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Queen Combat posted:(social anxiety + living alone for awhile + having a lot of hobbies where "the hands are busy but the brain is not") hello, me
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AFewBricksShy posted:Thanks I’m always looking for a good podcast to listen to. Reply All is not just a good podcast, it is the BEST podcast (except for possibly 99% Invisible). I also suggest episodes 64-67 On The Inside: For years, Paul Modrowski has been writing a blog from inside a maximum security prison. Only thing is, he was arrested when he was 18 and has never seen the internet. Sruthi Pinnamaneni reaches out to him with one small question that alters the course of her next year. It's almost like a mini season of Serial.
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n’thing the recommendation of Reply All, it’s amazing. The episode they did on the 30-50 feral hogs meme was way more interesting than it had any right to be.
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Is there a place where Reply All suddenly gets awesome? To hear people in here talk about it, it's unbelievably good, but I tried to start at the beginning, and it was just bleh. Should I try jumping in at episode twenty or something?
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Veni Vidi Ameche! posted:Is there a place where Reply All suddenly gets awesome? To hear people in here talk about it, it's unbelievably good, but I tried to start at the beginning, and it was just bleh. Should I try jumping in at episode twenty or something? Someone posted a list of good episodes up above. I wouldn't go through it chronologically because it's such a grab bag of different topics. But it is definitely one of the best podcasts ever. I think it's also from the people who made TLDR back in the day? These might be dupes with other suggestions, but my favs are these. They're more lighthearted mysteries so maybe off-topic, but overlapping. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/o2ho6j/ - pizza rat's mysterious backstory https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nh3wk/ - tracking down an international phone scammer https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4he6k - tracking down a instagram hacker https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/n8hodm - finding out why many strangers came to believe one person stole their phone
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nth+1'ing Reply All, I got into it because of On The Inside, which is thread-appropriate and still leaves me with an uncomfortable feeling, but the rest is fantastic (and more comedy/internet humor based). If you skip around and can't find any you like, maybe it's just not your thing. I'm sure it's been recommended before, but I just finished listening to "Done Disappeared" and got a few big laughs out of it, you can listen to the first season in an hour or two. I don't wanna ruin the one joke I found funniest, but referring to "Mitch Goubert" of "Bucket and Pail" as a "psychiatric expert" years before that whole thing went down in flames is pretty great. Listening to Accused S3 now and if you've ever wondered how someone could commit suicide by gently lowering themselves into molten sodium a little bit at a time, it's worth a listen. (spoiler: you don't, you're a bag of water and explode on contact with molten sodium, i thought an entire episode devoted to debunking the suicide theory was gonna be a bit much, but this makes a death mentioned earlier in this thread a much more clear cut and horrifying homicide) RNG has a new favorite as of 14:34 on Jan 12, 2020 |
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Re-listened to The Woman in the Air Conditioner from Reply All on my way home from work today and what an amazingly strange story. A man wants ambient noise to sleep to, and asks his Google home for air conditioner sounds. In his pitch black basement room, he hears an air conditioner, a woman walking down the stairs, and her saying something in a foreign language. It pops off there and spans from the weird world of relaxation apps, to sound warehouses, to the loving Berlin Wall, and the Vin Diesel movie XxX. A must listen.
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RNG posted:nth+1'ing Reply All, I got into it because of On The Inside, which is thread-appropriate and still leaves me with an uncomfortable feeling, but the rest is fantastic (and more comedy/internet humor based). If you skip around and can't find any you like, maybe it's just not your thing. Really it's the sodium that explodes on contact with me, take that sodium
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aphid_licker posted:Really it's the sodium that explodes on contact with me, take that sodium this is an avenue they explore
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xtal posted:Someone posted a list of good episodes up above. I wouldn't go through it chronologically because it's such a grab bag of different topics. But it is definitely one of the best podcasts ever. I think it's also from the people who made TLDR back in the day? Untrustable posted:Re-listened to The Woman in the Air Conditioner from Reply All on my way home from work today and what an amazingly strange story. A man wants ambient noise to sleep to, and asks his Google home for air conditioner sounds. In his pitch black basement room, he hears an air conditioner, a woman walking down the stairs, and her saying something in a foreign language. It pops off there and spans from the weird world of relaxation apps, to sound warehouses, to the loving Berlin Wall, and the Vin Diesel movie XxX. A must listen. I haven't gotten anything done this morning thank you so much! What a fascinating podcast!
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Any episode of Reply All about super tech support is always good. As mentioned above, the episode where they try to solve why Find My Phone apps were directing hundreds of people to one particular house is such an engrossing mystery.
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Untrustable posted:Re-listened to The Woman in the Air Conditioner from Reply All on my way home from work today and what an amazingly strange story. A man wants ambient noise to sleep to, and asks his Google home for air conditioner sounds. In his pitch black basement room, he hears an air conditioner, a woman walking down the stairs, and her saying something in a foreign language. It pops off there and spans from the weird world of relaxation apps, to sound warehouses, to the loving Berlin Wall, and the Vin Diesel movie XxX. A must listen. Google home devices will auto play recommended YouTube videos on the TV if left unattended. This sounds like an "ambient sounds" tracks auto playlist that went awry.
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Untrustable posted:Any episode of Reply All about super tech support is always good. As mentioned above, the episode where they try to solve why Find My Phone apps were directing hundreds of people to one particular house is such an engrossing mystery. This was my first Reply All episode and it's definitely my jam. It's the kind of technical problem that only huge inert bureaucracies can create.
