Premium 321: Heretore Unseen Forms of Malignancies
Added 2024-08-26 19:19:28 +0000 UTCThis week we open with a short discussion on the Alien franchise and new Alien film, and then go on to talk about a billionaire's venture into space, the DNC, and finally a Maureen Dowd profile of Palantir's CEO Alex Karp
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Terrence. We DO have a Left Party running with the most ballot access. The Green Party. It may seem ‘cringe’ and they aren’t ’going to win’ but to not even invest the vote into building The Green Party as a 3rd Party whilst bemoaning the continuation of the 2-Party duopoly is exactly what the 2-Party want.
MYK’L ROCKS
2024-09-04 14:09:12 +0000 UTCGood luck to the folks in the suburbs. If you can get out please come join the rest of us anywhere else 💘
BookMisser
2024-09-03 11:07:48 +0000 UTCBigger cities feel like more if a choose your own adventure but then we all seem to read and drink and speak similarly, simultaneously. But I do think living all together and seeing my neighbors all the time is like a balm. Maybe I remember this wrongly but I see similar things (on a smaller scale) frequently. If you remember the guy who threw smoke bombs and shot into a crowd on the subway. The lead photo still has smoke in the air. No one knew who the shooter was. He could have still been there as far as anyone knows. Every shot person has someone able to run away who is kneeling beside them helping. It isn’t perfect but I think living together helps us to relate to each other.
BookMisser
2024-09-03 11:06:24 +0000 UTCEvery place I live shaped me. In an isolated small town I started to be able to literally see more shades of color in natural landscapes. But I also started to internalize sweating if people would gossip about my clothes at work and thought about necklines and weird clothing features. Felt like small towns bring out your inner busy body.
BookMisser
2024-09-03 10:57:59 +0000 UTCYes, it feels like people I know who move to suburbs start to morph. After a decade or so they know the rest of us however we are described on tv. I don’t know if they would say they feel alienated but it makes my stomach hurt to think about.
BookMisser
2024-09-03 10:49:44 +0000 UTCI think the grift is just to get investors and purchasers excited and sell them a lemon of an idea. It is just snake oil.
BookMisser
2024-09-02 15:47:28 +0000 UTCWaymo cars “ In its announcement, NHTSA described incidents in which Waymo cars hit objects such as gates, chains or parked vehicles, or disobeyed traffic safety devices. It also noted publicly available reports of Waymo cars entering construction zones or driving toward oncoming traffic in the wrong lane.”
BookMisser
2024-09-02 15:46:25 +0000 UTCSometimes I think you can overthink these grifts. I think they know there will never be cars that can do “full” self driving. Waymo is at level 4 out of 5 and I think Tesla is at 2 (although they both call themselves fully autonomous).
BookMisser
2024-09-02 15:46:04 +0000 UTCNever saw Alien: Covenant, but it seems like it was made in a lab to troll the Cinema Sins ding. Ridley Scott is maybe the most head-injury-filmmaker for "religious allegory-movies". His "dealing with religious themes" is like my niece hot-gluing two popsicle-sticks together and posing next to it, going "Eh? Reminds you of anything? Ok, let's break it down. I know this is pretty heady stuff. You see, this is an allusion to the cross Jesus died o.."
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-09-01 01:42:53 +0000 UTCAbout the unreliable narrator mentioned in Ep 357 -- Kurt Vonnegut considered anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, by Ambrose Bierce. https://www.spokesmanbooks.com/Spokesman/PDF/90Vonnegut.pdf
M
2024-08-31 14:43:20 +0000 UTC"rubix cube at the dinner table" really got me good. wrt to the free ep this week, I was "dating" (sleeping w/never making it official) a potential partner/gf when I ran into a friend with her and I referred to her as "my associate"--she stopped hanging out with me.
carl
2024-08-31 13:43:23 +0000 UTCthis is waluigi slander, he's just a normal guy...........
Ryan Lazarus
2024-08-30 16:10:39 +0000 UTCRef. Thursday episode: pronounced FOONT
Malcolm Collie
2024-08-30 05:14:56 +0000 UTCListening to that Alex Karp profile caused me actual, physical pain
Collyn Marsh
2024-08-30 01:51:42 +0000 UTCI imagine him like Mac from Always Sunny playing nightman. Just moving from point to point with whack karate
Bill
2024-08-29 23:14:35 +0000 UTCThat would require a level of self-awareness the ultrarich do not possess.
