time for a q&a ep!!
Added 2024-04-09 22:38:05 +0000 UTChit us with your questions! suggested question areas:
1.) your labor disputes
2.) exotic kitkats
3.) merits of coke zero
4.) relationship advice
5.) mushrooms (magic kind) (or other kinds i guess)
6.) the Lord
7.) fanfictions
8.) why matt's wrong about neoplatonism
9.) indoor ant control (this is more of a question from me to you)
10.) kids (not the movie)
or anything else!!!!!!
Comments
for matt & liz: last ep you guys touched on the ethics of surrogacy, and i'm curious about your thoughts on lgbt families and the various avenues available to gay couples who want children. targeting select demographics for sperm donation is of course eugenicist, and surrogacy's reliance on a "third poorer person" (as liz put it) is no doubt exploitative, but it also seems valid enough for gay people to want children who share their genes. it's not as virtuous as adopting, but it feels like that right should be extended to those who can't conceive naturally... am i missing something?
Lili Mandl
2024-04-12 01:12:26 +0000 UTCMatt & Liz: Let's stop using the confusing/manipulative right-wing framing “pro-life” to describe the anti-choice stance. Instead call them “forced birthers” because their political position is they want the federal/state government to force every pregnancy/fertilized egg to a birth. This avoids non-sensical statements like “I’m pro-life, but I believe every woman should be able to make that choice for herself.” No, that’s exactly the pro-CHOICE position! Most forced birthers don’t give a hoot about life post-birth (e.g. starve the welfare state, war mongering, pro-death penalty, etc). See George Carlin’s famous riff on this hypocrisy. Also, where along the continuum do you believe the organic tissue becomes a person? I believe higher-level brain activity is the key, which happens in the third trimester. There’s a nice symmetry with how we define the cessation of a person upon brain death, even if other organs are still alive for donation. BTW, I live in Arizona!
Andrea Witte
2024-04-11 23:23:25 +0000 UTCBeen watching shogun, thoughts on honour and ritual suicide. Coke zero forever
Connor Soroczan
2024-04-11 21:34:50 +0000 UTCAnts don't like coffee grounds
Ben
2024-04-11 21:29:17 +0000 UTCIt was actually $300 pre-tax, but for the sake of a thought experiment . . .
J P 3
2024-04-11 19:46:27 +0000 UTCLiz can you release the fanfic after you win a Pulitzer for journalism
andrew
2024-04-11 18:45:35 +0000 UTCWow thanks! Slight modification then: could you (Matt) explain under what conditions one should open a traditional vs a Roth IRA?
Paul G.
2024-04-11 17:55:02 +0000 UTCMatt: what advice would you give to a new hire employee (on probation) who is a masculine woman and is being referred to as "sir" and with the masculine version of their name (example: Justine/Justin) by her supervisor. Could be a language barrier (supervisor is an immigrant from India) could be genuine misinterpretation of the gender presentation, could be intentional? The relationship with with supervisor isn't great, but she is going to a new manager in a month. Suck it up?
CatterpillarYarn
2024-04-11 16:49:33 +0000 UTCLiz: in Islam, interest is forbidden. What's the Christian take on financial institutions charging interest?
CatterpillarYarn
2024-04-11 16:32:32 +0000 UTCLizz and Matt: thoughts on the crumbley parents conviction?
CatterpillarYarn
2024-04-11 16:31:37 +0000 UTCWhat's the most Matt B argument (or bit) Matt's ever heard that Matt didn't make himself
kyle minton
2024-04-11 12:16:56 +0000 UTCSpotify Top 5 when?
Michael Hoogenakker
2024-04-11 08:37:44 +0000 UTCMatt, do you think electoral candidates should have to publicly disclose their standardized test scores?
Karim
2024-04-11 04:02:28 +0000 UTCCongrats on hitting the lotto
Tyler Sambucci
2024-04-11 01:57:07 +0000 UTCRe: Telling Aliens about Jesus. Since humans are more within Jesus’ purview, would it technically be a heresy to suggest that The Lord could/would manifest His presence to various alien races and forgive them their sins? Not suggesting that’s the case, but I often wonder about edge-case heresies and such
Corndog
2024-04-10 23:44:13 +0000 UTCLiz do you have ketamine updates? Hope you are feeling better <3
Bernie Mac
2024-04-10 22:11:39 +0000 UTCIs the Norwegian Kit Kat-alike, Kvikk Lunsj, state-owned? How do they avoid the IP with wrath of Nestlé?
verbrannt
2024-04-10 20:50:20 +0000 UTCWhat is the best limited edition KitKat, and why is it matcha?
verbrannt
2024-04-10 20:37:46 +0000 UTCMatt what's the workout program in the garage?
RS Walker
2024-04-10 19:03:57 +0000 UTCIs there a Patreon subscriber rate for a half-hour legal consultation on labor law with Matt?