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Episode 80: Alex and PJ try to explain Loss to their boss and Jason Mantzoukas. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4hemkquote:JASON MANTZOUKAS: And then fourth panel, he's standing next to a woman's bed who's sitting on her side, crying ... um, and he is — looks very nervous and um, upset. Right? He looks nervous.
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Wasabi the J posted:Google home devices will auto play recommended YouTube videos on the TV if left unattended. It is so much stranger and complex than that. A real rollercoaster. Just listen. Reply All is really good about taking a mundane mystery and digging into it only to find that, at it's core, it's a tapestry of strangeness beyond what you could have imagined.
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:Episode 80: Alex and PJ try to explain Loss to their boss and Jason Mantzoukas. https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/v4hemk hearing alex bloomberg and jason mantzoukas in the same podcast is not something i ever ever expected to hear. this is like that peanut butter in my chocolate commercial and i am here for it.
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After all the hype about a secret group of mercenaries and assassins for hire, Lake City Quiet Pills was a one-man hoax and the associated forum was actually a bunch of roleplayers from Second Life. https://twitter.com/sociablebarely/status/1210109285885042688 GWBBQ has a new favorite as of 03:49 on Jan 16, 2020 |
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GWBBQ posted:After all the hype about a secret group of mercenaries and assassins for hire, Lake City Quiet Pills was a one-man hoax and the associated forum was actually a bunch of roleplayers from Second Life. I remember losing a lot of interest in the old Thinking Sideways podcast when they fell for it so hard (at times a decent unsolved mystery podcast, now discontinued, that's hard to recommend since they had such a slide in quality toward the end). It was always a pretty clear hoax, even if it was kind of a fun one. Well, aside from the apparently very real and horrible existence of dark servers and the at best sketchy contents hosted within. Or possibly some genuinely bad poo poo being run through the site. My own  was comparing the rise of Q to Lake City Quiet Pills, I always had a tiny little thought that they were connected. Oh well.
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Parakeet vs. Phone posted:I remember losing a lot of interest in the old Thinking Sideways podcast when they fell for it so hard (at times a decent unsolved mystery podcast, now discontinued, that's hard to recommend since they had such a slide in quality toward the end). It was always a pretty clear hoax, even if it was kind of a fun one. Well, aside from the apparently very real and horrible existence of dark servers and the at best sketchy contents hosted within. Or possibly some genuinely bad poo poo being run through the site. Well Q and Quiet Pills are both hoaxes that a bunch of people have fallen for so they have that connection at least.
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Patients being treated for burns from a volcanic eruption are suffering from really weird infections, and no- one's sure if it's because of the chemicals involved doing strange things to their burns that make them vulnerable, or if it's because of the bacteria in the volcanic environment https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/118837369/trauma-rehab-and-unusual-infections-for-volcanic-burn-victims
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Infection by extremophiles sounds like it would be horrible.
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Telsa Cola posted:Infection by extremophiles sounds like it would be horrible. Infected By Extremophiles will be the name of my new RPG
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Telsa Cola posted:Infection by extremophiles sounds like it would be horrible. Adaptation works both ways, no? Something that works well on a rock near a fuckin volcano should be very confused indeed by the conditions it encounters in your Juices.
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Telsa Cola posted:Infection by extremophiles sounds like it would be horrible. Just ask Twitter lol
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Ouch. Burn.
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So I've been watching the Airplane Crash documentary series, Mayday. It's very good. But occasionally you get incidents that land in this thread. 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision. The tl;dr is that a jet and a cargo plane collide, and the jet is full of school-children. No one survives. quote:Devastated by the loss of his wife and two children aboard flight 2937, Vitaly Kaloyev, a Russian architect, held Peter Nielsen responsible for their deaths.[22] He tracked down and stabbed Nielsen to death, in the presence of his wife and three children, at his home in Kloten, near Zürich, on 24 February 2004.
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He was sentenced to eight years but released after two, went back to Russia and was given a hero’s welcome.
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Pirate Radar posted:He was sentenced to eight years but released after two, went back to Russia and was given a hero’s welcome. I have mixed feelings about that because Nielsen's fuckups did lead to the deaths of dozen of children.
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Pirate Radar posted:He was sentenced to eight years but released after two, went back to Russia and was given a hero’s welcome. I hear the Russkies give you a medal for shooting down an airliner, what gives?
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StrixNebulosa posted:I have mixed feelings about that because Nielsen's fuckups did lead to the deaths of dozen of children. Unless he was drunk or actively loving around then he was acting in good faith and the fault is entirely shared by his management for understaffing the position and/or the designers of an ATC system that didn't properly coordinate with TCAS and didn't properly support the operator in challenging conditions
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Fallom posted:Unless he was drunk or actively loving around then he was acting in good faith and the fault is entirely shared between his management for understaffing the position and/or the designers of an ATC system that didn't properly coordinate with TCAS and didn't properly support the operator in challenging conditions I hadn't thought about it like that. Thank you.
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https://twitter.com/nickmartin/status/1219697316061315073?s=19 Lots of unnerving content in the news these days
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Pirate Radar posted:He was sentenced to eight years but released after two, went back to Russia and was given a hero’s welcome. Two years in a Swiss jail for some good old fashioned blood revenge doesn't sound too bad.
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