Guy Incognito
2024-08-29 21:26:24 +0000 UTCthe irony of a rich guy doing tai chi while praising western domination and talking about destroying china.
rndll
2024-08-29 19:28:31 +0000 UTCnot related to this ep but I watched the new The Crow and the line was 'Brilliantly Broken' not 'Beautifully Broken'. They should have let Tarence punch up the script
Max Cobb
2024-08-29 13:05:57 +0000 UTCThe democrats have to collapse for any progress to happen they literally exist to block the left
gavin curran
2024-08-29 06:54:44 +0000 UTCAaron is absolutely right the dnc was just an amerikkkan bund rally. To go with the ‘joy’ theme while committing genocide is zone of interest nazi shit, they’re Nazis just like the conservatives
gavin curran
2024-08-29 06:53:22 +0000 UTCMost voting is pretty useless. The system is out of reach of capture. You could try to slow it down but you will be engaging in the same activity as trying to destroy it. Violence. And the state and system are both waiting for disaffected people to engage in such activities. Gaza should be a good example. But u will have to take examples from the palestinian, you will have to commit generations of resistance. So yeah punch your 3rd third vote, it safer than the actually solution.
anthony potter
2024-08-28 21:37:04 +0000 UTCAh yes, the first Duelist in space, Yugi Gargarin.
Hutson Heller
2024-08-28 18:07:30 +0000 UTC*Intently listening and nodding to Karl Marx laying out his ideological perspective on life mere moments after he likened himself to Berchtold, the Bavarian Fledermaus*
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-08-28 13:44:48 +0000 UTCI'm literally playing GTA 5 (for the first time) as I listen to this, and as annoying and embarassing as GTA's spoofs are, it's even more annoying to hear that the actual movers and shakers in real life are exactly this crude of a cartoon of themselves. So the contractor to ICE is a curly-haired 56 year old quirk-boy who does Tai Chi and gets lost doing fridge poetry. Awesome. What if the Best Friend character from an early 00's comedy also ran the Stasi, but with the exact same affect?
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-08-28 13:10:05 +0000 UTCLove having a profile of me where things are conspicuously described - but not directly commented on - as "austrian style". "This is my austrian style knife, that I use to austrian style various pets and critters I find in my neighborhood after hours. I arrange their remains according to Sacred Geometry, which brings me a sense of zen and Now. #ExuberantIntrovertThangs. "
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-08-28 12:50:46 +0000 UTCThese synths need to pull up their pants and stop putting rims on their intergalactic starships.
Jesper Ohlsson
2024-08-28 12:44:55 +0000 UTCdonating to the democrats in factors of 18 is so funny
FamilyGorgeous
2024-08-27 23:42:51 +0000 UTCIt’s probably been said already but the fact that Kamala’s lethality of the American army comment was presented in a way that assumes we aren’t already the most lethal army in existence is so discouraging
Sam Barron
2024-08-27 22:47:37 +0000 UTCthey did this to my boy
FamilyGorgeous
2024-08-27 22:10:24 +0000 UTCI’m a big watch guy…so a lot of my Tik Tok is jewelers and whatnot. And couldn’t help but notice how lightly a lot of them throw it around. I guess like anything else, the best parts of a culture get co-opted and made a mockery of 😕
Isaiah Charles
2024-08-27 21:50:06 +0000 UTCRemember that pic of Jeff Bezos eating an Iguana? https://library.iucn-isg.org/documents/2018/Anonymous_2018_Daily_Mail.pdf
Jess 🐞
2024-08-27 21:37:00 +0000 UTCMy Dad, 78 yo Tesla owner, agrees
SoldierBlue
2024-08-27 20:33:15 +0000 UTCI always thought about what one of my low-functioning special education students would be like if they were given the budget of a developing country.
Luke S
2024-08-27 19:13:31 +0000 UTCI hope self driving cars still do road rage on each other.
Luke S
2024-08-27 18:40:38 +0000 UTCCall me a turbolib or whatever the fuck but I think that if the democratic party collapsed tomorrow nothing positive would or even could fill that void, nothing has the foundation or capacity to replace it. It feels like fantastical thinking that conservative domination wouldn't immediately set in.
Sage
2024-08-27 17:35:59 +0000 UTCThe best description of Elon is a Blobfish with hair plugs
Zach H.
2024-08-27 17:32:05 +0000 UTCI like PSL. Not so much Stein.
Grant
2024-08-27 16:46:22 +0000 UTCDon’t forget road rage since cars are the only way to get anywhere
Luke S
2024-08-27 15:44:52 +0000 UTCI slow danced with Guy Pearce on my Yr 5 Camp. His parents ran the camp and he was visiting so he was forced to entertain us one night. It ruled!
Leyland
2024-08-27 15:22:24 +0000 UTCI couldn't get more than 15 mins in. Haven't even met the alien yet. Got too scared. Had to shut it off.
