"today, I feel a migrant worker" is almost certainly a confession of guilt

I love that point about how they’re trying to breed the strongest and most skilled human beings to inherit the earth, but really those skills will amount to “knowing python”, “being good at Excel”, and “Zoom etiquette”.

@OpiatesAndTits

Жыл бұрын

Those can be good skills, but yeah they don’t mean you have the golden jizz lol

@MiraiGen

Жыл бұрын

The ruling class always ends up thinking things they do is just so special and unique and needed in the world, always always always.

@fenceyhen4249

5 ай бұрын

Do billionaires use Python and Excel? Does using Excel make you bourgeois? I don't get it

@jackfiercetree5205

3 ай бұрын

​@fenceyhen4249 excel is for business spreadsheets. What is the point of all this, if it isn't money?

@michaeltorris5675

3 ай бұрын

@@MiraiGenAnd they always think that the are innately part of the ruling class. Genetic “superiority” just replaced divinity. That’s the only difference between now and hundreds of years ago.

My son, Titus Andronicus is the peak male specimen. We have selected all the epigenetic traits that allow him to type more than 50 words per minute.

@ChewyThomson

Жыл бұрын

But is he a poster

Longtermism is what happens when alarmingly young gf doesn't remind alarmingly balding bf that he works on the computer.

@Jobtof

Жыл бұрын

Nice another shasti enjoyer

The more I hear and read about Thiel and his ilk, the more I'm convinced they're actually princes of Chaos who are about two steps away from creating the Daemonculaba...

@brokentower3148

Жыл бұрын

Was it Dark Buddhism or Secular Calvinism that did this for you?

Matt was on one this episode. One of his best.

@Umkarz

Жыл бұрын

Arabic fans know: Matt Christman is the only real one.

@RatPfink66

Жыл бұрын

@@Umkarz The lion of Chapo. Long and loud may he roar.

"secular calvinism" might be the worst phrase ive ever heard. it makes me physically ill.

@technologic21

Жыл бұрын

Yet another twisted cult.

@johncrane3858

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it makes me kind of speechless. I have no idea how to argue against "secular Calvinism." It breaks my brain, it sends my mind into the black. I feel like a protagonist in an HP Lovecraft story.

@52flyingbicycles

Жыл бұрын

As a Calvinist I find it hilarious that tech bros just keep unironically reinventing Catholicism

@bsh819

Жыл бұрын

Calvinism was always a secular movement. Reason based reinterpretations of the scriptures was a precursor to the enlightenment.

@lifeisgood12341

Жыл бұрын

They praise Economoss by having money they are obviously Economoss' chosen. And they are correct.

Beautiful opening. Love to all our LGTBQ+ comrades. Conservatives need to be stopped and rooted out for their hatred.

God damnit Matt always blows my mind

@debra-sue

Жыл бұрын

"Chief Key-Jangler for Peter Thiel" had me grabbing a nearby wall for support

My sense of "immortality" lies in my contributions to the collective. I suppose if you're a billionaire uber-consumer, you haven't created anything, you pass nothing on, you will entirely cease to be. I can see how that haunts them.

@ChangedMyNameFinally69

Жыл бұрын

Pissing off the transhumanist with this one lmao

Show has been on fire lately, really good episode here

These are the people who read all of Dune.

despair and hope can be felt simultaneously and I'm tired of pretending like we can't

@UntoTheBreach24

Жыл бұрын

Dialectics?

@otsoaunola9515

Жыл бұрын

Dope

@Hud23

Жыл бұрын

We can? It feels like sayong we can be terrified and calm at the same time.

@Praisethesunson

Жыл бұрын

Pessimism of the intellect. Optimism of the will.

@debra-sue

Жыл бұрын

@@Praisethesunson your username seems oddly fitting in this moment. \[-]/

this rich people breeding program is actually awesome, it means they have to split their inheritances more and more with every generation, thus weakening the power of their children and lowering their wealth.

@RatPfink66

Жыл бұрын

they can just have every second son/first daughter go to law school, every third son/second daughter go into politics, every fourth son/third daughter become self-help gurus, and the rest get seed money to bootstrap themselves into media moguls.

