place, you don't have to waste pesticide spreading it in the wrong place, which means you're not using as much herbicide and pesticide, which is better for the environment, and it's better for yields because you get more blueberries, which means that you're spending less money growing the same, you know, for the same amount of blueberries. I feel like this is all for the win. I guess it's a matter of whether they can make mineral cost effective on the front end, right? Yeah, I mean Driscoll's is for anybody who's not familiar. I mean, this is a very large company. You'd call it has the monopoly on raspberries certainly in California and maybe throughout the US. So a company like Driscoll's working with mineral makes a lot of sense. If you were a smaller homegrown kind of operation of which there are many around where I live, which, you know, is a little bit more kind of farmer's market word-to-mouth type stuff. I'm not sure how soon this would come to a smaller operation. I would love that to be the case though.  And also the idea that, yes, workers who work for the company could be doing things that lend more to their expertise than just kind of being going up and down the assembly line, so to speak. I think this is great. These are the sorts of stories where I go, yes, autonomous tech, let's do it. Yeah. Well, especially because there is a farm labor shortage. So automating things around the farm is less fraught with worries about, you know, throwing workers out of work. You can't get enough workers right now. So you kind of need some automation to fill in that gap. Motherboards Clear Woodcock has an article up called, Libraries Are Launching Their Own Local Music Streaming Platforms. You might say, what? How is that possibly true? More than a dozen public libraries in the U.S. and also Canada now offer a music streaming service that pays local artists for a non-exclusive license to stream music to their communities. Yeah, this has an interesting history. Developers Preston Austin and Kelly Heiser started the software for the Madison, Wisconsin Public Library to create what they have now, which is called the Yajara Music Library. That was back in 2014. And then they took the work that they did for the Madison Public Library and they created an open source piece of software called Music Cat for Music Catalog. But also, it sounds like a cat. Then they used the Music Cat software as the product for a company they started called Rabble. And Rabble administers Music Cat, the open source project. It can be used by libraries as long as they agree to pay artists for including their music. Rabble also works with libraries to help them get started with the project and create the website that users can use and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, you might be wondering, how did this even get started? Rabble released an emergency version of Music Cat for libraries to use for free during the pandemic. You know, people weren't leaving their houses, they needed information, which is getting third party grants and foundation funding now as well. More people are getting involved. It normally charges libraries for help setting up the software with different rates for libraries serving more than or fewer than 150,000 people. So if you're in a big city, your rate's going to be a little bit different than if you're in a small town, but rates nonetheless. Yeah, so musicians get paid. They get exposure they wouldn't get. Libraries get to offer more content. Rabble has a way to get money. I mean, it seems like a win for everybody. So you may be wondering, like, how does it actually work in practice? Well, each library can set their own rules within the guidelines of what Rabble requires them to do. But here's an example. New Orleans has one called Crescent City Sounds that accepts albums released in the last five years from artists that either reside in New Orleans or play gigs there regularly. If you don't live in New Orleans, but you're like, I'm always playing down in the French Quarter, then they'll accept your submission as well. You have to submit at least one track from an album. Crescent City Sounds tries to select albums that are going to expose users to different types of music. Right now, it has 29 albums because it just started and includes surf rock, funk, hip hop, Mardi Gras Indian music and more. And at least with New Orleans, each artist gets $250 for a five year license. There's other examples too, though. Capital City Records in Edmonton is one. It includes more than 200 local musicians because it's been around a little longer. And it has led to having library focused music events where the bands actually play and even some vinyl album pressings apparently. Yeah. Other libraries from Music Hat based services include Seattle, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Fort Worth, Nashville, Chapel Hill, Appleton, Davenport, Euclare, Austin, Minneapolis and Portland, all in the US obviously. More than 2000 artists are featured in total across all the Music Hat installations. So, you know, you get enough cities where there's a local music scene, you're going to be exposed to some pretty cool music. Yeah, you're not joking.  I'm curious that, you know, we don't see Kansas City on there, but we do see Seattle. It's all like city for sure. Like these all have good local music scenes. And I think that's what's cool about this is it's not a replacement for Spotify. This is a way for your library to offer you something.  