Tech and Titanic - Ep. 108 of Intentionally Blank

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Dr. Lukewarm and Dr. Ice Cold, in their typical fashion, have a meandering conversation that covers a wide-variety of topics ranging from The Fast and the Furious movies, Reddit and Internet culture, and their reaction to the recent tragedy of the Titan implosion and the general tone of discussion surrounding it.
🔥 Bad Story Ideas:
"Titanic 2: Sink Harder" -
• Titanic 2: Sink Harder... (4:20-8:55)
vs
"Imaginary Friend Trained up to Protect Your Memories From Invasion" -
• It's Not a Heist, It's... (24:40-27:39)
🍔 Food Heists:
“The Caceres Casks” or alternatively “Soon To Be a Major Motion Picture Starring Ana de Armas” -
• A Visit From the Suckf... (0:20-5:03)
vs
“A Way Lot of Peaches” -
• Is Gandalf A Mary Sue?... (0:11-4:12)
And make sure to cast your vote on this week's polls by clicking the Google form below: forms.gle/pvf4CtX5q9abJATu5
Which stories and heists will emerge victorious! Join us next week to find out!
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Sound engineering and editing by Daniel Thompson

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  • @cbpd89
    @cbpd89 Жыл бұрын

    Petitioning for the winning shirt, whatever it be, that have "this space left Intentionally blank" written on the back.

  • @yourLittleSinner

    @yourLittleSinner

    Жыл бұрын

    You win the internet today! This is the best idea!

  • @abhimac27

    @abhimac27

    Жыл бұрын

    💯 Yes!

  • @francislally6066

    @francislally6066

    Жыл бұрын

    +

  • @oliveoil2x

    @oliveoil2x

    Жыл бұрын

    Adding signature to the petition… done.

  • @Morfeusm

    @Morfeusm

    Жыл бұрын

    This is the way!

  • @Squiggly6942
    @Squiggly6942 Жыл бұрын

    This is the Internet Brandon and Dan... Titanic 2 Sink Harder is absolutely gonna win, specifically because of the timing...

  • @PixelHunter100

    @PixelHunter100

    Жыл бұрын

    Titanic 2: Sink Harder Now based on a real story too!

  • @jacksonmartin2973
    @jacksonmartin2973 Жыл бұрын

    The idea of the world where nobody reads as a shirt would have to be a shirt that just says “YOU CANNOT READ THIS SHIRT”

  • @MalachiNorris
    @MalachiNorris Жыл бұрын

    I loved this episode, maybe it's the best one yet. I loved the respectful and intelligent way Dan and Brandon talked about politics, and opinions, and the root cause being people afraid to care. They did it so respectfully, and intelligently, talking in a way that unites people instead of divides them. Coming from someone who doesn't agree with most of Brandon and Dan's political opinions, I think we need more people like them, who are willing to have a realistic and rational discussion, instead of an argument. People like them do more for the world than most people realize. ❤❤❤❤

  • @Rhewa

    @Rhewa

    Жыл бұрын

    If more people took this approach I wouldn't be as annoyed by people who talk about politics. Open discussion and exchange of ideas is an amazing thing!

  • @VunderGuy

    @VunderGuy

    Жыл бұрын

    "Coming from someone who doesn't agree with most of Brandon and Dan's political opinions..." Indeed. I'm glad even a total retard can love these two as they should be.

  • @zack32460
    @zack32460 Жыл бұрын

    I KNEW IT! Brandon's spren IS "Bing the progress spren". That's why he doesn't use google.

  • @CrapE_DM
    @CrapE_DM Жыл бұрын

    I will only point out that the CEO of OceanGate fired one of their engineers for telling them that there was damage accruing and that the sub could no longer be rated for the depths they were going. Maybe there's more to the story that I don't know, but the CEO certainly just seemed way too reckless and foolish to be the CEO of that kind of company.

  • @voidsabre_

    @voidsabre_

    Жыл бұрын

    The firing happened several years ago

  • @ArifRWinandar

    @ArifRWinandar

    Жыл бұрын

    The CEO said in an interview that the sub is unsinkable, like the Titanic.

  • @manaze85

    @manaze85

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ArifRWinandar That is literally just asking for it. Not to mention the insane irony of saying a vessel is unsinkable, just like the vessel you are going to look at, which was famous for the fact that it sank.

  • @beardietwitch
    @beardietwitch Жыл бұрын

    Aliens using the legal system to confuse the earth would make a decent Phoenix Wright -Ace Attorney style video game.

  • @Veilure

    @Veilure

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh, now I NEED to have them discuss Ace Attorney.