Henry George
2024-04-10 19:00:20 +0000 UTCHey Liz, youre against an abortion ban because, as far as i can tell, it doesnt work. But what if it did? With all the requisite empirical evidence. Would you support it then?
Pepijn Uitterhoeve
2024-04-10 18:20:32 +0000 UTCOkay sorry but I am genuinely curious: thoughts on literary criticism?
KB Scott
2024-04-10 17:02:42 +0000 UTCLiz fav Eastern Orthodox writers/saints/have you ever gone to a Divine Liturgy and if so what did you think?
Katherine
2024-04-10 16:13:50 +0000 UTCThoughts on couple’s therapy?
Pick It
2024-04-10 15:47:04 +0000 UTCTo both of you: Do you think of voting as a leverage point/tool for guiding policy in whatever small direction you can, or is it an expression of personal beliefs and character?
Josh Smith
2024-04-10 14:15:51 +0000 UTCMatt: I might be mistaken, but I believe you tend not to make arguments about redistributing government budgets (e.g. police or defense budgets) towards the government programs you support. Is that because those tend to be weaker or messier args? Or for some other reason (eg would even full redistribution be inadequate to cover a proper welfare state?)?
Josh
2024-04-10 13:59:29 +0000 UTC1. What's Matt's read on the implications of SCOTUS challenges to the NLRA? 2. Recommendations for a day trip in NYC with a 6yo?
GMC
2024-04-10 13:07:50 +0000 UTCI learned what divorce was from that movie and I remember it leaving me very distressed!
TC
2024-04-10 12:55:46 +0000 UTCLiz: thoughts, if any, on Herbert McCabe?
Jim Macfarlane
2024-04-10 12:49:31 +0000 UTCThanks for the response! It’s validating to hear that other people are annoyed by other people’s kids. I’m worried that I’m predisposed to not liking kids specifically, but we have a dog so I understand being crazy in love with your own little monster. About lifestyle, we love just seeing family and hanging out, it’s just with kids around I feel like I couldn’t actually talk to my wife all day. Everything was about kid stuff - playing games, listening to their cries for attention, etc. I just want to skip til they’re like 9 y/o lol
David Cole
2024-04-10 12:45:18 +0000 UTCSimplest answer to this is other people's kids are infinitely more annoying, and you don't continue to live your life, it's a whole new life (I like it better). It's a big evolving thing. Depends how you and your wife see your future- people around a table- family trips etc or the two of you having a more spontaneous type of life. I want sure what I wanted until I thought of what my picture of home in the future was- I wanted that family vibe and people around (even if it's overestimating sometimes). We didn't have much when we had our first kid and still don't live a fancy life but I find it infinitely better. I like what the writer Zadie Smith says about having children- that capitalism tells us a lie that the most freedom we can feel is through having little responsibility and ties to other people- when actually for some of us we feel much more freedom in community and ties to other people.
Chiara Rohz
2024-04-10 07:32:30 +0000 UTCCan you give us a run down of your latest bakes liz?
Chiara Rohz
2024-04-10 07:21:10 +0000 UTCMore texan food ideas
Chiara Rohz
2024-04-10 07:20:56 +0000 UTCBest type of pizza?
Chiara Rohz
2024-04-10 07:20:39 +0000 UTCWoah
Chiara Rohz
2024-04-10 07:20:13 +0000 UTCLiz- how did you develop your theory on forgiveness and how has it developed over the years? Do you think that women should be able to have a more prominent- exhaulted position in the Catholic Church- why no female priests in 2024. Does God only talk through men or is it that the Church only prioritises men's revelations? Please elaborate on how you feel about the pope and their ability to interpret or give opinion. I'm from Ireland and struggle alot with the idea that Pope JP2 knew what was going on her re widespread clerical sexual abuse and laundries etc but condoned it by inaction. Tacit consent is kind of magnified when you're gods rep on earth. We have become a nation of increasing secularity now I think as a result of the trauma inflicted on such a small nation. I'm lucky in that my family was largely unaffected and was big into james larkin- the socialist who said 'Kapital and the bible are both sacred books to me'. There is a long history of socialist Catholicism here. Can you consider also talking about other examples of that? Also for liz are you into any pagan shit? Matt tell us what you think of James Connolly. Also for your maiden family trip oversees should it ever happen I choose ireland fir you- good hiking and trails- ancient Catholic sites- socialists.
Chiara Rohz
2024-04-10 07:19:42 +0000 UTCI’m in Cambodia, the grocery store next to my hotel is a goldmine of exotic KitKats, which should I try? Milk tea? Chunky raisin n cookie (not exotic to an American palate but I’ve never seen it before!)?