@function0077

5 ай бұрын

@@ClibanariusJJ ...and they also become a bunch inbred lunatics like the Habsburgs. This is literally happening right now in a polygamist sect of Mormonism in Utah called the Kingston Group.

Amazing opening. Well said Will.

@thesultrystrangerdanger6824

Жыл бұрын

Brreeathe

So happy to hear that Matt is completely and securely hollowed out. Wife guys rule.

Slaves forced to use a stadium which other slaves died building is something right out of Baudrillard. It is deeply upsetting to me.

Evil people wield power with impunity and the only way there's any possibility of not being entirely at their mercy is to organize along class lines.

@phillheth

Жыл бұрын

Wow, profound...🥱

@WanderingIdiot81

Жыл бұрын

Wut you mean?

@user-tx3xy7lw6w

Жыл бұрын

Don't really see how that's the only way or really even a feasible possibility.

@julymagnus493

Жыл бұрын

What if 1 guy with a really cool set of armor fixes everything? Or an OP alien? Didn't think of that did you?

@cornerstore_d

Жыл бұрын

Shit I think we tried that and we ended up here

This was such a great episode. I didn't want it to end tbh.

@mikeydude750

Жыл бұрын

One of their best reading series in a while

The same ppl who told that influencer that criticizing Qatar is orientalism is the same guy that says criticizing Israel is antisemitic... the CIA.

The other thing underlying this is the realization that no amount of money or coding savvy preserves you from death, the great equalizer. Hence all this dim flailing. Episode 137 of the podcast Tech Won’t Save Us is really good on this: Don’t Fall for the Longtermist Sales Pitch, with Émile Torres as guest. Also episode 1 of the Fall of Civilisations podcast, where the Romans beloved by the Silicon Valley types get merked by unruly primitive Scots.

This seems like they're just genetically engineering the hood ornament on the Great Humongous's car.

i look forward to repeatting thiss and passsing it off as my own opinion. great ep this week

@pizzacheeseman2854

Жыл бұрын

Don’t doxx me

Secular Mormonism is basically just Star Wars

@52flyingbicycles

Жыл бұрын

And Roko’s Basilisk is just Catholicism. It’s so funny how these galaxy brain tech guys think they are original

@RedNation87

Жыл бұрын

Battlestar Galactica, actually.

@warmlycalculated390

Жыл бұрын

@@RedNation87 BSG is just Actual Mormonism.

Operation paper-clip for people who got ran off tumblr for causing suicides

6:45 Today I feel Gay -- Adam Friedland

Can somebody make a Matt rant supercut, I'm trying to achieve completion

...one of the best episodes ever...

Eugenics, the word they are looking for is eugenics. I want them to point out a single time in history when eugenics worked out. Also R.I.P. Club Q goers. This is the inevitable result of allowing hyper right wing lunacy into general culture. These people are telling us they want to sow hate into society, we should believe them and push them out.

@justcommenting4981

Жыл бұрын

No. It's literally because arsenals are allowed for private property. Other countries have bigots. They don't have mass shootings. They basically nailed this topic discussing Shinzo Abe. Every dipshit can get a gun, so most violence is carried out by morons, a trait that lends itself to bigotry.

@marshaltito7232

Жыл бұрын

@@justcommenting4981 McVeigh's fertilizer bomb and the box truck used during the Bastille Day massacre killed more people than any individual US mass shooting. Yeah guns make a spur of the moment spree a bit easier but determined loonies will find a way. Saying banning guns will solve the problem is like saying banning drugs solved the addiction crisis, it just didn't and in many ways made it worse. The problem is that bad faith actors are allowed to whip idiots into a violent frenzy. You don't see leftist mass shootings. When violent and cruel ideologies are allowed to propagate its not surprising to see violence spring up like weeds.