  • @pseudopod
    @pseudopod Жыл бұрын

    I think we should send out search teams when rich people make bad choices and need help, but it is also worth noting that there was a migrant ship that sank around the same time as the Titan sub and the migrant ship (full of people) did not have anywhere near the same vigour of trying to save the voyagers, which feels pretty messed up.

  • @lenichimer

    @lenichimer

    11 ай бұрын

    Thanks for pointing that out! Hundreds died on that ship, many were children. And a lot of people who do not care about the deaths on the Titan were verymuch enraged by the tragedy of the migrant ship. It is not a lack of emapthy as a whole.

  • @dorphalsig
    @dorphalsig Жыл бұрын

    Here's me campaigning for a food heist prison jumpsuit.

  • @PhoenixBladeInfinty
    @PhoenixBladeInfinty Жыл бұрын

    I actually caught myself and my brothers feeling apathetic to something my mom found mortifying. For the past couple months I'd given it some thought and honestly I think it comes down to exhaustion. News is only important if it's the worse thing to ever happen, and news is always looking for one more thing. I think after a certain point it just becomes tired. Where real events are just "fake". You can't care about everything because if you do it just runs you ragged. I only know my peers, but it seems that the closer you are to the people affected the more empathy you have. It's because if you worried about everything it's this monolithic weight. Idk, maybe I'm totally off but we aren't wired to have global news information. We are supposed to know our tribe/pack, and maybe the other 3 or 4 competing ones. People are not evolved for the world we live in, and I think this empathy thing has to do with it

  • @Morfeusm

    @Morfeusm

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes but I assume you don’t go to internet comments and type cynical and rude comments because you don’t connect to the tragedy… that’s an entire different issue here. Of course we can’t care for every single thing that happens, that’s as you said kind of normal.

  • @ArifRWinandar

    @ArifRWinandar

    Жыл бұрын

    I think there's a webcomic about a guy who is watching the news of an earthquake that destroyed a faraway city, but he's more concerned with the food in his fridge. Seems to illustrate the point well.

  • @sefflikejeff1917

    @sefflikejeff1917

    Жыл бұрын

    This may sound hyperbolic, but I really mean it. Billionaires getting turned into oatmeal is a good thing, actually. I have 0 sympathy for those fools, except the 19 year old who was pressured by his idiot father to come with him. At least the death was instantaneous.

  • @lagggoat7170

    @lagggoat7170

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, that is probably a huge aspect. I also think the recent years excercabated it (real life horrible experiences of pandemic and war (depending on where you are), disillusion about society and capitalism, hopelessness at climate change and the power of rich people). Either you hurt constantly (and maybe lash out) or you put your feelings away/try to find a way to not feel bad about it (finding fault with the victims of whatever situation, dehumanizing perceived "enemies"). As much as I hate it, I caught myself doing the latter a few times. Im scared and feel cornered so whoever I feel cornered by (for example the overwhelming societal pressure to act as if the pandemic is over, given form in all the passive-aggressive or straight up aggressive interactions you get if you still wear masks) is "the enemy". Its a very simple mindset but its hard to think otherwise if you are haggard and at your wits end. There is not one generic antimasker, its people that are as terrified as me, but misinformed and hardened in their belief the same way I counter-hardened my opinion, its nice grannies who are genuinely worried, its family members who hate being stared at because I am with them and masked, people who just want to forget and dont know why they feel so weird about a person wearing a mask now...

  • @SomeTomfoolery
    @SomeTomfoolery Жыл бұрын

    Man, Brandon looks GOOD with a beard!

  • @kendalldoer5466
    @kendalldoer5466 Жыл бұрын

    Do you think Brandon signs books in his dreams at this point?

  • @hiltrud2001

    @hiltrud2001

    Жыл бұрын

    Definitely!

  • @ctom4242
    @ctom4242 Жыл бұрын

    I genuinely like the no one can read or write and am meh on Jack the Car Jacking Car. I have a feeling the vote wasn't just to troll but that people actually felt that way. I wouldn't have been surprised if no one could read or write made it past the first round and then lost in the second.

  • @thomashearne4670

    @thomashearne4670

    Жыл бұрын

    Jack the car jacking car isnt just bad - it's boring, which makes it way worse imo. A world where people can't read or write is actually interesting

  • @someonegames6311
    @someonegames6311 Жыл бұрын

    I completely agree with both, every human life matters, and should never be made fun of. Also agree with Dan when he says it's awesome when all that people got together to rescue them. I just wished they would do the same thing for every ship that goes stranded, as there has been recent events that proof otherwise. The sad reality is, people get together to save other people depending where they come from... However, nice Podcast, I love all your works and your nice vision of life and humanity, really wish there were more people like you two. Thank you for all.

