I believe today is actually the sixty-fifth of the month.

The seventy-second is next Sunday.

This got a chuckle outta me.

But it do be true that Big Old runs the world.

A conspiracy among whom?

Who were the folks in a dark room saying, ‘Listen boys: we’re here to uphold outdated gender norms. But to work, it’s all gotta be hush-hush, capiche?’

You know what I find so odd? Her dad is one of Jamaica’s most renowned economists. He’s a highly respected long-time presence in Jamaican economic policy. His academic and policy work is far to her left, and they’re apparently estranged.

I wonder if she’s familiar with her dad’s work. I wonder if she’d been able to sit down and have dinner with him at any point over the last year and ask his thoughts what he would’ve said.

Respectfully, as a resident of Oakland CA, I kinda hate this, even as a joke.

Nationally, we’re the stand in for conservative fearmongering. But Oakland has big dreams. We’re a town with incredible culture and community trying to do the best we can with limited resources in the face of so many oligarchs who just see endless opportunities to kick us while we’re down.

Oakland wants to be Wakanda. But most residents feel like we’re getting mugged by landlords, then having our shoes swiped while we’re bleeding on the concrete by thieves.

Can I offer some constructive critique?

This meme is getting downvoted because it is both a fairly dumb concept but also a very unsatisfying execution.

You need to take your idea and communicate it in a meme response. It could be a meme representing confusion or sarcasm, but adding “Breaking New…” as bottom text is really not going to go well even if everyone thought your opinion was good.

Whenever people say this, my first response is: you should support building mixed use/mixed density.

You would have an easier time affording a single family home if there were a couple of duplexes, quad plexes, and low rise apartments around, with some small shops in the ground level.

Fewer people competing for the same single family homes and close access to bodegas and bistros. Easier time finding babysitters and dog walkers too.

We don’t all have to love like Manhattan. Most of the nicest neighborhood in America are mixed density.

You messed up the format.

The caption should be “Why would Socialism do this?”

Thanks for sharing this. I wasn’t familiar with this channel, not I’m liking it.

I just read that this guy was part of Nebula and was forced out. It’s remarkable that he’s forced out for speaking openly and defending his beliefs when Isaac Arthur is tolerated despite having much more onerous politics but having them in secret. Smh.

Amen. It drives me fuckin’ nuts anytime – in business as well as in sci-fi and general discussion – when people envision a society made perfect because it’s run by a genius computer.

For pretty much every challenge society faces, the major obstacle is not that we’re unsure what to do or lack the intelligence to solve. We already have all the solutions, it’s just that our decision making systems are completely disinterested in employing any of the solutions that we already have.

It’s like, if you could get everyone to agree to listen to a computer, why not just skip the computer and get everyone to agree to listen to a combination of popular will and expert advice? Popular will and expert advice are like the supercomputer that runs society that we already have.

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

― Ursula K. Le Guin

You are utterly powerless to stop this, even at your most self actualized, mobile, and focused you are fundamentally incapable of changing what needs to be changed.

This is flat out wrong.

You’re missing the point, because your scale is off. I’m not trying to change the planet. I’m trying to change my city and neighborhood. I’m not trying to hold back the tides. I’m trying to teach the next generation the resiliency to survive a long road to something better.

Those goals are totally in my reach. I can’t save billions, but I can definitely save dozens. Perhaps hundreds over the next century. And if enough of us do that, collectively we CAN save billions.

And somewhat ironically, the “our species can still turn it around! live in hope!” types are the same ones deadset against revolution to force those living large off destroying the planet to stop in a physical way.

I feel like it’s the other way around. I feel like it’s my people who are out there getting arrested and making fossil fuel execs upgrade their security detail, and it’s the doomers who seem to complain endlessly about how much they hate the taste of shoe leather while somehow spending the most time down there.

Okay well then where’s the problem? If there’s no point in trying to fight climate change while capitalism exists, then end capitalism. I don’t understand where we disagree.

Vaguely relevant

Great show, and a great use of this character.

I came to add this.

I agree with you… but I don’t disagree with @john_mcmurray.

The fact that Biden actually participates in genocide at all is just ghastly. I honestly struggle to find the words for it. And once he crossed that bridge, I will never ever try to argue with someone who assigns him equal moral equivalence with Trump.

It’s like debating whether someone who killed one of your children is better than someone who killed two. Mathematically? I think so. Conceptually? Those are who child murderers. The difference is negligible.

There are still Palestinians alive right now, though, so we can’t give up, no matter how heartbroken.

This take gave me a chuckle.

A little yes and a little no.

I think all of these people are monsters, but I’m also trying to find the best option among bad options. If Harris is president, I can live with that. If Trump gets elected again… I think the possibility of Palestinians getting exterminated becomes a genuine possibility, and the damage to our climate and our ability to reverse course after four years look very fragile.

It’s very depressing.