@justcommenting4981

Жыл бұрын

@@marshaltito7232 guns are not drugs, in multiple extremely obvious ways. I find it funny you have to reach back...how many decades to find an equivalent non gun massacre. It's very simple. Do they have this problem nearly as consistently in any other functioning country? No. Do they have right wing reactionaries? Yes. Good luck banning tweets or being an "ally" or whatever moronic bullshit to #stophate. DUh iF OnLy hE dIdnT seE duh lIbs oF tIk TOk. IF a dEterMine gUy want kill tHey cAn sO wHy sToP anYoNe Lefties that defend guns when their sole purpose is sewing terror in marginalized communities are beneath contempt in their naiive stupidity. I'm sure teh gayz will arm themselves and overthrow the hateful regime. It's like you watched The Purge and came away thinking "good idea, that's how we take down the rich."

@marshaltito7232

Жыл бұрын

@@justcommenting4981 The Bastille Day massacre happened in 2016. Countries that don't have massive problems with right wing terrorism are countries that have media and political systems that don't amplify violent voices. The US specifically has a media and political circus that has monetary gain in amplifying calls of violence, be it trying to reach people that will believe them or the inverse of "look how dumb this is", both amplifying the hateful rhetoric. I'm not saying the left should arm themselves or whatever because that's clearly not a solution. I'm saying that with tens of millions of guns in circulation, gun control simply wouldn't work, especially when taking grandfather clauses into account. It's an obfuscation by media and politicians to pass the buck away from the root causes of right wing terrorism, specifically their roles in amplifying it. Many other countries have armed civilians too and don't have the problems the US does, Canada, Switzerland, and Finland are prime examples. I'm not saying that trying to censor people will work either because that's a great way to get people to attach themselves to those hateful messages. The point is that we all have a hand to blame in spreading the messages of hate to those dejected enough to act violently on them, and until we collectively reject them, and the systems that spread them, no amount of policy will fix the problem. But sure just project your own grievances on my comment with your "Purge" malarkey. That's a productive way to converse.

@justcommenting4981

Жыл бұрын

@@marshaltito7232 US media is not only globally available, other countries DO amplify rhetoric against minority groups themselves. It's not even remotely isolated to the U.S. In fact trans people have a BETTER platform and visibility than they do in many other comparable countries because of our media presence. 2016 was also the Pulse Nightclub shooting, next year followed by a Las Vegas shooting. Just those 2 guys, not even counting all the other regular shootings in that time killed nearly 100 people. Blaming media makes you look like an idiot. If you aren't calling for anyone to arm themselves you're even more worthless because you lack even that simple conviction. You aren't going to "push them out." How would you? By posting? If only people had posted harder all these people would still be alive. Are you going to hold them accountable then push them out, or push them out then hold them accountable? If only we held them accountable we could ban hate in society. That will do the trick. Ending hatred is WAY more realistic than curtailing the availability of firearms like every other country has figured out how to do.

There's already a Sci Fi franchise about a God King appearing 30000 years in the future with his own Gene-seed and his resulting children hating him.

@noidontlikeu

Жыл бұрын

God Emperor of Dune is such a good book

@Praisethesunson

Жыл бұрын

There is also the myth of the Greek gods and titans. Kids hate their dumbass parents. Go figure.

@justcommenting4981

Жыл бұрын

Pretty sure they are trying to do Warhammer 40k. They aren't really trying to create an ultimate being, they are trying to create gene enhanced clones to spread HUMANITY to the stars.

all this money and tech and influence, and their goal is to be Craster from game of thrones, locked in their compound with generations of their insular morlock family

@cryptbeast3222

Жыл бұрын

Elites often seem to turn towards inbreeding after a while. A self-solving problem.

They should outlaw advertising sports gambling. The gambling itself should be decriminalized, but letting it be a corporate juggernaut is a plague

Lmao “secular calvinists” the only Calvinist I’m familiar with is ricky’s dad from trailer park boys

@QuarrelsomeLocalOaf

Жыл бұрын

"Sometimes she goes, sometimes she doesn't. She didn't go. That's the way she goes." - John Calvin, on predestination

@tonycampbell1424

Жыл бұрын

I've never understood why anyone who believed in Calvinism would bother with any kind of theism. Your destiny is predetermined. You'll wind up in paradise or perdition regardless of any volition on your part. How does that not immediately turn into, "eh, fuck it. Guess I'll do what I want?"