  • @trentthemediocre7596
    @trentthemediocre7596 Жыл бұрын

    I'm a bit torn on the tone of the internet regarding the Titan. For context, I'm 26 so I've been steeped in internet culture through all of adolescence. I too was taken aback by the lack of empathy expressed immediately after news of the Titan broke, but I think the situation is inherently less tragic and easier to ridicule than others. In my view loss of life is always tragic and dancing on graves isn't appropriate under any circumstances. There certainly were too many people finding pleasure in the situation. I'm not sure that the situation deserves much more emotion than "it's sad that people died" though. These people took an extraordinary amount of risk (though perhaps more than they realized) while spending large sums of money in a time when there's a lot of people in need. The brazen disregard of the company to follow sound safety and design protocols doesn't help either. To me it's the same as a fatal car accident. They are inherently tragic and should be treated with solemnity but finding out the person was driving drunk changes the level of empathy elicited. People don't deserve to die because of their poor choices but poor choices change the tone of tragic events.

  • @hupenpeter
    @hupenpeter Жыл бұрын

    I think, that now we have the first generation, that had the internet their whole life. So what seems wrong behavior for us older people, is normal to them. Having empathy gets more difficult the more we as a people disassociate with other lifting entities.

  • @adoniscreed4031

    @adoniscreed4031

    Жыл бұрын

    I definitely feel less empathetic towards entities who lift things!!! I think your viewpoint is really biased tbh some of the most atrocious and callous comments I see on the internet are from people who lived a good quarter to half of their lives without the internet. People are callous, if anything the world is a more accepting place than it was before...

  • @bigwhiffajw

    @bigwhiffajw

    Жыл бұрын

    All viewpoints are biased. But he's not wrong. If enough people move the needle, the entire society will change, including older folks. The internet has changed the way people communicate and not always for the better. The difference is the remove from physical interaction. Even people like me who grew up without internet have acclimated to it. So the younger generation doesn't have the same attitude, which changes the paradigm, and the older generation reacts to the new paradigm (not very well in some cases), which further changes the status quo. It's a downward spiral.

  • @joeybelasco
    @joeybelasco Жыл бұрын

    You need to understand, it's not about what makes a good shirt. We don't give a shit about the shirt. This is the about the integrity of identifying the best bad story idea and the best food heist. There's no trolls here. No one can read or write is the superior bad story idea in that matchup.

  • @sadee4175
    @sadee4175 Жыл бұрын

    I am not sure that people wanted no-one can read or write to win... as much as they wanted the carjacking care to lose. I need the vikings verses Cthulhu to be the shirt. I need it very badly to win

  • @weckar

    @weckar

    Жыл бұрын

    As good a writer as Brandon is, I think he's myopic when it comes to the carjacking car. It's... just not funny or interesting as a concept. At best it's a fleeting mental image, fueled by his personal clear love of the FatF franchise.

  • @Slipknot4President
    @Slipknot4President Жыл бұрын

    On the point of the search and rescue for the billionaires, I was most upset by the fact that the aid was sent to them but not to the hundreds of people whose boat sank while fleeing persecution which was beung propagated by one of the billionaires in question

  • @edgytypebeat781

    @edgytypebeat781

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly, the double standards are crazy

  • @richardmurray9026

    @richardmurray9026

    Жыл бұрын

    They did receive help though. Many lives were saved.

  • @kimzhal8958

    @kimzhal8958

    Жыл бұрын

    Im pretty sure rescue teams have been send to that accident as well. It didn't garner media attention because: 1. Its not as bombastic. Billionaires stuck in a comically badly constructed submarine at the titanic is just a better headline 2. refugee and migrant ships have been experiencing this sorta thing for a while now. Back during the first couple times it happened it was also headlines but only so many times you can report on teh same thing

  • @adoniscreed4031

    @adoniscreed4031

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@kimzhal8958 I dont know the vericity of anything surrounding this stuff but the contrast in these things being news worthy is humongous...