Scott Davis
2024-04-10 07:10:38 +0000 UTCIf you won a $300 million lottery (after taxes, net), and wanted to advance "socialism" in the U.S. how would you allocate resources? (other than a contribution to the Bru-pod, etc). Would $300 million be sufficient to move the needle, or would a flood of money prove counter-productive to the goal?
J P 3
2024-04-10 05:20:59 +0000 UTCDid you know that the binding between the wafers in KitKats is actually ground up full KitKats? What are the ontological implications of this recursive KitKat structure? Was the first KitKat the second KitKat?
Michael McCarthy
2024-04-10 04:28:02 +0000 UTCThink we’re gonna have a Meltdown May this year? I feel like nothing came of it last year. Is this just another bit of lost magic since Elons takeover?
Chris Towler
2024-04-10 04:21:15 +0000 UTCCan you share how you work through conflict together? How soon to forgive? What is your process for healing?
Marne provost
2024-04-10 03:52:47 +0000 UTCGang, it seems to me that all unions are formed by shared vision and purpose despite individual differences (usually in the interest of fairness). Economies with strong unions tend to be more egalitarian and robust, do you see any coorelation with the union of marriage between two people? Do you think married couples could benefit from seeing their marriage more like a labor union? For example, framing their wedding vows as a collective bargaining agreement?
Adrian
2024-04-10 03:42:09 +0000 UTCMy little brother is about to start grad school. Any advice for him?
Karthik Srinivasan
2024-04-10 03:33:25 +0000 UTCFollow-up for Liz. If your Ants aren't responding to your ant poison (if you use that) mixing in a bit of brown sugar can encourage the Ants to take the poison back to their nest.
Tim Dymond
2024-04-10 02:48:18 +0000 UTCMatt: thoughts on the use of non-labor law to achieve pro-labor outcomes. E.g. could you say that misclassification of employees as contractors is an unfair method of competition as per this speech from an FTC Commissioner? https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/Overawed-Speech-02-02-2024.pdf
Tim Dymond
2024-04-10 02:46:12 +0000 UTCIs spreading in competitive debate overall bad or good for the sport and would you ban it if you could
Chance Walker
2024-04-10 02:18:00 +0000 UTCIs Liz still a Diet Coke fiend or has she converted to Coke Zero
Felipe and Elizabeth Lima
2024-04-10 02:14:47 +0000 UTCFor Matt - what was it like being a kid with the ‘tism? What do you wish your parents/teachers had known or done differently? (Our four year old is going through the assessment process now and we’re expecting a diagnosis of fairly high functioning autism)
Felipe and Elizabeth Lima
2024-04-10 02:11:54 +0000 UTCMore on liz’s plan for the aliens, and/or the plot of some of her alien-adjacent novels
Felipe and Elizabeth Lima
2024-04-10 02:04:28 +0000 UTCDefinitely need to know more about why Matt’s wrong on neoplatonism
Felipe and Elizabeth Lima
2024-04-10 02:03:45 +0000 UTCNew regular segment on domestic affairs, cooking, baking, fixing, yardwork, etc?
Tyler Giles
2024-04-10 01:56:39 +0000 UTCMeltdown May forecast? It feels like we're in a holding pattern.
Tyler Giles
2024-04-10 01:54:34 +0000 UTCHave you ever directly experienced that separateness is an illusion, all is indivisible in consciousness and consciousness itself is nothing? And that Matt and Liz are just a dream?
Cole Renwick
2024-04-10 01:39:31 +0000 UTCThis is a good question
☃️
2024-04-10 01:29:45 +0000 UTCInteresting question. Don't see epistocracy mentioned much these days. Are you thinking of Plato or something more contemporary like Jason Brennan?
Cheetahforce
2024-04-10 01:29:30 +0000 UTCSovereign Wealth Fund question - Matt, it seems like Nordic SWFs are successful because of 1) oil and gas exports and/or 2) market controls that make price shocks less likely. Is a SWF possible in the US given our market volatility? Could we build 10,000 small modular nuclear reactors and create a SWF off the profits? Or should the USG just nationalize blackstone
Scott Alford
2024-04-10 01:14:31 +0000 UTCYou're probably not going to get to the ones down here, but: What was the hardest, most impressive arg-ument between the two of you decisively won by Matt, and vice versa?
TC
2024-04-10 01:07:46 +0000 UTCI’ve wondered this myself…
Caitlin Still
2024-04-10 01:03:33 +0000 UTCNow I’m going to think about this forever. We just have a pest control company spray for the carpenters.
Monica
2024-04-10 01:03:18 +0000 UTCQuébec libre !
Caitlin Still
2024-04-10 01:02:34 +0000 UTCHow!? It literally makes no sense!
Caitlin Still
2024-04-10 01:00:10 +0000 UTCHave you ever read Tolstoys Gospel in Brief, and if so what are your thoughts?