Tom's Trips Official
2024-08-27 13:15:37 +0000 UTCAnd a refusal to engage with public transit (perceived to be a poor people thing) options and alternatives to car-centric infrastructure, also. Most of Elon's stupid ideas are just easily-solved with effective mass-transit
Tom's Trips Official
2024-08-27 13:14:59 +0000 UTCImo self-driving cars are more of an out-of-touch-billionaire’s 80’s dream of the future and less of a solution to texting and driving.
Richard Cochnar
2024-08-27 13:02:39 +0000 UTCCovenant? Good? Unsubbed
Fill Columns
2024-08-27 12:04:00 +0000 UTCOne of the most prescient Elon Musk predicting novels is Moonraker by Ian Fleming Edit: it's funny that I clarified the novel, when the Moonraker movie is literally about a guy doing eugenics so white ubermensch can live in outer space. The villain in the novel was an investor who got rich enough to start a private rocket company that works alongside the government. The villain, Hugo Drax, is an abrasive asshole who inexplicably attracts weirdo super-defensive fanboys. (The twist is that he's a Nazi)
Andrew Dunn
2024-08-27 10:27:07 +0000 UTCThe problem is that right now any "third party" options are still bourgeois parties.
Lucy McGillicuddy
2024-08-27 08:26:21 +0000 UTCSurely no more of a waste than voting for the parties of capital and genocide, but could you explain why you think it's a waste? I'm probably missing something but it seems like if a significant number of people voted third party that could be a productive intervention in bourgeois electoralism.
Sai
2024-08-27 07:43:45 +0000 UTCThe reason they want autonomous cars is so they can have autonomous delivery vehicles and semi trucks. It's about liquidating another portion of the working class.
Lucy McGillicuddy
2024-08-27 07:41:22 +0000 UTCthe demiurgical creator stuff is cool but i’m more interested in taking our garbage politics here and putting it in space where a metaphor eats astronauts alive
Billiam
2024-08-27 07:32:15 +0000 UTCi dig the alien isolation video game because it takes place on a defunct company town spaceport run by the dollar store version of weyland. reminds me of home. 💗
Billiam
2024-08-27 07:29:15 +0000 UTCthnx for the heads up.
Billiam
2024-08-27 07:25:57 +0000 UTCIt is definitely a waste of time in the current system without forcing change to the system because of the delegate process and the nomination process
Allison McArthur
2024-08-27 07:19:32 +0000 UTCyou gotta adopt the trueanon rule that words can be pronounced however you want
mexicanhalloween .
2024-08-27 06:19:15 +0000 UTCI will say, if you guys decide to never touch on american electoral politics again, I think that's cool. Obviously it's fertile grounds for some good riffs, but I think you guys have always been at your sharpest when talking about regional stories, reviewing books, and talking to authors or activists.
Alex Hennessey
2024-08-27 05:12:33 +0000 UTCAaron admitting he doesn’t know how to pronounce Appalachia 🤣
Emily Richardson
2024-08-27 03:20:39 +0000 UTCYou used to be able to set the subscription as high as you like. They took a break once so I paid a little more and called it leave loading
SoldierBlue
2024-08-27 02:42:03 +0000 UTCInstead of the Torment Nexus, this Karp dude is literally doing the mass survalaince machine Morgan Freeman warned Batman about in The Dark Knight while at the same time thinking he'll live long enough to be seen as the hero instead of villan.
Steven Pace
2024-08-27 02:36:47 +0000 UTCIn space no one can hear you say slurs
Rock Wallie
2024-08-27 01:56:41 +0000 UTCFYI the factors of 18 thing isn't specifically Kabbalah but is just a standard Jewish tradition. The Hebrew word for "life" is "chai" (חי) which if you add up the numbers of the places in the Hebrew alphabet where the letters that spell that occur you get 18 (ח is 8 and י is 10). It's kind of fucked how that guy does it though because it's supposed to be for celebratory stuff like wedding gifts or donations to charities that help the poor...
David Levy
2024-08-27 00:56:29 +0000 UTCCovenant was dope I loved the part where Micheal Fassbender tells Micheal Fassbender that if he blows he’ll finger the holes
Liam
2024-08-27 00:50:22 +0000 UTCFun Ep. I’m not trying to be disingenuous or contrarian but we’ve been genetically modifying and selectively breeding animals and plants since day one. I would argue that this is neutral to good. Peter Singer would disagree (mass torture of sentient animals for protein production and the destruction of biomes etc) Also Musk was almost certainly talking in eugenics terms. So I’m not sure what my point is.
Jack Hand
2024-08-27 00:38:12 +0000 UTCFrom the last free ep, my favorite band that did a genre swap has gotta be Ulver. Killed it with their black metal and continue to kill it with their electronic music.