  • @BreakingStubad

    @BreakingStubad

    Жыл бұрын

    I'd add that this is probably the largest motivator for the internet's lack of empathy for these people

  • @BenHazel007
    @BenHazel007 Жыл бұрын

    I think a big factor in why "No one can read or write" got so many votes was because it's posed as "Best Bad Story Idea" and that one is a worse story idea, so a good amount of people were voting as a BAD story idea and not necessarily on what they would want on a T-shirt and in future polls it has become more obvious that these are supposed to go on a T-shirt, so they are voting for the more interesting one Also, good episode -Ben

  • @MasterJack2
    @MasterJack2 Жыл бұрын

    The whole vitriol on the internet thing is perfectly explained by a Mike Tyson quote about people nowadays being too comfortable with disrespecting people and not getting punched in the face for it.

  • @aguy3129
    @aguy3129 Жыл бұрын

    I voted against jack the carjacking car not because i like no one can read or write, but because i dont want jack the carjacking car

  • @raylawler13
    @raylawler13 Жыл бұрын

    I almost always agree with Dan on things, but I'm with Brandon on laying down to write and using a larger keyboard. I've had the same thought about Dan's tiny keyboard, lol.

  • @Xenmut
    @Xenmut Жыл бұрын

    thanks for this podcast, i appreciate the randomness and the topic switches and the whole ride

  • @maeglin9041
    @maeglin9041 Жыл бұрын

    I think a lot of people are just feeling compassion fatigue. We are asked to care about so many things constantly. Every day there's a school shooting, natural disasters, multiple ongoing wars, famine, drought, genocide, all manner of discrimination. All these before we even get to the problems in our own lives. Family members in the hospital, someone has cancer, a pet died, sibling with substance abuse, etc. It's too much and everyone's getting burnt out on caring because we're so far past our capacity. Personally I can't bring myself to care about 5 rich strangers on a submarine because there's so many things that burnt me out along the way.

  • @Trevorischillin

    @Trevorischillin

    Жыл бұрын

    Idk man, having empathy for people dying isn't complicated or difficult...

  • @Maidaseu

    @Maidaseu

    Жыл бұрын

    Compassion fatigue?

  • @maeglin9041

    @maeglin9041

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Trevorischillin do you know how many people die around the world every day? Why do these 5 deserve more compassion or empathy than all the others just because they died in an interesting way? Sure it's sad that it happened, but the reality is that more people died around the world this week than I'll ever meet in my life. I'm not going to go all bleeding heart every time I hear about death on the news, cause it's just an endless daily onslaught of tragedy all over the world.

  • @Trevorischillin

    @Trevorischillin

    Жыл бұрын

    @@maeglin9041 nobody is asking you to care about these 5 deaths anymore than any other death. You did say you can't bring yourself to care about "5 rich strangers on a submarine", I think that perfectly characterizes where you are on the situation and just how little empathy you have for those people.

  • @nachoalfonso2614

    @nachoalfonso2614

    Жыл бұрын

    @@maeglin9041 I kind of understand what you are talkin about, but I disagree. No one is asking you to fight every fight and feel outraged for every death. But if you know a tragedy happened and you can't feel sorry for the victims or if you are not mad at the incompetence and lack or morality of the company, there may be something wrong with you. If you don't want to listed to every single catastrophic event in the news, that's fine. But when you DO have knowledge about one, you shouldn't turn a blind eye to it just because you feel fatigued or whatever. People are dead. I don't understand not feeling bad about it.

  • @someclaire
    @someclaire3 ай бұрын

    As someone who's worked in online marketing before, a common model of search engine sponsorship is a 'pay-per-click' kind of thing, so as employees we were actually told NOT to click on the sponsored things for our own sites. So with this type of thing (which I know not everything uses), not clicking on the sponsored search result helps the company who has the sponsored ad, whereas clicking on the sponsored search result helps Google.

  • @inkoftheworld
    @inkoftheworld11 ай бұрын

    It possibly took so long after the internet first came around into our homes and pockets, because so many of us older people (30+ maybe) still remember a time without it. Whereas younger people only know the internet age and grow up with that sort of dehumanized idea of other people and they are a major voice online.

  • @baning23
    @baning23 Жыл бұрын

    I totally agree with the sentiment on those last few minutes of the podcast and I'm proud of your stances on these things

  • @Juan_DeSantis
    @Juan_DeSantis Жыл бұрын

    "Google is a verb! Nobody wants to "bing" something, but I'll Google something on Bing." Based Wells.

  • @inkoftheworld
    @inkoftheworld11 ай бұрын

    It's really nice listening to reasonable voices!

  • @TheRealGravyTrain
    @TheRealGravyTrain Жыл бұрын

    great conversation guys!