Anthony Miller
2024-04-10 00:58:22 +0000 UTCLiz can you walk us through weed setup #420BlazeIt
ZZA
2024-04-10 00:56:54 +0000 UTCOne last thought: Coke Zero needs to come from a convenience store to taste right
Ryan Eldred
2024-04-10 00:50:30 +0000 UTCNot sure if southern New England is different
Ryan Eldred
2024-04-10 00:49:37 +0000 UTCI’m farther north, but I tell customers that unless it’s sugar ants, (we get black carpenter ants) you need to find out what is wet. They go around searching for wet wood, and if you do find a nest you can start killing them with a bottle of windex. Some will get away and go in search of more wet wood, but they will give up eventually if they don’t find any.
Ryan Eldred
2024-04-10 00:49:01 +0000 UTCThoughts on Wittgenstein generally, or the slab or the beetle in the box
Damian
2024-04-10 00:44:17 +0000 UTCDo you guys ever miss DC?
Anthony
2024-04-10 00:39:44 +0000 UTCSorry this is a copy paste from Liz Chat: Liz, do you have any recommendations for getting into Jewish ethics? Read The Mill On the Floss and it has all these incredible Thomas a Kempis citations. It made me want to find a Jewish "equivalent," but then I got really overwhelmed when researching what that would be (eg will Maimonides be too scholastic? Will the Talmud cover too many areas not related to ethics?). Do you happen to have any recommendations for where to begin?
Josh
2024-04-10 00:37:49 +0000 UTCWife and I just moved into our first house and it has a big yard. How does Matt deal with weed control? What is Matt’s view on Lawn Care?
Campbell Shelton
2024-04-10 00:35:33 +0000 UTCMatt Q: I have a friend whose employer asked their employees if they would volunteer to be paid late because the company is having a hard time financially. Is this legal? Liz Q: (Assuming you have already been asked about The Vatican stuff) If you had to choose one person who existed during or before the 19th century and make them hear a sound from the 21st Century, who would you choose, and what sound?
Ahmed Amer
2024-04-10 00:35:32 +0000 UTCMatt has said that even the most elite private schools don’t surpass public schools if student quality is held constant. Why can’t more resources make kids learn more?
Taylor Borie
2024-04-10 00:31:21 +0000 UTCHe has a YouTube vid on this
Aleksander Holleran
2024-04-10 00:30:11 +0000 UTCafaik duck duck grey duck is only a thing in Minnesota and has to do with the Swedish or Norwegian word for goose being grey duck. That said as a Minnesotan I think it is the superior version.
Kenan Anderson
2024-04-10 00:13:05 +0000 UTCShe already said that it helped in some pretty specific ways. But I am still curious about Liz's answer here--in particular whether she found that the initial therapeutic effects have lasted.
Guy Giberson
2024-04-10 00:01:12 +0000 UTCLiz, are you excited for Taylor Swift’s new album and how do you feel about how many different versions of it there are?
Marcy Snyder
2024-04-09 23:59:40 +0000 UTCI know I’m not Liz, and I’d also love to hear her take, but I wanted to say that I grew up Baptist and felt the same way about the physicality of it not being emphasized. It was actually labeled a heresy called Docetism to say the Jesus only “spiritually” rose from the dead. It’s an idea related to Gnosticism. N.T Wright wrote an incredibly lovely book somewhat recently called “Surprised By Hope” about the importance of believing in a physical bodily resurrection and why it matters for how we see ourselves today. I’d strongly recommend it if you’re interested. I’m in medical school and it really helped me cope with a lot of what I see in the hospital.
Marcy Snyder
2024-04-09 23:57:28 +0000 UTCNot seeing the ULP angle.
Guy Giberson
2024-04-09 23:55:29 +0000 UTCwhy is so much fanfic written in present tense? liz do you do this? and as ever…drop the links, drop the handle, drop the fandoms at LEAST
Sarah
2024-04-09 23:51:06 +0000 UTCPlease explain the feminine urge to buy throw pillows
Brendan Comfort
2024-04-09 23:50:44 +0000 UTCTotally agree. If you don't blatantly engage in hypocrisy you better preserve your ability to influence them to engage in healthy social behavior.
Guy Giberson
2024-04-09 23:47:33 +0000 UTCI'm asking this for my husband - is it duck duck goose or duck duck grey duck. I say goose, he says grey duck.
Andrea
2024-04-09 23:45:40 +0000 UTCLiz: Aldous Huxley, woke or broke? Matt: if you came to the conclusion that the best path for humanity required you to merge with an alien worm and reign tyrannically over the galaxy for 4,000 years would you do it and who would you clone to help you?
Davíd
2024-04-09 23:45:22 +0000 UTCMy wife and I can’t decide if we want kids. My nephews (2 and 4) have been staying with us for a few days, and they’re driving me bonkers. They are so needy for attention and have undying stores of energy. I can’t imagine doing this for another week, much less several years. How do you continue to live your life when young children take so much energy?
