Premium 245: The Stratospheric Fade

I was taking a hydroclimatology course and we were talking about environmental feedback loops and our professor was like yes Day After Tomorrow. That's real. Like exaggerated but real.

Jen

Ironic to say the guy who made Zeitgeist, Peter Joseph, inspired Elon Musk and Joe Rogan fans, since he was recently permanently banned from Twitter for making an insulting tweet directed at Rogan. He is also very outspoken in all of his works that Capitalism is destroying humanity. He has a good podcast called “Revolution Now” which you might be interested to hear.

meadowlark

Totally agree!

Lauren Gibson

Tom has great taste in Housewives franchises

lauramcpatreon

Schopenhauer talks about how the only thing that would give you true comfort on your death bed without be if you could know that everybody else in the world was also gonna die at the same time. Little did he know that not that long after his death that that thought would not only become possible but also become fairly likely…

Totally unrelated to this ep, but am I crazy or was there an episode a few weeks ago with Nick Offerman that just totally disappeared from the feed? If so, what’s the story with that?

...the real tell in that article is that the metric of Silicon Valley being worthwhile was something like "this field is valued at X", which is not a metric we use in any other context other than financial speculation/funny-money-business. It would be bizarre to explain why, let's say, a water treatment plant is important for reasons that "other people think what it does is worth a lot of money". You only use this angle of attaching importance to something when you self-consciously know that there isn't a self-evident reason for it to exist (more so if you also feel like "gambling" is degenerate, but stock-speculation is somehow fundamentally different and legit).

Jesper Ohlsson

Highly recommend folks find and get involved in local groups doing ecological restoration. Connects you to community, good entry point for radicalizing folks on climate, provides tangible environmental benefits locally and beyond. Helps in small ways to mitigate biodiversity collapse at the very least.

scamhan

When I saw that Washington Post piece, and similar headlines, I immediately thought that the point was to begin accusing anyone demanding that climate change be addressed (which necessarily means addressing it immediately and completely) of being a "doomer," and equating them with deniers, which discredits the notion that anything meaningful be done about the issue

Misha TheHomeless

all timer ep.

Well aged meme

The wolves in Day After Tomorrow escaped the zoo during the chaos. No migration. Also, the crown jewel scene is when they literally out run the cold ground that's freezing behind the and manage to shut the door just in time. I remember being 10 years old and thinking damn that makes no fucking sense.

safetyconesavior

"What good thing has Silicon Valley produced in 25-30 years?" I had a lot of fun watching a youtube lets play of Half Life: Alyx. I mean, I can't exactly afford a full VR setup to play it myself, but someone else had fun playing it, and so I got to vicariously have fun through them. Oh, and one time I really needed to get to the airport and all my other ride plans fell through. So I'd say all the VC money evens out.

Sean Dickey