From hearing about his early life, Dewey sounds like one of the most autistic children to ever be a child with autism

@celestinemorningstar4851

7 ай бұрын

Right? I spent the first part of this thinking "nowadays, this just gets you an autism diagnosis"

@mookinbabysealfurmittens

7 ай бұрын

_OH MY GOD_ I thought it was just me.

@wilberfan95

Ай бұрын

Absolutely same thoughts.

As a fellow Weird Kid who feels an urge to organize and categorize stuff: I noticed the glaring Christian bias of the Dewey Decimal System's religion section in high school, and I think that may have been the first time it clicked that a system itself can be biased regardless of the feelings of the people currently using the system.

I have a friend who is a librarian. We've had multiple conversations about what the ALA is planning each year to address the systemic inequality designed into the the dewey decimal system. Librarians are hands down some of the most punk, anarcho-syndicalist people I've ever met.

Dewey accidentally opening up a huge new employment opportunity for women because he wanted another venue to sexually harass women is classic Law Of Unintended Consequences in action.

@NoMoreSuperHero

7 ай бұрын

He truly was the Christopher Columbus of his craft.

Dewey invented the 'sexy librarian' trope.

@MrGksarathy

2 ай бұрын

Good man indeed, but let's just leave that to porn.

"And don't forget the Dewey Decimal System is your friend?" "Who's Dewey?" "A bad man, D.W.. A bad bad man."

God, I love hearing episodes about the most intensely neurodivergent kids I've ever heard, going on to do real weird shit.

Did the reverse Jamie Loftus Competitive Eating episode ever happen? If not, to whomst do we sacrifice what quantity of which animal part?

@TylerTheDestroyer97

7 ай бұрын

Its in the backlog of eps still being up loaded, but it was done like a year and some change back.

@SgtKaneGunlock

7 ай бұрын

Its a good one too coz you normally don't get to hear robert go "WHY!?" Repeatedly over and over again its a lot of fun

@Sean_but_Not_Heard

7 ай бұрын

Idk which one you ended up sacrificing, but it worked, haha.

We need a buddy cop movie featuring this guy and HP Lovecraft

@richardarriaga6271

7 ай бұрын

That's 4D inceldom

@thefinalsif

7 ай бұрын

Honestly not sure Lovecraft deserves that. He was racist too, but at least he wasn't also a sex pest or particularly sexist for his time from what I recall. He also turned around on at least some of the racism, although not all of it certainly. Once he had some actual exposure to the world and the people in it he seemed to chill out. Which isn't to say he was suddenly progressive or anything but like, a lot more of a result of his upbringing and exposures than Dewy who is straight up methodical and rampant in both his racism and his sex crimes.

@NimhLabs

7 ай бұрын

@@thefinalsif I mean, one was incredibly racist for his time, the other was extremely a sex pest for his time Mixed with Dewy's desire for brevity and modernity--and Lovecraft's extreme tendencies to move into Purple Prose and idolisation of antiquity Naturally, it will have a 90s style "will they won't they" romance subplot. Where both characters seem to hate each other--and promo-bumpers will use that to suggest they are secretly in love with each other

While Polidori based his book ‘The Vampyre’ on Lord Byron, Tom Holland wrote a novel with the conceit that Byron was a Vampire. It’s a fun concept even as the book had mixed reviews. I enjoyed it as a fan of both Byron and vampires

Never heard of this person or his system before, but after googling it I learned some libraries in this country have recently *introduced* his system here. I would've assumed people would rather be moving away from it at a brisk pace.

Still in the intro...when I was in library school, I had a shirt that said "Dewey is my homeboy"...I regret spending that money 😂

I now have an odd urge to translate this episode to Japanese and send it to the author of _Ascendance of a Bookworm_ with the note, "Who's your god now?!" And then reality kicks in, it's just one scene, and the main character loves Gutenberg more. Speaking of Gutenberg, there's another episode idea for Robert. Not sure if he's a bastard, but you never know.

@Ezekiel_Allium

7 ай бұрын

His name is Gutenberg, he's gotta be. If you have some variation of mountain in your name, instant shitlist, there's no way that's not going to your head. Mountains in your name causes a Jungian-Freudian selfcestuous subconscious ouroboros that gods on your complex till you LaVey all over your Peterson. It's true, I haven't been proven wrong.

Dewy would absolutely be an incel Soundcloud rapperif he was born in 2006

My goodness, I grew up in Western NY, and the winters were tough, but it wasn't life or death!!! 😂

Jaimie literally pissed on my soul because I was typing a parks and rec joke when she said that 😭😭😭

1:07:20 - "I am always pro, like, people being sexually harassed." -- Jamie Loftus Somebody clip that out of context 😆

Dewey would have loved Factorio

Dude really trimmed his own name down for efficiency.

So I am really into esoterica & religions & like magic and shit... & this problem with religions is something I'd noticed since like grades shool; it was infuriating, the vast swathes of nothing & then the vast majority of spiritualities crammed at the end

Dewey invented 'Eat mor chikin'

Jesus, even libraries aren't safe from these freaks.

If I had to describe Dewey as efficiently as possible, I'd probably go with "🗿".

As someone who failed an oral report on Dewey in the early 2000s, I resent this podcast for only existing now lol

It should be the Douchey Decimal System, amirite?

It's pronounced "Am-erst." The "h" in Amherst is silent

A library in Amherst, NY is underfunded and understaffed? Tell me something new, buddy.

Any relation to our favorite Perennial Presidential loser Thomas?

Think of all the times he would've had to explain again and again his method for abbreviations. Probably a real waste of time

You can't make spelling better by removing vowels. That just makes pronunciation a nightmare for future linguists, archeologists, and anthropologists. And English *really could* benefit from some spelling reform. We have 's' and 'z' making each others sounds, random silent letters, 'c', and words that are not pronounced the way they're spelled.

Dewey and I have the same kind of autism

Decimal systems are obsolete in the age of computers. Hex is far superior.

Wow, I'm pretty disappointed to hear Jamie make fun of virgins. Good men will try to listen to women and respect their boundaries, but women simply do not approach them first most of the time. If a straight man wants to find a partner, he has to approach her first. And for many (especially introverts with low self-confidence) this is unnatural and very difficult for them. The men that are trying to respect women's boundaries and wait politely for them to show interest or reciprocate will often end up virgins. Even in this very story, this guy ends up with a wife and kid. So he isn't even a virgin. And you lump good, kind, respectful, well-meaning men in with a bastard like him (a man who isn't even accurately described by the word). Being a virgin is already a rather miserable existence for many. Not just because they are desperately lonely, but also because of the ridicule and shame heaped on them socially. It was just a one-off comment, but this was an example of that ridicule and shame. How long is it before a virgin, who is doing their best to respect womens' boundaries, hears comments like this comparing them to a chronic sex pest and thinks "You know what? F*** it. It worked for that guy. Maybe that's what it takes. Maybe that's what you have to do. Maybe then people at least won't make fun of me for being myself and trying to be a good person. Maybe then people won't keep laughing and mocking my misery." You are actively helping to create men like the one in this video by perpetuating harmful jokes like that.

@NeighborhoodOfBlue

5 ай бұрын

Counseling is something you may find more helpful than you realize.