David Cole
2024-04-09 23:45:03 +0000 UTCWhat's the best chocolate cookie recipe you've ever made?
Andrea
2024-04-09 23:44:44 +0000 UTCMatt, what’s your take on saving for your kids’ college? On an individual level, not from a public policy perspective.
Adam
2024-04-09 23:44:34 +0000 UTCLiz+Matt: as a new parent, I think a lot about the Best Stuff to do for my child. But I also suspect that most childhood development advice / science is garbage. Aside from the obvious stuff (don't drop the child, or expose them to lead, have a stable household, etc.), how can you really know what is responsible for healthy / productive / whatever child development if you can't run controlled experiments for the obvious ethical reasons? What is your approach to this literature? Do you think there is a scientifically-informed way to raise a child? If so, what is it?
Norman X. Picklestein
2024-04-09 23:44:15 +0000 UTCWhat is your favorite thing about church, the Bible, Jesus, or spiritual revival? I laughed when I heard Matt predicting an empty nest in his mid-40s. Do you want more kids? I’m guessing the next one will be male
Eric
2024-04-09 23:43:24 +0000 UTCPredicted response: LGB Catholics should shop around for a tolerant parish and T's should become Episcopalian.
Guy Giberson
2024-04-09 23:43:02 +0000 UTCdoes liz have any thoughts on what the Pope has been saying about gender ideology?
Sam
2024-04-09 23:42:03 +0000 UTCReligious employers are generally exempt from the NLRA on First Amendment grounds. Whether the exemption applies to "secular" employees (such as teachers of non-religious subjects at religious schools) goes back and forth depending on the Board majority
Josh B
2024-04-09 23:41:51 +0000 UTCSaints: did they fly?
Michael McCarthy
2024-04-09 23:41:40 +0000 UTCLiz you asked about fanfiction what's your verdict on the infamous Harry Potter AI Risk fic that got OpenAI started. Based or Cringe.
Thomas A
2024-04-09 23:36:57 +0000 UTCMatt given your usual arg structure with libertarians what do you even do when you meet a geolibertarian? Just say "fair enough"?
Thomas A
2024-04-09 23:35:38 +0000 UTCSquirt maxforce gel bait into nooks and crannies around where the ants are. Change your gel bait brand every few years. Terro has never worked for me, I think the New England ants have developed immunity to it.
Monica
2024-04-09 23:35:24 +0000 UTCMatt what's your preferred election methods, for either single or multiwinner cases? Some leftists are pretty anti-PR because it lowers the chance of an FDR landslide, but also asking fron a mechanism design angle (e.g. IRV vs STAR)
Thomas A
2024-04-09 23:33:26 +0000 UTCJust some book recs please, theology or just beautiful writing that you enjoy.
Scott Dempsey
2024-04-09 23:31:05 +0000 UTCAre the kiddos reading? If so, how did they get there, and when? Is reading going the way of penpersonship?
Old Mole
2024-04-09 23:30:54 +0000 UTCLiz, I’m reading through Augustine’s City of God with a book club. Augustine makes a big deal about the physical resurrection of our human bodies as opposed to heaven being a purely spiritual state of perfection. I don’t remember this being an important point in my Baptist church growing up. Do you think that the “physicality” of the Christian hope is important? Is this something that is overlooked in modern American Christianity?
Logan Dougherty
2024-04-09 23:29:20 +0000 UTCWhat's the place for workers' compensation in an ideal welfare state? Is it still necessary with sufficient disability and unemployment benefits?
Josh B
2024-04-09 23:26:48 +0000 UTCHaidt is a moronic douche and his latest thesis is totally consistent with his career of pushing one (utterly boring) moronic douchey thesis after another.
Guy Giberson
2024-04-09 23:23:53 +0000 UTCLiz, What are 3 novels you think everyone must read? I’m starting to put together my reading list for 2025 and would love to know your answer for this!
Micah
2024-04-09 23:22:56 +0000 UTCThoughts on free trade/anti China "dumping" allegations from US and EU? When will the US put some respec on China?
Payton McDermott
2024-04-09 23:21:45 +0000 UTCThoughts on how to approach discipline with kids 2-3ish and the gentle parenting debate?
Tfj425
2024-04-09 23:20:05 +0000 UTCI think it's enough but your remedy would be injunctive, not damages.
Guy Giberson
2024-04-09 23:17:23 +0000 UTC+1 on this stuff. Neighbor was doing construction last month and a bunch of ants made their way into my apartment. Tried about 3 different solutions before trying this one and it got rid of them in about a day and a half. It will make the problem look like it’s getting worse before it gets better. https://a.co/d/1SEtSn3
dyl0n123
2024-04-09 23:16:15 +0000 UTCHow have your views on parenthood changed over time?
