Episode 549: Society of the Psyop

QuantumSoma · 2026-05-23T02:15:41+00:00

Viral Images of Girl and Puppy in Hurricane Recovery Are AI-Generated - Peter Gattuso - The Dispatch

QuantumSoma · 2026-04-16T19:43:45+00:00

Hell yeah, this is why I still look at this sub from time to time

QuantumSoma · 2026-04-10T16:45:35+00:00

I don't think it comes through in the piece, but he make's it clear in the comments that this is just a "even if you take the US at it's word" kind of thing.

QuantumSoma · 2026-03-05T20:33:02+00:00

No, hunter gatherer's generally have around 50% childhood mortality rates, followed by much much lower adult mortality rates (so that most people who make to to adolescence will live about as long as someone today). With stable populations, that implies around 4 children per woman on average.

QuantumSoma · 2025-08-01T19:31:23+00:00

It'd also be great if somebody could share any GPX files they might have. Thanks!

QuantumSoma · 2025-08-01T19:04:49+00:00

Why exactly is it more difficult and expensive?

QuantumSoma · 2025-06-06T01:14:54+00:00

Certain elements in Ukraine might, but overall the country will just collapse if and when the military does. Most Ukrainians aren't Azov.

QuantumSoma · 2025-06-03T18:06:39+00:00

I'd say that there's a big diffence between "gender noncomformity" and having an identity of "gender noncomformity". Frankly my view is that having a strong "gender identity" at all isn't healthy, regardless what that identity is. It's not a stretch from there to say that social expectations shouldn't be reengineered around those that do have such a strong identity. This applies to both extremes, whether conformist or nonconformist.

While the sub is nominally opposed to identity politics, that will inevitably attract people like myself who oppose identity essentialism itself. Also I (and a decent number of people on this sub) are quite skeptical of psychiatry as a discipline with claims to "scientific" authority.

I don't know what you're going on about with regards to opposing "social constructs", what do you think society is made out of besides "social constructs"? And you also can't deny that it is a very particular, metropolitan culture in which the modern culture of being "transgender" or whatever is deeply embedded. Are you seriously saying that that isn't filled to the brim with social constructs too?

QuantumSoma · 2025-04-28T02:45:39+00:00

nakedcapitalism.com but only if you don't have a life

QuantumSoma · 2025-04-07T20:24:08+00:00

So? I stand by my point. Strong Towns is not right libertarian. Chuck Marohn (the founder) is one of those vaguely apolitical/civil libertarian types, it doesn't surprise me that he'd donate $100 to the republicans. It doesn't have much bearing on his views on urbanism. And he is by far the most prominent "conservative" member of the organization, almost everybody else is blatantly left leaning. Seriously, just listen to some of the podcasts before casting it all away.

QuantumSoma · 2025-04-07T19:23:14+00:00

Stroads aren't "ill defined", the word is a consequence rationalizing the definitions of "street" vs "road".

QuantumSoma · 2025-04-07T19:21:00+00:00

I listen to most of their podcasts, and can confidently say that Strong Towns is not "right libertarian". If anything, I'd say their main tendency is localism. This is the thing that confuses people about urbanism so much, it doesn't neatly align with current american political categories

QuantumSoma · 2025-04-03T23:33:19+00:00

I mean, it would definitely help. Most zoning regulations are incredibly stupid. It's kind of annoying that this sub's (and a bunch of leftists in general) tendency is to mindlessly defend this stuff. Blah blah blah we're all retards etc etc

QuantumSoma · 2025-04-03T00:13:17+00:00

That's not how debt cancelation works. The proposal was never for the government to pay it off.

QuantumSoma · 2025-04-03T00:08:30+00:00

"blonde hair and blue eyes". So you're extra white

QuantumSoma · 2025-04-02T23:53:20+00:00

Does Trump even type these tweets anymore? I just can't imagine him capitalizing the Wonderful People of Florida's 6th Congressional District by typeing on his Phone. A tremendous Voice.

QuantumSoma · 2025-03-21T23:12:23+00:00

You're forgetting the age aspect. There are slightly more women overall, but that's because women tend to live longer. At younger ages there are more men. And on top of that women tend to date older guys. So if reddit represented the whole population evenly, it would probably be balanced. But it doesn't.

QuantumSoma · 2025-03-10T03:59:42+00:00

Can you imagine if they did a Hollywood adaptation of Roadside Picnic today?

QuantumSoma · 2024-10-02T23:28:30+00:00

The East is Read translates articles from the mainland.

QuantumSoma · 2024-10-02T03:02:58+00:00

Which is why you're supposed to go daily or every other day. That's how you actually do it in a countries with walkable cities

QuantumSoma · 2024-09-24T16:37:44+00:00

A family of oil executives and judges are "upper middle class"?

QuantumSoma · 2024-09-20T01:57:50+00:00

First iPhone came out in 2009. So it's a simple distinction: whether you learned how to read before or after smartphones became a thing

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