  • @Kevin-hq5ne
    @Kevin-hq5ne Жыл бұрын

    I like how the First Idea comes out in y’all’s discussion of the Titan. Life before death: they should be rescued, regardless of the feelings against the wealthy. Strength before weakness: the specialist rescuers came out and did what they should do- use their ability to find and rescue people in distress. Journey before destination: people are going to make dumb choices and they shouldn’t have to suffer death for it, in fact surviving a bad decision could help them to learn and make better decisions as they continue their Journey.

  • @theartofstory9487
    @theartofstory9487 Жыл бұрын

    Just started listening to this podcast series. Love it! How is it possible you missed the perfect title: the Segue of Kings. I'll take my royalty check in t-shirts :)

  • @briandw979
    @briandw979 Жыл бұрын

    I never thought I could get into a podcast but you two provide quality entertainment :-)

  • @zyrohnmng
    @zyrohnmng27 күн бұрын

    Skipping the "sponsored" links is actually safer too. A lot of phishing/scam links end up being the sponsored linsk

  • @chrisrumfellow4566
    @chrisrumfellow4566 Жыл бұрын

    I wouldn't call myself a hard edge user but I've switched to using it exclusively for work. They made a bunch of optimizations a few years back that makes it much better than chrome.

  • @saarceneaux
    @saarceneaux Жыл бұрын

    I also scroll past the sponsored version of the thing I'm looking for to find the website itself, out of spite. So glad I'm not alone!

  • @pinianna

    @pinianna

    Жыл бұрын

    Me too!

  • @kath4240
    @kath4240 Жыл бұрын

    I've been doing Google surveys and they've asked me about search results 4 times in the last week. Every time, I've told them to have fewer sponsored results. No change yet 😅

  • @MohamedSalehOnline
    @MohamedSalehOnline Жыл бұрын

    While I appreciate Brandon and Dan's view on the serious issues discussed here I can also see the viewpoint of those who are "lacking empathy". It's important to realize that many of the people making jokes about the sub sinking are relatively young and are part of generation where services and living standards that were common place for previous generations are unavailable to them or likely to fail during their life time. It is hard for them to have empathy for a group of rich adventure seekers/tourists who could throw 250k at a sub excursion while they are struggling to feed and clothe their children. It rubs people wrong that a guy with a billion dollars can pay $0 in taxes and at the exact same time school lunch programs are being destroyed because "there's just no money for it in the budget". I think its fair for them to ask the question "if we live in a country where many states refuse to provide free lunches to poor children, then why can we afford to publicly fund the search and rescue operation for a group of rich people?" of course its a tragedy, but so is innocent kid who's going hungry today, and so is 20 year old that just got kicked out and cant afford to rent their own place even though they work full time, and so is the single mother who just got diagnosed with cancer and will be forced to pay out of pocket for her medication. I don't think that many people on the internet are truly lacking empathy, I think they're just between a rock and hard place and it becomes clearer and clearer every day that the systems that have been built don't care about them. That situation can only go on for so long before things start to break down and I think that's what we're seeing today, and its everywhere from entertainment, to politics.

  • @kirkwagner461
    @kirkwagner461 Жыл бұрын

    Like the mentioning of Tim Powers. His "Drawing of the Dark" is one of my favorite books.

  • @John-sx3mp
    @John-sx3mp Жыл бұрын

    Tim Powers told me the story of On Stranger Tides at the Writers of the Future workshop 2011. Powers wrote On Stranger Tides. When Pirates of the Caribbean came out, Powers' agent contacted him and said, "Disney mostly stole your book." They contacted Disney and discussed. Disney is a megalith who sues any 3 person daycare in rural America for painting Mickey on the side of the building, so Powers knew he would not be able to force Disney to do anything without shelling out millions in legal fees. Disney ended up paying Powers option money--which is a tiny fraction of author's money, but Powers counted it as a win because it was the best he was going to do. Then... For movies 2 and 3 they also paid him option money. For the fourth, they named it On Stranger Tides, after the novel, credited him, and paid him author's money. By the way, Tim is a wonderful author, a wonderful human being, and is extremely hard working, using a crazy method that stresses historical accuracy (the secret history genre--gone wild).

  • @WarpsmithAdam
    @WarpsmithAdam Жыл бұрын

    I appreciate that Brandon & Dan were able to both take the anti-capitalist perspective when talking about the internet getting worse & also take the humanist one while talking about the submersible that imploded. This podcast did feel much more of a current events podcast than a media review/comedy podcast than most episodes, but I'm here for the occasional topic/format breaking episodes.