@noahchopson7136

Жыл бұрын

Damn thats a deep cut

Tldr for that NYT article: highly educated dummies with a greater aptitude for numbers than empathy have come up with a new cocktail of pseudo-philosophical rationalizations for their hubristically high self-regard and general misanthropy.

@marcantoinelab12321

Жыл бұрын

No yeah exactly like, literally they had everything handed THROUGHOUT THEIR LIVES and what is even their jobs or education? Like "Computer science"? Anthropology? They're not engineers or doctors. They're not even that smart, the first sign of that is that they think they can solve every issue by making the world listen to them. Because when you're in that economic strata and with that normal intellect, you think you're it, the geniuses. You think you're the apex. But what's their physical aptitudes ? Creativity skills? Communication? All that other shit? These people have never introspected and questioned themselves or faced a challenge in their lives. They think leadership and aptitudes comes from your position in society. Guaranteed these types of people would be exiles in any tribe 40'000 years ago.

“Today I’m gay,” my life as a bisexual man.

@tommyhowsthepeeping

Жыл бұрын

"today I'm disabled" my life as someone fradulently claiming disability benefits so i can play fortnite all day

@tonycampbell1424

Жыл бұрын

And I oop

@debra-sue

Жыл бұрын

@@tommyhowsthepeeping surviving in this society is its own legitimate disability

Great episode

'so rather than focus too much on these cowards & the monsters they inspire to do their killing for them, i want to instead focus on something i was most struck by in the media coverage of this horror, which are the parents of one of the victims of the Q nightclub shooting. a trans man named Daniel Aston. Sabrina & Jeff Aston, from Tulsa, Oklahoma, who moved to colorado springs, and later their son daniel followed them there, and found life & community there with them centered around Club Q where he worked as a bartender. Now what struck me was both their incredible dignity & strength in the murder of their son, but also the fact they knew their son was trans from the time he was four years old & loved & supported him for his entire life. they always knew who their son was & never doubted it. & what i'm stuck with is these people, & i'm not even gonna speak their names anymore, you know who they are, want to make impossible for queer & trans people, having parents that love you, friends, a job, & a life. their goal is to take that away from you & they'll do anything to make it happen, so it's the duty of all of us, the majority of decent people in this country, to stop them. to fight this evil. & i'm not talking about banning someone's social media account.'

@ChangedMyNameFinally69

Жыл бұрын

You could hear his voice trembling the entire opening

6:40 the Smashing Pumpkins lyric is so funny.

strong opening. 100% correct.

A boy and his dog!!!! I just realized where the thumbnail was from!

@kirtburdick

Жыл бұрын

It's a good movie.

Good opening from Will. I was very touched.

How do I get an internship at Gumley Fuckler? Do I need rectangular glasses?

Oh well, if I have a pitcrew of about 6 to 7 people I have to depend on. I can out-compete any one person in the world.

@wm8401

Жыл бұрын

The pit crew quote was nauseating and a disappointment. I wish she had just said "when I have all the right drugs, top of the line hardware and someone coddling me I can be productive. Autism is hard but I've been really fortunate..." or something like that.

@brokentower3148

Жыл бұрын

Aristocrats are like toy dogs.

Lol my favorite part was Matt pretending he doesn't know what Urbit is.

what a nice intro, thank you.

Other than the Curies is there any actual case of two genius scientists producing a child of semi comparable scientific genius? It's so odd to me that this couple views themselves as the exception.

@Virjunior01

Жыл бұрын

They're psychos.

@marlonbryanmunoznunez3179

Жыл бұрын

At the top of my head there's only the Bernoulli Mathematician Dynasty. And that arguably can be ascribed to being brilliant people that used personal connections to be employed in a University that was at the center of Math research at the time. When the cutting edge moved elsewhere and they didn't they ceased to produce important researchers, though they continued to produce Academics. I think there's still a Bernoulli that is a geologist. I any case this only confirms to me that genius is a matter of upbringing and opportunity. And you can see it in other professions outside Science, like with the Bach Musician Dynasty. Interestingly enough I think there's something to be said about geniuses being actually kind of shitty parents. Because they're obsessed with their work some tend to be absent parents at best. That was the case with Einstein for what I understand.

