Me and my wife noticed you from across the bar…

I lost all faith when they did a “takedown” of Baudrillard which was such a blatant misreading it was gross

Sometimes things are going so bad you just have to say “been better” and endure the following awkward silence.

shramp yesss

Generally just some chuckle-able background noise while getting ready in the morning. Ironically, the most recent episode was one of the worst ones in a long time, so unlucky you lol

Just off the top of my head:

-“House Flipping” culture

-Short-term rentals and AirBnb

-“Professional Landlordism”

-Corporate residential landholding

-Rabid boomer landowners who lose their minds when any rise in property tax gets mentioned, which results in artificially inflated property valuations

-No rent control

Obviously the REAL answer is Capitalism, but the above phenomena create ripple effects across the whole housing market, which is something that the r*dditors always overlook when they quote stats that say “corporate ownership of residential properties only represent a small fraction of the market.” Yeah, maybe they do, but even that small fraction ripples out to housing precarity for millions of people.

Absolutely - I honestly think Dune and Dune Messiah should be sold as one book.

Amazing

Well aside from the time it totally bricked my system, it pretty good.

Uhhh, excuse me? My takes are totally original. T’Pol told me so.

Okaaaay, just because you’ve brought it up…

Transporters in Star Trek are shown to definitely not be duplication machines. “Our Man Bashir” (DS9) is probably the most definitive proof of that.

Personally, I think transporter technology explains the staunch atheist (but still open-minded and sometimes spiritualist) Federation mindset: they know that their entire being can be reduced to a matter/energy stream. The transporter makes a devastating philosophical challenge to the idea of a “soul.” Which is, ironically, why so many Federation officers refuse to accept anything that challenges that assumption (VOY “Sacred Ground”).

Uhh just play Outer Worlds you nerds

Yeah dawg that’s … the entire point of the Engels piece - “authoritarianism” is a meaningless buzzword.

CHINA COLLAPSING ANY DAY NOW

Tom Paris literally broke spacetime and did direct action to save a water planet.

Is there any question?

En clo sure of he commens duh

Critical support for Jason Mamoa who had to stop drinking water for days to look shredded in Aquaman and almost died.

A Trot/Left-Com on MY Hexbear??? Astonishing!

Amazing track from an amazing artist. This is a great pump up song before heading out for the night.