  • @GeorgeKinsill

    @GeorgeKinsill

    Жыл бұрын

    Brandon and Dan behave like Kaladin and co in Stormlight: they realize the world sucks and is becoming worse, just maybe its not a good idea to give into Odium and enjoy the thrill of seeing your enemies suffer. Additionally, they are not trying to both sides in a naive manner either, pointing out the irresponsibility of the person in charge and the concept that safety regulations are "written in blood" and ignoring them will have a real cost. I'd be interested to get their take on how to restore these safety features, but I'm pretty sure its for the best that politics be kept to a minimum.

  • @Ieremos

    @Ieremos

    Жыл бұрын

    Capitalism is the only moral economic system. Change my mind.

  • @airbendnerd
    @airbendnerd Жыл бұрын

    Wow this was the best episode.

  • @izzet513
    @izzet51311 ай бұрын

    I feel like they’re really underselling the flagrant disregard for safety regulations on that sub.

  • @Jackolantirn
    @Jackolantirn Жыл бұрын

    The Internet has always had vitriolic sentiments, but they were often confined to small communities, and not everybody used the Internet back then. But now, we have millions of people constantly accessing the Internet, congregating in centralized spaces, that all the vitriol congeals in the same place for all to see.

  • @TheLordofMetroids
    @TheLordofMetroids Жыл бұрын

    I will say it every time this comes up but I still think the Titanic 2 idea is a terrible story idea, but an AMAZING game idea.

  • @ryanoaks8027
    @ryanoaks8027 Жыл бұрын

    While I think you can't become a Billionaire while behaving ethically, I also think finding excuses to remove a person's moral consideration is a very slippery slope that we should probably try to avoid.

  • @rmsgrey

    @rmsgrey

    Жыл бұрын

    Personally, I find it very hard to go "what a tragedy" when hearing about someone having lost a game of Russian Roulette. It is a shame that the CEO took others with him, but, as deaths go, getting pulped by high pressure deep ocean water before you have time to realise the sub is failing isn't that bad.

  • @mullbinde83
    @mullbinde83 Жыл бұрын

    I feel that sadly years of being able to be horrible on the internet with no real consequences has lead to this kind of lack of empathy.

  • @nicolecox1292
    @nicolecox1292 Жыл бұрын

    25:44 Me, listening to this episode, at my office job sitting in a chair like a chump: 👁👄👁

  • @JoeK7
    @JoeK7 Жыл бұрын

    That beard is coming along lovely

  • @christopherjimenez4578
    @christopherjimenez457811 ай бұрын

    So I heard this in Spotify and since I can't leave a comment there I felt the need to talk about this right here. Regarding the posture of people on the submarine. They didn't react that way just because "they are billionaires", but because of the hypocrisy this represented. While the government sent a bunch of people to search for them, which is in it of itself a good thing to do for someone who needs help, they didn't even acknowledge the mishandling of a sinking boat carrying 750 immigrants. Disaster that costed the life of approximately 300 people looking for a better life. What happened to the billionaires was a tragedy, but it's also tragic that just because of their status they get proper help and the immigrants don't.

  • @user-ed8hd2py3g
    @user-ed8hd2py3g Жыл бұрын

    Rocking that beard!

  • @culturewarsdiplomacy
    @culturewarsdiplomacy Жыл бұрын

    “They made a stupid choice” is one of those sayings that people say when we find out why something happened this time even if ten thousand times before the bad things didn’t happen and unfortunately priorities means that the most likely problems are stopped but then when the lesser likely thing winds up happening.

  • @bliss1701
    @bliss1701 Жыл бұрын

    More signed "Way of Kings" are coming! Looking forward to seeing what else he'll be signing over the coming weeks!

  • @Ruthie888
    @Ruthie888 Жыл бұрын

    Tim Powers. That's exactly what happened. He was one of my kid's OCHSA teachers. and "I want to fund search and rescue for people who make dumb decisions." It will save me some day.

  • @jaime6400
    @jaime6400 Жыл бұрын

    I almost always purposely scroll past the sponsored link to the real link too!

  • @latterdaycovenantliving
    @latterdaycovenantliving Жыл бұрын

    The beard is working well with your face there Brandon. Carry on.

  • @jamcdonald120
    @jamcdonald120 Жыл бұрын

    13:45 I hate that too! normally its just their website, but with push notifications

  • @Mastermind12358
    @Mastermind1235811 ай бұрын

    The problem with the search and rescue operation is that it was 100% obvious that the sub had been destroyed and there were no survivors. And at the same time hundreds (if not thousands) of refugees were drowning.

  • @CamInTheHat
    @CamInTheHat Жыл бұрын

    Love the beard Dr. Sanderson 😉

  • @demogoblin2
    @demogoblin2 Жыл бұрын

    I too turned to Fast and the Furious when I was ill, and enjoyed it.