Sean Dickey
2024-08-27 00:17:29 +0000 UTCThe endless and terrifying void of outer space now has the opportunity to do THE FUNNIEST THING
The True Horror
2024-08-26 23:38:07 +0000 UTCBoys.. we got ourselves a green who wants to die for country… oblige him.
Tyler Scherer
2024-08-26 23:36:09 +0000 UTCGod I love this
McMiller
2024-08-26 23:15:12 +0000 UTCImmediately what I thought of re: Mars population. The Mars trilogy too
Tom's Trips Official
2024-08-26 23:09:46 +0000 UTCJesus that last story was grim as fuck.
Tom's Trips Official
2024-08-26 23:08:42 +0000 UTCYes
Kaz jennifer Louise Lasker Schwarz
2024-08-26 23:07:46 +0000 UTCTarence, you post a question of why Trump was able to congeal a movement while Bernie was left hanging. Part of me really believes that American physical geography and our built environment has something to do with it. We have built the most socially isolating landscape ever created within our suburbs. I am convinced no solid left base will form out of American suburban communities as long as they prohibit spaces where society happens and separate individuals and families into giant houses with giant tracts of land, bundled together and bordered by endless retail.
Carter Mize
2024-08-26 22:32:55 +0000 UTCI think PSL is good. Jill Stein is also good.
Sai
2024-08-26 22:01:38 +0000 UTC“People always have been and they always will be the stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics, until they learn behind every kind of moral, religious, political, social phrase, declaration and promise to seek out the interests of this or that class or classes. The partisans of reform and betterment will always be fooled by the defenders of the old régime, until they understand that every old institution, no matter how savage and rotten it may seem, is sustained by the forces of this or that dominant class or classes. And there is only one way to break the resistance of these classes, namely, to find in the very society surrounding us, to find and educate and organize for the struggle, those forces which can – and owing to their social situation must – form a power capable of sweeping away the old and creating the new.” – Lenin.
Matt Esparza
2024-08-26 21:57:24 +0000 UTCI definitely agree. I think we need a better third party, though. But I’m not able to set one up so idk.
Grant
2024-08-26 21:29:05 +0000 UTCGreat episode btw thanks for all that yall do. Really a bright spot in a dark time.
Wayfinder Radio
2024-08-26 21:27:33 +0000 UTCYeah let them keep thinking they are "miles ahead of china in software." The longer they go without realizing the truth the better off the prc will be.
Wayfinder Radio
2024-08-26 21:27:01 +0000 UTCYou didn't mention 'Raised by Wolves' wtf you gotta check that out.
Evan
2024-08-26 21:23:48 +0000 UTCMaybe I'm naive but I don't know why you'd write off the last vestige of small d democratic potential that remains in the formal electoral system.
Sai
2024-08-26 21:21:25 +0000 UTCCannot believe you didn't call this one "Electorally Gooning"
Some Guy
2024-08-26 21:20:55 +0000 UTCHoly fuck, the Palantir guy
SoldierBlue
2024-08-26 21:19:23 +0000 UTCHey you guys should add higher paid tiers to allow ppl to give more than $5
MallSoft 95
2024-08-26 21:05:57 +0000 UTCMass migration happens because the US empire and its proxy states destabilize countries through both economic and military warfare for that country’s natural resources for cheap. People flee because of this and try coming to the imperial core. Even a wapo journalist wrote about this recently People like Karp know this and readily serve empire. They’re legit psychopaths who want people to languish and die for their profits. This country is run by complete sickos and spooks.
M
2024-08-26 21:03:20 +0000 UTCIt's absurd to say that third party voting doesn't matter. Self-fulfilling prophecy. If you vote for them it will matter. In fact it is the only terrain in national US politics that offers any opportunity to those who would see the end of bourgeois rule and imperialism.
Sai
2024-08-26 21:03:13 +0000 UTCYou guys need to read the expanse series by sa corey.
Matt Miller
2024-08-26 20:54:59 +0000 UTCYou-Gi-Oh Gagarin
Clammy_Damp
2024-08-26 20:51:36 +0000 UTCPrometheus is GOOD
Clammy_Damp
2024-08-26 20:40:24 +0000 UTCAliens AND an Aaron episode?! Let’s gooooo
Ashley Naftule
2024-08-26 20:13:08 +0000 UTCMusk can’t even regular engineer himself into being physically fit how’s he going to bioengineer fucking anything
William
2024-08-26 20:07:19 +0000 UTCSpace x wouldn’t exist without billions in government funding. But this guy is the first “private” astronaut with private funds. Fuck off
William
2024-08-26 20:03:41 +0000 UTC