Alyssa Noth
2024-04-09 23:14:54 +0000 UTCYesterday was Jürgen Moltmann's 98th birthday. A radical, a great theologian, and most importantly a funny, silly guy. Can you please wish him a very happy birthday?
Jack Brownfield
2024-04-09 23:12:23 +0000 UTCNot a question, but I appreciate the stance of the pod that kids swearing isn’t something to freak out about. My two year old dropped something the other day and said “what the fuck”. I don’t think we’re coming back from that.
Will Langan
2024-04-09 23:11:28 +0000 UTCCould never drink anything besides zero or Diet at this point: the sugar is just insane and repelling now. And hate Pepsi
Andrew Mathewes
2024-04-09 23:11:11 +0000 UTCany thoughts on Norway’s suicide clause? also Thots on becoming catholic when you don’t really feel like it but worry you should
☃️
2024-04-09 23:10:41 +0000 UTCMatt: What's your opinion on the new Tyler Childers album and, in particular, the In Your Love video? Also, Title VII gives the claimant a chance to win by requiring a losing employer to pay the employee's legal fees. Does the NLRA give a similar right, absent some contractual entitlement, which is hypothetically equally dangerous to both sides, and therefore more dangerous to the employee because of his/her naturally higher aversion to risk? Thanks!
Guy Giberson
2024-04-09 23:10:03 +0000 UTCMatt please help with personal finance—like what is the System? And how should I think about saving cash vs investing, what kind of investments should I do, etc. please help I’m financially illiterate and feel like 95% of advice out there is BS
Paul G.
2024-04-09 23:10:01 +0000 UTC10) takes on the latest Haidt discourse? Say, opinion on school phone bans?
Andrew Mathewes
2024-04-09 23:09:30 +0000 UTC9) oh geez, struggle bus here (3yo and 18mo crumbs). It’s just constant vacuum. I console myself that it’s seasonal
Andrew Mathewes
2024-04-09 23:08:59 +0000 UTC3) I drink 4-6 Coke Zero a day. It rocks. What’s the controversy? Vs. DC? I think I’m just habituated to the flavor; I’m sure I got tricked into switching to it with man marketing
Andrew Mathewes
2024-04-09 23:08:10 +0000 UTCLiz ... On Twitter, you once promised to bake a batch of cookies to whomever donated the most to a particular good cause. (I can't remember the cause - a friend of yours in need, I think?). If I remember correctly, Sam Harris donated the most money. What kind of cookies did you bake him and did he give you any feedback?
Phil R.
2024-04-09 23:07:58 +0000 UTC1) When I was younger, I was forced to resign with an NDA from my city council job after I ran my mouth during my first manic episode. Seems now from reading you: obvi illegal. Curious if there’s any nuance with government (or non-profit, where I am now, though in management)
Andrew Mathewes
2024-04-09 23:07:20 +0000 UTCWhat are liz's thoughts on the works/authorship of flannery o'connor?
JOE
2024-04-09 23:04:32 +0000 UTCI’d love to hear Matt explain this: in a social wealth fund world where stock ownership is overwhelmingly in the hands of the public at large, how does stock price continue to reflect the market analysis of a firm’s current and future profitability? Don’t we lose the information that a market provides? (also don’t index funds kinda have the same flaw as well already?)
KH
2024-04-09 23:02:48 +0000 UTCAny familiarity with left wing separatism in Quebec? Thoughts on Quebec? could be good could be bad? catholic? french? seigneurial system ?
Jérémie
2024-04-09 23:01:27 +0000 UTCLiz: what do you make of generative AI and its ability to turn any picture of a person into photorealistic porn using their likeness? There seem to be two camps: 1) this is a natural progression of the current culture, society will metabolize it, and it will be ineffective at embarrassing people because we all know it’s fake; 2) this is different than what came before it and will ruin lives and corrode society in novel ways
W
2024-04-09 22:59:18 +0000 UTCFor Liz, how do you continue to maintain a relationship with your dad when he treats you and your family poorly? I have a similar setup with my stepdad, but I don’t see him anymore
Zac Greco
2024-04-09 22:59:03 +0000 UTC(last one, sorry I'm too excited!!!) Matt, I sent a message in the "matt chat" about this a few days ago, about a non binary person wanting a customized genital surgery. Basically creating a vagina but preserving the penis. Public health care funding org has to decide if it's medically necessary, currently in court right now. Non binary person says it's not going to alleviate their discomfort if they are forced to choose between genders, and there is urethral complications from vaginoplasty (inverting pénis to create vagina). Has medical ok from doc, surgery is medically possible, performed in Texas for $100K. Should tax payers fund this? Why or why not?