Like it's just available on the website for anybody who can get to the website. So it's exposing them to more than just the patrons of the individual libraries. But it's a way to boost the local musicians who don't have big record contracts, don't have that exposure, and to let you as a patron of that library to get something more out of it and to feel more connected to your community and get some free music that the artists actually get paid for. I think that's the other part that really gets me is like, this isn't just like, well, for exposure, give us your stuff for free, which might be worth it for a lot of musicians. But I know they're not getting paid much, but at least they're getting paid. Yeah, my first reaction was like $250 for a five year license. You're not getting much as an artist, but the exposure is often what the artist is looking for anyway. And just to give big ups to local libraries, I belong to my local Sonoma County Library. I don't actually go into a physical library, although I could, but I don't. But I take advantage of a lot of stuff that is afforded to me as a library member. Magazines, you know, ebooks, you know, stuff that would cost money over on Amazon. And, you know, I might want to buy something and that would be a different kind of situation, but the library does a lot of good stuff for you. And when it comes to music, like you said, Tom, this is not a Spotify or an Apple Music competitor. There's no way there. There's just no way, not at this point anyway, but to, to be able to, I don't know, build a cool playlist of folks that are you know, maybe your style and maybe not that far away from you. Maybe they're playing down at the pub, you know, on Saturday night and you can meet some new folks. That sounds great to me. Yeah, I don't know that everyone realizes. I know some of you out there know this, but your local public library probably has, if not just a website, an app that you can use to borrow e-things. And, and, and you don't even have to go to the library to do it. So I'm looking at Hoopla, which the Los Angeles Public Library uses. I can check out Diary of a Wimpy Kid, the ebook, or The Woman in the Library by Solari Gentile. Like there's good ebooks that I can check out. There are audiobooks as well. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone is available in audiobook. There's comics. The Sheets comic or Big Nate comic or Wolverine, for instance. I can check out a comic. I can check out movies alone together. The Night Watch, Leap. I can check out TV shows. I don't know any of these TV shows that they're showing me here. London Kills, I've heard of that one. The Rev, Doc Martin. But popular music, you may have heard of Taylor Swift's Midnights. I can check that out and listen to it. Can't keep it, but if I just want to check it out and listen to it, I can get Taylor Swift through the library here. And it costs you nothing. I mean, I don't know.  They don't get a bad rap. But I think that people just forget that libraries are a great public service. They get an absent rap. They get no rap. They need to get a rap. Yeah, they need a rap, a good one. But it's pretty easy to join your public library. Well, you might live somewhere where there isn't one nearby. But chances are you do live near a public library and you should take a gander. I've learned a lot since I did my Live With It On, the Remarkable 2 tablet earlier this year. And a lot of that was kind of like understanding EPUB and what is available to me and what isn't. And there's some gray areas as far as what you're allowed to be able to procure. But for the most part, I see no problem with at least being part of the community. It's not just the fact that it's free. That's great. But the library system is just a good one. And they're great people that work for libraries. And they're doing good work. And it's all for us. So take advantage. I don't know what you meant by gray areas, but I do want to hasten to add that librarians want you to use their apps to check things out. It's not like you're sneaking around if you use an app at a library. Well, there are some third-party apps that were able to get me books that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Go with the app that your library authorizes. And you'll be totally fine. Exactly. Badfink's mentioning Libby, Quastar is mentioning Canopy. And sometimes there's multiples. I think the Los Angeles Public Library does Hoopla and Libby both, if I remember correctly. Or maybe it is Canopy. But yeah, just go check with your library website. If you have a thought about something on the show but you don't know our email address, let me fix that for you. Email us feedback at dailytechnewshow.com. We have no fish, but we do have chip news. Good news and bad news out there today. Let's make a sandwich out of it anyway. First some good news, then a slim bad news filling, finishing with the good news bread at the bottom. NVIDIA began selling the RTX 4080 for $1,199 for those of you who want to spend more than $1,000 on a graphics card, but less than $1,599 that you'd spend on a 4090. So yeah, the 4080. It's a good hesitate to call it bargain, but less expensive than the 4090 option that's now available. Well, if you're keep and score, meanwhile, Qualcomm announced its new flagship smartphone system on a chip, the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 on the CPU side offers up to 35% better performance up to 40% more power efficiency. The Endreno GPU is 25% faster with 45% better power efficiency. The SOC also includes Wi-Fi 7 support and the X70 modem with its own AI processor and support for dual active 5G sims. Qualcomm says you should start seeing it in devices by the end of this year. Now the bad chip news. The chip shortage continues to look like it's becoming a chip glut, which I don't know. Maybe that is good news, but it's bad news for Micron. Micron says it's lowering production of chip wafers for DRAM and NAND flash by 20%. Micron expects supply growth for DRAM to fall next year and only grow in the single digits for NAND flash, which could bring prices down. So come to think of it, it might be good news for consumers that way, but certainly bad news for Micron's bottom line. Well, so back to not bad news. Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway disclosed Monday that it invested $4.1 billion into chipmaker TSMC, putting it in Berkshire Hathaway's top 10 holdings, and one of its few major tech holdings, along with recent investments in Amazon and HP, and its largest holding, which is Apple. Well, this is another signal that we may be at the bottom of the chip market. TSMC is headquartered in Taiwan, which has seen rising tensions between the US and China recently. Yes, I was on the TMO Daily Observations podcast talking about the Buffett stuff with Ken Ray, if you want to check that out. But it is interesting to see Warren Buffett getting in, because often he is the indication of the bottom of the market. The other thing you mentioned there was Taiwan, which is worrisome for people who are like, well, do I want to go in on TSMC when there might be a war happen in the China Straits? But TSMC is trying to diversify its locations. It's looking at Japan, it's looking at Singapore, it's looking at Europe, and it's building several plants in the United States. In fact, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple CEO Tim Cook told employees the company will begin sourcing chips from a fab under construction in Arizona as early as 2024. Now, Intel's building some plants there. I think Samsung is building a plant there. But they're probably talking about TSMC, since TSMC already builds chips for Apple. Cook reportedly said that 60% of the world's processors come out of Taiwan, and he doesn't think that is a strategic position. That's too many chips coming out of one place. He also said Apple may expand its supply of chips from European phabs as well. I would wonder where those European phabs would be. No, there's phabs in Europe. There's plenty of them. Totally, but just which ones? You're wondering which ones he means. Yeah, no, I'm curious. Yeah, like where are we talking? If you would have told me five years ago, there's going to be, Apple's going to be manufacturing a lot of stuff out of Arizona. I would have said, oh, please, there's no way, but times have changed. I think a lot of this news is just further indication that times have changed over the last few years. And companies are, whether they're under duress or we're already thinking about it anyway, are trying to figure out, okay, what are some other options? So we're not so dependent on one particular place because if something goes down in that particular place, globally, a lot of people suffer depending on how many of these chips you want to buy. And that's just sort of simple economics, but it is interesting to see play out on a global scale. It's heartening to me to see they're not just saying, oh, we had a problem getting chips from China. So let's have all of our chips in the United States because we're a U.S. company that they're saying, you know what, we should keep getting them from Taiwan and keep getting them from China and also get them from India and also get them from the United States and also get them from Europe. Because honestly, globalization is a good strategy in the sense of wherever in the world it is most cost effective to make something is the best place to make it. But it shouldn't just be one place in case those conditions change drastically like they did in 2020. So let's have, let's hedge our bets, let's diversify the supply chain. I think that's, that's all to the good. And also going back to Warren Buffett, getting into TSMC in a big way, that's a big sign that he, a very smart person who is often, but not always right, thinks we're at the bottom on the chip market and that, that things are going to start straightening out and turning around in the next few years. He's a very long-term investor. So he doesn't, doesn't mean he thinks it's going to turn around tomorrow, but he thinks that it's not going to get cheaper to buy TSMC. So this is the time for him to get in. I think that's significant to pay attention to. Well, Tom, I've got some good news for you. Yeah. Well, I guess it depends on who your favorite YouTuber is, but we have a new champion on line. Brian Brushwood is not the most far. Lamar Wilson Nor is Lamar Wilson, but they both deserve it. YouTuber MrBeast has eclipsed PewDiePie as the YouTuber with the most subscribers. This is pretty significant because it's the first time it's happened in almost a decade. You might recall that PewDiePie, very popular, became the most subscribed YouTuber back in August of 2013, quite some time ago, and was the first account to hit 100 million subs in 2019. But MrBeast, government name Jimmy Donaldson, gained his 112th million subscriber this month, which puts him above PewDiePie's now 111 million. So they're kind of neck and neck, but I think we have a new winner. Donaldson has also gotten a lot of attention from videos featuring big cash giveaways and prizes. If you're not familiar with his shtick, I guess, he does a lot of charity work as well. His additional philanthropy-themed YouTube channel has more than 10 million subscribers on its own, and he also runs a charity org to feed communities across the US. So good stuff going on here. Also, a lot of, how do we say, pomp and circumstance around doing the good things? This is YouTube, after all, right? You want the most attention possible. If you take PewDiePie, who was all about just getting attention, and add