  • @play_history
    @play_history Жыл бұрын

    On the subject of major platforms getting worse, I recommend you look up the "enshittification" principle by Cory Doctrow. The landscape of hyper market capitalism draws more and more control away from the users in the name of steady growth. Decentralizing seems to be the only way consumers can fight against it, and normal people just don't want that.

  • @king_dot
    @king_dot Жыл бұрын

    21:56 lol I just switched to Microsoft Edge since I need to use the Microsoft suite now and heard the performance is supposedly better, took me a long time to switch but honestly it’s not that bad. Feels like chrome except you can add more shortcuts and change the default search engine, the random news notifications are annoying though.

  • @samiam.402
    @samiam.40210 ай бұрын

    The last third was pretty dark and I prefer the podcasts when it's just giggling and goofy conversations.

  • @ItsAvarus
    @ItsAvarus Жыл бұрын

    I want to call for a revote suddenly no one can read or write should have wom

  • @ItsAvarus

    @ItsAvarus

    Жыл бұрын

    Won**

  • @peterbennett7176
    @peterbennett7176 Жыл бұрын

    100 percent agree about Google search results. I don't know how they have screwed it up so much, but I agree it's verging on the useless at times.

  • @MyishiMan
    @MyishiMan Жыл бұрын

    I'm not sure the video links for the brackets are working.

  • @Kcoldraz
    @Kcoldraz Жыл бұрын

    The problem with the "we make mistake" sentiment is that based on evidence it seems that the guy is actually making decisions based on finance. So you can't really blame people thinking that the tragedy is caused by greed.

  • @BlakeStackman
    @BlakeStackman Жыл бұрын

    I love the beard, you wear it well. 👌

  • @BrandonsWritingRoom
    @BrandonsWritingRoom2 ай бұрын

    Funnily enough, I am also a Brandon who uses Firefox for browsing and Chrome for business, for all the same reasons Sanderson listed.

  • @voidsabre_
    @voidsabre_ Жыл бұрын

    Even with all its problems, Reddit is SO much better than having dozens of individual forum accounts for each interest There are so many niche or mild interests I have where I wouldn't really want to dedicate the time going out of my way to check in on and browse individual forums, but having an aggregator really solves that for me

  • @dalehenrickson6243
    @dalehenrickson6243 Жыл бұрын

    Wisdom is experience,that ou did not die from

  • @artloveranimation
    @artloveranimation Жыл бұрын

    Stranger Tides is the 4th one, because it was after the trilogy and had new characters and Jack became a main character

  • @mike758
    @mike758 Жыл бұрын

    Is the into music from the game tropico?

  • @MarkArandjus
    @MarkArandjus Жыл бұрын

    Guys, I think I'm getting carpal tunnel problems just seeing how many thing Sanderson has signed :D

  • @stephenkelly8312
    @stephenkelly8312 Жыл бұрын

    I use Edge! It’s Chromium based and has been for years, but it’s less of a memory hog than Chrome.

  • @GoErikTheRed
    @GoErikTheRed Жыл бұрын

    On the topic of google being bad, I've realized that probably 95% of my usage of google is just taking me to the website that I already know I want to go to, be it Wikipedia or KZread or Google Maps or whatever. The actual google search function serves almost no purpose. And if I always skip the promoted links, even if it's literally the exact same website that I'm going to end up clicking anyway

  • @tmrogers87
    @tmrogers87 Жыл бұрын

    Former Delaware resident here. No shade taken.

  • @jordanneal576
    @jordanneal576 Жыл бұрын

    I try not to be apathetic, but I do try to limit the sphere of my concern to my sphere of control. There's so much crap going on and we get hit by all of it thanks to the miraculous global communication network known as the Internet. If you're not careful, you'll find yourself overwhelmed and anxious with nothing you can do about it. I'm not surprised to find the youth of today have much higher anxiety rates than previous generations. When I felt this hitting me, I made an active decision to focus on the things I can control. If I'm taking care of my family and providing for them, I'm doing alright. There's nothing I can do to stop World War III anyway.

  • @jacknixon2812
    @jacknixon2812 Жыл бұрын

    I stand at the counter in the garage to work on my book

  • @xXxCh0n1cxXx
    @xXxCh0n1cxXx Жыл бұрын

    I agree about Google. Bing and Microsoft edge is absolutely getting better. I use edge for work most of the time because it often runs faster and uses less computing resources (and puts pages to sleep if you haven't used them recently) I've been using Chrome for like 10 years but edge is winning me over. I once they get more plug ins I think a lot more people will be switching over after Google has been getting less competitive and more ad filled and using all of my dang RAM

  • @raphaelr.4804
    @raphaelr.480411 ай бұрын

    You may want to have Cory Doctorow on to talk about enshittification of platforms.