CatterpillarYarn
2024-04-09 22:58:43 +0000 UTCAdvice on helping kids who are prone to anxious thoughts work through them? I have clinical anxiety & worry about influencing them to think too negatively. But I’m also concerned that I should be validating their concerns/fears, without feeding into them too much I guess?
Veronica
2024-04-09 22:58:25 +0000 UTCMatt, how dedicated are you to democratic forms of socialism? If an epistocratic or other form of socialism could be show to have better outcomes than democratic socialism, are you open to that?
TW
2024-04-09 22:57:43 +0000 UTCLiz, what was ketamine therapy like? Did it help you and, if so, in what way? Would you recommend it?
GB
2024-04-09 22:57:20 +0000 UTCMatt and Liz: how should fertility treatments be funded in the public health care system? In Canada, we don't pay sperm donors, so our selection is minimal, and most order from the states and pay a premium. Should IVF be funded? How about IUI? Eligibility criteria or open for all?
CatterpillarYarn
2024-04-09 22:56:58 +0000 UTCAs a fellow dad who does 99% of the cooking in the house, I’d like to know some of Matt’s go-to meals.
Kent Kersten
2024-04-09 22:56:23 +0000 UTCAnd a question wrt the Lord: thoughts on Boethius’s arg that God has no qualities because to have qualities is to define God in terms of aspects belonging to human beings? Doesn’t this get us to like a Unitarian Universalist concept of God as just like a good vibe? Is God good vibes or is He a dude on a cloud?
Michael McCarthy
2024-04-09 22:56:19 +0000 UTCMatt & Liz: why do growers market cremini and baby bella as separate products and how should we go about taking down big mushroom? Are creminis just elitist baby bellas?
Adam Kull
2024-04-09 22:54:46 +0000 UTCI routinely find many socialists to be anti-nuclear power but without clear reasoning as to why. Do you think something like France's Messmer Plan which saw them transform their grid into almost an entirely nuclear powered energy grid would be viable in the U.S.? also, have you thought of energy policy as a special interest Matt?
Brendan Hale
2024-04-09 22:54:07 +0000 UTCLiz: what are you cooking lately? Miss your cupcake photos
CatterpillarYarn
2024-04-09 22:53:56 +0000 UTCMatt: more Jane sport stories please 🥺
CatterpillarYarn
2024-04-09 22:53:25 +0000 UTCI also want to know this as well and if they are exempt from federal labor law in general.
AllOutOfPlans
2024-04-09 22:53:01 +0000 UTCLiz: always love hearing the pro labour catholic take! My co workers are Muslim and are bummed that they don't get Eid as paid time off (unpaid time off only). How should we manage religious holidays in a pro faith work environment?
CatterpillarYarn
2024-04-09 22:52:32 +0000 UTCWhy is Liz silent on Aristotle/Aquinas? She often mentions Plato and Augustine, but what does she have against the Angelic Doctor? (Exaggerated question for dramatic effect.)
AllOutOfPlans
2024-04-09 22:52:13 +0000 UTCLiz, why don't you think that the new testament is a repudiation of the old testament? An eye for an eye, a cheek for a cheek etc.
Bob K Ross
2024-04-09 22:51:37 +0000 UTCMatt: curious about your thoughts on Ronna McDaniels being canned from NBC for past Jan 6 support. ULP worthy?
CatterpillarYarn
2024-04-09 22:51:05 +0000 UTCMatt, in a prior episode you correctly identified The Santa Clause (1994) as a classic Christmas movie and pioneer of the divorced dad movie genre. Have you watched the 2022-2023 sequel TV series and can we get a review
Jonny
2024-04-09 22:50:54 +0000 UTCLiz: what are your thoughts about LGBT Catholics?
CatterpillarYarn
2024-04-09 22:49:53 +0000 UTCThis stuff works quite well for ants. Safe for kids and pets also. Terro T100-12 Liquid Ant Killer... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NCUW1M?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
Aaron
2024-04-09 22:49:43 +0000 UTCI’m an organizer for the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition (grad students at Indiana University). We have no NLRA protections or a clear path to recognition. But on the flip side, what tactics does that allow us to use that the NLRA might otherwise prohibit?
Michael McCarthy
2024-04-09 22:49:13 +0000 UTCMatt: do you have any comments on Canada's economical situation regarding the housing crises and general high COL? Some are blaming high levels of immigration via international students and temporary foreign workers. What's your take?
CatterpillarYarn
2024-04-09 22:49:11 +0000 UTCHave you seen/heard of God Save Texas on HBO? It's a 3-part "docu-series" by different directors on Texas life. I watched the first one directed by Richard Linklater about his hometown of Huntsville, the prison there, and executions/the death penalty. Maybe you don't want more of that in your life, but I was curious if you had seen it Liz, and what you thought.
ag
2024-04-09 22:48:42 +0000 UTCLiz, what is the best formulation of the cosmological argument, if any?