Thank you for the riffs Felix

Chapo just on autoplay and Will's opening is pretty beautiful. Big Dick Willy with the heartfelt

S Tier Episode

Man, there's some rage on this one. It's getting harder and harder to maintain an affection of disinterest.

@topleybird2443

Жыл бұрын

That is an issue. When the Trump cucks are in charge it’s horrifying but it’s also funny. When the libs+Thiel are in charge they have publicists that scrub all the funny shit.

Oh man that reading series was grim. In 100 years or so (if we're lucky) humans will regard artifacts like this with incredulous pity.

Amazing ep!🎉

finally, an entertaining episode!

You’re getting great at the monologue bro you should give Adam some tips

Love ya dry boys 💖 the intro meant a lot to me.

The bit about U of Wisconsin got me thinking about these words from Bob Dylan: They like to take all this money from sin Build big universities to study in Sing "Amazing Grace" all the way to the Swiss banks

@elusiveinsert

Жыл бұрын

Well the neighborhood bully, he's just one man

49:31 Felix goes on an all-timer here

Pre-destined into a wood chipper lol

I know someone who works at The 🐝, same town/scene. This one hit closer to home than most.

Geeked to the gills like Hitler on tanker chocolate

very interesting people that need glasses to see trying to take over the human genetic pool

@brokentower3148

Жыл бұрын

Eugenicists are always like this though.

After so long, I finally notice there's a movie poster cut off in the animation... makes sense. Mel Gibson in "The Patriot."

Felix said, "I'm making Yeshiva work for ME."

we have longspermism combined with trickle down altruism (Aka effective altruism) where the most pressing issue isn’t solving the climate crisis, feeding the hungry, world peace, or even potential future crisis but the fact that the rich people won’t exist to do the trickle down altruism in the future requires all our resources.

On the spotify version there's a kickass transition song around 32 minutes. Does anyone know what it is? I need to figure it out.

@cannonscoopic

Жыл бұрын

"Smart Patrol / Mr. DNA" by DEVO

Well, it is 11/22 after all, 59 years to be exact. Evil people wield power.

I am pretty sure that these people built their entire philosophy based on a midnight viewing of Idiocracy.

🎵 "All i wanna be is-" 🎵 _a member of a society that doesn't passively cultivate the wanton destruction of minorities with impunity._ 🎵 "...three billion dollars in pessoooooosss~" 🎵

@RatPfink66

Жыл бұрын

Tough ask. Of course you could always be part of a society that does so _actively._

Appreciate the Tax Dodge discount, but the Rand is going to have to gain on the dollar before I can give up my embarrassing free loader status. One day

I did not fucking expect Matt to reference the Tumblr Steven universe shit

@debra-sue

Жыл бұрын

between that and an ongoing trickle of references to monster factory, we're slowly finding that Matt's non-political media diet is not at all what we might have expected lol

Why you gotta throw shade at Optimus Primal like that?

I think a motivation for these wealthy tech couples doing longspermism yall might be missing is them needing to justify having a big family. I’m not wealthy or from that background, but I’m from DC & all the families & parents of my friends or exes who exist in the wealthy neolib bubble are always constantly contending with their awareness of their selfishness. Like I’ve watched rich DC lib moms completely short circuit when somebody brings up the ethics of them having 5 kids & sending them all to Sidwell & GDS. I think this fantastical idea that they’re solving a birth rate crisis is just them trying to convince themselves that everything they do is altruistic. I don’t think any of them truly believe in the logic of this stuff. They just wanna follow their basest desires of pumping out kids & raising them to become rich too is just them wanting to get an A+ on family.

@justcommenting4981

Жыл бұрын

Very possible. We can't underestimate their stupidity though.

@debra-sue

Жыл бұрын

"wanting to get an A+ on family" is the most accurate sentiment i've heard so far on this topic

@booba2141

Жыл бұрын

@@debra-sue i assume that’s what the silicone valley ppl are like too. but the dc lizards are exactly like that. I dated a girl who’s mom helped her make up a fake club that she “ran” called “Middle East Peace Skype sessions” for her college app/ resume, that was literally just her Skyping with her friends from Israel. they took it so far that she won a 15k scholarship for it.

