PawParole posted:

you mean the Battle of Hadrianopolis. Rome was a thousand years from falling at Teutonburg.

Ytlaya posted:

Citations Needed is really good as left media (and what I recommend to random people), but to be honest at least half of the episodes aren't very interesting to listen to because they're about topics that I'm already fully aware of and are basically just telling me things I already know.

Doc Hawkins posted:

speaking of which

Xaris posted:

i think im just spoiled in that there are shows like trueanon/tafs/TWSU/RWN/TMK/blowback/ghost stories/ or even fuckin' bein ian that are just absolute constant bangers and don't do weird stupid poo poo and then you got this one podcast that typically good stuff but then just enough entirely fail AIDs goony sex fanfic episodes that make me question the entire series

i guess chapo had that god awful zayguana fanfic or w/e episode that was horrible but that those are least 3 standard deviations away

to not be entirely negative, i did like their recent cambridge analytica episode

Samuel Glompers posted:

I download mp3 files and listen to them in poweramp

Futanari Damacy posted:

I guess that was also around the time that no restaurant should have been open for indoor dining, so a facile comparison at best

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

lol move over, botw2

https://twitter.com/keffals/status/1623411970157449217

Jel Shaker posted:

because Seymour Hersh, in the last decade, claimed that Bin Laden didn't do 9/11, that Assad didn't use chemical weapons on his own citizens, and that Seth Rich leaked DNC info to Wikileaks. He's gone off the rails and there's no reason to believe anything he says lately.

apparently

"Brace" posted:

(this is Brace btw) I genuinely hate hate hate cancelling or rescheduling shows because I know people take off work sometimes or even travel and stuff but I've been getting progressively sicker for the past couple weeks and the kind doctor at the clinic here in Minneapolis told me I have a pretty decent case of pneumonia (not a euphemism!).

DragQueenofAngmar posted:

he’s just admitting that he doesn’t have the courage of his convictions which would also apply to basically 100% of what’s posted in cspam. if you think illegal/revolutionary actions are the only things that can make change for the better, but you’re not doing those things, you’re in the exact same place

AnimeIsTrash posted:

idk why right wingers hate higher education so much, it primes you for work in the empire

there is nothing that solidifies your belief and commitment to the system as graduating from an ivy league institution

AnimeIsTrash posted:

im behind on like every podcast that isnt yks, doughboys, and trueanon

rwn rules but some of their epiisodes on the russiian war were so bad

Gripweed posted:

The Chad Jihad posted:

AnimeIsTrash posted:

mike duncan sucks, how did so many of you listen to him? lmfao

Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:

herbert also wrote hellstrom's hive which is about a cult leader scientist breeding humans to live as in an insect hive. his killer B ladies gently caress dudes to death

Gato posted:

Eleanor Janega? She's on twitter as @GoingMedieval but her podcast is called We're Not So Different. It's prety good imo, though the "1 expert + 1 lay person" setup means it can be a bit unfocused, and at least in the early episodes (I haven't caught up in a while) they're way too invested in Twitter arguments. They did a 23(!) part series on historical materialism I keep meaning to go back to.

Oneiros posted:

not really, tho i'm convinced that the ultimate goal of the companies running popular vtubers is to have eternal characters that they can exploit without regard to the actual people behind them. i expect to see human/chatbot fusions soon, like the call center workers who can only respond via soundboards

lobster shirt posted:

feeling validated that the chapo boys also hate sweet potato fries

Doc Hawkins posted:

ahahhahahha

Ytlaya posted:

I wonder if I started dating Taylor Swift if there would be Buzzfeed articles discussing my views on the Ukraine War and posting screenshots from the C-SPAM thread

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

the one where she writes about how she kissed a man in the rain at a train stop after he sang her “The Internationale,” and gave herself hangovers that left her begging for death. But all of the late nights, heated debates, and joyous camaraderie was set against the unmistakable sense that somehow, socialism was winning?

celadon posted:

i think whats plausible is sorta like what you see in Blindsight, by Peter Watts, which is very good. what i describe isnt exactly the book but its sort of how i got here

basically your constantly expanding interstellar shell of a species is going to be at a fixed tech level more or less, because theres very little conflict on the periphery. you just keep expanding outwards in your colony-ships-that-can-make-colony-ships-that-can-make-colony-ships eating the world. close to where you started youd expect more conflict and tech development but its distribution is limited by c. so all your descendants that are at the leading edge of your empire are the least technologically advanced, and you can never really help them out.

so if they come into contact with another race thats also a constantly expanding shell of a species, you imagine basically eternal war across millions of star systems

so dont let that happen send out autonomous probes that are way faster and without having to deal with life support or your frail bodies and glass every planet that looks like it has meat growing on it. if your merciful you could just kettle them instead but the merciful will be replaced by the paranoid. killing billions of sentient beings is a much better bet than allowing a multi-system war to break out, and theyre not your kin anyway

also god forbid they end up being more clever than you and find a way to break the speed limit then youre really screwed

basically, our first contact with an alien intelligence will be an asteroid the size of manhattan traveling at 0.1c clipping through the earth

celadon posted:

i mean its an entity showing up from outer space, taking a picture of us and then preparing to do something in response. i said it wasnt how the book is its just how i thought of this. sorry i also didnt want to spoil anything so i was overly vague.

Dreylad posted:

blindsight is a wild ride, especially the way you get to have scifi vampires

tristeham posted:

pretty sure he's on the payroll

AnimeIsTrash posted:

They have even said so openly lol.

If you think his NED ties are vague, he created a media company using an internet meme with a clearchannel exec.

tokin opposition posted:

Croup is an anarchist

Ytlaya posted:

The one thing I disagree with here is that the Democrats would do better with any other nominee. Despite low approval, I'm pretty sure Biden would still do better than any other possible Democratic nominee.

The main reason for this is that, more than approval, I think the biggest factor is "how much the politician is hated by 'independents' and Republicans" (since partisan Democrats are voting for him regardless and - just like their Republican counterparts - are mostly motivated by antipathy towards the other party). And Biden simply isn't someone who inspires much hate - he mostly just inspires ambivalence. It's why they have to focus so much on Hunter. But if you got someone like Kamala or something, it'd be very easy to spin up the right-wing rage machine against her (for a variety of reasons).

edit: I think Democrats are likely to win the presidential election simply because either 1. (if Trump runs) Trump inspires more hate in Democrats than Biden inspires in Republicans, or 2. (if Trump doesn't run) the Republicans have literally no one else who is remotely popular.

genericnick posted:

Started on Ghost Stories, thanks for the rec.

Gripweed posted:

some good Ghost Stories discourse going on in another thread

Shipon posted:

how is that a homophobic slur, he's right