  • @alexayers8904
    @alexayers8904 Жыл бұрын

    With regard to Internet reactions, I think it’s separation + the incentive for strong reactions (see ratings/reviews and news sensationalism) + being a vehicle to vent against structures/systems that have failed/wronged them or they perceived to have done so. A maelstrom of a number of things-rather unfortunate.

  • @ChocolatierRob
    @ChocolatierRob Жыл бұрын

    Hey Dan & Bran, you might not want to give up on Hulu just yet. New Futurama incoming.

  • @andrewmiller3797
    @andrewmiller3797 Жыл бұрын

    Waiting patiently for the Frugalverse

  • @Thelnquisitor
    @Thelnquisitor Жыл бұрын

    Guys. GUYS! Remember what Dan said. If we vote Titanic 2, they’ll have to put in their book “BASED ON THE T-SHIRT”

  • @bangboom123
    @bangboom123 Жыл бұрын

    The thing about the Titan submarine incident is that, on the same day they were announced missing, over 300 Pakistani migrants drowned on the surface of the Mediterranean. Every statement made about the permissibility of their bad decision making, or of the merits of their voyage, or of the virtue of the human race in attending to them, must be followed up with that clause. Over 300 Pakistani migrants drowned on the surface of the Mediterranean. Imo, the people who show disdain and vitriol for billionaires are the ones who cannot forget the clause.

  • @charles3840
    @charles3840 Жыл бұрын

    "That company is trying to make more money than their particular model is capable of making" is such a universally applicable criticism of modern corporations. Most companies can't be big oil, Amazon, Apple, etc. Yet almost everyone, especially social media, keeps trying to get bigger than their britches.

  • @snowpoint720
    @snowpoint720 Жыл бұрын

    The way I remember it from Wikipedia, Disney optioned "On Stranger Tides" SPECIFICALLY to be the fourth movie, before the first one was ever finished. Which if true, is pretty strange. But, Like Brandon, I might just be remembering wrong.

  • @atententen3326
    @atententen3326 Жыл бұрын

    Re: growing vitriol I find reading Peter Turchin useful. He's got some interesting analysis of fundamentals that help explain the problem. The bad news: a rough couple of decades ahead.

  • @inkoftheworld
    @inkoftheworld11 ай бұрын

    I really hate what google did to the youtube search results... especially because it has a visual component unlike the google search. It's both become more useless and full of unrelated junk as well as forcing to me too look at all sorts of images (the thumbnails which are over-bearing) I don't want to see.

  • @MrSpectralfire
    @MrSpectralfire Жыл бұрын

    I want to hear your top 5 car chase scenes.

  • @Squiggly6942
    @Squiggly6942 Жыл бұрын

    I'm with Dan. Correct posture makes me way more comfy than anything else.

  • @nebula
    @nebula Жыл бұрын

    Your check is in the mail

  • @seanclary8641
    @seanclary8641 Жыл бұрын

    huh...look at that..lm alone for a sec

  • @zenthepoet.

    @zenthepoet.

    Жыл бұрын

    Sorry you have a slow phone

  • @kyrroti9921
    @kyrroti9921 Жыл бұрын

    This felt like a more negative toned episode. Everything was discussed professionally and respectfully, but the topics discussed were pretty bleak. Tech companies becoming less user focused, an accident that left people dead, the negativity present online. I don’t hate the episode, I don’t think anything said was wrong, but it has a different energy than the other ones.

  • @nachoalfonso2614

    @nachoalfonso2614

    Жыл бұрын

    A lot of terrible things happening in the world. It's the truth we live in. If we want it to change, first we need to be aware of it.

  • @NarcoticIsland
    @NarcoticIsland Жыл бұрын

    It's hard to feel empathy for billionaires because I know that if they thought that killing me would raise their profits by .01% they'd do it and not feel bad

  • @FTUD734
    @FTUD734 Жыл бұрын

    Duck duck go guys. I replaced google a year ago and love it

  • @ThePhantomphan11
    @ThePhantomphan11 Жыл бұрын

    Only 37 mins?! 😢

  • @BladeWinters
    @BladeWinters Жыл бұрын

    "In anticipation of reddit becoming stupid" should be on a T-shirt

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