Jacob
2024-04-09 22:47:35 +0000 UTCHave you seen The First Omen? Better than Immaculate, imho.
Andres Burton
2024-04-09 22:47:17 +0000 UTCI’m curious how or if you decided on how many kids to have. Is it primarily financial? Did your thoughts change after the first or second kid? Or is it not worth thinking about too much since it’s hard to predict exactly? (Asking as 24 year old guy who one day would like a big family but realizes maybe I’ll change my mind after having my first)
Kenan Anderson
2024-04-09 22:46:50 +0000 UTCMy spouse and I have disagreements about our very big bathroom sink/counter. I prefer controlled chaos (a few specific items, toothpaste and toothbrush, maybe a little bowl of floss picks). She prefers a completely empty counter (save for a vase with dried flowers, and hand soap). This feels like a hotel room to me. Shouldn’t a bathroom be somewhat lived in?
Corey Vaughan
2024-04-09 22:44:30 +0000 UTCRE #10 What did y’all bring to the hospital when having kid #1 and what did you decide to add for #2. Expecting soon and had a scare where we already had to rush to the hospital once. We have a bag packed and are excited, but still anxious we should bring other stuff.
pwnzorshiz
2024-04-09 22:44:04 +0000 UTCMatt, should secondary boycotts really be illegal? Give me something to impress my labor law professor tomorrow
Jacob
2024-04-09 22:43:24 +0000 UTCI despise my corporate job & feel stuck have you ever been in a similar situation
Mitchellh753@gmail.com
2024-04-09 22:42:37 +0000 UTCWhat would the implications be of outlawing employment for all persons under 18? or Is there any merit to my idea for a Toil Theory of Value? Instead of simply being compensated for your labor, you’re compensated relative to how bad it fucks you up. Day laborers that break their backs all day would be highest paid cuz their backs are broke
Justin Hubbard
2024-04-09 22:42:16 +0000 UTCIf an employer has a policy in their employee handbook that violates FMLA, is that enough to take action? Or, do they have to follow through with the policy?
Patrick Roberts
2024-04-09 22:42:11 +0000 UTCTo both Matt and Liz: If religion is >50% purely hereditary (children will believe the religion of their parents regardless of exposure to other religions), can you justify any punishment whatsoever for not believing in a given religion (i.e Christianity)? To Matt: Odds of the UAW winning the upcoming elections in Tennessee and Alabama?
Chance Phillips
2024-04-09 22:42:07 +0000 UTCLiz, what aspects of the death penalty as it current exists do you think most people find abhorrent? The act itself? The fact that we kill factually innocent people? Something else? Thinking about the most effective ways to convince people that it should be abolished.
Ian Leighton
2024-04-09 22:42:04 +0000 UTCPotty training advice? She has strong fundamentals but how do you extend the effective range/how long they can hold it and therefore how far you can venture from a potty. Also taro brand traps are a charm the ants swarm it and bring the poison back to the hive, one and done
Jack Mumby
2024-04-09 22:41:31 +0000 UTCI go crazy on the Terro ant traps whenever we have issues. Put them anywhere i have seen ants, including outdoors if I figure out where they are getting in. Worked every time for me. Sometimes the problem will briefly get worse but then get much better, as a warning.
Nick Cee
2024-04-09 22:41:20 +0000 UTCLiz do you have an opinion on the work of Maurice Blondel?
Andi Livia
2024-04-09 22:41:19 +0000 UTCMatthew what do you think about adjudication vs rulemaking in NLRB
Grimmer
2024-04-09 22:40:58 +0000 UTCWhat do you make of this Trump guy? Bit too divisive for me
Orb
2024-04-09 22:40:52 +0000 UTCany advice re living with bipolar (and living with a partner with bipolar)?
filetofishfridays
2024-04-09 22:40:50 +0000 UTCRe: Matt and programming. I know he’s a Linux man and can make a website, but does he have an opinion about data structure and algorithms? Boring? Fun? Neutral?
Folks,,
2024-04-09 22:40:47 +0000 UTCMatt, have your views on AI changed as you’ve used LLMs more and more? Do you believe it has the potential to dramatically change society in the short term? If so, can you see that being helpful for welfarism or the socialist project more broadly?
Oliver Mackenzie
2024-04-09 22:40:37 +0000 UTCThoughts on Hinduism/buddhism/eastern philosophies?
Mitchellh753@gmail.com
2024-04-09 22:40:35 +0000 UTCPreferred activity while you are vibin’ on the ‘cybin?
Brendan Comfort
2024-04-09 22:39:55 +0000 UTCAre churches exempt from NLRB filings? If I was fired from a church for holding different beliefs would that be an unfair labor practice? I also live in the state of TN so at will employment might also effect.
Ncswann
2024-04-09 22:39:42 +0000 UTC