Qatar is an Onion headline come to life

@Praisethesunson

Жыл бұрын

Qatar is what happens when "shit head winning the lottery" is the basis of a nation state.

>Secular Calvinists My fucking god Matt is right again.

@Quoxozist

Жыл бұрын

I mean...this has been the take going as far back as the mid 2000's, Matt certainly didn't come up with it, it's a longstanding critique and he's far from the first to mention it

I know this episode is 3 years old but fuck you Matt, Detroit’s only golden child was Berry Sanders, don’t take this from me. Lions Super Bowl 2025

Today I feel a Migrant Weiner. Today, I feel Gay.

Follow up article on the collinses came out a few months ago (circa 2024). Finding out these parents 1) are ipad parents 2) hit their kids 3) have had CPS called on them because they dont pay for indoor heating and the kids are routinely sick Should come as no surprise.

Is that a dj smokey intro ? Lol

Techno quiverful is real lmao

Good takes on crypto and gambling

France has a name approval system

Terrifying

Sounds like you have to get badempanada on the pod

@reallyidrathernot.134

Жыл бұрын

or they could just eat raw dog poo and have a better time.

@michaelslowmin

Жыл бұрын

I doubt he would ever come on. I would be shocked if he didn't hate these guy's guts. I think he'd only come on if they paid him way more that it would be worth.

@condor237

Жыл бұрын

@Nicholas Needham the man is too schizophrenic to be funny

@XxCorvette1xX

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelslowmin I mean he doesn’t have a problem with Hasan so I can’t imagine what he would hate them for. I feel like him and Matt could have a very productive conversation

@michaelslowmin

Жыл бұрын

@@XxCorvette1xX Maybe you're right. Bad empanada is extremely caustic, so I just assume he's that way with everyone lmao.

1:03:00

I always kind of knew that America would actually turn into the setting of a Margaret Antwood novel at some point, but I didn't think the novel would by Oryx & Crake

@ChangedMyNameFinally69

Жыл бұрын

Too bad Atwood is fash herself. She was literally talking about declining sperm counts in men recently.

@DeadBoneJones

Жыл бұрын

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 ?

@theartistmostlyreferredtoa7971

Жыл бұрын

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 damn, really? guess we can't have nice things

@joepeake8972

8 күн бұрын

​@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 you don't have to be fash to think couples struggling to conceive because we've had too much crap put into our food and drink is a bad thing

1:15:42 not even the first time Will had said “I.Q. Jones” lol check out their reading series on the Villages

It took Matt's gaffe for me to realize Tony Mandarich sounds incredibly similar to Todd Marinovich. Equally blonde, equally ratty, and both busts at their positions.

@bolshinstvo

Жыл бұрын

Also both of the Croatian diaspora.

titan invictus 😂😂😂

@brendanmurray4538

21 күн бұрын

It's awesome that KZread offers to translate this name

Waiting for the market to criminalize and legalize industries like league rotates champions

What is this album art supposed to be

@Crimeiskoolforkidz

5 ай бұрын

The chapo trap house wtf u think it is

@fenceyhen4249

5 ай бұрын

Will is looking real different @@Crimeiskoolforkidz

It was fun pretending we were in the star trek prequel. Welp, better get myself ready now that I just found out that we're in the prequel to All Tomorrows.

@AlbinoAxolotl1993

Жыл бұрын

Nice reference.

god, felix is so funny

STOP KILLING THE GREEN DINO

Stolen migrant worker valor lmao

EIGHTEEN DOLLARS IN PESOS

6:43

33:40 reminded me immediately of a tech version of this kzread.info/dash/bejne/nGGD0MSzqLu6lto.html

You want your money on Patrick Mahommes, or Dogecoin? 😂

Italianism.

What is the thumbnail from?

@AdamTheFeverish

Жыл бұрын

I believe that's from the movie A Boy and His Dog.