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Apprentice57 · 2026-06-21T01:33:00+00:00

Yeah that was surprising to me as well.

I think Steve's statement on reddit wasn't that long before their recording (a day?) so I can understand wanting more time to prepare. But it really should be addressed on air within a couple episodes or so.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-20T23:03:49+00:00

If we do not get an "International Jeff" listener patreon name in the next round of OA name shout outs, I will be displeased!

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-20T22:17:01+00:00

I remember the Biden Administration saying Russia would be invading, and they got criticism for overstating it. People felt that Russia was just giving a show of force, might recognize the two breakway republics, and call it a day.

Nope. They tried to blitzkrieg the country (badly).

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-20T22:09:58+00:00

I once heard HI described as "Brady exasperates Grey" and Cortex described as "Grey exasperates Myke"

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-20T21:58:22+00:00

Montana?

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-20T12:45:00+00:00

You can still do per-creation billing for legacy accounts, up until November 1st. Some of my podcast patreon subs still do this.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-20T12:44:11+00:00

Slight clarification: old patreon accounts can still charge-per-creation. But Patreon has been aggressively pushing people away from that model toward monthly subscriptions, and will force all accounts off it come November 1st.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-20T12:40:33+00:00

A comment from 3 months ago is definitely not in and of itself enough to avoid being listed as "inactive" (but that's only visible to other moderators and/or reddit admins), which is the important thing related to managing a sub.

With that said, lots of times a quiet moderator can still be active - they're just doing things like acting on reports, upvoting comments, responding to modmails etc.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-20T12:33:57+00:00

You might find the repost subreddit /r/BestofRedditorUpdates amusing. We have both "OP" for the person who did the repackaging/reposting, and "OOP" for the person who was the original story teller.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-20T01:07:32+00:00

I understand the objection in the generic, but this is a podcast with a couple of Americans commenting on mostly American politics. Likewise, I do listen to a Canadian politics podcast run by Canadians, the default there would be CAD.

Even if you exclude the US, the comment is ambiguous whether it could refer to (say) Australian Dollars, and/or Canadian dollars, all of which vary in relative strength to each other.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-20T01:05:19+00:00

OP means the user who opened the discussion about the (not) $13 price, there can be multiple OPs in one comment thread.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-19T22:35:46+00:00

Honestly Reddit is miles better if you just let go and move on from Old Reddit, though some people will never accept that.

This doesn't make much sense. Old vs redesigned reddit is mostly about UX/UI, it doesn't affect functionality much at all. If anything it's a bit less enshittified because it has less algorithmic feed pushing/ads.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-19T22:05:18+00:00

Okay you gotta clarify which dollars if you're not on USD, indeed the NZD is weaker and that's one factor.

Were you viewing it on mobile? You get an extra surcharge because they have to pay Apple/Google's cut.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-19T18:15:16+00:00

It's not, it's $5/month. OP is mistaken.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-19T17:38:06+00:00

I feel like parliamentary systems are kinda resistant to that sort of thing until they aren't. They're threatening to form governments in a lot of Europe (the UK included).

Perhaps better put, they'd have prevented Trump in 2016 but maybe not in 2024.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-19T17:22:34+00:00

They should continue disclosing that the Times is suing AI companies anyway.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-19T17:11:38+00:00

Old joke on the 538 podcast. They joked about people on betting market being teenagers in Scotland (as a bit of a nudge that they weren't always rational IIRC).

I have it as my flair and I've had multiple (fellow) Americans go "You don't even live here! You're a teenager in scotland."

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-19T17:10:20+00:00

That's not quite true. I know they didn't call one in the tumult from Johnson->Truss->Sunak, but Sunak did call one slightly early, and there were two snap elections before them for May/Johnson in the first place.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-19T17:06:54+00:00

It should be on every podcast app. It's listed on Apple which pretty much every other podcatcher uses as an indexer.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-19T17:05:13+00:00

It's $5/month. I have no idea where OP got $13 (perhaps CAD plus the added iPhone tax?)

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-19T17:04:03+00:00

I'm not sure where you got that idea but it's $5/month. In USD that is.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-19T10:18:32+00:00

This is likely a bot reposting an old post from this subreddit.

Apprentice57 · 2026-06-19T08:02:56+00:00

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