an appearance of conscience, suddenly more people like you is what this teaches me. It doesn't mean that Mr. Beast is doing bad things or anything, but yeah. He's playing the same game as PewDiePie, but he added a positive element, and it's kind of nice to see that the positive element has become the most popular. Even if it's done to get views, it also does some good. I've got a lot of Mr. Beast friends who are fans, and they just think he's the greatest thing, and other people go, oh gosh, Mr. Beast. But I think that just also happens when you're that popular is that people go, oh god, he tries so hard. Totally, totally, yeah. I know of Mr. Beast. How can you not? I've definitely heard. I have not watched anything by Mr. Beast. Well, Tom, you might win a car. I should win a car. I deserve to win a car. No. I'm curious, not counting Lamar and Brian and our friends. Do you have a favorite YouTuber? Yeah, that'd be good to know. Do you? Oh, me. I thought we were asking Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com. All of you, Feedback at DailyTechNewShow.com, but I'm also curious if Sarah has one. Oh gosh, I don't spend a lot of time on YouTube. Again, our friends, I'm subscribed. I was watching some YouTube long form stuff, but they've shut down a lot of that. So yeah, I don't know. I'm going to stick to Plex for now. Although you can pull YouTube stuff into Plex too. You want to know my favorite? I do. Carrie Cakes. Does she make cakes? No, she doesn't. That's the best part. She doesn't even make cakes. I don't know if she used to make cakes. I never found out, but she does like travel videos. And there's like lots of cute dogs and pretty cafes. She goes to the best cafes. She also has a book channel, so there's like the whole bookish aspect of it. Pretty great. Oh, I love it. Yeah, check out Carrie Cakes. All right, let's check out the mailbag. Let's do it. Matthew wrote in in response to our conversation recently about various visas that you can get, specifically the digital Nomad temporary resident permit that allows a visitor a right to stay in a country and work remotely on a computer to a foreign-based employer or business. These visas typically have a duration of about 12 months. They can be extended though for one or more years depending on the country issuing the visa and what you're doing. Matthew says, I'm planning to do this myself in Ecuador. I'm going, I'm going for a month to check it out before I commit to the lifestyle, but I fully expect to come back to the U.S. in February and then downsize considerably. Ecuador and Colombia are two years. Certain Caribbean countries are doing six months or more. Thailand offers up to 10 years in some cases. And unsurprisingly, there are whole communities around this lifestyle. Oh, that's so exciting, Matthew. I'm glad to hear from an actual digital Nomad. It sounds exciting. Yeah, trying this out. We heard from Jen Briney when we talked about this. And like I said then, we're trying to schedule her to come on and talk about her tips and tricks because she is full-time digital Nomad. That's how she lives right now. And it's pretty cool and pretty interesting to watch. So I want her to be able to share some tips and tricks with you all. If for those of you like Matthew who are into this. Yeah, really cool, Matthew. Thanks for letting us know. Also, special thanks to Ronald Huss. Ronald, you already know this, but you're one of our top lifetime supporters for DTNS. And now everyone else knows it too. Thank you for all the years of support, Ronald. To you, Ronald. To you. You're the boss of bosses. Thank you, Ronald. Patrons, stick around for the extended show Good Day Internet. Just a reminder, you can also catch the show live Monday through Friday. We do live 4 p.m. Eastern, 2100 UTC. Put it on your cows and find out more at DailyTechNewShow.com at Slash Live. We will be back doing it all again tomorrow with Justin Robert Young joining us. Talk to you then. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. Get more at frogpants.com. Time and Club hopes you have enjoyed this program.


Item Number – SCP-189 Object Class – Safe Special Containment Procedures – Samples of SCP-189 are to be stored in cryocontainment facility with any surplus destroyed by incineration. Test subjects infected with SCP-189 are to be kept in a sealed containment chamber with an airlock that includes a chemical shower. Chemical interacting with test subjects must wear standard NBC hazard suits throughout their time inside the containment chamber and submit to a chemical shower before exiting the airlock on their way out. When test subjects expire or are terminated, their remains must be sealed in an airtight container or body bag, which is subjected to the same chemical shower as the personnel carrying it out of the containment chamber and disposed of by incineration. Staff members found to be infested with SCP-189 are to be quarantined, according to the procedure outlined above for test subjects, and treated with anti-parasitic agent 189A. If SCP-189 infestation is discovered on any individual or animal at a facility, all personnel and animals at that facility are to be inspected. For the presence of SCP-189 is detailed in procedure 189-1. Many staff members treated as described above, any D-class and or non-SCP animals terminated and incinerated, and the facility subjected to a thorough cleaning with anti-parasitic agent 189-A. Should any cases of SCP-189 infestation be confirmed in persons or animals outside the foundation, all those affected are to be immediately taken into custody and quarantined. This should be euthanized and incinerated, while humans are to be treated with anti-parasitic agent 189A for the infestation, then administered Class C or B amnestics. Any individuals who may have been in close contact with the infectees and or enter their personal vehicle or place of residence should be checked for SCP-189 infestation and treated if necessary. SCP-189 is a species of parasitic roundworm, tentative taxonomic classification, data expunged, capable of infesting any mammalian life form. Infection most commonly occurs as a result of direct skin contact with one or more egg sacs. These egg sacs are covered with microscopic hooks, similar to those on the cuticles of some species of nematode, which anchor the sacs to the skin's surface. Infected with sebum then prompts the eggs inside to hatch, at which time, the larvae seek out and burrow into one or more nearby hair follicles. Once inside the follicle, the larva attaches itself at the base of the papilla and begins feeding off the capillaries supplying the papilla. Over the course of two to three days, the larva grows larger and develops into an adult. When it has fully matured, the new adult attaches from the papilla, severs the hair fiber from the root and almost fully envelops the papilla and hair matrix. From this point forward, the worm feeds on the cells shed by the hair matrix, which would normally form the hair fiber and begins to grow longer. Adult SCP-189 specimens grow only in length, extruding a tail, which incorporates some of the pigments and keratin from the cells they consume into an outer cuticle. This, combined with the fact that the diameter of a specimen's tail is usually similar to that of the hair that would normally grow from the host follicle, causes SCP-189 to be visually indistinguishable from a normal hair, except upon microscopic inspection. However, some specimens will occasionally flex, coil and uncoil, and or lash their tail, particularly in response to tactile stimulation. The reason for this behavior is not currently understood, nor is why only some individuals behave in this fashion, though it has been proposed that data expunged. As with many other species of roundworms, SCP-189 is hermaphroditic, with both sets of genitalia contained in the head, the portion enveloping the papilla and hair matrix. Fertilized eggs are produced in groups of one to three, and enveloped in a protective egg sack, which is then incorporated into the growing tail. Egg sacks grow their microscopic hooks, and the eggs typically mature by the time the portion of the tail containing them has extended, approximately one millimeter beyond the surface of the host's skin. Once fully developed, the egg sack passes to the exterior of the organism's tail, becoming loosely embedded in its cuticle. At this point, if the egg sack is brought into contact with a suitable host's surface, including the skin of the current host, it attaches to this surface and is pulled free from its parent. This is the primary method SCP-189 uses both to infect new hosts, and to further infest the current host. The tail of an adult specimen of SCP-189 is no more durable than normal hair, and its head no more strongly attached to the host's follicle. The tail can be cut or broken, or the entire organism pulled out, by any method that would similarly affect hair. Severed sections of an adult's tail can grow a new head and regenerate into a separate individual, but only if they can attach to a suitable host. The death of a follicle infested by an adult SCP-189, or any other event that would cause the loss of that follicle's hair, causes that individual to detach from its host, without a host. Adult SCP-189 die within one to six hours. Mature eggs can remain viable for up to several years after the death of their parent, and as such, even dead adults can present a risk of infestation. When an infected host dies, any surviving adult specimens of SCP-189 continue to feed and grow, eventually burrowing into the host's tissues. Once decay begins, however, the specimen is killed by the toxins produced. Addendum 1. SCP-189 was first discovered in 19... when Dr. AF, then unaffiliated with the foundation, traveled to a remote area of the data-expunged rainforest as part of a six-month biodiversity survey. Dr. F brought Cara, his three-year-old pet golden retriever, along with him on the expedition. It seems likely that the dog was first infested sometime during this trip. Regardless of when the infestation began, by the time Dr. F and Cara returned to the United States, it is believed that over 80% of the animal's follicles had been infested by SCP-189. Approximately... days after his return, Dr. F was petting Cara when the dog's fur began to move. Recognizing the abnormal nature of the infestation, Dr. F contacted Dr. I.W, a parasitologist, with an invitation to study the newly discovered organism. It was when Drs. F and W submitted a paper on SCP-189 for publication that the foundation became aware of its existence, and immediately took Drs. F and W into custody and seized all of their research materials. Both doctors were later recruited into the foundation, with Dr. W becoming the lead researcher in charge of SCP-189, and currently stationed in Data Expunged, investigating indigenous populations of SCP-189 for possible containment or eradication. Addendum 2 Since the foundation first became aware of SCP-189, there have been numerous incidents of infestation outside the foundation, resulting in humans and animals confirmed infected in various parts of the world. Continued monitoring is warranted to ensure that such incidents do not come to the attention of the general public. Lesson complete. If you missed the previous orientation, go watch SCP-188, The Craftsman, right now. Or for the complete course, watch this playlist.